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Trump: Sanctions A "Small Step, Not A Big Deal"; Fleeing Rohingya Refugees Plead For International Help; European Leaders Face Down Criticism Over Response; Caribbean Islands In Urgent Need Of Aid; Newspaper In St. Maarten Powers On; Residents Begin Returning To Battered Florida Keys; World Headlines; North Korea Nuclear Tensions; Apple Unveils iPhone 10; Trump White House. Aired 8-9a ET

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

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LU STOUT: North Korea slams the latest round of sanctions but President Trump says even more pressure could be needed to curve Pyongyang's nuclear

program.

Aung San Suu Kyi cancels her visit to the United Nations and the outrage at her handling of the Rohingya crisis. And coming to grips with Irma's

devastation. We hear from people returning to their hurricane battered homes.

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LU STOUT: North Korea has a message for the world in response to the latest round of U.N. sanctions. The regime is pledging to double down on

efforts to fight off any threats to its sovereignty.

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LU STOUT: This comes as South Korea carried out its first live fire drill of the long-range air to surface missile known as Taurus. Here you see an

F-15 fighter jet firing the missile.

It has a range of 500 kilometers that's capable of reaching Pyongyang. U.S. President Donald Trump says the new U.N. sanctions on North Korea are

just the start and he suggested more must be done.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We had a vote yesterday on sanctions. We think it's just another very small step. Not a big deal.

Rex and I were just discussing that not big.

I don't know because of the impact. But certainly it was nice to get a 15 do nothing about but those suctions are nothing compared to what ultimately

will have to happen.

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LU STOUT: Well, let's take you inside North Korea. CNN's Will Ripley is the only Western T.V. journalists currently in Pyongyang. He joins us now

live.

And Will, thanks again for joining us here in the program tonight. Donald Trump calls the latest U.N. sanctions not a big deal? With people inside

with Korea actually agree with that?

WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well certainly here in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, Kristie, government officials are strongly condemning

this latest round of U.N. Security Council sanctions.

They are using words like, evil, vicious, they're calling it a full-scale economic blockade but when you go out on the streets and you talk to

regular people, they actually don't seem too worried about it.

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RIPLEY: It's tough to find a traffic light in Pyongyang. Traffic cuts direct the flow of cars. The streets noticeably busier each time I come

here, busier at least for now.

The U.S. has the latest U.N. sanctions threatened to cut North Korea's oil supply by nearly a third which could strike prices for everything from

taxis to energy.

A ban on textile exports and the end of foreign labor contracts could further slash the income of this cash starved country but if you ask

(Inaudible), she's not worried.

Her refreshment stand has a steady flow of customers. She says life is improving despite round after round of increasingly heavy sanctions.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We have no problems, she says. Everything I'm is made local. We don't worry. We rely on ourselves.

RIPLEY: Kim Hye-song (ph) keep a song casually shrugs off threats from the United States. The U.S. President Donald Trump said that these sanctions

are just not a big deal and that there is much worse to come. Does that worry you at all?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): We don't care what the U.S. president says or what the outside world thinks about us, she says. We

don't worry because we believe in the leadership of martial Kim Jong-un. Keep in mind this is a very thin slice of life in this closed country.

RIPLEY: It's good. Reporters like us can only see what the government allows. But all over the North Korean capital, we see plenty of new

construction and increasingly modern skyline, a mandate from North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.

Which only to prove, he can grow the economy and the nuclear program, all in the face of unprecedented sanctions for his repeated violations of

international law.

You see these posters all over Pyongyang and they pretty much sum up North Korea's official response to increased pressure from the U.S., more

missiles.

North Korean propaganda is built around their nuclear program. It symbolizes strength, independence. It is key to their national identity.

Is there anything, anything at all that could get North Korea to walk away from its nuclear program?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We'll never give them says Lee Chang Song (ph). If we did, it would mean our destruction.

RIPLEY: Around town, new posters show a pair of hands ripping up U.N. sanctions resolutions. North Korea's defiant message, they will never give

up their nukes even if that means life is about to get a lot harder.

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RIPLEY: And that really is the bottom line here in North Korea. They view these nuclear weapons as vital to their survival as a nation.

