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Compouter Glitches Halt NYSE Trading, Hit Other Businesses; Greece Formally Requests Third Bailout; Donald Trump and Illegal Immigrant Questions; China's Battle to Contain Market Plunge; 3 Typhoons Head Towards China; Pope Arrives in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired July 8, 2015 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:11] MAX FOSTER, CNNI HOST: How a day of computer glitches snarled trading on Wall Street, air traffic and a major Web site.

ZAIN ASHER, CNNI HOST: Overhead, the volatile Chinese market how is affecting the economy and its potential global impact.

FOSTER: And Donald Trump bounces this question about whether he hired illegal immigrants.

ASHER: We want to welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Glad to be with you. I'm Zain Asher.

FOSTER: I'm Max Foster. This is CNN NEWSROOM.

ASHER: Officials are trying to figure out how massive computer glitches brought three major U.S. companies to a halt on Wednesday.

FOSTER: Computer failures hit United Airlines, the New York stock exchange and the "Wall Street Journal," all within hours of each other.

CNN's Rene Marsh reports.

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RENE MARSH, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For nearly four hours the New York stock exchange was at a halt. A technical computer glitch forcing the suspension of trades on the big board. It's unclear how much money may have been lost, but in the end the Dow was down over 200 points. And in the travel world from California to Chicago, a backlog of passengers stuck on long airport lines while all of united airlines flights were grounded.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: United 1256, when you say it's going to be a long wait, how long does that mean?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, they have a system-wide ground stop due to a computer outage.

MARSH: A system-wide failure shut down operations for the major U.S. carrier for hours as well.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We were checking in and basically was told the flight was cancelled. So they started to reroute us.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I mean, we're just, you know, taking it as it goes.

MARSH: More than 800 flights delayed. Another 59 cancelled. Agents were forced to issue hand-written tickets.

SETH KAPLAN, AIRLINE ANALYST: The problem is when it happens at a giant airline like United, it can get chaos, the kind that we saw this morning. Passengers just have enough matter of minutes to make their connecting flights. So when you have flights that are held sometimes not just minutes, but even hours that can cascade through the entire system.

MARSH: But government officials quickly tried to assure the public these were not malicious attacks.

JEH JOHNSON, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: The malfunctions at united and the stock exchange were not the result of any in nefarious actor.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: There is no indications that malicious actors were involved in these technology issues.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

FOSTER: Now, over in Asia, are speeding up three weeks of wild market volatility but Chinese government measures to stop the slide may not be having an effect.

ASHER: Interest rate had been caught to a record low and brokerages are committed to buying billions worth of stock. So let's look at the numbers here. The shanghai composite is actually up right now, 1.3 percent. The Shenzhen is up just under three percent. But certainly we have seen border loses over the past few weeks. And Nikkei is down about one percent. The Hang Seng in Hong Kong up about 3.5. percent.

So Ivan Watson actually visited a brokerage house in Shanghai. He joins us live now with what he had from investors.

So, Ivan, even though the market is up right now, that the Shanghai composite is up about one percent, what have the government been doing to prevent the losses?

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It has taken so many steps. Most recent will steps announced would be suspension of buying and selling of stocks for people who may own more than five percent stake in a company for executives basically. So they are not allowed to buy or sell their stocks.

There's been another announcement overnight that state agencies would effectively help to buy up another $40 billion in shares in Chinese markets. And this is coming also as you have got roughly half of all Chinese companies listed on the stock market having announced they are suspending all trading of their stocks. So there's some really dramatic steps and for now, at least today after a wild morning. It seems to, at least for now, some analysts say pulled the Chinese markets back from the brink. We are not seeing signs of the major selloff that we saw yesterday that increased fears.

The people exposed to this, they run the gamut from the elderly to the young who have all been attracted to the fact that for a while this year Chinese stock markets were among the fastest growing in the world.

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WATSON (voice-over): Thumbs down after a dismal day of trading. At this Shanghai brokerage house, investors worried and upset after seeing Chinese stock markets getting battered.

