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Sources: Israel Warns U.S. OF Iranian Plot To Assassinate Trump; U.S. Pauses Iran Strikes After Tit-For-Tat Attacks Threaten Truce; Wildfires Rage In Southern Spain As Record Temps Hit Europe; U.K. Police Launch Murder Probe Into Death Of Former Government Minister; Miami's Haitian Community Faces Uncertainty After TPS Ruling; Hegseth Pushes For Action Over Strict Beard Policy; Morocco last African Team To Be Eliminated From World Cup; New App Lets Anyone Use Instagram Photos In A.I. Images; One Person In Custody For Murder Of Former British M.P. Aired 12-1p ET
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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: Israel wanted to resume the war, the White House did not. The second hour of "One World" starts right now.
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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: While the Israeli Prime Minister does want to join in on these latest U.S. strikes on Iran, the
United States has communicated quite clearly that it does not want Israel involved at this moment.
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ASHER: Sources South CNN Israel wanted to be involved in Thursday's strikes, but the Trump administration wasn't interested.
Also, ahead, deadly wildfires are ravaging the southern Spanish coast. Meteorologist say what's coming next could cause -- could make a bad
situation even worse. We are live in the Weather Center for you.
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All right. Coming to you live from New York, I'm Zain Asher. Bianna is off today. You are watching "One World."
We are actually standing by for a news conference from the U.K. after the death of Ann Widdecombe. She was 78 years old. She was found dead in her
home in Devon with serious injuries.
We are waiting from -- for police to really speak to the public about whether or not this is, at this point in time, a murder investigation.
Just to recap for you, Ann Widdecombe was certainly a very prominent public figure in U.K. politics. She was Reform U.K. spokesperson. She was a
political conservative party, prior to that for many, many years. She was an early backer of Brexit.
And I -- one of the reasons why this is so important is, yes, of course. There's sadness and devastation about her death and possible murder. We are
waiting for police to confirm that, just in and of itself. But also the fact that politics in the U.K. has become so much more polarizing over the
last few years compared to where we were just a generation ago.
And that is why this particular topic, this particular issue, what happened to Ann Widdecombe, whether or not this is a murder investigation, is really
drawing a lot of concern at this point.
Once again, we are waiting for a news conference out of the U.K. We'll bring that to you as soon as we have it.
Right now to mixed messaging from Donald Trump over the U.S. and Israeli war with Iran. In a social media post a short time ago, the president said
Tehran has asked to continue talks and the U.S. has agreed, but he stressed the ceasefire is over.
We're also learning from sources that the White House does not want Israel involved in any U.S. strikes in Iran. But on Thursday, Israel's defense
minister said his country was ready to resume fighting, even if it had to do it alone.
This all comes as sources tell CNN that Israel shared intelligence with the U.S. about a plot to assassinate Donald Trump, but details about that
alleged plot are unclear and there are some U.S. officials expressing skepticism about Israel's intention.
CNN's Kevin Liptak joins us live now from the White House.
So, there's so much to unpack here. Firstly, this idea that the U.S. essentially doesn't really want Israel involved in this latest round of
strikes because they don't want the situation escalating. They really want to have a handle on -- on how things and how and when and if and limiting
the possibility of this latest situation of this war spiraling out of control.
And then talk to us a bit more about this intelligence that the Israelis have shared with the United States about the Iranians possibly targeting
President Trump for assassination.
KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPOTER: Right. And to your first point, it's clear that President Trump is still allowing for some of this
diplomacy to continue. And we were told that the "technical talks" about the nuclear concessions that the U.S. wants from Iran are still underway,
although it doesn't appear as if they are making a ton of progress, but you do get the sense that the U.S. does want to tightly control whatever
escalation does happen over the course of the next two days.
They seem to want to calibrate it very carefully to ensure that this doesn't tip over into the full-blown conflict that we saw at the start of
all of this.
And in fact, we heard from President Trump when we were over in Turkey that, no, he does not want to go back to full-scale war, whether or not the
U.S. is giving the green light to Israel had always been sort of the open question in all of this. And now it seems as if that green light has not
turned on just yet.
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But that's not necessarily, for one, of trying by the Israelis. And in this new intelligence that we're learning about, there is some belief among
American officials that perhaps Israel could be looking to influence President Trump's decision-making as he weighs whether or not to intensify
the conflict.
The U.S. officials that we've been talking to saying that they received word from Israel over the last week or so that there is an assassination
plot against President Trump. Now, that in and of itself, isn't necessarily new.
You know, the U.S. government has been warning for several years now that Iran wants to assassinate President Trump, dating all the way back to the
assassination that President Trump ordered during his first term on Qasem Soleimani, the top Iranian general, ever since then you've heard warnings
from the Americans that these assassination plots against President Trump are active including throughout the Biden administration.
And President Trump himself has referenced this, although you did hear a ramp up of his references to it over the last few days. He said that he had
recently learned of a new list that placed him atop the list of targets of four Iranian assassinations.
