Real Madrid Celebrates Champions League Win; 6-year-old Refugee Boy Dying of Muscular Dystrophy; Violent Scuffles at Australia Immigration Rally
GEORGE HOWELL, CNN ANCHOR: Celebrating a record-setting victory. Real Madrid after winning the most important prize in European football. Zika sparks a medical disagreement. The World Health Organization pushes back against dozens of doctors who are pleading to hold off on the Olympic Games. And clashing over immigration. Violence erupts between two rival protest groups in Australia. Live from CNN world headquarters in Atlanta, welcome to our viewers around the world. I'm George Howell. CNN NEWSROOM starts right now. They did it again. Real Madrid and their fans basking in the glory of the club's 11th Champions League title. "We are the champions of the world." Crowds waited all night to see the heroes lift that coveted trophy. The stars paraded the prize through the heart of the city. But all of Madrid is not celebrating. Real beat cross-town rival Atletico Madrid on penalty kicks in the final. "WORLD SPORT's" Alex Thomas is live in Madrid and joins us now to talk more about the celebrations there. What's it like?</s>ALEX THOMAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: George, hi, good morning from Madrid, in Spain, where the authorities are getting pretty used to clearing up after a party. They had to do it twice now in the last three years and as I speak around the Cibeles Fountain behind me, you can see that the scaffolding is being packed away and they're clearing up the sort of ticker tape style streamers that were released and seemed to have gone everywhere this morning. As I walk through my hotel about 15 minutes away to come here to broadcast to you, you could feel the pavement sticky with overnight alcohol and other less pleasant liquid through the night before. We've all been through the streets where there's been a massive party. We know what it's like. It smelt. It reeked. But hey, the Real Madrid fans clearly had a good time. Around 30,000 or so gathering here in the early hours of the morning. The match finishing before midnight local time but they stayed all through the night to wait for the team to fly back from Milan, here to their home city. The team coming on a coach here, parading the Champions League trophy. Everyone was having a good time, even our cameraman, Alfonso, got up on the stage. The DJ stopped and said, hey, you're on CNN, and they all went wild. I think they cheered just about anybody. The bar Atletico were doing the course. Their bitter rivals who they beat in the final. So how did they do it? Well, it was a bit of a mirror image of the final two years ago where Real had led most of the game. Sorry, Atletico led most of the game, and Real got a late goal. This time, it was Atletico leading for most of the final. Real equalized near the end. Half an hour of extra time, you need no further goals, so Real Madrid won in the penalty shootout. Misery for Atletico boss Diego Simeone. That club still has never won European club football's biggest competition. Real had won it a record extending 11 times. And their coach Zinedine Zidane is the seventh now to win it as both a player and a coach. The first French coach ever to lift the title, we're told. And this is what both managers had to say afterwards.</s>ZINEDINE ZIDANE, REAL MADRID COACH (Through Translator): Since I am a positive man, I have a such a fantastic team that has worked very hard, the message is this, we have worked. We have fought for it. And when you have players of such great talent, then you can manage something great like what we have achieved tonight.</s>DIEGO SIMEONE, ATLETICO MADRID COACH (Through Translator): What is clear for me is that no one ever remembers who came second. To lose two finals is a failure and I need to accept this moment, licking my wounds at home.</s>THOMAS: Despite the defeat, Diego Simeone is still revered by Atletico Madrid fans, yet he wouldn't pledge his future to the club next season. He's clearly going to have to reflect on his future as the sun comes in and out here in Madrid. It was pretty miserable last night. It could be a sunny day here. Certainly sunny for Real Madrid. Zinedine Zidane surely will continue as coach now. He only came in halfway through the season after the previous coach, Rafael Benitez, was deemed a failure and left the club. So the future is bright for Zidane. Already he was a legendary player. Now achieving much as a coach it seems as well. There will be more official celebrations here in Madrid on Sunday with another trophy parade ending up at their Bernabeu Stadium that had 80,000 fans in it last night, George. And that isn't even where the game was being played. They were just there to watch the match on big screens and celebrate with one another.</s>HOWELL: Alex, hopefully you get sun and hey, watch your step out there on the streets of Madrid. Alex Thomas, thank you so much. Talking the Olympics now. The World Health Organization says the games should go on. The WHO was responding to an open letter from a group of doctors who said the upcoming Rio Olympics should be moved or delayed because of the Zika virus. Brazil has been the epicenter of that outbreak. The WHO says it has a good understanding of the virus at this point and the health risks associated.</s>DR. BRUCE AYLWARD, EXEC. DIR., OUTBREAKS AND HEALTH EMERGENCIES, WHO: WHO's response to the concern about the timing of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro is that based on a very careful risk assessment and all the information we've gathered so far about this disease, these games should go ahead as planned and we should continue to work to make sure they're safe as possible. If there should be something spectacularly new in terms of the kind of disease it caused in the adult population, the consequences, then you have to do a reassessment of the overall risks.</s>HOWELL: Olympic officials in Brazil say they will continue to follow the WHO's guidance and that there are no plans to postpone or relocate the games. The Russian Olympic Committee says that some of its athletes may have tested positive for doping. On Friday, the International Committee announced 23 samples from the 2012 London Games tested positive. Russian Olympic officials say eight of those belonged to Russian athletes from three different sports. No names have been released at this point. 