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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.

A warning to Moscow. World leaders demand Russia stop destabilizing eastern Ukraine or face the consequences.

Plus, manhunt in Canada. Police are searching for the person who gunned down three police officers.

And a dark chapter in Chinese history, but some people are still scarred by the cultural revolution.

Now U.S. President Barack Obama is in Brussels for a second straight day of talks with fellow Group of Seven leaders. And while Russian

President Vladimir Putin is not there, Russia and the crisis in Ukraine topped the G7 agenda.

Now the world leaders are warning Moscow will face tougher sanctions if it doesn't help restore calm in eastern Ukraine, which has been rocked

by separatist violence.

Now later this hour, U.S. President Barack Obama will be holding talks with British Prime Minister David Cameron. And CNN senior international

correspondent Nic Robertson joins me now live from Brussels with more from the G7 summit.

And Nic, there at the summit, a very stern warning to Russia of more sanctions to come.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. That is if Russia doesn't comply with what the G7 wants, which is for it to

recognize -- for Russia to recognize the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, to use his influence to stop weapons from across the

border from Russia into Ukraine to use its influence to stop the armed militias, the separatists armed militias in the east of Ukraine get --

convince them to lay down their weapons and get into talks with the Ukrainian government.

The G7 leaders want Russia to keep good on the commitments it made in Geneva, it wants Russia to recognize the government in Ukraine, recognize

the outcome, the elections, to engage with the government of Ukraine.

So the expectations from the G7 are very high -- the message for President Putin, even though he isn't here, is a very clear one -- you need

to conform with international standards. If you don't, there will be more economic sanctions. And you certainly won't be allowed back into the Group

of Seven. That, again, that would make it the Group of Eight if he were. He's not close to that.

But he is, however, meeting later today with -- or certainly over the next -- today and tomorrow meeting with at least three European leaders --

Kristie.

LU STOUT: That's right. And in fact, very soon he'll be having that bilateral one-on-one meeting with the British Prime Minister David Cameron.

What should we expect to come out of that?

ROBERTSON: We can expect, and this is something the White House has been talking about here is we can expect a common position from all three

European leaders -- David Cameron, British prime minister, Francois Hollande, the French president, the German Chancellor Angela Merkel all

meeting with President Putin, all incidentally meeting prior to that with President Obama, British prime minister meeting right around now with

President Obama.

So, from the White House's perspective, it would like all the European leaders to speak with one voice. And the expectation is, although these

European leaders all go into these meetings with their own concerns -- Germany on energy, France with its defense contracts with Russia, Britain

with its financial interests in Russia, or with Russia -- that they expect the common position to be put forward that Russia must come back into the

fold of international nations and respect the territorial -- the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.

For right now, the position of all those leaders along with President Obama is that they will not recognize Russia's annexation of Crimea. This

is a very strong position, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, at the top of the agenda there obviously is Russia and the ongoing crisis in Ukraine. But to what degree has the release of

U.S. army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl cast a shadow for Mr. Obama's visit there to Europe?

ROBERTSON: Well, it certainly caused him concern and consternation. The White House said it always expected there to be blowback. They

expected there to be concerns over the -- over the release of Sergeant Bergdahl. There was an expectation that the nature of the way that he

disappeared would also be an issue. But what they didn't really expect was the sort of level of backlash against Sergeant Bergdahl and his family.

That's caused concern.

Obviously the political backlash the White House really feels that this is sort of political point scoring in Washington.

So on the one hand President Obama here is sort of dealing with international affairs that are important to him, the other G7 leaders, but

at the same time he's also got to -- he's also getting questions on Sergeant Bergdahl and it's got -- and he is sort of running a political

rear guard action in Washington that is a certain level of distraction in terms of does it get into his meetings here? No. Does it affect what he

does when he comes out of those meetings? Absolutely yes.

And we can expect him to face questions about Sergeant Bergdahl's exchange for five senior Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay. We can

expect questions coming in that press conference he will soon hold with British Prime Minister David Cameron -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Nic Robertson reporting live from Brussels. Thank you very much indeed for that.

And with the release of Bergdahl, the family of a western couple is hoping to put a spotlight on their loved ones, an American and a Canadian

who disappeared in Afghanistan two years ago.

More now from Elise Labott.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ELISE LABOTT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The family of American Caitlan Coleman gave the videos to the Associated Press, hoping the

publicity surrounding Bowe Bergdahl's release could bring their daughter home.

In the videos posted online by the "Telegraph" newspaper, a then-nine- month pregnant Coleman makes a direct plea to, quote, "My President Barack

Obama," for help in freeing her and her Canadian husband from their Taliban captors. In his last contact with his family, Boyle said the couple were in

an Internet cafe in a, quote, "unsafe part of Afghanistan."

