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Peshmerga Forces Said to be Within 8 KM of Mosul; Abortion Restrictions Protested in Poland; Government Supporters Storm Venezuelan Congress; Trump Lays Out Agenda in Gettysburg Speech; Pub Politics in the U.S. Presidential Race; British Banker on Trial for Murder in Hong Kong; The Backstory of a Striking Photograph. Aired 12- 1a ET

Aired October 24, 2016 - 00:00   ET

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[00:00:10] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Closing in on Mosul's doorstep, Kurdish fighters in Iraq say they are mere kilometers from the ISIS-held city.

Clearing out what's known as the jungle, French authorities prepare to tear down a migrant camp in Calais.

Plus, pub politics in the U.S. -- Our Richard Quest takes his American quest to Florida and gives the unfiltered state of the race at local watering holes.

Hello and welcome, everyone. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN NEWSROOM.

Nearly a week of fighting with ISIS in Iraq has brought Kurdish Peshmerga forces to within eight kilometers of Mosul. The advance has been faster than expected, but the fighting has been fierce.

Here a close-up view of Peshmerga forces opening fire on an approaching ISIS vehicle.

Two Peshmerga factions were able to secure a major stretch of the Bashiqa Mosul highway limiting the militants' movement.

And our Michael Holmes is near Mosul. He joins us now with the latest developments.

And Michael, this has been a tough battle for Iraqi and Peshmerga forces to get this close to Mosul so quickly. What were the major challenges they encountered along the way and what impact have they likely had on ISIS so far?

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, you're right -- Rosemary.

It hasn't been easy, but both Iraqi and Peshmerga leaders say that they're on schedule or ahead of schedule. It seems quite extraordinary that the forward Peshmerga positions are now within about eight kilometers of Mosul, or the outskirts of Mosul. That came after a pretty successful day for Iraqi and Kurdish forces yesterday. They took a very important town, Al Hamda Damir (ph) which is just to the southeast of Mosul. They took another place called Tal Akif (ph) which is to the north and near where we are, Bashiqa. As you pointed out, a very significant win, if you like, for the Peshmerga.

What they did was they came in from a couple of directions and surrounded this area of Bashiqa including the town and eight villages. About 100 square kilometers of territory that they managed to secure. They celebrated surrounding the town just after dawn here now. We've already been hearing some artillery going into the town and we can expect them to probe in there and start take on the ISIS fighters inside.

But it's all part of this sort of -- what they've done also by taking Bashiqa is they've cut the main road from Mosul to this area, and that's going to mean obviously no resupply and no movement of those ISIS fighters. They're not getting out of there.

One of the Kurdish commanders said yesterday when asked about the fighters inside the town, he said they are bad men, they will die. So you can see the determination here. We're on a forward base here and able to sort of see the action of the men. And they're very determined to get in there and clear this area -- all part of encircling Mosul and then sort of choking it off if you like before they make that push in.

That push in, though, is going to be a very difficult affair -- Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes, let's talk about that and what has helped this advance on ISIS move faster than expected and what's ahead for Iraqi and Peshmerga forces as they move into Mosul in the days ahead. Of course we're talking about urban warfare here, aren't we?

HOLMES: Yes. Once they get into Mosul it's going to be a very different affair. Let's face it, ISIS has been in there for two years. They've had plenty of time to fortify their defenses.

There's this theory that they may move from the east of the city down to the west where the old city is, very narrow streets. The sort of vehicles we see barreling across open desert here isn't going to happen when they get into Mosul. They're not going to be able to take a lot of those armored vehicles down those side streets.

And as we've seen in the past in Iraq in places like Fallujah, urban combat is a very different affair to going through villages and taking open territory. And of course, there is the issue of civilians -- perhaps 200,000, perhaps 300,000 civilians still inside Mosul. And only a few thousand have managed to get out and get to some of the camps that have been set up.

But even though they're ahead of schedule or on schedule, the resistance has been pretty tough in various places. And there's also been another side issue to that --

[00:05:02]CHURCH: All right. We appear to have lost our audio there. Michael Holmes, just after 7:00 in the morning, reporting from near Mosul -- bringing us up to date on the latest there. We'll have more on that a little later.

The bombing of eastern Aleppo has resumed after a humanitarian cease- fire ended. It appears few if any people actually left the besieged neighborhood during the lull in fighting. Rebels and residents contacted by CNN said they were not budging largely out of mistrust of Syria and Russia. The area has about 250,000 residents who are trapped by government troops.

