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German Axe Attack Wounds Several Train Passengers; North Korea Fires Three Ballistic Missiles; Erdogan Refuses to Rule Out Death Penalty; Doping Report Calls for Russian Olympian Ban; Day One of the Republican National Convention; Pakistan Man Kills Internet Sensation Sister; New Details on Nice Killer, French P.M. Booed; "World Sport" Report. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired July 19, 2016 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:09] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, an axe attack on passengers on a train in Germany as an Afghan refugee goes on a rampage until police gunned him down.

SESAY: A show of force and defiance. North Korea fires three more ballistic missiles into the sea after the U.S. and South Korea agreed to an advance missile defense system.

VAUSE: And Donald Trump makes a superstar entrance on day one of the Republican National Convention but now there are claims his wife Melania plagiarized part of her speech.

SESAY: Hello, and welcome to all our viewers all around the world. I am Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: Great to have you with us. I'm John Vause. NEWSROOM L.A. starts now.

Police are trying to figure out why a teenager attacked passengers with an axe on a train in southern Germany. At least four people were badly wounded Monday. Authorities say the attacker was a 17-year-old refugee from Afghanistan living in Bavaria.

SESAY: Police say he jumped off the train when it made an emergency stop. They hunted him down and eventually killed him. It's still unclear how many passengers were wounded in all but we're told at least four of the people injured are from Hong Kong.

VAUSE: Radio host Christian Schwartz took photos as you just saw. He joins us now from Schweinfurt in Germany.

Christian, what are officials now saying about these local reports that the attacker yelled "Allahu Akbar" before he was shot and killed by police.

CHRISTIAN SCHWARTZ, RADIO HOST: According to one witness, the suspect screamed "Allahu Akbar" but that's not confirmed yet by the officials. The information about that came from an interview with Joachim Herrmann, the Bavarian secretary of Inner Affairs.

VAUSE: And what more do we know about the condition of those who were wounded and what are their wounds? Are they life threatening?

SCHWARTZ: One person is in a life-threatening condition right now, we got four heavily injured. One woman is still in critical condition. 14 additional passengers are under shock. The officials building an emergency center to deal with all the passengers on the train. You have to imagine that they are caught in the train where there's a shocking scene. Witnesses say to us it looked like a slaughterhouse. We saw pictures of the train's interior. There was blood everywhere.

VAUSE: If this does turn out to be linked in some way to terrorism what would be the political ramifications in Germany?

SCHWARTZ: It's a little bit difficult. Of course the citizens are very concerned now if it would be confirmed. They would be talking about the first Islamic terror attack on German soil ever. So far the recent attacks only took place in Paris, Brussels or last week in Nice. But now it's directed in the neighborhood of Ochsenfurt. That's a new situation for the citizens here. Germany so far managed to avoid or prevent all attempts of terrorists to attack on German society. Maybe this was the first attempt to do it. We don't know by now.

VAUSE: Christian, a year ago we saw the images of Germans flooding into train stations and bus stations, welcoming refugees. That was a year ago. Have attitudes changed since then? If so, what's driving that change?

SCHWARTZ: It's difficult. With the ongoing refugee crisis the situation now gets more and more complicated here at our place. The opponents of Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, refugee policy confirmed now that fears and views and more critics arise. That's for sure. I'm on the other side not sure whether it really changed but it became more extreme. There is no middle ground any longer.

On one hand you have these people like volunteers who help and do everything to support the refugees. On the other side there are more and more people radicalized, making more radical statements and getting clearly against these people.

VAUSE: Christian Schwartz, radio host, we appreciate you being with us. We appreciate your reporting. Thank you, sir.

SCHWARTZ: Thank you, bye.

SESAY: Now South Korea's military says North Korea fired three ballistic missiles off its eastern coast Tuesday morning.

VAUSE: Officials say the missiles can reach all part of South Korea. Just last week Seoul announced it would deploy the advanced U.S. THAAD missile defense system.

SESAY: Well, CNN's Paula Hancocks joins us now from Seoul, South Korea. Paula, good to have you with us. Is this latest move by North Korea

being viewed as a response to that announcement of the future deployment of that anti-missile system?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Effectively, yes, Isha. That's the assumption that it's North Korea showing its displeasure that the announcement of exactly where this THAAD missile defense system was going to be based. It's going to be based in Seongju County. It's about 250 kilometers, more than 150 miles southeast of Seoul.

