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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Disaster averted, but questions are emerging about an apparent security breach. We have live team
coverage with the latest on what Israel is calling an attempted terrorist attack in the cockpit of a flight to Tel Aviv. It is 05:00 p.m. in Abu
Dhabi. I'm Becky Anderson. This is "Connect the World".
Also coming up this hour, a Russian drone has hit a school in Kyiv as Moscow ramps up its aerial bombardment. Plus, the Governor of Tennessee
putting a hold on all executions after the failed lethal injection of a 50- year-old woman. We are just about 30 minutes away from the start of trade on Wall Street 09:30 local time, New York time.
And Futures, at this point, pointing to a moderately higher open ahead of the monthly U.S. jobs report, which is on Friday. More on that when we get
the bell. Well, he quote managed to prevent a 9/11 disaster. Those are the words of Israel's Prime Minister to CNN as he hailed the pilot attack on
board the Fly Dubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv as a hero.
Captain Smit Machchhar fought back to thwart the apparent hijacking in the past few hours, an Indian politician from his home town says Machchhar is
now in a stable condition and is quote out of danger, according to his family.
Well, these images giving us a glimpse at the horror and panic that people felt inside the cabin. Israel's Prime Minister says the captain was hit or
stabbed by an axe. That is not confirmed, though. Passengers rushed the cockpit and subdued the attacker, and the airline says reserve crew members
who were on the flight regained control of the plane.
Well, passengers are now safe in Israel. Investigators are here looking at whether the attack was linked to terrorist activity or pre-planned. Israel
says the suspect is an Omani national who is yet to be identified. Speaking to CNN, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said earlier today that a
catastrophe was avoided and that Israel will be coordinating with the investigators across the region where I am.
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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: So, the amazing heroism here of the Indian pilot, the Israeli passenger, and his colleagues. And those
pilots managed to prevent a 9/11 disaster because that's what it looks like was happening. I can't tell you that we had any specific warning about
this.
This is being interrogated right now. The pilot, the attacking pilot, is now being interrogated in Saudi Arabia, I assume very soon he'll be taken
to the United Arab Emirates. I spoke to the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheik Mohammed bin Zayed, and he agreed that Israel would join
the interrogation. So, we'll find out very soon if Iran had anything to do with it. But I can't say that in advance of the conclusion of the
interrogation.
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ANDERSON: All right. Well, Nic Robertson is in Jerusalem for you today. Paula Hancocks is in Dubai here in the UAE. And Nic, let me start with you.
What are you hearing from Israel then about the investigation into the attack, particularly around any motive?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: We don't seem to have concrete evidence that we've seen yet about a motive. However, however,
saying that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to do interviews, and through the day we've seen him give more information,
apparently as he is getting it.
And he now says from it appears that the Israelis from the pilot, the attacking pilot's personal information, that's how Netanyahu describes it.
That they can see or they believe the Israelis believe that he had what the prime minister calls Islamist radical indoctrination. Now the prime
minister hasn't put forward the evidence to support that, but that's the narrative that is going with at the moment.
And obviously, this is the early stages of the investigation. The prime minister is talking about interrogation rather than investigation, if you
like, and the assumption there that the Saudis will hand over the attacking pilot to the Emirates, as you know, the Attorney General in the Emirates
has already opened an investigation.
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But I think we're also getting those details from Prime Minister Netanyahu about the nature of the attack and therefore what was -- it was going to
precipitate. This is how he described what the attacking pilot did and what he used inside the cockpit.
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NETANYAHU: What we know is that this plane that was heading from Dubai to Israel, as they approached Israel, one of the co-pilots stabbed or hit with
an axe, the other pilot, an Indian pilot, and the pilot that was hit, bleeding profusely, fighting for his life, managed to unlock the pilot's
door. But the plane was going into a nosedive.
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ROBERTSON: So, there's another thing there that the prime minister explains. He says that the attacking pilot was then trying to break up the
equipment in the cockpit, presumably or possibly with the axe. That's the implication. So, it does appear that the intent was not to fly the plane
per se into a specific target, but literally to make it inoperable for anyone else that might have been able to make their way into the cockpit.
