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Heightened Global Economic Uncertainty As U.S. Marks Labor Day; Canada's Retaliatory Tariffs On U.S. To Take Effect Tuesday; Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court To Allow Mail Ballot Changes; CNN On The Ground In Tibet After Massive Flash Floods; U.S. Senator John Fetterman Lashes Out At Former Aides; New Case Reported In Rebel-Held Area Of Eastern DRC; Iranian Immigrant Fears She May Be Deported To Central African Republic; WFP Condemns Airstrike On Food Trucks For Families In Sudan; Aired 12-1p ET

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Coming to you live from New York, I'm Zain Asher.

BIANNA GOLODRYGA, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Bianna Golodryga. The second hour of "One World" starts right now.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Gas is $6 a gallon, which is crazy. Like I can't afford that. I really can't.

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GOLODRYGA: High gas prices here in the U.S. as major carmakers across the pond slash jobs to help their bottom lines. A look at the global economic

outlook, ahead.

ASHER: Plus, an update from the ground in Tibet. See the area of foreign media is getting access to for the first time since the catastrophic flood.

GOLODRYGA: And later, anti-immigration protests in parts of England lead to clashes with police. We'll have the latest.

It's Labor Day when Americans mark the unofficial end of the summer. And while U.S. markets are closed for the holiday, uncertainty has become the

watchword for the global economy with surging energy costs and heightened geopolitical tensions.

ASHER: Yes. And Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. are set to take effect in 12 hours amid a new wave of tit-for-tat tariffs between

long-term allies. Hundreds of consumer goods are about to get more expensive. Canada's Prime Minister says, the new American tariffs are

designed to hurt and to divide.

GOLODRYGA: And in other economic news, Americans are paying more at the gas pump on this big travel weekend. The average U.S. fuel price is at $4.15 a

gallon, nearly a dollar higher than a year ago, according to AAA.

This as the war with Iran shows no sign of de-escalating. CNN pressed the U.S. Energy Secretary about the high prices.

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DANA BASH, CNN ANCHOR: Isn't it possible gas prices could go up even more?

CHRIS WRIGHT, U.S. ENERGY SECRETARY: Well, if you look at -- look, I don't want to have an opinion on that.

BASH: Respectfully, as the Energy Secretary, shouldn't you have an opinion on where gas prices are and where they're going?

WRIGHT: Well, gasoline production is about to go up and demand is about to go down. So, if -- if I had to guess, they're more likely to go -- to go

down than go up.

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ASHER: All right. And also adding to an uncertain global economic picture, luxury carmaker, Jaguar Land Rover says it will cut some 4,000 jobs over

the next two years. This after Europe's largest carmaker, Volkswagen, also unveiled a major revamp to cut jobs and simplify its structure as well.

CNN's Anna Stewart joins us live now from London. So, Anna, we were talking last week about Volkswagen. Obviously, there are so many headwinds that

Volkswagen is facing just in terms of Chinese competition, U.S. tariffs, that sort of thing. But now you have two major carmakers slashing jobs,

different parts of Europe. What's behind them?

ANNA STEWART, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's much the same in terms of the key headwinds, the big ones, which you mentioned. Competition with China is

massive, both in Europe and the U.K.

With many of the Chinese automakers actually making Chinese cars in those jurisdictions, for instance, there's BYD factory that has opened in Hungary

that is producing cars this year.

And part of the problem with the Chinese competition is the fact that many of these Chinese automakers actually make their own batteries. They have

vertical integration. So, they are buying their batteries at cost, whereas all the big European carmakers, the British carmakers, as they try and

shift towards electric, that costs much, much more. So, that's really hard to compete on price. So, that is one major issue.

Now, for both of these automakers, Volkswagen in Germany, and Jaguar Land Rover in the U.K., they also face the issue of tariffs in the U.S.

For both of them, North America is a really important market. For Volkswagen, it's around seven percent of their cars are sold there. They

have some factories in the U.S., but actually more, I think they actually export more of the cars that are sold there than they actually make in the

USA.

Jaguar Land Rover has no USA factories. And one in three of their cars end up there. So, you can imagine how costly it was when tariffs were at 25

percent, 27.5 percent, currently at 10 percent.