North Korea has made it extremely clear that it does not want this U.S. military hardware on the Korean Peninsula.

[01:05:02] It has said recently that it will physically act against the THAAD system. Now we are seeing these three missile launches as well. So I think the assumptions certainly here in South Korea is that they are acting out against the be THAAD system. Of course China and Russia also don't particularly want more U.S. military hardware in the region -- Isha.

SESAY: Paula, how are the South Koreans responding? What are we hearing from officials?

HANCOCKS: Well, they've squarely condemned this latest launch in the early hours of this morning. We heard from the Defense Ministry saying that they strongly condemn North Korea's rash act saying that they believe it is a reckless provocation and of course using this ballistic missile technology is banned under United Nations Security Council resolutions. We could well see further condemnation throughout the day potentially from the U.N. as well as North Korea is banned from using this kind of technology but certainly it's not stopped them in the past -- Isha.

SESAY: All that being said, the very fact that these ballistic missiles could reach all parts of South Korea, in what way does this development change the calculus of the threat posed by North Korea?

HANCOCKS: Well, pretty much most of the capability that North Korea has had for some time does reach most if not all of South Korea. The short-range missiles, certainly the intermediate-range missiles could potentially take in all of Japan as well. There are U.S. bases there as well. Potentially as far as Guam. So certainly these are believed to be short-range missiles today. They are fairly frequent in their firing of these. And South Korea has been under threat from these missiles for some time.

So I don't think it changes any thinking or any calculus on the South Korean side. They have known that they have this threat hanging over them for some time -- Isha.

SESAY: All right. Paula Hancocks, joining us there from Seoul, South Korea. Always appreciate it. Thank you, Paula.

VAUSE: And now it seems the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, plans to rule with an iron fist after a failed coup last week. SESAY: And more than 7,000 people have not been arrested since Friday

night's failed uprising by a faction of the military. Some were stripped to their waist and forced to their knees in a sign of public humiliation.

VAUSE: More than two dozen of the alleged coup leaders arrived in court Monday under tight security and the purge is wide-ranging. Turkish authorities say nearly 13,000 officials in the Interior, Finance and Justice ministries have been removed or suspended from their posts.

SESAY: At his presidential palace in the Istanbul, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke exclusively to CNN's Becky Anderson through his translator and his first immediate interview since Friday's turmoil.

VAUSE: He called the failed coup a clear crime of treason and he has refused to rule out reinstating the death penalty for those involved even if that might end Turkey's chances of joining the EU.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, TURKISH PRESIDENT (Through Translator): The people can now have the opinion after so many terrorist incidents that these terrorists should be killed. That's where they are. They don't see any other outcome to it. I mean, life sentence or aggravated life sentence, why should I keep them and feed them in prisons for years to come? That's what the people say. So they want a swift end to it because people lost relatives, lost neighbors, lost children, 8-year- olds, 15-year-olds, 20-year-old young people.

Unfortunately have all been killed during these incidents. Of course, they have parents, mothers and fathers, they are mourning, they're suffering. So the people are very sensitive and we have to act very sensibly and sensitively.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Well, Turkey's president talking exclusively through his translator to our own Becky Anderson.

Ian Lee joins us now from Istanbul.

Ian, the Turkish president in that interview with Becky very much framed the call for the death penalty as coming from the Turkish people themselves. You're there on the ground. Is that the case? What are you hearing?

IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Isha, I think opinions are divided on this. Of course you -- when you go to an Erdogan rally and he's there, you have those large crowds that we always see. They were chanting we want the death penalty. But when you do talk to people away from those crowds, on the streets, one-on- one, a lot of them have their reservations about reinstating the death penalty. Not sure that it is the right move forward. But right now these emotions are very fresh here in Turkey after this

coup. The country really uniting against it. You saw all the opposition. You saw Erdogan supporters coming out against it. But now moving forward that is the big question.

[01:10:03] Will they reinstate the death penalty? And it does have repercussions. The EU saying that they will not allow Turkey to join if they reinstate the death penalty. Also there are eight Turkish soldiers that are in Greece and Turkey wants them back. If they are under threat the death sentence, that also could complicate that extradition.

SESAY: So, Ian, thousands have been arrested, dozens from the military and we know that several of them appeared in court on Monday. What can you tell us about what happened during those proceedings?