Of course, fortunately for the 174 people on board, that wasn't the case. There were other pilots on board who were able to bring it and stabilize
the plane. Having said that, the plane, when you look at it on the ground there in Saudi Arabia when it did land, part of the tail fin was broken
away.
Experts say it wasn't long before the plane was about to break up that it would have just slammed into the ground. That it was on a trajectory that
was almost at the last minute, too, the last seconds too late to sort of pull out of that dive. Recklessly, though, they did.
ANDERSON: Nic, stand by. Paula, I just want to get you in here to talk about the pilot who was wounded. He is said to be in a stable condition,
according to his family. What more do we know at this point, and what else are authorities here in the UAE, looking into?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Becky, we're hearing from one Indian lawmaker calling Smit Machchhar the world's hero. The fact that even
though he was injured, it appears as though he was able to open that cockpit door. At least that's one of the scenarios that is a strong
possibility, and that prevented this attack from becoming a catastrophic disaster for those on board.
Now we've heard from that Indian lawmaker that he did have surgery in Saudi Arabia yesterday, so on Wednesday, and then today he is quote out of
danger. We did also, though, hear from the dentist who was on board and was treating Smit as he was -- as he lay wounded. We've seen the videos of
that, and they say that he did have significant blood loss and was severely wounded.
But he is being lauded not just in Israel and India, but across the world, as being a hero for managing to prevent this attack from becoming a lot
worse. Now, just on the investigation as well, we do know that the Emirati Attorney General has opened up an investigation this Thursday, looking at
whether there are links to terrorist activity, specifically whether there are any prior planning or direction indicated.
So, effectively, they want to know, was this potentially a lone wolf attack? Is there a wider network that they need to be concerned about? A
key point that investigators here will want to nail down as quickly as possible. Also, pointing out, according to state news agency WAM (ph) here,
that the UAE has jurisdiction for this investigation.
As even though this attack happened outside their territory, the aircraft itself is registered to the UAE. And we also just heard from the Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that this suspect is expected to be transferred back here to the UAE for questioning, and that investigation,
Mr. Netanyahu made very clear, Israel will be part of as well, saying that he had spoken to the Emirati Leader and that it would be a joint effort to
find out exactly what happened, Becky.
ANDERSON: Yeah, good to have you both. Thank you. And folks, as Paula reported, there the UAE has opened an investigation into the incident,
including its circumstances and motives. This is an investigation by the Attorney General here in coordination with Saudi authorities. And we don't
want to get ahead of those findings, obviously, because this is the official investigation.
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I do want to get more on what investigators will be looking into. Arik Arad is the Former Head of security for El Al at Ben Gurion Airport. And as a
Former Head of Security for the airline, the Israeli Airline El Al. What's your personal assessment here of what happened in terms of security and
what investigators will be looking at?
ARIK ARAD, FORMER HEAD OF SECURITY OF EL AL, BEN GURION AIRPORT: My opinion is that it was a pre-arranged potential terrorist attack. I'm not sure Iran
is linked to it, but there's definitely a terrorist attack. The results were amazing, but they could have been catastrophic.
For example, if the plane would have been hijacked by the pilot, or being simply gone into the ground, these are terrible situations. And I think
that we were extremely lucky that the combination of the captain opening the door and allowing outsiders to intervene in the quarrel that the two
pilots had, and eventually take control of the aircraft. Managed to bring us all the passengers to a safe place, but this is a very dramatic. Yes, go
ahead.
ANDERSON: The investigation again. I have to be clear about this is now ongoing. We will rely on official information as that investigation
continues.
ARAD: Right.
ANDERSON: I wonder, given your experience, your long experience in security, of course, with the Israeli Airline El Al, explain the vetting
process for pilots flying into Tel Aviv because it's very specific, isn't it?
ARAD: Well, it is specific, and I think that what airlines should be doing is besides having pilots go through simulators twice a year and go through
medical checks, they should also have psychological and background checks not only when they get accepted to become pilots, but periodically, maybe
every six months, maybe every year, just to make sure that nobody is going astray.
And I think this is important. I know some of the private business jets are doing it to their teams, to their air crew, and some of the airlines do it,
but obviously not enough. And what happened in this case is that we have no control who the pilots are.
