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Mark Carney to Replace Justin Trudeau; Trump Says Tariff Will Make America Rich Again; Marco Rubio Clashed With Elon Musk; U.S. and Ukraine talks Set in Saudi Arabia; Russia Attacks Ukraine in Kursk Region; Israel Halts Gaza Power Supply Ahead of Talks; Greenland to Elect New Government Amid U.S. Interest; Chinese Tariffs On U.S. Agricultural Goods Now In Effect; Trump: U.S. Government Shutdown "Could Happen"; U.S. Farmers Suffering Trump Freezes USAID Funds; Dominican Authorities Searching For Missing U.S. Student. Aired 2-3a ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States around the world and streaming us on CNN Max I'm Rosemary Church, just ahead. Talking tough, Canada's next Prime Minister vows to win the trade war against the United States.
Sounding optimistic, Donald Trump says the U.S. will meet separately with Russian and Ukrainian officials this week in an effort to reach a peace deal.
And all eyes on Greenland as voters there head to the polls amid Trump's threats to take it over.
Good to have you with us. Well, the man now set to become Canada's next prime minister is striking a defiant tone in the face of threats from the U.S. president. Former central banker Mark Carney was elected on Sunday as the Liberal Party's leader and successor to Justin Trudeau. Among the biggest issues he'll face, growing tensions between Canada and its southern neighbor.
On Sunday, he slammed the Trump administration's tariff plans and vowed to keep retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. until, quote, "the Americans show us respect."
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MARK CARNEY, LEBERAL PARTY LEADER: America is not Canada and Canada never ever will be part of America in any way shape or form.
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Look, we didn't ask for this fight. We didn't ask for this fight. The Canadians are always ready when someone else drops the gloves. So the Americans, they should make no mistake, in trade as in hockey, Canada will win.
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CHURCH: His comments coming as the U.S. President ramps up his trade war and calls for Canada to become the 51st state. In an interview that aired Sunday, Mr. Trump said tariffs on some goods from Canada planned for April 2nd, quote, "could go up." CNN's Paula Newton is following developments from Ottawa
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR & CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mark Carney's win was overwhelming.
UNKNOWN: In first place, the next Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney --
NEWTON (voice-over): But all eyes are now on the contest to come as Canada's Prime Minister-Designate, Carney will be sworn in within days and will likely call for a national election within weeks. Carney is calling for national unity to better face the challenge of the Trump administration and its threat to the Canadian economy.
CARNEY: Right now, all Canadians are being asked to serve in their own ways. We're all being called to stand up for each other and for the Canadian way of life. So, let me ask you. Who's ready?
NEWTON (voice-over): Carney is a political novice. A former central bank governor in both Canada and England, a former investment banker with Goldman Sachs, and Economist with a hockey goalie pedigree from his days at Harvard. But in the election, he will face conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, a career politician backed by a trending social media presence and the praise of meta allies after cutting attacks like this --
PIERRE POILIEVRE, CANADIAN CONSERVATIVE HEAD: Working for Trudeau, Carney made Canada weaker and poorer. Working for himself Carney made the United States richer and stronger.
NEWTON (voice-over): President Donald Trump's tariff and annexation threats have reframed the Canadian election in just a matter of weeks, with a rising nationalism and rising popularity for the Liberal Party. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was forced to announce his resignation in January as he grew ever more unpopular But his Liberal Party has since been reborn with new purpose.
JUSTIN TRUDEAU, PRIME MINISTER OF CANADA: This is a nation defining moment. Democracy is not a given. Freedom is not a given. Even Canada is not a given.
NEWTON (voice-over): Those are some of Trudeau's final words as prime minister. His successor promises to take on that fight.
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CARNEY: Donald Trump thinks -- thinks He can weaken us with his plan to divide and conquer. Pierre Poilievre's plan will leave us divided and ready to be conquered. Because a person who worships at the altar of Donald Trump will kneel before him not stand up to.
NEWTON (voice-over): But for weeks already, the conservatives have been portraying Carney as weak in the face of the American threat.
UNKNOEN: Trump wants our jobs.
DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We're going to take other countries jobs.
UNKNOWN: And Mark Carney is just the man to help him.
