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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now the situation really concerning in Brazil.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is very scary to see the numbers because these are 10 times more than the United States and about 20 times more than UK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Members of the medical NGO medicine some frontier say Brazil's COVID-19 response has plunged the country into a humanitarian

crisis.

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ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Abu Dhabi, this is "Connect the World" with Becky Anderson.

BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, this hour Brazil is looking down the barrel of an unimaginable loss of lives. Some would argue

that is already the reality. Hello and welcome back to "Connect the World".

There are nearly 200 sovereign nations in our worlds the Coronavirus pandemic, touching all of them, each of those nations navigating their own

responses to COVID-19. So at what point does a particular government's response to the virus become a matter of international security, should the

international community then step in and if so, how?

Well we can't give you those answers. But we can start by cross examining those crucial questions and that is our big picture this hour. With that in

mind, I want to zone in on Brazil, this scene being repeated over and over again.

There, a Brazilian dying of COVID-19 every 20 seconds, inaction and dismissive rhetoric from the President catapulting the country into what

feels like continual calamity, with health experts now warning that the country will face I quote, an unimaginable loss of lives. What's the world

doing about it?

Well, for starters, this, look at all the red on this map. All those countries now imposing major travel restrictions, in some cases, outright

travel bans to and from Brazil. So what might the international community do more than just closing its borders to the people of Brazil? Well, Shasta

Darlington reports the people of Brazil need urgent help now.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): For the sixth straight month in Rio de Janeiro more people are dying than are being born as

hospitals burst at the Scenes. And at least 10 other Brazilian cities the trend is the same as a crisis plays out across the nation.

A surge and Coronavirus seems to be spiraling out of control, killing three people each minute in a record high last week overwhelmed cemeteries

resorting to late night burials just to keep up with demand. Still, experts warn the pandemic may only get worse.

A COVID P-1 variant first discovered in Brazil may be dangerously mutating, scientists say becoming more resistant to vaccines as it spreads unchecked

across the country. If Brazil doesn't contain the variant, it could lead to an unimaginable loss of lives, writes a team of experts in a report

published Wednesday in the Journal Science.

The federal response has been a dangerous combination of inaction and wrongdoing they add, pointing to the government of President Jair Bolsonaro

for its handling of the pandemic as criticism amounts worldwide.

CHRISTOS CHRISTOU, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT, MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES: I have to be very clear on this that Brazilian Authorities negligence is

costing lives.

DARLINGTON (voice over): Members of the medical NGO Medecins San Frontieres say Brazil's COVID-19 response has plunged the country into a humanitarian

crisis that they warn is only likely to intensify. But Brazil's far right leader is bristling at international alarm as he doubles down on opposing

lockdown measures.

JAIR BOLSONARO, BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT: I think I'm the only world leader taking all this criticism, it would be easier to just follow the masses

that way people don't accuse you of genocide, just because I think differently.

DARLINGTON (voice over): Bolsonaro has also lambasted approved by the country's senate into his handling of COVID-19 and continues deflecting

criticism for a sputtering vaccine rollout. So far, only about 3 percent of the population is fully vaccinated after political infighting and repeated

delays. Meanwhile, medical systems across the country begin to collapse as worrying trends emerge.

JEAN GORINCHTEYN, SAO PAULO HEALTH SECRETARY: In the first wave, we saw mainly older people, but this is not what we're seeing now. It is a disease

that has shown it to be more aggressive, particularly in young people.

DARLINGTON (voice over): A recent report out of Brazil says most ICU patients are 40 years old and younger for the first time since the

country's outbreak began. No one is safe it seems from the grip of a deadly pandemic, as Brazil's grueling battle with Coronavirus rages on.

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Shasta, Darlington, CNN, Sao Paulo.

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ANDERSON: Well, a little early I told you about a report from a group of health experts warning that Brazil now faces an unimaginable loss of lives.

Well, Marcia Castro, a Global Health and Population Professor at Harvard University are the Lead Author of that report. And she joins me now.

The report that you contributed to, you could argue it's sort of - what's going on is already an unimaginable loss of lives, you could argue we are

already seeing that, how much worse is it going to get?

