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[08:01:12] KRISTIE LU STOUT, HOST: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. And welcome to News Stream.
Now, Turkey grieves after Sunday's deadly bomb blast in Ankara. And President Erdogan promises to defeat those responsible.
A victim of trafficking who wants to save her sister from the same fate. We kick off a series of CNN Freedom Project special reports on India's tea
producing region.
And behind the triumph of machine over man, we speak to the man behind the artificial intelligence that mastered the world's most complicated board
game.
The future of Syria is at stake and peace talks getting under way in Geneva.
The UN special envoy Staffan de Mistura is calling it a moment of truth. He warns that if the talks do not pan out this go around, the only plan b
he sees is a return to war, a brutal civil war that hits the five-your mark just this week.
It has been two weeks since a cessation took effect. And de Mistura says that while it may be fragile, it is largely holding
Now CNN senior international correspondent Clarissa Ward witnessed firsthand the horrors Syrians are enduring. Now, she and producer Salma
Abdelaziz went undercover into rebel-held parts of Syria where virtually no western journalists have gone for more than a year.
Now, they worked with the Syria-based filmmaker Bil al-Abdel Karim (ph) on this exclusive report. But a warning, there are graphic images.
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CLARISSA WARD, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Moving through rebel-held northern Syria is difficult and dangerous. As foreign
journalists in areas with a strong jihadist presence, we had to travel undercover to see a war few outsiders have witnessed.
The city of Idlib is the only provincial capital under rebel control. This was its courthouse until it was hit by an air strike in December. Dozens
were killed.
40-year-old lawyer, Talal Aljawi, told us he was inside the building when it was hit. His arm was smashed, but he was lucky to survive.
TALAL ALJAWI, LAWYER (through translation): The Russian planes target anything that works in the interest of the people. The goal is that people
here live a destroyed life, that people never see any good, that they never taste life. This is the tax of living in a liberated area.
WARD: An hour later, we saw that tax for ourselves while filming in a town nearby. We heard the scream of fighter jets wheeling overhead.
WARD: Moments later, a hit.
(on camera): There was just an air strike here in the town of Ariha. So we're now driving very quickly. It's not clear yet what was hit, but we are
hearing that there are still planes in the sky.
(voice-over): Arriving on the scene, our team found chaos and carnage.
Volunteers shouted for an ambulance as they tried to ferret out the wound. For many, it was too late.
A woman lay dead on the ground, a jacket draped over her, in an attempt to preserve her dignity.
Russia has repeatedly claimed it is only hitting terrorist targets. This strike hit a busy fruit market.
[08:05:09] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (through translation): This is just a civilian market. This is not a military area.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (through translation): There are no military installations here or anything. It's a market. Look. It's a market. A fruit
market. Is this what you want, Bashar?
WARD: We couldn't stay long. Often jets circle back to hit the same place twice. It's called a double tap.
(on camera): We just arrived here at the hospital where they're bringing the dead and the wounded from those three strikes in Ariha, which hit a
park and a fruit market. We don't know the exact number of casualties there. But the scenes of devastation, blood on the ground, dismembered body
parts, and the injured and dead that we've seen arriving here indicate that this was a very bad strike indeed.
(voice-over): Among the injured brought in, a young boy moaning in pain. He died moments later.
The strikes on Ariha that day killed 11 people, among them, a woman and two children. Rescue workers wasted no time in clearing away the rubble. In
this ugly war, massacres have become routine.
Clarissa Ward, CNN, Ariha, Syria.
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LU STOUT: Gruesome and heartbreaking scenes in that report. And in Clarissa's next report, she'll take you down the only rebel-held road
leading into to Aleppo. It is surrounded by snipers, but it remains a lifeline to the people who still call the embattled city home.
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WARD: As you arrive in the city, the scale of the destruction is breathtaking. Stretching on and on, entire residential neighborhoods
reduced to rubble.
Still, we found pockets of life among the devastation.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Should we leave our country and go to another country? No. This is our country and we will remain in
this until we die.
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LU STOUT: Now, this is all part of our exclusive coverage inside Syria behind rebel lines only on CNN.
