CNN 10 February 17, 2017

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Kicking off Friday's edition of CNN 10. I'm Carl Azuz. It's good to see you.

Starting in the U.S., we've been covering a lot of news surrounding the issue if immigration. Yesterday, there were marches in Washington, D.C. and cities nationwide in an event called A Day Without Immigrants. It was loosely organized through social media and word of mouth. Its goal, to show the importance of immigrants to American society.

It came after news reports throughout the week that officials with ICE, an acronym for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, had arrested hundreds of people who are in the U.S. illegally and started the process of removing them from the country.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on January 25th that prioritizes undocumented immigrants who've been convicted of a crime, accused of a crime or who could be charged with a crime for deportation.

Critics are concerned that a wide range of illegal immigrants could be targeted. Immigration officials say the recent arrests were routine and that they were planned during the Obama administration.

For perspective, there were more deportations under President Obama than any previous U.S. leader. No one knows yet how President Trump's policies will play out.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The detentions over the last week are in the hundreds and have been across the country, especially in states with higher concentrations of immigrants. In California alone, officials say they detained 160 individuals. According to authorities, 150 of the detainees had criminal histories and the rest were in deportation proceedings for other reasons.

Activists say the raids have terrorized the immigration populations and caused widespread fear in these and other states.

But Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly says the raids are in compliance with the law and not just random operations.

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JOHN F. KELLY, SECRETARY OF HOMELAND SECURITY: First of all, they're not rounding anyone up. The people that ICE apprehend are people who are illegal and then some.

ICE is executing the law.

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ROMO: A labor union representing a school district in Texas has published a flyer that tells immigrants what to do in case immigration authorities come knocking on their doors. A union spokeswoman calls the raids a crisis and says providing this information is important to students and parents at the school district.

A local official reacted with indignation to the raids.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have heard of several confirmed ICE actions in Austin. We are here to denounce those actions and to let the community know that we have their backs.

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ROMO: Immigration and Customs Enforcement published a statement about the raids saying the following, "The rash of recent reports about purported ICE checkpoints and random sweeps are false, dangerous and irresponsible. These reports create panic and put communities and law enforcement personnel in unnecessary danger. Individuals who falsely report such activities are doing a disservice to those they claim to support."

President Donald Trump made cracking down on illegal immigration a central focus of his presidential campaign.

Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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AZUZ: Up next, other countries called it illegal, intolerable. The U.S. wants North Korea to be punished for it. But was the communist country's recent missile test a birthday present?

A North Korean government source said the launch was the best possible gift for Generalissimo Kim Jong-Il on his 75th birthday. Kim Jong-Il, on the left here, is North Korea's former dictator. He died in 2011. As we reported earlier this week, the missile launch coincided with a meeting of the Japanese and American leaders. Their countries are rivals of North Korea, and analysts said the launch was intended to be a warning to them.

But in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, a two-day national holiday is wrapping up that celebrates what would have been Kim's 75th year. Concerts, fireworks, military displays are all part of it.

CNN's Will Ripley got the chance to visit the area.

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WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That is our airplane that will take us to Pyongyang.

Hello from Kim Il-Sung Square here in Pyongyang, North Korea. This is where they often have those huge choreographed mass displays and also military parades pass by here.

Around the square, you find a mixture of government offices and museums. That's the ministry of foreign affairs, more portraits of leaders, some apartments behind there, more government offices here and this is one of the museums on the square.

What's striking about Kim Il-Sung Square and, you know, you see this in other communist countries as well, with these large public spaces that loom over the individual and make the individual feel small and the society feel huge.

This massive building right here is called the Grand People Study House. And in front of it is where the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un stands when he give speeches. That's the portrait of his grandfather Kim Il-Sung and his father Kim Jong-Il.

You can see these huge crowds of people coming to pay their respects at what is considered one of the most holy sites in all of North Korea. This is the monument to the two late leaders, Kim Il-Sung to the left, Kim Jong-Il to the right. It's remarkable to see these waves of people who are coming here, all of them carrying flowers, all of them to pay their respects to the late leader on this national holiday, what would have been 75th birthday of Kim Jong-Il.

You see more and more taxis on the streets here in Pyongyang, more traffic in general, really.

This is one of the hotels that we stay at quite often, and it's actually on an island separate from the rest of Pyongyang, so the tourist won't walk around in the city.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

What color belt is associated with the beginner in martial arts?

Yellow, white, red, or green?

People learning martial arts usually begin with the white belt, which is set to signify birth.

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AZUZ: OK, building confidence, improving focus and coordination, getting in shape, learning self-defense, these are benefits you'll see advertise at practically any martial arts studio. What makes Breaking Barriers Martial Arts different isn't just the skills it helps its students develop but the students it helps develop those skills.

