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World Headlines; Republicans Take Victory Lap After Kavanaugh Confirmation; Taylor Swift Breaks Silence; Far-right Presidential Candidate Wins Broad Lead in First Round; Climate Researchers Win Nobel Economics Prize; Banksy Painting Self-Destructs at Sotheby`s Auction; Tokyo`s Iconic; U.N. Report Says Time Running Out on Global Warming; U.S. and China Talks Not at Good Start; Missing Chinese Interpol Leader Held For Corruption; Saudi Journalist Missing in Saudi Consulate in Istanbul; Bulgarian Journalist Murdered; Two Dead in West Bank Shooting. Fish Market Closes. Aired 8-9a ET

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[08:00:00] KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR: I`m Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong and welcome to "News Stream."

Twelve years to stop catastrophe. The U.N.`s panel on climate change warns government to act quickly to avoid disastrous levels of global warming.

Aggressive language, the Chinese foreign minister tells the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Washington has to stop, quote, "wrong remarks and

actions."

And self-destructing art, Banksy`s creation might be even more valuable after getting shredded at an auction.

A dire warning and a call for urgent action on climate change, and it comes from a panel of U.N experts who say that time is running out to prevent

global warming fro reaching a catastrophic milestone. The group says that by the year 2030, it`s just 12 years from now the earth could warm to 1.5

degrees above pre-industrial levels. That forecast is based on current greenhouse gas emissions.

To fight it the U.N. says massive changes are needed in several areas including the energy sector in cities. So, what does all this mean

potentially for millions of us across the globe? Now, increased risk of extreme drought, floods, as well as food shortages.

Let`s bring in our meteorologist Chad Myers who joins us from the CNN World Weather Center. And Chad, this new U.N. report, it paints this frightening

timeline and picture of the immediate consequences of climate change. Walk us through the report.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, a very sobering report on what would happen to the earth at 2.0 degrees celsius higher than pre industrial

compared to 1.5. At 1.5 we can save the earth, 2.0 they are not so sure. A 2.0 looks like all of the coral reefs would be completely decimated

worldwide.

So, here is where we are. They are saying now is the time to stop this. We don`t have another decade to wait. It needs to stop now. We need to stop

polluting the atmosphere and do it right away. We`ve already -- we`re already at 1.0 above where we were before we started burning fossil fuel.

So, we already know that, from ice course and all kinds of other things.

But the three hottest years on record have been the past three years. So we are just going the wrong direction. We know these things are going to

happen with global warming. There`s strong evidence about heat waves, coastal flooding of course, floods and of course drought. The biggest thing

that I concern myself with at this point in time is starvation.

If we have crop failure and we lose crops, we have 9 billion people worldwide to feed. Its global warming, not local or somewhere regional

warming, it`s all across the globe. We need to get carbon neutral, and how do we do that. If we get to be that by 2047 we have a 66 percent chance of

staying a 1.5 or less.

Now, how do we do that? How do you stop running cars, lorries, everything around the world to move food products, to make products? Well, somewhere

between 2030 and 2050, we need to cut these emissions by 100 percent. That`s a sobering number because, you know, I have a teenager and my world

and his world will look nothing alike if we don`t get this stopped.

We need to even start capturing some of this C02 out of the atmosphere. So, remove some of this carbon if possible and that would help stop to bring

these carbon levels down from the 406 parts per billion all the way up into maybe somewhere -- keep it at 400 or get it lower than that.

But right now that technology doesn`t exist, at least not in a big enough fashion to capture all of this c02 coming out of every exhaust pipe driving

around the world right now or flying around the atmosphere right now. It is a sobering assessment of what`s to come. There have been so many other

things going on -- all of these worldwide plagues, worldwide floods, worldwide droughts.

We are now up to 335 somewhere disasters in the past 10 years. This is their assessment. It comes out quite often, but this is one that`s like,

hey, you guys need to get off the accelerator and fix this.

LU STOUT: Yes, absolutely. It`s a very dire forecast of our changing planet. Chad Myers reporting. Thank you so much.

Joining us now is Jim Skea. He is a co-chair of the U.N. working group that produced this study, and Jim, thank you for joining us. Now, according to

this study, we could reach catastrophic climate change by the year 2030, that` just around the corner.

