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SALMA ABDELAZIZ, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers in the U.S. and all around the world. I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London. Let's get straight to our headlines.
Saudi Arabia considers its response after the deadliest attack to hit the kingdom in more than a decade. We're going to tell you what happened and what U.S. President Donald Trump is saying about it. Also assessing the damage from Hurricane Isaias as another massive storm forms in the Pacific and growing backlash in New York after an ICE agent shot a man right in front of his five-year-old child.
ANNOUNCER: Live from London, this is CNN Newsroom with Salma Abdelaziz.
ABDELAZIZ: Saudi-led forces are now vowing to retaliate. This is against Iran-backed Houthis after an attack on Riyadh's international airport killed at least 12, including an American, and wounded hundreds of others. Saturday's attack came without warning. And with no alert issued by Saudi Arabia's warning systems. It is the third attack just this week on King Khalid International Airport and marks the deadliest strike in the kingdom in more than a decade.
Footage shared on social media that you can see there appears to show the aftermath of the strike. After the attack, a Houthi official announced that the group had, quote, "'shut down Riyadh International Airport." The militant group declared the kingdom's airspace to be a zone of military operations after the Saudi-backed Yemeni government launched its offensive on Monday. Earlier, President Trump said he plans to speak with the Saudi crown prince and weighed in on that attack.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: I think it's terrible. Well, you're going to find out, Steve, but I think it's terrible.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE).
DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: Well, they're able to defend. Look, the Saudis are good fighters, but I think the attack was a terrible thing. (END VIDEO CLIP)
ABDELAZIZ: The U.N. Secretary General has strongly condemned the attack, saying they must cease immediately. Our Matthew Chance has more on the story.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Eyewitnesses at the scene are talking about an explosion taking place at Riyadh International Airport. They're talking about a dozen ambulances have appeared at the scene. And again, eyewitnesses reporting that there are injured people lying down, waiting for treatment as a result of that explosion.
I can tell you that this is only the latest in a series of incidents that has affected the international airport in Riyadh. I was there just a couple of weeks ago, and just before we arrived, there was an attack by Houthi rebels in Yemen on fuel tanks close to the airport, sending a big plume of black smoke billowing into the skies over the Saudi capital near that airport.
And then when we left, a short time afterwards, the airport was shut down. We couldn't take off. The planes were grounded for several hours because of another threat of an incoming attack. It's put the Saudis in a very difficult position.
Obviously, they've had their oil exports curbed to the east of the country through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz because of the Iran war. But now the Houthi rebels who are backed by Iran are doing the same thing in the west of the country and the Red Sea, striking oil pipelines, striking Saudi shipping, and also striking Saudi infrastructure like its airport.
There's been, of course, a Saudi response. They've called on their allies to help them out. They've had a response from the French who provided air support or rather air defense support. The British have provided support. The Pakistanis have put troops on the ground. The Turks have said they're going to help. The United States as well have been requested directly from the Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia for military assistance. And they're offering data, targeting data, intelligence and things like that, but they're stopping short. The United States are at this point are providing sort of the full- throated kind of military support that Saudi Arabia is looking for in order to combat this Houthi rebel threat.
President Trump was asked about this recently. He said he's concerned about support. He said he's looking at it, but no decision has been made yet. And obviously he's stopping very short of a commitment to get involved in this conflict.
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ABDELAZIZ: Earlier, we spoke with our political and global affairs analyst, Barak Ravid, about the scale and severity of this attack. Take a listen.
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BARAK RAVID, CNN POLITICAL AND GLOBAL AFFAIRS ANALYST: I think this was the most serious attack by the Houthis against Saudi Arabia since this war has resumed several weeks ago. Definitely the worst attack by the Houthis since the Saudis and the Saudi-backed Yemeni forces started the counter-offensive, the ground counter-offensive, eight days ago.
More than everything, I think it just shows again that many times people think that the Houthis are a bunch of guys with flip-flops and AK-47s. That's not the case. It's a terrorist organization that has ballistic missiles, that has drones, that has anti-ship missiles, that has air defense, that has radars. It's the most equipped terrorist organization in the world today. And the fact that they can launch ballistic missiles at an international airport in a key city in the Middle East, I think says a lot about how big is the threat from this group.
