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Democrats Build Case that Trump Incited Insurrection; U.K. Prime Minister Faces Criticism over New Border Policy; Biden Announces Sanctions on Myanmar Military Leaders; U.K. Communities Address Vaccine Skepticism among Minorities. Aired 2-2:45a ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Thank you for joining me for a third hour. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm John Vause.
Coming, up narrow escapes and a focus on the danger to senior officials. House managers build their case for convicting Donald Trump with never seen before footage of the insurrection on Capitol Hill.
The World Health Organization recommends AstraZeneca's vaccine despite concerns about its efficacy against COVID-19.
Not backing down, protesters in Myanmar returned for demonstrations against military's takeover of the democratic government.
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VAUSE: One more day, Democrats have one more day to wrap up their case in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump. The Senate convenes 10 hours from now to hear more arguments from House managers that Trump incited the attack on the Capitol January 6th.
The former president's legal team begins its case on Friday. Democrats spent Wednesday presenting chilling never before seen surveillance video of a mob of Trump supporters fighting police, marauding through the Capitol. Those citing Trump fueled the rioters for months with his false claims about election fraud and they used Trump's own words and tweets to prove the mob was acting at his direction.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were invited by the president of the United States.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I thought I was following my president, I thought I was following what we were called to do.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: President Trump requested that we be in D.C. on the 6th.
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VAUSE: One of those new videos show a Capitol Police officer ushering senator Mitt Romney away from rioters who had just entered the Capitol. Romney and other lawmakers said they had no idea the insurgents were so close.
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REP. ERIC SWALWELL (D-CA), HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGER: Most of the public does not know how close these rioters came to you. As you were moving through that hallway, I paced it off, you were just 58 steps away from where the mob was amassing and where police were rushing to stop them.
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REP. JOAQUIN CASTRO (D-TX), HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGER: We know how Donald Trump acts on Twitter and otherwise when he has a message to convey.
Senators, you've seen all the evidence so far and this is clear. On January 6th, president Trump left everyone in this Capitol for dead.
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VAUSE: Another video shows Mike Pence, his family and staff, being ushered out of the Senate by Secret Service to a safe location. Democrats made the point that for hours Donald Trump did nothing to stop the attack.
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REP. DAVID CICILLINE (D-RI), HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGER: The mayor and the police chief were calling for help, members of Congress and the vice president were inside, scared for their lives.
He doesn't send help, doesn't try to stop it, doesn't even acknowledge the attack. Instead, our commander in chief tweeted the video of the speech that he had given before, that included language like "Our country has had enough, we will not take it anymore and that is what this is all about. You have to be strong."
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VAUSE: Live from Washington, Jessica Dean staying with us late into the morning.
The impeachment managers presenting this compelling case, chilling at some points. They seemed on a roll until Mike Lee stopped proceedings for the point of order, claiming he'd been misquoted. And that brought everything to an abrupt and.
JESSICA DEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There was this parliamentary chaos at the end, as they were wrapping up for the day. One of the impeachment managers was recounting a story that had been published in media reports that president Trump had called senator Mike Lee accidentally, was trying to reach senator Tommy Tuberville.
And Mike Lee, during the retelling of the story, began to stir in his seat, was writing down notes, saying it's not what happened. And they did end up striking that from the record. Here is what he said for himself, take a listen.
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SEN. MIKE LEE (R-UT): Statements were attributed to me repeatedly as to which I personal knowledge because I am the source. They are not true. I never made those statements. I asked that they be stricken.
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DEAN: And the detail that he appeared to be so upset about was a detail about president Trump reportedly telling senator Lee to object more strongly to the certification of the Electoral College.
That's what they were doing here on January 6th, when the deadly insurrection happened. They were trying to certify the Electoral College and declare Joe Biden and Kamala Harris the official winners of the 2020 election.
So that's been stricken from the record. The House impeachment manager Jamie Raskin said it was much ado about nothing and, in the grand scheme of things, that was but a tiny detail in their case.
But to senator Lee, a very big deal. You saw how worked up he was. But John, important to note you showed some of the clips the senator saw today during the impeachment managers' presentation about this.
A lot of this video, no one had really seen before and it's so graphic and chilling to see how close all of these violent insurrectionists came to lawmakers. Also the human toll that was taken, with the Capitol Police officers who were vastly outnumbered in this case.
