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CNN STUDENT NEWS For June 25, 2002
Aired June 25, 2002 - 04:00 ET
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ANNOUNCER: You're watching CNN STUDENT NEWS seen in schools around the world because learning never stops and neither does the news.
SUSAN FREIDMAN, CO-HOST: We get things going with a look at the rundown. Topping the show, U.S. President Bush weighs in on the conflict in the Middle East.
SHELLEY WALCOTT, CO-HOST: Then we "Focus" on the forces of nature from fire to floods.
FREIDMAN: Later, we travel to Kenya for a puppet show.
WALCOTT: And learn why some athletes are fouling up with steroids.
FREIDMAN: Hello everyone, I'm Susan Freidman.
WALCOTT: And I'm Shelley Walcott.
President Bush gives one of the most important Middle East speeches of his presidency.
FREIDMAN: With Cabinet members Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condolezza Rice at his side, the president announced he is in favor of a Palestinian State. For the sake of all humanity, he announced things must change in the Middle East. President Bush's vision is the country of Israel and a future Palestinian State coexisting in peace.
CNN's John King was at the White House during the announcement and gives us details of the Bush plan.
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JOHN KING, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The president's support for an independent Palestinian State is conditioned on a dramatic demand.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I call on the Palestinian people to elect new leaders, leaders not compromised by terror.
KING: Not once did Mr. Bush mention Yasser Arafat by name, but the president's speech left no doubt Mr. Bush believes the current leader of the Palestinian Authority does not deserve to lead a future Palestinian State.
BUSH: Today, Palestinian authorities are encouraging, not opposing terrorism. This is unacceptable.
KING: Mr. Bush says he is prepared to recognize a provisional Palestinian State based on West Bank and Gaza Strip land now under Palestinian control, and aides say that could happen within 18 months if the Palestinian reforms include new leaders, a strong Parliament, new financial and judicial institutions and major security reforms.
There was one immediate demand on Israel that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon opposes a halt to Jewish settlements in Palestinian territories. Other Bush demands on Israel are conditional on the violence subsiding, a pullback of Israeli troops from Palestinian territories, and an easing of travel and economic restrictions on the Palestinians.
The new blueprint leaves the most controversial issues to direct negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians, final borders of a Palestinian State, competing claims to Jerusalem, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees.
BUSH: With intensive effort by all, this agreement could be reached within three years from now, and I and my country will actively lead toward that goal.
KING: The immediate job of selling the plan falls to Secretary of State Colin Powell. A trip to the region is likely soon but not immediately, and U.S. officials say plans for a late summer Middle East conference are on hold for now.
(on camera): The new Bush Middle East Policy has been in the works for weeks and from the very first draft was tough on Mr. Arafat. But top aids describe last week's back-to-back suicide bombings as the breaking point, giving the president what one adviser called -- quote -- "a new passion" and his new commitment to tie support for a Palestinian State to removing Mr. Arafat from power.
John King, CNN, the White House.
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FREIDMAN: With a major policy announcement, reaction is inevitable. We have it. And if you want to hear who's saying what, head to our Web site, CNNSTUDENTNEWS.com.
WALCOTT: The rebuilding of Afghanistan's government is underway. Just a week after being elected, President Hamid Karzai has chosen and sworn in most of his cabinet. With the exception of two positions, Mr. Karzai announced his full cabinet on Saturday. But the process has not been easy for the new leader. The problem, age old ethnic rivalries.
Gary Tuchman has more.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GARY TUCHMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): "We swear we will follow the orders of Islam and we will be loyal to our country," part of the oath recited by the people who will try to help President Hamid Karzai bring democracy to Afghanistan. In the courtyard of Kabul's presidential palace where kings, communists, the Taliban and now Karzai have ruled, a cabinet was sworn in. For Karzai, trying to include the right mixture of ethnic groups in his cabinet has been challenging.
HAMID KARZAI, PRESIDENT OF AFGHANISTAN: I'm under pressure, sure. I get very tired. It's very chaotic around here, but I carry on.
