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Trump To face E.U. Leaders In Davos Amid U.S. Tariff Threats; Global Stocks Fall Amid Raised Tensions, Tariff Threats; Relentless Russian Strikes Leave Many Without Power In Kyiv; Trump To Address World Economic Forum; CNN Poll: Fifty-eight Percent Find First Year Of Trump's Term A Failure; U.S. Had Record-Breaking Year For Measles In 2025; Four Shark Attacks In Two Days Off Australian Coast; Royals, Celebrities Battle Publisher In London High Court; Brooklyn Peltz Beckham Slams parents On Instagram; Aired 12-1p ET
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BIANNA GOLODRYGA, CNN ANCHOR: Leaked text messages, rejected invitations, and increasingly he did exchanges about the largest island in the world.
This year's World Economic Forum is unlike any we've seen over the past few years. The second hour of "One World" starts right now.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don't think they're going to push back too much. Look, we have to have it. They have to have this
done. They can't protect.
It's a very good people, but they -- they don't even go there.
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GOLODRYGA: He's dominating the agenda, and he isn't even there yet. European leaders stand together and put Donald Trump on notice.
Also, on the agenda Ukraine, Zelenskyy says that he will won't meet with Trump until his security guarantees are met.
Plus.
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ANGUS WATSON, CNN PRODUCER: Rangers have been scouring this area of Sydney Harbour since Sunday night looking for a shark that attacked a boy here.
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GOLODRYGA: Four attacks in 48 hours. Australian authorities are searching for any clues as to why a bull shark is acting out.
And later, the story that everyone is talking about. What exactly happened at Brooklyn Beckham's wedding? And why is he telling the world about it?
We'll have details, ahead.
Hello, everyone. Live from New York, I'm Bianna Golodryga. Zain is off today. You are watching "One World."
On the words of one Danish lawmaker to CNN, this madness must not be allowed to escalate. But just hours before U.S. President Trump is set to
depart for Davos, his threat to take over Greenland is looming large over the World Economic Forum.
Greenland's Prime Minister warns that the current situation could threaten the world order. And the Kremlin just -- says divisions between the U.S.
and Europe are a threat to the existence of NATO.
Earlier, French President Emmanuel Macron slammed the imperial ambitions in a thinly veiled critique of the U.S.
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EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT: It's a time of peace, stability, and -- and predictability.
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Competition from the United States of America through trade agreements that undermine our export interests, demand maximum concession -- concessions,
and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe, combined with an endless accumulation of new tariffs that are fundamentally unacceptable, even more
so when they are used so as the leverage against territorial sovereignty.
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GOLODRYGA: Still, Trump doubled down on his insistence that the U.S. has to have Greenland telling reporters that he expects little pushback, a message
echoed by his Treasury Secretary in one word.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So you do not believe that the E.U. or the U.K. have any retaliatory financial instruments or measures in their bag that the
United States should be worried about?
SCOTT BESSENT, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: No.
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GOLODRYGA: Well, global markets, meanwhile, are reacting to Trump's tariff threat nervously on Wall Street after sinking more than 700 points at one
point this morning.
Here's a look at where the Dow stands right now. They recovered slightly. The -- that you see, European markets also down as well. European markets
have been down two days in a row. The U.S. market opening for the first time since the president's tariff threats because they were closed
yesterday for federal holidays.
CNN's Matt Egan is covering this all from New York. But first, let's go to Richard Quest who joins me now live from Davos.
And, Richard, we heard the Treasury Secretary today repeat a warning to European allies, and that is to take a deep breath, do not retaliate, he
says. The president will be here tomorrow and will get his message across.
I think that message has been heard loud and clear from across the Atlantic now for a number of days.
What are you hearing from those there in Davos?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN ANCHOR: What -- yes. What I'm hearing is it's very easy to say, don't retaliate. And it's very straightforward, as some are
suggesting, that this is just a traditional negotiating policy of Donald Trump, the maximalist view. You go hell for leather and then you reverse
and you come back and settle where you're going to compromise.
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But how can you do that when you are questioning the sovereignty of one of your NATO allies, merely to be chilled, if you will, as one policymaker put
it to me, one leader said, look, you can't be chilled when somebody's saying, we're going to do it the easy way or the hard way.
Yes, of course, leaders here realize that this might be just a negotiating ploy that Donald Trump is prepared to settle for something less. But who is
prepared to take the risk, at the same time you go after Venezuela and you -- or you extract Maduro and all these other cases.
And so I think the one thing that the policymakers, people like Christine Lagarde, who I have been speaking to, says this is a massive wake-up call.
