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[08:00:12] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.

And American surveillance program has lapsed, at least for now, while U.S.lawmakers let key provisions of the PATRIOT Act expire.

Plus, Iraq Sunnis say they need help fighting ISIS, and they want Washington to bypass Baghdad. We have a live report.

And more than one in every three cigarettes in the world is smoked in China. Can Beijing's tough new ban help break that habit.

Legislation that gave the U.S. government sweeping surveillance powers after 9/11 has expired. U.S. senators failed to extend three key

provisions of the PATRIOT Act on Sunday, including the bulk collection of phone records. They instead voted to advance a bill to reform some of

those provisions.

And as CNN's Athena Jones reports, the issue has touched off political in-fighting over privacy rights versus national security.

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SEN. RAND PAUL, (R) KENTUCKY: I'm not going to take it anymore. I don't think the American people are going to take it anymore.

ATHNA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The heated debate over the Patriot Act pushing beyond the midnight deadline in Washington, forcing

the NSA to immediately stop selecting telephone metadata on millions of Americans across the country.

PAUL: They want to take just a little of your liberty. But they get it by making you afraid.

JONES: Senator Rand Paul blasting the NSA's domestic surveillance program, calling it an illegal spy program on Americans.

This as counterterrorism officials also lose the ability to obtain roving wiretaps, allowing them to listen in on potential terror suspects,

even as they change cell phones.

With the advancement of ISIS across the Middle East, some senators say the program is needed now more than ever.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Isn't this program as critical as it's ever been since its inception, given the fact that the Middle East is

literally on fire and we are losing everywhere?

JONES: The NSA's authority will likely be restored as early as Wednesday, when Republican leadership aides expect a final vote on the

compromise bill, the USA Freedom Act. The bill amends the Patriot Act, requiring a specific targeted warrant to obtain any call records from

telecommunications companies.

REID: We're in the mess we are today because of the majority leader. The majority leader should have seen this coming.

JONES: Democratic Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid blaming his Republican counterpart, Mitch McConnell, for not having a plan. After an

about-face, Majority Leader McConnell, who had wanted to renew the Patriot Act as is, now says passing the compromised bill is the only realistic way

forward.

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: I believe this is a program that strikes a critical balance between privacy on the one hand

and national security on the other.

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LU STOUT: And we'll speak to Athena Jones in just a moment, but first let me remind you of some key details about the PATRIOT Act.

Now it was signed into law by former President George W. Bush in 2001 after the 9/11 terror attacks. And now that they've lapsed, the government

loses authorities under those three provisions Athena touched on in that report.

The so-called lone wolf provision has never been used. Now it allows agencies to monitor terror suspects believed to be acting alone. And

officials can continue to use roving wiretaps investigations that began before June 1.

Now section 215 is the most controversial. It granted the government sweeping powers to collect telephone metadata on millions of Americans and

keep it for years.

Now, Edward Snowden revealed the NSA's secret mass surveillance program about two years ago. And Glenn Greenwald who broke Snowden's

story, spoke with CNN's Brian Stelter about how that changed everything.

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GLENN GREENWALD, JOURNALIST: When the PATRIOT Act was enacted, even in the weeks after 9/11, when the country was pretty much willing to do

anything the government wanted, it was recognized it was an incredibly radical and extremist piece of legislation. And the idea was, these powers

we're giving the government should be temporary, not permanent, and so they're going to sunset every five years unless Congress renews them. And

yet, in 2005, the Bush administration demanded renewal. And, overwhelmingly, Congress renewed it with no fight.

In 2011, President Obama demanded renewal, and Congress overwhelmingly renewed it without any debate.

This is going to be the first time -- and this is extraordinary -- since 9/11, 14 years ago, that the Congress is taking away powers from the

federal government in the name of terrorism, rather than giving them new ones. And so, hopefully, this can be built on.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

[08:05:02] LU STOUT: And that was journalist Glenn Greenwald.

And later in the program, we'll get perspective from a former NSA deputy director.

