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Trump Tries To Rewrite Disastrous Debate Performance; Trump To Rally, Biden Will Invite Flood Of Refugees; Severe Downturn In Air Traffic In 2020; Spain Issues Tighter Restrictions On Madrid; Wuhan's Yellow Crane Tower Expecting Huge Holiday Crowds; Trump Campaign: Changing Debate Rules A Bad Idea. Aired 11a-12p ET
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ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Abu Dhabi. This is "Connect the World" with Becky Anderson.
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST, CONNECT THE WORLD: Welcome back. You're watching "Connect the World". We begin this hour with a refusal, a denial and plenty
of reaction to Donald Trump who insists he had a great debate. Others though all calling Tuesday night's chaotic confrontation with Democratic
Presidential rival Joe Biden meltdown and a disgrace.
Well, it's only 33 days until the U. S. election and looming over all of it the American President's refusal to condemn white supremacy again. Take a
listen to some of the Republican reaction to that on Capitol Hill.
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SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it, if he does correct it I guess he didn't misspeak.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I want to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Tim Scott. He said it was unacceptable not to condemn white
supremacists. And so I do so in the strongest possible way.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The president condemns white supremacy. What was it a mistake - leave for him to leave that hanging out there.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He should unequivocally condemn white supremacy.
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ANDERSON: Well, they are reacting to the president's Proud Boys stand by moment when he seemed to signal his approval to a far right hate group. Now
during the debate Mr. Trump was confronted by Joe Biden about his leniency towards white supremacies once again he refused to condemn them.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: What do you want to call them? Give me a name. Give me a name.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: White supremacists--
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TRUMP: "Proud Boys" stand back and standby but I'll tell you what I'll tell you what somebody's got to do something about ANTIFA.
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ANDERSON: At least 73 million Americans were watching at exchange, millions more around the world of course yet less than a day after saying that the
president refused to condemn the "Proud Boys" by name insisting he actually doesn't know who they are?
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TRUMP: Done in New York - like they've done in New York. I just told you. I've always denounced any form, any form, any form of any of that you have
to denounce.
I don't know who the "Proud Boys" are. I mean, you ought to give me a definite because I really don't know who they are? I can only say they have
to stand down let law enforcement do their work.
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ANDERSON: That is his response. Look, all of it coming just after one debate if you can call it that there're still 2 more to go over the next
few weeks. But you can expect to see some changes in the format. Debate officials are promising new rules to ensure to "Ensure a more orderly
discussion" Here is how Joe Biden saw all of this.
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JOE BIDEN (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I kind of thought. At one point maybe I shouldn't say this but the President United States conducted himself the
way he did. I think it's just a national embarrassment.
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ANDERSON: Former Presidential Contender Andrew Yang tweeted his shock at the turmoil of the debate saying and I quote the next morning we are still
digesting what we saw last night. We need a change in leadership.
Andrew Yang joining me now, thank you for being with us again. So you have said that you think Joe Biden one during the debates it did feel an awful
lot like no one won and that in fact America lost Andrew?
ANDREW YANG, CNN POLITICAL COMMENTATOR: Well, you have to take the context into account Becky. Joe was winning coming into the debate Trump was
losing. Trump needed even positive catalysts he did not get it.
And so despite the fact that it was disgraceful episode and a very unpleasant viewing experience if you're the Joe Biden team you have to be
important because the dynamic of the race has not changed.
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YANG: I want to suggest that Trump's debate performance may even depressed turnout among Republicans who were inclined to vote for him. So it's a
great night for Joe. It's a great night for the Democrats. We just need to keep doing the work and make sure that votes get counted.
ANDERSON: You've joined Biden's campaign team pushing to highlight his economic goals and we've talked about this a lot in the show. This year was
a terrible year for small businesses in a bipartisan deal yet to be struck to deliver further pandemic relief. I just want our viewers to listen to
both Mitch McConnell and Nancy Pelosi.
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SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): The latest bill from the speaker is no more serious than any of their political stunts going back months.
REP. NANCY PELOSI (D-CA): But we passed our bill over 4 months ago.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
PELOSI: And it was a large bill because we have large needs in that country. They start putting forth skinny bills from which Chuck calls it
initiated bills that do not meet the needs of our country. So we were willing to cut back $1 trillion and even more not taking up priorities but
taking out the top length of time.
