north pole in 1980 compared to 2012. the north pole is melting. opening new opportunities. i am standing on an iceberg in the middle of the arctic. it must be several hundred tons and what's amazing, i can feel the entire structure move as the water comes underneath it. the eskimos have more than 100 words to describe ice and had it for a reason, ice, not only now in the summer, but certainly in the winter, is a way of life. >> reporter: that way of life headed for change. the arctic now open for summer shipping and some predictions say by mid century shipping year-round will be commonplace. enter shell and its plan to prospect for oil offshore here if they find what they think is down there, it will spark a race to drill, increasing the possibility of a spill. >> there's absolutely no world experience that tells us that we could address and clean up a spill in the unforgiving waters

in the arctic. >> reporter: in the gulf's deepwater horizon only about a third of the oil was physically recovered, burned or dispersed in the alaska exxon valdez disaster less than 10% of the oil was recovered and cleaning up a spill in this place would be a very tall order. >> miguel marquez joining us from new york now. it seems that shell is making a major investment here. high risk, high reward, is probably the mentality. but what have they put together in terms of resources at the site to be prepared for a worse case scenario? >> because of how difficult this has been to drill up here, shell has put together a pretty impressive ar madded da of ships. 15 vessels will be attending these two rigs this summer to basically sit offshore, just sit next to them and watch. if there is an oil spill they will be able to collect and process that oil quickly, says shell. they have planes and helicopters on standby in the event that they need to spray dispersants

on the ocean and worse comes to worse, they can always burn, they say, fairly easily in the arctic waters because the colder the water the more the oil holds together and they'll have somewhat better ability to burn oil. but, you know, it appears they have taken about every precaution they can in order to drill up there. but, you know, at the end of the day, there is still a risk. >> miguel, all the equipment, all the assets, any test run? any test runs or testing of the equipment, god forbid, i mean you know what i'm thinking, something like the bp explosion happens? >> there have been tests. there have not been test in the arctic in real world conditions which is one of the concerns people up there have. it's not legal in the u.s. to dump oil or any contaminants in the water. that alone may create an emergency situation. they can't actually test a lot of these devices in the arctic in the places that they'll be operating this summer. they have been tested to some degree in norway and laboratory conditions in other places, so

they've had tests, but they haven't been tested in the place that they'll be on pratsing which is a big bone of contention for people still against this. >> you think, there you go, folks still against this, i was wondering about the residents? we can't forget the exxon oil spill and then we've mentioned bp. what are residents saying about this? >> some are for it, some are for it reservedly, some are absolutely against it. you can see why. the arctic has that short summer period. it is -- it literally is the cradle of life. the amount of life that goes up there, plankton which feed on fish and birds, it's an amazing chain of -- food chain and chain of life that then returns to the lower 48 and other parts of the world after that short summer period and people are very concerned if there's a spill, the currents will bring it around, bring it back on shore and could disrupt that very, very delicate balance. kyra? >> miguel marquez, thanks so much. make sure you catch miguel's

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university and not get knowledge of big business. why would he leave? at least $25 million. and there may be other reasons. a lot of stars on this knicks team after they got jason kidd, so lin may like the fact that the limelight could be elsewhere and he will have more are of a free-flowing offense in houston a team which needs stars, used to have yao ming, a star from china. this is not over yet. the knicks have until 11:59 tonight to hatch the houston offer. there's a poison pill, the knicks would be responsible for 40, $50 million extra under nba luxury tax and contract rules that they would have to pay more than houston. it may be all too much for a big spending knicks team. >> all right. but come on, you follow basketball. you've got inside scoop. you really think the knicks will let him go to houston? >> it's possible that they will. a lot of sports columnists are calling for it and we talked to one analyst who says he can't believe that the big spending knicks, who gathered so much

attention and lin became a phenomenon, would actually leave. >> one of the things about the knicks, of all the problems the knicks have had over the last 20 years, the one thing they've been good at is spending money. they've been willing to pay for talent and for big names. that's why it's so surprising they would draw the line in the sand now, the one global super star they've really had in the last 20 years, it's strange that this is the guy that they decide not to pay. >> i saw lin sanity up close in bars and on the streets, fans who were never attending nba basketball games, were drawn to lin for his team style of play. he was filling in for a lot of absent stars on the knicks. he only played around 25 games and the knicks may decide they don't want to pay the millions to see if he really does pan out in the long run. >> now you mentioned, richard, that the knicks have added a couple guys to replace limb, right?

