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North Korea Launches Two Missiles; Brazil Government Corruption Scandal; Norwegian Mass Murderer Sues over Prison Conditions; ISIS Acts Labeled Genocide; GOP Leaders Trying to Stop Trump; Ivory Coast Reportedly Warned of Impending Terror Attack; Obama Starts Cuba Trip Tomorrow. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired March 18, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: A defiant show of force, North Korea launches two missiles while the U.S. conducts military exercises just across the border.

Turmoil in Brazil, the growing outrage over the allegations of corruption at the highest levels of government.

And a mass murderer sues Norway over his prison conditions even though he allegedly has a three-room suite with a treadmill and PlayStation.

That's ahead here on CNN Newsroom, We're live in Atlanta. Welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm Natalie Allen.

Our top story, North Korea stirring tensions once again after it's fired two ballistic missiles on Friday, one that have landed in the sea of Japan traveling a very good distance.

This comes as Pyongyang continues to demand an end to joint U.S. South Korean military exercises which began almost two weeks ago and they continue.

CN senior correspondent Ivan Watson is in Seoul, South Korea following on the story. And Ivan, this missile went a great distance, and in fact, got quite close to Japan.

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we don't know quite how close it got to Japan. We're still -- the Japanese defense ministry is still analyzing the details of this. But the range of one of the projectiles which the U.S. Defense Department has described as a possible road-long medium range ballistic missile was about 800 kilometers.

Now to give you a distance of the geography, the distance between the North Korean capital Pyongyang and the Japanese City of Hiroshima is 800 or just under 800 kilometers. So, it gives you a sense of how far a piece of North Korea's missile arsenal can travel in this missile test, which really violates a number of different United Nations Security Council resolutions.

The second projectile disappeared off the radar of the South Korean Defense Ministry after reaching an altitude of 18 kilometers, we don't know what happened. Could it have exploded, could it have malfunctioned? We don't know it at this time.

This is the second missile launch to have taken place from North Korea in about eight days and it just goes to show that Pyongyang is determined to carry forward with these tests despite criticism and resolutions from the United Nations Security Council that are supposed to be banning this type of activity. Natalie?

ALLEN: Absolutely. Certainly not banning them at the moment. And again, this comes at a time that the U.S. and South Korea carry out this war games and this isn't something that ever makes Kim Jong-un happy to say the least.

WATSON: No, absolutely not. These are annual joint military exercises. We've been able to observe some of them conducted by the U.S. and South Korea with contributors from countries like Australia and New Zealand as well.

North Korea says that these are a threat. They view them as a precursor to a possible invasion this week. The North Koreans sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council protesting against these joint military exercises.

Now, in 2014, during these annual series of drills here in the south, North Korea fired a lot of missiles and rockets, around 90 according to the South Korean Defense Ministry. So, that gives you a sense of how North Korea typically responds to these series of drills that take place down in the south.

But there is another element here, as well. And that is that North Korea is determined, it seems, to move forward not only with its missile technology but also with its nuclear weapons arsenal.

So, in January, North Korea tested its first, what it claims to have been its first hydrogen bomb. It has also since then fired a satellite into orbit, and just this week, the North Korean leader ordered his scientists and his military to carry out further nuclear tests and further missile tests with the ultimate goal of putting a nuclear bomb on the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile, that's an action that is viewed very much as a threat by South Korea, by Japan, by the U.S. Natalie?

ALLEN: Yes, and of course all have condemned this action by North Korea. Thank you, Ivan Watson for us there in Seoul.

[03:05:03] ISIS has systematically slaved, sexually and psychologically, starved, and killed thousands of ethnic and religious minorities. And now, the U.S. officially labeling the terror group attacks as genocide.

Our Elise Labott explains the significance of this declaration.

ELISE LABOTT, CNN GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Images of ISIS slaughtering Yazidis in Iraq brought the world's attention to the terror group's barbaric methods. Since then, ISIS has beheaded of Christians in Libya, crucified people in its self-proclaimed capital of Raqqah, Syria, and captured thousands of Yazidi women and girls for use as sex slaves.