Now, Turkey is once again dealing with the anguish and the aftermath of a deadly bombing in one of its major cities. The latest tore through a busy
transport hub in Ankara. At least 37 people were killed.
And while there has been no claim of responsibility, dozens of people have been rounded up and Turkish war planes have reportedly hit PKK targets in
the wake of Sunday's bombing.
Let's go straight to Ankara now and our senior international correspondent Arwa Damon is there.
Arwa, Erdogan has vowed to bring down terror to its heel. What threat is he referring to?
ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Any number of threats, Krsitie. This is a country that has been battling for decades against an
organization it considers to be a terrorist entity, and that is the Kurdish separatist group the PKK whose various different locations and strongholds
in northern Iraq's mountain ares the Turks just struck that you were mentioning there.
It is also a nation that is battling against ISIS, and ISIS has, according to the Turkish government, carried out a number of attacks here in Ankara,
but also in Istanbul and in other parts of the country as well.
We are in front of the morgue where families, relatives, loved ones have gathered to identify the deceased and also to take them away to bury them.
This is very much a city, a nation, that is is still in shock, still in mourning. A lot of people very saddened by what happened of course, but
also very angry.
They are angry at the government. They are angry at any number of different factors, individuals, players, because they are watching their
country disintegrate. They are watching their very sense of security disintegrate, and that most certainly appears to be what the main aim of
this strike was, going after a soft target, civilians in a part of the city that was very popular, very crowded at the
time of the attack, at 6:45 on a Sunday.
The attackers drove a vehicle laden with explosive and detonated it right next to a very packed bus station, killing at least 37 people, among them,
according to the Turkish authorities, are either one or two attackers, wounding at least 125.
Now, no claim of responsibility just yet, Kristie, but Turkish authorities are saying that they dio believe a terrorist organization is behind this,
not at this stage disclosing which one,saying that they want to see the investigation through until the end.
But Turkish media is reporting that it is the Kurdish separatist group the PKK. And they're also saying that one of the attackers was a female born
in 1992.
But we're still waiting and expecting to hear very soon from the Turkish authorities on more details with regards to the investigation.
[08:10:13] LU STOUT: Arwa, the people of Turkey, they are mourning. They are angry. Do they also feel vulnerable as Turkey faces an increasingly
dangerous situation at home?
DAMON: Very vulnerable, on a number of levels. I mean, talk to just about anybody, whether it's a casual conversation or especially if you're a
journalist speaking to them and one of their first questions is what do you think is going to happen, how much worse do you think the situation in
Turkey is going to get?
Some even go so far as to voice concerns that Turkey could end up being like some parts of Syria or Iraq. The population here is very aware of the
numerous threats that the country does face both internally and externally.
And even though the government has come out, the president, the prime minister vowed to bring terror to its knees, vowed to protect the
population, in the wake of attacks like these, those words really do not provide much comfort.
Because everyone here is well aware that Turkey no matter what it does is embroiled within the broader regional dynamics and those dynamics, as we
all know too well, end up playing out in acts of extreme violence.
LU STOUT: All right, Arwa Damon reporting live from Ankara for us. Thank you very much indeed for that update.
You're watching News Stream. And coming up next, U.S. Democratic presidential candidates, they are not holding back on criticizing the
Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Sanders and Clinton accuse him of not on inciting violence, but applauding it. More on that next.
Plus, CNN Freedom Project takes you to India where tea plantation workers are all too often
becoming victims of human trafficking.
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LU STOUT: Well, back, now the U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is getting heavy criticism from Democratic candidates over
violence at his rallies. Now, Friday's Chicago event ended up being canceled because of clashes between anti-Trump protesters and his
supporters.
Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders spoke about it at CNN's Democratic town hall. They criticized him for not just inciting
violence, but applauding it.
Now, Trump blames supporters of Bernie Sanders for the violence in Chicago, but Sanders struck back saying Trump is spreading false information.
Now joining us now with more is CNN's Jason Carroll. He joins us live in Florida, one of five states to head to the polls on Tuesday.
And Jason, why have these Trump rallies turned violent?
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, there are a number of reasons for that. And what I can tell you is that Trump at this point has three events
in three different states today. He's certainly hoping that they will be peaceful. Trump saying that those whoa re showing up at events are not
protesters. He is saying that they are more like disrupters.
