Ill be with you for the next two hours. Thanks for joining us. This is cnn newsroom. And we begin with some developing news this hour. North korea is expelling a bbc correspondent. Rupert Wingfield Hayes had been in pyongyang reporting ahead of the Workers Party congress, but authorities took issue with what they call disrespectful reporting, especially on leader kim jongun. The bbc says that Wingfield Hayes and two other employees were detained and questioned for eight hours. The company is now trying to get them all out of the country. Now, within the past hour, cnns will ripley spoke to us live from pyongyang about the circumstances surrounding the reporters expulsion. Reporter he actually wasnt here to cover the Workers Party congress specifically, but he was invited in with a group of Nobel Laureates who came here to have discussions with north korean officials and they made various stops touring around the country last week and over the weekend. They say that his reporting was disrespectful of the Supreme Leader kim jongun. They also say he violated local customs and acted in an aggressive manner during different times during his trip. This is the accusation from north korea. I actually saw rupert yesterday at the hotel as we were shooting a report. He said he had been spoken to very harshly earlier by the north korean authorities about his reporting. He hcht been reporting for the past few days. We believe he was at the hotel, which is different from where we are. Were at a different hotel. That hotel was on an island separate from the rest of the city. Anyway, hed been there for the past few days, not filing any reports, and had told me yesterday he wanted to get on a plane today to leave the country. According to the North Koreans, as he was at airport, he was detained and questioned. A bbc correspondent who was at this press briefing and there were just a handful of news outlets there he actually used the word interrogated and tried to ask the north korean official how the rest of the world would view the fact that north korea detained and punished a journalist for reporting things that they didnt agree with. But that question was not answered. The official walked out of the room. We have now actually just been told that i need to put on a suit, bring my passport, and we need to bring our camera and go back over to the hotel. Typically when we have to dress up and bring our passport, it means theres some sort of an interview with an official, but we dont know who were going to be speaking to or what the topic will be. Obviously this is a very sensitive issue for all journalists who come into north korea to report, and the north kraends take very seriously any comments made about their leader. Well continue to watch that story. I want to move to canada now where firefighters in alberta say they may be getting the upper hand on a Massive Wildfire that has torn through the province for more than a week now. The government said they expected the Fort Mcmurray fire to have doubled in size by late saturday, but thankfully the blaze slowed its progress. Cooler temperatures and a little rain has also helped fire crews. More than 160,000 hectors have been scorched so far and thousands have been forced to evacuate. Officials warn the fires may still burn for months to come. And the huge blaze continues to head east. Albertas premier says the fire is just 30 to 40 kilometers away from a neighboring province. Paul vercammen has the lest. Reporter im in front of a center here in edmonton where many of the fire refugees are getting supplies and or spending the night. Theyve been through a harrowing ordeal. That fire right now, you can hear the wind, is blowing toward the east. And firefighters are hoping that it continues to slow down just a little. By blowing east, that means away from Fort Mcmurray. Thats the city that was absolutely ravaged by fire last week. You can imagine a difficult ordeal for anybody, but imagine this through the eyes of a child. I saw the flames, and they were very bad. And like the fire, it was made like very big. I saw the smoke downtown, and we thought my school was burnt down, but it wasnt. Its like very bad. Reporter families grateful for the 1,500 firefighters battling blazes across alberta. Some 40 in all. And firefighters are beginning to feel the effects of this. Many of them have been working on stop relief going to come later in the week for both New Brunswick and quebec. Ontario firefighters already here, its been a long and arduous assault and an ominous note. Officials here saying this could be the start of a rather long and dastardly fire season. Paul vercammen reporting there. Chad morrison is the wildfire manager of the alberta fire and says that Fort Mcmurray is currently off limits to everyone but first responders. And even though theres a long way to go, sunday was a good day. We had a little bit of help here, unexpected help, a little bit of hp from Mother Nature and the weather. A lot of hard work, a lot of the credit goes to hard work of the firefighters that were able to hold the line here most of the day. Most areas of the fire, especially around the city itself. The fire still is now about 160,000 hectares. We continue to hold it, but we were still very challenged throughout the day today and yesterday in extreme fire conditions. All right. We do want to take a closer look now at the weather conditions. Our Pedram Javaheri joins us now. This is a good thing, some rain and the lower temperatures. But how long can we expect those to stick around . This is the lowest temperatures ive seen in about two weeks time. Were talking about 50 fahrenheit, 10 degrees celsius. Thats pretty remarkable considering it was 90 fine height just a few days