LEE: We don't really know much about what happened inside the courthouse. But from what we're hearing these 27 defendants, these are generals within the military. They gave their statements to prosecutors. Prosecutors interviewed them, also hearing that the lead general, the former air -- the head of the air force, Akin Ozturk, said that he did not have any part in planning or executing this coup.

SESAY: And finally, Ian, the president, President Erdogan, accusing Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Muslim cleric living in the U.S. in exile, as being behind this coup. Have we seen any evidence? Has any evidence being presented to support this claim from President Erdogan?

LEE: Well, Isha, Erdogan said that with this attempted coup was the evidence for Gulen. But the United States is going to want a bit more evidence that directly connects him if Turkey hopes to have him extradited to the United States. We heard from the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry saying we need the evidence before this happens.

Now Erdogan has said that they plan to make this extradition request in the following days. So maybe then we'll hear a more evidence about why they think Gulen was behind it. But I talked to a senior expert on Turkey. And he told me that he was surprised -- he would be surprised if Gulen really was behind this. There is really no love between him and the military.

Remember, Gulen was a close ally, supporter of Erdogan's up until 2013. And for decades, he has been opposing the military and the military's coup. So he expressed -- this analyst expressed surprise when -- or his reservations that Gulen could have been a part of this.

SESAY: Ian Lee joining us there from Istanbul. Appreciate it. Thanks so much for the reporting.

VAUSE: Well, a damning report from the World Anti-Doping Agency is calling on the International Olympic Committee to ban Russia, the entire country, from the Rio Games. Russian track and field athletes already barred from competing.

SESAY: It is a major blow to a country that notoriously takes pride in its sporting accomplishments. Clare Sebastian explored how the country is responding to the

allegations.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fireworks marking the end of the Sochi Winter Olympics in 2014. Russian athletes had triumphed at home, bringing in 33 medals. That triumph now internationally discredited.

RICHARD MCLAREN, INDEPENDENT HEAD, WADA SOCHI INVESTIGATION: The Sochi laboratory operated a unique sample swapping methodology to enable doped Russian athletes to compete at the games. The FSB took on this project. They developed a method for surreptitiously removing the caps of the bottles for use at Sochi.

SEBASTIAN: And it doesn't stop at Sochi. The Moscow laboratory also found to be systemically misreporting results.

(On camera): The extraordinary allegations go right to the heart of the Russian government. The report uncovered evidence that the cover- up was directed right here at the Ministry of Sport, decisions taken in this building about which specific results should be falsified.

(Voice-over): President Putin demanded more evidence from WADA, saying the report marks a return to the 1980s practice of politicizing sport. The object, he said, was to use sport, quote, "as an instrument of geopolitical pressure."

On the streets of Moscow, his views echoed almost word for word.

"I think it's yet another political provocation," this man tells me. "It's just a continuation of economic and political sanctions."

"It's because they're scared of us," another man says. "Both in sports and politics because we are strong."

For this Russian Olympic hopeful, hammer thrower Sergei Litvinov, though, this is no time for denials. He says while he has no personal experience of doping, he believes the report is true.

SERGEI LITVINOV, RUSSIAN HAMMER THROWER: I'm really sorry for -- for everybody that this happens in our country. It is very, very sad.

SEBASTIAN: Litvinov is one of 67 Russian athletes who have appealed their suspension to the Court of Arbitration for Sports, which is set to rule this week.

[01:15:02] LITVINOV: I am training and hoping I can compete and do a lot of interviews and something like this to bring back our reputation. But after that report, it will be very hard.

SEBASTIAN: A reputation built on winning at any cost.

Clare Sebastian, CNN, Moscow.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

VAUSE: David Wallechinsky is president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and he joins us now.

What an incredible story. The size and the scale and the organization of this doping scandal. And the question is, how could this all have gone on under the noses of the IOC, of WADA? Why did it actually take a whistleblower to unearth all this?

DAVID WALLECHINSKY, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF OLYMPIC HISTORIANS: I think part of it has to do with the power of Russia. The same thing with China. There are just certain countries that are too powerful. If this scandal had been going on in Portugal or Paraguay I think they would have gotten in trouble early and they'd be kicked out tomorrow.

SESAY: Give us some historical perspective. Have you ever seen anything like this on this scale and with the level of coordination?

