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Trump Challenged by Carson in Iowa; More Hillary Clinton E- Mails Released; President Talks Climate Change; ISIS Destroys Syrian Temple; Dick Cheney Warns of ISIS Attack, Blames ISIS Spread on Obama; Protests in Ukraine Turn Deadly; Small South Korean Villages Returns to Normal After Easing Tensions with North Korea; Teen Branded, Forces into Sex Slavery. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired September 1, 2015 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:15] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He runs up behind deputy Goforth and puts a gun to his head and shoots.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN HOST: Concerning new details on the ambush and killing of a Texas police officer.

ZAIN ASHER, CNNI HOST: Also ahead, Europe's response and desperate refugees plead for safe haven.

VAUSE: And Barack Obama's message of hope and fear on climate change.

ASHER: Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. Thank you so much for joining us. I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: And I'm John Vause. The second hour of CNN NEWSROOM begins right now.

We start this hour with U.S. politics. The state department has released another 7,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails and more than 100 of them had information which has since then classified. These emails are from her four years as secretary of state, including mundane details like scheduling. There are also requests for updates on Israel and other regions.

ASHER: Now Clinton has been criticized for using a personal email address and a private server while she was secretary of state. But the email controversy isn't the only issue for her campaign. A new poll shows her top rival, Bernie Sanders gaining ground in Iowa. He is now just seven points behind in the key early nominating state.

VAUSE: And, for the first time in weeks, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not leading the field in Iowa.

ASHER: Yes, a new poll shows a dramatic surge for one of his rivals. Here's our Dana Bash with more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Donald Trump is now getting a run for his money in Iowa by another non-politician.

BEN CARSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Thank you very much.

BASH: Ben Carson, a new poll has the pediatric neurosurgeon at 23 percent. Neck in neck with the billionaire who had been uncharacteristically easy on Carson.

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He's nice. I cannot hit him. He has been so nice to me. It is true. I cannot hit him.

BASH: And even more evidence that voters are desperate for a political outsider. Behind Trump and Carson in this new poll is former CEO Carly Fiorina at 10 percent. None of the three has ever been in elected office. Fourth, Ted Cruz, freshman senator who appeals as an outsider. And down to fifth place, lifelong politician Scott Walker.

TRUMP: The only thing constant is Trump.

BASH: But it is still Trump driving the discussion in the GOP field, now setting his sights on Hillary Clinton's longtime adviser Huma Abedin, questioning her judgment in be being married to Anthony Wiener, who resigned from Congress in 2011 after tweeting lewd pictures of himself.

TRUMP: She's married to Anthony Wiener, you know the little bing, bing bing, bong, bong. I love you very much.

BASH: He even raised questions about whether Abedin shared classified information saying on Twitter today, Huma Abedin, the top aide to Hillary Clinton and the wife of perv sleazebag Anthony Weiner was a major security risk as a collector of info.

A Clinton spokesman shot back calling Trump disgraceful, saying Donald Trump has spent the summer saying offensive things about women, but there is no place for patently false personal attacks against a staff member.

Make no mistake, Trump is also staying on the offensive inside the GOP, releasing this new Instagram video against Jeb Bush.

JEB BUSH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's an act of love.

BASH: And Trump is clearly have be an impact on policy, pulling many in the GOP field to the right on immigration. Wisconsin governor Scott Walker now says he's open to a wall, not just with Mexico, but with Canada.

GOV. SCOTT WALKER (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Some law enforcement folks that brought that up to me at one of our town hall meetings about a week and a half ago, so that is a legitimate issue for this to look at.

BASH: And Chris Christie signed off on an idea to stop immigrants from overstaying their visas illegally by tracking them FedEx style.

GOV. CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We need to have a system that tracks you from the moment you come in. And then when your time is up, then we go get you and tap you on the shoulder and say, excuse me, thanks for coming. Time to go.

BASH: That's an example of a politician saying that he gets innovation happens in business and sometimes government doesn't get it. But voters may not be listening to Christie or other people who are actual politicians right now because the latest Iowa poll shows 66 percent of caucus goers would rather have somebody outside government and political experience, even if he can get things done.

Dana Bash, CNN, Washington.

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ASHER: I want to go now to Europe's migrant crisis. Hundreds of migrants and refugees have reached their final destination in their journey to Western Europe. So hours after boarding a train in Hungary, refugees arrived in the German city of Munich. We are told others made it into Austria.

