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Pro-Russian Separatists Admit Russian Citizens Part Of Ranks; Apple Buys Beats For $3 Billion; Remembering Maya Angelou; Human to Hero: Hidetoshi Nakata; The Rise Of Chinese Tourist; Rio Struggles to Clean Up Slums Ahead of World Cup

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KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now pro-Russia separatists say that they have shot down a military helicopter in eastern Ukraine.

China and Vietnam face off over remote islands. And we speak to Vietnam's deputy foreign minister about the crisis.

And the deal is finally confirmed, Apple will buy Beats for $3 billion.

In Eastern Ukraine, pro-Russia separatists claim that they have shot down a military helicopter near the militant stronghold of Slovyansk. Now Ukraine's acting president says 14 people were killed, including a general.

And there are grim indications that Russians are taking part in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.

Now a spokesman for the so-called Donetsk People's Republic tells CNN that the bodies of at least 33 nationals will be sent back to their homeland. He says that they were killed in recent clashes at the airport in Donetsk.

Nick Paton Walsh is there. He joins me now live. And Nick, first, a very, very significant development today. A Ukrainian military helicopter has been shot down. What more can you tell us?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We know this was around Slovyansk, the town which has really become a stronghold for militancy in the separatist movement here.

But we know from a separatist spokesperson there doesn't appear to have been much fighting around that town. As far as he was aware, this helicopter had taken off from Kramatorsk where lots of Ukrainian military buildup has been happening in the past week.

As you said, a key Ukrainian general on board, along with part of the 14 others killed there. This is the worst single loss of life for the Ukrainians on the military side since this crisis began.

But it comes on a day, Kristie, where we've seen extraordinarily unexpected developments here. As you mention, at the morgue we went to, a separatist movement that has long maintained it does not have Russian citizens fighting on its behalf, today made the effort to actually parade some bodies, make a clear public statement of 33 Russian citizens, not Russian citizens living here in Ukraine, but Russians who actually came from, as they said, Pinza (ph), Grozny, Moscow, other parts of Russia themselves, across the border to assist the fight here as volunteers, saying they weren't paid. Some of them have military service in the past.

These bodies, they say, are going to get taken back to Russia, to Rostov on Don, the key town, the military town on the other side of the border then put around the country for burial later on.

But it's so interesting to see at this stage the separatists making it quite clear now that they have Russian citizens fighting for them, perhaps as an aim to try and get Moscow to reply to their request, sent twice now, for military assistance.

I should point out, too, those same officials were actually increasing the death toll from Monday's onslaught by the Ukrainian army on the airport to nearly about 70. 15 bodies are still beyond the airport and 20 or so Ukrainian citizens whose identities are not going to be revealed, they say, for the safety of their families, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Well, you're finding there at the morgue a grim confirmation of the involvement of Russian nationals in the fighting there in Donetsk.

And also, Nick, the OSCE monitors who have been missing since Monday, what's the latest on them?

WALSH: Well, four of them are said now to be under the control of pro-Russian separatist militants here. The mayor of -- or self-declared mayor, I should say, of Slovyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev telling me that they are his militants, the guys working for him, have them under their control. He won't say exactly where they are, saying they're not actually in Slovyansk, saying that he'd advised them not to come up towards Slovyansk or leave Donetsk, but he'd ignored their advice.

A different tone, though. He's not talking about these four as being prisoners of war, like he did with the previous OSCE group held by his men actually in Slovyansk a few weeks ago. He's saying, look, they're working on who they are. They're talking to the OSCE. They think they'll be released soon.

But, that came after 11 OSCE members -- monitors, too, went missing for a brief period of time. It's got the OSCE certainly worried. And we think they're assessing security day by day.

It's possible they may consider it unwise to continue their mission here in the east. That will be a blow for bids to try and de-escalate the situation diplomatically -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: We have OSCE observers still missing, unrest is on the rise. There are reports that this Ukrainian military helicopter has been shot down by pro-Russia separatists.

Is Russia prepared to do something here? Is Russia prepared to use its influence to somehow talk down the separatists?

WALSH: It's very confusing, really, where Russia sits right now.

We now, for the first time, have NATO saying that Russian troops seem to be pulling back from the border. And their kind of gray, shadow presence so close to where all the fighting is happening, and always been a way of trying to keep the Ukrainians in check, stopping Ukrainian army moving in, in full force, many thought.

Moscow now publicly calling for the elections to be respected, in some ways pulling the rug from under the separatists. Perhaps today's move by the separatists declaring these 33 Russian citizens having fought along their side, perhaps that's aimed at goading Moscow into a response.

