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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN INTERNATIONAL HOST, NEWS STREAM: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to NEWS STREAM. Breaking news -- Britain's

new Royal Baby makes his public debut. Not long ago, we got our very first glimpse of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their newborn son, Prince

Harry and Meghan, absolutely beaming as they introduce their first child to the world.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Meghan, can you tell us what it's like becoming a new mum and tell us a little bit about Baby Sussex as we are calling it?

MEGHAN MARKLE, DUCHESS OF SUSSEX: It's magic. It's pretty amazing. I mean, I have the two best guys in the world. So I'm really happy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just a little bit about your son. What is he supposed to be like? Is he sleeping well? Good baby?

MARKLE: Yes. He has the sweetest temperament. He is really calm. And --

PRINCE HARRY, DUKE OF SUSSEX: He gets that from me.

MARKLE: And he's been -- he's just been a dream. So it's been a special couple of days.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who does he take after? Does he look like anyone?

MARKLE: We're still trying to figure that out.

PRINCE HARRY: Everyone says that babies change so much in two weeks. We're basically sort of monitoring how the changing process happens over

this next month, really. But he's changed. His looks are changing every single day.

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LU STOUT: She calls him magic. I love it. Now, Baby Sussex was born on Monday, but so far the Royal couple have kept mum on his name. Still no

word on when that will be revealed. Now, meanwhile, Queen Elizabeth is expected to meet her newest great grandchild later today.

Max Foster joins us now from Windsor and Max. Finally, we have a glimpse of the newest Royal and a chance to hear from Mum and Dad.

MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Yes. I mean, crucially, I think for Meghan, she said he's very calm. She has this holistic approach to health.

She really wanted this to be -- you know goes through this as fast as possible and this baby has had a calm introduction to the world, which is

why he's only been presented to cameras a couple of days after he was born and just a couple of cameras at that. So that was a big moment for her.

Also, you know, you mentioned how she's meeting the Queen. It could be happening right now. The reason we haven't got the name yet is because I

think they want to put it past the Queen first. Not that the Queen will refuse the name that they choose. But I think out of politeness, you know,

most people don't have a grandmother like the Queen. They wanted to put it past the Queen first and then we'll have the announcement a bit later on.

But we can tell you -- I can tell you that they decided on the name at least. There was some debate about whether or not they're committed yet.

LU STOUT: Okay, fair enough. But congratulations to the family. That was such a lovely moment to witness. It happened just in the last few minutes.

Max Foster reporting live from Windsor. Thank you.

Now our top news story today, one year after the was pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal and now Tehran says it is no longer sticking with all the

terms it agreed to in 2015.

President Hassan Rouhani says Iran will no longer limit the amount of enriched uranium it keeps. He's given the other signatories a deadline, a

60-day deadline to ease the pressure caused by U.S. sanctions.

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HASSAN ROUHANI, PRESIDENT OF IRAN (through translator): The JCPOA was a win-win agreement. We will not allow the United States of America to turn

this win-win agreement into a win-lose agreement for us, and the world must know the JCPOA will never turn into a win-lose agreement as the U.S.

wishes.

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LU STOUT: High Level talks are now underway. The U.S. Secretary of State. Mike Pompeo is in London on Tuesday. He made that surprise visit to Iraq

that is one of the places U.S. Intel believes American forces are under threat from Iran.

Meanwhile, the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is in Moscow meeting with his counterpart there. We've got Matthew Chance following

Zarif's talks in Moscow. But first to Pompeo's talks in London and the context behind that. International diplomatic editor, Nic Robertson is at

Downing Street.

And Nic again, you're there at 10 Downing Street ahead of that meeting between Pompeo and Theresa May. But first, what is your assessment or

interpretation on the Ron's announcement to quit parts of the nuclear deal?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Well, what we've heard from Iranian leaders today is that they want to put pressure on the

European countries to do more to save the JCPOA, the joint nuclear deal with Iran. This has been an ongoing situation since the United States a

year ago pulled out unilaterally of this multinational agreement. They haven't had success so far.

Just this past weekend, the United States said that it was not going to wish for countries to buy oil from Iran. Britain, France, Germany, the

European Union signed together a joint letter sending it to the United States.