[01:05:06] VAUSE: In a sudden change of policy Monday, authorities let Syria and Iraqi refugees buy tickets and board trains headed west from Hungary.

Our Arwa Damon was there.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They are very excited, because they've waited so long to get on this train. And now it's over packed. It is overcrowded. They weren't able to find seats.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

DAMON: They say that there's people that haven't reserved tickets. People are still asking if they can travel with just their Syrian I.D. And what we've been told here is that yes, they should be able to make it and get on these trains.

The reason why everyone is in such a panic to cram on the train and get out of here is there is this instant fear amongst all that this opportunity that they have to actually be able to leave might go away very, very quickly. And no one wants to get stuck here anymore.

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ASHER: And dozens more migrants are actually still in Budapest right now waiting to leave.

VAUSE: Senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen spoke with some refugees who made it to Munich.

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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: After a long and very difficult journey through much of Europe, many of the refugees are now making it to here. This is Munich's central station and Germany is of course one of the man places that many refugees who been going across Europe wants to go.

Now, most of them have endured a very, very difficult travel, first going through Turkey, then through Greece, Macedonia. Many had a difficult time in Hungary and then, of course, a lot of them were stopped on trains in Austria for a very long time. But now some of them are coming here to Germany and are talking about some of the things that they've endured along the way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I first in Turkey, and in Greece and in Macedonia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Austria, and then here. It's cost us about 2,000 euro or 3,000.

PLEITGEN: And for many of the people who are coming here, it's also been quite confusing as to what exactly the regulations are here in the European Union. Many of them, of course, had to be in Hungary for a very long time. They thought they had to apply for asylum in Hungary. Some of them didn't. They then went on to Austria. Some were pulled offer trains in Austria and then were taken to refugee shelters there.

Now, the ones that are coming here to Germany to Munich, when they arrive here are being checked by police officers that are here at the train station, and then many of them will be taken to shelter, and hopefully to safety.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Germany.

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ASHER: At the center of the migrant crisis is an international agreement called the Dublin regulation. For anyone seeking asylum must apply for asylum in the EU country where they first arrived, and they have to remain there until their status is approved.

VAUSE: The rule has left thousands of migrants trapped in Greece and Italy. German chancellor Angela Merkel says a joint European approach is important to try and take the pressure off those countries.

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ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (through translator): If we are talking about the next big problem, namely refugees, there is a high level of agreement that the burden on Italy must be reduced. We cannot say that Italy must keep all of the refugees who arrive there just because they've come over the Mediterranean. The Dublin agreement no longer works in the way it once did, because the situation has changed. So, it will be important that all of us speak out for Europe in solidarity. Then we will make progress.

(END VIDEO CLIP) VAUSE: Many take refuge in Europe are fleeing the war in Syria. And the Syrian population has undergone some incredible upheavals in the past four years.

ASHER: Back in 2011, Syria's population was estimated to be 22.4 million people. And since then, at least 7.6 million people have been internally displaced. And that means that they've fled their homes but stayed in the country. Another four million have fled Syria all together. Most of them going to neighboring countries like Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan.

VAUSE: Well, 250,000 Syrians have been killed during the war. And that leaves just over 10 million Syrians who are actually where they were four years ago when the war began.

ASHER: The temple of Baal was the center of religious life in Palmyra, Syria for almost 2,000 years. Now it is completely gone, destroyed by ISIS.

VAUSE: Some are image of the temple of Baal is from mosque Thursday. Initially, they were some feared the site may have been damaged by explosion but not destroyed. Now though, the U.N. says that is not the case. And the image you have now shows what's left. Later this hour we will hear from an art tribe professor on why the temple was considered one of Syria's most important antiquities.

There are new details this hour in the ambush and murder of a sheriff's deputy in Texas. The district attorney says Deputy Darren Goforth was shot 15 times while filling the tank on his cruiser. The alleged gunman Shannon Miles unloading his entire clip.

[01:10:16] ASHER: So far even though officials say that even Miles is cooperating, they still do not know what his motive was. We're also learning that Miles has a history of mental illness and was once found too mentally incompetent to stand trial.

Here's Ed Lavandera with more.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We learned that in October of 2012, Shannon Miles, the man accused of murdering Deputy Darren Goforth was arrested and criminally charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. But instead of standing trial, he was found mentally incompetent to stand trial and send to a state mental hospital for six months. This comes as prosecutors detailed in the most excruciating way some of the details of how this murder unfolded.