And fighting has also escalated in Yemen's capital just hours after the U.N. special envoy for the country urged all sides to renew a three-day cease-fire. Saudi coalition warplanes reportedly targeted several Houthi rebel positions in Sana'a Sunday. At least 10,000 people have been killed in Yemen's 19-month-old civil war.

And tensions are high in the French migrant camp known as the jungle, where authorities will begin evicting migrants in just a few hours from now. Migrants threw stones at police and built a barricade of burning tires late Sunday. Officers fired back with tear gas.

Authorities are giving migrants their two options -- seek asylum in France or return to their home countries. But many don't want to register as refugees in France because they prefer to settle in Britain.

Well, the French Interior Ministry says there are almost 7,000 migrants in the camp located near the French entrance to the Euro tunnel. That number includes about 1,300 children and 300 families. French officials say the residents will be relocated to small shelters around the country, each housing 100 to 300 people.

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FABIENNE BUCCIO, PAS-DE-CALAIS, REGIONAL PREFECT (through translator): We set up a special processing system. This took a long time -- a very particular processing system for the minors. So there will be a specific registration for minors tomorrow at the SAS sorting center by a French-British team that will take charge of them. Then all these children, all these minors will be taken to the temporary welcome center where they will be accommodated, hosted within the migrant camp on the moor at the temporary welcome center.

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CHURCH: The United Nations says at least 200 of the unaccompanied children in Calais have family links to the United Kingdom.

CNN's Melissa Bell spoke to two boys who say they've been waiting too long to leave France.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tents as far as the eye can see -- the jungle in Calais will soon be no more. Its 1,300 unaccompanied children are hoping that means they'll soon be in the U.K. like 14- year-old Muhammad, who crossed 12 countries in 75 days with just one idea in mind.

MUHAMMAD, MIGRANT: I want to join to my uncle. I'm so tired here. I have -- I left more than one year ago but I don't arrive to my uncle yet. I love football. I want to play football. And I want to rest in peace.

BELL: So far though, he says he's had no help from authorities. He's been trying to get to the U.K. for a year now, waiting in a camp where he says only the most brutal survive.

MUHAMMAD: I will never forget. It's all here in my head because it's been so hard for me.

BELL: Riyaz (ph)is also 14 and from Afghanistan. He too has family waiting for him in England. But three months ago he left the camp and sought refuge with a local NGO. After eight months on the road he finally found a place to rest and much more.

RIYAZ, MIGRANT: They teach us French. We study here. They give us some money for our needs to buy clothes, to buy pants, shirts, like this. And we are just waiting here to go to England.

BELL: But Riyaz says he's been waiting too long. He's also worried that in leaving the jungle he may have made a mistake. So many of his friends, he says, have already left to start their new life on the other side of the channel.

Melissa Bell, CNN -- Calais.

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CHURCH: Women's rights activists plan to be back on the streets across Poland on Monday. They were out demonstrating on Sunday against planned abortion restrictions.

They told CNN's Nic Robertson they'll keep protesting until lawmakers in Warsaw get the message. Here's his report.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: This protest comes several weeks after several hundred thousand people across the country protested about tougher abortion laws the government was planning to introduce. They managed to get that knocked back.

[00:10:04] Now, this crowd is much, much smaller but they're here pushing the issues of women in Poland. They're not getting a fair shake, they say.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We already won.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We already won with the government when the government attempted to ban abortion in any case except the severe risk to women's lives. But we see that the situation is -- may repeat itself.

This is why we are protesting. We need to be recognized as full citizens with our full rights.

ROBERTSON: Although this crowd is much smaller, perhaps just several thousand, there is a real sense here they've got some momentum, that their voices are being heard, that they can make change.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At least they withdrew the scandalous law that was being discussed then. But knowing Kaczynski (ph), we know that this is not his final step and he will think of something new in order to divide us. This is what I don't like, right?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a very important sign that we are able to organize ourselves. But this can be also misleading because this is only one thing and we really have to fight again and again because the comments of the government after the process weren't really reassuring in any way.

ROBERTSON: Protests are planned not just here in Warsaw but in hundreds of communities across the country, right down to small villages. No one here is expecting change to happen quickly or easily. But as one lady said to us here, if you mess with a woman you're never going to win.

Nic Robertson, CNN -- Warsaw, Poland.