MARCIA CASTRO, GLOBAL HEALTH & POPULATION PROFESSOR, HARVARD UNIVERSITY: So first of all, thanks for having me. And you could barely find the words to

ask the question. And I have to tell you writing this paper was one of the most difficult pieces of science have ever done.

I'm a Brazilian, so it's very hard to do this. Basically, we portrayed the progression of the virus both cases and deaths last year, from the

beginning until the beginning of October until a week before - week 41. And what we're seeing now, it's a much worse version of what we show in this

paper in much more compressed in time.

So if before we were having peaks of transmission in states and cities over time progressing over time, now it's everybody at the same time. So it's

completely chaotic. It's really a humanitarian crisis. And we need action now.

And as much as the president is against lockdown, when we reach a situation of complete chaos, as we're seeing now, we need the lockdown to stop the

transmission of the virus. But what I would say is not only we need the lockdown now, but we need to start planning how we're going to engage?

What the advantage that Brazil head from the beginning, which is a community based primary care program? So when cases and deaths come down,

we bring a very large number of community health agents that Brazil has. They're ready to take action, and they are not being used since the

beginning of the pandemic.

ANDERSON: You've been talking about a combination of sort of political chaos and inaction that is catapulted the country into this calamity. I

just wonder, therefore, you know, how much you - I mean, I've got to ask it again, how much worse is this going to get? And when you start looking

forwards? When you start saying, how do we come out of this? Where's the political will at this point?

CASTRO: So let's put it this way, the political will at the federal level has not been much. And the wrongdoing that we mentioned in the paper is, is

a leader that disseminates the use of medicines of Hydroxychloroquine. They're not effective, does not use mask in public and clearly was against

the vaccine at some point saying that you will not get vaccinated.

So how much worse he can get? Look, if we don't do anything, right? If we just let the thing go. What we're going to have is when we can eventually

see the client, but we're going to have another wave. We're going to have new variants emerge. Variants will emerge in places where you have intense

transmission.

But what's happening now in Brazil is in the absence of something coming from the federal level, we have groups of Governors and Mayors getting

together in the response is coming locally. However, Brazil is a very big country, we have 5570 municipalities some of those municipalities cannot

take action by themselves.

And that's where the lack of a coordinated action becomes a big problem. So I think some cities are going to take action. We're going to start seeing

the decline, hopefully, not in April, not in April, this is going to be the worst month ever.

But eventually the decline will happen. But it's not just about locking to making a lock down and declining at this moment, we have to keep doing

something after that. We are not going to increase the vaccination anytime soon.

Brazil did not buy the vaccines last year that should have acquired so our vaccination will continue to roll out in a short pace. So we really need

the local action to take place in the absence of the federal one and start decreasing this huge, huge unbearable burden.

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ANDERSON: And we've been talking to one of the Mayors today part of a group of Mayors who are trying to get some concerted action together locally at

their level, because they know they're getting no support on a federal basis. You say variants will emerge.

And without any action, there are those who say that Brazil will become a security risk to the rest of the world. So in regard to action, not from

the local community, but from the international community, what do you think or hope might happen next?

I mean, are we facing a situation that could be considered enough of a threat to be, for example, discussed by the UN Security Council at this

point? I mean, what is the author of this report would you advise other countries the international community to do to help at this point?

CASTRO: So no question that Brazil is a threat to global health security. I think many voices are saying this. We mentioned this, in the science paper,

and this is obvious, it's a threat, because of the high transmission and the virus does not respect borders.

And it's a threat because of the possibility of new variants emerging. It's not by chance that many countries have closed their borders to Brazil; it's

because of recognizing this distress. From an international community perspective, there are many things that could happen.

I mean, certainly, there are different bodies, international bodies that could, you know, held accountable, the actions that are happening in

Brazil, and just this week, we have an investigation that was set up by the Senate in Brazil, and I hope something will come out of this.

But there's so much that international organizations can do, the World Health Organization cannot impose some action in any country, or other

bodies as well. I mean, there is some pressure that can happen from the level of diplomacy.

So conversations, conversations can start taking place. The other thing that has been mentioned before is maybe the international community could

try to send those as a vaccine to Brazil to try to alleviate, to mitigate the problem.

On the one hand, that would be great. On the other hand, that sort of unfair with the rest of the global south, that is also lagging behind in

vaccination. So it's not an easy decision. But I think that if international organizations, international government start speaking more

about this, in really calling the fact that Brazil is it's not that it's going to be is a global health threat, then something might happen from

this.

