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CNN International: Russia: Killing of Kirillov in Moscow a "Terrorist Act"; Western Officials: Russia has Begun Large-Scale Military Withdrawal from Syria; Conspiracy Theories Abound Over Drone Sightings in U.S.; Trump Hosts Procession to Top Executives at Mar-a-Lago; Stowaway Gets Caught Again Trying to Leave U.S. Aired 9-9:45a ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, it's 08:00 a.m. in Madison, Wisconsin, where police just named a 15-year-old female as the

suspect in a deadly school shooting on Monday. It is 06:00 p.m. in Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson, welcome. You're watching "Connect the World".

Also coming up, a top Russian general killed in Moscow. New details on who may be behind that attack just ahead. Plus, the drone mystery continues

with U.S. National Security experts batting down conspiracy theories. And back in custody, a woman who stowed away on a flight from New York to Paris

is caught again trying to flee to Canada.

Well, the stock market in New York will open about 30 minutes from now. Indices somewhat searching for direction this Tuesday, traders waiting for

news on the central bank's next rate cut that decision at the back end of the Fed's two-day meeting, which starts today. More on those markets when

they open at 09:30 New York time.

First up though, we begin with a top Russian general assassinated in Moscow. Igor Kirillov was killed early on Tuesday by remote control bomb

which exploded outside an apartment building not far from the Kremlin. Kirillov's assistant was also killed, and the blast left considerable

damage.

Now, a source tells CNN, Ukraine was behind the attack. Considering him a legitimate target because of his alleged use of chemical weapons in

Ukraine. Well, Russia calling this a terrorist act. CNN's Fred Pleitgen is in Moscow, and he spoke to my colleague Max Foster a little earlier from

the scene.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We are actually at the scene of where this explosion took place, and the Russians are

saying this happened in the early morning hours of today, as the general and an aide to the general were leaving that building, I'm going to get out

of your way and you can see the actual scene of where all of this took place.

And you already mentioned that the entrance to that building where all this happens, the second entrance down from here, was badly damaged in that

explosion. The Russians are indeed saying that they believe that the explosive device was hidden in an electric scooter park right outside that

building, and that there were about 300 grams of TNT inside that explosive device.

They have already said that they found remnants of that explosive device. And one of the other things that they said as well is that they believe

that it was detonated remotely. Now we do know at this point in time, Max, that the Ukrainian security services have claimed responsibility for this.

A source saying that to CNN that Ukrainian security services were behind this. The explosion, despite the fact that 300 grams of TNT might not sound

like very much, seems to have been substantial. We can see that there's a lot of workers here on the ground.

Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on the ground. Some others have cordoned off the area. But one of the other things that we're

seeing as well, Max, if we pan over to the other side, is that the explosion was so strong that it damaged the building on the other side of

the road.

You can see there that windows have been smashed by this explosion that took place. There was an eye witness report that we have seen some of them

on Russian media saying that they thought that maybe some sort of cement truck had unloaded a lot of cement, or what, something very heavy had

fallen down on the ground.

So clearly, the people who live in this area very much heard this explosion as it took place. Of course, at the beginning, not exactly clear of what it

might have been. The Russians have launched a criminal investigation into all this. You can see the investigators, and we've seen the investigators

on the ground here, not just civilian investigators are from the police authorities, but also military investigators as well.

Of course, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, very important for the Russian military, very high up in the Russian military. He was the head of Russia's

nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, and the Ukrainians had actually indicted him in absentia. Just yesterday, the Ukrainian Security

Services accusing the Russians of using weaponized chemicals in the war in Ukraine.

Igor Kirillov, for his part in the past, had accused the Ukrainians of doing the exact same thing. So certainly, someone who was on the forefront

as far as that conflict between Ukraine and Russia is concerned, and someone who the Russians, of course, for their military, was extremely

important.

ANDERSON: Well, that's Fred Pleitgen reporting from Moscow.

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Clare Sebastian has herself reported extensively from Russia. She joins us now, live from London. Clare, let's just do a bit of a deep dive here. Just

how rare is an attack like this in Moscow?

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Becky, it's pretty rare, and I'll get to that in a second, but we have seen recently a bit of an uptick. But

first I want to bring you a video that CNN has obtained from a source with knowledge of the operation. This shows the moments just before the blast.

You can see two people emerging from that building.

