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Thai Military Stages Coup; Cyber Security Expert Exposes Security Flaws In Websites; Dozens Killed In Terrorist Attack in Western China; Village In Borno State Abandoned, Residents Flee In Fear; Interview with Don Brewster; Pakistani Company Makes Official World Cup Ball

Aired May 22, 2014 - 8:00   ET

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now Thailand's military seizes control again and declares a nighttime curfew across the country.

A terror attack at an open air market in China, dozens are killed by explosions in the capital of Xinjiang.

And how safe if your data online? A security expert shows us how a flaw can expose your password.

An overnight curfew has just been imposed in Thailand after the military said it has taken control of the country in a coup.

Now the army chief made the announcement in a televised national addressed just a few hours ago. And he says the decision was made after it was clear that rival political parties were unable to agree on a plan to run the country.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): For the ambassadors, consulates and international organizations, including foreigners living in the kingdom of Thailand, the peace maintaining committee will protect you. and I insisted that the international relations with other countries and organizations remain as usual.

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LU STOUT: The military says it is the only solution to restore order in Thailand.

Let's go now to Paula Hancocks. She's live in Bangkok for the very latest. And Paula, this was very sudden. What is the Thai military saying about the move?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, what we heard from the army chief himself, was that he believed that this military coup was absolutely necessary. He said that he was worried about violence in the country. And this was an attempt, he believes, to restore peace and order.

He said he urged all Thai people to carry on business as usual. He told all civil servants, the officials to continue working. And he also told all forces -- military, the police, anyone who has weapons to stay on their bases and not to attempt to move those weapons unless they received orders.

And as you just heard there, he also said to all foreigners and diplomats that they will try and provide all security that is necessary.

Now we do understand from the army itself that there is a curfew in place now, 10:00 p.m. local time until 5:00 a.m. local time. There should be nobody on the street. The military will be enforcing that.

And we also understand that they are trying to clear the protest camp, at least the pro-government protest camp, the so-called Red Shirts. We understand from one of the leaders -- lawyers that the Red Shirt leaders have, in fact, been detained by the military.

So at this point what we know is that the military has staged another coup. We know that all of those political leaders who were within that meeting trying to hammer out a political deal have been detained. We know that all the leaders of the Red Shirts, the pro-government protesters, have also been detained at this time -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Protest camps cleared, a number of people have been detained.

Now there were only two days of those political crisis talks before the military went ahead and announced its coup d'etat. Was there an adequate and sincere attempt by the military to try to bring all the political factions together?

HANCOCKS: The fact that they managed to get them in the same room was being billed as significant. It was the first time that the two protest leaders from the pro-government, the anti-government four groups had actually sat down in the same room and started to negotiate.

So it was being billed as progress. But of course, it was two days worth. And both days they talked for about two-and-a-half hours. So, five hours of discussions to try and hammer out the political deal does not necessarily seem very much when you consider that the protests and the turmoil has been happening intensely since November, so for many months.

In fact, the two sides have been deeply polarized for the past eight years. So I think it is fair to say that from the pro-government supporter's point of view that they don't believe that enough was done to try and hammer out some kind of political deal. And certainly it doesn't seem as though an awful lot of time was spent giving these talks a chance to work.

Of course, we weren't inside those talks. We don't know whether they had reached an impasse and whether it was clear to the military that there was simply no way they were going to get agreement -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Paula, you're reporting live from Bangkok. What has been the reaction on the street to the coup there? The Thai people, they have been through this many, many times before. How much concern is there about what could happen next?

HANCOCKS: Well, from what we're seeing at this point, we're actually traveling through the center of the city trying to get to one of these camps to see what's happening.

We were actually in the army club when this happened. We saw a flurry of activity. We saw some of the leaders being detained or at least being driven away. We could see white military vans. We later learned they had been detained.

And a flurry of military activity as well. Military trucks drove in all of a sudden and blocked off the entrances, the exits, and we were moved as en masse as the international media into a certain area, and contained in that certain area.

It was a fairly chaotic scene, but it was clear that something was going on. And of course that was the actual coup, that was the moment that the military took control.

Of course that would not have been seen on the streets of Bangkok. So what was seen at the moment out of the window is a very normal scene. And we understand that a little earlier, there was a slight increase in military presence in certain areas, but there's not a significant military presence that we can see. And the army chief said he wants it to be business as normal as he also said on Tuesday when he said he wasn't going to carry out a coup.

But at this point, we do believe that it is fairly normal in Bangkok, but of course the curfew is in place, that is when things will change quite dramatically. That is when people have to get back home and cannot be on the streets.