[08:05:06] When you worked on this report were you shocked to find out that time is truly running out?

JIM SKEA, CO-CHAIR, U.N. WORKING GROUP: Well, I don`t think -- I think we well understood that time was coming out. I mean, I think the significance

of the report is actually this wasn`t scientific -- your scientist up rising up. This is a report that was actually asked for by governments

under the Paris Agreement.

They said that they wanted to pursue efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, and so they didn`t really know how to do it. They asked the IPCC

what were the implications in terms of the difference between 1.5 and 2 degrees and what would it take to limit global warming to 1.5. And two

years later we`ve come along with a report and we`ve gotten very unambiguous messages about the difference of two levels of warming.

And very unambiguous message as well about just what it would take to get - - how far we have to go in getting emissions down. Now, whether that`s feasible or not is not a question we`ve tried to answer because at the end

it comes down to political will and what governments (inaudible) are willing to do.

So we`ve passed the report onto governments. They are going to get together and pool (ph) later in the year to talk about the next steps and our report

is the only named input into their negotiations. So, really it is moving over to governments at this stage. We have sent a very clear set of

messages to them.

LU STOUT: This does come down to political will but let`s look at the political reality. We have U.S. President Donald Trump who has pulled the

United States out of the Paris Climate Accord. He is not alone, there are a number of other world leaders who oppose meaningful climate change action.

So, how do you reverse this political reality?

SKEA: Yes, I mean, what the report did was it added up all the pledges that governments had made after the Paris Agreement and it reaches the

clear conclusion that this is going to take us to emissions by 2030 that are way above the level that we needed to get them to if we are going to

limit global warming to 1.5 or for that matter 2 degrees level of warming.

So although there might be issues for the United States and its relationship to the Paris Agreement, the pledges that all countries made

under Paris don`t actually add up at the moment and everybody needs t step up in terms of ambition. And that`s what they need to think about in Poland

in December.

But obviously with a country like the United States, you know, with its large level of emissions, it is troubling, you know, when somebody pulls

out of an agreement like this, though some other countries have said we will step in and make up the difference.

LU STOUT: We need nations to step up to have a political rethink here. Do we also need an economic rethink because right now economic growth is based

on rising consumption? Do we need a new approach to how we consider economic growth?

SKEA: Well, that`s something that`s debated between scientists and I have to say this particular report didn`t get into this issue. And what it did

demonstrate is actually pretty much conventional growth methods of having economic growth could be compatible with 1.5 degrees.

If you were willing to, you know, kind of change the technologies you were willing to apply to speed up the deployment of renewable energy, move to

electrification of transportation, you know, electric vehicles rather than gasoline vehicles. So that kind of thing could really make a difference.

But one thing the report -- the scientific -- scientists are trying to do now is actually to think about different patterns of growth and what it

would mean for reaching ambitious targets. And one of the messages that comes out of that is if we are willing to think about different ways of

consuming, different ways of behaving, then it reduces the pressure for difficult technologies that might take carbon dioxide out of the air later

in the 21st century.

Because one of the things our report has done is flag really important issues about what carbon dioxide removal might do for the land, the

implications for food security and the implication for bio diversity and ecosystems. So, taking carbon dioxide out of the air isn`t a magic

solution. It comes with its own problems that comes with it.

LU STOUT: Yes, and we need to figure out how to act to avoid an increasingly warming planet and we have, according to your report, just

over a decade to do so. Jim Skea of the IPCC, thank you so much for joining us here on the program.

Now, talks between the U.S. Secretary of State and his counterparts in China, they are off to an icy start. Mike Pompeo shook hands a short time

ago with China`s foreign minister Wang Yi. As soon as they sat down Wang said that the U.S. has eroded mutual trust and cast a shadow on bilateral

ties by launching baseless accusation and escalating trade friction.

[08:10:05] Pompeo shot back saying that the U.S. has great concerns about actions that China has taken. But both sides said that the issue in North

Korea may provide some common ground. Let`s bring in Alexandra Field live from Seoul, South Korea. And Alex, this was meeting that was supposed to

reduce trade tension between the U.S. and China, but it introduced some friction. Tell us more about that happened when Pompeo me with Wang Yi.

ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: -- and I can tell everyone was expecting that there would be a fair bit of tension there, but certainly

so, right off the bat in the initial sit down between Wang Yi and Secretary Pompeo, we heard Wang Yi say that the U.S. must immediately stop its

remarks and actions that it caused much grievance to China in the last couple of weeks especially -- let`s hear him as he lays out his concerns.

Listen to this.

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WANG YI, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER (through translation): Recently, the U.S. has kept escalating the trade friction as towards China. It has also

taken actions that harm the Chinese interests on the Taiwan issue and launched baseless accusations of China`s domestic and foreign policies.

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FIELD: Much of this clearly seeming to be a response to the rising tension that we have seen between the United States and China in recent weeks,

especially capped off by a speech that U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gave just last week in which he really blasted China on a broad range of issues,

everything from military aggression to trade practices to allegations that China had been meddling in the U.S. midterm elections and working to

undermine the Trump presidency.

Now, Chinese officials have been shooting back, kicking away those claims as they have been made, but this was a face-to-face encounter and ability

for China to make its position known. You did point out that Secretary Pompeo did shoot back saying that there were fundamental disagreements

here.

But the good news is the fact that this meeting happened, the two came face-to-face and Secretary Pompeo said that he intended to have a frank and

a candid conversation on really a number of issues because we know the U.S.-China relationship does involve so many pertinent issues all at once.

So, there might be tension but there was a strong need on both sides it seemed to continue the conversation.

LU STOUT: Yes. At least both sides are talking right now. Now, on Sunday, we know that Pompeo visited Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang to discuss that second

summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. How productive were those talks?

FIELD: Secretary Pompeo called them productive and the North Korean state news, KCNA, also put out a number of lines talking about various topics

that had been discussed between Kim Jong-un and Secretary Pompeo, including various steps toward denuclearization, though it did not specify what kinds

of steps might have been discussed.

Certainly that would be an about face from the last reaction we saw to the previous visit from Pompeo, after which state news in North Korea blasted

the Secretary of State for his gangster like behavior -- that`s a quote from North Korea.

So certainly it seems that both sides felt that there was more progress this time. We know that they were there to discuss details for another

summit between Kim Jong-un and President Trump himself. We know that they were also talking about potential steps towards denuclearization; again,

none of those measures were outlined by either side.

And interestingly, Kristie, there was an offer from North Korea to allow inspectors to go in to see the Punggye-ri nuclear test facility. That was

the facility that North Korea claimed to have destroyed over the summer months.

At the time they allowed foreign media in to witness that moment but they did not allow international inspectors in. So, Pompeo said this trip

represented a step forward, but he also acknowledged that there are a lot of steps on the road ahead here, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Alexandra Fileld, live for us from Seoul, thank you.

Now, we are learning more about the events leading up to the disappearance of Meng Hongwei, the former chief of Interpol. Beijing is finally

confirming that he is being held and is under investigation for alleged corruption. Meng vanished when he returned to China from France where the

International Police Network is based. Sam Kiley reports.

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SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The last communication to a wife, wait for my call, then four minutes later the

image of a knife. Her husband had been president of Interpol, now Grace Meng says she fears for her life and will not show her face. She has had

death threats since her husband disappeared in China.

She appealed to help from the Chinese people but not the government. As head of the organization that links police forces around the world, not

even Meng Hongwei who was also vice minister of public security in China was above suspicion in China`s crack down against allegedly corrupt

officials. He vanished in China at the end of September, two weeks later his detention confirmed.

LU KANG, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESMAN (through translation): Since Meng Hongwei has allegedly taken bribes and violated laws, he has handed

over his resignation as Interpol president.

KILEY (voice-over): The move by authorities had been kept a secret. Earlier reporting by CNN on his disappearance was blacked out in China.

[08:15:03] Interpol accepting the resignation of its president with a meek tweet and replaced him without apparent protest. This is a nation that has

executed government officials convicted of corruption and jailed many senior figures.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It certainly sends a message that no person whatever their position, I mean, if this was a leading member of the communist party

is immune from the campaign against corruption.

KILEY (voice-over): His detention come soon after China`s most famous actress and Hollywood star Fan Bingbing also vanished for several months.