[08:05:00] And they say that these new sanctions will only cause them to speed up not slow down the development of these weapons of mass destruction

which of course threatens to escalate an already dangerous situation even further, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes, President Trump said that the latest sanctions pale in comparison to what will ultimately have to happen to North Korea. So what

are the additional screws to -- to turn to further punish Pyongyang?

RIPLEY: Well the United States didn't get a lot of things that they wanted in the sanctions bill. They didn't get a full on oil blockade.

The U.S. wanted to cut off the flow of oil in to this country which would have really catastrophic consequences, certainly for regular people.

The nuclear and missile programs are probably still get whatever oil was available but people in regular life would -- would suffer. As a result to

that, China and Russia were not willing to tolerate that.

So that was taken out. Blacklisting North Korea supreme leader Kim Jong- un, imposing an asset freeze and travel ban on North Korea's supreme leader which would've been infuriating tenement to an act of war to them, that was

taken out.

Perhaps China and Russia feeling that was just too destabilizing and also, the U.S. wanted to ground North Korea's national carrier, Air Koryo and

that has not happened, that was also taken out of the sanctions bill.

Grounding the airline would prevent diplomats and businesspeople, and some privilege North Koreans from traveling to China and Russia where they can

continue to interact at some level with other countries, and cutting -- shutting down the airline would really isolate the country further.

So there are steps of the United States wants to take that have not been taken yet but at least at this point China and Russia have not indicated

any willingness to go that far.

Because they don't see anything that is going to, A, provoked North Korea even further or B, create a destabilizing situation that could affect the

dynamics -- the power dynamics in this region because in the end China and Russia benefit from the existence of having North Korea in place.

LU STOUT: Will Ripley, reporting live for us from Pyongyang, thank you and we have this programming note for you. Will, we'll be taking his inside

North Korea for an exclusive look at the country like you have never seen before.

It's a documentary. It's called Secret State. You can watch it Saturday 8:00 P.M. here in Hong Kong, 9:00 P.M. in Tokyo, only on CNN. Turning now

to a growing humanitarian crisis affecting a persecuted minority in the Myanmar.

The U.N. says more than 370,000 Rohingya Muslims have crossed in to Bangladesh over the past few weeks, fleeing the violence in the Rakhine

State.

Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has now canceled a planned trip to New York for the U.N. general assembly citing violence as a reason for

her absence.

So she has come under heavy international criticism over her response to the Rohingya crisis. The Myanmar government insists it is fighting

terrorists in Rakhine State but the U.N. Human Rights chief says the crack down is quote, a textbook example of ethnic cleansing.

The U.N. Security Council is meeting over the crisis in a few hours but even when the Rohingya managed to escape the fighting, they face a perilous

journey to Bangladesh. Alexandra Field has more.

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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The children are hungry and showing sign of malnutrition while others heartbroken.

HASSINAH BERGUN, ROHINGYA REFUGEE (through translator): My newborn hasn't had anything to eat because I'm unable to breastfeed. She's suffering from

malnutrition and we haven't received any medical support for treatment. So we're in a really dangerous situation.

FIELD: Hasina's baby was 12 days old when the family left everything behind, fleeing a vibrant military crackdown in Myanmar. An eight day

journey brought them here to Bangladesh where they have practically nothing.

BERGUN: We have been living outside of the camp for five days. We have been waiting. No one has given us any shelter or support. We are living

in a very miserable condition.

FIELD: Around 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have raced to cross the border in two weeks. They have been met with aid group under prepared to help them.

LUC CHAUVIN, CHIEF, UNICEF EMERGENCY: So all humanitarian agencies are struggling with the increased number of refugees who is coming in everyday

and definitely need to scale up our operations.

FIELD: Refugees tell CNN the camps are already full.

AL LILLAH, ROHINGYA REFUGEE (through translator): We have only just arrived here. The military came into our village. They were slaughtering

us and setting fire to our houses, so we have to leave.

FIELD: Myanmar has said it's engaging in full clearance operations following attack by Rohingya militants that left 12 security officers dead.

JOHAR: It has taken us seven days to get here and we cross the boarder by boat. If the military had seen us, they would've shot us.

FIELD: A week ago, this was a forest, the Rohingya cleared it. The muddy banks are now a settlement for 100,000 of them.

