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[08:00:16] ANDREW STEVENS, HOST: I'm Andrew Stevens in Hong Kong, welcome to News Stream. They gathered in Calais hoping to find a way
across the channel to the UK. Now France is removing thousands of migrants from the camp known as The Jungle.
New polls show Hillary Clinton with a commanding lead over Donald Trump with just two
weeks to go until the presidential election.
And the heads of AT&T and Time Warner make their case for a megamerger.
At this hour, thousands of migrants are lining up to leave a French camp known as The Jungle.
The first bus left less than an hour after the operation began. French officials planned to dismantle the makeshift camp and the migrants
who lived there have been given two choices -- seek asylum in France or return to their home country.
Well, CNN's Melissa Bell has more from Calais.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tents as far as the eye can see -- the jungle in Calais will soon be no more. Its 1,300 unaccompanied children
are hoping that means they'll soon be in the U.K. like 14- year-old Muhammad, who crossed 12 countries in 75 days with just one idea in mind.
MUHAMMAD, MIGRANT: I want to join to my uncle. I'm so tired here. I have -- I left more than one year ago but I don't arrive to my uncle yet. I
love football. I want to play football. And I want to rest in peace.
BELL: So far though, he says he's had no help from authorities. He's been trying to get to the U.K. for a year now, waiting in a camp where he
says only the most brutal survive.
MUHAMMAD: I will never forget. It's all here in my head because it's been so hard for me.
BELL: Riyaz (ph)is also 14 and from Afghanistan. He too has family waiting for him in England. But three months ago he left the camp and
sought refuge with a local NGO. After eight months on the road he finally found a place to rest and much more.
RIYAZ, MIGRANT: They teach us French. We study here. They give us some money for our needs to buy clothes, to buy pants, shirts, like this. And we
are just waiting here to go to England.
BELL: But Riyaz says he's been waiting too long. He's also worried that in leaving the jungle he may have made a mistake. So many of his
friends, he says, have already left to start their new life on the other side of the channel.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Well, Melissa now joins us from Calais on the line. And Melissa, how's the operation been progressing so far? Because there had
been fears that there could be violent confrontations.
BELL: There have been fears, Andrew, so far from the point of view of the French authorities, it's been going remarkably smoothly. Hundreds of
migrants have been shipped out of Calais on the buses. They have made their way through a line. They made an orderly
queue from very early this morning to be able to get on those buses and on towards the French regions that have accepted to take some of them.
The difficulty, though, the real danger comes tomorrow morning when the first part of the
operation, the evacuation, ends and the dismantling of the camp itself begins, that's when authorities will move in and start forcibly taking down
some of the tents. And you're talking about a camp, Andrew, that houses 10,000 people. It's a massive operation, and there are 1,200 French
policemen on hand to make sure tomorrow's operation, in particular, when authorities will be faced with those not so keen to be bused out to
France's regions, when that most difficult part of the operation begins.
STEVENS: Do you have an understanding at this stage, Melissa, how many people could decide that they will stay?
BELL: The French authorities are hoping to convince all of them to do it, that is the plan, that sall of them should be given the choice, either
of seeking asylum in one of France's regions, or going back home, but there are thousands of migrants inside The Jungle who have not been convinced so
far to get into this queue towards the buses and that are going to be much harder to convince.
We've spoken to some of them who said we've come all this way -- and these are people who risked their lives and crossed half theworld to get
here and you will have an idea, one dream in their mind, one dream that they cling to, and that is the hope of one day getting to the United Kingdom
and they're not going to be persuaded that easily.
And it's interesting you mention the United Kingdom, because they have agreed to take hundreds of unaccompanied minors, that process is also
continuing, but what is it about the United Kingdom that appeals so much to so many of these migrants?
STEVENS: You know, Andrew, it's a question we've been putting to many of the migrants we've met in and around the camp over the last couple of
days and they have a number of different answers, some of them, like the boys in you saw in that report, have family in the United KJingdom, others
say that it's about the language, that the language that they speak, French is not.
Many of them, though, explain that they understand, they have heard, they've been led to believe in the United Kingdom work is much easier to
come by, and in particular, work -- illegal work, work that you can get as soon as you arrive and even before your papers
have been processed.