[08:05:13] ROBERTSON: And President Trump's administration saying that they were disappointed and concerned by this measure. So it's this kind of

sort of fissure between Europe and the United States that Iran seems to want to exploit. But what they're actually doing here by saying that

they'll stockpile more of the low level enriched uranium and more of the heavy water is essentially saying that they are now intending to shorten

the path, the amount of time it would take them to make a nuclear weapon. And that's why the JCPOA, that agreement was put in place in the first

instance.

So they believe that they have the right within the agreement to do this. However, there's also obligations and rights within that agreement for the

other parties, which could potentially mean that ultimately, this could mean the European Union and others put sanctions back on Iran.

It is, in a way, a double-edged sword. Those differences that I talk about between the European Union and the United States, undoubtedly, they're

going to come up in conversations between Theresa May and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

LU STOUT: Yes, and in a separate conversation happening right now in Moscow, Matthew, after Rouhani made that announcement, we know that the

Iranian Foreign Minister is there Moscow meeting with his Russian counterpart, does the Kremlin have Iran's back here?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think it does to the extent that it can have Iran's back, as you say, or provide diplomatic

support for it because it's basically standing side by side. Sergey Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister there, side by side with his Iranian

counterpart, saying that, you know, these steps, essentially, that have been taken by the United States to withdraw from the agreement and the

steps that Iran has issued in response were essentially the fault of the U.S.

And what the Russians are saying is that look, we're going to work very hard in terms of what practical steps they can take to try and convince the

other signatories to this Iranian nuclear deal that the Europeans are particular, to live up to their obligations to just try and find a way to

try and implement this deal despite the fact that the United States has pulled out of it.

There was some criticism as well, quite a lot of criticism of the United States by the Russians and the U.S. decision to deploy its Carrier Strike

Force to the Persian Gulf area, the Russian Foreign Minister saying that the U.S. applying force in the region has become normal, not just in the

region, but across the world. And he said it was lamentable or regrettable.

And he said he had spoken to Mike Pompeo, the U.S. Secretary of State yesterday in Finland, calling on him to use diplomacy, not force when it

comes to international relations. So some quite barbed criticism there of Washington.

LU STOUT: And Mike Pompeo, we know he is now in London, Nic, Pompeo's surprise trip to Baghdad was in many ways all about Iran. How is that

going to come up today when he meets with Theresa May?

ROBERTSON: Well, he is having lunch right now with the Foreign Secretary, British Foreign Secretary as well. Look, what Mike Pompeo said that he

went to Iraq to do and he met with the President and Prime Minister there was to give them a little more detail on the threat that he believes that

exists that Iran is posing, at the moment, this imminent and real threat that seem to be escalating possibly to do with the movement of short range

ballistic missiles by sea from Iran.

And so you could expect to come up in conversation, the British, for their part, politicians would want to know -- you know, would want to have a

sense of those details as well. But also, what Secretary Pompeo was saying to the Iraqis was very clearly that you have a responsibility and an

obligation to protect the U.S. citizen servicemen, women, State Department workers and others who are inside Iraq.

So you know, as part of the sort of Five Eyes Intelligence sharing that the United States has with the U.K., and three other countries, it is important

for all countries that they watch each other's back so you could expect all of this in the round, if you will to be part of that conversation.

LU STOUT: Nic Robertson reporting live from 10 Downing Street, Matthew Chance live in Moscow, a big thank you to you both and now to Afghanistan,

and at least nine people have been wounded in an attack on an NGO in Kabul.

Afghan Special Forces are clearing the offices of the Global Development Charity Counterpart International after militants targeted their compound.

A Taliban spokesperson has claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it targeted the NGO because of its work promoting female empowerment in the

country.

And in Pakistan, six people are dead after a suicide blast targeting police outside the Sufi shrine in the city of Lahore, the largest in Southeast

Asia. All this happened on the second day of the holy month of Ramadan. Now, police did not say how many people are wounded. The investigation is

ongoing.

[08:10:10] LU STOUT: Prime Minister Imran Khan strongly condemned the attack. A Pakistani Christian woman who was freed from death row has left

the country and is now in Canada. That's according to a lawyer.

Asia Bibi has been facing death threats from extremists since she was released last year. She was convicted of blasphemy in 2010, but that

ruling was overturned sparking violent protests.

