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[08:00:21] ANDREW STEVENS, HOST: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. Welcome to News Stream.
With less than two weeks to go, both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are focusing on Florida, a state that could prove critical in deciding the U.S.
presidential election.
The Jungle is burning. Migrants who refuse to leave the Calais camp set fire to the tents.
And Xiaomi's new phone has a screen that goes all the way to the edge of the case. We'll speak to the company to see if it's enough to stop its
shrinking market share.
The U.S. presidential race has seemed to go on forever, and now the days to the finishing line are speeding by. Only 13 to go. And Donald Trump and
Hillary Clinton have their eyes firmly on Florida and its coveted 29 electoral votes. Both candidates have been
spending a lot of time in the Sunshine State.
Clinton is calling on voters to get out and vote and also gets an endorsement from a high profile Republican, while Trump is blasting a new
report that shows premiums under President Obama's health care plan are rising dramatically.
Well, CNN's Jeff Zeleny is following the campaigns as they crisscross Florida.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It is so great to be back in Florida.
DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're going to win the state of Florida.
ZELENY (voice-over): Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in a relentless fight for the golden prize of Florida's 29 electoral votes. Trump mincing no
words on his view of those who choose Clinton.
TRUMP: Tell you what, you vote for her, you're crazy, OK? I'll tell you, she is the worst.
ZELENY (voice-over): Clinton releasing a new campaign ad narrated by Morgan Freeman, laying out a stark choice.
MORGAN FREEMAN, ACTOR: A steady hand or a loose cannon.
ZELENY (voice-over): A new CNN/ORC poll show seven in 10 Americans now believe Clinton will win the White House. She's dismissing the poll but for
different reasons than Trump.
CLINTON: It's going to be a close election. Don't pay attention to the polls. Don't get complacent.
ZELENY (voice-over): With 13 days to go, Trump trying to turn the tables, seizing on news of skyrocketing health care premiums for Obamacare.
TRUMP: The rates are going through the sky.
ZELENY (voice-over): Yet, Trump's argument that his employees were being crushed by Obamacare quickly fell apart. Most don't get insurance under the
Affordable Care Act, a point he struggled to explain.
TRUMP: It's a small group, but it's a group that's having tremendous problems with Obamacare because of what's going on with the premiums and
what's going on with the deductibles.
ZELENY (voice-over): In a Miami radio interview, Clinton said millions of Americans now have health care under the law but acknowledged major
shortcomings that should be fixed, not repealed.
CLINTON (through phone): The costs have gone up too much, so we're going to really tackle that.
ZELENY (voice-over): It's an 11th hour political headache hitting voters in the pocketbooks. Clinton ignoring health care at her rally trying to keep
the focus squarely on Trump and whether he's fit for office.
CLINTON: Americans are coming together at the very moment when Donald Trump is making an unprecedented attack on our democracy.
ZELENY (voice-over): Former Republican Secretary of State Colin Powell throwing his support behind Clinton. She tweeted that she's proud to have
the endorsement of a decorated soldier and distinguished statesman. All this as Trump and Vice President Biden trade fighting words.
JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The press always asks me, don't I wish I were debating him? No, I wish we were in high school, I
could take him behind the gym. That's what I wish.
(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: Did you see where Biden wants to take me to the back of the barn? Me. He wants to -- I'd love that. I'd love that, Mr. Tough Guy. You know,
he's Mr. Tough Guy.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Fighting words from The Donald bringing an end to that report by Jeff Zeleny.
Now, a new CNN/ORC poll says most American voters think Hillary Clinton is headed for victory but that Donald Trump will not accept defeat. 68
percent of those surveyed say Clinton will win against 27 percent tipping Trump, but only 35 percent say Trump will accept the result and concede if
he loses, 61 percent say he won't.
With some new insight into what drives U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, hours of recording from an interview two years ago revealed a
combative Trump who fears public embarrassment. The interviews were conducted by a Trump biographer.
Kyung Lah has this report.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
[08:05:07] DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You vote for her, you're crazy, OK? I'll tell you. She is the worse.
KYUNG LAH, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a Donald Trump we don't often see. Not campaigning but instead contemplated, like when he
talks about how he won't accept losing. D. TRUMP: You can be tough, and ruthless and all that stuff, and ifyou lose a lot, nobody is going to
follow you, because you're looked at as a loser. Winning is a very important thing and the most important aspect of leadership is winning. If
you have a record of winning, people are going to follow you.
LAH: As we've seen this selection, this is a leader who enjoys a fight.
D. TRUMP: I like to punch him in the face, I'll tell you.
LAH: And the tapes reveal that willingness began as a child.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In eighth grade?