NEWTON (on camera): Canadians will now take the measure of Carney's vast economic experience both in Canada and abroad and will weigh which leader and party is best able to stand up to the American threat. Paula Newton, CNN, Ottawa.
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CHURCH: As his tariff war escalates, President Trump is now expressing uncertainty over the chance of a recession in the U.S. He simply admits who knows? Global trade tensions are stoking fears of that possibility, but President Trump boasted earlier the U.S. Will make so much money off his tariffs.
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TRUMP: Well, I think the tariffs are going to be the greatest thing we've ever done as a country. It's going to make our country rich again. We have many companies, as you know, auto companies are opening up plants now. We've had four or five announced already, but many more are coming, and we're basically going to take back the money, a lot of the money that we've given away over many decades.
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CHURCH: Ron Brownstein is a CNN senior political analyst. He joins us now. Good to have you with us.
RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hi Rosemary.
CHURCH: So President Trump is not ruling out a recession as his tariffs wreak havoc on the markets. Trump's tariffs are clearly putting the economy in jeopardy. So, if he's admitting that they could trigger a recession, why is it continuing down this path and still claiming that his tariffs will be the greatest thing for the country?
BROWNSTEIN: You know, it's interesting. I mean, you know Trump presents two different faces about tariffs at times he presents them as a great bargaining tool as a way of Basically pressuring and intimidating other countries into doing what he wants on other issues. At other times, he presents tariffs as a valuable goal in themselves as a way to kind of reshape the global economy in a way that will promote more domestic manufacturing, cause employers to move jobs back to the U.S. and so forth. I think the latter is his real deep down belief, but almost -- most of the conventional economists around him are not as convinced and I think we see this kind of tension going back and forth between him basically presenting tariffs as a means or as an end, you know, and in of itself. As I said, I think he does believe they are an end, but he is reluctant to fully go there because of all the concerns in the economics professions about what it would mean.
CHURCH: And in addition to his tariffs, we are seeing the impact of Trump's aggressive cuts to federal jobs and services now causing clashes in the latest cabinet meeting with Elon Musk. What all are you learning about those heated exchanges and what might this clash signal do you think?
BROWNSTEIN: Yeah, I think it's very -- I think the clash is very revealing. I mean we know what we know from about the cabinet meeting is some great reporting from Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in the "New York Times" and it really, I think, captured kind of the underlying political dynamic that is surrounding these severe cuts in the federal workforce that Elon Musk has been pushing through.
You know, whatever degree of backlash there is at the front end and there certainly has been some, the political exposure for Trump and Musk is much greater at the back end. Once you make these kinds of cuts in the federal workforce, when things go wrong there are going to be some very pointy questions, and I think that's what the cabinet secretaries really underscored.
In effect, what the transportation secretary reportedly said to Musk at the meeting was you know, it's one thing for you to say today let's fire a bunch of air traffic controllers. If there's a plane crash, I'm the one who's going to have to explain what happened and I think the cabinet officers implicitly are acknowledging that they, and by extension the administration and the president, are really going to be the ones on the hook if events go south after the federal government makes these kinds of cuts in all sorts of areas of the federal government, including food safety, air safety, rail safety, occupational health, and so forth. And I think you saw that very clearly in that meeting.
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CHURCH: Yeah, because there is a lot of concern isn't there, about cuts to Veterans Affairs hitting veterans specifically working in that department and big concerns too across the board about a lack of surgical precision when making these cuts. Even Trump now insisting that they use a scalpel not a sledgehammer. How does a country run with this whiplash approach to policy and what might happen in the end do you think?
BROWNSTEIN: Yeah, well the whiplash I think is even deeper than we're discussing because, you know, I have felt for the last several years that we have been living really in the 21st century. We've been living through this kind of policy whiplash that each time an administration comes in they seek to undo a vast amount of what their predecessor did particularly in the regulatory area and other executive branch -- executive orders and executive actions.
Now with Trump, we're expanding that whiplash to include the very size and structure of the federal government. I mean, they are trying, you know, on the strength of a 49 percent of the vote to fundamentally restructure the federal government's role in American society. If the Democrats win in 2028, do they come back and try to rebuild all of these agencies that Musk is now tearing down? Is that even possible?