It's hard, really, to tell what's happening in that relationship, because so long Kiev and Washington maintained that the militants fighting here were in fact Russian proxies fighting on Moscow's behalf to destabilize this part of Ukraine. Now it seems publicly at least Moscow wants distance.

Is that all part of a broader KGB style game? Vladimir Putin ex-KGB officer, very familiar with the tactic of maskirovka, which is hiding your true intentions, a Russian word for that. Is that actually what's happening here? Or is there a disconnect between Russian officials and these militants on the ground, that will be more worrying -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Nick Paton Walsh reporting on the events on the ground and the forces behind it. Thank you very much indeed for that, Nick.

Now, these small islands are at the center of a heated spat between neighbors here in Asia. Now China and Vietnam, they both lay claim to the Paracel, or as China likes to call them, the Xisha Islands. And in recent weeks, tensions have boiled over.

Now it began earlier this month when China installed a giant oil rig. You can see it here right in the distance in this photograph, to do exploratory oil drilling just off the disputed islands.

Now Vietnam says the rig is clearly on its continental shelf and it demanded China to remove it.

Vietnamese citizens, they staged rare protests against China in the capital of Hanoi and in Ho Chi Minh City. Those demonstrations turned violent. Angry citizens vandalized and torched Chinese owned factories in several industrial parks. And some other foreign owned businesses, they were damaged as well.

Now China maintains that its drilling activities are legitimate and blames Vietnam for provoking the conflict. It send warships to Vietnam and evacuated thousands of Chinese nationals escaping the violence.

Meanwhile, the friction between Chinese and Vietnamese ships continues in the waters close to that contentious oil rig. In fact, on Monday a Vietnamese fishing boat sank after colliding with a Chinese vessel.

Now China says the vessel had been harassing one of its fishing boats. Vietnam says the Chinese ship rammed its fishing vessel.

Now earlier I spoke to Vietnamese deputy foreign minister Pham Quang Vinh. And I asked him how his country views China's claim to the islands.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PHAM QUANG VINH, VIETNAMESE DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER: I must say that the Paracel Island belong to Vietnam. This is historical and legal fact. And you know that China in 1974 used military force to take the Paracels. And we cannot accept it. So this is in violation of international law. And we cannot accept it.

LU STOUT: How far is Vietnam willing to go to preserve your claim to this territory?

VINH: We affirm that we will be very much firm and resolute to defend our territory and sovereignty. And we will continue to do so. And take all peaceful measures under international law, including (inaudible) to protect and defend our sovereignty.

LU STOUT: Has Vietnam's foreign minister been in contact with his Chinese counterpart about this issue and about the tension at sea?

VINH: Since the illegal deployment of the oil rig by China into the EEZ and continental shelf of Vietnam, we have constantly been in contact with the Chinese side in order to ask them to get both the oil rig and the ships out.

The foreign minister, the deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Vietnam has been in touch with his counterparts, including two telephone calls to get the China -- in order to get the oil rig and ship out of the EEZ and continental shelf of Vietnam.

LU STOUT: Do you think there will be a breakthrough?

VINH: We try to do in talks with the Chinese side in order to preserve and defend our EEZ and continental shelf and ask the Chinese side to get their ships and oil rig out and continue to do so.

And together, we may communicate also to the world in order to ask China to get their oil rig and ships out.

LU STOUT: Reports out this week of a Chinese ship ramming a Vietnamese fishing vessel. It has been seen as a provocative act. Is Vietnam angered by this?

VINH: First, we must say that the fishing boat of Vietnam on 26 of May has both been rammed and sunk by a Chinese ship. So this is an act of escalating tensions in the region. And it is intentional.

We have protested against this act and consider it inhumane. And we request that such acts in future will be stopped.

LU STOUT: You call this inhumane. Is China bullying Vietnam at sea?

VINH: I think that if you observe the occurrences right now in the EEZ and continental shelf of Vietnam. There have been escalation of tension and acts of (inaudible). We've got to Vietnam's ships and also the such energies of its sea, maritime security, free navigation in the area.

I must say all these acts happened in the EEZ of Vietnam in violation of international law, including (inaudible).

LU STOUT: China has become a mighty power. It's an economic power, a rising military power. Many countries in the region, including Vietnam, increasingly rely on China for trade and to keep their economies afloat. So how do you plan to counter their claim and to rightfully claim what is yours?