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ABDELAZIZ: Bad blood between the U.S. and Ukraine's president is boiling over once again. This time the issue is the new U.S.-Russian agreement that allows Moscow to export diesel to the world market. Kevin :Liptak has more on the deal.
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KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: President Trump is lashing out at the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy after President Trump struck a deal with Russian leader Vladimir Putin last week to supply more diesel to the global marketplace. President Trump trying to do what he can to bring down diesel prices three weeks before the midterm election. But critics of the deal say that one, Russia isn't able to provide enough diesel to make a meaningful effect on those prices. And two, that lifting sanctions on Russian diesel will just have the effect of giving Putin an economic lifeline as his war in Ukraine drags on.
Now, President Trump harshly critical of that line of criticism when I asked him about it on Saturday here at the White House. Here's what he said.
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TRUMP: He could have settled it many times and he chose not to. We said you can do whatever you want to Russia, don't hit the refineries because that's a world problem that's caused. And he wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers with diesel fuel because Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.
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LIPTAK: Trump also saying that Zelenskyy quote, "could have settled this war many, many times and he chooses not to." And saying that Ukraine should pick a new president, which is a remarkable statement. You know, the relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy has really been on a pendulum. You know, starting with that ugly Oval Office scene a month into President Trump's term in 2025, they had seemed to be on better terms over the summer, but now clearly the relationship at a low ebb. President Trump is claiming that Zelenskyy continued to target Russian diesel refineries despite American requests that he stopped doing that.
The question now, of course, is what happens next? Does President Trump cut off support for Ukraine somehow through potentially intelligence or arms sales? That is not something the president mentioned on Saturday, but it's something that he has done previously when he was frustrated at Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian foreign minister responding to President Trump said that Zelenskyy quote, "has the support of the Ukrainian people" and that quote, "statements from abroad only confirm that he is doing his job well."
Kevin Liptak, CNN, the White House.
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ABDELAZIZ: Here's a live look at Capitol Hill. U.S. President Donald Trump left Washington, D.C. for the campaign trail this weekend. President Trump spoke at a midterm rally in Tennessee on Saturday. He addressed a crowd in Clarksville and once again promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win control of Congress in the midterm elections. The president urged supporters to vote as though he was the one on the ballot.
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TRUMP: And in this election, I'm asking you to do me a favor, pretend, just pretend that I'm running because you know when I run, we get 48 percent more votes. 48 percent and in a way we are running. So, pretend that I'm running and go out.
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ABDELAZIZ: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is focusing his attention this weekend on nearby Maine. He was out campaigning for the state's Democrat candidate for Senate, Troy Jackson on Saturday. CNN's Arlette Saenz was there as well. Arlette Sands has this report from Bangor, Maine on the state's crucial race.
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ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Senator Bernie Sanders held his first of three rallies here in Maine as he's trying to push the Democratic candidate, Troy Jackson, across the finish line.
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Sanders was here in Maine for the first time Since Democrats changed their candidate mid-campaign after the controversies facing Graham Plattner, the original Democratic nominee had pushed him out of this race.
Now, Sanders was a strong supporter of Plattner, but he had also endorsed Jackson when he was running for governor. And on the trail here in Bangor, Sanders tried to argue that Jackson is needed in the Senate to try to provide a check on President Trump. Take a listen.
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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (I-VT): There are people in Maine who like Susan Collins, that's fine. There are many people in Maine who may have a disagreement with Troy on this or that issue, that's fine. But if you want to hold Donald Trump and his disastrous policies accountable, the only way we do that is by electing a Democratic Senate, and this election here in Maine could mean all of the difference.
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SAENZ: Sanders' two-day campaign swing through Maine comes as the contest between Democrat Troy Jackson and Republican Senator Susan Collins is incredibly close. The most recent polling here in the state showed that there was no clear leader in this contest. But polling has repeatedly shown that this contest really hinges on disapproval of President Trump and Senator Collins.
Collins has tried to strike an independent brand, but you have repeatedly heard from Jackson and Democrats trying to further link her to the president. There is some recent polling that shows 58 percent of voters believe that Collins has supported President Trump's policies too often. So, that is one of the arguments the Democrats have really tried to make against her in this campaign.