It is highlighting, yes, the weaknesses in European industry, European technology, European defense and procurement. And that's something that
Europe -- that is the reality check that Europe is getting in today's Davos.
GOLODRYGA: Yes. A reality check that they appear bracing to hear more about tomorrow when the president will be arriving and speaking and then meeting
privately with world leaders. We should note some of those private exchanges that he's already had with world leaders. He's made public on
truth social as well, including the president of France.
Richard, thank you so much.
Let's go to Matt Egan, who's been covering the market's reaction to all this. As we said, the markets have -- have actually given up some of their
losses from earlier this morning, I guess, anticipation of how things end up, what the president ends up saying tomorrow as it relates to tariffs and
Greenland.
We also got some news from the Treasury Secretary that Fed Chair announcement could be imminent. What are you watching?
MATT EGAN, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Well, Bianna, look, investors are clearly rattled by this crisis over Greenland. You see the Dow is down 500 points,
about one percent. The NASDAQ 1.3 percent lower.
The good news, relatively speaking, is that markets were down even more earlier, right? At one point, the Dow was down almost 800 points off those
lows.
But investors, they're taking money out of stocks and they're piling into precious metals like gold and silver. Both of them have surged.
Now, all of this is over these new tariff threats from the president, right? He has said that starting February 1, there will be a 10 percent
tariff on eight European allies of the United States, including the U.K., France, Germany, and Denmark.
And then he says that if this isn't resolved and they don't have an agreement, then you're going to have a 25 percent tariff starting on June
1st. And this is rattling investors because a lot of them have been hoping that the worst was over when it comes to tariffs and trade tensions, but
this latest outbreak of tensions over Greenland suggests otherwise.
Now, one of the things we heard from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was, don't retaliate. That was his message to European allies, but it's also
true that Europe does have a big weapon in their back pocket. It's known as a trade bazooka. It's an anti-coercion instrument that took effect in 2023.
And it's designed to protect the E.U. from tariffs and from investment threats, just like this.
In fact, France has reportedly argued that the E.U. should activate this bazooka. And if they did, it would unlock a range of options, including
export controls and blocking access to the vast E.U. market.
And the risk is that you get into some sort of a tit-for-tat situation where both sides continue to retaliate. It can become very hard to get out
of. And it can do damage to both the European economy and to the U.S. economy.
Now, all of this comes as there's new research out on who is paying for all of the president tariffs. This comes from the Kiel Institute, a German
think tank. And they find that just four percent of the tariffs have been paid by foreign exporters who have cut prices.
The vast majority of the tariffs have been paid by U.S. importers and U.S. consumers in the form of higher prices.
Now, this completely undermines the president's argument that foreign countries are eating and will eat the tariffs.
One of the authors of this study says that's a complete myth that foreign countries are paying for tariffs. And they said that U.S. tariffs, they are
an own goal inflicted on the U.S. economy. And all of this, of course, coming as now investors and business leaders are bracing for the risk,
Bianna, of more tariffs to come.
Back to you.
GOLODRYGA: All right, Matt Egan, thank you.
Well, Ukraine's president is also headed to the World Economic Forum. Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that he will only meet with President Trump in
Davos if Ukraine's security guarantees are met.
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Now, it comes after Moscow launched an air assault on Ukraine overnight. That was the biggest so far this year, unleashing more than 370 drones and
missiles and killing at least one person.
Zelenskyy says his top priority is to end the war and is grateful for American and Ukrainian teams for working together.
CNN's Matthew Chance is in Moscow, and he asked Russia's foreign minister about President Trump's involvement. Take a listen.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CHIEF GLOBAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: To what extent do you think that inconsistency, that unpredictability, that willingness to
use unconstrained power by President Trump, actually in itself represents a threat to Russia?
SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): We clearly see the inconsistency in the actions of the Donald Trump administration
when it comes to ensuring the international security and its attitude towards international law.
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GOLODRYGA: CNN's Kevin Liptak joins us from Washington with more.
So much to dig into here, Kevin. And as the president is preparing to leave for Davos, he has created a lot of buzz and a lot of frustration in
multiple capitals with his Board of Peace as it relates to the war in Gaza.
And as we've just been covering yet another assault by Russia on Ukraine, the president nominating and inviting Vladimir Putin alongside President
Zelenskyy to be on this Board of Peace.
What is the logic behind all of this, Kevin?
KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yes. It certainly led a lot of questions about what exactly this board is meant to do. You know, in
addition to Putin, he also invited Alexander Lukashenko, his ally in Belarus.
