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Canadian Media Projects Liberals To Win Election; Power Returning In Portugal And Spain After Widespread Outage; CNN Poll: Trump's Approval Rating Drops To Only 41 Percent; Trump To The Atlantic: "I Run The Country And The World"; Canadian PM Carney Speaks After Liberals Projected To Win; Power Returning In Portugal & Spain After Widespread Outage; Defense Official: U.S. Conducting Inquiry Into Houthi Claim; Conclave To Elect New Pope To Start May 7. Aired 1- 2a ET

Aired April 29, 2025 - 01:00   ET

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: The winner of Canada's election, not Donald Trump. Ahead here on CNN newsroom, a big win for the anti- Trump Liberal Party and even bigger loss for the Conservatives and their Trumpian like leader. As Spain's national power grid comes back online

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PEDRO SANCHEZ, SPANISH PRIME MINISTER (through translator): Fifteen gigawatts of generation was suddenly lost from the system and that it was lost in just five seconds.

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VAUSE: Investigations continue into that mystery drop in electricity and the cascading power outage in three countries. And on the eve of the first 100 days of Trump's second term.

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HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA ANALYST: A latest CNN poll at 100 days shows that Trump is below water on all the key issues.

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VAUSE: Voters turn on the U.S. president over the economy as his approval ratings plummet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with John Vause.

VAUSE: Canada's Liberal Party has made a stunning political comeback in a federal election driven in large part by anti-Trump sentiment. Two major broadcasters, both CNN affiliates project the Liberals will win enough seats in the next parliament to form a government and defeat their main rivals, the Conservative Party. And that means Mark Carney is likely to continue on as prime minister. He took over as party leader in the wake of former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's decision to step down. At the time, the Conservative Party and their Trumpian like leader were well ahead in the polls and appeared on track for an election win.

The leader has now congratulated his rival on the Liberal win. It seems U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods and a U.S. president openly talking about annexation saw voters coalesce around the Liberal leader Mark Carney and his anti-Trump campaign. Votes are still being counted. And once final results are in, Canadians will know if the Liberal Party will be a minority government or to have enough seats to govern in their own right.

Live now to Ottawa, CNN's Paula Newton standing by.

You know, for the Liberal Party, a win is a win is a win. And this one was sort of really unexpected, certainly back in January. What are the chances now of winning enough seats in Parliament to govern in their own right? Or will it be a minority government? What's looking likely?

PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The chance is very slim at this hour. I mean, look, not statistically impossible. There are a lot of close races, but unlikely at this point. So as you said, John, right, a historical comeback for a Liberal Party that was on its knees just five months ago. I mean, this is quite a resurrection that Mark Carney has engineered here.

And it was two things, right? It was his resume as a former central banker, somebody that Canadians trusted to be a real steady hand to navigate them through what were unprecedented attacks from Donald Trump, talking not just about tariffs and breaking Canada economically, but talking about annexation, actually threatening Canadian sovereignty. And for that reasons, Canadians for several weeks now have vocalized the fact that they want a strong leader really to show up against Donald Trump.

What's been fascinating here though, as well, though, is that the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, actually did well in this campaign. Historic highs on the popular vote picked up at last count more than 20 seats. The issue here, though, is now it just wasn't good enough because those other parties, whether it be the New Democratic Party, the Green Party, the Bloc Quebecois, which is a separatist party in Quebec, those parties were diminished in this election. And the politics here, John, is becoming much more like the United States, at least for the time being, much more like a two party structure.

VAUSE: And we also have Pierre Poilievre, who's actually speaking right now. He's been obviously congratulating Mark Carney for the win. Where does this leave the Conservatives in terms of their political clout? How do they come back from this?

NEWTON: Well, as I said, although they were ahead in the polls by 25 percent not five months ago, of course it is disappointing. At the same time, Pierre Poilievre just said that he will fight on. Right now he has no intention of resigning as party leader, even though his seat in the House of Commons is not assured. He's still behind in his writing right now. Again, a lot of votes to be counted.

But I think they really saw the beginnings of a movement there, a real conservative movement. And John, if it's one thing that I want to leave viewers with, it's this impressive that, look, Canadians are united against Donald Trump and that includes the Conservative Party, but they are now much more fractured in their own politics at home. And that will play out in likely quite rough and crude ways in Parliament in the coming months and perhaps years.