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DONALD TRUMP, 2016 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We had some -- I would say -- let's be nice -- protesters.
CARROLL (voice-over): After a turbulent weekend on the trail, a defiant Donald Trump pointing fingers.
TRUMP: Send them back to Bernie! Hey, Bernie, get your people in line, Bernie!
CARROLL: The billionaire trying to shift the blame to Bernie Sanders.
TRUMP: A lot of them come from Bernie Sanders, whether he wants to say it or not. And if he says no, then he's lying.
[08:15:02] CARROLL: But at Sunday night's CNN town hall, both Democratic candidates turned it around, calling out Trump for his incendiary
statements.
SANDERS: He is saying, "If you go out and beat somebody up, that's OK. I'll pay the legal fees." That is an outrage.
CLINTON: He is the person who has, for months now, been not just inciting violence, but applauding violence.
CARROLL: The GOP front-runner canceling his event in Chicago Friday night after the rally erupted in chaos.
On Saturday, in Ohio, this man tried to rush the stage. The Secret Service quickly tackled the protester as Trump supporters cheered.
On Sunday...
TRUMP: Get them out of here!
CARROLL: ... more protesters crashed the party.
TRUMP: Get them out! Now!
CARROLL: With over 350 delegates on the line, in five states this Tuesday...
TRUMP: I'd like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you.
CARROLL: ... Trump is doubling down, claiming his heated words are not to blame for the violence, like this supporter sucker-punching a protester
last week.
TRUMP: I don't accept responsibility. I do not condone violence in any shape. And I will tell you, from what I saw, the young man stuck his finger
up in the air, and the other man sort of just had it.
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CARROLL: Now, Krstie, the question you asked about why some of these protests -- why some of these rallies are turning so violent, one of the
reasons is because those who do not support Trump feel as though he's getting closer and closer to the nomination. A new poll released out this
morning showing just that. He is ahead in the state here of Florida running neck and neck with Governor Kasich in Ohio, which seems to suggest
that even though there have been violent outbursts at his rallies, his supporters are just stronger than ever -- Krsitie.
LU STOUT: All right, we'll see how the violence at Trump's will affect the vote, the big one
taking place tomorrow there in Florida among other states.
Jason Carroll reporting live for us from Tampa. Thank you.
Now, Democratic candidates HillaryClinton and Bernie Sanders they answered some of the audience's toughest questions on Sunday at that CNN
presidential town hall. Now CNN's Jeff Zeleny has more.
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HILLARY CLINTON, 2016 DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Whoever goes up against Donald Trump better be ready.
ZELENY (voice-over): Stopping the Republican front-runner, a critical topic for Democrats ahead of yet another Super Tuesday.
SANDERS: The way you beat Trump is to expose him. And he can be exposed at many, many levels.
ZELENY: Hillary Clinton touting her experience and resilience.
CLINTON: The Republicans have been after me for 25 years. And...
ZELENY: Keeping some of her battle plan against Trump under wraps for now.
CLINTON: I'm not going to spill the beans right now. But suffice it to say, there are many arguments that we can use against him.
I'm having foreign leaders ask if they can endorse me to stop Donald Trump. Some have done it publicly, actually. The Italian prime minister, for
example.
JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: How about the ones that have done it privately?
CLINTON: No, Jake. We're holding that in reserve, too.
ZELENY: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders hitting his rival hard on trade, which he believes helped him pull off an upset last week in Michigan.
SANDERS: You are looking at a senator and a former congressman who opposed every one of these disastrous trade agreements, which have cost American
workers millions of jobs. One of the very different, strong differences between Secretary Clinton and myself, she has supported almost all of those
trade agreements.
ZELENY: And taking a dig at Trump along the way.
SANDERS: Everybody understands that trade is a positive thing. Nobody is talking about building a wall around the United States. Of course, we're
going to trade. Oh, I beg your pardon, there is one guy who is talking about building a wall. Let me rephrase it. No rational person is talking
about building a wall.
ZELENY: The most emotional moment of the night.
RICKY JACKSON, FALSELY IMPRISONED FOR 39 YEARS: Excuse me, I'm sorry.