The source has told us that one of those was Kirillov. Now we're not showing the moment of the explosion. You can simply see the dashboard here,

but I don't know if we can play that again. And you can see, just by the lamp post, just next to that doorway, is something that looks like a

scooter.

We know from Russian media reports that there was a bomb, they say, hidden in a scooter, which was responsible for this attack. So, I think what this

video shows us is a real sense of this being a targeted killing someone obviously watching, monitoring. We have heard reports from Russian state

media that this was a remotely detonated device.

So that speaks to the sophistication and, of course, the ambition here, of targeting someone at such a high level. But as I mentioned, we have seen

recently an increase in this. There has been, in fact, we believe four. This is the fourth incident in two months where Ukraine has directly or

indirectly admitted responsibility for the assassination of a military figure in Russia or in Crimea.

In the case of one of them, there was a pilot with the 52nd heavy bomber regiment in Bryansk in late October, then a senior official with the Black

Sea Fleet in November. And just last week, a top designer with a Russian sort of military industrial company believed by Ukrainian source with the

security services to be responsible for upgrading cruise missiles used on Ukraine.

So, this the fourth such incident. This is the highest-ranking military official that we've seen targeted, and I think look clearly in the context

of this war, as the clock ticks down to Donald Trump taking up the U.S. presidency for the second time, questions around military aid. And Russia

still inching forward on the Eastern Front, it speaks to Ukraine's rush here to use any means they can to seize the initiative.

ANDERSON: Yeah. And what about Kirillov's use of chemical weapons in Ukraine? Those are allegations. How credible are they?

SEBASTIAN: Yeah, they are credible. Becky, we have done our own reporting on this. CNN's correspondents have been to the front line, spoken to

medics, spoken to people who have survived gas attacks, and you know the CNN, the Ukrainian security services only yesterday, on Monday, indicted

Kirillov charged him in absentia with war crimes, they say, for the widespread use of chemical substances.

Just to be clear, here we're talking in various incidents CNN's reported CS gas, riot agents like that on the front lines. He's also been sanctioned by

the U.K. for the use of these sort of riot agents, these choking substances. The U.S. has also sanctioned Russia for the use of these.

So, they are credible. He is seen as the guy, essentially, who gave the orders to use these substances against Ukrainian military.

ANDERSON: Clare Sebastian, it was good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Meantime, Russia has begun a large-scale military withdrawal from

Syria. U.S. and Western officials tell CNN, they say it began last week, and that it is not clear whether it will be permanent.

All the while, Syria's new leaders continue their push for international legitimacy. The Rebel Leader Mohammed Al Jolani, seen here last week, met

with British officials in Damascus on Monday, his message, lift the sanctions on Syria. Well, Dareen Khalifa is a Senior Adviser the

International Crisis Group.

She joins me now from Cairo, and it is good to have you. Syria's new regime on a mission to gain international legitimacy as you assess the situation.

Do you believe it's looking somewhat successful at this point?

DAREEN KHALIFA, SENIOR ADVISOR OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP: Well, thank you so much for having me, Becky. Well, so far, it's been a flurry of

diplomatic engagement. It really extended my expectations in terms of, well, the profile of Westerners showing up to Damascus, but also how many

of them have been showing up.

I think someone assessed the diplomatic engagement HTS has had in the last few days is as much as the Taliban had in months. So, it's pretty

impressive what they've been able to do so far.

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ANDERSON: At the heart of this push is an appeal to get sanctions on the country lifted, to get this country up and running again, to get things

flowing in and out of the country. How likely do you believe that will be sanctions from the U.S., other Western countries?

And you know, we've seen the re-engagement, not just with Assad, but with these new leaders by the Gulf, for example. How do you assess what's going

on there, starting with these sanctions?

KHALIFA: Well, it's a very complicated issue, because Syria is under a complex web of sanctions by the U.S., the U.N. and European countries.

There are sanctions that were imposed on the former regime Bashar Al Assad's regime. There are foreign terrorist designation sanctions that are

imposed on the new leaders in Damascus.

So, it really depends on which sanctions we're talking about, but what we're seeing now is parallel conversations on what conditions can be put

forward in order to assess if and when these sanctions could be lifted. So, the U.S. is considering lifting the terrorist designation sanctions on Abu

Mohammed Jolani himself, but on his group, Hayat Tahrir Al Sham.

But they're also rightfully so, thinking about what conditions need to be met by the group in order for the U.S. to consider lifting these sanctions.

