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ZAIN ASHER, HOST: Moscow is pushing back after a new report alleges widespread state sponsored doping of Russian athletes. We'll get reaction

from the Russian capital.

Also ahead, it's the biggest online shopping day of the year, China's Singles Day eclipses Black Friday and Cyber Monday as well. We'll head to

Beijing to see what people are buying.

Plus...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sold here, 1561.

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ASHER: Modigliani's reclining nude sells for a cool $170 million joining a very exclusive club. We'll take a look at the other masterpieces

in the nine figure club as well.

ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Center, this is Connect the World.

I want to begin with that explosive report that is rocking the world athletics. And a new response from Moscow to claims of alleged doping by

athletes and widespread corruption in Russian sport as well.

The head of the country's anti-doping agency has acknowledged in his words,

and I'm quoting for you here, "problems obviously exist." But he adds that Russia is working to address them. And he rejected some of the report's

more damning claims.

This comes as the World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended accreditation for Moscow's drug testing been suspended for Moscow's drug testing lab.

It has certainly been a day of angry reaction from athletes from other countries, some of whom lost out to Russian rivals in the last Olympic

games in London three years ago.

For more now, I'm joined by senior international correspondent Matthew Chance. He's live for us in Moscow.

And CNN World Sport's Don Riddell is here with me at CNN Center.

So, Don, let me begin with you.

So, the Russian sports minister says, and I'm quoting for you here, doping is not the problem of Russia, Russia should not be singled out, it

is a world problem.

Is he right? And could we see the fallout expand beyond just Russia?

DON RIDDELL, CNN SPORTSCORRESPONDENT: Well, he may very well be right. I mean, the independent commission yesterday said that they felt

this was just the tip of the iceberg, meaning it was probably more than just Russia and probably more than just track and field, more than just

athletics.

But I guess given that Russia's standing in world sport, it was only to be expected that the spotlight would be shining so brightly on them...

ASHER: There's that documentary as well.

RIDDELL: Well, there are so many reasons why the spotlight is on Russia right now.

You would hope that other areas would be investigated and the pressure really is on the international athletics federation, IAAF, and the World

Anti-Doping Agency to step up and look at exactly who is cheating and how they're being able to do that.

But this is going to be a very, very long process, and it won't be easy. And this problem goes right to the very heart of athletics

governance. This goes to the heart of the IAAF, it's not just Russia, it's the IAAF, too.

ASHER: Right. Yeah, Sebastian Coe certainly has a lot of pressure on him right now.

Matthew, if I could just bring you in, because the World Anti-Doping Agency has suspended Russia's anti-doping labs. So, are we going to see an

appeal going forward? What's going to happen with that?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN INTERANTIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, I expect so, although no formal announcement has been made on that yet. And they've got

some time to make that decision. But what the Russian authorities are saying is that they acknowledge there are certain shortcomings in their

testing facilities which they want to bring up to standard. And they're prepared to world with the World Anti-Doping Agency to do that.

But they're essentially rejecting the thrust of the allegations in that report, particularly the idea that the Kremlin is complicit in the

program of the state-supported doping I think was the phrase that was used in the report.

The Kremlin itself -- because this isn't just about sport, this is about politics here as well, given the tens of billions of dollars that

have been invested in sport in this country in the past several years. It's a political issue as well. And the Kremlin has come out and said that

the allegations made in the report against the Russian athletic community are groundless, saying that the

spokesman for Vladimir Putin, Dmitry Peskov (ph) told us that if allegations are being voiced they should be supported by evidence. If they

aren't, they can't be trusted.

And so the Kremlin is adopting a very hard line on this saying, look, we haven't seen any evidence that any of this in this report is true.

ASHER: So Don, you heard our Matthew Chance saying that the Kremlin says that these reports are groundless. But the next step is of course

reforms.

How does the World Anti-Doping Agency go about helping Russia implement reforms if they don't volunteer for them?

RIDDELL: Well, it's going to be very, very difficult. I mean, they really want to help Russia. They have recommended that they suspend Russia

from international competition. They don't want them to miss the Olympics next year, but that remains very much one of the options on the table.