And I think the question among American officials who are now trying to parse some of this is whether this is a new warning from the Israelis or
whether this is sort of a reference to all of those assassination plots that they have known about for quite some time.
Now, when it comes to the actual discussions, American officials say that, yes, the contacts with the Iranians are ongoing and President Trump himself
said this morning that Iran had asked the United States that they want to continue the talks, although he put talks in question marks.
He also said that they had informed Iran that the ceasefire is over. And so, it says seem as if we're in a place now, a very uneasy place where you
will see perhaps these tit-for-tat back and forth strikes continue.
You know, the U.S. seeing Iran target the commercial vessels in the Strait, the U.S. retaliating, around retaliating against that. And it seems as if
it's sort of a test of wills to see which country is most willing to withstand the military and economic consequences of all of that.
But where it all heads diplomatically at this point I think is still a very, very murky, Zain.
ASHER: All right. Kevin Liptak, live for us. Thank you.
Let's go live in the Strait of Hormuz where the fighting appears to have fallen silent. Several questions remain about the waterway's fate. For now,
Iran is determined to hold on to its biggest wartime game, but the U.S. continues to push for alternative routes.
Let's discuss all of this with David Goldman live for us from New York. I mean, it's hard to imagine that just before the war, if you think back to
February, there are at least 130 vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz pretty much every single day. Obviously, things are very, very
different now, much quieter.
The Iranians are pushing for vessels to go through an approved route. And if you are a ship operator, you really have to -- you struggle with the
decision of whether or not just to sort of focus on and do exactly what Iran is saying or risk the consequences of that.
I mean, it is a dangerous game, David.
DAVID GOLDMAN, CNN BUSINESS SENIOR REPORTER: It is a dangerous game. It's a concern. How big of a concern? Well, look at the font that I put on this.
It's enormous. Could this be even bigger? I don't think so.
And look at oil right now. Oil is down despite everything that you just said, Zain, right? And everything is true that this is a big problem. Oil
is now back to under $76 a barrel. We were close to 72 before. So, you know, this is pretty much over according to the oil market.
What's going on here? We got 200 million barrels of oil out of the Strait over the last three weeks. That added significant cushion. We now have 17
days more of supply because of all of that oil exiting.
And by the way, it is still exiting. You saw your map earlier. There are ships going in and out, not as many as there were just a couple days ago,
but there are ships going in and out. So, I will venture to say that oil is no longer the problem that it was.
Now, there's a new problem, and that is gasoline, because refineries are running at a 10 percent lower rate than they were before the war, still.
So, all that oil that's coming out, where do you put it? If you can't make it into anything useful like gasoline or diesel or jet fuel, then it's
worthless. It's basically just smelly poison.
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And so we need those gas -- we need those refineries to be working. The problem is, is that a lot of them have blown up, right? Iran attacked 30
sites during the war. And so that is a big problem.
Another big problem is that here in the United States, we have not built a new refinery since 1977. So, there is a refining capacity problem in the
United States. And U.S. refineries have been making jet fuel for Europe. And they've been making diesel for Australia and Asia.
And so that has reduced the amount of gasoline that they can put out, and that's one of the reason why gas prices have been coming down very, very
slowly.
In fact, they have risen nine cents in the last day. And now, layer on top of all of that, Ukraine has attacked Russian diesel refining sites. Russia
makes up 12 percent of global exports of diesel, and that is shut down. Russia said no more exports. We're banning and that's one of the reasons
why we're going to start to see gasoline and diesel prices continue to rise, even as oil is slowly making its way out of the Strait, Zain.
All right. David Goldman, live for us there. Thank you so much.
GOLDMAN: Thank you.
ASHER: All right. Wildfires have killed at least 12 people on the southern coast of Spain. Some people in the town of Los Gallardos were evacuated as
dozens of emergency workers battled the flames there.
The fires come as much of Europe's experiences unprecedented heat. The local health and emergencies and assistance says fires are the most
devastating the region has seen.
CNN's meteorologist Derek Van Dam joins us live now.
I mean, this has been a sort of trend for Spain, and parts of France obviously, seeing year after year of -- of these sort of record-breaking
wildfires. Walk us through what's happening right now, this time around, Derek.
DEREK VAN DAM, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. All the ingredients are there, ongoing drought, extreme heat, and a strong wind coming out of the west.
It's helping fuel the flames.
These are heartbreaking videos to see, but they are working so hard, the firefighters on the ground, and of course the aerial support as well.
But take note of the mountainous terrain here in the background, OK? So, there's a lot of topography to work with, very dried out topography, and
that allows things to spread very rapidly, especially when you get strong winds.
This is a windy part of the world. You zoom in to the Iberian Peninsula. Here's the southern portions of France where the ongoing wildfires are
located or at least the one we've been covering now.
And this right here is near the Straits of Gibraltar. I've been to this location. It's extremely windy. We have wind turbines dotting the landscape
right along the horizon here, along the coastline, I should say.