JIM COLEMAN, FATHER OF CAITLAN COLEMAN: My name is Jim Coleman and this is my wife Lynn.

LABOTT: Two months after their disappearance, Caitlan's family appeared on YouTube for her safe return, concerned about her health and

fearful for her unborn child.

COLEMAN: As parents and soon-to-be grandparents we appeal to whomever is caring for her to show compassion and allow Katie, Josh, and our unborn

grandbaby to come home.

LABOTT: Boyle's former wife Zaynab was the sister of Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo detainee who allegedly received training from al Qaeda. Their

father, a senior al Qaeda leader, with connections to Osama bin Laden. Less than two weeks after Khadr was freed from Guantanamo and sent back to

Canada, Boyle and Coleman went missing.

The videos offer the only clue as to what might have happened to the couple, but provide little proof they were indeed kidnapped, and no demands

for ransom have been made. But after the U.S. and the Taliban traded five Guantanamo detainees for Bowe Bergdahl's release, Republican Congressman

Duncan Hunter wrote President Obama asking why three other Americans held by Taliban-linked militants were not part of that deal.

The families have shared the video with the State Department, FBI and Canadian government. The U.S. can't say what it thinks happened to the

couple, because of privacy laws, but a spokesman for the Canadian foreign ministry says the government is aware that Boyle and Coleman have been

kidnapped in Afghanistan and are in contact with the Afghan government on the case.

Elise Labott, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now, police officers in Canada are on the hunt for a killer. Now the eastern province of New Brunswick is reeling after a man

shot and killed three police officers in the city of Moncton on Wednesday, a city dubbed by some to be the most polite in Canada.

Now police say that they have identified the suspect as 24-year-old Justin Bourque. They say that he is armed and he is dangerous and that

people nearby should stay indoors.

Now resident in the neighborhood where the attacks took place happened to be filming right as one of the police officers was shot.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god. Go down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He shot him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He shot a cop.

Call 911.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my god. Call 911.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now the New Brunswick Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they have been very proactive on social media keeping the public regularly

updated on the manhunt via this Twitter account.

Now the latest tweet, it warns residents within the red highlighted zone to stay inside and to lock their doors. And its says others should

avoid that area.

Now it was also on their Twitter account that they identified the suspected shooter.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come right here on the program, we take you to Pakistan. Now police there, they have made more

arrests in the stoning death of a pregnant woman they say was brutally killed by members of her own family.

Plus, the brother of a Sudanese woman facing the death penalty for refusing to renounce her Christianity, speaks to CNN exclusively, find out

why he says that she deserves to die.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now, a diplomatic row has flared between China and the U.S., a day after the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.

Now here in Hong Kong, tens of thousands of people marked the occasion with a candlelit vigil on Wednesday night. They were remembering the

victims of June 4, 1989 when hundreds, if not thousands of people were killed when the Chinese military opened fire on pro-democracy protesters.

Now the U.S. has called on China to account for those who were killed or are missing. And the foreign ministry in Beijing, gave this angry

response saying, this, quote, "we demand the U.S. side respect China's judicial sovereignty and not make irresponsible comments on issues that are

related to China's internal affairs."

Now the Tiananmen Square crackdown is not the only part of its past the China is keen to forget. Chairman Mao's cultural revolution, which

claimed millions of lives in the 1960s is also rarely mentioned in China, but for many of those left behind, the emotional scars from that period run

just as deep today.

David McKenzie reports from Beijing.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Wang Jingyao is well into his 90s. He wants to show me the letters to his wife that he's

carefully protected, because for nearly 50 years memories are all he's had.

Wang and his wife, Bian Yong Yun (ph) were both loyal Communist Party members, Bian (ph) a respected educator at a Beijing middle school, mother

to a proud family.

WANG JINGYAO, HUSBAND OF MURDERED VICE PRINCIPAL (through translator): My wife was a kind and gentle person. She was kindhearted, gentle, but he

death was tragic.

MCKENZIE: The very first murder of the cultural revolution.

In the mid-60s Mao Zedong unleashed the cultural revolution, sparking a decade of violent upheaval, targeting China's history, its intellectuals

and professionals.

The notorious red guards, some no older than 10, enforced the chaos.

Historians estimate that millions of people died during the cultural revolution, but this stain on China's history is rarely talked about and

its first victim often forgotten.

Bian Yong Yun (ph) was vice principal at this middle school. On August 5, '66, students no older than these targeted her as a counter

revolutionary.

Bian's (ph) former students are now in their 60s. They describe how red guards began berating and beating her.