I mean, whether or not that's true is very difficult to say, but it is certain certainly a firm belief in the minds of many of the migrants here.
And those who have decided to join the queue this morning have done so with a great deal of resignation. These people have dreamed of the United
Kingdom for many months or for many years. And very reluctantly will tell you, well, we know that the UK is impossible. We'd love to go, but we
don't think it's going to happen.
[08:06:16] STEVENS: Melissa, thank you very much for that update. Melissa Bell in Calais. And we'll, of course, stay on the story throughout
the day there in France.
Now the situation in Calais is just one part of the bigger migrant crisis rocking the entire continent of Europe. To learn how you can help
migrants and refugees, head to CNN's impact your world web page. And there you'll find a list of organizations working on the ground. It's all at
CNN.com/impact.
Now, it's been exactly one week since the Iraqi army launched a major campaign to take back Mosul, the last stronghold of ISIS in Iraq. Military
leaders say dozens of towns have now been recaptured and hundreds of ISIS fighters have been killed. Michael Holmes has this look at the events of
the first week and the challenges ahead.
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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Overwhelming force meets fanatical resistance. Coalition and Iraqi air power, along with
nearly 100,000 troops -- Kurdish Peshmerga, the Iraqi army, and several militia -- against perhaps 5,000 ISIS fighters. But those fighters have
had two years to fortify their crown jewel.
In the first few days of the campaign, the attacking forces found dozens of tunnels, some of them nearly a mile long. They lost men to
snipers and booby traps and they face the deadliest of ISIS weapons: vehicles laden with explosives barreling through the dust.
Many ISIS fighters were taken out by missiles or coalition air power, others found their target. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says the
campaign is progressing faster than expected and in some places forward units are just seven kilometers from the outskirts of Mosul. But every
village and every town has to be fought for.
The church bell rings again in a Christian town. Children thank their rescuers. But homes are ruined, streets littered with booby traps.
For people returning home for the first time in two years or escaping the brutal grip of ISIS, mixed emotions.
"We can't live there, no water, no electricity, damage everywhere, and explosives, as well."
ISIS had yet again shown it is a resilient enemy, its fighters penetrated deep into Kirkuk, a city under Kurdish control, launching a
fierce attack that went on for a day and left nearly 100 dead, an attack that quite deliberately drew Kurdish troops away from the front lines.
No one expected this battle to be quick or decisive.
ASH CARTER, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: Mosul will be recaptured. It's going to be a difficult fight. We don't know exactly how the battle will
go, but we know what the outcome is.
HOLMES: But even the first week in open plains and deserted villages proved a hard slog. Defenses inside the city will be much tougher.
Intelligence sources say ISIS has already begun to use civilians has human shields, many already executed, and if hostage taking continues, air
strikes will be difficult, sometimes impossible in the city.
Commanders here expect this campaign will last deep into the winter. If it does, the trickle of civilians already escaping Mosul could become a
flood. Aid agencies fear they will be overwhelmed by perhaps hundreds of thousands of desperate people, maybe mixed among them ISIS fighters and
suicide bombers.
Even when coalition forces retake Mosul, what will the day after look like? There is no firm agreement at the moment on how the area will be
governed, how the city will be rebuilt. Competing groups -- Sunni, Shia, Kurds and Turkmen -- will all jostle for power. Getting rid of ISIS might
then after look like the easy part.
Michael Holmes, CNN, near Mosul, Iraq.
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[08:10:18] STEVENS: With just over two weeks now to go until the U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump has a lot of ground to make up. A new
ABC News poll shows Hillary Clinton with a 12 point lead. She's at 50 percent now. Trump is at 38. The latest CNN poll of polls also shows a
wide lead for the Democratic nominee: Clinton is at 48 percent, Trump has 39 percent.
Well, as the election nears, Clinton and Trump are trying to seal the deal with voters. As Jeff Zeleny reports, a new change in tone may hint at
growing anxiety in the Trump camp.
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JEFF ZELENY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A two-week fight to the finish. It's time for closing arguments. Hillary Clinton striking an
optimistic note.
HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want to be the president for every American. Democrats, Republicans, independents, people
who vote for me, people who vote against me because we've got to bring this country together.
ZELENY (voice-over): Donald Trump, less so.
DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Are we glad that I started? Are we happy?
(APPLAUSE)
TRUMP: Well, I'll let you know on the evening of November 8th whether I'm glad.
ZELENY (voice-over): With 15 days to go, Trump no longer talking about when he wins, but if.
TRUMP: If we win on November 8th, we are going to fix our rigged system. It's a rigged, broken, corrupt system.
CLINTON: Some people are sore losers and, you know, we just got to keep going.
ZELENY (voice-over): A wild weekend with Trump visiting Gettysburg for an unusual Gettysburg address, overshadowing the plan for his first 100
days in office by pledging to sue the women accusing him of inappropriate behavior.
TRUMP: Every woman who lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign, total fabrication. All of these liars will be sued after the
election is over.
ZELENY (voice-over): Trump Campaign Manager Kellyanne Conway bluntly acknowledging the uphill climb.
KELLYANNE CONWAY, CAMPAIGN MANAGER FOR DONALD TRUMP: We were behind. We were behind one, three, four points in some of these swing states that
Mitt Romney lost to President Obama, Chuck. Our advantage is that Donald Trump is just going to continue to take the case directly to the people.
ZELENY (voice-over): Trump undermining that acknowledgment.
TRUMP: "Investor's Business Daily," the most accurate poll from the last election and the two elections before that, just announced that we are
leading nationally by two points. Numbers are looking phenomenal in Florida. Don't believe the media.
ZELENY (voice-over): But a new ABC News national poll shows Trump trailing Clinton by 12 points.
Meantime, CNN has learned Clinton is increasingly moving beyond Trump and turning her attention to her transition to the presidency. A Democrat
close to Clinton saying she's not being arrogant, she's being diligent. Clinton is sizing up candidates for White House Chief of Staff. One top
contender, Ron Klain who led her debate team. All these as President Obama is tying GOP Senate candidates to Trump visiting Nevada, one of the hottest
senate battlegrounds.
BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You're for him, but you're not for him. But you're kind of for him. What the Hck?
(END VIDEOTAPE)
STEVENS: Now, that what the heck, that's a remark with reference to Joe Heck, he's the Republican candidate running for Senate.
And a reminder that you can get much more on the election race as November 8 approaches. Just head to CNN.com/politics.
now, the murders of two Indonesian women shocked Hong Kong two years ago. Now a former British banker is standing trial for their deaths.
We've got more in just a moment.
Also, how a South American country is fighting human trafficking. CNN's Freedom Project has an eye-opening report from Colombia.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
[08:16:14] STEVENS: The view of downtown Hong Kong. Welcome back, you're watching
News Stream.
Now, a Chinese company says its technology was among those used by hackers to carry out Friday's major cyber attack. Xiongmai Technologies
makes components for Internet connected video cameras and tells CNN Money that malware allowed the hackers to break in and take control of its
products, using them in a DDOS attack that made it difficult for users to access major platforms like Netflix or Reddit.
Now, let's just show you how a DDOS attack actually works. It begins with a computer that's been compromised by malware, allowing hackers to
take control. Now, the hackers then combine that computer with other infected PCs to create what's called a BotNet. These
BotNets can consist of hundreds of thousands of computers. Hackers direct all of those computers to flood a target server with data, and that
overwhelms the server and prevents normal users to access it.
Now, DDOS attacks, they're not new, but Friday's attack was different. Why? Because computers have become harder to break into, so hackers have
been looking for new targets and they found one: the internet of things. That's the term for an array of smart internet connected devices, including
surveillance cameras, cable TV boxes, thermostats, even lights.
They are typically much easier to break into than computers. A household could have any
number of these sorts of devices, giving hackers more devices to use in their DDOS attack and allowing them to take on a bigger target.
Now, Friday's attack hit Dyn. Now, that is a company that provides the critical service of routing internet traffic to the correct website.
It's a sort of switchboard, if you like. Without it, many users simply couldn't connect to those sites and that's exactly what happened on Friday.
Now, a horrifying murder case in Hong Kong has finally come to trial after two years. Former banker Rurik Jutting (ph) pleaded not guilty to
the brutal murders of two Indonesian women, but he did not deny killing them, saying he would admit to a less serious manslaughter charge.