VINH: I mentioned that Vietnam is resolute in defending its sovereignty and maritime zones. We will take all peaceful measures under international law to protect our sovereignty, and we will continue to do so.

We have been in talk with Chinese side. We have been communicating to the world and we will continue to take all measure, peaceful measures under international law to protect our own sovereignty under international law.

And you know that big or small countries have to respect international law. This is our world of today.

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LU STOUT: And that was the Vietnamese deputy foreign minister Pham Quang Vinh. He was speaking to me earlier. There, you heard that he was reasserting his country's claim to the disputed island territory there.

You're watching News Stream. We'll be back right after teh break.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now Dr. Dre, he now works for Apple. And the deal has been rumored for days, but now it's official, Apple will pay $3 billion for Beats, the company co-founded by the rap mogul. So just why is Apple buying Beats?

Well, there are three main reasons.

Number one, headphones. And then streaming music. And talent.

Let's start over here with Beats' main product.

Now these headphones, they have become almost iconic. They're worn by celebrities, musicians and sports stars alike. And they've been criticized by some for being style over substance and way too pricey. But they are extremely profitable.

Now headphones like this can cost upwards of $200. And The New York Times cites experts who estimate that such designer headsets may cost anywhere between $14 to more than $40 to make.

Now a welcome bonus for Apple at a time when smartphone and tablet margins are getting thinner.

Now, but Beats isn't just about headphones, it also has a streaming music service. Now Beats Music has just half a million subscribers, a fraction of its rivals. And setting up a streaming service is complicated, it's expensive, but it's also seen as necessary as music sales fall and people switch to subscription services.

And some see this as a way for Apple to continue its strong position in music.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

STEVE RANGER, EDITOR, TECHREPUBLIC: Music has always been in there. If they lose control of music, that's a kind of a big chunk of the reason why you buy an iPhone in the first place. So Apple absolutely has to have a music streaming service.

Now they were great at selling us music, but now we tend to be renting it. So obviously Spotify is the big leader here.

This buys them back into the game in a way that would have taken them longer to do if they had to built it themselves. They could have built it themselves, this just gives them a leg up.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: And finally there is the talent that Apple is acquiring. Dr. Dre is a music legend, but co-founder Jimmy Iovine is also a powerful player in the industry. He is quitting as the CEO of Interscope Records to join Apple. And one analyst thinks that he is the key to this deal.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GENE MUNSTER, PIPE JAFFRAY: There could be some higher power in motion here, and that being essentially the accuhire (ph) of Jimmy Iovine, the music mogul who is a part and behind the Beats story. And so his role at Apple is something that needs to be flushed out here and could add light in terms of why Apple would spend so much money on something that they can easily replicate.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Whatever the reason, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, they are just the latest big names to join Apple. Over the last year, the company has hired the CEOs of fashion houses Burberry and Yves St. Laurent. They've also reportedly hired the designer from Nike.

And remember, the last time that Apple made a major purchase, they also gained a key talent: Steve Jobs. Apple paid $400 million for the computing firm NeXT back in 1996.

Now Jobs founded NeXT after leaving Apple. And the deal initially brought him back as an adviser, but he soon became CEO and took Apple to new heights.

So, Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine, they have some pretty big shoes to fill.

Now the U.S. President Barack Obama, he laid out his foreign policy agenda to an audience of graduates at the West Point Military Academy on Wednesday. And he summed up his vision for the U.S.s' role on the world stage as might doing right.

Jim Sciutto looks at the key points of this closely watched speech.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JIM SCIUTTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: His West Point address billed as a major new foreign policy speech, the president instead delivered more a defense of current strategy. At the core, a contention that after what he described as, quote, costly wars and continuing challenges at home, Mr. Obama will reserve military action as a last resort.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And I would betray my duty to you and to the country we love if I ever sent you into harm's way simply because I saw a problem somewhere in the world that needed to be fixed.

SCIUTTO: The president's foreign policy will instead emphasize international partnerships and institutions.

OBAMA: Now there are a lot of folks, a lot of skeptics who often downplay the effectiveness of multi-lateral action. For them, working through an international institutions like the UN or respecting international law is a sign of weakness. I think they're wrong.

SCIUTTO: Mr. Obama then laid out what this means for his most pressing foreign policy crises. On Syria, the president said he will work with congress to ramp up support for moderate rebels, though he announced no new specifics.

On Ukraine, the president argued a multi-lateral approach is already working, deterring a Russian invasion and allowing Sunday's presidential vote in most of the country.

