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Brussels Terror Investigation Reveals New Information Regarding Terrorist Plans; Taliban Making Gains in Afghanistan; Masters Shocker; Duke and Duchess of Cambridge Tour India; MTV Awards; India Police Make Arrests in Temple Fire Case; Ukrainian Prime Minister Says He is Resigning. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired April 11, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Changing their plan at the last minute. New details on the Brussels terror attacks and how they were meant for a different European capital.

ERROL BARNETT, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Plus, a province on the brink. An exclusive report on the fight for key territory in Afghanistan as some Afghan soldiers are deserting to the Taliban.

CHURCH: And a shocker in Augusta. Danny Willett becomes the first Englishman to win the Masters since 1996, after a breakdown from one of golf's best.

BARNETT: Also ahead, royalty takes to the cricket pitch as the duke and duchess of Cambridge tour India.

Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the States and those of you watching all around the world. I'm Errol Barnett.

CHURCH: And I'm Rosemary Church. This is our second hour of CNN Newsroom.

Investigators looking into last month's Belgium terror attacks have made a startling revelation. The terrorists had originally intended to attack Paris instead of Brussels. They abruptly changed plans when they thought authorities were closing in on them.

BARNETT: Also, police in Belgium say a suspect they arrested Friday has admitted to being the so-called man in the hat. You see him highlighted here. Mohamed Abrini is seen with two other terrorists just before they attacked the Brussels airport.

For more we're joined by Kellie Morgan, who is in Brussels this morning. And Kellie, officials there have learned quite a bit of new information since detaining the suspects on Friday. And much of it is ominous. What is new today?

KELLIE MORGAN, CNN REPORTER: Well, you're absolutely right. There have been developments ever since every day since those develop -- those six people were arrested on Friday. Chief among them Mohamed Abrini. Also another man, Osama Krayem. Now what we know about Osama Krayem is that police say he was the

second metro bomber. And then we have Abrini confessing to be the third airport bomber. So, police now believe they have identified the five men directly involved in the Brussels attacks on March 22.

And now, yesterday, we had this news about the plot in France, so actually Belgium wasn't the initial target, it was France. The La Defense district, business district and also a Catholic association in Paris.

So, there have been a lot of developments. Interesting timing with this French plot, given that police have had the computer that all this data was found on since the raid on that Schaerbeek property on the 23rd of March. Now that's the property that was used by the Brussels attackers to make their bombs.

So, we're hearing this development now. We don't know for sure whether or not Abrini has helped police decipher that information, whether he's corroborated some of that stuff. But certainly he does appear to be talking to police, confessing to be the airport bomber. He was helpful telling them that he had dumped his jacket along his escape route and that he had sold his hat.

So, they'll no doubt be questioning him and trying to work or run down those leads that they can -- every lead that they can to make sure there aren't any other Jihadists in the amidst plotting and planning more attacks, Errol.

BARNETT: And that final point is precisely why so many people have been concerned and so critical of the Belgian government for not really defusing this terror cell sooner. And now the realization they've been traveling across borders and they were planning to attack Paris once again.

You have now retraced Abrini's steps through Brussels. Of course it took them weeks to find this man. Just walk us through exactly what he did.

MORGAN: Well, it's an extraordinary 10-kilometer trek. From the airport, he of course abandoned his suitcase in the terminal and then fled. And he walks 10 kilometers, being picked up by CCTV cameras along the way. And he appeared to be heading back to the area where -- just short, actually, just 15 minutes short of where the Maalbeek metro station bombing was unfolding.

He was 15 minutes away from that scene, 40 minutes after the blast. So, emergency services would have been trying to save people's lives and he's 15 minutes down the road. Now that is the last time that CCTV captures him on camera. We don't know where he went after that. The next we see of him is when he's being pounced on by police in the Anderlecht district as he was just very casually walking up the road in plain sight.

And that is what is so extraordinary about this investigation is that these suspects are hiding in plain sight, clearly being helped by the community. A lot of it goes back to how they I guess become introduced into violence; they become part of a gang culture and feel more loyal to these gang culture than they do to authorities, Errol.

[03:05:08] BARNETT: Certainly some eye-opening stuff. Kellie Morgan there live in Brussels with the latest, just 5 past 9 in the morning. Kellie, thanks. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Errol, we turn to Afghanistan now, where Taliban insurgents are gaining ground in the country's Helmand province, shifting loyalties are part of the reason for their advance.

Senior international correspondent Nick Paton Walsh joins us from Kabul with exclusive details on this. So, Nick, why are these soldiers swapping sides and choosing instead to fight with the Taliban, and how likely is it that Afghan troops will regain this lost territory?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, in a two instances we spoke to in the report you're about to see, they cited the lack of resources they were getting from their senior command, corruption in the ranks, and a sense of I think abandonment by the broader Afghan army.

