Return to Transcripts main page

One World with Zain Asher

Senate Advances Deal To End Government Shutdown After 41 Days; Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa Visits The White House; Major Airlines Reduce Flights As Shutdown Continues; Explosion Rocks Delhi, Claiming At Least 10 Lives; Senate Advances Deal To end Government Shutdown After 41 Days; First Phase Of U.S. Brokered Ceasefire Reaches One Month Mark; Powerful Waves Kill Three On Spain's Tenerife Island; Trump Threatens To Sue BBC Over Misleading Edit; 30th Conference On Climate Change Happening In Brazil; Aired 12-1p ET

Aired November 10, 2025 - 12:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[12:00:54]

LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello. I'm Lynda Kinkade. This is the second hour of "One World" and it begins right now. Good to have you with us.

We are following two major developing stories this hour. Less than a year after his lightning power grab, the former al-Qaeda jihadist, once wanted

by the United States, is now being welcomed by President Trump this hour.

Ahmad al-Sharaa is the first ever Syrian leader to visit the White House. And his meeting with the Mr. Trump comes just days after the U.S. removed

him from a terrorist sanctions list. The 43-year-old's goal is to reverse Syria's isolation after the previous regime left the country economically

devastated and diplomatically shunned.

And on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue, the Senate is in session working to end the 41-day government shutdown after a group of Democrats

joined Republicans in advancing a funding deal. Lawmakers could vote on the measure as early as today.

Meanwhile, the House remains on a nearly two-month recess. House Speaker Mike Johnson has not called lawmakers back into session. Despite that,

here's what he had to say a short time ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REP. MIKE JOHNSON (R-LA): I'm thankful to welcome you to what appears to be the beginning of the end of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history

as shameful as that is.

It's after 40 days of wandering in the wilderness and making the American people suffer needlessly. Some Senate Democrats finally have stepped

forward to end the pain. It appears to us this morning that our long national nightmare is finally coming to an end and we're grateful for that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KINKADE: CNN's Kevin Liptak joins us now live out the White House. It has been a national nightmare for many people. People working without pay,

people working and waiting to get paid and, of course, people are not even going to get food assistance.

So the end finally in sight. Did the Democrats so capitulate essentially to get to this point?

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: A lot of Democrats who didn't vote for this are saying that they did just that. That they

essentially are at the same position they were at the beginning of the shutdown and weren't able to gain anything out of it, namely an extension

of those subsidies related to obtaining healthcare.

They got a commitment from the Republicans to have a vote on that down the road, but there's no guarantee at all that that will pass. And so you do

hear from a lot of Democrats who weren't part of these negotiations, disappointment that their party essentially folded without getting much out

of it.

But it did seem clear that at least in the minds of those moderate Democrats who engaged in the talks with the Republicans that this shutdown

was just untenable. As you saw Americans not receiving their full food assistance benefits for example or whether you saw at the airports over the

weekend, which was just delays and cancellations and sort of misery in the air traveling public. And so it did seem clear that this was essentially

just time for this to end.

It has been interesting to see how President Trump has been involved in all of this, which is really not that heavily. You know the president was not

sort of cracking heads in the Oval Office or the cabinet room trying to get these two sides to a degree to something. He wasn't really part of the

negotiations at all. He spent the weekend in Florida on his golf course.

And so I think that's part of the reason why you haven't really heard a lot from him about this deal. You know, just now, in the last few minutes, you

know, 12 hours after this passed, we got a statement from the White House saying that this was a positive development.

And to be sure, the president, I don't think there's anything in here that will leave him disappointed per se. You know, he hasn't agreed to anything

that he wasn't agreeing to at the beginning of this shutdown.

But on the other hand, you know, his preferred way out of this was having the Republicans get rid of the filibuster which is that 60-vote threshold.

He wanted them to eliminate that so they were able to pass all this other type of legislation, but it turns out that they didn't need to do that in

order for this to get passed. And so it does now seem on track to be ending soon.

[12:05:59]

I'll just point out something else that the president was posting about earlier today, which is the air traffic controllers who some of whom called

out and contributed to some of the delays at the airports.

He is really going very harshly after them saying that their pay will potentially be docked. He says that he's not happy with them. He says that

if they want to, they should just leave the service a quote with no payment or severance of any kind. Really going after them very harshly, which I

think is notable because his own transportation secretary has been saying, over the course of the shutdown, that many of those air traffic controllers

had to call out sick because they had to go to other jobs, things like driving Uber in order to make ends meet at home.

