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Deadline for Myanmar and Bangladesh to begin repatriation; Bookseller's daughter: Chinese agents abducted him; U.S. government reopens after three-day shutdown; Indian PM: answer to globalization is not isolation; German killer nurse charged with 97 more murders. Aired at 8-9a ET

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

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LU STOUT: The deadline has arrived for the repatriation of Rohingya Muslims but many don't want to go back to Myanmar. And the U.N. warns of

awful conditions there.

Another 97 counts of murder for a nurse Germany who is already serving a life sentence gets charged again. And a short-term fix ends the U.S.

government shutdown. But lawmakers are still waiting for a long-term immigration deal.

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LU STOUT: Five months after hundreds of thousands of Rohingya began fleeing Myanmar to Bangladesh. They're now facing the prospect of being

sent back to overcrowded camps in Myanmar's Rakhine State.

Tuesday is the deadline for Bangladesh and Myanmar to officially begin the repatriation process. Our senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward

joins us now live with more on the story. And, Clarissa, do the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh even want to return to Myanmar?

CLARISSA WARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well I think some of them, Kristie, are open to the idea. But one thing is for sure, all of the Rohingya refugee

who is we spoke to during our time in those camps were very clear about one thing, which is that they would not even begin to contemplate returning to

Myanmar unless specific measures were put in place, A, to guarantee their security, but B, also to insure that he have an actual classification as a

minority group in Myanmar.

Currently, according to Myanmar's classification of minority groups, the Rohingya don't even exist. So many people fear that this repatriation

agreement is doomed to fail before it has even really begun. Take a look.

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WARD: They're fleeing for their lives. After an arduous ten day journey, these Rohingya refugees have made it to safety in Bangladesh. Dazed and

exhausted but safe for now from the horrors they escaped in Myanmar.

"My son was killed by the Myanmar army," this man says, "and still I stayed there but then they destroyed my house so there was no place for me to

stay."

Mohammed left with 43 others from his village, more than half of them women and children. Now they're being told to return to the place that nearly

killed them as official vetting in the repatriation process begins.

But the grim reality is that the crisis in Myanmar is far from over. "Girls were unable to sleep there at night. They would stay awake in fear

of the military," this woman says. "They used to harm us, harass us, hurt us, there was sorrow and tears everywhere."

The families will join some 650,000 other Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh, who have fled Myanmar since late August, when an attack by Rohingya

militants on security forces sparked a brutal crackdown by the army with widespread reports of rape, murder and villages burned to the ground.

Now as the prospect of a return to danger looms, protests are taking place in the refugee camps. Many say they will only return home with guarantees

of their security. And aid agencies say that is still far from certain.

KEVIN ALLEN, UNHCR COX'S BAZAR: Any decision to return has to be voluntary. It has to occur in conditions of safety and dignity, and it has

to be sustainable. To ensure that this happens, there is a lot of work that needs to occur.

WARD: A key concern, that returnees will be sent to internment camps inside Myanmar with no timeline on when they can return to their villages.

"If the government of Bangladesh threatens to kill us by cutting our throats, we will not go even then," this woman says. "I would be happy to

die here because it's a Muslim country," this man says. "In there, they tortured us to death." The prospect of an easier death, now the only

comfort for a people who have come to expect nothing from this world.

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[08:05:05] WARD: Aside from the huge ethical issues that are hanging over this repatriation agreement which the Rohingya Muslims by and large say

they haven't even been consulted in this process, this is largely played out between the countries of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

But beyond that there are the logistical considerations, Kristie. We're talking about 650,000 people, how do you try to move them across that

border in an orderly fashion? Where do they end up? Where do they sleep? Where do they settle? Still, a lot of questions with no answers. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Their fate is uncertain. And as you showcase in your reporting, we're again reminded of the incredibly difficult lives of the Rohingya.

As you point out, many of the refugees don't want to be repatriated. They fear for their safety. They certainly don't want to stay in overcrowded

camps, either. So, is there another option for them?