Now let's bring in CNN's Athena Jones. She joins me now live from Washington. And Athena, we're now waiting for a final vote on this

compromised bill, it's called the USA Freedom Act. But how much change and how much actual reform would it actually bring to the way the NSA collects

and uses data?

JONES: Hi, Kristie.

Well, the big change the USA Freedom Act would put into place is that it would take the data out of the hands of the government, out of the

storage facilities of the National Security Agency and leave them with the telecommunications companies. That is the bill that passed with

overwhelming bipartisan support in the House some time ago, more than 300 votes, and that is the one that is finally going to be voted on this week

in the Senate.

There are still some people who have issues with that. They say that it does not include any rules that make sure the telecommunications will

hold on to the data, and if these phone companies aren't required to do so they're not going to do so simply because these programs have been so

controversial.

So, we expect that there could be some amendments offered on the Senate side that would add -- that would put in place some rules on the

phone companies also possibly giving them more time to make this transition from the government to the phone companies.

So, if they make those changes, of course, it'll have to go back to the House for them to consider the changes there.

So, there's still a few more hoops that have to be jumped through here, Kristie.

LU STOUT: All right. And now we know at the end that the White House warned that the U.S. would face a serious lapse in security if the

provisions in the PATRIOT Act were not renewed.

Now that they have expired as of midnight last night local time, is America less safe? Is America less secure?

JONES: Well, it depends on who you ask, that certainly has been the warning coming from the administration, from certain national security

officials as well. At the same time, you have a lot of critics of this domestic surveillance program, specifically this bulk phone data collection

program who say that the government has been able to point to a single case where this really saved lives and thwarted an active terrorist plot. There

is one case of a cab driver who gave money to a militant group, but in terms of saving lives, critics say that these programs really haven't done

that.

So, it does depend on who you ask. Certainly, the administration and a lot of supporters here on Capitol Hill want to see the program, some kind

of program, in place to allow for this sort of surveillance, because they see it as vital -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: And also a question about the NSA. I mean, had it already begun winding down the -- especially the phone metadata collection program

way before midnight last night local time. And also, how long would it take for them to reboot the system?

JONES: Well, you are right, they did begin this winding down process several days ago. I believe is the 22nd of May, that is the memo that the

Department of Justice sent out warning that as of the 22nd of May they'd have to begin the processes.

Yesterday is when they finished those processes, shutting down servers and that sort of thing. We understand that they officially stopped the

data collection, the bulk collection, at about 7:44 p.m. And we're told it would take about 24 hours to be able to restart it.

So, even when the Senate -- and this is resolved here in congress. It won't be an immediate turning on and off of the light switch, it'll still

take some time -- Kristie.

LU STOUT: Got it. Athena Jones reporting live from Washington, thank you, Athena.

And now to Iraq where CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has learned troubling new information about what might have brought on the fall of Ramadi to ISIS

last month.

Now one of the most powerful politicians in Iraq tells him that the prime minister was not aware of the order to pull government troops out of

Ramadi. The speaker of the Iraqi parliament says the order was given by commanders on the ground without Baghdad's knowledge.

Now that comes as Iraqi forces fight to take back Fallujah from the militants. Witnesses say Iraqi war planes and artillery have been pounding

the ISIS controlled city and surrounding villages for days.

Now Nick Paton Walsh is with us now from Baghdad. He joins us now live. And Nick, what more are you learning about the offensive underway,

and also more that you learned about how Iraq lost one of its key cities Ramadi?

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, just to clarify on Salim al-Jabouri's comments, he is effectively the most

powerful Sunni politician here in Iraq, the speaker of parliament.

Now he said that as far as he is aware, in terms of his knowledge of what happened in Ramadi, the elite Golden Division, who were the

predominate fighting force in securing much of that city from the onslaught of ISIS, they received an order, or decided autonomously -- he's still

trying to work that out -- to withdrawal from that city.