Now, the prosecution brought forward a wealth of gruesome evidence, including video showing the murder victims being tortured before her death.
Prosecutors say Jutting (ph) filmed the videos himself.
Mallika Kapur at the trial, and she joins us now with more. Mallika certainly, a lot of absolutely
chilling details coming out so far.
MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, some extremely chilling details. In fact, it was tense in the courtroom, Andrew, this
morning, even before the trial started because the judge addressed the jurors, all nine of them, and he did warn them about things to
come, and he said that the evidence that they would be subjected to, to watching over the next couple of days is really going to be grim,it's going
to be gruesome, and he even gave them a chance to excuse themselves from the trial if they felt they wouldn't be able to cope with the grim nature
of the evidence.
So, what's going to be in this evidence? What are the jurors going to watch? Well, as you mentioned, it is going to be video, it's going to be
recordings, it's going to be a number of images, because the defendant, Mr. Jutting, has actually recorded various parts of the attacks on the
Indonesian women who he allegedly murdered. He has recorded them on his iPhone, and people in the jury are going to be subjected to watching those
snippets over the next couple of days, but the judge also did say that the nature of the crime is so shocking, what's on the video is so shocking,
that they are not going to play it out in the courtroom.
Remember, it is an open court and it is open to members of the public, but given how chilling
those videos are, they are actually going to play that out in a room close to the court in a private room so that only members the nature of the crime
is so shocking, what's on the video is so shocking that they are not going to play it out in a room close to the court in private room so that only
members of the jury will be able to watch and those videos in which we do see Rurik Jutting (ph) murding the victims and we also hear him talking
about the torture and describing what he did to one of the victims as he raped her and tortured her before he finally killed her.
STEVENS: Particularly harrowing, the description of what the jury is going to hear, Mallika.
Now, Jutting himself has -- wants to plead guilty to a lesser charge rather than a full murder
charge. What is the defense strategy here?
KAPUR: Yes, he is saying that he did not -- he is not pleading guilty to charges of murder, which is a more serious charge. Instead, he is
saying he's pleading guilty to two counts of manslaughter and also to a third count of unlawful burial.
Now, what the defense is saying here, that they are using this term diminished responsibility and they are saying that's why he's going for a
lesser offense, a less serious crime. What they are going to argue is that he wasn't in the right state of mind when he performed -- when he carried
out these crimes. That is going to be the defense strategy over here.
There is also, you know, if you look at the things that were found at the scene of the crimes, there was drugs found, There was alcohol
involved, and they are talking about things like a personality disorder. And that is what is going to be argued over throughout the next two weeks
of the trial, so the defense strategy is going to be that he was not in the right state of mind, that he has some
sort of a personality disorder, and that's where the term diminished responsibility comes into play.
STEVENS: All right, thank you very much for that. Mallika Kapur joining us on a trial that is going to be watched very, very closely here
in Hong Kong, also by such a large population of workers here who come from countries in south and east Asia.
Now, Colombia has the highest rate of slavery in South America. But now it has organized an effort to stop it.
Our Rafael Romo has this special report on Colombia, part of CNN's Freedom Project.
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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SOUTH AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Leidy Estrada Hincapie and Silvia Mazo Rico may look like the picture of carefree
youth. But their early childhoods were marred by suffering.
LEIDY ESTRADA HINCAPIE, TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR (through translation): I was 4 years old. He wanted to know my body. He wouldn't let me take a bath
in peace.
ROMO: She said she grew up being abused by a family friend until taken to a home for girls when she was 10 years old. There, she met Silvia, now
an aspiring photographer. Silvia came to the orphanage at 11. Case workers say she was brought there by a woman who found her living in a garbage bag
underneath an overpass.
(on camera): One problem is it's impossible to identify victims of modern slavery just by looking at them. According to the 2016 Global
Slavery Index, Colombia has the highest percentage of people living as slaves in all of South America. Many of the victims are children.
DILIA STEIN, ORPHAN STARFISH FOUNDATION: We know girls that have been trafficked from birth. So much so, that when they arrive at one of our
programs, they don't speak a language. They only know how to scream and scratch because they've been abused from birth.
