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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong, and Welcome to News Stream.

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LU STOUT: Allies reunited, China is onboard with North Korean diplomacy as Kim Jong-un wraps an historic trip to Beijing to see Xi Jinping.

Mourning a hero, a national tribute and funeral for the French policeman who saved the life of a hostage in Friday's terror attack. And photo

taking heaven, we have the latest in the following tech with a new phone that has a triple camera system.

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LU STOUT: And we start with China reasserting itself as a key player in talks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula as we leaned that President Xi

Jinping did indeed host the North Korean Leader Kim Kong-un in Beijing.

Now that surprise meeting happened as U.S. continues its campaign of maximum pressure, and South Korea gears up for summit with the North.

There aren't many details of Mr. Kim's visit, but China state media report the North Korean told his Chinese counterpart that he is committed to

denuclearization with conditions.

And North Korean state media say that Mr. Xi accepted an invitation to visit Pyongyang. More on the significance of this meeting from our Senior

International Correspondent Ivan Watson.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: China and North Korea dropped the diplomatic bombshell on Wednesday, simultaneously confirming

that North Korea's leader made a secret four-day visit to China.

He waited until after the meeting was over, and after the special train carrying Kim Jong-un cross the border back into North Korea to reveal that

the visit took place. This is Kim's first foreign trip since he assumed to the throne in Pyongyang more than six years ago.

China is North Korea's oldest ally, but the relationship has been frosty for years, especially after multiple North Korean nuclear weapons tests and

missile launches, which are all banned by the United Nations.

In Beijing, China's leader gave Kim and his wife the red carpet treatment. Xi Jinping called their alliance a strategic choice that shouldn't change

because of individual incidents. As for Kim, he suggested denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula could be possible if the U.S. and South Korea

cooperate.

This is the surprise beginning to what's expected to be a busy period of high-level diplomacy for North Korea's young leader. He scheduled to hold

the summit with the South Korean President in April, and sometime after, he may make history with a face-to-face meeting with President Trump.

The White House quick to claim credit for Kim's trip to Beijing, arguing it's the result of the so-called maximum pressure campaign to impose

economic sanctions on Pyongyang.

If all goes according to plan, Kim will rapidly go from extreme international isolation to sitting down at the negotiating table with the

leaders of the two most powerful nations on the planet.

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LU STOUT: And that was CNN's Ivan Watson reporting. Despite its ongoing role in diplomacy of North Korea, Seoul says it wasn't involved in the

decision for Kim Jong-un to visit Beijing.

Let's bring in Ivan with the very latest on the story. He joins us now live from Seoul. And, Ivan, I know you have been monitoring Donald Trump's

Twitter feed. The U.S. President has been watching the way Xi Jinping received Kim Jong-un in Beijing, and Donald Trump has responded.

WATSON: That's right. This morning in Washington, he put out two tweets, and one of them basically saying he was looking forward to a meeting with

the North Korean leader, which would of course be historic.

[08:05:06] We're expecting it at sometime in the months ahead after Kim Jong-un meets with South Korea's President Moon Jae-in first, talking about

the possibility of peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Second tweet, he says that he received a message from Xi Jinping, informing him about this secret summit that Xi Jinping had with the North Korean

leader, and saying that he got a message that Kim Jong-un is looking forward to meeting with President Trump, but also adding that sanctions,

and the so-called maximum pressure campaign must be maintained at all costs against North Korea for the time being.

It's worth noting we have not heard very much from the North Koreans themselves about the plans for a U.S.-North Korean summit.

They have hardly mentioned this in their state media, and of course, they didn't mention the summit with Xi Jinping in Beijing until after Kim Jong-

un's train had crossed the border back into North Korea. That's one of the peculiarities of the North Korean regime. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes. And the big question is why did this visit happen? And why did Kim Jong-un make this trip to Beijing?

WATSON: And there, it depends on how you look at this. I mean, some might say this was a very powerful Xi Jinping now being enshrined as essentially

president for life, summoning a proxy, a client state the leader to the great palace in Beijing ahead of an expected summit in April between Kim

Jong-un and the South Korean President Moon Jae-in, and ahead of this potential meeting with President Trump.

That's one way to look at it. Another way might be that, look, Kim Jong- un, just a few months ago was arguably the most isolated leader in the world facing sanctions from the entire international community, and from

his Chinese patron that the relations with Beijing had been rocky for years.