ago. Were seeing the colling trends. The winds should die down. Well show you exactly what we because the radar imagery looks pretty good. Thats all rain beginning to push in across this region. Weve picked up just a few millimeters across Fort Mcmurray. Again, any rain fall at this point is good news. Any cloud cover is good news. This particular feature kicked up some winds that hindered some of the activities across this region. I want to show you how the fires have expanded first to the west, then to the south, back up to the north, now to the east. What the firefighters across this region are saying, because of the wilderness nature, the areas to the east here, thats favorable. If we can get everything move ago way from the Population Center of Fort Mcmurray, thats good news. The winds should die down a little bit, but just to give you the scale of what has taken place, 16,000 square kilometers have been consumed. Roughly the size of the country of kuwait or roughly the size of the state of new jersey. A pretty ex pansive area consumed. On sunday alone, about the same size of the city of london has been consumed when it comes to a fire across this region. Certainly the winds have not helped out. Notice what happens. 10 degrees celsius, that is 50 fahrenheit, it remains rather cool the next couple of days. 16 celsius or about 60 fahrenheit is what is considered normal. It gets there by friday. It wants to warm up again saturday towards sunday. I think these next couple of day are whats key for firefighters. Because of the tremendous amount of heat thats been generated at the surface here, we get what are known as pyrocumulus clouds. They can create thunderstorms. That could take some of the embers downstream and generate additional fires downstream. This is something rosemary and i were just talking about off camera a few minutes ago where firefighters are saying this could continue several weeks, several months potentially before everything is contained as these fires go down into the forest to the east, very vej tated area, a lot of fuel for these fires. Its going to be a long term event. It seems extraordinary but at least it gets away from the population. Absolutely. These are normal, fires across areas that are wide open are normal. Sometimes temperatures of 800 to 900 degrees are needed for these trees to pollinate and for their pine cones to open up and allow additional seedlings to come out. Well talk to you next hour. Thanks so much. Police in bangladesh are investigating another hacking murder. The latest victim is a 65yearold sufi muslim spiritual leader. He was found hacked to death saturday in the countrys west. Our alexandra field has just returned from bangladesh and joins us now from hong kong. Alexandra, these hacking murders, horrendous and shocking. What are authorities telling you about this latest deadly attack . Reporter well, theyve made no arrests in connection to the death of mohammad shahidullah. They have not unearthed any kind of motivation for this brutal killing of this spiritual leader. No one has publicly stepped forward to claim responsibility for it. As you point out, rosemary, shahidullah was a sufi muslim, a spiritual leader. Sufis are largery regarded as mystics. The practice is quite devoti devotional. It includes devotional songs and music. Obviously bangladesh is a majority Muslim Country and there are stricter interpretations of islam. Sufis are well respected throughout southeast asia. This mans family is asking why he would have been targeted. They say that he was killed, hacked to death. His body found in a mango grove after he had left a meeting with his disciples. But his son tells cnn that this was a simple man, man. Police have failed to make any arrests at this point. Theyre looking into the possibility that this is connected to that spate of hacking deaths that we have seen across this country in the last 15 months, but theyre also looking at the possibility, rosemary, that this could have been a more personally motivated attack. In the cases of the other deaths, the bloggers, the lgbt activist, the religious minorities, even the academics who have been hacked to death, the extremist groups who have claimed responsibility have often cited that their victims have insulted islam in some way or promoted atheism. You said no arrests made in this latest attack, but what about those other ones you referred to there . Any indication, anything coming out of what authorities are telling you about people who are associated with this . Reporter you know, the authorities, the government officials in bangladesh have been telling people that they need to be careful about what they say, actually instructing the bloggers and atheists in that country to not say things that are offensive to islam. That has not been well received clearly by the people who are supportive of the victims. We spent a lot of time speaking to activists in that country, to the lgbt community, to the family members of those who have been killed, and they say the government has frankly not done enough to stop these killings and not done enough to prosecute the assailants. So many people in these cases are telling us, yes, they have seen police bring people in for questioning or make arrests, but they are not seeing the prosecution of these individuals, and that he fear that is why these these attacks are going on unchecked. There are questions about how closely any of these attacks are related, whether you have the same people connected to several different deaths here. But when you talk to people in the community at large, theyre saying that the government needs to take a much harder line. They need to pursue the people who are involved in these attacks and come out more strongly in the defense of the people who are now being targeted. Very disturbing. Alexandra field just back from bangladesh, reporting live from hong kong. Many thanks to you. We turn to the philippines now and a controversial mayor was the frontrunner leading up to mondays president ial elections. Now voters are lining up at the polls to make their opinion heard. The likely u. S. Republican nominee is getting mixed reaction within his own party. What john mccain says about donald trump when we come back. I am rich. 