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[08:00:18] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

Eastern Aleppo's evacuation: dozens of the wounded are rushed out of the war torn city, but the situation remains as dangerous as ever.

Also, reaction to claims by the Philippines president he killed suspected drug offenders. We have a live report from Manila.

And he's back: Super Mario bursts onto the smartphone scene as Nintendo hopes it is just as successful as Pokemon Go.

In Syria, a second evacuation of the wounded around Aleppo, that is underway.

Let's bring up the latest pictures from Aleppo. And they show a convoy carrying the wounded from the eastern part of the city.

Now earlier, activists tell CNN that pro-government forces opened fire on the ambulance convoy. One person was killed, four were wounded. But it's

not been verified who initiated the gunfire.

And this is what the situation looked like from the air.

Now, these are Russian military pictures. And Syria and Russia have not commented on these reports. Fred Pleitgen has this report on how we got to

this state, and just what the people of east Aleppo have had to endure in the past 24 hours.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: On a day that was supposed to see calm and a ceasefire, instead heavy fighting, mortar and

artillery fire and war planes dropping bombs. The civilians in the last rebel enclave in Aleppo once again fearing for their lives.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A missile just fell on the roof of my building. And now the people who are (inaudible) have to run for their lives again.

PLEITGEN: This was supposed to be the day that trapped and wounded citizens and the rebels were going to evacuate with a ceasefire brokered by Russia

and Turkey. Buses were already lined up when it all fell apart and once again the blame game started.

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, PRESIDENT OF TURKEY (through translator): Assad's government is brazenly committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in

Aleppo. Everyone should see the truth including those who support him.

PLEITGEN: Opposition activists spoke of many casualties on their side, blaming the regime while the Syrian government said rebel shelling killed

several in areas controlled by them as well.

In an interview with Russian TV Syrian President Bashar al Assad said his forces would only accept a rebel surrender.

And so instead of an end to their nightmare the tired, weak and traumatized in the rebel enclave live in fear once again. Anger not only at Russia and

the Syrian government but at the West as well.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The whole world let us down and we couldn't (inaudible) to help our people. Now you can't help us. You can't help us anymore.

PLEITGEN: The U.N. has called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Aleppo as they have for years with little success. But with every hour that

passes and every shell that's fired, the prospect for an end to the carnage in Aleppo fades a little more.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN -- Beirut.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now the critical and delicate operation to evacuate civilians is again underway. Let's bring in CNN chief international correspondent

Christiane Amanpour. She joins us from London. And Christiane, again, scores of people remain trapped in the city, the situation is still very

dangerous. Can there be a safe evacuation?

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, that is what everybody is hoping for.

What you see is a now double evacuation. You've got them going from eastern Aleppo in those last stronghold. And, because of demands by

Iranians and the Syrian government, you've got another evacuation of mostly Shiite militia, which are aligned with the Assad regime, in that other

village that you were just talking about.

Right now, we understand that the ICRC, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and certain UN officials, are actually monitoring as best they

can the evacuation from the last holdout in eastern Aleppo. They are not party to the deal that came - that sort of enabled this evacuation. That

is strictly betweent he parties and Turkey with some Russian intervention there as well.

But what we understand is that at least some of the international actors there in the humanitarian sphere are trying to monitor this. But it is

extraordinarily an excruciatingly difficult. And as we've seen before in other conflicts, these kinds of evacuations, these sort of brief ad hoc

sort of ceasefires can break down at any time with each side blaming the other for that. And of course stuck in the middle of all of this are the

blameless and innocent civilians who are not just men, but women and children as well.

[08:05:28] LU STOUT: Yeah, such a critical and difficult operation, as you point out. A question about the international response. We know that last

night, the Eiffel Tower went dark as this gesture of solidearity, there has been at the UN and elsewhere condemnation to the crisis, but what has the

west actually done for Aleppo?

AMANPOUR: You know, Kristie, here is a huge backlash against the west right now. That was a beautiful gesture in France in Paris, the land of,

you know, of human rights and the enlightenment finally, you know, lights are being turned out in solidarity with people who are being slaughtered on

our watch, and who have been for the last five and a half years.

