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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: This is the border with Gaza and Israel. Overnight, an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza killed
at least 20 people, including four journalists. It is 04:00 p.m. there. It is 05:00 p.m. here in Abu Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson, you're watching
"Connect the World" from our Middle East programming headquarters.
Also coming up, U.S. President Trump, meeting with South Korea's President in the coming hours, with the country's military alliance leading the
agenda. Meanwhile, the U.S. Defense Secretary orders National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C. to carry weapons as the White House expands
its anti-crime agenda.
And Russia's Vladimir Putin gearing up for a four-day trip to China, where economic ties and Western sanctions are very likely to be the focus. Stock
market in New York opens about 30 minutes from now, and if the futures market is any indication, looks as if it's going to be a slightly weaker
start to this trading week.
More on that at the bottom of the hour, 09:30 Eastern Time, New York time, of course. We start with the latest Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital.
Well, dual strikes on the Nasser medical complex in Khan Yunis killed at least 20 people, including journalists, according to Gaza health officials.
This video showing the chaos in the aftermath of the first strike. Now the IDF claiming it, quote, does not target journalists as such, and saying the
military chief has instructed an inquiry into the attack. Israel also striking targets in Yemen after Houthi rebels there fired a new type of
missile at Israel.
Paula Hancocks following developments for us here in Abu Dhabi, and she joins me now live. Let's start with the hospital strike. What more do we
know about that?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, this was a double strike by Israel on the Nasser hospital. This is in Khan Yunis. It's in the southern
part of the Gaza Strip. Now we know that after that first strike targeted the fourth floor of the hospital. We understand that there were emergency
workers, health workers and journalists who all rushed to the scene.
Now we have footage that we see. It was also played on live television, showing those individuals on a damaged staircase trying to retrieve
casualties, one holding up a damaged video camera to show the journalists presence and then just minutes later, there was a second strike.
Now we understand that this was more deadly than the first, and this is the one that did kill many journalists and emergency workers who were on the
scene at the time, at least four journalists have been killed. They were really the backbone of the footage that was coming out of Gaza for a number
of international media outlets.
One worked for AP, one for Reuters, one for Al Jazeera, another was freelance. As you know, Israel does not allow international journalists
into Gaza, so we heavily rely on our Palestinian colleagues to be able to get these images out to us. And four have been killed in this particular
incident.
Now we also understand from the Civil Defense that one emergency worker was killed whilst trying to retrieve casualties from the first strike as well.
Israel's response has been that they do not target journalists as such. They say that they will have an initial inquiry as soon as possible.
Also saying that they carried out a strike in the area of Nasser hospital. So, we're waiting to hear more. But certainly, this is provoking much
condemnation, Becky.
ANDERSON: It's good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Before these latest attacks in Khan Yunis, the United Nations counting more than 240
journalists killed in Gaza since the war began, Jodie Ginsberg is the President of the Committee to Protect Journalists the CPJ, she joins me now
from New York.
Judy -- Jodie, sorry, today marks another Israeli strike on journalists. Two weeks ago, it was the strike on prominent Al Jazeera Correspondent Anas
Al-Sharif and his team.
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Why are we seemingly in this endless loop at this point? And what can be done?
JODIE GINSBERG, PRESIDENT OF COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS: Well, we're in this endless -- Well, we're in this endless loop because Israel has not
been accounted held accountable for any of these killings. This is the deadliest conflict for journalists that CPJ has ever documented. Today, 196
journalists, if we include today's killings, have been killed.
189 of those are Palestinians killed by Israel. And despite the fact that Israel keeps saying it doesn't deliberately target journalists, the
evidence is very different.
ANDERSON: I wonder what this apparent double tap raises for you, that, of course, is when first responders arrive at the steam of a strike and are
struck in much the same spot. It's off times when journalists are killed as well responding to an attack. And we've seen this before, haven't we?
GINSBERG: We have. And just to be clear, if it is a double tap that is considered to be a war crime. This attack, which we believe was
deliberately intended to take out the camera, the camera being used by Reuters cameraman. He was killed in the first attack. Then, as you say,
first responders moved in, including journalists, and they were killed in the second attack.
So, in both instances, it looks like Israel has committed unlawful killings, war crimes, both in the deliberate killing of the Reuters
cameraman and in this so-called double tap attack, subsequently.
