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President Trump Takes Aim At U.N. In Speech To World Leaders; Trump Urges NATO Countries To Shoot Down Russian Aircraft That Violate Their Airspace; Trump Dismisses Climate Change As a "Con Job"; Israel Intensifies Assault on Gaza City; Israel Closes Border Crossing Between West Bank And Jordan; Displaced Palestinian Left Stranded In Gaza; Dangers For Women's Cabbies In Mexico City; Ryan Youth Found Guilty Of Trying To Assassinate Trump. Aired 2-3p ET

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ISA SOARES, HOST, ISA SOARES TONIGHT: Hello, and a very warm welcome everyone, I'm Isa Soares. Tonight, we are beginning in New York where

Donald Trump attacked allies, lectured nations and slammed global institutions as he addressed the U.N. General Assembly.

The U.S. President went on to launch a scathing attack on the U.N. itself, and he did this as he stood before the world's most prominent international

organization just hours ago, during his first U.N. General Assembly speech since his re-election. President Trump also touted American strength around

the world and his own accomplishments.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: In a period of just seven months, I have ended seven unendable wars. They say they were unendable.

You're never going to get them solved -- it's too bad that I had to do these things instead of the United Nations doing them. And sadly, in all

cases, the United Nations did not even try to help in any of them.

I ended seven wars, dealt with the leaders of each and every one of these countries, and never even received a phone call from the United Nations

offering to help in finalizing the deal.

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SOARES: And this comes as wars rage in Gaza and Ukraine. The President talked about the Middle East also. This as more western countries recognize

a Palestinian state. Mr. Trump framed it as, quote, "reward for Hamas". It is also worth noting as the U.N. General Assembly marks 80 years as a major

platform, it's feeling the Trump administration's influence.

The U.S. is no longer making payments towards the U.N. budget. And just moments ago, U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr

Zelenskyy met. I want to play you that exchange. Have a listen.

Right, we're going to try and see if we can get that exchange, we're going to give our colleagues a couple of more seconds -- no, OK, we're working on

that. Of course, once we have that for you -- met just briefly, we'll get - - we'll give -- we'll bring that to your attention. I do want to go to in the meantime to our chief international anchor, Christiane Amanpour who is

live for us now from the United Nations.

And you know, we've got tech Kremlins here on this side, Christiane, hoping things are slightly more smoother on your end. But let me pick up, first of

all, what we heard today from the U.S. President, pretty much lecturing, Christiane, scolding nations, attacking institutions. What we didn't hear,

quite frankly, was any foreign policy. Your 2 cents from what we heard.

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Yes, I mean, it was quite extraordinary. I mean, from -- for those of us listening, and it was

a long speech, it seemed to veer from, you know, ad-libbing and going off script to sticking with the script. And the tone of each of those was very

different.

You mentioned some of the things President Trump said, for me, the broad side that he launched against the United Nations itself, as you just played

and against Europe and against other nations on their immigration policies or against or on their -- you know, green energy policies and attempts to

mitigate climate change.

He kept saying, you're falling for a con-job on green energy. You're going to fail. He said, you're all going to go to hell. Those were his words. If

you know you don't get a hold of immigration and the invasion, as he kept calling it, of your borders. So, I sort of reached back to his first

inaugural, in which he spoke about American carnage, if you remember, painting a very dark picture of America that did and didn't really match

with reality.

Here, I felt that he was doing the global carnage version, painting a picture that, in some instances was accurate, and in some instances way off

the mark. He used the podium here to platform incredible conspiracy theories about climate, for instance, denying and ignoring all the science

that talks about what kind of peril this planet of ours is in.

He talked about all sorts of issues, except for when was he going to get strict and straight on Vladimir Putin? The general feeling amongst allies

is that Putin continues to string him along, Putin watches how Trump responds to each of his escalations, and when Trump doesn't respond, Putin

gets more and more bold.

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The latest bold, as you know, is when he sent his fighter jets into Estonian airspace. That would be NATO airspace for 12 minutes, and they

didn't do -- you know, they haven't yet come up with a way to actually challenge. As you know, the Polish Premier has said that they are going to

shoot down any flying objects, as he said, that come into Polish airspace.