WALLECHINSKY: Yes. Because back in the -- starting in the late 1960s through the 1980s the East German government had a doping system cheating pervasive every sport except sailing. Apparently the Russians went beyond that because they were actually cheating in sailing and in curling.

(CROSSTALK)

WALLECHINSKY: Yes. I got two curlers -- you really need steroids to be a curler? But --

VAUSE: Maybe they were taking Adderall or something.

WALLECHINSKY: Yes. That's it. But, you know, the difference is that back in the days of East Germany even though everybody suspected something was going on we didn't get the details until the fall of the Berlin Wall. Now we have an active government being involved in widespread cheating from the top down.

VAUSE: OK. So this all comes back down to the International Olympic Committee. They've got a conference call in the coming hours to decide what to do. But they have put a statement out and this is what it says, in part.

"The findings of the report show a shocking and unprecedented attack on the integrity of sport and on the Olympic Games. Therefore the IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or any organization implicated."

OK. So what are the chances that the IOC will actually move to ban Russia as a whole, and has anything like that ever happened before?

WALLECHINSKY: No. Nothing like that has ever happened. We've already seen -- already the Russians are banned from track and field athletic and from weightlifting which has gotten less coverage. We've never seen anything like this happen. It would be a major scandal. I think in a way it's bigger than the 2002 Winter Olympics bribery scandal because all of a sudden you have the geopolitical implications which we discussed before.

(CROSSTALK)

VAUSE: Should they ban them? What do you think?

WALLECHINSKY: I can't tell. I'm just not sure.

SESAY: And the implications of banning them would be what?

WALLECHINSKY: Well, it would be that Vladimir Putin would tell his people this is a Western plot. He controls all the media in Russia. And suddenly you would have this severance between the international sporting community and Russia which is going to oppose. They're supposed to host the next Football World Cup.

VAUSE: Wow. OK.

SESAY: David, always a pleasure.

VAUSE: David, we'll talk again next hour because there's a few other issues we just want to get to. Didn't quite have the time for it this hour. So glad you can stick around. Thank you.

WALLECHINSKY: Thank you.

SESAY: Good.

Time for a short break now. Up next, Donald Trump's rock star appearance at day one of the Republican National Convention amid claims his wife Melania plagiarized part of her speech.

VAUSE: Also, new details about the suspect who carried out the deadly terror attack in the south of France. Evidence shows the attack was premeditated. Coming up.

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[01:21:44] VAUSE: Well, it's finally underway. The Republicans National Convention has had its first night of speeches and the focus was on national security. The theme make America safe again.

Donald Trump's wife Melania delivered the keynote speech saying her husband gets things done and he will unite the country.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MELANIA TRUMP, WIFE OF DONALD TRUMP': Thank you. Donald intends to represent all of the people, not just some of the people.

(CHEERS AND APPLAUSE)

TRUMP: That includes Christians and Jews and Muslims. It includes Hispanics and African-Americans and Asians and the poor and the middle class.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SESAY: But not everyone was feeling the love. Protests broke out when party officials crushed an effort to make it harder for insurgent candidates like Trump to win the nomination.

Let's go now to CNN's Manu Raju and Tal Kopan standing by for us live there in Cleveland.

And Manu, to start with you. Melania Trump's primary mission was to humanize her husband. I want to play a little bit of her speech because it has since emerged that her speech bared a passing resemblance to Michelle Obama's speech in 2008. Let's play some of it for our viewers.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect.

MICHELLE OBAMA, FIRST LADY OF THE UNITED STATES: Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond, that you do what you say you're going to do, that you treat people --

(CHEERS)

OBAMA: -- with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Manu, some are calling this a case of plagiarism.

VAUSE: Very familiar.

SESAY: How big a deal is this?

MANU RAJU, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's going to overshadow the Trump campaign unless they come up with a clear explanation about what exactly happened here. Actually we've been trying to get a response from the Trump campaign since these revelations have come to light. No response yet . The Trump campaign is trying to figure out what to say, how to push back. I don't think that they believe that this is plagiarized. This is some of the early indications we're getting, but nothing official yet. But that's a real risk going forward, guys. I mean, this was from the Republican's perspective a successful night. They believe that they were able to make the case for why Donald Trump, a strong on national security, to humanize him by bringing his family members forward like Melania Trump and also to really go after Hillary Clinton and paint her as someone who's not trustworthy, someone who should not be commander-in-chief.