We know that all the televisions, the state, the non-state televisions have been suspended. The normal programming is suspended. They're all playing army channels at this point.

So, people across Thailand will be aware of what's going on.

LU STOUT: Paula Hancocks reporting on the coup d'etat in Thailand. Thank you very much indeed for that update.

And now, the latest on a deadly and terrifying attack on a bustling open air market in China's Xinjiang region. Now President Xi Jinping is vowing to catch and severely punish those responsible.

Now Chinese state media report 31 people were killed, more than 90 others were hurt when two vehicles rammed into shoppers at the market earlier today.

The explosives were tossed from the SUVs. And then one of the vehicles exploded, that's according to the state run Xinhua news agency.

Now no one has yet claimed responsibility for the market attack, but today's incident is just the latest in a string of violence incidents at public places in China.

Earlier this month, several people were wounded in a knife attack at the railway station in Guangzhou. It was the third attack on train stations in just two months.

And one week earlier, three people were killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a train station in Urumqi in Xinjiang, it's the same city where that market was struck today.

And then the month before that, 29 people died when assailants armed with knives went on a rampage at a train station in the southwestern Chinese city of Qingming.

Now Chinese officials have linked that attack to Islamic separatists from Xinjiang. and the country's foreign ministry is also blaming terrorists for today's market explosions.

HONG LEI, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN (through translator): This violent terrorism incident shows once again the anti-human, anti- society and anti-civilization nature of the terrorists. What they have done should be condemned with one voice by people in and outside China.

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LU STOUT: David McKenzie joins us now live from Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region. And David, you're there on the ground. So what more have you learned about today's attack?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDNET: Well, what we've learned is that this was an attack that shocked many people on the street. And actually, Kristie, on the street where this happened, the rain is pouring down heavily and not too many people here now, but there is a strong police presence, including paramilitary police and swat team police here.

The damage, has to be said, is relatively minimal to the buildings around here, which indicates this wasn't a large-scale bomb. But certainly what people are telling us is that they were seen with chaos here early morning. Many of the people were elderly, shopping at an open air market that's put on the side of the road here in the early mornings, before the business day gets going.

The police describe how two of these vehicles, SUVs, came indiscriminately plowing into the standers by, civilians, and then tossing some kind of explosive device outside of it.

Now the city back to normal.

I have to say I've been here before. At the best of times, there's a heavy police presence here. But certainly the police here pretty nervous about our presence. And we've been stopped filming several times.

This would be a very serious incident in a string of incidents that he described that does show that the fear of terror and the scale of terror has increased here in China in recent months.

LU STOUT: You're reporting an increased police presence there on the scene where this market attack took place in Urumqi.

We've heard from Beijing, they have denounced this attack. They have responded, but how is the Uighur community responding to this attack, what happened there in Xinjiang?

MCKENZIE: Well, right now we haven't heard too much from the Uighur community. What often happens in incidents is that they often just will hunker down and try and keep out of the way and certainly not speak to the press very much.

You know, this is a divided city. I'm in an area where this happened in very much the Han Chinese part of town. To a bit north of here, there are certainly large Uighur minority populations. You know, it goes down to one side of the street will be Han Chinese and one side Uighur.

For all the talk of Chinese dream coming to this province, there certainly is a great deal of friction here at the best of times, but the difference has been, Kristie, that in recent years there had been attacks, but often on police stations, often on villages or vast -- parts of this vast province, but in recent months we've seen attacks on civilians and right in city centers, including in Qinming in southwest China, and of course earlier in Urumqi and then earlier this morning.

So this would be very troubling for the Chinese authorities who said several times they are going to clamp down on terror, but with these incidents happening on a relatively regular basis, the question will be asked is if they care.

LU STOUT: All right, David McKenzie on the line, reporting live from Urumqi in Xinjiang, China.

Thank you, David.

Now the attack, it happened near people's square in Downtown Urumqi, that's where many government buildings are located.

Now Urumqi is the capital of Xinjiang, the western Chinese region is economically vital. It's rich in natural resources, including oil. It's also massive. Xinjiang is roughly the size of Iran.

Now, you're watching News Stream. And still ahead, ruled by fear -- now CNN visits a village in Nigeria in the grips of Boko Haram. Many of its residents have fled and don't plan to return.

And a disturbing story from the West Bank. We'll tell you about he disputed accusations over the deaths of two Palestinian teenagers.

Also a girl in California missing for 10 years is found. Hear what police are saying about how she spent her decade in captivity.