ANDERSON: So, what will authorities then, in your experience now, be looking into specifically at this point? And how will airline and airport
officials be playing into this investigation do you think?
ARAD: I think that regardless of what the results will be, whether it was a potential hijack or potential bombing, I think that every single airline,
every single airport is now doing some revisions of their security status at this stage. And I think that the authorities and the responsible
establishments that are overlooking security of the airport will need to look back and look at some new vulnerabilities, such as cyber and any other
vulnerabilities that will be innovated by terrorists.
Terrorists are always looking to major innovation in their attack system. They have the right to decide when to attack, how to attack? And find the
right time and the right venue to do it. So, we have to be ready at any time to do. Yeah, go ahead.
ANDERSON: No, I was listening to what you said. It's interesting. Look, I mean, my final question is simply, you know, over the years in your
position with El Al, how often and how wide sort of ranging were your security sort of sweeps, both as far as the airline is concerned, and
authorities sort of in Israel and elsewhere?
ARAD: Well, I don't want to go into too many details. I don't want to give any ideas to anybody that is listening to this interview. But basically,
when you get -- when you -- security staff is getting to the airport they need to understand they are changing an atmosphere.
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Being a security agent at an airport, whether it's El Al or United Airlines, it doesn't matter what airline it is. You need to switch on and
remember that you are doing super important security checks, and you are not in a normal environment. You are in an environment that somebody is
actually trying 24/7 to syncope the system and get into the airplane with some sort of explosives or some.
ANDERSON: I think we're struggling with your sound today, but I got as yeah. I'm sorry. I think yeah, we've got a little technical issue, but it's
been good to have you. Your insight, given your background, is very important as we continue to report on this story. As again, I will say the
investigation now ongoing. We will rely on official information as that investigation continues.
Of course, you're watching "Connect the World". Thank you, sir. Still to come, one of Russia's latest drone strikes targeted a school in Kyiv. We
have the details on that ahead. Plus, a death row inmate in Tennessee in the states, survives not one but two doses of a lethal drug. A look at what
went wrong? And why the state has now halted executions for the rest of the year?
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ANDERSON: Officials in Ukraine say a Russian drone tore through a school in Kyiv earlier on Thursday. School's director says the students were all
safely in a shelter when the attack happened. For Ukrainian kids growing up against the backdrop of war, air raid sirens are as common as school bells,
sadly, and taking lessons in shelters has become routine.
Well, CNN's Clare Sebastian has been following this for us, and she joins us now, London from London, with the very latest. So, at this point, what
do we know about this specific drone strike, Clare?
CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Becky. We believe this is the first time we've seen a direct hit on a school in the Capital Kyiv while
the children were actually there. So, look, another Rubicon now being crossed. Now, thankfully, the children, 104 of them, were in a shelter
underneath the school.
We understand this is a secondary school, and we believe that the drone hit. And we have some video, some CCTV video of the moment it hit just
before 09:00 o'clock in the morning. So, within the first half hour of the school day. Now, according to the director of the school speaking to
Ukrainian media, they had had an air alert that morning. That had then gone off.
They gathered at the school, but the air raid came back on again. So they went, thankfully, to the shelter. But I think that in itself a bit of a
microcosm of what life in Kyiv is like right now, with these constant air alerts.
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You know there's another video that's emerged from a local resident nearby. She's basically hyperventilating in the background of that video. I think
the level of shock at seeing a direct hit on a school palpable there, and of course there's fairly significant damage in the aftermath of this as
well, a fire broke out, according to local authorities.
The director said that they could hear the destruction from inside the shelter, though of course it didn't get through the door, and the school
filled with smoke. So, look, a serious incident, a very shocking incident for Kyiv residents. But this is part of what life is like now, a constantly
expanding list of targets.
We saw also today two hits, according to the Mayor of Kyiv, on the south bridge. That's one of the bridges linking the left and the right banks of
the city that has led to suspension of metro and road traffic across that bridge. So, lots of the trappings of daily life now coming under attack as
we see this escalating air war. But again, with the school being hit, children in it, another Rubicon being crossed, Becky.