But this episode will just so -- be a cloud over the Donald Trump campaign going forward if they do not address it frontally and explain exactly what happened here. VAUSE: Yes. Apparently Melania told NBC's "Today" show, and Matt

Lauer, that, you know, she did all the work herself, had very little input but I guess as you say it will all work out in the coming days.

[01:25:04] Let's talk Trump's entrance. Look at this.

You know, I couldn't decide whether it was, you know, World Wrestling Entertainment or whether it was Michael Jackson at the Super Bowl. Whatever it was, it was very unconventional, very Donald Trump.

TAL KOPAN, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Absolutely. It was sort of -- there was music playing between all the speakers and then all of a sudden the floor sort of went dark and actually some of the hats that the floor operatives were wearing were kind of fluorescent and so they stuck out and then all of a sudden you had this sort of emergence of Donald Trump and of course we've heard all along that Donald Trump has sort of pitched himself as a true showman, that he was going to bring something different to the convention. This was sort of his first chance to show off that ability.

The other interesting thing about his introduction of Melania is that we're actually sort of racking our brain. We think it might be the shortest we've ever seen Donald Trump speak on the entire campaign trail.

(LAUGHTER)

KOPAN: There was a bit of a worry by some of his advisers, as some of my colleagues were reporting. You know, he introduced Mike Pence for 28 minutes the other day. This was a short minute and six seconds, one of us counted. And some of that was applause. So it was a good moment for him but it really was a way to then turn the spotlight over to Melania for her big sort of big coming out.

SESAY: Yes. Manu, another person in the spotlight on this first night was former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani who did the job of certainly passing out the red meat, you know, and following the theme make America safe again.

I want to play a little bit of what Giuliani had to say for our viewers.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RUDY GIULIANI (R), FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: It's time to make America safe again. It's time to make America one again. One America. What happened to -- what happened to there's no black America, there's no white America, there is just America. What happened to it? Where did it go? How has it flown away?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SESAY: Manu, a rather animated Rudy Giuliani there. And the point is being made that, you know, he never got the head-to-head match-up -- the one he wanted with Hillary Clinton back in 2000 for that Senate race, and some are saying that this speech tonight felt very, very personal, you know, that the anger seemed to be coming from a very deep place.

What was your take on it?

RAJU: Yes, in addition to that, Giuliani has been aggressively pushing back against the Black Lives Matter movement increasingly over the coming weeks. Of course that movement here in the state designed to raise concerns, major concerns with the police shootings that are happening particularly inner city communities, unarmed black men, teenagers and the like, have been shot. They're trying to raise concerns about that.

What Giuliani has said rather forcefully, almost criticizing this group as being a racist organization, in his words, saying that they are actually unfairly targeting police. Police are the victims here. And after we saw the episodes in Dallas and in Baton Rouge yesterday in which police officers were shot and killed, this was an effort to energize folks here in this room behind the police, behind law enforcement, and against movements like Black Lives Matter.

So that's why you heard him make that rather aggressive remark at the beginning of his speech saying that all lives matter. What matters, you know, this is not black America, white America. It's the entire United States of America.

And I'll tell you, guys. That's one thing that really did galvanize this room. It was one of the most -- the most widely -- the enthusiastic response that we heard.

VAUSE: Right.

RAJU: Pretty much all day, guys.

VAUSE: Very quickly, Tal. It seems like, you know, Melania's speech was sort of out of place because everything else was all doom and gloom. And Axelrod -- David Axelrod on our network said, it was like she was the meat in an angry white guy sandwich.

(LAUGHTER)

KOPAN: Yes, I heard that as well. It was actually really the -- you know, Rudy Giuliani, Manu is right. That you couldn't hear the roar of the crowd, but in the convention hall, I mean, they absolutely loved him. And then Melania came out and really sort of softened the tone and it was about Donald Trump the family man. And then the convention speakers kept going. And it was a little odd. And the room really emptied out and you had the Lieutenant General Michael Flynn come on, really go after Hillary, take it back to sort of an angry place and then the speakers kept coming.

So it's a bit of an odd night.

[01:30:00] You know, in terms of the primetime television audience, they would have seen Giuliani and Melania, so it was successful in that regard. But the image of Joni Ernst speaking to an empty convention hall is not one they wanted to end the night on.

