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hello everyone. it started with this, that video of a man accused of attacking a soldier with a meat cleaver talking to witnesses. three people now being held by police, two women who had been held are now being released. >> we're also learning more about the soldier who was killed. the latest from woolwich. and then president obama talking openly about the u.s. drone program and pakistan. he is glad finally acknowledging that the program has deadly side effects, could this actually repair the u.s.-pakistani relationship? >> plus, take a look at this. a bridge collapses in washington state. luckily only a couple of cars were on it at the time. everyone is okay. at least 77,000 people use this bridge daily. the latest on the investigation straight ahead. this is "around the world" on cnn. i'm suzanne malveaux.
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>> and i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company. happy friday, everyone. and we are following breaking news in britain right now. that's where two men were taken off an airliner, this plane was coming from lahore in pakistan and now under arrest. >> so whatever happened on board that flight was serious enough that the british air force sent up fighter jets to escort the plane to the ground. here's the pakistani international airlines plane. you see it there. it's on the ground. this is just outside of london. the flight was diverted there instead of landing at manchester as planned. >> yeah, on the phone now our senior international correspondent nic robertson. nic, i think you're still at stanstead. tell us what you know about what happened on that airplane. >> well, we know that the two men were arrested by police forces here pretty much as soon as the aircraft landed. they were arrested on suspicion of endangering the aircraft. what we have learned from pakistani officials in london is there was an altercation between two men and an air stewardess.
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threatened to blow the plane up, they told authorities and then reacted by sending up the fighter jet to escort to the airport because that's the airport that's dealt with hijacking, landed at a remote runway here and now we understand all the passengers have been brought off safely. there are no injuries. they're all being processed by immigration authorities. the luggage on board the plane is being processed and nothing has been found so far that would indicate any kind of explosive device. we're being told by british authorities that they don't believe that this at the moment is terror-related, at least in these early stages. that's what we're being told, michael, suzanne. >> and, nic, we heard from pakistani airline official says perhaps that they said this was a joke, that they mentioned a bomb on board but they were simply joking. do we know if that's true? >> we don't. we don't have specific details
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about how this altercation began, whether these men began it with a serious intent or whether they were just messing around in a very foolish behavior. but what we do know and what we can infer from the way police have responded here the airport where hijacked aircraft are flown to if they come to britain. the police here are well-trained in dealing with that sort of situation. the fact that they moved swiftly to the aircraft and removed and arrested these men from the aircraft is an indication they didn't think there was a long-term threat. the last hijacking here in the year 2000 there was a standoff for four days because of the hijackers demands and the situation. so the police here are trained in knowing what they're getting involved with in terms of whoats happening on board the aircraft. it does seem at this stage at least to be a threat or a threat at least very little or nothing at all to back it up, suzanne. >> all right.
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nic robertson there at stansted airport. that was a last-minute too. that plane was 20 minutes from landing when the call came to divert to standsted. >> if it was a joke, pretty stupid on their part. >> pretty stupid one. >> you can't say bomb on a plane these days. i want you to look at terrifying pictures out of washington state. an entire section of a bridge collapses.