And in the UN, as you mentioned, there was this rhetorical flourish that actually went viral between the U.S. ambassador Samantha Power, the Russian

ambassador Vitaly Churkin, and in the end, though, a backlash, of course, against that as well, because it is just rhetoric. It is just these

wonderful sort of repartees that actually do not do anything to help the situation. In fact, quite the opposite.

So, here, what you have, what you actually have is a member of the Security Council, Russia, which has intervened with all its military might with one

actor and that is the Syrian regime

On the other hand, you have the west, which has not intervened on behalf of the civilians in Syria, and so you have a ceding of the territory of the

military offensive to one side.

So, all the rhetoric about how there can be no military solution to this, how it must be a political solution, is actually simple obfuscation,

because there was a military offensive. There has been a military solution it's just that the Russians, the Iranians and the Assad regime, along with

assorted Shiite militia from Hezbollah and elsewhere have been in control of the military endgame in Aleppo.

And that is what is going on.

LU STOUT: And because, as you point out, because of Russian firepower and because of the failure of the west to intervene, we now have the situation

where we're waiting for Aleppo to fall. And when that happens, Bashar al- Assad can claim that he won this battle, but what about the overall civil war for Syria?

AMANPOUR: Well, I think you're absolutely right, this fall of all of Aleppo will be and is the most significant military turning point in this

five-and-a-half year war, because Aleppo is a huge stronghold, as we know, as one of the most powerful cities, the biggest economy, it was really the

engine of Syria. Not only that, it was the ancient culture of Syria as it's been pointed out. The culture of Aleppo took hundreds, if not more

than 1,000 years to build and just one generation to destroy.

And so this -- bringing it back into Assad's fold will be a strategic victory, but an empty, hollow, Pyrrhic victory, because it will be ruined.

And who will come back there, we simply don't know. And what we're going to be left with is a sort of a map that will give you a rump Assad regime,

a rump Syrian government state, which involved Damascus and the suburbs of Damascus that the Assad regime has taken back, with Russian air power with

that kind of support. Then it goes all the way up to the coast where you have Latakia and Tartus, and they keep those big sort of Mediterranean

cities here, which have Russian bases as we know. And then it goes up to Aleppo, which is the other main urban center, or at least it was, of a

functional Syria.

But around, you have various rebels and extremist groups controlling parts. You have some of the western accepted groups controlling other parts, like

in the south, like in Idlib and elsewhere. And you have a big Kurdish -- Syrian Kurdish enclave at the top of northern Syria there with the border

with Turkey.

So, you still have a patchwork of Syria. You don't have a whole Syria, but you do have Bashar al-Assad able to claim at least a big chunk of it now

and the question, though, is of course we know that the war probably will not end. They probably will try with Russian help to next go after Idlib

and crush that area.

And of course if the moderate rebels, if the moderate opposition, of which there are many and do not allow, we shouldn't forget that there are many,

and this all started with simple moderate Syrians asking for a little freedom, for a little reform in the dictatorship that was the Assad regime,

and remains.

You know, they jumped on the Arab Spring bandwagon and this is what they got in return.

[08:10:12] LU STOUT: The war will certainly not end when Aleppo falls. Meanwhile, 50,000 civilians remain trapped inside eastern Aleppo.

Christiane Amanpour reporting live for us. Thank you so much for that Christiane.

Now, there is new evidence of a Chinese military buildup happening in the South China Sea. A U.S. think tank and its Asia maritime transparency

initiative have released these satellite images. Let's first bring up an image of Hughes Reef. This is one of China's smallest man-made islands.

And these squares right here, they highlight these hexagon shaped platforms believed to hold anti-aircraft guns.

Similar systems now appear on all seven of the islands that China has built in the area.

Now, on this base, you could see the four defense structures right there.

And they all point out to the sea. We should point out that China is not the only one building in the South China Sea. And Beijing says any

military installations are for self-defense.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GENG SHUANG, CHINESE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS SPOKESMAN (through translator): The South China sea islands are China's inherent territories.

