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Battle for Iraq; Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq; Jihadists Recruiting Teens; World Cup Today; Michael Jackson's Legacy; MH370 New Search Area; Google I/O Conference;

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JIM CLANCY, CNN HOST: I'm Jim Clancy at CNN Center. Welcome to NEWS STREAM where news and technology meet.

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CLANCY (voice-over): Iraq's parliament will start the process of creating a new government as the military battles to stay in control of the

country.

Leo Messi scores twice as Argentina cruises into the last 16 of the World Cup.

And we'll tell you why one of Google's latest high-tech products is, well, cardboard.

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CLANCY: Our lead story focused once again on Iraq. The parliament will soon begin the process of forming a new government, even as the unrest

in the country seems to be drawing in its neighbors.

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CLANCY (voice-over): Syrian state media are denying those reports that Syrian war planes bombed towns in Iraq's Anbar province that resulted

in at least 57 deaths. U.S. officials meantime telling CNN Iran is flying surveillance drones over Iraq and providing arms and ammunition to the

Iraqi government.

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CLANCY: Iraq's vice president is calling for parliament to convene next Tuesday to begin forming a new government. British Foreign Secretary

William Hague, meantime, is in Baghdad right now for talks with Iraqi leaders.

CNN's Nima Elbagir joins us now from the Iraqi capital with more about developments on the ground -- Nima.

NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Foreign Secretary Hague here, Jim, very much reinforcing the message we heard from U.S. Secretary of State

John Kerry. There needs to be a unified stance of the various actors in this country, need to come together and start beginning to erase those

sectarian divides.

Some hopeful signs in terms of one of the deadlines met for the Iraqi parliament to meet and choose the speaker of parliament. The next stage

will be choosing -- will be meeting for the president to be named.

But of course while all this is happening, as you rightly said, we're seeing a military push for the capital and an unlikely alliance forming to

try and stem that tide. Iranian war planes flying over the same skies that we understand from U.S. officials the U.S. planes have been trying to glean

intelligence from.

Syrian fighter jets, we know that Iraqi officials on the ground, we only know what Iraqi officials on the ground are telling us. But they're

telling us they're seeing cross-border raids, Jim. And this, of course, comes while we're seeing a pickup in the levels of irregular attacks here

in this country to the north in Kirkuk, a car bomb to the south in Mahmoudiyah as some horrifying aftermath pictures are coming out, the

suicide bomb detonated there, only adding to this ever-climbing death toll, which, in the month of June alone ,the U.N. has said has gone 1,000 killed

-- Jim.

CLANCY: Nima, as we look at this crisis, I think you rightly said it, that is it would appear that ISIS is pushed towards the capital, Baghdad,

has stalled really. But that doesn't mean that the Iraqi people there or in other places under government control are immune from these irregular

attacks.

ELBAGIR: Absolutely. And we heard from a number of international diplomats and security sources that this was their expectation, that that

extremely rapid forward momentum that we saw ISIS have in the beginning, that was expected. They took the places that they were expected to take

quite easily, the Sunni areas, the areas where they already felt that they might have a welcome reception from some Sunni tribal leaders that had

given indications that they would be moving over to the ISIS side.

Now it starts getting ugly. Now it becomes for the more difficult areas, Baghdad, which itself is, of course, majority Shia, the more towards

the south. I mean, that's almost impossible for them right now. So what we're seeing are the attacks like the ones we saw to the south of Baghdad

in Mahmoudiyah, horrifying, horrifying attacks that are hitting at the heart of the civilian population.

Just before we came to air, the Iraqi armed forces spokesman, Qassim Atta, has now said and shown video, he says, that backs up this claim that

the Baiji oil refinery, which has been the object of seesaw competing claims between the two sides, he said that is now firmly in government

control and he's showing us video.

But there's been such a back-and-forth and such a movement between the two sides on this, Jim, that we're all thinking that this is really not the

end of that story -- Jim.

CLANCY: Nima Elbagir reporting with us there live from Baghdad.

Nima, as always, thank you.

Well, the Iraqi military insists that it is ready to push ISIS militants back if -- if -- they were approaching the capital. Just 35

kilometers from Baghdad, Iraqi forces are deployed in Anbar province. Their commanders tell CNN's Nic Robertson their army will not face defeat

against ISIS, unlike what happened further to the north.

Nic has this report from the front lines.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): War is drawing closer to the Iraqi capital. And this aging tank is what's

helping defend it. These soldiers in the restive al-Anbar province are just 35 kilometers, 22 miles from the center of Baghdad.