Sanders was here on the trail trying to energize Democratic voters, but, of course, this is a campaign that also will need to attract moderate and independents, and there's questions about whether Sanders will be able to help Jackson with these types of appearances in doing that.
Arlette Saenz, CNN, Bangor, Maine.
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ABDELAZIZ: President Trump is once again escalating pressure against the White House press corps. The Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation into major U.S. television networks including ABC, Fox News, NBC, and our network, CNN. The probe comes after the networks jointly suspended their White House pool coverage after the Trump administration banned CNN and other news outlets from the White House. We have so much more to come here on CNN Newsroom.
A weakening storm over the Pacific Ocean is still posing a big threat to parts of Southern California. We'll show you how ahead, plus a look at where the remnants of Hurricane Isaias are headed as the Gulf Coast works to recover from the storm's damage.
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ABDELAZIZ: Welcome back. Hundreds of thousands of people are still without power in the eastern U.S. This is after a CES made landfall as a Category 2 hurricane along the Gulf Coast on Friday. Local authorities say at least four people have died in Florida and Alabama, and the storm's remnants could bring heavy winds and heavy rain along the Atlantic coast from the Carolinas up to New York later today.
CNN's Ivan Rodriguez is in Gulf Shores, Alabama, and brings us a closer look at the trail of destruction left behind by Isaias.
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IVAN RODRIGUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hurricane Isaias slamming into Florida's panhandle late Friday night as a Category 2 hurricane, packing 110-mile-per-hour winds, tearing down trees and power lines.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That used to be my driveway. And these trees were huge. They were like 30-foot-tall white oaks. So, they're all gone now.
RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): In Pensacola, Florida, the roof was torn off this hotel. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is years of recovery. This is a long road to go.
RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): The storm also carving out a path of destruction in parts of Alabama, like Dothan, where downed trees crushed several cars, one tree slicing through this home's roof.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We did have a significant number of trees down. We've got power outages still.
RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): While the storm has weakened, the threat of heavy rain and strong winds remain.
GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FL): The threat of flooding remains. Forecasted rain totals of four to eight inches across the Florida panhandle and Big Bend this weekend.
RODRIGUEZ (voice-over): As this system moves inland, portions of Georgia and the Carolinas are under flash flood risks.
In Gulf Shores, Alabama, I'm Ivan Rodriguez reporting.
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ABDELAZIZ: Post-tropical cyclone Rachel is creating dangerous surf along parts of northern Mexico and southern California. This video shows huge waves crashing over a seawall and into homes in Long Beach, California, prompting evacuations in the area. Forecasters say Rachel is weakening and is expected to dissipate early Sunday, but it will still bring strong winds to the Baja Peninsula and heavy rain to southern California and the southwestern U.S. CNN meteorologist Melissa Nord has that forecast.
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MELISSA NORD, CNN METEOROLOGIST: After the overnight landfall, Rachel moves inland and the remnants of it are actually over southern California, pushing up into Las Vegas by Sunday morning through the early afternoon. And the most wide-reaching impact with this system is going to be the rain.
In fact, some of these places across the southwest could end up seeing over the next two days combined one to three inches of rainfall. Locally, that could be up to five inches, and that might not sound like a lot, but for these parts of the country, they just don't see a lot of rain. We're talking about a lot of desert areas.
For example, Palm Springs, California, averages two-tenths of an inch of rain for the entire month of October and less than five inches for the whole year. So, if you add one, two, maybe a little bit more than two inches in 48 hours, that's months' worth of rain coming in just one to two days. So, we are watching that thread of urban flooding, flash flooding, desert flash flooding, all of that expected across southern California up to the southwest, including Las Vegas, as we go through the day on Sunday.
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Through the rest of the overnight and Sunday again we have these level 3 out of 4 risks, moderate risks of excessive rainfall and we will also be tracking some gusty winds as the remnants of Rachel pass over Southern California.