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LU STOUT: Escalating violence in Nigeria is raising fears that the militant group Boko Haram maybe extending its reach as it conducts bolder, more frequent attacks. Now this week, multiple bomb blasts killed more than 100 people.

Now Boko Haram drew global attention and outrage when the group kidnapped more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls last month. Now the U.S. is sending in dozens of troops to help support the search. But activists say the Nigerian government and the international community must do more to find the girls.

Now across Boko Haram strongholds in Northern Nigeria. There was widespread fear. And many residents are fleeing the area.

Arwa Damon visited one town that has been devastated by terror.

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LU STOUT: It's a short drive from the relative security of the capital of Borno State and just five minutes from the nearest checkpoint, but far enough away for terror to rule.

"We're trapped here," Mumi Munamamadu (ph) tells us.

Even venturing into the fields for food is a risk she doesn't want to take.

The village's police station was destroyed in a Boko Haram attack last year. Last week, fighters from the terrorist group appeared again.

The sound of the gunfire came from that direction, people saying that they heard explosions as well. The vast majority of residents here fled and have yet to come back. Their lives today are being utterly and completely ruled by fear.

"We didn't know what was happening," Isha Yousuf (ph) tells us. "We were eating. And we heard the explosions and started running."

So you just ran away with nothing.

"Yes," she says.

And they did not want to come back.

But she and the few that remain here have no choice.

"We don't have any place to stay in Maidugoori (ph)," Isha says. "We don't have anyone in the city."

And their fears are justified. Just this week five villages in Borno state have been attacked by Boko Haram, the group growing more brazen after it kidnapped more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok over a month ago.

The villages here remain empty, the few left behind sit and wait, hoping Boko Haram doesn't return.

Arwa Damon, CNN, outside Maidugoori (ph), Nigeria.

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LU STOUT: Now earlier I spoke to child trafficking activist Don Brewster. I asked him what the abduction of the Nigerian schoolgirls tells us about the nature of human trafficking.

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DON BREWSTER, FOUNDER, AGAPE INTERNATIONAL MISSIONS: I think first of all it tells us how big the demand is, because how easy it is to take 200 girls, hide them and then for six weeks with international pressure, help from multiple countries, and we still can't find them. And so the people that are involved, the network involved is highly sophisticated. And powerful people are behind it, much more powerful than the people on the ground that you see actually abducting the girls.

LU STOUT: You know, it's been more than six week, the girls haven't been found yet by the Nigerian government or all the international assistance that's been coming in, including from the United States, you have been either directly involved, or partially involved in the rescue of hundreds of girls in Cambodia. What kind of advice do you have for those in Nigeria trying to find these girls, in terms of how do you find a lead to find out where they are?

BREWSTER: I think the starting point is people -- actually people in that community, right, and the difficult thing is someone new coming in now trying to somehow manufacture a relationship where they can trust you with that information, right.

But there certainly have been people on the ground there already. And those are the people that will have the relationship that can get a lead, that can speak to the people on the ground. And I think that's really the key.

If there's not anyone in the community -- I'm talking about people fighting this issue -- in the community -- and I know it takes a lot of bravery to do that in Nigeria -- but if there's no one there it's going to make it very difficult to get those leads, because relationship is key in doing that.

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LU STOUT: Now later this hour, you'll see more of my conversation with Don Brewster focusing on efforts to stop child sex trafficking in southeast Asia.

Now we're about to show you a story that some viewers you may find very, very disturbing to watch. It is about the shooting deaths of two Palestinian teens during rock throwing protests on the West Bank last week.

As Ivan Watson shows us, it comes down to two very difficult accounts. The Israelis say their military was firing only rubber coated bullets, essentially ball bearings with a thin coating of rubber designed to hurt, but not to penetrate people. But the video we're about to show you, shows two teens hit with what the Israelis call live fire, real bullets that doctors say passed through their bodies, killing them.

Here's Ivan's report.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It had been a day of skirmishing. Palestinian youth hurling stones, Israeli soldiers and police firing tear gas and rubber-coated bullets.

Then, caught on camera, the shooting deaths of two Palestinian teenagers, both gunned down on the same patch of asphalt, the second an hour and 13 minutes after the first.

The Israeli Defense Force tells CNN that, quote, "a preliminary inquiry indicates that no live fire was shot at all on Thursday during the riots in Betunyah and we have to determine what caused this result."

CNN producer Kareem Qatar (ph) was at the village of Betunyah in the occupied West Bank much of that day filming the back and forth clashes.