It was so quiet when Shannon Miles walked into the Houston courtroom, you could only hear the sound of the shackles around his ankles and waist. A show of force looking on as fellow deputies stared down the man accused of killing their fellow officer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He unloaded the entire weapon into Deputy Goforth. LAVANDERA: Prosecutors gave the most detailed account yet of how

Shannon Miles allegedly ambushed Deputy Darren Goforth as he was walking up back to his patrol car at pump number eight.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He ransack behind Deputy Goforth and puts a gun to the back of his head and shoots. Deputy Goforth hits the ground and he continues to unload his gun, shooting repeatedly into the back of Deputy Goforth.

LAVANDERA: The prosecutor says he emptied all the rounds from 40 caliber handgun, 15 shots in all, before walking to his truck and driving away from the scene. Deputy Goforth left dead in a pool of this own blood, shell casings on the ground around him.

On this spot now, a memorial of teddy bears and flowers has blossomed in deputy Goforth's honor. Investigators say ballistic test linked the shell casings at the crime scene to a handgun found in Shannon Miles' home garage. Investigators are trying to determine a motive for a shooting investigators describes as cowardly and cold blooded. But the sheriff says deputy Goforth was targeted because he wore a uniform.

SHERIFF RON HICKMAN, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS: This rhetoric has gotten out of control. We've heard black lives matter, all lives matter. Well, cops lives matter too. So why don't we just drop the qualifier and just say lives matter and take that to the bank.

LAVANDERA: According to Miles' Facebook page, he bounced around various Houston area colleges, including the university where Sandra Bland was supposed to work.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Don't touch my. I'm not under arrest.

LAVANDERA: Bland's case garnered intense scrutiny when she was found dead in her jail cell after being arrested during a traffic stop. All of this happened just a few miles down the road from where Miles lived and where he allegedly shot and killed deputy Goforth.

It's becoming increasingly clear that mental health issues will take a greater role in this investigation. We have learned the prosecutors have issued a subpoena for an area mental health hospital for the records of Shannon Miles. This also comes as one of Shannon Miles' attorneys tells us that they are one of the first things they will do is order up a psychological evaluation of the murder suspect who faces the death penalty in this case.

Ed Lavandera, CNN, Houston Texas.

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VAUSE: The man convicted of murdering three people outside a Jewish center in the U.S. was unapologetic after Monday's verdict. Even going so far as to give the Nazi salute.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We the jury find the defendant guilty of capital murder as charged in count one.

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ASHER: And according to people who knew him, Frazier Glenn Cross is openly racist and anti-Semitic. Cross represented himself during the trial in Kansas and claimed he was protecting the white race from Jews.

VAUSE: Last year he fired outside a Jewish community center and assisted living facility killing three people, none of them Jewish, including a 14 year old and his grandfather. The penalty phase of Cross' trial will start on Tuesday.

Still breaking here on CNN NEWSROOM, when we come back President Barack Obama begins a conference in Alaska on climate change. He ends up to the U.S. role in causing global warming and says the U.S. is ready to help solve the problem. That's coming up.

ASHER: Also ahead, the losing streak continues in Asian markets. We'll look at how far they're dropping today. That's coming up.

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[01:17:00] PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good day. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. This is CNN weather watch. And we are watching the America to start off your weather. And we are also watching the four corner states where some thunderstorms to pop up. But the big change still in place across the northwestern corner of the U.S. with cooler weather since no shower in the higher relations as well.

Look at the color contour. Some of the greenest and bluest shade we have seen in months across this region. And this looks to stay for the next week or so with the hottest there displaced off to these places like Minneapolis, back up to the upper 20s and around 30 degrees after being into the fuse (ph).

Just about a week ago, Chicago toasty, 32 degrees warmer than Atlanta state, went toward New York City. Also, feeling with some summer-like temperature into September. Across the region, of course, summer-like weather pattern near the Hawaiian Islands. We have a (INAUDIBLE) pushing just north of the island (INAUDIBLE), back behind of a (INAUDIBLE) category four, hurricane sitting behind its future. And both of them went on skirting off to the north that we know. This is certainly want to pick up the surf around this region bringing some showers. But beyond that, it looks like it is going to stay well away from the islands in general.

How about thunderstorm city around much of the Central America there from the (INAUDIBLE) towards Guatemala City, about 32 to 26 degrees. Dry spot, it will be windy in Kingston. Well, take 34 degrees for your high temperature. Some of the active weather again down around Panama as we expect this time of year, scattered showers in the forecast.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) [01:18:43] VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody.