But more widely even U.S. officials accept about two thirds of the personal losses the Afghan army have on the battlefield are because of desertion, people failing to turn up for work and nowhere and that more acutely felt than Helmand, such a vital province strategically where hundreds of British and American lives were lost keeping the Taliban back.

Well, now not even 18 months since NATO combat operations ended. They're on frankly, the advance and pushing towards the capital of Lashkar Gah, which is imperiled.

You know, a war's going badly when your enemy's right in front of you. This white flag is the Taliban's. They really are that close to these Afghans, defending one of the last government holdouts in Helmand province.

It used to be NATO that shot from these positions near the vulnerable city of Lashkar Gah. Hundreds of Americans and Britons died for Helmand, many in the town of Sangin, where these pictures show the Afghan army recently in heavy clashes.

But now Afghanistan is quite quickly watching for Helmand to fall. The Taliban are winning partly because of men like these. This is a rare window into the Afghan government's worst nightmare. Soldiers from the Afghan army who America spent billions training who say they've defected and joined the Taliban. They're edgy. Never dreamed they'd change sides.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): I did 18 months of army training and took an oath to serve this country, but the situation changed. The army let us down. So, we had to come to the Taliban. They treat us like guests.

(END VIDEO CLIP) WALSH: They carry their old uniforms, I.D.s and bank cards used to

get their old army wages. They fought in violent Sangin, where these pictures were more recently filmed, yet, now both use their training and experience to train the Taliban.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): I decided to leave the army when my dead and injured comrades lay in our base but nobody took them to the hospital. My army training is very useful now, as I am now training Taliban fighters with the same knowledge.

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WALSH: Men who've seen the tide turn and voted with their feet. Helmand's the indisputable heartland of the south that NATO fought so hard to push the Taliban back in.

And the fact that here in Kabul you can talk to many officials who say its capital Lashkar Gah could fall at any day really gives you a sense of how much on the offense the Taliban are and what could happen in the summer fighting season ahead.

This is the center of Lashkar Gah, the key town in the Taliban's sights, tense, yet teeming. Some visit briefly from areas the Taliban now controls.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): It's a bit too soon to say whether people are happy with the Taliban in Musa Karla. The bazaar is now full of people while it used to be empty. That was because the security was bad and some people avoided the government's forces. Others fled to its outskirts from the fighting in flashpoints like Sangin.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): My worst memory from Sangin is how a wedding party was hit by a mortar, killing a large number of women and children.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): The police left after the fighting intensified and told me to move to a vacant corner of the village but the bullets and rockets followed, killing 10 people. So, I fled here.

WALSH: Just over a year since NATO stopped fighting and here the Taliban's white flags are closer than ever. Now, I should point out that Afghan and American officials strongly contend with the idea that Lashkar Gah is in peril.

In fact, the acting defense minister, Masoom Stanikzair said because when I spoke to him yesterday said that if it happened he'd resign, that's how unlikely he thinks it is.

And American officials were similarly confident that Afghan forces could hold Lashkar Gah. But a police official from Helmand we spoke to totally disagreed, saying that the Taliban are advancing on that city from both sides and hold five districts in that province and even advances by the government had in fact been pushed back by the Taliban again.

[03:10:08] I should give you another indication here. In Kabul, that the kind of security problems they're facing, not only that John Kerry's visit here over the weekend get met after he left, minutes after he'd left, by four rockets landing quite close to the American embassy, no casualties there. The Taliban claiming that attack.

We've also heard in the last few hours here that in fact an explosion has hit, a bus carrying Afghan education ministry employees, killing two of them, injuring seven. That's simply people on their work trying to organize schools in Afghanistan, not particularly popular with the Taliban in many instances, but here in Kabul they're not safe.

That adds to the broader picture of security on the deterioration in Afghanistan, nowhere more central than Helmand. If the Taliban get that or more of that they get their hands on the poppy trade, that could give them a lot of cash and that could make the summer fighting season ahead particularly perilous for Afghans.

CHURCH: Yes. We will certainly have to see what sort of impact all this has on the plans the U.S. has to draw down troops. We'll be watching that very closely.

Nick Paton Walsh joining us live from Kabul in Afghanistan. And in an exclusive series of reports, Nick is bringing us a rare look inside Afghanistan's endless war.

On Tuesday, we will hear from two commanders who joined ISIS from the Taliban but after seeing the militant group's brutality the men defected against the radicals.

WALSH: ISIS, they say, came from Pakistan, not Iraq and promised guns and money to their struggling group of Taliban. It went sour fast.

You were in the Taliban. Then you were in ISIS. And now the American drones are bombing your own village but you're pleased about this because it's killing ISIS. Is that a little strange feeling for you?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): It makes us happy. We want them wiped out.

