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SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: If ever there was a symbol of political failure and the overwhelming of public health, due to a
lack of application by a government, this is it.
LYNDA KINKADE, CNNI ANCHOR (voice-over): This hour, India's catastrophic meltdown. We take you to the very front lines of the death and destruction
COVID-19 is bringing.
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KINKADE (voice-over): "I'm a skeleton," those, the latest words from the jailed critic of Russia's president.
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JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What a great inflection point in history.
KINKADE (voice-over): The U.S. President laying out his vision for the world after 100 days in office. We look at the progress made and what's to
come.
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KINKADE: Hello. I'm Lynda Kinkade, sitting in for Becky Anderson. Welcome to CONNECT THE WORLD.
We're going to look at why the rising death rate and mass cremations in India are becoming a global problem. As we cover this story, at the start
of the show, I must warn you that some of the images you see you might find disturbing.
But we want to show them to you to illustrate the reality of what's going on. And the reality for India is yet another global record for new
coronavirus cases. It's the highest single-day death toll so far as well as a new warning about how the country's outbreak could have a global impact
and prolong the pandemic.
So here's the latest. India is reporting nearly 380,000 new cases today, amassing 1 million infections in just the past three days, the total cases
above 18 million. Another 3,600 people died of COVID-19 just today.
But as we've been telling you this week, health officials both inside and outside India believe the actual number of cases and deaths is much higher.
So where is the hope?
Medical equipment and supplies are starting to arrive from all over the world. These are oxygen concentrators and ventilators from Russia. And they
will help save lives.
But to stop the surge, India is going to have to speed up its vaccine rollout. It's opening vaccinations to everyone over 18 and older, starting
Saturday with more than 13 million newly eligible people registered for their shots today.
But as you know, India has a long way to go. Vaccine lines are long. And so far only 9 percent of the population in a country of nearly 1.4 billion
people have gotten jabs. Speed is essential, as troubling variants take hold.
And the urgency impacting India's promised vaccine deliveries to other countries -- remember, India is the world's biggest vaccine producer -- now
forced to prioritize doses for its own citizens as many of the world's poorer nations wait.
And now one doctor in the U.S. is warning, if India doesn't get the help it needs, there could be an explosion of cases around the world.
We've been showing you scenes this week of crematoriums operating around the clock. And Sam Kiley is at one of them in New Delhi.
We can just see behind you, so many piles burning. Just give us a sense of what you're seeing.
And, again, a warning to our viewers that you might find some of these images disturbing.
KILEY: Well, Lynda, just in this area alone, it's about the size of three- quarters of a football pitch, there are close to 50 pyres burning. This crematorium believed it would probably process about 150 bodies today.
There's estimated about 600 people dying every day here in New Delhi.
But the truth of the matter is, the numbers must be much higher. In this crematorium, the dead have to join a queue before they can be seen, before
they can be given their last rites. People accompanying them have to take a ticket, like you would, going to see the doctor or getting a bank
appointment, wait their turn and then they will be brought out to one of these locations.
A ghee, which is a butter-like oil substance poured on them, the wood piled on top and given their last rites, very often unattended by anybody else
other than perhaps one family member or a friend. There's one gentleman I spoke to earlier on today who lit that pyre there.
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KILEY: And he was in attendance only because no other member of the deceased family could be there, because they had all caught COVID, Lynda.
This is a catastrophic result of a failure in public health.
Narendra Modi, the prime minister here, believed, a few months ago, that India had broken the back of the pandemic, that they had somehow achieved
herd immunity. And India was become a net exporting nation for anti-COVID vaccines.
Indeed, the national program doesn't get underway in serious earnest until May the 1st, when the number of people from 18 and above will be allowed to
get the vaccinations. It's been a rush of applications.
But there's nothing like the level of supply that it can be met. And at the same time, he's encouraged political campaigning in local elections for his
BJP party; mass meetings, people not being socially distanced at these meetings.
And then the Hindu festival, where more than 2 million people are believed to have attended, all cheek by jowl, all plunging in and out of the River
Ganges, celebrating this very important Hindu festival for them. But all of them participating in a superspreader event. And I'm afraid this is the
result -- Lynda.