Because week or so ago, there were drones from Russia, and we remember that about ten years ago, the Turkish President Erdogan himself and NATO member,

and also a bit of an autocrat, he's a strong man, fired at a Russian bomber that came into Russian air -- Turkish airspace in 2015, and there was no

World War III.

So, I guess what everybody is trying to figure out is what NATO is going to do, and what the United States will help NATO do to stay united, to stay

strong, to not let Putin, you know, divide NATO and attack NATO, and also to support Ukraine. That we didn't hear much about, though.

SOARES: Yes --

AMANPOUR: Back to you --

SOARES: And he didn't -- and he also didn't address in your point, those remarkable incursions within -- we've seen like three in a period of ten

days. We've figured out the gremlins, we can now play this little clip that we've got here from between U.S. President Donald Trump, Ukrainian

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Christiane, you haven't heard it, I haven't heard it. Let's listen to it together.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: Thank you very much, everybody, we appreciate it --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to thank you --

TRUMP: We've had an interesting day, I think a very productive day. And we're now meeting with -- we're going to start a meeting with the

President, who we all know very well. He's a brave man, and he's putting up one hell of a fight, and we'll see how that all turns out. But we're going

to have a meeting, and we have about 30 meetings scheduled today.

We have a lot of meetings scheduled today, going pretty late into the night. But this is an important one. And we have great respect for the

fight that Ukraine is putting up, it's pretty amazing, actually. So, Mr. President, please.

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT, UKRAINE: Thank you so much, Mr. President. First of all, thank you for this meeting. Thank you for your personal

efforts to stop this war just now, Mr. President, and I have to say that just now, our first ladies, as ladies of Ukraine, first lady of the United

States --

TRUMP: Yes --

ZELENSKYY: Just now, we have a meeting about Ukrainian children, thank you for Melania's personal involvement to this topic.

TRUMP: Thank you --

ZELENSKYY: This is very important. I will brief Mr. President and his team what's going on, on the battlefield. We have two good --

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SOARES: Right, clearly, we haven't got that, Christiane. Let me give you a sense of what he did say, OK? And this is important because he was asked by

a journalist -- President Trump, should U.S. shoot down Russian jets? Should they shoot down Russian jets if they enter NATO airspace? He

responded, Christiane, yes, I do, they should, they should shoot down.

That is very different from what we heard from Secretary of State Marco Rubio just hours earlier. He also -- you know, talked about guarantee --

security guarantees, pressuring all ban on buying Russian oil. This is a sort -- we don't have the full details yet, but it's interesting now that

he has a different tact when it comes to shooting down Russian jets, and yet again, talking about -- I'll let you know in a month where he still

thinks that President Putin, whether he trusts him, he said, I'll let you know in about a month. Again, timelines, deadlines, not following through.

Similar pattern.

AMANPOUR: You know, what you said that he said about shooting down Russian jets is a -- you know, a definite move forward and a big change, as you

say, from what the Secretary of State said just earlier today. I think he knows. President Trump knows and doesn't like it that Putin is pulling him

along. Putin is stringing him along.

Putin is -- Putin is taking him for a bit of a mug, I'm sorry to say. But after giving him the red carpet treatment in Alaska, Putin gave him nothing

back except for a, you know, a united front of upheaval and resistance to the President when he went to Beijing with President Xi and Kim Jong-un and

the others, who we -- who we know were there, and has escalated every day since on Ukraine and on NATO allies.

So, President Trump has to say something strong, and then has to really mean it, because you can't keep threatening Putin if you don't actually

follow up. That's what's been going on for a rather long time. And hence, Putin keeps testing. Now, there are analysts who believe that Putin is

testing from a position of weakness, even though he thinks he can outlast the West.

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He knows that he's not doing what he wants to do on the battlefield, that as President Trump said to President Zelenskyy, we admire the fight you're

putting up. This is incredible. And even earlier today at the U.N. General Assembly, President Trump, you know, acknowledged that the general

consensus back in 2022 when Putin did his full-scale invasion, was that Ukraine was going to fall in a matter of days, if not hours.

That was a general consensus. And Putin has not been able, and his forces have not been able to take much more of that Donbas area, although, there's

a huge amount of death and injury that's going on in that -- on that eastern front. But if you look at the actual territory he has, it is not

what he's telling the world. He does not have the full control of this area that he wants.