And again, we have an investigation from the Senate happening now. So if there is a perfect moment to voice those concerns, both nationally and

internationally, with science, with facts, with governance from any point that is now.

ANDERSON: Finally, Former President Luiz Lula de Silva said last week that Brazil is facing its or the biggest genocide in the Latin American

country's history. Do you agree?

CASTRO: Luiz certainly is having a much higher mortality than it should. It took about two years of life expectancy at birth in Brazil. Brazil is back

to mortality levels of 2013. Call it how you want. But yes, we should not have the number of deaths that we're observing now. It's a total

unnecessary loss of lives, destruction of families. It's horrible.

ANDERSON: With that, we'll leave it there. We thank you very much indeed for taking the time with us today. And I hope that in doing this interview,

we get a message out to the international community, and indeed to those in Brazil, who we support. Thank you.

Well, another country where international attention is urgently needed, India needs COVID death toll is second only to the United States. It's just

reported another consecutive day of record infections. You can see what is this staggering spike in the seven day average of cases over the past few

weeks taking the figure well above anything we saw in 2020?

Weekend curfew is about to come into effect in the Capital region of Delhi to try and prevent any further scenes like these you are looking at

patients sharing beds at hospitals, which have come under colossal pressure.

We'll turn into the other in the Coronavirus spectrum Israel ending its mandate that requires people to wear face masks outdoors.

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ANDERSON: Its Health Minister side of the country's successful vaccination program and advice from medical experts at the risk of catching the virus

outdoors is low. As of Sunday face masks will only be required in indoor settings. Well, Hadas Gold joining me now from Jerusalem Hadas?

HADAS GOLD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky other face masks are coming off outside at least indoors, they will still be required. But there is a sense

of excitement, I think in Israel, because ever since early March, when the economy started reopening here, there's a sense that life is slowly

returning back to normal.

And there's a sense that by removing the masks outside at least it is further a return to normalcy that so many people around the world are

seeking right now.

The Health Minister made this announcement saying that starting Sunday, the masks will come off outside they were citing the very positive numbers

they're seeing as a result of the vaccination campaign here in Israel of around 57 percent of the total population has been vaccinated with at least

one dose of the Coronavirus vaccine.

And keep in mind that that's the total population. So if you look at those are even eligible to receive the vaccine those were over the age of 16.

That number is even higher. As a result the R-Rate, the infection rate has been below .8 since the third of March. And experts like Ron Weigel from

the Weissman or Ron Siegel, excuse me from the Weitzman Institute have said that since January, there's been a drop of 98 percent of cases since the

peak in January.

So all of those positive numbers are leading to a further reopening a further return of normalcy here, including there was another announcement

that students from grades kindergarten through 12th grade will be returning to full time school.

There will still be some restrictions such as masks need to be in place, the classrooms need to be well ventilated. But again, this is all sort of a

return to normalcy that the officials here are saying is as a result of Israel's very robust vaccination program, one of the leading in the world.

And in what will likely be very good news for the struggling tourism industry here in Israel is that vaccinated tour groups will be allowed to

enter the country starting in the end of May, Becky.

ANDERSON: Fascinating. Hadas thank you for that and as soon as future is from Israel, the EU and other countries will get to travel to Greece

without dealing with quarantine restrictions. Starting next week, Greece will no longer require those travelers to self isolate on arrival as long

as they have been vaccinated or test negative for COVID.

But the Greek government says that they will have to follow other local restrictions. Let's bring in Melissa Bell who is following the COVID story

in Europe for you, Melissa?

MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Becky, this is something that Greece and countries like Austria countries here in Europe that are so heavily

dependent on the tourism industry that has really been all but stagnant for much of the last year there was a small reprieve last summer. But that's

pretty much been it.

These countries have really been at the forefront of the argument for things like vaccine passports to enable people to travel around as quickly

as possible while those European vaccination campaigns begin to get off the ground and gather a bit of peace at last.

So yes, good news for those tourists looking to head to Greece if you've test positive or negative or you've been vaccinated, you'll be able to go

without that quarantine. The beginning of some hope for the tourist season there in Greece, which begins officially Becky on May 14th.