Among those seen on CNN's video, was 17-year-old Nadim Nawara (ph) throwing a rock. He had gone to the protest after attending school in the morning.

At 1:45 p.m., a security camera captures the moment when Nawara (ph) was fatally shot as he walks towards the Israeli positions. Another camera shows him rushed to an ambulance.

A medical report says the bullet entered his chest and exited his back.

At the precise moment when Nawara (ph) was shot, CNN's camera was rolling, filming an Israeli shoulder shooting his rifle at the Palestinians.

And then demonstrators carrying the mortally wounded teenager to the ambulance. He later died in hospital.

The shootings were filmed by this little private security camera mounted to this building right here, which the owner tells us operates 24 hours a day for the protection of his home, his family and his business.

As for the boys, the first one was shot and mortally wounded right here.

At 2:58 p.m., the security camera captured the second shooting when 16-year-old Mohammed Ode Solame (ph) was shot as he walked away from Israeli positions.

Doctors pronounced him dead on arrival at the hospital with a single bullet wound that entered his back and passed out through his chest.

We met the grieving father of the first shooting victim, Nadim Nawara (ph), at St. George's School in Ramallah where relatives and classmates are in mourning.

C.M. Nawara (ph) shows me the bullet hole left in the bloody backpack his son was wearing.

You think this is the bullet hole.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

WATSON: Inside the backpack, a bloodstained textbook and a bullet, not a rubber coated projectile.

You think this is the bullet that killed your son?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, of course, of course. Inside the bag. I found it inside the bag.

WATSON: And who do you think killed your son?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A soldier.

WATSON: Israeli soldier.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, Israeli soldier.

WATSON: The Israeli Defense Force insists only rubber-coated bullets were fired that day. A United Nations spokesman expressed what he called great alarm at the shooting of the two teenagers whom he says were unarmed and appeared to pose no direct threat.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Betunyah, in the West Bank.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you're back watching News Stream.

Now the Amazon rainforest is vast, a sea of green in the middle of South America. It's also going to host part of the world's biggest football tournament.

Now the stadium in the city of Manaus will host some World Cup matches.

Now CNN's Shasta Darlington visited Manaus ahead of next month's tournament.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A bustling city of 2 million carved out of the Amazon jungle where weekends are spent frolicking on a beach along the might Rio Negro.

Manaus is also a World Cup host city where it turns out England will face off against Italy. England's coach said it would be the worst possible option, because of the heat.

British tabloids kicked up a fuss, calling Manaus one of the deadliest places on Earth.

So, we decided to ask some British backpackers what they thought.

What's your immediate impression?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's hot. I wouldn't want us to play football here.

DARLINGTON: A crime-ridden hell hole was one headline.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think Manaus has been the safest city we've probably been to.

DARLINGTON: According to officials, the crime problem is big and growing. But, they say, it's concentrated in poor slums and they've stepped up security.

The main challenges facing fans headed to Manaus maybe logistical. The only way in and out is by plane. And the four hour flight from Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo will cost $600.

The airport is a construction site, no indication that works will be done before kickoff.

There are some advantages to the city's unique location.

Manaus maybe a concrete jungle, but it doesn't take long to get out on the Amazon and even visit indigenous villages.

The Dasan Tukana (ph) tribe greets visitors with traditional dances and handmade crafts. Tourism is now their main source of income.

"The World Cup is really important," he says. "We've never seen so many visitors like we're going to see this year."

But, he says, tourists may not get everything they want, since he predicts Brazil will win the World Cup title this time on home turf.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Manaus, Brazil.

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LU STOUT: Still to come right here on News Stream.

Still to come right here on News Stream, rescued after nearly a decade in captivity. Now Police find a girl who went missing in her teens and arrest her alleged captor.

And we talk to a man on a mission to stop the trafficking of children in Cambodia and to give the victims a chance at a new life.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

An overnight curfew has just been imposed in Thailand after the military said it is taking control of the country in a coup. Now the army chief made the announcement in a televised national address just hours ago. He says the decision was made after it was clear that rival political parties were unable to agree on a plan to run the country.

Now Chinese President Xi Jinping is vowing to severely punish terrorists behind today's deadly attacks in the volatile Xinjiang region.

Now China's Xinhua news agency reports 31 people were killed and 90 were wounded after two cars plowed into a busy market in Urumqi. Now the attackers threw explosives and then one of the vehicles blew up.

In Taiwan, police say a 21-year-old suspect in a deadly stabbing frenzy on a Taipei train told them that he wanted to do something big. Now local media say four people were killed and 22 injured in the attack. Authorities say police, train crew and courageous passengers manage to subdue the university student and force him to the ground.