So, he also needs to figure out how to end this, and he wants to get the most he can out of it. If President Trump is now saying that any violation

of NATO airspace, you know, not one inch is the NATO mantra, if Putin threatens NATO space by one inch, the NATO mantra was, we are going to

fight back and we're going to push him out on land, sea and in air.

So, this is important. The real question is, will President Trump follow up, and will President Trump also put down the very basic punitive measure

against Putin, which is a raft of sanctions, which senators tell me are ready to go in the U.S. Congress, approved by the Congress on a bipartisan

manner.

And that, you know, has -- and I find it very interesting that Putin -- sorry, Trump also said, hey, you know, Turkey has to stop buying oil. I

think he said that. He definitely said Orban has to stop buying oil from Russia. There are certain NATO and EU nations that have not joined the EU

and western sanctions package against Russia since the invasion, and some of those which are also very close Trump allies are still buying Russian

oil and gas.

So, you know, lots of -- lots of jigsaw pieces and puzzles. But the United States is the only nation with the major leverage. And if President Trump

is going to say that Putin's escalation will not be unmet, that is -- that is a -- that's a move forward.

SOARES: Yes, he did say Orban would stop buying oil if he asked. We shall see, Christiane, watch this space. Thank you very much, Christiane, for

bearing with us, and for your analysis as always. Christiane Amanpour there. We're going to stay in the United States because the U.S. President

didn't just rally against the United Nations.

You heard there, NATO members and his predecessor during his speech, he also took aim at climate policy as well in other countries and claimed,

without evidence, by the way, that climate predictions made by the U.N. and other groups have been wrong.

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TRUMP: It's the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world, in my opinion. Climate change, no matter what happens, you're involved in that.

No more global warming, no more global cooling, all of these predictions made by the United Nations and many others, often for bad reasons, were

wrong.

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SOARES: The President also slammed green energy initiatives that falsely claimed that renewable energy is more expensive than fossil fuels.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: They're a joke. They don't work. They're too expensive. They're not strong enough to fire up the plants that you need to make your country

great. The wind doesn't blow. Those big windmills are so pathetic and so bad, so expensive to operate, and they have to be rebuilt all the time. And

they start to rust and rot.

Most expensive energy ever conceived -- and it's actually energy -- you're supposed to make money with energy, not lose money. You lose money, the

governments have to subsidize, you can't put them out without massive subsidies.

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SOARES: Well, let's -- joining us now to fact-check President Trump's claims is CNN's Daniel Dale. Daniel, there were three main targets, I

think, from the President we heard today. Christiane and I were just highlighting some of them U.N. attacks on the U.N. as an institution,

migration and critically climate change.

And in this last one, we played a couple of clips there. He called it a con job, but he didn't stop there. Can you just dissect and critically fact-

check what we heard from him?

DANIEL DALE, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Sure, there were a whole bunch of claims that were either false or misleading. For example, he repeated this claim

that he's made before, that China, while being the leading manufacturer of wind turbines, merely exports this technology to other countries, but

refuses to use it itself.

The implication being that it knows that this is some terrible technology it only wants to give to others. Well, in fact, China is by far the world's

leading user of wind power, the world's leading consumer of wind energy, and it's also installing additional wind capacity much faster than any

other country, including the United States.

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So, that's just wrong. He again referred to the use of coal as a power source, as clean, beautiful coal. It is simply not clean. That is -- that

is a branding term used by the coal industry in the United States. But it continues to be the dirtiest, most polluting source of conventional energy

in the United States, and in many other countries.

And he, again, made numerous false claims about the Paris climate accord. For example, he said that it didn't require China to start paying until

2030. And it appears to -- he appeared there to be referring to how China set a voluntary emissions cut target for achieving certain reductions by

2030, but didn't explain that each country in the Paris Accord is allowed to set its own voluntary targets.

So, if he didn't like the dates the United States had chosen to reduce emissions by a certain quantity, he could have delayed them to match

China's. And so, again and again, it's false claims on the subject of the environment and climate and renewables in particular.

SOARES: And I'm not sure about you, but I was surprised when I heard his lengthy speech that, you know, the kind of language, Dan, that he used when

talking about renewables, renewable energy. This was much tougher than we had heard from him previously, even issuing, I believe a warning to

countries investing in these projects.