It is quite normal to carry out construction on China's own territory and to deploy necessary national defense facilities.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now, China sites a historic boundary it calls the nine dash line to justify its claims to the maritime territory. An international court

ruled against Beijing earlier this year. It's believed gas and oil deposits lie beneath the water surface there. The area is also important

for fishing and shipping.

Now earlier, I spoke to security expert Ashley Townshend about China's actions.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ASHLEY TOWNSHEND, U.S. STUDIES CENTER AT UNIV. OF SYDNEY: Over the past two years, we have seen China increase its militarization and strategic

presence in the South China Sea. We have seen the scale and scope of Chinese patrols, naval, air force, military, coast guard, in crease.

But what we've also seen is a China that has been much more restrained in its tactical conduct. And by that I mean, the Chinese navy and the Chinese

air force has been much more responsible when interacting or coming close to Japanese and American and other countries air forces and navies in the

region.

And why has China been acting like this? They've waited -- the most effective way for them to enhance this strategic footprint in the South

China Sea is to not create a provocation, not create a military incident.

So, while they've been behaving much more cautiously on the operational front, bringing down those risks of collisions or close encounters that we

used to talk about, they've been busying themselves, building and militarizing the South China Sea islands.

In the long run, this is a much smarter play by Beijing. And it actually makes it much harder for the region to respond.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now Townshend, he also told me that he expects the United States to continue its so-called freedom of navigation operations under a

President Donald Trump.

Earlier this month, Trump took to Twitter to slam China, writing this, quote, did China ask us if it was OK to devalue their currency or to build

a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don't think so, unquote.

Now, that was the second time that Donald Trump has weighed in on the South China Sea. Now Townshend points out that Trump's advisers have been

critical of President Barack Obama and maybe more willing to challenge China.

Now, turning now to the Philippines where a senator is calling for the impeachment of the country's president.

Now, this comes after Rodrigo Duterte admitted to personally killing criminal suspects. He said during his time as Davao City mayor, he would

hunt for them on the streets.

Now, one of Duterte's most vocal critics says the president should be held accountable.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LEILA DE LIMA, PHILIPPINE SENATOR: I should say that is an impeachable offense. That is a culpable violation of the constitution, that is

betrayal of public trust and that constitute high crimes. Because these are mass murders. Mass murders certainly fall under the category of high

crimes.

And high crimes is a ground for impeachment under a constitution.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Let's take you straight to the Philippine capital Manila. Will Ripley is standing by for us. And Will, after that shocking admission from

President Duterte that he personally killed these drug suspects, we have this outcry among policymakers. They're calling for his impeachment. How

likely is that?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Very unlikely here, Kristie, because President Duterte's popularity remains extraordinarily high. The

vast majority of the public, according to public opinion polls, supports what he's doing with this war on drugs.

Now, keep in mind this is especially coming from the growing middle class in the Philippines. You go to -- in some of the middle class areas of

Manila. You were walking around there earlier today asking people. People say they feel safer. They are fed up with what they feel is a judicial

system that was ineffective, government corruption for so many years. And they feel that really for the first time they have a president who is

acting in the best interest of his people. That's the view from a significant number of Filipinos.

But you do have critics, like Senator De Lima, who you heard from there, who is really at risk, to some degree, by speaking out. She, herself, is

now under investigation for ties to potential drug crimes. And the Philippine president, Rodrigo Duterte, has been accused of using this war

on drugs as a way to get rid of his political adversaries. There was even a headline in one local paper today that said corrupt politicians face

death if they don't resign.

And given the fact that we heard President Duterte on Monday speaking about how he would drive around Davao City in his motorcycle looking for people

to shoot and kill and to set an example for his police officers of how they should behave, a campaign that he's now taken nationwide, with almost 6,000

deaths just in the last six months he certainly -- it's not an empty threat when he says that, Kristie.

[08:15:59] LU STOUT: So, President Duterte, he remains extremely popular, despite this deadly crackdown, this deadly war on drugs, and his admission

that he himself has killed suspects. And he has also admitted to using drugs himself, to using opioids. Why and when did he use this drug? And

what impact did it have on him?