Today, Secretary of State John Kerry formally declared ISIS atrocities against minorities a genocide.

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JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: The fact is that Daesh kills Christians because they are Christians, Yazidis because they are Yazidis, Shiite, because they are Shiite.

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LABOTT: The genocide label have a year-long debate inside the Obama administration and came amid mounting pressure from lawmakers who said branding ISIS massacres a genocide was long overdue.

Kerry made the call after a genocide resolution passed to House this week with overwhelming support. Congressman Jeff Fortenberry led that charge.

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JEFF FORTENBERRY, NEBRASKA STATE REPRESENTATIVE: Hopefully it compels the international community to act more aggressively and it puts the whole question which I don't think has ever been done before as to how these ancient faith traditions, Christians and Yazidis, and others are going to have their rightful place restored.

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LABOTT: The finding doesn't legally require the U.S. to do anything to stop genocide. But by putting ISIS on par with the conflict in Deir ez-Zor, the last time the U.S. found genocide in 2004 it could put political and moral pressure on the administration to step up its bombing campaign against the militants.

Since this dramatic rescue from Mt. Sinjar two years ago, Yazidis say little has changed. And they still face ethnic cleansing by ISIS.

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KERRY: Naming these crimes is important but what is essential is to stop them.

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LABOTT: The finding could also ignite the debate on whether to welcome more refugees from Iraq and Syria to the U.S. For Christian groups like the Knights of Columbus who provided evidence for this designation, the time to act is now.

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ANDREW WALTHER, KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS VICE PRESIDENT: The first priority is making sure that we protect the people that are being slaughtered. The policymakers and others need to sit down and strategize and figure out exactly what's that going to look like.

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LABOTT: Secretary Kerry made clear the U.S. is neither the judge, nor the jury with respect to allegations of genocide, but officials hope with the U.S. finding momentum will build to document evidence of ISIS's atrocities so that the members engaged in ethnic cleansing can be held accountable. It is still remains to be seen about what changes, if any, will be made to U.S. policy to rescue these minorities now.

Elise Labbot, CNN, Washington.

ALLEN: And of course, the ISIS atrocities have led to in part the migrant crisis. In a few hours, E.U. leaders will pitch to Turkey a proposal to deal with the crisis. On Thursday, E.U. member state agreed on what will be offered.

Syrian refugees currently in Greece would be returned to Turkey. Each time that happens E.U. members will a screened Syrian refugee from Turkey. The plan was partially designed by the German chancellor.

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ANGELA MERKEL, GERMAN CHANCELLOR (TRANSLATED): This is to be implemented fairly quickly. We did talk about this tonight. We will have to be seconded pretty quickly because we all know obviously that if the matters take too long then it will indeed have this pull effect.

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ALLEN: Our senior international correspondent Atika Shubert is following developments on this. She joins us now on the phone from Berlin. Certainly they're trying to figure out some sort of way to stop this influx, Atika.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they've been trying now, well, frankly, for years this has been an issue, but it's been in the last year reached its peak. And so, they've been struggling for months now to come up with a solution.

And the German chancellor is really pinning her hopes on this deal with Turkey, but it's fraught with problems. One is the legal issue. Turkey is not a full signatory to the refugee Geneva Convention.

And so, there is a whole bunch of legal gymnastics really that has to be done to ensure that Turkey is going to treat each refugee case individually according to a humanitarian law the EUSC is fit.

So, first, that's the first thing they need to sort out. Secondly, what is the whole process turning back Syrian refugees from Greece to Turkey, when will that happen? How will that happen? And then how quickly can refugees be resettled from Turkey into the E.U.? [03:10:02] I think from many of the refugees certainly that we spoke

into the story, they say if there was a legal way and a quick way for them to be resettled from camps in Turkey, Lebanon, or Jordan into the E.U. then that was route that they would take rather than the illegal and dangerous route of crossing the Aegean Sea.

So, it's all the question of how quickly this gets implemented and whether or not it will work. In the meantime, what we have seen already is that migrants and refugees, asylum-seekers have now started taking other routes instead of the Aegean route.