The U.S. president has issued a warning on climate change verging on the apocalyptic. President Barack Obama was speaking at an international conference in anchorage, Alaska on Monday to start a three-day visit to highlight the impact of climate change, which he called the defining threat of the century.

ASHER: Now, Mr. Obama was sharply critical of anyone who denies that human activity is warming up the planet. He also took responsibility for the role the U.S. plays in climate change.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I've come here today as the leader of the world's largest economy and the second largest emitter to say that the United States recognizes our role in creating this problem. And we embrace our responsibility to help solve it. And I believe we can solve it. That's the good news. Even if we cannot reverse the damage that we've already caused, we have the means. The scientific imagination and technological innovation to avoid irreparable harm.

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VAUSE: And we hear a lot about climate change and the damage it's causing the environment, but one industry, a warming planet brings some pretty big advantages.

ASHER: The shipping industry sees new opportunities for routes through the arctic that save both time and money as well. But the journey is not without risk.

Here's our Claire Sebastian with more.

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[01:20:10] CLAIRE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In August 2013, the Yong Sheng became the first Chinese cargo ship to travel to Europe through the artic northern sea route, a route that until very recently was completely frozen over.

Melting sea ice in the arctic is opening up a new, tempting prospect for shipping companies, and this is why. The Yong Sheng's trip from Dahlia and in China to (INAUDIBLE) in The Netherlands took 33 days. The same journey by the Suez Canal would take around 48 days. Yet shipping experts say the risks may still outweigh the saving.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's about a thousand nautical miles that's saved by being able to transit that. The problems are more matter of the practicality. When you go through the arctic, you're going through some of the least-charted ocean space on the globe of the earth.

SEBASTIAN: It's still early days for this freezing shortcut. Just four ships used the northern sea route in 2010. By 2013, it was 71. Last year, growth slowed slightly to 53. Routes are haphazard today. Yet scientists at the U.S. national academies of sciences predict that melting ice will open up more shipping opportunities by midcentury.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is 2015. And this one's 2007.

SEBASTIAN: McKenzie Funk traveled all across the arctic region to research his book. Wind fall, the booming business of global warming, travelling on the same American ice breaker eight years apart. This year, on a mission to improve safety infrastructure in the region.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's still less than one percent of the traffic that goes through the Suez Canal is going across the top of Russia. And so, it's not a huge change, really in terms of where goods are going, but it's a glimpse of the future.

SEBASTIAN: Freight vessels are not the only ones hoping to get a piece of this future. (INAUDIBLE) crystal cruise is launching its first arctic voyage through the Northwest Passage next summer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is moment in history. And I think people understandably want to be there and experience it and it's beautiful.

SEBASTIAN: Beautiful, yet still risky for those hoping to capitalize on this changing landscape.

Claire Sebastian, New York.

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ASHER: For more on the issues surrounding Alaska and what it could mean for the entire planet, our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us live now.

So Pedram, Alaska has really been described as the poster child for climate change. You've got at least four villages that may need to be relocated because of rising water.

JAVAHERI: Yes. You know, the reason this is all happening, of course, at least the story coming out of Alaska being the most severe, ,guys is exactly what President Obama touched on right as well when he talked about the temperatures. They went on across this part of the world in the past 50 years, they've increased on an annual basis at about three-plus degrees. In the winter, as observation about six- plus degrees temperature increase over this part of the planet. And the forecast taking us 50 years out says a similar sort of trend is expected to continue with another six to seven degrees Fahrenheit increase in the temperatures here.

So when you're talking about an impact across this region, again, it's not just for them, it's on a global scale because you take a look at Alaska and we'll take you here and lay the land for you because we know about 80 percent of the landscaper over Alaska is laid over by permafrost. This is essentially permanent areas, the frozen ground that have been there for thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of years. And there's the layer here known as the active layer that lined up where you have exposed grass, yet exposed trees as well. And when these fires happen across portioning of Alaska and the burning essentially begins, you're releasing carbon that's trapped within these trees into the atmosphere. But sometimes the fires get down to the duff layer. This is where you have additional carbon from decomposing leads that have been there for thousands of year or decomposing it twigs or needles as well. They release additional carbon into the atmosphere. And if the fires are strong enough, and they certainly are this year, you get the fires that farther down beneath the soil into the mineral soil. And with the mineral soil, now you're talking about burning an area where now you're taking the insulation away from the landscape of Alaska. So the long, summer days Alaska is known for, all that sun essentially starts heating up the ground, you begin melting the permafrost that's been in place for tens of thousands of years and what's inside the permafrost is about 30 times more destructive when it comes to greenhouse gas and its impact on climate change. And that's methane, 30 times more destructive than Co2 or carbon dioxide. So it is definitely a serious situation happening here when it comes to the climate impact across the globe.