OBAMA: Standing with our allies on behalf of international order, working with international institutions, has given a chance for the Ukrainian people to choose their future.

SCIUTTO: On Iran, the president argued that working with international partners has brought Tehran to the table for nuclear negotiations.

And on China, that multilateralism is helping Southeast Asian allies stand up on territorial disputes with Beijing.

Some reviews of the president's speech coming in, Democrats mostly praising, some Republicans, including John McCain saying that they want to see actions not just hear words, a phrase that I heard from many Ukrainians recently as well.

Still, questions about the direction of America's foreign policy going forward.

Jim Sciutto, CNN, London.

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LU STOUT: You're watching News Stream. And still ahead on the program, remembering iconic author, poet, activist and singer Maya Angelou. Celebrities, presidents and devoted readers are mourning her death. We'll look at the legend's wide reaching impact.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, you are back watching News Stream.

Now huge numbers of Chinese tourists heading out to see the world have already started to transform the global travel industry. And those numbers are only set to rise.

Now this month on CNN's On China, I spoke to tourism insiders about how Chinese travelers are reshaping the industry and how businesses can seize the opportunity.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARTIN RINCK, ASIA PACIFIC PRESIDENT, HILTON WORLDWIDE: I think number one is important to say that travel is great, because it brings different countries and different cultures together. And, yes, different cultures behave in a different way and they have different habits. And I think it's normal when a Chinese tourist travels abroad for the first time that he or she might not be too familiar with the habits of different countries. And as much as tipping or queuing in China is not necessarily the norm, when they go abroad they obviously don't tip and don't queue.

So, I think if you put it into context and think back when other nations started to travel, let it be the Americans, the Germans, the Russians, I think it was a similar phenomenon. The only...

LU STOUT: The ugly American tourist.

RINCK: Didn't want to say it that way. But the only and the biggest difference is that the scale is just so different. When 1 percent of the Japanese population went abroad it was just about more than a million, when 1 percent of the Chinese population travels abroad it's more than 13 million. So that's why it's perhaps more obvious and more, how you say, observed in different countries around the world right now.

JANE SUN, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, CTRIP.COM: I think it probably take some time. When first to go abroad, they're very curious and they're excited. As they become more and more frequent travelers, that they become more sophisticated, they see more. And I think that phenomenon will be evening out.

LU STOUT: The Chinese tourist will become more sophisticated and those who receive them, you know, whether the hoteliers, the retailers, travel agencies, et cetera, they also have to be more sophisticated and welcoming as well.

SUN: I think it takes both sides to make it work.

RINCK: But it's all about, as Jane said, reconciling the cultural divide. And one part of the equation is for us to conduct cultural awareness training for our team members to really better understand and appreciate the Chinese culture and at the same time educating the Chinese customers on things that are precious and that need to be treated in a certain way.

We have a beautiful resort on the Maldives and when Chinese tourists come for the first time, they tend to like the corals very much and break a piece off without realizing how precious the corals are and how long it actually takes for corals to grow.

So we run educational sessions with our customers in the resort at the same time to make them really understand and appreciate.

So for me, rather than just complaining about it, and saying it is not good behavior I guess it's our responsibility as an organization, not just the awareness for the team members, but also education of the Chinese customers.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And that was filmed on location at the Beijing International Airport. And you can see the whole discussion right here on CNN.

On China airs Friday at 1:30 p.m. Beijing and Hong Kong time.

And you can head over to CNN.com/China for more on how companies are rushing to win over big spending Chinese consumers.

You're watching News Stream.

An underwater probe has spent weeks searching one area in the southern Indian Ocean and now Australian authorities say Malaysia Airlines flight 370 is not there. But the government is still confident the missing plane is in the general region.

And Hollywood hits back at a Washington Post column that blames the entertainment culture for influencing a college student's killing spree.

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LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine have shot down a military helicopter. Now the attack happened near the rebel stronghold of Slovyansk. The acting president says 14 people were killed including an army general.

Chinese state media report 55 people have been sentenced for crimes, including murder, separatism and participating in terrorist activities in the western Xinjiang region. Now 7,000 people watched the public judgments as they were handed down at a stadium on Wednesday. Three people were sentenced to death. Amnesty International called it a deplorable show trial.

Apple has agreed to pay $3 billion for the music company Beats. Now the company was co-founded by rap mogul Dr. Dre and is famous for its line of headphones. Now Beats also has a music streaming business.

