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

Unimaginable grief, crews search for remains from Lion Air flight 610 as Indonesian authorities inspect other aircraft of the same type.

A controversial visit, Donald Trump gets ready to head to Pittsburgh as families begin to hold funerals for the synagogue shooting victims.

And a wildlife U-turn, why China is undoing a ban on using tiger and rhino parts for medical purposes.

And we begin in Indonesia where the search area for crashed Lion Air flight JT 610 is expanding. Divers are looking not only for the bodies of 189

people on board, but also for the plane's main fuselage and flight data recorders.

Now, they've already recovered some passenger's remains as well as personal items like shoes and clothing. Ivan Watson reports from north Jakarta where

this wreckage is being brought as officials try to figure out why this brand new plane crashed.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is just one of more than 30 ships and aircraft involved in this difficult job now, trying

to locate missing Lion Air flight 610. And they've been bringing in these gruesome deliveries of debris from the plane as well as remains of some of

the 189 passengers and crew who were on board when it went down.

Another boat just arrived bringing in more debris from the Java Sea. I've seen some of the personal effects, including a child's shoe being brought

off of one of these vessels and I'm sad to say there's the smell of decomposition in the air from some of the human remains, as well.

The authorities have collected DNA from relatives to help with the difficult identification process. Meanwhile, the Indonesian president, Joko

Widodo, was here this afternoon personally inspecting a very complicated operation here.

The sun is setting here, but nobody is heading home anytime soon. The salvage effort still very much under way and it involves divers, under

water submersibles, sonar and men trying to sight debris from the sky and from the surface of the sea, as well.

Up until now, the authorities have not located the main fuselage of the plane nor have they found the data flight recorders, the black boxes that

could hopefully yield some information that could help solve the mystery of why a brand new Boeing 737 went hurdling out of the sky so soon after

liftoff.

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LU STOUT: This is a complicated operation. Ivan Watson joins us now with more on the search and recovery. And Ivan, does the search at sea continue

even at this hour? What's the latest?

WATSON: Yes, I mean, as you can see, nobody has packed up, the lights are still on out here and there's a massive effort under way because not only

do the authorities have the responsibility to find the remains of 189 passengers and crew, they are also still searching for the main fuselage

and the black box, the flight data recorders which hopefully will bring some answers and some closure to this tragic story, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Families of the victims, they're waiting for answers. The cause of the crash, you know, the black boxes yet to be retrieved, but ahead of

that, what are investigators focusing on right now?

WATSON: Well, there is that question of why did this brand new Boeing 737 go down. We do know that in the first minutes of takeoff on Monday morning

that the cockpit radioed back to the main airport here in Jakarta requesting to return for landing but not explaining why. And shortly after

that, the air traffic control lost contact with the aircraft.

So the big question, what was going on at that moment and why was it that the plane's descent was so rapid that it smashed into the ocean with such

devastating effect. We know that the flight crew had thousands of hours of flight time. They were quite experienced. The aircraft was built in 2018.

It was quite new.

[08:05:02] There were reports coming from Lion Air, this low-budget airline, that this particular plane had had some kind of technical issues

unspecified the night before on a flight from Bali to Jakarta, but that they had been repaired and that the plane was deemed flight worthy and it

would be very important to find out what exactly that was.

The Indonesian authorities right now, the aviation authorities, say they are investigating all other Boeing 737 MAX planes that are in the current

Indonesian fleet. So, different airliners want to go make sure that nothing like this would happen again. That is not some structural fault in the

plane itself.

LU STOUT: Absolutely, but at this hour, still no answers as personal effects, even remains are being pulled from the sea. Ivan Watson reporting

live from outside Jakarta. Ivan, thank you.

And now to that deadly synagogue bombing in the U.S. and the shattered Pittsburgh community that will begin burying its dead today. Funerals are

scheduled for three of the victims of what is being called the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. History.