But it's that consistent westerly wind that pushes through the strait that comes up and over the mountain ranges. And there's a simple thermodynamic
process here that happens where if you get air coming up and over mountain ranges, as it exits towards the coastline, it goes from a cool and moist
air mass to a hot and dry air mass.
And that -- that is common all across the world. We see it in Southern California with Santa Ana winds here in Southern Spain, more the same. And
so you get close to the coast and the wildfires that have developed there can spread really easily because of the fire -- because of the dry
ingredients, because of the extreme heat that's in place.
And not to mention, we still have yet another heat dome that is built in across the western portions of Europe that's going to last right through
the weekend and into early parts of next week.
If we just take a look at this Copernicus fire danger map. Anytime you see those dark shades of red or magenta right there, Southern Spain, into even
portions of France. These locations have a high fire index.
So, any additional fires that will form or could form will spread very easily, just like what we've seen on our T.V. screens. Zain.
ASHER: All right. Derek Van Dam, live for us. Thank you so much.
All right. And as we said, we are expecting British police to give an update on the investigation into the death of former M.P., Ann Widdecombe.
The 78-year-old was a conservative member of Parliament between 1987 and 2010. She held several junior ministerial positions in the former Prime
Minister John Major's government.
Anna Stewart is in London for us with more. So, we are, Anna, waiting for British police to give us an update on what happened.
As I understand it, this looks like a possible murder investigation. And I was saying earlier that British politics has become much more polarized.
Ann Widdecombe, herself, she played a very sort of outside role in -- in British politics because of her particular style. She said exactly what she
thought, regardless of what -- what people -- what people's response was.
Just -- just take us through who she was and -- and what we're expecting to hear from British police.
ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You're right. She was one of the most distinctive, polarizing, and formidable politicians in British political
history. Many people will know her for saying things that not everyone wanted to hear.
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She's particularly famous for criticizing colleagues, particularly Michael Howard, when he was trying to be take on leadership of the Conservative
Party. She said there was, quote, something of a night about him and pretty much sunk his leadership bid with that comment.
She was elected under Maggie Thatcher in 1987. She became a minister under John Major. She's been a part of British politics for absolute decades.
And she was a staunch Brexiteer. She played actually a very key role in the whole Brexit debate. She represented the U.K. in Brussels and later joined
the Reform Party. And is perhaps best known for younger generations when she became a reality T.V. star later in life. She joined "Strictly Come
Dancing" and "Celebrity Big Brother." She is a very well-known figure.
So, you can imagine the shock today when people heard of her passing, age 78 years old, but then hearing that police officers were called to an
address in Haytor, in Devon. That was by the ambulance service this morning around 11:40.
We are now told that we are going to be expecting a press conference any minute from police because as you say, there is an investigation underway.
Potentially, this was murder. And we're looking forward to hearing much more, of course, about these details, but they're looking for people to
come up with any information that they have to, find out what's happened here.
But a shocking, shocking story for one of the most well-known politicians really in British political history.
ASHER: All right, Anna Stewart, live for us. Thank you so much.
Dan Bloom is the U.K. political editor for "POLITICO" and joins us live now from London.
So, as Anna just pointed out, you know, we are waiting to hear from British police. It is possible. I want to be very careful with my words that this
could be a murder investigation, as I understand it.
If this does turn out to be murder, what does it say about the state of -- of U.K. politics? I mean, assuming obviously that her political views
played a role in what we might hear from police.
What does it say about the state of play from -- from Brexit in -- in 2015, 2016 rather, until now? I mean, obviously, Brexit did mark the sort of
beginning of a very fragmented, divided political landscape in the United Kingdom. Just -- just take us through that.
DAN BLOOM, U.K. POLITICAL EDITOR, POLITICO: Well, it's far too soon to say whether indeed this was murder. It's being treated as a potential murder,
or indeed what any motive might have been, not least because I believe police are still looking for a suspect and so have not apprehended someone
or spoken to someone yet about any potential motive.
However, British politics has just become so much more polarized in the last decade. It's since that Brexit vote, but it's since a whole load of
things, the sort of rise of kind of online abuse of politicians, a general disillusionment with politics, and people kind of separating online into
their kind of little groups of people who all agree with the same thing and can have sometimes some pretty extreme views about politicians.
And we've seen two murders of serving M.P.s. Ann Widdecombe was not an M.P. anymore, but two murders of M.P.s who were M.P.s at the time in the last
decade. There was the Labour MP Joe Cox in 2016, just a few days before that Brexit vote. And the Conservative M.P., David Amess. And both of those
were sort of politically-motivated in some way.
It's too early to say about this one, but there have been a lot of concerns about the security of M.P.s, the abuse of M.P.s, and what can be done
really to keep M.P.s safer, because the whole point of the British system is that M.P.s are not meant to be sort of distant and far away, like you
might see, you know, your senators who live in Washington and, you know, come back to their home state and that sort of thing.