And I think that's incredibly important, because rushing to remove these sanctions without putting forward clear benchmarks to what needs to happen

in the transition, I think might backfire.

So, it is key that the West and the U.S. in particular, clarify what is it that they expect to see in these upcoming months. And it's also key that

the Biden Administration coordinates with the Trump Administration on these conditions. So, we don't see them coming in and kind of to beating all of

the efforts that are being done at the moment.

ANDERSON: CNN getting source reporting that Russia is withdrawing its military presence. Now, if that is the case, it will take some time. We've

seen the withdrawal of effectively Iran with its support for Assad. We've seen the removal of Assad. We see a lot of other countries now taking a

very, you know, visible interest in what happens next.

This is a seminal moment, not just for Syria and Syrians, but we start there, of course. I mean, this is now a country that has the opportunity to

be run by Syrians, for themselves, but a real impact on what happens around this region of the wider Middle East, and I include the Gulf where I am

here. How do you see the severs of influence at this point shaping up?

KHALIFA: Right. I think we are in a very different moment in -- not just in Syria, but the Levant and the whole region. We've obviously seen Turkey and

Qatar be the first countries that showed up in Damascus. We all expect Turkey to have much greater influence over all of Syria. To be fair, Turkey

had a lot of influence over northern Syria.

The last few years they've been really -- country that's been making or breaking any cease fire arrangement in the country. I think they're going

to have way more influence moving forward. So that, I don't think there's anything to be done about that, and it could be also ushered in a

constructive way. Countries like Qatar and some other Gulf countries as well can play a key role in the reconstruction aspects of this new phase of

Syria.

But then again, the U.S. and the West can be incredibly constructive or obstructive in the next phase, in the sense that if they maintain the --

sanctions we spoke about earlier, without kind of thinking, having a forward leaning approach towards how they're going to lift them, what

leverage they're going to exert, what can they extract?

I think they can really be obstructive to the reconstruction of Syria. Now, if there's a change in mindset, and if they realize that these sanctions

should not be punitive measures for life, and they are a policy tool towards behavioral change, they can use it towards that, and then they can

also have their positive influence over the future of Syria.

But in all cases, I don't think we're going to see anything that looked like the last five decades of serious history in which Iran had the upper

hand over Damascus, not just militarily, but economically and politically. I think that era is done.

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ANDERSON: Yeah, I'll close this out by just reporting that as we look at Syria's new chapter of advocacy, a new chapter an advocacy group now says

hundreds of thousands of bodies could be buried in Syrian mass graves. We are learning so much more, of course, about what Syria and Syrians have

been through over not just this past 13 years, but as you rightly point out, the past five decades under the Assad dictatorship, stroke dynasty.

Dareen, it's really good to have you. Thank you very much indeed, Dareen Khalifa. Well elsewhere in the region, a source tells me an Israeli

technical team are in Doha for meetings with Qatari mediators about a Gaza hostage cease fire deal. I'm told the terms of the proposal are much the

same as the one put forth by President Joe Biden earlier this year, back in May.

But with Israeli forces, this time likely to stay in Gaza temporarily in the Philadelphia net serene corridors when phase one of this deal was to

start. I'm talking parameters here. Nothing has been as we understand it. Signed off on at this point, Israel's presence in Gaza and the control of

those corridors has been a major sticking point in numerous talks, so far.

Well, new details are emerging about America's latest school shooting that has left two people dead and six others wounded in Madison, Wisconsin.

Police now say that the shooter in Monday's deadly incident was a 15-year- old female student named Natalie Rupnow who died after reportedly shooting herself at the Abundant Life Christian School.

There is no word yet on a motive for the attack, but authorities are investigating a possible manifesto. The suspect's home is also being

searched, and we are told her parents are cooperating with the investigation. Well, let's get you straight to CNN's Whitney Wild, who

joins us from Madison.

And I've detailed the sort of you know what we know to date. What more can you tell us about the about the suspect's background and these ongoing

police investigation?

WHITNEY WILD, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, this is a very active investigation, and at this point, they say that the family is

cooperating. What they're doing right now is trying to work backward from the incident and try to figure out what was leading up to this.

And to do that, law enforcement is combing a digital footprint, as you mentioned, they are aware, they say of some kind of manifesto or a letter

that was reportedly circulated by someone who claims to be her friend. Law enforcement has not been able to identify or make any contact with that

person.