Sophia Saifi joins us now live from Pakistani capital of Islamabad, and Sophia, according to her lawyer, Asia Bibi is now safe in Canada, and we

know that she had been desperately searching for asylum, searching for safe haven for a while.

SOPHIA SAIFI, CNN PRODUCER: Yes, Kristie, this has been going on for a while. I mean, we spoke about this back in the autumn of 2018, in October

and November when we saw these massive riots, as you mentioned, across the country, just because Asia Bibi had been acquitted of these accusations of

blasphemy, which is a very serious offense here in Pakistan.

If you are accused of blasphemy, you are liable to be killed. It is a very sensitive subject and it was one that was -- you know, that Asia was

accused of, of committing blasphemy. And because of that, since the summer of 2009, this is something -- this is a shadow that she has been living

under herself, her husband, of her children. Her lawyer himself has also received death threats.

And now keeping that in mind, there is a sense of what next? You know, we have received a confirmation from her lawyer Saif Ul Malook. I spoke to

him myself this morning that she has now been in Canada for more than 24 hours. There is this understanding that there is a sense of fear for

Canadian officials within Pakistan for the Canadian Embassy, which is in the diplomatic enclave, a high security area off the capital, but there are

lots of questions about you know, the Pakistani government has not confirmed her release -- sorry, her freedom.

The Canadian government hasn't confirmed that she has set foot in Canada and there is that wonder about what kind of factions -- extremist factions

still exist within Pakistan that might react to this news coming out in the month of Ramadan, which is also a highly religious month in itself and in

the religion of Islam -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Asia Bibi's story and the legacy -- the legal legacy of her case are far from over. Sophia Saifi reporting live from Islamabad, thank you.

Investors are still very concerned about a possible escalation in the U.S.- China trade war. We are about halfway through the trading day in Europe, as you could see not quite entirely down day, the FTSE 100, Paris CAC 40,

Zurich SMI -- all down, but Xetra DAX up about two tenths of 1 percent. Let's find out America market reaction, premarket trade. We will bring up

that graphic for you.

As you can see pretty negative, Dow Futures, S&P 500 Futures, NASDAQ Futures all pointing lower when the stock markets open. Now here in Asia,

major stock markets, they finished the red ahead of the arrival of China's Vice Premier Liu He, the top trade negotiator. He is going to be in

Washington, DC for talks.

You're watching NEWS STREAM and still to come, China has repeatedly said it has nothing to hide at its so called vocational training centers in

Xinjiang, but CNN saw so a very different reality on the ground.

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MATT RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This police officer does not want us to film, but what we believe is that that's a camp right there.

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[08:15:49] LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. This is NEWS STREAM. Now just imagine a society where you live under a 24

hour government surveillance, where you have to go through countless checkpoints every day and where you could be arbitrarily thrown into a

detention camp.

CNN discovered that this is the reality of day to day life for many Muslims in Xinjiang, a province in western China. The U.S. says as many as two

million Uyghur Muslims are locked up in detention camps there. China has repeatedly called these camps vocational training centers, but CNN went to

Xinjiang and saw a dystopian society fractured by fear and surveillance.

Our correspondent Matt Rivers, he got a rare glimpse of Xinjiang and he joins us now live from Beijing and Matt, what is happening to China's

Muslims in Xinjiang? What did you find there?

RIVERS: Oh, Kristie, we wanted to go to Xinjiang to check out what China would call as you mentioned those vocational training centers. And what we

saw certainly didn't look like job training sites.

What we saw were sprawling facilities in numerous places with guard towers, high walls, barbed wire. They look more like prisons, frankly. And when

you talk about the numbers that you just mentioned up to two million people according to the U.S. that have gone through these prisons, the human toll

of these policies, you know, the scale of it is almost difficult to comprehend.

And so we focused in our reporting on one particular family whose life has completely been ripped apart because of Beijing's policies undergoing --

that they're engaging in right now in the Western Chinese province of Xinjiang.

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RIVERS (voice over): The bedroom hasn't changed since they left, stuffed animals on the bed, their clothes in the closet. Their grandmother won't

change it. She says it still smells like them.

Onseela (ph) and Nuseela (ph), ages 8 and 7, left their home in Kazakhstan to go to China with their mother, Adeeba (ph) in 2017. Adeeba (ph) grew up

in China so she went back for a short visit to see some family and take a few classes in Xinjiang in Northwest China.