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ABDELAZIZ: The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Simon is approaching Mexico's Pacific coast as an extremely dangerous category 4 storm. Now, forecasters are urging residents to make life-saving preparations right now. The hurricane is expected to bring damaging winds and storm surge to Mexico's west central coast when it makes landfall later today. It is also forecast to drop 10 to 20 inches of rain over parts of southwestern Mexico. Some areas could see totals of 30 inches. The torrential rainfall will likely produce life- threatening flooding and mudslides.
Now, to Panama which has been hit by a series of aftershocks after a powerful 7.7 quake struck the country on Friday. This is what parts of Panama City look like after those aftershocks. The epicenter of the quake was about 200 kilometers from the capital or 124 miles. So, far, no deaths have been reported but at least 140 aftershocks have been recorded. Los Santos province was one of the hardest hit areas with some buildings collapsing or suffering severe damage. The government is setting up shelters for more than 2,000 people who cannot return home and Panama's main airport was closed at one point but was able to resume operations.
Parts of Southeast Asia are covered in a dense haze from wildfires in Indonesia. The increased air pollution is causing health concerns and other issues.
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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Thick clouds of smoke billow into the sky in Indonesia. Firefighters battle to extinguish the flames on the ground but it's a cumulative haze from fires burning all across the country that's choking parts of Southeast Asia.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We get scared because it could reach our homes. It's dangerous, very dangerous. Just yesterday there was an accident over there. The fire has spread over a large area.
HUNTE (voice-over): Fires in Indonesia's forests and peatlands have been burning for weeks now fueled by bone-dry conditions and a supercharged El Nino weather pattern. It's created a steady stream of toxic smog that's drifted as far away as the Philippines and that is causing the air quality to plummet across the region. In South Sumatra, one of Indonesia's hardest-hit provinces, clinics are seeing a surge of respiratory illnesses.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I have been experiencing shortness of breath, coughing and irritated eyes possibly because of the haze that has affected us for over the past two months.
HUNTE (voice-over): But the crisis isn't just taking a toll on humans. Conservationists warn Indonesia's critically endangered orangutans are also suffering as fires ravage their habitats in Borneo. At a regional rehabilitation facility, caretakers say they're treating a growing number of the great apes for breathing issues and burns. But the Singapore Grand Prix is still racing ahead.
That's despite air pollution levels reaching unhealthy ranges. Some spectators say the grey skies won't derail the weekend. But others say they're worried about the health of the competitors.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Drivers are fully athletes so I don't think I've been watching runners going up and along the bay and they're running with masks on. I don't think that as an athlete I would want to be performing in this kind of haze or weather.
HUNTE (voice-over): In Malaysia, thousands of schools were forced to close on Friday because of the smog. The prime minister says he's hoping the Southeast Asian bloc, ASEAN, can step in with a regional response to the damaging haze.
Ben Hunte, CNN.
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SCIUTTO: Still to come here on CNN Newsroom, we'll take a closer look at the current state of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire as Gaza marks one year since that U.S. broker deal was announced.
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ABDELAZIZ: Welcome back to CNN Newsroom. I'm Salma Abdelaziz in London. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered outside the U.S. Capitol. This was on Saturday calling for an end to Israeli attacks on Gaza. The March for Palestine rally was there to mark three years of war in Gaza and included a march and commemoration honoring those killed in the war.
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SOPHIE, VOLUNTEER, PALESTINIAN YOUTH MOVEMENT: Yes, so our tax dollars cannot be funding genocide, especially when our own communities are so underfunded. This is an absolute crime. The atrocities should not be put on our dollars.
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ABDELAZIZ: Now, those rallies are part of a global day of action. In Athens, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters also marched through the streets calling for an end to the violence and demanding justice for Palestinians. Similar demonstrations took place worldwide, with more than 200 organizations participating across 60 countries.
In London, a reporter for the Reuters news agency estimated the crowd to be at least 40,000. The back of the march arrived at Westminster about three hours after the head of the rally. Several demonstrators criticized Hamas for the October 7th attacks that escalated a conflict that dates back to the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. But they also condemned Israel for the killing of Palestinians since then and the obliteration of much of the Gaza Strip.
Those marches also coincide with one year since the official start of the Gaza ceasefire. Funerals were held Saturday for four people killed in an Israeli strike on Gaza City. The Israeli military said the strikes targeted militants, giving no further information.