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ANDERSON: Andrew, today October 1st, we could see as many as 100,000 well paid airline jobs for example vanish. We can listen to the politicians
biting on about where they see their parties and what they want to see next?
But do you want to see Mr. Biden stand up and explain what he wants to do on the economic front at this point?
YANG: Millions of Americans are hurting and they're trying to figure out how they're going to buy groceries or pay next month's rent? And if you
look at Congress and ask why we have not seen another relief bill since March or April and now it's October?
The answer is just politics. There were a number of Congress members who came forward and said look here's a compromise bill. We should consider
this. That's what the American people want. The American people care more about what's happening to their household to their family?
They deserve relief and right now the anger and frustration with Congress's is higher on both sides then perhaps I've ever seen it. There's a very high
level of disgust with the fact that Congress can't do the obvious and pass passable the relief bill and that falls on both sides.
ANDERSON: Yes, OK. Well, and thank you for that. I want our viewers to just have a listen to this.
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TRUMP: Another massive issue for Minnesota's election of Joe Biden's plan to intimidate your steak with a historic flood of refugees. Biden will turn
Minnesota into a refugee camp and he said that.
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ANDERSON: This kind of rhetoric clearly works or at least the president feels it does. What kind of damage do you believe it is being done to basic
decency in American politics? And let me just caveat this, Joe Biden told Trump to shut up everyone has mud on them haven't hit this point?
YANG: Americans right now are hungry for a sense of calm after nearly four years of being exhausted by Trump's inflammatory rhetoric and controversy
of the day. It's one reason why I believe so many are eager to turn the page to Joe and Kamala because they see Joe and Kamala a return to a degree
of competent reason the leadership.
And so the damages that's being done is very real but I believe that Americans are tired of it. And hopefully we can change the tone very, very
quickly and significantly after we get Joe and Kamala into the White House.
It just at this point as you said we're only a month away we might have to wait a little bit longer for the election results. But Americans are very,
very eager to turn the page and it's happening right now. Hundreds of thousands of Americans are voting as we speak.
ANDERSON: But Andrew, this is the point isn't it? That not all Americans are looking to turn the page if he loses he is still likely to have got
tens of millions of votes. What does that say do you think about the character of America today?
YANG: One reason I ran for president is that we've been struggling with these problems since before Trump was elected where our economy has pushed
millions of Americans to the side. The pandemic is made that much, much worse.
And our institutions and our government have not truly been addressing these challenges in people's everyday lives. So more Americans have been
subject to terrible leadership, to bad ideas, to blaming other people and that's the hard work we have to do.
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YANG: Joe and Kamala's election will not magically mend our communities or restore opportunities that people have lost them. We have a ton of work to
do. And if we do that work then we have a meaningful chance to bring the country together but the election has to just be the beginning.
ANDERSON: There's been a lot of criticism hasn't it towards President Trump and his comments on white supremacy. Let's just have a listen to what he
said when asked if he condemns white supremacy?
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TRUMP: It's done in New York. Like they've done in New York I just told you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You should denounce them.
TRUMP: I've always denounced any form, any form, any form of any of that you have to denounce.
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ANDERSON: I want contrast that with what he said back in 2016 and you'll remember this Andrew when he refused to condemn the white supremacist
Leader David Duke because at the time David Jude was endorsing him.
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JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke and say that you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists in this
election?
TRUMP: I don't know. I mean, I don't know did he endorse me or what's going on because you know I know nothing about David Duke. I know nothing about
white supremacists.
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ANDERSON: Does this idea that Donald Trump axel says one thing and then suggests that he doesn't know anything about you know the character or the
group that he's speaking about. Does that work with many, many Americans?
YANG: It doesn't work.
ANDERSON: He seems to be--
YANG: We can all see right through it. We can see that he does not want to denounce people that he feels are supporting him. He also wants to continue
to inflame controversy and division because he feels that's his only chance to win.
So the American people can see plainly that he's failing in some of the core responsibilities of his office by failing to repudiate white
supremacists very clearly and unequivocally. He's been given countless opportunities to do so and he clearly does not want to and he is not up to
one of his again basic responsibilities as our president. It's very sad. It's very, very dark. It's one reason why he's set to lose.