KINKADE: And, Sam, we're sorry you have to be there but it is important to show the world this brutal reality, because there's so many scenes like
this, temporary crematoriums set up in parking lots and parks. And you sound as if it's difficult to speak somewhat. Just give us a sense of how
you're feeling being there.
KILEY: Well, this story is not about me; it's about the Indian population. It's about their struggles to deal, there's 1.4 billion of them. If the
figures here even remain at the relatively low rate they are in terms of proportions of the population that are dying, that are contracting COVID,
even if they were to double or treble, they would still be perhaps below the official figures that have been seen in countries in the West.
But in terms of actual absolute human suffering, in the terms of one estimate in the United States calculated there could be a million dead by
August. Many people here believe that could be an underestimate.
Yes, the air is thick with burning, with the burning of ashes. The ground is strewn with the ashes and remains of people who, just a few days ago,
passed away, mainly because they couldn't get access to hospital beds or to oxygen. There are a lot of very angry people on the streets on India.
And it will be interesting to see whether or not that translates into political consequences for the government, Lynda.
KINKADE: I want to ask a bit more about that. Despite the rising rates of infection, Sam, and the scenes we're seeing behind you, we are hearing from
the prime minister, who, despite all of this, elections are continuing. And he's encouraging people to go out and vote in parts of India.
KILEY: Yes, he is, in Bengal, West India, there was voting. There were pictures, video pictures of people, queueing very tightly close together,
again, superspreader opportunities.
There have been a number of opposition politicians objecting to this. There was a high court, not a ruling but a statement from a high court judge,
saying that electoral commissions that allowed these processes to continue might be charged with murder.
There is disarray, frankly, in the political families, both in the opposition and in the government, because the focus of this country has
been on political gain and not on dealing with the threat that this pandemic posed.
There was a sense in India that they had got through the worst, that their isolation had done so much economic damage that Modi had to allow the
brakes to come off to allow the economy to regrow or more people were going to suffer from other consequences of poverty.
But the reality is that that was not met simultaneously with an aggressive national vaccination campaign. Less than 2 percent of the population here
has been vaccinated. And there's a consequence of that. All of the estimates are that people are going to suffer a great deal more before it
gets better. Lynda?
KINKADE: As we have been discussing, so many people that need treatment can't get it. Hospitals are really struggling to provide oxygen to people
who need it. We are starting to see some international aid arrive this week from various countries, the U.K., Italy, Germany, Russia. Just explain the
international help and what else is needed right now.
KILEY: The first stage really has been that the United States lifted its embargo on ingredients that could be used, particularly, to produce the
AstraZeneca vaccine here in India. That was released. So that is allowed to continue.
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KILEY: On top of that, the United States has pledged $100 million worth of aid; some of that, I think, is en route as we speak.
A lot of that and the real focus of most of the aid that's come into this country or coming into this country has been a little bit on PPE, some of
the antiretroviral drugs that have been given or hormonal treatments that are being used to treat COVID patient sufferers.
But above all, the effort is to just get oxygen into people's lungs. It's oxygen where there has been a catastrophic shortage. And it is in supply of
oxygen where, at least in the short term, there may be the ability of many patients that are gasping their last breaths, what feel like their last
breaths, to get treatment as that oxygen starts to come in to the country.
But again, this is a country of 1.4 billion people. So if this pandemic starts to really burn out of control, then it's keeping up with the amount
of the sheer volume of oxygen is going to be a real challenge. The danger is the whole country starts to get -- feel like it's got asthma. The
country could get asphyxiated. There's a real sense of fear of what's coming here.
KINKADE: Yes. It certainly sounds that way. Sam Kiley for us in New Delhi, thank you for being there for us.
Well, I want to take a moment for you to listen to this. It's a moment of heartbreak. It shows you the explosion of COVID in India from a wife. Take
a listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Until yesterday, I was sitting outside the hospital. And they kept telling me that your patient is all
right. I said please let me see him once and even offered them money to let me meet my husband. But no one listened to me. I'm so upset and there's
nothing I can do.
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KINKADE: Some of India's neighbors are nervously watching as their own outbreaks worsen. India is still far ahead of its neighbors when you look
at the cases per capital (sic). But Nepal is seeing its steepest surge. And in Bangladesh, the number of infections there is now falling after it went
down into a strict lockdown and suspended air travel.
