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Oregon Campus Massacre Devastates President Obama; Russia's Defense Ministry Confirms Syrian Airstrikes; President Putin in Paris for Talks on Ukraine and Syria; Young, British Boy Sentence to Life in Prison for Terror Attacks; Service Members Killed in Plane Crash; Taliban Targets Area in Northern Afghanistan; Hurricane Joaquin Batters the Bahamas; Two People Killed Outside of Sydney, Australia Police Headquarters; U.S. Jobs Report Released. Aired 8-9a ET

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SHAWN BOQUA: We're really sorry for anything that may have happened to you or your families. You know, we pray that you guys can get by and heal

through all this.

ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: Melody and Shawn Boqua, we pray that you will heal as well from the trauma of yesterday. Thanks so much for being on NEW

DAY.

MELODY BOQUA: Thank you.

KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: Chilling witness testimony there. I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and we will continue our coverage of the

deadly school shooting in the United States a little bit later in the hour. But for now, let's take a look at some of the other major news stories.

Now, Russia's Defense Ministry has just confirmed, it launched some 18 missions over Syria in the past 24 hours, with most of its airstrikes

targeting ISIS. Now, the Kremlin began the air campaign over Syria on Wednesday, saying that "It wants to fight terrorist groups there." But

there was growing international concern that Moscow is only interested in propping up President Bashar al-Assad. A coalition including the US, the

UK, Turkey, and others, has called on Russia to stop airstrikes on the Syrian opposition and civilians and just focus on ISIS.

Right now, the Russian president is in Paris for talks on Ukraine but the Russian strikes in Syria are also, definitely being discussed. Now, we have

Nic Robertson and Phil Black, both standing by for us. Let's go first to Nick in Paris. And Nick, Russia says it is attacking ISIS, the United

States isn't buying it. What is the view in Europe and how can European leaders press Putin on the issue?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORESPONDANT: Well, part of the group of nations that signed that statement to Russia saying that they were

essentially enflaming the situation, hitting the wrong targets inside Syria, United States, UK, as you named, but also Germany and also France,

as well as Saudi Arabia and Kato Turkey. Germany and France, their leaders, French leader, Francois Hollande, meeting today with President Putin.

Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, will be here for those meetings too. So, President Putin is going to be faced with leaders who are directly

criticizing him for Russia's actions in Syria over the past couple of days.

What we have been told here is, that Syria will probably be discussed. It seems that it would be inevitably discussed, but probably is the word

that's being described to us. Whether or not it's discussed, the issue of it is going to sit large in the rooms of at least eight panels(ph) where

those meetings with President Putin are going on right now. What President Putin hopes to get out of the meetings here on Ukraine and if he were

trying to leverage his actions in Syria in some way. If that were ever his plan, it would seem to be something of a miscalculation as far as the way

things are playing out with European leaders at the moment. - Kristie.

STOUT: It looks like the meeting there in Paris was called to discuss Ukraine, but the issue of Syria looming large. Let's go straight to Phil

Black who joins us now, live from Moscow. And Phil, global concern is rising about those Russian airstrikes in Syria. How is the Kremlin

responding?

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDANT: Well, yes, growing louder. You heard Nic there mention that statement from the coalition. The US led

coalition, directly accusing Russia, really, of not targeting ISIS but going after other opposition groups in Syria and resulting in civilian

casualties. Now Russia denies that, insists that it is only going after terrorist groups. And today, in its most recent update of its operations

over the last 24 hours, talks about 18 operations against 12 targets through day and night, bombing runs. It gives a long list of communications

centers, training camps, ammunition dumps, transport centers, all of which it says, are connected to ISIS. And as if to really ram home the point, it

says that for the first time, some of these targets have been located very close to the city of Rakka, which is the ISIS stronghold within Syria.

So, Russia says not to believe the talk that is coming from the international community about who it's hitting and why. It talks about this

being part of an information known war. It insists that the terrorists, terrorists alone, its targets, and the choice of targets, it says are very

much in line with those selected by the United States and its anti-ISIS coalition as well. - Kristie.

STOUT: All right, Phil Black live in Moscow, Nic Robertson live in Paris. I thank you both for your reporting.

Now, a 15-year old British boy has just been sentenced to life in prison for encouraging a man in Australia to commit an act of terror. They

discussed beheading a police officer during an Anzac Day memorial in Australia. And he sent more than 3,000 messages, some with references to

Jihad, and ISIS militants. Now, the boy was initially arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill his teachers at school.