And you begin to realize how complicated this is when you hear the language that the independent commission used yesterday when they said that

the Vitaly Mutko, the Russian sports minister, it was impossible that he couldn't have been aware of it. And if he was aware of it, then he is

complicit in what was going on. And he remains the Russian sports minister. And he's going to be the man tasked with...

ASHER: How much did he know?

RIDDELL: ...with clearing this mess up.

So, you can see how difficult it is, especially when they're coming out and being so defensive still and basically saying, maybe there were a

few things that we did wrong, but they certainly are not owning up to the scale of the behavior that was cited in the report.

ASHER: And, Matthew, if I could just bring you in again, because obviously you're in Moscow. Is there a genuine fear there that perhaps

Russia could lose their place perhaps in going to the Olympics in 2016?

CHANCE: Well, I think the Russian authorities are at this point still in a state of shock that these allegations were made public. I mean, even

though they come as no surprise to people who have been following this situation closely.

You mentioned yourself a year ago there was a documentary on German television which sent shock waves through the athletic community and the

world, but in Russia as well saying that 99 percent of Russian athletes engaged in doping with the support of Russian authorities in an organized

campaign.

So these aren't necessarily new allegations. But the fact they've been

made in this official capacity by the World Anti-Doping Agency give them additional

resonance.

And I don't think really it's sunk in yet amongst ordinary Russians the consequences of what this could be. It would be enormous. It would be

enormous.

Russia is one of the major sporting nations in the world. It hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics, the world championship athletics were hosted

here. The World Cup is going to be held here in 2018 as well.

And to think that their athletes have been cheating in this organized way with the help of the government is really just unthinkable.

ASHER: OK. Matthew Chance will continue to watch the fallout from Russia. Matthew Chance live for us there in Moscow. We appreciate it.

Don Riddell, joining me here in the studio. Appreciate it. Thank you so much as well.

On to another story we are following, police in Northern Ireland have arrested a former British soldier in connection with the 1972 Bloody Sunday

massacre. It is the first arrest following a renewed murder investigation that was launched in 2012.

14 Catholics were killed when British troops opened fire on a civil rights march in London. Let's get the latest from out Phil Black. He

joins me live now from London.

So, Phil, what do we know about the person who's been arrested and what

specific evidence led to their arrest?

PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Zain, some basic facts, or what the police in Northern Ireland have revealed, a 66-year-old man who

was arrested in Northern Ireland, and it is the British ministry of defense that has confirmed he was a former soldier.

It is an extraordinary development, one that has been welcomed by the families of the victims, those who suffered and died on that day in January

1972 when British soldiers opened fire on a crowd taking part in a civil rights march.

13 people were killed that day, a 14th died later on. It was incredibly divisive event in the long history of what were known as The

Troubles, that long conflict in Northern Ireland between Republicans and Unionists.

Now, the families of those who died and who suffered, they don't know much but they are still welcoming this. What they'll be looking for,

though, really is what happens next. This man has been arrested. He is being questioned. He has not yet been charged. And that is crucial.

And they'll also be looking to see if anyone else is arrested and potentially charged in the coming weeks and months ahead.

The police in Northern Ireland, the prosecutors and the police that are handling this, they have hinted there will be more progress. In a

statement today, the lead officer says that this marks a new phase in the investigation, which is going to last for some time yet, Zain.

ASHER: Yeah, and hopefully this will bring some of those families some degree of closure. But this is the first person to be arrested since

the Bloody Sunday Massacre, which was in 1972. Why has it taken more than 40 years to get this far?

BLACK: Yeah, 43 years. So when you think about, the man who was arrested today, he was just around 23 at the time this happened.

It has been such a long, difficult road for justice for those concerned. The government launched an inquiry immediately after the

massacre, but that one blamed the crowd, the victims and exonerated the soldiers. It wasn't until 1998 that another government inquiry was

launched and this one finally said it was the soldiers that were responsible, their behavior was unjustified, and in fact that

the crowd that day had done nothing wrong. They were innocent.

At that time, the British Prime Minister, David Cameron, apologized on behalf of the nation for what had happened. That was an enormously

significant event on the long road to healing.