D. TRUMP: I loved to fight. I always loved to fight.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Physical fights?
D. TRUMP: Yes, all kinds of fights, physical --
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Arguments?
D. TRUMP: All types of fights. Any kind of fight, I loved it, including physical.
LAH: Ex-wife Ivana Trump also sat down for a rare interview. Ivana explained how six months into their relationship, she saw how Trump reacted
when she outskied him.
IVANA TRUMP: And then the ski instructor I told him, "Don't tell Donald that I can ski, OK? Because his ego, it's so big. He's not able to going to
ski.
I went up. I went two flips up in the air, two flips (inaudible) in front of him. I disappeared.
Donald was so angry. He took off his skis, his ski boots and walked up the restaurant.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So he left you?
IVANA TRUMP: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
IVANA TRUMP: He could not take it. He could not take it. He went foot bare up to the restaurant and said, "I'm not going to do this (EXPLETIVE
DELETED) for anybody, including Ivana."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, jeez.
IVANA TRUMP: He could not take it, that I could do something better than he did.
LAH: For Trump, everything is a competition, especially business. TRUMP: I never had a failure, because I always turned a failure into a success.
LAH: The theme weaves through his interviews, refusal to acknowledge any business failures.
TRUMP: I bought something and I throw it into a bankruptcy. I made an unbelievable deal. Wiped out a lot of the debt. Came back. The next day, I
read the story, "Trump files bankruptcy." I get all these people that don't understand business saying oh, did you go bankrupt?
Do you understand that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You talk about this a lot.
TRUMP: I do. I always do because -- I'll tell you what I do. I always do because -- i'll tell you why I do. What always bothers me is false stuff.
Untruths. That bothers me.
LAH: But what doesn't bother him -- fame. Trump admits, he needs it.
TRUMP: It's happened from the time I was fairly young.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did it unnerve you at first?
TRUMP: No.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Or make you feel unsafe ever?
TRUMP: No. I think what would unnerve me, if it didn't happen.
LAH: He takes a moment to talk about marriage.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you think about balancing when you think about balancing your ambition and your relationship with people you love, what's
changed over the years?
TRUMP: Well, it's very hard for somebody to be with me.
LAH: Ex-wife Ivana in her interview says what ended thirst after three children with him, Trump's affair with Marla Maples.
IVANA TRUMP: She's so stupid girl. She doesn't have a brains. I have no idea why Donald was doing with her. But she broke us our marriage because
immediately when I find out his affair, I file for divorce.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is it?
IVANA TRUMP: I was the one, yeah. Because if you cannot trust your spouse, you know, it's over.
LAH: Trump upended the presidential election with much more than fiery rhetoric. The interview shows he did it with a singular, unyielding belief
in himself.
TRUMP: The most important thing is being able to have the proper vision and then never quitting. You know, a lot of people say, oh, you could never
give up. Well, you can give up if you have a stupid vision.
So, I always say vision is the most important thing. You need a proper vision and then you have to have the ability to get it done.
LAH: Kyung Lah, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Members of Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party have said that Russia is trying to interfere with the upcoming election by hacking emails.
Now, Moscow has been accused of using so-called internet trolls to spread false information online. Our senior international correspondent Matthew
Chance spoke to a journalist who went undercover to find out how it all works.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the idea that the Kremlin pays people to spread disinformation on the internet has been
dismissed by the Russian authorities, but one woman who says she was employed to do just that has told CNN that Russia's so-called troll
factories are now focused on manipulating online debate around the U.S. presidential election.
It all comes amid allegations by U.S. officials that Russia has been trying to influence domestic American politics.
There's already an official U.S. allegation of state sponsored Russian hacking, dumping sensitive data to influence the U.S. presidential vote.
TRUMP: Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails.
CHANCE: But there are also concerns the Kremlin is using the internet to manipulate political opinion.
Can Russia, according to one former Russian internet troll, control the United States, too?
LYUDMILA SAVCHUK, FORMER INTERNET TROLL (through translator): The U.S. elections are the key issue for the Kremlin. Of course, Russia has
invested a lot of effort into them. That's why the troll factories are working, I have no doubt.
CHANCE: It was during the Russian-backed rebellion in Ukraine in 2014 that evidence first emerged of pro-Kremlin troll factories filled with bloggers
like Lyudmila Savchuk, paid to spread false information online about the conflict.
They were even caught on camera in this office building in St. Petersburg, an army of trolls secretly filmed by a former employee, spent 12 hours a
day, according to Savchuk, praising the Kremlin and berating its enemies in blogs in internet chat rooms.