[08:10:00] Even newer arrivals are living on the roadside.

SAYYID AMIN, ROHINGYA REFUGEE (through translator): We need support from the international organizations and from the world. There are too many of

us for the Bangladeshis alone to be helping us.

FIELD: His family has shelter, some food, and water now. The rest are waiting. Alexandra Field, CNN.

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LU STOUT: A major U.N. delivery of emergency relief supplies for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is underway. Their task is daunting. George Okoth-

Obbo is the Assistant High Commissioner for Operations for the U.N. refugee agency.

He joins from Dhaka, Bangladesh. And sir, thank you so much for joining us here on the program. How much aid and what kind of aid have you delivered

to the refugees today?

GEORGE OKOTH-OBBO, ASSISTANT HIGH COMMISSIONER, UNHCR (via phone): OK. Allow me for today to see that the principle aid that has already been

provided the (Inaudible) is 339,000 that have folks.

That the Bangladeshi government, they also want to include the people in there have provided access into territory into their country with this

large number of people that (Inaudible).

The response is underway and what has been but quite frankly, what I certainly be in that we have to chip up all our response in (Inaudible)

every sector across the basic need of the refugees from protection for sure but everything else that we look at, in food, in water, in healthcare, in

shelter, we need to do much, much, much more.

If I equip that in Financial Time to give the humanitarian acts about peace, they go up filling to $7 million but the enterprise are the number

of brought.

LU STOUT: Yes, the scale of this crisis is immense against 370,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar to Bangladesh to escape the violence since the

end of August.

That's an average of 20,000 refugees a day. The camps must be crowded in Bangladesh. What are the conditions like at the refugee camps there

outside the country?

OKOTH-OBBO: I think the one I would help (Inaudible), they would really you which were it. They (Inaudible), we walk -- the condition are so, so

vivid and crowded but what I really want to highlight in that is that being there, the shelter particularly, the cover of people is there would be

momentarily.

And let us also highlight that there is an extremely high number children in this movement, women of course also as men, but the very high number of

children of not you see and what really we are all saw to try and changed, we can get a little bit more favor condition. You have mission condition

but I've said that this is of course defects them.

LU STOUT: You say that the situation is dire, the shelter provided is rudimentary, have you talked to Rohingya refugees? What have they told you

about? What they need and also what happened to them?

OKOTH-OBBO: Yes, I mean the stories and accounts that have had about what happened, I think I'll give you the one reason that have been tropical is

really heart wrenching and you see it. I talked to -- visit for myself who have arrive on this side the (Inaudible), they have wounds on their body.

We saw one refugee who is surviving the loss of both of his legs from a landmine explosion. They vary a lot but they consistent with what your own

network has been reporting.

What they say to us about all of course is the stabilization of their condition and the meeting of the basic needs and certainly they have not

have to say that it is so visible that's why were walking to add various.

LU STOUT: Well, we figure reports of injuries from landmines as you mentioned, murders, gunfire, the result of brutal acts of violence.

We know that the U.N Human Rights chief says that the crack down in Myanmar is quote a textbook example of ethnic cleansing. But sir, has it become

more than is this genocide?

OKOTH-OBBO: I won't speak to that because if you allow me to say that that is the (Inaudible), which I would pretend to be an expert, what is clear is

that into the main rate of due law, it will talk to perpetuation.

It will be talking to people to have been export to race from different to begin that have been, we're talking parts of the world that have been

characterize.

[08:15:00] It isn't clear that these are people who have been forced to leave their country to fix in this case in Bangladesh are clear refugee

agreement. These are refugees indeed have the authorities of themselves stayed here at the very highest level of government.

LU STOUT: George Okoth-Obbo of UNHCR, thank you so much for joining us, live on the line for Dhaka and we're wishing you and the team very best of

luck as you provide desperately aid to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Now we have the latest updates to the ongoing crack down of violence against Rohingya Muslims on our website. There's also information on why

they are considered among the world's most prosecuted people. You can find it at CNN.com/Rohingya.

