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France Reels from Unrest as Macron Condemns Rioters; Clashes Erupt in Italy as Crowds Protest High Cost of Living; Milan Police Clash with Protesters After Stores Looted; Violent Protests Erupt as Albanian PM Refuses to Resign; Trump Endorses Netanyahu Days Before Israeli Elections. Aired 9-9:45a ET

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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Well, France reeling from a weekend of nationwide protests marked by violence and destruction. It is

03:00 p.m. in Paris, 05:00 p.m. here in Abu Dhabi. From our Middle East programming headquarters, I'm Becky Anderson.

You're watching "Connect the World". Also coming up this hour, 15 days to the midterms in the U.S. and Vice President J.D. Vance hitting the campaign

trail, trying to boost Republicans' chances. Meanwhile, just a week to go until pivotal elections in Israel, and Prime Minister Netanyahu gains

President Trump's support.

We are just about 30 minutes away from the start of trade on Wall Street this Monday morning, and that is the picture as far as the futures are

concerned. The indications are for a mixed start, but watch those tech stocks looks as if they are on the up today. More on that at the bottom of

the hour.

Well, France's President vowing accountability and action to address protesters' concerns after demonstrations across the country turned

violent. These are the scenes from over the weekend in Limoges, that city's historic town hall set on fire. The roof collapsing, two people reported

dead across France and more than 2,000 arrested.

Well, this rioting erupted after weeks of student demonstrations over education shortfalls and inflation. Listen to how one tourist in Paris

described what he has witnessed in the French capital.

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TIJE DE BOER, TOURIST: It's like a war zone here. Yesterday we came to Paris to visit a friend, and yeah, our hotel is at Place de la Republique.

We had to evacuate our car is still there, and our luggage. So, we're hoping everything is OK.

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ANDERSON: Well, despite those scenes we just showed you, most of the protests have been peaceful. My colleague Melissa Bell reports now from

Paris. And she explains that the country's leadership faces huge challenges in addressing what are the root of the protests, with no easy answers.

MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Here at Place de la Republique, where so much of the rioting and looting took place on Saturday

night and again on Sunday, with those fresh clashes that involve rioters and police. The clean-up operation continues, as it does in other French

cities.

A great deal of anger being expressed by the mayors of some of France's biggest cities this Monday, given the police response, or rather the lack

of an adequate police response, and given the extensive damage that the country's seen. We've been hearing from the French President on Sunday

night a great deal of criticism about what President Macron had to say and how few concrete concessions or solutions he was suggesting.

Politicians from across the political spectrum have really turned on that address to the nation as really not meeting what people were expecting to

hear, concrete decisions about what could be done. We've been hearing also this money from the prime minister about his fears for the next few months.

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SEBASTIEN LECORNU, FRENCH PRIME MINISTER: This raises several questions for us. The first being how to protect the very democratic framework, the

presidential election. There's no way we will allow violent minorities to impose an agenda of violence and prevent us from holding this election.

For me, this raises the issue of candidate safety, personal safety. It raises the issue of safety at campaign rallies, regardless of the political

parties.

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BELL: That election is just six months away. President Macron will stand down, and it is the void really left by his centrist policies over the last

few years that's attracted a lot of debate and a lot of anger. The rise also of the extremes, the fact that the far right leads the polls, the fact

that the far left is making such progress in the polls, is considered sort of fertile ground for a particularly polarized presidential campaign, and

as authorities fear potentially much more of these kinds of protests ahead.

Already, the Yellow Vest, who were here last Saturday, are planning a fresh protest next Saturday. Melissa Bell, CNN, Paris.

ANDERSON: Well, Italy also saw two days of protest over the weekend against poor services and the high cost of living. In Milan, shops are boarded up

and windows smashed after demonstrations escalated into clashes and again looting. More than 30 people arrested there.

Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the violence and called for a government meeting in Rome today to discuss a response. CNN's Stefano

Pozzebon is following this. He is in Rome and he joins me now. And we've just been hearing from Melissa Bell in France.