ROMO (voice-over): Dilia Stein (ph) looks with the Orphan Starfish Foundation, an organization that provides scholarships and job training to
more than 10,000 children across much of Latin America and other parts of the world.
She says no matter what country you travel to, the stories of abuse these girls tell can stop your heart.
STEIN (ph): They have come from abuse. They come from prostitution. We know girls who have been trafficked who walk up to any man and just take
off their pants because they don't know the value of their lives. They think they are things. They don't understand that they are human beings.
ROMO: Despite the high number of reported victims, Colombia gets high marks for its response.
JOHN KERRY, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: When we talk about human trafficking, we're talking about slavery.
ROMO: The State Department's in its annual report on human trafficking, lists Colombia as a tier-one country, saying its country meets
the minimum standards for elimination of trafficking. The report sites Colombia's efforts to investigate and then prosecuting trafficking cases,
recently appointing 14 new prosecutors to handle the case load.
For Silvia, the abuse started when she was a young girl, forced to work in the mines and later prostitution, all to pay for a relative's drug
addiction.
[08:25:04] SILVIA MAZO RICA, TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR (through translation): I was 11 years old when he told us we were not going back to
school anymore, that we need to work because we didn't have enough money for food. But in reality, we were working to pay for his addiction.
ROMO: Now, in college, both young women are focused on building their new lives. Do you feel that you will ever be able to recover from this?
HINCAPIE (through translation): Yes, when I help more children, so they don't have to live with what I went through. I don't want this to keep
happening, the abuse and mistreatment.
RICA (through translation): It's very important for me, now, to help other girls because this is something that is truly close to my heart.
ROMO: Reframing the future, not just for themselves, but for all girls in their home country.
Rafael Romo, CNN, Colombia.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
[08:25:51] STEVENS: And tomorrow CNN's Freedom Project will introduce you to a
banker who's become a hero for abuse victims.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My name is (inaudible) and I am the founder and the executive chairman of the (inaudible) Foundation.
The nuns took me aside. And they said, look, Tio Mago (ph), I'm not sure you know what
happens here. At the age of 18, by law, these girls are considered adults and they have to leave our little home, and 100 percent of these girls
become prostitutes or live on the streets.
So we sat down and we had a discussion, what would be the best way out for these girls?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STEVENS: Now see how they paved the way for those girls to actually have a future this week only on CNN.
You're watching News Stream. Still to come on the show, regulators and analysts will be taking a close look at the $85 billion megamerger
between ATT&T and Time Warner. How that deal could impact consumers just ahead.
Plus, the president of The Philippines has repeatedly slammed the United States. Why some Filipinos are worried his remarks could affect
their livelihood.
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[08:30:45] STEVENS: And just a reminder, Time Warner is the parent company of CNN, HBO and Warner Brothers. Well, our senior media
correspondent Brian Stelter joins us now with more on this merger. Brian is in New York.
Brian, there's been a lot of talk about antitrust and whether this violates any antitrust measures. From where you sit, is that a real issue,
because they are not actually competing in the same space, are they?
BRIAN STELTER, CNN MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: No, that is right. AT&T does not own cable channels or movie studios right now, that's what it's trying
to gain by buying Time Warner.
And in my conversations with the executives, what they are saying is it would be illogical to hold back Time Warner's channels and content. It
would be illogical to hold that content back from competitors, because that's what the business is predicated on, sharing that content as widely
as possible, getting subscriber fees and gaining advertising revenue from making sure it can reach every American and increasingly people all around
the world.
What the executives say this deal is predicated on is speed, the idea that by owning content,
owning Time Warner, AT&T can move faster to create new ways to consume it.
Now, here's what the CEO of AT&T, Randall Stephenson, said earlier today.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
RANDALL STEPHENSON, CEO, AT&T: That pace of innovation is what's going to change. And we all are trying to innovate in this way and our
experience is when you're trying to do meaningful innovation and bring new product and capability to market, doing it in arms length contracts is
always really, really hard. So you put these two companies together. Now the two companies are working together to change how the customer
experiences entertainment, how the customer experiences CNN, literally. That's what we think will change.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STELTER: Let me give you a specific example of what he's talking about. In a few weeks, AT&T is going to launch a nationwide version of
cable that doesn't require a cable cord. It's called DirecTV Now. Basically, you can sign up for a bundle of channels through your AT&T
phone, through wireless, and get them on your phone and on TV sets. So, that's the idea that AT&T wants to be promoting nationwide and eventually
in other countries, that you can buy a version of the bundle without having to have a satellite dish or a cable connection.