But ever since then, the key question has been, will people be prosecuted for this? And it's certainly not an easy investigation to meet

the required standard under criminal law in this country. The challenge for those prosecutors

and investigators, given the extraordinary length of time that has passed, is to be to build a case with evidence that stands a reasonable chance of

conviction in court. That is what they are still working to do, Zain.

[11:10:26] ASHER: Evidence from more than 43 years ago, as you mentioned. We'll see if there are more arrests.

OK, Phil Black, live for us there in London, thank you so much.

Let's take you now to Myanmar where pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has she will be pulling the strings if her party wins power in

historic elections.

About a quarter of the results are in from Sunday's vote showing a clear lead for her National League for Democracy.

If it wins more than two-thirds of the seats up for grabs in parliament, it would power from the military-backed USDP.

he constitution bars Suu Kyi from the presidency because her children are foreigners. But she says that if her party wins, she will be calling

the shots.

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AUNG SAN SUU KYI, LEADER, NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY PARTY: Simply that, above the president, I make all the decisions because I'm the leader

of the winning party. And the president will be one who we will choose in order to meet the requirements of the constitution.

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ASHER: Our Ivan Watson has been following events in Myanmar and is in Yangon.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The Nobel Peace Prize- winning leader of Myanmar's main opposition party is claiming a massive victory in last

Sunday's historic national elections. Aung San Suu Kyi spoke earlier with the BBC and claim her party may have won as much as 75 percent of the vote.

Of course, international election observers, even the White House, are warning all parties involved in this electoral contest not to jump to

conclusions too soon because the main election commission here still has only published about a quarter of the results of this vote.

Earlier I was able to speak with the number two man in the opposition National League for Democracy, the NLD, and ask him how it felt to be on

the verge of possible victory.

How does it feel to win?

LI TIN OO, SECRETARY, NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR DEMOCRACY: How does it feel to win? How do you feel when you win?

WATSON: It feels nice.

OO: Happy.

WATSON: Quite happy.

Election observers from the European Union, from the Carter Center, they have all congratulated Myanmar on what they say was a big test for

democracy in this country. They all say that there were major structural flaws in the election.

They say that the advanced voting was particularly troublesome and nontransparent. But they again all say that this was a major step forward

for a country that had lived under strict military dictatorship for more than 50 years.

There had been two nights of big street celebrations outside the headquarters of Aung San Suu Kyi's political party here in Yangon. But now

it seems that all parties are trying to cool down the street celebration and are waiting for the election commission to continue its critical work

to determine once and for all who really did win this election and how much the win could have been for the

main opposition in this country.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Yangon.

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ASHER: Time for a quick break here on Connect the World.

Still to come, it's the world's biggest 24-hour shopping event and it takes place online. We'll look at how China is celebrating Singles' Day.

Plus, we'll be live in Cairo for the latest on the investigation into the crash of Metrojet flight 9268. That's coming up.

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ASHER: The world's biggest shopping event is now under way and Chinese online retailer Alibaba is throwing a party, you see it there, to

celebrate.

This is a live look at the company's sales data for Singles' Day, which is basically an anti-Valentine's Day for single people.

Alibaba is hosting a huge event at the Beijing National Aquatic Center to mark the occasion.

You're watching CNN. And this is Connect the World. I'm Zain Asher.

People across China are putting in their online orders as they rush to take advantage of Singles' Day's discounts.

Well, one for the time to celebrate singledom in China has evolved into a massive shopping bonanza taking place November 11.

Now, Alibaba has emerged as the companies that's reaped most of the benefits. Last year, it raked in more than $9 billion, nearly double the

online sales of Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined.

Our Steven Jiang joins us live now from the Beijing National Aquatic Center.

So, Steven, this is an extremely lucrative day for Alibaba. How much money are they expecting to rake in from this?

STEVEN JIANG, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well Zain, a huge amount, you were just talking about the huge screen behind me. Yes, it's

showing real-time sales figures. In the 15 minutes into this 24-hour shopping craze, the sales are already topping $2 billion U.S. dollars. So,

it's the kind of number we are talking about.

But you know, it's not just Alibaba, its main rival JD.com and other Chinese online ecommerce giants are also launching their own shopping

festivals.