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>> i am surprise ds to be here this evening and glad. >> all right. our thanks to our affiliate
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kiro. >> it really is quite a relief when you look at that. that picture of collapse you can see why because it could have been a lot worse, this iron framework angled -- not only does it need repairs, in 2009 it was actually declared functionally obsolete. >> so it doesn't necessarily mean that the bridge was unsafe, but it does mean that that design of that particular bridge was outdated because the bridge was built back in 1955. there are about 77,000 cars and trucks that pass over it every day. >> yeah. and on holiday weekends like this traffic obviously is going to be even heavier. what those people are going to do, we don't know. they're trying to work out diversion. now, this collapse is reigniting the political debate over the country's aging infrastructure. just how bad is it? what does president obama and congress plan to do to keep
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drivers safe? wolf blitzer's going to have a look at that on "cnn newsroom" next hour. apparently something like 8,000 bridges in the u.s. need work. >> yeah. and president obama's saying it was part of the program to get everything going, part of the stimulus package, didn't end up happening. >> exactly. >> and of course it could be weeks, even months now before we know about jodi arias' fate. it was just yesterday in a jury in phoenix announcing it could not reach an agreement on whether or not to sentence her to death for the murder of her boyfriend or spare her life. >> the trial keeps going on, doesn't it? the decision on that aspect of the trial process has to be unanimous. and a source says the jury was actually split 8-4 in favor of death. >> the deadlock means that a new jury's going to be picked to deliberate her sentence. that is scheduled to begin july 18th, but it is possible that prosecutors could offer her a deal to avoid death row. >> secretary of state john kerry
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is on his way now to israel, it's his fourth trip since he took office in february. >> now, kerry's making it clear that his number one priority is to re-start middle east peace talks. yesterday he shuttled between jerusalem and west bank meetding with palestinian and israeli leaders. he travels later to ethiopia today. an 8.2 magnitude earthquake rocking far east russia today. it hit the sea of okhotsk. i'm sure you're familiar with it. it was centered about 375 miles under the ocean's surface, but even that deep tremors were felt as far away as moscow, which is eight time zones away. >> i'm glad you pronounced that. >> i went to school there. >> there you go. the russian government immediately issued a tsunami warning, so far no casualties reported. thank goodness for that. coming up, we'll have the latest on the four suspects and the deadly attack on the british
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soldier in the london area. you've seen this before probably, this is a look at the suspects shown in the video. >> we're going to have more too on the soldier who died, put a bit more spotlight on the victim in all this. plus, cnn on the ground in moore, oklahoma. that massive tornado now a few days ago. >> a look at the recovery effort, that is up next. this is "around the world" on cnn. cord scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it. heart-healthy, whole grain oats.
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folks in oklahoma devastated by this week's tornado could face another danger, and it is, you know, hard to even imagine this but people are taking advantage in these times of crisis. we're talking about scam artists. this is out of moore, oklahoma, where authorities are now warning folks to watch out for these conartists simply offering to help repair damaged homes, but of course it's not the real deal. >> it's hard to believe, but it does happen. and it happens often after these sorts of disasters. officials of course have been estimating that 12,000 homes were damaged or destroyed by the tornado. and of course this is exactly the kind of situation that is going to attract that kind of person, conartists. >> nick valencia is joining us from moore. nick, it's pretty cruel when you think about it. people are down and out just trying to repair their lives and
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authorities have to come by and say, you know, you're pretty vulnerable at this time, there are folks out there trying to prey on you. >> that's exactly right. storm victims in times like these, suzanne, they're very vulnerable, still in shock, bewildered by what happened, making it easy for people to take advantage of them. investigators are being sent into neighborhoods passing out fliers like this to give residents a heads up of what to look out for. but catching a scam artist in the act, it's a lot harder than it looks. yesterday, i caught up with the chief of public protection for the attorney general's office who says that the people that are most vulnerable are the elderly and the poor. >> unfortunately there are people that actually travel with the storms. and so they make a good living by traveling storm to storm and taking advantage of people, taking deposits, making it sound like, you know, their roof has to be repaired immediately. taking cash, especially the elderly homeowners who might have money. getting them, you know,
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pressuring them enough to give them a check, they're right to that bank immediately and out of here. they're in so quickly and leave so quickly we can't get to them fast enough. so it's our goal this time around to educate and to be out there and show our presence so that people know we're out there and let the scammers know that we're out there and that we're watching. >> now, the good thing about this is that there are no official reports of scam artists or price gouging, though the attorney general's office says they're being pro active about this because as michael was saying, it's just a matter of time. people come in, travelers, to try to take advantage of those that are vulnerable. they said there's a lot of rumors and they've gotten a lot of tips, but it's a lot of false information, suzanne and michael, being fueled by rumors on social media. they hope they stay rumors and that people are safe. >> so, nick, they put out the pamphlet, what else are they doing to try to crack down on these kinds of people, if i can
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put it that gently, i don't want to but those types that would do this? >> well, believe it or not they're profiling pickup trucks from out of state. they're having residents keep a look out for pickup trucks, people with out of state license plates, snapping photos of them just in the case they turn out to be these scam artists that come back a week later, two weeks later after the storm and come under the guise that they're trying to help victims when they're really just trying to take advantage of them. so far though as we mentioned and we hope it stays this way for the community, there have been no official reports. so far, that's the way it is right now. who knows how it's going to be in a week, michael, as you were saying it happens all the time in these storms. so we hope it doesn't happen this time around. >> yeah. it even happens when there aren't these storms you hear people preying on the elderly and stuff. nick valencia doing great reporting out there in moore, oklahoma. >> it was interesting she said they actually follow the storm to get victims.