ZELENY: On the death penalty, as Clinton was pressed by a man exonerated after nearly 40 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.
JACKSON: I came perilously close to my own execution. How can you still take your stance on the death penalty?
CLINTON: This is such a profoundly difficult question. A very limited use of it in cases where there has been horrific, mass killings. That's really
the exception that I still am struggling with, and it would only be in the federal system. But what happened to you was a travesty.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LU STOUT: A powerful moment there in the CNN town hall. That was Jeff Zeleny reporting.
All of the action is leading up to the next major contest in the 2016 election. And just a day from now, voters in five states head to the polls
to choose their presidential nominee, including the major swing states of Ohio and Florida. And as the field narrows, it is a day that is expected
to be pivotal for both parties.
Now, when we come back, we're going to take you to India where human traffickers are preying on young women and the country's impoverished tea
producing region.
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[08;24:14] LU STOUT: All this week on the CNN Freedom Project, we focus on the impoverished workers behind one of the world's most popular drinks:
tea.
Now, today we take you one of the leading tea producing regions Assam, India. And there, we meet a girl who, like many others, was lured into
slavery in an attempt to escape poverty. Mohamed Lela reports.
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MUHAMMAD LILA, JOURNALIST: We're driving through one of the world's most beautiful
places, winding roads and mountains on the horizon.
We're driving through northeast India right now, right along the foothills of the Himalayan Mountains, this is the Indian state of Assam. It's one of
the major tea producing areas in this country.
If you drank a cup of black tea this week, there's a chance it came from right here, the state of Assam. With hundreds of tea plantations, this
region produces more tea than anywhere in the world.
As the paved roads give way to broken gravel....
[08:25:13] (on camera): All right, so we're here.
(voice-over): ...we walk through this village, a place where goats roam free and sewage lines the side of the road.
(on camera): And this is the house that we're going to?
(voice-over): Inside, 18-year-old Manju Gore (ph) still remembers the day the trafficker came knocking at her door.
(on camera): Describe to me what happened. How did you meet this agent?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): He came to the house saying you should go to work there. We're very por. We don't have a good place to
live. I thought that if he gives me money, a bit of money, it could help my mommy and daddy make a proper house.
LILA: But she says it was all a lie.
The trafficker sent her to Dehli, locking her in a house full of young girls just like her, waiting to be sold as domestic labor.
That's when she says she saw other girls being sexually abused.
(on camera): When did you first realize what this trafficker was doing to the girls?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): The girl (inaudible) didn't (inaudible) they (inaudible) them a lot.
LILA: Were you afraid for your life?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): He threatened me and said, "I'll (inaudilbe) you're too rude." The way you talk to your elders, that's how
you should talk to me. I think they are very dirty men. I saw myself with my own eyes how many girls they touched inappropriately.
LILA: Like every else here, Manju's (ph) family are tea pickers, among the hundreds of thousands who pick the tea leaves people drink every day.
Most of the workers here are descendants of bonded laborers brought in from elsewhere by the
British when they ruled the country decades ago. Often, they make less than $2 a day. Legally, the plantation owners are supposed to provide
housing, education, subsidized food and medical care to all their workers.
But, as we discovered...
(on camera): All right, so she's just said there's no electricity.
(voice-over): Often, nobody enforces the rules, leaving thousands of people living in extreme poverty.
(on camera): So come take a look at this, this is -- she says this is where they actually do a lot of the cooking and this is their stove. They
use wire wood to cook their meals.
It's conditions like these that make tea workers ripe for trafficking. Police in India tell CNN there are hundreds of cases like Manju's every
year, girls from tea plantations lured with promises of earning money, but forced into hard labor and sex in India's big cities.
When the CNN Freedom Project went to India's minister in charge of the tea industry, she told us she wanted to discuss it with other elected
officials.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If it is restricted, trafficking resurrected only to the tea garden area, if there's anything that I need to rush in to do it, I
will do it. But I have elected members of parliament who have not drawn my attention to this.
LILA: State and official from the tea industry wouldn't comment to us about the trafficking.
Back in her village, Manju (ph) says she'll continue to speak out.