It wasn't as Mao put it, a relationship of lips and teeth being so close together, and now in relatively short order, he is treated with red carpet

-- red carpet welcome in Beijing by China that perhaps he leveraged diplomacy with South Korea, expected diplomacy with the U.S. into this

audience with Xi Jinping.

And it's difficult to tell which analysis to accept because, of course, how opaque international relations and politics are when they come to

Pyongyang, and in some cases, Beijing as well. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes. And so that the moment we can ogle at that incredible video release earlier today that red carpet welcome, as you describe it,

waves and smiles from Kim Jong-un and his wife in Beijing. Ivan Watson reporting live for us from Seoul, thank you so much, and take care.

Earlier, I spoke with Daniel Russel. He is a Senior Fellow at the Asia Society. He is also the former Assistant Secretary to the Bureau of East

Asian Pacific affairs at the U.S. State Department. And we asked him what makes this meeting historic.

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DANIEL RUSSEL, SENIOR FELLOW, ASIA SOCIETY: Well, two things really is sort world two things really leaped out (ph) to me, number one, we heard

for the first time from Kim Jong-un, the commitment to ultimate denuclearization that we've heard from Kim Jong-Il, his father, and Kim Il-

sung, his grandfather.

LU STOUT: But with conditions.

RUSSEL: With conditions. And frankly, it's not the first time that a North Korean leader has declared an interest in denuclearization, at the

same time that their actions prove that their focus on sustaining and expanding their nuclear capabilities.

But nevertheless, this is something that up until now, Kim Jong-un wouldn't even utter out loud. I don't want to overvalue, but it's not nothing.

Secondly, and frankly rather troubling, we might be seeing success in the North Korean effort to divide the five parties -- the five countries that

have been involved in the effort to achieve denuclearization.

It's standard gambit for North Korea to try to undermine solidarity, undermine the unity of the international community, and by going first to

the South Korean leader, and offering to make nice on the Olympics after having threatened the Olympics, after reaching out independently, directly

to the Americans.

Now he's succeeded in holding a summit meeting with Xi Jinping, and getting Xi Jinping, and the Chinese side to talk publicly about the fraternal

socialist brotherhood of China and North Korea, as if the last five years never even occurred.

[08:10:10] LU STOUT: The summit in Beijing will certainly affect upcoming meetings, inter-Koreans summit that soon to take place, as well as that

meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.

Ahead of that meeting on the U.S. side, does the work become even more difficult? More flexibility is required because they have to factor in

China's interests.

RUSSEL: Look, China has very legitimate and significant strategic interests on the Korean Peninsula. And I think it would be a mistake for

any U.S. administration to overlook it.

It's critically important that the U.S. cooperate and communicate effectively with China because is pretty hard to imagine a peaceful

resolution of the North Korean nuclear threat that isn't founded on coordination and cooperation between these two major powers.

But that isn't to say that because Kim Jong-un has had a summit meeting with Xi Jinping that America's strategic interests in complete

denuclearization, and in dealing with the ballistic missile threat are going to take a backseat to something that China wants.

China might be content with a more modest settlement, a more incomplete solution than the United States can live with. And it's on us.

It's on the United States, I think, to continue to find common cause, not only with China, but also with South Korea, of course, with Japan, of

course our allies, and also although difficult, with Russia.

LU STOUT: Final question for you, you have sat at the table with the North Koreans negotiating. What is an experience like?

RUSSEL: The North Koreans are very sophisticated, very experienced, and very determined negotiators. They know what they want. They have made a

serious study of Americans, of U.S. interests, and U.S. weakness, and foibles. They look at the American political calendar. They look at

polls. They even look at the media.

LU STOUT: They know that McMaster is out, and John Bolton is in.

RUSSEL: Right. So they make their own judgments. They focus on what it is that they want, and what they want is to be able to leverage the threat,

their nuclear weapons program, and their ballistic missile programs represents, and exchange that for concessions, for financial assistance,

and for acceptance as a pure power, as a major nuclear state.

And that's really something that the world can't afford to grant them. North Korea isn't, at the end of the day, going to be able to have its

nuclear cake, and eat it too.