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CHURCH: And we'll also hear from victims of ISIS. That's Tuesday right here on CNN.

BARNETT: John Kerry is the first U.S. Secretary of State to pay his respects at a memorial to Hiroshima's bombing victims. He and foreign ministers from the G-7 summit laid wreaths at the monument. Back in 1945, the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb that devastated the city and killed an estimated 140,000 people.

Three days later, another bomb struck the city of Nagasaki, killing some 70,000 people. Denuclearization and terrorism are the focus of the G-7 summit.

CHURCH: Shocking beyond words. That is how India's prime minister described a deadly temple fire in the southern city of Kollam.

BARNETT: You see and hear in this new video what happened during a fireworks celebration on Sunday which officials say was not authorized. At least 106 people were killed and more than 500 others injured.

CHURCH: And for the latest, we want to go to Mallika Kapur, who is live in Mumbai. So, Mallika, more people have been detained in connection to this horrifying fire. What information do you have on the progress of this criminal investigation?

MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, police officials have confirmed to us a short while ago that they've detained five people who were involved in supplying the fireworks to temple authorities, and they're also looking for about 10 people who work for the temple. Temple trustees who we believe are on the run.

They really need to get to these people. They need to first of all understand whether a ban was in place and if so, who were the people who were responsible for violating the ban.

We've heard from local media that there were families who live close to the temple who had been complaining about fireworks because this is an annual tradition, that there are fireworks at this time of the year at the temple, and we've also heard that these fireworks can get quite big because it often results in a competition between local groups to see which group can produce the more spectacular fireworks.

The people had complained and asked for a ban. And we are being told that temple authorities violated that ban. So, police say their priority is to track down these people who are on the run and then we will see what they are eventually charged with, whether they are charged with culpable homicide or for ignoring a ban or for a combination of both of them. So, that's the -- that's the update we've been able to get from police in Kollam this morning. Rosemary.

CHURCH: And it's not the first time we've seen this sort of thing play out. Fireworks display here in this particular instance not authorized. So, how does that happen and what will the likely ramifications be?

KAPUR: How does that happen? Like you said, unfortunately it is quite common, that sometimes people just don't take rules seriously enough.

[03:15:02] It's not the first time that we've seen a case where, you know, law and order rules just haven't been followed, where people have violated law and order situation. And that looks very much to have been the case in this horrible accident.

What would the ramifications be? Well, it really depends on what temple authorities are charged with when the formal charge sheet is prepared. And that in India, Rosemary, can take months. It can certainly take weeks. It could take months. So, what eventual penalty will be, what eventual punishment will be,

we don't know. It will depend on that official charge sheet which could have culpable homicide on it, but we'll have to wait for a few weeks or months to see what officials are officially charged with.

CHURCH: Mallika Kapur following this story from Mumbai, 12.45 p.m. there. Many thanks to you. We know you will keep us updated on the developments as they come in to you. I appreciate it.

BARNETT: You may have heard by now that Ukraine's prime minister is stepping down as the country's political crisis deepens. We'll try and understand what's happening there in a live report coming up.

CHURCH: Plus, the Masters Golf Tournament ends on a dramatic note. We will tell you all about the historic highs and memorable lows at Augusta national. Back in a moment.

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PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You're watching CNN Weather Watch. Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri with you.

Watching a storm system push up towards the eastern seaboard of the United States, across the Midwest also getting in some wet weather, in fact, there are some heavy rainfall possible over the next several hours across this region. And notice cold enough across Southern Canada, Toronto in particular for some snow still showers left in place.

You get some severe weather reports as well across portions of the plain states. In fact, you take a look the severe outlook going into Monday and eventually Tuesday going to be quite high across the central portion and the south central portion of the U.S., Little Rock, Arkansas back out toward, say, Eastern Oklahoma.

Some of the areas we're watching carefully as the storms migrate off to the East. That's where we think some of the heaviest rainfall possible. Generally speaking, 75 to 100 millimeters. Some areas could get even higher than that, 150 to maybe 200 millimeters or about four to six inches in the forecast and a few isolated spots.

So, here we go with the temperature trend. How about this range? How about 31 degrees in Dallas, Texas, working your way toward Winnipeg sitting at minus 1? Incredible variance in the temps there. And notice off the eastern seaboard temps as mild as 25.

And Atlanta should be on the cooler side around New York City with wet weather expected across that region.

Also watching some wet weather out toward Kingston, Jamaica, Belize City going to see some showers, temps to about 30, 31 degrees.

[03:20:01] Upper and mid-20s toward Panama. Temps also around 30 degrees across this region. Take care.

CHURCH: This just in to CNN. South Korean officials say a senior intelligence officer with the North Korean military has defected.