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Again, it will be a very fragile government to try and govern and perhaps really hamstring the Carney government in terms of what it can do to negotiate with the American government.

VAUSE: Paula, thank you. Paula Newton, staying up late there in Ottawa. We appreciate the reports. Good to see you.

Electricity is being restored after one of the biggest electrical blackouts Europe has ever seen. Around midday local time about 20 hours ago, the lights went out in Spain, Portugal and briefly, parts of France, causing major travel disruptions. With some of Europe's busiest cities left paralyzed, millions were left without basic services from the Internet to traffic lights, as cities were left in almost total darkness.

In Madrid, the sound of cheers and applause Monday evening as lights started to flicker on. Power has now been restored to more than 90 percent of the country. But just what led to this cascading failure remains unknown. The leader of the E.U. says so far there's no evidence of a cyberattack.

In Portugal, officials say all two and a half million customers of the National Energy Network have electricity. The country relies heavily on neighboring Spain for electricity. And Portugal's Prime Minister says that's where the problem most likely began. Travelers across Siberian peninsula were left scrambling amid this blackout. Many flights and train services were cancelled. Subways also went dark.

Live now to San Francisco and Tim Grieveson, chief security officer at the cyber security firm ThingsRecon.

So good to see you. Thanks for being with us.

TIM GRIEVESON, CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER, THINGSRECON: Thanks for having me, John.

VAUSE: So the outage happened after electricity generation plummeted in Spain. But what caused that plummet remains an open question. Here's Spain's Prime Minister. Listen to this.

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SANCHEZ (through translator): What has caused this sudden disappearance of supply? This is something that specialists have not yet been able to determine, but they will. And the relevant state institutions and all private operators are working together to understand what has happened. All potential causes are being analyzed.

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VAUSE: Is the bigger issue here, regardless of what actually caused the outage in particular and the drop in power generation, does this highlight what appears to be an operational vulnerability built into Europe's power grid? In isolation, it's a safety feature, but one which can result in this cascading failure impacting three countries.

GRIEVESON: Yes, I mean, the thing that really surprised me, John, was catastrophic failure of everything all at once, you know. And we've had examples in the past where we've had cyber incidents. I'm not suggesting this necessary is, you know, but I've been in the industry 25 years and, you know, we had something in 2015 where the Russian hackers disabled power systems in Western Ukraine, we had similar attacks to Kyiv in 2016. And then obviously in '22, there was the entire power grid nearly went off in Ukraine. Plus there was also the incident in Heathrow in March 25th.

So, you know, whilst it doesn't appear that it's a cyber incident, it looks very suspicious to me that everything failed and all the controls and all the measures all failed catastrophically across multiple countries, you know, both from a physical and a digital system standpoint.

VAUSE: Yes, I guess we still haven't had an explanation from any kind official as to how this happened. So that still leaves that out there as an open question. You know, Spain did declare a state of emergency not long after the power went out and millions were all sharing a similar experience like this.

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MIGUEL ANGEL, BARCELONA RESIDENT (though translator): As soon as the electricity goes down, we're locked here, locked in the city, in our houses. We can't do anything, we can't buy anything. The gas stations are closed, the shops are closed, we can't pay, we can't withdraw money from the ATMs, we're lost. It's like war.

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VAUSE: Power outages on this scale don't happen often in wealthy industrialized nations. You did list off a few there. So given that, why was there no sort of backup plan here, no plan B even for some kind of reliable minimal power supply for critical infrastructure and services which were left dependent on their own backup generators?

GRIEVESON: Well, I was also surprised and I hope the authorities have really had a wakeup call here and it's happened so many times before. And, you know, we know of catastrophic failures, we know of the instability in Europe, you know?

I think what really needs to happen here is a real good look at understanding the critical supply chain and the components, really understanding how important each component is, and look at that attack surface, as it were, so that they understand really what's important, how to resolve them. And, you know, why haven't they been doing simulated attacks and simulated sessions previously to make sure they understood that, you know, the appropriate controls did work when they needed to?