[08:10:13] SAVCHUK (through translator): It's so sophisticated and adaptive that it's almost impossible to recognize. This is paid propaganda
to brainwash and to make people believe all the lies spread by the Kremlin.
CHANCE: It all fits with what U.S. officials say is a much broader Russian effort to sway the presidential vote.
Russian state media is overtly pro-Trump in its coverage. Washington says there's mounting
evidence that Russia is supplying WikiLeaks with hacked emails from the Clinton campaign. The Russian president has dismissed such allegations as
election hysteria.
CLINTON: We have never in the history of our country been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working so hard to influence the
outcome of the election.
CHANCE: All to harness the power of the internet, not to promote democracy, but to try and undermine it.
Again, when it comes to allegations of hacking, the dumping of embarrassing emails and even the existence of these troll factories, the Kremlin has
sought to distance itself as much as possible, calling the allegations absurd.
What Russia is alleged to be doing by U.S. officials is unprecedented, even in the long and very problematic relationship between Russia and the United
States, not just carrying out espionage, but using the information and releasing it publicly to have an impact on the U.S. political debate.
Matthew Chance, CNN, Moscow.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says that he wants foreign troops out of his country in the next two years.
Mr. Duterte is on an official visit to Tokyo promoting closer ties, but his anti-U.S. rhetoric is
sparking concerns in Japan, which is a major ally of the United States.
Our Will Ripley is following that state visit. And he joins us now from Tokyo.
How well is Japan dealing with this extremely outspoken man, who is directing so much abuse at Japan's key ally?
WILL RIPLEY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Very carefully, is the way I would describe it, Andrew. And we saw the prime minister of Japan, Shinzo
Abe, and Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte appear this evening. They have their bilateral meeting at the prime minister's residence here in
Tokyo. And then they issued a joint statement. There had been some talk there might be a joint press conference, but it was decided that would not
happen we believe, in part, because the Japanese officials here wanted to avoid the optics of the prime minister, who is a close ally of President
Obama, standing next to President Duterte if a question of some kind triggered this kind of hostile anti-U.S. rant that we've heard over the
last week in Beijing, in Davao City, and even in Manila just before the president boarded his flight to Tokyo.
What they did announce together, though, were continued close ties, trading ties between the Japan and the Philippines. Japan is the Philippines top
trading partner. Prime Minister Abe announced $200 million in loans for agricultural and maritime security development
and Duterte said that he wants to reassure the Japanese business community and the Japanese government that even though he was in China signing a much
larger $24 billion package of deals, which included investment and loans, that he didn't talk about military strategy, according to Reuters, and
Japanese news agencies, he promised to be on Japan's side in the South China Sea issue, which, of course, is reassuring to authorities here.
And while he didn't say anything hostile against the U.S., Andrew, he did say that his foreign policy pivot will be to embrace his neighbors such as
Japan and China, and distance himself from the United States, which would include eventually removing U.S. forces from The
Philippines and also perhaps distancing itself economically, even if that means lowering the living standards of The Philippine people.
He has a deep personal grudge against the United States. He has for some time. It could go back to when he was denied an entry visa, but even more
recently and more importantly perhaps the criticism from President Obama and others about human rights in The Philippines and this ongoing war on
drugs that has taken some 3,000 lives.
He fired back and said it's 4 million drug addicts in his country, he will do whatever it takes without apology to clean up his communities and if
that means the U.S. isn't happy and they withhold aid, then he said so be it, Andrew.
he's certainly drawn a very, very clear red line on any criticism about his war on drugs policy, Will. But if you look at what he's been doing, I
mean, he has been continually attacking the U.S. How has his aides been dealing with this? Because you've been spending a lot of time with them.
It must be difficult for them to interpret almost what the president is -- what the message is he's actually trying to get across underneath it all.
Because we keep on hearing about how there is such warm ties and close ties between these two countries.
[08:15:17] RIPLEY: And yet the words from the president portray the exact opposite.
On the ground here, a number of Filipinos living in Japan said that while they support their president, they love their president, they said his
statements about the United States don't reflect the vast majority of Filipinos. And you see that in the polls where a large percentage of
people, more than 75 percent of Filipinos, have great thrust in the U.S. and an equal amount have very little trust in China.
His closest advisers have urged him to dial back, tone down the hostile U.S. rhetoric, despite
what his personal feelings about the U.S. may be. These statements, the words from a president, can do reel damage, as was stated by the assistant
secretary of state who was on a pre-scheduled trip to Manila where he said that there is an atmosphere of uncertainty that has been
created by President Duterte's statements, not only geopolitically, but also in the business world. People wondering if it will become a less
friendly environment for American companies that are employing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, and those jobs, especially in the business
outsourcing sector, are expected to double just within the next few years.
