kurds say they have been abandoned and are now asking if they should turn to russia for protection now. >> standing by his man. the president supports rudy giuliani one day after appearing to distance himself from his personal attorney. also ahead this hour, bowing to china. this week was the nba and video game companies. we'll explain how hollywood has been doing the same thing for many, many years. we are live from cnn world

headquarters in atlanta. we want to welcome our viewers here and in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. cnn "newsroom" starts right now. at 5:01 here on the u.s. east coast in atlanta, georgia, it has been one week since president trump announced american troops would pull back in northern syria. now come the criticisms of betrayal. they led the syrian democratic forces against isis now a commander is slamming the u.s. president's decision to withdrawal troops.

he said this to the u.s. envoy in a readout obtained exclusively by cnn. he said, and i quote, you have given up on us. you are leaving us to be slaughtered. you have nothing for us. you are not willing to protect the people but you do not want another force to come and protect us. you have sold us. this is immoral. he goes on to say, i need to know if you are capable of protecting my people of stopping these bombs falling on us or not. i need to know because if you're not, i need to make a deal with russia and the regime now and invite their planes to protect this region. president trump told fox news saturday that it was fine if the kurds wanted to find someone else to fight with them. he spoke earlier at a conservative christian event on this issue. let's listen. >> the kurds are tending to leave, and that's good.

let them have their borders. but i think our soldiers should be there for the next 50 years guarding a border between turkey and syria when we can't guard our own borders at home. i don't think so. >> president trump there. as the turkish military operation continues pushing into syria, we are now seeing new and very graphic video coming out of the northern part of that country. in this video, it appears to show turkish-backed fighters shooting captives. one of the man who gets shot has his hands behind his back. we warn you what you are about to see is incredibly graphic, but here it is.

an activist tells the "new york times" that happened on saturday. the gunmen are turkish-linked militants. they can be heard shouting in arabic, film me shooting them with a sniper rifle. and pigs prisoners, kill them. the turkey-based militia said they will investigate. there are reports a female politician was killed in the same area. cnn's arwa damon has more from turkish-syrian border. >> reporter: the wails of all consuming sorrow echo throughout the gravesite in the early morning. a woman cries out for his dead son. he was too young. he was too young to die.

others unwilling to let go of those they loved. those taken away too soon, too senselessly. buried here is a father of five, killed when a barrage of rounds fell in front of the grocery store he owns. and all eight people, civilians, were killed. six of them buried here in the small cemetery up against the syrian border in the shadow of the syrian city. they were members of the ethnic kurdish minority, a minority with atormented past, a painful present, and uncertain future. the turks fire and the other side retaliates. when that happens, who does it hit? it hits us, he items us. we just collect our dead and bury them, he said. he said good-bye to his cousin, who is a father of four. this is one of his four kids, the 4-year-old. but he has a newborn as well.

he describes his cousin as a happy man whose only problem was he was kurdish. many here have relatives on the other side. families on both sides of this border are caught in the crosshairs of an offensive whose consequences are unknown. the cemetery clears out quickly. even in their sorrow, people are afraid of gathering in large groups, lest more rounds fall again. for turkey, the ypg poses an existential threat and they are determined to destroy no matter the cost. it is an offshoot of the pkk, can has been designated a terrorist organization by turkey, the u.s., and the eu. the pkk has been battling the turn issue state for decades. a region whose population has been caught in turkey's war on terror before. we are being told there used to be single story homes here, but they were destroyed in the most recent clashes.

very fierce fighting that broke out between turkey and the pkk. that was back in 2015. and many of the homes here were subsequently destroyed. what people are telling us is about a month ago the turkish government gave them keys to these apartments. they had only just returned. now they have found themselves in the middle of a war zone once again. this is a video right after the strike. it's very hard to look at. a mother and her two daughters died. they were barely teens. the kurdish population along both sides of this border know war. they know fear and uncertainty. and that war often blurs the lines between those who are armed and those who are innocent. live along the turkish-syrian border, arwa damon is here with the story.