We know that the cost of living is a key issue in these protests across Europe.

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Can you tell us a little bit more about what is bringing people out onto the streets there in Italy? And why this is descending into violence?

STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's very interesting to analyze this, Becky. Of course, the cost of living is indeed the forefront issue

here in these protests, especially considering just how much the price at the pump at the petrol station has grown in recent months as a consequence

of the war in Iran and the blockades of the Strait of Hormuz.

But when you take the situation in Italy, in particular the riots in Milan on Saturday and Sunday, two things really stand out. The first one is that

these protests are happening outside institutional rallies, for example, here in Rome there was a rally against Meloni and against Meloni's policies

protesting the cost of living that drew over 100,000 people on Saturday, and then yet it was in Milan on Saturday night and even more so on Sunday

night that we saw these scenes of violence.

The second one is just how young these protestors are. For example, in Milan, 80 percent of the protesters were juvenile, were minor. And one

thing they were trying to understand is where is this anger coming from? And we spoke with an expert up in Milan, and this is what they told us --

Sorry, we don't --

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MATTEO LANCINI, PROFESSOR OF PSYCHOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY: We live in a society that has proposed patterns were attacking others, destroying, and

killing is normal, and then it's shocked when young people do it. But we cannot decontextualize this from the violence that they have absorbed from

adults in this mass media society of social media.

I repeat, this does not justify anything from the point of view of responsibility.

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POZZEBON: And that, Becky was -- and that Becky was Matteo Lancini, Professor of Psychology at the University of Milano Bicocca, in the

outskirts of Milan, right in their periphery, where often this anger is simmering until it explodes on the streets, like we saw yesterday and the

day before.

And just in the last hour or so, the Mayor of Milan, "Beppe" Sala, has issued a statement saying that he met shopkeepers and many people that are

still shaken by what happened this Monday morning. He condemned the violence as unacceptable and unjustifiable.

However, he finishes the Mayor of Milan finishes his statement, saying that unfortunately the feeling is that these moments of tension are not over.

So, looking at the future, we will wait to hear from Meloni what will happen and how she intends to respond, especially with this meeting of this

ministerial meeting scheduled here in Rome this afternoon, Becky.

ANDERSON: Thank you. Well, a wave of discontent sweeping through Albania. Let me take you there. In Albania's capital, student lend anti-government

protests turned violent for a sixth day as Prime Minister Edi Rama refuses to resign. Protesters set fire to government buildings and have thrown

Molotov cocktails, rocks, and bricks at police.

Rama has warned the protests only hurt Albania's chances of joining the EU. Largely peaceful protests began earlier this summer against a luxury

coastal development backed by the U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner. But the movement shifted last week as students upset over

high educational and living costs joined in.

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NOEL XHOXHI, PROTESTER: I think it's going to get even worse the riots and the civil disobedience.

RENEE REFFO, PROTESTER: People are not getting paid the amount of -- the amount that they're supposed to get paid. They're working long hours to get

nothing at the end of the month. There's no rights. There's like lower class and there's high class. There's no middle class.

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ANDERSON: Well, U.S. President Donald Trump has given a ringing endorsement to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a week before Israel's elections. And

in a recent appeal to undecided voters, Mr. Netanyahu highlighted Mr. Trump's approval.

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BENJAMIN NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER: He gave me his unequivocal support, and he explained why. He said that together we achieved remarkable

things we crushed Iran, we crushed the Iranian axis, and we pushed back the immediate threat --

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ANDERSON: Well Mr. Trump has been featured in Netanyahu's campaigns since 2013. Now his late endorsement may provide a picture of where there at

times rocky relationship now stands. And in Israel's first election since the October the seventh Hamas attacks, voters will decide whether to keep

their longest serving prime minister installed or if installing another leader could usher in a new era for Israel.