I think he said, your country is going to fail, and I'm really good at predicting things. Why go after renewable now? Can you just add some of the

political context here?

DALE: Well, I read or listen to every single thing that Donald Trump says, and I have done that since 2016. And I've personally heard him use such

rhetoric over and over, maybe not quite that, that kind of stark warning about countries failing because they're using this technology, but he's

definitely used it before, and it's very hard to get into his brain about, you know, trying to figure out why he chooses to emphasize one subject or

another in an address like this.

I suspect, and I have to emphasize this, is speculation that he sees this as a cudgel against the European allies or frenemies, as some might say

that he likes to chastise, and he sees the issues of migration and the issues -- the issue of energy as sort of key wedges, key ammunition in his

general criticism of European governance. So, that's my theory. But I could well be proven wrong because, again, it's very hard to get into this

President's mind.

SOARES: Yes, indeed. Well, he's certainly tied immigration with clean energy projects, saying that this will be the death of western Europe.

Daniel, really appreciate, very important for you to -- making it very clear the facts, are so crucial here when we're talking about climate

science. Thank you, Daniel, appreciate it. Well, the U.S. President --

DALE: Thank you --

SOARES: Has some harsh advice for NATO allies. You say all good things, shoot down Russian aircraft that violate their airspace during a meeting

with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last hour at the United Nations, as Christiane and I were just discussing. When posed the question

about retaliation for alleged Russian incursions, he said, yes, I do, and added, it depends on the circumstances.

Estonia requested Security Council meeting, if you remember, on Monday, after three Russian jets -- fighter jets entered its airspace last week,

something the Kremlin dismissed. The NATO Secretary-General is taking it seriously, and warns the alliance will defend any further breaches of its

airspace. CNN's Clare Sebastian has this report for you.

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Isa, what we're seeing from NATO in the wake of several incursions into its airspace by Russian drones into

Poland and Romania, and most recently by three fighter jets into Estonian airspace on Friday, is a concerted effort to reassert its deterrent. Now,

it's doing that physically, of course, by ramping up its presence on its eastern flank.

And now, we're seeing it in terms of its rhetoric. On Monday, several NATO foreign ministers at the United Nations made it clear that they would be

willing to shoot down Russian drones and jets as they entered their airspace again. And on Tuesday, speaking to journalists after talks called

by Estonia under NATO's Article 4. The NATO Secretary-General also didn't deny that this could happen.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MARK RUTTE, SECRETARY-GENERAL, NATO: Well, decisions on whether to engage intruding aircraft, such as firing upon them, are, of course, taken in real

time, are always based on available Intelligence regarding the threat posed by aircraft in the latest airspace violation we discussed today in Estonia,

NATO forces promptly intercepted and escorted the aircraft without escalation as no immediate threat was assessed.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SEBASTIAN: Well, Mark Rutte had -- he said also just been on the phone to the Danish Prime Minister, who is not ruling out that Russia could have

been involved in several drone sightings Monday that forced both Copenhagen and Oslo airport in Norway to close for several hours. Moscow is denying

this, and has denied all the previous incidents.

SOARES: Clare Sebastian there. And still to come tonight, debris and devastation in Gaza. Israeli tanks pushed further and further into multiple

neighborhoods. I'll be speaking to one aid worker who just had to flee the bombardment. Plus, Jimmy Kimmel is making his return to late night, but not

all viewers will see him on their screens this evening.

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We'll have the details for you just ahead.

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SOARES: U.S. late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel will be back on the air on "ABC" tonight, this after "Disney" reversed, if you remember, its

decision to pull his show last week. Kimmel was temporarily suspended over comments made following the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Affiliate stations putting pressure on Kimmel's network, saying they wouldn't air the show.

Then crowds gathered to protest "Disney's" decision at their offices across the U.S., more than 400 artists, including Hollywood A-Listers signed a

letter rebuking suspension of an attack -- as an attack on free speech. And his fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert explains, "Disney's" subscribers

also took matters into their own hands.

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STEPHEN COLBERT, COMEDIAN & TELEVISION HOST: Here's why "Disney" folded after Kimmel was suspended, Google searches for canceled "Disney-Plus" and

cancel "Hulu" spiked, so "Disney" put Kimmel back on because you, the American people were upset, OK?