BARNETT: Now, they say the defector was a senior colonel with the North Korean reconnaissance general bureau, which is in charge of espionage operations against the South. We'll keep you posted on this as we get more information.

CHURCH: To another story we're watching closely. Ukraine's Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says he is resigning.

BARNETT: And this comes at a critical time for Ukraine. The country continues to battle Russia-backed separatists in the eastern parts of the country.

CHURCH: Political division has also grown worse in the capital, prompting President Petro Poroshenko to call for the prime minister's resignation back in February.

BARNETT: Journalist Victoria Butenko joins us now from Kiev in Ukraine to try and understand what's happening there. Victoria, every time we discuss the situation there in Ukraine, we describe it as a crisis, whether it's dealing with the separatists or parliament. Why is there such disarray two years into this war?

VICTORIA BUTENKO, JOURNALIST: Well, the prime minister also called it a crisis, but he said it is an artificial one, and it really is. It was created by politicians who received their posts as a result of the so-called revolution of dignity, four months protest in the center of Kiev against the former government and a pro-European one.

And unfortunately, the people who received the pauperism (ph) results of it have been failing to deliver the reforms expected by the people and fulfill their political promises, Errol.

BARNETT: And the failure to deliver on these reforms is really the main gripe Ukrainians have with their government. But take a look at what the outgoing prime minister now says his mission and goals are.

He sent this out via Twitter. He's basically making the point that now he has a more broad agenda. He says, "As of today my goals are broader. New electoral law, constitutional reform, judicial reform, Ukraine's membership in the E.U. and NATO."

What kind of influence will he have to deliver on that, considering it's been so difficult to get these reforms through?

BUTENKO: Well, we've been quite puzzled by this because it looks like on the other post in the country that has the power to deliver this is the presidential one. So, does it really mean the prime minister, whose rating is quite low now, will run for the president in the next election?

He hasn't announced for that. But the next person who is more likely to become the prime minister is actually from the same political company, as we may say so, that has not been delivering well so far, and which makes the major politician party, the major opposition party, opposition bloc, call for a fresh elections, saying they'll change the person at the top, even if basically the same people will not change the country. Errol.

BARNETT: Yes. And if anything, it just proves that the uncertainty in Ukraine that we've seen these past two years is surely to continue at least for the short term here.

Victoria Butenko, thanks for your insight. A journalist there in Kiev.

Now we want to turn to a historic victory and a simultaneous astonishing collapse. This is at the Augusta National Golf Club.

Danny Willett won the 80th Masters on Sunday. The Englishman captured the green jacket for the first major victory of his career. So, good for him.

CHURCH: Yes. But most of the buzz has been around American Jordan Spieth.

BARNETT: Yes.

CHURCH: The defending Masters champion fell apart late in the day after leading the entire weekend.

Shane O'Donoghue reports.

SHANE O'DONOGHUE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There may be no script, but there is the most perfect stage at Augusta National and in this the 80th staging of the Masters tournament, a classic was thrown up on this memorable Sunday.

The winner, Danny Willett, 28 years of age and claiming his first major title. With a wonderful final round of 67. No dropped shots, 5 under par. And that was the magic number that it took to claim the green jacket.

It was a desperately disappointing day for Jordan Spieth, who was of course the defending champion. He had high hopes starting out the day at 3 under. He actually got into a five-shot lead when he got to 7 under at one point on the back nine after reeling off successive birdies on 6, 7, 8, and 9.

So, then he entered the back nine, which is so famous here at Augusta National, but that's where it all went wrong on holes 10, 11, with bogeys on both, and then hitting the water on the par 3 12th. He found water again with his dropped shot. It resulted in the end in a 7, which is a quadruple bogey.

[03:25:01] So, six shots gone in the space of just three holes, and he was then chasing. But he couldn't get it done. And he said it's a 30 minutes he hopes never to repeat again in his professional career.

Obviously very disappointed as he held back the tears. But no joy for Spieth in his three Masters appearances. Second, first, and joint second in 2016. Quite a record. Maybe the trend will continue and he'll win it again in 2017.

But no doubt about the man in the green jacket here, right now, it is Danny Willett of England, the winner of the 2016 Masters tournament with a wonderful total of 5 under par.

Shane O'Donoghue, CNN, Augusta.

CHURCH: Amazing outcome there. Well, the NBA's Golden State Warriors are just one win away from basketball history. They beat San Antonio Sunday for their 72nd victory this season, tying the league record set by Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls in 1995 to '96.

Golden State can break the record in their season finale on Wednesday. The Warriors also dealt the Spurs their first home loss of the year, spoiling their bid for history.

BARNETT: Steph Curry the star there. You're not much of a basketball fan but you're pretty good at net ball.

CHURCH: Oh, yes. I was.

BARNETT: Back in the day.

CHURCH: I could do that.