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LU STOUT: Daniel Russel there. The Kremlin says it is still open to possible talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President

Donald Trump, that, despite a warning from Moscow that it will definitely retaliate for the expulsion of Russian diplomats around the world.

Some two dozen countries have expelled more than 100 diplomats. A Kremlin spokesman says Russia's response will come at an appropriate time. Russia

is observing a national day of mourning, and victims are being laid to rest at one of the country's deadliest fires.

This was a scene in the Siberian City of Kemerovo earlier on Wednesday, as mourners gathered for funerals. At least 64 people were killed when a fire

ripped through a mall on Sunday, an entire class of schoolchildren are among the dead.

Now hundreds of protesters turned out to demand a full investigation. Officials say fire exits at the mall were blocked. Melissa Bell reports.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: After the grief, the anger. On Tuesday several hundred people gathered in Kemerovo to demand answers after the

deadly fire that tore through a shopping mall on Sunday.

Russian authorities say dozens were killed, most of them children. These protesters believe the real figure was much higher.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin was meeting with a civic group assuring it that those responsible would be punished. Earlier, he visited the scene of the

fire laying flowers as a makeshift memorial to the victims.

VLADIMIR PUTIN, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT (through a translator): What is happening here? This was not a combat situation, not an unexpected methane

outburst in a mine. People came to rest, children. We talk about demographics, and lost so many people because of what? Because of criminal

negligence and carelessness.

BELL: The fire one of Russia's deadliest in recent years, broke out on Sunday afternoon when the Winter Cherry Shopping Mall was packed with

shoppers, and cinema goers, and many, many children.

[08:15:06] ALEXANDER BASTRYKIN, DIRECTOR, INVESTIGATIVE COMMITTEE OF RUSSIA (through a translator): I would like to note that most of the personnel

just ran away, and abandoned children, and their parents. Those people who were supposed to be responsible for safety, for organization of evacuation,

they left first. Almost nobody from the shopping mall staff died.

BELL: With the fire exits blocked, and the fire alarm turned off according to the investigative committee that's looking into the tragedy, witnesses

say the scenes inside were of sheer panic. Among those at Tuesday's protest, parents of the victims sharing their anger, and their grief.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through a translator): I was talking to my daughter on the phone. I asked her where she was. She cried, I'm here, dad. I told

her to lie down on the floor and breathe. Breathe and don't die, I told her.

I ran there, but they grabbed me by my feet, and dragged me back. I cried, you bastards. I was crying to my daughter. She said dad, I love you. I'm

suffocating. I'm fainting. Excuse me.

BELL: On Wednesday, Russia will hold a day of mourning. But with so many casting doubt on the official death toll, there are, for those gathered in

Kemerovo, many more questions than answers. Melissa Bell, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Well, France is paying tribute to a national hero who sacrificed his life to save hostages from a gunman last week. We'll have more on

ceremony honoring Officer Arnaud Beltrame, next.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back, this is News Stream. A few hours ago, crowds in Paris paid their respect to the police

officer killed during a terror attack in Southwest France last week.

The motorcade made its way to the rain in a national tribute to Arnaud Beltrame. The attacker, an ISIS supporter held hostages at gunpoint in a

supermarket on Friday. Beltrame voluntarily took the place of a female hostage, but was killed after a three hour standoff.

French President Emmanuel Macron posthumously awarded the officer the Prestigious Legion of Honor Medal. And Jim Bittermann has been following

the tribute, and he joins us now live from Paris. And, Jim, how is Lieutenant Colonel Arnaud Beltrame being honored today?

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, definitely, as a hero, Kristie. The fact is, just in a few days here, he has been risen from relative of

security at Gendarmerie in the south of France to one of the great heroes.

In fact, President Macron compared him, today in his speech, to the heroes of the French Resistance, and even heroes going in the fire back Joan of

Arc.

[08:20:06] But in fact, Beltrame was heroic in what he did. He exchanged himself with a hostage that the gunman was holding at the supermarket, and

in the end, lost his life because of -- because of it.

Macron -- the highly emotional speech before hundreds, and he's promoted to colonel -- lieutenant colonel to colonel, and then he said a couple of

things that were quite notable.

He said (Inaudible) for Beltrame because it was a source of his life, ad in fact, source of his duty. And he said that the first decision was a

decision of loyalty to himself and to his values. And Macron tried to use it as well, as of teaching moment for young people.