They're meant to be spending half the week, maybe three days a week, in their constituency. They have surgeries in sort of sports halls and village
halls and cafes, where you can really just walk in, maybe with a pre- booking, and just sit down with your M.P. and discuss your problems.
And many M.P.s have got worried over the last few years that, you know, that culture, that system, won't be able to work anymore if they're
constantly fearing for their lives or for their health.
So, too early to say what's happened here, but it's obviously going to cause an awful lot of concern.
ASHER: Yes. I mean that -- that idea of M.P. surgeries and just how, you know, politicians in the U.K. are so accessible. I mean, I live in New
York. That is -- that would be unheard of in the United States, just the level of access you have to your local politicians.
But people who are watching this, who are outside of the U.K., who may not have heard of Ann Widdecombe, just talk to us about who she was, just in
terms of, yes, obviously her political career, but also how much of a sort of T.V. personality and a cultural commentator she was, and also her -- her
actual personality.
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Because, you know, she was quite a contentious figure and did play an outside role in -- in -- in U.K. politics.
BLOOM: Well, yes, she's one of those rare politicians who will have been known by multiple generations, because she was essentially a conservative
politician of say the 1990s and that kind of era. She's long since kind of retreated from -- from bench politics.
And in fact, she had defected from the conservative party to parties more on the right and more on the pro-Brexit movement, so she'd gone to the
Brexit party run by Nigel Farage and then Reform U.K., also run by Nigel Farage which are these sort of campaigning vehicles, Brexit.
The fact that she appeared on shows like "Strictly Come Dancing" and those sorts of T.V. reality shows and basically became a figure of kind of comedy
and memes and that kind of thing as this quite eccentric and quirky women on the conservative right, kind of endeared her to a lot of people who
might have opposed her views or might not even have heard of her at all.
In terms of her views, they were conservative. They were on the right. She opposed abortion. She opposed many sort of changes to LGBT rights.
But because she has kind of a -- a very direct way of speaking a slightly eccentric personality and that sort of thing, she, you know, brought people
together in a sense over her personality, even if she did not bring them together over her views necessarily and that's kind of a rare skill in
politics, shall we say.
And it's why you've had this outpouring of tributes from people across the political spectrum even before it was announced by the police that they
were treating this case as suspicious this afternoon.
ASHER: Yes. And it is worth reiterating that, yes, we are, as you can see the podium there. Our audience can see the podium there. We are expecting
to hear from police there in the U.K.
But again, even though this is likely being treated as a murder investigation, we don't necessarily know at this point in time. It is still
way too early. We don't necessarily know if her politics had anything to do with her death. We'll wait and see what police say and we'll bring that to
our audience as and when we get it.
Dan Bloom from "POLITICO," thank you so much for being with us. We appreciate it.
All right. Still to come here on "One World."
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not having the protection will mean not having a work permit. And not having a job means that we're probably going to end up on
the streets.
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ASHER: A major immigration change is hitting Miami's Haitian community. Ahead, the fears and questions are growing as their protections disappear.
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ASHER: Until this morning, hundreds of thousands of Haitians were legally living and working in the United States. The Trump administration has moved
to end the employment authorization and temporary protect -- rather protected status of several countries. Among them are Haiti, Syria, Somalia
and Ethiopia.
Last month, the Supreme Court ruled that temporary protected status was never meant to be permanent.
CNN's Caroline -- Carolina Peguero is in Miami, Florida where many in the community are now left in legal limbo.
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CAROLINA PEGUERO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We are in Little Haiti in one of the areas where there is a huge population of the Haitian community in South
Florida, around 350,000 Haitians in the country are impacted by this decision of the Supreme Court.
But, of course, just here in South Florida, at least half of them, 160,000 immigrants of Haiti are under the TPS protection status. They are in fear
that they will be detained by ICE or deported back to their home country, where they left from violence and crime, and they say are not wanting to go
back in fear of what could happen to them and their families.
I spoke to one Haitian that is under TPS, and she did not want to show her face because she is scared of her safety, but she did want to raise her
voice. She did want to let everyone know what her and thousands of other Haitians are going through and what they could potentially face if they no
longer have these protections.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm worried about losing my job. Not having the protection will mean not having a work permit. And not having a job means
that we're probably going to end up on the streets.
We have bills to pay, rent to pay.
PEGUERO: And many of the members of the community that are here and the organizations that have came in solidarity to support the Haitian community
are also aware that other communities could be impacted after this Supreme Court decision. And they have came together in other cities as well, like
Boston, New York, and Washington, D.C., hoping that there are opportunities available in an extension for the Haitian community to remain here in the
United States.
Carolina Peguero, CNN, Miami.
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ASHER: All right. CNN has told U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is intensely focusing on his personnel priorities, including a restriction on
beards.
In June, Hegseth boarded a Navy ship and later questioned why multiple sailors were sporting beards. Pentagon officials then held a series of
meetings in which they told subordinates that Hegseth was closely monitoring agency's progress on recent workplace changes.