Her husband, Yestin (ph) young son Nurmaken (ph) stayed home. But shortly after they arrived, Adeeba (ph) and her daughters disappeared because they

went back at the wrong time.

Xinjiang is the region where the U.S. says China put up to two million people, nearly all Muslims in detention camps over the last few years.

Activists say Beijing has done that to try to eliminate Islam within its borders.

And ex-detainees told CNN they were tortured inside while undergoing political indoctrination. Adeeba (ph) and her family are Muslim. Her

husband Yestin (ph) says a relative told him his wife was put in such a camp while his daughters were sent to live with distant relatives. He

hasn't heard from any of them in nearly two years.

"When he sees young women in the neighborhood he calls them 'Mama,'" Yestin (ph) says. "He doesn't even know what his own mother looks like."

China says these camps aren't prisons but voluntary vocational training centers that are being used to not eliminate Islam generally, only Islamic

extremism that the government has linked to past terror attacks in the region.

So authorities play propaganda videos like this one on state run TV to show happy Muslims cheerfully learning. They interview some who have been

supposedly been, quote, "reformed," steered away from a life of terrorism.

But even if that's true, Yestin (ph) says that still does not explain why his wife was locked up.

"My wife is not a terrorist," he says. "She has nothing to do with it. I can't express with words how much pain I feel when I think of her there."

We asked Chinese authorities what happened to Adeeba (ph). They did not reply to our question. So we went to Xinjiang ourselves, to some of the

most remote parts of China, traveling thousands of miles in all. We went to six places, both to see what is happening here and, in one town, to try

to find Adeeba (ph).

Ethnic Muslim minorities have lived here for centuries.

[08:20:10] RIVERS: Uyghurs, Kazakhs and others, culturally distinct from the Han Chinese who dominate the rest of the country. But now, every day,

they're forced to prove that they're not a threat to the state.

Cameras watch their every move, in some places positioned every 50 meters. While Han Chinese regularly breeze through the myriad police roadblocks,

anyone we saw who appeared to be a minority got stopped. Racial profiling appears rampant.

But all of that is likely still better than life for those that end up in places like this, detention camps designed for Muslim ethnic minorities,

like this one outside the city of Kashgar, what China calls a job training site to us looked a lot more like prison. High walls, barbed wire, guard

towers, things multiple experts told CNN are telltale signs of detention centers.

Images like this are rare. Few people have seen camps like this up close because China's government tries to prevent reporters like us from seeing

them. A police officer soon reminded us of that fact.

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RIVERS (on camera): What's happening here is that this police officer doesn't want us to film but we believe is that's a camp right there. This

is as close as we're able to get. And right over there we believe are family members, who could have family members inside that camp and they're

waiting to see them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

RIVERS (voice-over): China says it has nothing to hide here but not only do they obstruct attempts to film or go inside the camps, they also prevent

us from speaking to those that know anything about them.

We tried to talk to this man that just brought food to his brother, who he says is being held in the camp. But before we can ask about life inside,

plainclothes security surrounded us and told the man to be quiet.

There are camps like these all across Xinjiang; nearly 1,000 miles away, we took a train to the city of Turpan to see another, same type of prison-like

walls, some kind of secrecy. And the minute after we arrive, some kind of police harassment.

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RIVERS (on camera): Ma'am, can you tell me what that is? Is this something you don't want us to see?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why are you here? You tell me, why you're here? Why you're here?

RIVERS: We're here to film what we believe is a camp for Uyghurs and for Kazakhs and for Kyrgyz and for all ethnic Muslim minorities.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who told you that? Who told you that?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

RIVERS (voice-over): She threatened to arrest us and demanded that we delete our footage so we had to leave.

Our last stop is the town of Toli where Adeeba's (ph) family says she was detained. Her husband, Yestin (ph), believes she has since been let out of

the camp and is back living with her daughters. But Yestin (ph) was told they can't leave China because officials took away Adeeba's (ph) passport.

He has no way to contact her and fears he could end up in a camp himself if he went to find her.

So we tried to find Adeeba (ph) ourselves. But as soon as we arrive in town, traffic police block our way and officials following us insist on a

group dinner. We declined strongly, saying no, no, no. But in the end, we've got no choice. As Muslim minorities languish in camps not far away,

government officials drink liquor and dance to folk music. It is an absurd scene, but we can't leave.

