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  • Hey, it's great to have you watching C and then 10 on this Friday, October 4th.

  • I'm Carla Zeus at the CNN Center.

  • We've reported a lot lately on protests in Hong Kong.

  • In the Middle East.

  • There been a series of demonstrations as well, for very different reasons.

  • Teachers and Jordan have been on the longest strike in the nation's history.

  • Protesters in Egypt and Lebanon have been calling attention to difficult economic conditions, government corruption and unemployment.

  • And those same issues are the reasons for widespread protests in the nation of Iraq.

  • At least 34 people there have been killed in three days of demonstrations, and human rights official says more than 1500 have been injured, including over 400 Iraqi security workers.

  • These are the largest protests Iraq has seen in decades.

  • In addition to corruption and the lack of jobs, people are upset about long power outages.

  • The demonstrators have stormed.

  • Governor's office is setting fires in the buildings.

  • They've blocked roads and fought with police.

  • Security forces have used tear gas, water cannons and some live ammunition to break up the crowds, and the government has established a curfew in the capital city of Baghdad and several other places.

  • It's also shut down the Internet in many parts of Iraq.

  • Iraqi leaders say they're trying to meet the demands of the demonstrators, including working to find jobs for young Iraqis.

  • The National Security Council also says it's doing what it can to protect people and property, but the country continues to struggle from decades of war.

  • Iraq fought with Iran for eight years in the 19 eighties.

  • It tried to take over neighboring Kuwait in 1990 but was pushed out by a U.

  • S led group in 1991.

  • Its longtime dictator, Saddam Hussein, was overthrown by a U.

  • S led coalition in another war in 2003 and the nation's democratic government has battled the Isis terrorist group between 2014 and 2017.

  • So Iraq's struggles, which include high poverty and unemployment, continued to challenge the Middle Eastern nation.

  • Second trivia in which of these countries would you find Kimoto Island, Indonesia, Philippines, Japan or Morris's?

  • The island is one of more than 13,000 islands that make up Indonesia.

  • This spring, we reported on how Indonesia's government was planning to close Kimoto Island in 2020 that report came out after several people were arrested in March and accused of smuggling Comodo Dragons off the island.

  • As many as 41 of the lizards were sold in other countries for $35,000 each.

  • Now the Indonesian government says it plans to keep Kimoto Island open, but it'll put limits on the number of tourists who were allowed to visit last year.

  • 180,000 people made that trip.

  • We don't know what the new limit will be or how much it will cost to go there.

  • But the Indonesian government is trying to balance calls for more wildlife protection with concerns that banning tourism will hurt the residents who depend on it for their income.

  • Kimoto dragons are considered a vulnerable species, meaning they could become endangered unless they're protected.

  • There are more than 1700 of these creatures on Comodo Island, and if you plan to go there come oh, don't feed the wildlife.

  • While they don't often attack people, the lizards are venomous and capable of killing someone.

  • They could become a long as 10 feet and weigh £150.

  • A CNN hero is making headlines for her work to help heal a community in Chicago, Illinois.

  • Inglewood is a notoriously violent neighborhood there and on a particularly violent block.

  • Robin Carol, along with about 50 residents, has turned an abandoned home, and it's nearby, lots into a peace house.

  • Her work there started in 2013 and as it's grown over the years, so has its impact on ever widening circles in the south side of Chicago.

  • I grew up on this from the violence of the property we still control.

  • I was worried about my Children.

  • If you're constantly living in fear, that's not living.

  • A lot of people been shot.

  • A lot of people get killed.

  • I live downtown and Monday mornings usually start with the amount of people that were killed over the weekend, and I could not wrap my head around that this was the city that I lived in and that I wasn't doing anything about that.

  • So I started coming out to the community.

  • Lots were all empty houses boarded up.

  • People were not coming outside, stood on the corner and just asked anyone that walked by.

  • Are you interested in taking back your community?

  • And everyone said, Absolutely, yes, this is the Pace house.

  • This is where we started.

  • So the first thing we did was buy this house, guys.

  • Then we just hired everyone in the community to start that process of planting and building way served everyone in the community.

  • Your biggest goal right now is I d.

  • We will help you with anything that you need.

  • Jobs, resume day care.

  • We're gonna get there.

  • You will work through all of what is holding you back to becoming the person that you have to be.

  • So we started out with just the piece house on, and we outgrew it really fast.

  • This I's what I weigh, Got our side lot.

  • We put in a basketball court and immediately we did the garden in the farm.

  • Welcome.

  • Welcome.

  • Welcome.

  • We're in the process of building now.

  • Apiece campus.

  • We really just listen to what the community says.

  • Put your hands to your heart pressed together.

  • Communities that have a high level of violence have a high level of trauma.

  • If you don't feel peace inside, you certainly cannot have peace on the outside way.

  • Have our police community circles so that we have a better understanding of each other and where we're coming from.

  • I get to see all, not just police.

  • I get to see you like that.

  • See myself in other people in years I see the world the way it's supposed to be when I come to power of community through the peace house and how beautiful the world could be if we are working for one goal.

  • Is everything going way developed a wisdom council.

  • We ended up getting an elder from each block.

  • We go to them with our problems way maybe have a training Like for mental health.

  • They share all of their knowledge.

  • Don't be love, but the same people that shot up and stole and hurt each other now come together.

  • How you doing?

  • The organization has helped us to take back our black.

  • They definitely gave me to support that are needed as a single mother.

  • This is my personal over here.

  • Still to this day, actually, did Robin saved community And I know she saved my life before the sounds of the Blackwood lot of gunshots Sounds of the neighborhood now Laughter very chirping trees blowing your way Got more houses to do, more kids to love.

  • Our mission is to go from surviving to thrive my hopes and dreams for this community, Whatever they hope and dream comes true.

  • This'll looks like a yacht of fun.

  • It's a yacht, or at least a computer design of one.

  • And though there are no immediate plans to actually build this, it would be unique in that it would be the world's first super yacht, powered by hydrogen, that could make it more environmentally friendly.

  • It could also be more expensive to run, but then again, it's a yacht, so money its developers say it be 367 feet long and capable of sailing as faras 3700 and 50 nautical miles with a top speed of 17 nuts.

  • It's name Aqua.

  • Other sailors might keel over with envy when they see you hauled in the next hydro generation of boat.

  • They might not think much of your fuel source and give you stern looks while saying Diesel not work for everyone or they might sail.

  • It is something of great import.

  • Bowing with respected your catamaran, sir, I guess whether they jib you about it or helm you ext drawl.

  • Its virtues depends on the tack they take.

  • And, of course, whatever floats your boat.

Hey, it's great to have you watching C and then 10 on this Friday, October 4th.

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