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KATARINA ECKSTEIN-SCHOEMANN, BREAKING BARRIERS MARTIAL ARTS: Disabilities, it doesn't mean they can't do what we can do. I'm Katarina Eckstein-Schoemann and I'm the head instructor at Breaking Barriers Martial Arts.

Breaking Barriers teaches children with all types of abilities. So we have down-syndrome, muscular dystrophy, autism, ADHD.

It's just really fun to see them coming out of their shells and really being comfortable in who they are, and knowing that being different is OK.

I have two younger brothers, David and Kenny, and they were both diagnosed with autism at a young age. It was really hard to find something for my brothers to be involved in.

So, it was really need when we joined taekwondo and we could do it as a family. I felt like the environment was just so much my understanding.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most importantly, I think the heart of taekwondo is basically how to become like a better person.

ECKSTEIN-SCHOEMANN: I started this program, I had no idea it was going to be anything more than just a Saturday class that was going to be fun for kids to just come and play and learn martial arts. But it's made an impact on these kids.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Feels good to know that we're helping other families that are like us.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He has just blossomed through this program. As a parent, it's the most incredible feeling.

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AZUZ: At a Canadian recycling depot, workers taking apart old TVs, expect to find capacitors, resistors, cathode ray tubes. But in one older set, an employee recently came across a cash box. And inside was more than $100,000. There were also bank documents that helped police find the owner.

He'd been saving the money for his family, but forgot about, passed the TV onto a friend and that friend recycled it. The money's been returned to its owner.

Makes for one serious cash back promotion y'all. Someone could have hidden the cash behind the scenes in a made for TV heist that would have been a turn off to many viewers. Thankfully, the depot has a great screening program, a reality show that promotes honest TV.

Fridays are awesome on CNN 10. We hope your weekend is, too. I'm Carl Azuz.

CNN 10 February 16, 2017

CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: A meeting between two world leaders is what's explained first today on CNN 10.

I'm Carl Azuz. Thank you for taking the time to watch.

It was the first time that U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met face to face since the American leader was inaugurated. In a news conference Wednesday, President Trump said the U.S. would encourage a great peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, but that it would be the two sides themselves that would have to directly negotiate that agreement.

What President Trump didn't say was whether he supported the idea of a two-state solution. In the Middle East conflict, this is the idea that Palestinians would have their own country alongside Israel.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.

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AZUZ: But experts say it's very unlikely that Palestinians would accept any agreement that doesn't give them their own state. As far as Israel and the U.S. go, this is expected to be the beginning of a friendlier relationship between the two countries. They've historically been close allies.

But former President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu often didn't get along. One issue that divided them: Israeli settlements. President Obama strongly opposed them.

On the campaign trail, Mr. Trump supported them. But on Wednesday, as president, he said he'd like to see Israel hold back on settlements.

Why are these controversial?

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OREN LIEBERMANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The city of Ariel is growing, one of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. A new neighborhood slated for this hilltop. The city's university has 15,000 students and a sense of permanence.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a thousand new homes here and promised more.

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER (through translator): There is no way that Ariel won't be part of the state of Israel. It would be part of Israel forever.

LIEBERMANN: Ariel is located about 12 miles inside the West Bank. It's one of the settlement blocks, areas with many Israeli settlements and few Palestinian villages.

Israel expects this to end up in Israel in any final status agreement.

Danny Tirza shows us the blocks on his maps. He was the Israeli territorial expert during decades of negotiations.

DANNY TIRZA, FORMER NEGOTIATOR: You can see the orange areas here, this is the swap area that we offered to the Palestinians. All these yellow areas will be Palestine. And the blue areas, these are the (INAUDIBLE) blocks.

LIEBERMANN: Land swaps had been talked about in negotiations, but former Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Qurei warns the swaps have to be agreed upon. He says Israel now is acting alone, and violating international law with settlement expansion.

Near Ariel, the city's industrial park is growing. Forty-five companies with 3,000 employees, Israeli and Palestinian.

Like many in Israel's right wing, park director Eleazar Zila (ph) sees a golden opportunity with President Donald Trump who he sees as more sympathetic to Israeli settlements and Am Yisrael, the people of Israel.

Settlements are illegal under international law, imposed by virtually the entire international community, because the West Bank is considered occupied territory. Israel disputes this, saying Jews have a historic and religious right to live in the West Bank. But the U.S. has traditionally had tremendous sway on the peace process. Question now, which way is President Donald Trump pulling?

What's clear is settlement growth is accelerating, regardless of whether it's building a foundation for peace or burying it in concrete.