Now, we should say, you know, there seems to have been dozens of these invites that have gone out. The president sending them to many, many world
leaders. The cost for a permanent seat on the board is not cheap. It's $1 billion, although you don't have to pay that billion dollars for a non-
permanent seat, but just the idea of inviting the leader whose invasion of Ukraine has led to the worst conflict in Europe since World War II, I
think, is quite remarkable and doesn't suggest that the Board of Peace is going to be altogether focused on peace alone.
And it does seem as if its remit has expanded well beyond Gaza as well. You know, the president in these invitation letters that have been going out to
all of these world leaders said that in his view, the Board of Peace would develop essentially a new format and a new initiative of how to deal with
global conflicts, which has led to all of this speculation that this is essentially meant as a replacement to the United Nations or to the United
Nations Security Council that will be led by Trump in perpetuity.
Now, you've heard a lot of world leaders questioning whether this is something they actually want to sign up for, namely the French president,
Emmanuel Macron, who has come out and said that this isn't going to be something that he wants to be involved with.
When President Trump was asked about that yesterday, he said, well, no one wants Macron there. He's going to be out of office in a few months,
although the election in France is not until next year and threatening to put a 200 percent tariff on French wine and champagne.
And so you can see how the president is placing a lot of stock in this board. You know, he is planning an event with the Board of Peace in Davos
on Thursday morning. I think the goal had been to try and have a number of leaders ready and willing to sign on at that point. Although at this point,
you hear more questioning about this board than you hear ready acceptance, including, I should note, from the Kremlin.
They have said that they want to talk more about it with the White House as well before Vladimir Putin signs on.
And so I think a lot of questions about what this actually is shaping up to be President Trump potentially offering some more clarity when he speaks
about it in Davos. But at this point, I think more questions than answers.
GOLODRYGA: No doubt. Kevin Liptak, thank you.
For more on this, I want to bring in "The Wall Street Journal's" chief foreign affairs correspondent Yaroslav Trofimov who is joining us from
Davos as well.
Yaroslav, let me pick up there where Kevin left off in this board of peace invitation extended to Vladimir Putin and President Zelenskyy.
If you're in Kyiv right now and you're on the receiving end of this news, how do you interpret it? And what is the logic behind sending an invitation
to a board of peace, no less, to a country that has illegally invaded its neighbor?
YAROSLAV TROFIMOV, CHIEF FOREIGN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Well, I think the idea behind this entire world of peace is to
replace the United Nations as we know it.
And if you look at the proposed charter of this board, you know, there will be permanent members. They will pay a billion dollars. And then there will
be other members and President Trump seems to want pretty much every country to be there with him as a chairman for life, because the proposed
draft statute of this board says that he will remain chairman even after he leaves the presidency and he will have the right to nominate the successor
and he will have the veto power of all the decisions.
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And I think once the European and other democratic nations have realized what exactly this board means, there is a lot of reluctance. Not just from
France, but also we've seen from Canada, from the U.K., from Poland and other allies.
GOLODRYGA: Right.
TROFIMOV: And, obviously, the -- the nations that did sign up to this were the nations like Belarus, whose president just accepted the invitation.
GOLODRYGA: Right. And if the criticism of the United Nations, which many have expressed, including this administration and President Trump, is that
it's sort of lost its effectiveness and people look at the hypocrisy of having some of these countries having a veto vote and sitting on security
councils, it just seems like it's a repetition of the very same thing when you're inviting these same authoritarian leaders to be joining this board.
But let me ask you more broadly about the war in Ukraine itself. First of all, do we know if President Zelenskyy will in fact be attending the World
Economic Forum there in Davos in light of this latest attack?
TROFIMOV: I think indications are that he will not come. You know, he's said that he wants to be with his people at the time when Kyiv is without
electricity, without water, without heating.
And, you know, there's not a lot of upside when it comes to just be part of this Trump board piece of show, especially if Zelenskyy is not joining that
board because he said he's very reluctant to sit on this board alongside President Putin or President Lukashenko of Belarus. And right now, there is
very little that the U.S. is offering the Ukrainians.
GOLODRYGA: Right. And we still don't have concrete security guarantees in terms of what would happen if a ceasefire deal were reached today from the
United States.
And then you add to that now this new chaos surrounding the president's demands to acquire Greenland, essentially throwing away or disregarding a
centuries old agreement between Denmark and Greenland.
And then also, as we've just reported today, during a phone call and after its phone call with Keir Starmer, the president appears to be now mocking
and ridiculing the United Kingdom for relinquishing control over a group of islands where the United States has a military base in the Indian Ocean.