Elsewhere in Europe, vaccination campaigns picking up a little bit of speed. So some hope there as well, with the EU Task Force ahead saying that

Europe could now become the largest producer of vaccines in the world, which he said made him believe that that target of getting 70 percent of

Europeans vaccinated by the summer should be within reach with two doses available for each adult.

So some sense those countries are beginning to look around that corner around that bend of what happens when more and more people begin to get

vaccinated. Here in France authorities saying Becky that from May 15th the situation allowing and figures have been brought a little bit back under

control and vaccination campaign having advanced things like museums and terraces may at last be able to open once again.

ANDERSON: Chink of light. Let's hope it stays there. Thank you. Up next, I thought I was going to get shot the words of a witness to the mass shooting

in the City of Indianapolis in Indiana. I'm going to get you there live and get more on what the police are saying happens overnight at a FedEx Depot?

And could fears of an all out Civil War come to fruition in Myanmar, its ousted leaders say they hope to fight fire with fire by raising their own

army.

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ANDERSON: More now and what police are saying about a mass shooting overnight in the U.S. City of Indianapolis. Investigators say it is too

soon to know what drove the shooter to kill eight people and wound five others at a FedEx facility.

Please do know that the shooting was very fast. The Deputy Police Chief says it probably lasted one to two minutes and the gunman was dead by the

time police went into the building. Have a listen to this.

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DEPUTY CHIEF CRAIG MCCARTT, INDIANAPOLIS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT: This suspect came to the facility. And when he came there he got out of his

car and pretty quickly started some random shooting outside the facility. There was no confrontation with anyone that was there.

There was no disturbance. There was no argument. He just appeared to randomly start shooting. And that began in the parking lot. And then he did

go into the building into the facility for a brief period of time before he took his knee.

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ANDERSON: Well, I don't need to remind you that gun violence in America is nothing new. This is a map of mass shootings across the U.S. in the past

month. CNN's tally is at least 45 in just the past 30 days. I know, it's hard to take in isn't?

America not only grappling with an epidemic of mass shootings, city after city being forced to take a hard look at the way that their police operate

the latest Chicago, protesters took to the streets Thursday night after police released body cam footage of the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old

boy.

Now the footage shows that less than one second passed between the time the teenager can be seen holding a gun and when he is shot by an officer. Well,

some of the outrage comes from the fact that the boy had actually dropped his weapon before he was shot.

The officers' lawyer says he had no choice but to open fire. CNN's Ryan Young takes us through the details.

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RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Tragic final moments of a 13- year-old boy's life unfolding in just 19 seconds. Chicago police releasing this body camera footage and we warn you that it's disturbing showing

Officer Eric Stillman responding to a shot fired call before chasing one of the two suspects down in an alley.

Now, the officer firing a single fatal shot into the chest of Adam Toledo. Despite efforts to save him, the team was pronounced dead at the scene.

LORI LIGHTFOOT, CHICAGO MAYOR: No parent should ever have a video broadcast widely of their child's last moments, much less be placed in a terrible

situation of losing your child in the first place.

YOUNG (voice over): Chicago police saying Toledo had a gun in his hand before the shooting, and then they recovered one from just behind the

fence, highlighting it in this video edited and released by the department. But the body camera footage appears to show Toledo had his hands up and was

not holding anything at the time he was shot. A crucial detail his family's attorney says is important in the investigation.

ADEENA WEISS ORTIZ, LAWYER FOR ADAM TOLEDO'S FAMILY: If he had a gun he tossed it the officer said show me your hands, he complied he turned

around.

YOUNG (voice over): Toledo's family agreeing to the release of the video after viewing them with the Chicago Mayor's Office earlier this week. Now

the officer who killed Toledo is on administrative leave.

His attorney telling CNN he was left with no other option adding Stillman was well within his justification of using deadly force. But for protesters

and Toledo's family, there are questions about his death that needs to be answered.

ORTIZ: All I know is that the officer is trained to not shoot an unarmed individual, not shoot an unarmed child.

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ANDERSON: Well, Ryan Young there also telling us the protests were relatively smaller so but Chicago is still very much a city on edge. There

are more demonstrations planned or authorities have been bringing out trucks to block roads to keep things from getting out of hand.