So, when you look at a bigger picture, it's even more amazing.

The Chinese national postal service, for example, estimates, they will be shipping 760 million packages in the next 24 hours.

You know, you wonder why and how can companies pull this off? Well, I talked to one online shopping addict yesterday. She is really the ideal

demographic. She's young, female, single, educated, doing most of her shopping online. And she basically says, you know what, I do all my

shopping online these days, especially when it comes to deep discounts and a lot of promotion events on this day.

So, you know, she may not be buying fancy stuff, but she's buying a lot of her daily items. And when you add them up, she's only one of the

millions, really it's not surprising when you see these incredible numbers -- Zain.

ASHER: I absolutely love that this is the anti-Valentine's Day, because Valentine's Day -- you know, single people tend to get -- or feel

left out. But more seriously, China has obviously been impacted, Steven, by a slowdown in the economy that we've been talking about the past few

months. Could that affect sales at all?

JIANG: That is the billion-dollar question on a lot of people's minds. Because whether or not these amazing sales figures really are

reflective of the overall economy. And we are still seeing very weak manufacturing numbers, export

numbers. But if anything this event indicates, this is the direction of the economy that the government and leadership wants it to move because

they have been trying to transform this economy from investment-driven, export-driven model to a

consumption and innovation-driven model.

Consumption is obvious for shopping festival, but innovation because companies like Alibaba are creating their own ecosystems, really propelling

a lot of innovation in mobile apps, for example, and helping small and medium-sized companies. They're also expanding globally, Zain. One

indication of that is we see a lot of global celebrities here at the celebration gala that just ended.

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey made a cameo. The current James Bond, Daniel Craig made an appearance on stage. And American pop Adam Lambert

performed for the audience.

You know, one of his most recent hit is The Original High, I think that's how Alibaba and a lot of other companies here hope their consumers

will be experiencing this in the next 24 hours, chasing the original high by shopping online and

spending away -- Zain.

ASHER: Kevin Spacey, Daniel Craig, it sounds like there's a huge amount of excitement there.

But even though Alibaba is set to do well, people think they are going to do well, are there people -- have you spoken to anyone who is sort of

deciding to rebel against this consumerist shopping frenzy?

JIANG: Well, me. I'm a holdout. But it's not just me. Other people I talk to -- some do agree with me, because even the online shopping

addicts I talked to, as these online commerce sites become more powerful, they also have become victims of their own success as they launch more

sales, more discounts throughout the year, making consumers feel they don't have to do all of their shopping on one single day. They can spread out

their spending.

So, yes, there are holdouts, there are rebels. But, still, the numbers behind me are telling a very different story. Millions of people

around the world, not just here in China, are still spending on this November 11 shopping festival -- Zain.

ASHER: Singles' Day is actually spread out for the whole week, but as long

as they do their shopping, or they buy their items on November 11, it's just gone midnight where you are. Steven Jiang, thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Live from CNN Center, this is Connect the World. Coming up, find out how the crash of a Metrojet plane in Egypt is having repercussions in the

United States.

And from the Rust Belt Tech town: find out how the U.S. city of Pittsburgh is undergoing a renaissance and attracting startups as well.

That's coming up.

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JOHN DEFTERIOS, EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a city of bridges and blue collar traditions, nestled in what's known as the

Rust Belt.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pittsburgh is probably one of the most misunderstood cities in the country. When people think of it, their first

image is rusted old steel mills falling into a river.

DEFTERIOS: But the Steel City is making a comeback by rebuilding and reinventing.

This is Bakery Square, an open-air, mixed use and LEED certified development, some eight years and more than $300 million in the making. So

far, it's a two-part project. Bakery Square 1.0 is housed in a former Nabisco factory built in 1918, and across the street Bakery Square 2.0

where a middle school used to be.

UNIDENITIFIED MALE: Bakery 2.0 is a combination of office and rental apartments. And right now we're standing on the rooftop of our first

building that we're building. It's about 225,000 square feet office building of which five out of six floors are rented.

[11:25:06] DEFTERIOS: By tenants like Google. The tech giant signed onto the development in 2009 shortly after the recession when finding

investigators proved a challenge.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When Google showed up, it changed everything.

