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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Hi, everyone! I'm Carl Azuz, and in this Tuesday edition of CNN Student News, we are bringing the world to your classroom with stories from North America, Asia, the Middle East; we're beginning in Australia.

 

First Up: Australia Floods

AZUZ: That is where the city of Rockhampton is completely cut off from the rest of the country. Emergency workers were trying to get food and supplies to the people there. But it is floods that have closed down every highway leading into the city. And get this: The regional airport was shut down on Sunday, and officials say it could be closed for weeks. Rockhampton is home to around 75,000 people, but thousands of them don't have homes any more. Flood waters destroyed the houses. The flooding is also being blamed for several deaths. A CNN meteorologist predicted that the flooding will reach its highest point tomorrow, but it could be days before the conditions there get any better. Australia's prime minister toured the region last week and said the floods will cost "hundreds of millions of dollars."

 

Religious Tensions

AZUZ: Next up, to Egypt, where that country's president is urging his people to stand together "in the face of terrorism." What he's talking about is an attack on a Christian church that happened on New Year's Eve. At least 21 people were killed. Nearly 100 others were injured. Christians make up less than 10 percent of Egypt's population. And as Ben Wedeman explains, this attack is making what was already a tense situation even worse.

 

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT, CAIRO: Distraught relatives search for victims of the New Year's bombing. Christian-Muslim tensions have been rising here in recent years. Members of the Coptic Christian minority, which makes up about ten percent of the population, have long complained of discrimination at the hands of the Muslim majority. Sameh Al-Khatib and his brothers were in their grocery store when they heard the blast. Moments later, he recalls, a mob seemed to appear out of nowhere, rushing down the street, attacking and ransacking Christian-owned stores and properties. He protected himself with an empty soft drink case.

 

Up the street, angry Christians chant "we want our rights" and then try to break through the police cordon to reach the church. The church is now surrounded by security; hardly anybody is allowed near it. And that's the problem, many of the people in this neighborhood say. That when the church really needed to be protected, there was no one there to do it. Now, the security forces have their hands full trying to keep the anger from turning into violence. Reinforcements have been trucked in from Cairo.

 

Christian storekeeper Raouf Abdelsayid insists Muslims and Christians in Egypt can live together in peace, but says what's needed is an educational system that teaches love and tolerance. After the new year's carnage, those are two commodities that seem to be in short supply here.

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I.D. Me

TOMEKA JONES, CNN STUDENT NEWS: See if you can I.D. Me! I'm an Asian country that's made up of a group of islands. I'm a little smaller than California, but I'm home to nearly 127 million people. My capital city is Tokyo. I'm Japan, and I have one of the world's biggest economies.

 

Japan's Lucky Bags

AZUZ: That economy is struggling a bit, and the Japanese government is worried that people won't be spending as much in the new year. But that didn't stop one annual shopping tradition. This is interesting; it's called the "lucky bag!" On the first shopping day of the year, which was Sunday, stores in Japan sell these bags with surprise items inside. So, customers might not know exactly what they're getting, but they do know they're getting a deal. Everything in the bag is 40 to 60 percent off. This year's surprises included everything from watches to wallets to expensive jewelry.

 

New Governors

AZUZ: Back in the United States, some folks are getting started on their new jobs running states! Five new governors were sworn into office yesterday. That includes Scott Walker in Wisconsin, whom you see on your screen right here. Governor Walker is a Republican who's taking over in a state where the previous governor was a Democrat. It's the opposite situation in California, where Democrat Jerry Brown is following Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. An interesting note about Governor Brown: He's technically the new governor of California, but he's had this job before, from 1975 to 1983. Other states will swear in their new governors in the next several days.

 

Trash Cleanup

AZUZ: We usually stay away from trashy stories on CNN Student News, but we're making an exception today, since this next story is about garbage! It's getting picked up again in New York City for the first time since a blizzard hit the area one week ago. That's a lot of garbage lying around. When the snowflakes started falling, the garbage began piling up. City officials told workers to hold off on collecting trash in order to focus on clearing the snow. Well, the snow went away; the garbage stuck around. Collections started back up for some apartment buildings on Sunday and for some houses yesterday.

 

Shoutout

JOHN LISK, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Time for the Shoutout! Quarter, Mustang and Arabian are all types of what? If you think you know it, shout it out! Is it: A) Cars, B) Horses, C) Currency or D) Coffee? You've got three seconds -- GO! They're all a bunch of neigh-sayers; they're horses! That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!

 

Fate of Wild Horses

AZUZ: When you think about an old-fashioned roundup, you might picture a cowboy on a horse trying to corral some group of animals. But in a modern-day roundup out in the American West, it's actually the horses that are the ones being rounded up! John Zarrella rides into the middle of this debate between the U.S. government and animal activists.

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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF AND CORRESPONDENT: There is no Secretariat, no Seabiscuit, no Black Beauty. Here, they have no names, none needed. In their eyes, you see who they are: rugged, powerful, independent. They are the wild mustangs of the American West. Woven generations ago into the fabric of this land, they've become the focus of lawsuits, even protests as far away as New York.

 

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Help save America's wild horses.

 

ZARRELLA: The horses are at the center of a tug-of-war between the U.S. government, chasing them down with helicopters, and animal rights groups who want it stopped.

 

RICHARD COUTO, ANIMAL RECOVERY MISSION: The roundups of the wild horses and burros of the United States is a true holocaust of the animal world.

 

ALAN SHEPARD, NEVADA BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT: We can't let one, say, the horse, impact everybody else by taking all the feed, all the water, all the, do damage to that habitat.

 

ZARRELLA: The disagreement is clear cut. The Bureau of Land Management, BLM, is charged with caring for and managing nearly 40,000 horses and burros roaming on 26 million acres of the West. While this federal land, your land, was set aside for the horses, they don't have free rein. The land is considered multi-use.

 

SHEPARD: Wildlife, livestock, recreationists, mining interests, whatever.

 

ZARRELLA: The BLM insists it must reduce herd sizes because the land can't support the numbers.

 

MARK STRUBLE, SPOKESPERSON BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT: This ain't Kentucky bluegrass.

 

ZARRELLA: So, it holds roundups. Last year, the goal: remove 12,000 horses -- that's right, 12,000 -- and take them to holding pens.

 

BONNIE MATTON, WILD HORSE PRESERVATION LEAGUE: This is our land. We want the horses on here, most of us.

 

ZARRELLA: Armed with cameras and recorders, the activists document what they see as brutal roundups. Here, a helicopter chases one single burro, eventually knocking it over. It staggers off. Here, you're looking at steam rising from the backs of chased-down, exhausted horses. The BLM says less than 1 percent of the animals die in these roundups. Activists say that's 1 percent too many.

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Before We Go

AZUZ: Okay, before we go today, we want you to say hello to a bovine master of disguise. This may look like a panda, but don't be fooled. It's a cow! The calf was born last Friday. Its black-and-white markings help it pull off an impressive panda impression. There are actually a couple dozen of these panda cows around the world. In fact, this is the second one born on the same farm. I don't think it's fooling anybody.

 

Goodbye

AZUZ: The idea that it could disguise itself as a panda is udderly ridiculous. I mean, the resemblance is bearly there. But maybe the unique look will make its barnyard buddies cower in fear. All right, it's time for us to moooove along. For CNN Student News, I'm Carl Azuz. Have a great Tuesday afternoon!