Now he says that the Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi who is the commander-in-chief -- civilian commander-in-chief of their forces -- was

unaware of that order to depart. And he also says at this stage they're trying to assess whether that Golden Division made the call to pull out

themselves, or whether they were given an order from some part of the military or political elite here in Baghdad to do that.

Now, this feeds in to the enormously sensitive autopsy around what happened in Ramadi, you remember that the Pentagon chief Ashton Carter has

said the Iraqis lacked the will to fight. It's turned in to a bit of international media blame game to some degree. And it feeds into the

broader sensitivity, too, that is the often pro-Shia government here in Baghdad reluctant to send firepower to defend Sunni heartlands like Ramadi,

like the Anbar province in which it's located? Well, we heard those concerns echoed ourselves when we went to the southwest of Fallujah to an

area called Amriyat al-Fallujah, which had been under siege from ISIS for months, but still now says they're fighting with the cheapest weapons and

lack basic support from Baghdad.

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[08:10:47] WALSH (voice-over): At these sandbags is exactly what Iraq needs to stay together as a country. Meters away, you can glimpse the flag

of ISIS, extremists from Iraq's Sunni minority. But holding them off here are the men the U.S. says are key to victory, moderate Iraqi Sunnis who

will die to rid their hometown of ISIS.

(on camera): If America is to send help to the Sunni tribes to Anbar here is where it is most badly needed. They have been in combat with ISIS

for months and now the enemy is just across the river.

(voice-over): But they have been without pay for months. Some have Kalashnikovs made of cheap metal and chipboard.

"No one's come to help us," he said. "Government is not help with anything. We buy our own weapons and we're supposed to be (inaudible)."

"Such people like ISIS," another says, "and not Sunnis, no. They're enemies, the ones who destroy and not build."

The local mayor of the town of Amriyat al-Fallujah, around which ISIS swarms and fires mortars daily, sees his enemy on the TV screen. This long-

distance camera shows their mortars slamming into ISIS positions, and was paid for by locals themselves. They say Baghdad, whose officials are often

Shia, and distrust Sunnis, has ignored months of their pleas for help. Now, they arm themselves.

"We buy them," he says, "there are lots of weapons for sale on the Iraqi market, whether it's from the previous army or what ISIS took from

this army as they put it up for sale through a third party. Even some things come from Iran and are sold directly."

Here is where local volunteers are trained and armed. But again, we're shown the chipboard, 500 of them, they say. This man was trained by the

U.S. nine years ago, then to help them fight al Qaeda here. Now, they want America's help again.

"We want the Americans to arm us directly," he says. "If they give it to the government, they'll take what they want and give us the tired

weapons. The good stuff they'll keep."

Outside the hospital, you can see the help they are getting, an ambulance from Sunni Saudi Arabia. Inside, three injured from a mortar that

hit off duty young fighters playing football the day before. Another died. This town endures, yet feels abandoned despite broad recognition it is

vital they win.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WALSH: Now, as you see there it is of course absolutely vital, according to those Sunni locals there, that they get better weaponry.

They're facing ISIS, who we just heard today from the Iraqi prime minister, may have got hold of as many as over 2,000 U.S. made Humvee vehicles when

they took over Mosul last year.

They're very well equipped, but those Sunni tribesmen are not. And they have been appealing for months -- now the issue here, the Iraqi

government say, is if they'll help, but they need to be sure that that help is delivered through official channels, that those individuals on the

ground there are part of recognized government-backed units.

That actually, interestingly, was echoed by the parliamentary speaker, Salim al-Jabouri when we said should there be direct help to those Sunni

tribesmen from the U.S., for example, who floated the idea in the past few days.

This extraordinarily divisive and important issue that goes right to the heart of how Iraq could really stay together as a multi-sectarian

country here. Those Sunnis want to look after their homeland, want to fight and hold ISIS back, who are also Sunni extremists, but they're not

getting the resources to do it. And that leads to suspicions that there are some in Baghdad, perhaps you could conspiratorially suggest those, too,

who may not have wanted Ramadi to be defended to the hilt, who were quite happy to see Sunnis lose in the battle to ISIS.