You all see that green on that board? That is a bad color for investors because the colors are reversed here in the Chinese stock market. Red means the prices of stocks are going up. Green means it's going down. And for the past three weeks, there's been an awful lot of green.

Many investors here say their savings have gone up in smoke.

[01:05:35] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): No, it's impossible for the market to bounce back anytime soon. This is like the eight-year war against the Japanese. It may take eight years for the market to turn around.

OLIVER RUI, FINANCE PROFESSOR: This is a typical, classical bubble. Yes, eventually it will burst but I did not predict it to fall at that speed.

WATSON: Finance professor Oliver Rui says earlier this year the Chinese stock market attracted millions of new Chinese investors as it soared to incredible heights. He compares the current free fall to the crash that hit the U.S. in 1929.

You compare this to the great depression?

RUI: Yes. Yes. Basically. The stock market dropped by 30 percent within a few months, but here it dropped by 30 percent within three weeks.

WATSON: Rui is a professor at this business school in shanghai where perspective students around the world are considering pursuing business degrees in China.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: China is probably the most amazing place to start a business.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It looks like it is going up.

WATSON: But some of these Chinese and American students are reeling after their own recent losses in the Chinese markets.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It happened to me. I lost like a half of my profits. WATSON: Get hit in the Chinese market?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I did.

WATSON: Can you give me a percentage.

KEON WILLIAMS, AMERICAN BUSINESS SCHOOL CANDIDATE: About 20 percent of my portfolio.

WATSON: Down?

WILLIAMS: Yes.

WATSON: With the entrepreneurs eager for a taste of the Chinese market, now suddenly feeling burned.

Shanghai has long been a shining symbol of China's economic might, but the stock market free fall here is shaking people's confidence.

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WATSON: People will be watching very closely not only today but in the days to come because analysts warn that if the selloff can't stop, it could potentially have ripple effects that could extend beyond the financial realm and could start to effect political affairs here, as well in the world's second largest economy -- Zain.

ASHER: That's right. Ripple effects in other financial markets and on the global economy as you just said. OK.

Ivan Watson live for us there, thank you so much. Appreciate that -- Max.

FOSTER: The FBI is warning U.S. officials that there is a growing cyber threat when it comes to ISIS. FBI director James Comey says the terror group is using they are using encrypted programs to prevent law enforcement from accessing its communications and he says his agents don't have the tools to stop it.

Jim Sciutto reports.

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JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: This is an enormous problem.

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Today, the nation's top law enforcement official gave Congress a frank and sobering warning. Terrorists are going dark in cyberspace.

COMEY: Sometimes people watch TV and think well, the FBI must have a way to break that encryption. We do not, which is why this is such an important issue.

SCIUTTO: Terrorists use of encryption means the FBI cannot in many cases detect and prevent attacks on U.S. soil. Like the one carried out in Garland, Texas, two months ago. COMEY: We are stopping these things so far through tremendous hard

work, the use of sources, on-line undercovers, but it is incredibly difficult. I cannot see me stopping these indefinitely.

SCIUTTO: The issue on-line conversations between American supporters of ISIS and other terror groups and terrorists overseas, like the ISIS recruiter Junaid (ph) Hussein increasingly hidden by highly encrypted and widely available messaging apps such as Sure spot and Kick (ph).

COMEY: This is not your grandfather's Al-Qaeda. Our job is to look at a hay stack the size of this country for needles that are increasingly invisible to us because of end-to-end encryption.

SCIUTTO: Here's how it works. A person sends a message such as I want to fight for ISIS over the web. Encryption software scrambles the message and only a recipient using the correct key can unscramble it to see the official meaning. The solution argues the FBI and many lawmakers is to allow law enforcement access to encrypted messages with a search warrant.

Tech companies, however, are resisting, concerned they will lose business from privacy conscious customers. Silicon Valley estimates it lost tens of billions of dollars to overseas competitors following revelations of mass surveillance by the NSA.

[01:10:06] JAMES LEWIS, CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES: The encryption debate is really about a trade. How much more secure do you want to make Americans and their personal data versus how much opportunity do you want to create for terrorists and other criminals to communicate safely?