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president obama says using drones to target terrorists is a necessary evil, but he is calling for more oversight on their use. >> yeah, during a major national security speech in washington, the president said the u.s. is at what he called a cross roads, and the fight against terrorism needs to be more targeted. he says the u.s. will continue using drones, but only when other options aren't feasible. >> america does not take strikes when we have the ability to capture individual terrorists.
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our preference is always to detain, interrogate and prosecute them. america cannot take strikes wherever we choose. our actions are bound by consultations with partners and respect for state sovereignty. >> want to get some insight on the president's position from our cnn analyst retired army jen james spider marks. general, good to see you. >> thanks, suzanne. >> in covering president bush made the point to people we're engaged in this broad all-encompassing war on terror. president obama in his approach very different saying the nature of these threats against the u.s. has really changed and we've got to be very specific as these threats are more localized. tell us how that impacts our national security. >> well, frankly, i think what the president is doing is he is describing exactly what his predecessor did, which is in a very precise and very specific way going after targets that
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need to be eliminated, that put us at a greater threat. and that's really a definition at the tactical level. but tactics have to be nested in some type of a strategy. so i think it's how you perceive it and where the strategy starts. so it's really a distinction without a difference here. the president is describing about going after very specific targets. he's saying this is not a war, a global war on terrorism. yet, if you are willing to collect intelligence, identify bad guys, identify targets and then go after very precisely those targets to minimize collateral damage, to minimize the risk to civilians, that clearly is a foreign policy strategy. so i don't think there's much of a difference. >> and, general, in many ways it's interesting to hear him talk about drones at all. bring it out of the shadows, if you like. the administration disclosing of course for the first time that four americans have been killed by drone strikes overseas, which
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is something that other people have been reporting for a while now. do you agree that control of drones be shifted from the cia to the military? is that something that would provide more oversight if the military was doing the calling the shots, so to speak? >> michael, it's a great question. the real issue is to have the military conduct and have control of the drone strikes, the uav strikes, these armed missions that they're conducting, really is a political move. and it provides for a greater degree of transparency. and certainly that the political impetus is clear. the business end in terms of what the drone's going to do and how it's going to be imployed, really again there's no difference here. the military intelligence that's being used, the intelligence that's being generated and handled by the cia, are totally mixed. that database and that sharing exists very specifically on these targets.