VAUSE: We'll have you guys back next hour. There's plenty to talk about.

Thanks for being with us.

SESAY: thanks, guys.

VAUSE: We'll take a short break here. When we come back, the Pakistani social media star drugged and strangled to death. Her brother now says he did it because, quote, "girls are born to stay at home."

Back in a minute.

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VAUSE: Welcome back, everybody. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm John Vause.

SESAY: I'm Isha Sesay.

The headlines this hour --

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VAUSE: The brother of a social media star in Pakistan confessed to her murder. He says he has no regrets.

SESAY: Qandeel Baloch was an Internet sensation with her candid and outspoken videos and photos posted online. But it put her life in danger.

VAUSE: Our Alexandra Field joins us live with more.

And the details are horrific.

[01:35:04] ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: They are, John. And, look, these bone-chilling killings are not uncommon in Pakistan. They are carried out to restore the honor of a family or of a man.

This case grabs headlines because this woman garnered a lot of attention, a fact that was so grievous and offensive to her brother in the end he says he decided to kill her because it was a better alternative than killing himself.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FIELD: She was bold, outspoken, and loved to flirt with the camera. Qandeel Baloch posted her photos and videos to social media, gaining hundreds of thousands of followers, becoming an Internet sensation. But Baloch lived in Pakistan where her posts pushed boundaries.

On Friday, Baloch's lifeless body was found at her family home. She was drugged and strangled. The killer, her own brother. Arrested by police at short time later, he appeared before the media and confessed to the crime without remorse.

"I have no regrets," he said, "She was bringing dishonor to our family."

Baloch's killing is the latest in more than 200 honor killings in Pakistan this year. The prime minister has vowed to tackle the problem but critics say few steps have been taken.

Baloch's brother says he decided to kill her after she posted this photo next to a senior cleric. It made headlines across Pakistan. The cleric was suspended. Baloch's life was threatened.

She described herself as a modern-day feminist. Last Friday, Baloch shared a post saying she wanted to stand up for women who had been treated badly and dominated by society. Hours later, her life would end, the victim of the kind of beliefs she had fought to change.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

FIELD: And Baloch's brother says that he made the decision to kill her after those pictures with the cleric were posted online. The cleric has been removed from a religious committee he served on. Police say he is under investigation in connection with the murder. Those are allegations he denies to CNN. But Qandeel Baloch's mother says that her son carried out the killing on the cleric's advice -- John?

VAUSE: Alexandra, thank you. Alexandria Field, live in Hong Kong. Thank you.

SESAY: We're going to take a break now. French officials are learning more about the events that led up to the Bastille Day massacre as thousands gather for a memorial as investigators find new evidence on the attacker's computer.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

VAUSE: A minute silence was held in France on Monday as thousands paused to honor the victims of the deadly terror attack in Nice. 84 were killed and more than 200 wounded when a man drove 20-ton a truck into a crowd gathered to watch fireworks.

[01:39:55] SESAY: It was a somber event until the arrival of the French prime minister. That sparked anger. He was booed and jeered by the crowd.

New details are emerging about the man responsible for the Bastille Day massacre. The Paris prosecutor says the attack was premeditated and that he visited the promenade several times before the attack.

VAUSE: Officials also say he searched online for terrorist propaganda, including photos of dead bodies and soldiers holding ISIS flags.

France is now dealing with its third major terror attack in 18 months. The first was January of last year, the massacre at the magazine "Charlie Hebdo." Then the French responded with unity and patriotism, a sense that everyone was in it together.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

(CHANTING)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody's together to fight against terrorism and we will never give up.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAUSE: But not now. Many in France are angry not only with the prime minister -- he was booed in Nice. There was shouts of "murderers" and "resign." But many fear mass terror attacks may be the new normal.

For more on that, Julian Theron is a political scientist, joining us from the south of France.

Julian, thanks for being with us.

Has there been a shift within France, losing faith in the government's ability to keep them safe?

JULIAN THERON, POLITICAL SCIENTIST & ANALYST, UNIVERSITY OF VERSAILLES & UNIVERSITY OF PARIS: There is an interesting pull on that. After "Charlie Hebdo" and Bataclan massacres, there has been 50 percent of the French population believe the government was able to protect them, which is pretty much. And after Nice massacre, it was dropped to only 33 percent. So, yes, there's a shift here.