TUCHMAN: Each minister will make approximately the equivalent of 100 U.S. dollars a month. A cabinet crisis barely averted involved a popular leader of the former Northern Alliance. Eunice Kanuni (ph) was the Interior Minister in the interim administration. At the last minute, he accepted a lower profile post as Education Minister.
Then there was the issue of nobody taking the oath for the post of Minister of Women's Affairs, also high profile following the reign of the Taliban. But Karzai said he had a woman in mind, the vice chair of the just completed Loya Jirga, he just hadn't told her yet.
KARZAI: If she agrees with this appointment, she'll be the Minister of State for Women's Affairs.
TUCHMAN: The reason Mahua Bubah Kuchmal (ph) hadn't been informed is because she's traveling out of the country.
Karzai said he had a message for his appointees.
KARZAI: I said do you want to go in history like the founding fathers of America and be respected or do you want to be considered vial, disrespected and hated? We have a chance. We have two roads ahead of us.
TUCHMAN: The president believes he and his cabinet are united on which road to take. And he says the future of his nation is bright.
KARZAI: A year ago, Osama was sitting in this building, literally. Now you and I are talking in this building.
TUCHMAN (on camera): The changes in Afghanistan are immense to be sure. But there is no history in this nation of democracy and a comprehensive history of feiftans (ph) and violence. President Karzai may be optimistic, but he's never said it will be easy.
Gary Tuchman, CNN, Kabul, Afghanistan.
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FREIDMAN: Now to Arizona where two fires have merged into one huge inferno turning nearly a dozen communities into virtual ghost towns. About 30,000 people have fled their homes and hundreds of structures have been destroyed. The massive fire has burned some 300,000 acres or about 500 square miles in eastern Arizona. That's a stretch of around not quite half the land area of Rhode Island.
The blaze is so large, it can be seen from space. And the town of Show Low is directly in its path. High winds and hot dry weather are complicating things near Durango, Colorado where more than 1,000 homes have been evacuated. A good rain could really help firefighters, but question is where is it and when will it come?
Experts say that nature has a way of balancing itself out.
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JAMES ST. JOHN, METEOROLOGIST, GEORGIA TECH: Typically what you find is that when somebody's having a dry period in one place, in another part of the world they're having a wet period because the amount of rainfall that falls globally doesn't change that much unless you're talking about climate change. Is this part of some climate change trend, well there's really no way to know that exactly.
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FREIDMAN: Russia and Chile are among several places that have too much of what Colorado and Arizona desperately need, rain. Floodwaters and mudslides have claimed dozens of lives in both countries. We'll look at the devastation in Chile coming up.
But first, here's more on Russia's troubles.
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AI LICHIA (ph) CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The rains follow several months of drought in Southern Russia and swelled rivers beyond their banks. Heavy flooding that began Friday had left thousands of residents homeless. Authorities evacuated several communities affected by the flooding, but some people refuse to leave.
"I was in there and took only the most necessary belongings that I could carry with me. I also need to go and search for my son who stayed there."
Roads, power and telephone lines and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) systems were all reported destroyed or damaged. A regional official in north Oficia (ph) says thousands of people remain trapped and were being evacuated by helicopter.
"As the water was flooding more and more with each passing hour, we all had to stay here until morning."
The worst hit areas are in the north and caucasus (ph). Damage has been estimated at $106 million. Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Kremlin ministers Saturday to discuss relief efforts to the region. The separatist Republic of Chechnya was among the area's badly affected by flooding. And Mr. Putin ordered military forces in Chechnya to mobilize and provide aid to the flood victims there.
Ai Lichia at (ph) CNN.
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VIOLATA HOSEA (ph), CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Santiago suffered the heaviest rainfalls in almost a century when handed 25 millimeters of water fell in just one day, nearly half of the capital city's yearly rainfall total.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I'm in a shelter because my home was flooded. All my things are wet and I live alone with four children.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We cannot sell or rent our house because no one (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
HOSEA: For three days the rain fell nonstop, leaving 14 dead and 1 missing and more than 25,000 affected in the central part of Chile. Several people were killed due to mudslides, especially Mabariso (ph) 100 kilometers from the capital where most of its population lives on the hills.