WARD: At the moment there is no other option for them. The situation in Bangladesh is clearly not sustainable. Bangladesh is a very poor country.

It's a very over-populated country. These camps have been forced.

They've been improvised out of nothing in a matter of months. And they simply aren't sustainable. So it's in the interests of all parties to try

to find a solution to dealing with this massive, massive refugee crisis.

But at the same time, it has to be a solution, surely that guarantees the safety and security of these people who have already fled these horrifying

acts. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Absolutely. Clarissa Ward, reporting live for us, thank you. Earlier I spoke with Marixie Mercado. She is a spokeswoman for UNICEF, and

has recently been inside Rakhine State in Myanmar and spoke directly affected. Now the photos that you're about to see are from UNICEF's most

recent trip to the region.

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MARIXIE MERCADO, SPOKESWOMAN UNICEF: I think there's still a really high level of fear among the Rohingya refugees about returning to Myanmar.

They -- the women and girls that I spoke to were clearly traumatized by what they had gone through. The children spoke things -- of horrific

events happening to them.

And for these peopled it is absolutely imperative that they do not be made to suffer any more. Any return needs to be voluntary, it needs to be safe.

It needs to be dignified. People need to now that they are safe before they can go back.

LU STOUT: And especially children. You were recently inside Rahkine State. What is the situation for children there? How many Rohingya

children were being trapped there?

MERCADO: I went to the northern part of the state, which is where the vast majority of the Rohingya have fled from this period of violence.

But I also spent a lot more time in the central part of the state where over 120,000 Rohingya, more than half of whom are children, remain trapped

in camps that they were driven into by violence back in 2012.

And in the worst of these camps, the conditions are absolutely appalling. They are extremely isolated. You can only get to them by a four or five-

hour boat ride that we use to deliver supplies.

In the worst camps, the water and sanitation situation particularly is stomach-churning. Parts of the camps are literally cesspools, and you see

children walking in muck.

In of the camps that I visited, the one ask of camp manager was just to have proper pathways in the camp, so that children -- so that they, the

whole community did not have to walk in their own waste. Nobody -- no child should have to live in those camps.

And what's actually -- what really struck me was that for some children, these camps are all they know. They were born there. They've never been

outside.

Even in one of the less appalling camps, a case worker told me that his teenaged daughter had committed suicide because she had a pain in her

abdomen that the camp health services couldn't treat. And she couldn't take it. So she just committed suicide.

LU STOUT: In such desperate conditions. Are there any children who have a chance to be a child to go to school and to have a safe place to play?

MERCADO: One amazing fact that struck me was that, you actually have more children going to school in these camps than they were before they entered

the camps, which was an extraordinary feat.

The problem is that beyond primary school, there are very few spaces for Rohingya children to continue learning. For example there have been no

Muslims allowed in universities in Rakhine State since 2012.

[08:10:06] So one mother in one of the camps asked me, what's the point of learning? It's so important that children are able to be educated because

that is their entire future.

LU STOUT: So what is the solution? What is the solution to this crisis?

MERCADO: What's really important is that children are recognized as children, first and foremost. And that they are treated as children.

Which means that every child, whatever race, whatever religion, whatever circumstance, in all of Rakhine State is able to be educated, is able to

get health care, is given protection, is given a normal childhood.

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LU STOUT: And that was a spokeswoman of UNICEF speaking to me earlier. Now the Hong Kong-based bookseller Gui Minhai, has vanished again.

His daughter says Chinese agents have abducted him for a second time. But China's foreign ministry says it has no information on him. Gui, of curse,

made international headlines when he and four other Hong Kong based book sellers vanished in 2015 before turning up in Chinese police custody. Matt

Rivers has the latest.

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, when Gui Minhai first disappeared along with those four other book sellers back in 2015, it was a

massive story.

And back then, the Chinese government was less than transparent when it came to really talking factually about what happened, at least in those

initial stages and what we're seeing now, after this latest disappearance of Gui Minhai, second time disappearing. We're seeing yet again that the

Chinese government really isn't being very open with what happened.

