have to be competent in order to be crazy. >> true. >> and you have to be competent in order to be legally insane. always good to have you here. we'll have more conversations as this case continues. >> alas the legal system does not move quickly. >> thank you, sir. thanks so much for watching us today. stay tuned, newsroom international begins. welcomes to news ram international. we're saying you around the world in 60 minutes. hundreds of refugees have died trying to make it to australia in boats. now the prime minister says that she is going to do something about it. in japan researchers think even the butterflies have become victims of the country's nuclear power plant disaster. want to begin with developments in the on going civil war. we're of course talking about syria. there are meetings under way right now talking about syria, china, and saudi arabia. they're all focused on one topic, and that is what is taking place in that civil war.

just watch. >> condition inside the country are deteriorating by the day. this is the scene from darzor, fighting raging in the streets and bodies wrapped in rugs left on the road. meanwhile, syria's former prime minister that defected to jordan says the regime is now losing control. >> i can confirm to you given my experience and the position i had that the regime's morale, economy, and military has completely collapsed and only in control of no more than 30% of syrian lands. >> so the diplomatic efforts, will they do anything to stop this conflict? want to bring in halla garani. you have breaking news regarding the prime minister that left syria. what do we know about his state? >> the man you just saw there

who was addressing reporters in jordan, the u.s. treasury department is announcing and happened about 15 minutes ago it is lifting its sanctions against ri had hibjab, this perhaps a signal or message to other high level syrian members if they defect, if they leave the regime sanctions against them will be lifted. well, it is of course unclear whether or not somebody like hijab had assets in the jats and it could also not beginning of a process that countries allied with the u.s. against the regime will follow suit and unfreeze the assets of some of these high ranking regime members. >> it is really an incentive for others to follow suit. we don't know if they are going to follow suit but i would give them incentive to do so. talk about the emergency meetings happening. three different countries, sitting down, trying to figure out what is the next move and there is an organization that really is key to all of this because they are actually looking at syria and considering punishing measures.

>> we're talking about the organization of the islamic conference, this is the 56-member organization that aims to defend the interests of muslim countries around the world. they have decided to suspend sirya. this is not the first organization to do it. of course our viewers know the arab league also suspended syria and it is symbolic more than anything. the regime has never been based on religious rule. it was always quite secular. here is what's interesting about the oyc. it is exposing this squichl between shi, iran and saudi arabia. they are against the suspension of syria. saudi arabia has said we must suspend the country. ahmadinejad is in mecca for the conference which in itself is giving the appearance of giving diplomacy a try in the syria crisis. >> you have got the shia and the

sunni. how does this impact the region when you see something like this breaking apart in syria? how does it influence those countries like iran and saudi arabia on opposite sides? >> in syria right now what we're seeing according to many and many analysts will agree with me on this is it is starting to become a full-fledged proxy war between iran and saudi arabia. when iran is talking about syria, it also mentions an important other arab spring country if you will and that is bahrain. bahrain is a majority shia population ruled by a royal family. if every one of the hot spots you're seeing that battle between the two major powers in the middle east, saudi arabia and the gulf countries who are sunni and iran which is shia. >> let's talk about china. they have been against any kind

of out right action to get rid of assad. we're now seeing the chinese saying we're going to welcome a syrian representative inside our country and welcome the opposition in our country and is china beginning to feel a little pressure here like maybe they need to do something different than russia to actually not support the assad regime? >> you're talking about china welcoming ishaban, for years the face of al-assad and in beijing now meeting with the foreign minister. china is talking about discussing the six-point peace plan which according to many was dead practically from the day it was launched. coff china says it will welcome the opposition but so did moscow. the big question is once it comes down to voting on a resolution at the u.n. can china and russia align themselves with the united states? nothing is less certain in this case. >> anything about the refugee