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CHURCH: Political passions boiled over in Venezuela's congress. Why supporters of the president stormed the national assembly -- coming up on CNN NEWSROOM.

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CHURCH: Chaos disrupted Venezuela's congress Sunday. Government supporters stormed the chamber to confront opposition lawmakers and reporters. Venezuelans have endured severe economic hardship and massive shortages for months. Now lawmakers have announced they plan to push for impeachment proceedings.

More from Rafael Romo.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The national assembly was holding a special session Sunday with the purpose of finding a solution to the country's political crisis. Shortly after noon a group of government supporters, some of them reportedly armed, stormed the assembly building after overwhelming security and breaking across barriers.

Opposition legislators told CNN that some of the people who broke into the assembly meeting hall committed acts of vandalism. Others, the legislators said, stole cell phones from opposition lawmakers, throwing punches and pushing their way into the main floor while security guards unsuccessfully tried to stop them.

Some journalists covering the meeting said their cameras and phones were also stolen. Pro-government legislators were finally able to convince the protesters to stop the attack and leave the building.

The opposition is trying to find a way to oust President Nicolas Maduro as Venezuela continues to battle an economic crisis and massive shortages of food and medicine. Maduro refuses to hold a recall- referendum on his presidency. His opponents say he has violated democracy in his own country.

Twelve members of the organization of American states including the United States signed a letter Friday calling for a dialogue to preserve peace in Venezuela.

Rafael Romo, CNN -- Atlanta.

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CHURCH: We are just over two weeks away from the U.S. Presidential election, and Donald Trump has a lot of ground to make up. A new ABC News poll shows Hillary Clinton with a 12-point lead; she's at 50 percent with Trump at 38 percent. The latest CNN poll of polls also shows a wide lead for the Democratic candidate; Clinton's at 48 percent while Trump has just 39 percent.

Now, Donald Trump recently said he no longer believes in the polls. But his campaign manager acknowledged Sunday on NBC that they are behind in the race.

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KELLYANNE CONWAY, TRUMP CAMPAIGN MANAGER: We are behind. She has some advantages like $66 million in ad buys just in the month of September, thereby doubling her ad buys from August. Most of those ads are negative against Donald Trump's classic politics of personal destruction, cesspool kind of ads.

And she has tremendous advantages. She has a former president who happens to be her husband campaigning for her; the current president and first lady, vice president -- all much more popular than she can hope to be. But she's seen as the incumbent.

So our advantage going in we were behind one, three, four points in some of these swing states that Mitt Romney lost to President Obama -- Chuck. Our advantage is that Donald Trump is just going to continue to take the case directly to the people. He doesn't expect to be able to cut through the noise or the silence and the way we're treated by some.

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CHURCH: Julian Zelizer joins us now from New Jersey via Skype. He is a historian and professor at Princeton University. Thank you, sir, for being with us.

JULIAN ZELIZER, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Thank you.

CHURCH: Now, as you wrote in your opinion piece for CNN.com, everyone has been scratching their heads trying to make sense of Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg on Saturday where President Abraham Lincoln spoke in an effort to unite the nation. What exactly was Trump trying to achieve, do you think?

ZELIZER: Yes, I think initially everyone thought he would give a message of unity and argue how he might heal the divisions in the nation. But that's not what he ended up doing.

In addition to his policies he was very combative. He talked again about a rigged system. He threatened the women who were accusing him of sexual harassment.

[00:20:00]And I think the image he wanted to portray was not Lincoln the healer but really to talk about himself as really leading a battle in a civil war. And that was the message.

And I think in some ways he conveyed it. I don't think it's a winning one but that's what he was trying to do.

CHURCH: Interesting. And of course Trump keeps insisting that this election will be rigged.

Let's just listen for a moment to what he was saying about this very topic just on Sunday.

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DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: My message is this. If we win on November 8th, we are going to fix our rigged system. It's a rigged, broken corrupt system. It's rigged. It's broken. It's corrupt. They want me to take that back. Let me tell you, folks, it's a rigged system. And we are going to drain the swamp of corruption in Washington, D.C.

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CHURCH: Ok. So let's fact-check that point that he kept pushing there. Just how vulnerable is the U.S. electoral system to any form of rigging? And why do you think he keeps laboring this point?

ZELIZER: Well, the last point is different. The last point is about corruption and campaign finance and there's many people who argue that there are problems in the political system.