And so the president taking quite a harsh stance sort of in the waning days of this shutdown.

KINKADE: And, Kevin, behind you at this very moment, the U.S. president is meeting with the Syrian leader who is a former al-Qaeda jihadist. What is

the U.S. hoping to get out of that meeting?

LIPTAK: I think for President Trump, he really does hope to get a better read of Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the Syrian president. You know, this is a historic

meeting. A Syrian president has never actually been at the White House for a meeting with his U.S. counterpart.

It was a rather subdued arrival. You know, Lynda, I think you've probably seen when other presidents arrive, there the flags, there's the honor

guard. President Trump comes out to meet them at the West Wing.

This was far more under the radar. He kind of pulled up to a side entrance and walked into the building. And the meeting itself is close pressed. We

don't expect to see the two men sitting together.

But it will be an important moment. You know, it was less than a year ago that the U.S. had a $10 million bounty on -- on Al-Sharaa. He was

designated as a terrorist for ties to al-Qaeda back in 2013 under his nom de guerre, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani.

Now, he has emerged as what the U.S. hopes will be as a reformer in Syria. And it really remarks a dramatic turnaround in really less than a year

after he ousted Bashar al-Assad and ended 50 years of Assad rule in Syria.

He does want to get some assurances from the president that perhaps more sanctions will be lifted down the line that would allow the U.S. to help

rebuild that country. The World Bank has estimated that that will cost as north of $200 billion to rebuild Syria.

And I think President Trump wants to talk about security. Obviously, there is still a degree of instability there. And what we expect to come out of

this today is that Syria will join that 88 nation coalition to battle against ISIS. That's still sort of a lingering issue in that country.

Perhaps the U.S. establish a military foothold, on a military based in Damascus, all of these security questions.

But I think, you know, there are some questions about what kind of leader Al-Sharaa will be. He has consolidated a no more amount of power around

himself and his close allies. And it's just not clear at this point what type of government he is going to establish in that country going forward.

And I think the president and other U.S. officials just want to take his temperature as they really realign this relationship.

KINKADE: We will discuss more on that meeting between the Syrian president and the U.S. president in the coming hours.

But, Kevin, I just want to leave it there for now. Appreciate you.

We are going to return to the shutdown story and the impact on travel for many people traveling. This can't come soon enough. We've seen

cancellations. We've seen delays spreading across the air traffic system.

Already on Monday, there have been 1,500 flights cancelled almost as many delays. And the slowdowns are being blamed in a large part on staffing

shortages among air traffic controllers, which is a short time ago, President Trump said air traffic controllers should get back to work.

Promising bonuses for those who worked throughout the shutdown.

Here's what the president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NICK DANIELS, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION: Now history will remember who is responsible for the shutdown. The public and

media will debate who won, but we all know who carried the weight of it and who has to pick up the pieces when it finally ends, it's us, the federal

workforce that has been the rope in this game of tug-of-war.

Now let me be clear, not just air traffic controllers and aviation safety professionals or federal employees, no American should ever be forced to

work without a paycheck.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KINKADE: Well, flights at Newark Liberty International Airport were delayed on average for two hours on Sunday. CNN's Omar Jimenez is there today.

Omar, are things getting better or worse right now? Certainly doesn't look as busy as it was over the weekend.

OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, not as busy, but that could be because people are getting word that their flights are being cancelled.

We're not seeing them to the degree that we saw over this weekend, which was really the first real significant impact after the Federal Aviation

Administration mandated the airlines cut their air traffic by four percent to match up with air traffic controller staffing shortages that we've seen.

[12:10:17]

So we've been keeping an eye on this board, but it's not one of those scenarios where you see cancellations across the board. What you're seeing

is a slow and consistent adding of the cancellation here, a cancellation there.

And so (TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY) not as busy. That's exactly right. When you look at -- this is what the security line is behind this (TECHNICAL

DIFFICULTY).

KINKADE: I think we're having some problems with that connection to --

JIMENEZ: -- their flights are being delayed or canceled. So in total across the United States for travel either within the United States or in and out.

We've already seen over 1,700 cancellations.

And I spoke to one man here who's been dealing with that -- with that dynamic since yesterday, trying to get to Portland, Oregon. And this is

somebody told me.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FAIBIANO JOHANN, PASSENGER: I have two kids at home. My partner is supposed to be working today. And so today, we don't have daycare. The kid -- he's

taking care. He's taking the day off. And I'm trying to scramble to get that at some point.