Activists are ramping up pressure on Nigeria's government to secure the release of nearly 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. Now worldwide demonstrations are planned for today. That, as fears grow, over a spate of recent militant attacks in Nigeria.

The South Korean defense ministry says North Korea fired two shells near a South Korean patrol boat in the Yellow Sea. Now South Korea says it then fired back. On Tuesday, the South Korean navy fired warning shots after three North Korean boats crossed the maritime border.

And now, a stunning story out of California. Police say they have found a 25-year-old woman nearly a decade after she went missing. Now she allegedly was kidnapped and endured physical and mental abuse for 10 years.

Now Sara Sidner joins us now live from Los Angeles with the story. And Sara, this is yet another mindboggling story there in America of a woman finally freed after years of captivity.

SARA SIDNER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's really interesting. Police are telling us this is stranger than fiction. 10 years, a missing persons case is solved when the alleged victim walked into the police department, identified herself and said that she had been kidnapped in 2004.

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SIDNER: These photos from KNBC show that 25-year-old woman found a decade after she says she was kidnapped. These photos, taken during her alleged captivity, show her, her alleged kidnapper and their child seemingly living a normal life. Breaking overnight, she tells our affiliate KABC that she's "so happy and God-blessed to be with her family." She says, "all the time" she cried for them.

Police say the girl entered a police station in Bell Gardens, California, with a disturbing story. She told police her mother's then live-in boyfriend, this man, Isidro Garcia, drugged, kidnapped and tricked her into keeping quiet after a fight at the family home back in 2004.

LT. SCOTT FAIRFIELD, BELL GARDENS POLICE DEPT.: She walked in on her own. And she stated that she was kidnapped about 10 years ago and held against her will.

CPL. ANTHONY BERTAGNA, SANTA ANA POLICE DEPT.: You're talking about a 15-year-old girl that came to this country, doesn't speak English. Her mother's boyfriend decides that he wants to physically and sexually abuse her. He tells her that her mother doesn't care, that she can't go to the police because they're going to deport her.

SIDNER: The girl reportedly telling police she ended up marrying and having a baby with her alleged kidnapper, all the while harboring the painful secret.

SIDNER (on camera): This apartment complex is where the couple lived. Police say it's about 25 miles from where the victim's mother lived. But people who live here in this very tight-knit community say they knew the couple well and they simply can't believe what they're hearing. It appeared they loved each other.

MARIBEL GARCIA, VICTIM'S NEIGHBOR: She would go to the market. Like every other couple, they'd be happy, kissing, holding hands. And like she comes up with this now. Why did she take so long to do it, you know?

SIDNER: Was there any indication that she was in trouble, that something was wrong in this family?

GARCIA: That I think of, myself, from what I've seen, no.

SIDNER (voice-over): But police say there was something terribly wrong.

BERTAGNA: We do know on two occasions she fled, she was caught and she was beaten for her efforts.

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SIDNER: Now, Garcia, the suspect was arrested, booked on suspicion of kidnapping, rape, leud acts with a minor and false imprisonment. The neighbors say they simply cannot believe it. They say this couple has had parties, invited the whole neighborhood, they spent a lot of time with them. But police say this is a case that the DA is now going to look into. And he will be in court this morning -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And the key question here the woman, she was seen in public. She was photographed in public. So what kept her from leaving her alleged captor for so many years?

SIDNER: Well, police say that she told them that her alleged kidnapper basically told her that her parents didn't miss her, that he sort of brainwashed her, if you will, and also told her that if she said anything that she, or her family, might be deported. Police saying that she came here from Mexico illegally and was afraid. She also tried to escape a couple of times, according to police, and they say that she was beaten by him.

So afraid to leave, and trying to hold it together, perhaps for her small child that she had with him -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Well, here's hoping that she and her 3-year-old child will have better life. Sara Sidner reporting, thank you very much indeed for that.

Now, earlier in the program, we heard what American activist Don Brewster had to say about those mass abductions of schoolgirls in Nigeria. Last year, he took part in a CNN Freedom Project documentary that shined a spotlight on the trafficking of underaged girls in Cambodia.

Now Brewster, he is on a mission to put an end to it. He and his wife even sold their house and moved to Cambodia from the U.S.

Now in this clip from CNN's "Every Day in Cambodia," Brewster gives an eye-opening tour to activist and actress Mira Sorvino.

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BREWSTER: Instead of caring for their family or working, they sit there and gamble and drink all day because they traffic kids, including their own.

MIRA SORVINO, ACTRESS (on camera): These guys do?

