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AMARA WALKER, HOST: I'm Amara Walker at CNN Center. Welcome to news Stream where news and technology meet.
The pope talks to victims of sexual abuse in the Catholic church in a meeting critics say was a long time coming.
Plus, the close call in Barcelona, but just how close were these two planes to a collision?
And some of the world's smallest homes in one of the world's richest cities.
For the first time since being elected pope, Pope Francis met with people who have been sexually abused by Catholic clergy.
The pope met with six victims from European countries in the Vatican after morning mass. The Catholic church has long been plagued by sex abuse
scandals.
Pope Francis is not the first pontiff to meet with victims, but questions are being raised as to why it's taken Francis so long.
Let's go straight to CNN Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher, she joins me live now from Rome.
So Delia, why has it taken Pope Francis 15 months to have such a meeting?
DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Amara, the Vatican spokesman just answered that question a short time ago. The Vatican did a
briefing on this morning's meeting. He says the pope actually has been very busy on the topic in the last year and pointed to a number of things,
which Pope Francis has indeed done before today's historic meeting.
A couple of points about the meeting, Amara, each of the victims -- as you mentioned there were six of them, three men, three women, two each from
Great Britain, Germany and Ireland. Each of them had a half an hour face- to-face private meeting with Pope Francis in addition to the mass in the morning.
The papal spokesman saying that both the victims and Pope Francis himself were very moved by the meetings.
The pope during his mass in the morning gave a homily, Amara. And in this homily said a number of important things including asking for
forgiveness for the crimes of those pre-committed sex abuse against minors.
In particular I want to read something to you, because it's one of the issues that some of the victims' groups have been talking about. He says,
"I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by
family members as well as by abuse victims themselves.
This is important because it has to do with the issue of accountability. There is the issue of those priests being brought to
justice who committed the crimes, but there is the greater issue of bishops accountability, or other leaders in the Catholic church who may have known
about the crimes but didn't do anything about it. So Pope Francis directly addressing that issue, which is an important one for victims' groups.
He also said in his homily that he is committed, together with his commission for the protection of minors, to improving processes in the
church protocols and norms for sex abuse -- Amara.
WALKER: Yeah, we heard from critics who said, you know, they don't want to get their hopes up. So should they get their hopes up now that
they've heard from the pope in his homily that there might be some significant policy changes within the church?
GALLAGHER: Well, the problem at this stage, Amara, is that the policies are there. It's a question of are they going to be enforced? And
are they going to be enforced uniformly? Because ever since it broke in the United States, which was back in 2002 -- the U.S. bishops came up with
norms, which have basically served as the standard for sex abuse in different diocese throughout the world.
However, each country is allowed to come up with their own norm. So, for example, the Italian bishops only recently devised their norms and
there is not the question of mandatory reporting, bishops reporting to civil authorities on these cases.
So there is a number of areas that this commission that the pope has instituted in March has to look at to try and raise everybody to the same
level, make sure everybody is on the same page.
So at this stage, we're really talking a lot about accountability, about reporting, about some of those different issues that everybody needs
to be doing -- Amara.
WALKER: Significant meeting indeed. Delia Gallagher live for us there in Rome. Delia, thank you.
And we have this just in to CNN, there has been a large earthquake in southern Mexico near Guatemala. Let's get more now from Samantha Moore --
Sam.
SAMANTHA MOORE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Amara, yes. Just within the last half hour or so we did have a magnitude 7.1 on the Richter Scale reported
in by the USGS. It's about 92 kilometers deep, so pretty deep here. That is a good thing, at least. And it's about 8 kilometers northwest of Puerto
Madero, Mexico.
So let's take you out, show you where that sits here near the Guatemala border and show you what you can expect to see.
So there we are, there's the big view here. Here's the Guatemala border, Guatemala City about 200 kilometers to the south. And you can see
it here on the map. We had some reports of 676,000 people who have felt strong to very strong shaking here.
So, in the 6 to 7 category here on that scale of how do you feel it, how it affects you. And this area, of course, near the coast so we haven't
had any tsunami warnings issued at this point. They said there could be local tsunamis, but at this point we have no reports of any destructive
widespread threat from any tsunamis that could occur here.
But definitely being felt by a tremendous number of people, some 676,000 people feeling that strong to very strong shaking in the area.
And this is, by the way, about 375 kilometers to the north of San Salvador.
And of course you know this is considered a major earthquake. So, Amara, we'll stay on top of it and let you know if there are any reports of
damage or injury from this very strong earthquake.