ar want, sdf commander saying essentially this is a case of betrayal. kurdish fighters now find themselves left to be slaughtered, he says. in the meantime, civilians there, arwa, are just left in the middle. >> reporter: yeah, they are. and this is the way war constantly plays out. and quite frankly, when you look at the parties, the governments who end up being involved in these wars, despite public proclamations, no matter who they may be, there is very little regard for the civilian population, often referred to as collateral damage. this offensive has caused 100,000 civilians to flee inside syria. on the turkish side of the border, a number of towns have begun to clear out. behind us, there have been in the past few days, an artillery

strike that took place that killed two people. and further in the distance, that is the a syrian town that, it would seem, has gone back and forth between both turkey and the sdf claiming control of it. since we arrived just a short while ago, there have been a couple of strikes that have happened in there as well. war is dirty. war is never clean. and war causes a devastating toll on a civilian population, whether it's because of a humanitarian crisis that unfolds. a number of aid organizations are warning of. or whether it is quite simply the civilian death toll that ends up emerging behind all of this. the countless families who are forever broken. their loved ones forever lost. when you ask many of them why did this have to happen to us? they either say they don't know what they have done to deserve it or they are very aware of the

fact that they are quite simply political pawns in a bigger game, george. >> caught in the middle of a chaotic situation. arwa damon reporting along the turkish-syrian border. we will continue to stay in touch with you, arwa, as you continue to bring more reports of what's happening there. back here in the united states, the u.s. president is now defending his personal attorney, a day after he appeared to distance himself from rudy giuliani. the "new york times" reporting this julian ya's dealings with ukraine are under criminal investigation and may have violated federal lobbying laws. our jeremy diamond reports from the white house. >> reporter: even as president donald trump is mounting his own defense in house democrats rapidly advancing impeachment inquiry, the president now also tasked with defending his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, who has come under fire for his role in the ukraine scandal. now the "new york times" reporting federal investigators are probing whether or not rudy giuliani may have violated federal foreign lobbying laws.

the president taking to twitter defending his personal attorney saying so now they are after the legendary crime buster and greatest mayor in the history of new york city, rudy giuliani. he may seem a little rough around the edges sometimes but he is also a great guy and wonderful lawyer. such a one-sided witch-hunt going on in the usa. deep state. shameful. he has used to to falsely characterize fbi agents in the past. the president's defense of rudy giuliani, privately the president has begun to express concerns about rudy giuliani and the legal exposure he may face particularly after two of his associates in the ukraine matter were arrested on campaign finance charges. now, despite the president focusing now also on defending his personal attorney, he is still on the attack against house democrats who are continuing to investigate the president over his call with the ukrainian president and the matters arising from that.

the president saying that he is considering a lawsuit against congressman adam schiff, the chairman of the house intelligence committees, who is one of the democratic leaders on this impeachment inquiry. i spoke on saturday with jay sekulow who would say nothing is off the table. but they are only in the research phase of potential legal action. jeremy diamond, cnn, the whose. jeremy diamond with the reporting. thank you. now for a protect, let's bring in amy pope at chatham house, an independent think tank in the united kingdom joining live from the london bureau. good to have you with us. >> good morning. >> let's start with the president's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. he is now the center of a criminal probe over whether he broke any lobbying laws. he said he is not aware he is under any investigation. he suggests it is, quote, nothing but leak calling it,

quote, a political attack. and adding if it were an appropriate investigation that officials would try to keep it secret so subjects are not aware of it. what do you make of his argument there? . >> i think he is right to say that generally the procedure within the u.s. department of justice is not to put people on notice that they are under investigation. so it is not unusual that he would say he has not been told he is the target of the investigation at this point in time. at the same time, we know two of his associates have been arrested. there are reports that he too was under investigation. that makes since given what we know about the state of affairs at the moment. we know that the justice department is very serious about investigating violations of what's known as the foreign agents registration act or f.a.r.a., which is a broad statute that prohibits u.s. persons from engaging with foreign actors to influence u.s. politics. >> amy, president trump is expressing his support publicly.

