Ariel Castro's House Demolished; Online Bullying Blamed For 14-Year Old UK Teens Death
LU STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines. Now a massive fire at Kenya's main international airport has been contained. And flights in and out of the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport near Nairobi have been suspended for hours. But according to the Kenya airport's Twitter account, domestic and cargo services are set to resume later this Wednesday. They have not said when international flights will restart. Now Egypt's state media reports that the country's army backed government will not be holding any more talks with supporters of deposed President Mohamed Morsy to try to resolve a political impasse. And the news comes after some two weeks of international mediation efforts. As foreign nationals leave Yemen amid the threat of a terror attack, Yemen's government says it has foiled a plot by al Qaeda. A prime minister spokesman says militants plan to capture oil and gas facilities and seize two key ports. Also on Wednesday, officials say a U.S. drone strike killed at least six suspected militants. It was the fifth such strike in two weeks. Now let's go back to our top story, the massive fire that shut down Kenya's main international airport. Now resident aviation expert Richard Quest joins us now live from CNN Center. And Richard, what is the very latest you're learning about the shutdown and how it will affect international travelers?</s>RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the fire -- the seat of the fire, if you like, was in the immigration and the arrivals hall for the international passenger section of the airport. So that obviously has a dramatic effect for all incoming and outgoing international flights to Nairobi. It has a spillover and knock on effect to the rest of the airport. You have to understand when there is ever any incident at an airport, particularly one of this size, and one that is going to require the fire brigade to attend, those -- no matter what the incident, you've got to shut down the airport, because those resources are not available if there was to be an air accident. So the entire airport shuts down. And then you start to look at what can you get moving again. And in the case of Nairobi at Kenyatta Airport, what they've determined, because this was in the international section, they can get domestic travel moving again, albeit very slowly, and they can convert one of the cargo hangars, they've now got permission to use that for domestic flights check-in and for passengers. And that's what they're going to be doing. But let's be clear about this, Kristie, it's going to be very, very messy, very, very slow, because here you have an airport that has been brought to its knees by this fire as indeed any airport in this situation would be in a most -- would be in a similar situation. No getting away from it. For the international passengers, well, the disruption is going to be long and it is going to be painful. Kenya airways, which is the main hub carrier at the airport, obviously uses Kenyatta as its main hub in and out as an east -- East African hub and over towards Asia. And that is going to be major problems for passengers there.</s>LU STOUT: And can you give us a sense of how critical Kenyatta International is as a major travel hub, not just for Kenya, but in Africa. How much air traffic goes through?</s>QUEST: Oh, a sizable amount of air travel goes through it. I was looking at the -- just getting the watch numbers up, which we can talk about in the next hour. The point about Nairobi, Africa has very few full scale hub and spoke airports. You've got Johannesburg for South African, you've got Addis Ababa for Ethiopian on the west you've got, and you've got, of course, on the east side you've got Kenya airways -- Kenya airways and Nairobi. You've got Legos on the west, you've got Nairobi on the east. And because of that reason, pretty much going anywhere within Africa, or indeed across over towards the oceans on the far east down towards the southeast Asia region, you can transit through places like Nairobi. And that is why in the hours ahead you've going to see a dramatic knock on effect, not just from Kenya airways, but from every other airlines that use Nairobi as their transit. In the next hour, we're going to show you exactly the hub and spoke network of Nairobi at Kenyatta Airport. And that'll make it quite clear why this is so significant. And why even though, thank goodness, there have been no causalities, or at least none serious, why this will have a knock on economic effect for Nairobi. Yes, you can send the planes to Mombasa, you can divert them to Rwanda, you can send them across to Uganda, but this airport, Kenyatta, is crucial to the export driven economy of flowers and agricultural produce of the economy.</s>LU STOUT: All right, Richard Quest there. I'm glad you mentioned it, again no casualties, but this airport fire very crippling for a number of reasons. Richard Quest reporting, thank you. Now Japan's prime minister says that his government will take action to accelerate the cleanup at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Now the company that runs the plant has acknowledged that highly radioactive water is leaking out of the site into ground water and the harbor nearby. Now Tepco says it has built an underground barrier to try and stop contaminated water from seeping into the ocean, but Shinzo Abe is not content to leave the cleanup in the company's hands.</s>SHINZO ABE, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN (through translator): The stability of Fukushima is also one of our tasks, notably the contaminated water problem is one that the Japanese people have a high level of interest in, and is an urgent issue to deal with. This is not an issue that we can let Tepco take complete responsibility of, and we have to deal with this at a national level.</s>LU STOUT: Now three reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were damaged when a massive earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March of 2011. It was the world's worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Now to the U.S. state of Ohio now. And the house where this man, Ariel Castro, held three women captive for a decade. Now demolition of that house has just started. And the aunt of one of his former captives made the first hit. And one of the survivors herself handed out yellow balloons. Now plans call for the lot to be cleared in a single day. And Martin Savidge is at the site. He joins me now live. And Martin, can you describe what you're seeing what's happening right now?