Now, still to come, right here on NEWSSTREAM. As Afghan forces say that they've regained control of most of Kunduz, the Taliban sees another

district in a nearby province.

And, powerful hurricane Joaquin pounds the Bahamas. We'll track where it's headed next.

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STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong. You're back watching NEWSTREAM. Now six US service members and five passengers have been killed in a plane

crash in Afghanistan. They were onboard a C130 transport plane that came down at Jalalabad Airport, near the Afghan-Pakistani boarder. It is not

known what caused the crash. Now, the Taliban claimed responsibility on Twitter, but US officials say that they're confident it was not a result of

enemy fire.

Now, just to the north, security forces say that they control most of the city of Kunduz but continue to battle Taliban insurgents hiding in

residential areas. And, in a separate attack, officials say the Taliban have now taken over a district in the eastern province of Badakhshan.

Doctors in Kunduz say that they have received nearly 300 patients since the Taliban first attacked. Now that's more than the hospital can hold, so

patients have been put in offices, and on mattresses on the floor. The international community of the Red Cross confirms that the fighting

continues and says that medical supplies are urgently needed.

Our senior international correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh has more on the Taliban threat in Afghanistan.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDANT: Two different ways you can look at the Taliban. I mean, in the world of ISIS, they're

sort of moderate, you might say. But the world they encouraged in Afghanistan was backward and brutal.

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The Taliban experienced some supports. Some Afghans, after decades of corruption. The Taliban provided a swift and often brutal form of justice.

They've had a grueling long war against the Americans. And I think it was down, I think, to the shear persistence of the US presence there that they

began to find themselves fractured, began to find their command structure damaged. And the death Mullah Omar I think was a moment when many began to

ask, "Well, what is this movement? What is it's future?"

Why are ISIS finding a foothold there? Well, the Taliban have been ground down, have been in a very lengthy, brutal war, they're fractured. So, there

was a space there in which disgruntled Afghan's felt that the Taliban weren't radical enough or perhaps too corrupt, shifted their allegiance

towards ISIS. All of the problem Afghanistan faces is that it been such an extraordinarily lengthy war for the United States. The longest they ever

fought. So, now sustaining public interests, or public support for continued military operations is extraordinarily difficult. So, it will,

most likely see significant resurgence of the Taliban.

The Taliban are a threat because they don't bring stability to Afghanistan. They don't bring the kind of Afghanistan that the West wanted to leave in

its wake after the billions spent there and the thousands of lives, which the West devoted to try and to sort Afghanistan out. But, are the Taliban

plotting this day attacks against the West? Doesn't seem to be the case. Not unless, I mean, something very different is going on that people aren't

aware about.

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STOUT: Nick Paton Walsh there. You're watching NEWSSTREAM and coming up next, violent wind and heavy rain are battering the Bahamas. And now, the

US races from major floods from Hurricane Joaquin.

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STOUT: I'm Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You're watching NEWSSTREAM and these are your world headlines.

It is around 5:30 in the morning in Oregon. Where the search for answers and a motive continues in a mass shooting on a college campus. Police say

nine people were killed when a 26-year old man opened fire at the school. The suspect also died, although it is not clear if he shot himself or was

killed by police.

The US and its partners have a message for Russia. Stop airstrikes on opposition groups and civilians in Syria. They issued a joint statement

late on Thursday. Moscow insists its airstrikes are targeting ISIS and other terror groups in Syria but on Thursday, a rebel commander told CNN

that two Russian airstrikes hit a rebel camp supported by the US.

Two people have been killed in a shooting outside of police headquarters in Sydney, Australia. Police say a man opened fire, killing a civilian

employee as he left work. The gunman then shot at police who returned fire. The man was killed. Police say the attack does not appear to be terror

related but they are not ruling that out.

And, the US government has just released its closely watched jobs report. The US economy added, 142,000 jobs in September. That is far less than

economists expected. The unemployment rate remains at 5.1 percent and do tune in to "World Business Today with Maggie Lake" for analysis of the

numbers, as the reaction on Wall Street. That starts in about 30 minutes from now.

Latest data show the powerful hurricane Joaquin might not make landfall in the US but it's still expected to flood the east coast. Now, this now

category four storm battered the Bahamas when it hit. Winds churned more than 200 kilometers an hour. Some areas were flooded. Several US states

have declared a state of emergency as they prepare for Joaquin's trek up north.

And as the US keeps an eye on Joaquin, on the other side of the globe, right here, there's another storm that's just about to graze past us in

Hong Kong. Now let's go straight to our meteorologist, Allison Chinchar for more.