WALKER: Yeah, it is a very big one, indeed.
Samantha Moore, thank you.
A top Iraqi leader -- army leader, rather, has been killed in battle. The prime minister's office says the commander of the army's sixth division
was killed on Monday. The country is fighting an insurgency by extremist group ISIS. Iraqi and U.S. authorities are analyzing a new video released
by the group that apparently shows one of the first known appearances of its leader. It reports to be Abu Bakar al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon in
northern Iraq.
Now the video was reportedly shot Friday in the great mosque in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. ISIS militants seized Mosul in June after
Iraqi security forces fled.
Well, Iraqi forces say they want to make sure Baghdad does not fall, like Mosul, into the hands of militants. They are watching for any
activity around the capital's perimeter. Arwa Damon has this exclusive report from the front lines.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Baghdad's airport is about 3 kilometers, 1.5 miles in that direction. This is its first outer
perimeter of defense with fighting positions like this one set up all along it. The boundary that they're using is natural. It's the canal that's
just down below.
There are seven similar concentric lines of defense between here and the front line, about a 20 minute drive away, which we visited last week
and is, we are told, still being held by Shia militiamen that once fought the Americans.
But Baghdad has been eerily quiet this last week. And everyone is on edge, anticipating spectacular bombings and sleeper cells emerging.
That is especially of concern out here, this close to Baghdad's airport and the capital's western edge.
They're seeing a lot of activity at night, especially after 2:00 a.m.
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But they don't exactly what those cars are doing.
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They're quite suspicious because they're coming at 2:00, 3:00 in the morning. And this is one of the areas, because it is predominantly Sunni,
that people are quite concerned that ISIS has sympathizers if not sleeper cells.
Shia Brigadier General Ayab Derrazak Shimari (ph) tells us he doesn't want to turn it into a sectarian matter. But, he says, "this area has safe
havens. Whenever you see Sunni areas, you will have safe havens."
These men are with the Badr brigade (ph), Shia Iraqis trained in Iran to fight Saddam Hussein's regime. They joined U.S. forces as the Americans
invaded Iraq and then announced they would become a political movement. Now, officially at least, taking up arms for the first time in over a
decade as Iraqi security forces desperately need reinforcement.
That house right there next to the cell phone tower is one of the locations where they've been seeing quite a bit of a suspicious activity at
fairly odd hours, but they haven't yet been able to secure the permission to go in and search it.
So they watch and wait, bracing themselves for battle. Mosul, they vow, won't be repeated here.
Arwa Damon, CNN, Abu Ghraib, Iraq.
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WALKER: Tensions continue to rise between Israelis and Palestinians in the wake of the brutal killing of a Palestinian teenager and the beating
of his American cousin. Overnight into Monday, Israel launched more airstrikes on targets in Gaza as militants fired more rockets into southern
Israel. Now Gaza's health ministry says nine Palestinians were killed in those airstrikes, seven of them were militants.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the father of a 16-year-old Palestinian who was kidnapped and killed, burned alive.
Several suspects are now under arrest.
Diana Magnay joining us from Jerusalem with the very latest.
Diana, tell us more about this conversation?
DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, this was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu offering his condolences to the father of the
murdered 16-year-old Mohammad Abu Khdeir and saying that he considered this murder to be heinous and that those responsible will be brought to justice.
And I'll just read you one quote. He said, "the murder of your son is abhorrent and cannot be countenanced by any human being."
And the message that he was clearly trying to give is that Israel judges the murder of this Palestinian teenager as harshly as it does the
murder of the three Israeli teens who were found in West Bank who went missing in the West Bank last month.
Now six Jewish suspects have been arrested in connection with the -- with Mohammad's death. So far, though, there have still been no arrests of
the suspects involved in the killing of the three Israeli teenagers, despite the fact that Israeli defense forces have conducted in the last few
weeks a huge sweep of the West Bank arresting 400 people, but not the two they believe to be responsible for the killings of the teenagers, Amara.
WALKER: And Diana, authorities do believe that this was indeed a revenge killing?
MAGNAY: That is certainly the assumption so far, yes. And it would make sense if you look at the chronology also. You had the funerals of the
three murdered Israeli teenagers on the Tuesday. And on the Wednesday, Mohammad Abu Khdeir was abducted from right outside his house very, very
early in the morning. And his body was later discovered charred in the woods outside of Jerusalem and the autopsy would lead prosecutors to
believe that he was burned alive.