And also, of course, the uncertainty of what might happen next with the U.S. President Trump and his tariff policy, will it go back up again?

So, there's the cost side of it all. So, we have massive job cuts, 100,000 in total from Volkswagen. They announced 50,000 last Friday, but they'd

already announced 50,000, 4,000 from Jaguar Land Rover.

What's interesting is what will happen next? So, as we see really a decline of traditional car making, particularly in Germany, which was such a

massive hub for it, but also in the U.K., what we -- what we see in terms of replacement industry.

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Now, Volkswagen's a really interesting example. Over the last few months, the restructuring talks have included local government, it's included

unions, and that's why we got this big report out on Friday about how it's going to work, but today, we've got further news.

One of the factories that is to be mothballed will actually be turned into a defense factory in the coming years. It is being sold to the state of

Lower Saxony and an Israeli investment firm called Aurelius. Now, they're going to work for the Israeli company called Rafael Advanced Defense

Systems which helps build the countries' rails, Iron Dome and that is going to work on air defense systems and components for Germany and Europe in

Germany which really feeds into what Germany wants to do which is to bolster security spending.

So, as we see the decline of one industry and that is very sad and there will be many employees that are very worried about it, perhaps there's an

opportunity to rebalance, you know, where they can't -- if they can't compete in cars, perhaps, they could be more competitive when it comes to

defense, but it's a -- it's an alarming feature for carmakers in Europe for sure.

ASHER: Yes. It certainly indicates that European carmakers are in some kind of crisis, at least for now.

Anna Stewart, live for us there. Thank you.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Let's take a closer look at how Canada's retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. are impacting Canadians with Nik Nanos. He is the chief

data scientist and founder of Nanos Research and joins us from the Canadian capital of Ottawa. Nik, thanks so much for taking the time.

So, it's interesting because I was looking at your latest polling and it shows that four in five Canadians support retaliatory tariffs against the

United States even at the cost of higher prices.

Did that surprise you? And how long lasting do you think that support will actually be?

NIK NANOS, CHIEF DATA SCIENTIST AND FOUNDER, NANOS RESEARCH: You know, it's interesting, that's a pretty significant number in terms of about 80

percent of Canadians supporting or somewhat supporting retaliatory tariffs.

You know, what we've seen over the last year is support for tariffs actually softened, but now what we've seen, in the last couple weeks, with

the announcement from the Trump administration in terms of new tariffs with comments related to renaming Lake Ontario Lake America, what we're seeing

is the heat, the intensity of support for counter tariffs is back to where it was back in January 2025. That's when -- when President Trump first

started talking about Canada being the 51st state.

So, it was hot at the beginning and then tapered off a bit. Now according to the latest Nanos Research Survey that we've just released in the last

day or so, it is hot again and Canadians, a significant proportion, are good with counter tariffs against the United States.

ASHER: And obviously though, Nik, nobody wins in a -- in a trade war. And part of Carney's calculation, yes, it's economic but it's also political.

Just talk us through how you think this is going to end. I mean, are we going to see a protracted trade war? Or is one side going to blink first

and ask to resume talks? And is that side going to be the Canadian side? I mean, given how much of an economic powerhouse the United States is in all

this.

NANOS: The big question is, how long will Canadian resolve for counter- tariffs and a battle with the United States when it comes to tariffs and trade last?

You know, the same survey about two out of every three Canadians are worried or somewhat worried about the impact of U.S. tariffs and this whole

tariff war on the cost of living.

You know, the big question is -- is, yes, it's kind of like declaring that you're going to war. People are enthusiastic. They feel, you know, strong

about it.

But as soon as economic casualties start climbing, as soon as people start seeing layoffs in their communities in Canada the big question is, will the

resilience and will the resistance continue?

Because, you know, the thing is -- is that Canadians still overwhelmingly understand that the trade relationship with the United States is important

and that Canada and the United States benefit from the bi-national relationship.

So, you know, there's political calculation here but, you know, one thing I'd like to put on the table, it probably wasn't in the cards for the

Canadian administration to accept the first deal, especially with some of the items that allegedly were in this first deal.

And because I think that would have left Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, opened a criticism that he took the first deal

that was offered.

The big question is -- is, do the Americans want to go back to the table? When will the Canadians want to go back to the table? And what will be the

damage to the Canadian economy in the interim as everyone waits for this to sort itself through?