So we were unable to find Adeeba (ph) and we couldn't deliver this message, what Yestin (ph) wanted us to share if we found her, quote, "Our son and I

have been waiting and will always wait for you. You are the love of my life."

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RIVERS: And Kristie, obviously, as you can see in our report there, China did not want us to film anything that has to do with the camps in Xinjiang.

But beyond that, they also don't want us to broadcast those images to the world. So what you're seeing right now on your screen, is a live image of

CNN signal in mainland China.

So for example, if you were sitting in a hotel in Beijing right now and you were watching CNN, you would not be seeing me talk about the story, you

would be seeing what's on your screen, which is just a blacked out image. That's because China's government censors have actively been cutting off

the CNN signal every single time we talk about the story. And as soon as I'm done, the image will come right back up.

So while China says that they have nothing to hide about what's going on in Xinjiang, well, they're cutting off our signal. They didn't want us to

film anything. Their actions speak louder than their words and their actions would suggest that they absolutely have something to hide. They do

not want people like us or frankly the rest of the world to see what is happening in Xinjiang -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: It reveals so much, doesn't it? This is how China chooses to respond to the rising scrutiny about what is really happening inside

Xinjiang, a media blackout. Matt Rivers, we thank you and your crew. Thank you so much for your reporting.

Now Rushan Abbas is the director of Campaign for Uyghurs. She believes her relatives were sent to detention camps last year due to her activism. She

joins us now from Washington.

[08:25:13] LU STOUT: Russian, thank you for joining us here. Tell me about your aunt, and your older sister, they are missing. What do you

believe happened to them?

RUSHAN ABBAS, DIRECTOR, CAMPAIGN FOR UYGHURS: Thank you for covering this reality. My sister and my aunt were abducted six days after I talked about

the conditions of the camps in one of the think tanks in Washington. Ever since then, I heard after several months that my aunt is being released

from distant relatives. But there is no any information on my sister. I have no idea where she is and what kind of conditions that she is being

held.

LU STOUT: Your sister and your aunt you say were abducted. You fear that they could be held and one of these detention camps in Xinjiang. China

calls them vocational learning centers, reeducation centers. From what you've heard, how would you describe them?

ABBAS: Well, unfortunately, that's my fear. My sister is probably being held in one of those modern day concentration camps. They are calling --

the Chinese government is calling they are vocational training centers, but my sister is a medical doctor. She doesn't need any vocational training.

And also, according to news reports and the former detainees released from the camps, those are prisons like mentioned in earlier reports. People

being detained there are facing forced indoctrination, mental and physical abuse, taking unknown medications forcefully, and they are objected to

sleep and the food, they have rations, being fed only 600 calories a day and there are a lot of deaths and nobody is seeing the bodies. Crematoria

are being built around the camps. The RFA -- Radio Free Asia reported on those.

LU STOUT: And almost prison-like conditions have been described outside these camps with reports as we heard from Matt Rivers then of 24 hours

surveillance and tight societal controls. How would you describe daily life for Uyghurs and Muslims out and about and Xinjiang? What is it like

for them?

ABBAS: The entire region is facing a police state condition. People are living under the constant surveillance, the GPS tracking devices on every

vehicle. Facial recognition software is everywhere. Checkpoints every corner and the homes are having QR scanning codes.

And also, the Chinese government reported on their own media that there are 1.1 million Han Chinese cadres address moved into Uyghur homes to monitor

their daily lives, so people are leaving.

LU STOUT: Yes. And because of the situation and the fact that your relatives, your sister and your aunt are missing, you know, you continue

with your activism. There are people listening where you're based right now in Washington, DC, we know U.S. lawmakers across political divide, they

have condemned the treatment of Muslims in Xinjiang.

In fact, I'm Senator Bob Menendez on this program, denounced the camps as, quote, "concentration camps." But what more would you like the U.S.

government to do?

ABBAS: We are very grateful for Senator Menendez and Senator Rubio and the Congressman Christopher Smith. They are leading this effort to defend

those defenseless people facing unjust under the cruel repression by the Communist Chinese government.

But the words should follow with some actions. We really want to see the government moving forward with the Global Magnitsky Act sanctioning

targeted sanction against the Chinese officials who are responsible for this horrendous atrocity under the provisions of the Global Magnitsky Act

because the Chinese government, the Communist Chinese government currently waging a war against the ethnic identity, culture and religion, that the

world should not be muted. There should be some actions taken very soon.