After all their American training and the billions of U.S. dollars in equipment, it's them and their Soviet T-54 tank that are now lined up to

stop ISIS' advance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Allah Akbar!

ROBERTSON: That tank round landed just by the trees on the horizon there. You can see the smoke rising right now. We're told there were

snipers in the house there. That's how close ISIS is to the army front lines, just a few hundred meters.

ROBERTSON (voice-over): The army brought us here to a tiny Sunni village to show us a recent battlefield gain. They say they chased ISIS

out five days ago. This is the tank commander, a Shia from south of Baghdad.

ALI FAAK, TANK COMMANDER: In any regard, the fight here is good. So the terrorists cannot fight with us because they lose. They lose the

battle with us, you know, because they're chicken, you know.

ROBERTSON: They're chicken?

FAAK: Yes.

ROBERTSON: But in the north of the country, the army was the chicken.

FAAK: No. No, no, no. The army's strong.

ROBERTSON: In the north of the country, some of the soldiers ran away, left their weapons.

Are you afraid? You're the commander.

Are you afraid you might turn around --

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FAAK: (INAUDIBLE) afraid. (INAUDIBLE) this country.

ROBERTSON (voice-over): The soldiers dance for us, singing an anti- ISIS song, part bravado, part media offensive, following a catastrophic collapse in the west, in Mosul in the north. They want to change their

losers image.

"I can't say anything about Mosul. It's not my responsibility," the colonel in charge tells me. "What happened there will not happen in

Baghdad and will not happen here."

The battle here lasted five hours, we are told, 32 ISIS killed, they say, three dead on the Iraqi side. On the storefronts in the now-deserted

Sunni village, fresh Shia graffiti, even their rusting tank carries a Shia flag.

The colonel in charge insists it is not a sectarian war. I ask if he wants U.S. airstrikes.

ROBERTSON: Strikes and you want the U.S. military advisers that are here, can they help you?

COLONEL ALI AL-MAJIDI, 24TH BRIGADE ARMOURED DIVISION IRAQI ARMY: (Speaking foreign language).

ROBERTSON (voice-over): His answer is simple, "It's not up to me. But my opinion, yes. I want the strikes."

He may well do. Outside of this village we see very few soldiers. And he left his expensive American Abrams tanks back at base to defend

that, should the need arise -- Nic Robertson, CNN, al-Anbar province, Iraq.

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CLANCY: Now looking at it from a different perspective, it's now estimated more than half a million Iraqis have been displaced by the spike

in violence. The U.N.'s World Food Programme says soaring temperatures are making the crisis even worse.

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CLANCY (voice-over): This week, that organization's executive director met with families who fled the fighting in Mosul. She found a

camp where they're staying simply does not have enough tents and many people are forced to sit in the searing heat just waiting for relief.

ERTHARIN COUSIN, WFP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: The challenge is that we do not have the necessary resources to provide the assistance that is required

for a sustained period of time. We need the international community to continue to support our efforts here so that no family who has now come to

find refuge goes without the basic food, water and other assistance needs that the U.N. community and WFP is working to provide to them.

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CLANCY: The need immense, even before this latest wave of displaced Iraqis began arriving, the World Food Programme was assisting more than

340,000 people in the region, many of them refugees from the conflict in neighboring Syria.

Now a different kind of conflict, a different kind of crisis across Europe, the increasing number of young Westerners who are leaving their

families to fight alongside Islamists rebels in Syria, creating pain and torment. Just some of them are teenagers.

CNN's Atika Shubert spoke with one mother in Belgium, who's trying desperately to get her son's return.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When "Selma's" 16- year-old son began volunteering to help the homeless, she says she had no idea it would lead him to Syria.

"Selma" is not her real name and she asked us not to show her face, fearing it may endanger her son.

SHUBERT: Is your son now on the front lines?

"SELMA": That's what we fear for him. But we have no proof of the country, of recognition. That's the most painful, the most painful thing,

is that we know nothing of what is actually going on the ground.

SHUBERT (voice-over): Human rights groups say increasingly jihadist recruiters target youngsters, often online, but also on the streets of

Europe. "Selma's" son was 15 when he began helping a group that claimed to be a charity. But she says people in the group convinced her son to go to

Syria.

"SELMA": They told me that he was going to the movie with some of his friends. It was the Easter holidays, and that I shouldn't worry if he

would be coming late. But around 6:30, 7:00, as I didn't see him, I started to be -- to get really anxious.

SHUBERT (voice-over): "Selma" called other parents in a panic. And together they came to suspect their children were heading to Syria. She

immediately called the police and asked them to be on the lookout, that her son might be transiting to Turkey, a typical transit point for Europeans

headed to Syria.