BREWSTER: Yes, these guys right here right.

SORVINO: Their own, they traffic their own children?

BREWSTER: Their own kids as well as others, not just their own. See -- see what happens when the light comes?

SORVINO: Yes, yes roaches scatter when the light comes. That's what happens, the roaches and the rats scatter when the light comes.

BREWSTER: Yes.

SORVINO: I just want to yell at them, but I don't know what's going to happen if I yell at them.

BREWSTER: Well, you know what the truth is?

SORVINO: What?

BREWSTER: They think they are untouchable because they have been.

SORVINO: Do you think any of them speak English?

BREWSTER: No, no, most of them speak Vietnamese.

SORVINO (voice over): I knew they probably wouldn't understand me and that it wouldn't make any difference at all, but I felt compelled to say something as futile as it might be.

(on camera): I just want them to know that the world is watching right now. I just want them to know that there's -- there's a tally being taken.

Yes, we are filming. It's not ok to sell children. It's not ok to sell children to pedophiles. It's not ok. And the world is watching.

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LU STOUT: Now Don Brewster says CNN's documentary made a huge impact on his work to save the Cambodian girls who have been sold into the sex trade.

So far, his organization Agape International Mission, has rescued hundreds of girls and helped thousands of others. And earlier I asked him just how he's able to achieve that.

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BREWSTER: The key is relationships. You know, we're in the epicenter. We live in the epicenter of the child sex trafficking. And as we build relationships to the different programs we have, people are providing us with information. And one rescue girl can lead to intel that will lead to rescue 10 other girls and bring down other bad guys.

So it's really a relational type thing where we get that information or be able to use it to rescue and free other girls.

LU STOUT: And how many girls have you rescued?

BREWSTER: We've rescued over 300 ourselves. And we have -- actually we have a couple of thousand girls that have actually been part of our program that have come from other sources as well.

LU STOUT: Right, because once the girls are rescued, their lives have to be restored and rebuilt, right. So what needs to go into that?

BREWSTER: Well, it -- we holistic program includes everything from being safe physically, you know, and health care, to psychosocial needs. You know, we use a cutting edge therapy. They took part in that. There's education -- you know, life skills, vocational, academic, education.

And then in the end -- and there's a spiritual component to healing as well. And then in the end what's key is being able to reintegrate them in a healthy way. And in Cambodia, that can be very difficult because the culture sees these girls as trash for what's happened to them, even if they are young girls when they were trafficked -- it's interesting, because the parents aren't thought of that way, just the girls. But if they can get a good job where they can support themselves and help support their family, it restores honor in the eyes of the society. And that's what we seek to do.

LU STOUT: I understand that the t-shirt you're wearing is something - - it's a creation by one of the many girls that you saved, right?

BREWSTER: Exactly. And we -- this is a way -- it's a self-sustaining business. We sell these t-shirts actually around the world. And the girl who created them -- actually when you get this shirt has a tag and a -- where the girl who made it says thank you for giving me a second change, signs her name on the tag, same thing through with bracelets that they produce in the employment center.

LU STOUT: Now your organization also equips and empowers local communities in Cambodia to fight sexual slavery of children. How do you do that?

BREWSTER: Well, it's a combination of things. And it begins with meeting some basic needs, right. There's economic development. There's education. There's laws, making sure there's good laws and -- but, in the end, those things alone don't defeat that kind of evil. And so in a country like Cambodia that lost a moral compass due to the Khmer Rouge, it's helping to reinstall that, I guess would be a way to say it.

LU STOUT: Now you and your team, their collective work was featured in the CNN documentary the Freedom Project Documentary "Every Day in Cambodia."

Since that documentary was released, what kind of impact has it had on your work and also on the fight against child sex slavery and trafficking in Cambodia?

BREWSTER: OK.

Well, in one way it's helped us get more support for what we're doing, which has been awesome. But I think one of the greatest things that's happened from it is we have been able to get our own SWAT team. The Cambodian government has approved a -- and I think it's actually unique in the world for an NGO that our team not only can investigate or rescue, our team has the authority to actually arrest.

And what's happened, the girls that were in the CNN documentary, their trafficker that got in the way 18 months ago because of corruption, right, in our first month o a SWAT team, we were able to find her, arrest her, after she was arrested, she confessed. She's in a prison awaiting sentencing today. And this was a trafficker that trafficked 60 to 100 girls a week. I mean, it's tremendous difference.

And if it wasn't for the pressure, really, that CNN put on the law enforcement in Cambodia, I doubt we ever would have gotten that.