Well, for more on Israel's upcoming election, CNN's Jeremy Diamond joining us now live from Jerusalem, and good to have you, Jeremy. And what is the

latest on the elections at this point? They are, of course, next week.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, that's right, and certainly President Trump's endorsement of the Israeli Prime Minister is

injecting some fresh energy into Netanyahu's campaign, but how much of an impact it will actually have on those elections later next week is still

very much an open question.

There's no question that President Trump remains a very popular figure here in Israel, but in some ways, a lot less popular than he was a year ago

after he delivered the ceasefire agreement that led to the release of all the remaining living and dead hostages, at that time, President Trump was

certainly an extremely popular figure in Israel.

But amid the war with Iran and what many here in Israel view as President Trump's pressure to kind of prematurely end that conflict and also end the

conflict that Israel was having with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Opinions of President Trump have certainly soured in Israel.

In fact, polling from the JPPI shows that the number of Israelis expressing a great deal of trust in President Trump has dipped from 34 percent in

March to just 10 percent this past August. So, there's no question that there is a shift here for the Israeli Prime Minister.

It certainly gives him the opportunity to continue making a case that he has made in successive Israeli elections. This notion that he is the one

who can maintain the best relationship with the United States President. He is the one who can kind of deliver for Israel on the international stage.

But Israelis here are also looking at this election in many ways as a referendum on the Israeli Prime Minister, and certainly that is the

perspective of the opposition leaders here. That this election is about the security failures that led to October 7th, that happened on Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu's watch, as it relates to kind of the international front.

This period of the last three years has seen the largest ever decline in Israel's support and popularity around the world, including in the United

States, and the opposition is basically saying that that also falls on Benjamin Netanyahu. So, we are seeing all of this confluence of events,

both the domestic politics and the security aspect here in Israel, all coming to a head towards the end of next week as Israelis will head to the

polls for what is undoubtedly the most consequential election that we have seen in Israel in decades.

And one that will certainly shape not only the policy and politics here in Israel, but vis-a-vis the Palestinians as well, and of course in the region

more broadly.

ANDERSON: It's good to have you. Thank you very much in days -- indeed. Well, it's 15 days and counting until the U.S. midterm elections, with the

balance of power in Washington on the line, of course. And right now, Democrats do appear to have the edge in the race for Congress.

They lead 54 to 45 percent in the latest CNN poll of polls. President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance crisscrossing the country in these final

days, making the case for Republicans. But for Vance, the campaign is also an early test of how he defends the Trump agenda and of his own political

future.

CNN Politics Senior Reporter Stephen Collinson joining us now to discuss all of this. And I want to start, if we can, with the big picture here,

Stephen. J.D. Vance, and the president crisscrossing the country. This is the final push, of course. The latest poll of polls.

I've just suggesting that President Trump's approval rating among the American public stands at something like 34 percent. We have to ask at this

point how much reliability the president has become for Republicans on this campaign trail, and how difficult it is for them to separate themselves

from the president's record.

STEPHEN COLLINSON, CNN POLITICS SENIOR REPORTER: Well, midterm elections, which are for the whole of the House and a third of the Senate in the

United States, always turn into a referendum of the president who was elected two years before, especially in times of economic difficulty, as

we're seeing now with Americans really still hurting from high prices, which really haven't come down from the pandemic, and they've been

exacerbated by the war in Iran.

So, Trump's popularity is a massive undertow for a lot of Republican candidates, especially because the Democrats still aren't particularly

popular themselves, but they're apparently benefiting from Trump's deep unpopularity. I think one reason why this is difficult for Republicans is

when people go to the grocery stores or they gas up their car, there is a tangible focus for their anger.

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The Iran war has demonstratively made prices much higher, and that is something that is clearly, all down to President Trump's decision to go to

war-a war he said would end very quickly, and one which is now in its eighth month. So normally these elections are difficult because of the

particular circumstances of this year.

They're even more difficult for the president's party.