This, even though he did not have a passport.

But the next time she spoke to him, he was already inside Syria. "Selma" then tried to go herself but was denied entry amid tighter border

security.

How could a minor travel from Belgium to Syria without a passport? Well, the public prosecutor told us a Belgian national can legally travel

to Turkey with only an E.U. ID, even a minor. And unless a crime has been committed, police have no reason to stop them.

"SELMA": The underlying emotions and intention is to sit and stand. I want to go out here. But the overall situation there is that every now

and again he gets a little caught up in another layer and process of growing watching (ph).

SHUBERT (voice-over): But Belgium is among several European country that have met with officials from Turkey and the U.S. on measures to stem

the flow of young Islamic fighters to Syria. And moderate Islamic groups are also working to reach out to young people.

"Selma" says she believes her son is in North Syria, but she's not sure where. She talks to him about once a week and never more than a few

minutes at a time. He won't talk about exactly what he is doing or why, saying only that he's safe and helping people.

SHUBERT: What message do you have for your son when you speak to him?

"SELMA": The same message that every parent would have for his last ones, is that I love him. Come back home now. It's enough. Enough is

enough. Come back home.

SHUBERT (voice-over): A desperate call to come home -- Atika Shubert, CNN, Brussels, Belgium.

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CLANCY: Well, coming up right here on NEWS STREAM, four goals and counting at the World Cup for Argentina's Leo Messi. We're going to go

live to Brazil for more on that as well as Thursday's matchups.

Five years after the death of Michael Jackson, we look back at the superstar's legacy and how it has grown.

Plus Australian officials announcing a new search area for the missing Malaysian airliner.

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CLANCY: Well, we're still waiting to find out whether FIFA's going to be punishing Uruguay's Luis Suarez for apparently biting an opponent at the

World Cup. But while the authorities discuss his case, the focus was back on the football pitch Wednesday.

Nigeria booked their place despite being beaten 3-2 by Argentina. Leo Messi scored the opener in the first three minutes. Nigeria quickly hit

back, though, through Mussa. Then Messi doubled his tally with this spectacular free kick. Argentina sealed first place in the group with

three straight wins.

But Iran's failure to beat Bosnia meant Nigeria are getting through anyway. Bosnia won 3-1 to record their first win at their first-ever World

Cup.

Meantime, Zherdan Shaqiri scored a stunning hat trick to send Switzerland into the last 16 after a 3-0 win over Honduras. Next

Switzerland's going to be facing Argentina; France will face off against Nigeria.

The Wednesday was really all about the magic of Messi, Argentina's superstar disappointed back in 2010. He didn't score in the last World Cup

at all. Now he's got four goals in just three games of this year's Cup. Now that means Messi joins Brazil's Neymar at the head of the top scorers'

chart. They may be rivals at the World Cup, but when it's all over, they'll be teammates again.

Messi and Neymar both play club football for Barcelona.

There's a lot more to look forward to a little bit later today. Alex Thomas is in Rio de Janeiro to take -- tell us exactly what we can expect -

- Alex.

ALEX THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Jim. Good morning from sunny Rio. The end of the group stages here on Thursday and a sensational start

to this climax to the group rounds after a real internal conflict within the Ghana camp. It's been made very public indeed. Two of their top star

players, Sulley Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng have been suspended from the squad and had their World Cup accreditation stripped from them.

Kevin Prince Boateng because apparently of alleged verbal -- bold verbal insults was the wording of the press release saying, at the coach,

Kwesi Appiah.

And Sulley Muntari has had his accreditation stripped from him for an unprovoked physical attack on a member of Ghana's executive committee at

their football association.

We have spoken to Boateng on the phone. He confirmed that he is suspended. He said he did have an altercation with Muntari on the training

field but it was actually much friendlier than some of the reports. He gave us more details that he doesn't want us to make public right now. He

wants to speak more after the game because Ghana could get through to the round of 16 at the United States' expense.

They need to win over Portugal by two clear goals or have America get beaten by Germany by two clear goals. So this does have an impact on

America's chances of reaching the knockout round for the second successive World Cup, the U.S. playing Germany in Recife and a draw would see both

those teams go through, Jim.

CLANCY: You know, at the same time, and I hate to go back to this subject, but is FIFA going to send Luis Suarez home from this World Cup

2014 for what he did on the field?

THOMAS: Jim, it looks increasingly likely like Luis Suarez's World Cup is over. We should get a decision from FIFA's disciplinary committee

later on today. They want to make a quick one because they want to do it before Uruguay next play.

Wouldn't it be an embarrassment if a player who so publicly bit an opponent then scored the winning goal for Uruguay this evening through to

the quarterfinals?