ANDERSON: And with the greatest of respect, I mean, you're the Committee to Protect Journalists. And clearly, journalists aren't being protected in
Gaza. And look, you've explained that, you know, until Israel changes its ways to your mind, there's very little an organization like yours is
actually able to do.
Are you in contact with Israeli authorities? And what is that dialog? What's the narrative here?
GINSBERG: Well, we are in contact. We ask for an explanation every time a journalist is killed. We don't always hear back. In the cases where we do
often, as was the case with Anas Al-Sharif and others, we hear the allegations that those journalists were considered by Israel to be
terrorists.
We don't get any verifiable or credible evidence from them, but you're right. Ultimately, it is extraordinarily frustrating and upsetting to be
here two years, almost two years since the start of the war. We have been warning since the beginning that Israel was killing journalists unlawfully.
And we had not only very little response from Israel, but very little public condemnation from the international community.
ANDERSON: Let's just repeat how we started this, the U.N. assessing or compiling numbers, and we are talking numbers at this point, nobody is a
mere number when we consider 240 journalists killed in Gaza since the conflict began, this is just truly extraordinary stuff, and the stakes, of
course, are enormous.
As Paula pointed out, no international media journalists allowed in other than on embeds every so often with the Israeli army, no independent news
gathering by the international media allowed in Gaza, so we rely heavily on our Palestinian colleagues. I just wonder why it is that you believe Israel
is giving no independent access to Western journalists at this point.
And if you can put in to perspective for us just how unprecedented that is and why it is so damaging?
GINSBERG: Well, firstly, let's be clear when we say there's no independent journalism taking place in Gaza, there is independent journalism. There are
hundreds of journalists who have been day in, day out, reporting what is happening inside Gaza. They happen to be Gazan journalists, Palestinian
journalists, in the same way that American journalists report on American politics and the situation in America or British ones do in the UK.
The challenge is, the fact that there has been no international access has allowed Israel to perpetuate this narrative that none of the journalists in
Gaza are trustworthy, and therefore their narrative is not to be trusted. What they are documenting, what we are seeing, what we are hearing, is not
to be trusted, and that is part of a deliberate strategy.
That's part of a deliberate strategy to control the narrative on what's happening inside Gaza, the killings of journalists, the targeting of media
facilities, the banning of news outlets like Al Jazeera, the sanctioning of independent Israeli outlets like Haaretz, is all part of a deliberate
strategy to control what we, the international public, is seeing on Gaza.
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ANDERSON: What happens next?
GINSBERG: We've got to see more robust response from the international community. There must be demands for accountability. We heard after the
last attack two weeks ago on the Al Jazeera news crew. We heard a very clear call from Germany, a traditional ally of Israel, that it wanted an
explanation for why it saw fit to kill those other journalists alongside Anas Al-Sharif.
We've not yet had an explanation for that. We need to see more of those calls. We need to see conditionality put in, in the international
community's relationships with Israel. We need to see more strong demands for media to access Gaza. We heard even Donald Trump a few weeks ago, say
that he would like to see international journalists be allowed into Gaza.
That's vital. And of course, for journalists who have been covering this war tirelessly since the beginning, the ability to leave Gaza to get some
respite and some medical treatment, including the journalist from Reuters, who was injured in today's attack, those three things are absolutely vital.
ANDERSON: I spent some time with one of our Palestinian colleagues in Egypt just last week, whose immediate family are now in Egypt. His rest of his
family remain in Gaza. It's very, very, very hard for those. We still employ a number of colleagues in Gaza, and we continue to work with them
and support them.
Thank you very much indeed. Well, military cooperation in Asia will be on the agenda in Washington today as South Korea's President visits the White
House. I'll be -- it will be President Lee Jae Myung's first meeting with Donald Trump since taking office in June, Mr. Trump looking to make some
changes to a long-standing security agreement.
As we understand it, the two leaders also expected to discuss the details of a bilateral trade deal announced by Donald Trump last month. The summit
comes as Trump presses ahead with a security crackdown on U.S. soil. National Guard troops in Washington D.C. started carrying weapons on
Sunday.
And officials now say the administration has been planning for weeks to send troops to Chicago. CNN's Alayna Treene following all of this live from
the White House. Before we talk about what's going on in D.C. and subsequently, as we understand, it expected to happen in Chicago. Let's
talk about this South Korean delegation, the president making his first visit to the White House today.