And I do think that Trump is beginning to recognize what I said before, that whatever degree of resistance he's getting at the front end, doesn't compare to the kind of pushback he may get at the back end. For example, if people go to national parks this summer and the lines aren't acceptable or the facilities are degraded or if there are outbreaks of foodborne disease or problems like the measles epidemic, either it's now underway in West, Texas.
There are an awful lot of things that the federal government backstops in American life that people don't necessarily associate with it, but as Joni Mitchell once said, you don't know what you got till it's gone. And it may be that withdrawing these services causes the public to kind of recognize the critical role the federal government is playing in providing.
CHURCH: Ron Brownstein, appreciate you joining us. Many thanks.
BROWNSTEIN: Thanks for having me.
CHURCH: U.S. President Donald Trump is predicting that very big things will come from this week's talks between the U.S. and Ukraine. The two countries plan to meet in Saudi Arabia. CNN's Betsy Klein has more on what to expect from those talks.
BETSY KLEIN, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE PRODUCER: A critical week ahead for President Donald Trump and his team as they seek to strike a deal between Russia and Ukraine after that diplomatic breakdown with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine in the Oval Office, things appear in part to be back on track. A source familiar with the plans tells me that there will be critical high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia this week between top U.S. Officials separately with their Russian and Ukrainian counterparts. The president previewing that meeting speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Looking at a lot of things with big meetings coming up, as you know, in Saudi Arabia. That's going to include Russia. It'll be Ukraine. We'll see if we can get something done. Like to get something done. A lot of people died this week, as you know, in Ukraine not only Ukrainians but Russians. So, I think everybody wants to see it get done. We're going to make a lot of progress I believe this week. I think we're going to have a good result in Saudi Arabia meaning they're hosting the various talks, and we have a lot of good people going out there and I think Ukraine's going to do well, and I think Russia's going to do -- I think, some very big things could happen this week.
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KLEIN: President Trump said that he hoped pretty good results will come out of these high-stakes meetings and he also expressed optimism toward that critical mineral deal with Ukraine. He also said that the U.S. has quote, "just about" end quote, lifted its pause on intelligence sharing with Ukraine which would mark a major step in the right direction. All of this comes as the president has continued to be publicly critical of President Zelenskyy, but his top officials have been back channeling with their Ukrainian counterparts and Zelenskyy to get things in place. Betsy Klein, CNN, traveling with the president in West Palm Beach, Florida.
CHURCH: Meanwhile, as the U.S. withholds military support from Ukraine, Russia is trying to gain ground in the war. Melissa Bell has the latest.
MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: All eyes in Ukraine very much on what's been happening in Kursk where the Ukrainian position in this key Russian territory appears to have weakened over the last few days. The latest imagery showing not just Russian attacks on Ukrainian troops in the region, but also the planting of a Russian flag on a settlement that Russians claim to have recaptured.
Ukrainian forces very much under pressure. We're told by Ukrainian officials from the 12,000 North Korean troops they say have come in to reinforce Russian firepower. Now this of course an important setback for Ukrainians who had hoped this might be a key bargaining chip in the forthcoming negotiations due to take place in Saudi Arabia.
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Ukrainians now lacking both American military aid which has been paused, American intelligence sharing, and now facing this weakened position in this key Russian territory.
Still, President Zelenskyy and his nightly address on Sunday said he would do all he could this coming week as well as his delegation to pursue and safeguard Ukrainian interests. The Ukrainian president also speaking to the terrible events in Dobropillia, that Eastern Ukrainian town where a missile hit on Saturday. What we understand from President Zelenskyy is that this was a scene of an infamous Russian double-tap where a second missile comes in once emergency services on the ground. Of the 11 killed, we hear one was an emergency service worker.
Still, President Zelenskyy says he will do all he can this week in Saudi Arabia referencing also what he said was proof in Dobropillia this weekend that Russia is not after peace, but rather capturing and destroying as much Ukrainian territory as it can. Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.
CHURCH: Just days after a reported clash between U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk during a cabinet meeting, Rubio is now defending the billionaire. Musk posted on his social media platform X that if he cut off the Ukrainian army from his Starlink Internet provider the front line would collapse. In response, Poland's foreign minister wrote that Poland pays $50 million a year for Ukraine Starlink access and it would have to look for other suppliers if Musk's company is unreliable.