For example, in the route from Libya to Italy, they have also seen a rise in the number of people crossing there. So, there is a fear that with sort of a turn back agreement that we're starting to see from Turkey to Greece that we will simply start seeing the flows of people trying to reach Europe in other way.

ALLEN: Wow, another complexity in this tremendously complex story. What might be the reaction from Turkey, Atika? This plan includes some incentives for them?

SHUBERT: Well, it does. And Turkey is really looking at this. It's coming in a very strong -- from a very strong point of view. It's basically being offered the possibility to reopen E.U. membership negotiations. It will also look at whether Turkey -- Turkish citizens can have visa requirements lifted so that they can travel freely within the E.U.

They're also looking and have asked for more money, specifically, they've already been promised 3 billion euros. Now they're asking for another 3 billion. It's expected that in negotiations today, the E.U. is likely to say, well, it's possible to give an extra 3 billion. They first need to make sure that the first funds really has been used up and used effectively and positively.

So, Turkey is in very strong bargaining position here. The other question of course in all this, what about Greece? What kind of resources will be given to Greece which already has 40,000 more or less asylum-seekers stranded in its country?

And of course, not all of them are Syrian refugees. Many of them are from other countries. When I was there we met many from Afghanistan, for example, which would not be a part of all this deal. So, what would happen to the thousands of Afghan refugees that have made it all the way to Greece?

ALLEN: Oh, my goodness, you wonder how Angela Merkel gets any sleep these days? You know, the pressure she faces back home in Germany to do something about this.

We appreciate your reporting for us, Atika Shubert. Thank you.

The U.S. presidential election, an unprecedented move is underway within the U.S. Republican Party to stop theirown frontrunner from winning the presidential nomination.

A group of prominent conservatives met in Washington Thursday calling for a unity ticket and a convention fight to stop Donald Trump.

On the democratic side, Bernie Sanders has conceded in Missouri primary to Hillary Clinton giving her a clean sweep in all five of Tuesday's contests. Clinton is now turning more of her attention to Donald Trump.

CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports on what is shaping up to be a vicious battle.

JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump was one of the best democratic punch lines around.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He is making the most out of it. I'm having a good time watching it. I find it...

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ZELENY: The Democratic Party is no longer laughing. As the primary fight between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders goes on, The New York Times is reporting President Obama told donors in Texas last week, it's time for democrats to rally behind Clinton, an assertion the White House denied today. But there is little question the party is quickly turning its focus to Trump.

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CLINTON: Our commander-in-chief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it.

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ZELENY: Liberal groups are sounding the alarm, suddenly taking Trump seriously as a general election foe, from labor unions to environmental groups. The democratic machine is spinning into action trying to do what the republican establishment could not.

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HARRY REID, U.S. MAJORITY HOUSE LEADER: Most of us cannot fathom how he rose so far and so fast. His vile rhetoric is embarrassing, his proposals are dangerous.

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ZELENY: Senate democratic leader, Harry Reid delivered a speech today, focused solely on stopping Trump.

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REID: The republicans created the drought conditions, Donald Trump simply struck the match.

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ZELENY: Nearly two dozen progressive groups signed a letter this saying it's time to unite, they're calling this moment a five-alarm fire for our democracy. One day after Trump released this video making fun of Clinton. The Clinton super PAC returned fire by using Trump's own words against him.

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[03:15:03] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who are you consulting with consistently so that you're ready on day one?

DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm speaking with myself.

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ZELENY: But Clinton hasn't won the nomination just yet. Sanders is trailing significantly in delegates but he is far from folding. But Clinton is running a dual track strategy, keeping an eye on Sanders and another on Trump.

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CLINTON: I've gotten more votes than he has. I think he has, if you really analyze that a pretty narrow base. Let's find out. If he gets nominated we're going to have a very vigorous general election if I'm the nominee.

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ALLEN: Well, Bernie Sanders says he believes he will win several of the upcoming democratic contest including Arizona and the State of Washington.

Well, tempers flare in Brazil over allege corruption. We'll get the latest from Sao Paolo as the protesters call for the ouster of the president and for controversial new cabinet member more about it in news.

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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headline.