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so i think it's important that the military do this, but it really has a political effect vice business end effect. >> general, i also want to talk about if we can turn the corner here the president giving the commencement address at u.s. naval academy today. in his speech he's addressing very directly here this problem that we've been hearing about, and that is sexual assaults in the military. i want you to listen to what he said earlier. >> those who commit sexual assault are not only committing a crime, they threaten the trust and discipline that makes our military strong. that's why we have to be determined to stop these crimes because they've got no place in the greatest military on earth. >> so you are a father of two daughters. and you also a graduate of course of westpoint -- >> three daughters. >> oh, three daughters, okay. sorry about that. >> had one when you weren't looking. >> what d you make of this? the fact this is coming forward
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and in a very straightforward manner here from the president all the way down. >> suzanne, this is not business as usual. clearly the military has had problems with this before. society certainly has a problem with this. it must be addressed. and it's going to take, as the president's indicated, a sustained effort. but when this gets well beyond boys acting poorly, or in the case of the air force i guess there's a girl who acted poorly, this truly is a situation where leadership must be totally engaged and clearly be held accountable. look, leaders are responsible for what units do and fail to do. and if somebody in that organization is acting poorly, that leader has to step up and take ownership of that. and that might be at personal and professional risk. when you have a general officer or a senior officer take advantage of power and abuse power, that can have an incredibly de
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incredibly dell tor yus effect. abusing trust, now you have leaders saying intellectually saying i have bosses that are acting badly, i've got noncommissioned officers that are supposed to be working for me acting badly, where do i turn? how do i help solve these problems? where do i go to try to make it right? and so it's multiple levels. it's going to take training. it's going to take policies. it's going to take inspections. and it will take time to get it right, but you've got to get involved immediately to start making these changes. and thank goodness the president's brought his joint chiefs in and said, look, guys, we have to address this. it's got to shine light on it to get all the bad stuff out of it. >> yeah. it is incredibly worrying when some of the perpetrators are at the higher levels and that really does effect the whole chain. "spider" marks, good to see you,
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general. >> good to see you, folks. >> this is actually real, but it seems farfetched. there's one airliner that's actually going to answer questions about that. >> we have that investigation coming up next, you do not want to see that. also, this, it's been a busy day for the airline industry. in fact, a possible bomb threat on a plane flying from pakistan to england. >> so were the suspects, the guys on the plane, just joking about a bomb? well, the search for answers up ahead. >> plus, a plane's engine catches fire, forces the pilot to make an emergency landing. this is at london's hethrow airport. we have video from the scene. stay with us. this is "around the world."
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we're watching two big stories today that effect the airline industry, air travel as well. both of them are in britain. >> yeah, we're getting some details now to make things a bit clearer about that forced landing of a flight from pakistan a short time ago.
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it was a diversion, it was a normal landing. we're talking about stansted airport just north of london about 200 miles from the original destination of manchester. it's a pakistan international airlines jet. almost 300 people on board, 297. it was diverted, told to land after an in-flight incident involving a couple of passengers. >> richard quest is joining us from london. so, tell us about this incident, richard. what actually happened on the plane? >> that's a very good question. so far that we can establish the flight attendant told the captain that there had been an incident, that according to the air stewardess told the pilot and then told air traffic control and then scrambled the fighter jets. taken place is still far from d clear, but two people as a result have been arrested and charged with offenses concerning
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and dangendangering an aircraft. did they make threats concerning rumors they may have made allegations of bomb threats, were they just being ruckus, we're waiting to find out. the situation at the moment and it is quite serious because it's not every day that you scramble fighter jets at the request of a pilot, and certainly so late in the flight, michael, but what we do know two people arrested, passengers on the ground, plane safe, everybody carries on with their journey except the two passengers, tomorrow. and then the flight goes back to pakistan the day after. >> richard, did they believe there was a bomb on the plane? is that why they responded in such a serious way? >> that's a good question. no one really knows. that part is still remarkably unclear. whether or not there was a threat and if there was, was it a credible threat, lots of reports, lots of rumors about what the different passengers say. some say they heard a bomb threat being made, other people
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say other things. all we know is that there were these two passengers. and at this point, and you know we always talk about not speculating, at this point that core fact is best left unsaid. >> richard, the other airline story out of your neck of the woods, dramatic pictures of that british airways that gave passengers a bit of a fright, we're going to show you the video first and then ask you what went on. >> it's spewing smoke. that was after takeoff. the plane took off, flew around and then landed again. now, we know from those pictures it was the right engine that seemed to be having the trouble. and then all of a sudden we get this video from inside the aircraft taken from a passenger looking outside the window.