LIU JIN, WITNESS TO VICE PRINCIPAL'S BEATING(through translator): The Red Guards came up to us and said, Ms. Bian (ph) can't take it anymore.

She was lying flat on the ground. Her eyes were blank. She was drooling.

JINGYAO (through translator): The staff called to tell me she was injured and I should go to the hospital. So I went with our four children.

I remember that hospital very clearly.

MCKENZIE: He grabbed the camera to document the crime against his wife. The Red Guards beat Bian (ph) for three hours with wooden stakes

spiked with nails.

JINGYAO (through translator): She passed away by the time I got there.

MCKENZIE: Wang covered her face so his youngest couldn't see.

FENG JINGLAN, WITNESS TO VICE PRINCIPAL'S BEATING (through translator): We couldn't tell them to stop. They would have said we were

resisting the tide of the revolution. I didn't dare to speak up.

MCKENZIE: No one was ever charged for Bian's (ph) murder. Decades on, her former students asked themselves every day why they let it happen.

And they recently made a rare public apology.

But Wang has lived through decades of pain and he won't forgive.

JINGYAO (through translator): Their apologies are just for show. They want to cover up their murder.

MCKENZIE: He keeps a small shrine to his wife, still seeking justice. And he believes China's wounds will never heal unless the party owns up to

its past.

David McKenzie, CNN, Beijing.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Wow. Brutal story of lingering pain.

You're watching News Stream. We'll be back right after the break.

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

And let's bring up a visual version of all the stories that we've got in the show today.

Now we've already brought you the latest from the G7 meeting in Brussels. Now later we'll have more on the political fallout from that

controversial prisoner swap involving the U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl.

But now, let's turn to Pakistan and a case that has horrified the country and the international community. Police there have now made three

more new arrests.

Now last month a pregnant woman was brutally beaten to death in a mob attack. Police say members of her own family killed her because she

married against their wishes.

This all happened in broad daylight outside a courthouse in Lahore, Pakistan. And the brutal and public nature of the murder, it drew global

attention to violence against women in Pakistan.

And these recent arrests, they bring the total number of suspects in police custody to 12.

Now, another disturbing story that is generating international outcry, the Sudanese woman condemned to death for refusing to renounce her

Christianity. Now Mariam Ibrahim is imprisoned with her 20-month-old son and gave birth to a baby girl just last week.

Now the government gave CNN permission to shoot this video of Ibrahim with her two children inside a prison clinic. Now she appears at one point

to smile. It's a far cry from images of her giving birth while shackled, which has been reported.

Ibrahim was turned into police by her own family. One of her brothers spoke exclusively to CNN's Nima Elbagir about why he thinks his

sister should be put to death if she refuses to renounce her Christian faith.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

AL SAMANI AL HADI, MARIAM IBRAHIM'S BROTHER (through translator): We are a Muslim people. In a free country, we are a sovereign state with our

rulings and our constitution. Our laws have been validated by our parliament. A free country ruled by tour laws that are derived from the

Koran and the teachings of the prophet, peace be upon him.

It's one of two. If she repents and returns to our Islamic faith and embraces our family, then we are her family and she is ours. We will hold

her dearer than the apples of our eyes. But if she refuses, she should be executed. We will not deny Islamic law. This is what the law states and

we will never allow any distortion of that.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (through translator): this is your sister? Will you allow yourself to see her executed, to watch

her walk to the hangman's noose?

AL HADI (through translator): But why would I indulge my humanity, my emotions and incur the wrath of my lord? That's not how it works for us.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Wow.

Now Ibrahim's husband, meanwhile, he is a U.S. citizen. She is currently seeking asylum in the U.S. for his wife and their children.

Now let's got back to that shocking story out of Pakistan about that brutal honor killing of that pregnant young woman, took place last month.

Michelle Stockman joins me now from Islamabad with the latest. Michelle, we've been reporting that more arrests have been made today. In all, quote

a number of people have been arrested in this honor killed. Could you tell us who are the main suspects here?

MICHELLE STOCKMAN, JOURNALIST: Well, Kristie, police have confirmed to CNN that 12 people have been taken into custody. Three of those people

are alleged to be the ones responsible for bludgeoning 25-year-old Farzana Parveen to get in broad daylight in front of a Lahore high court. They are

her brothers and alleged ex-husband.

So, police said from this point on they will be remanded for seven days for interrogation and then they will appear in court again to

determine if they will be released, or if they will still be kept in custody.

A (inaudible) has come out today and met the ex-husband alleged that Farzana is still married to him. And police are asking to produce

documentation to that affect. They may have been technically married, but never lived together.