wasn't one just busted for dwi? >> yes. the man who was going to mentor lin, jason kidd, the veteran guard from dallas, was arrested for dui running into a telephone pole on long island, after a night out at the bar. kidd is definitely a player who's a team player who could have helped lin. it still may happen. the knicks may feel we need all the stars we can get. lin helped us make the playoffs even though he didn't do well against miami in the regular season. they're ready to replace him if it comes to that. a lot of fans will be disappointed. lin solved a major television dispute. you couldn't see knicks games in manhattan. time warner cable and the knicks parent company were at odds when lin sanity hit. there was such a clamor that the knicks were put back on tv here in manhattan. >> he's got some pull, that's for sure, and a heck of a shot. richard roth, we will follow this story, of course, and jeremy lin's salary will jump

from $760,000 this past season to more than $8 million a year for the next three seasons. and the ironic part of the whole thing, the knicks picked up lin for scrap, basically, after he was cut loose by you guessed it, the houston rockets. if you're leaving the house right now, a reminder you can continue watching cnn from your mobile phone and also watch cnn live from your desk top. go to cnn.com/tv. [ ryan ] maybe just a short run today.

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i guess, you know, second time is a charm. what about biden? he wasn't kissing anybody there. let's be realistic here, the majority of us are obsessed with losing weight but don't want to put the hard, sweaty painstaking work into it. we want a quick fix. like a magic pill that will make those pounds go poof. what is the deal with this new drug called qnexa? am i saying that right? >> you are saying it right. >> so let's talk about how the drug works, how does it make you feel, what do we know about it? >> this is a drug that we expect might get an approval from the fda today. i think this is going to be a drug that a lot of people will be hearing a lot more about. so, let's talk about how much weight you lose. that's what everyone wants to know. they don't care how it works. they want to know how much am i going to lose. >> what's it going to do for me? in the studies they did it on obese people. they started on average 227 pounds, went down to 204 pounds. they also did, you know, they were counselled to eat well and exercise and all that and they

kept that weight off for two years. so that's a pretty significant weight loss. that's actually more than you see with some other diet pills. >> what exactly is in it and do we know if it's safe? i mean, are these pills ever 100% safe? >> right. let's talk about what's in it for a minute. remember fen fen. >> and the people that died. >> the safer half of fen fen is in there, called phentermine, and it's an appetite suppressant. the other half is called topiramate in anti-sigh zur medicine of all things and that -- once you start eating that makes you feel fuller faster. it's called a sayty drug, and sort of like a nice side effect of the anti-seizure medication. >> you asked me about side effects. >> there are side effects. and that was the problem with fen fen, people didn't pay attention to those soon enough. let's talk about what those are up front. they did find in studies it increased some people's heart

rate and it also was linked for some people to confusion and language problems, which is sort of an interesting thing for a diet pill. and when women have taken it in other drugs, there's been an increased risk of cleft lip and cleft palate. women taking this, they're supposed to be counseled to be on birth control, supposed to be on birth control when taking this diet pill. in the clinical trials they were also told not to take -- not to get pregnant and to use birth controls, 34 women got pregnant. >> wow. >> there's a concern that women aren't going to listen to this or their birth control will fail and there could be problems, right. >> we'll follow it. definitely. elizabeth, thanks so much. also go for more on this story, to cnnhealth.com. and good news for all of you fleetwood mac fans. we're going to go back on tour next year. 64-year-old stevie knicks, can you believe she's 64? still sounds amazing. band members haven't appeared

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want to take a look at mexico now. a suspect connected with that brutal attack at a christian camp in central mexico has been arrested. it happened near the town of chalco in mexico state just about 22 mile s southeast of mexico city. police say five girls were raped and several teenage boys beaten. the vicious attack is another example of how violence against women is surging, surging in a state that until last year was governed by the man who will be mexico's next president, enrique pena nieto. during his six years in office, human rights groups say more than 1,000 women were killed,

nearly half of those cases unsolved. just last year, every day, two women on average were murdered or went missing in mexico state. joining me now, our senior latin-american affairs editor, boy, that's a long title, rafael, to get that down. you know, let me just, because you were born and raised in mexico, i lived there for a while. violence against women is nothing new. >> unfortunately, it's nothing new. i was taking a look at a record by amnesty international that says that between 1985 and 2009 there were 34,000 murders, women killed, in many cases very violently. and also when it comes to the crime of rape, in 2009, alone, there were 15,000 cases reported. amnesty international says that many cases went unreported and they estimate the actual number may be 74,000, but the problem here, kyra, is when those cases

are reported, what do authorities do? we find and amnesty international say that in most cases, the prosecutions don't really go all the way through, only less than 3,000 cases actually resulted in conviction. >> why is that? why is it? is it culture? is it lack of training? is it lack of education? why is there this surge in violence against women? >> well, mexico is undergoing, i would call it a revolution in training when it comes to the police. a lot of police officers used to lack the most minimal sensitivity when it came to a crime like rape or sexual abuse. women would go to the police and they would say, oh, you might have done something to deserve this that happened to you. that is changing very slowly for sure, but that is changing. but in this case that we saw in mexico, it was just so sad. this christian group going to a park. it's supposed to be a safe area near mexico city and they get attacked by armed men in the middle of the night. >> a suspect already arrested. do we know anything about this