All of that people are now questioning what direction The Philippines is headed, and so you have the cabinet members of the president trying to
reassure the business community here Japan, in the United States as well that it will be business as usual, but yet you still hear these statements
and this very bold statement that from the president himself that he wants U.S. troops gone, that he doesn't
want to do military exercises anymore.
This is decades of military partnership that could potentially be shift the whole balance here and really the U.S. would lose a lot of legitimacy for
its patrols in the South China Sea if they no longer have the support and alliance with The Philippines.
STEVENS: OK, Will, thanks very much for that. Will Ripley joining us live from Tokyo.
Now to France where dozens of fires are burned at the migrant camp, which is known as The Jungle. As one blaze is put out, another is lit, even as
operations to clear the camp goes on. Crews are pulling down tents, shacks and other shelters that thousands have called home over the past two years.
Well, extra riot police have arrived at the camp over the past few hours. Let's go to Melissa Bell who's been following developments. You've been at
the camp for the last few days now, Melissa. So, just bring us up to date with what's the very latest happening there.
MELISSA BELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Let me show you the scene, Andrew, from the middle of The Jungle. Many of the major blazes appear now
to have been brought under control by firemen. You can see there the fire trucks in the distance. They've been at it for the last few hours trying
to bring these blazes under control, but almost as soon as one is extinguished, another is alit, a protest, really, on the part of those
migrants who had not wanted to leave this camp, but feel that it's end is near.
And we've been hearing from the woman who in charge of this clearing operation over the course of the last half hour, the chief of police of
this region has been speaking out and explaining that it looks as though the evacuation of The Jungle here in Calais could be finished by tonight,
that is faster than French authorities had thought that it would happen. They said at the beginning of the week the evacuation would take as long as
it needed.
And we saw the demolition of the camp itself, which began on the outer edges begin yesterday. Very slowly with clearers going in and moving much
of the -- many of the tents and much of the debris by hand, a very soft approach to the demolition of this camp.
In the end, Andrew, the irony is that the anger of the leaving migrants would have done more to
demolish this camp than anything the French authorities had begun over the course of the last few days.
This evacuation, then French authorities now say, will be done by tonight and the bulldozers will be brought in by the end of the day.
STEVENS: And you've said previously, Melissa, that many of the people in the camp will melt away before the camp is finally demolished, basically
living to fight another day. I mean, this is not over yet, is it?
BELL: That's what some of the migrants we've been talking to over the course of the last couple of days, some of the more defiant ones, the ones
who did not want to seek relocation around France's regions, who did not want to seek asylum in this country, but who wanted to stick to that
dream, cling to that dream, Andrew, of getting to the United Kingdom. They told us very clearly that they believe that those who had not taken up the
offer so far, and there are many who have not done so yet, of seeking asylum here in France, would simply slip away and come back when this area
had been cleared.
For now, the French authorities appear to be close to accomplishing their mission, which was to clear this camp. It looked like an improbable, very
difficult task at the beginning of the week as the slip away and come back when this area had been cleared.
For now, the French authorities appear to be close to accomplishing their mission, which was to clear this camp. It looked like an improbable, very
difficult task at the beginning of the week. As the smoke hangs -- and beneath it is a thick cloud of fairly toxic smoke that
hangs over the camp at the moment.
I suspect once it clears, the picture will be very different. A camp largely emptied of its inhabitants and close to being ready for demolition,
and that's something we should see by the end of the day, Andrew.
STEVENS: All right, Melissa, thank you. Melissa Bell joining us live from Calais.
You're watching News Stream. Still ahead on this show, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi just unveiled a brand new concept smartphone, the Mi Mix.
We'll take a look what is so special about this new device.
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STEVENS: Welcome back. You're watching News Stream live from Hong Kong. It is the end of a 15-year win streak for Apple. It made $18 billion less
in sales than it did last year, marking its first annual sales decline since 2001. Apple's flagship product is mostly to blame. iPhone sales,
Apple's largest source of revenue, have been falling. Apple sold 45.5 million iPhones last quarter, down from 48 million over the same time last
year.
Even its sales in China, which is the world's biggest snartphone market, fell 30 percent
year or year. There was, though, one area where Apple did actually pick up and that was in its services, earnings up 24 percent.
Now, this section covers things like AppleCare, ApplePay, and internet services like Apple Music. Apple has been making its mobile payment
available in more regions recently. It actually rolled out here in Hong Kong just in July.