The ceasefire has halted major fighting in Gaza, but failed to stop Israeli strikes inside the enclave or secure the disarmament of Hamas. Many people remain displaced in Gaza, living in makeshift shelters amid the destruction and suffering from continued humanitarian aid shortages, with the death toll still rising. Some people question the effectiveness of the ceasefire deal.
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AKRAM ABD RABBO, DISPLACED PALESTINIAN IN GAZA (through translator): One year after the ceasefire, almost a year after the ceasefire, we don't see any advancement in anything.
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The killing is the same, displacement is the same, not opening the border crossings, not -- everything, everything, no aid. People find it difficult to get a drink of water. Even a drink of water is a problem for people today. We are all living in tents, and as you see, the system in which people live is getting from bad to worse. We didn't see any progress in negotiations or ceasefire.
ABD EL-NABI DAWAS, DISPLACED PALESTINIAN IN GAZA (through translator): We see on TV that this country says a ceasefire in Gaza has been reached, but where is it? Where is the ceasefire in Gaza? If there is a ceasefire in Gaza, why do we have strikes every day? Every day we have martyrs. Every day we have killed people. Every day we have wounded people.
SALEH ABD RABBO, DISPLACED PALESTINIAN IN GAZA (through translator): You, Trump, you've made yourself the president of the world. Didn't you put down 20 points in an agreement and finished it? What did you implement, Trump, their president? What was implemented from these points?
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ABDELAZIZ: For more now on the state of Gaza's crisis, I'm going to go straight to Dr. Ahmed Abu Warda. He is live from Khan Younis, the Nasser Hospital Activities Director for Doctors Without Borders. Thank you so much for joining us.
First of all, I want to start with where you are at Al-Nasser Hospital. As a doctor, what are you dealing with on a daily basis? What are humanitarian workers dealing with on a daily basis? What cases are you seeing in one of the hospitals? And what challenges do you face when it comes to providing medical care in the Gaza Strip with a health care system basically on its knees now?
AHMED ABU WARDA, NASSER HOSPITAL ACTIVITIES DIRECTOR, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Yes. As we notice, people are still being killed and injured as airstrikes and drone strikes are continuing. Insecurity continues. And the restriction on the humanitarian supplies is so severe now. So, the humanitarian situation and the health situation in all the hospitals is struggling.
As we know, more than 1,700 health workers have been killed. And most of the hospitals have been partially or completely damaged. So, the health system in Gaza is already crippled. So, we are fighting every day to continue our day and to serve our patients. There are lots of challenges in supplies, and supplies doesn't include just medicines as well. It goes to oxygen-related supplies, crutches, wheelchairs, surgical supplies, and as well the fuel, the spare parts, and the oil for the generators, which as we all know that all the health system now is depending mainly on generators.
So, if one of those generators stops, it means that this stops the services we provide in the hospital, which include many vital and essential services like intensive care units, operation theaters, and laboratory services. All the services inside the hospital is depending mainly on generators, which could be stopped at any point. As our life as health workers every day --
ABDELAZIZ: And your organization, if I may ask, Doctor, your organization, Doctors Without Borders, says that Israel is choking, is asphyxiating Gaza, not only by not providing these services and these basic needs being blockaded, as you mentioned, but also through the yellow line, which is now an occupation of about 64 percent of the Gaza Strip, according to aid groups.
ABU WARDA: Yes.
ABDELAZIZ: What does it mean to have more than 2 million people now crushed inside just about 55 percent of that territory? What does that mean for daily life?
ABU WARDA: So, the yellow line is not just a line on the map. It became the reality of the population inside Gaza Strip. So, you can imagine more than 2.1 million population living in less than one third of the space of Gaza Strip, living in very difficult and inhumane environmental situation, living in tents, which are not proper tents as well. And they are now at the time of the winter coming, which means that the disaster will be even more dangerous.