I spent two hours and 45 minutes waiting for talk to United yesterday. And I just give up and -- and try to go to bed. So I've been awake for 36

hours.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KINKADE: I think we may have lost our connection with Omar Jimenez at Newark Airport, but our thanks to you for all that update.

Well, I want to turn back to the meeting between the U.S. president and the Syrian leader who, of course, was a jihadist who used to fight for al-

Qaeda. Ahmad al-Sharaa is out the White House right now. It's his first- ever meeting with the president at the White House and he's the first Syrian leader to do so since independence in Syria back in 1946.

Well, he meets with Donald Trump six months after they first met in Saudi Arabia. The 43-year-old later campaign that toppled the decades-old Assad

dynasty late last year. Al-Sharaa has spent much of his time trying to transform his global image, even as he tackles deep divisions at home.

Well, CNN's Paula Hancocks joins us now from Abu Dhabi.

Paula, great to have you with us. It's kind of extraordinary that he was on the wanted global terrorist list, you know, designated by the U.S. State

Department just Friday. His name was then removed. And we saw him playing basketball with -- with top officials over the weekend.

Just take us to how extraordinary this moment is.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT:2 Absolutely. I mean, the transformation is really quite remarkable. When you consider that -- that Ahmad -- Ahmad

al-Sharaa is a man who fought against U.S. troops in Iraq. He is a man who formed a rebel group, an al-Qaeda-backed rebel group in Syria intended to

topple the then-president Bashar al-Assad.

And now you see him on a basketball court playing, shooting hoops with the head of CENTCOM. From fighting against U.S. troops in Iraq, he is now

playing basketball with the head of Central Command.

I mean, the transformation could not be more staggering. It would be difficult to out overstate just how significant this meeting is as well

with the U.S. president.

Now, they have met a couple of times before. You mentioned there that they met in Saudi Arabia back in May. That was something that was pushed by the

Crown Prince, certainly in this region. There is a desire for Syria to be supported financially and internationally diplomatically as well to try and

see that country turn a corner.

And we also saw that -- that President Trump and -- and Al-Sharaa met on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly in September as well. So it's

the third time that these two men have met. We have heard the U.S. president publicly praising the Syrian president.

And we've also seen that he has been attempting to -- to lift some sanctions. He has lifted some with the use of the executive order.

But for the rest of the sanctions, they do need congressional approval, congressional support. So this is in part one of the reasons why Al-Sharaa

is in D.C. right now. He wants to see these sanctions lifted. He wants at least a guarantee that in the future, they will be lifted so that his

country can try and move forward.

And we have been seeing this diplomatic charm offensive by the Syrian president over less than a year since -- since the Assad regime toppled and

Al-Sharaa took control.

[12:15:09]

He -- when you consider this White House trip, this is going to be the 20th foreign trip that he has made in less than 12 months. So certainly, he is

making a real effort to try and secure, not only lifting of sanctions, but the reversal of the isolation that we have seen of Syria over recent years,

more than 50 years of -- of an Assad's regime rule, a brutal rule. And he is trying to -- to turn the country around at this point.

Now, he has the support of the U.S. president. We will have to see whether that translate into congressional support and whether there will be a

decision to try and -- and lift sanctions.

Another issue that is likely to come up between these two leaders is also fighting ISIS in Syria. It's a U.S.-led effort. Potentially, we will see

support from Al-Sharaa in -- in that respect as well. We know that he has been fighting against ISIS for many years. Lynda?

KINKADE: I'm wondering what signals, Paula, are emerging, if any, from Moscow and Tehran about Syria's sudden realignment. Have you seen any

reaction?

HANCOCKS: Well, we did see the Syrian president meet with Vladimir Putin just a month ago. It was a surprise meeting. Certainly, we know that Russia

and Iran were the allies, excuse me, of the -- the former regime in Syria, of Bashar al-Assad.

But we're not seeing a movement away from Russia, per se. We heard from the Syrian president saying it's not in his interest or in the interest of his

country.

KINKADE: All right. Paula Hancocks there. If you can get a glass of water there, appreciate you. Thanks for joining us from Abu Dhabi.

Well, former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is back at home and out of prison, at least for a while. A Paris court ruled that Sarkozy could be

free while his lawyers appeal his criminal conspiracy conviction.