And that leads into another series of questions, but certainly makes the Sunnis here, who already feel disenfranchised, feel even more so --

Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, especially when Sunni tribes are so vital in the fight against ISIS, and they lack these vital weapons they need to win the

battle.

Nick Paton Walsh joining us live. Thank you very much indeed for that.

You're watching News Stream. And still to come on the program, caught on tape: several English Premier League players are in hot water after a

video appears to show them in a Thai sex orgy using racist language.

Also ahead, it's a cigarette smackdown in Beijing, the city is banning smoking inside public buildings, but will it work?

And making same-sex marriage legal: Australia's opposition Labour Party introduces new legislation.

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[08:17:06] LU STOUT: Welcome back. You're watching News Stream. And you're looking at a visual version of all the news we're covering for you.

Now we've already told you how U.S. senators let tools to fight terrorism expire. And later, we'll show you how China is cracking down on

smoking. Will the new ban in Beijing succeed where others have failed.

But, first, a new scandal in the world of football. An English Premier League club is investigating the behavior of some of its players

while they were on tour in Thailand. A newspaper reports that three Leicester City players were caught on tape at an orgy. And one of the men

appears to use a racial slur to describe the women involved.

Now the club says Tom Hopper, James Pearson and Adam Smith have apologized and are being sent home ahead of the rest of the team.

Now the club says it is deeply concerned, and that its players at every level are expected to behave as representatives and ambassadors for

the football club. So it treats their conduct extremely seriously.

Now the club was on a tour of Thailand, home of its owner King Power International.

Moscow has a message for nearly 90 EU politicians and military leaders: you are not welcome in Russia. Now the new entry ban has sparked

outrage across Europe. Let's get straight to our senior international correspondent Matthew Chance in Moscow. And Matthew, exactly who is being

targeted by these sanctions? And what has been the reaction in both Europe and there in Russia?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, well there's been a very angry reaction, particularly from the 89 individuals that have

found themselves on this Russian blacklist preventing them from traveling to the Russian Federation.

The largest number of people come from Poland. The second largest comes from the United Kingdom. And then there are individuals from various

Baltic republics and many other countries across Europe as well.

It's interesting, because the countries that support Russia, generally speaking in terms of Greece, Cyprus and Hungary, none of the individuals

from those countries have found themselves on this list. And so it's an interesting look at the geography of the -- of the criticism of Russia from

a European point of view. As I say, the reaction has been extremely angry by those on the list.

I've got a couple of quotes from two individuals, one a Belgian, a member of the European parliament, Mark Demesmaeker saying in his Twitter

account, "Putin puts me on his blacklist, not welcome in Russia. This is too much honor for me, Mr. Putin."

The Swedish MEP Gunnar Hokmark had this to say, "worth to note that Putin regime fears dialogue and freedom of speech. The blacklist is not a

show of strength, but of weakness."

European Union officials have obviously condemned this list saying it's not transparent and calling for more clarification on why exactly

these individuals were identified and being put on this travel ban list by Russia.

But of course the answer to that is pretty clear. And Russian officials have been out over the course of the past several hours setting

it straight as well. The Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov saying it's an absurdity the anger in the European Union at this list, of course,

because the Europeans themselves have a blacklist at which -- involves at least 151 Russian individuals on that list for their association for

annexation of Crimea and the ongoing crisis in Eastern Ukraine as well.

And so, I think we can see, as a sort of tit-for-tat move, you know, the Europeans have their list, now the Russians have a list as well --

Kristie.

[08:20:32] LU STOUT: All right, Matthew Chance live in Moscow reporting on these tit-for-tat sanctions. Many thanks indeed, Matthew.

You're watching News Stream. Still to come, lighting up is now prohibited in Beijing's public places. Now this is a major move from the

country where smoking is more popular than anywhere else in the world.

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

South Korea is battling to contain an outbreak of Middle East respiratory disease known as the MERS virus. Major hospitals are setting

up special MERS clinic rooms to fight the disease. Authorities announce more cases on Monday.