Living in overcrowded situation with no infrastructure, no access to clean water or to drinking water, it leads to the increase of the spread of infectious diseases and many diseases. There is no access to clean water. There is no access to health services in the areas of the Gaza Strip. It's not enough. The needs are enormous, but it's not enough to cover 2.1 million population in one third of the size of Gaza Strip in very difficult circumstances, living above the rubble and in between the rubble. So, the whole situation and the whole living environment is inhumane.
ABDELAZIZ: Let me just ask you very quickly, just because we have running out of time. This is one year now since, of course, President Trump said that a ceasefire has been reached in Gaza, but we've seen very little of that brokered peace, as you say, on the ground actually benefit the people inside Gaza.
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If you could say one sentence, one message to President Trump right now, what would that be?
ABU WARDA: What I would say that this is not a ceasefire. The crisis now, it's our daily reality. We don't live in a ceasefire. Every day, for me personally, I leave my home. I don't feel safe. I wonder if I will go back home alive. As a doctor, I go to serve my patients, and as a father, I say goodbye to my son without knowing if this will be the final goodbye because there is no place safe. There is no access to the basic needs in Gaza.
ABDELAZIZ: And what do you hope can happen now? If you were able to give that message to President Trump, what do you want to see political leaders do so that you don't have to do what you're saying, which is just heart-wrenching to hear, worry about whether you will see your son, worry about whether a hospital will run, worry about whether or not you can carry out an operation because your generator might go out. What needs to take place?
ABU WARDA: What we want is a real ceasefire. It's stopping all the actions inside Gaza Strip. Unhindered supplies getting inside Gaza to adapt to the enormous needs that we have. Open all the crossing and allowing supplies to get inside and patients and people who need to be treated outside Gaza, to be able to receive these services. Our message is what we want is a real ceasefire, accessibility to health care, and to feel safety.
ABDELAZIZ: Dr. Ahmed Abu Warda in Khan Younis there with a very critical message, allow supplies in, allow humanitarian aid in. I will walk away with that feeling that you worry as to whether or not you will see your son every single day and whether you can treat your patients every single day. Thank you for your time.
The founder of India's youth-led cockroach party has been released from detention. This is following a crackdown on anti-government protests by New Delhi police. More than 2,000 people were reportedly detained on Saturday as authorities deployed heavy security to curb planned demonstrations. CNN Correspondent Gage Goulding has this report for us.
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GAGE GOULDING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Those young protesters clashing with police in India's capital city of New Delhi. But the gentleman that called this protest, asking for tens of thousands of young people to come out and fill central Delhi, he was detained in New Delhi after his plane landed before the protest even started. This is Abhijeet Dipke, the leader of the cockroach Janta Party.
Now, this protest is what he's calling season two of the cockroach party and their opposition to the government. This specific protest, though, they're focusing on the chairman of the election commission. They're alleging that millions of people have been stricken from voter rolls in India. Now, the government says that they have been going through those rolls. They've been taking off people that have since died or there are duplicate entries or ineligible to vote.
However, it's the opposition parties, including mainstream parties, but that of the cockroach Janta Party, they're saying that they're removing eligible voters, trying to remove people that oppose the current government's ideologies, if you will, their thoughts there. And on Saturday, the government meeting those protesters, from what we understand, about 1,000 police and paramilitary members there in Central Delhi. The government turning off access to mobile Internet on Saturday, meaning that many of those protesters do not have access to communicate with one another or post videos of exactly what was happening.
But you can see in these videos that there's clashing between law enforcement and those protesters. People were detained. Again, the leader of the cockroach party was detained after his plane landed in New Delhi, along with other leaders of the party, including a YouTuber, a very popular YouTuber with more than 33 million viewers, Dhruv Rathee, was detained as well.
And this is, again, the second season of their protest, if you will, earlier this year. In July, they protest against the education minister, who ultimately resigned. The argument there was the allegation that the results of, or the answers, excuse me, to exams were leaked and or sold. And this whole cockroach party kind of started with a meme on social media, kind of an interesting name, but it was the leader, Dipke, that started this on social media, and then it really did take off.
Again, he called for tens of thousands of young people to fill central Delhi on Saturday. That did not happen, but there still were a number of people that turned out.
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But you can see there, they clashed with law enforcement, a number of them there. That number isn't actually definitive, but we do know that many of them were detained.
Gage Goulding, CNN, Seoul.