The first argument is what he's been talking about now for a month. And it's that the system is literally rigged, that there is a concerted effort by the media and politicians to throw the election to Hillary Clinton. There is no evidence of this. It is very hard to conceive of that happening in our very decentralized and fragmented political system. It's simply based on speculation.

What he's trying to do? He's trying to justify a loss. At the same time that he's trying to energize his supporters to claim that, as we said, he's fighting a bigger fight, not just for his election but against a broken system.

CHURCH: And recent polls indicate that support for Trump is slipping. Even his campaign manager Kellyanne Conway acknowledges that.

But Trump rejects the numbers, calls them inaccurate. What do you think these numbers show us? And why are we seeing this slide in support for him at this time as the election draws ever closer?

ZELIZER: Well, the numbers are pretty striking. Most polls show Hillary Clinton pulling away at a very significant lead right now. And more important in the Electoral College battle, in most of the key battleground states right now he is losing and he's even potentially competitive now, or she's competitive in very conservative states. So the data is pretty clear that he's not having a very successful campaign.

Look, ever since the convention it was the time he had to broaden his constituency. He had to move beyond his core supporters and add supporters. And he hasn't done much to do that. And so the math in some ways is pretty simple. And the allegations that came out after the Access Hollywood tape and various women accusing him of sexual assault I think has really damaged and prevented any ability to expand his electoral appeal.

CHURCH: Right. Julian Zelizer -- many thanks to you for joining us. We do appreciate it. Less than three weeks to go for these elections.

ZELIZER: Thank you very much.

CHURCH: And all this week our Richard Quest is taking his American quest to the Sunshine State as the presidential nominees continue their campaigning in Florida. He's traveling across the battleground state chatting with American workers about the election and their chosen candidates. And Quest paid a visit to a local pub in Tallahassee where politics has become the typical conversation among patrons.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's always said that when it comes to the Presidential election, Florida is really seven states in one. And the perfect place to test that theory is here, at Poor Paul's Pourhouse on a Saturday night. The beer is ridiculously cheap and the views are expressed at great volume.

Of course, it's too simplistic to say that one part of Florida is always for Trump and another part for Clinton. As you're about to hear, the reality is that they are keen on neither but they feel the need to vote either.

Poor Paul's prides itself on its local welcome and the chief drinks. Here students and locals come to put the world to rights. And with voting less than two weeks away the election is never far from bar talk.

Who are you voting for?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton.

QUEST: Did you think about voting for Donald Trump?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never vote -- never thought about that at all.

QUEST: Maybe it's the bar. Perhaps it's the booze. But it's not long before Donald Trump's supporters make themselves known.

[00:25:02] UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Donald Trump is much better than Hillary. So we don't have much choice.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, why?

QUEST: So is it a pro-Trump vote or an anti-Hillary vote?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She's not Hillary. Get her out of here.

QUEST: Sorry?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get Hillary out of here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't like Hillary.

QUEST: Why not?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because she ripped us off once. Why give her another chance?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's a liar and a murderer.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looked what Clinton did. He made this country money with the Hillary cigars.

QUEST: Before we know it there's a full-throated argument under way.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god. You people are crazy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm giving a vote of no confidence because I don't -- I don't think either candidate is suitable.

QUEST: By the time you get to November the 8th which way are you going to go?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Backwards. Either way you vote you're going backwards.

QUEST: Who are you going to vote for?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who am I going to vote for? I'm not going to vote for either one of them.

QUEST: Donald or Hillary? Here they are not voting for one. They're voting against the other.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to vote for Trump.

QUEST: You know my next question is why.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because Hillary's kind of a nasty woman -- I think he called her.

QUEST: The evening's getting late. The bar is getting more crowded. And on a Saturday night they want to drink to forget the election. We take our leave.

Richard Quest, CNN -- Tallahassee, Florida.

Poor Paul's Pourhouse. Try saying that after you've imbibed a few of their beverages. Tomorrow we will be in the middle of the state just outside Orlando. Follow our travels and send me your questions and your thoughts. It is #FloridaQuest.

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CHURCH: All right. Make sure you do that.

Well, politicians are weighing in on the proposed AT&T takeover of Time Warner. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders both said the deal is dangerous to consumers and should be killed. That sort of reaction is expected to prompt the Senate subcommittee on antitrust to examine the deal especially closely starting next month. But the Justice Department could have the final say. Hillary Clinton has so far remained silent on the $85 billion purchase. And by the way, Time Warner is the parent company of CNN.