So, yes, this would appear to be a revenge killing. And what authorities are really trying to ensure both on the Palestinian and on the
Israeli side is that there is no further escalation.
Of course, after Mohammad's death and funeral there were serious clashes in the eastern part of Jerusalem. Those were quiet yesterday. But
now there have been a series of rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes back into Gaza. 25 rocket attacks outside -- from Gaza into Israel today alone.
And although the Israeli policy so far has been to try and de-escalate the situation, they have sent troops down around the Gaza Strip, but in
defensive positions, they say, it need only take one of those rockets to cause civilians casualties on the Israeli side for the situation to change
and change very fast. And that is, of course, the big concern here.
And one more thing that I'd like to mention, Amara, Hamas who says that nine of its -- nine people have been killed as a result of Israeli air
strikes and there will be funerals of some of the militants killed today in Rafaa (ph), Hamas says that this is a serious escalation on the part of the
Israelis, that they have crossed a red line, and that they will pay the price. And that is the rhetoric that makes this whole situation so very
dangerous at a time when people are talking about whether it could tip into a third intifada -- Amara.
WALKER: All right. Diana Magnay, thank you for that live for us in Jerusalem.
Well, newly revealed NSA documents show that conversations and data belonging to ordinary internet users make up the bulk of files stored by
the surveillance organization. Among the cache of stored data, all sorts of personal files like baby photos, selfies, instant messages and medical
records.
Now that's according to an investigation by the Washington Post based on 160,000 intercepted conversations provided by former NSA contractor
Edward Snowden. Now the newspaper states that the vast majority of stored information involves ordinary people and was swept up incidentally as part
of spy program's targeting threats.
Coming up here on News Stream, in Nigeria Boko Haram militants have terrorized villages, carrying off women and girls. Well, now dozens of
their victims make a daring escape.
And talk about a close call. These two passenger planes nearly crossed paths. We'll show you what happened next.
And a powerful supertyphoon sets it sights on Japan. Some rain soaked areas are already flooded as the storm churns toward Okinawa. When it's
expected to make landfall next.
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WALKER: Social media are quickly catching on with young activists from Africa to Asia. And in Indonesia where half the population is younger
than 29, Facebook and Twitter are brimming with political chatter over the upcoming presidential election.
Anna Coren has more on that.
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ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Indonesia's presidential candidates aren't just sparring in person, they're also sparring online.
Social media is massively popular in Indonesia and they're all talking about the election.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They watch it together, and then they tweet it together, they have like the unique hashtag to unite their movement.
COREN: For an idea of just how active Indonesia is on Twitter look at this map. Well, it tracks tweets in real time across the globe, the bigger
the white areas the more tweets are being sent.
Well, you would expect plenty of activity from the U.S. and Europe, but look at how many tweets are coming from Indonesia.
And it's not just Twitter. Well, Facebook launched this official election tool. And you can see how each candidate is doing and track who
is getting mentioned more on Facebook.
Well, the country has over 69 million Facebook users, which is a remarkable number given that few Indonesians have access to the internet.
But that also means that social media cannot fully gauge public opinion.
SHAFIQ, SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVIST: It has to cross over the mainstream media like television and newspaper and radio, so everybody can watch and
understand and see what's happening.
COREN: For now, social media is changing the way elections work in Indonesia and its impact will only grow as more and more Indonesians go
online.
Anna Coren, CNN.
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WALKER: And to news now that 63 women and girls in Nigeria are on their way to getting their lives back. They've been held hostage for two-
and-a-half weeks. And like the schoolgirls from Chibok, they were kidnapped by members of Boko Haram. The radical militant group is trying
to impose strict Shariah law across Nigeria.
Let's go now to -- we're going to take a break now, this is News Stream. Coming up next, a dramatic near collision in Spain . We show you
how two planes came too close at the airport and how they avoided a potentially deadly situation.
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WALKER: It's Europe versus South America. In both World Cup semifinals, Brazil and Germany will go head to head on Tuesday followed by
Argentina and The Netherlands Wednesday. Our Alex Thomas and Amanda Davies looks forward to two mouthwatering matches.
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AMANDA DAVIES, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Well, given what we'd seen before, the quarterfinals, Alex, relatively disappointing. But you'd
expect they will be firmly back on track with the semis, wouldn't you?
ALEX THOMAS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, mouth-watering on paper, isn't it. Two European heavyweights in Germany and The Netherlands.
DAVIES: And of course the South American great rivals, the host Brazil and Argentina.