But Apple is still secretive how its Watch is doing. Now, the company openly shares how many iPhones, iPads, and Macs are sold, but won't say
exactly how many Apple Watches it sells. Instead, it combines it with other products, like Apple TV and iPods.
All we know is that those products are selling less than they did last year.
Now, Apple is facing more competition in China from local smartphone makers. Now, Xiaomi has unveiled this surprise new phone with an edgeless
design. It means that the screen goes all the way out to the edge of the phone on all sides. Xiaomi says it's a concept phone.
Well, I spoke to the vice president of international at Xiaomi, Hugo Barra, and I asked him why.
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HUGO BARRA, XIAOMI VICE PRESIDENT: This is the device that we'retalking about here so everyone can see it. It's an edgeless design concept that's
a bit of the first in the industry. And we did describe it as a concept phone because it is a completely new thing that the industry hasn't seen.
It is a new concept. And we're manufacturing this phone in very small quantities. And we're making it available to some of our customers,
obviously, in China, who are able to get their hands on it.
But it's very much an early stage project for us. So, that's why we decided to still call it a concept phone, but I think fans are getting a
kick out of it that it's a concept phone they can have.
[11:25:18] STEVENS: It is a volatile landscape you are in in China. Last year you were 16 percent market share, this year about 10 percent. What is
it telling you dealing in China about how to manage your fan base, which has been loyal, but looks like it's not so loyal now. How do you play
china? What's the best way to get back into those commanding heights?
BARRA: This is something that's fundamentally unique about Xiaomi relative to other smartphone brands is that we care more about maintaining or
managing that fan base, as you said it yourself, than we do about just selling large quantities of phones.
So, of those 200 million activated users, we want to keep as many of them around as possible, we want to keep them buying new phones when they are
looking for another phone from us. And, of course, we want to bring new users to that activated base as well.
You know, as an internet company, it's more important for us to have a stable growing user base that has -- that's healthy, that brings us
recurring revenues than it is to sell large quantities of phones. What you've seen happening over the last 12 months in China is a lot of users
who have sort of low-end smartphones are upgrading, but those aren't necessarily the people that we're looking to add to our user base, because
we want like I said just now these internet savvy customers who are much more likely to be consuming these internet services that we provide and
that's how we measure the health of the business.
STEVENS: So, you said, you describe Xiaomi as an internet company. It's not a phone company?
BARRA: We are an internet company that has our smartphones as the very, very base of our platform. Our business model is fairly interesting and
unique. It's also very different from anybody else in the industry in that we sell these smartphones. I've got Mi Note 2 right here, which was just
announced this week, too. We sell these smartphones pretty much at cost. We sell them online, which is the most efficient way of selling these
phones, it's sort of the most cost effective way to do it, get these phones to the hands of our users at the lowest possible cost and then we monetize
with internet services, things like our app store, our game center, our video catalog and
video service and tons and tons of other services that we have developed and are continuing to develop.
So it's very different from how other brands see this market.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVENS: Hugo Barra there, vice president of international at Xiaomi.
Now, Xiaomi still doesn't sell iPhones in the United States, but Barra did say that it's a matter
of when and not if. And he told us that the Mi Note 2 that he showed us, the flagship of Xiaomi, does support U.S. mobile networks so people can
actually use the phone there.
Now, ISIS may have been on retreat in northern Iraq, but it's not giving up. Still ahead, what people in Mosul are witnessing as ISIS tightens its
grip on that city.
And to turning her life around, CNN's Freedom Project shares a story of a young Colombian woman orphaned and abused who's now trying to live out her
dreams.
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[08:32:16] STEVENS: About 50 kilometers south of Mosul sits a crucial launch pad for the battle against ISIS. It's an air base where U.S. troops
are stationed, equipped with the latest American military technology.
Now, senior international correspondent Arwa Damon takes us on a tour.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is Qayyara West, America's largest forward position in Iraq, at the forefront of the battle
for Mosul.
(on camera): From the moment you get a call, you can mobile in this and out firing on to an enemy position within 2 minutes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Correct.
DAMON (voice-over): Lt. Keegan Aldridge shows us the latest generation of precision artillery.
LT. KEEGAN ALDRIDGE, U.S. ARMY: So we are the further reaching artillery system on the battlefield, highly accurate, highly precise because our
system minimizes the collateral damage because there is a lot of urban targets that we are prosecuting.