We understand that FIFA's disciplinary committee met overnight, considering all the video and photographic evidence you've seen on CNN and

other news channels across the world and here on Brazilian telly as well for so long. We believe that Suarez's defense is that his solicitor in the

Uruguayan affair claiming the pitch of the still image of Giorgio Chiellini, the Italian defender's bite marks on his shoulder, was

Photoshopped, they claim. That's part of their defense. I think they're really clutching at straws because they know how much trouble Suarez is in.

And there's also a knock-on effect because of his club future. We believe that Liverpool may want to hold onto the player. But we know the sponsors

of both Suarez and his country and clubs are unhappy at the player's conduct. Remember, he's bitten players in the past. So he's under huge

pressure and we should know his fate in the hours ahead, Jim.

CLANCY: Alex Thomas, reporting live from Rio de Janeiro, Alex, always good to see you. Have a great day. I know you will because of where you

are. Thanks a lot.

This is NEWS STREAM. And coming up straight ahead, five years ago the King of Pop passed away. The news shocked -- it saddened the world,

really. Today we're going to look at his legacy and how his family is doing five years later.

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CLANCY: Hard to believe it, but it's been five years since the King of Pop passed away; the latter part of Michael Jackson's life was

turbulent, no doubt about that, mired in speculation. He had multiple legal proceedings.

His music, though, still lives on in the top 10 charts, proving his popularity has never really waned. But how have his three children and the

rest of the Jackson family been coping with the loss of the pop star?

Randi Kaye has that story.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Paris Jackson, just 11 years old and broken-hearted, when she shared this with the world.

PARIS JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON'S DAUGHTER: Ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine.

And I just want to say I love him so much.

KAYE (voice-over): Today the pop star's only daughter is 16. Life without her dad has been a struggle. In June last year, she attempted

suicide, cutting her wrists with a kitchen knife.

ALAN DUKE, CNN DIGITAL REPORTER: She's been getting intensive psychiatric help since then. In fact, sent out of state to a boarding

school.

KAYE (voice-over): And her brothers? Prince is now 17 and a self- described nerd. He's an honor student who has done some acting. He's now preparing for college.

And remember Blanket Jackson? This was him on that now infamous balcony scene. He's now 12. He was just 7 when his father died, even

carried a Michael Jackson doll to the memorial service. Today, he loves to make movies.

DUKE: Blanket seems to be the one who is the most like his father as far as his personality. He's a shy young 12-year old, still home schooled.

KAYE (voice-over): Paris and her brothers recently made a documentary about their dad with grandmother Kathryn. The trailer was posted on

YouTube.

PARIS JACKSON: You promised me you would teach me how to moon walk, never got around to it.

BLANKET JACKSON, SON OF MICHAEL JACKSON: Sometimes my goal is really to watch. He's a very good dancer.

JERMAINE JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON'S BROTHER: My brother the legendary king of pop, Michael Jackson, passed away on Thursday, June 25th, 2009, at

2:26 pm.

KAYE (voice-over): Kathryn Jackson still struggles every day with the loss of her son. She lives in a $10 million mansion in Calabasas,

California with her grandchildren, apart from her husband, Joe Jackson, who lives in Las Vegas.

DUKE: Michael Jackson gave his mom a bus that she still uses to go every year in August on his birthday, she goes to Gary, Indiana, for a

celebration of Michael Jackson's birthday.

KATHRYN JACKSON, MICHAEL JACKSON'S MOTHER: There is not a day that pass that I don't think about my child. And he should be here right now,

but there was negligence of a doctor.

KAYE (voice-over): Dr. Conrad Murray was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in 2011 and sentenced to four years for Michael Jackson's

death. Murray got out of prison in October after serving about two years. He's no longer licensed to practice medicine in either California or Texas.

CONRAD MURRAY, FORMER CARDIOVASCULAR SPECIALIST: This is part of the untold story, my story.

KAYE (voice-over): Murray, who is still appealing his conviction, posted this PowerPoint presentation online last month, his attempt to prove

his innocence.

KAYE: Another of Jackson's doctors, dermatologist to the stars Arnold Kline, is also in financial straits, his health failing. His business took

a hit after it was disclosed at trial that Jackson had received large doses of Demerol from Kline's clinic, even though Kline denies giving that to

him.

KAYE (voice-over): Debbie Row, Michael's ex-wife, is still living on a horse ranch outside L.A. She got engaged earlier this year to one of

Michael's closest friends. Four of his brothers are on tour again; Latoya Jackson's reality show is in its second season and Janet Jackson got

married to a Qatari billionaire -- Randi Kaye, CNN, New York.