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FOSTER: That is Jim Sciutto reporting there.

Many companies have opposed letting law enforcement in. Saying such access could weaken their systems against hackers.

ASHER: In the meantime, Baltimore's police commissioner has been fired over his handling of the city's riot in April and a general spike in crime.

FOSTER: And the mayor replacing Anthony Batts on the heels of a police union report said the riots were preventable. And a fuel by backs in his commanders past its stance.

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MAYOR STEPHANIE RAWLINGS-BLAKE, BALTIMORE: Recent events placed an intense focus on our police leadership. Distracting many from what needs on our main focus, the fight against crime. So we need a change. This was not an easy decision, but it is one that is in the best interest of the people of Baltimore.

(END VIDEO CLIP) ASHER: The riots erupted after Freddie Gray, a young man black man died in police custody. Now, six police officers are charged in his death and all pleaded not guilty.

FOSTER: Greece is set to lay out the reform plan so it can get another bailout. Just ahead, the help won't come soon enough for many in the struggling country.

ASHER: First we asked Donald Trump about a report claiming illegal immigrants maybe working at the construction site of his new hotel. Find out his answer after this break.

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[01:15:45] FOSTER: Welcome back. It is after 1:00 in the morning in the U.S. state of the South Carolina and the confederate flag may be one step closer to being removed from the capital grounds there. This comes as lawmakers have decided to advance a measure to remove the flag. These are pictures from the statehouse floor where lawmakers debate. The lawmakers debater has dragged on to the early hours of the morning. An overwhelming majority of the Senate voted to send the measure to the house. The house in turn voted to send it to the floor for debate. But a representative from Charleston says it is time for less talk and more action.

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JENNY HOME, SOUTH CAROLINA STATE HOUSE REPUBLICAN: I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful, such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday! And if any of you vote to amend, you are ensuring that this flag will fly beyond Friday. And for the widow of Senator Pinckney and his two young daughters, that would be adding insult to injury and I will not be a part of it!

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FOSTER: Emotion around the flag. It really means so much. Final vote then could come as early as later today.

It is now official, Greece has formally applied for third international bailout. The country faces a weekend deadline to submit a plan and reach a deal before running out of cash.

ASHER: The government is asking for a three-year loan package, promising new reforms in exchange for rescue aid. The European Union plans to decide for a request on Sunday. The president of the European council offered his support for the Greek prime minister. Listen.

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DONALD TUSK, EUROPEAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT: If you want to help your friend need, do not humiliate him. Today, we need unity, not because you need a beautiful idea, but because it is indefensible in order to take concrete decisions without unity on Greece. We will wake up in four days in a different Europe.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

FOSTER: Let's have a live to Greece for the defining image really. This is Athens. It is a defining image of this crisis. People cueing up at banks to try to get their cash out, worried they are going to run out of cash, certainly having problems getting ahold of it. The banks, they will be stay closed until Monday now. And the daily withdrawal limit of 60 euros also remains in place if they can get it.

ASHER: Right.

Now, you have seen the economic toll left by Greece's ongoing debt crisis, but it is the human toll that is certainly much harder to watch.

FOSTER: CNN's Phil Black sees the signs of suffering in a once thriving town that is now experiencing one of the highest unemployment rates in Europe.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In Greece, even economically depressed, industrial towns are very beautiful. This is (INAUDIBLE), about an hour's drive north of Athens. With the stunning scenery, it means little here. These are people without ATM cards, mostly pensioners, lining up for hours, yelling, shoving each other, desperate to get inside a bank.

This woman's watch was broken in the crowd.

Look where we are today, this man says. We are humiliated in front of the world. This community's economic pain began long before Greece's recent cash shortage. (INAUDIBLE) once thrived on local industry. Now, factories surrounding the town lye broken and empty. They have been scaling back and closing down steadily since the start of the crisis in 2008.

(INAUDIBLE) says it has hit every business, every person.

He tells me unemployment is over 30 percent. Among the young it's over 60 percent.

Every day around 300 people now come here for free food. It's not much but these are the most desperate and their numbers are growing.

