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One Person Killed, 15 Hurt in Aleppo Hospital Bombing; Hungarian Vote on EU Migrant Quotas. Aired 2-2:30a ET
Aired October 02, 2016 - 02:00 ET
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[02:00:11] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: A hospital in Aleppo is bombed for the second time in a week as Russia gives a new warning to the U.S.
Haiti and Jamaica prepare for Hurricane Matthew, the strongest Atlantic storm in nearly a decade.
And a major issue in the U.S. presidential race gets even bigger. What a "New York Times" report says about Donald Trump's tax records from 1995.
It's all ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM. We're live in Atlanta. Thanks for joining us. I'm Natalie Allen.
Russia has a warning for the U.S. Don't try any attacks on the Syrian army or be ready for negative consequences across the Middle East. This as intense fighting between rebel and Syrian Army forces grips the besieged city of Aleppo.
Ben Wedeman reports a key hospital became a target for the second time in less than one week.
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The nightmare of Aleppo continues unabated. On Saturday morning warplanes hit what is known as the M-10 Hospital in eastern Aleppo, the part of the city controlled by the rebels, inhabited by as many as 250,000 people. According to officials from the Syrian-American Medical Society that runs the hospital, it was hit with two barrel bombs, two cluster bombs, and a missile. One person was killed, several were injured, and now that hospital, the largest surgical hospital in eastern Aleppo, is out of service.
Now this is a hospital where a few days ago during other air attacks on eastern Aleppo, 160 casualties arrived at that hospital. But because of the extreme shortage of medicine, medical supplies and medical staff they had to set up a triage system. In other words, those who were severely wounded were simply left to die.
Now according to an activist in Aleppo we spoke to over the last week, at least 1500 people have been wounded in air strikes and other activity. The World Health Organization worries that many of them if they are not evacuated from eastern Aleppo will die. In the meantime, as many as 10,000 Syrian regime-led troops are poised
on the outskirts of the eastern part of the city to go in, to launch a ground offensive, in which case the situation, which is already beyond dire, will get even worse, if that's possible.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Baghdad.
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ALLEN: Haiti and Jamaica are bracing for Hurricane Matthew. You see people here in Kingston, Jamaica stocking up on supplies. The slow- moving storm is set to be Jamaica's first major hurricane in nearly three decades. The island is under a hurricane warning and evacuations have been ordered for parts of the southern coast.
Derek Van Dam is here with more on the storm's progress. It was category 5 yesterday but 4 today but --
DEREK VAN DAM, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Weakened slightly. But, you know, what's astounding is that we actually have two major life-threatening typhoons and hurricanes on opposite sides of the planet. 1500 kilometers separate these two storms. You've got Matthew in the Caribbean Sea which you were just talking about, threatening Haiti and Jamaica, but we have typhoon Chaba that is threatening much of the Ryukyu Islands, those are southern Japanese islands.
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[02:06:03] VAN DAM: Where it goes from there, that's the big question because we have lots of computer models saying that it could impact the East Coast of the United States or it could hopefully, Natalie, veer away from the U.S.
ALLEN: And that would be the first of the week.
VAN DAM: That would -- that's right. The first of the week.
ALLEN: All right. All right, Derek, thank you.
VAN DAM: Thanks, Natalie.
ALLEN: We turn to the U.S. election now. Republican candidate Donald Trump has refused to share his tax returns for months now. On Saturday documents from two decades ago gave the public a fresh glimpse into his finances.
"The New York Times" obtained state tax records from 1995, when they were mailed to a "New York Times" reporter. The documents show Trump declaring a loss of $916 million. If true, that kind of loss could have legally exempted him from paying federal income taxes for years.
CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the documents. The Trump campaign released this statement in response. "Mr. Trump is a highly skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family, and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required." The statement went on to say Trump had paid all manner of taxes as
well as charitable contributions.
The Clinton campaign is seizing on the "New York Times" report calling it a bombshell. The Trump camp says the report just proves the paper is an extension of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
And Trump is trying to win over Bernie Sanders' young supporters. He's using a speech by Hillary Clinton to do it. A conservative Web site posted audio of the speech back in February. It says it was obtained from a Clinton campaign staffer's hacked e-mail.
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HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Some are new to politics completely. They're children of the great recession. And they are living in their parents' basement. They feel that they got their education and the jobs are available to them are not at all what they envisioned for themselves. And they don't see much of a future.
I think we all should be very understanding of that and we should try to do the best we can not to be, you know, a wet blanket on idealism. You want people to be idealistic. You want them to set big goals. But to take what we can achieve now and try to present them as bigger goals.
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ALLEN: Trump is accusing Clinton of mocking Sanders and his supporters with her reference to younger voters living in their parents' basement.
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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Hillary Clinton thinks Bernie Sanders supporters are hopeless and ignorant basement dwellers. Then, of course, she thinks people who vote for and follow us are deplorable and irredeemable. I don't think so.
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ALLEN: The Clinton campaign is disputing Trump's interpretation of what she said. It issued a statement noting, "As Hillary Clinton said in those remarks, she wants young people to be idealistic and set big goals. She is fighting for exactly what the millennial generation cares most about, a fairer, more equal, just world."
Hungarians are heading to the polls to vote in a controversial referendum. They'll have to decide whether to accept or reject the European Union's migrant quotas. There is a high probability the plan will be rejected.
CNN's Erin McLaughlin has more for us from London.
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ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the subject of a slick government-backed media campaign. And the message is clear.
This ad talks of the perils of Europe's migrant crisis. How many of them are masked terrorists, it asks. Urging people to reject the EU's refugee resettlement plan. The subject of Sunday's referendum.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made it no secret how he wants things to go.
VIKTOR ORBAN, HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER (Through Translator): We lose our European values and identity the way frogs are cooked in slowly heating water. Quite simply, slowly there will be more and more Muslims and we will no longer recognize Europe.
[02:10:12] MCLAUGHLIN: In Budapest Orban's campaign is seemingly everywhere. Posters warn of the dangers of accepting migrants. Leaflets label various European capitals no-go zones due to high levels of immigrants.
With this kind of media offensive it's perhaps hardly surprising that a majority no vote is widely expected, although some opposition groups are calling for a boycott.
(On camera): Under the EU agreement reached last fall Hungary would only have to accept 1,294 migrants. That said, the outcome to this referendum is not legally binding and does nothing to reverse existing EU legislation. So why is Orban bothering to have a referendum at all?
JOHN DALHUISEN, EUROPE DIRECTOR, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: This is a piece of international PR. This is international marketing. He's selling himself as the ideologue of a radically different immigration policy to how he's characterized Merkel is saying let them come and he's saying the solution to a refugee crisis, to the migration issues in Europe is let no one come.
MCLAUGHLIN (voice-over): Last year tens of thousands of migrants crossed the Hungarian-Serbian border to get to Germany. There was footage of a Hungarian camerawoman tripping migrants. And clashes at the border.
In response the government erected a razor-wire fence, began to recruit thousands of so-called border hunters. It's even arrested and tried migrants on terrorism charges.
ORBAN (Through Translator): What we have seen so far from the people's migration have only been warm-up rounds. The real battle is yet to come.
DALHUISEN: This is what he wants people to believe and this is what he sees as being a primary generator of his remaining in power and populist parties across Europe likewise taking over the reins of power.
MCLAUGHLIN: With populism on the rise and European values challenged, the question is, where does that leave the European Union?
Erin McLaughlin, CNN, London.
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ALLEN: And that is CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Natalie Allen.
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