And now, 11 people were killed. Also in Pittsburgh today, U.S. President Trump who says he wants to pay his respects, but his visit is exposing even

more attention in a city already on edge. Some of Pittsburgh's Jewish leaders including former and current officials with the Tree of Life

synagogue are split on whether Mr. Trump should come.

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LYNETTE LEDERMAN, FORMER PRESIDENT, TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE: I do not welcome this president to my city.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not?

LEDERMAN: Because he is the purveyor of hate speech.

JEFFREYT MYERS, RABBI, TREE OF LIFE SYNAGOGUE: The president of the United States is always welcome. I'm a citizen, he is my president, he is

certainly welcome.

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LU STOUT: One reason for the pushback, the president's rhetoric both before and after the shooting, including this tweet. Mr. Trump taking aim

yet again at his favorite target, the press, saying that the anger in the U.S. is caused in part by, "the fake news media, the true enemy of the

people." Surprisingly, the White House doubled down on that sentiment.

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SARA HUCKABEE SANDERS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: The very first action that the president did was condemn these heinous acts. The very first thing

that the media did was condemn the president and go after and try to place blame not just on the president but everybody that works in this

administration. The major news network's public first statement was to blame the president and myself included. I mean, that is outrageous that

anybody other than the individual who carried out the crime would hold that responsibility.

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LU STOUT: Sara Sanders there, and now CNN's Abby Phillip is at the White House. She joins us now and Abby, again, the mayor of Pittsburgh requested

Mr. Trump to delay his trip to give families their time to grieve. Why did the president go ahead with this trip? Why is he there today?

ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, this is turning out to be a really fraught visit for President Trump. He is literally coming to

Pittsburgh on the day that some of these victims are being laid to rest and it is in that context that you're hearing from local officials, from faith

leaders that perhaps the president should at the very least delay the visit to some future time.

Giving that community a little bit more space to grieve, in part, because there has been this whole conversation about the president's rhetoric and

what role does he have as the leader of this country to set a tone that perhaps tones down this kind of anger, divisiveness and hatred that is out

there. But President Trump is defending his decision to go. He is saying that this is about trying to be there to comfort those families.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESISDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm just going to pay my respects. I'm also going to the hospital to see the officers and some of

the people that were so badly hurt. So -- and I really look forward to going. I would have done it even sooner, but I didn't want to disrupt any

more than they already had disruption.

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PHILLIP: So, there you hear that the president is probably going to focus much of the visit on the law enforcement community where he's likely to be

embraced with a warmer welcome. And it's also not clear whether or not a lot of the elected officials in the state of Pennsylvania and in Pittsburgh

will even meet with the president.

That would be highly unusual if that's the case, a sitting president coming to a city and not being greeted by local officials there. But at the

moment, we have not heard that any of them have concrete plans to be around.

LU STOUT: Yes. This will be, as you put it, a very fraught visit coming during a time of deep discord in American history (ph). Abby, please stick

around for a moment. We want to get your thoughts in another big Donald Trump headline this morning.

Now, we have just one week to go into the U.S. midterms. President Trump is digging in on this hard line immigration stance telling Axios he will sign

an executive order that will take away birth right citizenship for children of noncitizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil.

[08:10:00] But whether he has the authority to do so, that will be decided by the courts. Here is why. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution

says in part, all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. and subject to the jurisdiction there of are citizens of the United States and of the

state wherein they reside. Now, let's go back to CNN's Abby Phillip at the White House. Abby, can the U.S. President change an amendment using an

executive order?

PHILLIP: Well, Kristie, that amendment as you just read it seems pretty clear. It's very straightforward. And for many, many years that has been

the law of the land. The idea that President Trump can simply undo that with executive order, frankly, not very many people hold that view. But he

told Axios in this interview that someone in the White House has told him that he can do it by executive order.

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JONATHAN SWAN, AXIOS REPORTER: Some legal scholars believe you can get rid of the (inaudible) citizenship without changing the constitution.

TRUMP: With an executive order.

SWAN: Exactly.

TRUMP: Right.

SWAN: Have you thought about that?