crisis? clearly this is spilling out into jordan, turkey, many other places where folks are beginning to really feel the humanitarian crisis. >> the host countries, jordan itself has a problem economically of its own. can they take in, continue to take in 100, 150,000 syrians who need food, who need shelter? they're in tent camps provided by the unhcr, but the longer this drags on, the more it will be an economic burden on neighboring countries. syrian who is have money are in lebanon, turkey, dubai. others are sleeping in tents in the desert. this is a very difficult situation to sustain longer term. >> thank you as always. aleppo is syria's largest city, under siege for weeks now and that poses a danger for reporters who are also on the ground. >> reporter: okay. he is saying do you want to go back and drive fast through the intersection because there is a

sniper. he is saying get down. get down. get down. >> that's all right. you're fine. come down. just get down. even if it is uncomfortable, just get down. >> not because uncomfortable. how are you going to do this? >> rough. >> all right. >> we made it. past that one. okay. maybe now is a good time to get out, get our bearings.

>> ben and his crew were able to get out of aleppo and back to a safe house but that trip as you saw took hours. you might remember last week's massacre at a sikh temple in wisconsin where six people were killed. since the shooting cnn has been looking at the rise of hate groups in the united states. these groups are not limited to our borders. as a matter of fact in germany neo-nazis are posing threats of their own using late night torch rallies and using the internet to spread their message. >> reporter: they appear in the middle of the night unannounced and armed with torches, their faces hidden behind plain white masks. it is a frightening scene that resembles the nazi torch marches of the 1930s. this was filmed only a few months ago in germany by neo-nazis themselves. after the march they upload the video on the internet to propagate their ideology adding

pompous music to support their message that multi culturalism is killing germany. >> they try to achieve attraction by young people, but the idea is awkward. it is mystical idea. we already killed and are killed by the system, by black ones, muslim ones, jewish ones, it is a racist idea, apop lick particular idea so utterly radical group. >> reporter: they call themselves the i am mortals, a group the german officials describe as a serious and growing concern. they emerged in may last year when a few hundred neo-nazis marched through an east germantown, a flash mob organized over the internet or using text messages. the signs target the mainstream political parties, democrats are causing the death of our people. al ban's call for action destroyed the lives of the democrats meaning people who

support multi culturism. experts say the rhetoric is dangerous. >> they are already attacking people or attacking institutions, so also this way of being radical is not without violence. of course they are interlinked to a degree with violent groups. >> it is a concern that german law enforcement agencies share. more than a dozen homes of the neo-nazis have been raided this year to find members of the i am mortals. a few weeks ago the german state of branden berg banned the organization because of destructive ideology but the threat remains. >> one organization is forbidden in one state and in other states they're not forbidden, so they can renew themselves. it is a very simple idea, put mask on your faces and represent the danger to the people. >> and the rallies continue.

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mubarak. on sunday it was announced he was sent to retirement. for more on the political shape up want to bring fawa from london. explain to us wloos this is just a show. have you this new video out and it looks like he is placing medals on these former generals. these are the folks that morsi basically said you got to go. what is the reality of what's happening on the ground? >> well, it is this symbolic show, suzanne. the fact is we may be witnessing the beginning of an historical shift in the balance of between between the military on the one hand and the civilian leadership on the other hand. remember, suzanne, the last 60 years the military was in charge. what mohamed morsi, the new president has been trying to do is assert the power of the presidency, the civilian leadership. this represents a critical moment in egypt's future. we have to wait and see how the balance of power will play itself out in the next few months and years but it is the

beginning of they mass can youlation and weakening of the military as an institution, as a political institution that has been unwilling to accept civilian supervision in egypt. >> should morsi be looking over his shoulder at this point and sleeping with one eye open? when you take away and replace the top military brass who have wielded extraordinary power, he might be in some danger. >> well, i mean, that's what i have thought so two days ago when i heard of the decision. now what we know, suzanne, is that mohamed morsi could not have done what he has done without manipulating tensions and disagreements within the military institution. obviously there are much more many more cleavages within the military than meets the eyes, and what has happened in the last few days is that what morsi has done is to basically promote a new generation, the new defense minister is in his 50s,