Later, Rubio posted that the foreign minister was, quote, "just making things up." No one has made any threats about cutting Ukraine off from Starlink. He also asked Poland to, quote, "say thank you" because without Starlink, Ukraine would have lost this war long ago and Russians would be on the border with Poland right now," unquote.
Well still to come, why Israel cut off electricity to the last remaining facility in Gaza receiving power from its electric corporation. We'll explain.
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CHURCH: Israel says it has completely cut off all electricity to Gaza to put pressure on Hamas to accept a ceasefire deal. The move will mainly affect a wastewater treatment facility, the last place in the enclave that was still receiving power from Israel. Hamas slammed the decision but said it would have little impact. Palestinians in Gaza have relied largely on generators and solar power since the war broke out.
Well, there's a new report that Hamas does not oppose releasing Eden Alexander, the only living American hostage believed remaining in Gaza. According to Hamas affiliated TV reports, it's part of the negotiations to end the war with Israel. Hamas is also holding the bodies of four American Israels -- Israelis. At least 12 are thought to have been captured during the October 7th terror attack. U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for hostages told CNN he is optimistic a truce is within reach.
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ADAM BOEHLER, U.S. ENVOY FOR HOSTAGES: I think something could come together within weeks. I will say that I believe there is enough there to make a deal between what Hamas wants and what they've accepted and what Israel wants and it's accepted, and I think it -- I think there is a deal where they can get all of the prisoners out not just the Americans.
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CHURCH: Boehler says he's open to possibly meeting with Hamas again following direct talks with the militant group last week. He said the negotiations were very helpful in trying to understand Hamas's endgame.
Syria is facing the worst outbreak of violence since former President Bashar al-Assad was forced out in December. A U.K.-based human rights group says more than 600 people have now been killed amid days of fighting between pro-government forces and Assad supporters. The country's interim president is vowing to hold those involved in the violent clashes accountable and there are plans to form an independent committee to investigate the violence.
Meantime, eyewitnesses are accusing government supporters of carrying out execution style killings. Syrian authorities say they are trying to stop a rebel uprising of those still loyal to Assad.
I last week's address to Congress, President Trump doubled down on his goal of acquiring Greenland from Denmark. The strategically significant island is set to hold parliamentary elections on Tuesday which could decide its future direction. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen has more on what Greenlanders are saying.
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FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): It's an unlikely place for a geopolitical tug-of-war. Greenland with a population of about 57,000 known for its fishing, natural resources, and glaciers goes to the polls on Tuesday, something that in the past probably wouldn't have attracted a lot of global attention, but that was before Greenland caught the eye of U.S. President Donald Trump.
TRUMP: We will keep you safe. We will make you rich and together we will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): It's a bold offer especially since Greenland is a territory of Denmark, though it's semi-autonomous with its own Parliament, but it does rely on Denmark for about half its annual budget. The U.S. already has a military base in Greenland which plays a key role in missile defense and satellite communication. And Greenland is also the gateway to the Arctic lying on the shortest route from North America to Europe so its location is strategic.
But if forced to choose between the U.S. and Denmark, many Greenlanders say they prefer another option.
MUTE EGEDE, GREENLANDIC PRIME MINISTER (through translation): We don't want to be Danes. We don't want to be Americans. We want to be Greenlandic.
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PLEITGEN (voice-over): It's a question of identity that many Greenlanders feel is at the heart of the selection.
UNKNOWN: We need to be independent. We need that identity for our people in the Arctic.
UNKNOWN: I hope Greenland to get more out of in the world picture. Right now it's just dependent on Denmark and the money we're getting from there.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): Most of Greenland's main political parties support independence for Greenland which can be declared if a referendum passes and the Danish Parliament approves. But they differ on how soon that should happen with one party saying Greenland should cut ties immediately.
PELE BROBERG, NALERAQ PARTY: Let's hope for a quick process, but as soon as we start that process, we have several other things that will start. One of them will be defense negotiations with the United States about the defense of Greenland when we are independent.