TRUMP: Yes.

SWAN: Tell me more.

TRUMP: It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don't.

SWAN: You don't.

TRUMP: Number one, you don't need that. Number two --

SWAN: I mean, that's in dispute. That's very much in dispute.

TRUMP: Number two, you can definitely do it well -- you can definitely do it with an act of Congress. But now they're saying I can do it just with an

executive order. Now how ridiculous, we are the only country in the world where a person comes in, has a baby and the baby is essentially a citizen

of the United States for 85 years with all of those benefits. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. And it has to end.

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PHILLIP: So to say that this would be controversial would be a major, major understatement. There is not any kind of clarity that the president

can do this by executive order. This is a constitutional amendment. The amendment process for the constitution is incredibly difficult and it's

only been done a few times in this country's history.

But President Trump is also bringing this up at a time -- we're seven days away from a midterm election. Immigration is a key issue for his base. It

is one of the biggest motivators for his supporters and it is not an accident that he's talking about this at the same time that he's talking

about that migrant caravan coming up from Central America, promising to send the military to the border.

And even telling Fox News in an interview that he would build tent cities all over the country to house migrants. These are all part of an effort by

the president to refocus attention away from some of these tragedies and other news items happening in the news in recent days and towards something

that he knows is really, really potent for his base just before a major midterm election.

LU STOUT: Absolutely, just one week before the midterms, this is a politically timed statement. Abby Phillip reporting live for us in the

White House, thank you.

Now, to the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi's chief prosecutor has arrived at the Istanbul consulate where

Khashoggi was killed one month ago. It follows his second meeting with his Turkish counterpart on the probe. The Saudis continue to say the king and

the crown prince had no knowledge of any plan against the journalists.

But U.S. officials tell CNN it could not have happened without Mohammed bin Salman's direct knowledge. Now, the fiance of Khashoggi says U.S. President

Donald Trump needs to help uncover the truth.

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HATICE CENGIZ, JAMAL KHASHOGGI'S FIANCE (through translation): I am deeply grateful for the solidarity of people all over the world. I am, however,

disappointed in the actions of the leadership in many countries, particularly in the U.S. President Trump should help reveal the truth and

ensure justice be served. He should not pave the way for a cover-up of my fiance's murder. Let's not let money taint our conscience and compromise

our values.

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LU STOUT: Now, the killing of Khashoggi shows just how dangerous it can be for journalists around the world. The Committee to Protect Journalists or

CPJ has released this year's impunity index shining a light on countries where members of the media are murdered and their killers go free.

Somalia tops the list for a fourth year in a row. Some other nations include Mexico, India, Russia and Syria. According to the index, in the

past decade, at least 324 journalists have been silenced through murder worldwide and that 85 percent of these cases, no perpetrators have been

convicted.

It is an emboldening message to those who seek to censor and control the media through violence. So, let's break it all down with the author of the

impunity index. Elisabeth Witchel. She joins me now via Skype from Manchester, England. Elisabeth, thank you for joining us. This year, 2018,

has been a brutal year for reporters. Are you seeing an increase in the number of journalist being targeted and killed for their work?

ELISABETH WITCHEL, AUTHOR OF THE IMPUNITY INDEX: We have definitely seen an increase this year over last year and, of course, the year is not over

yet. So the number of journalists who have been murdered specifically in connection to their work is significantly higher than last year.

[08:15:02] It's not historically high. There were a higher numbers back at the height of some of the conflicts in Iraq and other areas when

journalists were targeted (inaudible). But we are seeing an uptick over last year.

LU STOUT: Yes, very worrying effect there. I want to ask you about the impact of rhetoric from the U.S. President. Has Donald Trump's attacks on

the media in the U.S. filtered through and spread to communities all around the world in a dangerous way?

WITCHEL: I would say very much so. We're seeing a very, very concerning level of rhetoric coming out of many countries, including some on this

list. So one of the countries, and this is the Philippines and their president there has in the past suggested journalists deserved the attacks

that they were victims of.