RIPLEY: Well, it's interesting that you mention that particular drug. And we were looking into it earlier, this Fentanyl, this opioid that's up to

100 times more powerful than morphine, 50 times stronger than heroin. It's a drug that crack dealers will often use to cut the product. They'll --

and it's also a very widely stolen prescription that Rodrigo Duterte did admit to using after he had had some issues with pain and his doctor told

him that he needed to pull back, that he was using too much.

Duterte also spoke about times in his youth when he also used marijuana, but of course now the situation on the ground here is that people who are

caught with drugs like marijuana, or illegal -- either prescription narcotics or more commonly methamphetamine, these are the very people who

are beign shot and killed on the streets of this city, including you look at right here we're in one of the slums of Manila, and you see in there is

a coffin for a 6-year-old boy who was killed alongside his father on Monday.

They were alseep in their house. Somebody knocked on the door. A gunman fired two shots, hit the dad, perhaps inadvertently hit the child and in

fact the mother and grandmother of this young boy, we've just told, have been taken in by police just in the last hour. And they're being

questioned by them right now, perhaps because of the fact that we've been covering this every hour on the hour. W e know that they do watch. And

they certainly don't like the implication, but it's the reality that there are innocent people who are dying here.

Yes, there are drug suspects who are being killed, but they are suspects who would deserve, according to international law, due process. They

deserve a trial. They deserve the opportunity to defense themselves. And if they're drug users, they deserve the opportunity to be rehabilitated.

And the nearly 6,000 people who have been killed since late June here in the Philippines in this drug war didn't have that opportunity. And a lot

of them are coming from very poor neighborhoods, the slums like this. They're not coming from these upper class or these middle class

neighborhoods, these are the streets where the blood is spilling on a nightly basis.

10 to 20 people sometimes a day are being killed, and a lot of people out here, Kristie, don't echo those public opinion polls. They say they are

living in constant fear and they don't know who their enemy is at this point, because the government is sanctioning, and in fact, encouraging

these vigilante style murders with little or not investigation.

LU STOUT: Will, we thank you for your reporting and your vivid description of the brutal toll of Duterte's war on drugs. It is absolutely

gutwrenching to look at the video of these two coffins side by side, a father and his son.

Will Ripley reporting live for us from the streets of Manila, thank you.

Now, for an in depth look at Rodrigo Duterte's controversial war on drugs, just go to our website. And from there, you'll hear from a woman who

insists that her brother was wrongfully killed in an anti-drug raid, and get a rare look inside the country's overcrowded jails. You can find it at

CNN.com/Philippines

You're watching News Stream. Still ahead on the program, the Russian President is on a rare visit to Japan. And we'll tell you what's on the

agenda for his talks with the Japanese prime minister.

And, from Silicon Valley to Trump Tower, Donald Trump meets America's tech leaders. Stay with us.

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[08:21:42] LU STOUT: All right, coming to you live from Hong Kong you're back watching News Stream. Russian President Vladimir Putin is on his

first official visit to Japan in 11 years. He just held a three hour meeting with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. And the two spoke about a

longstanding disagreement over ownership of some islands now live between Japan and Russia.

Now for more on the visit, Andrew Stevens joins us now live from Tokyo. And, Andrew, this is a rare visit by Vladimir Putin. Tell us more. Why is

he there in Japan?

ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: it is a very rare visit, Kristie. As you say, first tim1 years. And the reason this is happening is really

because both sides, both countries want to establish closer ties with each other. Japan partly because it wants to offset the rise of China in the

Asia region, and Russia really because of the sanctions imposed after Ukraine looking for what they call the push to the east and Japan is an

area that Vladimir Putin would like to get closer to.

But you're right, the key topic so far has been these four islands which are a the center of a territorial dispute.

Japan claims ownership of them, but they are actually were seized by Russia just at the end of the Second World War. And Shinzo Abe has really made it

a key priority of his to get the ball rolling to eventually get ownership of these islands back in Japanese hands. He does admit it's going to be a

long process.

Don't expect anything big to come out of this summit. There will be announcements, Krsitie. We've already heard that there's going to be

security talks between Russia and Japan will be resumed. They were stopped in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea.