DEFTERIOS: With its proximity to major colleges like Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh, Bakery Square started to gain momentum

with today's going rate for office space at 420 per square meter.

UNIDENTIFEID MALE: Everyone wanted to be at Bakery Square. And so we were able to create this brand name, bakery square, but we also then were

able to backfill it with some very strong retailers.

DEFTERIOS: Take tech shop, a U.S. chain of member-based workshops fully equipped with industrial tools for laser cutting, 3D printing,

welding and more.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pittsburgh's always been a very industrious city. But we've been kind of re-branded and reformatted into this tech city.

Being in Bakery Square makes it a very unique space. You look in our windows and you see, you know, there's blazers and there's mills and

there's fabrication work going on. So, it's very dynamic in that sense.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've created 3,000 new jobs on these 20 acres. We have people that are working here every day.

DEFTERIOS: And also living.

Lauren and her dog Vettis (ph) recently moved in to Bakery Living, a 176-unit apartment on Bakery Square's campus with the twin building under

construction next door.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Moving back from California, I was really surprised at the changes in Pittsburgh and especially in this area, this

east side of Pittsburgh, Bakery Living, Bakery Square.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pittsburgh finds ways of really creating something that is built upon the legacy of who we are, but also understands what

we're becoming.

DEFTERIOS: And developments like Bakery Square are helping to do just that, by bridging Pittsburgh's industrial past with the future that's

focused on technology.

John Defterios, One Square Meter, CNN.

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[11:30:42] ASHER: This is Connect the World. I'm Zain Asher. The top stories at this hour.

The World Anti-Doping Agency suspending the activities of a Moscow lab that analyzes the urine and blood samples of Russia's athletes that after a

report commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency alleged widespread state-sponsored doping by Russian track and field athletes. The head of

Russia's anti-doping agency has acknowledged that there is a problem, but says it is being addressed.

Aung San Suu Kyi is predicting her opposition party will secure enough votes to win Myanmar's historic elections. Speaking to the BBC, she said

she expects her party to win around 75 percent of the vote. Ballots are still being counted but the military aligned ruling party has acknowledged

it lost more seats than it won.

Former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt has now died. The Social Democrat chancellor led West Germany from 1974 to 1982 before being brought

down by a coalition split. He was a leading proponent of European integration

and remained politically active after leaving office. He was 96 years old.

And more than 400,000 Syrian children living in Turkey are not attending school according to a report by Human Rights Watch. The group

said a language barrier, integration issues and financial difficulties were some of the

reasons and urged the international community to help.

Meantime, in the U.S., federal officials have been working to address a potential vulnerability in airport security. By that they mean the

hundreds of thousands of people who work behind the scenes at U.S. airports and could pose a threat to security. The problem has taken on added

urgency following the Metrojet crash in Egypt. It's still not clear what brought down the plane but the

U.S. and the UK believe it may have been a bomb planted on board.

Egypt says it is too soon to say what caused the crash.

We're going to take you live now to the Egyptian capital Cairo where CNN's Ben Wedeman has been following the investigation. So, Ben, Egypt

claimed that they killed the leader of an ISIS affiliate in the Sinai Ashraf Ali Gharabali

(ph). How relevant is he to terrorist activity in the Sinai?

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Certainly in the Sinai, not necessarily this is a man who was killed yesterday in a shootout with

Egyptian police in Cairo. The interior ministry putting out a statement describing him as one of the most dangerous leaders of the Islamic State in

the northern Sinai.

But he's somebody who traditionally has been operating more in mainland Egypt. He's been linked, for instance, with the assassination of

a former Egyptian interior ministry and with a thwarted attack on Carnak (ph) complex in Luxor. But in terms of direct operational contact with the

Islamic State in the northern Sinai, no it's relatively little.

His -- as I said, his main activities have been along the Nile valley, not in

the Sinai.

ASHER: And Ben, if a terrorist group did bring down this jet using a bomb on board, are we any closer to figuring out how might they have done

it?