VAUSE: Yes. And right now we hear that power is now back on. It's basically being restored to 99 percent of customers, so. The mayor of Lisbon, though, has been calling on residents to remain calm as this process works its way through, also remain calm as the investigation into the cause continues. Here he is. Listen to this.

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CARLOS MOEDAS, LISBON, PORTUGAL MAYOR: We don't have any information about any kind of attack, and we should be very careful because it can be just a technical issue, but, of course, a technical issue that never happened before. So I understand that people can be a little bit scared by the situation.

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VAUSE: So you're suspicious of the possibility here, at least suspicious that it could have been a cyberattack. So what would indicate that this was something nefarious as opposed to, you know, a series of failures?

GRIEVESON: I think, you know, the authorities are still looking at it. And I -- you know, I don't think that I've seen sufficient evidence yet that it wasn't necessary cyberattack. You know, for me, there needs to be deeper understanding of the threat assessments. I think there needs to be much better preparation of the plans, better communication of exactly what went wrong. To me, it feels very much like still a lot of unanswered questions.

Why did it happen everywhere? Do they really understand what the content was and why it came all at the same time catastrophically? And, you know, what are we doing to actually stop that happening in the future?

VAUSE: Yes. All very good questions, Tim. Maybe we'll get some answers in the days ahead. We'll see. Thanks for being with us.

GRIEVESON: No problem. Thank you for having me.

VAUSE: Yes.

Our new CNN poll shows shifting support for President Trump, who will check the numbers on his tariff policies, inflation, and the economy, and they're not good.

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VAUSE: As we head into Tuesday, the U.S. president will be marking the first 100 days of his second term with a political rally in Michigan. One of the biggest controversies so far has been over immigration.

During an interview with the Atlantic magazine, Trump was asked what would happen if a legal U.S. resident or an American citizen was mistakenly deported, as is the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, sent to a prison in El Salvador. The president's response, "Nothing will be ever be perfect in this world." He went on to say he's not involved individual deportations, adding, they're all extremely tough, dangerous people. And don't forget they came into the country illegally.

And on the White House lawn, yard signs showing pictures who the administration says are in the U.S. illegally and guilty of serious crimes. CNN has blurred the faces of those who have been called out by the White House because we are unable to verify their identities nor the allegations against them.

New CNN poll shows voters are turning on President Trump, especially on key issues like immigration and the economy, which helped him win the White House. Harry Enten has details.

ENTEN: Hundred days into Trump's second presidency, and our latest CNN poll at 100 days shows that Trump is below water on all the key issues of the day. What are we talking about here? Let's take a look at approving of Trump's handling of immigration. Only 45 percent of the American public approves of the job that Trump is doing on immigration, which has been a strength for him during the second term. But now Trump is below 50 percent.

How about the economy, right? That was what Trump was elected to fix. Fix Joe Biden's economy. Get this, only 39 percent of Americans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing on the economy. Inflation, closely related to the economy no better for Trump, in fact, it's worse, 35 percent.

And of course, the tariff war has been such a big element in Trump's second term, way below water on that issue. Get this, just 35 percent of Americans approve of the job that he is doing on tariffs.

Now, I want to go back to the economy because again, that was the issue that Trump was elected to fix. And the trend line here is so important. Trump's economic approval at 100 days back during his first term, get this, 49 percent of Americans approved of the job that Donald Trump was doing on the economy. It was a strength of his throughout his entire first term. Now get this, just 39 percent of Americans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing on the economy.

That is the lowest percentage this term for Trump on the economy. And get this, for all presidents, at 100 days, his approval rating of 39 percent ranks the lowest, the lowest going all the way back to James Earl Carter in 1977, the longest we have on record.

Finally, we take all the issues, right, we compile them, and it creates an overall picture for Donald Trump. So let's take a look at his approval rating at 100 days. Compare him to the president's this century and beyond. Donald Trump comes in at 41 percent. Guess what, that's lower than Joe Biden's 53 percent.

Lower than Trump in his first presidency at 44 percent. Way lower than Barack Obama at 63 percent in 2009 and 62 percent for George W. Bush back in 2001. That means that Trump currently at 41 percent, the worst this century. And beyond that is the worst on record dating back to 1953 and Dwight David Eisenhower. You put it all together and this Trump poll from CNN just spells trouble for the Trump presidency Part two.