Moving forward, Becky, the big questions are, how did this 15-year-old obtain the handgun she used to kill two other people and sent several

others to the hospital. Law enforcement does not yet have an answer on that. They say that they are working to figure out who the gun belongs to

and how she got it.

What we do know is that there is a pretty specific time line that was outlined yesterday. This started at 10:57, when crushingly, Becky, a second

grader in another classroom called 911, to report the shooting. Law enforcement says this was confined to one room. It was confined to a study

hall where a mix of students had gathered.

They say that a full-time teacher was killed. As you mentioned, a teenage student was killed. What we know is that a substitute teacher was also

injured. Sadly, there were several children, again, including that second grader who called 911 who heard this shooting unfold. Here's what they

said.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We heard them. And then some people started fine, and then she waited till the police came. And then the export of South was

scared. Why did they do that?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was getting ready for lunch, so it was basically lunch time and then I just heard sodding, and there was a teacher, and she

was going to be like, ah, my leg, help, help.

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WILD: It's just so hard to hear those little kids describe what they heard, Becky. Again, there are so many questions to answer, but we have learned a

lot more about the school's protocol as well. What they said was that they did not have metal detectors, they did not have a school resource officer,

but they did have video surveillance that the doors were automatically locked from the outside, as well as during a lockdown.

Our understanding is that this student was at school at the time, so it doesn't appear that there was any kind of breach, or, you know, any way

that the student would have broken in. I mean, the student went to school as if it was a normal day.

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Further, Becky, we've learned that this school was able to use a Department of Justice grant to shore up their school security. And in doing that, they

were able to upload blueprints of the school, so that when police arrived and they arrived, Becky, within three minutes to the school.

They, in that instant, had the blueprints of the school, making it much easier and much more efficient and precise to work through that school.

Within minutes of arriving, they were able to alert that the shooter was down and begin life-saving efforts, Becky.

ANDERSON: Some small mercies, but you're absolutely right to point out listening to those kids is just it's harrowing. It's absolutely harrowing.

Whitney, it's good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Well, still to come. Drone drama, the questions keep being asked about unexplained

sightings in the skies over the states. The White House says, right now they see nothing nefarious so what gives. More on that after this.

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ANDERSON: Well, happening today a possible step towards clarifying what has been hovering in the skies over parts of the Eastern and Midwestern U.S.

for weeks now. In a few hours from now, the U.S. House Intelligence Committee is set to receive a briefing on this recent drone activity.

Now, the FBI has been combing through more than 5000 tips about these sightings. White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby says

officials are following up on about 100 of them, though none appear to be illegal. Kirby told CNN last hour, the federal government has tried to be

as transparent as possible, but also says he doesn't believe people are over reacting to what they've seen.

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JOHN KIRBY, WHITE HOUSE NATIONAL SECURITY COMMUNICATIONS ADVISER: People are right to see these things and be concerned about it. I mean, I think

what you're seeing honestly is the huge ecosystem of drones now really coming to light. I mean, maybe people just didn't appreciate how many of

these things are flying in U.S. air space every single day, and it's only going to get more.

There's other -- the numbers are only going to increase as the utility of these drones for commercial and law enforcement purposes in particular,

become apparent. And that's why we're calling for more authorities from Congress. We need some legislative authorities to deal with the gaps and

seems that exist between state officials and the federal government and how we manage this air space, which is only going to get more crowded.

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ANDERSON: Well, while the Biden Administration insists this drone activity, then does not pose a national security threat. Conspiracy theories continue

over the recent sighting. CNN's Pete Muntean has more.

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PETE MUNTEAN, CNN AVIATION CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Drone hysteria is soaring as federal authorities are scrambling to tamp down false alarms

reading conspiracy theories online.

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Panning the latest fears, reports of unmanned aerial systems over secure Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All aircraft use extreme caution. Patterson class delta is now closed for heavy UAS activity.

MUNTEAN (voice-over): Pentagon officials now say the Ohio case is not connected to possible drone sightings in a half dozen states. Even still,

President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago doubled down on conspiracy theories after Alex Jones and Joe Rogan amplified claims that drones over

New Jersey are looking for a stolen dirty bomb.

DONALD TRUMP (R), FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT AND CURRENT PRESIDENTIAL-ELECT: Something strange is going on. For some reason they don't want to tell the

people.

MUNTEAN (voice-over): Federal Aviation rules allow drones to fly legally, so long as they stay below 400 feet and away from airports, airplanes and

stadiums. Biden Administration officials tell CNN that of the almost 1 million drones registered in the U.S. 8000 might be flying at any one given

time.