Now, AT&T was doing that even without this Time Warner deal, but Stephenson says having Time Warner, having CNN and HBO and Warner Bros.,
will give AT&T more power and influence as it shapes the future of media.
STEVENS: OK. So the consumer benefits from faster, more efficient delivery system, if you'd like. Is there a downside? I mean, -- will
people still be able to watch exactly what they want, what they've been watching, whatever product that Time Warner has been producing in any way
and with any carrier they want to?
STELTER: There's always concern about a higher phone bills, higher wireless bills, in this case the higher cost of that bundle that we're
describing, this bundle of channels.
When I look at this as someone covering media for over a decade, I think prices are going
to continue to increase kind of regardless. The truth is, content owners have a lot of power in the marketplace. They are under pressure from
consumers who don't want big hefty bundles of hundreds of channels, so they are having to adapt to that reality, but I don't see anything in this deal
that automatically causes prices to rise more than they would rise otherwise.
AT&T is trying to size up to compete with Comcast and Verizon and tech giants like Facebook,
Gand oogle, and Apple. And what we see is a level playing field in the future, there are all these companies with different assets, but in
relatively the same size, that will be competing for people's dollars and for people's time and attention.
STEVENS: And is there an exclusive aspect to the products at AT&T if this deal goes ahead that AT&T will get access to?
STELTERS: The company says it will continue to provide channels like HBO and CNN, and TVT to all consumers, however, you could imagine a
scenario like this -- maybe HBO's Game of Thrones might be available to an AT&T customer a day or a week early or maybe there's a special kind of CNN
app in the future that's only available to AT&T subscribers.
To be clear, it doesn't mean taking away the existing products that are already available today, those would be made available to everyone, but
you could imagine various scenarios in the future where AT&T would provide benefits to its subscribers, to its consumers,
ahead of the rest of the marketplace.
[08:35:07] STEVENS: OK, Brian, thanks very much for that. Brian Stelter, joining us.
Now, the Philippines president has walked back his controversial comments about an economic and military separation from the United States,
but his remarks are still causing a great deal of concern.
Filipino workers who rely on income from U.S. companies say they are worried about their jobs. Will Ripley joins us now from Manila. Just
give us a sense, Will, of how worried these people are.
WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Andrew, you know more than probably any journalist that that there's one word that's really bad for
business and that is uncertainty. And that is exactly what President Rodrigo Duterte's words have caused here in the Philippines and really
around the world.
You heard the U.S. assistant secretary of state, Daniel Russell, who is here in the Philippines on a pre-scheduled trip say that President
Duterte's blasting the United States, announcing his separation from the U.S. and pivot towards China and Russia has created this atmosphere of
uncertainty, not only in the business world, but also just geopolitically in general, countries not knowing which direction the Philippines are going
to go.
And so what you have on the ground here are more than a million people working particularly in the business outsourcing sector who wonder, have a
lot of uncertainty about their jobs and about their futures.
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RIPLEY (voice-over): The Philippines' firebrand leader once again taking shots at his favorite target. Fresh off his first official overseas
trip, President Rodrigo Duterte blasted the U.S. and U.S. threats to withhold aid.
RODRIGO DUTERTE, VENEZUELA PRESIDENT: At it stands, USAID, you can go to hell.
RIPLEY: During a rambling Friday night news conference in his hometown, the president used the "A" word, the "B" word and the "F" word in
the same 30 seconds, and that was in damage-control mode, trying to walk back from the shocking announcement in Beijing of his separation from the
United States and shift towards China and Russia, saying it's only applies to foreign policy.
DUTERTE: Better be careful with the world, we separate and sever our diplomatic relations. The second one is not feasible. Why? The Filipinos
and the United States...
RIPLEY: Those Filipinos working in the U.S. send back billions of dollars a year to their families, one of the biggest sources where tens of
millions live in poverty.
(on camera): Here in Manila, some fear President Duterte's anti- American rhetoric could destabilize one of Asia's best performing
economies. Since he took power less than four months ago, stocks are down and the Philippines peso is trading near a seven-year low.