And more in the north, Kos Molias (ph) accumulated water fell as huge waves over the town killing four people.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): This car was eight or nine houses higher up, but the river swept it up to this point. And the other (UNINTELLIGIBLE) that was with this is not destroyed in the other side of the bridge.
HOSEA: The severe floods in Santiago highlights the poorly managed urban development in a city of six million people, a third part of the Kantress (ph) population. In many new neighborhoods, even high class areas, the water reached one meter.
The problem is that urban development in some of these low areas grew up to 200 percent in the last decade. The situation the storms left in the city sparked criticism about the government's slow response to the crisis.
JOSE MIGUEL INSULZA, INTERIOR MINISTER, CHILE (through translator): Emergency systems have worked very good. People had sacrificed a lot, but this situation it seems all that we could have anticipated.
HOSEA: The city's storm drainage is insufficient and the government has only half of the money it needs to improve it.
RICARDO LAGOS, PRESIDENT OF CHILE (through translator): We as a country have to take more options if we do not want this flooding again. We have to invest a lot of money.
HOSEA: Meanwhile, in order to confront the $200 million in losses, the government announced emergency measures such as the creation of new jobs for reconstruction in the most affected areas and support programs for people who lost their homes or their crops.
(on camera): And there is the Aporto River (ph) behind me, a private company building a modern highway. But during the storms, the level of the waters rose dangerously. This time the situation was under control, but people who works and live in this area no longer feel safe during heavy rains which are sure to happen due to the El Nino phenomena.
This is Violata Hosea from Chile on National Television for CNN World Report.
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FREIDMAN: For more on the fires and floods, head to our Web site. That's CNNSTUDENTNEWS.com. Among other things, you'll learn how a wildfire developed.
President Bush's top aids appear to be following right along in his footsteps. Forget the campaign trail, these politicos are putting rubber to the road as part of their daily workout. And the president wants the rest of the country to join in.
Kelly Wallace reports.
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KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Saturday the president strutted his stuff, running three miles at an impressive 6 minute 49 second pace per mile, placing 26th out of a filed of around 400. We always knew the president was crazy about fitness. What we did not know, the commander in chief has rubbed off on his staff.
Meet the women some senior staffers have dubbed the Dixie Chicks. They drop their White House responsibilities three times a week in the middle of the day to run, flex and pump up. Their inspiration: their boss.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is remarkable to work for someone who is supportive of your leaving in the middle of the day to go work out. It's extraordinary when that person is the president of the United States.
WALLACE: After all, this is a president who frequently works out in between meetings plotting war strategy and speeches touting his domestic priorities.
BUSH: Exercise is a part of my daily life. It kind of helps me deal with the stress a little better. After I get a good run in, I even like the press corps a lot better.
WALLACE: The president on the South Lawn encouraging all Americans to exercise. Even top advisers are listening.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's some middle age women at the White House and (ph) try to make a commitment to exercise then, you know, other people can to. WALLACE: He is the most physically fit president in recent years. An exerciser and chief who hopes not only to influence his staff but the 50 percent of Americans, including some reporters who don't work out at all.
Kelly Wallace, CNN, the White House.
ANNOUNCER: Exploring our world, here now is CNN STUDENT NEWS "Perspectives."
WALCOTT: Well keeping fit is also the message in Kenya. The art of puppetry is gaining momentum thanks in part to an international festival. What many people are finding is that puppets have a unique way of passing on key messages about important topics like history and health.
CNN's Catherine Bond reports from Nairobi.
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CATHERINE BOND, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You could say it all started with the Muppets.
GARY FRIEDMAN, PUPPETEER: In 1987, I was -- I was studying with the late and great Jim Henson and the creator of the Muppets. And we talked about doing them -- a documentary form of puppetry in Africa, which at that time never happened, but it inspired me and pushed me towards discovering more about African puppetry traditions because I was from South Africa.