Pakistan, which borders India to the west, reported the most COVID deaths in a single day on Wednesday. And Pakistan, like India, is also running low
on supplies to treat COVID patients.
A top health official warns the country has used up to 90 percent of its oxygen supply and is facing an emergency. Pakistan is now planning
restrictions for the next month's Eid holidays and markets and nonessential businesses will be closed during the official holiday period and tourists
will be banned.
I want to go to Sophia Saifi, who is monitoring the situation in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
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SOPHIA SAIFI, CNN PRODUCER: It's fairly obvious that Pakistan has been extremely shocked by what's happening in its next door western neighbor of
India. Due to this, the country has taken many precautions, which some critics are saying came too late but have now been issued, specific
notifications calling for lockdowns between provincial travel, a ban on tourism with the Eid holidays just around the corner in mid-May.
The military has been called in. However, there still is -- there are still a lot of crowds in markets. The prime minister himself went ahead and has
specifically requested that the people of the country follow social distancing guidelines, that they wear masks.
But if they do not, he will be compelled to impose a lockdown. There has been data shared by the National Command Center on Coronavirus, sharing
that about 85 percent of beds in hospitals in one of the most populous provinces of the country in Punjab are now occupied at 85 percent capacity.
Oxygen is running low -- Sophia Saifi, CNN, Islamabad.
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KINKADE: Sophia Saifi, thank you for that.
Far and wide, countries are taking note. Israel's health ministry is recommending the Israeli government prohibit travel to India and six other
high-risk countries. They're South Africa, Ukraine, Ethiopia, Turkey, Mexico and Brazil.
It comes as Israel says it's identified 41 cases of the COVID variant first detected in India. Israeli health officials also warn anyone who's coming
into Israel from those countries to quarantine on their arrival, even if they have been vaccinated.
The bottom line is nothing happens half a world away. We're all connected. And political, cultural and social decisions taken anywhere affect all of
us, everywhere. And that's why we should all look to learn from and help India. You can learn more about helping people there by going to
cnn.com/impact.
Amid a new spike in cases, Turkey is taking steps to try to avoid a crisis like India. Turkey is now just hours away from a new tougher lockdown and
people are getting out and about, running last-minute errands while they can.
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KINKADE: The measures will last through the rest of Ramadan. Tourists will be exempt from those restrictions. CNN's Arwa Damon is tracking all the
COVID news from Istanbul and joins us now.
Arwa, Turkey's infection rate is now the highest in Europe. It's preparing for its first full lockdown in the coming hours. And as we've been seeing,
people are now starting to go out and stock up on supplies.
ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, and it's not just supplies that people are stocking up on, Lynda. It's trying to get to the
bank, to the notary. Lines there are incredibly long. And then also a lot of people are just trying to get out of the cities.
There are traffic jams leading out of some of Turkey's major cities. Now this lockdown is the longest that Turkey has implemented since the start of
COVID well over a year ago. It's going to be lasting for nearly three weeks, encompassing the rest of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan but also
Eid.
That is the Muslim holiday that comes at the end of Ramadan. So people are also out there, trying to get their kids their Eid presents well ahead of
time, too. Now people, when you talk to them, will say, this had to happen.
I mean, the numbers here a few weeks ago were the highest, significantly higher than they have ever been, since the beginning of COVID-19. And the
government did a few weeks ago implement some partial measures. But it clearly was not enough, leading to their decision right now to implement
this very strict lockdown.
There's also a sense of frustration among the population, with some believing the government should have done more sooner. That being said,
though, you know, yes there's a burden of responsibility on the government but also a burden of responsibility on the population.
And in Turkey, just like we've seen in other countries around the world, people are not taking the basic COVID guidelines seriously enough.
KINKADE: And that is crucial. They need to follow those guidelines. Arwa Damon in Istanbul, thank you.
Well, the picture in South and Central America is just as bleak. Across Colombia, protesters took to the streets, sometimes clashing with police.
They are furious over the government's handling of the pandemic and a new tax reform bill, they say, will just make the situation worse.
The Pan American Health Organization says one out of four COVID deaths last week was in the Americas. Intensive care units are filling up and countries
are scrambling to secure vaccines. We're going to bring you more on those stories in just a few minutes.
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KINKADE: Describing himself as a skeleton, a gaunt looking Alexei Navalny appearing in public for the first time since ending his hunger strike. The
jailed Kremlin critic was seen a short time ago via video link during a Moscow court hearing.