And quote, we haven't seen evidence of anything non-compliant. But that has not stopped lawmakers from demanding new technology to help detect hostile

drones. Defense officials now confirm to CNN, that the government is sending drone tracking systems to a pair of military installations in New

Jersey.

SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER (D-NY): If the technology exists for a drone to make it up into the sky, there certainly is the technology that can track the craft

with precision and determine what the heck is going on.

MUNTEAN (voice-over): New Jersey's Governor Phil Murphy says he has been briefed by the FBI, now that it and the Department of Homeland Security say

most cases of possible drones are in fact, manned aircraft. Science writer Mick West is debunking purported drone videos online.

New Jersey air space is some of the busiest in the country, with video surfacing from under New York, Teterboro and New York flight paths.

MICK WEST, WRITER AND UAP ANALYST: You get the details, the date, the time and the location. You can actually look up what was in the sky at that

point and look at what direction they were looking in, and you can see that it was actually just a plane.

MUNTEAN (on camera): The FBI says it's taken in about 5000 tips of reported drone sightings since this frenzy began, but is deemed only about 100 of

those legitimate enough for any follow up. This fixation on drones is also causing a concern for commercial flights.

There's video surfacing online of flights being hit by laser pointers from the ground. It could temporarily blind pilots and can lead to a massive

fine from the FAA. The FAA says it's investigating such incidents in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Pete Muntean, CNN, Washington.

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ANDERSON: Well, staying state side and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity does not protect Donald Trump from his felony

conviction in that hush money case. Now that is what the judge in the case decided on Monday, rejecting a motion by Trump's lawyers to dismiss the

guilty verdict on those 34 counts of falsifying business records.

New York Judge Juan Merchan said evidence presented by prosecutors in the case was not related to Trump's official conduct as president. And he has

yet to rule on a motion from Trump's attorneys to dismiss the conviction, because Trump has now been re-elected president.

Well, you're watching "Connect the World". I'm Becky Anderson for 27 minutes, or just 28 minutes half past 6 here, now in Abu Dhabi, just before

half past 9 on the East Coast. And some of the richest and most influential people on the planet paying court to the next President of the United

States, having a chat at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate is taking on a whole new meaning.

And also ahead, a stowaway busted trying to leave the U.S., despite already facing charges and having an ankle monitor. Bit of a Deja vu on this. One

more on that after this.

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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. You are watching "Connect the World". Excuse me. U.S. Fed policymakers kicking off what is a

two-day meeting on interest rates. And traders sort of kicking their heels ahead of that, that decision on rates will be important.

This is what the markets look like on the opening. They've only been open, of course, for a minute or so. So still settling, but no clear direction.

And we could suggest they are selling off just little bit, but we'll wait for those markets to settle off, while the chiefs of the Fed meet in

Washington, billionaires and big head is in business lining up to see the next president in Florida vying for Donald Trump's attention.

In the coming hours, Trump set to meet with the Head of Netflix Ted Sarandos, then Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos, expected to visit Trump at his

Mar-a-Lago club on Wednesday. Recent guests have included Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple Chief Tim Cook and the Head of TikTok Shou Chew.

Well CNN's Alayna Treene joining us now from West Beach -- West Palm Beach in Florida. Look in 2016, these billionaires and tech Titans, they

protested Donald Trump eight years in. This is a completely different story. They are flocking to Florida. You could argue these are courtesy

calls. Blah, these guests now is it clear looking for something more than a handshake?

ALAYNA TREENE, CNN REPORTER: So, Becky, when I actually just got off the phone with a Trump Adviser this morning asking them that same question,

what I was told is that so far, the majority of these meetings are more introductory. They're more friendly visits trying to really carve this new

relationship with Donald Trump in the weeks before he is sworn in to office.

Now, of course, though, looking ahead and longer term, there is going to be some sort of expectation that these relationships will benefit them in the

future. I note that you know, for example, Apple CEO Tim Cook, one of the things that he's talked about with Donald Trump, even before they met last

week, was the fact that European regulators are really cracking down on the App Store.

And this is something that Donald Trump and Tim Cook have discussed. I'm told that also came up during that Friday meeting. So that's just one

example of potentially how Donald Trump's influence as the incoming President of the United States could potentially benefit these different

tech leaders.