This was a deal that the U.S. had also previously agreed to.
What message is that sending the Ukrainians in terms of their ability to trust the United States to be a stalwart and stand up to its commitments,
whatever they may be as it relates to the war there?
TROFIMOV: Well, I think for the Ukrainians and for the Europeans, the entire idea of U.S. security guarantees for Ukraine is becoming more and
more and more from reality because the preoccupation now is about how to protect the security of Europe from the United States.
We now have, you know, European two-part deployments in Greenland. And European officials are starting to take very seriously the possibility of a
U.S. armed intervention onto a territory of a NATO ally.
And, you know, European leaders to whom we have spoken here in Davos, I will say that would be the end of NATO, as we note, and would be the
biggest strategical gift to Russia that, you know, President Putin had not expected it would be presented for him in a silver platter.
GOLODRYGA: The argument is being made. I don't put much weight into it in terms of the precedent set by whatever the United States does, then Russia
will follow because we know Russia invaded and had plans to invade Ukraine long before President Trump came back into office.
That having been said, how do you respond to the comments made by Sergey Lavrov, Russia's foreign minister, comparing the United States now
acquiring or demanding to acquire Greenland to validation as to why Russia should have the right to take Crimea?
TROFIMOV: Well, obviously, Russia will exploit this as much as it can. And Russian officials are really egging on the Trump administration to take
action to seize Greenland, just precisely because the destruction of NATO will be a -- the validation of Russia's strategic dream for, you know, the
last 80 years really, and would put Russia in a very strong position to then claim much more land in Europe itself.
The Baltic States may be into beyond because it's clear that President Putin is dreaming of restoring Russia's sphere of influence throughout
Europe, including the countries that are currently members of NATO and the European Union. So, of course, it's great news for Russia.
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GOLODRYGA: Do you think -- can I ask you quickly, Yaroslav, that that may be how Russia is projecting itself right now? Is there any concern,
however, in Moscow if the United States ultimately does get control over Greenland?
TROFIMOV: Well, not really because, you know, the U.S. military right now has full access to Greenland. There is an agreement with the Danish
government that allows the U.S. to establish a military basis and to do pretty much everything it wants in terms of missile defense, strategic
defense.
So it's not like the U.S. will gain anything militarily from planting a flag on Greenland and disbanding its government, but it will lose basis in
Europe, it will lose cooperation with its allies and it will lose its ability to project soft power all over the world. There is a lot to lose
and not very much to gain in Greenland.
GOLODRYGA: President Trump already sharing the meme of the U.S. flag there being planted in Greenland.
Yaroslav Trofimov, thank you so much. Appreciate your reporting.
Well, it has been one year since President Trump took the oath of office for the second time. And today, we look back on the highs and lows of
President Trump's second term.
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GOLODRYGA: It's been a dramatic year at home and abroad from his aggressive immigration crackdown to his tariffs and military action Venezuela and
Iran.
President Trump's policies have kept allies guessing and sparked divisions among Americans.
A recent CNN poll finds that 58 percent of Americans say the first year of Trump's second term is a failure. Now, this time last January, Trump
claimed the vast majority of Americans were united behind his agenda.
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TRUMP: My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal.
As our victory showed the entire nation is rapidly unifying behind our agenda with dramatic increases in support from virtually every element of
our society.
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GOLODRYGA: All right. Let's discuss with our chief data analyst Harry Enten live in New York.
What a difference a year can make the president last year this time talking about a mandate. The numbers now a year later show something entirely
different.
HARRY ENTEN, CNN CHIEF DATA ANALYST: Yes. There ain't no mandate no more, Bianna. There ain't no mandate no more. And I think it's so important to
put how popular President Trump is now in a historic context.
And I think this is so interesting because we have been comparing Trump to himself in term number one versus term number two. And he always seemed to
be running a little bit ahead of where he was in term number one, but now he's running behind.
Take a look here. Trump's net approval rating one year into the term. In term number one, he was 15 points underwater according to our CNN polling.
That's not so hot to trot, but it's better than where he is now according to our CNN polling. He's 22 points underwater. This is not a mandate from
the American people. This is the exact opposite of a mandate from the American people. They do not like what they're seeing.
It's why that 58 percent of our poll who say that Trump's first term in office is a failure. And they don't like what they're seeing compared to
where he was in term number one, which is they didn't like it either, but they really don't like this.
Now, why have the numbers right now -- or why are they even worse than they were in term number one?
