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this is cnn breaking news. breaking news out of afghanistan. we are learning from officials that there is a forward operating base that has been breached by insurgents in southern afghanistan. want to go to barbara starr to explain what we know. barbara? >> reporter: suzanne, this word coming to cnn a few moments ago at the pentagon. at least eight insurgents got into a small military outpost in
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southern afghanistan. a firefight ensued. when it was over, one wounded insurgent, sev insurgents dead. no coalition, no u.s. killed we are told though there were a number of wounded. what we are talking about here is southern afghanistan where the insurgency, of course, has been extremely active and for insurgents to breach a u.s. outpost is very significant. it has happened in the ast, but this is not, of course, something that the u.s. wants to see. security is very tight at these outposts as you and i both know. we have visited them. they are very strict about who goes in and identification papers are always checked. the investigation is underway, suzanne, but it is raising the prospect, officials tell us, at least initially that the insurgents may have had some inside help from afghans at this forward operating base. again, seven insurgents killed, one wounded. no u.s. casualties but a u.s.
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base was breached by insurgents earlier today. >> barbara, explain to our audience the difference here. you and i both understand this. a forward operating base is very different than, say, the main base where you have a lot of people here. this is a very small group and as you say security very tight. exain the significance of this. >> reporter: you bet, suzanne. a forward operating base, just as you said, is not like the big international bases we have visited in kabul or bagram, acres and acres. these are locations out in the middle of front line combat zones often simply surrounded by wire, barriers, security checkpoints, troops on patrol. usually several dozen troops at these bases not major bases like you would normally think of. look, some of the big bases have also come under attack, but at these forward locations, security is at a heightened
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state all the time. so for this to have happened, the key question is how did the insurgents get in. >> barbarastarr. thank you. next door pakistan facing a political crisis. pakist supreme court has ruled that this gentleman will no longer be prime minister. two months ago he was convicted of contempt after refusing to reopen corruption cases against the president. ♪ you may not know this young woman's music, but she was very popular across pakistan and afghanistan. today fans are mourning her death. she sang in her native pashto. she was known for defying a taliban decree against singing and dancing. reza say a is joining us from islamabad. she was gunned down in pakistan. was this because she dared to sing and dance? >> reporter: it doesn't seem to
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be the case at this hour, suzanne. police say the taliban was not involved in this shooting. they say the lead suspect is her husband. the two had a very bitter divorce late last year, and according to relatives and police the conflicts continued for months on end. initially it was a lot of speculation that maybe this was the pakistani taliban, but police quickly dismissed those early reports. now they're focusing on her ex-husband. let's briefly tell you how this all happened. police say last night in pashour, she just came out of the beauty salon. getting into the car with her father when gunmen on a motorcycle rushed to the car, sprayed it with bullets. she was hit with six bulle. she was killed. so was her father. her sister immediately accused the ex-husband and at this hour the search is on for the ex-husband and two acquaintances. >> rez a, explain to us why it was there was so much talk about the fact that this could have been the work of the taliban instead of something that was
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domestic, but the taliban, because of the fact that she was such a popular singer and dancer. >> yeah. as she grew up in the swat valley. this incident happened in pashour. this is a region where the pakistani taliban has risen. with the decree of singing and dancing that it was banned and unislamic, despite that decree she pushed on with her career defying that decree. and she demanded for a divorce. another rare demand in that region where it's male dominated. very conservative. ultimate demand for a divorce is seen as a dishonor to men. a lot of people admired her for tha that, suzanne. he devoted his life to protecting the amazon. they say that's why they killed him.
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welcome back to "newsroom international." we take you around the world in "60 minutes." when you think of bral's rain forests, often you think of beauty, nature and life. the fight to save the rain forest is very dangerous. according to an online news source, 212 people have been killed over land rights in this violent part of brazil. this couple was the latest to lose their lives in the fight.
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he and his wife maria were killed last october. shot point blank with a hunting rifle. his ear was cut off to proof it was a hit. vice's reporters who have been following the couple's fight talked to his sister after the death. she spoke to them in portuguese translated in english at the bottom of the screen. take aook. vice correspondent, thomas morton, has been following the couple's story. thomas, it is so tragic when you hear aut this. explain to us why they did this, why this couple was killed, why they cut off that man's ear. >> well, there's a general atmosphere of lawlessness in the amazon. it's been described as the wild west of the 20th and now 21st century. and over the last 20 years
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there's a group called pastoral land commission which records all of these activist's deaths. they have an official tally of 918 people which doesn't include people who are politically involved who fought for their land but died in mysterious circumstances. of those, 27 have only gone to trial. basically people die and no one ever gets brought to justice. it clears the way for more people to kill. >> what was this couple doing, living in the rain forest? tell us about what they were trying to do. >> well, they were just nut harvesters. they had a plot of land. they harvested nuts and that was it. more monied interests, ranchers and stuff wanted their land to take it down to sell the trees off to put cows on it, you know, make it a big property, and they resisted it. like the same way anybody would resist having someone come and tear down their house. >> in your reporting, are the authorities following up on this? are they trying to find out who the killers are and bring them to justice?