LU STOUT: That's incredible to hear. The girls have found a better life, and also finally justice.

BREWSTER: Exactly.

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LU STOUT: Power story there. That was Don Brewster there.

Now you can find out more about CNN's Freedom Project and the fight to end modern day slavery and about the steps that you can take to make a difference. Just visit our website, CNN.com/Freedom.

Now still to come right here on News Stream, just how safe are you online? A startling demonstration of how hackers can get their hands on your password even on the most secure websites. That's next.

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LU STOUT: Now two hackers claim that they have figured out a way to unlock lost Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads, and they're sharing that information online. They say that they found an iCloud security flaw in its activation lock feature.

Now the duo has since posted the instructions on their website. And while that opens the door to potential foul play, they say the hack was, quote, "built with love. And aimed at helping people who lost access to their own devices and not thieves."

Now Apple did not immediately return calls for comment.

And it's not the only company facing security breaches -- eBay is telling users to reset their passwords after it found out hackers broke into the site two months ago. The online auction site says cyber thieves used employee credentials to steal user information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates. Now passwords were encrypted. Still, as a precaution, users are being told to reset them. Now eBay would only say a large number of accounts were affected.

Now eBay wants users to reset their passwords. But sometimes, no matter how many precautions you take, it's not your fault. If the sever is not secure, there's nothing you can do.

Well, this is not what happened in the eBay case, one hacker shows us another vulnerability that could turn us into victims. Laurie Segall has that.

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NICK SULLIVAN, SECURITY RESEARCHER: So this is something where if you type your username and password, you can see that there's a lock icon that it's fully encrypted and you click login.

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN MONEY: And automatically that would mean I would trust it.

SULLIVAN: Yes, that's right.

So this lock icon means SSL. It means just between you and the website all the data is encrypted, and nobody listening in your coffee shop, nobody listening on your ISP, will be able to read it or figure out what it is.

SEGALL: OK.

SULLIVAN: So, I'm not looking and the camera is not on you. You can do a little bit of abracadabra here. So type in your password, the lock, the site looks good. It has a lock on it. You click login.

SEGALL: Login.

SULLIVAN: All right.

Now, what I'm doing is I'm sort of sniffing all the traffic in the area in the wifi in this hotel. So what we get is your password is 1324354699. I hope I didn't give your real password.

SEGALL: It wasn't, it wasn't. That's a big one.

SULLIVAN: That's what it is, abracadabra.

So, what I did here was I set up a site that has a random number generator that gives predictable stuff. In order to protect your website, to encrypt it, you have to create a key. And if your server doesn't have the right stuff to make a new key every time, if it somehow uses the same one over, then anybody on the Internet could potentially steal your passwords and usernames.

SEGALL: All right. So, I'm going to login.

Great, don't look.

I'm going to make a very long, complicated password. All right. I'm logging in.

Logged in.

SULLIVAN: OK. Let's see what my server has found.

OK, well it looks like your password is algivobDo -- whatever -- yeah, all that sort of things. That's right.

SEGALL: Right. I'm going to make this password really long.

SULLIVAN: sxedcL...

SEGALL: Wow.

SULLIVAN: Yep.

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LU STOUT: He got it.

Now the hacker says that while it's unlikely that this problem is widespread, there is no way to know whether a site your using has been affected, so what can you do to be safe?

Well, in general, change your passwords often and only use sites that you trust.

Now, Pakistan may be known for its love of cricket, but just ahead we'll show you why football is serious business in one northern town.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

And time now for your global weather forecast with a focus on severe weather in the U.S. Mari Ramos joins us. She's got that and more -- Mari.

MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kristie, yeah lots of ground to cover today. Let's go ahead and start here in the U.S.

We're going to go ahead and head to the Rocky Mountains. This is near Denver. And this is where the severe storms were forming yesterday. And we have a chance to see some more severe weather today. And I'll go over the forecast in just a moment.

But these are those very strong cells. You know when we show you the radar? We'll tell you, you know, those red colors, those are the areas you have to be looking at for the strong storms. And this is where they formed.

On the ground, it ended up looking pretty intense. And a tornado near Aurora, Colorado. And very intense hail near Bennett, Colorado.

And on the ground, it looked like this first in the skies and then on the ground. Remember we were talking earlier this week about super cell thunderstorms? That's what caused this.

Let's go ahead and roll the video, because we had several super cell thunderstorms that moved through there. And you can see that base of the cloud there in the background, the rain coming through. And then of course the hail began coming down.