Well, there's a major development in the shocking double murder case against a former British banker in Hong Kong. That is coming up in just a moment with a live report.

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[00:31:02] CHURCH: And a very warm welcome back to our viewers all around the world. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM, and I'm Rosemary Church.

Let's bring you up-to-date on the main stories we've been watching very closely this hour.

Iraqi and Kurdish forces are making gains faster than expected in their offensive to retake Mosul from ISIS. Commanders say Peshmerga forces are within eight kilometers of the Iraqi City. The forces secured a major stretch of the Bashiqa Mosul highway limiting the militants' movement.

The bombing of Eastern Aleppo has resumed after a temporary humanitarian cease-fire ended. The top U.N. human rights official calls the siege a bombardment of the area, quote, "Crimes of Historic Proportions" and accuses all parties of violating international humanitarian law in Syria.

Clashes have intensified in Calais, France as authorities prepare to clear out the migrant camp known as The Jungle in about an hour and a half. Tires were set ablaze and migrants threw stones at riot police. Refugees at Calais can either seek asylum in France or return to their home countries.

We want to return -- we want to go to Hong Kong now and a double murder case that shocked the city because of its savagery. A former British banker accused of killing two women in his luxury apartment has just entered a plea of not guilty.

Malika Kapur joins us now live from outside the courthouse.

And, Malika, bring us up-to-date, if you would, on what exactly happened to these two Indonesian women who were killed in 2014, and what happens now given the British banker has pleaded not guilty.

MALIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Well, a jury has been chosen. It's a nine-member jury. And they have just started deliberations about ten minutes ago. I am right outside of the high court, where these proceedings are taking place.

Now, earlier this morning, the former British banker came to the court here and he pleaded, as you said, not guilty to double counts of murder, but he did plead guilty to two charges of manslaughter.

Now, the prosecution says that they are going to do whatever they can to prove that he is guilty of murder, of two counts of murder, which is the more serious offense.

And Jutting also pleaded guilty to unlawful burial this morning, which basically refers to the way a victim's body was found in his apartment two years ago, which was stuffed inside a suitcase

Now, let's just take a minute here, and I want to bring you up-to- date with the events that have brought us to today's trial.

Two young women found brutally murdered in a Hong Kong apartment. One lying on the floor with her throat slashed, the second stuffed inside a suitcase on the balcony.

Police made the gruesome discovery on the 31st floor of a luxury residential building in the Wan Chai area, known for its bars, nightlife, and its red light district.

The man who called police to the scene in the early hours one Saturday in November two years ago now stands accused of the murders. Rurik Jutting, a 31-year-old Cambridge graduate had been working as an investment banker in Hong Kong.

According to LinkedIn, Jutting worked for Barclays in London, then Bank of America, Merrill Lynch before transferring with the company to Hong Kong. He was described by colleagues as a smart, normal guy who was good at his job. But it's thought he quit the bank just days before the alleged murders.

He went through psychological testing a few weeks later and was declared fit to stand trial. The first victim in the case was 25- year-old Sumarti Ningsih who police say was killed on October 27th, 2014. She was from Central Java in Indonesia, where she had a 5-year- old daughter. She'd previously worked as a domestic helper in Hong Kong and was back in the city on a tourist visa.

[00:35:15] Police say the second victim, 29-year-old Indonesian Seneng Mujiasih died several days later on November 1st. A migrant worker group says she had also been employed as a domestic helper, but had overstayed her visa.

Like many Indonesian and Filipino migrants, the two women had been working in the city to send money back to their poor families at home. Their gruesome double murder sent shockwaves throughout Hong Kong often described as one of the safest cities in the world.

The case has taken a long time to come to trial. Partly due to the sheer volume of evidence to sift through.

Now, members of the Migrant Workers Alliance gathered here in Hong Kong on Sunday to mark a peaceful protest, and they say they're doing that because they want to demand a fair and speedy trial and that they want justice for these two women who were brutally murdered.

Rosemary?

CHURCH: Indeed. Our Malika Kapur with those horrifying details joining us there from Hong Kong.

Many thanks to you.

Well, trouble may be brewing in the Bay of Bengal.

Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now with the latest from the International Weather Center.