WEDEMAN: Well, if you speak to Egyptian investigators, they're still very tight-lipped. They insist that they're looking at all possible

scenarios. They haven't necessarily ruled out the possibility of an explosive device on that

airplane. But certainly if you watch and listen to the Egyptian media, it's more likely from their perspective some sort of foreign conspiracy

rather than a possible explosive device.

The Egyptian investigators are saying that they are not going to make any definitive pronouncements until this investigation is over. And that,

Zain, could be months.

ASHER: Of course.

And you're in Cairo there. I mean, how great is the fear there in the capital about possible economic repercussions after this crash?

WEDEMAN: Those fears are profound, keeping in mind, for instance, that the tourism industry makes up about 11 percent of the Egyptian

economy, 20 percent of its hard currency earnings. And, therefore, yes, if tourism takes a nose-dive, and all indications is it is going to suffer as

a result of this plane crash, this will mean a real trouble for the Egyptian economy.

It never recovered from the revolution in January 2011. For instance, in 2010, 14.7 million tourists came to Egypt. That was the last year of

relative quiet and stability. This year, it appeared that tourism was beginning to pick up, but I suspect that the rest of the year will be a

fairly grim one. So for many people who live off of tourism, even if they don't make an awful lot of money, this

particular incident is definitely a very sad chapter for Egypt.

ASHER: Yes, certainly a game-changer. Ben Wedeman live for us there in Cairo, thank you so much.

I want to take you now back to our top story, the fallout from a report that rocked the sporting world and shone a spotlight not just on

Russia's record in athletes but also the role of the sport's governing body one day after an anti-doping panel alleged widespread state-sponsored

doping in Russian athletics. The head of the anti-doping body there says that his country is on the path to addressing its issues.

But there are also questions about how such alleged widespread cheating could happen under the nose of athletics governing body.

For more now, I'm joined now by Professor Arne Ljungqvist, a former vice president of the World Anti-Doping Agency, the body whose report has

caused such a stir. He joins me from Lausanne in Switzerland.

So, this level of systematic state-sponsored doping that corruption that

Russia is accused of, Arne, how do you go about rooting it out?

ARNE LJUNGQVIST, FRM. VICE PRESIDENT WORLD ANTI-DOPING AGENCY: That's a good question, of course. But because this is probably and unfortunately

a fairly deeply rooted culture that has been there for quite a while. I have personally seen it there and understood that something was going on,

which should not go on. We got some confirmation already before the Beijing games. And now we have acts before us which are very disturbing.

And these are matters that are difficult to identify when it goes on. It reminds me of the old days back in 1980s when East Germany had a state-

run program for it which they concealed very cleverly and was not opened up until after the fall of the Berlin wall as you remember.

So these are very cleverly concealed happenings that are ongoing and it's fortunate that WADA got a whistleblower that could tell them that

something was going on that they should investigate.

ASHER: And in terms of some of the reactions that we've gotten from Russia, the Kremlin has called this report basically groundless. What

happens if Russia refuses to volunteer to agree to changes?

LJUNGQVIST: Well, I don't think they will, because WADA is afterall an organization that is worldwide, known as a very credible body. The

Russian, like other federations and a national bodies have signed the contract with WADA which obliged them to follow the WADA code. And if they

are not complying with the code, they will be held and course there will be serious consequences. And it's in their own interests to join, to continue

to be a WADA member and to fulfill the obligations that they have according to that contract.

ASHER: So it's in their interests, of course, to implement the changes. But aside from Russia, what do you think the fallout will be long

term? I mean, is this investigation going to expand to include other countries? And if so, what will the ramification of that be?

LJUNGQVIST: I would guess, but this is assumption more or less that something has been discovered now that should not have happened and that is

in Russia. And I believe that there could be a good for going into look whether there is something that happens in other sports in Russia. So,

it's -- rather than expanding it on the international level to other countries because there is obviously not present today any evidence that

should trigger a sort of expansion in that sense.

But I remember in 2009, for instance, there was a similar incident with respect to the Russian biathlon federation just before the South

Korean world championships in 2009 and some Russian athletes had to be sent home.

[11:40:02] ASHER: Certainly the ramifications and the implications could be far reaching especially because we have the 2016 Olympics in Rio

next year. Arne, thank you so much. We appreciate it.