(CHEERS)

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SOARES: Well, it is hard to say if yanking Kimmel is entirely to blame, but have a look at "Disney's" stock, it has taken quite a tumble over the last

week, taking a multi-billion dollar hit. CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister joins me now from Los Angeles with more. So, Elizabeth, I think there are a

couple of questions really, viewers around the world will have at this point, and we'll talk about the business and "Disney" in just a second.

But how much freedom -- and I'm not sure whether you know this at this point, how much freedom would Jimmy Kimmel have when he does go on air

today to say what he wants to say?

ELIZABETH WAGMEISTER, CNN REPORTER: I think he will have a lot of freedom, and look, if we take a step back and go prior to last Wednesday, which is

when the FCC threats became public and when "Disney" pulled the show temporarily, Jimmy Kimmel has never been censored. He has always been free

to speak his mind.

If you have ever watched his show, whether you've watched it one time or whether you've watched it for ten years, you know exactly where he leans

politically, and you know exactly what he thinks about President Donald Trump. So, if history is any indication, I would expect Jimmy Kimmel to say

exactly what he wants tonight.

And that is what I hear from my sources, that "Disney" is not going to be censoring him, and that he is going to address the controversy tonight.

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Now, that being said, Jimmy Kimmel also very much understands what is happening. They understand that they are being targeted right now by the

FCC. You have two different station groups who are refusing to air the show tonight, "Nexstar" and "Sinclair", that makes up about 25 percent of the

stations that America sees here.

So, that means that 25 percent of the country will not be able to watch Jimmy Kimmel's show live tonight. So, is he going to poke the bear? Is he

going to make some jokes about this? Absolutely. Is he going to go full force and further inflame? Probably not. And the reason why is because you

saw "Disney's" statement yesterday where they said that the reason why they temporarily preempted Jimmy Kimmel's show, or rather, they said

indefinitely preempted.

And there you see the statement is because they wanted to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for the country. So, I

think they have a fine line to walk here. How can you let Jimmy do what he wants to do, and also not further alienate more viewers and probably more

importantly, station groups?

SOARES: Indeed, I'm pretty sure FCC Brendan Carr and President Trump will also be watching. Elizabeth, appreciate it as always. Thank you. And still

to come tonight, the U.N. Human Rights Office accuses Israel of terrorizing civilians in Gaza city as it escalates a deadly siege. We'll speak with an

aid worker on the ground in Gaza just ahead.

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SOARES: Welcome back, everyone. Undeterred by the groundswell of support for a Palestinian State at the United Nations, Israel is destroying Gaza

City block by block, building by building. Tanks are pushing deeper into the city as Israel escalates the war.

Journalists working for CNN report heavy shelling, explosions as well as gunfire. A municipality spokesman says every explosion lately feels like an

earthquake, literally shaking the ground, while one aid group calls the intensity of the attacks unprecedented.

The U.N. Human Rights Office says Israeli tactics are inflicting terror on civilians. Israel insists it's fighting Hamas. Today at the U.N., Turkey's

president says Israel's actions cannot be called a war. Have a listen.

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RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, TURKISH PRESIDENT (through translator): This is not fight against terrorism. This is an occupation, deportation, exile,

genocide and life destruction, mass destruction policy carried out by invoking the events of October 7th.

Today, while Gaza is being destroyed under the pretext of Hamas, concurrently, simultaneously, the West Bank, where Hamas is not in power,

is also being occupied step by step, and innocent civilians are being massacred through executions.

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SOARES: Well, just today we learned that Israel will seal off a lifeline in the West Bank to the outside world. It is closing the sole crossing into

Jordan indefinitely. Palestinian lawmaker Mustafa Barghouti says that will essentially imprison the West Bank's entire population.

Well, Palestinians are welcoming the growing push for a Palestinian State, as we've been showing you at the U.N., but they're also urging the world to

move past proclamations and take action that will have real life consequences on the ground. Crowds gathered across the West Bank to

celebrate a new wave of countries recognizing a Palestinian State. They want those countries to now help stop the war in Gaza and end decades of

Israeli occupation.