DAMON: This facility was a base during the U.S. led occupation of Iraq. Some of the blast falls are from those days. When ISIS was finally driven
out in August, they destroyed the runway. Mounts of earth hid bombs and building were booby trapped. Now the runway is clear and hundreds of troops
are based here.
(on camera): Everyone has their gas mask?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
DAMON (voice-over): That is because obnoxious smoke from a fire set by ISIS at a nearby sulfur plant, which cast a dense pall over a huge area. Inside
the joint operation center, commanders closely watch drone feeds that we cannot see. Right now, a group of ISIS fighters is the target. Cheers erupt
as they are hit.
ALDRIDGE: The fire support that we have been providing for this operation has been unprecedented. Since the Mosul liberation kicked off, we've
dropped over 1,700 munitions.
DAMON: But if all goes according to plan, the operation will have to change.
ALDRIDGE: The civilian population does complicate the situation and avoiding civilian casualties is a very high priority for the coalition
obviously. So it will change the way that we look at our targeting.
DAMON: ISIS has long shown that it's a determined enemy.
(on camera): And the enemy always has a vote.
ALDRIDGE: I believe in what I have seen from our Iraqi and Peshmerga forces, the cooperation, the support that the coalition is providing, I
believe that our vote will outweigh their vote.
DAMON (voice-over): But what is a win in a country that has already lost so much?
Arwa Damon, CNN, Qayyara air base, Iraq.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
[08:35:04] STEVENS: Well, let's go now to the front line just outside Mosul. Michael Holmes is there and he joins us. Michael, let's get back
to those reports we're hearing of what sounds like hundreds of ISIS fighters moving into the city of Mosul. What do you know about that?
MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it was only a day or two ago, Andrew, we were talking about sources in the region a senior Sunni tribal figure saying that he had seen hundreds of ISIS
fighters, families, and leaders heading out of Mosul across ISIS-held territory in the west and into Syria. Well, we're now getting reports from
witnesses in Mosul that the opposite is happening, the traffic is coming the other way.
Hundreds of ISIS fighters that were dressed, apparently, in distinctive uniforms and wearing
suicide belts entering the city over the last couple of days.
Now, they are mainly foreign fighters, apparently, and, they are obviously there to fight to the
death.
A very worrying development, but showing that ISIS is apparently determined to fight for Mosul.
It was also reports coming out, too, something we've been discussing or speculating on seems to be happening and that is that ISIS would pull back
from the eastern side of the city across the Tigris River to the western part of the city and that's where you'll find the old city, a rabbit warren
of narrow roads and alleyways, impossible for some of the military vehicles you see racing across the plains and also a place that makes it well suited
to those already entrenched to fight in an urban warfare situation.
So ISIS has had a couple of years to plan for this inside Mosul, their defenses, and it would appear those plans, at least some of them, are being
put into place -- Andrew.
STEVENS: What about resistance inside Mosul to ISIS? Is that likely to be significant?
HOLMES: Yeah, this has been something that's been speculated on for a while. It's been known that there are underground resistance groups there.
Of course, if you were caught of being part of a resistance your fate would be instant death, but there are these groups and apparently they are getting arms in, as well.
And what happened on Monday was that one of these groups started opening fire on ISIS fighters. This was in a southwestern part of the city, a
neighborhood densely packed with houses and the like. They say that they killed five ISIS members and then fled across the rooftops to their own
safety.
ISIS responding, apparently, with withering and indiscriminate fire in the neighborhood. They later came back, surrounded the neighborhood, and
rounded up 80 men.
Now, the sources are telling us those men were not related to this resistance group. We do not know their fate, but it does show that there
is resistance inside Mosul.
The timing of this seems curious given that the campaign to end Mosul hasn't happened, but when that does happen, the Iraqi and Peshmerga forces
are certainly hoping that those resistance groups do help from the inside, and seems some are armed and ready to do so, Andrew.
STEVENS: Any indication of when the assault on the city proper may happen, Michael? There's obviously a lot of villages that have had to be pacified
in the lead-up to the actual assault. Aany closer to understanding when that could be?
HOLMES: Yeah, that's right. I mean, it's probably now 100 towns and villages that Kurdish and Iraqi forces have liberated. Very few of them
with large numbers of civilians in, because a lot of people have fled well ahead of time.
You have got a situation now where the forward Peshmerga position is about 6 kilometers from the outskirts, but what they have got to do is get
everyone else up into the same sort of -- it's not the same circle, if you like, it is a very uneven circle. And they've got to get everyone else up
there.
We're also hearing that Shia paramilitaries are being moved into the fight. They will probably head up to that western portion where we're talking
about fighters coming and going from Syria.