but behind the scenes, sources tell cnn the white house is concerned about any legal exposure to giuliani. we know loyalty matters pretty importantly to president trump until it doesn't, as we saw with mr. trump's other personal attorney, michael cohen. does loyalty have an expiration date in your opinion for giuliani and when does he become more, toic to move by? >> time and again he will stand behind his people until the evidence becomes either too strong for him to push against or, two, the person suggests they're going to start cooperating against the president. so i would expect the president will continue to support rudy giuliani at this moment in time. but i wouldn't expect that to hold. we haven't seen that historically that the president sticks with his people. when they become politically, he

is the first to throw them under the bus. >> taking heat within his own party over foreign policy decision to pull troops out of syria and abandon the kurds, the kurds who fought alongside u.s. troops against isis. that move is being criticized as betrayal. in the eyes of u.s. allies, an example of unpredictability. how do you see the short-term compact here and what's the long-term takeaway when it comes to foreign policy? >> there are many problematic issues with the way that he has approached the situation. first, as we know, the syrian democratic forces have been allies for the united states. they have been an important piece of our strategic fight against isis. and essentially allowing them to be what appears to be massacred by the turks is creating a situation where it undermines the support we can build and our forces can build in conflict areas around the globe. more importantly, what the president did not do was enlist

our diplomatic allies or humanitarian actors to respond. right now we are in the middle of the worst displacement crisis in the world. more than 65 people displaced in the world. we have seen this play out for the last several years with the refugee crisis. biffle going into a situation without any plan in place, without our diplomatic allies on alert. we are only fueling that particular crisis which is not good for anyone in the end. >> amy pope guessing us perspective on a lot of news that is happening around the u.s. president. amy, thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> around the world and in the united states, you're watching cnn "newsroom". still ahead, the u.s. is sending troops to saudi arabia after president trump promised to take troops out of the middle east. conflict there. more on what's happening ahead of us. cnn asks independent voters how they see the impeachment situation playing out with u.s. president.

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in the defeat of isis, a different view from saudi arabia. that nation's king is applauding the u.s. government for sending american troops to protect its oil fields. the pentagon announced that it would send 1,800 more troops to saudi arabia to maintain visual security against threats from iran. our senior international correspondent matthew chance reports. >> reporter: for the latest deployment of troops to 3,000. the number of additional forces sent to saudi arabia in the past month. most of these are made of anti-defense missile units around oil installations around this kingdom. that represents a significant increase in the size of the u.s. military footprint here at a time when washington is drawing down military forces elsewhere in the recently. the fact that in itself is

drawing criticism. it comes, though, amidst the back drop of iran. the iranian oil tanker was mysteriously struck by two missiles. the aing ta initially plamed on saudi arabia before iranian authorities clawed back on those allegations. it is still unclear what happens of the tanker and who may have been responsible. last month saudi oil sites came under drone attack. houthi rebels said they were responsible. a very tense situation. now one into which the russian president vladimir putin is

stepping. russia has good relations with iran. but also growing ties with saudi arabia. as president putin prepares to begin a state visit to saudi, he's issued a tenor warning. if anyone believes the seizure of tankers or attacks on oil infrastructure will affect russia or our arab friends, all of them are wrong he said in an interview with russian state media. that is set to take place monday. there is a growing, you know, personal bond between the two countries's powerful leaders. that is an interesting context in which to see the u.s. support for saudi arabia. because if that were to decrease, there would be plenty of others led by russia willing to fill the vacuum. matthew chance, cnn, riyadh. matthew, thanks.

a new poll shows majority of americans approve the start of an impeachment inquiry into president trump over his phone call with his ukrainian counterpart. that poll conducted by pbs news hour, npr and marist finds 52% approve, 86% of democrats approve, only 9% of republicans want an impeachment inquiry. 54% of independents want the house to investigate the president. fox news released a poll on wednesday that found 51% of registered voters want mr. trump to be impeached and removed from office. that's a new high on fox's polling. up 9 points since july increases coming across party lines. in the meant, our randi kaye went to wisconsin to see what some independent voters say about president trump and the whole situation around impeachment. she spoke with nine voters ranging in ages from 18 to 82

years old. here's what they had to say. >> reporter: do you think an impeachment inquiry is appropriate? >> yes. >> definitely appropriate. >> yeah. >> reporter: all of you agree an impeachment inquiry is appropriate? >> i'm witnessing this president go out and do things that are clearly following what's in the constitution about impeachment, high crimes, misdemeanors and bribery. . >> you are an independent but you lean right. >> correct. >> but you are okay with the inquiry? . >> well, absolutely. because i also feel like we need to follow the rule of law. and if something smells bad, we need to investigate it. >> why are some of you convinced this call sounded like a quid pro quo. >> $392 million of aid was put on hold days before. what kind of signal was that? this was just days before. >> we are looking to buy more javelins. i want you to do me a favor, though.