also the other second in command also in his 50s. kawi was in power for 22 years, in the late 1970s. him and the second in command were really ram nants of the old regime. i think if i would morsi i would worry a great deal about the military getting back at me but obviously there was a coup opinion the military itself that allowed morsi to get rid of the two most powerful men in the military. >> that's fascinating. i have not heard that before. we know that secretary of state hillary clinton, we know the defense secretary leon panetta were both in egypt recently in the region and worked with tantawi closely what do they make of the new folks right behind that are replacing him, the younger people that managed to now be put in those positions? >> suzanne, probably you don't know this, but he was extremely

unpopular in washington. what we know, we know this from the wiki leaks, leaked documents, u.s. documents which show that american defense officials were extremely unhappy with zantowi, unwilling to modernize the egyptian military and unfortunately the egyptian military is no longer a fighting force, more of a welfare agency under him. i think one of the major goals of washington is to have a centralized authority in cairo, one centralized authority as opposed to the duality of authority that existed. it was a state within a state and the egyptian president was elected. obviously mohamed morsi made it very clear the new president he is also a member of the muslim brotherhood and islamic based organization and he has made it very clear that he respects all the treaties egypt signed with the neighbors including israel and he will play the game as the game is played internationally, so i don't think washington is

terribly concerned about the shift of power to a new generation of officers because the officers that were promoted are integral part of the egyptian military as an institution. >> all right. thank you so much for putting it into perspective. we appreciate it as always. thank you. the prime minister of ethiopia has gone missing now. no one has seen him in public for two months now. concerns, pete, this week when he didn't show up for a big meeting of african leaders in his own capital. government officials say he is sick but will return to ruling the country in september. there is a lot of concern. ethiopia has taken the lead in fighting al qaeda, linked military groups also in neighboring somalia, it would be a huge power vacuum. immigration is not only a problem here in the united states. many countries it is a matter of life or death. australia has a huge refugee problem right now. while politicals and politicians are debating what to do next,

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their lives crowding into boats heading for australia where they hope to be granted asylum. many don't make it. more than 600 people died in accidents at sea since 2009 according to the "new york times." the prime minister says simply more people are drowning. she wants it to stop. she just endorsed a new plan that would increase the number of refugees allowed in by almost half. also part of this plan, a reopening offshore detention centers that human rights groups say are inhumane. i want to bring in michael holmes from cnn international. i want to talk about where folks are coming from. take a look at this map. we're talking 74% from four countries, iran, iraq, afghanistan, and sri lanka. explain to us why folks are making their way to australia and who these people are. >> well, they're refugees from hardship, war-torn countries and people looking for a better life. it is not unusual where they're from and where they're going. the problem has been this all

kicked off back in june. there was a boat capsized, a couple of boats in one month, 90 people drowned and that really -- >> coming from? >> those people were coming from afghanistan at that time. now, they drowned and so that really was the tipping point if you like. the government was forced into a position where they started this big review, a lot of imminent people on the committee that did it. they have come out with the recommendations, ship it all back offshore. have these refugees process the in places like naruit, middle of nowhere, way off in the pacific ocean and also papua new guinea and process them there. why? as a deterrent to make the journey in the first place by boat because it is people smugglers doing this, boats on unsea worthy. as you said, 600 have drowned since 2009. >> unbelievable. >> it has been seen by processing on shore as an invitation to the people smugglers, get here, you're set. you're talking 7,500 this year

alone. >> talk about the detention centers. clearly sounds like that is a dangerous situation when you have the center set up and people say these are inhumane, these are not all that much safer than trying to make it to australia. >> the funny thing is, the prime minister that embraced this report described offshore processing as inhumane but has had to do a political u-turn to solve the crisis if you like. it is a political crisis and social crisis. one of the big problems is whether it was on shore or offshore, these places we're seeing as inhumane, australia was seen as basically i am prisoning refugees while being processed and it could take years in some cases to process these people. amnesty says it is by sending offshore at the call it outsourcing australia's human rights obligations. the camps initially will be tents put up by the army. it is not a pretty place. >> these will be run by the australian government itself. >> with the permission of narue