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>> well, in this case, it's kind of sick to say, they got lucky enough. they were killed the same morning that the brazil oncongress was voting on a major environmental bill. a member of the green party came out and announced their death live before the entire country. it created a national fervor. the brazilian president called for a huge man hunt. they caught the two men who shot them and one who paid the money, who basically hired the hit. >> outside of this case, is the u.n. or any other organizations outside of the country actually working with them to stop what you have been reporting are targeting killings? >> well, there are plenty of groups that try to raise awareness, keep the news up. the problem is it's on a local level. the cops don't pursue these cases. the cops are spread thin. it's an area with a small court system, small sort of presence of federal police and local police and stuff like that.
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in these cases it's easy for murders to get forgotten, people to get paid off, that kind of thing. >> it's good for this couple it seems like they are getting the attention that is required and that they are bringing these criminals to justice. thank you very much. appreciate your reporting, thomas. they are calling it the mexican spring. the movement is lighting up on social media right now. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.
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welcome back to "newsroom international." we take you around the world in "60 minutes." want to take a look at what's trending globally. if you were online today you might have noticed a lot of people using #yosoy 132. it translates to i am number 132. it's part of a movement some people are calling a mexican spring. they got a lot of press for heckling the center right
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candidate in mexico's upcoming election. that is because he represents the institutional revolutionary party that ruled mexico for most of the 20th century. the students don't want that party to come back into power. mexico will go to the polls on july 1st. you can tune in here to newsroom international for the coverage of the important vote. when he was just a little boy he lost his mother in a train station in india. that was 25 years ago. know he's found her again usele google earth. listerine cleans virtually your entire mouth. so take your oral health to a whole new level. listerine... power to your mouth.
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wear, no bed to sleep on. i raised my children in extreme poverty. that's the evil i struck and then i lost my son. >> reporter: this is where her nightmare began. this is where two of her young boys came and hopped a train just like this one and disappeared. >> translator: i wanted the earth to swallow me up. my life became worthless. i lost my world. >> reporter: her 8-year-old would hop trains to make money by sweeping under seats. his younger brother, 5-year-old, idolized him and decided to go with him. >> my brother got off. i got off. i couldn't walk anymore. i sat down on a chair that was just a couple of meters from the side of the train station and i just fell asleep. >> reporter: when he woke up he was alone. he decided he'd hop trains to find his brother or his home. >> i did it for days and days,
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and until it came to the point where i thought, you know, if i keep on doing this i'll start going crazy. >> reporter: he got off in calcutta, a gritty, crowded, busy city with throngs of poor children. >> i did freak out at times. i cried a lot. i cried a lot. and i kind of, you know, called after my mother, but it never got me anywhere. >> reporter: instead, he said, he was approached by a man who nearly sucked him into a life of child labor. he ran away eventually ending up in a state orphanage, adopted by a couple who called him sadu and took him to australia, but for two decades he wondered about the family he had searched for but could never find. one day he decided to search one last time using google earth and a big map to calculate how far he had traveled from home, he
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zoomed into a spot that brought back memories. >> i saw where i used to bathe. i thought, oh, my god, this just looks exactly the way that it's in my head, in my memories. >> reporter: turns out it was the place. and he eventually walked back into his old life and saw his biological mother. he learned that the brother he once idolized had died while hopping trains a month after they got separated, but saroo was reunited with his other brother and sister. >> reporter: how often do you think about your sons when they disappeared? >> translator: i couldn't sleep at night and my mind would just wander in madness. i didn't feel like eating. i kept looking out for him on the street asking people about his whereabouts. i found him nowhere. it was a very difficult time. >> reporter: though she suffered many years of sorrow at the loss
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of her son, she is now mixed with gratitude to the people who gave one of her sons a home and a life she never could have. >> sara joins us from new delhi. that was an awesome piece. that is fantastic that he was actually able to be reunited with his mom. now that they're reunited, what do they do after all of these years? >> reporter: you know, i think it's really hard. it's one of those bitter sweet stories because he does not speak his mother tongue, hindi, and his whole family doesn't speak english. we met some people in the village. a relative in the village was living in tanzania and was coming to visit. one of the women speaks english. she helps to translate. she comes over to the house. he sends text messages. it is a bit of a bitter sweet story. it's a biological connection but
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yet this child had been gone for so long he really had forgotten everything except for, as he mentioned, the way things looked in his mind. that's how he remembered it. it's been quite difficult, i think, for them to really make a strong bond again. >> quite incredible how he reunited with his family. sara, thank you so much. stories that caught our attention today. there are some photos too. absolutely amazing. take a look at these. take a look at this kick. the game is called beach supaktakara. it is like volleyball and soccer combined. today is day three of the third asian beach games being held in china. a space capsule on display in london. today a british company called excaliber announced plans to fly people to the moon in three years for about, well, 200 years for about, well, 200 million u.s. dollars.
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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm suzanne malveaux. this hour in "cnn newsroom", we are focusing on politics and the economy here. dharun ravi, he was convicted of spying on his gay roommate is out of jail. he's completed his full 30 day sentence. tyler clementi killed himself by jumping off a new york bridge in 2010 after learning ravi had secretly recorded clementi's private encounters. more than 1700 firefighters are now battling a giant wild fire in colorado. the fire has been burning for more than a week. it has destroyed many people's homes. it is like a punch in the stomach. i mean, i just remember thinking i'm pretty sure it's not going to be there. it's going to be black sticks. we have our lives. you might think that
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