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CLANCY: Still to come right here on NEWS STREAM, a new search area for that missing Malaysian airliner. Investigators reveal the plane was

probably on auto-pilot as it crashed into the Indian Ocean. We'll have details straight ahead.

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CLANCY: I'm Jim Clancy at CNN Center. You're watching NEWS STREAM; these are your world headlines.

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CLANCY (voice-over): British Foreign Secretary William Hague is in Baghdad right now for talks with Iraqi leaders as the country's military

tries to cope with Sunni extremists who have been driving on Baghdad.

Radical Muslim cleric Abu Qatada has been found not guilty in one terrorism case by a court in Jordan. It said that there was no evidence to

support charged he's conspired to bomb an American school in Amman in the late 1990s. Now Abu Qatada was extradited from Britain last year after a

drawn-out legal process. The cleric will remain in custody in Jordan pending a verdict in a separate terror case.

The highlight of the World Cup on Wednesday, Lionel Messi, scoring twice for Argentina, carrying his team to a 3-2 win over Nigeria. Messi is

now level at the top of the Golden Boot standings on four goals with Brazil's Neymar.

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CLANCY: New developments today in the hunt for that missing Malaysia Airlines flight, MH370. Officials laid out details of the next phase of

the search. Now the new search area is farther south in the Indian Ocean. Australia's deputy prime minister said searchers will be scanning this

60,000-square kilometer underwater zone.

Officials warn the task ahead will be both challenging as well as complex and that it could be a year before any trace of that aircraft is

found.

Let's get more details on Thursday's announcement. Saima Mohsin joins us now live -- Saima.

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Jim, extraordinary details coming out today that we weren't expecting, including the fact that investigators

and the people searching and leading the search operation believe that the plane was on auto-pilot as it ended its flight path into the southern

Indian Ocean. Now what they're saying is this isn't part of the investigation. This is solely based on the kind of complex calculations

they have to make to try to work out exactly where the plane went off chart and where it went into the sea to find where they should be searching for

it.

So what they said was, look, we took a look at the fact that there was no on-flight, on-route maneuvering of the plane as we would expect. There

was a loss of communication with the pilot and copilot on board, radar coms in particular. And the plane was smoothly going on a straight flight path,

cruising at a steady altitude and looking at that and looking at at least three other previous air crashes, they deduced that the plane was, A, on

autopilot in the last few hours and, B, that those on board, in particular in the cockpit, may well have been knocked unconscious -- Jim.

CLANCY: Now when are they to being examining this new search area?

MOHSIN: Yes, that's going to take some time yet, because they haven't actually started to employ the people that they want to employ and the

equipment they want to use in this search operation. Now they're saying that that could take a couple of months at least, earliest search operation

will start in this refined zone will be August at least.

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MOHSIN (voice-over): (INAUDIBLE) they're trying to do, Jim, is you'll remember they were using a Bluefin-21 machine going down into the ocean; it

could only take a look at 40 square kilometers at any one time. Well, they want more of those scanners. They want specifically high-tech scanners

that are called side scan sonars that go out and take a look at a broader depth of the ocean. They can take in much more; the information can be

relayed in real time.

So what they're looking at is doing kind of what the Bluefin did, but manyfold. So they want more of these machines that can work more

efficiently, cover more expanse of ocean. Because as you say, they're looking at 60,000 square kilometers to cover. They only just covered 860

square kilometers in the last phase of the search.

So they've got a huge task ahead. And as they said today, look, we may be lucky. We may find a sign of Flight MH370 on day one or it could

take up to 12 months. And that is what they're forecasting, Jim. We could be looking at a whole year of searching for this flight and those on board

-- Jim.

CLANCY: Luck is something that has not defined the search for Flight 370.

Saima Mohsin reporting for us live on the story, thank you.

Well, the CNN Freedom Project is shedding some light on organ trafficking around the world. All this week we've been focusing on the

district in Nepal that's been called the nation's kidney bank. That's because hundreds of people there have been victims of organ harvesting

scams.

But as Sumnima Udas reports, many never come forward.

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SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Economics lies at the heart of why so many villagers fall prey to organ traffickers. For most,

farming and rearing livestock are the only reliable ways to make a living. One bad harvest or a big medical bill could spell financial ruin.

So when traffickers come to the village with promises of fast money or a well-paying job overseas, many are willing to hear them out.

UDAS: We're driving around in Huksa (ph) village right now, which has developed the unfortunate reputation of being the epicenter of kidney

trafficking in Nepal. This house, that house, those two houses that were there, activists here tell us that several members from each of these

households is missing a kidney.