Well, the director of Gaza's health ministry says recognizing Palestine while allowing the war to continue is like a surgeon confirming a patient's

identity, then leaving them to bleed to death. Our Paula Hancocks takes a closer look now at the dire situation facing civilians in Gaza City as

Israel tightens its deadly siege.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Abu Wissam fixes his shelter as best he can. Sheets and a blanket next to a bombed-out car on

the streets of Gaza City. He has lost his son and his home. If I had the money to evacuate and rent a place to stay, he says I would leave. But now

there are gangs in the south charging people to sleep in the streets.

Abu Wissam is among the majority still in Gaza City despite Israeli evacuation orders. Israel is carrying out an assault on the city, calling

it a Hamas stronghold. Transportation alone to carry belongings and families south can cost around 1200 U.S. dollars, according to civilians on

the ground.

Breaking down he says, I will stand up and raise my hands in front of the tank. Even my kids, I'll make them stand in front of it. I'm only afraid of

God. Whoever should die will die here or in the south. Our fate will come wherever we are. It's a desperation felt by the holt family.

Nearby, patients lie in a makeshift hospital as a British-Australian volunteer doctor does whatever she can with no supplies.

DR. SAYA AZIZ, BRITISH-AUSTRALIAN VOLUNTEER DOCTOR: This is not a hospital. This is a barn. Animals get treated better.

HANCOCKS (voice-over): Everywhere she walks. Families ask her to do something for their loved one, anything. A post-operative man lies with an

open wound. His family begs for dressing or something to clean the wound with. Dr. Aziz does not have it.

AZIZ: Maybe he can get a report for a transfer. But down south, I've been down south, they have nothing. There's nothing.

HANCOCKS (voice-over): Israel's military has ordered up to 1 million civilians in Gaza City to head south to Al Mawasi, an area Israel calls a

humanitarian zone, even as the military has carried out deadly strikes there. Some of these patients would not survive the journey south.

Dr. Aziz takes a crying baby from her older brother to give him a break. She gives the only treatment she has left, care and sympathy.

AZIZ: Look at the dressing. Look, there's nothing to clean them with. They come into theater. I can't clean them. They're covered in dust and mud.

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HANCOCKS (voice-over): Outside Gaza City's Al-Quds Hospital, civilians sit among all the belongings they have salvaged from their lives. Fatmeh Shtewi

has been here a week. She's waiting for help she knows will not come. We ran away from the gunfire and the airstrikes, she says.

We don't have any money to leave or eat or even to buy a tent. Our home is gone. These are not civilians who are refusing to evacuate Gaza City. These

are civilians who are scared, desperate and out of options. Those who do not have the money or the health to leave, have little choice but to sit

and wait for the Israeli tanks to arrive.

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SOARES: And our thanks to Paula Hancocks for that report. Well, the stories of suffering in Gaza are so difficult to watch but important of course for

the world to know. Tomorrow right here on the show one family's unimaginable pain and grief.

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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Noor, my darling daughter, Mervat (ph) screams, holding on to the hope that somehow Noor

(ph) may have survived this. Please get her out, she pleads. My daughter is tough, she's smart. No words are enough to comfort parents so distraught.

God bless her soul, he tells them. No, no, my soul will be gone with her, Mervat (ph) cries, refusing to accept what is now clear to all those around

her. With their bare hands they dig, searching for their Noor (ph).

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SOARES: And our Jomana Karadsheh reports on parents in Gaza City who lost their only child you saw there in an airstrike. Of course, we'll bring you

that full report from Jomana and team this time tomorrow.

I do want to stay though with Gaza and Gaza City. I want to go to Yousra Abu Sharekh, the Gaza program coordinator for the aid group Inara. She

recently fled Gaza City and is now at an UNRWA refugee camp in Nuseirat.

Yousra, welcome to the show. I understand from my team that you fled five days ago or so. Before we talk about what situation is like in Nuseirat,

can you just tell us first of all what that journey was like, the utter destructions we've been hearing, the desperation and fear as we've heard

from the reports?

YOUSRA ABU SHAREKH, GAZA PROGRAM COORDINATOR, INARA: Yes, actually, it's been four weeks almost where people in Gaza City didn't want to leave Gaza

and didn't want to experience a new round of displacement, knowing that we were internally displaced within the Gaza City. However, under the bombing

of towers and buildings that are surrounded with hundreds of tents, people didn't have any choice but to flee and to evacuate under fire.