GOLODRYGA: And the damage inflicted on the relationship as a whole, because three quarters of those polled in your polling data show that they no

longer view the United States as a trustworthy partner.

If these tariffs were lifted tomorrow by President Trump, would that change? Or do you think we're starting to see more impactful and lasting

damage?

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NANOS: Well, you know, the thing is -- is that, you know, we ask Canadians when they think that the relationship between Canada and the U.S. will

improve if at all.

And, you know, what's interesting, there's still a significant proportion of Canadians that believe that the relationship will improve -- will

improve probably five years from now, coincidentally, when they probably think that there might be a different person in the White House.

But the big question is -- is, what's going to happen in the next five years? And, you know, the other thing is -- is that, you know, for the Mark

Carney government, Canadians are very focused on this issue.

Worry about Donald Trump and the United States is now in Canada, the top unprompted issue of concern nationally. It has gone from third and second

now to the top issue. It speaks to the fixation that Canadians have and the worry that they have right now about the Canadian economy and how this

tariff war could have a negative impact on jobs, the economy, and Canada's economic future.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Nik Nanos, thank you so much for taking the time. We appreciate it.

ASHER: All right. The U.S. is less than two months away from the highly anticipated midterm elections. Once again, President Trump is trying to

restrict mail-in voting.

On Sunday, the Trump administration renewed its appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the U.S. Postal Service to implement new rules over mail

ballots with immediate effect. This comes as the first votes are about to be cast on Friday. North Carolina sent out its mail-in ballots.

Let's discuss all of this with our Kevin Liptak. I mean, this is a late request by the Trump administration to the U.S. Supreme Court, especially

given that we are a few weeks, just a couple of months out from the midterm elections.

For our international audience, can you sort of explain the background of all of this? I mean, there is some concern on the Republican side that

perhaps non-U.S. citizens are voting, but among those who understand the statistics, this is a very, very rare situation.

Just -- just give us the context here.

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Right. And this legal battle that's playing out right now, all stems from this executive order, that the

president signed back in March that directed the Postal Service to put new rules in place for how ballots can be sent out.

It stipulated that the ballots had to have certain markings on them. And it also required states to submit voter rolls through a website to the Postal

Service, which opponents of this say would disenfranchise people, would lead people who would have otherwise voted to not have their ballots

counted.

Now, in the many months since then, the Postal Service has really struggled to put in place these new systems that's part of the basis for the legal

challenge. And what the judge in Massachusetts, who is hearing this case brought by many Democratic-led states, determined, was that the system just

wasn't in place and that this couldn't necessarily be mandated because the administration, because the Postal Service had not done enough to -- to get

the rule implemented.

Now, the administration is arguing that they still are able to do this, and they have gone now to the Supreme Court three times to try and get the hold

lifted that the judges put in place.

The Supreme Court has given the parties in all of this until Wednesday to file their responses, and so that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who

handles issues from this part of the country, signals that she is going to be moving quickly, although not immediately to resolve all of this.

Now, President Trump himself is an avid mail voter. He's done it many, many times since becoming president, but clearly is looking to restrict other

Americans' ability to vote by mail.

I think at the end of the day, this is all creating a degree of confusion and chaos that many people argue was the intent to begin with, that people

who ordinarily vote by mail will hear that this is being challenged, will hear that the administration has put new rules into place and will just not

vote. That's what many opponents of this new plan are arguing.

But clearly, every day that goes by that this isn't resolved, it creates more and more logistical challenges for the administration to try and put

this into place.

And so it's likely to be resolved relatively soon. It's not going through the full Supreme Court process, you know, of oral arguments and many, many

months of deliberations. It will be resolved before election day.

But if the administration doesn't have, you know, the website set up for the states to submit their voter rolls, doesn't have the other logistical

steps in place, then it seems evident that ballots will start going out without the administration's requirements on them, voters will receive

those ballots and start sending them back. And it seems as if this will be too late for the rule to go into effect.

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So something to watch this week and into next week as the Supreme Court considers these challenges.

ASHER: All right. Kevin Liptak, live for us. Thank you.

All right. It's been nearly two weeks since catastrophic flash floods swept through Nepal -- the Nepal-China border, killing more than 1,300 people.