We heard yesterday about brain injuries and someone, an officer that lost 3 fingers, an officer who, one of the insurrectionists tried to gouge his eyes out. Incredible, physical and emotional tolls and John, trying to draw that line from what former president Trump, then president Trump was saying at the rally and throughout the day and what was happening right here at the Capitol, trying to make the case that it was Donald Trump who is responsible for what happened here.
Tomorrow. They get started at noon or later today in Washington. They get started at noon. They will have 8 additional hours if they want it to continue to make their case before the defense picks up the next day.
VAUSE: Yes, the Trump flags and make America great again T-shirts were really a dead giveaway. Jessica Dean in Washington, I appreciate it. Earlier I spoke with Norm Eisen and Ron Brownstein. I asked them how
convincing the Democrats have been for this impeachment. Here's what they said.
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NORMAN EISEN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: The House managers and their very able counsel and staff have already been six times more effective than we were in the first impeachment.
We managed to pick up one Republican -- true, for the first time in American history -- to cross the aisle against the president of his own party, Mitt Romney. They already picked up 6 Republicans on the key vote that they had yesterday on the constitutionality of the trial.
So they're going for more. But they're not stopping there, they're also talking to the American people because they recognize, hey, they may not be able to get Republicans to put their duty to country above their pledge of allegiance to Donald Trump. So the ultimate jury is the United States of America. They are talking to all Americans as well.
VAUSE: Part of this new evidence was never before seen video of Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman directing senator Mitt Romney to safety while the Capitol was under siege by these insurgents loyal to Donald Trump. Here's senator Mitt Romney now.
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SEN. MITT ROMNEY (R-UT): Obviously very troubling to see the great violence that our Capitol Police and others were subjected to. It tears at your heart and brings tears to your eyes. That was overwhelmingly distressing and emotional.
QUESTION: You think this will change the minds of some of your fellow Republicans?
ROMNEY: I can't predict what other, how other people react.
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VAUSE: Senator Romney may not speak for others but we do know that at least 44 Republican senators are already on the record, declaring this process illegitimate.
Beyond accusations of flip-flopping and hypocrisy, are they locked into that vote?
How do they go back on that, should they be moved by all this evidence?
EISEN: It's challenging to go back on their prior commitments. But they can. There is a legal path. They simply have to say, well, the Senate has ruled that it's constitutional so now we're going to reach the merits of the case. Happens in regular courts all the time when you get past the
threshold. An appellate court tells you you're wrong on the Constitution, you move to the merits. The more salient question is not the intellectual offramp, John, it's the character one.
Will they have the courage to take on Donald Trump and his mob?
To overcome their fear of political retribution and perhaps physical danger, to do the right thing. There is no real question that Donald Trump committed the high crime and misdemeanor of incitement of insurrection.
The only question is, how much courage do these Senate Republicans have?
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VAUSE: We heard from Donald Trump's defense counsel, he appeared on FOX News a few hours ago, accused Democrats of using all of this video as an attack, essentially to drum up emotion against the president for the upcoming elections or something. He did make this prediction.
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DAVID SCHOEN, TRUMP DEFENSE LAWYER: I think you will be quite impressed with the president's case and I say that without wanting to even have to do that. We shouldn't be here. It's an illegitimate, unconstitutional impeachment process, completely lacking in any --
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But you lost that point. Don, Don, I understand that but you lost that point.
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VAUSE: When FOX News is calling you out.
The reality is Linus and Lucy could present the Trump defense and there still will not be enough Republicans to get a two thirds majority, right?
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SR. POLITICAL ANALYST: Right. Not only would you have a party in which most of the elected officials are fearful across his base, not only because they fear him personally, because they need those voters, he has transformed the coalition in a way that they are all, as I've said, addicted to the same drug that he is pushing, which is massive turnout of this non-college, non urban, often evangelical white base that responds to all of his arguments.
But you have this bizarre situation in which the ostensible jury in many ways are complicit in the activities that took place. I thought one of the most revealing moments of the day was when Democrats talked about and showed footage of that very harrowing attack on the Biden bus by Trump supporters in Texas.
And pointed out that the leader of that attack, turned up again at the Capitol, as one of the leaders of the assault on Congress.
What happened after that attack in Texas?