We meet Karl Ambus (ph) laid off six years ago after working 28 years in a local factory. He doesn't like relying on charity. He says it feels dark. But without it there would be no solution but suicide.

This cement factory used to be their pride of (INAUDIBLE), but no one builds in Greece anymore and the plant closed in 2013, more than 300 jobs lost. The former workers have a standing protest here in the center of town. They want the factory reopened and Greece to move on any way it can.

You want Greece to stay in the euro?

[01:21:05] ELIAS KOUKOURAS, LAID-OFF WORKER: We prefer money, any money. And we can -- with this money, any money, manage our lives.

BLACK: People here say to admire (INAUDIBLE) beauty is to look through a narrow misleading window. The reality is poverty, unemployment and a community that dreams of recovering its dignity.

Phil Black, CNN, Greece.

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FOSTER: We will bring you updates as that comes in. I mean, miserable time in Greece.

A top U.S. senator says President Obama believes chances of getting a nuclear deal with Iran are now below 50/50. This comes as world powers face what maybe the last stretch of negotiations towards a deal.

ASHER: But several key (INAUDIBLE) are delaying the process including Iran's request that the U.N. lift embargo in these sanctions as well. But world powers (ph) are quite reluctant to do that.

FOSTER: Donald Trump standing his ground on comment he made about illegal immigration in the United States. He came under fire for referring to some immigrants as being rapists.

ASHER: On Wednesday, the Republican presidential candidate sat down with our Anderson Cooper to discuss a number of topics and that includes a report about workers at one of Trump's construction sites in the United States being illegal immigrants.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST, AC 360: I have to ask you about a couple of things in the news. The "Washington Post" say some of the workers building this beautiful hotel that you are building down in Washington, D.C. are illegal. They talked to 15 workers. They said a number of those 15 came here legally through asylum. They are now legal but then a number of them did say they are illegal. Isn't it hypocritical for you saying illegal immigration is killing this country to be employing illegal immigrants?

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I read the story. And by the way, that story does not name any names. I'd love them if they could give us names. But they said they spoke to one or two but they don't name them. And they don't even know if it is true.

COOPER: What they say is several of the men who held mostly from El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, haven't earned U.S. citizenship or legal status through immigration programs targeting Central Americans, fleeing civil wars, natural disasters, others acknowledge they remain in the country illegally. They don't give names.

TRUMP: They have to give us the names because we have, you know, many, many--.

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TRUMP: They have to give us the names. And I have to say this, we believe so strongly. I hired a very big contractor. One of the most prestigious and best in the world to build the building. It's their responsibility to make sure they have done --.

COOPER: Doesn't the buck stop with you though?

TRUMP: Yes it does.

COOPER: You are paying their salary.

TRUMP: Absolutely. We have gone out of our way to make sure that everybody in that building is legal. And we do have some that were that became legal. Wait a minute. We have some, many, I think that became frankly, me, you, everybody, I mean, ultimately we were all sort in the group of immigrants, right? But we have done that to the absolute letter of the law. We're very, very careful.

COOPER: "The Washington Post" can go there and talk to 15 people and find some illegal immigrants.

TRUMP: They haven't shown us anything. I wish they would give us names. We'll get them out immediately.

COOPER: You must have a guy on the job site.

TRUMP: We have more than one guy. And we check it probably more carefully than any job that was ever built. Anderson you, have either 11, anywhere from 11 to 34 million illegal immigrants in this country. They're all over the place. Nobody knows even where they come from. They probably come, some, from the Middle East. You don't know where they're coming from.

We check on that building probably more carefully than anybody that's ever built a building before. And I think from what I heard, and I just checked it this morning, because I asked the question because I read the article also. We are absolutely in beautiful perfect shape. Now, I wish they would give us the names. We would get rid of them the immediately.

More people are in this country right now illegally than ever before. I will build a better wall and I will build it for cheaper. And Mexico will pay, I bet your next question.

[01:25:05] COOPER: Yes. How do you get Mexico to pay?