Australia is defending its search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370 after phase one ended this week without a single trace of the jetliner. The Australian Search Agency says the plane is not in an 850 square kilometer zone where underwater pings were detected last month. Still, the country's deputy prime minister expressed confidence that the plane is in the southern Indian Ocean.

Now for more on what this means, let's go straight to Washington and CNN's aviation correspondent Rene Marsh. And Rene, we have new information from a U.S. Navy official you talked to raising new questions about the search.

RENE MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, that's right, Kristie.

You know, it's been more than seven-and-a-half weeks of searching in this area and now a U.S. Navy official is talking to CNN on the record saying that this promising underwater sounds were likely not from the plane's black boxes. Not only were the black boxes not in the current search area, but he also says the consensus is neither is the plane.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARSH (voice-over): It was the most promising lead and now we know it's false. New information the U.S. Navy has concluded these four underwater signals were not from the missing plane's black boxes.

(on camera): From the U.S. Navy standpoint, these sounds were most likely not from the black boxes.

MICHAEL DEAN, DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR SALVAGE AND DIVING, U.S. NAVY: Yes, I'd have to say at this point based on all of the imagery data that we've collected and looked at, if that black box were nearby we would have picked it up.

MARSH (voice-over): When detected in April, the pings boosted confidence the plane would be found.

ANGUS HOUSTON, AUSTRALIAN CHIEF SEARCH COORDINATOR: The four signals previously acquired taken together constitute the most promising lead.

MARSH: But now the Navy says the sounds could have been from the search ship itself or other electronics.

DEAN: We may very well have been in the wrong place, but again at the end of 30 days there was nothing else to listen for.

MARSH: After searching 329 square miles of ocean floor, the Bluefin- 21's mission is over. The search continues in August when private companies take over. Meantime, a new potential lead. CNN has learned a sound that could have been the plane crashing was detected by underwater microphones.

MARK PRIOR, COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY ORGANIZATION: Our analysis is designed to detect nuclear of that sound and earthquakes. And my understanding is yes, that Curtin University are looking at the data specifically with a view to finding if there's any evidence of any impact from the Malaysian aircraft.

MARSH: The United Nations Nuclear Test Ban Organization has a network of 11 hydrophone stations that pick up many sounds, even ice breaking thousands of miles away in Antarctica. But could it hear a plane hitting the water?

PRIOR: It's possible but the circumstances that would allow it would have to be very particular.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MARSH: All right, well hours after our report first aired, the navy released a statement saying Michael Dean, who is the navy official you saw in our piece, his comments were speculative and premature.

However, it's important to point out I called that same spokesman who put out that statement and asked two very specific questions. Was anything in that report inaccurate? His response, we're not saying that, we are just saying it was not his place to say what he said.

I also asked if the navy believes the pings were from the black boxes. The response, it's not our place to say. It's up to the Australians.

So really this looks like it's all about formality, because Michael Dean we've been -- or CNN has been in contact with him from the very beginning when this underwater search began and he has been very much in the know.

One other additional piece of information that's new from overnight, Australian authorities did put out a statement saying that after the underwater search with Bluefin concluded, they are now able to discount that that section of the Indian Ocean is the final resting place of flight 370 -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, the area where the Bluefin was searching, that area has been searched. Nothing found there.

We've also learned from your source there in the navy that the missing plane is not in the ping zone. So where does the search go from here?

MARSH: Well, it just expands. It gets larger. And of course that doesn't make anything easier.

We also know that there will be no searching going on until about August because Bluefin just did its final mission. So there will be a big pause here. And then when private contractors come in with equipment that's capable of searching at those depths, they will just begin searching again. But again, it will be a much broader area -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Rene Marsh reporting for us. Thank you very much indeed for that.

Now, last week's deadly rampage in a California college town by suspected killer Elliot Rodger is prompting calls for a gun violence restraining order.

Now this proposed legislation would allow police to temporarily bar a mentally unstable person from buying and possessing firearms if that person's family, partners or friends call police. Now two California legislators have drafted the measure.

In Rodgers case, a mental health agency was concerned about his state of mind and called police to check on him. Now police did, but they took no further action.

A close family friend tells CNN that Rodger seemed awkward and the loneliest person in the world. And a newspaper film critic points the finger at Hollywood for possibly helping to fuel Rodger's murderous rampage.

Nischelle Turner reports Hollywood is pushing back.

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NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In the bloody aftermath of the Santa Barbara mass killings, Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday sees Elliot Rodger's video diatribe against society...

ELLIOT RODGERS, SUSPECTED MURDERER: All you popular kids, you've never accepted me.

