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[08:00:13] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.

Now a major blackout in Turkey leaves commuters stranded, but what caused the enormous power outage.

And we look at how Andreas Lubitz's medical problems could have been overlooked before he crashed a passenger plane into the Alps.

And as China eases back on its one child policy, we look at the damage it may have caused.

Now Turkey is just now starting to recover from a massive blackout that left huge parts of the country without power on Tuesday.

As many as half of the nation's provinces have been affected, we're told. Mass transit came to a halt in places like Ankara and Istanbul,

which is home to some 14 million people.

Now the outage also caused some chaotic scenes in the streets as many traffic lights wen out.

Now air traffic control was also affected, that's according to a flight tracking website.

Now CNN producer Gul Tuysuz is in Istanbul, joins me now on the line. And Gul tell us just how widespread this power outage is. I hear that it's

affecting air space. And also what caused it?

OK, unfortunately we don't have our correspondent there on the line with the latest there. But once we reestablish that connection we'll get

the update from Turkey in just a moment.

Now we're also following the latest developments in the crash of the Germanwings flight. A law enforcement official tells CNN that a possible

motive for the co-pilot to crash the plane is that he feared his medical problems would end his ability to fly.

Now doctors had already declared him unfit. A European government source says his girlfriend was aware of his psychological issues, but did

not know of the extent.

Now meanwhile, French investigators say that they are looking at systemic weaknesses, including the cockpit door locking logic, and

procedures for detecting psychological problems in pilots.

Now let's head to Germany for more on the investigation. Our senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen joins me now. He's at

Germanwings headquarters in Colon. And Fred, you were talking about this earlier, there is this theory emerging that could explain the motive of the

co-pilot. What have you learned about his vision problems.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, this comes from a source close to the investigation. Of course, one of the things

that they're saying could be a motive is that quite frankly Andreas Lubitz was apparently afraid that he would lose his certification of being fit to

fly if it came to light that he had these medical problems.

Now, of course, we have learned in the past 24 hours that Lubitz hid, or tried to destroy those sick notes that he got that apparently were given

to him in part because doctors believed that the fact that he was having these vision problems was because of psychosomatic reasons.

Now, as you said, his girlfriend apparently also knew about his psychological problems, that she knew that he was seeing doctors. She

didn't obviously know the severity of his psychological problems and believed that apparently they could get through all of this together. She

also apparently said that he visited a neurologist as well as also an eye doctor to try and find out what was wrong with him and that it was then

determined that these problems were psychosomatic.

And so it seems to be emerging at this point in time that a possible motive could be the fear of losing his ability to fly and the fear of being

grounded because of all that.

But again, the officials that we're talking to are telling us at this point in time it's virtually impossible for them to determine with 100

percent certainty that that is indeed the case. Of course there's other working theories out there as well. They say the main issue they have is

that of course there is nothing that would indicate, there is nothing from him that would say that this is the reason why he did this. There is no

good-bye note. There's nothing in the cockpit voice recorder that would indicate why he did this.

And so therefore they're piecing together the evidence that they have, of course looking at the cockpit voice recording, of course looking also

into his background, into his medical history, talking to his friends and relatives like, for instance, his girlfriend to try and determine what

might have caused this crash.

At the same time, you have the French investigating authority, the BEA also coming out and saying that it's also still reviewing the cockpit voice

recording. And especially focusing at two things, and that's on the one hand what role the cockpit door, and the locking mechanism might have

played in this tragedy.

Of course we know that the captain tried to get into the cockpit but couldn't because it had been locked by Lubitz.

And then also how the fact that mental pattern, psychological patterns, were not picked up on by the processes, how that contributed as

well, Kristie.

[08:05:09] LU STOUT: Yeah, between the French investigators, German investigators very thorough finding so far, but still no answer to the

question why he deliberately crashed that plane.

Fred Pleitgen, joining us live from Colon. Many thanks indeed for that.

Now as we've mentioned, new details are emerging about the mental health of the Germanwings co-pilot. Andreas Lubitz's past thoughts on

suicide were never revealed to the airline.

Diana Magnay explains why.

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DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: A man whose passion was flying, who dreamed of becoming a pilot, but the young Andreas Lubitz

was clearly troubled, prone to dark moments he knew might kill his dreams if they ever became known to his employer.