But also, to say, I mean, you mentioned this specifically the relationship and the friendlier tone that we're seeing from these tech giants toward

Donald Trump. But also, from Donald Trump toward these different CEOs, is a notably and markedly different kind of tone than we saw during his first

term.

You know, for example, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, him and Donald Trump had a very hostile relationship during Donald Trump's first administration,

with Trump repeatedly accusing him, but also other tech CEOs, of censoring conservatives. He also, at times, claimed that they were in part

responsible for why he lost the 2020 election, something they of course, denied.

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But again, just to show you how far they have come to seeing these kinds of friendly meetings and this procession of different business leaders flying

down to Florida to meet one on one with Donald Trump. Now the president elect himself actually addressed that kind of change in tone during a news

conference yesterday. I want to take a listen to what he said.

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TRUMP: I had dinner with sort of almost all of them, and the rest are coming. And this is one of the big differences, I think, between we were

talking about it before, one of the big differences between the first term. In the first term, everybody was fighting me, and this term, everybody

wants to be my friend. I don't know, my personality changed or something.

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TREENE: So, as you could hear from Donald Trump himself, these meetings are definitely taking on a friendlier tone and really noting a change in the

relationships that he had had with these different leaders previously, as they kind of try to set the stage for better relations in over the next

four years.

ANDERSON: Fascinating, isn't it? And more to come. It's good to have you, Alayna. Thank you, Alayna Treene on the story for us. Still to come, Rome

may be the capital of Italy, but when it comes to football, Inter Milan, show why they are champions.

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ANDERSON: Well, they say, if you don't succeed, try again, or at least that's what a Russian stowaway attempted to before getting caught for the

second time on Monday. Law enforcement sources say she attempted to sneak onto a Canada bound bus from the United States.

Svetlana Dali was already facing charges after slipping by security and hitching a ride on a flight from New York to Paris. CNN's Randi Kaye has

the details for you.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Busted again this time Svetlana Dali was traveling by bus. Just last month, she had stowed away on a Delta

flight from JFK Airport in New York to Paris. A law enforcement source tells CNN, Dali had managed to cut off her ankle monitor on Sunday and was

taken into custody while on a Greyhound Bus bound for Canada. Multiple law enforcement told CNN.

That was Dali last month, the first-time authorities tried to return the 57-year-old Russian national and a U.S. permanent resident to the United

States from Paris. She created such a disturbance Delta kicked her off the New York bound flight.

GARY TREICHLER, DELTA PASSENGER: What I saw was basically this lady that was progressively getting more and more irate and raising her voice louder

and louder.

KAYE (voice-over): Earlier this month, another attempt to bring her back to the United States was successful. Dali sat in the back of the aircraft and

was flanked by two French security officials the entire flight to JFK.

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A week and a half ago, Dali was charged in federal court with one count of being a stowaway on a vessel or aircraft without consent. Among other

things, the judge ordered Dali to wear an ankle bracelet with a GPS monitor surrender any travel documents, and told her she cannot go to airports or

leave the area where she is staying.

That includes, of course, jumping on a gray hound bus to Canada. Dali had been staying with her roommate, a law enforcement source told CNN. Her

roommate reported her missing after he saw her GPS ankle bracelet on the floor. Randi Kaye, CNN, Palm Beach County, Florida.

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ANDERSON: Well, describing what happened to Italian football club Lazio last night as a defeat. Well, that's two-mile, defending champions Inter

Milan walked all over their rivals and scored so many goals. Well, it's kind of embarrassing. Six-nil is hard to swallow with good grace, but that

is the -- what happened in Syria. Inter in such good form. Carolyn Manno joining me now, Carolyn.

CAROLYN MANNO, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Becky, great way to put it. I mean, it's safe to describe it as a historic defeat, because that's exactly

what it was. Inter Milan handing the Rome club their biggest ever home defeat in Syria. There's just something about these two teams.

I guess, because Lazio's biggest Syria defeats have all come against Inter. There was an 8-1 match in 1934, there was a seven-nil match in 1961, those

defeats coming in Milan. But some consolation, perhaps said, the scores are getting a little bit lower, but a big win for Inter as they try and keep

pace at the top of the table set to be a thrilling second half of the season in Italy. We'll have more coming up on "World Sport", Becky.

ANDERSON: Yeah, can't wait. Carolyn, thank you for that. "World Sport" is up after this short break. We are back in 15 minutes time with the second

hour of "Connect the World" with CNN.

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