ANDERSON: Yeah, absolutely. And Clare, you know, we've been reporting now for some time that Russia has ramped up its attacks since August in fact. I
just wonder, is it clear what the thinking is out of Moscow, what the strategy is here?
SEBASTIAN: Yeah, so I think look, since the 27th of August, we've seen a real shift in the rhythm of these air attacks, from these big, sporadic,
overnight attacks using a combination of drones and missiles to really almost constant, all day, all night attacks. These air raid sirens pretty
much on and off all the time.
On Wednesday in fact, there was only about three hours and 14 minutes. Our colleagues in Kyiv tell us where there wasn't an air raid siren on. So, it
is really impacting daily life. We're seeing the range of targets, as I said, expanding. We've seen, for example, the Academy of Sciences hit
earlier this week, the university area was hit earlier in September.
The SBU, the Domestic Security Service Headquarters, was hit. It seems to be an attempt, really, by Russia to exploit the gaps in Ukrainian air
defenses, the lack of Patriot interceptors. Obviously, we see innovation when it comes to the drones themselves, with these jet-powered drones that
are really overwhelming Ukraine's air defenses, despite, of course, their best efforts to come up with interceptors that can handle them, Becky.
ANDERSON: Clare, it's always good to have you. Thank you very much indeed. And some of these images, of course, out of Kyiv are really, you know,
very, very disturbing. All right, Tennessee has halted executions for the rest of the year after two doses of a legal drug, or sorry, a lethal drug,
failed to kill a death row inmate.
Now the state had attempted to execute 50-year-old Christa Gail Pike on Wednesday. The procedure, though, was halted after the drug failed to take
effect. Pike's attorneys say she was taken to a hospital after the failed execution, she'd been scheduled to die for the 1995 murder of a classmate,
a crime she committed when she was 18. Had the execution got ahead, Pike would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200
years.
CNN's Senior U.S. National Correspondent Ryan Young is covering the story for us. Look, I don't think we'd be, you know, wrong to describe this as a
botched execution. So, what are authorities saying at this point? And what's been the reaction to it?
RYAN YOUNG, CNN SENIOR U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, let's take this piece by piece because I mean, a lot of people are just going to be sort of
taken aback by this, to be honest. We were outside that prison yesterday. People were literally showing up just to look at the building where this
woman was going to be executed because you don't often hear about a woman being executed.
We were there at 10:00 a.m. yesterday when the stay came down, and we thought, well, she would get more time. This, of course, is after this
death that happened in 1995, and then the AG's Office said to the Supreme Court, we would like to move forward. So, it was 07:27 when the curtain
opened, and she was strapped to the gurney, and she was administered those two doses of lethal injection.
And after that, people said they could hear her loudly snoring after that second attempt. It really caught people off guard in the room. Take a
listen to these witnesses who were just shocked by what they witnessed.
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CATHERINE SWEENEY, MEDIA WITNESS: She said that there was a spot that was burning and hurting, and asked if that was normal. None of -- none of it
was normal. I covered all the executions last year, and most of the ones this year, we haven't seen anything like it.
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YOUNG: Yeah, and so to even take this a step further, and a lot of the international viewers and many people don't even remember this. In '95, she
basically was convicted of killing a classmate. She took a large piece of asphalt and apparently hit this girl several different times to the point
of killing her.
Her ex-boyfriend, who was there at the time, used a knife to carve a star in her chest. So, you understand how brutal this murder was.
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And that victim's mother actually showed up for this execution. And then there's been this delay because they want her background to be talked about
in terms of the sexual abuse that she faced when she was a child, hoping to say, like, look, she was mentally ill when this killing happened.
But all that surrounding this case doesn't explain what happened with this botched execution and the fact that she was visibly heard saying, am I
supposed to feel this way? Remember, executions are supposed to be done in a way that is, I guess, they describe it as humane, and none of that sound
humane in terms of what that process was like.
And so now you know why the governor is doing this review. So, it sounds like the stay of execution don't have to worry about that anymore because
the state's probably not going to be able to do this again for quite some time until they figure out their process, which you hope they would have
figured out by now.