CHRISTOPH KUMPA, DUSSELDORF STATE PROSECUTOR (through translator): Several years ago before obtaining his pilot's license, the co-pilot was in

a long period of psycho therapeutic treatment with noticeable suicidal tendencies.

MAGNAY: Tendencies he managed to either conceal or overcome.

In 2013, he qualified as a pilot 100 percent fit to fly Luftansa said. And given Germany's strict privacy laws, that's as far as an airline is

allowed to dig into an employees medical past.

DR. KYRILI MAKOSKI, MEDICAL LAWYER: If the pilot passes all the tests, medical, psychiatric tests, and whatever tests there are at the

beginning of his career and he gets his license and that's it, and there are no other points and Luftansa is not allowed to do any more tests.

MAGNAY: Except for medical checkup.

MAKOSKI: Except for medical checkup.

DR. BERNARD HOFF, MEDICAL AVIATION EXAMINER: There is no tests where you find out if someone does something like that.

MAGNAY: Dr. Bernard Hoff (ph) is a medical aviation examiner in Dusseldorf who carries out the annual tests to check that a pilot is fit to

fly.

HOFF: Basically when this guy comes to me, the pilot comes to me, as I told you I make a physical exam. There is no real psychiatric examine.

I am not a psychiatrist.

The pilot fills out a sheet of paper stating how much hours he has flown, stating if he has been to a doctor or a psychologist or another

medical person since the last exam. What kind of doctor that was. If he has got any medication. And he has to sign that.

MANGAY: The law is fairly clear on the principle of confidentiality: only if someone poses a clear danger to others can doctors break the

Hippocratic Oath, which demands that they keep patient information secret.

MAKOSKI: But the important point in this case is also (inaudible) is to convince the patient to have health (ph), to act in a responsible manner

and to see that he is a danger to others and actually has to act accordingly and only if a doctor sees that the patient does not act

accordingly, then may he inform the relevant authorities.

MAGNAY: And Lubitz seemed pretty good at concealing the truth. He may never have admitted what his job was to his various doctors. Unfit for

work as a pilot, a whole different ballgame to unfit for work behind a desk.

There are limits to doctor-patient confidentiality, the possibility existing to break that oath in the name of the greater public good, limits

which weren't tested in this tragedy for reasons that we will perhaps never understand.

Diana Magnay, CNN, Dusseldorf.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now let's go back to our top story this hour, the massive blackout in Turkey. CNN's producer Gul Tuysuz is in Istanbul. She joins

me now live on the line. And Gull, please let us know just how widespread is the power outage. How are you feeling there? And what caused it?

GUL TOYSUZ, CNN PRODUCER: Well, the power outage started at 10:36 local time, which usually isn't a very high time for energy usage as the

energy minister said in a statement in the last hour.

Right now, there's no official cause of the big rolling blackouts that about half of the provinces in Turkey experience to that huge parts of

Turkey, you know, being affected by this massive blackout.

I was in front of a metro station where people were very confused about what was going on. People were evacuated out of subway stations for

the most part, but once they shut down the services people were very confused asking about what was going on and really sort of fearful about

what may have been the cause of it.

The cause of it still hasn't been determined by the authorities, the energy minister and the prime minister made statements saying that they're

looking into the causes, but that they weren't at this point willing to rule out the possibility of some sort of attack, whether it was a cyber

attack or a terror attack.

But for the most part right now Istanbul is getting back electricity. It's slow and it's rolling. Some traffic lights, for example, have started

working again, but others still aren't, causing a lot of chaos in the traffic.

But the most important thing is the transportation in Istanbul, the Momari (ph) train project, which connects the two sides of Istanbul, the

Asian and the European, to an underground, undersea tunnel under the Bophorus has restored services and the people that were affected by that

had been evacuated earlier, but passenger can go about their daily life in terms of public transport.

But again, electricity in all parts of Turkey and in all parts of Istanbul have not been restored just yet.

[08:10:38] LU STOUT: Gul, the power outage there so far reaching it's affecting, as you just mentioned, rail links as well as air traffic

control.

Separately -- I know you're monitoring reports of a prosecutor there in Turkey who has been probing this politically sensitive death of a child

who is an anti-government protester. This prosecutor is being held hostage now. What can you tell us?

TOYSUZ: That's correct.

I'm outside of what is called the justice palace of Istanbul, basically a big courthouse. And around here, there is a lot of commotion

with ambulances and police officers.