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AZUZ: President Trump says Israel has set an example that walls work to improve a nation's security. It has a barrier along its border with the West Bank. It has a fence along its southern border with Egypt.

According to PolitiFact.com, experts say illegal immigration from Egypt to Israel has dropped noticeably since that fence was built. But they say there are other factors in how effective a wall can be, from how they're guarded, to how long they are.

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TRUMP: We are going to build -- the wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall. It will be big and it will be high and strong.

SUBTITLE: A Brief History of Walls.

REPORTER: The world has a lot of walls -- big ones, small ones, historic ones.

RONALD REAGAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

REPORTER: Divisive ones. Some are built to keep people in and some to keep people out. Soon, the world may have a new one, the Trump wall, spanning 2,000 miles along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Border walls have had varying decrees of success.

Even the most famous of all, the Great Wall of China was not able to completely stop invaders. The Mongols simply rode around it.

The Berlin Wall was meant to stop East Germans from migrating en masse to the West. But thousands still scale it, tunnel under it and even flew over it. And in 1989, it was torn down.

Israel says the West Bank wall has helped stop terrorist attacks on its citizens, but the U.N. condemned the barrier as illegal and an unlawful act of annexation, something Israel denies.

And the U.S. isn't the only country reinforcing its borders. Hungary has put up razor wire fences to halt the wave of refugees flooding. And Spain has put similar barriers around its enclaves on the North African coast.

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AZUZ (voice-over): Ten-second trivia:

What sports styles include freestyle and folkstyle?

Wrestling, swimming, boxing or skiing?

Two of wrestling's main styles are freestyle and folkstyle. The other is Greco-Roman.

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AZUZ: And it's the Freestyle World Cup that's happening right now in the Middle Eastern nation of Iran. It runs today and tomorrow.

There was some doubt about whether the American team would be there. Iran is one of the countries included in President Trump's executive order that temporarily banned certain immigrants from entering the U.S. And Iran said it would retaliate in legal and political ways. That might have kept the American wrestlers from entering Iran for the competition. But after the executive order was blocked in U.S. courts, the wrestlers were allowed into Iran.

Political trouble continues between the two nations. Iran's leaders have spoken repeatedly against the U.S. under administrations, including those of Presidents Obama and Trump. President Trump has repeatedly criticized the controversial 2015 nuclear deal that included the U.S. and Iran.

But for the wrestlers, competing in this year's world cup, these issues aren't on the mat.

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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A tough sporting mission with a twist of diplomacy. America's national wrestling team is in Kermanshah, Iran, for the World Cup -- a trip that almost fell through because of tensions between the U.S. and Iran.

Olympic gold medalist Jordan Burroughs saying the team is just happy to be here.

JORDAN BURROUGHS, TEAM USA WRESTLING: It's really difficult for a period of time, but we stayed the course. We continued to train, continued to prepare. And luckily, we were able to come.

PLEITGEN (on camera): Of course, there was a lot of uncertainty for the Team USA wrestlers, not knowing for a very long time whether they'd be able to come here to Iran at all. But now that they've made it, they say their main focus is to compete hard and win big.

(voice-over): Iran and America are wrestling powerhouses. Many U.S. wrestler stars (ph) in Iran like Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder.

KYLE SNYDER, TEAM USA WRESTLING: No, I can say there's a little bit of turmoil politically. But definitely, you don't see that within the sport. You know, we respect each other as competitors and as people.

BILL ZADICK, HEAD COACH, TEAM USA: This is my fourth time in Iran. We've been treated extremely well, as we have in the past and as we tried to reciprocate when they come to the United States.

PLEITGEN: The head of Iran's wrestling federation tells me politics have no place in the sporting rivalry.

"We are two very powerful international wrestling", he says. "And along with others, we're trying to help the sport internationally to promote wrestling throughout the world."

Iran and the U.S. are clashing once again on the wrestling mat. And now that the diplomatic hurdles have been cleared, the athletes say their only focus is trying to win it all.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Kermanshah, Iran.

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AZUZ: These pictures get "10 Out of 10".

Horsetail Fall is a waterfall in California's Yosemite National Park. But every February for a couple of weeks, the water is on fire. It's an optical illusion that happens when the setting sun hits the waterfall at just the right angle.

And because of all the rain and snow California's gotten recently, the waterfall is bigger this year than it's been in a while, making for spectacular displays of what's called the "Fire Fall" -- which sounds kind of like a James Bond movie.

But if a waterfall becomes a fire fall, a hot ticket for any fire-tographer who can't lava-lone a photo opportunity that's almost too hot to handle, there's really no way to beat the heat, except by taking really cool photos which one might call molten out of 10 on CNN 10.

I'm Carl Azuz.