Allison, first Joaquin, when the storm when it reaches the US east coast, what kind of impact is it going to make.

ALLISON CHINCHAR, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, Kristie, this is actually a very interesting event. Take a look. This is hurricane Joaquin. This is the

first category four hurricane to hit the Bahamas in October, since 1866. We're talking 150 years since they last saw a storm this size in the month

of October. So, very impressive.

Right now, winds still 215 kilometers per hour, gusting up to 260. Obviously, we've got all the hurricane warnings and even some tropical

storm warnings down near the Turks and Caicos. Again, as we continue to expect this. Until it begins really its forward progression. Which is

really won't start to do for at least another 24 hours. Then, the storm really picks up speed and begins to slide up towards Canada.

Now, forecast accumulations still over the next 48 hours are expected to see around two to 400 millimeters in a lot of those areas. Now, as the

storm begins to slide north, we've got this upper low off the coast of Florida. As that begins to shift east, all of this moisture gets funneled

into South Carolina, North Carolina, and much of the east coast. So, that's what's really going to dump a lot of the rain. Here you can kind of see

that plume just kind of focused right there, just pushing more and more rain into the same areas. And that's why we have a lot of the flood and

flash flood watches out. Forecast rainfall amounts. Take a look at Charleston, South Carolina, picking up around 300 millimeters is what it's

estimated to pick up.

Now, on the other side of the world, we have tropical depression Mujigae. Now, again, now about 65 kilometers per hour. Not necessarily the strongest

of the storms, but it will continue to slide to the west and northwest, near Hiko and just south of Hong Kong. Now, as it does, it is expected to

dump a pretty significant amount of rain as it begins to slide there. Also, the winds. Even though it will be just slightly south of Hong Kong, the

winds and the rainfall estimates are still expected to be quite impressive.

Take a look here. Just on the south side of Hong Kong, we're talking about two to 400 millimeters of rain and then the winds, again. That's going to

be a big impact kind of in between Hiko and Hong Kong. Kristie, we're talking winds between 80 to 100 kilometers per hour. So, still very

impressive.

STOUT: All right, Allison Chinchar there tracking two storms for us. Thank you very much indeed Allison.

The Vatican is now explaining that meeting between Pope Francis and a controversial County Clerk in the United States. Earlier this week, a

lawyer for Kim Davis claimed that the pontiff had a private meeting with his client, who earlier spent time in jail for refusing to grant marriage

licenses to same sex couples.

The Vatican has clarified that Davis was one of several dozen people invited to greet Pope Francis in Washington. In his statement, the Vatican

says, "... his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects" -- unqoute.

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You're watching NEWSSTREAM.

And still to come, Barack Obama expresses deep frustration after yet another mass shooting in the United States, saying, "Thoughts and prayers

are not enough."

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STOUT: Now, more now on that massacre at an Oregon community college. It is the latest in a string of mass shootings in the United States, in which

dozens of men, women, and children have been gunned down over the years while simply going about their daily lives. On Thursday, President Barack

Obama offered prayers for the victims but he said, "Prayers are not enough."

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PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Somehow this has become routine. The reporting is routine, my response, here at this podium, ends up being routine, the

conversation in the aftermath of it. We've become numb to this. We've talked about this after Columbine, and Blacksburg, after Tucson, after

Newtown, after Aurora, after Charleston. It cannot be this easy for somebody who wants to inflict harm on other people to get his or her hands

on a gun.

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STOUT: A visibly upset President Obama there, renewing his call for tougher gun laws in the United States. And he said, "If you want to accuse

him of politicizing the situation, go ahead." Now, for more on the story, let's go straight to CNN's Jim Acosta who joins us live from the White

House. And Jim, on the back of yet another mass shooting in America, a very angry, almost visceral response from the US President.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDANT: That's right and you heard the President say in the briefing room of the White House yesterday

evening, Kristie, that we need to politicize this. That he plans on politicizing this and that every time one of these mass shooting incidents

happen, he is going to come out to the podium and make roughly the same statement, the same call to action for gun control.

And I can tell you, for covering this White House the last couple of years, Kristie, this is a source of deep frustration for this President. He has

said in recent interviews that this may be the most frustrating part of his job. That he has not been able to pass and sign into law new gun control

legislation. They tried to do this, for our viewers around the world who are watching and trying to figure out why this keeps happening here, the

President tried to get this done after the Newtown tragedy, the shooting of more than 20 children at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,

Connecticut.