He lost his appeal to overturn a defamation conviction. Navalny used his time at the hearing to denounce Russia's justice system and called
president Vladimir Putin a, quote, "naked king." I'm connecting you to Moscow and CNN's Frederik Pleitgen.
Fred, some shocking images. We saw Navalny end his three-week hunger strike in a Russian prison. And for a man in his 40s, he looked very sick.
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm not sure he's sick but he certainly did look like someone who was still quite
weak from recovering from that hunger strike.
We have to keep in mind also that his doctors, who got information from other doctors who actually were able to see him, they said they believed,
judging from the things they saw, that he was close to death at some point.
So certainly this is someone who had had a very, very difficult time, who obviously just got off a very long hunger strike and who, by his own
admission, is someone who is only slowly getting back into actually eating normal food.
But you're absolutely right. He certainly did look like someone who was in fairly frail health but still pretty strong of spirit. We can see some of
the pictures on the screen right now. Obviously, his head was shaved. He's apparently in the tuberculosis ward of that prison colony. He was wearing
the prison colony's uniform.
In that very, very small room there by video link, some of the things he was saying certainly were actually quite shocking. He was saying that he
currently weighs around 72 kilograms. This is a man who is about 1 meter, 90 tall.
Apparently, according to his lawyers, he weighed 94 kilograms when he came here to Russia or came back to Russia from Germany, where he had been
recovering from the Novichok poisoning. He also said that he's currently eating about five tablespoons of porridge per day.
One of the things he said is, "Yesterday was four tablespoons, today was five, tomorrow will be six." So still not very much.
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PLEITGEN: So certainly Alexei Navalny still seemed he was on the mend but still, of course, speaking very strongly towards Vladimir Putin, towards
the Russian state at the same time that his organization, of course, remains under a lot of pressure.
First of all, the court upheld the conviction he had for a defamation of a World War II veteran. And then also, one of the other things, Alexei
Navalny found out there was another criminal court case against him and against several other members of his organization as well.
And also, of course, right now, a court in Moscow is looking toward declaring his organization into an extremist organization. So his
organization under a lot of pressure and him, obviously, still very much on the mend.
KINKADE: Frederik Pleitgen in Moscow. We'll speak to you again next hour. Thank you.
U.S. President Joe Biden also sending a message to Russia during his big speech Wednesday night on Capitol Hill. Take a listen.
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BIDEN: Our actions will have consequences if they turn out to be true. And they turned out to be true. So I responded directly.
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KINKADE: I'm going to have much more on President Biden's address to Congress a little later.
But here's a fascinating story that a lot of people are clicking on.
Remember those mystery symptoms that affected U.S. diplomats in Cuba and elsewhere?
Well, it turns out similar incidents have been reported in the U.S., one right outside the White House. We can find all those details if you head to
cnn.com.
You are watching CONNECT THE WORLD. Still to come here, vaccine hesitancy, poor distribution and public awareness are key factors in low COVID-19
vaccinations in countries across the African continent. See what's being done to change that. We'll be right back.
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KINKADE: We started this hour in India, where the pandemic has gone past the critical level. But the coronavirus is a global problem. So let's take
a look at Latin America, where the virus is running rampant.
A quarter of all COVID-19 deaths last week were in the Americas. This according to the Pan American Health Organization. Variants and slow
vaccinations are contributing to the surge. That's prompting countries there to scramble to secure vaccines.
Intensive care units in Guatemala and Colombia are nearing capacity, especially in major cities like Bogota. Matt Rivers is in Mexico City with
details.
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MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Lynda, unfortunately -- go ahead.
KINKADE: Take it on. Go ahead, Matt.
RIVERS: Sure.
Basically, you know, what's happening here is that, despite months and months of us reporting on what's going on in Latin America.
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RIVERS: Things are not getting substantively better in the way that many health officials would like to see. In fact, in some countries, like the
ones you mentioned, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia, we're seeing some of the worst levels of this crisis so far in terms of ICU occupancy rates.
In Colombia, hospitals are filling up in Guatemala, Costa Rica but Argentina, Paraguay, down in South America, it's something happening across
the region and it's something the Pan American Health Organization is really concerned about.