BOND: In South Africa, Friedman began Puppets Against AIDS, a concept that's since traveled the world, arriving in Kenya eight years ago.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why did this happen to us? Why? Who will take care of us?
BOND: And culminating in this, an international puppet festival, including Kenya, shows a very real life scenario about children leading a miserable existence on the city streets when AIDS claims their parent's lives.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You put it mildly, grandma.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But children running through the streets is not the solution.
BOND: But not all shows are for theater audiences.
(on camera): Part of the public festival is taking puppetry out of the theaters and into parks like this where performances are free and carry a message.
What's the message that you're trying to put across?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nowadays do you use to admit it like AIDS, family planning and (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
BOND (voice-over): Back in the theater, not just health but history. A previously unshown show brought to life by the South African who learned his art from the Muppets master. A story called looking for a monster written by a 13-year-old Jewish boy who died in a gas chamber in a Nazi concentration camp.
FRIEDMAN: Looking for a monster isn't relative in Africa, sure, because it's -- it looks at and talks about freedom of expression for artists. The people as being -- it looks at the Holocaust. There's been so many Holocausts, especially in Africa, so many restrictions and apartheids in South Africa. And now what's happening in Zimbabwe where freedom of expression is taken away completely.
BOND: Puppets say puppeteers are once removed from the message they impart. And as such they find a place in society's still politically oppressed or in dealing with taboo subjects not spoken about openly like death.
Catherine Bond, CNN, Nairobi.
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WALCOTT: More from the health front now as we focus on steroids. Illegal anabolic steroids have been popular in gyms around the U.S. for a while. Unfortunately, the body building drugs are moving into schools. Now according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, from 1998 to 1999 steroid abuse among adolescence and middle school students increased substantially. And if you think steroids are safer than mainstream drugs, think again.
Here's Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
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LYLE ALZADO, FORMER FOOTBALL PLAYER: If I can save one little kid...
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Steroids can kill. Football star Lyle Alzado believed steroid abuse caused the brain cancer that eventually killed him. Even if they don't kill you, anabolic steroids have very unpleasant side effects: liver damage, fits of anger known as 'roid rage, breasts on men, even loss of manhood.
Billy Rice does not use steroids, but he has seen other body builders give in to the temptation.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you are comparing yourself to other guys that you know they may be using, you kind of sometimes get a self- esteem -- you kind of compare yourself, like, Man, I've been working out for so long.
But actually, I find that really for me that I really wouldn't want to be, probably, that big, and the idea of putting something in my body that I know in the down run, is going to effect my kidneys, my liver, it is going to cause a lot of other side effects. It's just not worth it to me.
GUPTA: Deon Kelley is a personal trainer who also does not use steroids, but he has known other bodybuilders who became addicted to them.
DEON KELLEY, PERSONAL TRAINER: As soon as you stop taking them, believe me, the muscles do deflate. So, if you going maybe six months to a year on steroids, so you get very pumped, you better believe you are going to have to continue to do the same thing.
GUPTA: Natural Bodybuilding, the name of a movement encouraging athletes to take pride in achieving this kind of physique without drugs. It takes time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Around five years.
KELLEY: Maybe a good five to six years of some hard work, and I mean hard work.
GUPTA: Strong commitment.
GLENN PAUL, LEE HANEY WORLD CLASS FITNESS: It's all a matter of patience and the proper amount of nutrition. Five or six meals a day, more protein from different sources, fish, turkey, and lean meat.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You just have to eat right, and exercise -- maybe like three, four times a week.
GUPTA: And acceptance of the fact that bigger is not always better, especially for men who dream of looking like the incredible hulk, just to attract women.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's just -- it's just too much. They start to look unreal. Not -- you know, it doesn't even look healthy.
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WALCOTT: Well here's another hot topic for you, summer is here and for most of us that means spending more time out of doors than in. So what can you do to beat the heat?
Here's Christy Feig with some safety tips.
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CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Cindy Macrae learned the dangers of exercising in the summer heat firsthand last year while training for a marathon.