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and you can now see it's the left engine that's got the cover missing. and when you look at pictures of the aircraft side-by-side, you realize that both engines have the covers missing, been lost. the question tonight and i've asked british airways, they're not commenting, i've asked the air accident investigation board, they've said that they won't put out anymore statements. you're left with the question, was this a single engine event or a multi-engine event? we don't know the answer to that either. >> nick, what do we think of the passengers? how did they react to all of this? they must have been pretty frightened by all of it. >> i suspect, we know they heard noises on the aircraft, but judging by the picture of the plane coming in to land, i'm guessing that by the time the final landing happened they will have noticed very little
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difference. landing a plane on one engine is the single most practiced act of captains and first officers. they do it in their training, they do it in their type rating, they do it in their six monthly sim checks. losing an engine on takeoff and having to do a go around and come back again is one of those things that's well practiced. and also modern day aircraft, the 320 series as indeed the 73 series is built with avionics that help the pilots in those situations. >> a bit scary. both engines lose cowlings. >> every time i talk to you on one of these things i suddenly get flamed by everybody talking about rampant speculation and what are you talking about and why do you say this. so we always have to caveat it. but the caveat here is that nobody is talking, but the
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evidence suggests two engines. >> well, you can see stuff missing off both of them. you'll find out. i know you will. you're a man not normally given to caveats, but we thank you for that one. >> we won't let him get flamed. it's okay, richard. we won't get flamed on this report. >> put suzanne on them. >> this is a close call. this is kind of strange. this happened in atlanta. pieces of an airplane, people who live near the atlanta airport, very busy international airport, they got a real scare. this was a couple days ago. parts of a 747, right, falling into the neighborhood. can you imagine that? >> this is not what you want to happen. that house there was hit by a chunk of wing that apparently tore off a china airlines cargo plane landing nearby. a piece of metal went all the way through the roof. not surprising really. nobody hurt thank goodness, but people in the neighborhood, well, they keep looking up. >> we do get lots of, i mean, probably at least 100 planes a
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day coming over our house. so for something to fall, it's devastating because we have kids that play in the area. >> that is amazing. i travel that airport all the time. i can only imagine the neighborhood around there how scared people are. every once in a while this happens. investigators try to figure out what actually made those pieces of the plane come off. another chunk of the wing actually landed in a store parking lot, that was just a couple miles away. >> that could ruin your day. all right. okay, three women stand up to the suspected killers of the british soldier that was brutally killed in london. how they reportedly tried to protect the victim. >> and even confronted the armed man. you're going to hear from one of these heroic women up next. written by people just like you. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.
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police in london have three people in custody today
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connected to that horrific daylight killing. this is of that british soldier. just awful to see this. two of those suspects are seen in the video here with knives and what appears to be the blood of the victim on their hands. >> yeah, chilling video, isn't it? this was taken before london police arrived. some people are complaining about the response time, by the way. it shows one of the suspected killers, the dead soldier in the background in the street, and the other suspect over the road. now, at least three women from the neighborhood actually interacted with the killers. >> today, they are actually telling this chilling story about their interaction with them. atika shubert is in london with the story. >> the video shaky and brief shot by an eyewitness. it shows three women who each in their own way stood up to the two young men who hacked a british soldier to death. first, an unidentified woman kneeling down by the victim's body, apparently praying. then in this video, she is
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standing with another woman confronting the blood-soaked killers. it was perhaps what prompted one of the attackers to say this. >> i apologize women had to witness this today, but in our land, our women have to see the same. you people will never be safe. remove your government. they don't care about you. >> it was a surreal scene. many eyewitnesses initially thought it was a road accident including cub scout leader and mom ingrid kennet. she jumped down from her bus to offer first aid before realizing the full horror of what had happened. she spoke to britain's news. >> i could see a butcher's knife and the axe the butchers have to cut, that's what you had and blood you have all over him. and i thought what the heck, what happened there? and i thaought, okay, obviously was a bit excited and the thing was to talk to him. >> in this photo she can be seen
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attempting to talk with one of the suspects even as he clutches a meat cleaver in his bloodied hands. >> were you not scared for yourself in that situation? >> no. >> why not? >> better me than a child. unfortunately, there were more and more mothers with children stopping around by so it was even more and more important that i talk to him and ask him what he wanted because i thought, well, usually they want something. >> it was a moment of distinctive courage and a scene of terrible bloodshed, cnn, woolwich, london. >> coming up, find this story interesting. a team of journalists going undercover to see what it is like to be a woman in egypt. >> that is right. they claim that sexual harassment is epidemic there. so they dressed as a man and then like a woman just to see how bad it really is. ? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s.