BARNETT: A little bit of hockey too.

CHURCH: You're basketball, right?

BARNETT: Exactly. And track.

All right. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are each staking a claim to New York voters, but the response isn't all that warm in some boroughs. We'll bring you details ahead.

CHURCH: Plus, the duke and duchess of Cambridge received a royal welcome on their first trip to India. We will take you live to New Delhi to see what the pair had planned for the second day of their tour. We're back with that and more.

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CHURCH: And a warm welcome back to our viewers here in the United States and of course all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. It's our last half hour with you today. So, let's update you on our top stories.

Police have detained five people and are seeking at least 10 more in connection with Sunday's deadly fire at a temple in southern India. At least 106 people were killed. More than 500 injured. Police say the temple didn't have permission for the fireworks display that led to this tragedy.

CHURCH: Prosecutors in Belgium say the terrorists who attacked Brussels last month had originally planned to hit Paris instead but they changed their plans as investigators closed in on them.

Meanwhile, authorities say a Belgian national now in custody admitted to being the man in the hat seen here shortly after the attacks at the Brussels airport.

BARNETT: The rebel and loyalist forces in Yemen are vowing to honor a new truce. Their cease-fire took effect just before midnight local time on Sunday. Iran-backed Houthis rebels have been battling the Saudi-backed government in Yemen for more than a year. The two sides are set to hold peace talks next week.

The U.S. presidential candidates are still pushing hard for every vote, and this is ahead of New York's primary in just over a week.

CHURCH: Republican front-runner Donald Trump is calling the nominating process corrupt after rival Ted Cruz's win in Colorado and is hinting he may fight it at the convention in July.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Drum up millions of votes on Cruz. Millions. I don't mean like I'm up by two votes. I'm up millions and millions of votes. I'm up by hundreds and hundreds of delegates. I go to Louisiana. I win Louisiana. And I say isn't that beautiful? I love the people. I send them a note, thank you very much, I love you Louisiana.

Then I find out that I get less delegates than Cruz because of some nonsense going on. No, I'm telling you. And I say this to the RNC and I say this to the Republican Party. You're going to have a big problem, folks.

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BARNETT: Now, on the democratic side, Bernie Sanders is taking a tough stand on Israel. That sets him apart from all the other contenders, basically. He is the first Jewish candidate to win a presidential nominating contest, and he says Israel's response in the 2014 Gaza war was disproportionate.

He told CNN's Jake Tapper that the region needs a balanced approach.

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BERNIE SANDERS, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think that the only way we succeed is that if the United States plays the role which is of course we are going to support Israel. But you cannot ignore the needs of the Palestinian people.

In Gaza right now poverty, unemployment. Their community has been decimated. You can't ignore that fact. And you can't just be only concerned about Israel's needs. You have to be concerned about the needs of all of the people in the region.

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CHURCH: And both Sanders and Hillary Clinton are laying claim to New York. But Sara Ganim reports some local voters say neither candidate is addressing their real concerns.

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SARA GANIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Bernie with his undeniable Brooklyn accent.

SANDERS: I was born here in New York City!

GANIM: and Hillary, the former New York senator, parking her campaign headquarters here.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I am thrilled to have a chance to be here in Brooklyn.

GANIM: Battling it out over who has stronger New York ties.

SANDERS: Born in Illinois. That's not a crime.

CLINTON: I love New York.

GANIM: But a true Brooklynite.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.

ERIC ADAMS, BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT: Good morning. How are you?

GANIM: Brooklyn borough president, Eric Adams, says neither of the candidates are in touch with real issues that some New Yorkers face.

ADAMS: Busy beautiful park on Park Avenue and then there's the troubled New York on park place in Brooklyn. So, let's represent both parts of New York.

GANIM: A lifelong democrat, Adams says he hasn't endorsed either candidate and won't be attending the debate on Thursday. Being held in his borough at the Brooklyn navy yard.

ADAMS: Why are we focusing on places that is a success story? Why not go to the heart of areas that needs to be successful? Brownsville is that.

GANIM: Brownsville is one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York City. The crime rate is above 40 percent. More than a third of the population lives in poverty. It has the highest concentration of public housing in the city.

A breeding ground for gang violence. It's here we met Adams in front of an elementary school where a mother of 12 was shot and killed, caught in the crossfire of gang warfare.

ADAMS: She covered the body of her children, and she was shot and killed. And it's really representative of the Brownsville's across America.

[03:35:03] GANIM: His message is resonating with the people here. Gene Barclay says he was once into drugs and a life on the street in Brownsville. Life is hard here, and he wants the candidates to see that. If the candidates were to come to Brownsville, what would you want

them to hear from the people who live here?

GENE BARCLAY, BROOKLYN RESIDENT: See if they can stop the shooting and the crimes, number one. If that was stopped, a whole lot of other things would stop.