GOLODRYGA: Yes, families of those missing in Nepal demanded more information from authorities in Kathmandu today as the country declared a

national day of mourning.

Officials report more than 5,500 people remain missing after the powerful flooding and mudslides that wiped away entire communities.

ASHER: And as rescue efforts continue in Nepal, CNN got a firsthand look at the Chinese side of the flood zone. It's part of a rhetoric organized by

the government, but CNN still has full editorial control of the coverage.

Simone McCarthy reports.

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SIMONE MCCARTHY, CNN SENIOR CHINA REPORTER (voice-over): This was Gyirong Port, the main gate, the immigration halls, customs, the parking lots where

buses waited, the last man-made structure pilgrims, tourists, and traders walked through before crossing between Nepal and China, that building,

bridge, road are gone.

MCCARTHY: This is the spot where a huge wall of water washed over a five- story building in video that was captured on surveillance footage on August 26 when devastating floods and landslide hit the China-Nepal border.

I'm standing now in the area where that building was you would never know that there had been anything here at all. It's just completely flattened.

MCCARTHY: What is left is an apocalyptic field of mud so deep that in places machines are cutting through about 12 feet of it. The first teams

did not arrive by road, they climbed, got on rubber boats and helicopters because the highway had been torn out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): All of the structures above ground had been swept away by the mudslide. It was really heartbreaking to see. So

many of our fellow Chinese lost their precious lives in this disaster.

MCCARTHY: Jang (ph) also says, at this stage, they are clearing mud layer by layer, searching for the deceased. There are no signs of life nearly two

weeks in.

Chinese authorities have confirmed dozens of deaths on this side of the border in Tibet, but what the world can see of this loss is tightly

managed.

MCCARTHY: This is the first time that foreign media is getting access into this area where CNN is part of a small group of foreign reporters who have

been given access to this site, the first time that foreign media have been allowed entry here, but certainly this is a place where there are many

questions about who is here many families seeking more answers.

MCCARTHY: Like Arushi Gupta's family in India. Those were her last messages to her father less than an hour before the flood struck.

The 33-year-old even included a picture of the Gyirong Port crossing as she approached the port.

This is her father's message to Chinese authorities.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My request to them with folded hand is, please provide any information you have about my daughter. I shall be grateful to you. I

am requesting China authority to please share any details they have.

MCCARTHY (voice-over): More than 500 people remain missing on China's side of the border, roughly half of them foreign nationals.

There are many foreign nationals --

When asked about the government's plans on releasing data about those who are at the port that fateful day, Chinese officials say information about

missing foreign nationals has been shared with their embassies.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): After the identities of the victims' remains are confirmed, the relevant departments will properly hand

over the remains and belongings to the families.

The specific procedures for claiming and handling will be carried out in strict accordance with relevant regulations.

MCCARTHY: And so the search continues, but the answers may never come.

Simone McCarthy, CNN, Gyirong Port.

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GOLODRYGA: An ugly dispute is unfolding in Washington. U.S. Senator John Fetterman now lashing out at former aides.

ASHER: In the last week, "The Wall Street Journal" published text messages between Fetterman and former staffers. The aides accused him of showing a

difference towards his work and skipping important meetings with his constituents.

Days later, Fetterman reached out to CNN. He calls the staff as disgruntled and says they're trying to tarnish his reputation.

GOLODRYGA: Annie Grayer is tracking all of this back and forth. She joins us now live from Washington. And, Annie, this had been a report from Manu

Raju who sort of broke down the allegations made by those former staffers, via text messages, that they had with the senator.

How is he responding to those claims?

ANNIE GRAYER, CNN SENIOR REPORTER: Well, Zain and Bianna, Fetterman is pushing back and denying all of these allegations that his former staffers

laid out to "The Wall Street Journal." And he really goes line by line at the examples that the former staffers gave to the Wall

Street Journal. So to just take it one example at a time, in this first example, former staffers were texting with Fetterman about meeting with officials from the

Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania. And these text messages show the former staffers saying that the individuals are concerned about Medicaid,

as you can see on -- on your screen, and Fetterman says, quote, well, I'm not.

