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We're back today with international current events coverage
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after Monday's series finale on the U.S. food industry.
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I'm Carl Azuz. We're starting in Southern Asia.
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On Easter Sunday, a bomb exploded at a park in one of Pakistan's largest cities.
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Officials say at least 72 people were killed, many of them women and children.
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More than 340 others were injured.
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A terrorist group that's part of the Pakistani Taliban said
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it was responsible, that it had targeted Christians
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who are celebrating Easter in the park.
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Christians are a minority in Pakistan.
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Its official religion is Islam.
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Christians make up about 2 percent of the population.
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Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is from Lahore.
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That's the city where the bombing took place.
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He says his nation will not allow terrorists to play with Pakistani lives,
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and that his goal is to eliminate not only terrorist infrastructure,
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but also the extremist mindset.
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Pakistan's military says it's raided several cities since the bombing
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and that some suspected terrorists have been arrested.
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The government of the region where the attack took place is observing three days of mourning.
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Make no mistake: terrorism is a strategic war against our minds.
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Its weapons, fear, panic, and most importantly, an overwhelming feeling of vulnerability.
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The psychology of terrorism.
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If we feel vulnerable, we'll be in constant fear.
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And that's exactly what they're trying to achieve.
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Bombs are set off in places where we gather.
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The message: we will find you where you work and play.
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Shooting unsuspecting innocent people.
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The message: there is nowhere to hide.
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Videos revealing the horrors of rape, mass murder, and beheadings.
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The message: no one is immune.
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In fact, following a terrorist attack,
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studies show it's the most vulnerable of us who will suffer longest,
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especially those with personal histories of trauma.
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Though almost everyone may be fearful or anxious for a few weeks,
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the vast majority of us will prove resilient.
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And in this regard, experts say terrorism is a failed strategy
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because research shows that terror often backfires,
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making nations stronger as citizens band together
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and angry countries join ranks to fight back.
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But history has also proven terrorism only works
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if we allow ourselves to be terrorized.
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Syrian government forces are once again in control of the ancient city of Palmyra.
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It had been taken over by the ISIS terrorist group last May
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and it was a strategically important city to ISIS,
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because it gave its fighters access to other parts of Syria.
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But with the help of Russian airstrikes,
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Syrian government troops had moved toward the city,
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entered part of it last week and announced they've taken complete control by Sunday.
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ISIS had used Palmyra for some mass executions
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and it infamously destroyed many of the city's ancient artifacts,
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including some that are holy to Muslims.
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But United Nations officials are hopeful that some of the artifacts could be restored.
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We always welcome international viewers to our show,
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a great number of them are in Japan
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and it's in the central part of Japanese mainland that we're starting today's "Roll Call".
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Hello to everyone at Tokai High School in the Japanese city of Nagoya.
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Next up is the U.S. state of Massachusetts
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and it's in the northeastern city of Lawrence that we found Bellesini Academy.
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Our third stop is in western Tennessee where the Cavaliers are watching.
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Crockett County Middle School is in the town of Alamo.
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Stretching for miles along Florida's Atlantic coast,
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in the waterways, estuaries, and the beaches themselves,
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an estimated hundreds of thousands of dead fish.
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It's known as a "fish kill" or a fish die off.
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It can happen when pollution for example causes innumerable amounts of fish to die.
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People who see scenes like this say the smell is rotten, too.
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But they're not entirely unusual.
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One wildlife official in the state says fish kills happened all the time all over Florida.
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So, what makes this one unique and what made it happen in the first place?
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Florida is known as the fishing capital of the world.
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But right now, there is a lot less fishing and a lot more concern
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about what's happening to their valuable and vulnerable ecosystem.
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What's causing the Florida fish kill?
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If you walk up and down Indian River Lagoon,
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you will see this -- thousands of dead fish, belly up in the water.
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There are several different factors going into play here.
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One is the state received about triple their average rainfall for the month of January.
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All of that rainwater and runoff has gone straight into the rivers and the lagoons.
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Not to mention because of El Nino, temperatures were warmer than normal,
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allowing for a toxic algae bloom and brown tide to takeover.