VAUSE: Well, for more on the first 100 days of Trump's second term, we head to Los Angeles and CNN's Senior Political Analyst, Ron Brownstein. Good to see you.

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Hey, John.

VAUSE: You know, it's only been 100 days. Never before has the U.S. president had such a huge, you know, some would say negative impact in such a short period of time both at home and globally. Here's the headline from the interview he did with the Atlantic magazine quoting the president, "I run the country and the world." The subline reads, Donald Trump believes he's invincible. So given that, what can we expect from the next 1,288 days left in his second term?

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BROWNSTEIN: Yes, it's a very revealing comment, right? I mean, Donald Trump is not the first president to inflate in his mind a rather narrow electoral victory into a sweeping mandate to do everything he ever possibly wanted to do as president. But he has certainly taken that tendency to the max. And he's taken it to the max in a way that helps explain why his approval rating is lower after 100 days than any other newly elected president. He is pursuing an agenda that is kind of fulfilling the fever dreams.

I mean, the beyond the wildest fever dreams of his base. But he's doing a lot of things that are scaring people beyond the base. He's kind of confirming a lot of the fears that voters had when they elected him. But he's not really making progress on what they hoped above all, which is that he would help bring their cost of living under control. I see in that quote a kind of distillation of what I wrote about during the transition.

I mean, Donald Trump feels himself unbound both by -- both internal constraints and external constraints have substantially diminished. And that is not an unmitigated blessing for him or for the Republican Party, because left to his own devices, as we're watching on many, many fronts, he goes in a direction that most Americans are uneasy about following.

VAUSE: Yes, and the hallmark of this administration has been this total disregard for the Constitution, for the power of the judiciary, for any legal restraint in many ways. But nothing screams outright corruption quite like the Trump meme coin, which, according to the Hill, "The top 25 investors will receive an invitation to an exclusive reception with Trump and a special White House tour." There's also the soon to open exclusive new club co owned by Don Jr. with its $500,000 membership fee. And according to CNBC, "The club, called Executive Branch, held a launch party on Saturday night that included at least a half dozen members of President Trump's administration, as well as wealthy CEOs, tech founders and policy experts."

To be blunt, has the office of the presidency ever been exploited like this as a money making venture?

BROWNSTEIN: No.

VAUSE: Our apologies there to Ron Brownstein. We have to leave him there for a moment. We'll get back to our top story, Canada's federal election. We now believe that Mark Carney, the man who's likely to be the next Prime Minister of Canada, is about to address supporters there in Ottawa. We've been waiting for him for the last several few hours.

This is a stunning political win for the Liberals. For Mark Carney, the former bank of England governor -- the bank of Canada governor, he's about to speak there. Very excited supporters there. No one expected this win back in January. It has defeated the Conservatives.

Mark Carney is now likely be the next prime minister.

MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: That's the spirit of Nepean behind me right there. thank you.

Bonsoir tout le monde. Bonsoir. (FOREIGN LANGUAGE) I have a question. Who's ready? Who's ready?

Who's ready to stand up for Canada with me? And who's ready, who's ready to build Canada strong? OK.

(FOREIGN LANGUAGE) I want to thank the leaders of the other parties. I want to salute the contribution of Jagmeet Singh. I noticed his remarks leading on progressive values. Elizabeth May, who will be returning to Parliament. Yves-Francois Blanchet.

And I want to congratulate Pierre Poilievre on a hard fought, fair good campaign. His commitment to the country that we both love. They all have many more contributions to our land.

Thank you, Diana. Thank you, Diana, for your work on this campaign. Thank you, Diana, for the commitment and compassion you bring to everything that you do. Tonight simply would not have been possible without you and without the support of our four children who inspire me to service every single day.

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I also want to salute the women and men who put their name on the ballot from all parties. Thank you for standing up to serve our country at this critical time. And for those who were elected, particularly those Liberals who were elected, I am looking forward to working together to deliver for Canadians.

Bruce. And Bruce. Yes. Bruce FanJoy. I'm looking forward to working with Bruce FanJoy.

Fantastic. He's a great -- he will be a great MP. We're going to have fun tonight. Yes, we're going to have fun.