ANDERSON: You were a contender. I'm just wondering whether as you watch that debate the other night you were wondering how you might have hoped.
Did you - were you were you pleased that it wasn't you on that stage alongside Donald Trump?
And the Commission has said that it wants to reinforce the rules as it were. They want to do something different in the next two debates. So what
should they do and can we assume that Joe Biden is still prepared to go through these next two debates?
YANG: He is going to be better prepared because now he's seen the worst of it and we may see a technological fix which is that you might have
microphones that go off until the moderator gives you the all clear. What powering up the order the moderator would have in that instance where they
can literally just put a cone of silence over one of the speakers?
So if that happens that would dramatically change the tone of the debate because you might see Donald Trump posturing in silence. You know we hear
that one of Donald Trump's habits is to watch himself with the mute button. You just want to see how he looks?
You know we all could be subject to that experience if the Debate Commission decides to go that direction. I encourage it. Go ahead and just
say look moderator has mic control and make it so that they actually can set down the guidelines that both campaigns agreed to.
ANDERSON: Are you really do you feel like you've dodged a bullet as it was by not being candidate out there against Donald Trump?
YANG: None like tens, hundreds of millions of Americans who just want to turn the page and watching last night I mean or the other night it was a
difficult experience but thrilled that Joe remains poised to win this election for all of us. So that that's what I was and I think that's where
many, many Americans were on Tuesday night.
ANDERSON: Too curling experience for many people. Mr. Yang it was a pleasure thank you very much indeed Andrew Yang and 73 million other
Americans watched at home many, many more of us watched around the world.
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ANDERSON: So I want to discuss the global reaction to that debate. Much of the world has reportedly seen this first debate as a spacewalk I'm even
going to say reportedly because I think I would absolutely agree with that. Some even claim that Russia and China were the real winners providing
plenty of fodder for assaults on the American style of democracy.
Let's bring in CNN's International Diplomatic Editor Nic Robertson who has more on global reaction. What are your sources telling you about the
overall sort of perception of that first U. S. presidential debate? One of the most important U. S. elections ever as far as the sort of watching
public from abroad is concerned.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yes, in the United States is a beacon of democracy. The other democracies in the world at a
time of rising autocrats and dictators and populist as we see in Russia and China who would've rubbed their hands at the level of dissent and the lack
of articulate debates that was witnessed between the Vice President Biden and President Trump will rub the hands over that.
The democracies of the world who really feel that they need to band together would look to the United States to be you know to give a measure
of what a democracy is about? And they didn't see that. One German politician said look it was just bad entertainment and Germany's gotten
election coming up.
And he said that we don't want that sort of thing here. Another very senior German politician lamented the lack of facts debating and articulating the
problems in the United States right now. I don't think it matters which country you turn to it was viewed as being chaotic.
And for the United States allies here in Europe who are democracies that is not a good thing. Now the hope is that this is just sort of shrouded this
beacon of democracy is shrouded under the next debate or the next president comes to the situation wiser and with a different perspective.
So you know look everyone's been waiting I think around the world to see what's the outcome of this election? And for United States allies and those
who are not opposed to the stabilizing force that it brings to the world like Russia like China they are hoping that a more stable predictable
easier to deal with more get along more internationalist leader emerges in the United States. So they will have seen the debate through that prism.
ANDERSON: Fascinating and well speaking of similarly disastrous political spectacles and what is going on as far as the transition to Brexit is
concerned? The EU is suing the UK now over a Brexit withdrawal bill that Boris Johnson signed with Europe last year. What's the latest?
ROBERTSON: Yes, it's. And it's all about part of that withdrawal agreement. The protocols around Northern Ireland keeping that open border between
Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic to the South. And Boris Johnson's government wants the past what they call an internal markets bill.
They say that this is a safety net that that's going to guarantee that peace and stability in Northern Ireland. The European Union doesn't see it
that way. But the EU three weeks ago said if you go ahead with this bill which the British government accepts the Minister - Secretary of State for
Northern Ireland said this does break international law this withdrawal agreement.
The European Union said three weeks ago, if you don't back away from that then we're going to institute a legal process and that's what they've
begun. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen laid it out today.
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URSULA VON DER LEYEN, EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT: This morning the Commission has decided to send a letter of formal notice to the UK
government. This is the first step in an infringement procedure. The letter invites the UK government to send its observations within a month and
besides this the Commission will continue to work hard towards a full and timely implementation of the withdrawal agreement. We stand by our
commitments thank you.