Timing difficult to say. It could be a week, it could be two weeks, but once it does start, it's certainly going to take a lot longer than that to
get through Mosul.
This is a big city, probably one or one and a half million civilians still inside of it fighting in that kind of environment is going to be bloody and
it's going to be very difficult.
The trick is getting all those forces up into place and ready to go. And that's going to take a bit of coordination. They are still working their
way through a lot of those towns and cities, Andrew.
STEVENS: All right, Michael, thanks so much for that. Michael Holmes joining us outside Mosul on the front line there.
Well, let's get back now to our other top story, the U.S. presidential election. One of the Republican candidate Donald Trump's most vocal, often
fiery supporters is Rudy Giuliani. And just a few minutes ago, the former New York mayor engaged in a spirited conversation with Chris Cuomo. His
target, President Obama's Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
(CROSSTALK)
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Here's the problem with Obamacare, Obamacare's got a lot
of problems...
RUDY GIULIANI, NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: You can keep your doctor. You can keep your insurance. Lie. Lie.
It's going to save you money. Big lie.
CUOMO: Obamacare has problems, OK.
(CROSSTALK)
GIULIANI: Unaffordable Care Act, Democrat.
CUOMO: There are a lot of problems. The GOP wouldn't work to fix any of them.
GIULIANI: They wouldn't even negotiate tort reform with the GOP.
CUOMO: And you know what, and as a result, because the Democrats forced this down the Republican's throat, the ACA, they decided to punish them.
And they won't work with the Democrats to fix any of the problems that they could fix.
GIULIANI: Oh, that's a bunch of nonsense. They created it. They created it themselves. They cut out bipartisan support and pushed it through.
They pushed it through.
CUOMO: They passed it without the GOP, I said that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVENS: Now, the political reality for Trump is daunting. National Polls show that he's in his weakest position of the entire campaign. And hen
there's the all important road to 270, that's the number of electoral votes needed to become president.
If you take a look at this map here, you get a better picture. One state in particular, of course, is Florida down here in the light blue. That is
an essential must win for Trump.
But CNN's snap shot has it leaning towards Clinton. Why is it so important? Well, projects suggest that if Clinton wins Florida, the
Democrat will have many paths to victory.
If it does go Republican, Trump would need to pick up other battleground states and make big gains in other parts of the country where polls show
that he is behind.
So, it's not surprise that both candidates are now campaigning hard in the Sunshine State.
Now, at this point it's anyone's guess who might actually take Florida on November 8. Let's go to CNN's Jeff Zeleny now. He joins us now from Lake
Worth in Florida.
We've talked during the campaign about momentum across the nation. Is there any sort of momentum for either candidate happening in Florida at the
moment, Jeff?
JEFF ZELENY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Andrew, there's no question that there is
excitement about this election and perhaps even some excitement for it to be over. But what Hillary Clinton is trying to do, she's opening up the
second day of her two-day campaign swing here in Florida. She's trying to drive out the Democratic vote.
Geography always so important in campaigns, that's why she is campaigning in one of the most
Democratic rich counties in Florida: Palm Beach County. And she is trying to get Democrats to the polls and vote early. There is early voting that's
allowed here in the U.S. in many states and she's trying to bank those votes.
Now, more than 1 million people in Florida have already voted, even though we're 13 days before actual election day, so she has momentum on her side,
but there's a new poll out this morning, a Bloomberg Politics poll, let's take a look at this, it shows that Donald Trump has a two-point edge over
Hillary Clinton.
Yes, this is within the margin of error, but it certainly shows that Donald Trump is within reach and perhaps even slightly over her.
Now, this is the first poll we've seen in Florida in several weeks that shows her slightly behind,
but Donald Trump was campaigning for three straight days trying to drive out Republicans.
Now, the persuasion part of the campaign is long over. They are no longer trying to win people over. They are trying to turn out their own voters.
That's why Hillary Clinton will be speaking at a rally here behind me in Palm Beach State College here shortly this morning -- Andrew.
STEVENS: I think you've just answered my next question about that persuasion stage is over. Because the new news about how much premiums for
Obamacare are goingto rise, that potentially could be a great topic or Trump to push back against his Democratic rival.
Can you see that issue moving the dial at all?
ZELENY: It certainly could. I mean, this is something that's coming at the 11th hour here of the campaign and it is a political headache with real
consequences for Democrats, particularly because Hillary Clinton is tying herself so closely to the president and, of course, on issues like health
care. I mean, this is her central issue, it's how she really came into the policy realm some 20 years ago as first lady pushing health care reform.