The reports are from the semi-official (inaudible agency as well as other Turkish media is that the prosecutor who was in charge of the

prosecution of police officers who may or may not have killed (inaudible), a young kid on his way to buy a loaf of bread for his family during the

unrest, during the Gezi Park protests, he was in a coma and he later passed away. And this prosecutor was in charge of prosecuting the police officers

who may have been culpable of taking this young boy's life.

Right now, according to the reports that we're seeing in Turkish media, there are -- there's a ransom situation inside where a leftist

terrorist organization is possibly keeping the prosecutor hostage and they have a list of demands.

Some of them include the release of protesters who had attended demonstrations for (inaudible) who has been either arrested or detained or

fired from their jobs for being a part of these demonstrations. The hostage inside is a prosecutor who is in charge of prosecuting these police

officers, which the hostage takers are saying we need to get on live television immediately and confess to their crimes.

Right now, it's very uncertain what's going on. I just saw a forensics team drive up in a caravan. There's a lot of fire department

officials around as well as very, very (inaudible) security who has just pushed us into an even outer, wider perimeter.

So right now it's unclear what's going on inside this huge courthouse in the heart of Istanbul where one of the most politically sensitive and

contentious court cases in Turkey was due to take place -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right, Gul, many thanks indeed for that update. That was CNN's Gul Tuysuz on the line joining us live from Istanbul. Our

apologies for the quality of that line. There's a lot of background noise there. But we were able to hear the gist of her reporting loud and clear.

Gul Tuysuz reporting on two developing stories in Turkey, one a hostage crisis that is still unfolding, and the other the massive outage

affecting nearly the entire nation.

You're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, six world powers and Iran are racing to meet a key deadline on a nuclear deal. We'll

tell you the core issues they're wrangling in the final hours of this round of talks.

Plus, China may have eased the rules on its one child policy, but not every family is taking advantage of the change. Why some parents say they

are in no rush.

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[08:15:50] LU STOUT: Welcome back.

You're watching News Stream. And you're looking at a visual version of all the news we have for you today.

Now we've already told you about that huge blackout across Turkey. And later, we'll look at the lasting damage caused by China's one child

policy.

But now to Switzerland where leading diplomats from six world powers and Tehran now just have 10 hours to finalize a framework deal on Iran's

nuclear program.

Now they are racing to meet a self-imposed deadline that follows at midnight local time in Switzerland.

Now the world's most powerful diplomats, they want to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. And for its part, Iran is angling for

immediate relief from crippling economic sanctions.

Now a sign that talks may be headed in the right direction, the Russian foreign minister is going back to Lausanne to rejoin the talks

later today. Sergey Lavrov says that there is a good chance for success at the negotiating table.

Now for more, Matthew Chance joins us live from Moscow. And Matthew, with Mr. Lavrov now rejoining the talks, hopes are high for a deal today.

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And that's what Sergey Lavrov says that he thinks the chances are high of some kind of

deal being inked in Switzerland.

It was a little surprising that he left in the first place in what seemed like the sort of the high point, if you like, of the negotiations

yesterday between the five permanent members of the security council, plus Germany, the P5+1 and Iran over its controversial nuclear program.

The Russian foreign ministry said that his departure from Switzerland was in accordance with his schedule, but it always reserved the possibility

of Mr. Lavrov going back if those chances improved of a final agreement.

And so the fact that he is going back now. And he announced out of the press conference earlier today certainly he's a lot more positive for

the potential outcome of these long running talks.

LU STOUT: And Matthew, do we know why he left the talks earlier this week? Was it a sign that the talks were stalling? Or was he conducting

other business -- bilateral talks behind the scenes?

CHANCE: Not clear to us, but certainly the foreign ministry here -- and that's the only thing we've really got to go on, said that it was

strictly in accordance with his schedule.

He had a pre-planned meeting with the foreign minister of Vanuatu, which has of course recently been hit by a cyclone, a tropical cyclone.

And so he gave a joint press conference earlier today, but it's hard to believe that he left those crucial diplomatic talks in Switzerland for that

meeting.

Other foreign ministers, other top diplomats have canceled, much more important meetings than that to continue with these talks on the ground.

And so it's not entirely clear why Sergei Lavrov left, but the important thing now is I think he's going to be back. He's going to be engaged, in

that sense, very positive signals about the outcome of these talks.