So, it's -- we reviewed some of the facts from the case. 25-year-old Farzana Parveen pregnant woman went to Lahore high court with her husband

to contest a kidnapping charge. And her family had filed this against the husband because they disagreed with their relationship. And she was

bludgeoned to death.

There was a woman, eyewitnesses say, who put a noose around her neck, held her down and a mob of about 28 people began (inaudible) bricks from a

nearby construction site and bludgeoned her to death.

So just a horrific crime, shocking that it happened in broad daylight.

LU STOUT: All right, Michelle Stockman reporting live on the line from Islamabad, many thanks indeed for that update.

Now, today, it marks the first anniversary of the first intelligence leaks from the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. And the U.S. Senate

intelligence committee has scheduled a hearing on surveillance reforms.

Now senators will discuss a House bill on reforms passed last month ahead of an upcoming senate vote.

Now one of Edward Snowden's most eye-opening leaks alleged that the U.S. government tapped the phone of German chancellor Angela Merkel. And

now German prosecutors say that they are investigating.

Frederik Pleitgen has more from Berlin.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This was a highly politicized case here in Germany where the opposition was accusing the

Angela Merkel government of simply trying to make the whole matter of NSA spying here in this country go away. And the Angela Merkel government did,

in fact, say they believed that all of this was resolved until it came to light that Merkel's phone, itself, had also been tapped probably by the

National Security Agency.

Now the opposition has said that it took a very, very long time for the federal prosecutor to come forward and actually even make a decision on

whether or not criminal proceedings would begin. However, today that did happen and here's exactly the way that (inaudible) Germany federal

prosecutor phrased what is going to happen now.

HARALD RANGE, GERMAN ATTORNEY GENERAL (through translator): There is a suspicion that unknown unemployees of U.S. intelligence agencies spied on

a mobile phone of the German chancellor. I have, therefore, opened preliminary proceedings based on an initial suspicion of activity as a

foreign agent, according to paragraph 99 in the penal code.

PLEITGEN: So this investigation has been going on for awhile. And the way things are going to move forward now is that they're going to

continue to start questioning people. These are going to be official witness testimonies. And one of the witnesses that might actually be

questioned would be Edward Snowden.

The big question, then, would be would that happen via video conference with Snowden in Moscow or could the German government

potentially try and get Snowden over to Germany. There are some top level German politicians who believe that that is a slim possibility, but a

possibility nevertheless.

The federal prosecutor has said that he's put forward an official query to Snowden's lawyer asking him for additional information. However,

he's not gotten that response to that just yet.

One of the other big issues in all of this is that the German government is also saying that they've also launched a further

investigation into whether or not there was wider wiretapping and spying by the National Security Agency against other German citizens. They say that

some 2,000 legal complaints have been filed here in this country. However, they say that at this point, the information is not enough to open any

additional criminal proceedings aside from the one regarding Angela Merkel's phone.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Berlin.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And coming up next, the White House takes more heat as Washington lawmakers demand more answers on the

rationale behind the controversial rescue of U.S. Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl.

Plus, seven decades after that heroic operation that changed the course of history, we'll look back on the Normandy invasion and commemorate

the brave souls that helped liberate Europe.

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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.

Now U.S. President Barack Obama is meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Brussels. now G7

leaders are calling on Moscow to complete the withdrawal of Russian troops from the border with Ukraine and get armed separatists in Eastern Ukraine

to lay down their weapons. If that doesn't happen, Russia could face intensified sanctions.

Now police in the eastern Canadian city of Moncton are hunting for this man who is suspected of shooting and killing three officers. Now

authorities have identified the suspect as 24-year-old Justin Morquet. They say that he is armed and dangerous. And they also say that Moncton

residents should stay home and lock their doors.

Now CNN has learned that more than a dozen employees will leave General Motors as a result of an internal probe in to its recall of a

faulty ignition switch. Now the carmaker admits that the flaw was discovered a decade ago, but the recall didn't happen until earlier this

year. Now GM traces the deaths of 13 people to the faulty ignition switch and the report on the probe is due to be released in the coming hour by CEO

Mary Barra.

Now a source tells CNN that the controversial release of five Guantanamo detainees for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl could pave the

way for future talks between the Taliban and the U.S. Some U.S. lawmakers have criticized the swap, saying it will put American lives at risk. Now

the Obama administration is trying to convince critics that the prisoner swap for Bergdahl was the right and necessary thing to do.