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ABDELAZIZ: Venezuelan protesters are calling for an end to power cuts and for better service from the state-run electric company. And frequent blackouts have sparked demonstrations in recent weeks. Government officials have pledged to increase power capacity, but for many protesters, these promises are simply too little, too late.
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NALVI CAMACHO, DEMONSTRATOR (through translator): All of this that we are living through is truly unbearable. So, please, we demand that Governor Rafael Lacava to stop the power cuts in Carabobo State. We need social justice.
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ABDELAZIZ: Coming up next on CNN Newsroom, a tragic scene in Erie, Pennsylvania, as a shooting leaves eight dead. We're going to bring you exactly what happened right after the break.
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ABDELAZIZ: U.S. President Donald Trump says he is yet to decide whether he will approve a plan to livestream a military execution. He spoke on Saturday after giving conflicting answers about the subject earlier the day before. He said he was not involved in the decision at all. Pentagon leaders want to livestream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who is set to face a firing squad in December. That would likely be the first public execution in the U.S. since 1936.
But sources tell CNN many military officials were caught off guard by the Pentagon's announcement. They say many questions are still open, including which websites can show the execution. One source says a military unit has already been selected to carry it out. But it's still unclear if military members can refuse to participate.
Attorneys for Christa Pike say their client is back in prison. This is after surviving a botched execution in Tennessee.
[04:45:00] Pike was hospitalized after surviving two doses of the fatal drug pentobarbital, which was given during a lethal injection execution on September 30th. Experts on the death penalty say Pike is the first person to survive an execution attempt after two injections. It is not clear whether she still faces the death penalty.
A man in Erie, Pennsylvania, has shot and killed eight people in his home before taking his own life. Seven of those killed were relatives of the man. They include two children and a pregnant woman. Erie's police chief called the scene deeply disturbing.
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RICK LORAH, ERIE POLICE CHIEF: I want to be candid with our community. This is one of the most difficult and heartbreaking scenes our officers and investigators have ever encountered. The loss of life is devastating, and the circumstances we are working through are deeply disturbing.
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ABDELAZIZ: Officials have declined to discuss the shooter's motive, but say investigators would speak to other relatives and examine the cell phones of two of those killed. Pennsylvania's Governor Josh Shapiro offered his full support to Erie's mayor. Erie County's district attorney urged the public to refrain from public speculation while that investigation continues.
The deaths of five men along a Michigan trail have raised concerns that a serial killer may be active in the area. Fifty-four-year-old Gino Chouinard died in October last year and was the first in a series of deaths that the local police chief says could form a pattern. All five men were white and unhoused. Lansing's mayor says police have at least one person in custody and are looking into all possible connections between the killings.
Protesters hit the streets of New York to demonstrate against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The demonstrations came after ICE-involved shootings in the city. CNN's Mark Morales has the report.
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MARK MORALES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We're finally seeing what happened in the moments before the shooting and in the chaotic moments afterwards. And now, this incident has sparked a lot of protests and demonstrations in the street in the moments after the shooting all the way up until now. And part of what's got people so upset is not just the fact that it's another ICE-involved shooting, but that the man's five-year-old son was sitting in the backseat of the car when the shots rang out.
Now, NYPD released body camera footage of responding officers. And there you see Belgal with his hands cuffed behind his back, sitting on the pavement. Officers made the snap decision that they needed to get him immediate medical care. And you see them grab him and throw him in the back of their patrol car and then race to the nearest hospital. You were actually in the car watching the video, seeing them drive at a high rate of speed, trying to get him to safety.
Now, in the other video, it's sort of an eye-in-the-sky video, where you see Belgal parked in his vehicle at a hydrant. And you ever so slightly see the car start to go in reverse before the ICE officers come into frame with their guns drawn, one obviously at the driver's side window, while another one is near towards the front of the hood of the vehicle. And you see Belgal try to drive away. You don't actually see the shooting take place.
But this second video really puts the tactics of the ICE officers squarely into play here, something that's happened in other instances that we've seen around the country. Now, Tom Holman talked about this and had other thoughts about this. Take a listen.