We know trade and security both high on the agenda. What is the White House and Donald Trump hoping to get out of this meeting, Alayna?
ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, there are actually a lot of very high-level topics expected to be discussed. And I note that this
meeting comes as there are concerns about the relationship between the United States and South Korea, amid the imposed tariffs that the president
says that he's going to be placing on South Korea, of course.
But also questions of, you know, whether the United States is now expecting South Korea to pay more to have American troops on their soil, and then
also this idea and push for greater defense spending, which is something we know President Donald Trump is expected to ask of South Korean President
Lee.
Now, I think there's a couple things I want to point out that are expected to take kind of center stage during this meeting today. One is, as I
mentioned, U.S. troop discussions, how much is South Korea ultimately going to end up paying to have U.S. troops on their soil?
And it also comes, of course, as there's questions of, how involved will the United States be on a potential attack on Taiwan? That is really kind
of core to that defense agreement. So that is going to be one of the main topics, I think that is expected to be discussed today. But then also
shipbuilding.
This is something new that we heard. I actually just caught up this morning with the White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett, who
told me there is expected to be a major agreement and deal announced on shipbuilding. We know that South Korea is hoping, and kind of been telling
the United States for some weeks now that they think they can help turn U.S. shipbuilding around.
So, I think that's supposed to be somewhat of a sweetener, as South Korean delegation comes here today. Of course, we are looking as well at that
trade agreement that the president announced back in July. Part of that, of course, as we know, there's a 15 percent tariff on imports of South Korean
goods to the United States.
South Korea is expected to pay $350 billion in this investment in the U.S. economy, as well as by $100 billion worth of U.S. liquefied natural gas. I
was also told by Kevin Hassett this morning that there is expected to be some other announcement on a large sum of money, as this White House is
calling it, that South Korea is going to also pledge to United States investments.
So clearly, a lot of moves on South Korea's part to try and continue to strengthen the relationship between these two nations. And one of the
things that is also very interesting, Becky is, you know, I think we should watch closely for the rapport between these two leaders.
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It is the first time that they are going to meet. I'd remind you that President Lee actually was elected back in June. It came after South
Korea's previous president was impeached for his use of martial law, and they both have some things in common. They both are political survivors.
They've survived assassination attempts, and we know that President Lee could potentially also be hosting Donald Trump, President Donald Trump in
South Korea for a potential summit with China's President Xi Jinping, if he ends up deciding to go to that broader summit in South Korea in October.
So, a lot of things for these two to be discussing today. But I think a key question, of course, is, how strong will the alliance between the United
States and South Korea be after he leaves the White House? Oh, and then, did you want to -- I think we wanted to head into that National Guard as
well.
ANDERSON: Good to have you. Thank you.
TREENE: Thank you
ANDERSON: Yeah, very briefly.
TREENE: Oh, yeah, sorry, I should have tied that into my comments. But look, I think the thing with the National Guard that we should be watching
for in Washington is, of course, we're starting to see them actually carry weapons now, which is a significant escalation of what they were initially
laid out to do.
We were told they were not going to be making arrests and that sort of thing. And of course, it comes as we're now learning as well, that the
Trump Administration is making plans to send troops to Chicago as well. Kind of this ramp up that we know the president has stated he wants in
other cities, particularly democratic cities across the United States.
ANDERSON: Good to have you. Thank you. You got the full 360 there. The Russian President gearing up for a four-day visit to China, and the world
will be watching. Russian state media say there will be major government to government talks during the visit.
They are saying that officials will address ways to counter Western sanctions and efforts to boost economic ties between the two countries.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen joining us now from Moscow. Fred, what's the point of this meeting?
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, first of all, the point to strengthening bilateral relations between China and
Russia. And probably right now in the world, or possibly right now in the world, there might not be a more important bilateral relationship than the
one between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin of Russia.
Of course, that relationship has become even more important since President Trump has started exerting pressure on the Chinese and the Chinese economy
with some of those tariffs. But also, since the president has threatened those secondary tariffs on countries that buy Russian oil.
And of course, the biggest purchaser of Russian oil is China, and so therefore this relationship extremely important. And you can see that
already by the preparations that are underway, for instance, from the Russian side, the Speaker of Russia's Parliament already on his way to
China to then talk about some of the ways to circumvent some of those sanctions and tariffs that the U.S. has been talking about.