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RIVERS: An escalation, that's how Gui Minhai's daughter described what happened to the Swedish bookseller on Saturday in his ongoing battle with

Chinese authorities. Angela Gui told Radio Sweden that her father was on a train, traveling from Eastern China to Beijing, accompanied by two Swedish

diplomats.

ANGELA GUI, DAUGHTER OF ABDUCTED BOOKSELLER (via phone): They were on the train for about five hours, I think, at on of the stops before Beijing,

there were about ten men in plainclothes that came in, and said they were from the police, and just grabbed him and just took him away. And after

that, I've not heard anything.

RIVERS: Gui said her father, a Swedish citizen and former Hong Kong based book publisher was traveling to see a doctor at the Swedish embassy because

he assume symptoms of ALS, hydro generative and fatal disease.

Swedish's consul general in Hong Kong told CNN, quote, we are fully aware of the incident involving Swedish citizen Gui Minhai on Saturday. We are

in constant communication with Chinese officials and we are treating the case with the utmost seriousness. The consul general wouldn't say whether

Swedish officials had been in direct contact with Gui Minhai.

This is not the first time Gui has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. Gui was one of five booksellers in Hong Kong who

disappeared in late 2015.

They cease through the ire of Beijing for selling books featuring political gossip about Chinese government officials, publications that are banned on

the mainland.

The disappearance sparked massive protests in Hong Kong where critics said the Chinese government had no right to detain a Swedish citizen. Many said

it amounted to extra judicial kidnapping.

Gui eventually reappeared in what looked to be a staged confession on Chinese state-run TV. The Chinese had alleged he was involved in a hit-

and-run case 2003.

Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Gui was released in October of last year. His daughter told a Swedish radio station that he was actually

put in a police run flat in Ningguo City and was under surveillance. Angela Gui believes his sudden disappearance on Saturday amounts to one

thing.

GUI: I think it's quite clear that he is being abducted again. That he's now -- that is held somewhere at a secret location, especially given his

health status. I think that's very worrying.

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RIVERS: And, Kristie, just to expand a little bit more on that no comment from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it was at a press briefing earlier

this afternoon where reporters asked the spokeswoman there that regularly scheduled press briefing, what happened in this case.

Her response time and again, was that reporters should ask the relevant authorities as she put it, when reporters then countered and said, well,

who are those relevant authorities, who should we be posing questions to, time and again the spokeswoman chose not to answer. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Matt Rivers there. You're watching News Stream. And still ahead, the U.S. government is back open for business. But who is to blame

for the three-day shutdown? That depends on who you ask.

Plus India's Narendra Modi gives the keynote address at Davos. What he said about globalization from the world's most prominent business and

political leaders.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is News Stream. Now, British regulators says the government should block Rupert

Murdoch's planned takeover of Sky TV. That deal is worth $16 billion.

The competition in markets, authorities says, if 21st Century Fox takes over Sky, Murdoch would have too much control over British media. The

mogul already owns three of Britain's biggest newspapers.

In the United States, crisis averted for now. The three-day U.S. government shutdown is over. And the House and Senate approved a short-

term spending bill to keep government running until February 8th. So who won and who lost in this controversial deal? CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports

from Washington.

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KAITLAN COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Trump touting the end of the government shutdown as a big win for Republicans. In signaling a

willingness to broker a deal on DREAMers and border treaty, tweeting, see you at the negotiating table. Sources tell CNN that Mr. Trump is eager to

rebut criticism that he did little to help end the shutdown.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D), MINORITY LEADER: The great deal-making president sat on the sidelines.

COLLINS: Aides say Mr. Trump's low profile was intentional. The White House insisting the president had an impact.

SARAH HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Look, what the president did clearly worked.

COLLINS: But offering little clarity about Mr. Trump's position about the path forward for DREAMers.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Status versus pathway to citizenship, or does it not matter to the president?

SANDERS: I think that's part of the negotiating process. But right now, we did not want a permanent solution for that program.