THOMAS: Yeah, we've played 60 of the 64 matches. There's been 159 goals, 28 teams packing their bags, but the four that are left are of the
highest caliber, aren't they?
DAVIES: They are. And they've all got incredible World Cup pedigrees. The host with the record five titles, going for number six of
course. Germany have already won three World Cups in their history. Argentina have the two. The Dutch the only ones without the World Cup in
their cabinet, but they were the runner's up four years ago in 2010 and hoping to go one better this time out.
THOMAS: And the semifinals all kick off on Tuesday where you're going Belo Horizonte for Germany against the host Brazil.
DAVIES: Yeah, it's going to be a fantastic one this. The big blow for host Brazil, they'll be missing two of their biggest names: Neymar, of
course, and their captain Thiago Silva. It'll be interesting to see how they bounce back from everything this week, particularly against a
heavyweight German side.
But Germany are the perennial nearly men, really at the last few years. The runners' up in 2002, then two straight semifinal defeats. Can
they go one better this year? Well, from what we've seen so far from Joachim Low's side, maybe not.
THOMAS: I think it's going to be just as close on the Wednesday in the second semifinal, because actually Argentina and The Netherlands have
played each other a fair amount at the World Cup. And the most famous defeat for the Dutch in an otherwise good record against the Argentines is
that 1978 World Cup final, amazing little player like Johan Cruyff never got his hand on the most famous trophy in football.
DAVIES: It'll be interesting for me the impact of those quarterfinals. Argentina relatively straightforward passage of course.
The Dutch had to go through that extra time and then the penalties.
And the issue with Argentina here, they want to be the party poopers. They would love nothing more than to spoil Brazil's party, claim the title
right here on the South American turf of their great...
THOMAS: Just like Uruguay did back in1950. You and I have both been here long enough to know the Brazilians still talk about that so-called
national tragedy.
And for me, I really think the heat is a big factor, because France really suffered because they played earlier and they looked really quick
and lively before that. And I think as well Belgium struggled.
DAVIES: So go on, who is it going to be? Who is in the final?
THOMAS: I've said all along it's going to be Argentina. I'm sticking by that. They're the future world champions to me.
DAVIES: Well, for me, for the story if nothing else it would be amazing to be here for Brazil winning the World Cup on Brazilian soil.
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WALKER: Hey, anything can happen. We'll see.
Well, it was a close call for two planes this weekend at Barcelona airport. Take a look at this video that one aviation enthusiast put on
YouTube. These planes came a little too close for comfort when one went to land another taxied across its path. Well, as you see there, luckily the
pilot acted quickly and aborted the landing.
Now when I spoke with CNN Aviation analyst Miles O'Brien he said there are all kinds of problems that could lead to a close call, but one simple
step could have prevented it.
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN CORREPSONDENT: I should caution, Amara, that this is a long telephoto lens being used here and so with the compression that
comes in with those optics, these airplanes look a lot closer than they really were. It's about a kilometer horizontal difference between the two.
Having said that, though, the last resort is a go around. And so what you're seeing here is a system that worked, but on the last resort. Was
there unclear controller instructions, or bad controller instruction? Did the crew of that plane on the ground from Argentina misunderstand those
instructions or ignore the fact that they shouldn't have been crossing that little used runway at Barcelona?
There could be language barrier issues and all kinds of things.
But I can tell you this, the first time I ever got into an airplane to learn how to fly the instructor told me when you get to a runway make sure
you look both ways. And that's pretty much 101 aviation. So ultimately, the crew on the ground should have looked to the right, seen that aircraft
and either gone very quickly across to make it in time or not crossed that runway.
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WALKER: Well, the plane that performed the go around landed safely shortly after.
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Japan braces for what weather forecasters say could be beast of a storm, the worst typhoon to hit the Okinawa region in 15 years.
And in sports, Christina MacFarlane speaks with the new king of Center Court, a man who played in an epic tennis match Sunday and managed to come
out on top.
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WALKER: I'm Amara Walker at CNN Center in Atlanta. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.
Pope Francis has asked for forgiveness for what he called the sins of omission on the part of church leaders who did not respond adequately to
reports of abuse. The Vatican released a statement after the pope met today with six victims of sex abuse by priests. It was the first such
meeting since Francis became pontiff last year.
Israeli forces have been conducting air strikes on Gaza while Hamas militants have been firing rockets. The health ministry in Gaza says nine
Palestinians were killed in Israeli air strikes overnight. Israel says it was responding to at least 25 rockets fired from Gaza that landed in
southern Israel.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck just off the southern coast of Mexico near the border with Guatemala. The quakes epicenter in the Pacific
ocean is about 35 kilometers southwest of Tapa Chula (ph) in Mexico and 225 kilometer west of Guatemala city.