TURNER: And writes a column tying his murders to his life as a director's son, growing up on the fringes of Hollywood.

In it, she writes, "Rodger's rampage may be a function of his own profound distress, but it also shows how a sexist movie monoculture can be toxic for women and men alike."

ANN HORNADAY, FILM CRITIC: He had created this video on YouTube that seemed to be such a product of the entertainment industry, that he did grow up in literally, and also just as a member of the culture.

TURNER: But her column specifically points to Seth Rogen's recent film, Neighbors and other comedies made by writer, producer, director, Judd Apatow asking...

HORNADAY: How many students watch outsized frat-boy fantasies like Neighbors and feel, as Rodger did, unjustly shut out of college life that should be full of quote "sex and fun and pleasure?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you talking to me?

TURNER: Those comments inspired a celebrity backlash on twitter with Rogen tweeting, "I find your article horribly insulting and misinformed. How dare you imply that me getting girls in movies caused a lunatic to go on a rampage."

While Apatow added, "She uses tragedy to promote herself with idiotic thoughts."

For her part, Hornaday says she didn't mean to single out or directly blame Apatow or Neighbors.

HORNADAY: The movies we watch that are primarily created by men and primarily pivot around male fantasies of wish fulfillment and vigilante justice. How that might inform not just someone suffering under really terrible mental illness but the culture at large.

TURNER: A culture still struggling to understand what could drive a young man to murder.

Nischelle Turner, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: And 11-time winner of the U.S. TV game show Jeopardy is wading into the controversy. Now Arthur Chu wrote an online column on the shooting called "Misogyny, Entitlement and Nerves." And he told CNN that popular culture promotes the idea that having a beautiful girlfriend is a symbol of success.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ARTHUR CHU, JEOPARDY CHAMPION: And if you go past, you know, movies, you look at TV, video games, a lot of things that, you know, influenced me growing up, influenced, you know, young guys like me that this idea just that to be successful means to be, you know, in a relationship with a woman. And usually in movies, it's a conventionally attractive women, that a beautiful girl is your reward for doing well in life. And that Elliot Rodgers, one of many, many guys who felt like he wasn't doing well in life just because, you know, from his perspective he couldn't get this thing that he felt he deserved.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: That was the 11-time Jeopardy winner and columnist Arthur Chu speaking with CNN earlier.

Now in his column for The Daily Beast Chu wrote that the chilling manifesto that was penned by Rodger would have been, quote, "a standard frustrated angry geeky guy manifesto except for the part about mass murder."

You're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, the World Cup, it's coming in two weeks. But Rio de Janeiro is still struggling to clean up. After the break, we head to one neighborhood where drug dealers are operating in broad daylight. Stay with us.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back.

Now in two weeks, Rio de Janeiro kicks off the planet's biggest football tournament. And while police work to clean up crime ridden slums, drug dealers are still operating out in the open in some areas among families and children. Shasta Darlington has that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Vibrating hips, children dancing in flip flops and the occasional assault rifle: just another funk party in the lawless favelas on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro by day, even more brazen.

They're selling drugs right here behind me on the corner in the middle of the community in broad daylight while life really goes on around them. They're selling to house wives and workers and teenagers while kids walk home from school.

The local dealers agree to talk to us while they carry on with business.

Marijuana, an inhalant containing ether, hashish, cocaine, and for just $2 crack.

This is the famous powder for 20 reals, he says, closing a deal.

While buyers snort coke and lookouts stand guard, children play in the streets.

Georges (ph) says he's been dealing for five years.

"I was born in the middle of trafficking," he says. "My childhood was trafficking, my adolescence was trafficking. I didn't see any other alternative."

For decades, favelas were virtually abandoned by the state, teeming shanty towns without sewage systems or schools and hospitals. Neglected by police, warring drug gangs proliferated.

"If I told you I wasn't afraid of dying, it would be a lie," he says. "If I told you I avoided it, it would also be a lie. I wouldn't be here trafficking if that were true."

In 2008, Rio launched a pacification program to secure the city ahead of this year's World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. Police, backed by the army, have seized control of dozens of favelas expelling drug gangs, most of them near the beach and tourist hotspots.

But hundreds more haven't been touched at all. We found Wagner (ph), a former trafficker, at a drug rehab shelter.

"My community lives in a constant war zone," he says. "We make the headlines every day."

He says he won't go home until the police occupy his slum as well.