We have seen candidates in Brazil talking -- use hostile rhetoric against journalist. So, this combination, I think we're seeing first of all when

it's happening from the president of the United States, it's giving a bit of a license to other leaders in the world to speak in a way, and this is

very much increasing the vulnerability of journalists.

You know, we are talking about this week as the International Day to End Impunity for the murders of journalist and in a context where what we want

to see is governments aggressively prosecuting attackers against journalists, what we're really seeing is they're encouraging violence

against journalists.

LU STOUT: Elisabeth Witchel of CPJ, author of the 2018 Impunity Index, thank you very much indeed for joining us here on the program. Take care.

You're watching "News Stream."

And ahead right here, a company central to Beijing's "Made in China" 2025 program, we're going to dig into that a little bit later. This chipmaker is

now the target of the U.S. Commerce department. Why the Trump administration's latest move may expose a big vulnerability in China's tech

sector.

Also ahead, wildlife executives, they are up in arms after China scraps a law designed to protect endangered species.

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LU STOUT: All right, coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is "News Stream." Now, on the latest escalation in trade tensions between

the U.S. and China, the Trump administration is slapping heavy restrictions on exports to a Chinese state-backed computer chipmaker, citing (inaudible)

security concerns.

The U.S. alleges that the company, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company, stole intellectual property from a U.S. semiconductor firm.

[08:20:01] Sherisse Pham with CNN Business joins me now with more on this, and Sherisse, what does this export ban mean for China and for this

chipmaker, Fujian Jinhua?

SHERISSE PHAM, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: You know, while this move from the Commerce Department is really a very sharp and pointed blow not only at

this Chinese chip company, but also at China's tech ambitions. So the department is restricting U.S. companies from selling software and

technology to Fujian Jinhua and all of that, of course, comes against the back drop of ongoing trade war between the U.S. and China.

A trade war, of course, that is rooted in technology, and also as you say, against the back drop of Micron suing Fujian Jinhua, accusing of

intellectual property theft. And what this does, targeting the state-owned Chinese company, really exposes the vulnerability of China's semi conductor

industry.

Chips power everything from smartphones, to connected cars, and it's really central to China's tech ambitions to have a powerful domestic semiconductor

industry because China consumes more computer chips than any other country in the world. But there is a big gap between what it consumes and what it

produces.

I think we have numbers, if we can get them up on the screen here. Last year, you can see there that China consumed $138 billion worth of the

world's computer chips, but it only produced about $19 billion worth. So, there's a lot of daylight between those two numbers and it really wants to

wean itself off of foreign tech.

But, of course, the problem is that Fujian Jinhua, like other Chinese semiconductor industries, companies, they still rely on American software

and technology to power their factories. So, this department ban is ban or this restriction for the Commerce Department can really bring this company

to its knees, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes. So, China tech is so vulnerable. China desperately needs to reduce its reliance on American tech parts. It has this big "Made in China

2025" moon shot strategy. It wants to close this gap on key sectors, including chips. Is that going to happen?

PHAM: It's a great question. Analysts and expert say it's pretty doubtful -- 2025 is just six years away, and China is aiming for self-sufficiency in

the semiconductor industry and they define that by producing 70 percent of the semiconductors that it wants to consume.

But building a competitive chip industry takes a lot of money and it takes a lot of time. Just ask Taiwan and South Korea. It took them decades to

build up their industries so, we shall see. A lot of research firms say, you know, China will be relying on foreign chips for a long time, well past

2025, Kristie

LU STOUT: Yes. China can innovate fast, but six years, that's just around the corner. Sharisse Pham, reporting for us. Sharisse, thank you so much.

Wild life activists, they are condemning China's decision to legalize the use of endangered tiger and rhino parts for medicinal purposes. On Monday,

Beijing put and end to a 25-year ban on the trade of tiger bones and rhino horn if they come from farmed animals.

Conservationists are worried that this new directive will lead to an increases in illegal trade and further threaten the already endangered

tiger and rhino populations. The animal parts are valued in China for their believed human powers despite a lack of evidence in their effectiveness.