LU STOUT: Rushan Abbas, we thank you for sharing your story and your activism with us. Thank you and take care.

ABBAS: Thank you.

LU STOUT: And we will have more of our Matt Rivers' journey to Xinjiang on Thursday. He and his crew, they were met with round the clock government

surveillance which made their job very difficult.

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RIVERS (voice over): He and at least a dozen others followed us every single hour of our six-day trip, never more than 20 feet away. In the car,

in the train station, in the hotel, in the room next to mine.

[08:30:19] RIVERS (on camera): So it's a bit of an odd feeling to be in your hotel room at one in the morning and knowing that on the other side of

this connecting door which leads to the room next door to mine, there's at least three or four of the guys who've been following us around over the

past couple of days.

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LU STOUT: That's just creepy. Now, be sure to watch his "Reporter's Notebook" from Xinjiang. It's Wednesday 6:00 p.m. in New York; 6:00 a.m.

Thursday in Hong Kong only on CNN. NEWS STREAM will be back in a moment.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching NEWS STREAM and these are your world headlines. Britain's Baby Sussex makes his Royal

debut. Just in the last hour, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex introduced their newborn son to the world at Windsor Castle.

Now, Prince Harry says parenting is amazing, while his wife, Meghan calls the experience magic. Still no word yet on when the baby's name will be

announced.

Millions of voters in South Africa are casting their ballots right now in parliamentary and provincial elections. It is the toughest electoral test

yet for the ruling ANC Party, which is looking to reverse waning voter support. Early results are expected by Thursday.

Liverpool have reached the Champions League Final after a stunning victory over Barcelona. The English club scored four goals on Tuesday, overturning

a three-goal deficit after the first leg last week to knock up the Catalan Giants. There will be much more about last night's drama on "World Sport"

in about 15 minutes.

About 90 minutes from now, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on whether or not to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt

of Congress. House Democrats are furious that Barr has refused to hand over an un-redacted version of the Mueller report.

Let's look ahead to this new confrontation between House Democrats and the Trump administration. Let's go straight to Lauren Fox and Capitol Hill.

And Lauren, Attorney General Barr, let's talk about him first. How will this plan contempt vote proceed and how will the Justice Department likely

respond?

LAUREN FOX, CNN POLITICS U.S. CONGRESSIONAL REPORTER: Well, we've seen a lot of escalating drama over the last 24 hours, Kristie, but Jerry Nadler,

the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee was just on our air on CNN basically saying that he plans to move forward with this contempt vote in

just a little over an hour and the Justice Department, we expect is not going to be very happy.

[08:35:05] FOX: They sent a letter last night basically saying that they plan to ask the White House to invoke executive privilege over the entire

un-redacted Mueller report and underlying evidence. If the Chairman of the Committee move forward with this contempt vote, and in the statement in the

letter they said, quote, "In the face of the Committee's threatened contempt vote, the Attorney General will be compelled to request that the

President invoke executive privilege with respect to the material subject to the subpoena."

They also said that the subpoena that Jerry Nadler sent for that un- redacted Mueller report was unreasonable, and that this move to hold the Attorney General in contempt was just a move to quote "provoke an

unnecessary conflict between Congress and the Executive Branch."

Jerry Nadler fighting back saying in a statement, quote, "The White House waved these privileges long ago, and the Department seemed open to sharing

these materials with us earlier today. The Committee will proceed with consideration of the contempt citation as planned, and I hope the

department will think better of their last minute outburst and return to negotiations."

Now, we do know that this is just part of an escalating conflict between the White House and House Democrats for information. We've already heard

that the White House has been stepping in to try to block Don McGahn, the former White House counsel from testifying before the House Judiciary

Committee and handing over information that they subpoenaed from him.

There's also fights over documents related to immigration policies, related to the President's tax returns. All of this coming to a head this week in

the House of Representatives were Democrats plan to keep pushing for that information from the Trump administration -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Wow, just another day of confrontation between the Trump administration and House Democrats, a lot to cover today. Thank you so

much. We'll talk again soon. Lauren Fox there.