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UDAS (voice-over): Social stigma, threats from traffickers keep many victims from coming forward. These men were willing to risk the

repercussions. But some had reservations about showing their faces, which we blurred for their protection.

UDAS (from captions): Are you all from villages in Kavre?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (from captions): Yes.

UDAS (from captions): Why does this happen mainly in Kavre?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (from captions): God knows.

CLANCY (voice-over): Now you can watch "Nepal's Organ Trail," a CNN Freedom Project documentary, this Friday. Tune in 5:30 pm in Hong Kong,

6:30 pm in Tokyo, the Freedom Project.

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CLANCY: There's been a major ruling in the United States on gay marriage and giving the issue more momentum to heads of the highest court

in the land.

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CLANCY (voice-over): An appeals court this week struck down Utah's state ban on same-sex marriage. The court said that any couple has the

right to marry, regardless of the sex of the two people in the union.

Utah is a very conservative state and says it will appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court. Nineteen U.S. states and the District of

Columbia have already legalized gay marriage.

You're watching NEWS STREAM. Still to come right here, first, it was your computer, then it was, well, your smartphone. And now Google is also

eyeing your television, your car, even what you wear around your wrist. After the break we'll show you the latest on Google's plate.

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CLANCY: All right. Welcome back. Ever wonder what does Google do? It's got all these laboratories and it's always developing something new.

Well, they unveiled a host of new things at the I/O Conference on Wednesday.

The theme: Android Everywhere. They showed off a new Android for phones, Android for television, Android for cars, even Android for your

wrist with new smartwatches. Let's get a few details here and bring in Laurie Segall. She's in our New York bureau right now.

Laurie, a lot of new things out there.

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. Android everywhere. You said it there. Android, Google, this is their big push to move beyond

your smartphone to cars, to TVs, to wearables. And we got a good idea of what that would look like. They came out and they were introducing the

smartwatch with Android Wear, which is the software that enables Android on these wearables and they have all types of crazy features on the smartwatch

and better for me to show you than tell you.

So take a look at this, Jim.

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DAVID SINGLETON, DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING FOR ANDROID: It is finally possible to make a powerful computer small enough to wear comfortably on

your body all day long.

Throughout the day, if Jeff receives a notification which buzzes his phone, his watch will vibrate on his wrist and show him what's up at a

glance. When it comes to takeout, I'm a creature of habit. Around the same time I made an order last week, it posts a notification suggesting I

order again. And then I can quickly swipe to see and repeat my last order. Just one more tap to pay.

And when there's a page indicator, Jeff can swipe horizontally to see more details.

When you swipe away a notification on the watch, it disappears from the phone, as Jeff is showing now.

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SEGALL: You know, the idea that you could get a taxicab using your watch or order food using your watch, I don't know if people will do it,

but that's what they're saying could be the future.

Now they also put that Android Auto would be a very big thing. This is Android in your car. This means heavy voice controls and integration

with Google Maps. They also announce Android TV and Google has had some issues trying to get into the TV market in the past with Google TV. But

Android TV, this is their answer. It's a set-top box. It'll essentially put an Android layer on your television. It'll go -- and it'll compete

directly with Apple TV. So a lot of news out of this, Jim.

CLANCY: Yes, but what does it -- what does the watch cost? Did he tell us that?

SEGALL: The watch, you know, the watch, I'm not exactly sure of the cost But I do know that it is coming out. Two versions are coming out as

of yesterday. We have another version coming out in the next -- in the next couple months.

It'll be interesting to see if people actually adopt this kind of technology because we all know that smartwatches have existed in the past.

And people haven't 100 percent caught on, although everybody who wait to see what Apple's going to do too in this sector, Jim.

CLANCY: You know, one of the things that was kind of interesting with all of those gadgets and everything up there, one of the most popular

things I understand came in the gift bag that they handed out.

SEGALL: You've got to love this, right? They hand out a gift bag and they have an app called Cardboard, right? And it's almost a build-it-

yourself, do-it-yourself virtual reality set. You're looking at it right there. And what it does is it enables you to use your Android phone and

build -- use a couple materials like cardboard, magnets, and build your own virtual reality headset. When you look at something like Facebook buying

Oculus Rift, which is another virtual reality headset for $2 billion, and then you look at this kind of hacked set, a lot of folks really excited

about trying to build this and have the experience. And what it lets you do, once you do build it and you use your phone, you can float through

space on Google Earth. And there's all sorts of applications. And they've opened it up to developers to really try to come up with some applications.

And it was a bit of a scrappy project, but people really caught on. And now it's really taken off, Jim.