it is right there. in the primary source released by the white house. and you read it word for word. to me -- i'm not a lawyer or a mobster. to me it looks like a quid pro quo. >> why is the president asking a foreign president for a political favor like this? it just seems so highly inappropriate? >> i'm not convinced that the withholding of aid a few days before we have enough evidence to say that that was related. i think that the transcript of the call was suspicious, but i'm not yet ready to make a decision. >> how many of you see this phone call and ask by the united states to look into his political rival as an abuse of power? raise your hands. and what about the white house putting that phone call on a classified server. >> his own staff saw this as uh-oh he might have just done something impeachable. >> text messages in which an ambassador tries to bury any talk of quid pro quo or

conditions. >> as someone who worked in government in years past when you get that message that says call me it is because somebody does not want a written record about something. >> and about blocking key witnesses from testifying -- >> that to me is huge warning signs. and i think that will be problematic. >> if there is nothing to worry about, why hide anything? >> be transparent. >> is it fair to say this inquiry has affected all of your thinking when it comes to who you might vote for. is that fair to say? >> absolutely. >> for me it's one more level of distrust. if i can't trust someone, i have a hard time voting for them. >> if he is impeached but not removed, how many of you would still vote for him. none of you. rich, you lean right even though you are independent. are you considering voting for trump still? >> no. because it looks kind of bad. >> knowing what you know now about ukraine and the impeachment inquiry, do you

think he should be removed from office? raise your hand. three. randi kaye, cnn, milwaukee. an american diplomats wife involved in a crash that killed a teenager in the united kingdom. both the u.s. and uk governments agree she does not have diplomatic immunity. police say 42-year-old anne s.e.c. oolas collided with a 19-year-old e on a motor bike. she said she would remain in the country. shortly afterwards, she returned claiming diplomatic immunity. pa media say immunity is no longer pertinent in her case. an american video game company is changing course.

ahead, why it is easing up on an esports player who offered support for hong kong protesters. >> plus, some countries are learning the hardware the cost of doing business with china. coming up, why it could affect what you see on the screen depending on where you are.

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in northern syria. the largely kurdish dispute this. a kurdish commander is lashing out at the united states. according to a readout, he says washington is, quote, leaving us to be slaughtered. the u.s. president donald trump has come to the defense of his personal attorney, rudy giuliani. this as the "new york times" reports giuliani's dealings with ukraine are now under criminal investigation and may have violated federal lobbying laws. donald trump tweeted in part, such as one-sided witch-hunt is going on in the u.s. deep state. shameful. u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders tells cnn he will be back on stage for tuesday's debate. he says he's ready to rejoin the campaign trail at full blast after being treated for a heart attack that happened earlier this month.

for 19 straight weekends, thousands of protesters in hong kong have taken to the streets. we have images to show you there in hong kong. this image live. this from saturday. you see protesters there taking part in the protests with their umbrella chanting for greater independence from pay skwreupbg. as the weeks drag on, some protest, have embraced more extreme and violent tactics. so have police. the pro-democratly movement has won supporters across the world much to beijing's dismay. an american video game company is walking back its response to a hong kong gamer who showed support for the protests that are happening there. ng blitzchung was penal ied. blizzard was accused of catering to the communist-led government.

they called for a boycott of the company. they will give back $10,000 in tournament prize money. the company is also cutting his one-year suspension in half. the company's president apologized saying this. we've had a chance to pause, to listen to our community, and to reflect on what we could have done better. in hindsight, our process wasn't adequate, and we reacted too quickly. and the national basketball association is scramble to go save its relationship with beijing. china pulled preseason nba games off the air after the manager of the houston rockets tweeted support for hong kong protesters. the nba quickly distanced itself from the tweet, though the league's commissioner says he respects the manager's freedom to express his thoughts. but watch what happened thursday as cnn's reporter christina macfarlane asked a simple question of two houston rockets players about this controversy. >> the nba has always been a

league that prides itself on its coaches being speaking out about political and societal affairs. i wonder after events this week and the fallout, whether you would both feel differently about speaking out that way in the future? >> excuse me. we're taking basketball questions only >> it is a legitimate question. this is an event that happened this week during the nba. >> it's already been answered. >> this particular question has not been answered. >> some james? . >> any other questions. >> the nba issued this apology saying, quote, a team representative inappropriately enter integritied to prevent cnn's christina macfarlane from receiving an answer to her question. we've apologized.