Hundreds of thousands of people throughout the Caribbean are in need of aid after hurricane Irma and up next, how the U.S. and European governments are

responding and why some people say they are not doing enough.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back, this is News Stream. Now European and American leaders are facing down criticism that

they're neglecting their responsibilities necessarily the Caribbean in the wake of hurricane Irma.

The World Food Programme says 200,000 people are need of urgent aid. Some leaders are making themselves visible. French President Emmanuel Macron

arrived in the Caribbean on Tuesday and is promising to rebuild French territories.

The British foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visit the Caribbean as well to look after disaster efforts on Anguilla and the British Virgin Islands.

The government says a thousand military troops are delivering shelter kits, clean water and other supplies to those who need it most. They have also

donated millions to aid agencies and Prime Minister Theresa May has just announced a new aid package.

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THERESA MAY, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: They have announced an additional 25 million pounds to support recovery efforts further to the 32 million pounds

of assistance I announced last week.

We have now deployed over 1,000 military personnel to the region with an additional 200 to arrive in the next few days along with over 60 police.

And more than 40 tons of aid has now arrived.

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LU STOUT: Hurricane Irma killed at least 38 people in the Caribbean and destroyed homes, and livelihoods of countless families. Clarissa Ward

tells us how some of the French territories are hoping to move forward.

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CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The island of Saint Martin, last week one of the jewels of the Caribbean, now a paradise lost.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Not a day went by she says without us thinking that we were very lucky to live on this idyllic island.

Today it is just complete chaos.

[08:20:00] WARD: Six days after Irma pummeled Saint Martin officials say more than 90 percent of the buildings on the island are damaged or

destroyed, food and water are still scarce, power remains out for most. Thousands of tourists were stranded for days.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was horrifying.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely horrifying. I have never been that scared in my life.

WARD: The desperation has led to looting and violence with reports not yet confirmed by CNN of armed men roaming the streets. Doctor Lachlan and Kay

Anne McClay were vacationing at this resort on St. Martin when Irma struck.

McClay spent several days caring for the injured but also found himself forced to stand guard against looters, sharing this text with a colleague

back home.

Military is trying to control chaos but nothing is safe after dark. Lots of looting. I was on patrol last night with machete until sun came up.

And the story is much the same all across the hard-hit Caribbean. On the British Virgin Islands one resident told CNN that the situation is only

getting worse.

KENNEDY BANDA, HOME DESTROYED BY HURRICANE IRMA: The supermarkets here, they doubled their prices. The gas stations have doubled their prices. So

we'll run out of cash. It's just scary. And now I was at a gas station trying to buy gas when a guy on a motorbike came up and pulled out a gun.

WARD: Help has been slow to arrive to many of the islands where people are struggling to go get by day to day. And long term officials say full

recovery may be years away. Clarissa Ward, CNN, Guadeloupe.

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LU STOUT: Each day we are getting a clear picture of just how extreme the devastation is in some parts of the Caribbean and some of the satellite

images are most telling on top, that's how the U.S. and British Virgin Islands appeared before Irma, and then how they look now.

Most of the vegetation is gone. It's been uprooted. Now here is a side- by-side comparison of the Island Virgin Gorda. Now Irma essentially changed its color and this will bring up Barbuda and Antigua.

Almost every building in Barbuda was destroyed or severely damaged and now to St. Maarten and the power of the press but literally electricity is out

virtually everywhere on the island.

Reporter Cyril Vanier made it out of the dark to a local newspaper that is still on assignments to the destruction. He files this report Tuesday

night.

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CYRIL VANIER, CNN ANCHOR: I just want to show you the first impression you get when you get to St. Maarten. We're on the Dutch side right now and

when the sun sets. This is it.

There's no light. There's so little power on the island right now, so all along, down that street, there's an insurance, there's a pizzeria, there's

a furniture store and many other stores, only two of them still have a light that's running.

We're actually very fortunate because the biggest newspaper on the island, The Daily Herald, has agreed to let us sleep here. They've got power.

They're one of the rare people, for them, the power is working.

So, the power company is actually going house to house, one by one. They've got to make sure there are no live wires before they could turn it

on. We're very fortunate.

But let me show you a couple things that are absolutely necessary right now in St. Maarten. This is a generator. The few lights that are on in the

island, either they're one of the fortunate ones that have the power turned back on or they have a generator.