(FOREIGN LANGUAGE) You know, I chose to enter politics because I felt we needed big changes in this country, but big changes guided by strong Canadian values. Values that I learned at the dinner table from my parents, Bob and Verlie, and from my siblings. I appreciate this more in retrospect, from my siblings. My siblings Brenda, Sean and Brian. Values that I learned on the ice from my coaches.

Values that have been reinforced as I've met with Canadians across this great country. And those include three values that I want to highlight this evening, humility. It's Canada, after all. Ambition. It's Canada, after all.

And unity. It's Canada.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love you.

CARNEY: I love you right back. Right back. These are good values. These are Canadian values. Values that I will do my best.

I'm just getting worked up here. These are values that I will do my best to uphold every day as your --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You bet you.

CARNEY: -- prime Minister. You bet you.

I -- OK, well, you have to judge after this next section because I am going to begin, I am going to begin with the value of humility and by admitting that I have much to be humble about. That's true. Over my long -- that's not an applause line, it's just a statement of fact. Over my long career, I have made many mistakes and I will make more. But I commit to admitting them openly, to correcting them quickly, and always learning from them.

You know, humility underscores the importance of governing as a team in cabinet and in caucus, and working constructively with all parties across Parliament, of working in partnership with the provinces and the territories and with indigenous peoples. And at this time, it underscores the value of bringing together labor, business, civil society to advance the nation building investments we need to transform our economy. Humility is also about recognizing that one of the responsibilities of government is to prepare for the worst, not hope for the best.

As I've been warning for months, America wants our land, our resources, our water, our country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Never.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

CARNEY: Never.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: NO.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

CARNEY: But these are not, these are not idle threats. President Trump is trying to break us so that America can own us. That will never, that will never, ever happen. But we -- but we also must recognize the reality that our world has fundamentally changed.

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There is also, for me, as I stand before you this evening, humility in recognizing that, well, many have chosen to place your trust in me, trust in the Liberal Party, millions of our fellow citizens preferred a different outcome.

And my message to every Canadian is this. No matter where you live, no matter what language you speak, no matter how you voted, I will always do my best to represent everyone who calls Canada home.

You know, during this short -- during this short campaign -- during this short campaign, I went to Saskatchewan and Alberta a couple of times even though, you know, we're liberals, it's tough -- it's tough out there. I grew up there.

But I went because I intend to govern for all Canadians.

(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

CARNEY: So as we come here after this consequential, most consequential election, let's put an end -- let's put an end to the division and anger of the past. We are all Canadian, and my government will work for and with everyone.

I began with humility, but Canadians are ambitious. And now more than ever, it is a time for ambition. It is a time to be bold, to meet this crisis with overwhelming, positive force of a united Canada. Because we -- we are going to build, build baby build.

And throughout -- well, no, we're building now. We've gotten over that bit.

Throughout our history, there have been turning points. Throughout our history, there have been turning points when the world's fortunes were in the balance. That was at the -- that was the case at the start of the Second World War, just as it was at the end of the Cold War.

And each time Canada chose to step up, to assert ourselves as a free, sovereign and ambitious nation, to lead the path of democracy and freedom. And because we are Canadian to do so with compassion and generosity.

We are -- we are once again -- we are once again at one of those hinge moments of history. Our old relationship with the United States, a relationship based on steadily increasing integration is over. The system of open global trade anchored by the United States, a system that Canada has relied on since the Second World War, a system that, while not perfect, has helped deliver prosperity for our country for decades, is over.

These are tragedies, but it's also our new reality. We are over -- we are over the shock of the American betrayal. But we should never forget the lessons.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But you're going to take us forward.

CARNEY: We have to look out for ourselves and above all, we have to take care of each other.

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CROWD: Yes.

CARNEY: When I sit down with President Trump, it will be to discuss the future economic and security relationship between two sovereign nations. And it will be with our full knowledge that we have many, many other options than the United States to build prosperity for all Canadians.

CROWD: Yes.

(CARNEY SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

CARNEY: We will lead not the Americans.

(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

CARNEY: We will chart a new path forward, because this is Canada and we decide what happens here. We will need to think big and act bigger.

Your phone's ringing.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sorry.

CARNEY: All right. Just hang up. It's ok. It might be important.