The day or two after, Marco Rubio went out on a stage and extravagantly praised the Trump supporters who menaced the Biden bus. That is kind of indicative of the bizarre situation in which we have these Republicans, who either contributed to the Trump mistruths or in other ways abetted what he did after the election, remain silent when he claimed the election was stolen and now are being asked to rule on his fate.
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VAUSE: Our thanks to Norm Eisen as well as Ron Brownstein.
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VAUSE: Following new developments, Joe Biden has his first official conversation as U.S. President with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping. The White House says Biden talked security, trade, the pandemic, pressed Xi on human rights abuses as well and then discussed potential areas of cooperation.
The Chinese leader reportedly added a confrontation would be a disaster for both. Selina Wang is following developments on this one.
The expression there by Xi Jinping about confrontation being a disaster, what else did they talk about?
SELINA WANG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. According to Chinese state media, he also warned Biden to tread carefully when it comes to pushing back on Beijing around Hong Kong, Taiwan, human rights abuses in Xinjiang that have been alleged.
And that it's, quote, "an internal Chinese affair." That's a commonly used phrase by Chinese state media.
From the Biden side, he had said that he raised concerns about Beijing's increasing aggression abroad, those human rights abuses at home and also cooperating on areas of mutual interest, including climate change and nuclear proliferation.
Biden has made it very clear early in his presidency that dealing with China is a top priority. It's one of the most important bilateral relationships of the 21st century. And Biden has inherited a very messy one from the Trump administration.
It's clear already in his personal approach that he is taking a more diplomatic and moderate approach than Trump did to dealing with Xi Jinping. But fundamentally, the Biden administration agrees with Trump's decision to be tougher on China. They agree with Trump administration's belief that China poses a challenge to America's security and democratic values.
What the Biden administration takes issue with is the way Trump administration went about it. Key differences we are seeing is Biden's multilateral approach, working with friend and allies as well as investments at home, especially in areas of high technology in order to increase America's competitiveness -- John.
VAUSE: Selina, thank you. Selina Wang in Tokyo. We appreciate you.
Still to come, the World Health Organization is backing the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. Some leaders warn more needs to be done to fight off these emerging variants.
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BORIS JOHNSON, U.K. PRIME MINISTER: We're dealing revaccinating in the autumn as we come to face these new variants.
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VAUSE: Despite some concerns of efficacy and a lack of data, the WHO has recommended the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine for all adults over 65. One study claimed claims that it did little to prevent mild infections caused by the new variant first detected in South Africa.
Many European countries have hesitated to recommend vaccinations for anyone over 65 because of a lack of data. But the WHO says that it works on the elderly, recommended use even in countries with the more contagious and resistant variants.
We are live to Paris, Cyril Vanier standing by.
One of the issues that we're having with these vaccines -- we are seeing this worldwide -- is that they are just not working as they were expected to work. These rollouts are turning out to be much slower than the governments have said.
CYRIL VANIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, you have 2 things that factor into that. So the vaccine and whether or not it actually works, especially against new variants that are being detected, we have a case of AstraZeneca vaccine that was declared to be not very effective against mild to moderate forms of the South African variant of the coronavirus.
But then, of course, you have the whole industrial aspect of this, buying the vaccines, procuring them, producing them and rolling them out, which is what Europe has been struggling with since it started vaccinating its population very late last year. The European rollout has been criticized as being slow. Look, the head
of the European Commission defended Europe, explaining that, yes, it had been slower, Europe's production capacity was not what they had expected when they bought the vaccines. They said that they were taken by surprise at how quickly the vaccines were developed.
They also thought that the companies would be able to produce as much as they said they would be able to produce. All in all, they now find themselves in a situation where they have this race, as we also know, between the vaccine and the variants.
Unfortunately the virus, the new variants of the coronavirus, are highly transmissible; they spread fast. Vaccine, on the other hand, not being rolled out quite so fast.
VAUSE: Cyril Vanier, in Paris, thank you for being with us.
Let's go to Oxford, England, Dr. Sian Griffiths is standing by. She is America's professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and chair of Hong Kong's inquiry into the 2003 SARS epidemic.
It is good to have you here.
DR. SIAN GRIFFITHS, CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG: Hello.
VAUSE: There have been myriad problems with governments and their response to the pandemic and at the moment leaders are urging people to go out and get vaccinated. Listen to Boris Johnson.