COLLINS: The chairman of the Republican conference telling CNN that Mr. Trump is key to any immigration solution succeeding in the House.

SEN. JOHN THUNE (R), SOUTH DAKOTA: His role will be an important one, and I expect that we will be hearing from him early and often now once the

discussions get under way.

COLLINS: Sources tell CNN the deal to reopen the government was due, in part, to promises from Senate Majority Leader McConnell to hold a vote on

immigration in the coming weeks.

SEN. ANGUS KING (I), MAINE: It's a much more explicit commitment, and that's what I think made the difference.

COLLINS: But Minority Leader Schumer's decision to concede and accept McConnell's commitment prompting backlash from progressives, including the

16 Democrats that voted against the short-term resolution.

SEN. JEFF MERKLEY (D), OREGON: I do not trust him at all. He has promised Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins, Jeff Flake, make promises, commitments

that he has not honored.

COLLINS: Distrust in Washington is nothing new. It now extends to the FBI, given President Trump's very public war with the nation's top law

enforcement agency.

A new report from Axios claims that the FBI director, Christopher Wray, threatened to resign amid pressure from Attorney General Jeff Sessions to

fire the FBI's outgoing deputy director, Andrew McCabe.

[08:20:00] President Trump has repeatedly targeted McCabe over his handling of the Hillary Clinton e-mail investigation and his loyalty to fired FBI

director James Comey.

Suggesting McCabe is biased and questioning why Sessions has not replaced him, the White House insisting in a statement that the president supports

Director Wray but asserting the politically-motivated senior leaders have tainted the FBI's reputation.

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LU STOUT: That was CNN White House reporter Kaitlan Collins reporting there. China and South Korea have expressed objections to tariffs impose

by the U.S. saying that they are detrimental to global trade.

The United States slapping a tax on large washing machines from 20 percent to 50 percent, and the 30 percent tax will be applied to imported solar

panels, most coming from China. That is to gradually fall to 15 percent in four years time.

The World Economic Forum is underway in Davos Switzerland where the Indian prime minister just gave the keynote address. In front of some of the

world's most important business and political leaders, he warned that globalization is losing its luster.

And said the solution is not isolation, but rather understanding. Our international diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson is there in Vertical Davos,

Switzerland. He joins us now live. Nic, thank you for joining us.

Narendra Modi, he just delivered the big opening address. Of course, he addressed globalization, a key emerging topic there. But, did he also tout

as expected, a new India under his leadership?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, that was part of his message as well. But I think for many of those leaders sitting in the room today,

knowing that President Trump is coming at the end of the week and knowing President Trump is very much in America first, not for free trade, his idea

of tackling globalization is one that looks to those types of tariffs.

He was just talking about want to trade that he says is fair and balance. So in many ways, the Indian prime minister here, the big thrust or the

take-away for a lot of people here, not only about, you know, the future and India's place in the future.

But really the whole issue of tackling globalization, laying out clearly a message that this antithetical to President Trump's view and vision of the

world, that -- that protectionism is raising its head in the face globalization. This is how he phrased that.

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NARENDRA MODI, INDIAN PRIME MINISTER (through a translator): Forces of protectionism are raising their heads against globalization. Their

intention is not only to avoid globalization themselves but they also want to reverse its natural flow.

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ROBERTSON: So the message there and the continuation of it, very much aimed at President Trump. Isolation he said is not the way to go, you

know, putting yourself first and isolating yourself from the rest of the world is not the way to tackle globalization.

It is accepting that change is happening and finding agile solutions and flexible solutions to deal with it. So rather than turn your back on it,

which is a message if you will for President Trump, it is see it, understand it, embrace it and deal with it.

And that really broadly speaking is about what this economic forum is about. It is about embracing the changes that have happened across the

planet and finding a way to deal with them.

So that message I think here, the Indian prime minister's keynote speech at the beginning and President Trump will bookend it with his own speech, the

ending speech on Friday here. Kristie.

LU STOUT: And Narendra Modi, with you know, embracing globalization. He is setting the tone of this globalist event, Davos, every single year.