So, everyone and every family experienced the trauma and the scary situation. Due to the bombings (INAUDIBLE) I'm forced to send my children

to Nuseirat Gaza Strip in order for myself to work and focus on the humanitarian work we do in Gaza City and to plan for our operation during

the dangerous situation.

I spent a few days by myself and those days were the most horrific days I've ever experienced in a year, knowing that I've experienced (INAUDIBLE)

throughout my life. The situation on the ground in Gaza City is very difficult, but we are still --

SOARES: Yousra, I'm sorry to interrupt. The connection is quite choppy. So, I'm going to interject. Can you hear me? It doesn't seem she can hear me.

We will try -- Yousra, we're going to try -- if you can hear me, we're going to try and fix the connection. It was very choppy, but we do want to

hear what is happening, what you were seeing firsthand. We're going to take a short break. We'll try reconnecting after this. Don't go anywhere.

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SOARES: Well, prompted by violence against women cab drivers in Mexico City, a new service has started to offer an alternative to traditional

rideshare apps. It's a women's-only taxiing company called AmorrAs. We ride along with one driver to see just how it works. And a warning, there are

heartbreaking stories as well as distressing images.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Lord, I'm on my way to pick up this passenger. I don't know what state they'll be in. I just ask that

nothing bad happens to me. Amen.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I've been a driver on the platform Didi for nearly seven years now. It's a man this time. I'm going

to cancel it because it's up in the hills and that area is risky.

Hi, goodnight.

Most of the unpleasant experiences come from male passengers making advances. I'd say out of 10 passengers, maybe six hit on you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): My mom was an Uber driver who was murdered while working. Here, I've got some photos of my mom. She accepted

an Uber ride as a driver and was kidnapped for 50 minutes. This person overpowered my mom and ended up killing her, shooting her in the head. Then

he threw her out of the car from the passenger side and drove off.

I'm seeking accountability from the company that was supposed to provide her with the tools to keep her safe.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): How's the warm weather treating you? Every woman that gets in the car tells me a story. They've experience

violence in one way or another. I think I've got a flat tire. Yes.

Hello there. Yes, thank you.

I've had male passengers pull on me both funs and knives. One time a motorbike with three men cut me off. They pointed a gun at me and tried to

steal my car. They hit me. They next day, I went back to work. I told myself, it's fine, right? But I got to a traffic light, and when some

motorbikes crossed in front of me, that fear came rushing back. It was awful. I just thought, no, I can't do this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): In 2022, there were loads of reports of violence in both public and private transport. So, I said to my

mom, hey, I've been thinking, what if we start a taxi service by women for women?

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And she says yes. I'm not sure how you're planning it, but do it. I'll support you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Here, my motivation is always the girls. Knowing that by doing this, I'm saving a life.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Right, ladies. How are we doing today?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Well.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Would anyone like to share something they've been through, something that even motivated you to get

your own car?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I was 11. I was on the bus with my mom, and the man behind me was touching me. I didn't know what it meant

for someone to touch your chest. I've never told my mom about it. Why do we have to wonder when they've doing to kill us? Who of these sitting next to

me is going to rape me?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Every action we take, both inside and outside the collective, can make a difference.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): The feeling of being fully supported, accompanied. That's the difference between just being on the

platform and being with AmorrAs.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): My mom was an incredible hard- working woman. Really strong. She'd been with the company for over four years, and UBER couldn't even send her a bouquet of flowers.

These months have been really tough because we were a very close family. My sister, my mom and I up against this enormous world that is Mexico City.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I believe that going out to work is not a reason for someone to come and take your life. I love my job. In

my car I cry, scream, sing, dance. For me, it's my safe place.

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SOARES: And this just in to CNN. Ryan Routh has been found guilty of trying to assassinate, pardon me, then-candidate Donald Trump, if you remember

last year. Routh was arrested after fleeing a so-called sniper's nest on a Trump golf course in Florida.

The 59-year-old represented himself at this Florida trial. He -- the jurors, from what we understand, deliberated for under three hours before

delivering the verdict. And he was facing five charges, including attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate, assaulting a federal

officer, possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon, and possession of a firearm with obliterated serial number. So, in the last few moments,

finding out that Ryan Routh, the 59-year-old man accused of attempting to kill Donald Trump as a former and future president, played a round of goals

on his Florida course last year.