We will need to do things previously thought impossible at speeds we haven't seen in generations. It's time to build twice as many homes every year with an entirely new housing industry using Canadian technology, Canadian skilled workers, Canadian lumber.

It's time to build new trade and energy corridors, working in partnership with the provinces, territories and indigenous peoples. It's time -- it's time to build hundreds of thousands of not just good jobs, but good careers in the skilled trades.

It's time to build Canada into an energy superpower in both clean and conventional energy. And it's time to build an industrial strategy that makes Canada more competitive while fighting climate change.

We will build one Canadian economy, not 13, with a government committed to free trade in Canada, by Canada.

The point is -- the point is that we can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away.

But even given that, I want to be clear, the coming days and months will be challenging and they will call for some sacrifices, but we will share those sacrifices by supporting our workers and our businesses.

(SPEAKING IN FRENCH)

CARNEY: Because Canada is more than a nation. We are, and we always will be, a confederation, a sacred set of ideas and ideals built on practical foundations that we know we're not always perfect, but we always strive to be good.

We do things, not -- we do things because they're right, not because they're easy. That we see kindness as a virtue, not as a weakness. Most importantly, we know that our strength lies in our resolve to work together as a country. It relies on our unity.

You know, on the second day of this campaign, I went to Gander, where 9/11 -- where on 9/11 they welcomed thousands of passengers into their homes without question or hesitation. I sat down with two of the many heroes of the time, Diane Davis and Beula Cooper.

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CARNEY: And during our conversation, they showed me a thank you card that they'd received from a young girl called Ellie, who wrote, "Your kindness motivates me to use my kindness."

That touching phrase captures what Canadians instinctively know. That virtue is like a muscle that grows with its exercise. We become just by doing just acts brave by doing brave acts. When we are kind, kindness grows. When we seek unity, unity grows. When we are Canadian, Canada grows.

And united -- united over our history, we have done hard, seemingly impossible things. United we have built one nation in harsh conditions despite a sometimes-hostile neighbor. Yes, they have form (ph) on this, the Americans. United, we have confronted our own past with indigenous peoples.

(SPEAKS IN FRENCH)

CARNEY: United -- united we have created universal public health care. And now -- and now, in the face of this crisis, united we are buying Canadian. We are exploring everything this country has to offer. We are supporting our friends and neighbors in the crosshairs of President Trump through a crisis that we did not create.

United, we will win this trade war and build the strongest economy in the G7, an economy that works for everyone. (SPEAKS IN FRENCH)

CARNEY: We will fight back with everything we have to get the best deal for Canada. We will protect -- we will protect our workers and businesses. And above all, we will build an independent future for our great country, a future that makes the greatest country on the earth even better.

Together, we will build a Canada worthy of our values. We will build Canada strong, Canada free, Canada forever.

Vive le Canada.

Thank you very much.

Merci beaucoup.

(END OF LIVE EVENT)

VAUSE: We've been listening to Mark Carney, the likely next prime minister of Canada, after his Liberal Party had a stunning political win in the federal election. They're defeating the conservatives.

The only question now is will it be a minority government, or will the liberals be able to form a government in their own right? It's likely to be a minority government.

Carney, in his speech, they're warning that the U.S. wants Canada's land as well as its resources. He did say the U.S. president was trying to break Canadians.

He spoke of the virtues of Canadian kindness. He said Canada will win this trade war with the United States and build the strongest economy in the G7.

He said it was time to be bold to meet this crisis with an overwhelming, positive force of united Canadians.

He called on all those who did not vote for the Liberal Party to join with him. He said he would govern for all, which is what the winner often calls for.

He said he will meet with President Trump one on one as a full sovereign nation, knowing that Canada has many possibilities for prosperity beyond the United States.

He was affable. He was confident. He seemed determined as well in speaking about Canada's possibilities and this ongoing trade war with the United States.

He said the fact that the relationship with the U.S. has changed forever, as well as the international global system of trade anchored by the United States, are both over. Both he described as tragedies.

We'll continue to follow the outcome and the results from Canada, as well as the implications for the United States and the trade war as this story develops.

In the meantime, we'll take a short break. You're watching CNN.

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VAUSE: Welcome back.

Electricity is almost fully restored after a massive blackout across the Iberian Peninsula Monday. What caused the outage in three countries remains unknown, at least for now.