Gun control legislation was passed that would have brought about a universal background check system. But when it got to the Senate, it bogged

down and was defeated. It was called the Manchin-Toomey Amendment and it lost by a handful of votes, including some Democrats. And so, this got very

close to becoming law, it just did not happen. And since then, the President has tried to do through executive action what he can't do via

law, and that is to tighten up the background check system in this country. But Democrats feel as though they just can't get that done with the

Republican controlled Congress.

Now, we should point out, Democrats have been leery of taking on this issue in recent years. You know, President Obama, when he ran for president back

in 2008, did not really campaign on gun control because Democrats feared it was a losing issue in rural areas.

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But that is starting to change. Hilary Clinton tweeted yesterday in the aftermath of this shooting tragedy in Oregon that the country does need to

pass new gun control laws. And she's been going after this issue pretty hard. So, a political shift is happening and the Democrats are starting to

talk about this issue more and more. But it may not change the political calculus up on Capitol Hill, when you have Republicans in charge. They are

just not going to be eager to pass any kind of gun control legislation.

STOUT: Yes, political shift is happening but the US President's powerless to act. No wonder he couldn't hide his anger and frustration. Jim Acosta

reporting live for us from the White House. Thank you.

And that is NEWSSTREAM. I'm Kristie Lu Stout. We'll have the latest developments from the Oregon campus shooting in about 15 minutes, including

an update from the hospital, where at least some of the wounded are being treated. You're watching CNN.

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AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORTS ANCHOR: Hello. Welcome along to CNN WORLD SPORT, live from London, with me, Amanda Davies.

We're going to start with the Rugby World Cup news because England's now know that they must beat Australia in Saturday's parlay clash or they'll

become the first host nation to fail to reach the knockout stage of the competition. That's after Wales took a huge step closer to the quarter

finals with victory over Fiji.

Captain Sam Warburton said it was one of the hardest games of his career. Coming just five days after their win over England. His side won it, 23

points to 13, with a two first half tries(ph). The first one from scrum half Gareth Davies, then from hooker, Scott Baldwin. A 13 points came from

the boot of fly half Dan Biggar as well. To move the Welch to the top of Group A.

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WARREN GATLAND, RUGBY COACH, WALES: We had a short turn away and thought we played pretty well and dominated in the first half. We had scored on

half time, then maybe the game would have opened up a bit more.

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To me, it was about winning the game and the courage that we displayed it was the most important thing for me. And we had to dig deep as we did last

week and it shows the character of this group of players at the moment.

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DAVIES: And the digging deep was worthwhile because this is how pool A looks, Wales top. So Wales will go through to the quarter finals if England

fails to beat Australia at Twickenham on Saturday. But, all three of those sides of the top there can still progress.

Let's cross live now to Twickenham, where England's have been training ahead of that must-win match on Saturday. Alex Thomas is there for us.

Alex, does the Wales result last night in any way change how England go into the game?

ALEX THOMAS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDANT: I think a little bit, Amanda. It just really clarifies them that they have to beat Australia. There is a

combination results, I believe, where England can draw against Australia and still qualify for the remaining matches. But they don't want to get

down to that sort of nitty-gritty - Don't worry, that's the police van going, something completely random. They're not going to carry the England

coach, Stuart Lancaster away. Even though he is under huge pressure having not won anything of note since taking over after the last World Cup

campaign, which was also miserable for England under Martin Johnson, who had been their captain in 2003.

The other man under pressure is England's captain. On the field, Chris Robshaw. If there is a change in coach, will he stay on as skipper? And he

still getting over that dreadful call last week in the defeat against Wales.

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CHRIS ROBSHAW, RUGBY CAPTAIN, ENGLAND: You have to rob move in this game don't you? And it's about kind of getting back on your feet, getting

straight back out there and we're in a muscling game right now. You can't sit and sulk for too long because you'll let it affect our performances. We

can't, you know, we've got to go out this weekend and perform and we can't dwell too much on last weekend.

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THOMAS: Amanda, this is a record breaking Rugby World Cup so far, or certainly on course for it. We've had more than a million people watch the

game so far after that Wales-Fiji match, at Cardiff Millennium Stadium. More than 400,000 going to Fans Own to watch it. The organizers are loving

it, but if the host nation go out, it's going to put a huge dampener on all receding's, with weeks of this tournament to go.

DAVIES: Absolutely. With all the focus on England and their performances, Australia arguably have just been left to quietly get on with their

business. Maybe not from the Australian media, but from large sections of the rest of the rugby media. How confident do you think they'll be of

causing an upset?