There are reports former Georgia President Eduard Shevardnadze has died. His personal assistant says he'd been ill for a long time. Before
becoming the president of Georgia, Shevardnadze had served as a Soviet foreign minister. He was 86.
The super typhoon is gathering force and heading towards the Japanese island of Okinawa. Here's a first look at some of the conditions
associated with Typhoon Neoguri. It's expected to reach Okinawa by early Tuesday. If it stick to its current path it probably won't hit the island
full on. But still, authorities are warning people to prepare for 12 meter waves and strong wind gusts up to 320 kilometers per hour.
For more on this typhoon Samantha Moore is at the world weather center tracking this really large system -- Sam.
MOORE: It is huge. In fact, it is about half the size of India, four times the size of the Germany. So if we factor in the entire square area
here in kilometers it's some 1.5 million square kilometers, that is the area that it exists in here. And it's moving off to the northwest at
around 38 kilometers per hour with max sustained winds at 250. So it is indeed a supertyphoon and expected to get even stronger before it makes it
way with that eyewall very close to Okinawa.
Right now, expect it to pass just to the west of Okinawa, which could almost be worse, because of course the northeastern quadrant of a typhoon
is always where we have the strongest winds, because we have to factor in the forward momentum as well as the max sustained winds themselves. So
that's going to occur with in the next 24 hours.
And then as we get into the 48 hour timeframe in Kyushu, in Kumoto (ph) where you just saw all that flooding rain, that was from the Plum
Rains, from the Mayu Bayu Front (ph), we're going to see a lot more rain moving in as we head into the next 48 hours in southern Japan. And that
means more flooding and more threat of landslides there as well.
So, this is what we are seeing. We are going to put on the forecast cone here and show you how it's going to be passing just shy, or just to
the west of Okinawa. And here is a model that has just been updated here showing where the model is expecting it to go.
Right now it looks like the latest run is very much in agreement with that forecast cone. Earlier, it was tracking a little bit further to the
west, which of course would affect who was going to see the strongest winds. But right now it looks like that model is falling into agreement
with our forecast cone.
Over very warm water, so that fuels the storm. And also we have very little wind sheer. Wind sheer weakens storms. And when you have very
little wind sheer that's the perfect environment for these storms to continue to strengthen and grown and to deepen here.
So unfortunately, we have a strengthening supertyphoon on approach to Japan. And the reason it's going to make that turn -- you may think why --
this huge storm, why isn't it just going to keep going and move into China. Well, that's because we have this frontal system here and typhoons like to
follow that path of least resistance, funnel through this trough. And that's what a cold front is, or a stationary front, it's just a trough of
low pressure.
This is that same Mayu Bayu Front (ph) that brought in all that flooding rain to southern Japan. And it's going to help direct that
typhoon right back into that flooded area once again as we head into the next 24 to 48 hours.
So this is going to be a major, major system here.
We do want to give you a quick update on that earthquake, which was 92 kilometers deep, but very, very strong, 7.1 here, 8 kilometers northwest of
Puerto Madero, Mexico. And we have reports of over 67,000 people feeling strong to very strong shaking across this region. And of course this is
very near the Guatemala border, Amara. We've also had reports of two deaths, that being reported in by two Guatemalan -- by Guatemalan
firefighters that we've had two fatalities as a result of this very strong earthquake.
So a lot happening in the weather department today.
WALKER: Yeah, 7.1, large enough to topple homes and cause a lot of damage. Samantha Moore thank you.
Well, some of the biggest names in competitive cycling are out, but the Tour de France is rolling on and entering stage three today. Now this
stage is set to be short as the race winds through Cambridge and London. On Sunday, riders spread through the picturesque Yorkshire countryside
while crowds watched on. And their numbers could have broken a record.
Meanwhile, the weekend was marked by a shocking early crash out by one of the Tour's top contenders. For more on that and what's still ahead in
the legendary race, we are joined by Jim Boulden standing by from the finish line of today's leg.
Hi there, Jim.
JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Amara, yes, we are still two-and- a-half hours away to when the cyclists actually get here to the mall and to Buckingham Palace behind me, but you can see that people have already
started lining the streets here in Central London. But of course the race started in Cambridge, as you said, about an hour ago and they're going
through the countryside there. Then they're going to go through Olympic Park, which I think is interesting, because it's been two years this month
since the summer Olympics in London. And of course cycling was very, very popular at that Olympics. And of course it's very popular at that Olympics
and of course it's very popular here in the UK and that's why the mayor of London and others really wanted to get the Tour de France to come here for
these three stages before it heads back to France.
Tens of millions of dollars are probably going to be raised, as it were, for the London economy because it's such a popular event. And that's
why the London mayor wanted this race here. And of course it's very popular indeed, one of the most popular sporting events in the world, in
fact, for the month of July, the Tour de France.
So, you can see people here really, really anticipating, they want to see who is going to be wearing that yellow jersey after this race and they
want to see exactly which team does well. One of the British riders unfortunately fell the first day, Mark Cavandish, he is out. And that has
put a bit of a damper on here.
But I have to say even with a bit of rain, Amara, people here are very excited indeed.
It's going to go through a lot of landmarks in London, come down to the mall, and people are enjoying this. Even though it is a workday, I
have to say a lot of people seemed to have skipped work, Amara.
WALKER: It's great to see those crowds already gathered out there behind you. Jim Boulden, thank you.
Well, men's tennis has a new world number one. Novak Djokovic is back atop the rankings after winning the single's title at Wimbledon. To get
there, the 27-year-old Serb had to fend off a grueling point by point challenge from the great Swiss champion Roger Federer. After the match,
Djokovic spoke with World Sport's Christina MacFarlane at the All England Club.
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CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: After an epic battle on Center Court, I'm delighted to be joined by the 2014 Wimbledon champion
Novak Djokovic. Novak, congratulations.
Tell me, what does this win mean to you at this stage of your life?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC, 2014 WIMBLEDON CHAMPION: It means a lot to me. I think with no doubt this has been the highest level of the grand slam final
that I was ever part of. Proud of all the achievements I had in my career, the highlights of my career so far was 2011 win in Wimbledon, but this is
even more special, because of the fact that I've lost the last five or six Grand Slam finals, because I've been through some tough moments privately
and professionally and team has done a great work to encourage me to keep on going. And I worked on myself and tennis and off the court as well to
strengthen my mine and my character and learn from the experiences I had and it's opening up.
MACFARLANE: You had a chance to close out the match in the fourth set and you weren't quite able to do it. How difficult was it to stay mentally
strong out there today?
DJOKOVIC: Well, look, you know, Roger proved why he's a 17-time Grand Slam champion and proved why he has been so successful and dominant in this
sport for so many years, because he knows exactly what challenges he's facing and what to play in important moments. And he hasn't dropped his
level much during the whole match, so he didn't give me too many points. I had to earn everything that I had today, and that's why I thought the level
was tremendous and that makes this win even more special.
MACFARLANE: And any words from Boris after the match for you today? What did he have to say?
DJOKOVIC: It's a huge relief for both me and him and the whole team, because there's a lot of pressure on us. And since we started working
there was a lot of doubts if we can win the grand slam and since, you know, he became the head coach, but you know we made it. And we're going to try
to embrace this win and enjoy it.
MACFARLANE: Well, congratulations again. And that's Novak Djokovic with his second Wimbledon title. This is Christina MacFarlane for CNN at
Wimbledon.
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WALKER: And Sunday's victory at Wimbledon takes Djokovic's grand slam haul to seven, that ties with Mats Wilander and John McEnroe. It also puts
him one up on his coach Boris Becker.
At the edges of Hong Kong's iconic skyline, many people are living in tight conditions. High rents and a lack of public housing have cornered
tens of thousands of families into cubicles only slightly larger than a bed. Patricia Wu reports.
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PATRICIA WU, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the part of Hong Kong you don't usually see: a home not much bigger than a single bed,
belongings stacked to the ceiling, every last inch of space is used.
These are subdivided units, small apartments that are split into tiny section and then rented out individually.
You can cross this entire apartment in about four steps. It's less than 60 square feet. To put that into context, a king sized bed is 42
square feet. A family of three lives here. The baby sleeps here, the parents sleep there, eat there, watch TV there, basically do all of their
living right there. And they use this top bunk for storage.
Guan Yufua (ph) and Lei de Chang (ph) live here with their 11-month- old son. They're among the roughly 170,000 people in Hong Kong cornered by high rent and a public housing supply that doesn't come close to meeting
demand.
The cramped space isn't even the most challenging part for Mrs. Lei (ph).