And taking you back towards this region and show you exactly what's transpiring, because here's a picture of Alaska. And again, 80 percent coverage when it comes to the permafrost distribution. The deepest portion of it is across the northern tier of Alaska. Parts of this region, around (INAUDIBLE) by the way, 2,000 feet layer depth of the permafrost. But when you come down towards central and Southern Alaska, there is a discontinuous proportion there of the permafrost distribution.

And I want to show where the fires where guys. Because we have about 750 large wildfires across Alaska. Notice the vast majority of them right there in that discontinuous zone. So now you're exposing the ground there, making it darker, absorbing more of the sun's radiation and then heating up the ground releasing the methane. So it all kind of works together of what happens this year over part of the world.

[01:25:25] VAUSE: One thing feeds into the other, accelerates the process. And that's where we're at right now.

JAVAHERI: Absolutely.

VAUSE: Thanks, Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Thanks.

VAUSE: We have one more note on the environment and the incredible amount of garbage floating around the world's oceans and the impact that has on seabirds. A new study of the National Academy of Scientists says fewer than 10 percent of seabirds which was studied during the 1970s and 1980s were found to have plastic in their stomachs. That number, well, is now to 90 percent and is expected to rise to 99 percent by 2050.

ASHER: OK, we turn now to Asia where the market began heading south. And there's some new economic data that reflects China's shrinking productivity.

All of that and more, let's go CNN's Manisha Tank. She is joining us live now from Hong Kong.

So Manisha, we just got the PMI numbers measuring manufacturing activity. Those numbers hit a three-year low. Other markets specifically reacting to that or more so this idea that China may finally halt market intervention?

MANISHA TANK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we've already seen a bit of a pullback in that market intervention. In fact, we heard about those arrests yesterday, Zain, which kind of suggest that the government and China is trying to put the blame for all of this somewhere else. And many are questioning where any its policies to sure up market sense and they are actually working. So a bit of a pulls on that at the moment.

But yes, let's talk about these figures that came out. It's called the purchasing manager's index, sounds technical, but basically what we have been looking at today were two numbers that showed us how the manufacturing sector in China is doing and another number that shows how the service sector is doing.

As far as manufacturing goes, you see the numbers now. The official PMI came in at 49.7. So that is actually lower than the 50. Now if this figure falls below 50, which was last month's figure, what it shows us -- and that's a separate index, the smaller index that is also recorded and came out today, the Caixin PMI. But let's focus on the official one for a second.

What it showed us was output in manufacturing is slowing. Now some people might think this is really worrying. Well, let's not forget that China used to be this manufacturing powerhouse. But it is realizing its new economic model. It needs to focus on non- manufacturing, the service industry, making sure that there is an economy within China that can sustain itself. And so, actually services is a figure that is still above 50.

So if you look at the non-manufacturing PMI that came in today, it is still above 50. It came in at 53.4 percent which is lower than last month's 53.9, but it does show that sector, that part of the economy which makes up 48.2 percent of the Chinese economy is still growing.

ASHER: And China's of course, desperate to stabilize markets, especially before the World War II celebration parade, celebrating victory of japan later on this week.

Manisha Tank, thank you so much. We appreciate that.

VAUSE: We'll take a break here on CNN NEWSROOM. When we come back, we'll have more on the 2,000-year-old temple destroyed by ISIS and we will tell you why the militants decided to wipe Syria's national treasure of the face of the earth.

ASHER: And Ukrainian lawmakers take a vote and deadly violence erupts. Ahead, we'll discuss the clashes in Kiev.

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[01:32:03] ASHER: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. I'm John Vause. We'll check the headlines this hour.

U.S. President Barack Obama is making Alaska a focal point in his push against global warming. He spoke earlier at the Glacier conference in Anchorage. It's the start of a three-day trip to talk about climate change. He says raging wildfires and melting glaciers are proof that Alaska is feeling the effects.

ASHER: The U.S. State Department has released another 7,000 of Hillary Clinton's e-mails from her time as America's top diplomat. More than 100 of them had information that was later marked "classified." The Democratic presidential candidate had been criticized for using her personal e-mail and server while she was secretary of state.