He said, I would say the French young people who dread the future, the reality is here, just bring towards the casket of Colonel Beltrame in

Trebes. But not in fanatical wonderings, it's in service, and a self sacrifice, and a help given to others, and commitment for other.

So, a moving moment that I think in many way brought together many in the nation, including a couple of former presidents who were in the crowd, and

politicians of every stripe, the family of Colonel Beltrame, and the host of other people over there, witnessing the ceremony today. Kristie.

LU STOUT: And the slain officer represents self-sacrifice, represents heroism across France. How is the nation coming together after what

happened last Friday? The latest of so many recent terror attacks in the country.

BITTERMANN: Well, I think that this one has brought about a great deal of anger. I think that Beltrame did something that was a miracle.

And the President has remarked and talked about how in the crisis (ph) on Friday night when it wasn't known whether the colonel was going to live or

die, they were just hoping about it, even they knew from our reports that he looked very, very brave indeed for the Colonel, that he would survived.

But in fact it wasn't to be the case. And I think since then, there have just been an outpouring grief of all quarters, and every political party in

the nation, that certainly reflected in the crowd today.

I mean we saw leaders of every political grouping of the parliament there to pay honor to Colonel Beltrame. And with good reason, I mean it was a

very heroic act, and I think Macron is getting much praise for having pointed to the heroism, and organized a state funeral, which I think people

appoint for their mourning. Kristie.

LU STOUT: Absolutely. This is a man who sacrificed his life. Jim Bittermann reporting live from Paris, thank you. There is another march

about to take place in Paris. A few hours from now, people are mourning this woman, Mireille Knoll, a Holocaust survivor.

She was stabbed to death in a suspected anti-Semitic attack. Two people have been arrested over the murder, and prosecutors are investigating this

as a hate crime.

We are learning new details in the investigation of how former doctor for USA gymnastics was able to abuse more than 200 young girls and women for

years.

Larry Nassar, he is now behind bars after pleading guilty. But now his former boss at Michigan State University is being charged with criminal

sexual conduct. Jean Casarez reports.

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JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Dr. William Strampel was the boss of Dr. Larry Nassar here at Michigan State University. Larry Nasser, of course,

serving a lifetime in prison now for sexually assaulting so many Olympic gymnasts and other athletes across the country.

And it was Dr. Strampel that really stood out for him here at MSU, when there was a Title IX complaint, and he said that Dr. Larry Nassar's

procedure were purely medical in nature.

Well, now, that boss has been charged himself with counts that are separate and distinct from Larry Nassar, some involving misconduct of a public

official, criminal sexual conduct.

And what the affidavit in criminal complaint allege is that there are four alleged victims, all medical students, all female say that this dean of the

School of Osteopathic Medicine made passes at them, touched them inappropriately, told them if you do me favors, I will do you favors during

a span of quite a few years.

Also we have learned that in February, a search warrant was executed here at Michigan State University for electronic equipment of this dean, and

what they found were pornographic images of women in various forms of dress, also pornographic videos, and someone, according to the complaint,

had tried to delete some of those images.

Dr. Williams Strampel has been released on $25,000 cash recognizance bond. His attorney says that he is not committed any criminal offenses at all.

He did not grope women. He did not sexually assault women, and at all times, he did with the university told him to do in regard to Dr. Larry

Nassar, back to you.

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[08:25:09] LU STOUT: Jean Casarez there. Now to Pakistan where a news anchor's appearance has social media abuzz. Lynda Kinkade explains how her

very presence is making a difference.

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MAAVIA MALIK, NATION'S FIRST TRANSGENDERED NEWS ANCHOR: As-Salaam-Alaikum.

LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The news in this Pakistani show is not so much about the stories, but the person reporting them, 21-year-old

Maavia Malik is the nation's first transgender news anchor. She works for the Lahore-based channel, Kohenoor News. The trainee anchor made her on a

debut on Pakistan Day, March 23rd.

MAAVIA MALIK, NATION'S FIRST TRANSGENDERED NEWS ANCHOR: (Speaking Foreign Language)

KINKADE: Malik told CNN she applied for the position since she wanted to prove that people from the transgender community are capable of any job,

and can do anything they want. Despite his success, she says her family disowned her.