The number of people infected in South Korea now totals 18 with nearly 700 in quarantine or under observation.

Now, no one has died in this current outbreak, but the world health organization says globally MERS has killed more than 400 people since it

first appeared in 2012.

Now a new smoke ban has come into force across the Chinese capital. And here, you can see large no smoking banners on the national stadium,

otherwise known as the Bird's Nest.

Now smoking is now banned in Beijing's restaurants, offices, hospitals and on public transport. A new law imposes hefty fines on individuals and

businesses if the ban is violated.

Now China has more than 300 million smokers, and is the world's largest consumer of tobacco.

It is an unprecedented restriction. And anti-tobacco activists are welcoming it. But there are also doubts about how strictly the law will be

enforced. David McKenzie has this report.

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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is Gulo, a popular party and tourist spot here in Beijing. And it's just the kind of

place where the smoking ban will be in force, they say, because they're trying to ban smoking in public places, indoors and also the sale of

cigarettes near schools. This smoking ban is the strongest yet here in the capital of Beijing.

In China, more than 300 million people smoke cigarettes. They say it caused more than a million deaths just last year.

Smoking is truly ingrained here in China. In fact, you can buy local cigarettes for less than $1. And it's also part of the culture here.

People give packs of cigarettes to each other. And they say that some of the things you see in other countries like warning labels on cigarettes,

like this on a foreign brand here in China, they say that's just not appropriate. Who wants to give a gift to someone if it says smoking can

kill you.

There have been attempts before to ban smoking like this, but now the younger generation is pushing for it.

"Smoking affects the air," she says, "and it also affects our health. We are supporting the smoking ban."

"I think so, too," says her friend. "It's not only bad for yourself, it's also not good for others around you, especially for the air."

The key, of course, is how they will enforce the smoking ban. Other than the fines, the government says it's going to name and shame people

online. They say they're going to start here in Beijing. And if it works, move it across the rest of the country. The World Health Organization is

saying it's a quantum leap forward.

David McKenzie, CNN, Beijing.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LU STOUT: Now besides smoking, China is also policing internet activity. Police in 50 regions are launching official social media

accounts, calling themselves the internet police.

Now what you see here is the Weibo page of the internet police of the capital. Now the ministry of public security says it wants to address

concern about online problems, including fraud, gambling, drug sales and provoking trouble and causing disturbances.

Now the last is a charge used to jail political dissidents. According to the ministry, the year -- this year, police have deleted more than

700,000 illegal or criminal messages.

Now still to come right here on News Stream, one of the most controversial provisions of the U.S. PATRIOT Act has expired after a heated

debate over privacy. Is the U.S. really at greater risk without it? We explore that question when we come back.

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[08:30:17] LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines.

Now the United States has lost some of its tools to investigate terrorism, key parts of the PATRIOT Act expired at midnight Washington

time. The U.S. Senate is expected to restore at least some of those provisions in the coming days. And the issues pits Republicans against

members of their own party in debate over national security versus American's right to privacy.

Qatar is extending a travel ban for five senior Taliban leaders. The so-called Taliban Five were exchanged for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl

last year. The travel ban was set to expire on Sunday. A U.S. official says it will be extended until Qatar, Afghanistan and the U.S. can find a

long-term solution.

A U.S. surgeon is traveling to Switzerland to check out U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's broken leg. Kerry was injured while cycling in

France near the Swiss border. He was airlifted to a hospital in Geneva and plans to return to the U.S.

The Solar Impulse has postponed its landing in Japan to less than two hours from now. Its official Twitter account says the weather conditions

are challenging. The experimental aircraft is attempting to fly around the world powered only by the sun.

Now all week here on News Stream, we'll be looking at the state of cyber security online, what governments are doing to control users online

and what you can do about it.

Now in the United States, privacy advocates are cheering the expiration of one of the most controversial provisions of the PATRIOT Act,

the National Security Agency's bulk collection of phone data. The U.S. Senate is now considering a bill that would greatly reform that program.