We'll coming up, the end of an era in Cuba as the Reign of the Castro Regime fully comes to an end. We are live in Havana as the new leader

inherits what is the Castro Legacy?

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ANDERSON: Coming to Cuba this Friday for the first time in more than 60 years as Castro will not be leading the Caribbean Island Nation. Raul

Castro officially took the reins in 2016 when his older brother Fidel died, but he is now planning to pass the baton.

A short time ago, the party kicked off a high level meeting in Havana. Our Patrick Oppmann is keeping a lot one eye on this important conference

because he's not invited as a member of the international press, but he is keeping his ear to the ground. Patrick, what are you hearing?

PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, though the party congress has gotten underway now again, no pictures yet that that we've seen in my

invitation somehow got lost in the mail, apparently.

But this is going to be one of the key government meetings really in recent Cuban history, because this is when the transition that has been underway

now for about a decade, from Raul Castro to a new generation, a generation born after the Cuban Revolution, a generation born after the Bay of Pigs

invasion, which today is celebrating here, at least the 60th anniversary of that failed CIA invasion of Cuba.

And so although you have different faces in power here, by the beginning of next week, what really will change Becky? And that's an open question

because the new president didn't we expect the new for Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba Miguel Diaz Canal, his slogan is continuity.

That's how he got his job by saying that he will follow in the footsteps of Raul and Fidel Castro. But clearly Cuba cannot continue on being Cuba

because the economy is in tatters. Even worse now, thanks to the pandemic and tougher sanctions from the United States.

Officials here are very openly about saying that something needs to change this country needs to produce the food that it eats. It does not right now

and imports most of the food that people need here, the economy is essentially a basket case without tourism right now.

So how is that going to be any different with the leadership, not named Castro? We simply don't know. For years now, they have said here, including

Raul Castro, that they needed to reform that they need to liberalize the economy, they needed to open up and despite those slogans, it has not

happened just yet. And they may be running out of time, Becky?

ANDERSON: There will be one, two - I'm just trying to work about three generations of Cubans who will know nothing but a Castro in charge of the

country. How are people in Cuba feeling about this change?

OPPMANN: People really wonder how it's going to affect their lives. And you know it's a lot of different factors. The pandemic is hit this island very,

very hard. We're seeing the highest number of cases and deaths as Cuba works on completing its own vaccines.

I don't remember a time living here. And I've been here for nine years, were more Cubans have told me that they want to leave, that they're done

that it's just too difficult living here, that they wait hours every day, in lines for food, that it may not even be a political thing, although many

people want to leave because of political reasons.

Other people say they're just exhausted by living in a country that has been under six decades now of U.S. sanctions, that life is too difficult.

And that whereas a few years ago, the prophesy saw a hope for change, a sign of change inside of better U.S./Cuban relations.

Increasingly people tell me that they will go no matter how they have to, but they cannot see a future here in Cuba.

ANDERSON: Oppmann in Havana, Patrick Oppmann, thank you, sir. Well - February the 1st coup in Myanmar. We have seen an intense military

crackdown against protesters and the deposed civilian government. Well, now that civilian government is gathering firepower to fight back.

The deposed leaders are asking defectors from Myanmar security forces to join with ethnic insurgents to form a new underground federal army. The

ousted government says in one state 83 percent of police officers have defected.

One of the places this new army would have to defend is the City of Bago. Reports from the city describe a relentless military attack on protesters

there that left dozens dead. Paula Hancocks has our report.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Dawn in the City of Bago, April 9th. The shooting is said to have started at 5 am. One NGO describes

what happened that day as a killing field.

Protesters tell us they had six bunkers throughout the city to try and keep the military at bay. Roadblocks made of sandbags to stop the bullets

getting through. One member of the so called defense team tasked with protecting the neighborhood from the military says they were up against far

more than just bullets.

18-year-old who says he should be starting studies in IT now. He spoke to us over the phone our condition of anonymity. He's fled the city and is in

hiding.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We heard 32 members were killed at a bunker number one as we were running away. We couldn't make contact with them. As we ran the

military shot us from a monastery they were stationed at. As they were shooting continuously, I think at least 40 of us were killed at that time.

HANCOCKS (on camera): What do you have to defend yourself? What sort of weapons or shields do you have?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have gas masks, helmets and air guns that are all we have.