and papa new guinea tlx. there will be more pempl structures built over time. it is $2 billion over five years. it is an on going controversy and source of social friction in australia and even though australia is one of the most multi cultural places on earth and melbourne is one of the top two or three multi cultural cities on earth, the second biggest greek city outside of athens. it is not that australia is an intolerant place, it is seen there is an avalanche of refugees coming and buying. >> is it an alternative here? you talk about how costly it is. it is possible australia could use part of its economy, taxing or whatever to allow people to go back to their countries or aid them in some other way. >> that's part of the plan. i think it is 3,000 every year legally now and lift that to 27,000 to allow more in. the problem is as it is in most

countries sorting through who is genuine and who is not, who is a social refugee, political refugee or economic refugee, whether they have criminal histories, and this is the problem australia has had is they have been criticized in the past for locking these people up in the interim. now they're going to keep locking them up. they're going to do it outside the country. it is sort of pushing the problem offshore while it is being dealt with. very controversial. >> very controversial. you mentioned during the break very quickly how many top ten cities in the world? >> i was bragging, wasn't i? >> you're from australia. >> the economist intelligence unit, very well respected journal came out with the top 20 livable cities in the world. in the top ten four aussie cities. i was impressed. melbourne the top for the second year in a row, my hometown, perth, number nine and didn't see an american one in the top ten. sorry. canadian ones and vienna. calgary, places like that. >> thank you, michael. good to see you. it could affect the way you pay for your house, who becomes

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new york's economy is shrinking. the group of countries known as the eurozone including france and germany saw their economy get smaller in the second quarter. it is only a tiny decline but since a quarter before that it was dead flat. it is now raising the possibility that europe might be in a recession or certainly headed in that direction. want to bring in richard quest in london. we always know there is a bit of disagreement over how you design a recession, but if you stick to the classic definition, two quarters, shrinking economy, looks pretty bad. what do we know? >> i think if you take that traditional classic definition of a contraction over two quarters, you realize that europe is in very deep trouble. we need to be careful between

e-27, the whole european union and the eurozone itself. when we talk about the eurozone, the 17-member countries who use the euro, i wanto show you this. this is basically the weather forecast for the eurozone and the forecast so far. we can really break it down into three areas, the grow countries, the slow countries, and the whoa countries. if we take today's latest numbers and look at the growers, you have germany, austria and slovakia. what a pathetically small number of countries and all based in the northern parts of the eurozone. throw in the slow countries, and you end up with finland at the top which is just gone negative, really serious finland is now in trouble and of course belgium and france. this is the bit you really want to see, suzanne. these are the woe countries, not surprisingly they are the club med countries as they are known, the periphery to give them the

posh title and it is everything from portugal, spain, italy, and greece. that gives you an idea of the sort of problems and one final thought for the second, the worries and if you like the front is moving up from the south up to the north. >> i never thought about it that way. i like what you did there, the woe countries in particular. how does this impact how we feel it here in the united states? >> well, you have to put this into perspective. if you take the fact that germany in the last quarter grew just 3/10 of a percent and you look at all of these that are in recession, go that way 3,000 miles and you end up in the u.s. which in the second quarter grew by .4 of 1%. on an annualized basis the u.s. will grow 1.5% give or take this year. what do all of those numbers mean in real life? it means the u.s. is growing. it is continuing to grow, sluggish and slow, sclerotic

maybe, but compared to this lot, it is a rip roaring success. >> does it fit into any of those categories that you have on your own map there? >> yes. if i was to say where the u.s. would be, it would be in the blue. it would be in the grow category. it has got not just because the numbers are similar to germany,.3 as such, and/or even austria's just looking down, the numbers, well, not because it is similar on that but because it has momentum. manufacturing is picking up. unemployment is coming down. the fiscal cliff is still the thing that could ride you off the road and into ruin but for the moment the u.s. would most definitely be a grow, not a slow and definitely not yet into the woe. >> good news. richard, thank you very much as always. very unique graphic there. love it. thanks again. appreciate it. >> thank you. he mixes his african and french roots to come up with some beats like this one.