She has been asked to settle $130 million debt she`s told that she allegedly owes in back taxes. For now, Meng faces detention and possible

torture. If he`s convicted on corruption charges, the odds are that China will want to make an example of a man who was once the world`s top cop. Sam

Kileu, CNN, Hong Kong.

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LU STOUT: You`re watching "News Stream." And still ahead, journalist Jamal Khashoggi went into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last Tuesday. He has

not been seen since. We`ll have the latest on his disappearance amid fears he may have been killed by his own government.

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LU STOUT: Coming to you live from Hong Kong, welcome back. This is "News Stream." Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he is chasing the

investigation into a Saudi journalist who went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week. Jamal Khashoggi is a vocal critic of

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Now, the Turkish foreign ministry has summoned the Saudi ambassador for a second time on Sunday and asked for a full cooperation in the wake of the

disappearance. CNN Jomana Karadsheh joins us from outside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. That`s where Khashoggi was last seen alive. And

Jomana, the latest on the investigation and do we know whether Jamal Khashoggi is still alive?

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kristie, we simply do not know almost a week since his disappearance and it doesn`t seem like we are any closer

to finding out where Jamal Khashoggi is and what may have happened to him. What everyone seems to agree on is that he entered the building behind me,

the Saudi consulate here in Istanbul at about 1:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday.

It is what happened next that is the issue here. We are hearing different versions of events, you know, over the past week. Turkish officials have

said that what they believe is he walked into that consulate and he did not leave. Now, Saudi Arabia officials there confirming that Khashoggi did

visit the consulate but they say he left a short time ater that and that leaves many questions if he did indeed leave like the Saudis are saying.

[08:20:05] Why not release footage from their security cameras? As we`ve been able to see here, Kristie, there is no shortage of cameras around the

consulate. Now, in the past couple of days there have also been these disturbing developments, these reports that we`ve been hearing,

accusations, allegations from Turkish officials.

First, unnamed Turkish officials telling the "Washington Post" and others. And we also heard this firsthand from an adviser to President Erdogan

saying that they believe that Khashoggi may have been killed inside the consulate, but these Turkish officials have not provided any evidence or

explained how they reached that conclusion.

Saudi Arabia has denied these allegations, calling them baseless. We do know that both countries say that they`ve launched an investigation into

this. The Saudis have also sent an investigative team here to Istanbul. And in the past few hours we have heard from the foreign ministry in Ankara

saying that they have summoned for the second time since the disappearance of Khashoggi the Saudi ambassador and are asking himmfor full cooperation

in this matter, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yes. This is raising tensions between Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but what about Saudi Arabia and the United States? Now, we know that Jamal

Khashoggi was a U.S. resident. His fate is alarmingly unclear even at this hour. What impact could his disappearance have on ties between the U.S. and

Saudi Arabia?

KARADSHEH: You know, Kristie, for the past week I`ve been coming to this building to the consulate meeting with friends and colleagues of Jamal

Khashoggi. These are some journalists, some of them Turkish and other Arab journalist and activists here who have been coming out here demanding

answers.

And the feeling is -- they have been telling us -- they want to see the United States do more. They believe that President Trump and the United

States can use their relationship with the Saudi leadership, that good relationship that President Trump has with the Crown Prince Mohammed bin

Salman, to use the leverage that the United States has to push for more answers, for transparency from the Saudis.

And they say that so far what they`ve heard from the U.S. is not enough. They believe that the U.S. has a much bigger role to play and they`re

waiting to see if President Trump and the United States will do that, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Jomana Karadsheh, reporting live from Istanbul. Thank you. Now, with more on the disappearance, we are joined by Sherif Mansour, Middle

East program coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalist. Thank you so much sir for joining us here on the program. We know that CPJ has been

very vocal about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi. What is you message to the government in Saudi Arabia?

SHERIF MANSOUR PROGRAM COORDINATOR, COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALIST: Saudi Arabia has to provide a full and credible account of what happened. Saudi

officials have been trying to be opaque about this incident. They are not treating it seriously enough. The responses we got including on various

officials including Crown Prince Salman himself, that he has stepped out of the consulate a few minutes or maybe an hour after is not enough, simply is

not enough.

We need to know. A lot of things can happen between a few minutes and an hour. And to being six days now, a lot of this information needed can be

answered right away from video records, from testimonies. This was a six- story building that has dozens of people working who can provide the immediate information about what happened.