Now tax records that were obtained by "The New York Times" show that Donald Trump in the early 1990s was less qualified to host "The Apprentice" and

more like the biggest loser.

Now the documents from 1985 to 1994 showed that Mr. Trump's businesses lost nearly $1.2 billion. In 1990 and 1991, his core business losses were more

than double the next closest taxpayer. Now, "The Times" report says that Mr. Trump paid no income taxes for eight of those 10 years.

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SUSANNE CRAIG, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, "NEW YORK TIMES": Every year that we looked at, he lost money and the losses grew as he went further into the

casinos and the losses that that happened there. But it's unbelievable. We would have thought at least in one of the years that we saw, maybe the

year he wrote "Art of the Deal," he would have made money. He didn't he was just bleeding money every year that we looked at in his businesses.

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LU STOUT: Now a lawyer for the President says "The Times" information is false, but he failed to provide any specifics. You are watching NEWS

STREAM. Still become, a piece of history was taken from Stonehenge 60 years ago, and now, it's been returned. But where has been all this time?

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Welcome back, now from glittering palaces to ancient ruins, Karnataka in southwest India's a region that offers many worlds and traveling through

this area on two wheels, that adds yet another perspective.

In our series "Iconic India," we explored the growth of cycling in Karnataka.

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[08:40:01] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's rush hour in Bengaluru, the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka.

KIRAN KUMAR RAJU, PROFESSIONAL CYCLIST: Cycling for me is everything.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Weaving through the congestion is Kiran Kumar Raju.

RAJU: I forget everything. What I'm thinking is about the bike, how fast can I go? How can I challenge myself?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Five years ago, he decided to give up his high paying job as a civil engineer to pursue his passion, cycling. Since then, he has

never looked back.

RAJU: It gives a big adrenaline rush because you're just thinking about you and your bike, how better you can experience the entire journey.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For Kiran, the congestion is a blessing.

RAJU: Cycling in traffic feels good because this is where it all started for me. Maneuvering between bikes and cars and fast moving traffic or slow

moving traffic. It's very similar to mountain biking.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All parts of his training to become one of India's top cross-country cyclists.

RAJU: I competed across all competitions, road, mountain bike and duathlons.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But it is outside the city limits were Kiran really puts his ability to the test. Sixty kilometers north of Bengaluru, he hone

his skills six days a week on the trails that surround the Nandi Hills.

RAJU: There, we have a lot of technical descent, so a lot of loose rocks and big boulders in place, which test the ability of a rider. Nandi Hills

is just enough for any kind of cyclist to be attracted or diverted his mind towards because it's a tourist spot.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But the Nandi Hills are not just for professionals like Kiran. An ancient hill fortress dotted with historic temples,

vineyards and colorful villages, Nandi Hills is a popular destination for people looking to escape the city.

Tejaswini Gopalaswamy is the cofounder of the travel company with a spin. Founded in 2014 Unventured offers tourists and alternative way to

experience the real India.

TEJASWINI GOPALASWAMY, COFOUNDER, UNVENTURED: Bicycling opens you up to so much of the local culture, so much of the land and bicycle offers you the

ability to connect all your senses. You know you're moving, you're connecting, you're learning something concrete. When you go home, you take

back an entire story.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And seeing the sights of India from a new perspective.

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LU STOUT: And finally, a missing piece of Stonehenge has returned to the site after 60 years. The meter-long core from inside when the prehistoric

stones was removed during the restoration project back in 1958. It was drilled out so metal rods could be inserted to help the stones stay upright

and no one knew where the piece went until a worker decided to return it.

The curator of the site says this un-weathered interior piece could give fresh clues about the origin of these mysterious stones.

And that is NEWS STREAM. "World Sport" with Alex Thomas is next including more on that epic Liverpool win against Barcelona from our own Amanda Davis

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AMANDA DAVIES, CNN INTERNATIONAL SPORTS PRESENTER: Yes, Kristie, it may be a grey, wet and windy day here at Anfield, but the weather is doing nothing

to dampen the spirits here at Liverpool's iconic home there has not been much sleep going on in these parts in recent hours.

People coming here to the stadium to take their photos, share their stories of what is being billed as Liverpool's greatest night in European history.

There is still some head scratching going on about how on earth they did it back from the brink to beat Barcelona, four nil. Plenty more coming up in

"World Sports" in just a couple of minutes.

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