LU STOUT: Yeah, a positive sign indeed that there will be deal. Matthew Chance joining us live from Moscow. Many thanks indeed for that.

Now, one of the talk's most vocal critics is the U.S. House Speaker John Boehner. He is in Israel today to show his support for Prime Minister

Netanyahu. Now Boehner, you may recall, he invited the Israeli prime minister to address congress on Iran earlier this month and what many

observers say was a snub of President Barack Obama and his Iran policy.

Now the White House has a lot at stake when it comes to these nuclear talks. And CNN's Jim Acosta joins me now live from the White House with

that part of the story. And Jim, what's at stake for the White House? And also from the White House what role has President Obama played in the

ongoing talks in Switzerland?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, obviously there's a lot at stake for this White House. They've been working on this since 2013

when they first announced this joint plan of action with Iran and these other world powers. And what the White House is saying at this point is

that the president has been involved. They have been involved, obviously, in briefing lawmakers up on Capitol Hill, one White House spokesman said

yesterday that they've had hundreds, quote, hundreds of contacts with lawmakers up on Capitol Hill, that is because, Kristie, a lot of lawmakers

on both sides of the aisle are skeptical of this.

As for the president, he's been involved as well. A White House official say he's been providing what they call guidance to the U.S. team

that is in Switzerland right now, but you know I've been talking to officials this morning as of just a couple of hours ago. I talked to one

senior administration official, Kristie -- you heard Matthew Chance saying there that the Russians are optimistic about this -- I talked to one

official who said earlier this morning that they don't know yet whether or not they are going to have an agreement.

So this is likely much to go down to the wire here as often these talks do.

[08:20:14] LU STOUT: Yeah, down to the wire, a number of tough issues yet to be resolve. Jim Acosta live at the White House, thank you.

Now you're watching News Stream. Still to come, arrested over a YouTube rant. Critics say the case highlights Singapore's restrictions on

free speech and we'll explain the controversy.

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LU STOUT: And that's the iconic Star Ferry coming to you live from Hong Kong, you are back watching News Stream.

Now authorities in Singapore have charged this teenager over a video he posted on YouTube.

Now 16 year old Amos Yee slammed the country's founding father in an eight minute tirade called Lee Kuan Yew is finally dead. Among other

things, he compared Lee to Mao Zedong and Adolf Hitler.

Now Yee's father, seen here with him, has apologized to the prime minister.

Now police say that the video also contained disparaging remarks against Christians. Now Singapore has strict laws against religiously

offensive comments.

And critics say Yee's arrest highlights a country's restrictions on free speech.

Now let's bring in Bob Dietz. He is the Asia program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. And he joins us now live.

And Bob, good to see you. I know that the CPJ has condemned the arrest, has called for authorities to free Yee. But I watched the clip.

And this teenager, he's obviously smart. He's obviously taunting the government, almost daring the government to arrest him for what he's

saying. So why did Singaporean authorities even bother to respond to this video, let along arrest him?

[08:25:20] BOB DIETZ, COMMITTED TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: That's a good question. I think it's a sensitive moment in Singapore right now with the

death of former prime minister Lee.

But I think there's more to this than just that.

I think you have -- first of all, look at the charges of religious assault and religious criticism. I think those are the cover for government

still in a very authoritarian mode and wanting to suppress this sort of speech.

And I think a lot of people found it really offensive, not just the government, frankly, but a lot of people in the public. No matter what you

think of Lee Kuan Yew, I think you have to accept the fact that he was a popular leader in Singapore. And many people looked towards him with

gratitude. To have a 17-year-old boy start a rant and go off the -- well, not off the deep end, but makes a very valid points. I think it hit home

to a lot of people. And I think it hit home to a lot of people in the government as well.

LU STOUT: But let's go on and talk about bloggers under threat in Bangladesh. We know in Bangladesh, another blogger has been killed in

broad daylight. His name Wahsa Kuramen (ph). He was killed. And he was one of three bloggers to be recently murdered in that country. Why are

bloggers under attack there?

DIETZ: Well, two of these most recent cases were most likely carried out by people with religious grudge.

Both those cases were bloggers who are either Christian or atheist or critical of Islam somehow. And I think what you're seeing in Bangladesh is

a really growing intolerance towards people who would make critical, disparaging remarks of the Muslim faith.