LU STOUT: You want Saudi Arabia to account for his whereabouts. Do you also want pressure from the United States to get some answers? And I ask

because so far there in the U.S., the Trump White House has yet to respond to the allegations. There have been no Trump tweets. What do you make of

that?

MANSOUR: President Trump has told a lot of people, including in campaign rallies about how he told Prince Salman that -- and his family that they

receive a lot of protection to keep them in power. And this is a responsibility that the U.S. has.

A lot of U.S. congressmen, senators, have publicly been speaking over the last few days about how this can redefine the relationship between the U.S.

and Saudi and from across the aisle, Republicans and Democrats are saying this cannot be accepted and I think turkey has a responsibility as well in

providing part of the story, part of the evidence to understand what happened.

LU STOUT: And a final thought for you or from you about the risks for reporters in Saudi Arabia.

[08:25:03] What does the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi say about the Saudi government and its aggressive pursuit of journalists who are critical

of its leadership?

MANSOUR: The other thing that I can think of is that we never know what happened to Jamal Khashoggi because this would be the worse message to

everyone inside Saudi and everyone who is covering Saudi issues, that there are n limits to what the Saudi government can do in order to silence

critics.

And this is exactly what Khashoggi have written about and have warned against. And to know that we may not find out would be him paying the

ultimate price without consequences for it.

LU STOUT: Sherif Mannsour of the Committee to Protect Jornalist, joining us live from Washington, D.C. Thank you so much.

Now to another distressing attack on the press, this one in Bulgaria. An investigative journalist was found raped and murdered in the northern city

of Ruse on Sunday. The 30-year-old Viktoria Marinova have been looking into alleged corruption involving European Union funds for the broadcaster TVN

before her murder.

She was the third journalist killed in the E.U. this year. Several media groups are calling on Hong Kong to explain why it refused to renew a work

visa for a journalist of "The Financial Times." On Friday, the government rejected Viktor Mallet`s visa just weeks after he hosted a pro-independents

activist I the city`s foreign correspondence club.

Mallet is vice president of the club and chaired the event amid calls by both the Hong Kong and Chinese governments to cancel it. A Chinese state

run tabloid defended Hong Kong`s decision.

You`re watching "News Stream." And still to come, with the U.S. midterm election just weeks away, the battle to confirm Brett Kavanaugh may have

been a sign of things to come.

Plus, the popular surge reaches Brazil a far right presidential candidate secures a stunning lead ahead of a runoff vote.

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LU STOUT: I`m Kristie Lu Stout in Hong Kong. You`re watching "News Stream" and these are your world headlines.

A dire new report from the U.S. says governments must take unprecedented changes in all aspects of society to aid disastrous levels of climate

change. The report says the planet will reach the crucial threshold of one and a half degree celsius above pre-industrial levels as early as year

2030.

Israeli security forces are looking for a man they say killed two Israelis at a factory in the West Bank on Sunday.

Soldiers searched the village where the suspect, a 22-year-old Palestinian lives. A military spokesman described the incident as terror attack saying

that the suspect open fire with a homemade weapon.

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Nearly 2,000 people are now confirmed dead after the powerful earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia more than a week ago. Emergency officials say at

least 5,000 people could sill be missing on the island of Sulawesi. Search and rescue efforts are set to end in a few days.

Investigators in New York state are trying to figure out why a limousine plowed into a parked SUV causing the deadliest U.S. transportation accident

in nearly a decade. Twenty people were killed including two bystanders. The limo was heang to a a birthday party when the accident occurred.

Republicans in Washington are celebrating a major win for U.S. President Donald Trump, but both parties are determined to use Brett Kavanaugh`s

confirmation to the Supreme Court to galvanize voters ahead of the midterm elections now less than one month away. Abby Phillip reports.

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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: To the extent that I came to the aid of this good man and helped defeat this debacle, I am happy as a clam.

ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Republicans doing a victory lap after successfully elevating conservative Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the

Supreme Court despite allegations of sexual misconduct, which he denies.

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R), KENTUCKY: I want to thank the other side for the tactics that have allowed us to kind of energize and get involved our own

voters.