VAUSE: Hundreds of Syrian and Iraqi refugees have arrived in Austria and Germany after days of waiting at a Hungarian train station. The refugees were allowed to buy tickets and board trains on Monday. Many more migrants are still in Budapest waiting to leave.

ASHER: And we're learning that a man accused of shooting a sheriff's deputy 15 times at a U.S. gas station has spent time in a mental hospital. Officials say Shannon Miles was found mentally incompetent to stand trial in 2012 on felony assault charges. A prosecutor says Miles ambushed Darren Goforth on Friday while the deputy pumped gas.

VAUSE: The Temple Baal dates back almost 2000 years and is considered one of the most important religious buildings of the 1st century. These before and after satellite images show, the main building has been destroyed while the full extent of the damage is unclear. Once again, ISIS has shown the world it is more than willing and capable of destroying priceless antiquities.

Erin Thompson is an assistant professor of art crime at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She joins us from New York.

Erin, thank you for being with us.

In single words here, in sort of broad-brush strokes, why is this temple so important? If it is completely destroyed, what have we lost?

ERIN THOMPSON, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART CRIME, JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: We've lost a great amount. This was one of the best-reserved temples of the ancient world. It was dedicated in A.D. 32 when Jesus may have still been walking the earth. It was used as a Christian church and then as a mosque until the 1920s. So it's really an example of the type of synchronism of religion that ISIS is seeking to destroy.

VAUSE: That appears to be one of the motivations by ISIS, the ideological destroying of history and the media savvy side of ISIS.

THOMPSON: They're incredibly media savvy. What they're doing is destroying on the Western media's news cycle. They're giving us rumors, teasers, then official confirmation and images, and then just as the story dies down again, they do it again. So they destroyed a temple last Sunday. Now this Sunday, they do it again.

[01:35:04] VAUSE: What's to be gained by ISIS, by doing this, by getting it out there that they are capable of carrying out these horrendous acts?

THOMPSON: This sends a very important propaganda message for ISIS. They're using the media to portray to potential recruits that the West is powerless to defend against ISIS, its destruction of things that are so important to us. So I think we really need to talk about how these destructions are not just something we can't defend against, but our vital sources of evidence that we're going to use that prosecute ISIS fighters for war crimes when the conflict is over.

VAUSE: Do you really think that members of ISIS who are burning people alive in cages and decapitating Coptic Christians on beaches, do you think they're really worried about the possibility of war crime prosecution?

THOMPSON: I think there may be a difference between the level of people who are actually setting those matches and the many, many people who are helping them sell antiquities through the marketplace. So we have to tell those people that maybe all you're doing is transporting a statuette across the border, but you, too, are going to be as liable for crimes against humanity.

VAUSE: Some of the criticisms, which we seem to get reporting the acts of destruction, the international community pays far more attention to a destruction of an old building, no matter how special it is, than we do to the hundreds of thousands of people who have died in this conflict, and we have our priorities wrong.

THOMPSON: I don't think that we're reporting on these to the exclusion of reporting on the deaths, and they are very important. For example, this temple was a vital source of tourist income to the community, which is now going to be deprived. It is going to find it so much harder to recover from the conflict without this source of income.

VAUSE: Erin Thompson, assistant professor of art crime, we appreciate you being with us, thank you so much.

THOMPSON: Thank you.

ASHER: We're going to take a quick break here on CNN. When we come back, one South Korean village back from the brink. Coming up, a look at life returning to routine along the Demilitarized Zone.

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[01:40:19] ASHER: And it is down to the final four. We are getting our first look at the top designs that could actually replace New Zealand's current national flag. It's close to home for you. VAUSE: Yes. They were unveiled a while ago in Wellington. Starting

in November and there will be a final vote next year. It will be changed to one of these four or keep the one that's been used since 1902. It looks just like the Australian flag but the stars are red.

ASHER: To some more news out of the United States. Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney says ISIS is, quote, "extraordinarily dangerous," and he believes there could be another 9/11-style attack with much deadlier weapons. Cheney has been an outspoken critic of the Obama administration.

VAUSE: He has a new book out with his daughter, Liz Cheney, titled, "Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America."

In an interview with Jamie Gangel, Cheney lays blame for the spread of ISIS.

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JAMIE GANGEL, NBC NEWS NATIONAL REPORTER, TODAY SHOW: You, in the book, blame the spread of ISIS on President Obama.

DICK CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Mm-hm.

GANGEL: He says it's your fault, that Bush/Cheney left the region unstable.