And in a statement to CNN provided exclusively following this reporting, Fetterman says that this was a statement made a bad joke, made in bad

taste, taken out of context, and that he does have a very good working relationship with this hospital and pointed to other instances on social

media where he is met with officials from that hospital.

In a second instance of "The Wall Street Journal" article, former staffers were trying to get Fetterman to attend a funeral of three police officers

who were killed in his state. In the -- in the text messages shared with "The Wall Street Journal," the staffer lays out what the funeral would

entail, and Fetterman responds three hours, question mark, question mark, as you can see there.

And following this reporting, Fetterman told CNN exclusively that this, again, statement was taken out of context that he met with the families of

those individuals, that he sent them flowers on the day of, and that he showed up for that community in other ways.

And so a third example was when Fetterman was supposed to meet with disabled veterans from his state, and -- and Fetterman did not attend that

meeting. Instead, he had staffers attend that meeting on his behalf, but only then later in the day he appeared for Fox News hit, and staffers were

very concerned about this behavior.

But Fetterman told CNN that he was throwing up at the time of that scheduled meeting, and that he felt better later in the day to then resume

his activities.

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So, taken in some here, Fetterman's response to his former staffers is, quote, per usual, lies, half-truths, innuendoes, smears, and anonymous.

Fetterman adds, "No matter how many smears or stories, I'm proud to continue to deliver for Pennsylvania."

So, these former staffers say that they have more choices to share. They created a social media account on X where they say that they have more

information. This is not the first time that Fetterman has come under fire from his former staffers.

And he's become sort of a controversial figure in the Democratic Party, particularly for his positions on Israel, where he says if the party takes

an anti-Israel democratic stance, he would leave the party.

So, there are a lot of questions swirling around Fetterman who's not up until 2028, but Democrats, specifically those on the left, have been upset

for him -- with him for some time, Zain and Bianna.

GOLODRYGA: All right. Annie Grayer reporting live from Washington, thank you.

Well, to Africa now, where health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo were on alert after a new case of Ebola was reported in an eastern

region controlled by rebels.

ASHER: Yes. A coalition of AFC and M23 rebels control large parts of two provinces in the DRC after an offensive last year. They had said the areas

were free from Ebola in late June. Thousands of cases have now been reported across the Democratic Republic of Congo overall.

Jacqueline Howard has more.

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JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More than 3,000 people have now died from the fast-spreading Ebola outbreak, according to health

officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and they've confirmed over 6,000 cases.

The World Health Organization warns, the outbreak is outpacing the response.

DR. TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, DIRECTOR-GENERAL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: The Ebola epidemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is

already the second largest on record and the fastest moving that we have ever seen.

HOWARD (voice-over): WHO also says the majority of deaths are happening in small communities rather than in official treatment centers, leading to

unsafe burials and unknown chains of transmission that continue to spread.

Health officials in the region are turning to a never before used method in Ebola response, tracking mobile phone data to map population movements and

predict where cases may emerge.

In an interview with Reuters, Swedish nonprofit Flowminder said, it is using anonymized cellular records provided by the DRC's largest operator to

identify virus hotspots and track travel from those regions.

GHEBREYESUS: Until every chain is found and broken, the epidemic will continue and will continue to pose a threat to DRC, its neighbors, and the

region as a whole.

HOWARD (voice-over): This outbreak is caused by the Bundibugyo Ebola strain, which has no approved vaccine or treatment. But the government is

testing Ervebo, an approved vaccine for a different strain of Ebola, in the hopes that it could provide some protection.

SALATIEL WAYLEE, HEAD OF VACCINATION IN KISANGANI: We believe the Ervebo vaccine can also help protect against other variants because it provides

cross immunity.

HOWARD (voice-over): School has resumed in some of the affected provinces, and teachers say they are teaching students about how to stay healthy and

encouraging anyone to get a vaccine, if one becomes available.

DESIRE BUYANA, RISK COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT (through translator): If there's a vaccine today, the teachers, the children, all

will be engaged to mobilize the parents, mobilize the health system, so that everyone is vaccinated in order to slow down the spread of this

disease.

HOWARD: Jacqueline Howard, CNN.

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GOLODRYGA: An immigration deadline is fast approaching for an Iranian woman who is desperately trying to stay in the U.S. She's being detained. And

Homeland Security has notified her that she could be deported to the Central African Republic.