Well, you know, we've -- we've spoken about how many times, Bianna, have we spoken about the economy? That is what is dragging -- dragging Trump down
as I take a nice bend. I didn't do my exercises this morning. I figured I'll do mine here.
Trump's economic net approval one year in. In term number one, he was actually on the positive side of the ledger. He was at plus six points.
Look at where he is now. Twenty two points underwater. That is a twenty- eight point switcheroo in the wrong -- in the wrong direction. The economy is dragging Trump down.
You know, we spoke about this. I believe last week there is nobody at this point who has a worse economic net approval rating one year into term
number two than Donald John Trump. This is the worst on record.
Now, this, of course, is manifesting itself in different ways, right? And, you know, the economy is made up of a lot of different elements, right? The
stock market's part of the -- the economy. The jobs market is part of the economy. Housing costs and costs is the name of the game. Costs of living.
And again, just compare to where we were when Donald Trump was running for a second term and how they look back on term number one versus how the
American people view him now on the cost of living.
Re, the cost of living. Trump has hurt or helped. Back in 2024, looking at term number one, it was 40 percent hurt. 40 percent helped. Now look at the
massive difference. Fifty-seven percent of Americans say that Trump has hurt -- hurt the American people on the cost of living compared to just 19
percent, just 19 percent who say helped. And this helped even just 43 percent of Republicans say that Donald Trump has helped on the cost of
living. He can't even get to the majority mark there.
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So when we look back on term number two, year number one, the mandate that Trump claimed to have, and I think rightly claimed to have, based upon the
fact that he won not just the popular vote, but obviously the Electoral College as well, you can wave Adios Amigos. Goodbye to that mandate in the
same way that you and I bid Adios Amigos goodbye to our football teams this past weekend.
GOLODRYGA: Yes. I was going to -- I thought since we had yesterday a part that we could just avoid the Buffalo Bills and the Texans' performance.
ENTEN: No, no, no, no.
GOLODRYGA: A reckoning is needed, Harry. And --
ENTEN: It is.
GOLODRYGA: -- I think we've come to terms with this season. There's always next, my friend.
ENTEN: I know. I know. But you and I will continue to be fantastic friends.
GOLODRYGA: Yes. Back to your stretches. It's cold outside. Stay warm.
ENTEN: Thank you.
GOLODRYGA: Thanks, Harry.
All right. Still to come on "One World," dangerous conditions in Chile as the country battles deadly, fast-moving wildfires. We'll have the very
latest details, just ahead.
Plus, four shark attacks in two days off the coast of Australia. What officials are saying about the cause?
Plus, the measles outbreak in the United States is spreading. We look at what you need to know about that outbreak, ahead.
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GOLODRYGA: In Chile, fast-moving wildfires have killed at least 19 people, and 34 active burns continue to burn nationwide. Officials say hundreds of
homes have been destroyed, and that number is likely to rise significantly.
Firefighters are battling difficult conditions, including intense heat and winds, as flames spread towards cities. State of emergency has been
declared in the Nuble and Biobio regions.
Well, today marks one year since the start of the measles outbreak in West Texas. And measles cases in parts of the U.S. are still surging,
particularly in Upstate South Carolina.
At least 171 cases have been reported in just the first two weeks of this year alone. That number is nearly as high as the average annual total in
each of the 25 years since measles was declared eliminated in the U.S.
CNN medical correspondent Meg Tirrell joins us with more on this.
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And what is the federal government, what are health officials saying about these figures, Meg?
MEG TIRRELL, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, it hasn't been a major topic that we've heard from the federal government talking about
measles in the United States. They did address the issue last year, as we saw this really fast-growing outbreak in West Texas.
We did hear from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. emphasizing vaccination is the best way to prevent measles. But a lot of critics said
that his message was very mixed and wasn't the strong recommendation for measles vaccination that is really needed in order to stop these huge
outbreaks.
And so that outbreak in West Texas totaled more than 760 cases, as you noted, started one year ago today. Now, we have a very fast growing
outbreak in South Carolina where just on Friday of last week, they added 124 cases within the next hour. We're expecting the next update from that
state health department.
And if you look at 2025 figures, I mean, we're already off to a huge, unfortunately, very fast start in terms of cases. And 95 percent of the
cases were either unvaccinated or had unknown vaccine status.
And so that is what's contributing to these really fast growing outbreaks. Experts kind of compare it to -- to a kindling, really, where if you have a
spark of a virus that gets into a community that has a lot of unvaccinated people, unfortunately, a virus like measles, the most contagious virus we
know about will take off. And that's what we're seeing here.