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ANDERSON: And that would be positioned from the European Union. Nic Robertson we thank you very much indeed for joining us. Well, months of
uncertainty ahead for tens of thousands of American workers is airlines announce massive layoffs with possibly even more to come.
Will, the U. S. Congress comes to the rescue again? A live report is just ahead. But no head wins for airlines or the travel business here when it
comes to China it is full steam ahead for the entire industry.
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ANDERSON: The Coronavirus pandemic is grounding one of the world's critical economic engines. U. S. Airlines have already warned Congress that 100,000
jobs will be at risk when a federal bailout package expired just hours ago.
Worldwide the downtown in air travel and tourism could wipe out 46 million jobs. Well, this is two major carriers American and United have just
announced thousands of job cuts. Let me bring in our guests for more on what are these far reaching implications of the pandemic on the Airline
Industry?
Brian Pearce is the Chief Economist at the International Air Transport Association. Brian it is good to have you. Just moments ago CNN spoke to
the Chief Executive of one of America's largest airlines Delta. This is what he had to say.
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ED BASTIAN, CEO, DELTA AIR LINES: At the time we got the First Cares Act we all thought we'd hopefully be in a better position relative to the virus
than we are today we're not. If we don't get the support from Congress we will be required as an industry to furlough tens of thousands of workers.
Hopefully in 6 months time will be in a better spot. We're not going to be through this virus. There's no question about that but will at least be in
a more stable position to start to see what how the recovery is taking shape?
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ANDERSON: There's been so much talk of an eleventh hour extension to the U. S. stimulus deal that would help these struggling airlines. Steve Mnuchin
had this to say.
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STEVEN MNUCHIN, TREASURY SECRETARY: I am hopeful that we can come to an overall understanding and if we do that hopefully the Airlines will
postpone their actions. I've spoken to all the Airline CEOs on a constant basis. I think they've done a good job reaching out to you both Republicans
and Democrats. And I'll be calling them this afternoon and giving them an update on my conversations with the speaker.
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ANDERSON: Well, I'm sure as many as 100,000 in the U. S. in the millions around the world. I would like to feel that you were optimistic, are you?
What is the future at this point?
BRIAN PEARCE, CHIEF ECONOMIST, INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION: It's a still looking really difficult. We got a very difficult
few months coming up in the winter and away typically people don't travel anyway. So cash flows are very weak.
And Airlines have already faced something of a 90 percent fall in their passenger revenues in the second quarter. They've only been able to cut
costs around 50 percent to this stage which is why you're seeing airlines trying to turn themselves cash positive because the burning out cash at a
really rapid rate.
ANDERSON: Is it clear how much government funding the U. S. Airlines for example need at this point?
PEARCE: Well, I think the U. S. Airlines seems to be burning up cash at a rate about 4 or $5 billion a month.
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PEARCE: And you know that that is far from unusual around the world you know we've we seen Airlines you know very similar situation. And you know
the average airline around the world despite the very substantial government support that has been already provided to the industry.
A lot of cash they're in about 160 billion of cash worldwide has only got about 6 months of cash to lost at the rate of cash burn that we saw
recently.
ANDERSON: That's unbelievable. Under normal circumstances aviation and the tourism it facilitates supports nearly 90 million jobs worldwide that's 90
million jobs air travel experienced in a total shut down for several months. Do you believe the sector will ever recover to pre COVID levels and
if so when?
PEARCE: Well, I think it I think it could. You know we've seen in many domestic markets around the world there is clearly a willingness to travel
again near the Chinese market is almost back to where it was before the crisis.
The problem particularly on international travel we got close borders around the world. We need some way of opening up borders. And we think that
testing regimes are always of ensuring the governments so it's important because these cases.
ANDERSON: You've talked about China which is a sort of a positive story as it was. The sort of rose amongst the thorns isn't it? Which region has been
the hardest hit from sinking air traffic?
PEARCE: Well, I think the Americas have you know many of the emerging markets very difficult states. We've seen some progress for instance in
Europe with a travel corridors, travel bubbles being opened between countries.
But even in Europe we've seen a resurgence of the Coronavirus and knocking that progress on the head and we've seen setbacks in those markets as well.