What is the mood among the participants there ahead of the U.S. president's arrival? The America-first president will soon be there, he's going to be

speaking on Friday. Is Davos bracing for the arrival of Trump? Or do they think perhaps they could see a changed man?

ROBERTSON: I don't think anyone here is expecting change. I'm not sure that they will be bracing because certainly they're very aware of his

reputation and what he has done, and said over the past year.

That he has stood against, if you will, the ideas and ethos of gatherings like this. He has taken the United States out of the global climate change

agreement. He has removed himself from sort of working in a -- in a global environment, who wants to work more on a bilateral environment.

There are speeches today, Cate Blanchett, the actress will be talking about refugees. The aim here is to sort of find a shared future in a fractured

world, and what does that mean.

Well in the context or refugees, it means for example all the migrants that are coming across the Mediterranean from Libya, and sub-Saharan Africa, it

is understanding that globalization is in a position now on the planet where people will move continents in numbers to find work.

[08:25:08] So how does the world deal with that? Very sort of big picture solutions and that is not something President Trump has shown a great deal

of affinity for, an acumen for in dealing with the nuances and his own messaging about how to deal with that.

So you know, what he's going to find here is going to come at the end of the week and speak after. We've heard from people like Angela Merkel, the

German Chancellor, Emmanuel Macron, the French president and Theresa May, the British Prime Minister.

Today, you will have also the -- you know, the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the Norwegian prime minister, as well, Erna Solberg.

All putting their views out and they're going to be one side, I think we can expect, representing their own national interests like the Indian Prime

Minister, but also setting out a much bigger, more collaborative global agenda.

And I think, you know, the impression that people here have at the moment is that President Trump, although he will be able to buskin some of what

Christine Lagarde, the IMF chief said yesterday, that President Trump's drawing down of some U.S. taxes is aiding the sort of broad spectrum global

economic.

At least this year and next year, he'll be able to buskin some of that sort of praise if you will. There will be a broader narrative here, that he is

one that he is somewhat out of step with but that's the President Trump that many global leaders have already come to sort of know and accept to a

degree.

LU STOUT: Yes, expecting Trump to arrive as Trump, as a disrupter, as the America-first Trump. Not necessarily the Davos man. Nic Robertson

reporting live from Davos, Switzerland. Thank you.

And this programming note for you, during Richard Quest, we will have a special edition of CNN Money, live from Davos that is starting in about 30

minutes, right here on CNN.

A German nurse has once again been charged with murdering patients. He now faces 97 cases of murder. Now prosecutors say he killed his patients out

of boredom. He is currently serving a life sentence for killing six people.

And, CNN's Atika Shubert joins us now love from Berlin. What a horrendous story, Atika, and the nurse intentionally bringing about the deaths of

close to 100 people and he did this out of boredom?

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well it's not quite boredom. I mean this was a case that Germany has been following now for years. He was

already sentenced for -- on charges of six different murders.

And when investigators looked back at those murders, they found traces of certain drugs in the patients' bodies and what they suspected is that this

nurse was injecting the drugs into the patients in order to then revive them and then proclaim a hero.

And when they went and look back, they did weeks and months of toxicology tests and so forth. And what they realized is that they had, you know,

possibly 97 different murder cases on their hands.

And so this is what's happened today, the prosecutor has charged the nurse with 97 of more of these murders. And again, it's not necessarily out of

boredom exactly.

But apparently in court this nurse, known here as Niels H for privacy reasons, has said he did it because he had a certain amount of euphoria,

whenever he was able to revive a patient.

But then, if he failed, he fell into this despair and it was this sort of cycle where he would then inject another patient with drugs in the hope

that he would be able to experience that euphoria of saving another life again. So it is a very strange and bizarre case. And of course the death

toll of at least 97 murders now.

LU STOUT: Such chilling scope. Atika Shubert reporting live from Berlin. Thank you, Atika. You are watching News Stream. And up next, a former

North Korean spy has a warning for South Korean leaders, don't trust the North. Coming up here, her story of how she was taught to hate and taught

to attack South Korea.