GANIM: With the April 19th primary approaching, Clinton and Sanders have been crisscrossing the city all weekend, vying for the state's 291 democratic delegates.

Clinton stopping at Brooklyn landmarks like the famed Junior's Diner, a favorite on the campaign trail. Sanders holding a rally in front of his childhood home, trying to close the gap.

You don't think they're trying hard enough here?

ADAMS: No, they're not. No, they're not. I know they're going to the boardwalk, they're walking through Harlem. They're sitting in a black church. Those are traditional things. They cannot be afraid to come to Brownsville, sit down in a public housing, have a town hall right here, have a debate right here. That's the right statement.

GANIM: Sara Ganim, CNN, Brooklyn.

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BARNETT: If you're interested in politics you want to stay with CNN all week. You see for the next three nights, Anderson Cooper will host town halls with each of the republican candidates and their families.

Monday, John Kasich will be joined by his wife and daughters. Tuesday, Donald Trump will appear alongside his wife and children Ivanka, Eric, and Donald. And Wednesday, Ted Cruz will be joined by his wife.

Then Thursday, another democratic presidential debate. You haven't had enough of this. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders face off live from New York. This all happens all week at 9 p.m. Eastern, 2 a.m. in London, 9 a.m. in Hong Kong, only on CNN.

CHURCH: U.S. President Barack Obama criticized some of the candidates in an interview with Fox News, particularly for their strategies on terrorism. He says a smart approach is needed to defeat terrorism. In the same interview, Mr. Obama said insufficient planning for a post- Gadhafi Libya was the worst mistake of his eight-year presidency. Take a listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Worst mistake.

BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PRESIDENT: Probably failing to plan for the day after what I think was the right thing to do in intervening in Libya.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: The NATO-led intervention in 2011 led to the toppling of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi, who was captured and killed later that year.

BARNETT: Still to come this hour, Britain's young royals in India. We'll take you live to New Delhi to find out what the duke and duchess of Cambridge have planned for the next leg of their trip.

CHURCH: Plus, the 2016 MTV Movie Awards honor some of the year's best movies and performances. We will tell you who scored the biggest prizes. Stay with us.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Well, Britain's duke and duchess of Cambridge are on the second day of their tour of India.

BARNETT: That's right. William and Catherine have been meeting with young entrepreneurs in Mumbai before heading on to New Delhi, where they will lay a wreath at the at the India Gate. The royal couple began their trip Sunday by paying their respects to the victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

CHURCH: They wrapped up their first day at a fund-raising dinner where they rubbed shoulders with Bollywood's biggest stars.

And CNN's Sumnima Udas joins us now from New Delhi with what's in store for the royal couple there. So, Sumnima, what's planned for them once they get to New Delhi?

SUMNIMA UDAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, they should be arriving in about an hour from now. And if Mumbai was all about building those cultural and business and social ties and Delhi is all about building the political ties.

So, once they arrive they'll be driving by the massive boulevards in Delhi, much of it built by the British empire. They'll be headed to the India Gate, which is a war memorial here. And in particular they'll be honoring the 70,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives during the First World War as part of the British army.

And then they'll be heading to Gandhi museum, that's where Mahatma Gandhi, the founder of modern-day India and also a leader really in term of -- a world leader in terms of his non-violence movement. That's where he spent the last 144 days of his life.

So, they will be following in his footsteps outside of that house to the garden area where he was assassinated. Then they will have dinner, a party really hosted by the British high commission here. That's when they'll meet a lot of the political leaders in Delhi and the who's who of Delhi. Rosemary?

CHURCH: And Sumnima, how has the royal couple been received in India so far? How's it playing out in the media there?

UDAS: Well, they've been received very warmly so far. Though, a lot of the buzz has been overshadowed by that deadly temple fire in southern Kerala. But still, and a lot of people were wondering if anyone really even cares about the royals anymore in India.

But still, you know, if there's one way to get the Indians talking, to get them to love you, then that is to play cricket with none other than Sachin Tendulkar, the Indian cricketing legend. So, that's exactly what they did. And those images of the duchess wielding that bat around and responding to the bowling from Sachin Tendulkar, that's with her high heels on the foot that's got a lot of attention and that's what a lot of people are talking about.

But in general, you know, there were some questions here as to how they will be received because we all know about the British past or the colonial past. More than 200 years in this country's history. There are many Indians that actually want to forget about.

But at the same time right now judging by how they're being received it seems like a lot of that resentment and antagonism is gone and people are just seeing this young couple for who they are, as young emissaries, charming emissaries of the United Kingdom here to build a relationship with modern India. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. And as Sumnima pointed out, about an hour from now the royal couple will touch down there in New Delhi. And to Sumnima Udas, many thanks to you. And you will be following and watching along with the royal couple as they visit.