ANDERSON: I have to ask you, you know it clearly the U. S. Airline industry and those who are employed by are desperately hoping that more money will
be made available. You've talked about 160 billion around the world which is being made available to the airline and tourism industry.
There are people asking you know this isn't just any more money at this point simply delayed the inevitable which is possibly that the airline
industry is never going to be as big as it was or perhaps these jobs eventually will go anyway?
PEARCE: Well, I think that they're going to have to be some pretty serious decisions made. Airlines on average have got about 6 months of cash left
and anyway it's looking like it's going to take a lot longer than that for revenues and markets to recover.
So they have to take some serious decisions now just to survive. But you know there's also an awful lot of uncertainty over the future and because
air transport is such a critical industry for supporting economic recovery through trade and tourism.
You know it doesn't make sense for governments to support the airline network to keep those lines for trade and travel open.
ANDERSON: With that we're going to leave it there. We cross our fingers for the industry thank you sir.
PEARCE: Thank you.
ANDERSON: Spain's capital battles a surge of Coronavirus infections with strict new lockdowns. District leaders complaining the measures are illegal
I want to get to Madrid up next.
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ANDERSON: The government is exacting new Coronavirus restrictions in Madrid as cases there continue to rise. COVID infections across Madrid outpace the
national rates 2 to one. Well travel between districts is reduced to essential movement only. Shops bars and restaurants will operated 50
percent capacity.
The new measures include areas surrounding the capital regional leaders complain that lockdown mandate is illegal. Well, CNN's Al Goodman is in
Madrid and he has the latest. Al, more than 4 million people will be impacted by these new restrictions but these restrictions exclude people
going to work, going to school, going to the doctors even going shopping.
And in fact many people are out on the streets protesting that last week. Let's not forget Spain is one of the highest cases in Europe while the
debate over whether or not these new restrictions are legal or not shouldn't the government actually be doubling down on restrictions at this
point?
AL GOODMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Becky. Well, that's certainly what a number of leading health professionals here across the country have been
urging the government to do. But analysts say that this government has been reluctant to do that because they're tiptoeing around the potential
economic damage of further restrictions.
Remember that the unemployment rate here is already 15 percent. Take the tourism industry worth 12 percent of the GDP the summer tourism season
along Spain's lovely beaches it was basically a wash out down 75 percent in July. The most recent figures available there's several million jobs
involved.
So even to push through these kinds of measures for the Madrid region where I am here in the Capital the Capital and several large surrounding suburban
cities they've gotten push back the socialist government of Spain, push back from the regional conservative government in Madrid.
There has been political fighting but the Spain's Health Minister does have a clear idea in his head and he's been trying to warn people about what's
coming next? Let's listen.
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SALVADOR ILLA, SPANISH HEALTH MINISTER: We have to be aware that we have very tough weeks coming up and that everyone must be up to the task. We
have to be up to the task with the goal of bending the curve to keep defeating the virus.
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GOODMAN: You know Becky, Spain was really widely praised for the first nationwide locked that went on for three months from mid March to mid June
but the regional governments have been in charge throughout the summer and it really hasn't been going so well lately, Becky?
ANDERSON: Yes, fascinating that's Al Goodman in Madrid for you. Tough times there Nick Stole in France the president urging his country to learn to
live with the virus because he says the vaccine could be a long way off that is a stark contrast to other leaders narratives of course. Here is
Emmanuel Macron.
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EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT: Everywhere we can we need to restart, restart, restart right now we can't wait for everything to be simple for
everything to be clear for everything to be safe and transparent because I can't tell you the date of the end of the virus that's impossible. And for
those who tell you that we will have a vaccine next March or April sincerely they are deceiving you. We will undoubtedly live with the virus
for a long time.
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ANDERSON: Words of the French President. Let me get you up to speed on some of the other stories that on our radar right now.
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ANDERSON: And the Netherlands is topped 10000 deaths in its first wave of COVID-19 that's according to new governmental statistics there. And that is
a lot more, a lot more than initially reported. The country had some of Europe's most relaxed restrictions but this week it has ordered bars to
shut early and for people to wear masks in shops.
And Denmark also making bars and restaurants close early and requiring face marks on public transport. It says COVID-19 that is still on the rise but
at a slower pace since the new restrictions. Those rules have been extended until October 18th.