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[08:30:00] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN NEWS STREAM SHOW HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching "News Stream" and these are your world

headlines.

Tuesday marks the deadline for Bangladesh and Myanmar to start the repatriation process for Rohingya refugees. Hundreds of thousands fled

violence in Myanmar's Rakhine State. Bangladesh says the repatriation process will take two years.

The daughter of Gui Minhai, a Swedish citizen and Hong Kong-based bookseller, says her father has been abducted by Chinese agents and this is

the second time in just over two years that Gui has been reportedly seized by Chinese agents. The Swedish Foreign Ministry has summoned the Chinese

ambassador over the issue.

The three-day U.S. government shutdown has come to an end. President Trump signed a bill to fund the government until February the 8th. Democrats

agreed to that after the top Senate Republican promised his intention to take up the immigration debate. Mr. Trump says the Democrats caved,

tweeting this, quote, see you at the negotiating table.

With the government backup and running, Mr. Trump is to join business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Indian prime

minister, Narendra Modi, just gave the keynote address. He said globalization is losing its luster and protectionism is gaining ground.

South Korean leaders are hoping that next month's Winter Games will help diffuse tensions with Pyongyang, but a former North Korean spy is warning,

do not trust North Korea. She spoke with Paul Hancocks, telling her that 30 years ago, she was personally ordered by the regime to blow up a South

Korean passenger plane.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Kim Hyon-hui doesn't look like a terrorist. A softly-spoken mother of two. Only her

hands give away a traumatic past. Plucked from university at 18 for her language skills, recruited by the Workers Party to be a North Korean spy.

I was chosen amount a lot of other people, Kim tells me. "I felt some pride, at least at that time."

Seven years and eight months of training in ideology, martial arts, shooting, survival in the wild. Then she received her first assignment.

The mission was to block the upcoming 1988 Seoul Olympic Games, she says, to threaten the South by bringing down one of their planes. "I was nervous,

I was worried I wouldn't be successful."

Kim and a fellow agent boarded Korean Airlines 858 in Baghdad, Iraq, disembarking at a layover in Abu Dhabi before the plane continued on to

Seoul, but it never made it. The bomb Kim had placed in an overhead locker detonated over the Andaman Sea near Myanmar. All 115 people on board the

airliner were killed.

The bomb was a small Panasonic radio, she says. "Behind that were the batteries. North Korea built it so half of it acted as an explosive with

chemicals and the other half could be used as a regular radio."

From the moment I entered the South Korean plane, Kim says. "I thought I was in enemy territory. That's how I had been trained. I was very nervous.

For one moment the thought of, these people will die, crossed my mind. I was surprised when I thought that. I felt I was being weak. I was doing

this for unification."

Kim and her accomplished were caught in Bahrain after handing over the wrong ticket with a fake passport. Her comrade killed himself by swallowing

cyanide. Kim bit her suicide capsule but survived.

Brought back to Seoul, interrogated for two years before receiving the death sentence, only to be pardoned by then President Roh Tae-woo who saw

her as a victim as much as those who died at her hands.

Kim says she was overwhelmed with guilt, thinking about the victims' families, about her own family

[08:35:00] who she says, would certainly have been sent to a concentration camp. She later heard rumors her parents had died.

Fighting back tears, she explains why she needs to keep talking about this today. Thirty years on, North Korea will now be part of South Korea's

Olympics next month. They have not changed at all, she says. "They are using South Korea to overcome their difficulties. To achieve their goal,

they execute their own siblings, families. Do not be fooled. North Korea has not changed at all."

The late Kim Jong-il personally ordered the bombing of Korean Airlines 858, she says. And she believes his son and current leader Kim Jong-un would not

hesitate to revert to terrorism if talks do not get him what he wants.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.

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LU STOUT: Now, forecasters have canceled a tsunami warning for the west coasts of the U.S. and Canada. The warnings were triggered when a 7.9

magnitude earthquake struck in Gulf of Alaska near the city of Kodiak.