suspect in connection to this? >> there's one suspect that has been arrested. not one of the perpetrators, but somebody who might have given information to the group at large. and what authorities say is that this is a group that is known in the area because they've committed crimes before and they know, they say, who they are, and it's just a matter of time before they arrest them. >> it's going to be interest to see how the new president of mexico handles this as well. not a good track record, according to human rights. >> big challenge for sure. >> okay. we'll follow it. rafael, thanks so much. i know that you'll be following this story as well. go to cnn.com and follow it in our international section. the medicare debate continues in washington...

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and video you will not believe. watch closely now. 7-year-old new york girl dancing on an air-conditioning unit outside her third floor apartment and she lost her balance. now, steve st. bernard, yes, the same name as the rescue dog, was there no grab her. >> i ran over there, hoping that she wouldn't fall, and when i got there, she was still standing there and i just, like, positioned myself, hopefully i would catch her. >> well, the girl wasn't hurt and st. bernard, who says he's no hero, did suffer an arm injury but says he's going to be okay. and before we let you go, remembering a country legend who sang all the songs we women could relate to. ♪ your cheating heart >> oh, yeah "cheating hearts,"

tangled affairs, ugly divorces. kitty wells sang about the taboo subjects at the time. in 1952, she was the first female singer to actually reach number one on the country charts. recording 50 albums, and blazing the trail for females struggling to make it in a male-dominated genre. the queen of country music died yesterday after complications from a stroke. kitty wells was 92. thanks for watching, everyone. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter @kyracnn or on facebook. "newsroom international" starts right now. welcome to "newsroom international." i'm suzanne malveaux. we're talking you around the world in 60 minutes. here's what's going on right now. investigators are trying to find out what caused this fire in a high-rise building in istanbul, turkey. crews managed to evacuate hundreds of people and we're hearing no one was killed or injured. now, the district mayor says the building's fire extinguisher

system turned on automatically but if it had not says it could have been a huge disaster. in toronto, a person of interest is now in custody for what police are calling the worst incident of gun violence in their city's history. affiliate c-tv reports the shooting broke out at a house party late last night. 2 people were killed, 22 others injured including a baby. kofi annan says the syrian crisis is at a cross roads. he made the remarks following a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. vladimir putin supports annan's peace plan but is opposed to any kind of military action in syria. scenes like this one continue to filter out out of damascus. opposition groups say that 28 people died today in the fighting. meanwhile, the military presence in the capital, it is continuing

to grow. now, these pictures show tanks on the streets of damascus. cnn cannot confirm the authenticity of the videos. we're not allowed in the country. we usually depend on youtube. the exclusive report, she explains the danger of smuggling video out of syria and the desperation to tell people's stories. we have to warn you, some of the images in the piece is quite disturbing. >> reporter: the power is out in the streets of duma. the three activists and their escorts don't dare shine a light. there is a sniper lurking. gunfire in the distance forces them to pick up the pace. the activists are part of the opposition's media operation.

they smuggle themselves into the damascus suburb last month. and risked their lives to document this. a massacre said to have taken place just hours earlier. among the corpses strewn about, that of a little girl. a man points to one of the bodies and says he was executed, a civilian. points to a second corpse and adds, this is his cousin, shot because he tried to save him. residents are readying the bodies for burial. blood soaking through the funeral sheets. the names of the deceased hastily scrawled. it's a grim routine syrians in areas that have dared stand up to the regime have grown

accustom to. the bodies unceremoniously dragged away and placed alongside others. residents say syrian security forces searching for weapons in some buildings wiped out members of several families. this man described what happened in one instance. "they had two rooms they put the n and women in" he says. "from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., the living were trapped with the dead. it was an execution. they asked, where are the guns?" "there are no guns" was the response. and they executed them one after the other. at least 45 were killed in this one attack, residents say. information cnn cannot independently verify. in the morning, the media team picked their way through rubble-strewn streets, but they

would not be able to leave duma. the assad regime siege intensified. the government bombardment relentless. many more were killed. the team that filmed this at the end of june was trapped inside douma for more than a week, and it's taken this long to get the footage smuggled to lebanon. all that effort, all that risk to give the world a glimpse of syria's horror and despair. >> arwa damon is joining us live from neighboring lebanon. arwa, it's an incredible story. tragic. the situation now in douma, what does it look like? >> reporter: well, we just received notice from one of the opposition activists networks that there was renewed shelling there and that there were reports that government forces alongside pro-government thugs were entering the area once again. this is just one of many parts

