[Lu Stout:] You are watching News Stream. And these are your world headlines. Now crowds have gathered outside parliament in Zimbabwe's capital to show support for the impeachment of the president. Robert Mugabe's own party is leading the effort after he ignored calls to step down. His vice president who he sacked has told him to accept the will of the people. The German president wraps up meetings in the next few hours with the Free Democrats and the Green Party to try to convince them to come back to the negotiating table. Chancellor Angela Merkel was elected for a fourth term but talks on forming a coalition collapsed. She says she is willing to try again but prefers a new election to a minority government. China says the situation on the Korean Peninsula is highly complex and sensitive and a call for all parties to do more to ease tensions. This after U.S. President Donald Trump put North Korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism. Puerto Rico is struggling to cope with the devastation from hurricane Maria that hit months ago. And now CNN has found the death toll might be nine times higher than reported by the government. Now, the official count stands at 55. CNN has learned hundreds more are believe do have died. Now, Russian president Vladimir Putin plans to discuss Syria's future with U.S. President Donald Trump in the coming hours and the white House now says it is expecting the call. Now earlier Mr. Putin hosted Syrian President Bashar Al Assad in Sochi. The Russian president praised Assad for his work for fighting ISIS and stressed the need for a political solution to the crisis in Syria. Now CNN's Matthew Chance joins us now live from Moscow. And Matthew, Putin and Assad met. They apparently hugged as well. What does Putin say about the Syrian president and their work against ISIS?
[Matthew Chance, Cnn Correspondent:] You are right. They did hug. There are official photographs that have been released showing this sort of close increasingly close personal relationship between these two figures. The meeting actually took place in Sochi in Southern Russia yesterday. But it took place in secret. We didn't know it will happen early as of Tuesday and presumably by the time the announcement came from the Kremlin. This meeting had taken place. Bashar Al Assad was safely been ensconced back in his palace in Damascus. In terms of what they discussed, they seem to according to Kremlin read-out, they discussed the fact that the Syrian conflict has transformed from being mainly military operations. And of course Russia has been engaged in conducting many of those military operations, turning the tide of the battle in favor of Bashar Al Assad with its use of air strikes, SO turning from the military operations towards the search for a political solution. And it's that prospect of a political solution bringing in sort of approved opposition groups into a political process which the Russians have already started alongside various other countries. That was discussed and it was explored between the two leaders, Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad. Indeed it is the contents of those discussions which the Kremlin says it will communicate to the White House when President Putin speaks with Donald Trump in Washington presumably later on today. It feels a bit like a courtesy call, all this hard work of finding a political solution to the Syrian conflict is being done by Russia and the Syrians and a few other countries directly. They're merely communicating what they discussed to the United States rather than bringing the U.S. into the process.
[Kristie Lu Stout, Cnn News Stream Show:] Got it. So to clarify this phone call that the White House is expecting, when Vladimir Putin called Donald Trump, it's merely just to share the notes of the meeting that he had with Bashar al-Assad, not to ask Donald Trump for anything?
[Chance:] I don't think so, because I think that actually the Russians along with the Iranians and the Turks as well to a certain extent. They got a big summit of leaders here tomorrow. The presidents of those countries are meeting in Russia to discuss the Syrian conflict. They basically intentionally cut out the United States from this problem. And Russia has really emerged or asserted itself as a power broker in the Middle East. That's why you are seeing these face-to-face talks with him and Bashar al-Assad and with Iranian and the Turkish presidents tomorrow in Russia, and then simply communicating what was discussed, what they decided effectively to the U.S. president in Washington.
[Lu Stout:] Got it. A courtesy call after cutting the U.S. out of the process. Mathew Chance reporting live for us from Moscow. Thank you so much. The search for a missing Argentine navy submarine that has entered its six days and 44 crew members are on board. The navy lost contact with the submarine on Wednesday. Authorities don't know if the vessel is at the surface of the ocean or is completely submerged. It has now been determined that underwater noises detected on Monday were not from the missing crew. Officials warned it could be just over a day before the crew runs out of oxygen. Let's bring in CNN meteorologist Chad Myers for more on the story because weather plays a big part here. Chad, we know that strong winds, high waves, they have been getting in the way of the search effort. What are the conditions like now and will they improve?
[Chad Myers, Cnn Meteorologist And Science Reporter:] Better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow. They will get better tomorrow. We are still looking at six-meter waves right now. And that swirl and that churn and the foam on the ocean. Truly, any plane that's out there with the cloud cover being at about 300 or 400 meters can't get a really good view of anything with that foam and that spray over the ocean. Let's zoom you in to the search area here because they were leaving the archipelago and moving up toward
[Lu Stout:] Yes, absolutely, because the clock is ticking. Chad Myers reporting. Thank you, Chad. Now at least 50 people were killed in a suicide attack in Nigeria. Witnesses say the bomber who looked to be about 17 years old, detonated his explosives at a mosque in the town of Mubi. That attack happened during early morning prayers. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. You're watching "News Stream." Up next, the U.S. Justice Department is suing to stop the merger of an American telecom and a media company, AT&T and Time Warner. Coming up, we explore why this action is so controversial.