TRUMP: Because they are ripping us left and right. By the way I love the Mexican people. Many Mexican people work for me. Many Mexico people I do business with. They purchase things from me like apartments, et cetera. I have great relationships with Mexico and with the Mexican people. I love the Mexican people. I love their spirit. But let me just tell you, Mexico is making an absolute fortune.

Because the trade deals with the United States are phenomenal for them. And horrible for us. They're taking our jobs. They're building factories, warehouses they're build things we are not even thinking about.

COOPER: So you say, renegotiate trade deals and in that put in a price for the wall.

TRUMP: Absolutely. They will do it. And I have watched these very stupid pundits say you can't do that. Of course you can do that. Mexico is making - I can do it. By the way, Hillary can't do it. Jeb can't do it. These people that are running most can't do it. Maybe a couple of them. I actually have a respect for a couple of them. But Hillary cannot do it. I guarantee you that. Jeb Bush cannot do it. I can do it easily.

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ASHER: Fair, he could interview Mr. Trump saying exactly what he thinks.

But another Republican candidate for president sees things quite differently from him.

FOSTER: And emotional Senator Lindsey Graham warns Republicans they risk losing the election if they don't stop the rhetorical attacks on illegal immigrants.

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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The overwhelming majority of you here are here because you left a bad place to find a better place. You have broken our laws and you need to get ride but I see value in you as a human being and we will try to fix this without destroying your family.

When I was 21 my mom died, when I was 22 my dad died. My sister was 13. If it wasn't for family and faith I wouldn't be sitting here. I am not going to engage in rhetoric or policies to destroy a family. This done nothing more than trying to get a better life from that political game.

So Hillary Clinton, you had a chance to push President Obama in 2009 and you were completely AWOL. I don't need a lecture from you about illegal immigration. I don't need a statement from Donald Trump that the border is broken. I know it. I hope every Republican candidate would say the following.

We disagree with Donald Trump in this regard that most of the people here illegally are good, hard-working people and if we are not willing to say that as a party, we're going to lose in 2016.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

FOSTER: And Reince Priebus, the chairman for the Republican National Committee has reported he told Trump to rein in his comments on illegal immigrants in the U.S.

We have been tracking ups and downs of China's markets meanwhile. Coming up, a close look at what it means for the global economy.

ASHER: Also ahead, this weekend marks the 20 years since the Srebrenica massacre, when thousands of Muslims were killed in Bosnia, but Russia's government is refusing to call it genocide.

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[01:31:38] MAX FOSTER, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Max Foster.

ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Zain Asher. John Vause is off tonight. Max is with us. Let's get to your headlines.

Officials are looking into a massive technical glitch that shut down the New York Stock Exchange nearly four hours Wednesday. It came after U.S.-based United Airlines had to ground flights worldwide, also due to a technical glitch as well. U.S. Homeland Security said they were not related or the result of any sort of hack.

FOSTER: Another day with no service. Train workers on are strike after unions and the London Underground couldn't agree over a pay deal over new night service that will start in September. The trains shut down Wednesday evening. They are expected to start running on Friday morning.

ASHER: Greeks meet with European creditors for yet another bailout. Details are due in the next few hours. The three-year plan is expected to attack pension reforms as well. Greek Banks will be closed until Monday with a 60 Euro a day limit on ATM withdrawals.

FOSTER: Chinese regulators have announced new measures to try to stop the market slide there. There have been some wild swings today but right now there is more positive news in the markets. They are all over the place.

ASHER: Very volatile.

Although stocks have moved in to positive territory, there are major concerns about what this says about the world's second-largest economy.

FOSTER: David McKenzie looks at the potential impact.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Some say the bubble has burst. Some say it is a stock market crash. How bad is the epic slide of Chinese stocks? Chinese stocks have been on an epic slide. In three weeks, the Shanghai Composite lost a third of its value. To put it in perspective, some say it is worse than the Greek economic meltdown with the loss in value being 10 times more than the entire Greek GDP.