Now, CNN correspondent David McKenzie joins me now from Johannesburg in South Africa, and David, what impact will reversal have on wildlife

populations in Africa?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the Humane Society is saying this is a death warrant for these species because they say no matter how tightly

you regulate any kind of legal trade, that illegal poached animal parts will get into that system because of a rise in demand. You know, you ask

any conservationist, Kristie, how do you stop poaching and they say kill off the demand. It seems in this case, China is doing the exact opposite,

though, here is their explanation.

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LU KANG, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN: Some parts from the (inaudible) that China's state council issued in 1993 about the ban on the

trade of tiger and rhino parts do not match the existing law and it did not take into account the legitimate practical needs such as medical and

scientific research, educational use and cultural exchanges. And besides, the tiger bones and rhino horns, it didn't establish strict regulation on

the trade of other tiger and rhino products.

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MCKENZIE: Well, they are cloaking that somewhat in bureaucratic language, but there is a sense from conservationists, Kristie, that this is just the

first step and part of a looming battle in may next year when the decision will be taken whether to take these species off the endangered list so that

there can be a legal trade.

[08:25:02] Here in South Africa, you have people farming rhinos already with the anticipation that perhaps this can be a legalized trade. Again,

there is a belief that if you have legal trade, it just acts as a smoke screen for illegal poaching on an even larger scale, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Very worrying development. And now that they are legal to use as medicine in China, fact check this for us, is there any medicinal value in

tiger bones or rhino horns?

MCKENZIE: No. There has been no proven medicinal value. In the case of rhinos, the horn is made of keratin. That's the same protein that is in

your fingernails or your hair and that has no real medicinal purpose whatsoever. Tiger bones it's the same. Even Chinese medical and Chinese

medicine societies have said there is no proof that this has any medical benefits.

But the cultural beliefs are there in China and even with the ban up to this point, there were people willing to risk prosecution by going ahead

and buying these products, Kristie.

LU STOUT: David McKenzie, really appreciate your reporting on this. Take care. And it's not just endangered tigers and rhinos that are under threat

here. Conservationists say the whole global wildlife population is facing a mind blowing crisis.

The World Wildlife Fund has just released its biannual report which says the population of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians have

dropped by 60 percent over 40 years. We've lost about half of the earth's shallow water corals. Human activity covers three quarters of land on earth

and by the year 2050 (inaudible) 10 percent of land on the planet might be left untouched by humans.

The cause this year, overexploitation, an agriculture linked to rising human consumption as well as pollution and climate change. We must change

our thinking on nature now, that's according to the WWF international director general, Marco Lambertini.

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MARCO LAMBERTINI, WWF INTERNATIONAL DIRECTOR GENERAL: We have been taking nature for granted for too long. We've been always leading human nature

which was big, infinite, almost -- and rich and productive. Now, in the last 40 years, our activities, our growing population, our consumption,

exponential consumption of natural reources is beginning to affect the functionality, the vitality, the productivity of these national systems.

Forests, oceans, biodiversity, river systems and we are beginning actually to pay the consequences. This generation is probably the first one but is

understanding the critical value of nature and understanding the impact of the data, the figures, the information about the impact we're having of

nature.

So, in a way, this generation is the generation, all of us that live on the planet today, particularly the young generation, the millennials, is the

generation that is able to actually change our relationship with the planet.

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LU STOUT: An urgent call to action there from the director general of the WWF International, Marco Lambertini there. You are watching "News Stream."

Still ahead right here on the program, the world's most powerful woman announces she is stepping aside in a few years, but what does it means for

the future of Germany? We're live in Berlin, next.

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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.

Divers in Indonesia are working to retrieve the remains of passengers on board a doomed Lion Air flight. Officials now say the search operation has

expanded. The plane went down early Monday with 189 people on board. Search teams are scouring the sea for the plane's fuselage and flight data

recorders.