So there are concerns that we also have very high rates of exemptions for non-medical reasons for school requirements, for vaccines, for example. The
CDC shows that this has been rising particularly since the beginning of the pandemic.
And in some cases in South Carolina, we see particularly high rates of exemptions where folks didn't get vaccinated. Now, this is raising
questions as we hit that one year mark from the West Texas outbreak starting last year about whether the U.S. will be able to maintain its
elimination status, which we got in 2000 saying that measles was not transmitting in an endemic way here in the United States.
The way they determine that essentially is do we have one year of uninterrupted transmission of measles that is the same sort of measles
virus that's been spread around? And can they prove that? If we do see that we've had one year of transmission, we could be at risk of losing that
status.
And the Pan American Health Organization is due to meet in April to consider that. One of the tricky things though is that that West Texas
outbreak was declared over in August. We haven't yet seen definitive evidence that other outbreaks that started after that in Utah and Arizona
or in South Carolina where really we saw this take off in October are linked to that outbreak.
So, Bianna, a lot of questions there. In April, this will be a major question, is measles endemic in the U.S. again?
GOLODRYGA: Yes. That measles-free status had come from so many years of hard work from health officials. And to see it erode so quickly is really
stunning.
Meg Tirrell, thank you so much.
Well, about 40 beaches in Australia remain closed today after a spate of shark attacks. Say 25-year-old surfer was critically injured in the Sydney
suburb. And a 12-year-old boy has been hospitalized after an attack near Sydney Harbour.
CNN's Angus Watson has more.
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WATSON (voice-over): The family of a 12 year old Australian boy is fearing the worst after he was attacked by a shark at a popular Sydney Harbour
beach.
Nico Antic has been hospitalized since Sunday when he became the first victim in a rare spate of shark attacks.
WATSON: Rangers have been scouring this area of Sydney Harbour since Sunday night looking for a shark that attacked a boy here. That boy is now in a
critical condition in hospital, only alive because one of his friends jumped into the water to save him.
WATSON (voice-over): Four shark attacks in 48 hours, three in Sydney, another on the coast to the north. All were attributed to bull sharks, a
stocky species with powerful jaws that lurk in murky waters.
ROBERT HARCOURT, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF MARINE ECOLOGY AT MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY: When there's certain types of events like very heavy rainfall,
we know that bull sharks, which are tolerant of freshwater, move around the harbor quite actively to move to where the fish are being pushed by the
changes in salinity from the freshwater inputs.
WATSON (voice-over): A 25-year-old surfer is also in a critical condition after he was attacked on Monday at a beach in Manly, another Sydney
hotspot.
DAYAN NEAVE, SURFER AND EYEWITNESS: At the moment, there's just been more sharks up and down the eastern coast of Australia than anyone's ever seen.
It's actually -- it's actually radical, so I don't really want to go out for a while.
WATSON (voice-over): An 11-year-old boy with a close call at nearby Dee Why Beach. These bites taken from his surfboard. He got away unhurt.
The attacks are not the first in Sydney in recent months. Here, temperatures are expected to surge ahead of an upcoming holiday weekend.
Many will be judging whether to risk a swim.
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Angus Watson, CNN, Sydney.
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GOLODRYGA: Welcome back to "One World." I'm Bianna Golodryga.
A stark declaration in Davos from Canada's Prime Minister, Mark Carney, telling the World Economic Forum quote, the old order is not coming back.
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MARK CARNEY, CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER: It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry. That the rules
based order is fading.
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GOLODRYGA: His speech focused on a new world order that he says is emerging. And with that in mind, Carney has been making trade deals with
countries other than the United States.
We expect to hear from President Trump, we should note, at the White House briefing in about 30 minutes time. His remarks come just before he heads to
Davos to address the World Economic Forum.
I want to bring in CNN's global economic analyst, Rana Foroohar. She's also associate editor and global business columnist at "The Financial Times."
Rana, good to see you again.
It's only been 24 hours but things have continued to -- to ratchet up here between the United States and its European allies. And I'm just wanting to
get your reaction to what we heard from Treasury Secretary Bessent essentially telling European leaders to take a deep breath and to not
retaliate.
He noted that twice and repeated himself and not retaliating in saying that the president will come and things will all end well essentially to, not to
put words in his mouth, but to sum up his point there.
We've heard similar remarks from him when the president introduced those tariffs on Liberation Day last year. It does seem like a bit of gaslighting
in the sense that you have a U.S. official who is calling out European leaders for daring to respond to what is an unprecedented move from the
U.S. president himself.
What is your reaction to it all?