You said it, 1 in 4 deaths across the entire world from COVID last week came throughout Latin America.
Some good news out of Brazil. We're seeing the numbers there start to come down from the peaks a few weeks ago but they're still extremely high. We
heard yesterday a study out of the southeastern state of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest state, 90 percent, roughly, of recent infections of COVID-
19 are due to this P.1 variant.
And that, of course, is concerning because the P.1 variant is more easily transmissible than other strains. Even though the numbers are going down
and that's a good thing, there's concern that won't continue. Unfortunately, I wish I had better news for you looking across Latin
America. But right now there isn't a lot of it to be had.
KINKADE: No, there isn't right now. But it is important to stay across all of that. We'll speak to you very soon. Thank you, Matt Rivers.
Meanwhile in Colombia, the government's response to the pandemic has led to protests.
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KINKADE (voice-over): Police fired tear gas to hold back protesters, furious over a new tax reform bill and new COVID-19 rules. Angering the
protesters even more, a court ruled they can't demonstrate from now until Saturday or until herd immunity is achieved.
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KINKADE: Of course, we've been telling you about the dire situation in India. A new global record for daily COVID-19 cases and the most deaths
there in a single day since the start of the pandemic.
We'll have much more later on CONNECT THE WORLD, including a look at the voting going on in the midst of this brutal second wave and what the prime
minister has to say about it.
And the U.S. President is sending a message to China and Russia. We'll hear what he had to say, next.
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BIDEN: We're in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century. We're at a great inflection point in history. We have to do more
than just build back better. We have to build back better.
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BIDEN: We have to compete more strenuously than we have.
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KINKADE: The U.S. President there, making the case to the American people that the United States is roaring back from the coronavirus pandemic and
he's putting China, Russia and the rest of the world on notice.
Now on the eve of his first 100 days in office, President Joe Biden laid out an ambitious agenda on jobs and education. And he addressed a joint
session of Congress Wednesday.
America's international standing was also front and center. Biden warned China and Russia that the U.S. will stand up to attacks or defend human
rights and will prove its democracy is, quote, "durable and strong."
In his words, "Autocrats will not win the future."
I want to bring in CNN international diplomatic editor Nic Robertson, who joins us live from London.
Good to see you, Nic. Just give us a sense of what we've seen in the first 100 days of President Joe Biden as he has sought to undo some of Trump's
America first agenda.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: You know, on the global stage, undoing that agenda, and we heard -- definitely heard echoes
of it and strong points leading to it in that address last night to Congress -- is to tell the world that there's a different United States.
It's a different president now.
This is one that can be trusted. This is one where there is consistency. This is one who is going to be pragmatic, that's going to take tough
decisions. But it's one that the rest of the world, that counts on the current world order, the world order built by democracies and kept alive by
democracies, that's the one that's going to stand.
And I think we heard echoes of that in a speech last night. And I think that was the sort of echoes of the pragmatists as well, when he was talking
about the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. He didn't say that Al Qaeda was eradicated from Afghanistan.
He just said that their ability there had been reduced, diminished. He said they still remain a threat around the world, although he saw the bigger
terrorist threat as coming from right -- from the right wing at the moment. So this is a president setting out his agenda domestically but it had very
big resonance I think around the world as well.
KINKADE: And Nic, U.S. President Joe Biden did mention China a number of times, saying we welcome the competition. We're not looking for conflict.
And he made it clear he'll defend America's interests where needed. But he wants a level playing field.
ROBERTSON: He does. And I think he used Russia in this context as an object lesson for China because he's still shaping up to how he deals with
China. There's a lot of maneuvering going on between Beijing and Washington.
But in Russia, he's already acted. And he spoke about what he said to President Putin, that essentially, you break the rules that we're all
trying to live by and the lines that we say you shouldn't cross, you break those, meddling in elections, and there will be consequences. This is what
he said.
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BIDEN: In my discussions with President Xi, I told him, "We welcome the competition. We're not looking for conflict."
But I made absolutely clear that we will defend America's interest across the board.
America will stand up to unfair trade practices that undercut American workers and American industries like subsidies from state to state owned
operations and enterprises and the theft of American technology and intellectual property.
I also told President Xi that we'll maintain a strong military presence in the Indo-Pacific, just as we do for the NATO and Europe, not to start a
conflict but to prevent one.