But despite a briefing on Wednesday, many lawmakers are now buying it. Now senior Washington correspondent Joe John reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A closed door Senate briefing on the prisoner swap that brought Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's freedom

was intended to give Obama administration critics some answers, but it didn't exactly win them over.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: The exchange of five hard-core, hardest of the hard-core al Qaeda/Taliban, will pose a threat to the United States

of America and the men and women serving.

JOHNS: The Senate meeting took place in the wake of this propaganda video that emerged on the Taliban's web site, showing the actual prisoner

exchange.

Senators emerging from Wednesday's briefing said their focus was on another recording, a so-called proof of life video showing Sergeant

Bergdahl in captivity. In the classified video, Bergdahl appears gaunt and apparently had difficulty speaking. U.S. officials have said the video

showed a marked deterioration in Bergdahl's health compared to his appearance in previous videos, the administration citing those health

concerns as its reason for acting quickly to recover him.

But Republicans who spoke for the camera, and more than one Democrat including Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, said it looked to him like

Bergdahl was drugged and questioned whether it was enough to justify the prisoner swap.

SEN. JOE MANCHIN (D), WEST VIRGINIA: That did not sell me at all. He was not in that type of dire situation when he was released.

JOHNS: Some Republican senators who have been harshly critical of the administration's handling of the Bergdahl matter are now saying the

administration should lift the restriction on the proof of life video.

SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: Every American should see the video. This is something that we need to put out in the open. You need to

look at the video and judge for yourself.

JOHNS: The former head of joint special operations command, Stanley McChrystal, weighed in during an interview with Yahoo! News.

GEN. STANLEY MCCHRYSTAL (RET.), FMR. HEAD OF JOINT SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND: Well, we don't leave Americans behind. That is unequivocal. Now,

there will be a lot of discussion on whether the mechanism for getting Sergeant Bergdahl back was right and I'll leave it to people to argue that.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And that was Joe Johns reporting.

As mentioned, General Motors is set to release a report about why it took at least a decade to recall cars with faulty ignition switches.

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the switches in 2.6 million GM cars, including the Chevy Cobalt, could be unintentionally knocked into the

accessory position while driving and that sometimes causes the engine to shut off disabling the airbags power steering and the breaks.

Now GM has said that 13 deaths have been caused by faulty ignition switches, but there could be more.

Now one couple in Georgia, they believe that their daughters death was caused by the defect. And before the recall they settled with GM. But now

they're trying to take the auto giant to court over it, claiming that they were deceived.

Poppy Harlow reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KEN MELTON, FATHER OF BROOKE MELTON: I would gladly give my last breath just to hug her and tell her I loved her one more time. Just one

more time.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): March 10, 2010, was Brooke Melton's 29th birthday.

BETH MELTON, MOTHER OF BROOKE MELTON: I kept thinking that this is not possible. It's her birthday. It can't - this can't have happened that she

died.

K. MELTON: When I touched her hand, it was cold. I knew - I knew in my heart and my gut there was - there was something wrong with the car, that

it wasn't her fault.

HARLOW (on camera): It was here that Georgia State Patrol says Brooke Melton's 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt hydroplaned on a rainy evening four years

ago. The car spun out and was struck by another vehicle, then dropped 15 feet into this creek. The accident report says Melton was driving too fast

for roadway conditions, causing her to lose control of the vehicle.

B. MELTON: She was driving 58 and the speed limit was 55.

HARLOW: Do you believe that that could have caused the accident?

K. MELTON: No. I believe that she lost power.

HARLOW (voice-over): Brooke Melton's parents blame General Motors. It's now known the ignition switch on her Cobalt was defective. This

analysis of the car's data recorder provided by the Melton's attorney shows the switch was in the accessory position at the time of the crash, shutting

the engine off and disabling the air bags, power steering and antilock brakes.

LANCE COOPER, MELTON FAMILY ATTORNEY: And we believe the evidence is overwhelming that the defects in this key system resulted in Brooke's loss

of control and her death.

HARLOW: GM would not comment on the data recorder information. The defect led GM to recall 2.6 million cars. But before the recall, the

Melton's settled their case with GM for an undisclosed amount. Now they're fighting an uphill legal battle to reopen it.

COOPER: They thought they had the truth when they settled their case. We now know they had some of the truth but not all of the truth.

HARLOW: In a new lawsuit, the Meltons allege that GM hid key documents from them and say a GM engineer lied in a sworn deposition.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Were you the designer release engineer for the ignition switch in the '05 Cobalt?

RAY DEGIORGIO, ENGINEER, GENERAL MOTORS: Yes, I was.

HARLOW: The Meltons attorney gave CNN part of (INAUDIBLE) deposition of Ray Degiorgio, who denied approving any changes to the ignition switch.