The pacification campaign does have its critics who say more schools and job opportunities need to follow the tough knuckle tactics, especially if they want to convince people in favelas like this one that police won't just pack up and leave once the big sporting events are over.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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LU STOUT: Incredible scenes from the favelas of Brazil there.

Now, Manchester United owner Malcolm Glazer has died at the age of 85. Now Glazer was also the owner of the American football team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NFL franchise says that Malcolm Glazer died on Wednesday morning. And the two clubs are now in the hands of Glazer's wife and children.

Now Glazer purchased the English football team Manchester United back in 2005. And the controversial takeover, it was highly criticized for loading the club with debt and it lead to protests by fans calling for his removal.

But the team did well with Glazer at the helm. They won five Premier League titles and one Champion's -- European Champion's League crown.

And he also managed to turn around the fortunes of the American football team the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, leading them to their first Super Bowl win in 2002.

Now the literary world is mourning the death of Maya Angelou. Now the revered author, poet and civil rights activist has died at the age of 86. And she turned her firsthand experience of growing up in a segregated southern U.S. town into timeless tales that resonate with readers all around the world.

Now earlier, Jake Tapper put this piece together on her life and her legacy.

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MAYA ANGELOU, LEGENDARY AUTHOR/POET: I will go. I shall go. I'll see what the end is going to be.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Her voice, booming. Her poetry, soaring.

ANGELOU: Lift up your eyes upon this day, breaking for you.

TAPPER: Maya Angelou confronted America's leaders, laborers and history-makers with lyrical, hopeful poetry, born from some of the nation's most painful truths.

ANGELOU: The hells we have lived through and lived through still have sharpened our senses and toughened our will.

TAPPER: But today, Angelou's voice is silent. But even upon her death, at age 86, Maya Angelou's words are still emerging. The author was working on a new book when she passed away at her home in North Carolina today.

ANGELOU: Being a natural writer's like being a natural open heart surgeon. It's just not natural. It's hard work.

TAPPER: The three-time Grammy winner, famed author, and American poet laureate worked tirelessly.

ANGELOU: I will never cease. I mean to say, I want to see a better world. I mean to say I want to see some peace somewhere.

TAPPER: Her public passion for change began with her first and famous autobiography, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", detailing trauma of being raped as a child.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Ain't nothing to protect you and us.

TAPPER: The New York Times best-seller-turned-film was banned in some schools as the realities of Angelou's upbringing, racism, violence, proved too graphic for some. For others, the work became an instant classic.

ANGELOU: I know what the caged bird feels.

TAPPER: As an adult, Angelou became a symbol of strength and artistic expression. First, as a song stress, in 1957 film "Calypso Heat Wave."

And later, more famously, of course, as a poet, director, actor, and leading civil rights activist. A friend of Martin Luther King and his family as well as Malcolm X. Even some of the most powerful women in the world consider her a hero.

OPRAH WINFREY, TV HOST: I actually do feel like your daughter.

ANGELOU: You are my daughter.

TAPPER: Oprah asked Angelou to host her "Oprah and Friends" radio show after interviewing her many times on her own series.

WINFREY: You have, over the years, continually surprised me.

TAPPER: Senator Hillary Clinton linked with the author for her 2008 presidential campaign ads.

ANGELOU: A president who can make a difference in our country.

TAPPER: But Angelou did not focus her attention or energy on the powerful. Rather, on the powerless.

ANGELOU: Courage is the most important of all of the virtues. I believe, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

TAPPER: Jake Tapper, CNN, Washington.

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LU STOUT: Welcome back. You're watching News Stream. Time now for your global weather forecast. And the heat in Beijing today was off the charts. Let's get the details now. Mari Ramos, she joins us from the world weather center -- Mari.

MARI RAMOS, CNN WEATHER CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Kristie. Now when we do the weather forecast, you know, many times you really have to pay even closer attention you start forecasting record high temperatures. And that's what we've been talking about for the last few days. Remember, I was telling you, temperatures in Beijing are going to get close to 40 degrees, that's going to be terrible, you know, get ready for this intense heat. They got up to 41. So guess what, even hotter than we expected. And that is a record high.

Temperatures have not been this hot in Beijing since at least the 1950s. So very significant temperatures here. And this is really saying something, because yesterday the high temperature of 38 was -- they hadn't been this hot since last year where there was a massive heat wave across eastern China. And this time around, these temperatures are even hotter than that prolonged heat wave that we had just a year ago.

Very significant because when you talk about temperatures this high you really start getting into some serious health issues, serious public health issues for the millions of people that are being affected by the heat.