BARNETT: I always have my green tea here with me. Our viewers always sending us pictures, you're probably enjoying a cup of tea right now. Well, listen up because climate change may be altering tea production on a massive scale in China.

Our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us with the troubling details because this could have a massive knock on impact.

JAVAHERI: Absolutely. Where Sumnima is in India among the top producers of tea in the world. China is number one where it's estimated between 30 and 40 percent of tea production worldwide comes out of China.

[03:45:06] But we know our planet's warming. That's certainly a given. And, you know, we've looked at studies in the past and we know our planet's warmer than it was in the 1970s. You look at rainfall amounts there about 5 to 10 percent more in any given storm than they were in the 1970s.

This particular study is coming from Tufts University, which is right outside of Boston, a research university and it looked at rainfall for the monsoon season in Asia.

And we'll show you exactly what it found here because it looks like the rainfall totals, not only are they higher but the longevity of the monsoon season now stretches beyond what you would typically would see from say, May through June, July, now it's expanding into August and September. So, the basic findings of the studies saying the longer monsoon season

it is lessening the tea yields across the large expense of area of eastern Asia where the climatological condition are absolutely typically flawless for tea production.

But of course the landscape is such as well. You have the mountain slopes ideal for tea cultivation. Temps about 21 to 29C which sits in to the 70s to about 80 Fahrenheit is what is considered ideal.

You want to have a slope landscape because the water has to run off consistently. You do not want it to pool up in any particular spot. That really makes it for a bad harvest. And of course, much of eastern Asia has this going for them.

In recent years, and in fact, in recent weeks, if you take a look at the rainfall, it has been tremendous. Up to 300 millimeters. You're talking over a foot of rainfall in the first 10 days of this month, the month of April.

So, again, soggy areas across much of this region. You notice the five days ahead of us here. Another quarter of a meter of rainfall expected to come down across this region. And that's precisely what the study is finding. The rainy season should start in the month of May.

It is beginning to start much earlier year after year across portions of east Asia and a large area of harvesting for tea crops, of course. But I want to show you what's happening across the central United States right now. Big-time severe weather beginning to roll across parts of Oklahoma on into Arkansas.

If you're watching us in this region, about two and a half million people dealing with an enhanced risk for severe weather on a scale of 1 to 5. That is a 3 for the intensity area right around Shreveport, Louisiana by this afternoon. I can't rule out a few tornadoes across this region and notice a lot of rainfall to go around.

At least one to two inches. Some areas could see higher amounts. Of course spring upon us. Look at this as we go toward this weekend, temperatures soar 10 to 20 Fahrenheit above average for parts of the Eastern U.S.

In fact, stretching from even the Midwest. Temps in Minneapolis climb out of the 40s to the 70s Fahrenheit. New York City also warms up into the 70s or so by late week. So, spring it looks like it is going to be here to stay beginning this weekend for a lot of people.

BARNETT: Finally.

JAVAHERI: Yes.

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BARNETT: It was raining in L.A. last weekend. It's not supposed to rain there. So, let's get to this final...

JAVAHERI: The one time Errol goes to L.A. it rains. BARNETT: Exactly. Anyway, it's a good news.

JAVAHERI: That's a good thing.

BARNETT: You've got good news for today. Thank you for joining us. That's what counts.

CHURCH: Thanks, Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Yes. See you.

CHURCH: Well, the 2016 MTV Movie Awards certainly weren't lacking for excitement.

BARNETT: That's right. We'll have some of the highlights from a big night for Hollywood. Stay with us.

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

An incredible finish at the Masters in Augusta. Danny Willett made five birdies and no bogeys in Sunday's final round, finishing the tournament at 5 under. Good for a three-shot victory. It's the first win in a major for the 28-year-old, who becomes England's first Masters champion since Nick Faldo in 1996.

Overnight leader and defending champion, Jordan Spieth dropped six shots in three holes to open the door for the Brit.

Elsewhere, Leicester City have taken another huge step toward securing a historic English Premier League title by winning at Sunderland. The Foxes are now guaranteed a top four Premier League finish and Champions League football for next season.

[03:50:01] But they've got their eye on the title, thanks to star striker James Vardy. His first coming midway through the second half to break the deadlock against Sunderland. And then the Englishman made the game safe in stoppage time.

And Leicester win had opened up a 10-point lead at top of the table but second-place Tottenham hit back in style in today's late game. The Londoners reduced the gap to seven points by beating Man United 3-0.

As the Leicester match the goals came in the second half. Dele Alli opened the scoring with 20 minutes to play and then the big Belgian, Toby Alderweireld heading in the second before Erik Lamela's superb finish.

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

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The 2016 movie of the year is...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Star Wars: the Force Awakens."