Earlier, he told the court his 20 days in prison have been, in his words, very hard. He was convicted in a scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with

funds from Libya in exchange for diplomatic favors.

Well, still to come, police want to know what sparked a deadly explosion in Delhi. We'll update you on what we know so far after the break.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[12:20:10]

KINKADE: At least 10 people were killed in an explosion earlier today near the landmark Red Fort in Delhi, India. These are some pictures from the

scene.

Police say the explosion originated in a car that was parked in a densely populated area. There that the fire spread to several other cars and auto-

rickshaws.

Last hour, I spoke with CNN's Nada Bashir who's following the investigation from London.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We've been getting updates from police officials and hospital officials as the injured and victims are taken in

for emergency care.

At this stage, hospital officials say at least 10 people have been killed in that blast in Delhi. A further 30 are said to have been injured. A

doctor hospital official within this hospital saying that some of them have been badly injured. In his words also saying, many are not in a position of

recovering. That is what has been told to local reporters in Delhi.

We do understand that the police are still carrying out their investigation into what calls the deadly blast. We've seen distressing video emerging

showing fire engulfing several vehicles in Delhi. This is a very crowded and densely populated area.

And we have been hearing from police officials giving us a slight update on that investigation as they continue saying that at about 6:42 P.M. local

time, a slow-moving vehicle came to a stop near the red light and explosion occurred in that vehicle and the passengers in the vehicle and people and

surrounding vehicles were impacted. And they are now looking into investigating this blast from every possible angle.

And, of course, this is an ongoing investigation. There are emergency services on the ground dealing with this incident. And we are still waiting

to hear more particularly with regards to what actually caused the blast. Lynda.

Our thanks to Nada Bashir though.

Returning now to our top story. It is unlikely about the Senate could vote as early as today to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.

Right now, lawmakers are clearing a series of procedural hurdles one night after a group of Democrats broke ranks and sided with Republicans on a

spending bill for the measure would fund the government until the end of January, but it only calls for a vote on extended health care subsidies.

The one and only demand Democrats had and premiums for Obamacare coverage are expected to double if the subsidies are allowed to expire. But the

measure must still be approved by the House whose members have been in recess now for nearly two months.

CNN's Annie Grayer joins us now live from Capitol Hill. Good to have you with us, Annie.

So, senators have advanced this spending bill to effectively keep the government open and running until the end of January. But take us through

the timeline both in the Senate and the House. What -- what are the next steps?

ANNIE GRAYER, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: So we are waiting for the Senate to have its final vote on this package. There are some procedural maneuvers that

senators need to figure out in some time agreements, but the top Republican in the Senate John Thune is hoping that that vote could happen as soon as

today and then the House, which is on a 36-hour notice, could vote on the - - that Senate version as soon as Wednesday, but that's as if all goes according to plan.

Now, what is in this bill that the -- that lawmakers will be voting on? So as you mentioned, it will fund the government through January 30th. It will

also fund key agencies through the end of fiscal year 2026.

So that means if the government were to shut down again between now and then key federal food assistance called SNAP would still be funded. It

allows for the federal workers who have been fired during the shutdown to be rehired and all federal workers to be paid who -- who have not -- who

have not been paid during the shutdown.

But the key sticking point of this entire shutdown, the longest in history, was the rising cost of healthcare. That is what Democrats focused on

throughout this entire process. They wanted to ensure that those expiring Obamacare subsidies would get -- would get extended.

They had made many offers of that -- of that regard. And the Republicans were against that from the beginning. And instead of ensuring those deals

and ensuring those Obamacare subsidies getting extended, all Democrats got was a vote at some point in December.

Now, there's no guarantee that -- that -- that -- that bill would pass in the Senate, and there's no guarantee that it would get taken up in the

House. So many progressives are frustrated with eight of their Democratic colleagues who voted with Republicans last night.

Take a listen to how both sides of the party are viewing last night's vote.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. JEANNE SHAHEEN (D-NH): Keeping the government shut down for another week or another month doesn't indicate that there would be any change in

the outcome. All it would mean is that more Americans would suffer. We need to get this government back open.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT): I know it's part of this resolution that the majority leader is going to say, well, Democrats can create, put together

their own bill and will come to the floor here in the Senate for a vote. As everybody here knows that it's a totally meaningless gesture.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

[12:25:18]

GRAYER: So as you can see there, two Democrats who view last night's vote very differently.

Now, the eight Democrats who did vote with Republicans last night argue that this was the only path forward. That President Trump was coming out

against those Obamacare subsidies and that there was no path forward on getting them attached to government funding.