But Israel's daily death rate from COVID-19 is now higher than the U. S., the UK, South Korea, Italy, Austria and France. The country recorded a
record of nearly 9,000 new cases on Wednesday this despite being in a second general lockdown.
Why we've seen in Europe the Americas and other places around the world struggling to contain the virus with what some describe as a hodgepodge of
lockdowns and measures. In China where this all began of course it is back to normal in fact in full swing the nation marking its National Day today
with hundreds of millions of trips during what is known as the Golden Week Holiday.
What makes the difference we'll take a look for yourself China's number of new cases barely a fraction of the numbers seen elsewhere in Europe in the
U. S. and Europe and that is month off the month. CNN's David Culver connects us to China from Beijing.
DAVID CULVER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The start of China's Golden Week Holiday celebrating the country's founding leading the crowds like this travelers
wearing masks but standing shoulder to shoulder at the train station. This marks the first major travel holiday in China since the Coronavirus
outbreak began more than 8 months ago which makes this the first major test of COVID-19 containment here.
Going back roughly to April we've seen significant easing of restrictions across China. I'm sure there have been cluster outbreaks including one here
in Beijing back in June. But many here are more worried about the spread in other parts of the world and so most Mainland Chinese travelers are staying
within China's borders for their holiday.
Feeling a bit more protected perhaps but makes for a crowded bubble. From October 1st through the 8th China Tourism Academy estimates there will be
some 550 million domestic trips taken that is nearly 70 percent of the trips taken at the same time last year.
Hotel bookings however are up 50 percent from 2019 and so too is same city and short distance travel. Think Stay Cation (ph) recent college graduates
Stephy Lu normally prefers to go abroad this year she's among the millions planning a trip to another part of China.
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STEPHY LU, SHANGHAI RESIDENT: The main concern is the type of transportation. I want to make sure to stay in a familiar environment which
is safe for it so as to make sure there's not too many unfamiliar people mix together.
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CULVER: The last significant travel holiday here was the Chinese New Year and while Beijing's Tourism Bureau cancelled all large scale celebrations
for the holiday we were at the Beijing train station as people crowded in to head to their hometowns, very few wearing masks no immediate worries so
it seemed.
Three days later Wuhan the original epicenter of the pandemic went on lockdown. And the streets of major cities like Shanghai went bare for
weeks. This was the iconic bond in February but gradually social life resumed in April more people venturing out. And just last weekend the
nighttime crowd packed in most ditching the facemask.
Major indoor events like this Beijing Auto Show also attracting crowds assigned that many who for weeks were shattered in their homes now feel
increasingly comfortable that the virus will stay contained.
It is worth noting that everyone in China is traveling freely for this holiday week. For example there are restrictions in major cities like
Shanghai for students. They're not allowed to leave the city unless they're willing to do two weeks quarantine before returning to the classroom.
But the real focus is going to be on the days after Golden Week to see if cases rise or if containment is as strong as China's central government
portrays? David Culver, CNN, Beijing.
ANDERSON: Well, many of those holiday travelers in China will be headed to Wuhan, the original epicenter of the pandemic. Yep the city's Yellow Crane
Tower is a major tourist destination and according to a government travel booking site it is the most sorts after attraction for Golden Week even
beating Shanghai's Disneyland.
So many people are expected to visit from out of town. One Wuhan resident told "The Financial Times" that the government is urging locals to stay
away from the tower to minimize the crowds.
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ANDERSON: It is great to have you with us tonight this is "Connect the World" of course. Up next decoys and merits how one man we wrote the book
on seabed conservation restoring an entire species to the Gulf of Maine that is after this.
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ANDERSON: Well, "Call to Earth" is a call to action for the environment to share solutions to critical issues like global warming, deforestation,
plastic waste for example it is a long time priority for all of us at CNN too work with you, our audience to drive awareness and inspire change that
we not the politicians that we can engineer a sustainable future.
In this week's report how Stephen Kress brought the vulnerable Atlantic Puffin back to the Gulf of Maine? Have a look at this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For 47 years Stephen Kress had a central passion.
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STEPHEN KRESS, FOUNDER, NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY'S PROJECT PUFFIN: My mission for life has been to learn more about the ocean birds.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At the heart of the mission a very special species the Puffin.