CHENEY: Well, I think he's wrong. Look at the record. We had a situation in which, by the time we got through the surge in '07 and '08, President Bush made a very courageous decision and a very correct decision, and Iraq was in good shape when we left office. And Barack Obama said as much. What happened, basically, was they failed to follow through. They withdrew as quickly as possible and left no stay-behind force there. They created a vacuum. And the vacuum was filled by ISIS.

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VAUSE: The full interview on Tuesday on "A.C. 360."

ASHER: A protest in Ukraine turned deadly after lawmakers voted to give rebel-held regions more autonomy.

VAUSE: That is a provision of the Minsk peace agreement. But as Phil Black reports, the measure has a long way to go before final passage.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Video from outside Ukraine's parliament shows huge crowds. You can hear a loud exPLOsion.

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BLACK: There is smoke, and injured Ukrainian security forces being carried from the scene. The Ukrainian interior ministry says someone threw an explosive device. That blast killed at least one person, injured dozens, some critically. Around 30 people have been arrested, the Ukrainian interior ministry says, including the person who is accused of throwing the explosive device.

The people who made up the protest crowd were largely supporters of the Freedom Party, a right-wing nationalist party that doesn't approve of the Ukrainian government making any concessions to pro-Russian separatist forces that have seized territory in the east of Ukraine. That is what parliament was voting on, a new law to devolve, decentralize power from the national government in Kiev and grant new rights of autonomy and self governance to those eastern regions. It was a key concession of the Minsk agreement, a peace plan that was signed onto by the Ukrainian government, the separatist leaders and Russia back in February.

In this case, the law passed its first vote in Ukraine's parliament, but it must be voted on again and it must receive more support, at least 300 votes out of a potential 450. And that is by no means guaranteed.

Phil Black, CNN, London.

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ASHER: Life is returning to normal in South Korea, along the DMZ. It's been about a week since the North and South pulled back from a military stand off that could have escalated into something more.

VAUSE: For the members of a small village on the edge of the militarized border, it's all part of living with an ever-present threat from the North.

Kyung Lah reports.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At the very end of South Korea sits Jung Yeun Village (ph), a tiny farm town on the edge of the world's most heavily militarized border. North Korea is only a few miles away. Its threat of war becoming an act of war.

A North Korean artillery shell launched across the DMZ last week, landing so close to this village, the government ordered the 210 residents into two underground bunkers. South Korea's military, usually hidden in their hills, readied for attack. The two Koreas at the brink of battle.

Days later, a temporary truce in place between the Koreas, Park Junsay (ph) and his wife, Tusenjay (ph) returned to life at their store.

"It's a hard life. Their shelves don't need to be stocked because no one's buying. The young, tired of life here, left.

"I hear you boom, boom all the time," she says. "You become immune to it." [01:45:10] (on camera): You don't think that North Korea will hurt

you?

"This last time was different," she explains. "We have done the evacuation drills again and again. But this is the first time we have had to evacuate."

This bomb shelter has a giant blast door. It is solid steel. You can see how thick it is. We are a couple dozen feet under ground and it is solid concrete right above us. The government says that this could withstand a direct hit from most North Korean artillery. 100 people can fit in here. And the last time this town evacuated, they were in here for five days.

"I heard the North Korean gunfire that day, says Park Junsay (Ph)." He led his town's evacuation.

LAH: Why stay here? Why stay in this town?

"I'm not anxious and never thought of leaving," he says calmly. "I'm determined to protect my town.

"People in Seoul ask me, how do you live here. If they are going to hit anything, it's going to be Seoul. If there really is another Korean War," she says, "we'll all die."

Seoul sits within North Korea's artillery range as well. They just ignore how close the threat is. This border town can't.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Jung Yeun (ph), South Korea.

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VAUSE: When we come back here on CNN, you will hear from a 17-year- old girl who said she was promised a glamorous life but found herself branded and forced to sell sex instead.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Hi. I'm Patrick Snell with your CNN World Sports headline.

With the transfer window slamming shut in England on Tuesday, Manchester United involved in some of its biggest deals. It looks like the damage appears to be finally over. Both clubs getting closer to a deal. It could be United getting $44 million keep her. In addition to the fee, United gets Costa Rica national, Kala Nava (ph), from Madrid as well. United poised to put cash on Anthony Malkow (ph), who, at 19, would become the most expensive teenager ever in football when his move from Monaco is confirmed for a reported $55 million.