DEGIORGIO: There was never a work order that I saw outlining this spring.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So any such change was made, it was made without your knowledge and authorization?

DEGIORGIO: That is correct.

HARLOW: But in 2006, Degiorgio signed this form, authorizing a fix to the ignition switch, making it harder to turn inadvertently.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You know that he lied under oath.

MARY BARRA, CEO, GENERAL MOTORS: The data that's been put in front of me indicates that, but I'm waiting for the full investigation. I want to be

fair.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. Well, let me -- let me help you here. He said several times he had no idea these changes had been made.

HARLOW: Degiorgio did not return CNN's calls. He's been put on paid leave.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good evening, everyone.

HARLOW: GM declined an interview with CNN, but denies concealing facts or engaging in any improper behavior in the Melton case. The automaker

admits 13 people died as a result of the defect, but won't release those names. GM's list only includes frontal crashes where air bags didn't

inflate.

HARLOW (on camera): General Motors says 13 deaths, 47 crashes.

B. MELTON: And they're playing with numbers. They don't count Brooke's death and she's dead because of that ignition switch.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ms. Barra, is Brooke Melton included in General Motor's death count, yes or no?

BARRA: To my knowledge, no.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

BARRA: Because it was a side impact.

K. MELTON: Her death has not been counted. It means like it doesn't matter.

HARLOW (voice-over): Ken Melton still keeps his daughter's number in his cell phone, something for him to hold on to.

HARLOW (on camera): Are you willing to settle this time?

K. MELTON: No. Settlement is off the table.

HARLOW: Any amount of money?

K. MELTON: Right.

B. MELTON: It's not about the money.

HARLOW (voice-over): General Motors hired former U.S. Attorney Anton Valukas to do an internal investigation. The Justice Department is also

investigating. And Ken and Beth Melton will keep fighting.

B. MELTON: Brooke's worth it. Whatever it takes. If it took the next 20 years, knowing the truth for her, it's certainly worth it.

HARLOW: Poppy Harlow, CNN, Marietta, Georgia.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And now let's turn to preparations to mark the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Now seven decades after the largest seaborne

invasion in history, elderly World War II veterans there being awarded a special Normandy medal at a ceremony in the French town of Cannes.

Now hundreds of survivors of the D-Day invasion will be in France for Friday's anniversary events.

But one very special World War II veteran has just passed away. A U.S. Marine Corporal Chester Nez was the last of the original code talkers.

Now Nex and 28 other American servicemen famously used the Navajo language to send and receive vital battlefield communications. It gave

them a huge advantage as the Japanese were never able to break the Navajo code. Nez was 93 years old.

Now D-Day took not only great talent and heroism, but also great machinery. Hundreds of war planes dropped parachutists behind enemy lines,

eventually turning the tide against Hitler.

Now eight of those special Dakota planes will be in France on Friday to replicate the D-Day air drop.

Nick Glass got a preview in England.

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NICK GLASS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A glorious fly past over southern England. A Lancaster bomber with an escort of Spitfire and a

Hurricane. And splendidly, a solitary Dakota. Along the seafront in the small town of Leonsolutte (ph) near Portsmouth, they simply broke into

spontaneously applause.

The idea, from a local flying club was simple and hugely ambitious -- get together a few old Dakotas and take part in the D-Day commemorative air

drop over France.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nose in the air, they're slightly pompous, and traditionally when we get out after a flight we'll go up to the aircraft

and pat it on the nose and say well done also.

FRANCISCO AGULLA, DAKOTA OWNER: The DC-3 is also a very forgiving airplane. If we don't get it completely right, you know, it will say,

yeah, that's OK, you'll do better next time, you know.

JON BUTTS, LEE FLYING ASSOCIATION: It is a machine that the pilots absolutely feel they can depend on. It gets them home. It gets the job

done. They can push it and push it and it doesn't bite them back, it just helps them through.

GLASS: Few vintage aircraft are more revered than the DC-3 Dakota and its military twin the C-47. General Eisenhower said four things won the

war for the allies: the atom bomb, and the bazooka, the Jeep and the DC-3. On D-Day, over 800 Dakotas took part in the biggest air drop in history.

For its special flight, the flying association managed to rustle up a magnificent eight. One came all the way from America. And they drew young

and veteran admirers.

SYLVIA BELL, WORLD WAR II VETERAN: For years I've done the regimental Christmas parade and I'd always present the coach on the front.

MAURICE BELL, WORLD WAR II VETERAN: Whatever the theme, it's changed every year, there had to be a Dakota.

SYLVIA BELL: I think it's lovely. It's got a lovely face. Look at it. It's even got an eye.

GLASS: It does have a face.