CLANCY: All right. Who would have thought it? Google has something that took off? Well.

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SEGALL: Of course.

CLANCY: Laurie Segall in New York, Laurie, always great to talk with you, thanks.

SEGALL: Good to see you.

CLANCY: Coming up right here on NEWS STREAM, what to expect at the World Cup today where the U.S. takes on Germany. The second best team in

the world -- I've got to say, I can tell you one thing, it's going to be raining. That's my prediction about this match. Stay with us.

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CLANCY: There's the NEWS STREAM team on Twitter. Be sure to follow those individuals.

They work hard all the time to bring you the news, working hard as well, Team USA, doing a lot better than expected in the World Cup. I can

say that. It's boosting the profile of European football at home in the process. The U.S. will advance to the next round if it beats or ties

Germany today.

So this game is a must-see for American fans, which doesn't explain why they have it on at noon.

Frederic Pleitgen has more from Brazil.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Even though they're very close, it doesn't mean they operate the same way.

While Jurgen Klinsmann and Joachim Loew are good friends, they're also two very different coaches. On the one hand, you have the great motivator,

Juergen Klinsmann, and on the other, the more reserved tactician, Joachim Loew.

Both say, however, they're in this game to win.

Team USA certainly has the Germans' respect with their physical and passionate play.

"We know how dangerous team USA can be if we only play at 90 percent and not take them seriously," says Germany's player, Mesut Ozil. "But if

we focus on our game and do what the coach says, we will beat the U.S."

Germany against the USA is a match with many powerful story lines: David versus Goliath, the master against the apprentice, passion and

determination versus skill and precision -- a game that has all the ingredients of an exciting football fest.

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CLANCY: Fred Pleitgen was coming to talk with us a little bit, but he couldn't make it to his live shot location. He's down in Recife for the

match. All of us here at the CNN Center would like to be alongside him. But right now he's stuck in what? The rain.

Mari Ramos is at the World Weather Center.

Mari, what can you tell us about the forecast?

MARI RAMOS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: You know what, this has been the rainiest day already in Recife since April. They haven't had this much

rain just in the last hour they had about 25 mm of rain. That is a whole inch of rain just in an hour.

Add to that the 2.5 and almost 3 inches that they've had in the last 24 hours, almost 80 mm of rain, this is a significant rainfall. And I

don't know if we have any of the pictures that Fred had been sending to us a little bit earlier, but it has been significant rainfall across those

areas.

So yes, the current conditions there, you see the rain. There's the pictures, some of the traffic that Fred was stuck in, these are pictures

that he took and sent to us just a little while ago. It may not seem like a lot to you and I, but this is significant rainfall. And like I said, the

biggest day of rain that they've had since April in the city of Recife.

What happens this time of year is that they get the trade winds, the winds that move from the water and onshore and they can cause some very

heavy rain. There was, by the way, a heavy rain warning across this area. The humanity at 100 percent, that is why you can barely make out the tops

of some of those buildings there.

There are reports of significant flooding already and these images of course sent to us by Fred as you were -- as we've been saying, Fred

Pleitgen and his crew, as they were trying to reach the live shot location and were not able to because of the heavy rainfall.

If you come back over to the weather map, let me show you over here.

That's Recife right there and that's the little blip in the radar. And the satellite that we can see where the rain has formed. It has been

moving onshore. Unfortunately, we're expecting more of that for the next 24 hours and of course by match time we could still be looking at some

rain. Unfortunately, it's not just the people that are going to the matches that are affected.

And not just the players that are affected, but we're talking about millions of people in that area that will be affected or are being affected

right now by this very heavy rain.

There's also very heavy rain across southern parts of Brazil. You can see it right there. Mostly between Porto Alegre and Curitiba, two other

World Cup host cities. The rain has been particularly heavy across parts of Paraguay and also parts of Argentina have been getting some very heavy

rain. For Curitiba, we're thinking that the rain will probably stay away. You might get some light drizzle later today for the Algeria-Russia game.

But 19, note it's a big difference in temperature here. We had a cold front that's coming on through. Very significant rainfall, as you can see

from the satellite image. And it has been severe. We are even expecting more heavy rain, like I said, mainly between Curitiba and Porta Alegre.

The purple that you see right here is 150 mm of rain. Notice how is stretches all the way back up through Paraguay and even into parts of

Bolivia, also reporting flooding.