And we're also expecting some economic deals as well. They will be quite small. Japan has to be careful about breaking sanctions. Japan is a

member of the G7. The G7 countries have imposed sanctions on Russia. So Japan is walking a fine line there. And the U.S. are obviously watching

very closely as well.

But certainly Japan wants to be closer to Russia, to really because of what's the dominance, if you like of China in this region. so, it's a

mutually beneficial relationship at this stage covering quite a wide range of areas.

LU STOUT: Yeah, including, as you said, the islands, economic and security issues all at the forefront here with his visit. Execs from Apple, Amazon,

Tesla and others held a meeting with the president-elect on Wednesday, but it was the presence of some other attendees that perhaps got the biggest

reaction. Sara Murray has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENT-ELECT OF THE UNITED STATES: You'll call my people, you'll call me. It doesn't make any difference. We have no formal

chain of command around here.

MURRAY (voice-over): Donald Trump's unconventional White House quickly shaping up to be a family affair. Trump's three eldest children -- Donald

Jr., Eric and Ivanka -- and son-in-law Jared Kushner all sitting in on a meeting with the nation's top tech executives Wednesday, some who openly

supported Hillary Clinton.

TRUMP: We want you to keep going with the incredible innovation. There's nobody like you in the world. In the world. There's nobody like the people

in this room. And anything we can do to help this go along, and we're going to be there for you.

[08:25:14] MURRAY: Kushner helped organized the meeting, which the group says will happen quarterly. Sources saying he will likely get an office in

the West Wing and an advisory role similar to the one he held throughout Trump's campaign.

Ivanka is also expected to take on an active role, including some duties normally assumed by the first lady. And she'll do so from the East Wing,

with aides planning to overhaul the traditional office of the first lady, turning it into the office of the first family.

TRUMP: She's so strong and, you know, to the women's issue and child care and so many things she'd be so good. Nobody could do better than her.

MURRAY: As both Donald Jr. and Eric take hands-on roles in their father's transition, CNN has learned Donald Jr. was heavily involved in vetting

candidates for the interior secretary position, while Eric was included in at least one meeting with Mitt Romney about the secretary of state job.

The brothers also set to lead Trump's businesses, raising red flags over potential conflicts of interest. But Trump's camp argues it's all about

transparency.

SPICER: Conflicts of interest arise when you're not, when you're sneaky about it, when you're shady about it, when you're not transparent about it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It just exists.

SPICER: No, no. If you tell everyone, "Here's what's going on. Here's the process. Here are the people that are playing a role," that's not -- that's

being transparent.

MURRAY: All of this as House Democrats call into question Trump's lease agreement with the U.S. government for his new hotel just blocks from the

White House.

REP. ELIJAH CUMMINGS (D), MARYLAND: As soon as he's sworn in on January 20, he will have violated the law.

MURRAY: Citing Trump's lease, which says no member of the government can share in any part of the agreement.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And that was CNN's Sara Murray reporting.

Now, it hasn't been smiles and handshakes between Trump and Silicon Valley. Tech leaders have overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton's presidential

bid. And Trump has a history of attacking these companies. He threatened to boycott Apple after the company refused to build a security back door to

let the FBI break into the San Bernadino terrorist's phone.

Trump has also accused Jeff Bezos of buying The Washington Post to persuade politicians to keep Amazon's taxes low.

Now, you may have a new reason to change your online passwords. Yahoo announced a massive security breach. Now, this happened back in 2013, and

more than a billion accounts were exposed. The company is notifying those affected and is requiring users to change their passwords.

This breach maybe one of the largest ever, and is thought to be a separate from a hack that Yahoo revealed just three months ago.

Now, you're watching News Stream. Still ahead on the program, rapidly moving events in the Syrian city of Aleppo this hour, but as residents

desperately try to reach safety, the role of Russia is under growing scrutiny. We've got a report from Moscow coming up.

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[08:31:25] LU STOUT: Now more on our top news story as the wounded are being taken out of eastern Aleppo.

Russia has just assured the UN that no harm will come to those evacuated, but there is still huge concern about Moscow's campaign in Syria,

especially in the light of dramatic new video from Russian TV.