RANA FOROOHAR, CNN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ANALYST: Well, Bianna, you framed it really, really well. And I think the word gaslighting is -- is absolutely
appropriate here.
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Europeans are -- are looking back and remembering that they cut a trade deal at the beginning of Trump two. They accepted 15 percent tariffs
without any kind of retaliation. They really sort of meekly accepted that.
They're looking now and saying, this didn't make our lives better. This hasn't made the world more peaceful. In fact, we're seeing threats of a --
of a territorial attack on a sovereign NATO ally.
And so, I'm going to be watching incredibly carefully now to see how Europe retaliates. We are already hearing talk amongst several European countries,
including some of the Nordics about how they could use military defense, how they could use financial weapons. There are a lot of countries Norway,
for example, that hold a lot of U.S. Treasury bills.
You know, you could see the same kind of financial and currency wars that we saw deployed against Russia when it invaded Ukraine, but this time
deployed by Europe towards the United States.
I have to agree with Mark Carney, the old order is not coming back. And I really do think that this is a new line in the sand. We could end up seeing
the end of NATO. We are certainly seeing a new world order emerging.
GOLODRYGA: Yes. And especially notable to hear from Mark Carney, given that previously he was the governor of the Bank of England and Canada as well.
So, he's reacting not just as a leader of a sovereign country, but also as someone who's looking at the larger scale economic picture, having just
returned from China, where he sealed a trade deal with Xi Jinping.
These two countries, or I would say the United States and the European Union and our NATO allies, are so intertwined though. I just wonder at the
end of the day, if both execute on their threats, is this not a massive sort of circular firing squad that -- that one alliance is committing on
itself?
FOROOHAR: Boy, I -- I have to say, I kind of shudder at that -- that metaphor of a firing squad.
Yes. I mean, let's take a step back and -- and let's look at just what's happening in Greenland right now. As always, as often I should say, Trump
is -- is the -- the wrong answer to the right question.
If you step back and go to the Biden administration a number of years ago, there were concerns about Arctic security. There were concerns that Russia
and China are deploying submarines, are -- are cable cutting in the area are looking to make pathways, new shipping pathways that are being created
because of Arctic meltage, ice meltage, their own territory, their own resources.
But, you know, they're -- that's a real worry, but is Arctic security going to get better because you're not working with your NATO allies in the
region? I think it's really, really hard to argue that.
And so then you have to bring, you know, the president's own psychology into this. The idea that this seems to be a kind of a tit for tat based on
a -- a snub about from the Danes, about the Nobel Prize. I mean, you know, it's very, very hard to create strategy from what's happening.
And I worried that we're in a period, you know, like the run up to say World War I, where you've just got a lot of very dangerous vectors in play.
And there could be a mistake. There could be, you know, just a conflict that emerges out of this that we can't predict. And it's a very, very
dangerous time, very dangerous.
GOLODRYGA: And so, what is the best path to deescalate here? And what do you think is the most for -- for the president to be able to take that path
in saving face? What's his best option at this point?
FOROOHAR: It's a really good way to put it in psychological terms. Well, I think two things. I would love to see more thoughtful Republicans in
particular as some have standing up and saying, you know what? No, enough is enough. We are not going to take any kind of military action against
NATO ally.
And I would like business leaders. You know, business leaders in Davos to say, hey, the U.S. is strong. It does have a, you know, a great consumer
economy, but we can't be the center of the world anymore. We need allies to work with us.
If we can get allies to work with us, we have a really good chance of creating a new world order that could be more beneficial. If we try and go
it alone, we are going to end up in a very dangerous situation.
The other thing I would say is Europeans, and I think they're already doing this, you see the big Mercosur deal, trade deal being cut with Latin
America. You see Canada going into -- to China and saying, we can't work with the U.S. Can we work with you?
Other nations, other blocks are saying, we're moving away from the U.S. We're going to create more resiliency. We're going to cut our losses and
we're going to try and make the future elsewhere.
And the U.S. can be part of that or it can stand alone. If it chooses the latter path, I think we're all going to end up poor and meaner as a result.
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GOLODRYGA: Yes. And so far, the -- the response from officials, like the Treasury Secretary himself, over the weekend saying, we're hot, you're not,
and so deal with it. That's quite striking to -- to hear the U.S. government.
Rana Foroohar, thank you, as always. I'm sure we'll talk very soon again. Thank you.
Well, Israel has begun demolishing the UNRWA headquarters in East Jerusalem after a law was passed banning the activities of the U.N. Agency for
Palestinian Refugees.