ANDERSON: Yeah, it's fascinating, isn't it? At that Michigan town hall, Vance faced some pretty pointed questions about immigration, about the Iran

war, and on the economy. I just want our viewers to hear this exchange.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a big difference between what you're saying right now and what President Trump says when he's out on the trail. He says

it's an A plus economy. You say it's going to take time. You say you're frustrated at times. Which is it?

J.D. VANCE, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Well, I think that what the president is saying is that we are seeing all of these

massive new investments come into our country. But he would be the first person to tell you that you got to build the factories first before you can

employ the workers working in those factories.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But to a point --

VANCE: And see that --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's not an A plus economy if you hear stories like this.

VANCE: Well, I think what we're doing is we're turning the ship around, Sandy (ph). That's what I would say. And by the way, Sandy (ph), there are

things that we -- look, we need to do more, and we can certainly do better.

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ANDERSON: Where do you believe he struggled and will continue to struggle most, Stephen, to defend the administration's policies?

COLLINSON: Yeah, that town hall on Saturday night was very interesting because Vance was in a position which Trump doesn't put himself in very

often. Trump is going around doing rallies in deeply Republican states, hanging out with all of his supporters in the White House.

He's in a real gilded bubble of millionaires and billionaires and people who were appointed simply because they flatter him and tell him good news.

So, Vance is getting a taste of what the country wants. I think the issue here is that when you have an electorate that wants change, it's ground

down by years of higher prices, and the president is ignoring them, telling people, well, this is going to get better in a little while.

Gas prices will come down when the war ends, and that will be soon. People have heard all this over and over again. So, when a politician is telling

people facts or propositions that do not tally with the evidence of their everyday lives, that's when they tend to get in trouble, especially on

economic conditions.

Every administration, when there is a time of economic duress, has to tell voters, look, we're working on it, and it's going to get better. Voters

have heard that so many times in the last 25 years. They're not in the mood for it, and I think that is one reason why in the United States, we keep

seeing these elections every two years, in which the incumbent party takes a heavy blow because people are kind of despairing a little bit that the

system will be able to alleviate their problem.

I think this is not just something that's happening in the United States. If you look at almost all of the westernized democracies, politicians come

in promising change, and then struggle to quickly enact it, and they get into deep political trouble.

ANDERSON: Yeah, good to have you. A couple of weeks out, of course, we will continue to check in with you on a regular basis. Stephen, always a

pleasure. Thank you.

COLLINSON: Thanks --

ANDERSON: Well, in this region, Egypt says it is ready to provide full support to Saudi Arabia as hostilities escalate with Yemen's Iran-backed

Houthis. Egypt's President is seeking parliament's backing for military support for Saudi Arabia, if asked. Cairo says it would also ramp up

diplomatic efforts to try to reduce tensions across the region.

Well, you're watching "Connect the World" from our Middle East programming headquarters still to come on CNN. President Trump steps up his criticism

of Ukraine's Leader as Volodymyr Zelenskyy warns that U.S. support for Russia would be an historic mistake.

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ANDERSON: Well, U.S. President Donald Trump does appear to be ramping up his criticism of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as questions grow

over Washington's continued support for Kyiv. Now, in a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump slammed the Ukrainian President, saying, I quote,

Zelenskyy is using diesel refineries in Russia as a target, knowing that these attacks are seriously hurting the world diesel market.

Zelenskyy doesn't care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him and that crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he

doesn't want to end this war and probably never did, he wrote. Well, President Trump's remarks are raising fears that Ukraine could lose vital

U.S. backing as it faces another winter of relentless Russian attacks.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can Ukraine win this war without the United States, President Zelenskyy?

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE: Very difficult. If it's without United States support, it's very difficult. But if United States will

support Putin, I mean, it's unbelievable. It's tragedy. It's historic mistake and big tragedy.