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In the philippines, millions of voters are lining up at the polls to cast ballots for their next president and elect government officials. The latest polls show a controversial mayor leading the president ial race ahead of the elections. Our Michael Holmes has more on the campaign and the candidates. Reporter campaign ads line quiet streets in the philippines. Philippine law prohibits active campaigning by the candidates in 24 hours leading up to an election. But the mood as voting gets under way is anything but quiet. Translator im weighing up who is the best candidate that will make the country even better. A place where there is peace and order. Translator i hope whoever becomes the president , they will help the homeless, provide work for our husbands, and run the philippines well. Translator someone who can make the prices of goods go down so that for us who are poor, we can make a better living. Reporter the five candidates for the philippines top seat made one last pitch to voters on saturday as the 90day Campaign Period came to a close. Recent polls show long time mayor Rodrigo Duterte with a solid lead. Nicknamed the punisher for his tough stance on crime, hes vowed to execute 100,000 criminals and, quote, dump them into manila bay in elected. Senator grace poe is dutertes closest rival. According to the filipino pollster social weather systems, she has campaigned for what she calls a quote, quote, caring government, emphasizing structure. Poe has been challenged over her citizenship after being a u. S. Citizen for several years. But ultimately was declared eligible by the extreme court to continue her campaign. Interior minister manuel rojas, country Vice President binay, and santiago are also in the running. Its a big election for the philippines. In addition to the next president and Vice President , voters will elect half of the countrys senate, the entire house of representatives, and tens of thousands of local posts. Michael holmes, cnn, atlanta. Joining me now is Time Magazine correspondent Charlie Campbell. Thank you so much for being with us. Hope you can hear me okay there. So lets start by talking about Rodrigo Duterte, who has been compared to donald trump. He appears to be on track to win this election. Why do voters find him so compelling and appealing . Well, dutertes appeal stems from his fight on crime. Davao had been one of the dangerous cities. Amnesty international alleges that around 700 suspected criminals have been gunned down in the street without trial. Duterte puts the number closer to 1,700. How might duterte change the country if he does win . What specifically does he plan perhaps for the economy . Well, the economy is definitely the shakeiest aspect of his policy. When i asked him personally about this, and he keeps on reversing back to law and order as being a prerequisite for an investment. Fortunately for the philippines, the fundamentals are very good under the outgoing president aquino. Inflation is very low. And as the population is very young, it seems like its a perfect sweet spot for foreign investors. So hopefully if hes elected, hell just keep on with the same poli poli policies. You mentioned the outgoing president who has warned that duterte will be a dictator. Voters dont appear to be concerned about that. Why . It seems they have quite a short memory in the philippines. It was ruled by a dictator, Ferdinand Marcos for many years and people dont learn about this in school. The marcos family has still not been held to account. President marcos son is leading pollsters running for Vice President in this same election. So it seems that perhaps a better education would stop them falling back into this trap once again. Also we understand about nine people have died linked to election violence. What security measures are in place right now to try to prevent further violence . Well, security is very tight. All the hotels and the key areas. The main thing the government has done is installed automatic vote counting, which reduces the period between the votes being cast and a result being received, which is always a very tense time when tempers can flare and violence can ensue. Hopefully this year there will not be as much violence as weve seen in previous years. Time magazine correspondent Charlie Campbell joining us on the line there. We will talk again with charlie next hour. Many thanks to you. Now to the u. S. President ial race. Now that the Republican Party has a presumptive president ial nominee, the next question is who will be Donald Trumps running mate . Sarah palin, who was a Vice President ial candidate back in 2008, told cnn she would probably be a controversial figure if she were asked to join the ticket. I think there are so many other great people out there in america who can serve in this position. I think if someone wanted to choose me, they already know who i am, what i stand for. They wouldnt be in for any surprises. I want to help and not hurt, and i am such a realist that i realize there are a whole lot of people out there who would say anybody but palin. I wouldnt want to be a burden on the ticket, and i recognize that in many, many eyes, i would be that bur