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we're watching the two live events taking place here, of course, the presidential candidates trying to rally supporters in battleground states. we have president obama in oskaloosa, iowa, part of a three-day bus tour he is taking across the state, and he is attending a grassroots rally there. going to be talking about wind energy and the importance of

wind energy in the industry and giving credit to folks there. mitt romney campaigning in the battleground state of ohio. this is bealsville, a coal mining area, and he is talking to some folks who have been laid off and workers. he is going to be attacking the president on what he is calling the president's war on coal, about 2,500 folks expected to show up at romney's rally, but those two rallies, keeping a close eye on as they compete for the presidency. ♪ ♪ you are listening to tong a, a mu station and groeb trotter bridging the gap between africa and france. he grew up the son of a diplomat in the central african republic and traveled with his father

around the world. because of a military takeover in his homeland, the family moved to france when he was just ten. he sings in english, french, and sung ho, the main language of the central african republic. they often send socially conscious messages and he writes about everything from aids to immigration to slavery. he is joining us via skype from paris. we love your music. it really is fascinating because you combine languages. you combine cultures. it really is kind of like a melting pot. explain how you manage to come up with such a unique sound. >> i am just like this,ou know. thank you first. since i was little kid my father was a diplomat, so i was used to listen to a lot of music and that's the reason why we do this mixture. >> you have lived in four different countries. you speak many different languages.

how does that influence your music? >> you know, when you speak the language of central after an republic, i lived in paris, speak english also a little bit, you know, and it is just how i am. it is just natural. there is no really complication in that, you know. that's the way i am. >> do people try to box you in to label your music one way or the other or do you just basically say, look, this just defies any tradition? >> you mean choosing the music, about african music or what when you say traditional? >> how do you define your music? do people say it is one way or the other or has to filt into a certain genre whether it is african music or french music? >> people used to sayt is mixture, real mixture, you know, like we have traditional and futurist music, like love to call it, you know, afro-funk

futurist music. >> i love it. i want to play a bit for the audience. i know this is exclusive from your latest album. let's listen in a little bit. ♪ my heart is jumping, jumping, jumping out of my chest, out of my chest ♪ ♪ my heart is jumping, jumping, jurching out of my chest, out of my chest ♪ 2. >> bibi, tell bus this song, how it came about. i understand there is a strange story behind it. a near tragedy after recording this. give us a sense of what happened here. >> tragedy, you know, my friend which is in the band, his name is professor alassad and he used to use this sample mu had is jungle and two days later he had a heart attack and now he is doing well because we still tour together, and that's the reason why we made this song about the

things you love that can make your heart jump out of your chest, you know, so that was a tragedy before but now it is a good start. >> it is a good story. we're glad he is okay. we have been talking to bands, seeing bands a lot in the news lately. there is a band out of russia arrested for protesting against putin, performing in a cathedral in moscow and you musicians like madonna coming out to support them and the who and all kinds of folks speaking out. what do you think is the role of musicians in these particular groups? do you think they're effective in speaking out politically? >> yeah. i think especially now. we have to get involved. when you heard about something like what happened to the pusi riots, it is kind of shame. should not happen in a country like russia but it happened. to me it is a shame. we have to say something. they're just doing their job, you know.

you cannot stop or arrest somebody for that. that's not fair. >> what do you hope your band does for people around the world? >> you know, we just get ahold of some things. some of my lyrics i talk about aids or malnutrition or something like that. you don't need to be involved all the time, but sometimes you have to do it. we can't do some just love songs, okay, but we have all sorts of things to talk about what happened in africa, what happened to people like the pusi riot. >> i see your point. it is very well made. obviously your music is a big hit. it has a great message behind it. we'll keep following you. thank you very much. nice to meet you. >> thank you very much. a south korean rock star is ticking off the japanese by swimming to some volcanic islands that the two countries have been fighting over for years. of a girl named annie who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her,