For more on Hegseth's controversial policies, let's bring in Sean Lyngaas, live from Washington.
I mean, it is an interesting thing for the defense secretary or the war secretary, depending on his own preferences, I guess.
It's interesting that he's focusing on this issue when you consider the fact that there has been a major flare-up in terms of the war between the
U.S. and Iran right now.
Just -- just talk us through why this is such a priority for the secretary.
SEAN LYNGAAS, CNN CYBERSECURITY REPORTER: You know, Zain, I think it's a -- it's almost a visceral thing. He -- he -- he saw them and it -- it -- it --
it prompted this wide-ranging response, meetings, scoldings, requests for updates on -- on -- on who's listening to his policies.
You know, the -- the Pentagon, of course, argues that you can walk and chew gum at the same time, but we thought it was an interesting window into his
mindset right now, as you say, the U.S. and Iran are -- are -- are still very much -- that -- that ceasefire is very much in jeopardy.
And what we've found is that this isn't -- you know, the military -- the U.S. military has long restricted the wearing -- the -- the growing of
beards, rather. You can only get certain exemptions, religious exemptions, medical exemptions.
But what Hegseth has done is made it a lot harder to get those exemptions. And that has, you know, culture war undertones, right?
The -- the medical aspect of this is a -- is a condition known as PFB. Very painful. Men who -- who have this, the hair curls back in their skin and
it's very painful to shave. And that happens to predominantly affect black men.
And so there is a racial element of this story and -- and -- and certainly certain black veterans' groups have spoken out against it.
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But, you know, this is something Hegseth has really focused on from day -- almost day one. He's summoned hundreds of generals to -- to speak about
this and other -- other policy changes that he made last year. And he's still not happy with what's going on, Zain.
ASHER: All right. Sean Lyngaas, thank you for that. Appreciate it.
All right. We are expecting British police to give an update on the murder investigation of former M.P., Ann Widdecombe. The 78-year-old was a
conservative member of Parliament between 1987 and 2010 and later joined the Reform Party.
We'll bring you that press conference as soon as we get it. We'll be right back with more.
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ASHER: All right. Welcome back to "One World." I'm Zain Asher.
After facing defeat against France, two-nil, Morocco, were the last African side to be eliminated from the World Cup. It has been a historic run for
the continent which saw more African nations in men's tournament than ever before.
Nine of them advanced to the knockout round. The previous record was actually two incredible performances from the likes of Cape Verde and Egypt
have really showcased the growing footballing talent the continent has to offer.
Time now for The Exchange. Joining me live now is Mimi Fawaz, an African football expert. She was at the France-Morocco match yesterday in Boston.
And she joins us live now from New York. Mimi, thank you so much for being with us.
I think that one of the things that I find so interesting, I'm originally from Nigeria and Nigeria didn't make it this time, so I did heavily support
Ghana because, you know, there are brothers and sisters.
But one thing I thought was really interesting is the fact that even though African teams did so well, they are still, and this is my personal opinion,
they are still quite underestimated. Why is that do you think?
MIMI FAWAZ, AFRICA FOOTBALL EXPERT: Zain, I'm also of Nigerian heritage, so both of you and I together were supporting -- were supporting Ghana and all
-- all the African teams.
I think a lot of people, as you say, they do underestimate African teams. They do see them as underdogs.
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But if we look now over time, Zain, we've seen the gap closing now, African teams and European teams. We saw Ghana giving England a very tough time. We
saw the Democratic Republic of Congo as well, giving Portugal a very tough time. We saw Egypt giving the defending champions, Argentina, as well, a
big challenge. And Cabo Verde, as you've mentioned.
So, we're seeing now African federations, not all, but there are some African federations that are actually putting proper structures in place,
planning properly, doing proper scouting in place. So, now we're seeing African football going in the direction that it should be going and people
have more eyes now on African football.
ASHER: Yes. Because, you know, I talked on television and actually among my friends a lot about this sort of England versus Ghana match and almost
everybody I spoke to, on air, off air, predicted it would be a walk in the park for England. That it would be --
FAWAZ: Yes.
ASHER: it would be the easiest game for England. That they -- you know, they would win hands down, no issue. And it wasn't the case for them.
And, obviously, it was nil-nil and Ghana gave the U.K., or England rather, a run for its money.
In terms of Cape Verde, I mean that has got to be the team that I am most proud of because just in terms of the sheer population size of the country,
we're talking only about half a million people. They've never been in the World Cup before. This is their first time and they did extraordinarily
well. Their goalkeeper is pretty much now a global icon, a household name after -- after this particular World Cup.
What was it about that team that really -- I mean, they were on fire. They did so well and they -- they left really having so much to be proud of.
FAWAZ: You know, Vozinha, you're speaking about the goalkeeper who's been one of the standout players. I don't -- I've lost track of his Instagram
following. It must be, I'm sure, over 30 million right now, right?