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JOHNSON: Let me stress, that these vaccines are safe and effective. It was good to see the World Health Organization today confirm its support for the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine for use in everyone over the age of 18 and obviously everyone over 65. And also supporting the 12-week interval between the two doses. Indeed, they say the longer interval provides greater protection.
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VAUSE: Given all the problems along the way, it doesn't seem to cut it.
What else should governments do to ensure that the vaccines are safe?
GRIFFITHS: You're asking me. Sorry. I think that the U.K. story is actually quite successful. We had 13 million people immunized. There is a structured vaccine rollout program based on a set of priorities.
And because we have the excellent NHS and primary care system, we are called through our GPs when they are in the right age group.
I have to say that the vaccine rollout program in the U.K. is going well. We did sign contracts in the U.K. back in August. We took a look at the vaccine science and the group doing that decided, where to place their faith and it has paid off.
I think we have to understand that this is a new era we are going into, with producing a global vaccine or vaccines against coronavirus. There is amazing progress that has been made.
Yes, there have been some glitches along the way but I think vaccine rollout is stepping up. You can look at countries like Israel, countries like the U.K., where vaccine rollout has been significant. And in Israel, they have started to see the impact. I think Boris Johnson is hoping we will start seeing the impact in the U.K. within the next few weeks.
VAUSE: What about people who are concerned about the safety of the vaccine?
They are worried that this is new technology, new science.
Will these vaccines actually work?
Not like Johnson & Johnson; that is old school. There is concern that there could be long term issues, not that any of at this point have been proven.
GRIFFITHS: I think the mRNA vaccine methodology, I think it's what you are referring to, as well as the nanotechnology in some of the newer vaccines, we didn't worry when we produced antibiotics. We take antibiotics because they were shown to be effective against bacterial disease.
Why are we trying to create issues here, when basically this is a killer virus, a killer virus especially for older people, vulnerable people, poor people?
The thing that we need to do is to get the levels of population immunity as low as possible, which means that we all need to conform to the vaccine unless we have good reasons not to.
And I don't think about some future issue for science and production, which is based off of production on other medicines. None of this is out of the blue. A lot of this is based on years of work on vaccine production.
And if you look at AstraZeneca, the team in Oxford were heavily involved in the control of Ebola. They are also confident that they can tweak the vaccine to meet the challenges of the variants, which we are all going to face over time.
VAUSE: You mentioned that the timeline, when there would be some kind of tangible impacts in the number of cases falling as a result of vaccination, they say that it is too early to know if vaccines will play a role in declining the number of cases in the U.K.
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PATRICK VALLANCE, U.K. CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISER: It takes 2 or 3 weeks for the effect of the first dose of the vaccine to start kicking it in terms of immunity, a little longer towards 3 weeks in the oldest groups. Then, of course, it takes time for people to catch infections and for that to show up.
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VAUSE: When it comes to timeline and positive results, what is your timeline?
What are you looking for?
What will it look like in further weeks?
GRIFFITHS: That was Sir Patrick Vallance speaking at a press conference. We only started the vaccine rollout program around the end of December. It takes 2 weeks to get the first boost of immunity but you also have your jab within the next 12 week. We are not within the next 12 weeks for many people yet.
What we are talking about here is making sure that, when you have people fully immunized, we will see the cases fall. We will see hospital admissions and intensive care admissions fall. And we will see the death rate fall.
We are seeing some changes and but we are also living through lockdown conditions at the moment. We are thinking that there will be a government road map on February the 22nd, so I am assuming that the government has timed that to be able to reflect some of the science on full immunization of large cohorts of older people in our population.
VAUSE: Dr. Sian Griffiths, it was a pleasure to have you here. Thank you.
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GRIFFITHS: Thank you.
VAUSE: Over in the U.S., supplies are limited and new variants are raising concerns. More Americans than ever before say that they are confident that they are going to get the vaccine.
A new Gallup poll says now 71 percent of Americans are willing to get a vaccine, up from 65 percent in late December. So far about 10 percent of the U.S. population, about 34 million people, have received at least one dose of the 2 dose vaccines.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says double masking offers significantly more protection. They found that wearing a cloth mask over a surgical mask blocks more than 90 percent of potentially infectious particles. A single or surgical mask blocks about 40 percent.
California is now the state with the most deaths from the pandemic. California and New York both have lost more than 45,000 people to COVID-19.