ASHER: CNN's Rafael Romo explains how we got here and what happens now.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN U.S. NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The detained Iranian woman as CNN not to reveal her name out of fear that her family and her home country

may face persecution. And also because she's afraid that she may face retribution from immigration authorities here in the U.S.

According to her attorney, the 21-year-old woman has been held for 14 months by immigration and customs enforcement at the Stewart Detention

Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, located south of Atlanta.

Last month, she received a document stating that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security intends to deport her to the Central African Republic, a

war-torn country she has no ties to.

"I don't know from where the order came that they needed to send me to the Central African Republic and I had to sign a paper, "the Iranian woman told

me over the phone.

"And I was so shocked, so shocked. I was scared and I kept telling them that I wouldn't know what to do in that country. This is making me crazy,"

she said.

Her attorney, Martin Rosenbluth, told me his client enter the country legally through the Mexican border in 2024, but won what is known as a

withholding of removal case, which used to mean she could stay in the country.

Rosenbluth also told me her arrest that her apartment here in Atlanta in June of last year was completely unnecessary because she had been fully

compliant with immigration authorities.

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MARTIN ROSENBLUTH, IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY: They handcuffed her, they shackled her, and they took her to the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia.

And there was no need for it. She was fully cooperating. And she's 20 years old. I mean, she's a child. She's a kid. And they arrested her in this

brutal manner and took her to the Stewart Detention Center.

ROMO: Did she have a criminal background?

ROSENBLUTH: No, sir. Nothing at all. And -- and -- and again, I -- I know - - I know -- I've -- I've said this, but I mean, she was fully cooperating with ICE. She was doing everything she was supposed to.

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ROMO: During our telephone interview, I asked the Iranian woman why she fled Iran in the first place and she told me the following, quote, "I left

Iran because I converted to Christianity. I was born a Muslim and I converted to Christianity, and we had some problems with the IRGC, the

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, so I had to leave the country."

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ROSENBLUTH: She converted to Christianity from Islam, and in Iran, that is a death sentence. So, I mean, she came here because she didn't have any

choice.

I mean, she came here because she was in fear of her life that she would be killed by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.

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ROMO: Rosenbluth said, they are trying to block ICE from sending her to the Central African Republic, even though she won her asylum case and proved it

was unsafe for her to go back to Iran.

In a statement, the Department of Homeland Security told CNN the following. "If an illegal alien chooses to file a claim in court, refusing to go to

their home country, we are required by law to find a safe and secure nation for them to go to. To be clear, a pending application does not confer legal

status in the United States."

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According to Rosenbluth, an immigration judge has granted a state of removal and a motion to reconsider, which means his client cannot be

deported before September 17 when she's scheduled to have a hearing.

Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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ASHER: All right. Across the Atlantic, tensions over immigration have boiled over in the English city of Portsmouth.

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ASHER: These were the scenes on Sunday night as anti-migrant protesters clashed with police. The standoff continued into the early hours of the

morning.

Hundreds had gathered to try to stop the arrival of migrants who had crossed from France. They initially tried to stop lifeboats coming into

land before staging a road protest.

Many demonstrators wore balaclavas and dressed in black, something the police say caused concern.

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DONNA JONES, HAMPSHIRE POLICE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER: People have a right to peaceful protest. People who don't want people entering Britain

illegally have a right to protest. And largely, the protest last night was peaceful.

However, there were people wearing balaclavas, as your intro said, and that does create fear and concern.

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GOLODRYGA: All right. Turning to another story we're following. Sudanese refugees are among the top nationalities asking for asylum in the U.K. And

the U.N. today is putting the ongoing war in Sudan center stage. It is calling for an immediate ceasefire, saying civilians remain at imminent

risk.

This comes as the paramilitary group, the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces, recently renewed its assault on the city of El Obeid in South Central

Sudan. That's according to witnesses. It's important to note Sudan remains the world's largest internal displacement crisis.

And now there's word of another attack in southern Sudan worsening an already dire humanitarian situation. This time, the World Food Programme

trucks were targeted during near the city of Dilling. They were carrying enough supplies to feed nearly 6,000 people for a month.