Journalist Atika Shubert was in Valencia, Spain, during the blackout and filed this report.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN JOURNALIST: You know, at first all it was, was traffic lights went out. And nobody here was sure what exactly was happening.

And then little by little, people got word that it wasn't just this one building or this one neighborhood. It was, in fact, the whole city and the whole country. In fact, more than one country.

So it just threw everything into chaos. Trains stopped. Of course, as you can imagine, some people were trapped in the metros or in elevators. Fortunately, here in Valencia, emergency services were able to get everybody out.

Police immediately deployed because there's no traffic lights to direct traffic and even to escort some busses, because busses were the only way to get around.

The train station was absolutely jammed with people wondering what to do because they couldn't get to where they needed to go.

There was no power and no communication, so nobody was really able to tell anybody what was going on. And this was the worst part.

I actually went to the airport because it was the only place to get power and wi-fi. And for a brief few hours, we were able to finally be connected and find out what was happening.

Since then, I've come back here. Power is back on. Some life is returning to the city. You can see that with people cycling by. But it's actually super quiet.

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SHUBERT: I don't know if you notice this, but most of the time you'd have people out at night having dinner, going out. But because the local government and the emergency services have told people to stay at home, don't travel just in case those traffic lights don't hold on. You know, they're saying just for the night, stay at home. But either way, as you can imagine, relief the power is on. But a lot

of concern and questions, what exactly happened?

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VAUSE: Atika Shubert there.

Now ahead, Ukrainian officials remain skeptical after the Russian President Vladimir Putin, declares a unilateral three-day ceasefire in the war in Ukraine.

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VAUSE: Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a unilateral three-day ceasefire in Ukraine beginning May 8th. That's the same day as Russia's Victory Day parade, celebrating 80 years since the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The Kremlin says the temporary ceasefire is based on humanitarian considerations, but U.S. President Donald Trump wants Russia to agree to a permanent ceasefire. And the Ukrainian president has called it another attempt at manipulation.

According to one U.S. Defense official, an investigation is underway into allegations by Houthi rebels that dozens of African migrants were killed in a U.S. airstrike on a prison in Yemen.

Details now from CNN's Larry Madowo.

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LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A Houthi-run TV channel has broadcast graphic video of what they claim is the aftermath of a U.S. airstrike on a prison housing mostly African migrants. They say 68 people died and 47 were wounded.

It shows what appeared to be bodies of the dead and the wounded after what appears to have been an explosion. The United States has been carrying out airstrikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen over the past month, in what is known as Operation: Rough Rider.

It does not share details the U.S. military has defended, including just before this attack, deciding not to share any operational details. A part of that statement from CentCom said these operations have been executed using detailed and comprehensive intelligence, ensuring lethal effects against the Houthis while minimizing risk to civilians to preserve operational security. We have intentionally limited disclosing details of our ongoing or future operations." So they will not say what they're about to do or what they have done.

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MADOWO: Many African migrants risk the journey from the Horn of Africa through Yemen, trying to get to Saudi Arabia for work.

The U.N. has documented many cases of African migrants in Yemen being abused, detained or even killed. They have accused Saudi Arabia of being behind that. Saudi Arabia denies that.

And this is just the latest in the long string of many indignities that African migrants go through on that perilous journey trying to get to Saudi Arabia for work.

There's still a lot to understand exactly about what happened in this airstrike. CNN has not independently verified any of this reporting, but the images are just absolutely heartbreaking.

Larry Madowo, CNN -- Nairobi.

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VAUSE: We will pause our coverage for a moment. You're watching CNN. Back in a moment.

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VAUSE: The official business of selecting a new pope begins next week, with confirmation from the Vatican of the official start of the conclave.

Only cardinals under the age of 80 are eligible to vote. Right now, there are 135 cardinals. The highly-secretive process takes place in the Sistine Chapel, which was closed Monday to prepare for the gathering.

Electors will take part in a special mass before taking an oath of secrecy. They won't be seen in public again until the new pope is elected, which requires a two-thirds majority.

And with that, thank you for watching CNN NEWSROOM. I'm john Vause.

Stay with us. My friend and colleague Rosemary Church takes over after a short break.

See you right back here tomorrow.

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