It only took a matter of hours for a couple of high-profile players crashing out of the U.S. Open on day one at Flushing Meadows in New York. On the women's side of the draw, Anna Ivanovich (ph) an early casualty, going down in three sets -- the Serbian player received a seven at this event. And a big shock for the men, too, with last year's finalist falling at the very first hurdle. Well and truly stunned on Monday by the Frenchman, Ben Wapair (ph), number 14, losing in five to the number-one ranks pair who, at one point, actually made two match points before going on to take victory.

That's a look at your CNN World Sport headlines. I'm Patrick Snell.

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[01:50:44] VAUSE: Welcome back. We finish this hour with our CNN Freedom Project with a focus on human trafficking. And this week, we are looking at how some girls have been branded by traffickers and pimps.

ASHER: Branding is a practice that is used to signify ownership.

CNN's Sara Sidner spoke to a 17-year-old girl who said that she was sold a dream that never came true.

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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From her child-like giggles and sunny disposition you'd never know the fear this teenager has lived in for years.

But every time 17-year-old Adriana looks into a mirror she has a mark to remind her.

(on camera): Tell me about what is that tattooed on your chest.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This right here?

SIDNER: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I call it my war wound. It's -- the name is "Cream." And I got it when I was about 14 years old and he was one of my pimps.

SIDNER: Adriana said it started when she was 13, rebelling and ran away from home. She went to a party and met a man who promised her a glamorous life. But she found out she had to work for him out here selling sex.

What were you feeling at 13 years old and all of a sudden you're in the life of an adult?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I felt awesome. I knew everything, no one couldn't tell anything. That's exactly what it was.

SIDNER: What was he doing for you? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Nothing. He was just selling me that dream.

SIDNER (voice-over): That dream has been sold to countless girls who also end up bearing the marks of ownership.

These photos from the Van Nuys vice unit of the Los Angeles Police Department show just how prolific branding is.

A trafficker's initials on a girlfriend's face, a nickname on her thighs, images of moneybags, a blatant word on her neck, "F you, pay me," even a bar code like an item in a grocery store.

LAPD Captain Lillian Carranza said she first noticed the trend about five years ago.

CAPT. LILLIAN CARRANZA, LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT; This is not only another way to control them and let them know you belong to me and let other pimps now, hey, this individual belongs to me.

SIDNER (on camera): Like property?

CARRANZA: Exactly. This is no different than when you or I would mark our shirts or lunchbox or lunch for the day with our name in order to let everybody else know, hey, this is our property.

SIDNER (voice-over): For Adriana, as the months tick by, the work grew increasingly grueling her trafficker demanding she make a certain amount of money. She worked day and night, sometimes in life threatening situations.

(on camera): Guns pulled on you?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

SIDNER: Knives?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Knives, yes. I've gotten a few knives before. It's very scary.

SIDNER: How do you live with that fear?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don't. You can't live with it. You kill yourself at night. That's what you do to live with that fear.

SIDNER: What?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You don't live with that type of fear.

SIDNER: What do you do with it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You suppress it.

SIDNER (voice-over): She says pimps encourage girls to take drugs and get them hooked so they can work 24 hours a day. Adriana says she refused and tried to disengage mentally. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You have to. I mean, because I didn't do drugs

I had to find a way of coping with this. It's very disgusting. It's nasty. You feel so uncomfortable. Naturally, you're going to be traumatized, whether it's a gun to your head or a knife to your belly or you being raped or robbed, or whatever it is, you're going to have some type of trauma behind it. And because you have been sold dreams, and fallen in love over and over again, and that's all you're looking for, you get hurt a lot, because none of it is real.

SIDNER: Did you ever think when you were branded that it mirrors what they used to do to slaves?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. I believe this is modern-day slavery, definitely.

[01:55:11] SIDNER (voice-over): But she has so far decided to keep the brand right where it is, and insisted on showing her face to let other girls see they don't have to live in shame.

(on camera): How do you go forward and live a different life?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know.

SIDNER: Still trying to figure it out?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

SIDNER (voice-over): Adriana is working toward a high school diploma but the future is fuzzy because the life, as she calls it, keeps pulling her back.

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ASHER: Our Sara Sidner reporting there. A painful story, but one that needs to be told.

VAUSE: Incredible. She is only 17 years old.

And you will hear from another survivor who is raising money to help other victims who want their brandings to be covered up for good. That will be this time tomorrow.

ASHER: That does it for us at this hour. Thank you so much for watching, everyone. I'm Zain Asher.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause.

CNN NEWSROOM continues next hour with Errol Barnett and Rosemary Church.

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