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tax across afghanistan have left scores dead, a series of suicide bombs went off in the southwestern province, one bomb exploded where injured people were being treated. in all we're talking 27 people who decide, 80 others wounded.

an entire generation of afghan children growing up scarred by war. we're talking about not only physically but emotionally as well. for many of them escape. even just for a little while isn't even an option. three young girls recently got a chance to get away from this conflict and to begin healing their wounds. >> she is 11, fatma 10 and their sister just six. they're from kabul, afghanistan, but for six weeks this summer they were transplanted to north carolina. >> i liked everything here. i would like to buy everything. i love the beach. it was huge. >> translator: i love everything. i almost love everything here. >> translator: we got fat. we got healthier. >> you got fat? >> reporter: they're happy, carefree children, but their story is full of pain. in december last year the girls attended ceremonies in kabul when shooe amuslim men whipped themselves in repentance.

a suicide bomber killed at least 70 people, many of them women and children. photographer mu sad husseiny won the pulitzer prize capturing the aftermath of the explosion. in this photo you can see fatama and her bloody yellow gross in the background and gulmina lies nearby. >> translator: it was afternoon. we were in front of the mosque when the bomb exploded and the next thing i knew i was bleeding. >> translator: there was a woman behind me screaming and then i fainted. >> translator: there was me and gulmina and my uncle and mima was lost. >> not just lost but left for dead. >> translator: a guy came up and took me thinking i was dead, zipped me up in a plastic bag and put me down with a lot of other dead bodies. >> reporter: then a u.s. servicemen realized she wasn't dead, just unconscious. all three were wounded. tamima was deafened.

>> >> translator: her head informs pain. she was screaming. gulmina's hands and body were hurting and she couldn't sleep for days. then i started getting headaches. >> translator: for the whole wintery couldn't hear anything. >> reporter: two charities worked together to bring the sisters to the united states. the christian group solice for children arranged host families and medical care in the charlotte area. they were part of a group of almost two dozen afghan children, each would be hosted in a separate home. gulmina was visibly after hen civil and her host lane and lori west not much better. >> it is like it was hard to breathe. seriously hard to breathe. >> lori took charge with a stuffed toy and a blanket and plenty of smiles. >> the universal language is plain and love and i think if you do that, that's a good start. >> reporter: fatami and gulmina

worked with a physical therapist and all three girls underwent surgery to remove shrapnel still lodged in their body from the bombing. >> a lot of positive changes in our bodies now. >> translator: it was hurting so much, and i couldn't even touch it with my hands. now it is fine. it is healthy. >> reporter: she told us her surgery left we are had ugly scars but treatment here has fixed that. >> translator: when i came to america, i am over pain now. it got better. >> reporter: besides the treatment, the sisters made friends and got to enjoy their new surroundings. >> translator: i like it here. i don't want to go back. >> translator: there is a lot of dust and i don't want to go back. >> reporter: lane and lori who don't have children of their own felt the same way. >> five weeks into this thing i dread monday. >> reporter: lover i notes the solice program is meant to open lines of friendship between people who would otherwise wouldn't meet. a message for gulmina to take

home but parting is tough for both of them. >> i can tell part of her doesn't want to go because she wants to stay here and she even says me stay. >> reporter: in the end she did not. gulmina, and fatima are at home in kabul. we haven't used their last name to protect their identity. gulmina had her own message about the kindness of strangers. >> translator: i am thanking everyone so much. >> reporter: solice will be looking to help other afghan children in the coming year. six weeks in charlotte did change these sisters to be sure, but it probably changed their american hosts even more. jim clancy, cnn, charlotte, north carolina. massive flooding in the philippines causing scenes like this. we'll take a closer look. queste caring for a loved one 1rrsz goes by that you don't have them. questions about treatment

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