VAUSE: Well, the French prime minister angered many people with this statement he made after the attack. Listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MANUEL VALLS, FRENCH PRIME MINISTER (through translation): We are in a new era and France has to live with terrorism. This is the message of the president of the republic. We need to show solidarity and show our calm.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VAUSE: Did that reinforce the perception that the government is incapable of stopping the terror threats and the French just have to live with it?

THERON: You know, preventing terrorism is a very hard task and the government did employ a lot more people regarding intelligence and declared a state of emergency and deployed military troops in the streets. But after Nice, what they are proposing is they want to prolong the state of emergency and more troops in the streets. They are under attack from the right wing and the far right which refuses the national unity after "Charlie Hebdo" and the Bataclan massacre. But what they do propose the far right and the right wing is that all political class is under despair getting to the French population that do not see any kind of clues about what it is possible to do the protect the nation.

VAUSE: I guess at the end of the day how much are the French people willing to give up for their own security?

THERON: Well, it's a very hard question. For example in Nice, the former mayor is now at the end of the region. He was very criticism regarding the government but after the Bataclan massacre he says regarding securing the civilians of the city of Nice, the terrorists would not have been able to cross two or three crowd roads before being arrested and after Nice we have seen the truck did kilometers long on the most famous pavement for the national celebration. There is a debate who is supposed to assure the security for such events. And he criticized the government even though he said the security in his own city would prevent such which was not the case. The political class is clueless regarding to what measures should be taken.

But you know we have a presidential elections coming in, in 2017, and the whole race is not going to much about the unemployment, which was the most important topic for the French. But possibly now, regarding to security, even though terror attacks are pretty -- in the country. But then all the political class is playing on that, even the prime minister is representing the tough line regarding to the Socialists. We are seeing that all of France is polarized on security.

VAUSE: Julian, we will live it there, but thank you so much for your insights and joining us here to sum up what is happening in France right now. Appreciate it. Thank you.

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VAUSE: I'm John Vause.

"World Sport" is up next with more on the scathing report on the Russian Olympic doping scandal. You're watching CNN.

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[01:46:50] KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley. Welcome along to "World Sport."

Serious questions are being asked about the future of Russia on the international sporting stage after Rich McLaren's damning report of widespread state-sponsored doping. It affects 30 different sports, covering the most recent Winter and Summer Olympics, directed, controlled and overseen by the Ministry of Sport in Russia. McLaren carried out an impendent inquiry on behalf of the World Anti-Doping Agency. The move came after allegations made by the former head of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency, Dr. Grigory Rodchenkov. McLaren found he was confident in finding that labs in Sochi and Moscow operated to swap samples and cover up failed tests by Russian athletes. It was overseen by the Russian Ministry of Sports and with the active participant of the Russian Secret Service, the FSB. The doping covered 30 different sports in both Summer and Winter Olympics, from football to swimming to table tennis. The operation began after a disappointing team performance in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. And McLaren warned there would have been maybe the possibility of more discoveries had he had more time to investigate. Earlier, CNN's Lynda Kinkade spoke to Rich McLaren and she asked about

the methods used by FSB to allow Russian athletes to cheat the testers.

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RICH MCLAREN, REPORTER: Well, a pool of urine from each athlete who was likely to be an elite performer at Sochi was stored in freezers at the Sochi FSB building. And the athlete would be confident to continue using their doping substances because when their sample arrived at the Sochi lab for testing, this sample swapping would occur overnight and the clean sample that was already stored on site would be brought in and that would be the one that's analyzed and there would be no positives.

LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You say you have evidence that is verifiable. With that in mind, should Russia be banned from the Olympics?

MCLAREN: I was to provide a report that provided actual information from which others who have the authority to make those decisions could act. So that's what I did. I provided the report. It's not for me to say if they should be banned. That is other people's determination based on my work.

KINKADE: Some athletes said this was all political and they had nothing to do with it. In your opinion would these athletes who tested positive and then cleared to compete know they were cheating the system?

MCLAREN: I would say the answer to that is yes. They would know because they have to provide the clean urine samples and why would you be doing that? Then they have to be informed they can continue to use doping substances while they are competing at the games. How could they possibly not know what they were doing?