PLEITGEN (voice-over): Trump's comments are also reverberating in Denmark itself which recently said it will spend more than $2 billion to boost Arctic security and admitted it had neglected Greenland's defense for years. It's a relationship that could soon change if Greenland steps up its pursuit of independence or uses its leverage to negotiate a better deal with Denmark.
NOA REDINGTON, POLITICAL ANALYST: There will be a new government and it will put a tremendous pressure on the Danish government to have a position, a real position in terms of if Greenland wants independence, what will the cost be?
PLEITGEN (voice-over): Independence isn't on Tuesday's ballot but the results could reconfigure Greenland's future, something the U.S. and many others will be closely watching. Fred Pleitgen, CNN.
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CHURCH: Still to come, President Trump is ready to take on the world with tariffs, but now China is retaliating with some of its own. We'll have the latest on the trade war that's heating up.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.
Retaliatory tariffs imposed by China on a wide variety of U.S. agricultural products are now in effect as Beijing looks to prove it won't back down from President Donald Trump's escalating trade war.
CNN's Marc Stewart has details.
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MARC STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As China fights back against the United States with tariffs of its own, it's also responding with some strong statements. On Friday, we heard from Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a news conference with reporters from around the world, he questioned the United States about the effectiveness of tariffs and said, quote: If you choose to cooperate, you will achieve mutual benefit and win-win results. If you blindly exert pressure, China will resolutely counterattack.
Starting today, China is imposing additional tariffs on American agricultural products being imported from the U.S., including important commodities such as soybeans. As far as Chinese citizens are concerned, they're worried about how this will impact consumers and the prices they pay, whether they live here in Beijing or in the U.S. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): It may not have much impact
on my life because I am at the grassroots level, ordinary people, so the impact on us may not be particularly large, but it will definitely have a great impact on the country.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Anyway, this is a trade war, and in the end, the U.S. may not gain. In the short term, China's exports might be somewhat affected, but ultimately, it's the consumers of both countries who will be hurt.
STEWART: As far as what's next in this back and forth between these two massive economies, we're still waiting for a much anticipated phone call between Chinese leader Xi Jinping and President Trump.
Marc Stewart, CNN, Beijing.
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CHURCH: Romania's government has been working to counter human trafficking operations in the country, which sees the highest share of victims in the E.U. Last year, it passed a set of new laws that ease the way for successful prosecutions. But the fight is far from over.
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"SAMARA", HUMAN TRAFFICKING SURVIVOR (through translator): Someday, a stranger will come and tell you, hey, I like you. Let's go out for a coffee. Anything can happen from there.
My name is Samara and I'm a former victim of human trafficking.
SUBTITLE: Romanian nationals are the most trafficked EU citizens, primarily for sexual exploitation.
"SAMARA'S" STORY IS ONE OF THOUSANDS.
"SAMARA": My story starts in 2016. I was 19, I was pregnant.
Spending time on Facebook, I started talking to what is now my former trafficker. He called me over to his house. He wanted me to meet his family, to see where he lived. I didn't realize then what was happening.
I lived in the car. I sat outside in the rain. Beaten or not, you had to stay there. There was no one to come save you, to take pity on you. And yet he'd come and tell me he loved me even after he beat me.
STEFAN COMAN, ADVOCACY AND PARTNERSHIP LEAD, INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: If we want to see human trafficking decrease in our lifetime, we need to go after the traffickers. Because there are vulnerable people that get trafficked, and there's vulnerable people that don't get trafficked. And the element that is present in one and absent in the other is the trafficker.
SUBTITLE: In 2024, the Romanian Parliament passed three new bills targeting human trafficking, implementing harsher prosecutions for traffickers and better compensation for victims.
Together, the new laws create a stronger anti-human trafficking framework.
Victim identification has increased as a result.
CRISTIAN BACANU, FORMER ROMANIAN MP: You can't really understand the phenomenon if you don't talk to the people, if you cannot drop any, any form of prejudice. For me, it's personal because I could do something to have the justice system work better. We worked with the institutions to create the capacity to prevent human trafficking, if possible, to get convictions for human trafficking offenses. Where is the case? And to protect the victims or potential victims.
SAMARA: If someone had taken care to tell me. Look, be careful. There are bad people out there, maybe this wouldn't have happened. Now, the things that I should have been told, then I get to tell others.
I'm not the old me anymore.