MALIK: (Speaking Foreign Language)

KINKADE: Pakistan's government highlighted her hiring on its Twitter feed, and also mentioned the new Senate bill, which gives transgender people the

right to change their gender on national identity cards, inherit property, and not be discriminated against, if they are seeking political office.

The bill is expected to be signed by the President any day. While rights groups have praised the Senate's move, Malik says there should also be

changes in society, so bills like this are taken seriously, and implemented. Lynda Kinkade, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Lawmakers from both the U.S. and the U.K. want to speak to Facebook's CEO about the company's data privacy issues. But Mark

Zuckerberg isn't willing to speak to all of them. We've got more on that, next. And Huawei is stepping up its smart phone game by sticking on more

cameras. We'll have a hands-on look.

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

China is reasserting itself as a key player in talks to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula by hosting North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un. Beijing

confirmed the meeting and released pictures after days of speculation. North Korean state media is reporting that President Xi Jinping has

accepted Mr. Kim's invitation to visit Pyongyang.

Russia is observing a national day of mourning and victims are being laid to rest after one of the country's deadliest fires. The blaze killed at

least 64 people in a Siberian city on Sunday, including an entire class of school children. Mourners gather for the funerals. Protesters took to the

street to demand a full investigation.

The former boss of disgraced USA gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar is denying charges that include criminal sexual misconduct. Prosecutors say William

Strampel pictured on the left here used his power to sexually assault, harass, and solicit nude photos from female students at Michigan State

University. Strampel faces up to five years in prison.

Australian cricket captain Steve Smith and vice captain David Warner have been banned from playing for their national side for a year. Another

player, Cameron Bancroft, who was caught on TV tampering with the ball has been suspended for nine months. The suspensions follow a Cricket Australia

investigation into a cheating scandal during a South Africa test match. We have more on the story in "World Sport" in about 15 minutes time.

Sources tell CNN that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has decided to testify before the U.S. Congress on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. However,

Zuckerberg has refused to appear before the British government, choosing to send his deputies instead.

British lawmakers are also examining how Cambridge Analytica access information from about 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge

and questioned the data firm's whistle-blower on Tuesday. The chair of that committee said that he is surprised Zuckerberg isn't going to speak to

them.

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DAMIAN COLLINS, BRITISH CONSERVATIVE MP: I must say that I think given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, and the things we've heard

in the other enquiry, I think it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a

parliamentary or congressional hearing given that these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to Facebook users as well as our enquiry

as well.

I think we would certainly urge him to think again if he has any care for people who use his company's services.

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LU STOUT: Cambridge Analytica spoke out after whistle-blower testified before the British parliament. It says Christopher Wylie's testimony is a

conspiracy theory and insists it never shared any data with the Trump campaign.

The Chinese smart phone maker Huawei is taking on Apple and Samsung with its new flagship phone and it's setting itself apart to the phone's back

cameras. In fact, all three of them. Samuel Burke got a hands-on look. He joins us now. Samuel, Huawei has new triple camera smart phone. What is it

look like? How does it work? Why would consumers be interested in it?

SAMUEL BURKE, CNN BUSINESS AND TECHNOLOGY NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, Huawei is now the third largest smartphone manufacturer in the world but

they faced some devastating setbacks trying to enter the U.S. market after the top head of the U.S. Intelligence Agency say they can't recommend that

American consumers buy these phones because of privacy concerns.

So what do you if you are in that position? Well, if you are a tech company like Huawei, really the only way you can differentiate yourself is to

innovate and that is what they are trying to do with these two new phones. It is the P20. P20 plus will cost about $800 and $1100, respectively.

The backside of the phone, they both have three cameras that work in conjunction with each other. The top camera on the backside is just

dedicated to zoom. So as I have been trying this out, I have been trying to take pictures as far away as possible and you can really see the difference

of having just one camera dedicated to zoom.

Also the software inside these cameras allows you to do extended nighttime shots. You would have needed a tripod for that before because of the

blurriness and shakiness. Now you don't need a tripod.

But Kristie, it is still very difficult for these company moving forward. They don't have any major deals with Verizon for instance. They thought

they were going to have a major deal with AT&T. That's fallen through.

And since they had the U.S. government making these claims about privacy concerns, it had big shops like Best Buy (INAUDIBLE) though they are still

available in the United States. People can get them through smaller carriers and through stores like Walmart.