We start in the Europa League where two men put their place in the last eight after beating Tottenham 2-1 on Thursday, but the Marquee matchup being arguably Manchester United at home to their biggest rivals Liverpool United.

We're looking to overturn a 2-0 aggregate things looking promising when Anthony Martial put the home side up 1-0, but any hope for the United advancing with match. So, complete continue level things for Liverpool that draw Liverpool advance. Three goals to one on aggregate. To the football world, this governing body where it was revealed that

FIFA pays its former president Sepp Blatter $3.7 million in 2015, and that coming at a time when the association also suffered $122 million in losses.

Meanwhile, the 80-year-old has taken his appeal against a six-year ban from football to the court of arbitration for sports. To remind you, Blatter was found guilty of IEFA of alleged ethics breaches.

And to tennis world, Roger Federer has suggested he will return to the tennis court for the very first time since undergoing knee surgery on torn meniscus seen early February. The 17-time Grand Slam Champion tweeted out series of emojis which appears to say he's ready to play at the Miami Open which is scheduled to begin on Monday.

And that's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Katie Riley.

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ALLEN: That's right there, quite an artistic example of Brazilians not hiding their outrage over the corruption scandal plaguing the nation. That man you just heard from dressed as Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is one of many saying they want the former president jailed.

A judge blocked Lula swearing in as President Dilma Rousseff chief-of- staff. The Brazilian state news says the country's attorney general has filed an appeal so it's not clear what is going to happen.

Here is CNN's Shasta Darlington with more.

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For the second day running, thousands of people have taken to the street here in Sao Paulo to demand the ouster of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. This is really the heart of the anti-process moving here to Sao Paulo.

Although about a dozen protests have erupted in cities across the country, particularly in Brasilia. They (Inaudible) saying that the government needs to come to an end. They gathered forces after a couple of days after Rousseff appointed former president Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva her chief-of-staff.

Really firing up all of this political tensions, what critics saying is more of a get it out until she has three cards. Then if any real effort to tear up her government. And that's because in a long running corruption investigation. And investigations had been begun to move in on Lula. They have raided his home, taken him in for questioning.

And it looks like they could actually be charging him in the coming weeks. Now, of course, he can only be tried in a superior court and least buying some time. So, people here in Sao Paulo and other protest across the country saying they're going to keep up the pressure in the next few days.

It will be crucial to see whether or not they can keep this momentum going even gather more momentum or whether it tethers out and the government is able to sort of rein in the tensions with high emotions and settle down and start to really govern the country that is getting ready for the Olympics in just a couple of months' time. That's in a deep recession, and it's also struggling with the Zika virus. The country that needs to have a functioning government.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Sao Paulo.

ALLEN: If February felt warmer than usual to any of you that's because it was. With data going back to 1880, last month's weather bashed record making February was the hottest one to date. Temperatures average 1.21 degrees Celsius above the 20th century average.

Will this be the new normal for our planet or will it get worse? Well, meteorologist Derek Van Dam is looking into that, quite some troubling numbers there on your graphics.

DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is, Natalie, and the question is, well, will it be all that bad? I mean, warm winters, who can complain? Well, I got to show you this. So, we know that we're coming out of this very highly advertised El Nino, strong El Nino season, and that a major significant impact on global average temperatures, of course increasing them.

But that's not the only factor at play. Take a look, for instance, at this graph showing temperatures from 1950 through present day. The orange bars, by the way are El Nino. So, obviously, we're starting to see our temperatures on the increase. That's well stated, well- advertised.

But El Nino, we're starting to outpace each previous El Nino years. Remember this is a recurrent cycle that takes place about every five to seven years. So, there is something else at play here. Heat trapping, greenhouse gas emissions like carbon dioxide, for instance and the angle of the sun. We'll get to that in just one second.

But check this out, we even had to change the graph showing the five warmest years to show the trajectory of where 2016 is headed. February, the warmest February on record in 2016 and not only that the warmest month on record and we're starting to see a pattern here. So, it's not only El Nino, we have other effects taking place.