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I'm so much stronger than eight years ago. I'm a different person. In my case, justice was made and I'm really glad.
SUBTITLE: "Samara's" trafficker and members of his family are currently serving jail time for their actions.
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CHURCH: And be sure to tune in tomorrow, March 11th for My Freedom Day, a student driven worldwide event to raise awareness of modern day slavery. Follow the hashtag my freedom day on social media and check out CNN.com/myfreedomday.
A downgraded tropical cyclone slammed Australia's eastern coast this weekend, leaving hundreds of thousands without power. Coming up, the latest on the devastation.
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CHURCH: Some promising news from the Vatican. Pope Francis is showing a good response to treatment for the first time since he was admitted to hospital more than three weeks ago. On Sunday, the pope used a video feed to take part in the Vatican's traditional spiritual exercises for lent.
The 88-year-old continues to receive treatment for double pneumonia. Despite the slight improvement in his condition, a Vatican source tells CNN, Pope Francis still faces a, quote, complex overall picture.
Prince Frederik of Luxembourg has died after a lifelong battle with a rare genetic disorder known as POLG. His family says he died on March 1st in his early 20s, just one day after countries around the world marked Rare Disease Day. Prince Frederik started a foundation in 2022 on POLG, which robs the
body's cells of energy, causing progressive multiple organ dysfunction and failure. It impacts about 300 million people worldwide and has no treatment or cure, according to the foundation.
To Australia, now, where the states of Queensland and Northern New South Wales suffered widespread damage on Saturday after a downgraded tropical cyclone struck towns on the eastern coast.
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Strong winds and heavy rainfall left hundreds of thousands of homes without power. Floodwaters covered roadways and farmland across the region, and hundreds of schools were closed.
In Brisbane, a father and daughter captured this video of a wallaby caught in one of the overflowing rivers. After following it downstream, they found it recovering on the creek bank before safely hopping off down the road.
Well, Britain's King Charles gets behind the microphone to share some of his favorite music. The monarch and temporary deejay has teamed up with Apple Music for "The King's Music Room", showcasing a wide range of genres and performers he's curated over the years, including some you might not expect like Australian pop star Kylie Minogue and reggae legend Bob Marley. Here's a clip from the special, recorded at Buckingham Palace, complete with a royal band performance.
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KING CHARLES: You've just heard the. King's guard playing "Could You Be Loved?" by the Late Bob Marley. I always recall his words. The people have a voice inside of them. He gave the world that voice in a way that no one who heard can ever forget.
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CHURCH: And you can watch or listen to "The King's Music Room" through Tuesday on Apple Music.
I want to thank you so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. For our international viewers, WORLD SPORT is up next. And for those of you in the United States, I will be back with more CNN NEWSROOM in just a moment.
Do stay with us.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. I'm Rosemary Church.
With Friday's deadline fast approaching, U.S. President Donald Trump is warning a government shutdown could happen. But he says the Democrats would be to blame. CNN's Julia Benbrook has more on this impending showdown.
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JULIA BENBROOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lawmakers are preparing for a funding fight on Capitol Hill, with a potential government shutdown looming on Friday. House Speaker Mike Johnson has unveiled a plan that would keep the government funded until the end of September. It's a stopgap measure known as a continuing resolution, and it's still unclear if he has the support needed to pass it.
In the House, he would need almost every Republican member to vote for it. If he has no Democratic support, and House Democratic leadership is making it clear they have concerns. In a statement writing, quote, the partisan House Republican funding bill recklessly cuts health care, nutritional assistance and $23 billion in veterans benefits. Equally troublesome, the legislation does nothing to protect Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, while exposing the American people to further pain throughout the fiscal year, we are voting no.
And while Democratic votes are potentially needed in the House, they are definitely needed in the Senate, and members in that chamber will be feeling pressure to pass the same plan if the House passes it so close to that government funding deadline.
While speaking with Jake Tapper on Sunday, Democratic Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey said that he would prefer to vote for a shorter extension like 30 days, while bipartisan conversations continue about a longer negotiated funding bill. But when he was pressed about if he would vote against the house GOP bill, this is what he had to say.