If they have a generator, then they need some of this, they need the gasoline, but the gas stations, they're all closed and that buys you in

this building about two hours of power. Let me show you this way.

So, these are the guys who have allowed us to stay here and that is the only reason we can even put this broadcast out there. One of the few

things, Tom, I know you're camera shy, I know you didn't want to talk about this, but when you talk to people, this is what happens. Where -- why are

you sleeping here?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The roof of my house is gone.

VANIER: You can't sleep in your house anymore?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once it gets a little bit better fixed I will be, yes, but that's going to be a while.

VANIER: All right. So, for the moment, Tom is one of the very -- one of the many, many people who's homeless. We can put it that way and who's

sleeping here with his wife. He's part of the sports section at the paper.

Let me show you this. This is a lifeline. I was telling you about the gasoline. We consider that this is about two hours of power and with

everything that's been filled up, we have maybe two days of power. Once that goes out, not much we can do.

And this is the printing press. They can't print anymore because this requires water. There's no water. It's essentially what the Dutch marines

are giving you in terms of water.

This is the last newspaper they printed on Tuesday. It was the day before the hurricane hit. And this is the headline. Businesses must close at

noon, curfew 8:00 P.M.

[08:25:00] Now, with all this, there's one glimmer of hope which is we've learned now that tomorrow, two things are going to reopen that are key to a

normal functioning life here in St. Maarten.

And that is supermarkets, a couple of supermarkets have said that they're reopening on Wednesday. That's going to bring a great relief if they do

open to the population of St. Maarten.

And gas stations, as well, a couple of them, have warned that they will reopen. There will be security to ensure that it's done in an orderly

fashion. It's the very, very beginning of life restarting in St. Maarten.

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LU STOUT: A very, very compelling report of what life is like in one corner of the deaf side of Saint Maarten. That was CNN's Cyril Vanier

reporting there.

In Florida, there are 12 hurricane Irma related fatalities. In the Florida Keys the race is on to restore power and water to the chain of islands

where officials say 25 percent of homes had been destroyed.

Millions are without electricity across five southeastern states. Tens of thousands of repair crews from as far away as Canada are working round-the-

clock.

It is a frightening journey for residents of the Florida Keys who fled the approaching hurricane Irma and they return home has plenty of obstacles, as

Kyung Lah tells us patients is in short supply.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Waiting throughout the night. The lined-up cars are stretching and growing as dawn breaks.

HEIDI NEUZIL, CITIZEN OF FLORIDA: I want to go home. I want to see my home. I want to see that we have a home.

LAH: Heidi and Allan Neuzil, out of their Key Largo house since Irma hit. Fear and anxiety growing by the minute as they wait.

ALLAN NEUZIL, CITIZEN OF FLORIDA: My house, where I pay taxes, and I'm not allowed to get in here. I

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I stayed five days in the (BLEEP)...

LAH: Before tempers flare ever more, 7:00 A.M., the first roadblock comes down. The evacuated, returning home for the first time since the

hurricane.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I thought this should never happen.

LAH: Cars moving down U.S.-1, the only highway in or out of the Florida Keys. If you had to describe in a few words, how you feel about all of

this, what would it be?

A. NEUZIL: Frustrated. Angry, but the whole situation, just launched in the news and not knowing what's going on with your house and everything,

your life.

LAH: You can see damage throughout Key Largo, Plantation, and Islamorada, but they're considered lucky compared to the lower Keys. In Islamorada,

Marilyn Ramos and her family are trying to look beyond their destroyed business.

MARILYN RAMOS, RESIDENT OF ISLAMORADA: Things aren't looking great right now. But we're just trying to clean up and do the best that we can.

LAH: While the residents of some Keys got their answers today, others did not. This is the new roadblock, another obstacle that has to wait for to

get passed. Beyond the roadblock, the door by door search and rescue continues. The people who stayed behind, how desperate are they?

MANNY LEON, FIRE RESCUER, MONROE COUNTY, FLORIDA: Like everyone else, you know, wanting food, and water, and wondering when the electricity is going

to come back, and this is going to be a while.

LAH: Back in Key Largo, Allan and Heidi Nusal get their first look at their home.