Of course, the second attempt on Trump's life during his second campaign has been found guilty on all charges against him. We'll stay across the

story as soon as any more developments, of course, bring that to you.

I do want to stay in the United States because medical experts are criticizing the U.S. president's announcement linking the use of

acetaminophen while pregnant with autism. Donald Trump made the announcement, despite decades of evidence, that the common painkiller, also

known as paracetamol, is safe. Tylenol is considered the only safe over- the-counter option for pregnant people. Our Chief Medical Correspondent Dr Sanjay Gupta lays out the science behind it.

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DR SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, understandable if people are confused by what they heard coming out of the White House

regarding Tylenol and autism. This is something, first of all, that is not new. There have been a lot of studies looking into this over the last

couple of decades, many of which we've reported on. There has never been a cause-and-effect relationship established between Tylenol or acetaminophen,

which is the active ingredient, and autism, just to make that clear.

In fact, if you look at the specific language from the FDA that came out after that press conference, even there they're not suggesting that people

stop taking Tylenol, especially for fevers during pregnancy, because I think that's probably the most important point.

Keep in mind, when something is very ubiquitous, very common, you can associate it with just about anything. That's the paradox of ubiquity. As

one of the researchers said, in hot weather months, ice cream use goes up and violent crime goes up. Are those things cause-and-effect? No. But they

might be considered associated.

In fact, if you look at Tylenol use over the last couple of decades for pregnant women, its usage has come down a bit, even as autism rates have

gone up. Something to keep in mind. Yet, there have been these signals of concerns about potential associations between Tylenol and autism. And

that's why a particularly big study was done. It came out of Sweden. It was over 25 years. They looked at 2 million children. About 10 percent of the

moms had taken Tylenol during pregnancy. They had babies. They had siblings as well, in which they had not taken Tylenol during pregnancy. And the

bottom line is, when they put all of that data together, they did not find any link between Tylenol and autism. That's why you do those sorts of big

studies.

One thing, again, that came out was this idea that if a woman has a fever during pregnancy, how big a problem is that in and of itself? That gets

back to this association problem. Why was the woman taking Tylenol in the first place? Was it to treat a fever? Did that fever get caused by an

infection? Could the infection or the fever be really what's driving a potential association with autism?

Again, these are complicated studies. That's why you have to do them. Not treating a fever during pregnancy is a problem. It can be associated with

birth defects. It can be associated with early labor. It can be associated with a miscarriage and neurodevelopmental problems in and of itself.

So, the guidance has long been to women who have fevers during pregnancy or need to take something for pain, take the smallest dose for the shortest

amount of time. And I don't think that guidance is likely to change based on what we heard.

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SOARES: Dr Sanjay Gupta there with some very important guidance. While President Trump brushed off the experts saying, quote, "we understood a lot

more than a lot of people who studied it."

And as we've been discussing throughout this hour, the U.N. General Assembly is underway in New York City. It has led to gridlock in the

streets that not even the French president seems can avoid. Emmanuel Macron took to walking Monday evening after he found himself stuck behind

roadblocks for Donald Trump's motorcade. Our Saskya Vandoorne explains.

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SASKYA VANDOORNE, CNN PARIS BUREAU CHIEF: Traffic during the U.N. General Assembly can be brutal, even for presidents.

EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT: If you don't see it, let me cross.

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VANDOORNE: Emmanuel Macron suddenly found himself in a very awkward, very New York situation, stranded on the sidewalk.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry, Mr. president, I'm really sorry. Just that everything's been frozen right now.

VANDOORNE: Why? Because president Donald Trump's motorcade had the street on lockdown.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a motorcade coming right now. That's why.

VANDOORNE: So, Macron picked up the phone and called the man apparently responsible for the gridlock.

MACRON: Guess what? I'm waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you.

VANDOORNE: Eventually, the barricades opened, but only for pedestrians. So, the French president had to keep the call going while walking to the

embassy.

And if that wasn't unusual enough, a bystander grabbed the chance for a quick kiss with the French president.

MACRON: President Donald Trump's on the train. No, no. It's OK, guys.

VANDOORNE: Saskya Vandoorne, CNN, Paris.

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SOARES: How very New York, isn't it? Thank you, Saskya, really appreciate it. And that does it for us for tonight. Do stay right here. "What We Know"

with Max Foster is up next.

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