U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to visit Pittsburgh later on Tuesday as the city begins to hold funerals for the victims of the deadly

synagogue shooting. The president says he wants to pay his respects but some of the city's Jewish leaders have urged him not to come, citing what

they say is Mr. Trump's refusal to denounce white nationalism.

With the closest migrant group still weeks away from the U.S.-Mexico border, President Trump is deploying more than 5,000 troops to the border

area. The Pentagon says it is to secure the border against illegal entrance. Critics say the president is trying to stoke fears and garner

votes ahead of next week's midterms.

The end of an era is approaching in Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will not seek re-election in 2021. Her departure may still be several

years away but already people are trying to imagine the future of not just Germany but Europe without the world's most powerful woman.

Frederik Pleitgen joins us now live from Berlin with more. Fred, Merkel has announced the end of her era. How does -- to back up a bit, how does the

migrant crisis factor into this political sea-change there in Germany?

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think it factors in a great deal to the whole thing. I think one of the reasons

why she has lost a lot of popularity here in Germany has been the handling of the migrant crisis that of course happened in 2015, where she really

pushed ahead and said, look, this is something that Germany can deal with and this is something that the German people can deal with.

You know, back then, obviously many people were very positive towards it, but I think many have felt that the decision in retrospect may not have

been the correct decision. But it feeds into a bigger issue really, Kristie, where a lot of people here in Germany do feel that Angela Merkel

has been in office too long.

A lot of them have felt that she became maybe a little bit distance from a lot of people that she was actually governing. And that just don't only

have to do with the migrant crisis, certainly there is a lot of bad blood because of that, but generally also because of the way that the coalition

has been working.

It was so interesting yesterday to see Angela Merkel in her press conference say that she believes that right now the work of the coalition

that she's of course precising over is unacceptable. She says she doesn't believe that people here in Germany have been radicalized. Of course, we do

know that the far-right has gained a lot of ground. She believes that politicians have simply been failing.

I think there's one thing that's really interesting that I want to get to, Kristie. Of course, there are many factors that have led to her decline in

popularity, but it doesn't seem as though the economy for instance is one. Germany today, so the day after she has announced that this is her last

term as chancellor, came out with the lowest unemployment figures since German unification. Kristie?

LU STOUT: Interesting factor there. Her popularity plummeting even though the economy is sky high. Fred Pleitgen reporting live for us from Berlin,

thank you.

Keep it here. You're watching News Stream. Still to come, we take a look at how one city in China uses A.I. and cloud computing to help solve the

problem of road congestion. That's next on News Stream.

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LU STOUT: All right. That's Victoria Harbor tonight here in Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is News Stream. Rapid urbanization in China has come

with many daunting challenges. In Hangzhou, road congestion is a daily struggle. In this episode of Innovative Cities, we will look at how

pioneers at Alibaba are hoping to explore their way out of this problem using artificial intelligence.

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LU STOUT (voice over): Hangzhou is like many of China's sprawling mega cities: overcrowded, overdeveloped and only growing bigger. Getting to the

gridlock is more than a daily frustration. It is a major factor affecting future economic growth.

YE BOJIE, DIDI DRIVER (through translator): I remember once it took me about 40 minutes to drive three kilometers.

LU STOUT (voice over): But now, a solution may be coming from here in Hangzhou. It's called City Brain developed by the Chinese tech giant

Alibaba.

WANG JIAN, CHAIRMAN, TECHNOLOGY STEERING COMMITTEE, ALIBABA: The cities in China probably are facing more challenges than any other cities around the

world. The new technology including like, internet, including like machine intelligence, give you an opportunity to solve that problem.

LU STOUT (voice over): The man behind City Brain is Dr. Wang Jian, Alibaba's technical committee chairman. He believes cloud computing and

artificial intelligence will help solve this growing problem.

JIAN: Cloud computing brings the computing part to the next level. So eventually every city will be depending on the computing part just like we

depend on the electricity.