In Paraguay they had a tornado reported in Capiata just in the last 24 hours. And look at this rainfall total in Irai in Brazil, over 120 mm of

rain and more is on the way. This is the picture from the tornado, reported tornado in Paraguay. You can see there's a brick building

completely or almost completely demolished, trees on the ground, just the signature of a tornado and the severe weather and of course an entire

neighborhood in shambles here as people try to gather their thoughts here and see what is next for this area. And unfortunately the threat for

severe weather is still there. I think for Brazil is going to be mainly heavy rain.

Back to you.

CLANCY: OK. Well, it's going to make for a different kind of football match, I think. We're going to all just have to wait and watch

and see what happens during the game itself.

But you know what, I heard Fred has made it in, Mari. I think that either swam in or was able to paddle in. Fred Pleitgen's in the city of

Recife for the USA-Germany match. It's coming in just really about less than two hours right now, or right at two hours.

Fred, what can you tell us?

PLEITGEN: Hi, Jim. Well, I'm actually still trying to make my way from Recife to the stadium. I can tell you it's an absolute disaster. We

got out of our hotel, which is sort of actually fairly close to the stadium, I'd say about maybe 12 kilometers away from it. We stood in

traffic for about two hours, not moving at all, because the roads are all flooded.

And the big problem is that not only side roads are flooding, but a lot of the main roads have flooded as well. So at least get up to some

sort of highway that we'd be able to go to the stadium and it would be blocked off by police. We've been going through water. Now what happened

is that we've moved towards through a couple of mountain villages because they don't flood because the water's obviously running down into the

valleys.

But the traffic is an absolute disaster. We've seen several road traffic accidents. We've gone past a dead body at the side of the road

that's been hit by a car. So I really don't see how a lot of these fans are going to make it to the game on time if they don't leave very, very

early as in right now, because the roads are treacherous and a lot of them, quite frankly, are turning into lakes at this point -- Jim.

CLANCY: Yes, that's bad news, really bad news. Not just for the match and the players and all of that, but for the people there in Recife

as they have looked forward to this match. It's so important for both of the teams.

Now where do they stay? I mean, is there any danger here that they're going to have to cancel this, postpone it?

Well, that's a good question. I mean, I think Recife's going to do everything it can to make sure this match goes forward. I'm not sure how

good the pitch conditions can actually be in the stadium right now, because so much rain is falling. And I'm sure they have very modern drainage

systems there. But the pitch must be in very bad condition.

Also the teams are actually staying close to where we're saying as well. So they'll be having a difficult time getting there. They obviously

have good modes of transportation. They'll have the military at least trying to get the traffic off the roads where these teams are going to.

But I'm certain that they're not going to have an easy time getting to the stadium as well because the road conditions simply are so bad that

there's nothing even the military could do except maybe load these players on army trucks and take them there. I'm not sure that's something that

they necessarily want to do.

But it is definitely going to be very, very difficult logistically to make this match happen. I'm sure Recife's going to do everything it can to

make it happen. But now my driver just told me he's never seen Recife this chaotic in his entire lifetime. So that's how bad the conditions are right

now, Jim.

CLANCY: Fred Pleitgen reporting live from the flooded streets of Recife.

Fred, thank you very much. I hope you make it to the match.

PLEITGEN: Thank you.

CLANCY: All right.

In football-mad Brazil, you can find the game being played literally everywhere, on a skyscraper, on an oil rig, a highway, even a church. And

it's all been captured by photographer Christopher Pillitz.

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CHRISTOPHER PILLITZ, PHOTOGRAPHER (voice-over): My name is Christopher Pillitz. I've been a photographer for 30 years, and in '97, I

began in earnest the project on football in Brazil and what it means to Brazilians. Anybody can play a -- with a ball. And anybody does play,

young and old, women and men. You could be rich or poor. You could play it anywhere.

I went to a Petrobras oil rig off the coast of Rio and lo and behold, they were playing football on a pitch, a mini-pitch, enclosed obviously in

a cage, because otherwise the ball would be flying everywhere. And it was just a very special moment.

I did the same on a skyscraper in Sao Paulo, which I was very lucky to find, where these kids were defying gravity, playing football on a top of a

30-story building, oblivious to the fact that the ball could just fly over the edge of the building and end up down 30 floors below.

Brazil is a multiethnic, multicultural, multireligious country. I specifically went looking for imagery that would reinforce those undeniable

facts about the link between religion and football.

People will go to a priestess to bless themselves or bless the good fortunes of the team at the World Cup, like they no doubt are doing right

now. This is not purely and exclusively about football. This is really about one aspect, one important aspect of Brazilian culture as seen through

the prism of football.

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CLANCY: Well, that is NEWS STREAM for now. But the news continues at CNN. I'm Jim Clancy. "WORLD BUSINESS TODAY" is straight ahead.

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