Riot at Brazil Soccer Match; Kim Jong-Un Removes Uncle from Power; Hagel Visits Pakistan
MALVEAUX: It's pretty crazy. This is out of Brazil, actually, pretty disturbing, as well. This is something that just happened, rival soccer fans essentially going wild in the stands, fighting breaking out all over, getting ugly pretty fast. Shasta Darlington actually has the story behind this.</s>SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A bloody riot between rival soccer fans broke out at a game here in Brazil over the weekend. Several people were critically injured. One man was airlifted out. The game between Vasco Da Gama and Atletico Paranaense was halted for more than an hour while players and coaches pleaded with the fans to stop the violence and police shot rubber bullets into the crowds. Unfortunately, soccer violence is a chronic problem for the host of the next World Cup.</s>MALVEAUX: Really crazy.</s>HOLMES: That's worrying a lot of people. Now in North Korea, some political upheaval there, and that's putting it mildly. The leader there, Kim Jong-un, has kicked his own uncle out of power, a very powerful uncle. Jang Song Thaek is accused of corruption, drug use, even womanizing</s>MALVEAUX: He and his allies are accused of trying to build their own power base and sell off the country's resources. And analysts say that Kim's removal of his uncle indicates that he is consolidating his power, getting rid of the old guard who were close to his father.</s>HOLMES: And U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel in Pakistan today, he is talking with the prime minister there and other top officials. His first meeting was with Pakistan's new army chief of staff.</s>MALVEAUX: U.S. officials say that they are hoping to reach an agreement on reopening a key border checkpoint that American troops use to bring military equipment out of neighboring Afghanistan. Now, Hagel is the first defense secretary to visit Islamabad in nearly four years.</s>MALVEAUX: Well, she was one of the people who knew him best, that lady there, Nelson Mandela's personal assistant, talking about her last visit with the man so revered by his country. That's coming up, next.