[01:50:14] KINKADE: What surprised you most? Was it the extent of how far this went?

MCLAREN: Partly. What surprised me the most is the simple, efficient, effective mechanism they used to effectively turn every potential positive into a negative, so that you could never rely on any negatives as -- you don't know whether they are truly negative or not.

KINKADE: And this, of course, affected not just the Olympics. This affected other competitions.

MCLAREN: It did, because the Moscow lab operated continuously for several years using this disappearing positive methodology.

KINKADE: So you say you can't make a recommendation they should be banned from the Olympics. What needs to happen going forward?

MCLAREN: I think people that have the authority to make those decisions should look at the report, look at the evidence that's presented, and then they have to decide whether it's appropriate.

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RILEY: He has made a series of recommendations, the first being the International Olympic Committee and Paralympics Committee to consider under their charters to decline entries for Rio 2016 of all athletes submitted by the Russia Olympic Committee and Paralympics Committee. The IOC, which is the body with the power to exclude Russia from the games, has come out strongly saying the findings show a shocking and unprecedented attack. The IOC will not hesitate to take the toughest sanctions available against any individual or organization implicated.

The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has weighed in saying the accusations against Russian athletes were based on evidence provided by a person of retched reputation and calling the scandal a dangerous relapse of political interference in sport. He did go on to stress that Russia has been unequivocal in stating his position that there is no room in doping in sports and saying the perpetrators will be suspended from their posts until the investigation is over.

Now to the spectacular Sunday of -- that golf experience. Henrik Stenson pulled off the round described as one of the greatest ever. He fended off a brilliant effort by Phil Mickelson to become golf's newest major winner.

Here's the "Rolex Minute."

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UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: It was this monster putt on the 15th green that proved the pivotal moment of the open championship. Henrik Stenson's birdie giving him the edge in an epic duel with Phil Mickelson. The 40-year-old becoming the first Scandinavian to lift the claret jug after one of the greatest days in open history.

The concluding day of the CHIO Achen (ph) and the world's elite gather in Germany of the Rolex Grand Prix. Show jumping's preeminent competition and the first major of the season. Scott Brash continued his form. The Rolex Grand Slam Champion making light work of the course in the first round. But it was the home rider who fought off the challenge to secure the Grand Prix title.

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[01:55:01] RILEY: After Thursday's terror attack in Nice, in France, which killed 84 people, Brazil's interim president says his country will bolster security for the games. The country planned to deploy 85,000 police and soldiers. That is double the number used in the 2012 London games.

CNN's Shasta Darlington is in Rio as they continue protection training at South America's first Olympic Games.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is a drill in progress.

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DARLINGTON: The biggest exercise to date bringing all branches of security forces together for the first time ahead of the Rio 2016 summer games.

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DARLINGTON: In the simulation, hostages and casualties, all in real- time.

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DARLINGTON (on camera): The anti-terrorism forces are now on the scene going after the alleged terrorist. We're an hour into this simulation.

(voice-over): Though planned before, the attack on Nice is having an impact.

(on camera): What are you doing differently?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are bringing more troops to Rio de Janeiro. The games will be safe.

DARLINGTON (voice-over): In fact, the attack on Nice has prompted Brazil to review its entire Olympic security planned.

The perimeters around venues will be widened and more checkpoints and traffic restrictions added.

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DARLINGTON: Some 85,000 police, soldiers, traffic cops and firefighters will be concentrated right here in Rio. More than double the security detail in London.

"The events of Nice have worried us and it's not surprising," he says. "This concern will be translated into greater control, more security, and more measures."

They will be working with international intelligence agencies at command and control center in the heart of Rio.

"Anyone can take a truck and commit a crime like we saw," he says. "But today in Brazil, there are no suspicions this threat will take place."

And while Brazil is taking no chances, officials insist the country has no history of terrorism and no homegrown networks to facilitate a terror attack. Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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RILEY: Another chaotic end to Monday's Tour de France. Pete Sagan won the stage and the reigning champ, Chris Froome, retains his yellow Jersey despite finishing 13th on the day. Stage 16 had to be finished by a photo finish as it concluded. Here are the overall standings for you, Chris Froome still in the lead and moved a step closer to his third yellow Jersey. There are only five stages to go.

And that is it for this edition of CNN "World Sport." I'm Kate Riley. Thank you so much for your company.

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