LU STOUT (voice over): Here is how City Brain works. Data from multiple sources is collected and aggregated. That data can be everything from video

of intersections to real time GPS locations of cars sent in from mobile mapping apps.

City Brain then analyses the data and comes up with intelligent solutions for problems in the city like dispatching emergency vehicles and

coordinating traffic signals to ease road congestion.

Collecting big data in China with its nearly 1.4 billion people makes for a large set of numbers to analyze but that also comes with big responsibility

to consumers, says experts.

PASCALE FUNG, DIRECTOR, CENTER FOR AL RESEARCH, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: Data safety is the number issue for both A.I. and

for cybersecurity, for automation in general. If the people you are trying to serve don't trust you, you cannot do anything.

LU STOUT (voice over): Even here in China, one survey showed that three out of every four people worry about their privacy when it comes to A.I.

JIAN: Every new technology, when it comes out, people have the same probably worry about that in the same way. Certainly we have to solve the

privacy issue. We have to solve the security issue. That's for sure.

LU STOUT (voice over): Wang says long-term benefits outweigh the concerns. Here in Hangzhou, it may already be working.

BOJIE (through translator): It's much better now. The traffic is much better. It has been relieved.

LU STOUT (voice over): It's not everywhere, of course. Drivers here say some days are good, some days are bad, but that they say is just life on

the road.

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LU STOUT: Now, in our second episode of Iconic India, we take a look at a dance form that first emerged more than 2,000 years ago in Northern India.

It is the only dance with links to both Hindu and Muslim cultures. Amara Walker introduces us to one dancer who has updated this ancient tradition

for modern times.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

AMARA WALKER, CNN ANCHOR: A barrage of strikes on the tabla, the wine of the harmonium, the full-throated cry of the singers. This is a rehearsal of

Kathak, one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. Scholars say the dance first emerged in 400 BCE in Northern India as a way for

traveling bards to transmit Hindu epics.

[08:40:02] It was then further developed within the Mughal courts between the 16th and 19th centuries. Today, it's the only classical dance with

links to both Hindu and Muslim cultures.

MANJARI CHATURVEDI, KATHAK DANCER: Kathak is a language. You learn the alphabets, the words, you learn where to put the right comma, that is

exactly what the classical dance forms are. They're grammar. So I learned the grammar of classical Indian dance and then reinvented it to tell a

different story.

WALKER: The word Kathak itself is transcript for storytelling. And the story that Manjari Chaturvedi wants to tell through her work is about

Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam with a history of more than a thousand years in India.

CHATURVEDI: You are in a complete state of meditation because you're mindless. The only difficult part form being as a dancer during the

performance is that I have to get my mind back to thinking that I'm on stage and have to finish it. So there is a ton (ph) which the universe is

experiencing. So if we redone (ph) ourselves, then we are at one with the universe.

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LU STOUT: Mesmerizing. And finally, we have a dramatic rescue story with a quintessentially Australian twist. When beach goers in Melbourne saw a

kangaroo drowning in the sea on Sunday, they called the police. When officers arrived on the scene, the spooked animal jumped right back into

the water sending two officers in hot pursuit. Here is what happened next.

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CHRIS RUSSO, SERGEANT, VICTORIA POLICE: He was OK. He was either scared or what kangaroos can sometimes do is go into the water to lure in an

attacker. They are known to have drown dogs in the past. They use their feet and, of course, push the dog or other attacking animal under and hold

it under and drown it.

We're not sure if it was a defensive mechanism or if it was scared, but either way, he started to squirm out (ph). He swam out probably about 50

meters. It was a windy day. He went under a couple of times and he started to get in trouble.

KIRBY TONKIN, SENIOR SERGEANT, VICTORIA POLICE: We brought him to shore and Chris actually took over with a number of compressions on his chest.

Got the animal moving and he -- he vomited up a lot of seawater which is a good sign and he started breathing again, which was fantastic.

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LU STOUT: Hats off to police. That is one lucky roo. The kangaroo has been sent to a wildlife shelter and is expected to make a full recovery.

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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