HANCCOCKS (voice over): He says survivors believe 97 people were killed that day. The military says it was the protesters who attacked and knocked

them and claimed they had handmade guns, shields and grenades, and they say only one person died.

Multiple sources including advocacy group AIPP says the military was using assault rifles, grenades and heavy weaponry like RPGs weapons you use on a

battlefield. These photos taken of the aftermath in Bago would seem to support this.

This audio recorded by one protester shows the intensity of the military onslaught, an onslaught that has been widely condemned.

RAVINA SHAMDASANI, SPOKESWOMEN, OHCHR: The military seems intent on intensifying its pitiless policy of violence against the people of Myanmar

using military grade and indiscriminate weaponry.

HANCOCKS (voice over): An accusation rejected by the military junta.

BRIGADIER GENERAL ZAW MIN TUN, MILITARY JUNTA SPOKESMAN: If we really shot at protesters using automatic rifles, the 532 could be killed within hours.

HANCOCKS (voice over): This is not the first time the military has been shooting of protesters in Bago. But everyone we spoke to said this was

different. One doctor who wanted to hide his identity for safety says he tried to treat the wounded that day but was blocked by the military. He

says at least one of his colleagues was arrested.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We could see people fall to the ground but we couldn't get to them. We saw a bystander killed by gunshot to the head. He was only

18 or 19.

HANCOCKS (voice over): The military went house to house neighborhood to neighborhood activists and doctors tell us many were arrested from inside

their homes. Their families received a call the next day to come and pick up their body for a price a charge of around $85 in order to be allowed to

give a loved one a funeral.

One activist tells us that price has now gone up to $110. The military has said nothing.

HANCOCKS: Horrifying stories slowly emerging from just one city on just one day in Myanmar. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Bangkok.

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ANDERSON: Let's get you up to speed on some of the other stories that are on our radar right now. Russia's foreign intelligence services rejecting

U.S. accusations that it was responsible for the solar wing cyber attack calling it nonsense. Well, the U.S. formally blamed Moscow Thursday for the

hack that disrupted government and private sector computer systems last year.

The Japanese Prime Minister is visiting the White House becoming the first foreign leader to hold in person talks with President Joe Biden since he

took office. He met with the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this hour. This summit with Mr. Biden later today is expected to focus on

curbing China's recent aggressive actions against Taiwan.

Well, the Chinese economy appears to be roaring back to life. China says it grew at a record rate in the first quarter of the year with GDP surging

more than 18 percent compared to a year ago, but keep in mind the first quarter of last year was when China was in a Coronavirus lockdown.

Buckingham Palace has released new details about Prince Philip's funeral this weekend. Prince Charles William and Harry are among the family members

who will follow the coffin in a procession in Windsor on Saturday. We're looking at pictures from rehearsals that have been taking place this week.

The palace has also named the 30 relatives and friends who will attend service at number mostly limited by COVID restrictions and CNN will bring

you in Philips funeral live on Saturday. Our coverage begins at 1 pm in London that's 4 pm in Abu Dhabi.

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ANDERSON: Christiane Amanpour and Anderson Cooper will take you through the Royal Family gatherings St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle to pay tribute

to the Duke of Edinburgh. We will be right back.

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ANDERSON: All right. It is time for sports with the new Major League Soccer season kicking off today on the field the debut of Austin FC, their co

owner none other than Matthew McConaughey CNN's World Sports Don Riddell interview with the Hollywood Star. Patrick Snell is with me. First of all,

you're - it you're all right. All right! All right!

PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Becky, how can I possibly follow that? OK, here we go. My best Texan all right! All right! All right! What do you say?

ANDERSON: All right. That's pretty good.

SNELL: What's cool about it? What's cool about it is you're a fan of Austin FC you get the chance to go something like this. All right! All right! All

right! All right! You know the Euro file field to--

ANDERSON: All right!

SNELL: All right! Yes, that's it. It's spot on. Grate excitement around their first ever franchise opener as well that's on Saturday against LA FC

but look he has got the buzz of the town there. This is a really historic first for the State of Texas when it comes to soccer.

And we are one on one Don riddle is the lucky man who scored the interview scored no pun intended. That is on Worlds Sport in just a few moments from

right now.

ANDERSON: All right! Let's do it back after this break.

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