And they argue that Republicans requiring a vote on those expiring subsidies is a win in itself because Democrats don't control the Senate

floor in the minority. So having the majority concede to some floor time for a Democratic priority, they argue is a win.

But the party is grappling with what last night's vote means for them and their fight as they try and make sense of last night's vote.

KINKADE: Yes. The Democrats certainly giving up all their leverage at this point in time. We'll see if we see a repeat come the end of January.

Annie Grayer in Capitol Hill. Thank you very much.

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided it will not revisit the landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage across the nation.

Conservative legal scholars were hoping the court would use a Kentucky case to reevaluate the groundbreaking Obergefell decision from 2015, but the

court declined.

On the other side of the coin, the court agreed to hear a case about mail- in ballots, an issue as whether states may count ballots received after Election Day. Republicans have been calling for tighter restrictions on

mail-in voting and believe the case could impact election laws in more than a dozen states.

Still to come, one month into the Hamas-Israel ceasefire agreement and a lot of questions remain. What happens next? We'll have that, next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[12:30:26]

KINKADE: Well, the closely watched U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has now reached the one-month mark.

U.S. Special Envoy Jared Kushner was in Jerusalem today meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

A source telling CNN, those talks were expected to focus on advancing the agreement towards the second phase. Under the first phase, Hamas is

required to release all the hostages' remains.

The remains of an Israeli soldier who was killed in 2014 were returned on Sunday. Four deceased hostages are currently still in Gaza.

Well, since the ceasefire took effect, the flow of aid has resumed into Gaza. But after months of blocked and meager shipments, the scale of what's

needed eclipses what can be provided.

We'll turn now now for "The Exchange." I want to welcome CNN military analyst and retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Cedric Leighton. Great to have

you with us.

CEDRIC LEIGHTON, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: It's great to be with you, Lynda. Thank you so much.

KINKADE: So the ceasefire deal came into effect October 10th, one month ago today. And the first phase of this deal is almost complete.

How would you describe this fragile ceasefire, which thankfully is still holding? And what factors have been most critical in preventing a collapse?

LEIGHTON: Yes. I think one of the key things has been the exchange of the hostages and the deceased hostages between Hamas and -- and Israel. So that

very fact has made this whole ceasefire effort actually work up to this point.

Other things include the fact that there's basically a guarantee between -- that is provided by the United States between the Israelis and Hamas for an

essence, a cessation of hostilities, but that cessation of hostilities does come with a few incidents of ceasefire violations.

There have been about 14 violations that have been reported by the IDF on the part of Hamas. And then the Israelis have responded at least four times

with massive attacks against Hamas, usually in response to those ceasefire violations as -- as described by Israel.

So there are some, you know, some major factors that could very much make this a -- a ceasefire that ends, you know, without going to phase two.

But for the most part, phase one has held because of the fact that Hamas has exchanged the hostages for those Palestinian prisoners. And it has also

basically abided for the most part by the terms of the ceasefire in terms of the territories that each side controls.

KINKADE: And, Colonel, the president's son-in-law and envoy to the Middle East, Jared Kushner is meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin

Netanyahu today.

If you were a fly on the wall of those discussions, what do you expect would be at the top of their agenda?

LEIGHTON: I think the basic thing that they're going to talk about would be, you know, how the Israelis are going to move out of the rest of Gaza.

So right now, they're in -- in charge of about 53 percent of Gazan territory.

And, of course, the major thing for the Israelis before they do that would be how is Gaza going to be governed? So that is going to be a major factor.

And then the third thing would be the International Stabilization Force that is in vision for phase two. Right now, there's no real framework for

an international stabilization force except for the language in the agreement.

But that language does not specify specifically what types of troops will be there, where they will be positioned, how they will get into Gaza, and

which countries will supply those forces.

So those are all major sticking points. And the basic questions that the Israelis would have is, how is our security going to be guaranteed? And

then as far as Hamas is concerned, how will they have a guarantee that Israel won't continue to, in essence, process the war a bit further if they

find some other kind of ceasefire violation, or if there is something that happens with the four remaining hostage, deceased hostages before they --

they get back to Israeli control, if that's possible?

KINKADE: And looking ahead to phase two, we've still got Hamas armed and operating in Gaza. Part of the phase two plan of the deal was to ensure the

disarmament of militant groups in Gaza.