Matthew Chance has more on that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Kremlin never denied having special forces in Syria, this is the first time we've seen their

notorious specsnats (ph). Russia state television broadcast these extraordinary images at the weekend, including at this missile strike and

what they say was a rebel convoy. Russia (inaudible) says the targets include jihadi fighters from former Soviet states neutralized is the word

used to prevent them from returning home, justifying military's role in Syria.

"Such is the secrecy of the operations," says this man described as a special forces soldier, "that even our wives don't know where we've been."

Islamic State pays big money, he tells the Russian state TV reporter, to find out who we are.

The Kremlin says this fight against terrorism in Syria should be shared with the United States.

No mention of the civilians trapped with no way out in a humanitarian crisis.

Up until now, that idea of a shared fight with the Kremlin has been pretty much dismissed. The humanitarian toll of Russian airstrikes, and its

strong backing of a despised Syrian president placed Moscow and Washington on opposite sides of the conflict.

But that was before the election of Donald Trump and his choice of Rex Tillerson as secretary of state. They're both seen as much more

sympathetic to the Russian view. And although the Kremlin tells CNN it's not expecting a sudden change in U.S. policy on Syria, it says that it's

hopeful of more dialogue and cooperation.

It's unclear what form that cooperation may take, but as the Kremlin now actively promotes the work of its special forces in Syria, it knows the

killing of jihadis is one area President-elect Trump will be keen to support.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And to see who is helping Syrians caught up in this brutal civil war, CNN has a list of aid organizations that are helping families escape

the danger and to receive much needed basic supplies. Just head to CNN.com/impact and there you'll find the full list.

Now, on the West Bank, residents of an illegal settler outpost have voted to reject an Israeli government proposal to relocate them. Israel's high

court has ordered the outpost to be evacuated by December 25. Ian Lee has more on the showdown over Amona.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Within days, life could change dramatically for the settlers of Amona. The Israeli high court has ordered

this illegal West Bank outpost demolished. Manya Hilal spent almost 15 years here raising her six children.

MANYA HILAL, AMONA SETTLER: These are people. There are 200 children living here. You know how devastated children area when being torn from their

home, having their life destroyed.

LEE: A few hundred people called this hilltop home, raising families, working the land.

Hilal points to the biblical book of Joshua as her land deed.

HILAL: It's time to declare these lands belong to us. It's time to say enough. No Jewish settlements should be evacuated. No child has to lose his

life and his home and his friends for nothing, for nothing.

[08:35:10] LEE: The government tried to remove the Amona's settlers 10 years ago. The violent clashes left a nation traumatize.

(on-camera): This is all that is left from that day. Some twisted rebar and concrete. As for the settlers who are living here, they didn't have to move

far just up the hill.

(voice-over): Palestinian Ibrahim Yacoub knows how the settlers feel.

(on-camera): Which part is your land?

IBRAHIM YACOUB, PALESTINIAN LANDOWNER: My land is -- where is the trees? It is behind the trees immediately.

LEE (voice-over): Yacoub tells me his family worked this land for generations, nurturing the harvest, camping under the stars. Then in 1996

he says, the settlers illegally seized it.

YACOUB: I want you to see and imagine how you feel when somebody come to your house and he takes from you your car and your house and you cannot do

for him nothing.

LEE: The high court ruled with Yacoub and declared Amona must go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (SPEAKING IN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

LEE: Israel's right wing Jewish home party saw an opportunity setting in motion legislation to save Amona and legalize more than 50 other West Bank

outpost at the same time.

Palestinians and the outgoing administration in Washington are deeply concern seeing even the idea of a viable Palestinian state now on a point

of collapse.

JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE: There's a basic choice that has to be made by Israelis. Is there going to be continued implementation of settlement

policy or is there going to be separation and the creation of two states.

LEE: In Amona, Manya Hilal and her community have a decision to make. As some built shelters for supporters they hope will defend them, the people

here are under growing pressure to leave peacefully.

December 25th is the deadline to clear the outpost. A move that could mark the end of one of legal settlement, but have far reaching ramifications

across the rest of the West Bank.