of damascus that has seen some pretty intense fighting over the last few days. there's also been some pretty fierce battles taking place in the heart of the capital, itself, suzanne. a neighborhood. this is but a few minutes' drive from the president's very seat of power. there have been pretty dramatic images coming out showing smoke billowing over this part of the city, itself. so most certainly right now this rebel fighting force is taking the battle straight to the area where they know it is going to matter the most and that is the very heart of the capital, damascus. >> arwa, we know opposition forces, they are certainly showing this kind of video, their side of the story. how does the syrian government actually counter this? how do they tell what is happening there on the ground from their point of view? >> reporter: well, syrian state television, if you watch it, you would feel as if you were watching something taking place in, perhaps, in another location entirely. they've been showing a lot of

pro-security forces propaganda, showing images of government troops giving out flowers, kissing babies, but they've also been placing their reporters in these particular areas and trying to make the point that nothing, in fact, is taking place, while in the background, though, of these reports that are coming out, you do see that shops are shuttered. oftentimes gunfire is heard. the government is trying to perpetuate this image it is fully in control. that being said, one has to remember this is still very much a one-sided battlefield. the government forces by far outnumber and outgun the opposition at this stage, suzanne. >> arwa, excellent reporting as always. thank you. olympic organizers in london are still scrambling to fill thousands of security jobs, even though the games begin next week. that's right. 3,500 troops, they've been called in to help after the main security contractor called g-4s said it wouldn't come anywhere near filling the 10,000 workers it had actually promised.

today nick buckles, the head of that company, he was called for parliament, grilled about the need to do even more and the need, actually, for more troops in the coming days. >> so his question is, should you have more support as a contingency, because over the last few days since thursday, your staff are not turning up? should we have more people on standby? that's his question. it's quite simple. >> okay. i don't believe so at the moment. we believe we can cover all venues with support from the police and the military. >> holla gorani joins us. nick buckles is not a happy guy. see the slumped over shoulders there. all attention is on this guy who obviously has failed his mission, he's going to lose a lot of money. this really does look like a disaster right now. >> it does. it's a shamble. nick buckles, himself, really accepted responsibility for what has turned out to be a security fiasco in the united kingdom.

some of the members of parliament were perhaps a little more angry and disappointed than h him. they were incredulous the company would maintain its $89 million management fee as a result of the contract that it signed with the uk government. some are saying, hang on, this may not be exactly the way we would like to see it go. now, g-4s is the security firm. it's a private company. it signed a contract with the uk government. it had a $444 million contract but only has 4,000 guards ready out of the 10,400 that were promised and still cannot for certain say that all these guards, up to 7,000 on the day, at the end of the month of july, with ill be ready and at their post. >> i've never seen anything like this before. this is just crazy. i mean, it's crazy how badly they've botched this whole thing. there are reports now the tsa is actually going to be helping out here. going to be at heathrow airport, other airports throughout london to try at least to get some of these airlines coming from the united states and some guards on the ground to help people get

them through security. >> this is unrelated, as you know, to the security fiasco with the private contracting firm. these, we understand from a statement from the department of homeland security, are extra tsa staff. so american security agents. they will be in various uk airports. they will not do any security screening, we understand, but they'll act as liaisons between tsa, the tsa in the u.s., here in the u.s., especially for american flights in and out of the uk, and tsa agents and security personnel in the united kingdom. this is just extra staff, an extra layer to help out. you know, on monday, 25% more passengers than usual flew through heathrow which is already one of the world's busiest airports. >> have to tell you about this story. three buses carrying olympic athletes trying to get to the olympic village, right? so they get lost, right? the bus driver gets lost. he got tweets from athletes.

this from karen, a heurdler, athletes are sleepy, hungry and need to pee. can we get to the olympic village, please? lost on the road for four hours. not a good first impression, london. they go on to speculate that, what, you can finish the -- you could actually run or walk that distance faster than it took them on that bus? >> they didn't set any olympic records driving to the olympic village, i can tell you that. they have a special lane from heathrow airport to the olympic village. it's supposed to take an hour. it took them four. what i found most amusing, i mean, you know, no one got hurt. it was day one. let's cut them slack. one of the australian athletes on the australian bus pulled out his iphone after a while and was like, let me google this, put this in map quest and get us to the olympic village. they finally made it after four hours. so all is well and good. i'm certain that these bus drivers, some of whom apparently didn't know how to operate the gps on the buses, have learned in a hurry how to do that, "a" and "b" the road to the olympic

village. >> not a good first impression honestly. we hope it gets better as the days go on. >> i hope so, too, for the athletes' sake. after eight, nine hours on a plane, four hours on a bus, you just want to get there. >> thanks, hala. here's more of what we're working on for "newsroom international." it's extreme home makeover with venezuela's president, hugo chaves, building loyalty by giving away homes. is it campaign stunt to get re-elected? we're going to take you to kazakhstan where they're broadcasting live for the first time. they're playing a game that i've never heard of. this is weird, kokpar, a headless goat, right, serves as the game ball. >> the dead boat it could be said it used and abused. in kokpar, the riders are nearly every bit as much as risk. stealing the goet frat from an opposing player, perfectly legal. knocking his opponent after a horse, that's apparently legal,