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The algae bloom depletes the oxygen from the water,
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in turn killing the fish and has also killed more than half of the lagoon sea grass.
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The Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute says
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the fish kills happen all the time all over the state. But this one is massive.
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Further south, there's another problem,
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Lake Okeechobee is the highest it's been in 10 years.
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So, right now, the Army Corps of Engineers is draining it.
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Billions of gallons of fresh water pouring out of Lake Okeechobee.
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This brackish water affecting the salinity of the all the estuaries.
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The Army Corps of Engineer says that they are backing off to a safer discharge.
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But if you ask the fishermen in the area, they say it's too little too late.
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With built-in Wi-Fi hotspots, infotainment touch screens,
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computer systems that control everything from steering wheel heat to parallel parking,
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you might have noticed that technology is taking over cars.
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A bike manufacturer is exploring what that would look like
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on two-wheeled human power vehicles, or at least partly human powered.
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You're about to see a concept.
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It's not something you can buy yet.
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We don't know what it would cause and it's not approved by the UCI,
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which sets the rules for racing bikes. But is it in their future?
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The bicycle is the most efficient machine known to man.
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And with modern technology now, it's a great time
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to really take advantage of the great innovations in the bike industry.
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So, when we design our race bike, there's a lot of consideration that we put into it.
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But just like pretty much every other racing that's out there,
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including F1 or NASCAR, there's a governing body.
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For cycling, that governing body is the UCI.
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And so, the UCI has a rule book that defines limitations on
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what we can do with bike design.
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But we also get the question, hey, if you don't have any rules, what could you do?
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Robert, our creative designer, went out and created this new concept bike.
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I've always felt that we need to break out of that box in a very fun and decisive way,
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challenging what a real bicycle looks like.
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So, this bike is super aerodynamic.
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You can see with the windscreen,
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to slice through the wind and be very efficient for the rider.
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The concept bike is really important for innovation,
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even though we can't directly make that product today.
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Maybe a little part of it, we can mold into the rules
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and it's still a better innovation than what we thought of in the past.
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This bike actually has a trunk, just like your car has a trunk.
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So, as a cyclist, we've been taught to hate cars.
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But I say, let's embrace cars for all the technology that they give us,
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brake lights, turn signals, and navigation system.
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All these things that bicycle should have,
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you'll see behind the windscreen that it's all run by your smartphone.
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There's many apps that we could develop
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to do everything from navigation, to calorie burned.
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It can communicate with cars, to let cars know that,
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hey, I'm getting too close to this cyclist.
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There's so much technology that we can impart into a smartphone
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that can make this bike unbelievable.
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This bike is actually e-powered. It has a small motor in the bottom bracket.
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Your battery is right next to it.
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And that really helps the rider get the bike up to speed.
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Once the bike is up to speed, the rider takes over
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and it becomes a very efficient machine.
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Being an engineer, I hope to see a lot of tech being brought into cycling
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and help elevate cycling in general.
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But at the same time, I hope we don't lose focus of what the point is,
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and the point is really that ride experience,
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and all the technology that we bring in should really be
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improving that riding experience and not just for bringing tech in just for the sake of it.
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The bicycle for me personally is the epitome of man and machine.
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When they become one, it's unbelievable.
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And the feeling you get with the wind blowing through your hair
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and seeing the terrain fly by, it's fantastic.
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There's nothing else like it.
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I just believe and dream that bikes can be so much more.
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U.S. submarines have been operating in the Arctic Circle for decades,
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but this might be the first time we've seen one busting through the ice.
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The USS Hartford, a one billion dollar nuclear attack submarine
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is participating in Ice X 2016.
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It's a series of exercises designed to test out U.S. submarine capabilities
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in the cold, hostile environment of the Arctic.
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Well, the ice at least didn't seem much of a challenge.
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After surfacing, the crew flipped open the hatch
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and used the sort of pick to shove giant frozen chunks off the top.
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Not every day you see a surface to a surface in the surface.
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And if you're periscoping out a ship that can bridge the cap between ice and land,
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this one would surfise through the ice with power that's more than surfficient.
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I'm Carl Azuz with news and puns that are so gnarly.