SYLVIA BELL: Can I salute it?

(LAUGHTER)

GLASS: Maurice, age 94, regularly parachuted from Dakotas during the war and was supplied by them fighting the Japanese in the Burmese jungle.

MAURICE BELL: If we were surrounded by the Japanese, we just held firm, formed a box, defended ourselves, but we couldn't have done it

without a Dakota bringing in ammunition, food, water, you know, we couldn't have done it without the Dakota.

I guess I can't hold onto these old planes, the things will come off.

GLASS: What's it like to see all these Dakotas together.

MAURICE BELL: Wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. It really is, you know.

SYLVIA BELL: I'd like to take it home.

MAURICE BELL: I love my, but I love a Dakota more.

(LAUGHTER)

GLASS: That famous silhouette, that dolphin nose, those big radial engines, that aluminum skin, the Dakotas were gathered on English soil for

joust a night, eight of the 150 Dakotas still flying.

Come daybreak, they lined up in dull English weather and departed one by one for the Normandy. We counted them out, watched them vanish into the

clouds. Will see a formation of Dakotas, quite like this, ever again?

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LU STOUT: What an incredible sight. That was Nick Glass reporting.

And CNN will have live coverage of the commemoration ceremonies for the 70th anniversary of D-Day. Our chief international correspondent

Christiane Amanpour, Jim Bittermann and Max Foster will be among the CNN team looking back at that historic event. So do join us on Friday. Our

special coverage, it begins at 10:00 a.m. in central Europe.

And coming up next right here on News Stream, as Brazil battles to get ready for next week's World Cup, we look at the delays hitting the next big

sporting event the country will host.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

And let's turn to the biggest event in international football, the World Cup in Brazil is now just a week away. And the tickets are selling

out fast.

The remaining seats for the most important matches, they ran out shortly after going on sale on Wednesday. Now the host nation will kick

off the competition ranked as the world's third best team after it moved up FIFA's latest ranking. Now Spain and Germany top the list.

Now the run up to the tournament has been marred by protests against its $11 billion pricetag. There have also been transit strikes. Today,

subway staff will stage a walkout in Sao Paulo, which could affect more than 4 million passengers.

Now Brazil, of course, is also preparing to host another big sporting event, the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. And with just two years

to go, some are wondering will Rio be ready in time?

Well, Shasta Darlington checks out how it's coming along.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Police, backed by soldiers, patrol the streets of shanty towns. Workers cling to metal

skeletons that will become the main Olympic park. The stench of raw sewage greets visitors to the waterway, which will host sailing events.

According to experts, the bigger problem is what you can't see.

"You're going to put high performance athletes in this water that isn't even water, it's a toilet," he says.

Just some of the reasons people are asking if Rio de Janeiro will be ready to host the 2016 Olympic Games.

We head out onto Guanabata Bay (ph) with sailing gold medalist Eduardo Penido in search of answers.

EDUARDO PENIDO, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: From the point of view of sailing, it's not a big problem, you know.

DARLINGTON: He says the area of play will be cleaned up by garbage boats ahead of the regattas.

But a Chilean team out practicing doesn't seem so sure.

"It's very dirty," she says.

Indeed, even city officials say only 49 percent of Rio homes have connected to sewage lines.

Rio's mayor Eduardo Paes sees no health risks for athletes, but admits the promised cleanup won't be complete before the Olympics.

EDUARDO PAES, MAYOR OF RIO DE JANEIRO: This is not going to be a problem for the games. This is a problem for us -- I mean, it's been a

problem for a long time. And that's an opportunity that we missed.

DARLINGTON: As for the venues, officials here insist they're 38 percent done with 11 already operational.

Thanks to the World Cup and a pricy renovation, at least one venue is totally ready to go -- the Maracana Stadium.

Construction is advanced at the Olympic Village, but barely underway at the main Olympic park nearby.

As for the second largest venue, Deo Doro Olympic park (ph) where the BMX, white water and rugby events will be held, construction isn't even due

to start until the second half of the year.

In the end, will the Olympics face the same kind of mass of protests leveled at the World Cup? The Olympics budget has also ballooned to $16

billion.

But officials say it's a different story.

PAES: Most of the public money is being spent not on venues, not on fancy stadiums, but on legacy, on transportation, on sewage, on lots of

things that are happening in the city.

DARLINGTON: He has two years to prove his point.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still to come, torrential rain and flooding just battered parts of China. It's causing blackouts,

road closures and mass evacuations. We'll have the full forecast after the break. Stick around.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now five months from now the world will mark 25 years since the fall of the Berlin wall. And as that anniversary approaches, CNN is re-airing

its award-winning series Cold War.