The Chinese stock market is not like the New York Stock Exchange. The government has a huge amount of control over it all the time. It can only go up a certain amount and down a certain amount but every day it has been bleeding value some they have stopped IPOs and injected cash in to the system to try to stop the slide and they are saying there shouldn't be this panicked sentiment in the market. But by even saying that perhaps they are driving more panic.

What about the Chinese people? Individual investors have been hurt and hurt badly by the slide. Millions of them piled in to the markets because of loosening regulation allowing ordinary Chinese to borrow money to invest, so-called margin trading. They will be hurting really badly.

Other than ordinary investors, the person worrying the most, probably Xi Jinping of China, because the government helped to push the stock market rally and now everything they are doing seems to be failing. And in the Communist Party, everything is about power and stability.

Should you panic? Yes and no. Only about 1.5 percent of the value in the Chinese stocks is owned by foreigners because of the tight controls of foreign ownership in the Chinese stocks. There isn't this web effect. If the Chinese stock crashed, it doesn't affect the worldwide system like the Lehman Brothers collapse. But there is a sense that the sliding stock market is a symptom of an ailing Chinese economy, the world's second-biggest economy. If China sneezes, the world will catch a cold.

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[01:35:13] ASHER: Interesting to see what affect the losses will have on the world.

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FOSTER: This Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the day forces swept into town and executed as estimated 8000 Muslim men and boys.

ASHER: On Wednesday, Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution that could have deemed the massacre as a crime of genocide. The Russian ambassador appealed to the council not to vote on the resolution.

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VITALY CHURKIN, RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR (through translation: We appeal to authors of the draft and you, Mr. President, to put it to the vote. Otherwise we will have to vote against it because of the reasons I've just named. I vote against it if it is turn out inevitable, will not mean we are deaf to the suffering of the victims in areas of Bosnia- Herzegovina.

PETER WILSON, BRITISH U.N. DEPUTY AMBASSADOR (through translation): The horrific events Srebrenica amount to a genocide. To call it anything else now will hinder and not help reconciliation. That's why there are many voices calling for us to proceed and vote and to honor the victims as we do so. And for that reason, I think it is vital we proceed to a vote. (END VIDEO CLIP)

FOSTER: A ceremony marks the 20th anniversary of thee massacre will be held on Saturday in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Former U.S. President Bill Clinton and other world leaders are expected to attend.

ASHER: The United Nations has, this hour, released a disturbing report about war-torn Syria. The number of refugees fleeing the five- year conflict in neighboring countries has passed an alarming four million people. This map, if we can pull it up quickly, shows where they are heading, to Turkey. It is inundated with the most refugees 1.8 million people so far. The U.N. doesn't expect the flow of people fleeing to end anytime soon. Officials say another quarter million people will likely leave Syria by the end of this year.

We will take a break here on CNN. When we come back, Pope Francis is on an eight-day tour of South America. Up next, we will take you to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, where he just landed with hopes of spreading goodwill.

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[01:40:48] FOSTER: A story in the Asian-Pacific region. These very powerful typhoons bring all this heavy rain.

ASHER: Typhoon Linfa is actually expected to make landfall in southern China soon.

Meteorologist Derek Van Dam, what more can you tell us?

DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: There's actually running between the Guangdong and Fuguan (ph) Province as we speak. There's three successive typhoons, one lining up after another in the Western Pacific. We will highlight that in a second. We have some images coming from the Guangdong Province. This is in southeastern China. The strong effect of these onshore winds that are pushing at the wave and a lot of boats having to take refuge in the harbors there to give any protection they have from the oncoming storm. The same storm, the same typhoon has created some cloud cover now in to the Hong Kong harbor. This is a live image of the Hong Kong harbor and looking downtown. You can see some clouds but it isn't raining there just yet. That will change. Look at the forecast over the next three days. We have showers and thunderstorms. Conditions will deteriorate going forward in to the rest of Thursday and in to Friday. As I mentioned a moment ago, we have three typhoons ling up one after the other. We focus our attention on the most urgent system. This is Linfa making landfall near the province of Guangdong. But this typhoon, Chan-Hom, has its eyes set on Shanghai for Sunday afternoon and evening. It will pass in between Taipei and Okinawa but late Sunday we are concerned about. Thankfully, meteorologists have a new weather satellite launched in Japan in 2014. It just became operational this Tuesday. This is good because it helps us predict the timing of these individual storms that are heading in a generally westerly direction.