I feel so bad for these animals. Hail very dangerous, of course. And if you have no place to take shelter you could really get hurt. And I feel so sad, like I said, for the animals.

There was a lot of damage. As you can see the size of golf ball sized hail in some cases. Some areas reporting baseball sized hail across these areas.

Hail doesn't happen quite a bit in this part of the world, but as you can see it was pretty significant. Cars, people getting trapped in it, that will do some severe damage to your car, or homes damages, windows that were shattered as well.

If you come back over to the weather map, let's go ahead and take a look. I want to show it to you in a different way.

This is one of the most -- one of the coolest satellite images I've seen in a long time. And, yes, a very nerdy stuff here coming up.

This is a visible satellite. Again, these are the Rocky Mountains. Here's Denver. And once we head into this area, that is when you'll begin to see those super cell thunderstorms popping up.

Those right there, look at that, they're pretty incredible when you see them on the satellite image as well. And you saw the kind of damage they can do on the ground.

Here, they normally don't produce tornadoes, even though we did see some of them, super cells as they begin to pick up moisture and they move into the planes that's when you begin to see them develop. And they sometimes can develop into pretty severe storms.

This time around they ended up dissipating, as you can -- as you saw there as they moved along.

And it's a pretty complicated weather pattern across the U.S. So again it's a possibility for some scattered storms moving there out of Colorado and into north Texas, possibly high pressure in place across the north and still some rain showers across the northeast. So that's going to be those areas to watch.

And as far as the severe weather, there's a couple of pinpointed areas to watch throughout the day today, maybe here across the Midwest and then back over here across the western portions of the U.S. Those are going to be some of the areas to watch.

And it seems like almost every day, sometimes twice a day, you're getting those warnings in Hong Kong about the rain. I know we talked about that yesterday also. So far in May you've had -- if it felt like a lot of rain, Kristie, you're right. It's been over 650 millimeters of rain in May alone. It's a rainy month, because normally you get about 300 millimeters of rain.

So we're talking about twice as much rain so far this month. And the month, of course not over yet.

And look, since January, you've had over 1,000 millimeters of rain in Hong Kong already. And on average by now you should be about 500 millimeters of rain.

So we're still ahead not just for the year and not just for the month. So pretty significant, and unfortunately guess what? Raining again.

You see the rain and thunderstorms moving across this area here. Very rainy, also, as we head across Taiwan. Not as bad as it was a couple of days ago, but definitely still that soggy weather pattern is there.

Back to you.

LU STOUT: All right, thank you for tracking the rainfall for us. Thank you for the warning. Mari Ramos, take care.

Now, this is the official ball for next month's World Cup in Brazil. The Brazuca in the hands of Brazil's former captain Kafu. But where does it come from?

As Jonathan Mann now reports, it all starts in a factory in Pakistan.

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JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When the world's best players hit the pitch in Brazil, they'll be kicking, heading and dribbling with this, the Addidas Brazuca, official ball of the 2014 World Cup, some 3,000 will be needed for the month long tournament, many of them are being made by hand halfway around the world at this factory in Pakistan.

While Pakistan is known more for its love of cricket, the town of Sialkot in the northeast part of the country near the border with India, has a long tradition of producing soccer balls, or footballs, since British colonial times.

Forward Sports is the largest supplier in Pakistan, sending footballs to professional leagues in France, Germany and the UK. But this is the company's first World Cup. The company's CEO says when Addidas' Chinese supplier couldn't keep up with demand he finally got his chance.

But Addidas only gave him 33 days to get his new production line up and running, a feat that normally takes up to six months.

KHWAJA AKHTAR, CEO & OWNER, FORWARD SPORTS: We have to accept the challenge in the best of a best way. We have to produce in the best quality in the given time. So it was just like a challenge thrown to us.

MANN: World Cup balls have to be made using a high tech thermal bonding process and then rigorously tested to meet the tournament's strict standards. Forward's CEO says he was happy to take on the challenge.

AKHTAR: This is a dream for anybody who is making balls in anywhere in the world. So this is the most prestigious ball, which is played on any pitches of the world. So everybody loves to be the part of it, you know.

MANN: Employees would likely agree. About a quarter of the company's 1,400 workers are women, almost all of them say they're the first women in their family to work and are proud to be a small part of the World Cup.

SHAKILA SAHRAFI, EMPLOYEE, FORWARD SPORTS(through translator): We watch the matches with great enthusiasm. And we feel very proud when our company gets recognition. It makes us very happy.

MANN: World Cup matches get underway June 12, but this Pakistan company says it's already made its goal.

Jonathan Mann, CNN.

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