"The most difficult part is the bathroom," she says, "the shared bathroom. If you want to use it, but there are people in there, you can't,
even if it's urgent."
Nine people share one toilet, one shower and one kitchen.
"I really can't get used to living here," she tells me.
And this doesn't even come cheap. The Lees (ph) are paying $5 per square foot in rent, a dollar more than the average for a new one bedroom
flat in this area.
To draw attention to this issue, the society for community organization commissioned a collection of photos of these homes. They were
taken two years ago, but are on display now. Community organizer Natalie Yau says they're caught in limbo living like this.
NATALIE YAU, THE SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: Means they cannot carry out a plan, they cannot see the future, they are just waiting
for a change in their lives.
WU: That change is public housing. The Hong Kong government says it's aiming to provide 20,000 units a year, but Yau says there are 240,000
applications pending.
The man in this photo lived in a unit just 23 square feet. He had to wait 10 years for public housing.
The government says it is trying to maintain a three year waiting period for families like the Leis (ph), but until public housing becomes
available, or the rent becomes too much too bear, this is where the family will stay in the shadow of one of the wealthiest cities in the world.
Patricia Wu, CNN, Hong Kong.
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WALKER: Quite a stark contrast there.
Germany's chancellor is holding talks with Chinese leaders in Beijing. Angela's trip is expected to be dominated by trade issues. She's brought
along a large business delegation for her three day visit. China is Germany's second largest export market outside Europe.
Earlier in Szechuan Province, the chancellor toured a market and a Volkswagen factory. This is her seventh trip to China as Chancellor.
Coming up on News Stream, walking in zero gravity takes practice and it all starts in the pool. The details are next.
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WALKER: Now the Art of Movement in space. Walking in zero gravity requires precision and careful training. Astronauts practice for their
future missions for hours on Earth. And as Becky Anderson discovered, that training begins under water in a deep pool at a NASA laboratory.
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Weightless and free from the law of gravity, walking in space is a dangerous dance. Teetering
on the edge of a dark abyss requires every movement to be deliberate, precise and carefully planned. So every space walk starts here at NASA's
neutral buoyancy laboratory in Houston, Texas.
The pool is about 61 meters long, 31 meters wide, 12 meters deep, it's got more than 22 million liters of water and contains a full scale mockup
of the International Space Station down to every last bolt. This allows each training session to mimic future missions as closely as possible.
DOUGLAS WHEELOCK, NASA: We know specific tasks that these space walkers will do a couple of months down the road. So we can practice those
tasks. It makes it very, very comforting, because when you get to space you realize when you go to open that hatch it's really -- you're not going
to encounter anything out there that you haven't probably seen in the pool.
ANDERSON: Astronauts Douglas Wheelock and Jennette Eps (ph) are practicing working with a pump module. They have the same tools and the
same suits that they'd be using in space, but the biggest difference is, is that they won't be weightless.
WHEELOCK: Unfortunately, we don't have a room where we can turn off the gravity and here and float around and practice spacewalks. So we do
that by getting neutrally buoyant.
ANDERSON: Neutral buoyancy makes the astronauts feel like they are hovering. And since they're still feeling the weight of gravity, it's a
way to condition their movements for when they get to space.
WHEELOCK: In here it feels like for six hours you're lifting weights, that's what it feels like. But when you get to space and you do it in a
vacuum it's just kind of dancing on your fingertips. It's really pretty amazing.
ANDERSON: On average, astronauts have to spend six hours in the pool for every hour spent in space.
CHRISTOPHER CASSIDY, NASA: Well, I think we've gotten more and more comfortable with doing it. It's still a really, really risky thing and
there's a lot that can go wrong whenever you do a spacewalk.
And in the beginning of the era, it was go outside and come back in safely, that was the task. Now, we've evolved to basically complex
construction and assembly of boxes that were not in some cases meant to be manipulated and handled outside in a spacesuit.
ANDERSON: With continued practice and technological advancements, they'll move ever closer to perfecting the art of movement in space.
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WALKER: There are no matches until the first semifinal on Tuesday, but no, don't you worry, we haven't forgotten about the World Cup. Also
ahead, we'll go off the pitch and into the ocean to show you how some children in Rio are surfing to success.
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WALKER: Cricket has dominated India over any other sport. Just three years ago, Mumbai lit up its night sky with one full hour of fireworks
after India won the World Cup. That's in cricket, of course.
But this summer, the nation seems to have caught up with the rest of the world in another World Cup. Mallika Kapur has more.