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TOM HOLMAN, U.S. BORDER CZAR: The men in white ICE perform -- they perform exactly as they were trained. This man tried to run an officer over. He feared for his life, so he took action. And now, this person is in custody. He'll be charged with a federal crime of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. But many of these instances could be avoided if they simply give us access to the bad guy in the safety and security of a jail, rather than release him in the community.
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MORALES: Now, there's still the big question about the deportation itself and whether or not that's going to take place. Lawyers for Belgal are arguing that he should be released. But the first question that has to be discussed is, where do they actually make these arguments? Belgal's attorney filed motions in New York to get him released. But by the time they did that, it turns out he was actually at a facility in New Jersey. So, while all that needs to be ironed out, he's sitting at a facility in Brooklyn, New York, waiting for the next steps.
Mark Morales, CNN, New York.
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ABDELAZIZ: Another ICE controversy, this time in Texas. A video reveals the moment that a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement vehicle hits a man in Houston. Now, I do want to warn you, this video is graphic and may be disturbing for some viewers. The surveillance video shows two men jump out of a white pickup truck and run when a black vehicle moves in and hits one of them.
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ICE says Miguel Parra-Hernandez is the man who was injured and that he is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico. The man who was hit is reportedly hospitalized in stable condition. Local law enforcement officials are investigating that incident.
Still to come this hour, how some people are making a fortune selling secondhand clothes online. We'll tell you all about it right after the break.
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ABDELAZIZ: Welcome back. One person's discarded clothing can be another person's goldmine. People are turning to online platforms to resell old or used clothes and turning thrifting into a full-time, high-earning career. CNN's Ivana Scatola has more.
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IVANA SCATOLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Steam, snap, send, repeat. That simple process is part of a business that's made Evan hundreds of thousands of dollars.
EVAN SELLICK, FULL-TIME VINTED RESELLER: I usually get like, not mocked in school, but a lot of people say, oh, what are you selling sweaty old clothes for?
SCATOLA (voice-over): He's been reselling clothes since the age of 15, and it's made him some serious money, like a lot.
SELLICK: At 16, I did my first ever, like 10K months.
SCATOLA: What do you think of the three biggest purchases you've made from reselling?
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SELLICK: A Porsche Cayman, so it's like, I'd say it's a dream car, not being 20 and buying a Porsche like a massive deal for me, I love cars. And then I love watches. So probably one of my watches, I'd say traveling. I probably spent near enough, like 20, 30 grand lash on trips.
SCATOLA (voice-over): Evan resells on Vinted, Europe's leading platform for buying and reselling clothes. In France, it's the top retailer ahead of brands like Zara and H&M.
SELLICK: I'm sure so many people would agree with me that I know and I work with who've said reselling wasn't going to be their long-time career, but it's opened so many doors and opportunities for them and same for me.
SCATOLA (voice-over): Now it's his full-time business.
SELLICK: So, when it's been washed by my grandmother, I then put into these unlisted boxes.
SCATOLA: Did your grandmother do the washing for you? Just do it at her house?
SELLICK: She does it for me, but I obviously pay her to do it, so --
SCATOLA (voice-over): Every day, he uploads new items and packs all the orders he sold. SELLICK: Day-to-day, you know, I try and list 30, 40 items. So, as I always say, make sure I've in stock waiting for you, not you waiting for stock. So that's the most important thing, because if overall, if I'm getting a two times, 2X return on it, 50 cent profit and I'm unhappy.
So, these caps were from Naples, so they were about a pound a piece. So, I'm only selling them for like five or six. Obviously, that's a six extra returns. If I sell 100 at six, that's 500-pound profit. So --
SCATOLA (voice-over): Evan says he was one of the first U.K. full- time vintage resellers. Now hundreds of other Gen Zers are doing the same. Although vintage has been in the U.S. since 2013, it hasn't had much presence there. In January, the company launched a proper expansion into the U.S. market.
SELLICK: I think once it reaches America, it'll go to a new level. And I know for a fact that this second angle of the market is going to overtake the retail market in the next 10 years.
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ABDELAZIZ: Thank you so much for watching. I'm Salma Abdelaziz. I'll be back with another hour of CNN Newsroom right after a quick break.
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