LJUNGQVIST: Thank you.

ASHER: Live from CNN Center, this is Connect the World. Coming up, their battle isn't over yet. What's next for the students who spurred

change at an American university amid growing racial tensions?

Plus, this painting becomes the second most expensive work ever sold at auction and it joins a very exclusive group. We'll show you some other

members of the nine-figure club. That's coming up.

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ASHER: You're watching CNN and this is Connect the World. I'm Zain Asher, welcome back.

The power of protest is on full display at an American university rocked by racial unrest. The president and chancellor of the University of

Missouri resigned Monday over their handling of several racial incidents on campus. Student activists had called for the sweeping leadership changes,

but they say their fight is far from over.

Here's our Stephanie Elam with more.

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STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This morning students at the University of Missouri are waking up to a massive shakeup, one that

activists say is just the beginning of change. The university system president and the school's chancellor ousted amid racial tensions and weeks

of student-led protests.

TIM WOLFE, FORMER UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI PRESIDENT: Please use this resignation to heal, not to hate.

MARSHAL ALLEN, CONCERNED STUDENT 1950: This is just the beginning in aiding and dismantling system of oppression within higher education,

specifically the UM system.

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ELAM: Effectively immediately, the resignation of university president Tim Wolfe who some say failed to adequately address several hate crimes on

Mizzou's campus.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We didn't respond or react.

[11:45:02] ELAM: Wolfe striking a different tone than the one captured in this tense exchange with students.

WOLFE: Systemic oppression is because you don't believe you have the equal opportunity for success.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Did you just blame us for...

ELAM: Even some long-time faculty say racism has been a problem on campus for years.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I have been called the "n" word too many times to talk about it on camera and to write them all out.

ELAM: Tensions reaching a boiling point around mid-September after the student body president posted of Facebook that he was called the "n" word,

something that happened, he wrote, multiple times on campus. Then in mid- October, a swastika painted in feces inside one of the residence halls. By November second graduate student Jonathan Butler launching a hunger strike,

pledging not to eat until Tim Wolfe resigned.

JONATHAN BUTLER, STUDENT ACTIVIST: A lot of people know how corrupt the system is and they thought I was going to die from day one from the

moment I made my announcement. People thought I was a dead man walking.

ELAM: The football team and their coach also vowing to stay off the field until Wolfe agreed to step down.

GARY PINKEL, MISSOURI HEAD FOOTBALL COACH: A young man's life was on the line, and basically that's what it came down to.

ELAM: Stephanie Elam, CNN, Columbia, Missouri.

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ASHER: Certainly lots to discuss here.

Joining me now live from the University of Missouri campus is associate professor Stephani Shonekan. She's with the department of music

and black studies.

So, Stephanie, thank you so much for being with us.

To begin with, as an African-American professor at this school, I want to start by hearing your experiences working on this campus.

STEPHANIE SHONEKAN, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI: Well, that's actually a really interesting question because I'm actually not technically

African-American, but in this country because of the color of my skin, I am seen as African-American. And that's okay...

ASHER: Where are you from?

SHONEKAN: I am originally from Nigeria and Trinidad.

ASHER: OK.

I'm Nigerian as well.

But as a black woman at the campus, just talk to me about what it's like for you.

SHONEKAN: It's a situation that I had noticed as soon as I arrived on campus. I've been here for about four-and-a-half years. And before this,

I worked in Chicago. And so I wasn't quite prepared for the level of racism that my students told me about as soon as I arrived.

And so for the last four-and-a-half years been hearing lots of anecdotes, lots of stories from students. And so the question of how it

feels to be a black woman to be a black faculty on this campus, I would say that the first thing -- my first response is, what does it feel like to

have so many students who have to go through this on a daily basis -- that's a pretty difficult

thing and it's a heavy burden for those of us -- very few black faculty on this campus who sort of mentor our students through all of this.

But I want to also mention that what we've seen in the last couple of days is a reflection of the students. It's the students that came

together, particularly the black students. There was a lot of leadership among the students to draw attention to this issue. And the faculty I

would say were a bit late to the program. But we got there. And we supported, but really it was the students. I can mention many names of

students who have worked really hard over the last, I would say two years, to get this done.