Footage obtained by CNN shows police along with officers from Israel Land Authority clearing the property with bulldozers earlier today.
UNRWA said the move was a deliberate defiance of international law. But Israel says its seizure of the site was legal.
All right. Still to come for us, a battle royal in London's high court that is. We'll update you on Prince Harry's privacy case against a prominent
publisher.
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GOLODRYGA: All right. Let's get another check on how the U.S. markets are doing right now. Down across the board there, the Dow down over one
percent. The S&P 500 down a percent and a half. And the NASDAQ down nearly two percent. This is your business breakout.
President Trump has threatened to hit French wines and champagnes with a 200 percent tariff. And it's part of an apparent effort to get French
President Emmanuel Macron to join Trump's Board of Peace initiative, aimed at rebuilding Gaza and resolving global conflicts. A source close to Macron
says that he intended to decline the invitation to join.
Novavax shares are jumping after the company struck a licensing deal with Pfizer. Pfizer will use a substance made by Novavax that helps in boosting
immune responses in vaccines. It comes as the company faces pressure over weak COVID vaccine sales.
And Netflix is upping the stakes in its battle for Warner Brothers Discovery. It's revised its bid to an all cash offer of $27.75 per share
for WBD's movie studio and streaming assets. Netflix and Warner Brothers Discovery, CNN's parent company, are hoping the new offer will help fend
off Paramount's hostile bid to buy the whole of WBD.
Well, it's day two of the U.K.'s most high-profile court case in years. Prince Harry and the actress Liz Hurley arrived at London's high court
Tuesday. The royal and six others are suing the publisher of "The Daily Mail," accusing it of violating their privacy over a period of nearly two
decades.
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The publisher says that it is just a case of wealthy people driven by animosity toward the media.
Our royal correspondent Max Foster has the details.
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MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prince Harry is back in court for his third legal showdown against the British tabloids in recent
years.
The Duke of Sussex and six other household names in Britain are suing the publisher of "The Daily Mail" over alleged unlawful information gathering.
Actors Liz Hurley and Sadie Frost join the Prince in court on Monday. Singer Elton John is amongst the claimants bringing the civil case forward.
For the next nine weeks, the plaintiff's legal team will argue that Associated Newspapers Limited, ANL, the publisher of "The Daily Mail" and
"The Mail On Sunday," obtained and published information via illicit means, including phone tapping and hacking and engaging in impersonation and
deception to obtain confidential records known as blagging.
The publisher has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and says the allegations are, quote, preposterous. The Duke has already won similar legal battles
against two of Britain's top publishers.
The court awarded him damages in the case against the Mirror Group Newspapers in 2023. And last year, he settled with Rupert Murdoch's News
Group Newspapers.
DAVID SHERBORNE, PRINCE HARRY'S BARRISTER: News U.K. have admitted that "The Sun," the flagship title for Rupert Murdoch's U.K. media empire, has
indeed engaged in illegal practices.
FOSTER (voice-over): On Monday, his lawyer told the court that being targeted by journalists made the Duke feel paranoid beyond belief.
Harry previously said the toxic press were partly behind his decision to step back from royal duties and move to the U.S. with his wife, Meghan and
son Archie.
Prince Harry expected to take the witness stand on Thursday.
Max Foster, CNN, London.
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GOLODRYGA: Coming up for us, why Brooklyn Beckham says that he has no interest in reconciling with his famous parents.
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GOLODRYGA: We are following a celebrity family feud playing out on social media. On Instagram Monday, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham slammed his famous
parents, David and Victoria Beckham. This is the first time that he's publicly acknowledged the long rumored family feud.
CNN's Rhea Mogul has more.
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RHEA MOGUL, CNN REPORTER: David and Victoria Beckham's son has broken his silence on a long rumored feud with his famous parents.
MOGUL (voice-over): In a series of six posts to his 16 million followers on Instagram, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham said he doesn't want to reconcile with
his family because he's standing up for himself for the first time in his life.
MOGUL: Rumors of a feud between the Beckhams have been swirling for years with tabloids running headlines about the dispute, particularly focusing on
their disapproval of his relationship with his wife, Nicola Peltz.
He wrote of their wedding, "My mum cancelled making Nicola's dress in the 11th hour despite how excited she was to wear her design and that she
hijacked his first dance."
We've attempted to contact David and Victoria Beckham for a response.
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GOLODRYGA: All right. We'll continue to follow this story as well.
And that does it for this hour of "One World." I'm Bianna Golodryga. Don't go anywhere. I'll be right back with "Amanpour" after a quick break.
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