THOMAS: Very confident. And that was a real market difference in move, from the Australian training camp that we witnessed on Thursday over at

Dulwich College, which is about an hours drive away from us in South London. Where the Wallabies look relaxed, they look confident, they were

smiling with each other, going through their drills without too many problems. Compared to the England camp here in Twickenham, a few hours ago,

where the came out onto the field for their practice on the eve of the match against Australia. Very, very quiet. No banter at all.

And I think Australia would certainly love to get revenge, if you like, on England. They lost the Rugby World Cup final on home soil to England in

2003. Yes, it's been a while since then. No players are still in the current England team of course. However, they would love, I think, the

Australians to knock England out of their home Rugby World Cup. And since the change of coach a year ago, they're looking very good indeed.

Particularly, Michael Hooper is now vice-captain, he was captain earlier in the year. And Pocock in the back row looking very, very dangerous.

Australia made 14 changes from the team that absolutely thrashed Uruguay, Amanda. And that just shows the strength and depth that they have.

DAVIES: Absolutely Alex. Stuart Lancaster, you mentioned hopefully not heading off in that ambulance. Mentioned that he's not thinking about what

defeat would mean. But, what would you think would be the consequences of an England defeat, not only in terms of this tournament, of course?

THOMAS: I think he'd have to go. And that's a bit of a shame, really. Because this is someone that has come almost from outside the ranks. The

RFU resistant course of bringing back in Sir Clive Woodward for example, the man that coached England to success in 2003. Lancaster revitalized the

England rugby brand, making the team train around the country, getting more support, really, for the team that had been seen as rather arrogant under

Martin Johnson, four years ago. He's been very firm with the discipline. But, and he's been very honest with the media. But that will go out the

window if England crash out of the four saviors(ph). Because that will be far and away their worse ever Rugby World Cup result. - Amanda.

DAVIES: Absolutely. Alex, thanks very much indeed. England-Australia of course takes place on Saturday.

The defending champions though, New Zealand know that victory against Georgia later on Friday will see them qualify for the quarter finals. And

despite two wins and two, Captain Richie McCaw has called for his side to step up their performance.

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The All Blacks have beaten Argentina and Namibia so far. But, McCaw says his side have raised their game in training, to work on a few things that

they found disappointing in their opening encounters. They're up against a Georgia side who aren't expected to cause them any problems, but they know

they can't let themselves down.

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RICHIE MCCAW, RUGBY CAPTAIN, NEW ZEALAND: Yes, we understand that we're up against the Georgia. We have had a look at them. But our main focus has

been about making sure we've got our game spot on. Because it needs to go up a little. And I think that the excitement that we've got from that is

enough really.

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DAVIES: And don't forget, you can join Alex and the team for CNN World Rugby later on Friday. It's on at 11:30 pm London time. And throughout the

weekend. Only here, on CNN.

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DAVIES: Welcome back. The Chelsea boss, Jose Mourinho has admitted that he's going through the worst period of his career with the worst results of

his career. We've known that he's under pressure, but Mourinho's been speaking ahead of his sides Premier League encounter against South Hampton.

It's a match he goes into with a lot of questions being asked after defeat in Europe in the midweek. His side is in 14th in the Premier League table

and lots of talk of dressing room unrest. But the host of Football Ramble, Marcus Speller told me, why all of the upheaval could be a good thing for

Chelsea.

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MARCUS SPELLER, REPORTER, THE FOOTBALL RAMBLE PODCAST: There seems to be a little bit of unrest in the camp, that's what they're saying in the Eva

Carneiro situation that happened obviously a month ago or so has not helped matters. So Mourinho needs to jeez(ph) his troops up a bit more. He likes

it when they go out into battle for him. He often talks like he's an Army general or something. And if the players are maybe a little bit emotionally

drained, or are not believing in the manager so much this season, he needs to turn that around desperately.

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DAVIES: Well, in terms of the other games this weekend. Liverpool faces Everton in the derby, that's Sunday. Perhaps the biggest game in the

Premier League, the one at the Emirates as Arsenal face the league leaders, Manchester United.

In Spain, the Barcelona Manager, Luis Enrique will be trying to cobble together a side to be competitive against Sevilla. They play their third

game in seven days. A host of injuries for Barca. And it's third versus fifth in the Madrid derby on Sunday.

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And in Germany, the match people are billing as the Bundesliga title decider are all ready and we're not even at Christmas. Bayern Munich

against Brusher Dortmund.

But that is it from me and the team for this edition of WORLD SPORT. Thanks for watching. I'm Amanda Davies in London. I'll be back with more in just

under two hours time. But "World Business Today with Maggie Lake", from New York is next. Goodbye.

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