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this is a u.s. senate hearing that is going on right now. live pictures. lawmakers are grilling hsbc bosses for their role in the money laundering. senate says the british banking giant allowed billions of dollars to be transferred to dangerous gangs and terrorist groups. maggie is joining us to help sort all of it out. this is europe's largest bank. we're not just talking about errors of rogue traders here. this is a decade where they're saying crimes occurred and this much money was going to terrorist organizations. how did this happen? how do they explain this? >> they're having a hard time doing it, i tell you, suzanne. we've become immune to hearing about financial scandals, derivatives and the such. this is shocking compared to that. i mean, we are talking about basically allegations of hsbc in some cases being banker to some of the world's most wanted criminals. mexican drug cartels, $7 billion in cash transfers over two years. shadow accounts in the cayman

islands. a saudi bank with links to al qaeda terrorists. iranians looking to skirt u.s. sanctions. $20 billion worth of transactions. so these are specific. they take place over a decade and are pretty astonishing. the hsbc executives sitting there, they started out with david bagley, head of compliance, top watchdog to the bank, who essentially gave his resignation during the testimony to the surprise of some. >> really? >> yes, he did. he said there's going to be a transition. he painted a picture of a global bank that bought a lot of banks around the world that were growing fast but had little control and just didn't have oversight of them. that's not sitting well with the lawmakers there. you can imagine that this may not be the only head to roll. we're expected to hear from irene do rrrner, the head of u. operations in a little bit. >> maggie, i imagine you say heads are going to roll, that this is not going to be enough for the justice department that's also investigating this. what kind of fine could they be hit with, do you think? >> well, some people are talking about a fine in excess of $1

billion, suzanne, but remember, that is a lot of money for a fine, but this is a global banking giant. and one lawyer that we spoke to that specializes in money laundering, as worked for the senate before, said that that would be essentially like giving them a parking ticket. he said what went on was criminal and someone should go to jail for it. >> i want to read a statement here that they have issued an apology acknowledging their mistakes. they say "we will acknowledge in the past we have sometimes failed to meet the standards regulators and customers expect. we believe this case history will provide important lessons for the whole industry i seeking to prevent elicit actors entering the global financial system." do we have any sense, maggie, at all, just the ripple effect? it might be too early to know, but the ripple effect through american banks and down to consumers? >> yeah, let's all learn from the experience. that sort of sounds like blame sharing if you ask me. it's a little soon to tell, suzanne, what's going to happen. if you're an american consumer and you got an account with hsbc, it may mean nothing.

i mean, the worst case scenario would be if they lost their charter. most people don't think that's going to happen. they'll most likely to have pay a fine. if they did, you'd probably see a name change. someone would buy the u.s. operations. if they don't end up doing that, you know, what we always come back to is the more we see these infractions, the more cops you need on the street. and when you need more cops on the street, someone's got to pay for it. where does the money come from? a lot of consumer advocates worry in the end those costs get passed along to us, the banking customers. >> all right. maggie, thank you so much. appreciate it. football, baseball here in the united states, but kazakhstan known for a game called kokpar. it's pretty bizarre. think horses and a headless goat.

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got to love the red hair. that is florence and machine with their new single "spectrum." shot to the top of the charts in ireld and her homeland of the uk. ♪ love the wig. you might recognize the grammy nominated singer from her other hit, "dog days are over." for many of us it is probably best known as the home of the fictional character borat. this week, cnn is live from kazakhstan. the former soviet republic is located in central asia, eastern europe near russia and china. the history of kazakhstan, it's said, could be written in hoof prints as nomadic tribesmen, hundreds thundered on horseback throughout the vast plains. our jim clancy shows us the national sport and traditions that reflect the day. >> reporter: it's called kokpar, and it isn't for the faint of

heart or stomach. stouter in build, carry the riders of two opposing teams. a decapitated goat serves as the game ball. there are goal pits at either end of the field. the object, lift the goat off the field and carry it to your goal. other than that, there do not appear to be any rules. the dead goat, it could be said, is used and abused but in kokpar, the riders are nearly every bit as much at risk. stealing the goat from an opposing player, perfectly legal. knocking an opponent off his horse, well that's apparently legal, too. kazik horsemanship is legendary. no one can point a finger to exactly when and where kokpar originated. it's clear enough the enthusiasm for this competition remains fierce today and a vivid part of kazakhstan's history. >> jim clancy, he's joining us, first ever live report from kazakhstan.