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BARNETT: And don't mind the fact he's not wearing pants.

CHURCH: That's a good look, isn't it?

BARNETT: "Star Wars" took home the grand prize at the 2016 MTV Movie Awards. Two of the film stars Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver were recognized for their performances as well.

CHURCH: It was a fun night for the fans, who got some exclusive first peeks at a few upcoming attractions. New clips from the films "Suicide Squad" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" were big highlights.

BARNETT: Kim Serafin joins us now from Los Angeles. She is the senior editor of In Touch Weekly and is of course in touch with the pulse of Bollywood, fun intended. Kim, good to see you.

KIM SERAFIN, IN TOUCH WEEKLY SENIOR EDITOR: Thanks for having me.

BARNETT: Now, we know the MTV Movie Awards took place this past weekend, and of course this would represent what the younger crowd is watching in the states. What were the big winners?

SERAFIN: Yes. The MTV Movie Awards are not the Oscars in no way, shape, or form. This is a fun ceremony. They have things like the generation award. Will Smith got that. Hosted by Duane "the rock" Johnson and Kevin Hart. So, it's a really lively show.

And it has the categories like movie of the year, "Star Wars." But it also has kind of the fun categories like best kiss, which Rebel Wilson won with Adam DeVine for "Pitch Perfect 2." And it has best villain, Adam Driver won that for "Star Wars." Breakthrough performance.

Daisy Ridley won that also for "Star Wars." Best hero, Jennifer Lawrence won that. Best comedic performance, Ryan Reynolds won that. So, it's kind of a fun, different take on the ceremony.

And again, not the Oscars in any way. As "Straight Outta Compton," the cast pointed out, they won for true story and one of the cast members got up there and said he wanted to thank the academy -- no, didn't really want to thank the academy. Obviously that was a little dig at "Straight Outta Compton" not getting that nomination for best picture at the Oscars.

BARNETT: Right, right. A little bit poetic justice you could say. But speaking of rap music, overall it was a pretty good few days for hip- hop at the rock and roll hall of fame as well, right?

SERAFIN: Yes. Everyone always talks about who's getting inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame. They had the big ceremony. But the big story was probably NWA getting inducted. Kendrick Lamar was the one who honored them at the ceremony.

But I think the story really was Ice Cube getting up and making this very passionate speech about why hip-hop should be included in the rock and roll hall of fame. There really haven't been many hip-hop groups but basically Ice Cube said that, you know, rock and roll is not a style of music, it's a spirit.

And I think people will remember that line particularly, you know. And he's right. You know, again, there's not that many of these hip-hop groups there. But NWA I think a lot of people feel really deserves to be in the hall of fame.

BARNETT: Yes. And of course when you consider how much money hip-hop music has made and developed an entire culture. And speaking of money, let's talk about the Box Office because you have two movies. "The Boss" with Melissa McCarthy that just topped out "Batman vs. Superman." These are two films with very bad reviews, but yet massive sales. What does that tell us?

SERAFIN: Yes. Well, Melissa McCarthy, I mean, she is such a huge star and I think people go and see her because you know what they're going to get. You know the kind of comedic performance you're going to get when you go see Melissa McCarthy.

[03:55:00] And, yes, her movie "The Boss" just beat "Batman vs. Superman" just by a little bit, basically just under 24 million. So, that's a great thing for Melissa McCarthy.

But for "Batman vs. Superman" it is still number one in the international Box Office for the third weekend in a row. It's brought the total up for global Box Office up to about 783 million. So this is obviously great news. It's actually one of the number one superhero movies, top-performing superhero movies ever.

However, it's just probably not going to get to that $1 billion mark, which I think a lot of people were hoping it would because it really is the start of this whole new franchise. But still, 783 million not bad. And we're going to hear a lot more about the Justice League over the next few years.

BARNETT: Yes. I think it also tells you that no matter what the critics say sometimes people just want the experience of going out to these big films, these funny films with their friends, with their family members no matter what the reviews may suggest.

SERAFIN: Absolutely.

BARNETT: Well, it's always a good experience chatting with you. Kim Serafin there senior editor of In Touch Weekly speaking with us from L.A.

SERAFIN: Great. Thanks so much.

CHURCH: And before we go, Tuesday marks the 55th anniversary of mankind's first space flight. And some artists in Russia decided to think big to commemorate the event. They've cleared out piles of snow on a frozen pond south of Moscow.

BARNETT: That's right. But when viewed from above check it out, you can see a giant portrait of the first human space traveler, Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin who was 27 years old when he blasted into space back in 1961. And here he lives on.

CHURCH: Wonderful.

BARNETT: Awesome stuff.

CHURCH: Thanks for watching CNN. I'm Rosemary Church.

BARNETT: And I'm Errol Barnett. Our two hours are up.

CHURCH: Yes.

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