ANDY KIM, U.S. SENATE DEMOCRAT: It's not simple yet because we don't know what the House is going to do. So again, I'm going to see what happens with the House going first, and then well see what comes over to the Senate, if anything. But I still do think that there's an opportunity here to try to push.
BENBROOK: Republicans have control of the White House, the Senate and the House. So this budget battle is a key test will give us a glimpse at what the next few months will look like as they work to enact Trump's agenda. He has called on all Republicans to support Johnson's plan.
In Washington, Julia Benbrook, CNN.
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CHURCH: Farmers across the United States are struggling to cope with the Trump administrations drastic cuts to loan relief programs and the USAID.
CNN's Shimon Prokupecz explains why.
CHURCH: A fiery scene in Pennsylvania after a small plane crashed into a retirement village parking lot Sunday. Authorities say the five people aboard the single engine aircraft were injured and moved to local hospitals. Fortunately, no one on the ground was hurt and there was no structural damage except for a dozen or so vehicles. One witness compares the scenes intense heat to an oven set to 500 degrees. Officials say there will be an investigation.
Authorities in the Dominican Republic are sharing new details from surveillance footage of a University of Pittsburgh student who is now missing. They say Indian national Sudiksha Konanki went to the beach around 4 a.m. local time Thursday at the Rio Republica Hotel in Punta Cana.
Video showed her with seven other people. Most of them left almost two hours later. But Konanki stayed behind with a young man. Police say they've interviewed him and are trying to determine what happened when they were alone. They say he was seen on surveillance video leaving the beach around 10 a.m. that morning.
CNN's Rafael Romo has more on the search.
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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As you can imagine, the entire family is deeply worried, especially because its already been several days since she went missing.
I had a chance to speak on the phone with her father, who has traveled to the Dominican Republic. Subbarayudu Konanki described her as a very nice girl and very ambitious young woman who wanted to pursue a career in medicine.
Sudiksha Konanki is 20 years old. She's a pre-med student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a junior. Previously, her father said she attended Thomas Jefferson high school for science and technology, a magnet school in Alexandria, Virginia. According to her father, Sudiksha Konanki traveled to the beach resort of Punta Cana on March 3rd for spring break with several friends.
On Wednesday, Konanki told me she told her friends she was going to a party in the Rio Republica Hotel in Punta Cana, the resort where she was staying. He also said she went to the beach at about 4:00 in the morning on March 6th, with her friends and some other people they met at the resort.
When her friends realized she was not in her room, they alerted authorities. Rio Republica Hotel in Punta Cana has issued a statement about the case. It says in part the following: Since the moment she was reported missing at approximately 4:00 p.m. that same day, we have been working closely with local authorities, including the police and navy, to conduct a thorough search.
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We would like to express our sincere empathy towards the family and friends at this difficult time.
We've also heard from Dominican officials who say they have deployed drone teams to widen the search for the young woman. The Dominican national emergency service issued a statement that says, in part, the following, in coordination with the tourism police, the civil defense, the Dominican Navy, the national police and other rescue organizations, four teams of drones equipped with advanced technology have been deployed to conduct a thorough search in the coastal area of Bavaro, the statement says.
As for the search, she also expressed concern that Dominican officials have not yet expanded their investigation and are seemingly not considering possibilities other than having had an accident in the immediate vicinity of where she was seen last. He told me that they're only looking in the water, but he wants them to also investigate other possibilities, including whether this is a case of kidnapping or human trafficking.
Rafael Romo, CNN Atlanta.
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CHURCH: As first responders tame the spread of brush fires on Long Island, New York investigators are working to determine what caused them in the first place. Authorities did not rule out the possibility of arson as they began surveying burn zones on Sunday. High winds in the region have died down, but officials are continuing to monitor fire risk conditions. While smoke is impacting air quality, the fires path has not directly threatened residents.
For the first time in seven years, a woman has competed in a NASCAR cup series race. Forty-four-year-old British driver Katherine Legge made her debut on Sunday during the Shriners Children's 500 at Phoenix raceway in Arizona. Unfortunately, a crash ended her day early. Legge is now the 17th woman to compete at NASCAR's top level, and the first since Danica Patrick in 2018.
I want to thank you so much for your company this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. I'll be back with more CNN NEWSROOM in just a moment. Stick around.
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