so, jim, you are in the country's capital there. you have a landmark behind us. tell us what's actually behind you, what that symbolizes? >> reporter: well, behind me is an entire city that has been built, get this, just since 19, what, 95 or so? it was declared the capital in 1997. all the buildings behind me are new. you're looking at one behind me, it is the world's largest tent. now, that tent is something to the tune of 150 meters high. there's an entire shopping mall. there's an entire sandy beach inside there that services the people of this new city of istana that has trebled the population up to 700,000 now in just a short span of 15 years. incredible, phenomenal growth. an incredible pride in their heritage here. you know, you saw what was done on horseback there with the national sport. i can tell you, i saw another

game that was played, suzanne, where a young man chases a young woman on a horse and at a gull gallop tries to kiss her. if he misses, get this, if he misses, she's got a whip. i don't mean a riding crop. she has a whip and she can whip him all the way back to the finish line. these people, they love their sport, they love their heritage and it's a huge country, three times the size of texas. fascinating visit here. >> i think i might be really surprising to most people about the whip, but it's not surprising to me because i want you to see this picture. it was '97. i was with the first lady, hillary clinton, when she went to kazakhstan. what did they do? they presented her with a whip. that is right. and it is because it represents power and these are, i mean, most people wouldn't realize this, men carry these whips to this day to symbolize the kind of power that they have. why do they hang on to that kind of tradition around the horses and these kinds of games and these whips? >> reporter: you know, it is in

the kazak culture. there's no other way to put it. i talked to a traditional musician in this country. he probably told me, yedeel is my name. you know what that is? you know what you'd say in europe? it's a tilla. they see their history as one that dominated europe at one point. today, a silk road used to go through here. they're between china and turkey, europe. they're seeing a rebuilding of that silk road, rail, land routes. this country is on a roll. this country is really growing in confidence by the day. it has a better credit rating than russia. better credit rating than brazil, even. kazakhstan is coming back in a very big way, in a very short period of time. i was here 21 years ago. i can't believe the change. you're right, our first live shot here with cnn from kazakhstan. proud to be with you for that. >> pretty awesome there, jim.

i'm sure you've picked up a whip, i have one as well from kazakhstan. it means you're very powerful. all right. there goes jim. see you. two americans reuniting with their families now after being held captive in egypt for days. we're going to hear about their experience up ahead. ♪ lord, you got no reason ♪ you got no right ♪ ♪ i find myself at the wrong place ♪ [ male announcer ] the ram 1500 express. ♪ it says a lot about you. ♪ in a deep, hemi-rumble sort of way. guts. glory. ram. in a deep, hemi-rumble sort of way. syou know, i've helped a lot off people save a lot of money. but today...( sfx: loud noise of large metal object hitting the ground) things have been a little strange. (sfx: sound of piano smashing) roadrunner: meep meep.

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two americans who were kidnapped in egypt say they didn't think they would even be alive today. they say their faith in god got them through. the two, michelle louis and lisa alfons are reunited with their families and members of their church group. they were released yesterday after being held for four days. we're joined by phone from jerusalem with some of the details here. elise, i understand they explain that this was a pretty terrifying experience. that they were moved around the desert from each place each night and really had no idea if they were even going to be killed or get through this

thing. >> they didn't, suzanne. it was a very harrowing experience for both reverend michel louis. taken off their bus. they were roughing them around, pointing guns at them. lisa was hit a little bit in the face. and what happened was, originally they were just taking lisa, they were just kidnapping lisa and michel louis, leader of the church group on the tour with them. he say, as a leader, i can't let her go alone. he offered to go with them. for four days they had no belongings. just the clothes on eir back. michel was a diabetic. he wasn't able to take his medicine. they really were just given marginal food, some peta bread, living like that for four days. >> why were they kidnapped in the first place? did the kidnappers explain what was going on, what they wanted or why they chose them? >> well, suzanne, if you remember, this is a very lawless