ANDERSON: This is, as I understand it, the second failed execution in Tennessee this year, Ryan. What happened in the first case?
YOUNG: Yeah. So, it goes back to this, and I don't want to call it a cocktail, but this combination of drugs that they use, and so they're going
to have to look at how it's administered and how much each level goes. So clearly, at some point when they heard her snoring, it got her to the sleep
phase.
There's going to have to be a lot more conversation about those next steps, and that's a part of the process moving forward. But we're hoping when they
do this extensive report, we even get the details so we know how this was a mistake in the first place. And I'm not sure that will happen. So, we'll
have to see and continue to follow it.
ANDERSON: Thank you, Ryan. It's good to have you.
YOUNG: Thank you.
ANDERSON: Ryan's out of Atlanta for you today there. All right. Up next on "Connect the World", the start of trading and, of course, your business
news headlines, including the merger of what is set to be one of the biggest media companies in the world.
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ANDERSON: Welcome back. I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. You're watching "Connect the World" from our Middle East Programming Headquarters here in
Abu Dhabi. An update on our top story. Investigators are working to understand the motive for the attack on Wednesday's flight by flight from
Dubai to Tel Aviv.
The suspect has not been named, but Israel says he is an Omani national. The Israeli Prime Minister says the pilot who fought back after being
attacked by his co-pilot prevented a 9/11 style disaster.
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Well, ringing the bell momentarily, Global Philanthropic Networks, the Island Funds. They are there you go ringing in the trading day. This is
going to be a sort of mildly uplifting start to today's trade. Futures indicating about a third of 1 percent high for most of these indices. We'll
start you off with the DOW Jones and let the other two major markets, the S&P and the Nasdaq, settle out a little bit.
There you go, up by that about fifth of 1 percent as we start on the DOW Jones. We'll keep an eye on that for you and see how that works out today.
All eyes, of course, on the bond market as well. Why? Well, that is because U.S. Treasury yields hit their highest level in more than two decades
earlier today, as a global bond rout deepens.
At one point, the 10-year yield touched 5.34 percent trading there about 5.31 at present. Listen, it hasn't been as high as it was earlier since
2002, around the time, of course, of the Dotcom bubble burst, and some time before the sort of financial meltdown of 207, 208. It's key to interest
rates for U.S. mortgage borrowing, for auto loans, and for credit card debt, of course, keeping a key eye on those yields for you as well.
Well, the Paramount merger in the news. Paramount says its merger with CNN's Parent Warner Brothers Discovery will take effect on October 6th
after a U.S. federal judge approved the settlement of an antitrust lawsuit that was blocking the merger of what will be one of the biggest media
companies in the world.
This is one of the biggest mergers in the world, frankly. Just after -- just minutes after the settlement, Paramount named Ynon Kreiz as the new
Co-CEO of the combined company. Kreiz was at the helm of toy giant Mattel for eight years. His push to turn Mattel's intellectual property or IP into
films led to the global box office hit Barbie.
Well, CNN's Brian Stelter has more. And we know that that film was a rip- roaring success, and everything that sort of came around it. Look, this is a huge deal in anybody's books. What do we now know, Brian, about the final
details of this merger?
BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST: I think number one, we know that it will be completed and announced and formalized next Tuesday. That means
that there will be some more leadership announcements between now and Tuesday. We are going to hear more about how the movie studios are going to
be run, the streaming services, and how CNN and Paramount's current news division, CBS News, will be run?
So, I'm expecting management announcements either tomorrow or Monday, leading up to Friday's so-called day one. There will also be an
announcement about a new corporate name for this media giant, a new stock ticker for the stock market. There's going to be a real focus, of course,
on Wall Street and on making this sound palatable to investors, and that's partly what this co-CEO announcement is about.
You know, Ynon Kreiz. He is a well-known CEO. He has been in the business for decades. He's about 20 years older than Paramount CEO David Ellison.
So, Ellison is really showing that he knows he needs established executives around him to run a company of this size, this mammoth size.