So, Pedram, what is happening there exactly?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Rosemary, you know, it's a rather quiet portion of the world when it comes to tropical activity in recent months and we're now seeing an area of disturbance with a high probability of forming into a tropical cyclone in the next couple of days.

And the concern is portions of Myanmar, we know thousands of refugee camps, refugees across this region, many of them living in tent cities. So weather certainly going to be directly impacting a lot of people right there along the immediate coast and then you work your way towards Calcutta eventually around Dhaka where we think some heavy rainfall could also move in over the next several days.

But you notice the storm system will try to spin up and strengthen rather quickly. A very confine, very small disturbance, but again going to really be locally felt across some of these areas especially if folks are exposed to the elements, and then you think about this portion of the world.

We know that the population exposed to river flooding. Our friends across India and certainly Bangladesh among the highest number of people, about 3.5 to more than 4 million people exposed to river flooding in these particular countries.

This is certainly a story worth following with a lot of rainfall in store over the next several days. But work your way out toward portions of Eastern Asia, it is rather quiet. This is fantastic news. Of course, Rosemary, I've stood up there with you many times talking about the number of tropical storms and typhoons we've covered this season.

Incredibly, the number is actually right up there with average. What you'd expect with 2016 numbers indicated in blue, 22. 22 is exactly what you'd expect this time of year. The typhoon count has also been a little below average. But it's the super typhoons that have been above average that of course have had a lot of people's attention across this portion of the world. But this time of year climatologically speaking we're working our way towards the quiet season.

In Hong Kong in particular, look at this, the rainfall amounts begin to drop typically as you work your way from October into November and the changes certainly being felt.

Some cool air beginning to filter in across portions of Beijing. The temperatures going to take a nose dive in the coming couple of days here going from 18 down to 10 degrees.

Wet weather also expected across this region. And the transition, again, going to be felt large scale as well. Our friends in Europe, Rosemary, seeing scenes like this. This is in fact one of the most significant natural arches, sandstone arches in Europe. This particular one in the Czech Republic. This photograph taken on Sunday afternoon and shows you the colors beginning to really take shape across this region in a beautiful portion of the world. And now we're getting to see and feel autumn for a lot of people across Europe as well, Rosie.

CHURCH: What a great picture there. All right, look forward to chatting with you next hour.

Thanks so much, Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Thanks.

CHURCH: And next here on CNN NEWSROOM, a photographer who covered the conflict in Libya shares the story behind this striking image.

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[00:41:04] CHURCH: And before we go, we leave you with this. A world press photo winner talks about the role a shooting in war-torn Libya played in creating one of his best-known photos.

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BENJAMIN LOWY, PHOTOJOURNALIST: People see close to 5,000 images a day. So how do you get through to them? My name is Benjamin Lowy. I'm a photographer based in New York City. Shooting something in a different way is like this aesthetic bridge that can gap the public's apathy toward seeing anything new and what I'm trying to show.

I got some grant money to go to Libya. My fixer at the time, this guy named Omar, we were traveling together for a month, and there's a bullet hole in his car the whole time. And it was great because I'd always be sitting and like framing things as we were driving through the bullet hole and then after a while that just becomes a cliche and like, all right, I am paying you so that we can change this car window if we need to. Why do we have a bullet hole in the windshield?

He was like, well, Ben, it's a story. Pulls out a cigarette. During the war he was in the west of the country and on the side of the rebels, but here's a man who wasn't really interested in fighting. He was just like this is what I have to do to free my country. And he was driving back and forth. And a sniper shot at him and missed and it went through his windshield and hit the back seat of the car. And he got out of his car, and he aimed and he shot this guy. And he killed him.

And he was like, Ben, I never wanted to kill anyone in my entire life. And it hurt me and it haunted me and I couldn't sleep and I couldn't eat for three days, and I was depressed because I killed another human being. And I don't want to ever do that again. So I leave this bullet hole as a reminder.

This idea of shooting it with a phone not only created interesting images, but I think it had like this little psychological twist where when people could see pictures that I was making with a tool that they had in their back pocket, I was just getting through to an audience in a different way.

My photographs are just this thing that I do, that I love to do. And the legacy that they lead will be about this document, what I've seen and what I've been able to record and hopefully they can educate. That's all I can hope for.

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CHURCH: Powerful story there along with some pretty powerful images as well. I'm Rosemary Church. "World Sport" is next. And I'll be back at the top of the hour with more news from all around the world. Do join us.

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