ASHER: Stephanie, I also want to get your reaction to the fact that the school president and the

school chancellor have just resigned because obviously that may be a sort of coup or a win for the students who were protesting, but that doesn't

necessarily mean there's no more racism. What sort of changes do you want to see implemented in the school there?

SHONEKAN: Yes, you're absolutely right. I mean, these two positions and the turnover has been -- have been, I think, two steps in the direction

that the students want to see them go. What the students are looking for is change. And we're not talking about just a nod, we're looking for real

substantial, comprehensive change. So that the students would think it's a good idea to draw an image of the swastika in feces on a dorm wall, would

understand that that is something that in 2015 is no longer allowed.

So as faculty, what we're looking for is a real determined effort that is intentional to install in our curriculum, classes and courses that make

our students and our faculty and our staff and our community that have them really engage with this issue.

For -- as I said, for about two years, the students have been bringing this up. And one of the reasons why it got to this stage with the

chancellor and president stepping down is because those -- the administration turned their eyes away from what the students were trying to

draw attention to.

So, we need to get to a stage where we don't wait for a hunger strike, we don't wait for football

players, we pay attention and we trust that what our students are telling us is correct.

So we need to do several things. We should be testing our climate here. We should be talking to all our students. We shouldn't let the

students who call Peyton Head or anybody the "n" word. We shouldn't let that happen. And we shouldn't let those students get away with it. We

should actually find those students and reprimand them.

Also we should teach our students that that's not okay in 2015. So we need comprehensive steps that are meaningful, not just nods because that's

what the students don't want to see anymore. We don't want any more of that.

ASHER: Right. And of course not just words as well, you want to see real action, especially from any president that is coming in.

Stephanie Shonekan, thank you so much. It's been a pleasure having you on the show. Thank you. Good luck.

SHONEKAN: Thank you. Thank you very much.

ASHER: Live from CNN Center, this is Connect the World. Coming up, smashing artistic

barriers at a record-breaking auction. We'll show you the painting that has just sold for, get this, over $170 million. That's next.

But first, can you spell champion? That word is worth 17 points in Scabble, but for this man it means a whole lot more. Find out why just

ahead.

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ASHER: If you think you're pretty good with words, here's one for you, what does Dacoit mean? A Dacoit -- it's just given away on our screen

there -- it's a gang of armed robbers, mainly in South Asia. Never got that, here's another one. What about the word aah. You might use it in a

few second when I give you the answer. Of course, Aah is a word used as an expression of surprise, obviously, as in aah, now I understand.

Well, one person who made good use of both those words is Nigeria's Wellington Jighere. He won the world Scrabble championship with them.

Jighere is the first ever African to win the tournament defeating Britain's Lewis McKay (ph) in the final final in Australia. And he certainly got a

lot of high praise for it.

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has graduated him on the win and Wellington took to his Facebook page to mention where his inspiration came

from saying, quote, it was a battle between one man and a whole continent.

That's Wellington Jighere, the new world Scrabble champion.

And in tonight's Parting Shots, the breathtaking beauty of one of the most expensive pieces of art ever sold at auction.

Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani painted this oil called "Reclining Nude," way back in 1917, a work considered to be his best nude and by some

his best painting ever.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: sold here 1561.

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ASHER: Almost a century later, it has just sold to a Chinese collector for a sum of $170 million. And that includes fees as well

joining the small club of just ten artworks worldwide that have sold for more than nine figures at auction.

Modigliani's masterpiece is in good company among other woks that smashed artistic convention and commercial records. The most expensive

painting ever to go under the hammer was Pablo Picasso's cubist "Women of Algiers," which sold in May for more than $179 million.

Before that, a triptych by Irish-born artist Francis Bacon topped the list. Here's one of those paintings right here, you can see, the whole

work sold for $142 million at an auction just a couple of years ago in 2013.

But many of the most sought-after masterpieces never even making it to the major auction houses. The card players by Paul Cezanne was reportedly

sold privately to the state of Qatar for staggering sum of between $250 million and $300 million.

That does it for me. I'm Zain Asher. That's Connect the World. Thank you so much for watching.

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