H. NEUZL: Oh, my God the roof.

LAH: Irma toppled five tall trees, crushing them in their boat and their house -- a mess of debris. Damage, limited to one corner of the roof, and

their boat, inside, it's dry. Seeing the house, are you OK?

A. NEUZIL: Now? Right now, I'm OK. Right now, my family is OK. I'm OK.

LAH: Kyung Lah, CNN, Islamorada, Florida.

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LU STOUT: Still to come right here on News Stream, a show of force on the Korean Peninsula. The South Korean and U.S. military is conducting live

fire drills in mid heightened tensions across the region and we'll take you there.

Also ahead, everything you need to know about Apple's latest phone, what new features you will find on the iPhone X, that, straight ahead.

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream." These are your world headlines.

South Korea has conducted its first live-fire drill of a long-range air-to- surface missile. It's known as Taurus. It has range of 500 kilometers that's capable of hitting Pyongyang. This comes more than a week after

North Korea claimed it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb.

The U.N. Security Council will meet in the coming hours to discuss the Rohingya crisis. U.N. says more than 370,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled

Myanmar from Bangladesh in the past three days and weeks. Myanmar says its military operation in Rakhine State is targeting Rohingya militants, enough

civilians, but the U.N. human rights chief says the crackdown looks like a quote, "textbook example of ethnic cleansing."

The British government is pushing back against criticism that it did react quickly enough in responding to Hurricane Irma. It says a thousand military

troops are delivering shelter kits, clean water, and other supplies to the Caribbean. The government also announced today it's increasing its donation

to aid agencies.

For the first time, a woman has become president of Singapore. The former speaker of Parliament, Halimah Yacob, was the only candidate qualified to

run. That's after new rules are put in place stating the next president must be Malay. It is designed to ensure better racial representation.

Let's return to the standoff on the Korean Peninsula. From North Korea's perspective, the U.S. is a constant threat, raising tensions by conducting

military jewels of the South, but Washington also believes that those joint drills are crucial. Paula Hancocks has more.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, this U.S. marine division has come over from Japan to carry out this live-fire drill

alongside the South Korean counterpart. They say it's very important to be training with the South Koreans so that if need be, they can then fight

alongside them.

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HANCOCKS (voice-over): Engaging in imaginary enemy. The combined force of tanks, artillery, and ground fire. Two countries, united on the

battlefield. South Korean air support covers for U.S. marines on the ground.

The U.S. military says that this kind of live-fire drill is vital to make sure that they know how to cooperate, to communicate, to fight alongside

the South Korean counterparts. So, this is why this training happens throughout the year here in South Korea. Of course, they say that they

don't have a specific enemy in mind while they're doing this drill. It's not necessarily how North Korea sees it.

CAPT. DAVID ROOKS, FIRST BATTALION, U.S. MARINE: U.S. marines are always prepared for a fight. It doesn't really matter who's on there. And you

know, we're -- we do our best to not specify a particular enemy.

HANCOCKS (voice-over): Pyongyang has called joint exercises radical and dangerous. Proof of a hostile American policy intent on invading the north.

But for the U.S. Third Marine Division, if you don't train, you can't fight.

NICOLAS DUNCAN, MARINE GUNNER, U.S. MARINE: It's really there to build and strengthen that bond that we have with them. That way, we have a common

understanding for that combined approach to conflict. So, it allows us to be able to shoot, move and communicate across the battlefield

[08:35:00] or wherever that battlefield may be at.

HANCOCKS (voice-over): Two nationalities fight side-by-side, showing Pyongyang: if you engage one, you fight both.

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HANCOCKS: China and Russia said that they would like to see this live-fire drill put on hold so that in return, North Korea could freeze their

military and nuclear program. It is a suggestion that the U.S. will not accept. They have called it insulting. Kristie?

LU STOUT: All right. Paula Hancocks on the joint military drill between the U.S. and South Korea there.

Ten years after the launch of the first iPhone, Apple has debut the iPhone 10. There were few surprises given that they already leaked details before

the launch. Even the $1,000 price tag was expected. Besides iPhone 10, Apply also introduced an iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, an Apple watch with cellular

connection, and an Apple TV that streams 4K video.