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ANDERSON: Clare Sebastian is across this for us, and she joins us now. We just learned news of a potential trilateral meeting between Donald Trump,

President Vladimir Putin of Russia, and the Chinese Leader Xi Jinping. This is ostensibly on ending Russia's war with Ukraine.

And we heard some talk of that from Trump's top diplomat Marco Rubio earlier on today. So, what do we know at this point?

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, this was first reported, Becky, by "The Wall Street Journal" that it had been an idea they cited sources in

saying that came from President Vladimir Putin in his recent call with Trump that those three leaders should sit down and try to figure out a

resolution to end the war.

The Kremlin commented on this today and said that there was a hypothetical meeting that was discussed, but there was no agenda or necessarily a place

or time yet. And Marco Rubio said that there had been talks about such a meeting, but he didn't know if anything had been finalized yet.

So, it's clear that an idea was floated. No, nothing further than that at this point, but it is a massive red flag for Ukraine, right? Because it

smacks of what they've been trying to avoid over the past few years, which is any sign that there would be any attempt to try to reach a peace deal

without them in a war.

That frankly, they are fighting for their own right to exist and for self- determination. So, we got some pretty strong words from Ukraine's Foreign Minister, who came out saying inviting Putin to such a meeting would feed

his appetite, he said, for self-aggrandizement and give him a stature he does not deserve.

He is not a global leader, said Andrew Sibia. He is a war criminal. So, look, to be clear, there is no date set as of yet. The Ukrainian side

remains, they say, in contact with the U.S. side, but this would be a propaganda coup for Putin and one that the Ukrainians would really like to

avoid, Becky.

ANDERSON: I want to talk before I let you go about the significance of Ukraine's drone attack on Russia over the weekend and how much the growing

rift between Trump and Zelenskyy is putting sort of future U.S. support for Ukraine at risk at this point?

SEBASTIAN: Yeah. So, this was a very large Ukrainian drone attack that we saw Saturday into Sunday, particularly targeting St. Petersburg.

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It's not just oil infrastructure at this point, although they did target a major oil facility in St. Petersburg, but we're seeing a sort of

comprehensive effort to target the Russian economy. There was a distribution center linked to Ozon, which is one of the big e-commerce

companies.

There was a data center for the Russian version of Facebook for VKontakte. The first time we've seen one of their facilities hit. So, Ukraine is

continuing with what it sees as one of its best lines of defense, right, hitting facilities that fuel the Russian economy behind enemy lines.

What it means for the future of USAID, I think clearly there is concern. But as President Sensky made clear, he's not just concerned about what

happens to USAID for Ukraine. He's concerned, in particular, about how close the U.S. draws to Russia at this point, he's very worried that that

could go further, Becky.

ANDERSON: It's good to have you, Clare. Thank you very much indeed. We are just about 30 minutes and change away from the start of trade on Wall

Street. This is the picture as things stand on the futures market. Looks as if the tech stocks are in pretty good shape today.

Although the wider market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, is off. So, let's take a very short break. Back after this.

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ANDERSON: All right, welcome back. You're watching "Connect the World". I'm Becky Anderson in Abu Dhabi. French President Emmanuel Macron vowing those

behind violent weekend protests will be held accountable. At least two people were killed across France and some 2,000 arrested as demonstrations

over education shortfalls and inflation spiraled out of control.

Macron is promising to hold meetings this week to address those protesters' demands. Well, just over two weeks until the U.S. midterm elections.

President Trump hitting the trail again with a rally in Kansas planned for later today. He plans to campaign in seven states over the next seven days,

with Republicans trailing in the race for Congress, according to the latest CNN poll of polls.

Well, U.S. President Donald Trump endorses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, just a little more than a week before Israel's

elections. President Trump called Mr. Netanyahu quote, a great warrior prime minister in a social media post. The late endorsement signals what

has at times become a rocky relationship between the two.