Now, she will say there's no question that the law needs to be improved, needs to be fixed, that things need to be changed to drive costs down, but
she will say repealing it is the wrong way to go.
Now, interestingly, it's unclear if Donald Trump will be able to make this as much of an issue as maybe some other Republicans could. He's really not
been driving it as much throughout the course of the campaign. He started to in recent days here, but look, among Democrats, they believe the health
care law, even though flawed at the moment, is good overall. Many conservatives do not here, but that's why she is trying to drive out her
base, that Obama coalition if you will, to support her. And that's why President Obama coming back here to Florida on Friday also to drive out the
democratic and independent voters -- Andrew.
[08:45:1] STEVENS: Thirteen days to go. Jeff, thanks very much for that. Jeff Zeleny joining us live from Florida.
Now, a young woman in Colombia who was orphaned and suffered years of sexual abuse
is turning her life around. Now Monica Morales hopes that she can help others trapped in similar
situations. Her story is part of CNN's Freedom Project, which is dedicated to shining a light on human trafficking and putting an end to modern day
slavery.
Rafael Romo has more.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RAFAEL ROMO, CNN LATIN AFFAIRS EDITOR: How does it feel to walk in another's shoes? The age old appeal to empathy may have never applied more
than to someone like Monica Morales.
MONICA MORALES, TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR (through translator): The first memory I have is when they killed my father. He was killed in front of me after
he bought me some ice cream.
ROMO: Monica, now 21, says she grew up in one of Colombia's most dangerous neighborhoods.
DILIA STEIN, ORPHANED STARFISH FOUNDATION: When she was 2 months old her mother was murdered by a local gang. When she was 4 years old, her father was murdered.
ROMO: Dilia Stein works with the U.S.-based Orphaned Starfish Foundation, which assist
orphanages around the world.
After losing both parents at such an early age, Stein says things only got worse for Monica as a trusted family friend sold her to different families
who wanted children.
MORALES (through translator): The husbands would abuse me sexually and I was mistreated physically and verbally.
ROMO: At age 11, Monica was brought to Casa de la Chinca (ph) home for abused girls which works with the Orphaned Starfish Foundation. There,
things finally started to turn around for her.
MORALES (through translator): I started to study and to dance and do things I never thought I would be able to do.
My dream is to be a great fashion designer, a great dancer, a great person, and building more dreams.
ROMO: Recently, Monica received a scholarship to study fashion at a local university.
STEIN: She already is becoming it one of the most successful students in her university. Her designs have been chosen for catwalks in Medellin.
ROMO: Do you feel you have recovered?
MORALES (through translator): Not 100 percent. I'm a very strong human being and was born for great things. The most important thing was learning
to love myself and have the will to do something, you can do it.
ROMO: A lesson we can all learn from a strong survivor who may one day be dancing in shoes
she's designed herself.
Rafael Romo, CNN, Medellin, Colombia.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS It truly is an inspirational story.
And you can see how people around the world are making a difference in the fight against
modern day slavery by logging on to CNN.com/Freedom. You'll also find stories there of hope
and courage a little bit like Monica's there along with information about charities engaged in this -- what is a global battle. It's all at the CNN
Freedom Project, CNN.com/Freedom.
Now, here in Hong Kong the legislative assembly has descended into chaos at an ongoing saga over two pro-independence politicians. they've been banned
by entering from the legislative council's president, but did they manage to force their way in anyway and protected
by lawmakers from the pro-democracy camp.
The two were elected in a citywide vote last month, but they misspoke during an oath taking ceremony. Well, the government is waiting on a
judicial review on whether they can retake that oath.
Well, thousands of protesters rallied outside the building to protest calls for an independence in Hong Kong.
You're watching News Stream. Still ahead, we'll be joining CNN's New Day for a very special
announcement. Anderson Cooper will be revealing our CNN Heroes top ten just ahead.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
[08:50:41] STEVENS: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong. You're watching News Stream. And in a just a few minutes from now, we'll join CNN's New Day for
the announcement of this year's top 10 CNN Heroes. This is the 10th anniversary of the CNN Heroes campaign to spotlight everyday people
changing the world.
Let's hear who has made the top picks.
(SIMULCAST WITH CNN USA)
STEVENS: So, make sure you set your clocks for that one. It is going to be a big night. Those were the top 10 CNN Heroes. And remember, you are
the people who are going to decide who the winner is.
They'll walk away with 100,000, but they'll walk away with a whole lot more than that. The knowledge that they are doing such valuable work in their
communities, whether they be in the U.S. or around the world.
And that is News Stream. I'm Andrew Stevens. Thanks so much for joining us.
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