That said, Bangladesh is a very hostile attitude in general towards people making critical remarks of the government, of religion, or really

stepping out of line of the official government parameters.

Bangladesh is not a country where you see growing press freedom, let along increasing space for bloggers to operate.

LU STOUT: We have growing intolerance in Bangladesh, we have tight censorship rules and political sensitivity in Singapore. What's happening

in Vietnam? Because bloggers are also under threat there. A few months ago, a high profile political blogger was arrested in his home a number of

other high profile bloggers have been arrested. What happening in Vietnam?

DIETZ: As of December 31, we had 16 bloggers in jail in Vietnam. And I think the number has gone up by one or two, possibly. Vietnam becoming

rapidly becoming one of the world's largest jailer of journalists and bloggers despite the fact it has a relatively small population.

I think what you're seeing, Kristie, across the region is fewer and fewer mainstream journalists coming into -- coming under pressure of

governments. Those people and their -- the institutions behind them know what parameters within what they have to play. But what you have now are -

- that sort of public debate that used to be able to take place in media and traditional media, has moved online. And that's where the real action,

where the criticism of government and criticism of the status quo is in many countries.

And I think you're going to see more of that.

Clearly, about 50 percent, or more than 50 percent of the people in jail around the world are in because of some sort of online activity.

LU STOUT: Thanks for explaining that. A lot of investigative journalism in Asia has been forced to move online. That's why online

reporters, bloggers, are being targeted in many parts of Asia.

Bob Dietz, we'll leave it at. But Bob Dietz of CPJ joining us live from New York talking about bloggers under threat across the region here.

Thank you very much indeed for that.

DIETZ: Thanks, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Now in China, the one child policy, it was supposed to curb population growth. And now it seems that policy (inaudible) working a bit

too well. We'll tell you about China's new population crisis when we come back.

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[08:32:09] LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now officials in Turkey are trying to nail down the cost of today's massive power outage. It's been affecting close to half of the country.

It snarled traffic and brought mass transit to a standstill in Ankara and Istanbul. But a CNN producer there says that things are slowly returning

to normal.

Now meanwhile, we're also watching a hostage drama at an Istanbul courthouse where a Turkish prosecutor has been taken captive by an armed

group. Now that prosecutor has been investigating the death of an anti- government demonstrator in the Gezi Park protest. Now we'll keep you updated on this story as it develops.

Now with just hours to go until a self-imposed deadline, nuclear negotiators are at the bargaining table trying to hash out a nuclear deal

with Tehran by the end of the day.

Now the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says he will rejoin those talks in Lausanne later today.

Now a government official tells CNN one reason co-pilot Andreas Lubitz crashed a Germanwings passenger plane is that he feared his medical

problems would end his job as a pilot. Meanwhile, officials say a new path from Le Vernet, France to the crash site has been completed.

The Chinese government spent decades using drastic measures and heavy fines to enforce its highly controversial one child policy. And then last

year Beijing suddenly decided to relax those rules. But now it seems not everyone wants more kids.

David McKenzie has more.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Every Chinese family revolves around a child. They call her Tao Jiu (ph), or Little Peach.

Like both her parents before her, Tao (ph) is an only child.

"Once my cousin visited and we shared a bed for a few nights," says he dad. "I really enjoyed that feeling. And I wished I had a brother."

But for decades, the Communist Party has relentlessly pushed its one child policy. When propaganda like this didn't work, they used heavy fines

and forced abortion to curb population growth.

Now some experts call the one child policy a glaring mistake.

PROF. WANT FENG, FUDAN UNIVERISTY: China has already begun to feel an unfolding crisis in terms of its population change.

MCKENZIE: The one child policy gambled with China's economic future.

The world's second biggest economy now faces a rapidly aging population and shrinking work force.

In just 15 years, there will be more than 400 million elderly here in China. And many Chinese feel that the one child policy is out of step.

So the party has changed its tune, pushing a new ideal family on TV, with a daughter and a son, where more is better.

Tao Jiu (ph) parents and millions of others are now eligible for a second child. They should be ideal candidates. But housing in Beijing is

costly. And they say China is too competitive, good schools too expensive to even contemplate a second child.

"Money is only part of the problem," she says, "your energy and your time is also important. We both have to work. It's hard enough to raise

her as a success. It will be miserable if we have to go through that again."