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MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The football World Cup has been watched passionately in bars, homes and clubs across Mumbai.
This, despite the fact that India is not participating, and quite frankly isn't anywhere near having a worldclass football team.
SANDEEP SACHDEV, FOOTBALL FAN: I don't think so. My children's, children's children also will see India playing.
KAPUR: India ranks a poor 154 in FIFA world rankings. So football fans in India just adopt other countries.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Obviously Argentina.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Germany.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Argentina.
BOY: My favorite team is Brazil.
KAPUR: 12-year-old Arian Wadwa (ph) is crazy about the game. While his friends play cricket, he plays football.
BOY: It's good team spirit, cutting, passing, shoot. I like running. I like to get dirty.
KAPUR: There are other reasons the game is popular.
KAINAZ KATRAK, FOOTBALL FAN: I know there are a lot of women who are in it for like you know to see all the handsome footballers, but I do watch
the sport as well. I (inaudible).
KAPUR: It's so popular in India, this store has created a whole range of home furnishings around the World Cup.
OK, so which team sells the most?
MELODY ZONSANGLIANI SHARMA, SERENITY BLISSFUL LIVING: Actually it was Spain at first, but then they are out of the World Cup, so...
KAPUR: So now which one?
SHARMA: Now it is Argentina.
KAPUR: Argentina is selling fast now?
Other fans are heady with excitement. This salon is offering a range of footballer hairstyles so fans can look the part too.
Mallika Kapur, CNN, Mumbai.
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WALKER: I love how that fan was so honest, she said the handsome footballers are bonus. I agree.
Well, it is the calm before the storm at the World Cup. We're down to the final four teams. The first semifinal pits Brazil and Germany on
Tuesday. It's a rematch of the 2002 World Cup final, which Brazil won.
Wednesday's semifinal is also a final rematch. Argentina beat the Netherlands to win the 1978 World Cup.
Well, for decades football has been the dream for millions of Brazilian children looking for a way to escape the slums. And of course
for some that has been the case.
But there is another sport providing a way out. Isa Soares hit the beach to find out more.
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ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: At the gate of Rio's most popular favela lies an opportunity for change. Here inside the
Rocinha Surf School children are learning to ride the waves at sea and whatever life throws at them.
Set up by favela resident and qualified surfer Bocao as he's known here and supported by famous U.S. musician and surfer Jack Johnson, the
school offers children an opportunity to get off the streets and into the water.
RICARDO RAMOS, ROCINHA SURF INSTRUCTOR (through translator): The school started, because in Rocinha there was no one to teach kids to surf.
So I decided to collect old surf boards that were thrown into the rubbish on the beach. And so I fixed them and gathered a group of five kids and
began to teach them how to surf.
SOARES: Despite the financial challenges of keeping the school afloat, he continues to teach.
So far, more than 1,000 children from the local favelas have took training and advice from Bocao. Two of them have become professional
surfers competing around the world. A moment of pride for the instructor and a dream of a better life for students like 10-year-old Max Paulo (ph)
who tells me he wants to be a surfer and a hardworking man when he grows up.
He adds," I like surfing because I want to have a good future to help my mom, to help my family, to help Bocao, my teacher. So I have to work
hard to help all my family."
Any child from the neighboring favelas can learn how to surf for free, but they have to prove to the teacher they have 100 percent attendance at
school and good grade. It's all about teaching them the value of hard work and discipline.
In doing so, the school is also offering them an alternative to the crime and drug trafficking that tempts so many young people across Rio's
favelas. No one knows this better than this teacher who escaped it through surfing.
RAMOS (through translator): Surfing changed my life. And it's changing theirs. It's a past time. The sports can bring about major
change, can be transformative. They wake up, go to school, after their houses, the surf school and the beach is their second home. So we're
joining work and pleasure.
SOARES: For these children, it matters little how much water they swallow or how many tumbles they take. Like in life, this is about
learning to get up time and time again.
Isa Soares, CNN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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WALKER: They are fearless.
While most of the World Cup focuses on -- excuse me, while the rest of the world focuses on the World Cup, in the U.S. Major League Soccer is
proceeding as normal. Well, not entirely normal. Sporting Kansas City took on the Chicago Fire. Dom Dwyer scored the opening goal of the game.
And to celebrate, Dwyer ran to the stands to find a fan with a smartphone so he could take a selfie. Very cool.
Well, the referee didn't appreciate the show. He gave him a yellow card for wasting time with excessive celebrations.
I guess there's no time for fun on the pitch.
That is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.
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