14 Russians also failed doping tests retroactively that were conducted on samples from the 2008 Beijing Games. On to Iraq now. Pro-government fighters say they have found underground tunnels built by ISIS on the outskirts of Fallujah. Those fighters are from the popular mobilization units. Mostly Shiite paramilitary groups formed to fight ISIS. They say the tunnels were used by ISIS to approach and escape from the front lines. Iraq has been engaged in this operation to retake Fallujah for the past week now. Migrants by the thousands are still being pulled from unsafe boats in the Mediterranean. The Italian Navy is bringing hundreds of those migrants back to port along with several of the bodies of those who did not survive. The Italian Coast Guard said Saturday it rescued almost 2,000 people within 24 hours. It says, in all, this past week, some 14,000 people were saved from flimsy overloaded boats at sea. Still there are fears that possibly hundreds more migrants may have drowned. Across the Mediterranean a family living in a refugee camp waits for a little boy to die. He has an incurable disease that would be treatable if only he were living in a different situation. CNN's Atika Shubert has this exclusive report for us.</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Alyaman Daar is 6 years old. He cannot swallow food. He breathes with difficulty. He has advanced muscular dystrophy. Zaher Sahloul is a Syrian doctor treating Alyaman, but this is no hospital room. This is a tent at a makeshift camp inside a highway petrol station in Greece.</s>ZAHER SAHLOUL, SYRIAN DOCTOR: He's clearly dehydrated. If he is in a place where -- with good access to health care, he would -- should receive IV fluid, should receive oxygen. He may need to be on a ventilator.</s>SHUBERT: He sleeps all day. His mother, Johaina, must wake him to feed him like a baby bird. (</s>On camera): His father just showed me this photo taken 10 months ago before they came here, and in that time, as you can see, he's deteriorated very quickly. He's not eating any food and the only way to feed him is with a syringe feeding him milk. (</s>Voice-over): Johaina and Wasel Daar have three children. At home in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, they could bring Alyaman to a hospital for therapy. But then the war came. Fighting closed off access to the hospitals and the family fled on foot, by car, by boat, but after three months of waiting at refugee camps in Greece, doctors say it's too late. (</s>On camera): So how are you preparing yourself for the possibility that he may not survive? (</s>Voice-over): She answers, "It comes from God so we must accept it. But now I worry about my daughter. I don't want her to suffer like her brother." One-year-old Bisan is now showing similar symptoms. She can no longer crawl and her tiny hands can barely grasp his father's finger. Her older sister, 3-and-a-half-year-old Lyan, has no symptoms so far. There is no cure for muscular dystrophy. It's a genetic disorder that causes weakness and eventually loss of muscle mass. But regular therapy and medication can ease symptoms and prolong life. But that is medical care that Alyaman's parents can only dream of. Johaina is clearly overwhelmed and she begins to cry. "I wish I could have found access to proper medical care for my son, but being here in this tent, his health has only gotten worse." She clings to the hope that the family will be allowed to find a home in Europe before it's too late. Atika Shubert, CNN, at the Eko refugee camp, near Idomeni, Greece.</s>HOWELL: Since Atika filed that report for us, the family has been granted emergency medical admission to Switzerland. His doctor says his condition may improve but he remains terminally ill. Tempers rose over a hot-button issue. The issue of immigration in Melbourne, Australia as rival groups of demonstrators clash in the streets, dozens of police tried to keep anti-racism and anti- immigration protesters apart but they kept finding ways to get back at each other and scuffle. Sky News reporter Jackson Williams has this story from Australia.</s>JACKSON WILLIAMS, SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA: Police knew rival protest groups would be gathering here, two groups with very differing views on multiculturalism. Police say the violence here today wasn't isolated to one group. They have condemned all involved.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am really disappointed. I think that Coburg is a fantastic place to be. We worked really closely with the council. And I think that some of those arrangements made this not as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately, we are starting to see more and more of these protests in the street.</s>WILLIAMS: Seven people were arrested here, five for their behavior while two others were arrested for possessing weapons. Police say only three people received minor injuries. And they say that is a reflection of their preparation.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We did have a large number of resources today and that was as a result of the planning. So as predicted, we were able to deal with the violence as it occurred. And more importantly, we were flexible enough in our deployment.</s>WILLIAMS: The local Greens candidate was due to speak at the No Racism in Moreland rally. She pulled out, citing safety fears. Her party's leader, Richard Di Natale, says the violence is unacceptable. Police will set up a task force to investigate today's event. They say the violence is simply unacceptable. And all those responsible will be brought to justice.</s>HOWELL: That was Jackson William of Sky News Australia reporting for us. And in Germany, a politician known for speaking out against immigration is facing some backlash from anti-fascists and angry activists threw chocolate cake at the chairwoman of an opposition group -- look at that. Ouch, it's not a good look. That happened at a meeting on Saturday. The politician has been criticized for her anti-migrant comments in the past saying Germany should limit the number of refugees that it lets into its country. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. Still ahead, lightning strikes in France and German, injured more than a dozen people including children. Plus, a U.S. zookeeper fatally shot one of their gorillas at a zoo on Saturday. Why they had to when we come back.