I want to show you other footage that is new to CNN. This is a tornado, a rare event just west of Venice, Italy. This is in the town of Mira. Unfortunately, there was one fatality and 20 injured from this cone-shaped tornado. It tore apart buildings and ruined businesses. You can see some of the shrapnel --

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VAN DAM: -- and debris flying down the streets. You can hear it hitting the cars. These guys were precariously close.

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VAN DAM: That should be their first port of call. But, unfortunately, I think they --

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VAN DAM: You need to get away from a tornado as quickly as possible. Car does not bode well for humans.

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ASHER: Thank you for that. Now I know.

VAN DAM: Now you know.

ASHER: Thank you, Derek.

OK, Pope Francis arrived in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, a little while ago. His visit is part of an eight-day tour of South America.

FOSTER: Earlier, the Catholic leader visited La Paz in Bolivia but only in town briefly, due to altitude sickness. La Paz is one of the world's highest cities.

ASHER: CNN's Shasta Darlington has been covering the pope's trip. And I spoke about how he covered the high terrain.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He had a packed agenda in Ecuador. He was busy. And he's in the second country here in Bolivia. This could be his most challenging stop during the week-long visit. That's not only because of the altitude but the cold temperatures. It gets down below freezing at night. And, you know, this is an old man. He's 78 years old. He has part of -- one of his lungs removed when he was younger. So the challenges he will be facing are greater.

We talked to locals about different ways you can try to stave off altitude sickness. Look at this.

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DARLINGTON (voice-over): La Paz celebrating the coming op Pope Francis. At 3600 meters, nearly 12,000 feet is quite a challenge for a 78-year-old pontiff. (MUSIC)

[01:45:01] DARLINGTON: At the airport, Pope Francis greeted by indigenous children and presented with a traditional chupa by President Evo Morales, a traditional bag to store coca leaf.

According to many Bolivians, it is the best way to stave off altitude sickness and it's sold at markets like this. Piled of tomatoes, cheese and eggs, and next to the dried chilies, coca leaves.

Donia Maria (ph) chews he leaves every day.

(SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Do you think Pope Francis will try it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

DARLINGTON: "He's going to chew it," he says. "He's here. He's going to chew it."

Further down the road, Donia Maria (ph) shows me how it is done.

"It is for hunger," she says. "It gives you energy and for altitude."

(on camera): She says it will get rid of hunger, make me feel stronger and hopefully help with the headache.

(voice-over): And it does help with my headache. Then there is the tea made with coca leaf. It is the main ingredient of cocaine but chewing and drinking tea are considered safe and legal here.

The Vatican tried to minimize the potential effect by limiting pope's trip to four hours.

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DARLINGTON: Joyous followers lined the way as the pope drove from the airport to the main plaza. He showed no signs of fatigue as he kissed children and waved to crowds. But we may never know if coca leaf helped to keep up his spirits.

(on camera): Another interesting detail here, Zain. When Pope Francis landed he was presented with what is called a chupa by the Bolivian president, Evo Morales. It is a traditional bag that used to be used to carry coca leaf. We don't know if he ever ended up chewing it.

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ASHER: We don't know if he chewed it.

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ASHER: Altitude is very high up there.

FOSTER: Former Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been sentenced to three years in prison on corruption charges. A court in Naples found him guilty of bribing a Senator to switch sides and party his party in 2006.

ASHER: That helped Berlusconi become prime minister for a third time two years later. Reuters reports he won't have to serve the sentence because the statute of limitations takes effect before an appeal can be heard.

FOSTER: But he was in the wrong.

A woman who sought a sexual assault civil case against the comedian, Bill Cosby, in 2006 now wants the court to release his entire deposition. A judge unsealed part of it in which Cosby admit head got prescription drugs to give to women so he could have sex with them.