Let's take a look at what new about the iPhone 10. For starters, the screen covers the entire front, that means the home button is gone. To get to the

home screen, you swipe up from the button, and no home means no fingerprint sensor. That's replaced by what's called face I.D., you unlock phone by

just looking at it.

Another thing that can be a thing of the past, charging cables. Just like the 8s and 8 Plus, the 10 supports wireless charging. To charge the phone,

you rest the back on a special surface, but you can still plug it in if you want to. It is not the first time Apple has removed seemingly important

parts of the smartphone. Just last year, it ditched the headphone jack for iPhone 7, replacing it with the wireless EarPods.

You're watching "News Stream." Coming up next, the Fashion Police are after Donald Trump's former advisor, Steve Bannon. We will tell what they is also

wrong about his layering.

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SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I'm not aware that that was ever discussed. And we certainly don't book their hotel

accommodations, so I couldn't speak to the personal decision they made about where to stay here in D.C.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Has there been any sort of attempt to curry favor with the president?

SANDERS: No, I don't.

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LU STOUT: The U.S. Justice Department is looking into billions of dollars of Mr. Najib's (ph) assets that the U.S. claims were acquired using a

government fund that laundered through American firms. He denies any wrongdoing.

Former top advisor to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is striking a much softer tone on China now that he's left the White House. He delivered a keynote

address here in Hong Kong on Tuesday on the subject of American economic nationalism, the populist revolt in Asia. He was complimentary of China's

leadership, even praising Chinese President Xi Jinping. It was a very different tone than just last week when in an interview with The New York

Times,

[08:40:00] he compared China to Germany before the rise of the Nazis. Bannon also said that he thinks a trade war with China can be avoided. Just

before leaving the White House in August, he told the American Prospect that he was fighting for more aggressive trade actions against Beijing

every day.

On a much lighter note, Steve Bannon is a subject meanwhile of a mystery and conspiracy theory of sorts. Jeanne Moos reports.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Steve Bannon has been a favorite late-night target.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His chief strategist and human sloppy Joe, how long was this guy floating in the harbor?

MOOS (voice-over): And his "60 Minutes" interview only made things worse.

STEVE BANNON, FORMER WHITE HOUSE CHIEF STRATEGIST: I'm a street fighter. That's what I am.

MOOS: The Fashion Police definitely had Steve Bannon collared colored (ph) twice for literally wearing two button-down shirts, black on black in this

case, but he has worn different colors one atop the other before. GQ asserted Steve Bannon doesn't understand layering, advising one color at a

time, please. But conservative photographer Peter Duke got hot under the collar with a theory that went viral.

PETER DUKE, CONSERVATIVE PHOTOGRAPHER (voice-over): The first thing that I noticed was, that there were red circles around his eyes and his lips were

cherry-red

MOOS (voice-over): Duke made a video caption, "60 Minutes" and CVS want you to think Steve Bannon is a red eyed monster, suggesting the network over-

saturated the color on Bannon to make it most bleary-eyed, but when you cool down the color --

DUKE (voice-over): The blood-shot eyes are gone. And Steve doesn't look like the monster that they want you to think that he is.

MOOS (voice-over): It's nonsense as a spokesman for "60 Minutes." A veteran television colorist told CNN, in his opinion, all they did was warm him up,

standard practice to quote, "pump a little light into a pasty white person." Watch them colorize me. Editor, warm me up, cool me down.

Still, Bannon fans cried foul. Dirty trick by CBS, sad. (INAUDIBLE) suggested, Steve Bannon should send a gift basket to the makeup artist and

lighting directors for CBS for making him look better.

There is no question "The Tonight Show" warmed up Bannon by adding shirts.

BANNON: We have to focus on American citizens.

CHARLIE ROSE, CHARLIE ROSE SHOW HOST: So what would you do with the people who came here?

STEVE BANNON: I think --

CHARLIE ROSE: Tell me what you would do.

STEVE BANNON: As the work permits run out, they self-deport.

CHARLIE ROSE: They self-deport.

STEVE BANNON: Yes.

MOOS (voice-over): Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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LU STOUT: But at least he doesn't pop the collars. That is "News Stream." I'm Kristie Lu Stout, but don't go anywhere, "World Sport" with Alex Thomas

is next.

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