Defiant protesters are back out in Myanmar, they are demanding the military to reverse last week's coup.
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VAUSE (voice-over): Protesters in Haiti have clashed with police, who opened fire with tear gas. They're demanding the president step down because his term has expired and he is in violation of the constitution.
But the president says that is just not true. He won the election in 2016 but he argues he was not sworn in until 2017 and says his 5 year term will end next February.
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VAUSE: A number of developments from Myanmar, the National League for Democracy says several more senior members have been arrested overnight. A 6th day of protests is underway.
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VAUSE (voice-over): Uniformed police officers joined the protest against last week's military coup, carrying signs saying we don't want a dictatorship. A teenager who was shot in the head Tuesday is fighting for her life in hospital in the capital. Monks joined protesters, saying we reject the military coup, release our leaders, respect our votes. All that as the U.S. announced sanctions on Wednesday.
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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The U.S. government is taking steps to prevent the generals from improperly having access to the $1 billion in Burmese government funds held in United States.
We're also going to impose strong exports controls. We're freezing U.S. assets that benefit the Burmese government while maintaining our support for health care, civil society groups and other areas that benefit the people of Burma directly.
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VAUSE: Paula Hancocks following that from Seoul.
These targeted sanctions, Myanmar or Burma has been under sanctions for generations.
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VAUSE: The question is, how effective are these sanctions expected to be?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's a good question, John. The fact is within the country at this, point there's been a couple of reports on this from the U.N., from Amnesty International, looking at the financial health of the military itself.
What has been found is many of these conglomerates, these big companies within Myanmar, do have ties to the military leaders themselves. The commander in chief right now, who's put himself in power, does have particular links to one of the big conglomerates.
It's really why the U.S. is trying these targeted sanctions to make sure that they're targeting Min Aung Hlaing, the current military leader of the country, to make sure it's them suffering rather than the people of Myanmar.
It's the age old question as to whether or not you could have targeted sanctions that aren't going to affect the country as a whole. There are close ties as well between the military junta and the Chinese administration. So that could be how they keep themselves afloat. So it's a good question whether or not the military will be that concerned by the sanctions.
I spoke to one activist within Myanmar who said she does welcome the fact that the U.S. president is starting to put these sanctions in place. Also the New Zealand prime minister decided to cut all ties with Myanmar, saying they don't want to see any countries that are still negotiating with this government.
They believe that could have some kind of impact.
VAUSE: Paula, thank you, live for us in Seoul.
In a developing story out of the Japan that the president of the 2020 Olympics organizing committee will resign.
Yoshiro Mori will step down amid a firestorm of criticism after making sexist remarks about women, leaked to the press. CNN's Blake Essig is in Tokyo.
This had been rumored for a while. It seems it has happened.
What are the details?
BLAKE ESSIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: public broadcaster NHK is reporting former prime minister and current president of the Tokyo '20 Olympic organizing committee, Yoshiro Mori, is planning to resign.
We are expecting that to happen tomorrow when a Tokyo 2020 board meeting is expected to be held.
He said about a week ago at a Japan Olympic Committee meeting, he was asked about the effort to increase the number of executive board members, female board members from 20 percent to 40 percent. He expressed concern that doing so would extend the length of meetings. Here's what he said. "Board meetings with lots of women take longer, because women are
competitive. If one member raises her hand to speak, others might think that they need to talk, too."
He goes on to say that, "If you want to increase female membership, you would be in trouble unless you put time limits in place."
He did retract those comments but refused to resign. But that firestorm of criticism has continued. Nearly 144,000 people have signed an online petition, asking for the Japan Olympic committee to hold him accountable.
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka has come out, called the comments "ignorant" on Twitter. The International Olympic Committee called the comment absolutely inappropriate.
Then the sponsors came out, they account for about 50 percent of the Tokyo 2020's projected revenue, about 370 billion yen, $3.3 billion U.S.
Toyota came out recently, saying Mori's comments do not reflect the spirit of the Olympic Games or their company's values.
VAUSE: Blake Essig in Tokyo, thank you.
Other news we're following, rescue crews in India still searching for survivors after a glacier collapsed on Sunday, sending water, rock and debris down a mountain valley. Close to 200 people remain unaccounted for, some of them construction workers trapped in a tunnel.
Mud and boulders are still blocking access to some tunnels and police say 32 bodies have been recovered so far.