Look at that, since May 2015, we have broken heat records across the planet every consecutive month. In South America, in the United States as well as the continent of Africa. Impressive stuff. Here in the United States alone we had nearly 4,000 record highs.

And well, you're saying, well, what's the big deal? Why do we care? We have a warmer winter. Who is going to complain about that? Well, if you're ready for some heat think what's coming in the summer. We have the change in the seasons that is about to take place. We're ending our winter season, transitioning into summer where we're going to place what was the low horizon sun right over the top of us allowing for the direct energy from the sun to help warm things up.

[03:25:06] So, if the center for prediction -- Climate Prediction Center is right on with their forecast we have a very warm summer season, even a warmer spring season in store, the New England coastline and the West Coast where we know we have been this the well- advertised drought in California. That only will have catastrophic problems for many parts across the world, Natalie?

ALLEN: All right. Derek Van Dam for us, it's going to be an interesting year perhaps.

DAM: It's already new, it's definitely.

ALLEN: Well, Norway's worst mass murderer says the government is trying to kill him. Up next, why he said his rights are being violated and why some victims' families may agree.

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ALLEN: And welcome back to our viewers from around the world. You're watching CNN Newsroom, live from Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen. Here are our top stories.

U.S. officials say that Pyongyang launched two medium-range ballistic missiles, one of which landed in the Sea of Japan. That launch comes as hundreds of thousands of South Korean and U.S. troops and in the middle of what so-called their largest joint exercise ever.

In a few hours, the E.U. leaders will pitch to Turkey a proposal to deal with the migrant crisis. Under the potential plan, the Syrian refugee currently in Greece would be returned to Turkey. Each time that happened, the E.U. member will take a screened Syrian refugee from Turkey. The plan includes economic and political incentives for Turkey.

[03:30:01] The U.S. is labeling as genocide the ISIS atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities like the Yazidis. The genocide label could pressure the U.S. to take stronger military action against the terror group. The last time the U.S. declared genocide was in Darfur, Sudan in 2004.

To the Ivory Coast and a fallout from last Sunday's massacre at a beach resort, a military source says the Ivory government was warned weeks ago about a possible attack on a coastal resort.

CNN's David McKenzie has more on the story, including eyewitness accounts of how this bloody massacre happened.

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Celine is now in mourning. But her Sunday began as a happy day at the beach. This is the last image of Celine with her husband Talfik (ph) before Al Qaeda terrorists struck their hotel in Grand-Bassam.

Celine was in their room when the shooting started.

(FOREIGN LANGUAGE) "I heard bam, bam, bam," she says. "I stood up and went to the balcony. There were people running and shooting. They were shooting everyone. I started to panic and think where was my husband?"

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Talfik (ph) was by the pool. The security cameras show him desperately seeking shelter behind the bar. Celine says he hid in a storeroom. As the attacker arrives, it becomes clear that Talfik made a fatal mistake.

Officially, the gunmen killed 16 civilians, but witnesses say they murdered many more people who were swimming. Ivorian officials believe the death toll will rise, bodies washed away in the strong currents.

Everyone we've spoken to says they were surprised the terrorists struck here. But a senior source in the Ivorian military tells us there was prior intelligence of a possible attack. The source says the Intel came from Moroccan security services several weeks ago.

They warned that Jihadists could strike at beach resorts. But witnesses like Ezzeni (ph) says security forces took hours to arrive, allowing gunmen to kill at will. Al Qaeda and the Islamic Maghreb has released this propaganda photos, calling the killers night of the desert.

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Tashim Zeshaun (ph), not his real name because he is too afraid. Zeshaun (ph) says the co-called night were in fact, barely adults arriving at his bar on Sunday morning in the Ford Sedan.

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"They asked me about cigarettes and women," he says, "they argued about which local beer to drink." He said their faces are still stuck in his head. AQIM says they were retaliating against France and Western crusaders. But these witnesses say they massacred mostly Muslims, just like Celine's husband Talfik.

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She says he was the love of her life. "They took me to identify his body," she says. "He was shot three times. They shot his mouth. A bullet was in his heart and his leg. I have seen the body of my husband."

David McKenzie, Grand-Bassam.