PHILLIP: GOP leadership and President Trump attempting to capitalize on the divisive political battle to rally their base ahead of the midterm

elections.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Republicans believe in the rule of law, not the rule of the mob.

PHILLIP: But Democrats also hoping that Kavanaugh`s confirmation will drive frustrated voters to the polls.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D), NEW YORK: If you believe Dr. Ford and other brave women who came forward and you want to vindicate their sacrifice, vote.

PHILLIP: Kavanaugh`s confirmation, President Trump`s second Supreme Court pick, cementing a conservative influence on the Supreme Court for decades.

Ultimately, every Democrat except West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin voted against Kavanaugh and every Republican except Alaska`s Lisa Murkowski voted

in favor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 48.

PHILLIP: President Trump telling "The Washington Post" of Murkowski, I think the people of Alaska will never forgive her for what she did, but the

president applauding Maine Republican Susan Collins.

SEN. SUSAN COLLINS (R) MAINE: I will vote to confirm Judge Kavanaugh.

PHILLIP: Who voted "yes" after spending weeks on the fence.

COLLINS: I do not believe that Brett Kavanaugh was her assailant. So I do believe that she was assaulted, I don`t know by whom, and I`m not certain

when.

PHILLIP: Attorneys for Kavanaugh accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, discussing the fallout of her testimony.

DEBRA KATZ, ATTORNEY FOR CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD: This has been terrifying. Her family has been through a lot. They are not living at home. The threats

have been unending. It`s deplorable.

PHILLIP: Ford`s lawyers telling MSNBC she was horrified when President Trump mocked her testimony last week.

LISA BANKS, ATTORNEY FOR CHRISTINE BLASEY FORD: She was upset by it, yes, as any woman would be who is the victim of sexual assault, who was mocked

and belittled by anyone, never mind a president of the United States.

PHILLIP: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who refused to even hold a hearing with President Obama`s Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, ahead

of the 2016 election now appearing to move the goal posts.

MCCONNEL: If you have a party of a different -- a different Senate of a different party than the president, you don`t fill a vacancy creed in a

presidential year. We will see whether there is a vacancy in 2020.

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LU STOUT: And that was CNN`s Abby Phillip reporting there. Now, meanwhile, the pop megastar, Taylor Swift, is making news for politics. She has long

been criticized for not better using her platform as a powerful celebrity, but now, she has broken her political silence, revealing on Instagram that

she will vote for two Democratic candidates running in Tennessee.

She also slammed the Republican candidate backed by President Trump writing this, "I cannot vote for someone who will not be willing to fight for

dignity for all Americans, no matter their skin color, gender or who they love." Taylor Swift also encouraged her fans to register to vote in the

upcoming midterm elections.

In Brazil, a far-right candidate known as the "Trump of the Tropics" is a step closer to becoming the next president. Jair Bolsonaro campaigned as an

anti-establishment candidate, securing 46 percent of the vote. Leftist candidate, Fernando Haddad, came in a distant second at about 29 percent. A

runoff vote is scheduled for October the 28th.

[08:35:02] The political divide has deepened in Brazil as the country suffers from a prolonged economic recession and extreme violence. Murder

rates reached a record high last year. Shasta Darlington joins me now from Sao Paulo, Brazil. Shasta, Bolsonaro, he has casted himself as this tough

outsider, he has long been on the political fringe there in Brazil, so why is he getting closer to becoming the nation`s next president?

SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kristie, the message from Brazilians was loud and clear, they are fed up with politics as usual and

with the soaring crime and violence. As you mentioned, Bolsonaro has been this marginal figure in Congress since 1991, really best known for his

outrageous outburst defending the military dictatorship, attacking women and gays and blacks.

But with a massive corruption scandal that has engulfed all of the country`s top parties, every single one of them, and sent some of its

leaders to jail, he has been able to sell himself to the electorate as this rude but honest politician, someone who is going to drain the swamp.

In fact, he often refers to Donald Trump as his model. He has also made crime the cornerstone of his campaign, saying he is the only candidate

tough enough to take it on. He is going to make it easier for police to shoot and kill criminals, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Is there also a strong anti-Bolsonaro movement in Brazil and is all this deepening the political divide in the country?