What sort of challenge does that pose going forward? And what would need to happen in terms of enforcement measures to ensure some compliance with

regards to that?

[12:35:02]

LEIGHTON: Yes. So I think in -- in terms of enforcement measures, one of the things that, you know, would be looked at would be is there some kind

of an international force like that International Stabilization Force to ensure that the provisions of phase two are going to be carried out.

Now Hamas itself is really unwilling to disarm. They believe, you know, that they will be able to control large portions of Gaza, regardless of

what the ceasefire agreement says. And do they also want to maintain power? That's, you know, kind of a natural thing for an organization that's been

in power for quite some time.

And they don't believe that they need to, in essence, turn over their -- their weapons. The Israelis, of course, are going to insist on this. So

this is one of those areas where there could very well be a breaking point in the ceasefire because of these very different perspectives on exactly

what should happen next.

But to -- the ceasefire agreement is pretty clear that Hamas is supposed to be disarmed. The question is, how will that be achieved? And to what extent

will that disarmament take place if it does take place?

KINKADE: Colonel Cedric Leighton, always great to have you on the program. Thanks for joining us.

What was normally a calm island paradise turned deadly this weekend as sudden massive waves hit the tourist hotspot of Tenerife in Spain's Canary

Islands. The powerful waves caught many off guard and rescuers say they couldn't reach everyone in time.

CNN's Ben Hunte has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BEN HUNTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Rough waves swept several people into the sea off Spain's Tenerife Island. Emergency services say bringing

tragedy to the popular vacation spot.

Officials say there were multiple incidents of casualties linked to strong sea surges across the island. And at one point, a group of 10 people was

carried off by the powerful waves. Most of the group was rescued, but one witness describes how he was unable to help one victim.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): As soon as I saw a man waving at me, I took my clothes off, jumped to the water, and I managed to grab three

of them and save one. I couldn't save the woman because she passed away at that moment, as she fell three meters high from the tip of the breakwater.

HUNTE (voice-over): Emergency services issued repeated warnings about strong waves around Spain's Canary Islands that could reach up to four

meters and told people not to go near the end of piers or breakwaters.

Another witness says he too tried to alert people to the treacherous conditions.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I told them leave already, leave already. The sea is very bad and it is going to sweep you away.

HUNTE (voice-over): Authorities on Sunday warned the Canary Islands are still on alert for coastal hazards. And even though the sea is one of the

biggest draws in Tenerife, one tourist suggests that sometimes it's best to enjoy it from a distance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): When the sea is calm, it's beautiful to look at, it's wonderful, a paradise. But when the sea is

rough, people should not be at the beach, over rocks are at port because it's dangerous.

HUNTE (voice-over): Ben Hunte, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KINKADE: Well, still to come, turmoil at the top two BBC executives resign in a scandal over an edited Donald Trump speech. And now the broadcast

faces a legal threat from the U.S. president. The details, coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[12:40:52]

KINKADE: Well, let's check how the U.S. markets are doing. Stocks are higher on the hopes U.S. shutdown could and soon. You can see they're the

S&P up over one percent. The NASDAQ up almost two percent right now.

Well, this is your "Business Breakout."

As the U.S. shutdown continues, the FAA has prohibited most private jets from using 12 of the country's busiest airports. The air traffic control

system has struggled with staff shortages. Pilots have been advised that airports from New York's JFK to L.A. International are off limits to most

non-scheduled flights.

Visa and Mastercard have agreed to a deal to reduce fees paid by retailers, and which could lead to lower prices in stores. Since 2020, a credit card

issue with fees have increased by 70 percent. The new deal will bring down interchange fees over the next five years, as well as allow merchants to

choose the categories of credit cards they accept.

A German startup called Vay Technology is getting a $60 million investment from Grab Holdings, the Singapore-based ride hailing app. Vay says that

could be followed by another $350 million if it hits a series of corporate milestones in the first year.

Vay, which offers remotely controlled rental cars, is currently operational in Las Vegas and plans to use the new funding to expand further throughout

the U.S.

President Trump is threatening to sue the BBC over the way it edited its coverage of one of his speeches. The controversy has already seen two

resignations of BBC executives, he CEO of news, Deborah Turness and Director General Tim Davie, both stepped down on Sunday.

It followed the league of a critical report, which found a BBC documentary had misrepresented the speech Mr. Trump gave in Washington on January 6th,

2021.