(on camera): People around the world watch CNN's Freedom Project. For all of the people that are watching right now, what's your message to them?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I'm making a request that this shouldn't happen to anyone else, buying and selling girls, lying to them,
preying on them because they're poor. I want it to stop.
LILA: But this isn't where Manju's story ends. After the interview, she shows us this photo of her sister, telling us she was also lured by
traffickers and is still trapped. In a few days, she's hoping to be part of a daring police raid to rescue her.
For the CNN Freedom Project, Muhammad Lila in the state of Assam, northeastern India.
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LU STOUT: Now, CNN's Freedom Project brings to light the criminals that trade in human life. It also celebrates the success of survivors who have
broken the chain of slavery. You can find more stories on our website as well as a list of charities that help the victims of human trafficking.
It's all at CNN.com/FreedomProject.
You're watching News Stream. Up next on the program, striking up a win for human kind. The world's best go player finally defeat's Google's Deep
Learning AI, but could the loss make Alpha Go even more intelligent? We talk to its creator after the break.
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[08:32:46] LU STOUT: If artificial intelligence had feelings, its ego might be a little bruised right now. World champion go player Li Setol has
finally racked up a win against Google's Alpha Go software.
But the win is more for pride than anything else. The AI won the first three games of hte best of five series, and therefore has an unbeatable
lead.
Now, the fifth and final match is on Tuesday.
Now it's one thing to be able to stare down your opponent, reading their every expression, but when it's man versus machine, artificial
intelligence easily wins the battle of the mind game.
Now, European go champion Fan Hui learned just that when playing Google's AI last year. I asked him how difficult it is when your opponent literally
has no emotion.
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FAN HUI, EUROPEAN GO CHAMPION: When we play, a go game against another people, I don't -- we don't need to talk, but I can feel something. You
feel good my move? You feel bad my move. Maybe you feel another thing. But I can feel something by you. But play with Alpha Go, you'll
feel nothing. So when you play, you have more and more question about yourself. For beginning, I just think my move is okay, but more and more,
because Alpha Go give me very little information. More and more, I ask questions. My move, it's real good? Maybe it's bad.
Always I have a choice, my move. So more and more it looks like I play my more and Alpha Go play another move, I say, oh, why I don't choose this
one, maybe another one is better.
Looks like this. You will lose more and more confidence.
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LU STOUT: You can feel his frustration. Now as Fan points out, it is a whole new mind game when you are playing a computer.
But Google engineers expect their program to adopt a very human trait by learning from its mistakes.
Now, DeepMind co-founder and CEO Demis Hasabis describes the loss as very valuable. Now, I spoke with him earlier asking how it feels to have
created such powerful AI.
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DEMIS HASABIS, FOUND AND CEO, DEEPMIND: To be honest with you, it's pretty hard to take in. I don't think it sunk in yet and I don't think it will
sink in for many weeks in the future.
So, we are sort of exhilarated and excited about how the match has gone and also quite relieved.
[08:35:05] LU STOUT: Now, during game four you tweeted about the mistake that Alpha Go made that cost it the game. You said this, quote, mistake
was on move 79. But Alpha Go only came to that realization on around move 87.
And what I find very curious about that is how does a machine come to realize it made a mistake? Because this seems very humanlike to me.
HASABIS: Yes, I was meaning that in kind of a logical way. So, Mr. Lee played an incredible move on move 78 that Alpha Go did not predict. So,
Alpha Go gave the chances of him making that move less than 1 in 10,000. So, in some sense that really shocked Alpha Go, the system. And then for a
few moves, it got confused and misevaluated the position it was in.
And it was only a few moves later, on move 87, that it realized in the sense that the evualation of the position became more accurate again, and
it realized that it was actually in a really bad position.
LU STOUT: And let's talk about how Alpha Go works, because it's not pre- programmed. It doesn't rely on brute force surge. It actually uses deep learning in neural networks. What does that mean to a general audience?
HASABIS: That's right.
So this is a very different type of program to maybe the Deep Blue that beat Gary Kasparov. Most AI programs are programmed directly with the
solutions. And then the program kind of dumbly executes that solution.
With Alpha Go, it's very different. We use neural networks to allow Alpha Go to learn, first fo all, by looking at professional games and learning
the kinds of patterns professional human players make. And then it tries to get better than human players by practicing through self-play, playing
against older version from itself and learning from its own mistakes.