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call an epidemic of sexual harassment that torments egyptian women every day. >> we wanted men, those men, to feel how it would feel like to be the target of whether it's words, it's looks, you know, someone walking after you. >> anything i can do to help make people be more aware of this problem, i was like, yes, yes. >> with hidden cameras recording his every move, now looking the part hits the streets of cairo. within minutes it starts. >> it's like i'm under a microscope. >> stares, sexual advances, offers of money for sex, even when he puts on an islamic veil. >> some of them were mild, like, hey, pretty face. or something. or like in a very sugar coated way it's like, you know, let's kind of have some fun.
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i want to sleep with you tonight. >> but then things take a dangerous turn. tell me about this guy. he kept following you. >> yeah, that's the one that kept following me for 45 minutes. >> no matter where he goes, the man follows. when he ignores his plea for a date, the man gets aggressive. >> ultimately he grabbed you. >> he grabbed my arm and, yeah, that's it. >> you were scared? >> yeah, yeah. like i didn't know what he was going to do. at the end he's looking right into my eyes like you have to give me your number, you have to let me take you out. >> this hidden camera experiment was a joint project by private tv channel in cairo-based baleo productions, a group of egyptian activists and filmmakers. the two partners say the best way to take on tough problems in post-revolution egypt is to do good old fashioned investigative journalism and put it on tv. >> journalism on tv has only began to scratch the surface in
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terms of content possible. >> they have tackled social issues and government corruption, but none of their shows created more buzz than when they dressed a man as a woman. >> the target for us was, what if men felt what women felt like. >> he says the stress and fear he felt walking the streets as a woman. >> i, as a man, i can't imagine living my life like that every single day. >> is something he wouldn't wish on anyone. reza sayah, cnn, cairo. >> big problem in cairo. >> very big problem in cairo. happening a lot. calling it an epidemic of sexual harassment. very physical stuff too, not just comments. we're going to switch gears. when we come back, we're going to take a look at one of the biggest sporting events in the world, it's bigger than the super bowl. and i'm going to call it football. it is. it's football. >> no. calling it soccer. >> all right. we'll be back.
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all right. we got a quick quiz for you. what is the biggest sporting event of the year? is it the super bowl? >> no, no, it is not. the most watched -- this is the most watched game of the year. it's called football, here you say soccer. football for the rest of the world. here's amanda davis. >> the champions league final is big business in any language.