So especially right now, as we're in this phase where the Trump Administration wants progress on achieving a ceasefire or a peace deal
between Ukraine and Russia. Certainly, this meeting is extremely important, and the Chinese themselves have said. Xi Jinping himself has said that he
welcomes that diplomatic offensive by the Trump Administration and those efforts to try and bring about a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.
Of course, the last thing that the Chinese want is, for instance, for the secondary tariffs to go into place and possibly hurt the Chinese economy,
Becky.
ANDERSON: It's good to have you. And still to come. Thank you, Fred. More on the significance of Vladimir Putin's upcoming visit to China. Plus --
we'll take a short break. We'll be back after this.
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ANDERSON: Well, a man who has become a symbol of the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown. Kilmar Abrego Garcia, is now in custody after he
handed himself into immigration officials in Baltimore during a mandatory check in. Earlier this morning, activists and community leaders held a
rally for him, where he thanked them for their support.
He was released from prison in Tennessee on Friday, shortly after the Department of Homeland Security notified his lawyers that he could be
deported to Uganda, unless he accepts a plea deal today that would instead see him deported to Costa Rica. Well, CNN's Priscilla Alvarez is in
Baltimore.
Our viewers will have an awful lot of questions on this. Priscilla, what do his lawyers expect to happen today?
PRISCILLA ALVAREZ, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Well, Becky, we already saw so much play out just within the last few hours. It was around 07:30 that
Abrego Garcia entered the federal building behind me here in Baltimore for his mandatory check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
About 45 minutes later, his attorney left the building and notified the crowd that Abrego Garcia had been taken into custody by I.C.E. Now this had
been an expectation held by the attorney, because Trump Administration officials have said often that he would be detained by I.C.E. if he were
released from criminal custody, which is exactly what we saw play out here.
But right before then, he was united with his wife, with community organizers as well as family, as they embraced as he was emotional, and he
went up the stairs behind me, before again embracing in that building and him going on his way to check in with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Now, the big question now is, he's detained. Where will he be deported? As you mentioned there off the top, the administration had presented a plea
deal that if he were to plea to federal charges and carry out his sentence here in the United States that he would later be deported to Costa Rica, if
not the administration said he'd be deported to Uganda.
Well, his attorneys have said that that is retaliation, that they are using the carrot and the stick retaliation for challenging his wrongful
deportation to El Salvador earlier this year, and the carrot and the stick by offering Uganda and Costa Rica. Costa Rica being an option that Abrego
Garcia has said he would be willing to be removed to, and where the country has said he'd be offered refugee status.
So, these are questions that still remain, and ones that we still don't have answers to. The Department of Homeland Security did confirm that he
was arrested and is detained now by I.C.E. His attorney saying that a new lawsuit has been filed where they are going to challenge his deportation
and his detainment because they believe there's no basis for his detention at this time.
Now, in addition to all of this, the attorneys are waiting to get additional words from the administration on what is to happen next. Abrego
Garcia's fate remains uncertain, just as it was months ago. But for now, we do know as a fact that he is in custody of Immigration and Customs
Enforcement for now here at the building in Baltimore, though I.C.E. can change locations.
And lastly, Becky, I'll note that a federal judge did put some guardrails in place here for how the process is going to unfold moving forward. She
said earlier this summer that the attorneys need to be provided at least a 72-hour notice before removal, so the attorneys can contest the removal.
So that is going to give them some room to challenge the deportation once they know where exactly the Trump Administration wants to send him, but
still, Becky, while so much unfolded this morning, so much more to go in this case.
ANDERSON: Yeah, absolutely. Good to have you there. Thank you very much. And folks, I want to get you up to speed on some of the other stories that
are on our radar right now. And the United Kingdom says it will reform its process for deciding asylum appeals, because the backlog of cases is at a
record high.
And the immigration protests continued over the weekend, police said to step in to separate the demonstrators and counter protesters in several
cities amid rising tension over the government's immigration policies.
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Typhoon Kajiki is bearing down on Vietnam right now after making landfall earlier. And it's a powerful storm unleashing dangerous winds, ripping
through homes and businesses and uprooting trees. More than 40,000 people have been evacuated along Vietnam's Coast. Schools and airports closed
ahead of the storm's arrival.
Extreme heat fueling wildfires in the Western U.S. in Central Oregon, the flat fire has forced thousands of people to get out of their homes as a
precaution. And the picket fire in Napa, California, has expanded to nearly 2800 hectares. Fire crews there battling at 24/7 by air and on the ground.