ALLEN: Such senseless killing. And that brings us to the next story we want to tell you about, another story of senseless killing. You may remember the man who killed 77 people in a gun and bomb rampage, is now suing Norway for violating his human rights in prison.

Anders Breivik, the country's worst mass killer showed his not see sympathy in an Oslo courtroom this week. He says he is only surviving his torture because of what he learned from Adolf Hitler, hs writings from prison.

Breivik claims the government is trying to kill him by keeping him isolated. But The New York Times says he lived in 31-square meter cell that has three rooms, a treadmill, refrigerator, DVD player and PlayStation.

In 2011, Breivik exploded a bomb before shooting young people at a youth camp on an island. The mother of an 18-year-old victim and head of a national support group has been following his lawsuit.

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LISBETH ROYNELAND, MOTHER OF BREIVIK'S VICTIM (TRANSLATED): In a way, the word pathetic comes to mind because he has caused so much pain, so much grief and loss for several hundred people around the country. So in a way it feels unreal. but at the same time we know that the justice system is like it is and we have to act in accordance with it.

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[03:35:05] ALLEN: Let's talk more about this development. I want to bring in Professor Mads Andenas from the University of Oslo. Thank you for being with us. And we want to say, Professor, that your niece survived Breivik's shooting attack on that island. But one of your students did not.

You're joining me by way of Skype from Oxford, England. So, you have a personal connection to this case working with the U.N. on making sure people in detention are treated fairly. This is such a horrifying chapter violence for Norway. And here he is going back and forth complaining of his conditions. What do you make of this, what's your reaction?

MADS ANDENAS, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO PROFESSOR: Well, my reaction it is very good that you have this case before the courts. And it's very important that he is treated fairly every (AUDIO GAP) of this isolation. And that's what they do. They're looking into it. They're looking at every aspect of isolation, is it necessary and justified. And he has been injured by this isolation. (AUDIO GAP) Prisons are isolated. The punishment is to protect society and it has to be necessary and proportionate.

ALLEN: And what is he specifically complaining about? What does he want that he is not getting, he says?

ANDENAS: He wants to be outside (AUDIO GAP).

ALLEN: Professor, I'm sorry to interrupt you. Professor, we're going to figure out the audio, get it better and continue our conversation in just a moment.

And while we work on that connection we will talk about the race to the White House and the great lengths some conservatives are willing to go to stop Donald Trump. We get the latest from CNN's chief political correspondent, Dana Bash.

DANA BASH, CNN'S CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: This is how intense the republicans stop Trump movement is right now.

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LINDSEY GRAHAM, FORMER SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR: I'm going to be doing a fundraiser with and for Senator Cruz.

BASH: Lindsey Graham, raising money for Ted Cruz, backing Cruz for president after years of open disdain for his GOP colleague.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.

BASH: I have known you and watched particularly with Ted Cruz over the past several years. I'm actually waiting for pigs to start flying down the street.

GRAHAM: Well, it tells you a lot about where we are with the party.

BASH: Yes, it does.

GRAHAM: It does. And I've had many differences with Senator Cruz's tactics, and the way he behave in the Senate.

BASH: But for Graham he's not Trump.

GRAHAM: I think his campaign is built on xenophobia, and race bating and religious bigotry. I think he'd be a disaster for our party. And as Senator Cruz would not be my first choice, I think he is a republican conservative who I could support.

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BASH: Graham is hardly alone. Anti-Trump conservative activists men in Washington today, looking desperately for a way to prevent Trump from winning the delegates needed for the GOP nomination. Cruz is way out ahead with 678, Cruz has 418, Rubio still has 171, and Kasich, 145.

For Trump to get the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the nomination he would need to win more than half of the delegates left which is difficult but doable. Cruz would need to win about 80 percent of the remaining delegates which would be a big challenge.

As for Kasich, he doesn't even have a mathematical path before the convention, he would need 108 percent of the remaining delegates. It all leads up to a likely fight at the GOP convention this summer, with House Speaker Paul Ryan who will chair the proceeding admitted today.