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LU STOUT (voice over): That was the sound of warning sirens going off, although the warnings have been canceled. In San Francisco, officials are

warning residents to stay away from teh coast for 12 hours.

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LU STOUT: A Japanese soldier has been killed by falling rocks after a volcanic eruption in central Japan. The volcano is near a popular ski

resort. This eruption spits ash and rocks across the mountain valley.

The soldier was participating in a training exercise on the mountain at the time of the eruption. At least 10 people were injured, including five of

Japan's self-defense force personnel. Authorities issued a level three alert, warning residents not to approach the volcano.

You are watching "News Stream." Still ahead in the program, we got the nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards, just moments away. We are

going to be live in Los Angeles, after the break.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is "News Stream."

He is a legend. The legendary singer-songwriter Neil Diamond says that he is retiring from touring after being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

But Diamond says he will continue to write, to record, and to work on new projects. Diamond turns 77 on Wednesday. His biggest hits include "Sweet

Caroline," "Song Sung Blue" and "Cracklin' Rosie"

Now, it is Hollywood's biggest night. I am talking about the Oscars. The nominations for the 90th Annual Academy Awards are currently underway in

Los Angeles. Let's listen in.

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TIFFANY HADDISH, AMERICAN COMEDIAN: For performance by an actor in a supporting role: Willen Dafoe in "The Florida Project," Woody Harrelson in

"Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri."

ANDY SERKIS, FILM ACTOR: Yes.

HADDISH: Richard Jenkins in "The Shape of Water," Christopher Plummer in "All The Money in the World," and Sam Rockwell in "Three Billboards Outside

Ebbing, Missouri."

[08:40:00] SERKIS: For best foreign language film: "A Fantastic Woman," Chile; "The Insult," Lebanon; "Loveless," Russia; "On Body and Soul,"

Hungary; and "The Square," Sweden.

HADDISH: For best documentary short subject: "Edith and Eddie," "Heaven is a Traffic Jam on the 405," "Heroin," "Knife Skills," and "Traffic Stop"

All these titles make a woman from an urban are very uncomfortable.

(LAUGHTER)

I'm just saying.

SERKIS: For best documentary feature: "Abacus: Small Enough to Jail," "Faces Places," "Icarus," "Last Men in Aleppo," and "Strong Island"

HADDISH: For original song: "Mighty River" from "Mudbound," "Mystery of Love" from "Call Me By Your Name," "Remember Me" from "Coco," "Stand Up for

Something" from "Marshall," and "This is Me" from "The Greatest Showman."

SERKIS: For best animated feature film: "The Boss Baby," "The Breadwinner," "Coco," "Ferdinand," and "Loving Vincent."

HADDISH: Here are the nominees for adaptation screenplay: "Call Me by Your Name," James Ivory; "The Disaster Artist," Scott Neustadter and Michael H.

Wilber -- Weber!

SERKIS: Yes.

HADDISH: "Logan," Scott Frank and James Mangold and Michael Green; "Molly's Game," Aaron Sorkin; and "Mudbound," Virgil Williams and Dee Rees.

SERKIS: For original screenplay: "The Big Sick," Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani; "Get Out," Jordan Peele; "Lady Bird," Greta Gerwig; "The

Shape of Water," Guillermo del Toro and Vanessa Taylor; and "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," Martin McDonagh.

HADDISH: For performance by an actor in a leader role: Timothee Chalamet in "Call Me by Your Name," Daniel Day-Lewis in "Phanton Thread," Daniel

Kalaluya --

SERKIS: Kaluuya.

HADDISH: Yes. You know him. He knows his name -- in "Get Out."

(LAUGHTER)

HADDISH: Gary Oldman in "Darkest Hour" and Denzel Washington in "Roman J. Israel, Esq."

SERKIS: And for performance by an actress in the leading role: Sally Hawkins in "The Shape of Water,"

[08:45:00] Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri," Margot Robbie in "I, Tonya," Saoirse Ronan in "Lady Bird".

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