David McKenzie, CNN, Beijing.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

[08:35:48] LU STOUT: Now an organization that fights online censorship in China says it is under digital attack. Now Great Fire says

it has been under a denial of service attack, that's when a site is overwhelmed with more traffic than it can handle.

Now earlier, I spoke to a representative of Great Fire, but he wished to keep his identity hidden using a fake name and a digital voice to

explain what was going on.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are being targeted, because since the 25th anniversary of the June 4 incident, the Chinese authorities have revved up

their information controls quickly. This has included completely blocking Google in China, launching dangerous man in the middle attacks against

Apple, Microsoft and Yahoo!, and disrupting VPN services in China.

We are just the next logical target.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LU STOUT: Now Great Fire is a group of anonymous activists who monitor and challenge Chinese internet censorship. It has offered Chinese

netizens a workaround for websites that are blocked in China.

Let's show you have it works. Now normally when you want to use Google you'd access a site right there on Google's own servers. Now this

makes it easy for Chinese authorities to block the site. You just have to block the address for Google's servers.

Now what Great Fire has done is to host a copy of Google.com on Amazon's cloud servers. Now Amazon allows other companies to rent space on

their servers, so Amazon's cloud hosts a wide variety of websites and services. And that means if Chinese authorities want to block Great Fire's

copy of Google, they'd have to block Amazon's cloud, which means they wouldn't just block Google, they'd also knock out all the other websites

hosted on Amazon's servers.

Now you're watching News Stream. Still to come on the program, he is the South African comedian tapped to fill Jon Stewart's shoes at Comedy

Central, but just who is Trevor Noah and what do Americans think of the choice?

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

Now Comedy Central's The Daily Show has become a mainstay of American TV under its outgoing host Jon Stewart. But now South African comedian

Trevor Noah is taken the microphone. Now he's a star in South Africa, but he's largely unknown in the U.S. Jeanne Moos fills in the blanks.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He went from rookie contributor --

JON STEWART, "THE DAILY SHOW," COMEDY CENTRAL: Mr. Trevor Noah.

MOOS (voice-over): -- to host of The Daily Show.

TREVOR NOAH, COMEDIAN: Can I like ask you a question?

MOOS (voice-over): A question being asked is -- who?

(on camera): Trevor Noah, or is it Noah Trevor? No, it's Trevor Noah. Anyway, he's a 31-year-old comedian from South Africa.

(voice-over): And has graced the covers of South African editions of "GQ" and "Rolling Stone." He jokes about his mixed race. His mom is a black

South African, his dad is a white Swiss-German.

[08:50:18] NOAH: And my dad was also -- well, you know how the Swiss love chocolate, you know, she he was just-

MOOS (voice-over): Mixed unions weren't allowed under the old apartheid policy.

NOAH: Then they had me, which was illegal, so I was born a crime.

MOOS (voice-over): To audiences abroad, he's joked about Americans.

NOAH: They don't know much about Africa as a whole. Most of them don't know much about anything, but still-

MOOS (voice-over): And when he did three segments on The Daily Show recently, the laughter was underwhelming. Reaction to word that he was

named host ranged from "Trevor Noah is kind of smoking hot," to "excellent dimples" to "So, they couldn't find an American for the job? That's pretty

sad."

(on camera): One thing Noah will have no trouble doing on The Daily Show: accents. From American...

NOAH: Have you been in contact with Ebola?

MOOS (voice-over): -- to Middle Eastern --

NOAH: You probably want to check that gentlemen over there.

MOOS (voice-over): -- to what he called "crazy guy."

NOAH: Ask me why! MOOS (voice-over): Even what he described as "black Hitler."

NOAH: ...and Pepsi cola drinking.

MOOS (voice-over): And then an Oprah-esque (ph) imitation pegged to her African school.

NOAH: You're getting a beating, you're getting a beating! Everybody is getting a beating!

MOOS (voice-over): Eventually, he will be beating up on the media when, say -

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry.

MOOS (voice-over): -- a weatherman finds a hanger he left in his suit, at least Trevor Noah is no empty suit. Jeanne Moos, CNN.

NOAH: The guy looks at me, he's like so you're a comedian? I said yeah. He's like, you don't look funny.

MOOS (voice-over): New York.

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LU STOUT: Well, his accent repertoire are pretty good. That is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Don't go anywhere, because World Sport with

Christina Macfarlane is next.

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