DARLINGTON: Absolutely. This is the polarization that we are seeing. On the other hand, Bolsonaro and Fernandon Haddad from the left-wing Workers`

Party are the most popular candidates. They came ahead out of a field of 13, but they are also ironically the most unpopular candidates. They got

the highest rejection rates.

So, just a week before election, tens of thousands of Brazilians took to the streets in protest, these big marches organized by women against

Bolsonaro encouraging Brazilians to vote for anybody but Bolsonaro using the slogan "ele nao" or "not him." Haddad also has a high level of

rejection. So they both have to overcome this in the second round, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Yeah, and talking about the second round, when is that going to take place?

DARLINGTON: This will be three weeks from now, so they got three weeks to try and convince some of the voters who had supported other candidates.

It`s an uphill climb but really at this point, Bolsonaro is so close to reaching that 50 percent point. It`s hard to see how Haddad could convince

voters who are concerned that the Workers` Party allowed -- if it didn`t actively support the massive corruption going on over the last 14 to 15

years, Kristie.

LU STOUT: Shasta Darlington live for us from Sao Paulo, Brazil, thank you.

And two Americans are the latest winners of the Nobel Prize in economics. Thanks to their work on climate. Yale professor William Nordhaus and Paul

Romer of New York University, they focused on how economies can grow sustainably.

You`re watching "News Stream." Still to come, an elusive artist known for his over-the-top stunts pulled off arguably his most audacious one yet, but

did he have help? That story ahead on "News Stream."

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LU STOUT: Welcome back, this is "News Stream." Art lovers around the world are still wondering just how British artist Banksy pulled off one of his

boldest stunts yet at an auction in London.

[08:40:03] Now, moments after his iconic "Girl with Balloon" painting sold for more than a million dollars at Sotheby`s, it began to shred itself to

pieces. There was speculation that Sotheby`s might have known about the prank beforehand, but Banksy`s former agent who has known him for many

years told CNN that it is very unlikely that the artist colluded with Sotheby`s to pull off the prank.

CNN`s Lynda Kinkade reports on this and some of the artist`s other stunts.

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Moments after a buyer placed the $1.4 million winning bid on this famous Banksy artwork, a stunt like no other.

The iconic image known as "Girl with Balloon" self-destructs. The artist delighting in the moment in real time on his Instagram account writing,

going, going, gone.

A shredder built into the frame rips the piece into strips at Sotheby`s auction house in London. Banksy says he added the shredder to the picture

years ago just in case it was ever auctioned off. It`s not clear how the shredder was activated or how this will affect the art`s value.

Could it worth more now?

WILL ELLSWORTH-JONES, CHIEF REPORTER AND NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT, SUNDAY TIMES: Well, that will be sad if it is.

KINKADE: Will Ellsworth-Jones, author of "Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall," says the artist has a clear message.

ELLSWORTH-JONES: It was a sort of protest against the way his paintings have been monetized. It`s become how much does a Banksy make, how much is

it worth rather than a painting.

KINKADE: Banksy is known for using the element of surprise to make a point. Like the time he brought a truck of stuffed animals into New York

meat packing district squeaking for help, or when he painted a finger of privilege (ph) by painting a butler serving a young graffiti artist on a

ball (ph) in the Bronx. In a statement, Sotheby`s auction house said, we`ve been Banksy-ed.

Lynda Kindade, CNN.

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LU STOUT: Now, one of Tokyo`s iconic attractions and points of commerce is alas no more. The Tsukiji fish market for decades has drawn restaurant

tourists and tourists alike, but now the market has closed its stores as it moves to a new location.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I am sad to see it Tsukiji close, but I do look forward to seeing what the land will be used for after this

and how Tokyo will develop going forward.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Tsukiji is now a brand name and people buy from here because it is from Tsukiji. I am hearing a lot of

people that Toyosu will not be the same and that is why people don`t want to move. I`ve been working here 23 years and don`t want to move either.

This all brings up a lot of emotions in me.

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LU STOUT: The new location is called the Toyosu Fish Market. It is due to open October the 16th. Big reason for the move was the fact that Tsukiji is

on such valuable real estate in the center of Tokyo.

And that is "News Stream." I`m Kristie Lu Stout. But don`t go anywhere. "World Sport" with Christina Macfarlane is next.

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