Turness says she stands by the BBC's editorial teams.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DEBORAH TURNESS, OUTGOING CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, BBC NEWS: Of course our journalists aren't corrupt. Our journalists are hardworking people who

strive for impartiality. And I will stand by their journalism.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is there institutional bias that you say?

TURNESS: There is no institutional bias, Mistakes are made, but there's no institutional bias.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KINKADE: BBC's Chair Samir Shah apologized what he called an error of judgment. But the controversy shows no signs of dying down.

CNN's Brian Stelter reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA ANALYST: Today, the BBC is facing a gaping leadership void after a shocking set of resignations on Sunday, both the

Director General Tim Davie and the BBC News boss, Deborah Turness, stepping down with the proximate cause being a scandal over a misleading edit in a

one-year-old documentary about President Trump.

While the Trump angle is getting a lot of attention, the story is really a lot more complicated and a lot more layers. As one BBC source remarked to

me, the right-wing press in the U.K. has been, quote, feasting like vultures, part of a long-running conservative campaign against the British

broadcaster. And the screw-up with the Trump documentary played right into that campaign.

Now Davie and Turness will be staying at their posts in the short-term to ensure an orderly transition. But like I said, this is a shocking

development for BBC staffers. They've never seen this kind of turnover with the top two executives at the same time.

The specific row involving the Trump documentary started about a week ago, when the British newspaper, "The Telegraph" got a hold of an internal

whistleblower memo describing the misleading edit that was made to the panorama documentary. It was shown on the BBC just a few days before the

U.S. presidential election last year.

The documentary spliced together different parts of Trump's infamous speech on the ellipse on January 6th, 2021. The way the documentary portrayed it,

it sounded like Trump was telling the supporters that they were all going to walk down to the Capitol together and, quote, fight like hell.

In reality, Trump did talk about fighting repeatedly during the speech, and he had a combative tone. But when he talked about walking to the Capitol,

which he ultimately did not do, he was saying he was going to go with the supporters to cheer on the brave GOP senators and congressmen who were

there. He did not say the words the way they were spliced together by the BBC documentary.

Now, the producers should have used a white flash or some other effect to show the edit. And while the edit would have caused quite a commotion

internally, it would not have normally caused the resignation of senior leaders. That's partly why the Sunday news was so shocking.

[12:45:11]

But the context is really important here. The BBC is operating in a politically poisonous atmosphere with near daily disputes over coverage,

especially BBC's coverage of Israel and Gaza.

There are equally frequent attacks from the BBC's media rivals in the U.K. And there's a looming review of the BBC's licensed fee model. So, it's easy

to understand why Davie was tired of fighting after five years in charge as director general.

BBC Radio 4 host and former BBC news political editor Nick Robinson, spoke for many inside the organization, when he said on Sunday, before the

resignations happened, quote, "It's clear that there is a genuine concern about editorial standards and mistakes. There's also a political campaign

by people who want to destroy the organization."

Robinson's point was that both things are happening at the same time.

In her memo on Sunday, Turness said, mistakes were made, but quote, "I want to be absolutely clear. Recent allegations that BBC News is institutionally

biased are wrong."

It'll be up to the next BBC News boss and the next general -- next director general to prove that to a skeptical audience.

Brian Stelter, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KINKADE: Our thanks to Brian.

Well, still to come, we will take you to the global climate summit where the big question is, is it too late to reverse the effects of climate

change?

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KINKADE: Terrifying images today as the Philippines are lashed by typhoon Fung-Wong. Around 1.4 million people were evacuated ahead of the storm's

arrival. Fung-Wong brought flooding and landslides as well as winds of up to 185 kilometers an hour. It hit just days after the country was slammed

by Typhoon Kalmaegi which killed more than 200 people.

World leaders joined scientists in Brazil this week as the 30th U.N. Climate Conference COP30 gets underway. But a key nation will be missing as

Donald Trump has declined to send a high level delegation from the U.S. It comes 10 years after the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change. The

same agreement that President Trump abandoned during his first term.

And it comes amid growing pushback on climate concerns from one of the biggest names in both business and the philanthropic world.

CNN's chief climate correspondent Bill Weir reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

[12:50:00]

BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ten years ago, humanity was burning so much fossil fuel that earth was on track to

overheat by a catastrophic four degrees Celsius by centuries end.

But then came Paris, when nearly 200 nations agreed to wean themselves off of oil, gas and coal, protect more nature, and hold the global warming line

at 1.5.