And joining me now is Cedric Leighton. He is the former deputy director of training for the NSA and a former member of the Joint Chiefs of

Staff. Thank you very much indeed for joining us here on CNN.

And, first, let's talk about the bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of Americans over the years. Has the program actually contributed

to the safety of Americans? And if so, how?

CEDRIC LEIGHTON, FRM. MEMBER, U.S. JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF: Well, good evening, Kristie.

Yes, it -- one of the big things that a lot of people talk about when it comes to the metadata collection program is whether or not it has been

effective. One of the difficulties that you have in pointing out what is has done or has not done is the fact that a lot of the information that

pertains to the program is still classified.

But the big deal with this program is that it can at the very least, provided pieces of the puzzle that can then help investigators both on the

law enforcement side as well as the intelligence side, piece together information that will allows for the apprehension of terrorists, or the

thwarting of terrorist attacks.

So, that's where it becomes, you know, kind of a difficult area to look at, but it has definitely helped thwart some terrorist attacks, but it

has not been the sole provider of information in almost all of those cases.

LU STOUT: As you say, you want to use a tool like this to pick the pieces of the puzzle of an actual plot, but in the era of big data, I mean

how do you protect against accidental or inadvertent data collection? And is it even possible?

LEIGHTON: Well, that is actually where policy and procedures, and of course law, come into play.

So, in the United States, before the advent of the internet age, we had provisions that prevented the collection and the storage of data that

pertained to U.S. citizens. And at that time, we're talking in the 1970s and 1980s, the limit on data collection was actually six months. You could

keep that was something that was possibly pertinent for six months, but then it had to be destroyed unless it became the subject of a court

investigation.

Now the rule is you keep the data for five years. So it is a much more different environment, because big data has, as you correctly point

out, really changed the landscape not only for every internet user that's out there, but also for the intelligence agencies.

So the intelligence agencies are going to be irrelevant if they can't do some type of collection on the internet, but having said that there also

have to be provisions in there to protect civil liberties. So, the law has to be very straightforward, and it has to say these are the things that you

can do, these are the things that you cannot do, and these are the things that you can do if you have special permissions to do them, and that's

where warrants come in and what basically Senator Rand Paul's idea was, was that you have warrants for each specific case.

Now the difficulty with that, Kristie, is that that then gets to be a very specific and time consuming issue for the courts to deal with. And it

in essence prevents the real-time apprehension of terrorists, or suspected terrorists if you catch them in the act.

[08:35:02] LU STOUT: Yeah, but you know, given the debate in the United States, the U.S. certainly needs to fine tune this process.

We're now waiting for a final vote on a compromise bill. It's called the USA Freedom Act. If it passed, if it passes later this week, do you

think it will work? Is it a good enough compromise?

LEIGHTON: It has provisions in it that will definitely work. And so some aspects are very good.

The one area where it doesn't really have all of the teeth that an intelligence agency would like to see is in the area where you actually end

up following a person as opposed to the device that they're using.

So, the current version of the USA Freedom Act does not have a provision in it that would allow for law enforcement and intelligence

agencies to follow an individual even if they changed phones or moved from a phone to an iPad or similar device. That's the kind of thing that needs

to be updated in the law. And that, then, would allow for the specific following of a specific individual, which is really what you need.

You really don't care about the device, per se, what you care about is the individual and what that individual is planning to do.

LU STOUT: And finally your reaction to what happened last night: the expiration of key PATRIOT Act provisions at midnight last night local time

in America. Were you surprised that it happened, that it played out this way?

LEIGHTON: Not really, Kristie. And, you know, it -- when it came to that midnight deadline, the Senate has a tendency not to do things, to meet

deadlines. So in other words, what we're dealing with here is a situation that it has become embroiled in politics.

I'm disappointed that a lot of the things that we heard about in the U.S. Senate involve what amounts to political grandstanding.