So, if a mistake -- if it makes a mistake that led to a loss, it will slightly adjust its system and -- to make that -- the chance of that
mistake slightly less in the future.
LU STOUT: And when you watch Alpha Go, this is your creation, are you amazed by what it's picked up and what it's learned and what it's capable
of doing?
HASABIS; Yeah, we are really amazed. And, you know, it's thanks to the amazingly talented Alpha Go team working on this.
You know, we've only been working this for a couple of years. So, it's a relatively short amount of time. And AI experts in the field thought this
moment would be more than a decade away, even as recently as last year. And the go world, and Mr. Lee himself before the match, were predicting a
minimum 5-nil whitewash for Mr. Lee, or a minimum 4-1 to Mr. Lee.
So, for us to be here sitting now 3-1 up at the end of game four is pretty astounding for us. And, you know, it's quite amazing for us to think about
that.
LU STOUT: And many high-profile individuals from Elon Musk, to Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking, have talked about their fear and their concern about AI.
How do you address those concerns?
HASABIS: Well, we think about AI as a tool that can enhance the capabilities of the human experts using those tools. And, you know, we
have to be very cognizant about the way we design these systems. And also how we decide to deploy the
So, there are definitely big important issues there to be addressed and to be thought about. Of course, our AI systems are still just playing games
currently. But in the future as they get more powerful, we'll have to make sure that we use them in ethical ways and we deploy them of the good of
humanity as a whole and not for the benefit of the few.
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LU STOUT: And that was Deep Mind founder and CEO Demis Hasabis. And for the record, Alpha Go's professional record now stands at 8 wins, 1 loss.
You're watching News Stream. And still to come after the break, are budget carriers the new way of traveling? Well come fly around with Richard Quest
as he takes us on a unique round the world challenge.
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[08:40:57] LU STOUT: Welcome back.
Now this week, Richard Quest is taking us on a journey around the world. And here's the twist -- he is only traveling on budget airlines, ten of
them to be precise -- nine country, eight days, all on low-cost carriers.
Now, we've all heard the horror stories before from the minimal leg room, to hiked up baggage fees. But there's no doubt discount airways are
becoming popular.
Now the fans praise them for making globe trotting reachable.
Now, let's find out more about Richard's budget marathon. He joins us on the phone now from Dubai. And Richard, walk us through because there's a
number of them all the rules of Fly with Quest and do you ultimately want to learn?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The rule of Fly -- of #flywithquest, first of all, we have to start and stop in the same place,
that's London Gatwick . We have to go one direction of travel. We're not allowed to backtrack. We have to cross the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic
Ocean once. And there is a big one, Kristie, no premium seating. Even, for example, like last night with Fly Dubai, which has a business section.
We are not allowed to sit in those seats. We have no extra leg room seats. We sit in a box standard, ordinary economy seat.
LU STUOT: All right, Richard Quest for joining us live on the air. Apologies for the little
bit of a technical issue with the line, but we will check in later with Richard Quest later. He filed this report earlier from Prague.
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QUEST: Our around-the-world journey is well and truly under way. And we are, as you can see, in Prague. This is the Charles bridge looking up
towards the Prague castle here in the Czech capital.
So far we've been through four airports in three countries, and experienced two low cost carriers, EasyJet and Ryan Air, the two largest in the
business in Europe and the ones very much setting the rules.
We've seen and experienced how they're changing the way the low-cost model is operating in
Europe, offering more services and seemingly giving a better class of flight, if you like.
Tonight, we leave the Czech capital and we fly to Dubai. Fly Dubai is the airline where we'll get an experience of how the Gulf airlines are now
turning their hand to low-cost flying.
Richard Quest, CNN, Prague, the Czech capital.
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LU STOUT: And you, too, can follow Richard's journey as he makes his way from Dubai to Sri Lanka to Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. He's posting
updates on Twitter with the hashtag #flywithquest.
You can also challenge him on tasks to complete in each destination. Just follow his account @RichardQuest.
And that is News Stream. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. Now, World Sport live from the home of surprise Premier League leaders Leicester City is next.
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