ASHER: Probably.
FAWAZ: I'm sure it's a lot. Yes. But they did a really good account of themselves.
When they came into the competition, the first game was against, you know, former winners, Spain, and many people did not put them in contention to
really hold them to a job. They thought he was going to be like a big margin where Spain were going to score so many goals.
But anybody who's watched African football for many years, Africa Cup of Nations, you will see that Cape Verde, Cabo Verde, as -- as they're known
as well, are not a team to be underestimated.
This is a country that's been serious about developing their football now for a few years. They've actually been using the FIFA funds over the past
two years to create academies, to create pitches. They've been trying to grow homegrown talents as well as approaching diaspora players.
As -- as their -- their player, Pico Lopes, a defender, who was really good during the competition, they picked him on LinkedIn. And, you know, he's --
he's a -- now he plays In Ireland.
So, you know, they've been really, really serious about building their football. And all eyes now in the world to see what all of us watching
AFCON could see how good a team they actually are.
ASHER: Yes. And, honestly, just -- I don't have enough times that they talked to you about Egypt versus Argentina because they came so close. And
I was saying on air earlier this week, I mean, that of all the losses, that has got to be the most painful loss for a team to have to swallow. They
came so close and a lot of us Africans were very, very proud of them indeed.
Mimi Fawaz, we do have to leave it there. I am out of time. But thank you so much for joining us.
All right. We are expecting British police to give an update on the murder investigation of former M.P. Ann Widdecombe. The 78-year-old was a
conservative member of Parliament between 1987 and 2010 and then later joined the Reform Party.
A bit earlier, British prime minister spoke out about Ann -- Ann Widdecombe's death and the legacy that she leaves behind. Here's Keir
Starmer.
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KEIR STARMER, BRITISH ORIIME MINISTER: Well, this is really shocking news. And my thoughts, I think all of our thoughts will be with the family and
friends of Ann Widdecombe at this awful time for them.
Ann was a distinguished politician over many, many years with many achievements. And it's a huge, huge loss.
I've spoken to the chief constable this afternoon about the details. And I think this is really important that this is a moment where we rise above
any political differences, the political divide and say the single most important thing at the moment is that all of us, and the public, help the
police identify the individual suspected and make sure he's arrested as quickly as possible.
He's clearly dangerous. And I implore everybody who's got any information in relation to him to help the police with their inquiries, get him into
police custody.
To that end, I've spoken to the speaker of the house. I've spoken to the leader of the opposition. I've spoken to Nigel Farage, that's the leader of
Reform. I've spoken to Andy Burnham to urge everybody to come together a moment like this and to urge everybody to help the police.
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But go back to where I started, my thoughts are very much with the family and friends of Ann Widdecombe, a distinguished politician over many, many
years.
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ASHER: And just a reminder that we are watching this particular podium in Devon, England where British police are expected to give an update on the
now murder investigation of Ann Widdecombe. We will bring you that press conference as soon as it happens.
All right. Still have to come, Meta has announced a new A.I. feature and it's being met with concern by a lot of users of -- of Instagram. We'll
have that story, next.
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ASHER: All right. Let's check quickly how U.S. markets are doing. Green across the board. The Dow is down ever so slightly as is the S&P. NASDAQ is
up by 51 percent. This is your business breakout.
All right. South Korean chipmaker, SK Hynix, begins trading in the U.S. today after raising a record 26.5 billion in the largest ever US listing by
a foreign company. The blockbuster debut underscores Wall Street's continued bet on the A.I. boom.
The European Commission is calling for significant changes to Facebook and Instagram. It says features on social media platforms like infinite
scrolling feeds may compromised users well-being and violate E.U. law. The findings are preliminary and Meta will have the chance to dispute them.
Meta A.I. has launched Muse Image, the first image generation model from Meta Superintelligence Labs. The model is deeply integrated with Instagram
raising concerns for the public, especially with their Instagram profiles because they will now automatically be opted in to be used in A.I. remixes.
All someone has to do is tag the accounts.
CNN's Hadas Gold has more on this feature. There is some concern about it just in terms of privacy and -- and also just giving your permission to be
used -- your image to be used in this way. Just walk us through the controversy, Hadas.
HADAS GOLD, CNN AI CORRESPONDENT: The whole idea of Muse image is that you'll be able to take an image either that you upload or on Instagram and
edit it, you know, test yourself out in different outfits, you know, more for fun things.
But what a lot of privacy and safety advocates are worried about as well is just regular users is the fact that this also automatically offs everybody
with a public Instagram profile into where anybody on Instagram can just tag your handle and start making deepfakes, essentially, of the images that
you have posted on Instagram.
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And -- and Instagram will not notify you that this has been done. And there's no sort of pre-consent like, hey, this user wants to edit your
photos. Do you agree? And if it was your friend, maybe it's a yes. And if it's somebody you don't know, maybe you'd say no.