After seven months journeying through space, China's mission to Mars has entered orbit. Tianwen-1 is a step closer to landing on the Red Planet.
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VAUSE: The Chinese space administration says a rover will gather key data on the structure, soil and environment when it touches. China now the sixth country to reach Mars.
While COVID-19 has severely impacted people of color in the U.K., many are still skeptical of vaccinations. What community leaders are doing to turn that around.
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IMAM QARI ASIM, MAKKAH MOSQUE: I do not want one more life being lost just based on misinformation.
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VAUSE: To try and slow the spread of the new COVID variants, Norway's borders will remain closed until the end of the month. The government says, under this order, foreigners are banned from entering.
Meantime new criticism over a new border policy in Britain which includes a mandatory hotel quarantine for travelers arriving from red list countries. The opposition leader says it doesn't go far enough. The prime minister Boris Johnson says it's measured and proportional.
The E.U. acknowledging its failure in the vaccination rollout, admitting it was late to authorize vaccines and too optimistic about mass production.
Despite repeated reassurances from public officials, many people of color in the U.K. remain skeptical about the safety of vaccines. Experts point to misinformation and lack of trust in the government. Local leaders are stepping up to help find a solution to all of this, Salma Abdelaziz has our report.
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SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN PRODUCER (voice-over): A rare gathering under lockdown. Friday prayers at the Makkah Mosque. Today's sermon is a fact check for the faithful.
ASIM: There are people who have understandable questions, understandable concerns about the vaccine.
ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): People of color across Britain were hit much harder by COVID-19, pushing communities like this to turn to each other for answers.
ASIM: This vaccine is absolutely halal, the vaccine that has been used in the U.K., they are permissible in Islam.
ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): More than 100 mosques are taking part in this nationwide effort led by Muslims for Muslims to tackle vaccine myths and conspiracy theories. After prayer, he tells us the message which was delivered in 3 languages is just as important as the messenger.
ASIM: As imam, I have had to mediate on a number of occasions where the elderly generation wanted to have the vaccine but some of their children were saying or don't have the vaccine. I do not want one more life being lost just based on misinformation.
ABDELAZIZ: How do you convince people?
Is it a religious argument?
Is it scientific?
[02:40:00] ASIM: We have a panel of experts who are microbiology experts, as well as doctors and scholars of Islam. We present a different argument depending on who the audience is.
ABDELAZIZ: This doesn't impact the Muslim community alone. Government studies show Black and minority ethnic groups across this country have higher vaccine hesitancy and lower trust in public institutions. It's a potent combination and it could cost lives.
ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): That's why members of London's Hindu community chose home turf. The temple school is now a public vaccination center. The woman behind the idea is temple devotee and health care professional Hasmita Patel.
HASMITA PATEL, HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL AND TEMPLE DEVOTEE: I am proud of this clinic. When I come in, I can view the temple and feel satisfied that I'm in my community, I'm serving the community.
ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): Officials in this diverse community of Brent admit they failed to engage effectively with minorities at the start of the pandemic. Patel says these systemic inequalities cost lives.
PATEL: When somebody is concerned, it's important that you speak to them in their own language, because that's their comfort zone, That's what they understand, especially in older populations.
ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): We follow one temple member as he gets his shot. His first language is Gujarati but his joy is clear.
ABDELAZIZ: How do you feel?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Very happy.
ABDELAZIZ (voice-over): When public leadership failed these communities, they mobilized and organized to fight for their own -- Salma Abdelaziz, CNN, London.
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VAUSE: Before we, even as more Americans are vaccinated against COVID-19, a new ad campaign reminding everyone, you still need to mask up. Here it is.
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EZRA MILLER, ACTOR, "THE FLASH": Oh, it's on.
MIKE MYERS, ACTOR, "DR. EVIL": Release the meteor.
HUMPHREY BOGART, ACTOR, "RICK BLAINE": Here's looking at you, kid.
VAUSE (voice-over): This public service announcement has characters from films like Harry Potter and "Lord of the Rings," all wearing face masks. Sponsored by the Ad Council, CDC and CNN's parent company, WarnerMedia, rolling out across the United States . A good reminder.
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VAUSE: That does it for this hour. I'm John Vause, Kim Brunhuber takes over in 15 minutes. But first "WORLD SPORT" after a short break.