Well, we are about 40 seconds away from the opening bell on Wall Street today, the Susan G. Komen Foundation ringing the bell for National Breast

Cancer Awareness Month. And you can see the pink there and the ladies wearing pink on the podium there, just waiting for the bell.

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And we will give them that moment. Right. So that is the beginning of the trading day on Wall Street, and here is how the DOW has started trading

today. We were expecting a pretty mixed look to the trading day, and the DOW pretty much flat, to be honest, on the open there.

Global oil futures are lower after touching $110 a barrel on Friday for the first time since May. Brent crude, the global benchmark, is holding below

110 on the barrel at present. The WTI, which is the U.S. benchmark, of course, remains above $100 on the barrel. They're at 100 spot 21.

Energy traders blame the recent price spike on renewed fears about oil supplies as this U.S.-Iran war drags on. And my colleague CNN's Matt Egan

joining us now. It was back in early August. You and I talked about this. Brent crude was at $80 on the barrel, of course.

Now with the U.S. midterm elections two weeks from tomorrow, Brent touching its highest level in five months, and this, of course, has an impact

ultimately on gas prices, gasoline prices, affordability in the U.S. which is a key issue for U.S. voters. Just give us a sense of what is going on

with these markets and how quickly, you know, what we see on these global benchmarks sort of seeps through to the price of gas at the pump.

MATT EGAN, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Yeah, Becky. Well, look, oil prices they are moving lower this morning, but only a little bit and only from very

high levels. Brent, global benchmark $108 a barrel, down 2 percent or so. But as you mentioned, this comes after Brent hit 110 on Friday for the

first time in five months.

Now these declines come despite the fact that over the weekend Ukraine appeared to defy President Trump by launching new attacks on Russia,

including one that hit an oil terminal. Also, this is coming despite the latest unrest in the Middle East and including attacks on vessels in the

region.

But the fact that prices are down likely reflects this executive order that President Trump signed on Friday, pausing a new round of sanctions that

were scheduled to take effect on Russia in a law named after the late Senator Lindsey Graham. Now, this executive order it pauses tariffs of up

to 100 percent on goods from major buyers of Russian oil and natural gas, also pausing tariffs of up to 500 percent on U.S. imports of Russian goods.

Of course, the irony here is that President Trump, more than any of his modern predecessors, has really embraced tariffs as a tool that can solve

almost any problem. And yet here he is pausing tariffs on Russia. Now the oil market seems to like this because traders are thinking, well, if

there's fewer sanctions on Russia, that means there's more supply of energy coming out of Russia.

And yet, despite this dip this morning, it's just been a massive gain for Brent. When you look back, when the year started, Brent was trading at

about $60 a barrel. Then, just before the war started, it was around 70. But look at this spiking after that, and really, it's been on this steady

climb over the last few weeks, basically at or near the highest levels since really the worst of the war back in the spring.

And these have just been historic gains so far this year for Brent. Brent up by almost 80 percent year to date. There's really no parallel

historically. You look back to the president's first term, which was over here. You see there were some years of minor gains, minor losses, but

nothing like this.

Not even during the Biden Administration. In fact, Brent is on track for its biggest annual percentage gain since 1999. And yes, this is filtering

through to what consumers are paying at the gas pump. Right, the national average 4.30 a gallon. It is down 18 cents from a month ago, but

dramatically higher than before the war when gas was well below $3 a gallon.

And this is just a very historically high level for this time of year. And of course, this is keeping pressure on diesel as well. Diesel 6.32 a gallon

before the war. Diesel was well below $4 a gallon. And what's notable here, Becky, is that diesel is actually four cents higher than it was on October

9th when President Trump announced that controversial deal to import diesel from Russia.

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So, bottom line, fuel prices remain uncomfortably high. Oil prices remain very high as well, and this is going to continue to put pressure on the

cost of living, really around the world, Becky.

ANDERSON: And of course, we've seen these sort of peaks and troughs. We've seen this sort of you know up and down in the oil markets during this sort

of regional crisis in the Gulf here, and we see that crisis, of course, escalating, you know, with the second front opening up in the Red Sea with

the Houthis.