And if it's somebody you don't know, maybe you'd say no. And everybody's automatically opted in, unless you're under the age of 18 and that's how
it's listed on your profile information or your account is already set to private.
And a lot of people have fears over this because of the inappropriate things that people might do with this sort of ability.
Now, to be clear, any photo or image that you post publicly anywhere, on any platform, can be used by somebody. They can just copy it, download it,
and you'll make a deepfake out of it.
But what we've seen is when platforms integrate it into their systems in a very easy to use way, then it is more likely to be abused. Think about what
happened with X and its AI chatbot, Grok, and the image editing ability and it was started to be integrated. Where on X, you could just tag Grok and
say, hey, Grok, you know, turn this image that somebody else posted into something else. And that's when you got all that really disturbing
undressing issue that we had a few months ago with Grok.
There's a big fear that something similar will happen with Instagram. There's no evidence that something like that has happened. And -- and Meta
says that they have very big safeguards in place.
But there's also a lot of big questions about the idea of consent, the idea -- the idea of being notified that somebody is doing this or that you have
all consented. It's just you're automatically opted in.
So, if you are concerned about this, there are ways that you can actually turn this off. The one, you know, easy blunt way is just to turn your
Instagram private. And then nobody will be able to do this, but your friends and followers will still be able to follow you.
But there is another way. If you want to keep your Instagram public, here are the steps to take to turn this feature off. Number one is go to your
Meta or your Instagram profile. And on the upper right-hand side, you'll see three little lines. Tap on those lines. And you'll scroll down in those
settings and you'll see sharing and reuse. Tap on that. You have to scroll down just a little bit more in that.
Then you're going to see some different options about allowing people to repost your post. But you specifically want to find this section that says,
allow people to use your content on Instagram.
ASHER: All right. Hadas, I have to -- Hadas, I'm so sorry I have to interrupt you because police officials are holding a press conference on
the death of Ann Widdecombe. Let's listen in.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ann Widdecombe. The suspect who is a white British national remains in police custody whilst inquiries continue. Officers were
called to Ms. Widdecombe's home at Haytor by the ambulance service around 11:40 A.M. on Thursday the 9th of July.
Sadly, 78-year-old Ms. Widdecombe was located deceased within the property. She has sustained serious injuries. Her next to kin have been informed and
are being supported by specially trained officers.
Detectives from the force major crime investigation team have launched a murder investigation and are conducting extensive inquiries into the
circumstances surrounding Ms. Widdecombe's death.
While we work closely with our partners and have consulted counterterrorism policing as part of our initial inquiries, the incident is not being
treated as terrorism.
A cordon remains in place at the property while specialist officers continue forensic examinations. There are road closures in place around the
scene and the public will see significant police activity in the area while detectives and other officers continue house-to-house and CCTV inquiries.
This is an extremely tragic incident. Our thoughts are very much with the family and friends of Ms. Widdecombe in this very difficult time.
Our murder inquiry is in its early stages but moving at significant pace. And we are deploying all the necessary resources to find out exactly what
has happened.
I would appeal to anyone who may have information about this incident, however insignificant it may seem, to come forward and speak with us.
While we -- while we release further information when we're able to do so, but in the meantime, I would ask people not to speculate about what might
have happened, particularly on social media. That's not only potentially harmful to our investigation, but also deeply distressing to the family and
friends of Ms. Widdecombe.
We've set up a major instant public portal for information. Images or footage can be submitted to us there, and this can be found easily on our
website. Information can also be passed anonymously to the independent charity, Crimestoppers.
Thank you very much. I'll now take a few short questions.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) known to the victim?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We remain open-minded throughout the investigation and we're making those inquiries. So, it's too early for me to comment further
on that at this time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Kristin from Sky News. Is there an indication that the murder was politically-motivated?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. At this time, again, it's early stages of the investigation, so we remain open-minded. At this time, I've got no
information to believe that that is a politically-motivated crime.
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Please.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE). Had she received any threats before this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, we work very closely within national protocols and one of those within M.P.s in the political environment. I don't think it
would be wrong for me to comment about anything around an individual at this stage of the investigation.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE). Is there anything more you can tell us about the nature or the injuries Ms. Widdecombe sustained?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, again, I -- I think for both sensitivity to the family and friends and -- and also at this stage of the inquiry, it would
be wrong for me to comment on that any further right now.
But when we have further details of any part of the investigation, we will, of course, be briefing out to you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Andrew (INAUDIBLE). Can you tell me about the police presence in the area that is ongoing this evening?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. So, police presence will remain high for a number of reasons. Most of all, we're still evidence gathering within our
investigation. So, like I said in the statement, CCTV, et cetera.
But, of course, we also want people to feel safe. At the moment, I don't know of any ongoing risk, but we know that the presence of our officers,
just to make people know we're there, be available to give advice, et cetera, we'll be around. So you can expect an increased presence throughout
the weekend.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was the 26-year-old man arrested locally? Or was he outside the force area?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, the person we have in custody has been arrested within the force area.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Was there any struggle when he was arrested?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not going to give any further details about our operation activity today. Thank you.