area and they're known for kidnapping americans and westerners mostly for money. this time it was a little more complicated. the leader of the group, his uncle was detained in another city in alexandria in egypt on drug charges and he was hoping to get them released. they fougthought if they kidnap americans, this would be a very high-profile case that the egyptians would want to resolve. ey were trying to use them as leverage to get his uncle released. the egyptian authorities promised to take a lock at the case and said maybe they'd be able to do something. so they let them go. >> so they reached a deal then? i mean, there was no kind of storming of the facility or anything like that? they essentially just released them? >> they essentially just released them. i think what the egyptian authorities are very afraid of going in by force and having some armed conflict with these groups because then that would lead to more kidnappings. they promised that if they weren't -- if their demands weren't met they'd continue to

make kidnappings. what happens usually in these cases is tribal elders, local police authorities are able to reason in a way with them and let them go. it was very harrowing for them. they said they didn't know if they would be alive. they said that they really, as you said, put their faith in god, that god would keep them safe. what they were doing there is retracing the steps of jesus. this is believed where moses was given the ten commandments, st. catherine's cathedral is a famous place jesus once visited. for them, it was retracing jesus' steps. it was a biblical experience. in the end they said it was god that saved them. >> elise labott, thank you very much. appreciate it. syria has one of the largest stock piles of chemical weapons in the middle east. the united states thinks they may be moving them out of storage. adjusting to city life was hard for me. and becoming a fulltime indoor cat wasn't easy for atti.

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syria's moving some of its chemical weapons out of storage. u.s. officials telling cnn, and if that is true, this is very significant. syria controls one of the largest undeclared weapons stockpiles in the world. we're talking about weapons of mass destruction, chemical, nuclear, biological, but so, is this move an effort to keep chemical weapons out of the rebels' hands or something that is much more sinister? nicholas is former u.s. am bassdor to nato, and joins us from providence, rhode island. great to see you as always. you take a look at this scenario. what do you think of it? do you think, he, assad, is trying to protect the stockpile or preparing to use it against his own people? >> suzanne, it's likely very bad news. the charitable explanation as you say is that, perhaps, assad is moving these weapons to keep them out of the hands of the rebel army, but look, assad is

isolated. the tide is beginning to turn against him. this could be -- it could be a move of desperation. look at the events of the last week. the general defected. a major senior ambassador has. the russians have backed away from assad. the rebel alliance is gaining strength. there are reports this morning as you've seen that the most intense fighting over the last 18 months has been the last 2 days in damascus, itself. so it's very likely a reaction to the deteriorating political and military situation around president assad. >> what should nato or the u.n. do in terms of intervention? would it be grounds for either one of those groups, countries, members of those groups to get involved? >> well first, suzanne, i think it's obviously the united states and other governments will warn president assad that any use of chemical weapons would be an absolute disaster for him. it would be morally tantamount to war crimes. he would be brought up on charges. subsequently if he used chemical

weapons. the last person to use them, of course, infamously, is saddam hussein against the kurds more than 20 years ago. there has to be a stiff warning by the international community to president assad. russia should lead that warning. twice used its veto to protect the serons and security council. the russians should understand it's not in their interest to see the weapons used. i hope we'll see that reaction from moscow. >> the u.s. military says it could take 75,000 troops to secure syria's chemical weapons sites if they were at risk of being looted or unguarded. is that a realistic scenario the united states would even provide that kind of support? >> it's very difficult to say. as you say, suzanne, it's unclear why president assad may be considering this. we've talked about those scenarios. but any kind of western or u.n. or nato military intervention would have to entail, i would think, in the hundreds of

thousands of troops because you're talking about warfare in an urban environment here. in a densely populated country. this is very dissimilar from our invasion of -- the nato invasion of libya, i should say, the attack on libya last year. it would require so many troops and i think be so complicated logistically that you see united states and other countries back off from that scenario in the past. obviously if the assad regime were to use chemical weapons against its own people, then it's a completely different scenario and i wouldn't exclude at all consideration of an intervention force if that happened. >> nick, i have to ask this question, but how do we know for sure that there are actually wmd in seyrisyria? the bush administration botched it so badly in terms of intelligence. if the obama administration said, look, we have to secure these weapons, people will think, do we really know, are they really there? >> well, obviously with iraq as background, there are going to be questions about this. but i think we've seen the assad

family, both the father and now bashar al assad the son, engage in activity that is completely reprehensible, so i think the benefit of the doubt will not be with them. i think there's great distrust of the syrian regime worldwide, certainly in the united states. >> all right. thank you, nick. up next, we're live, congo's border with uganda, were thousands of u.n. peace keepers are fighting a rebel group. i've discovered gold. [ female announcer ] the gold standard in anti-aging. roc® retinol. found in roc® retinol correxion