CINDY MACRAE, MARATHON RUNNER: We were at the 12 mile mark, it was 90 degrees by 10:00 in the morning and started feeling chilled and dehydrated.
FEIG: Textbook signs of heat exhaustion. And it doesn't take marathon training to reach it. If you don't pay attention, heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke. DR. PAM PEEKE, INTERNIST SPORTS TRAINER: Heat stroke is a very dangerous situation. Many times there are no warning signs. Sometimes people simply collapse and lose consciousness.
FEIG: Dr. Peeke says you can reduce your risk with a few simple steps. Avoid the hottest hours. Exercise early in the morning or late. Reduce your intensity. Wear light clothes that breathe but no hats. They trap heat in the body. And listen to your body. Stop if you feel cold or clammy or if you're dizzy or nauseous. And if a friend has problems, be ready to help.
PEEKE: As soon as someone has collapsed with what appears to be heat stroke, certainly an ambulance needs to be called. Get the clothes off that individual immediately and get cool compresses, even if it's just plain water, on that body.
FEIG: Those who train year round have formulas they follow.
MACRAE: I won't go out usually if it's over 90 and even that's kind of pushing it.
FEIG: And of course, remember to drink lots of water. By the time you're thirsty, you're already dehydrated.
I'm Christy Feig, CNN.
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FREIDMAN: The largest Christian music festival in North America kicks off this week in Pennsylvania. The event called Creation East is expected to draw about 70,000 people.
Our Student Bureau has more on a genre of music that sings to a different tune and the teens who are taking notice.
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LORI AUFDEMORTE, CNN STUDENT BUREAU (voice-over): The bands in this genre look like rock, sound like rock and have a rapidly increasing number of young fans. But there is something that sets these bands apart, they are part of a growing genre known as contemporary Christian music. All Together Separate began performing in college. The band Third Day can boast sales of over two million records.
BRAD AVERY, THIRD DAY: Our message is a -- is a message of hope. And it's a message that's radically changed our lives.
AUFDEMORTE: Michael Green, president of the Recording Academy, says Christian artists are breaking new ground.
MICHAEL GREEN, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF RECORDING ARTS AND SCIENCES: They are touring like never before. They are selling records like never before. And I -- you know I just -- I don't know, I feel a lot more comfortable that people out there are actually paying attention to God and godly things as opposed to a lot of the ungodly things that our -- that our business tends to propagate from time to time.
AUFDEMORTE (on camera): And contemporary Christian music fans put their money where the music is. Christian music is one of the few genres that reported increased sales last year. While overall music sales decreased by 3 percent, Sound Scan reports that Christian music sales increased by 12 percent.
(voice-over): Despite all the games in the contemporary Christian music industry, some of its artists don't want to be put in the category afraid it will keep them from being heard by mainstream culture.
MAC POWELL, THIRD DAY: That almost because of our industry, it almost feels like in a box in a certain way because there's only a certain amount of people that we can reach.
AUFDEMORTE: Even executives in the industry agree a labeled Christian band can be limiting.
DON MOEN, INTEGRITY MUSIC: In some ways it could be interpreted as this is Christian music for a -- you know this is our music for our little group of people, and I don't think God ever intended it that way.
AUFDEMORTE: Despite the Christian music label, Delirious recently performed before sold out stadiums while on tour with Bon Jovi and Matchbox 20. These Delirious fans at the Palace Theater in Hollywood say they aren't deterred by the Christian music label. The venue was sold out for three weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I love their music. I love that it's worship music and I love that it's talented music too.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a feeling I think not just if I took one like Christian subculture but pretty much mainstream people they could give it a listen and probably like it.
AUFDEMORTE: While not everyone relates to what these bands sing about, one thing is apparent, they aren't going to stop singing about it anytime soon.
Lori Aufdemorte, CNN STUDENT NEWS, Los Angeles.
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"Where in the World" located in South America, Independence Day is September 18, natural hazards include tsunamis and severe earthquakes? Can you name this country? Chile.
FREIDMAN: That's it for today. We'll see you back here tomorrow.
WALCOTT: Have a good one. Bye-bye.
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