Well, you're watching "Connect the World". The Trump White House widening its attack on the U.S. Federal Reserve. Up next, I'll be talking to a top
economist who knows how the U.S. government runs from the inside. More than that after this.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back. You're watching "Connect the World". I'm Becky Anderson here in Abu Dhabi from our Middle East programming headquarters.
These are your headlines. And health officials in Gaza say dual strikes on the Nasser medical complex killed at least 20 people, including several
journalists.
In a statement, Israel's military claims it does not target journalists. It does not acknowledge hitting the hospital directly or specify what was
being targeted in its strikes. South Korean President Lee Jae Myung is due to arrive at the White House in the coming hours for a meeting with
President Trump.
Topping the agenda, potential changes to a long-standing security arrangement, along with cooperation in shipbuilding and a deal to set U.S.
tariffs on South Korean goods at 15 percent. U.S. National Guard troops patrolling Washington, D.C., now carrying weapons on the orders of Defense
Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The troops were deployed to fulfill President Trump's crackdown on crime in the nation's capital. Officials say they planned next to send troops to
Chicago. Well, Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been detained by immigration officials in Baltimore during a mandatory check in.
His attorneys were informed on Friday that he may be deported to Uganda unless he accepts a plea deal today that would instead see him deported to
Costa Rica. Well U.S. stocks heading lower at the open.
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That's certainly the picture. So, we await the bell on Wall Street. And the indication from the futures market was a weaker opening. Is big, the
beginning of the trading week, and it was a pretty tough week last week, until the back end, when the markets were actually higher, but once again,
the markets off to a less than positive start today.
The rally Friday was on hopes of a September interest rate cut. Federal Reserve Chief Jerome Powell hinting that a long-awaited cut is coming soon.
Powell Suggesting the U.S. labor market could benefit from lower rates, which the fed has kept unchanged for eight straight months.
Or the fed's caution on rates has fueled unprecedented attacks from the White House on the Fed Chief Powell. But now the Trump Administration going
in even harder, it seems the Justice Department signaling it plans to investigate Fed Governor Lisa Cook, after a Trump official accused her of
committing mortgage fraud.
And in Europe, meanwhile, the Head of the ECB defending the concept of central bank independence, saying it is critically important. I want to
bring in Natasha Sarin, who is a Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, a Former Councilor to U.S.
Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen.
Natasha, is the President and co-Founder of the Budget Lab at Yale University. She joins us now from New York. Natasha, it's really good to
have you. The U.S. Central Bank is supposed to be independent. Donald Trump has repeatedly called Powell too late for not lowering rates since last
autumn.
That assault now it seems going beyond just social media insults. The irony is that the fed is most likely to cut rates at its next meeting because it
believes, or certainly we are led to believe, that the sort of current economic data would warrant that. Is there any merit in Trump's argument
and assertion that the fed should have cut sooner to your mind?
NATASHA SARIN, FORMER DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR ECONOMIC POLICY AT THE U.S. TREASURY DEPARTMENT: So, there's absolutely no merit. And the reason
is something that you just said, Becky, which is the importance of central bank independence and its supremacy. When the Federal Reserve is looking
about how it decides to make interest rate decisions, it looks at two things and two things alone.
It looks at the state of the labor market, and it looks at inflation and inflation in the economy and where the price level is, and in that sense,
the fed has had a bit of a challenging go. You can make arguments in both directions, but because the tariffs that the administration is pursuing are
the most inflationary policies we've seen in our lifetimes that pushes against the rate cuts that you would see when you have a labor market
that's cooling the way that the most recent set of data suggests.
And so, I think it's a hard call from the Federal Reserve's perspective. But what is definitely not a hard call is that the president or the
administration should be nowhere near trying to make instructions or suggestions about where monetary policy should go, because that runs real
damaging risks to our economic credibility.
ANDERSON: Normally, when a Fed Chief stands down, he leaves the job as governor as well. He doesn't have to he or she. But normally that is the
case. That's sort of, you know what's happened in the past. Do you expect Jerome Powell to sort of disappear from sort of fed policy making.
Once his term comes to an end, his departure, of course, would leave open the opportunity for a for a governor who would be more attuned to Donald
Trump's position as it were.