The average high in Beijing is hot this time of year, about 28, but 41, that is very, very hot indeed.

Here is a picture of people taking shelter under an umbrella. Yeah, that's a good idea, because when you talk about temperatures like this, even healthy people that are at risk.

What happens, and we have some video to show you, too, is your body isn't able to cool down. And anyone exercising, like this gentleman on a bike there, they really need to drink water. And when it gets this hot, you know, really going -- you know, in the shade may not be enough, you really need to go to a place where the temperature is cooler so that you have a chance to let your body cool down.

And I know healthy people, you think, well, you know, I'm very healthy. I don't have to worry about that, but you really do need to think about this, especially with children and the elderly and anyone that has any kind of diseases or is sick, those are going to be the people most vulnerable. But in this case, even, even healthy people could have a problem.

29 right now in Beijing, it's gone down about 5 degrees in the last hour or so. And of course that has to do with the sun going down, so that's pretty significant. But still, even at this hour looking at 29 degrees is very hot. And when the temperature doesn't go down even at night, you don't get a chance to cool down, the buildings don't get a chance to cool down, your apartment doesn't get a chance to cool down. And it really poses a serious issue.

For you guys in Hong Kong, you guys are right on the -- kind of like on the edge here of where you can get either some very heavy rain or stay very, very dry. And I think it's going to stay on the drier side, and that's going to mean some very hot temperatures for you over the next couple of days.

I know you're saying, hey, it's the weekend we don't want it to rain, but just keep an eye on the heat, especially if you're going to be doing outdoor activities. And don't rule out the possibility of a rain shower.

Looks like the hottest day for Beijing was today. We're starting to see those temperatures trending downwards. Staying above average, but still trending downward. And that's going to really help things out.

And I told you about this earlier today if you were watching about an hour ago. Jacobabad in Pakistan, 49 degrees in the shade. That's 120 degree Fahrenheit. That was the actual air temperature here again for the second day in a row. This is one of the hottest, if not the hottest place on Earth in the last 24 hours, Kristie. Unfortunately, we're not seeing any respite from the heat in this area, not until the rains come. And that's not going to happen at least until July. Hard to imagine.

LU STOUT: Oh my goodness. Yeah, 49 degrees in the shade there in that city in Pakistan, unbelievable.

Mari Ramos there, thank you for that world weather update.

Now Hidetoshi Nakata. He's been called the David Beckham of Asia. After playing in three World Cups, the 37-year-old, he's now preparing to head to Brazil as a popup cafe vendor. Now CNN's Human to Hero series introduces us to Japan's most famous football player and what inspired him to get into the game.

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HIDETOSHI NAKATA, JAPANESE FOOTBALLER: Football is the best tool to communicate with the people, to connect to the people. It's beyond the countries, it's beyond language. Football is the best thing to, you know, to share, to connect with the entire world.

My name is Hidetoshi Nakata. I'm 37-years-old.

I played World Cup in 1998 in France, 2002 Japan and Korea and 2006 in Germany.

I started playing football when I was eight years old, because I think at that time, there is a famous cartoon called Captain Tibasha (ph). And it's all about football.

The World Cup is me is a kind of naturally to play, something to play, because I played kind of a World Cup under 17 World Cups, under 19 World Cups, and the Olympics game. So after that, I must play the World Cup as well.

For me, it's just like a next step.

2002, actually we had it in Japan and Korea, so it was very special because all the population in Japan was really expecting for something. So, we had to pass through, you know, first league for sure. It was not easy. It was very difficult.

After the qualified for, you know, the tournament it was something like unforgettable experience for me.

I hope that Brazil can win. I will say Messi or Christiano.

My best World Cup memory is I think after the match against Tunisia in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and I really remembered all the street filled by the people and all the people were waiting for us to come out from the stadium and just clapping hands.

Obviously, I played in the pitch in the stadium like this as a professional, but even outside the stadium, I can play football. I can use a football to connect to the people, to do something, something good for the people or for the world.

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LU STOUT: And finally we just had to show you one of the stranger promotions that we've come across. Now Mario, the Nintendo video game character is teaming up with Mercedes Benz, the high end car maker. Now this picture was tweeed by Nintendo and it really kind of says it all. It's Mario racing around in a Benz.

Nintendo says players of Mario Cart 8 in Japan will be able to download the car later this year, but they might want to reconsider this promotion, because Mario's Mercedes it looks like it's about to get passed by a couple of Go Karts.

That is News Stream, but the news continues at CNN. World Business Today is next.

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