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KRESS: Because they look and act kind of like people. People can relate to them, the way they walk. They pair of rugs bills together the way they
raised their family.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Puffins had over disappeared from the main coast after being hunted for food and feathers back in the 18 hundreds. In 1973 Kress
began an effort to bring them back to Eastern Egg Rock this tiny speck of an Island just 30 minutes of the mainland. This wasn't an easy task they
have to try and plant young CPAS from Canada.
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KRESS: The Puffin chicks from New Finland were put in each of these burrows hand fed and then they would come out when they were 6 weeks old and they
will work their way to the edge of the island swim off.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For four straight years none if the Puffins came back.
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KRESS: So I began trying to think like a Puffin and I realized that if young puffin did remember this island maybe they wouldn't come ashore
because they were too timid. Puffins are social birds and they like being with others of their kind.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kress tried placing fake Puffin decoys around the island within days the first Puffin returned.
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KRESS: That decoy experience was the first beginning of what we now call social attraction.
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KRESS: Social attraction simply means you're attracting birds using artifacts like decoys, audio recordings, mirrors, scent, artificial burrows
those techniques sort of give birds a little encouragement to start the nucleus of a new colony.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Project Puffin has come a long way. Kress says there are now at least 1300 pairs of Puffins across 5 Maine Islands.
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DONALD LYONS, DIRECTOR OF CONSERVATION SCIENCE, PROJECT PUFFIN: Project Puffin is a little bit of a miracle. One person's passion Steve Kress to
save a particular species inspired a whole group of people to pitch in. The social attraction techniques are now critically contributing to the
restoration of many threatened and endangered species across the world.
KRESS: Oh, what a cutie. Look at them that's a Puffin teenager.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Humans no longer need to handle the chicks. The Puffins are doing a great job of that all by themselves. Researchers track
the Puffins by sight and with GPS tags gaining valuable information about the health of local fisheries.
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KRESS: I think that we've discovered is that Puffins are an amazing indicator of changes in the climate the ocean climate. Gulf of Maine is
warming faster than any other ocean in the world and the Puffins being at the southern limit of their range are very sensitive to those changes. The
oceans are declining in their productivity which means that less food, less oxygen being produced for humans to breathe as well.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kress is still hopeful though to Project Puffing he's learned a - resilient it just needs a lot to care.
ANDERSON: And we will continue showcasing inspirational stories like that since part of the initiative at CNN. And we really want to know what you
are doing to answer the call? So get in touch with the #calltoearth. I'll be right back.
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JOHN F. KENNEDY, 35TH U.S. PRESIDENT: I think Mr. Nixon is an effective leader of his party. I hope he would grant me the same. The question before
us is which point of view and which party do we want to leave the United States?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Nixon would you like to comment on that statement?
RICHARD NIXON, 37TH U.S. PRESIDENT: I have no comment.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a heartless kind of approach to the working families of our country which is typical of many Republican leaders in the
past. But I think it's been accentuated under Governor Reagan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes, my opponents, youth and
inexperience.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man is practicing fuzzy math again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are differences.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nothing Governor Romney just said is true.
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ANDERSON: A glimpse back there at some of the most historic presidential debates and moments in American history. Well, Tuesday's hot mess of a
debate is sure to be amongst them, that contentious events still making headlines the world over on Wednesday Democratic Nominee Joe Biden called
Mr. Trump's performance a national embarrassment.
Well, the president himself touted it as a complete success. Let's see what CNN's Presidential Historian thinks, Tim Naftali joining us now from New
York. You know the ins and outs of presidential debates like now - probably forgotten more than most of us will ever know.
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ANDERSON: What was your reaction to this first of three with Trump and Biden?
TIM NAFTALI, CNN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Well Becky, what we watched was not a debate. A debate requires two participants who were there to engage
the issues at each other and play by the rules.
So from the get go it wasn't a debate. President Trump went into this encounter clearly committed to undermining the legitimacy of the entire
process. He wasn't there to follow the rules. He spoke over the moderator. He debated the moderator Chris Wallace and then he left an argument for
Americans not to trust their electoral system.
No presidential candidate, no incumbent has ever done that before in U.S. history. Donald Trump took the debate to a different level and that's why I
would argue calling it a debate, putting it in the context of those wonderful clips you had of Reagan and Kennedy and George W. Bush it doesn't
fit in those categories. It is something entirely different and is frightening for that reason.