(voice-over): One sector that could be hit the hardest, business out sourcing. Philippines call center jobs are expected to double by 2020, jobs
that help grow the middle class.
CHRISTINA CONCEPCION, PRESIDENT & CEO, You don't want to have to deal with one more. But you know what? Every day there is one more thing that
happens.
RIPLEY: Christina Concepcion is president and CEO of the company that does payroll and financing. She's been getting nervous calls from her
American clients.
(on camera): What are you telling your clients?
CONCEPCION: I think our clients -- with our clients, it's business as percents, and they know it.
RIPLEY (voice-over): The Philippines' out-sourcing industry employs more than one million people. Experts say more than 80 percent of their
work on average is for American companies.
(on camera): Do you worry about your job?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, of course. This is our livelihood.
RIPLEY (voice-over): These call center employees tell me they still support their president.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's not. I don't think that they've been trying to combat the U.S.
RIPLEY: Duterte remains wildly popular. Most Filipinos see him as a strong leader, fighting to make his country better.
But many worry his alienating the U.S. will only make things worse.
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RIPLEY: But that's the really extraordinary thing here, Andrew, is that despite these outbursts, Duterte's popularity ratings and his trust
ratings are still in the mid to high 80s, even low 90 percent. And so people here feel that while Duterte may say these things, they often feel
like he doesn't actually mean it, that sometimes he just speaks off the cuff, that he's been compared to like a crazy uncle at the dinner table who
just speaks his mind and everybody kind of looks down awkwardly, but overall people love him.
I mean, everywhere you go here, people say they believe that Duterte is taking their country in the right direction, But there is a lot of
uncertainty to what this pivot towards China and Russia could mean, especially for an industry that relies on people who speak English. Very -
- far fewer speak Chinese and Russian, so if you're talking about the call center industry with those jobs expected to double just in the next few
years, Andrew, obviously, people are really wondering what's going to happen next and waiting to hear what the president is going to say next.
He leaves for Japan tomorrow morning, of course, a key U.S. ally, so we'll have to see what he says
there and the role the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who's close to President Obama, what role he'll play
in this Japanese visit by the Philippine president.
STEVENS: Absolutely. One thing we've learned about the Philippines president is we really can't expect what he's going to say. Certainly,
he's been pretty far out so far.
Will, thanks so much for that. Will Ripley joining us live from Manila.
You're watching News Stream -- we're going to take a short break. We'll be back in just a moment.
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[08:41:57] STEVENS: Just weeks before the U.S. election, a now infamous videotape was made public of Donald Trump making lewd comments
about women back in 2005. Well, Anderson Cooper sat down with Trump's wife Melania for her thoughts on the recent controversy.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: It was 10 days ago that "Access Hollywood" released that tape. I'm wondering when you first saw it, when
you first heard it, what did you think it?
MELANIA TRUMP, DONALD TRUMP'S HUSBAND: I -- I said to my husband that, you know, the language is inappropriate. It's not acceptable. And I
was surprised because that is not the man that I know. And as you can see from the tape, the cameras were not on. It was only a mic. And I wonder if
they even knew that the mic was on because they were kind of a boy talk. And he was lead on like egged on from the host to say dirty and bad stuff.
COOPER: You feel the host Billy Bush was sort of egging him on?
M. TRUMP: Yes. Yes.
COOPER: Is that language you had heard him use before?
M. TRUMP: No, no, that's why I was surprised, because I said, like, I don't know that person that would talk that way. And that he would say
that kind of stuff in private.
I heard many different stuff, boys talk. I -- the boys, the way they talk when they grow up and they want to sometimes show each other, oh, this
and that, and talking about the girls. But, yeah, I was surprised, of course.
But I was not surprised that the tape came out. I was not surprised about that.
COOPER: Why?
M. TRUMP: Because, as I said, this many people from the opposite side that they want to damage the campaign. And why now? Why after so many
years? Why three weeks before the election?
(END VIDEO CLIP)
STVENS: Melania Trump there talking to Anderson Cooper.
And that is News Stream for today. Thanks so much for joining me. I'm Andrew Stevens. World port with hristina Macfarlane is just ahead.
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