And I'm just wondering when you talk to your sources who are looking at these oil markets now and into the end of next year and beyond. What are

they telling you about their forecasts at this point?

EGAN: Well, Becky, their forecast really, they have to hinge on what's going on geopolitically, right? Obviously, the U.S.-Iran war, all the

pressure on the Strait of Hormuz, the fact that it's just gotten incredibly expensive to ship out of the Persian Gulf, but also the Russia-Ukraine war,

right?

How many more refineries are damaged or destroyed by Ukrainian drones. And so, it's really hard to say where prices are going to go because we don't

know what's going to happen with the war. But what is clear is that the energy market is more concerned than it was just a few weeks ago and just a

few months ago, and that prices are pushing up to really the highest levels since the war started.

And again, this is just going to keep the price at the gas pump that much higher, Becky, back to you.

ANDERSON: Good to have you, Matt. Thank you.

EGAN: Thanks.

ANDERSON: All right, folks. Let's keep you up to speed on some of the other stories that are on our radar right now. And Pope Leo has made his first

major public appearance since undergoing lung cancer surgery. The 71-year- old pontiff led the Angelus Prayer from the balcony overlooking St. Pete's Square on Sunday.

He thanked doctors for his treatment and those who prayed for his recovery, saying that he is gradually returning to his duties as pope. New witness

video shows a resident, Long Beach, California, being detained by I.C.E. agents on Saturday. Local police officers found the man handcuffed and

bleeding after he called emergency services over concerns of unmarked vehicles.

He told the local mayor he is a U.S. citizen. It was unclear why he was detained. China's economy grew 4.5 percent in third quarter, beating

expectations as the global AI boom fueled high-tech exports. China has weathered the shocks of President Trump's tariff war now on pause, as well

as weak domestic demand and a prolonged property slump.

Well, you've got sports up next here on CNN and an early goal of the season contender in the English Premier League to -- That's coming up next.

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ANDERSON: Well, to the biggest box office opening for a documentary. In over 20 years, you can see everything opened on fewer than 900 screens and

made more than 15 million dollars in ticket sales. Now, this is a documentary that follows Elizabeth Holmes.

She is the disgraced founder of the medical testing company Theranos, and this was shot in her final weeks before she went to prison in 2023. Now she

was convicted of wire fraud and conspiracy to defraud investors, but she tried to convince filmmakers Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim of her

innocence.

Now this is scoring 99 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and is already getting best picture, I mean, getting best picture buzz. CNN's Brian Stelter has

already seen it, and we will be speaking to him next hour. So do stay with me for that. I'm very much looking forward to seeing that.

In football, some goals, frankly, are just better than others, and that was certainly the case in Brighton's 5-0 win on Sunday with an early goal of

the season contender. That was from Diego Gomez. And Amanda Davies joining us now to walk us through it. Well, there was very little walking on that.

He just launched it. Go on.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: Yeah. I'm not even sure. I need to say everything, Becky, I mean, the pictures speak for themselves -- it's so

reminiscent. You will remember Wayne Rooney against playing forever.

ANDERSON: Nayim from the halfway line.

DAVIES: -- in 1996. But you know what? He doesn't score many, Diego Gomez, but this is no accident. He tried exactly the same move last weekend

against Sunderland. He didn't pull it off, and he went back and tried again against Crystal Palace on Sunday. And look at that, his first goal of the

season, and what a goal of the season.

I have to say though there was some brilliant action across Europe, some great goals in Spain as well.

ANDERSON: Yeah.

DAVIES: And we've got those coming up in "World Sport" in just a couple of moments.

ANDERSON: Yeah, if you don't succeed, try, try again. Right, it's so cheeky. Good for him. Excellent. All right, good stuff. That's "World

Sport" after this short break. I'm back with "Connect the World" in 15 minutes' time, stay with us.

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