</s>MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, yeah, it's not often I will tell you that you are at a demolition of a home and you hear people cheering, but that was exactly what happened when the first blow was struck against Ariel Castro's home. And what the city did was they allowed a family member of Gina DeJesus, that's another one of the women held captive for almost a decade inside, to literally launch the first blow with the excavator. Well, they've already got most of the house leveled down. And they're beginning to load it into those large open-backed semi-tractor trailer trucks and start hauling it off. But this is a huge event in the city of Cleveland -- church bells are ringing, people gathered on the sidewalk, and city officials are also on hand monitoring all of it here. So it's quite a phenomenal event, because let's face it, many in this community could not wait until that home was gone. A very moving moment just before it all began. Michelle Knight, the young woman who was held the longest inside that house of horrors, showed up handing out yellow balloons. Listen to some of what she had to say.</s>MICHELLE KNIGHT, HELD CAPTIVE: I go through here as being a motivational speaker and let everybody know that they're heard, that they are loved, and there is hope for everyone.</s>SAVIDGE: The idea, of course, is that by getting rid of this house, you create something else in this community and that is hope. The plan is, first and foremost, to get it all done today. And then they want to put grass seed down there and they want to put some landscaping. And then after that, they're not sure. Maybe it's going to be a park, maybe it's going to be a playground for children. Michelle Knight was asked what she would like to see there. She said, a statue of an angel to serve as a kind of remembrance of what that house once was. No longer a house of horrors, not part of a community looking for hope -- Kristie.</s>LU STOUT: And can you describe the scene immediately around you? I mean, behind you, we can see the demolition crew at work. But who else is there to witness this happen?</s>SAVIDGE: Well, we've got any number of city officials here, the county prosecutor, the man who was the one building the case against Ariel Castro. I should tell you as these trucks that are loading, they realize that the debris from this house is no ordinary debris. And there's a great deal of concern that someone may want to try to get a piece of that home, for whatever twisted reason, to have it as a souvenir. So they are carefully monitoring. And when the trucks are loaded, they will be escorted to parts unknown. And that same debris will then be mixed with other demolition debris gathered from all across the city and then it will be shredded and then it will be disposed of. And the whole idea is to make sure that none of this ends up on somebody's mantle someplace, or in some way they wish to remember Ariel Castro and the house of horrors. They want it all completely gone. So you've got the police monitoring, you've got the fire hoses playing on what remains of the debris, and they are about to enter into the basement, which of course was one of the horrible, horrible places where those young girls were often chained -- Kristie.</s>LU STOUT: This is an incredible moment to witness, a deeply symbolic and no doubt cathartic for the victims. Martin Savidge reporting for us. Thank you. Now we've been following stories of online abuse here on News Stream. And now it looks like online bullying has claimed another life. The family of a 14-year-old girl in the UK says that she was driven to suicide after endless abuse posted on the Internet. Juliet Bremner has the story.</s>JULIET BREMNER, ITV NEWS: To the outside world, a bubbly, friendly girl. But like most 14-year-olds, Hannah Smith had insecurities, doubts which were used to attack her. At the family home in Lutuwa (ph), her father accepts flowers. He's convinced that anonymous bullies drove his little girl to kill herself. In a statement he said, "I would appeal to David Cameron as prime minister and a father, to look at this to make sure these sites are properly regulated so bullying of vulnerable people like my daughter cannot take place." It was here in her own home where she had every right to feel safe, that Hannah Smith was relenteless bullied, and by faceless individuals who she pleaded with to stop, but without success. Mr. Smith wants the owners of Ask.fm to be prosecuted for manslaughter. Hannah faced a torrent of abuse, much of which we can't repeat. It included these exchanges, "do us all a favor and kill yourself." She replied, "wouldn't you feel bad if I did, eh?" Then, "go die, you pathetic emo." Hannah says, "I'm not pathetic. If anyone is pathetic, it's you telling people to go die." Teenagers who knew Hannah are horrified by what's happened.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was a shock, like -- like you wouldn't have ever thought that she would have done it, because she was just so lovely. It was really like just really hit you.</s>BREMNER: Her dad wants Ask.fm shut down. Do you think that is the right kind of way to go?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now. Yeah, because Hannah is not the first. And by what people are saying she won't be the last if it's not -- if something isn't done about it.</s>BREMNER: Ask.fm says they encourage parents to report bullying and have a team of moderators. But campaigners believe it's still damaging to young minds.</s>SCOTT FREEMAN, CYBERSMILE FOUNDATION: I think the anonymity played a massive role, because it creates a far bigger problem in your mind, because you don't know if that's your best friend or complete strangers, people hate you around the world.</s>BREMNER: This is the message left by Hannah the day before she died. Unable to save her, the family now wants time and space to mourn their loss. Juliet Bremner, ITV News, Leceistershire.</s>LU STOUT: And the suffering, it doesn't end there for the Smith family. Hannah's older sister Jo told the Daily Mirror newspaper that she is now being subjected to the same hateful online taunts her sister received before she died. Now this is News Stream. And yesterday, we told you about Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon acquiring the Washington Post. After the break, we will go deeper into that story and talk about what the purchase could mean for the future of journalism. Stay with us.