Now this week, we examine the events leading up to the building of the infamous wall in 1961. Here's a preview.

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KENNETH BRANAGH, ACTOR: West Germany was NATO's front line along the Iron Curtain. Since 1955, the Americans had been training a new West

German army. Some thought that could mean a German finger on NATO's nuclear trigger.

German rearmament brought back nightmares for many Europeans, above all for the Russians. The new weaponry alarmed East Germany, the German

Democratic Republic.

WERNER EBERLEIN, EAST GERMANY INTERPRETER (through translator): The GDR made various offers to prevent the nuclear armament of West Germany,

but it found no response, no echo. The GDR felt directly threatened by tactical nuclear weapons. It accepted that the Soviet army, stationed on

GDR territory, also should arm itself with tactical nuclear weapons.

BRANAGH: Berlin, deep in East German territory, was under the joint occupation of the former wartime allies. Now in West Berlin, 12,000

British, American and French soldiers were surrounded by half a million Soviet and East Germany troops. Western rights of access were protected by

four-power agreement.

Each day, thousands moved freely between the Soviet and Western sectors. Berlin's open border gave East Germans access to the glittering

West, which Soviet and East German leaders wanted to end.

EBERLEIN (through translator): West Berlin was becoming increasingly dangerous to the existence of the GDR and to the existence of socialism.

Khrushchev proposed to create a free city of Berlin with special rights of its own, with its own foreign policy, its own police and its own symbolic

foreign forces.

OLEG TROYANOVSKI, KHRUSHCHEV ADVISER: Khrushchev thought that some pressure should be put on the Americans and the obvious place was West

Berlin, so that this was a sort of shock therapy on the part of Khrushchev, I would say.

BRANAGH: In November 1958, the West rejected Khrushchev's Berlin proposals. Khrushchev now offered East German leader Walter Ulbricht a

peace treaty. It threatened Western rights in Berlin.

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LU STOUT: And tune in this Saturday for the next episode of CNN's landmark series Cold War. That's on Saturday, 6:00 p.m. in Hong Kong.

Now time now for your global weather forecast. And more on the extreme flooding in parts of China. Flood waters thigh high in the video

that we saw before the break.

Let's go straight to Mari Ramos for that and more -- Mari.

MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, very dramatic images coming out of that region. The one that you see behind me of a water

rescue just one of them.

Let me go ahead and move out of the way so you can see it a little bit closer.

That little girl smiling now as she gets carried in the hands of a rescue worker.

These images like this, Kristie, repeated over and over thousands of times as millions of people are affected by the high water.

Let's go ahead and roll the pictures and I'll tell you more about what's going on.

Torrential downpours have been affecting much of southern China. And if we have those pictures let's go ahead and roll them. There you go.

Water as far as the eye can see. Rivers have burst their banks, in some cases reservoirs have also either filled to capacity or even began

spilling over. One area alone reported more than 300 landslides. And as you can see, we are talking about densely populated areas. Guangxi, for

example, had significant rainfall across the last 24 hours. Reporting rain for 10 hours straight. You can see a lot of dirty standing water across

that entire region. In Nanning, they had over 79 millimeters of rain. In Mengshan over 204 millimeters of rain.

And unfortunately, more rain is the forecast.

In some cases, schools have been closed. There are reports, of course, of businesses that have been closed. Evacuations en masse across some

areas. But many people just have nowhere to go and are trying to deal with the flooding as best they can, even though water has been cut in some areas

and as has been electricity. So very difficult conditions for people in this region.

Come back over to the weather map. Over the next couple of days -- look at these rainfall totals that we're seeing across this entire swath of

southern China.

Southeastern China, in particular, and even as we head over into northern parts of Vietnam anywhere from 46 millimeters in Hanoi to 2089 in

Lao Cai.

These areas in red and purple are the ones that are the most -- where the most rain is expected. But any amount of rain that falls in these

areas is going to be a huge concern over the next 24 to 48 hours because it has been affected so widespread already in the last couple of days.

Farther north, we have high pressure in place. And that has meant very hot conditions. In Beijing, 30 degrees right now. 30 degrees in Hong

Kong. So you see these extremes. Where it's not raining, we have these very high temperatures.

And that's pretty much case as we head across the subcontinent. Look at these temperatures in India and Pakistan. 49 degrees in Jacobabad

again.

So these are temperatures that have been holding steady like this for the daytime highs even in the daytime hours, Kristie, even as we head into

the evening hours it remains very, very hot indeed.

Back to you.

LU STOUT: Yeah, dangerously high temperatures there. Mari Ramos, thank you.

And that is News Stream. But the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.

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