So, what's interesting here is these phones are also similar, Kristie, so the only way they can differentiate themselves basically (INAUDIBLE). The

iPhone 10 come out. A few months later, you got the Samsung S9 come out with an even better camera. Now the Huawei camera comes out. So I think

each time when these phones come out, you see a much better camera but it only lasts a few months.

[08:35:02] The consumer is the beneficiary of all that innovation. Each time around it seems like we get a much bigger leap in what we can take --

how we take our pictures.

LU STOUT: Yes, it's interesting to see Huawei (ph) deliver on innovation and betting on innovation was up again so much like international rivalry,

rivalry at home, and of course as you mentioned the security around security issues in the United States. Samuel Burke, as always, thank you so

much. Until next time. Take care.

You're watching "News Stream." And still ahead, a Chinese space lab the size of a bus will soon come crashing down toward Earth. But experts say

there is nothing to worry about. We got the details after the break.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong. Welcome back. You're watching "News Stream." Now, be sure to keep your eyes on the sky in the coming days

because an out of control Chinese space lab is expected to fall to earth and could scatter debris over parts of our planet. But experts insist there

is nothing to worry about. Michael Holmes has more.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Heads up. Almost nine tons of space debris is expected to fall from the sky this week

as China's first space lab called the Tiangong-1 hurdles its way to earth. The space station about the size of a school bus served as an experimental

lab for Chinese astronauts from 2011 until Tiangong completed its mission five years later.

But it stopped sending data back to earth, making a controlled reentry impossible, and a crash into the atmosphere inevitable. But experts don't

say run for your bunkers just yet. Most of the space station will burn up before it ever reaches the ground. You would have to be one of the luckiest

or unluckiest people on the planet for it to cause any harm.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For such large objects typically between 20 and 40 percent loss its original mass of 8.5 ton (ph) will survive reentry and

then could be found on the grounds theoretically. The probability to be injured by one of this fragments is similar to the probability of being hit

by lighting twice in the same year.

HOLMES (voice over): Trying to (ph) pin down the time of the reentry saying it could happen between March 31 and April 4, but they haven't yet

figured out where it might land.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Northern Europe, including France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland are definitely on the safe side. Southern Europe, the southern

part of North America, South Asia, Africa and Australia and also South America, they are still within the zone.

HOLMES (voice over): Analysts say 100 tons of debris fall to earth uncontrolled each year. In 1979, you may remember the U.S. space station,

Skylab, splintered into pieces over Western Australia, leaving behind some bits, but no damage.

And as we wait the Tiangong-1 demise it leaves behind a stellar legacy for space program that's very much on the rise. China launched the Tiangong-2

in 2016 and plans to build a permanent 20-ton space station by 2022.

Michael Holmes, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Now, when you think of India, you may think of Bollywood. But in the capital of New Delhi, an independent music scene is emerging.

[08:40:01] On today's "Destination India," we delve into the city's nightlife with local rapper Prabh Deep who has taken the Indian hip-hop

scene by storm.

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PRABH DEEP, RAPPER: This is not just (ph) Bollywood. It is more than that. We are just moving toward different direction now.

Delhi really cares about quality music because we don't expect big masses. (ph)

As a performer, I used to go to the clubs and they also tell me that you can't perform in any racial (ph) languages, just English. Now it has

changed.

Hip-hop was making noise in India generally (ph). It's not just about making rap (ph) songs anymore. We are making music. Like if you dive deep

into it, then you listen to our project, you will find compositions, you will find arrangements like other big musicians do. And we learned that by

ourselves. And now we are making our (INAUDIBLE).

(INAUDIBLE) back in the days, this was a really beautiful place. Very quiet. Now it's like a hub for us. So many people will party. In the

daytime, it is more of this type (ph) but at night it's totally party scene. It is a different place altogether.

Of course people are listening to some other music. They are open to new music basically. There is so much to explore (INAUDIBLE).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What I really love about the Delhi music (ph) is it's giving everything in a very, very small location. I mean if you go back a

decade or so, you will generally see people traveling to different parts of the world to engage into different kinds of music.

Now what is happening is with this awesome, awesome mix of all the DJs coming in playing there, we get every part of the world here in this small

geographical part.

DEEP: We are bringing more musicians there. So it is like amazing landscape (INAUDIBLE) by day in New Delhi.

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LU STOUT: 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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