Ellison says he's going to focus on long-term strategy, talent relationships, capital allocation. While Kreiz works on the day-to-day, and
that day-to-day is going to involve big reorganizations, layoffs, other cost-cutting moves in order to bring Paramount and Warner together. So,
Kreiz starts work on Monday. The company becomes official on Tuesday, and we're going to know a whole lot more a week from now.
ANDERSON: Ynon Kreiz, as you say, enormous experience in running, you know, big organizations. David Ellison himself, as you described, sort of taking
himself into sort of strategy, talent management. I think I noted one of the other sort of buckets files he will have, of course, is technology.
And part of the sell on this was about storytelling through film and news organizations like our own, on top of this sort of new technology stack.
And we know David Ellison, of course, is the son of Larry Ellison, who runs Oracle. What do we know about how that new technology will power this
massively merged organization, if anything at this point?
STELTER: I think what you just described, that's going to be a big part of the pitch to Wall Street, trying to sell investors on this, trying to pump
up the stock price. The idea is going to be, hey, here is the Oracle, Co- Founder's son creating an entertainment giant in the technology age and trying to harness AI.
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What exactly that will mean remains to be seen. I suspect it will sound a lot like President Trump's tone about AI, about unleashing it, letting
people experiment, try new things, don't hold back. Some of these studios, some of these media companies have been moving more cautiously with AI, in
part given the copyright concerns, in part due to the concerns about employment and labor markets.
But we know Paramount's going to have to make big changes to the labor force in order to afford the amount of debt that it's going to be saddled
with. So, I think we're going to see AI used in that way. And I was struck by something Ellison said to "The Wall Street Journal" overnight in an
interview.
He said, we recognize the controversy and turbulence that has existed to get us to this point. I hope we can prove them wrong through action. You
know that is an acknowledgement that a lot of folks in Hollywood are rooting against Ellison right now. They think this last year has been
really ugly for Hollywood.
They're rooting against him. And he's going to be out to prove them all wrong. He's a younger media mogul coming at this with new energy, and now
he has an older partner, an older generation, this Mattel CEO, to help him with that. So, it's a very logical move, I think, from a business
standpoint. This pairing that's been announced.
ANDERSON: Yes, fascinating, isn't it? And particularly interesting for you and me. But it's a fantastic story in and of itself, and we will all be
watching for developments and rely on you to get those to us. So always good to have you, Brian. Thank you.
STELTER: Thanks.
ANDERSON: Up next in sports, Ronaldo leaves Portugal's national team camp ahead of their Denmark clash. More on that after this.
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ANDERSON: Well, after a week of fierce competition, Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve has crowned a winner of this year's Fat Bear
Week. Bear 89 earned more than 100,000 votes to take the title. The contest works to raise awareness of the park's brown bear population by pitting the
heaviest specimens against one another in a March Madness style elimination bracket.
Bear 89 isn't just a chunky star; he is a furry nepo baby known as Backpack because, as a young cub, he rode around on the back of his mum, who was the
2019 winner of Fat Bear Week.
Right, Portugal set to clash against Denmark later on Thursday in the Nations League action. One man who won't be there, Cristiano Ronaldo, the
41-year-old, left their training camp on Wednesday after not featuring in their game on Sunday. Amanda is with us. And Amanda, it really does feel
like this is the end of an era, right? He certainly doesn't seem very happy about any of this.
AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah. He does not seem very happy. And like you and I both know, Cristiano Ronaldo has said it's likely to be his last
World Cup in the summer, but he set his sights on that 1000th goal in football.
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But Portugal's record goal scorer, record appearance maker, dramatically walked out basically in this new era for the national team after the World
Cup. He said the truth will be revealed in due course, and the question, you know, at 41 years of age, is that the last time we see Cristiano
Ronaldo in his national team shirt?
It seems very difficult, even for a player of his experience, his reputation, to be able to come back from something like this. But we're
looking at the implications of it, what it means for him and his legacy, and indeed the national team in just a couple of minutes in "World Sport"
Becky.
ANDERSON: It's good to have you, Amanda. Thank you very much indeed. CR7 there in training, but no longer with the team. More on that in "World
Sport", as Amanda says. That is after the break. I'm back with more "Connect the World" in 15 minutes' time. So, stay with us.
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