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there's big sporting events and then there's this. >> before the game you hear that music and from the very on edge it gives you goose bumps on the back of your neck. >> i was so proud to have the opportunity to present myself kind of to a whole new audience and play. and i dreamed of that opportunity as a kid. >> translator: as a young boy, i never dreamed that i would be playing in a match like this. >> it's not just the players who love it either. about 177 million people around the globe watched last year's decider between chelsea and munich compared to 108 million watching february's super bowl. it may be a europe-wide competition, but from 52 countries represented at the start, it's only germany left standing. after a season slugging it out in the bundis league, now go head-to-head on the biggest stage to be crowned the first
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german winners in 12 years. >> already known as one of the top five teams in the world. really back on stage after their '97 victory in the champions league. in 2005 they were so close to filing for bankruptcy. and right now this is a great comeback story. >> they've already added the trophy league to their cabinet this season but they have a score to settle after defeat in two of the last three finals. for both teams there's more than just domestic vooirivalry and prestige at stake. the estimated gross commercial revenue of the competition is $1.7 billion with the winning team taking home about $46 million as well as a sizable amount for tv revenue. >> when you come to renegotiate tv contracts, you renegotiate sponsorship contracts, if you've won the champions league, you can charge a premium.
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there's a bounceback in terms of an impact on the whole city, the feel good factor, you've got people buying tvs and takeaway pizzas and beer and this kind of thing. as i say, if you take out 100 million euros as a benchmark and work from there, it's a huge phenomenon. >> throw in 86,000 fans and one of the greatest stadiums in the world here at wembley and the stage is all set for the battle for that trophy, old big ears, to unfold. as its designer once said, it may not be an artistic masterpiece, but everyone in football wants to get their hands on it. >> wow. >> wow, amanda davis. it's a huge game. it's going to be very exciting. you'll be watching. >> oh, yeah, sure. i'll go to a sports bar. i'll try to catch a little bit of it. >> whatever happens germany will win, only clubs playing. good stuff. very exciting. as we mentioned, a bridge collapse in washington state it
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was deemed obsolete, but unusable. and there are more bridges that fall under that very category. so coming up, a look at this growing problem. g spokesman i have to look my best on camera. whether i'm telling people about how they could save money on car insurance with geico... yeah, a little bit more of the lime green love yeah... or letting them know they can reach geico 24/7 using the latest technology. go on, slather it all over. don't hold back, go on... it's these high-definition televisions, i'll tell ya, they show every wrinkle. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. congestion, for it's smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don't throw out as much pollution to the earth. so i feel good. i feel like i'm doing my part to help out the environment.
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does breathing with copd weigh you down? don't wait to ask your doctor about spiriva. he's everywhere. somebody we've all been talking about, anthony bourdain, in the show people have been watching "parts unknown". >> i love it. this weekend you can enjoy a bourdain marathon.
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too much bourdain is never enough. there is no such thing. the exotic travels of anthony bourdain take him all over the world. remember the one we spoke to him about, libya. >> oh, yeah. so much fun because he eats all kinds of food, he takes you to different restaurants, he explores all kinds of aspects of the culture including some hip hop as well as tradition as well sampling the world's foods all over the place. good stuff. >> it's food, but it's also about a window on the country, isn't it? meets interesting people, shows you the cultural stuff. and on sunday of course you are going to be able to see what you've been missing if you haven't caught all of them, which is unforgivable. >> there is your opportunity here. yep, it is a marathon. anthony bourdain's incredible travels again with the best of "parts unknown." it's a good way to actually spend your weekend catching up on all the stuff. >> that marathon is this sunday 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. i may watch it. i've seen them all anyway, but i might just watch them again. >> watch them again.
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it's going to be a great weekend. >> it is. >> all right. thanks for watching "around the world." >> yeah, "cnn newsroom" starts right now with wolf. thank you. >> have a good weekend. a white flash and cold water, that's how one man describes his experience. his car fell off a collapsing bridge. we'll have a live report from washington state. and it's not over yet, a lot of us thought the high courtroom drama the jodi arias trial would be ending this week, guess what? we were wrong. what's next in the case? and babies weight for nothing, not even tornadoes. these nurses went above and beyond their call of duty. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm wolf blitzer in washington. let's start with those terrifying moments when drivers in washington state realized the bridge they were crossing was collapsing. here's a closer look at exclusive pictures of the bridge

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