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violence is brewing along congo's border with uganda. rebel movement calling its m-23

has faced off with more than 17,000 u.n. peacekeepers and government troops. this is near the regional capital of goma. these rebels have already taken over several towns and thousands, now they are fleeing their homes. joining us live, david mackenzie in the dmocratic republic of congo. what is happening where you are? >> reporter: well, suzanne, what we're having is a tense situation here in goma. the m-22 rebels which, in fact, came from the congonese army in april, is threatening to move toward the town we're in, a regional town on the border of uganda and rwanda. often a flashpoint, a key position and strategic position. the rebels have threatened to push into this town. we've seen heavy defenses of the 17,000 strong unesco u.n. forces, tanks, apcs and other hardware surrounding the town that we're in, trying to stop this potential onslaught from this rebel group.

it's unclear whether they are going to push into this town, but if they do, certainly a very worrying sign for the stability of this region which has just over the decades and years been a flashpoint for violence in africa. suzanne? >> what are people doing where you are right now in this town, in this city, who are threatened? >> reporter: well, it's a weird -- it's a woeird situatio, i have to be honest with you. in many ways, goma feels like normal. i've been here several times. there's also this heightened sense of threat. what is more worrying and more sad, really, suzanne, is we've been to this displaced camp where we've met several children who have been pushed out because of this. 20,000 into uganda, 20,000 through rwanda, and people pushed out of their homes because of the fighting. i met a 15-year-old who can't find his parents. he was sitting in this camp. they ran out, when they were in

the middle of their lessons, fighting started. they had to flee that area and come to here to the relative safety of this town. the reason we need to really pay careful attention to this situation is because in the past flashpoints in eastern congo have exploded into regional wars. at one point, congo had two major wars that it called the world wars of africa. several countries involved in the fighting. it's all around minerals and oil, the wealth of this region. the people have always been affected. >> david mackenzie, thank you for the update. appreciate that. let us know how this turns out as the evening develops. [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day

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welcome back to "newsroom international." we take you around the world in 60 minutes. in pakistan, a doctor was shot today while taking part in the

world health organization's polio vaccination campaign. authorities say the doctor was returning from a small town in karachi when gunmen on a motor bike opened fire on his car, hitting both the doctor and his driver. both men are in stable condition. there is no motive to the attack, but pakistanis have been suspicious of vaccination campaigns since the cia faked a vaccination drive last year to collect dna samples from people in osama bin laden's compound. people in southwestern japan now bracing for a typhoon. after having suffered through record rainfall. now, the area is already inundated from four days of torrential rain, which triggered landslides and flooding. at least 32 people are dead or missing and hundreds have been evacuated from their homes. in north korea, a little known general just got promoted to vice marshal. the state run news agency says

hyon yong chol got the title after the chief was removed from the post. it may reflect a power struggle between the powerful military and the civilian elite. during the arab uprisings, thousands of lives were put on hold to join the protest and olympic athletes were no exception. many of them, they had to stop their training. others suffered injuries. some even lost family members. well, we have a story of a tunisian gymnast who was told by a former regime he would never compete again. >> reporter: he's finally getting the global recognition he deserves. a major photo shoot for "sports illustrated" and what has become one of the symbols of the revolution. this is the former home of the toppled tunisian president's brother-in-law. >> looking at me? okay. great. >> reporter: after he fled the

country, it was gutted, covered in graffiti. now it houses rebel and revolutionary art. for tunisia's star gymnast and olympic hopeful, it's a strong statement. wajdi is one of tunisia's leading athletes. one of the best floor performers in african and arab history. he makes the sport look easy, combining physical strength, poise, flexibility and balance. he competed in the 2004 olympics and now is said to be the only tunisian gymnast at the 2012 games. during tunisia's revolution, the scenes of protest not only took over his athletic dreams, the violence hit home. >> it was here, downstairs with

all the neighbors here ready to protect our city. >> reporter: he decided to defend his community during the uprising. as part of a neighborhood watch. so this is where you guys would sort of patrol? >> yeah. this is where every residence over here have their own groups. and over here, the family right here of every home. and our wives and our sons are at home and right here to communicate with us if there is something wrong happened, we communicate quickly. we was really scared. sometimes we was, like, 200, 300 people. and we just heard some noise like come on, come on, come on, go to fight, go to fight. and we run, we run, we run.

want to take a look at what is trending globally right now. tomorrow is nelson mandela international day. people are already talking about their plans to observe it by serving their communities. it's also going to be nelson mandela's 94th birthday. and for the past three years it is a day for people in south africa as well as the rest of the world to spend 67 minutes volunteering. from feeding the hungry to building homes for people in need. those 67 minutes served also to honor the 67 years the former south african leader spent fighting for human rights. several stories caught our attention today. photos as well. a syrian refugee child lays on the floor at a camp in jordan. more than 140,000 refugees escaping the ongoing violence in syria end up there. jordan plans on building re camps. these rhinos are cooling off at the singapore zoo. they are 2 of the 13 african