The Paris Accords led to innovation and market forces that now make sun, wind, and storage cheaper and more popular than ever.

But humanity is still burning way too much carbon, and the U.N. announced this week that Earth will likely overshoot 1.5 on the way to around 2.6,

which would still mean the end of coral reefs and mountain glaciers, coastal cities, and island nations as we know them.

So going into history's 30th conference on climate change in Brazil, the stakes cannot be higher.

WEIR: And then at this pivotal moment comes a second coming of Donald Trump, who is actively trying to force all of these countries to go

backwards on climate. And then Bill Gates drops a 5,000 word memo in which he argues that less money should go towards the climate buckets, and a lot

more should be poured into solving global poverty and global health.

But Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech argues climate is not a bucket. Climate is the hole in every other bucket. The hole that makes

solving these problems that much harder and more expensive.

KATHARINE HAYHOE, CHIEF SCIENTIST, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: And that hole is getting bigger and bigger the more carbon emissions we produce. And if we

don't patch that hole, we are never going to be able to address any of the other issues he cares about.

His premise that it -- that climate change is just a separate bucket at the end is profoundly flawed.

WEIR (voice-over): She is among the chorus of top climate scientists who spent the week trying to debunk the billionaires confusing new message that

rich cities will be immune from the worst effects, and that technology can save us.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Those coal mines are opening up one after another. Clean, beautiful, coal.

WEIR (voice-over): Even if Republicans refuse to even try.

ZEKE HAUSFATHER, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, BERKELEY EARTH: Technology doesn't descend from the heavens on magical stone tablets. It comes from decades of

important R&D work, most of which is funded by governments, and deployment work, which is funded by governments like tax credits for clean energy.

And so this idea that we can somehow rely on technology to save us independent of policy, independent of what we actually do to get that

technology out there, I think, is worrying.

DANIEL SWAIN, CLIMATE SCIENTIST, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: They had just hired their entire climate team at CVS. I was literally reading this

instead of going to do that interview.

At the same time, there was a torrential downpour. Multiple people drowned in New York City. And in the interviews that Bill Gates has given in

response to the criticisms, specifically pointed out it's -- that it was ridiculous to think that New York City was going to have problems with

climate change. I was reading this as people were actively underwater in their basement apartments in New York City last week.

So the rhetoric just isn't matching the real world here.

WEIR (voice-over): Meanwhile, former Biden climate czar, Gina McCarthy, is in Brazil, along with a group that includes California Governor Gavin

Newsom and others, who will try to convince the world that blue states and big cities are still in the fight with pledges to keep.

GINA MCCARTHY, FORMER EPA ADMINISTRATOR: This is a difficult time, Bill, that you know, and I've never been at a time when I felt that the federal

government was as much out of the loop as this federal government is.

But that can't be what we focus on. We have a chance to go to Belem and let people know that America is all in. There are solutions. There are

opportunities. There is hope in the United States.

HAYHOE: We also see that businesses, organizations, nonprofits, churches, tribal nations, universities, all kinds of different entities are taking

climate action.

So when Gina is going to Brazil to tell people that people in America, organizations in America are still acting, she's right.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KINKADE: Well, that was CNN's Bill Weir reporting there. And the COP30 climate conference will continue through November 21st.

Well, we've all seen goals scored via bicycle kicks on football highlights reels. But how about taking it next level, an icicle kick? That's what the

effort is being dubbed in the most incredible circumstances in the Canadian Premier League final.

It's hard to imagine how this game between Ottawa and Calgary was even played in this blizzard. It had to be repeatedly stopped so lines could be

cleared every 15 minutes. The goalkeeper is digging out their boxes with shovels.

But the conditions didn't stop 23-year-old David Rodriguez from Mexico who went on to score the winning goal in -- in 107th minute. Look at that. Not

bad considering he had never experienced snow until he moved to Canada in February. Amazing.

[12:55:12]

Well, finally, this hour, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, especially in New York City. The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree arrived

at its new home this weekend, marking the unofficial start to the city's holiday season.

The Norway spruce is 75 feet tall, that's 22 meters. And will be decorated with more than 50,000 lights and topped with a 900-pound crystal star.

It'll light up December 3rd and remain on display until mid-January.

And after that, it will be milled into lumber for use by the Affordable Housing Group, Habitat for Humanity.

Well, that does it for this edition of "One World." I'm Lynda Kinkade. Thanks so much for your company. Stay with us. "Amanpour" is next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

[13:00:00]

END

END