SARIN: You know, it's hard to make any predictions about what Chair Powell or any members of the board are going to choose to do over the course of
the coming months. But one thing I will say with some confidence, because we have historical experience of it here in the United States, and you've
seen it in other countries as well, is that when executives start to try and meddle with central bank independence, that comes at real costs.
And in the U.S. that happened during the Nixon Administration, where a bunch of pressure was put on Fed Chair Arthur Burns to lower interest rates
ahead of an election, and interest rates were lowered, but then we had inflation Jump from 3 to 13 percent over two years.
So, I just think that if the objective is to try to have a stable economy that is the envy of the world. I think going in the direction of trying to
make instructions for the Open Markets Committee about what the interest rate trajectory should be really pushes against that objective and it's
ultimately incredibly counterproductive.
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ANDERSON: Yeah, you would expect that people would understand that, but clearly it doesn't seem to be the case. European Central Bank President
Christine Lagarde talking of the importance of independence for all central banks, she says it should not even be debated.
There does seem to be some stress on the U.S. labor market at present, job numbers being revised downwards. How resilient do you believe the U.S.
economy is at this point?
SARIN: You know, one thing that's super interesting is that before this administration and before President Trump came into office, the labor
market was incredibly strong, and we were in a position where we hadn't worked our way all the way down from the post pandemic inflation, but
directionally, that's where we were going.
And what's happened since then, over the course of the last many months. It's not that there's been a new financial crisis or a new pandemic. What's
happened is that you've been in a situation where we have levied trade wars against allies and adversaries alike, and those trade wars have increased
the effective tariff rate in our economy for about 2.5 percent when President Trump took office to about 18 percent.
And so, what you're seeing, the reason why you're seeing this cooling in the labor market is precisely because business is at a bit of a standstill
with respect to how do I even plan for or anticipate what the likely environment is going to be in which I'm going to be importing goods to be
able to sell on my shelves.
And if the prices of those goods are higher, like my colleagues, the Yale Budget Lab and I estimate, then how many people are going to buy them? And
so, the economy is cooling precisely because of these tariffs. And so, if the administration wants to see an economy that is strong and resilient.
There's sort of a very simple answer to what should be done, and it's something they have full control over. We should be rolling back these
tariff levels.
ANDERSON: The perspective of Natasha Sarin here on "Connect the World". It's good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. Well, tech companies
giving the world artificial intelligence, of course, now the Tech Sector itself seems to be feeling some pain from AI.
Investors say the rise of artificial intelligence tools that can write and develop code is clouding the outlook for the software industry, and that is
sending shares in those companies spiraling. Here's a quick snapshot for you, says in software giant Salesforce down about 26 percent this year,
making that the second worst performing stock in the DOW.
Take a look at Atlassian, which owns project workflow application Trello, that stock down about 30 percent year to date. In comparison, the tech
heavy NASDAQ up about 11 percent. Investors tell us there is a real shift out there. As software businesses are at risk of falling out of fashion,
with investors.
Still to come, the look of pure joy as Tommy Fleetwood wins the Tour Championship to capture his maiden PGA Tour victory. More on that is coming
up.
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ANDERSON: Well, some people race horses, but in one German town, they race oxen. This unusual race began in 1983 and happens every four years. The
jockeys ride without a saddle and have only a harness to hold on to. It can lead to a wild race and ride. Organizers stress the importance of animal
welfare.
Sticks, whips and spurs are banned, and the oxen must be checked by a vet before the race. Tommy Fleetwood can finally call himself a PGA Tour
winner. The 34-year-old Englishman finished 18 under and Atlanta to win the Tour Championship, secure the FedEx Cup playoffs title and take home a $10
million prize.
Oh, in the you know, weekends good work. Coy Wire joining me now. Good on him. A great round.
COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, weekend's good work. But also 14 years of good work, Becky. He had never gotten a win on the PGA
Tour. He'd finished top 5, 30 times, but it never broke him. You know, he was asked ahead of this tournament, which tournament would you want to win
if you finally did win one?
He said, you know, so many unbelievable tournaments. I don't want to pick just one. This would be a good one. I think it'd be pretty funny if I won
this week and got the FedEx Cup as well. Well, the golf gods have a great sense of humor, because there he was roaring that cathartic scream after
finally getting that big win.
And it was a big one, 10 million bucks, big. So good for Tommy Fleetwood. We'll have that and a bunch more coming up.
ANDERSON: Good stuff. That's in "World Sport", after this short break. Stay with us.
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