ASHER: The plaintiff in that case, Andrea Constand, says Cosby and his legal team have been talking to the media about other accusers in recent months and she said that violates their confidentiality agreement.

AC/DC drummer, Phil Rudd, has been sentenced to eight months home detention in New Zealand. Rudd pled guilty to drug possession and threatening to kill a former employee.

FOSTER: His attorney says Rudd was under stress and on drugs at the time. He described it as an angry phone call. The band replaced Rudd.

You'd think anyone could tell the difference between dogs and bears but this guy didn't clue in for a long, long time. We will tell you how he finally figured it out.

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[01:52:24] ASHER: Welcome back. Tom Selleck is accused of stealing water during the California drought. A water district in Ventura County filed a complaint against Selleck and his wife claiming they stole water from fire hydrant in a different district from where their 60-acre ranch is located.

FOSTER: It raises so many questions. The district is suing the Sellecks for the money it spent to hire a private investigator. CNN has contacted Selleck's reps but we haven't heard back yet.

In a case of mistaken identity, a bizarre one, a man in China said he was tricked in to buying two bear cubs that he was told were watch dogs.

ASHER: An interesting one. After two years, the bears out grew his home forcing him to ask police for help. He told authorities they had no idea the dogs were endangered black bears. He said he called a public security bureau after noting their strange, ferocious behavior and growing appetites. The bears are in good condition after being taken to a shelter.

FOSTER: If you're looking for a watch bear, you could probably go over there.

ASHER: How can you confuse those two?

FOSTER: Making sense of the Greek debt crisis is no easy task. We have tried.

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FOSTER: But one woman in Athens is making it more entertaining.

ASHER: She has made a name for herself by jumping in front of reporters on live TV trying to steal their microphones.

Here's Jeanne Moos with more.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Have you ever had to talk around someone?

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MOOS: Now imagine doing it on live TV, talking around a ranting woman who tries to take your mic.

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MOOS: Reporters covering the financial crisis in Greece had their own crisis.

CNN's Richard Quest was the first to have to fend her off.

RICHARD QUEST, CNN HOST, QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: This is the sort of thing --

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MOOS: It's not the economy.

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UNIDENTIFIED NEWS ANCHOR: Watch yourself, Richard.

MOOS: "It is Satan," she's yelling about.

When she went after the mic of "Bloomberg" reporter, Joe Wiesenthal, he twirled right out of the picture.

JOE WIESENTHAL, REPORTER, BLOOMBERG: Joe, I'm going to take this opportunity -- MOOS: Joe didn't get mad. In the spirit of international friendship,

he took a selfie with her and changed his Twitter profile picture to this.

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MOOS: A veteran Finish reporter, Yan Hopsu (ph) had it worse. Even after a crew member eased her out, she kept coming back so that he had to peek over one shoulder and then the other.

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MOOS: She kept talking about Vladimir Putin.

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[01:55:05] MOOS: Thought was something a crew member whispered did seem to calm her down.

Turns out Elani Luca (ph), does this all the time. She's well known in Greece as a heckler, usually on religious topics.

(on camera): At least all of these reporters are in good company. This woman even went after George Clooney's wife, Amal. She managed to get up close and personal and kiss Amal on both cheeks.

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(voice-over): She never did actually manage to steal a mic. And her message --

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MOOS: -- is Greek to me.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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FOSTER: I have to say there's a point at which you have to smile and carry on with your report.

ASHER: I admire her enthusiasm.

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FOSTER: Some young patients at a children's hospital in Australia got quite a treat this week. A great story.

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(END VIDEO CLIP) FOSTER: You guessed right. That is Johnny Depp dressed in full pirate gear. Depp is there shooting his next pirates of the Caribbean.

ASHER: The surprise visit was documented by Juice TV, a television show made by kids in the hospital for kids in the hospital.

That's a nice one to end the show on.

FOSTER: It is.

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ASHER: Thank you for watching, everyone. I'm Zain Asher.

FOSTER: I'm Max Foster.

CNN NEWSROOM continues next hour with the Rosemary Church.

ASHER: There she is.

Welcome.

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