ANDERSON: Not a debate, a disgrace is how one of our colleagues said Jake Tapper described it in the immediate aftermath of the hot mess. I just
wonder given what you've just said just like me all these presidential debates to turn the tide of an election to sway voters you know in the pots
what has happened? And given that you're saying this is almost unprecedented how this stack might up?
NAFTALI: Well, this might actually be one of the more dramatic and influential moment's televised moments in a presidential campaign. We will
see as the vote - as this as this full polls come - starts to come in the post debate polls come in; there have been debates that have really matter.
The one you started with, the Kennedy/Nixon debate was extraordinarily important. It was the first televised debate. It was an opportunity for
John F. Kennedy. It's hard to believe this today but he wasn't that well known in 1960. For him to be on the same stage and on the same level as
Vice President Nixon was extraordinarily important and he made every use very good use of that opportunity that was important.
The debate between - the debates I mean between Carter - Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan extraordinarily important. Really pushed Reagan ahead and
ultimately of course he won in a very big victory in a 1980.
So some debates have really - they don't let - led to a jelling of the contest or even a shift in the contest. This debate, the one what we
witnessed the other night won't shift the numbers away from the leader as they've done in the past. The leaders Joe Biden but they may actually
advance his lead.
We may see a movement of some people who were fence sitting towards Biden because they're scared of Trump. There's no question that President Trump
deepened the loyalty that that his base has for him. But for those members of the Republican Party who voted for Donald Trump in 2016 because they
wanted to change they may actually leave him now because what he promised them was chaos.
ANDERSON: It's interesting isn't it? He had a pretty lousy first debate in 2016. The numbers weren't much better against Hillary Clinton them polling
suggests that this time. But this is only of course the first of two debates and things of course could change in the bipartisan commission on
presidential debates have announced that they are considering adding more structure to the remaining two due to this chaos and incessant
interruptions by the president. This is what President Trump's Campaign Manager had to say about that have a listen.
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TIM MURTAUGH, DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS, TRUMP CAMPAIGN: The bipartisan commission is riding to the rescue of their guy. I think that the changing
the rules midstream is a bad idea.
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ANDERSON: And this is what the White House Press Secretary just moments ago had to say. She said she could not definitely commit that Donald Trump will
agreed to new debate rules. Do you believe the rules should be changed if so how?
NAFTALI: Well, one very important part of the story is that both sides do have to agree to a change in the rules. So the White House, the Trump
Campaign has every right to say they don't like the rules.
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NAFTALI: The problem for them is that they agreed to the previous set of rules and Donald Trump the candidate didn't follow them. So the challenge
for the bipartisan actually nonpartisan commission is what do you do when one of the candidates doesn't follow the rules?
So the problem here is two-fold it's not just getting the Trump Campaign to accept a more structured debate, is actually to get the candidate himself
to accept these new rules. What would I like to see? I would like to see longer presentations by each man where it is understood the other side
cannot interrupt.
So a more formal beginning statement, a more formal closing statement and I would like the moderator to have the opportunity to cut off the mic of
someone who goes past his time.
ANDERSON: Fascinating well Tim, we will find out whether there will be two more debates because that's been in question hasn't that? If so what these
rules in the new structure that might be in the days to come? It always a pleasure having you on sir, thank you very much indeed for joining us.
Just time viewers in the spirit of connecting your world just to assure you this countdown has begun right here in the UAE once again. Now exactly one
year to go until what Dubai promises will be the greatest show on earth.
You will remember of course like so many things the Dubai Expo was rescheduled from happening this year because of the pandemic and that's
being kept well in mind organizes designing the 6 month celebration to help people reconnect in the midst of this plague again to seek solutions on
energy on sustainability on agriculture and on health.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: On 1st October 2021, we will open the gates of Expo 2020 to the world. Confidence and proud as we stand ready to conduct,
entertain and aspire, ready to deliver on our promise. More than 190 countries have already joined us. As a nation where impossible is possible
the press is celebrated it's Golden Jubilee with the world.
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ANDERSON: And I've been down to the site number of times most it develop is that shaping up to be quite spectacular. It is a very good night from us
here in Abu Dhabi. Stay safe. Take care and be well.
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