Ian Lee, CNN, Amona in the West Bank.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And up next, it's the classic game with a completely band new play style and feel. Now, Super Mario Run is

Nintendo's first ever Mario game created for smartphones. And we'll check out the game with an expert next.

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LU STOUT: All right. Welcome back.

And at long last, gaming's iconic plumber is playable on the iPhone. Super Mario Run made its Apple Store debut on Thursday. This is a brand new take

on a decade's old character. Nintendo designed Super Mario Run specifically for smartphones so you could play the game with just one hand.

Now, this is a rare move for the company. It has been reluctant about expanding into mobile games.

Now, let's get more on this long anticipated game. And joining me now is Jason Shreier. He is a news editor from Kotaku based in New York.

Jason, good to see you. Thank you for joining us.

This is Nintendo's first Mario game on smartphones. How does Super Mario Run differ from a normal typical Mario game?

JASON SCHREIER, KOTAKU: The biggest difference is that you run automatically. So instead of holding one button to run and using the

directional pad to keep your character moving, your character will just keep moving by himself. And you can actually press the touchscreen to

jump. And that's how you jump over pits and collect coins and jump on all the little mushroom goombas.

It seems like it's going to be a lot of fun.

[08:40:15] LU STOUT: Yeah, it's free to download, but to unlock everything you've got to pay about $10. Is that a little bit too much for a

smartphone game?

SCHREIER: You know what, Nintendo has always been, as you mentioned before, reluctant to enter the smartphone market. And one of the reasons

for that is that smartphone games are just cheap and they're seen -- they're seen as kind of throwaway games. And I think Nintendo's goal is to

make this seem like a big premium game that you buy and you play for a really long time.

I don't know if it will be successful at that price point. It's a little bit of a tough sell to people who aren't used to spending that much money

on their games on their phones, but I understand where Nintendo is coming from there.

LU STOUT: Yeah. And this is, again, the first Mario game on smartphones. And it's the first time in a long time that you don't need a Nintendo

system to play a Mario game. So, is there a worry that this could affect sales of Nintendo systems?

SCHREIER: You know, that's an interesting question. So, I think one of the reasons that Nintendo has moved into mobile in the first place is

because they're not having a lot success with their systems. Their Wii U was basically a big failure over the past few years. And one of the

reasons that they're doing this is because they want to expand Mario and get him in the hands of people who haven't played him in a long time.

I think that there are two big markets for this. One is adults who maybe played Mario when they were kids, or knew about Mario when they were kids,

but have just kind of lost touch and are now basically playing games on their phones. And, two, is kids who don't know what Mario is, because all

they're playing is Minecraft and maybe Pokemon Go earlier this summer, which is kind of a test bed for this and proved to Nintendo and to the

world that they can get -- release their big franchises and get a lot of people playing them, both newcomers and veterans.

So, it makes sense. And I think that this strategy will actually get people familiar with Mario in preparation for Nintendo's new system, the

Switch, which comes out in March

LU STOUT: Yeah, and this is the time to introduce Mario to a new generation. And you mentioned Pokemon Go. I mean, that was so huge, it

was so big, it was a cultural phenomenon earlier this year.

I mean, how big will Super Mario Run be?

SCHREIER: That's a great question. I -- it's hard to predict because as you mentioned before, Super Mario Run cost $10 and Pokemon Go is totally

free, so the asking -- the gateway for entrance is a little bit different there.

I think it will be big. I don't know if it will be as gamechanging as Pokemon Go where you walk down the street and you see everybody playing it,

but I think it will succeed. I actually do think that it will get more people into Mario who haven't even thought about Mario before or want to

look back at their childhood and get a little nostalgic about the past. I'm already seeing lots of people, tons of buzz about it, lots of people

talking about it online, lots of people today actually waiting for the game to unlock because usually iPhone games go live at midnight on the story,

but Nintendo has some sort of special deal where it doesn't unlock until 1:00 p.m. eastern on the Apple Store. So, a lot of people are just waiting

in anticipation hitting refresh over and over again.

LU STOUT: Yeah, that anticipation was definitely amongst some of here in the news room, too.

Jason Schreier of Kotaku, thank you so much for joining us. And do take care.

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu stout. We've got World Sport with Alex Thomas next.

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