But, what you're seeing is the Senate coming together and in essence what Senator Paul did is but a temporary setback to the program. I think

everybody here believes that it is very important to protect civil liberties, at least most responsible people do, but there also has to be a

provision to go after terrorists and similar threats to the national security of the United States. And it's finding that compromise that has

proven more difficult than I think some anticipated. But I'm not surprised in this particular case that it has taken the course that it has taken.

LU STOUT: All right. Cedric Leighton, we'll leave it at that. Many thanks indeed for your expertise and for joining us here on CNN

International.

Now the U.S. government isn't the only one active online. And tomorrow right here on News Stream, we'll show you the tool that

researchers say China can use to knock websites offline, and how they enlist ordinary web users in this fight without them every knowing.

Now, Australia's opposition Labour Party has introduced a same-sex marriage bill. The party does not have the numbers to pass the

legislation, but hopes its introduction will convince the prime minister to allow government MPs a conscience vote.

The Australian parliament voted down same-sex marriage in 2012. More than 20 countries have legalized marriage equality including, most

recently, Ireland.

Now 35 years ago, CNN became the world's first 24 hours news network, but when did CNN International launch? We've got the answer after the

break.

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[08:39:55] LU STOUT: Welcome back.

And today, we are celebrating 35 years of CNN, the world's first 24 hours news network went live on June 1, 1980. And before the break, we

asked you when did CNN International launch? Well, the answer 1985.

Now to salute CNN's birthday, we're taking a look back at some of the major breaking news stories that have defined our coverage over the years.

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UNIDENTIFED MALE: We have to go to Baghdad, Secretary. We're going to Bernard Shaw in Baghdad.

BERNARD SHAW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is a...

Out of my mouth came the words...

Something is happening outside.

You're damn right something is happening. War is breaking out all around you.

The skies over Baghdad have been illuminated. We're seeing bright flashes going off all over the sky.

The walls were shaking. The windows were vibrating, the concussions blowing us against the wall.

The Iraqis shutdown CNN. They invoked censorship.

PETER ARNETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, we've now been on the air 20 minutes.

SHAW: Now the sirens are sounding for the firs time, the Iraqis have informed us.

ARNETT: And the line goes dead.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They just cut the line.

BOB FURNAD, FRM. CNN EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT: Everybody is stunned and it's totally silent. And you can feel the tension in that room.

SHAW: And John Holliman said it's a battery, the battery is dead.

FURNAD: And of course our biggest fright was that the bomb had hit the hotel where they were.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hello, Baghdad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The line is dead.

FURNAD: There was a hush in the control room.

So, on Friday morning, we packed up and we started to leave Baghdad.

SHAW: And we're running around trying to find the batteries. We find it. Holliman does a workaround.

Hello, Atlanta.

And we come back on the air.

JOHN HOLLIMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Atlanta, this is Holliman.

SHAW: I don't know whether you're able to hear me now or not, but I'm going to continue to talk to you as long as I can.

FURNAD: And there's a collective sigh. And you see shoulders drop down as the tension leaves people's body.

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: The whole world was watching CNN. We were the only ones who had reporters in Baghdad.

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LU STOUT: Wow, incredible moments of journalism there. And if that's not enough nostalgia for you, you can check out this gallery on our

website. Just click through to see how CNN has evolved over the years.

And finally, a performance by Enrique Iglesias that fans in the front row won't likely forget, many of them were splattered with the singer's

blood after he accidentally cut his hand on a drone.

Iglesias then used his blood-soaked hand to paint a heart on his chest and then he carried on performing.

Now his publicist says it used drones to get crowd shots and that Iglesias is, yes, known to grab and turn them on himself sometimes.

And while fans praised his professionalism, DJI, the maker of the drone, said that it is, quote, "concerned that some basic safety rules,

including not flying over crowds, or close to people were not followed. DJI also says it wishes the singer a speedy recovery and hopes he continues

exploring the possibilities of aerial technology."

And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. But don't go anywhere, World Sport with Amanda Davies is next.

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