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PAUL RYAN, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Well, I would have to obviously bone upon all the rules since all of us in my goal is to be this dispassionate, and to be Switzerland, to neutral and this passionate, and to make sure that the rule of law prevails, that it's likely to become an open convention then we thought before.

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BASH: Former House Speaker John Boehner has been floating Ryan as the consensus candidate.

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RYAN: I saw Boehner last night and I told him to knock it off. It's not going to be me, it should be somebody running for president.

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BASH: Trump supporters insist that will be the billionaire.

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BARRY BENNETT, TRUMP SUPPORTER: We'll get to Cleveland; he's going to be our nominee. And you know, some of these guys are going to have to decide how much damage they are willing to do to the party because they're not, they're going to like that.

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BASH: Marco Rubio back in the Senate today declined to endorse a former rival, but did offer an informed opinion.

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MARCO RUBIO, FLORIDA SENATOR: I think an ideal world you have a nominee, and people coalesce around the nominee and it gives you a stronger position in the general election. I don't believe Donald Trump will ever be able to do it.

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[03:40:09] ALLEN: Dana Bash reporting there. Rubio says he has no interest in being vice president and does not plan on running for governor of Florida.

We want to go back now to our guest Professor Mads Andenas from the University of Oslo, we were talking about Anders Breivik, mass murderer who is in prison serving 21 years and complaining of conditions there.

Professor, sorry about the audio with the Skype. So, we've got on the phone now. I want to continue the conversation about what he's complaining about as far as the conditions for him being kept in we know isolation there in prison in Norway?

ANDENAS: Yes, he complained over the degree of isolation. He says that his contacts with the outside world unsupervised, that he has not been able to send off some letters. And he also complains about food, other aspects of the prison.

But I think the main point, which his lawyers have presented is this limitation on the contacts with the outside world. And of course in Norway isolation is not part of the punishment. So, it's only permissible when it can be justified, when it's necessary to protect society.

You must remember that he Breivik of course regards himself as a leader of an international movement and he's a terrorist activist. What was part of the political action against the isolation of Norway. I was in Norway yesterday I came back quite later and I was looking for any trace of it Isolation. And I couldn't it. Isolation in Norway hasn't begun.

But this is the kind of movement, that the kind of argument, which you find people even close to the mainstream in many European countries being concerned about. This case then of course is important in the sense that, Breivik is allowed every possibility to present his case to have it reviewed.

Now this is the first instance in trial court. It's a civil case. It will go on to a Court of Appeals, if he held there and if he wants to appeal and he has the possibility to appeal to the Supreme Court, they will be the in European Court of Human Rights as an additional review body and of course the United Nations.

He has the right to avail himself of all of these possibilities. And you know, in Norway when these terror acts came, many people said we should meet these attacks on democracy with more democracy. And that must be the right answer.

ALLEN: You know, the whole point of him being in prison is to keep you know, a movement from starting. If he is allowed to communicate with people outside the prison, does that make any sense, and -- a lot of people of course, a lot of extremists do try to reach him in prison and try to send him letters.

ANDENAS: That's true. And that's what so difficult for the court. And I understand also for the prison of authorities. But it does not mean that these are only with the court and now has a very deep and hard look at this. I think that's good. It doesn't look good for Breivik having followed the case as close.

So everybody can look up on the blog and it's very well reported. And so, it doesn't look as I say. But does that mean that it's wrong to let the case like this proceed? No, absolutely not, this is the kind of case that should proceed with as much publicity as possible.

But then also, you know, this discussion become Islamic. There are people in the mainstream who argue like that, and who argue like that. And it's very important to me, with a solid argument. That's a political discussion which has to take place.

And this case also bring in agenda. And could I add one point? That I, of course knew several people who died out there. And also I spoke to several of the people who survived. They are not ordinary people. They are people who believe in human rights. I know that they really want this case to go forward. They may not want to follow every aspect of it because of course it's

very painful to them. But the fact is they all want this case to go forward and that Breivik should have his day in court.

ALLEN: Well, that is quite remarkable considering what that the lives he took. I was on the air that day. I certainly remember that horror. We really appreciate you joining us. And we'll and see the outcome that perhaps talk with you again, professor Mads Andenas, from the University of Oslo. Thank you.