ASHER: Carl Skau is the acting executive director of the World Food Programme. He just got back from the city of El Obeid and joins us live now

for The Exchange, coming to us from Kosti south of Sudan's capital, Khartoum. Carl, thank you so much for being with us.

You know, this is a story that is certainly under covered as the world is distracted by other crises around the world. Of course, with Iran and

what's happening in Ukraine right now. Just give us a sense for those of us who may not be familiar with the day-to-day on goings of the war in Sudan.

What did you see in the city of El Obeid, Carl?

CARL SKAU, ACTING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME: So, El Obeid, I spent all day in El Obeid. It's this city that, just a few weeks ago, was

at the risk for being besieged.

And I think what I -- what I saw today is really, you know, what the world largest hunger crisis looks like on the ground, the fear, the loss, the

desperation.

El Obeid is this cross point where all roads basically in Sudan leading to El Obeid. So, throughout this war, there has been hundreds of thousands of

displaced who have gathered here. You know, some arrived this morning when I was there. Some had arrived some three years ago. Hundreds of thousands

jammed into big camps, overstretched with shelter that, you know, don't protect for rain or for -- for some.

I spoke to many, many people. I spoke to these women standing in the long queue trying to get water. You know, the water ran out. The tank was dry

about mid-day. So, many of them had to return with their cans without any water.

I was at health clinics where I spoke to mothers with their malnourished children. Some nine out of 10 of the children coming to that clinic were

malnourished or severely malnourished. And -- and, you know, the desperation really among those mothers is -- is hard to explain.

And I sat down with this young woman who had arrived quite recently. Her home had been destroyed. Her brother had been killed when -- when the

village was attacked. She, you know, spent all days at home trying to care for her brothers and parents who were sick.

She was well-educated and wanted to work, but, you know, and wanted to go back home. But there is complete limbo in this camp. People want to go

back, but they are afraid and they can't.

And so, you know, I'm telling you a few stories here, but this is how it looks like for hundreds and millions of people in Sudan.

GOLODRYGA: It's just a microcosm of what's been happening now for, I believe, almost three years this war. And, of course, the biggest victims

are the innocent, the -- the children in particular.

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And there's such need for food, for supplies, medical supplies. And that brings me to the strike today that destroyed enough food for nearly one

month to feed nearly 6,000 people.

First of all, and this happened on marked cars, clearly making it known that you were aid workers. Do you have any indication as to who was

responsible for these strikes?

SKAU: I mean, these incidents, you know, happen all over the place and -- and all parties are responsible. And so, you know, we -- we really call for

-- for respect for international humanitarian law, that humanitarians and our cargo is safe.

You know, into El Obeid, there is only one road and we have been able to use that -- that road. And we have been able to scale up to some 120,000

people. But I -- I explained, there are -- there are many hundreds of thousands.

And so, we're not -- you know, we're cutting now support for those who have been there longer to give the -- to the newly arrived. But those who have

been there before, they also cannot work. They have nothing.

And so, it's not enough. And, you know, it's also difficult because there are villages around that we are not reaching because of insecurity, such

town is Dilling that we spoke to. And we have been trying to bring convoys (ph) in there, but it's very risky.

And as you -- as you spoke to, you know, now two of our trucks were hit and that convoys sitting there now on the road and cannot move because we

haven't had the clearances.

So, you know, there are big issues here in terms of scale. We're not being able -- we don't have the resources, the money to really reach everyone in

need, but it's also an issue of -- of access and -- and -- and lack of -- of security.

And, frankly, I mean, the world needs to bring this conflict to an end. That is on the Security Council today. That is what we're calling for first

and foremost.

But short of that, we just need to be able to provide the basics for all these people who are stuck in the middle of this conflict.

GOLODRYGA: More urgency, more attention needed, of course, the forgotten crisis now that we at CNN have been covering consistently and will continue

to. Funding is a dire, dire situation. And there needs to be more accountability on that front too.

Thank you so much, Carl Skau. We appreciate all the work that you are doing. Please stay safe.

SKAU: Thank you for having me on. Thank you.

GOLODRYGA: And that does it for "One World" today. I'm Bianna Golodryga.

ASHER: I'm Zain Asher. Appreciate you watching. Bianna is going to be back in 15 minutes with "Amanpour," but "African Voices" is up next here on CNN.

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