I'll take two more.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, was he known to you (INAUDIBLE)?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Again, inappropriate to -- to comment, I think, on the individual facts of the case at this stage of it. Thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Any -- any signs that anything was stolen from the property (INAUDIBLE) broken into (INAUDIBLE) burglary gone wrong?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, all the things that we need to work on throughout the investigation, and -- and the key thing, I think, for us is obviously
all our efforts today are focused on this investigation to get the right outcome for Ms. Widdecombe's family, friends, but also to make our
communities feel safe and confident that we have some of the best officers working on it.
We remain open-minded as to that question. Nothing further to say at this time. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much for your time. Much
appreciated.
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ASHER: All right. You've -- you've just been listening to a very brief live press conference there in Devon, England, where British police were
updating the public on the murder investigation into the death of former British M.P. Ann Widdecombe.
They said that a white British man is in custody, so they do have a suspect. But they did say that not only is this not terrorism related, but
at this point in time, there is no indication that this was a politically- motivated crime, a politically-motivated murder. No indication of that at this point in time.
He said that the next of kin for Ann Widdecombe has been -- has been informed, but that she did have serious injuries during the apparent
attack, if you will.
Detectives right now are in the area. They are going house-to-house. They're looking at CCTV footage. They're appealing to anyone who has any
knowledge of what may have happened here to speak to the police.
But they also did urge the public not to speculate about what may have happened there at Ann Widdecombe's home and that police presence will
remain high in the area, although there is no ongoing threat to the public at this point in time.
Anna Stewart is following this story for us from London. And, Anna, what -- what stood out to you?
STEWART: So, I don't think we have much more in terms of concrete detail from that press conference regarding the investigation. There is a suspect
that remains in police custody, a white British national.
The police officer giving the press conference was unwilling to go into any detail about that. She sustained serious injuries, was the headline really
for the top of that press conference.
And I think it's interesting that they're saying that they don't want anyone to speculate on what's happened, on the motives, that they're
already saying that they are not treating this incident as terrorism. And when asked he said, there's no reason to believe that this is politically-
motivated.
Now, why that is key is because in the last 10 years, safety and security of sitting M.P.s has certainly been a key issue. Two sitting M.P.s have
been murdered from both sides of the political spectrum, Labour M.P. Joe Cox and a Conservative M.P. Sir David Amess. Those were politically-
motivated.
One murder who was the murder of Joe Cox was a white supremacist. And the man who murdered Sir David Amess was known to be an Islamist extremist.
So, there are concerns, of course, that while Ann Widdecombe wasn't a sitting M.P. that her very divisive views, when it comes to politics, could
have played into here. So, the police -- the police press conferences maybe put that to rest for now.
It's worth remembering Ann Widdecombe is one of the most well-known divisive, in many ways, distinctive politicians in the U.K. She has had a
long career in the Conservative Party and then became a staunch Brexiteer, representing the U.K. in Brussels. She joined the Brexit Party.
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She had pretty divisive views. So, this is why this is a particularly shocking event and why people are really curious to know what has happened
here. This is clearly a very tragic incident.
They are still appealing the police for more details, that appealing for people that might have images, videos, any information at all that could be
relevant. They want them to submit those bits of information online.
But for now, they don't want anyone to jump to conclusions at this stage, Zain.
ASHER: And earlier, Anna, we did hear from outgoing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at Chequers. And he was essentially saying that, yes,
of course, you know, he was shocked and devastated about the death and, I guess, the murder of -- of Ann Widdecombe.
But just in terms of one of the things that he said I thought was interesting is this idea that Britain, as a society right now, should rise
above any political differences, that there should be a coming together.
He said that he had spoken to Nigel Farage. He's spoken to his successor, if you will, Andy Burnham.
Just talk to us about the reaction, the reaction that we have gotten so far there on the ground of the U.K. to the death of -- of this very prominent
former M.P.
STEWART: What has been interesting is that we have had tributes pouring in really from right across the political spectrum from her first party, the
Conservative Party, to the Brexit Party or -- or what has become the Reform Party.
Keir Starmer said that it was shocking news and was a distinguished politician over many, many years.
We've also heard from the former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying how sad he is to hear about this loss and from the current leader of
the Conservative Party.
Ann Widdecombe is someone who all politicians are clearly incredibly sad to see passing, despite the fact that she was a divisive character. She said
what she thought. She stood by some fairly controversial views over the years. She had political enemies during her time in Parliament.
But this is a shocking, shocking news. This is not how anyone would hope to see anyone pass. And so we are seeing a -- a pouring of tributes from
across the U.K.
ASHER: All right. Anna Stewart, live for us there. Thank you so much.
And that does it for "One World. I'm Zain Asher. Appreciate you watching. "Amanpour" is up next. You're watching CNN.
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