Coming up here, CNN gets a look at Cuba's newly restored capital building, ahead of President Obama's historic visit there.

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ALLEN: U.S. President Barack Obama travels to Cuba Sunday for the start of his historic tour. One thing that may look familiar to him while he is there, the Cuban capitol building.

Here's CNN's Patrick Oppmann from Havana.

PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Barack Obama visits Cuba some of the scenery may seem a little familiar. No, we are not in Washington, D.C., this is Havana's El Capitolio.

And just like the United States Capitol building that it closely resembles, their Capitolio is getting a facelift. Completed in 1929, a year after the only other U.S. president visit to Cuba, their capitolio is a symbol of the island's boom years when the price of sugar was sky high.

No expense was spared. Long halls of marble, bronze elevators. A cupola even higher than Washington's. "They made a building," she says, "with all the resources they had in order to make an exceptional building." But that luxury and grandeur fell out of favor following the upheaval of the Cuban Revolution.

After taking power in 1959, Fidel Castro wrote where His revolution intended to create a new society with new centers of power and buildings like the El Capitolio became synonymous with the waste and corruption of old Cuba, soon, it fell into disrepair.

Cuba's national assembly relocated to this ground convention center. At the El Capitolio water leaks through the roof and bats took up residence inside the building.

But five years ago, a team of Cuban government preservationist embarked on the painstaking effort to save El Capitolio. Slowly, decades of neglect were stripped away. When work began, they said, architects did not know that the Cuban President Raul Castro intended to move the national assembly back to the capitol.

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[03:50:01] "It's a jewel," Castro said, of the capitol in 2013. It's true that there was a time during the era capitalism, but that's where all the bandits met, but not any longer, now that it's ours.

Architects would have to add modern conveniences like air conditioning, security systems, and internet for the lawmakers without altering the building's appearance.

"We have had problems we didn't expect," she says, and in the moment we had to search for the solution. But that makes it interesting. If not, the cubans say, it would not be fun. The restoration team said they were instructed to maintain the historical integrity of the capitol, even the outdated seals from the Cuban republic.

And the chambers were debates will be held. Although it only has third of the seats needed for the 600 members of the current national assembly. All the same, preservation is saying, lawmakers will return here in the next few months ensuring that Cuba's grand El Capitolio once again has a future.

Patrick Oppmann, CNN, Havana.

ALLEN: A mathematical mystery 300 years in the making coming up. Meet the man who solved one of the most famous unsolved problems in the history of math.

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ALLEN: Here is one for you, an Oxford University professor has won $700,000 for solving a 300-year-old math mystery. Sir Andrew Wiles actually solved the problem in the '90s but is being awarded now with the prize which is like the Nobel Prize of math.

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ANDREW WILES, 2015 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: I can never forget the moments when you have these great breakthroughs. So, it's what you live for.

I first found this problem when I was a child at the age of 10 from a book at the public library. So I started working on it in my teen years, but then I stopped for a while and came back to it in my 30s. Then I worked on it for eight years, it was an obsession. A lifelong dream to solve it.

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[03:55:11] ALLEN: How about that one? Well, we want to leave you with this story. The brutal Syrian war has destroyed the lives of many refugees, but that has not eradicated the quality that defines human's culture.

In Berlin, CNN met with the Syrians ex-pat Philharmonic Orchestra, the musicians who retained their passion for music.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I think we can make new things for the singing community because they said yes, this is a great thing when they hear about this orchestra. This is a new and great thing. We can do it new.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are all inspired by this conflict at home. The idea of home, what that means. You realize it's good to remember and also to remind people that anybody who comes anywhere within the culture.

We dedicate this piece to all the Syrians who manage to fall in love in the last five years. And then I found it quite inspiring when I hear from friends of mine that they managed to fall in love and there's a bed of bombs and with all this shootings.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's like a second homeland, so we have to start and continue what we can do so we must start to build some beautiful things for this life.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think of music as an act of freedom, which I think it is. Or it's -- you know, you want to express. So, I'm very happy especially today that all of us collectively are able to express and speak loudly.

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