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ROBERTSON: So the China message clearly a popular one there in Congress. And that is one that should resonate with -- across the United States as
well.
But it's one based on the fact that China and the United States are in competition and the United States, under President Biden, is going to move
toward ensuring that it remains competitive with China going forward.
But it was that point with President Putin that he was really clear. I think this was also a message, while he told Congress about what he'd said
to President Putin, this was also a message for President Xi of China. This is what he said about President Putin.
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BIDEN: Their actions will have consequence, if they turn out to be true. And they turned out to be true. So I responded directly and proportionately
to Russia's interference on our elections and the cyber-attacks on our government and our business. They did both of these things.
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BIDEN: And I told them we would respond and we have.
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ROBERTSON: "Actions have consequences."
And it's that consistency that Biden will be a consistent leader, unlike president Trump, who was inconsistent and, therefore, build that trust back
in the United States. That was the sort of international part of the message last night.
KINKADE: And, of course, Nic, climate change is a big issue for U.S. President Joe Biden and he noted that he plans to have a climate change
summit here in the United States, wanting Russia, China and India at the table.
ROBERTSON: Yes. Within the first 100 days, the virtual climate summit that he had, he made a point of inviting President Putin, President Xi, of
inviting Prime Minister Modi all to take part within that -- within that platform, within that virtual climate summit.
And that, you know, again, a very important message for the United States, perhaps for Republicans but around the world as well, that we are going to
be competitive. The United States is going to be competitive. But we're going to do it on a level playing field.
And that level playing field doesn't just include not cheating us on technology, not just trying to undermine democracy but that we all stick to
the same careful controls and limits on industry that will allow us to get on top of climate change.
And I think that's going to be one of the enduring messages going forward from President Biden. Clearly, by doing this within the first 100 days, he
is showing the world that he is putting the climate first as well.
KINKADE: Nic Robertson, a lot to unpack there. Good have you on it for us from London. Thanks so much.
Just ahead, "The Washington Post" columnist and CNN political analyst Josh Rogin will join us to talk about the impact of Biden's first 100 days, what
it had on the U.S. and the rest of the world.
As President Biden and the West criticizes China, it's clear the country is plowing ahead into the future.
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KINKADE (voice-over): This rocket making a spectacular liftoff today from Southern China. It's carrying the first and most important of three modules
that will comprise (sic) a space station that will take nearly a dozen more trips, as well as a lot of construction work until the station is up and
running. That's supposed to happen in 2022.
It's expected to stay in orbit for at least 10 years. This module is where the astronauts will live. It can hold three people for rotations of up to
six months. The other two modules will be devoted to scientific experiments.
It is much smaller than the International Space Station but the Chinese station is, nevertheless, named Heavenly Place.
We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back.
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KINKADE: Finally, a scary moment for baseball fans in St. Louis last night. Before we show you this, you should know that it turns out OK. But
the video is a little tough to watch.
The Phillies' star outfielder Bryce Harper up to bat, gets hit right in the face by a fast ball. Harper, thankfully, was able to get up, incredibly,
and walk off on his own. After taking such a blow, that certainly looked painful. Amanda Davies --
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AMANDA DAVIES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The first time I saw that, I was halfway through a sentence and actually recoiled. It looks so incredibly painful,
97 miles an hour. It is incredible he was able to walk -- get up and walk out, down the stairs on his own. He was taken to hospital.
And very, very quickly, seemingly without much of a mark on his face, released this video from hospital. Have a listen.
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BRYCE HARPER, PHILLIES OUTFIELDER: Everything feels good. Everything came back good. CT, all that kind of stuff. So face is still there. So we're all
good.
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DAVIES: You suspect there might be something of a bruise in a day or so but talk about standing firm and, Lynda, that is in great contrast to the
Paris Saint-Germain Wall last night. They are taking quite a bit of heat after their defeat by Manchester City. That's coming up in "WORLD SPORT."
KINKADE: Excellent. Talk about incredibly lucky that it didn't really hit his eye. Incredible. We'll just see how that bruise comes out. No doubt
he'll have a big bruise there. Amanda Davies, good to have you with us. We'll see you for "WORLD SPORT" in just a moment. Thanks.
We'll take a quick break. Stay with us.
(WORLD SPORT)
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