as this was inconsistent with how the nba conducts media events. hollywood has been criticized. a few months ago promotional material for "top gun" maverick appeared to have been altered for the chinese market. look to the left. you can see the japanese and taiwanese flags on the pack of the jacket tom cruise war. on the right, "top gun" maverick. those have been replaced. social media speculation is this was done to apiece china. media analyst bill carter joins now to talk now about what it means to do business in china. good to have you with us, bill. >> nice to be with you, george. we are getting a sense how important the chinese market is given the headlines as of late. this is nothing new for hollywood, given the massive market for films. the chinese market brought in almost $9 billion. this in 2018 according to the

motion picture association of america. both the u.s. and canada box offices combined, brought in 11.9 billion, and that's together. clearly there is big money to be made in china. many maneuvers a moral cost on self-censor ship o'dell cat issues. >> it is. a very interesting line they are trying to walk. china is a massive market. it brings in so much money, they have to pay attention to it. in so doing, they really have to sort of weigh, you know, market value versus human value. and what they have to do here is basically censor themselves in order to keep that market. klein is showing it is extremely unforgiving about any kind of sign, especially in this hong kong situation, that plays into that. you know, they can be economic bullies essentially here. and they can say if you don't do it our way, we will hold back

our money and it will really hurt you. and it works for them. . >> you know, we are certainly seeing western producers conform to chinese political ideals to gain access. let's look again at "top gun". this is really clear to see. in the film promotional the images have been edited, removing the taiwanese flag from tom cruise's jacket. that is done as this movie is to play in china. >> yes. and obviously they -- it's not even called attention to. but they are so conscious of any kind of positive imagery about taiwan that they interfere with this. that isn't a massive, you know, impingement on the artistry of the movie. but it certainly shows you the length they will go to to try to make sure they tamp down any sign that it is a protest or some point of view that they do not want to get out.

>> and if the movies don't pass the test, they don't play in china. the film christopher robin was denied release without region. remember the images of winnie the pooh were censored after some on social media compared that to the chinese president xi jinping. . >> which is kind of a bizarre decision to have made of winnie the pooh for heaven's sake is not a character that would be offensive in any way. but it heightens, underscores the sensitivities here. and also completely demonstrates if someone is willing to do that to keep a movie out that the chinese have an incredible amount of power over the way hollywood is going to make a number of decisions. as you pointed out $9 billion, is so important to their market. you know, their whole market value now. they can't afford to stand up to china. . >> bill, i would like your take

on an opinion article from the "new york times". dealing with china isn't worth the moral cost. saying if the original thinking was china would open the economy that the west would liberalize that country. it seems there is an opposite effect from film, tech, nba, gaming, of corrupting western eye deals. your thoughts? >> well, that seems to be the message right now. i mean, you can see the nba, you know, an executive comes out and says something that in our country we stand for. we stand for freedom of expression, et cetera. and the nba reacts in a way to first drive to tamp that down. then when the commissioner comes out and defends it, they in china they try to tell their employees, who are athletes, they can't speak out. across the entire range of gaming, a guy who wins a i game and says something about hong kong doesn't get his prize

money. apple has to worry about all of its investments in terms of manufacturing, et cetera. at the same time, they want to present themselves their brand, that they are a values-oriented company. so they are giving up so much for this market. you really have to step pack and say china is a country, a sometimes hostile country. it's not a market. and it's not a cash register. it's actually a country. if you have to deal with them on the whole political basis, not just on a profit and loss paves. . >> bill carter, we appreciate your time. thank you. . >> sure thing, george. in japan, search and rescue operations are under way after a huge storm drops a great deal of rainfall. we'll be live from japan as official assess the taj there. damage there. and california's deadly wildfires. how firefighters are doing there. stay with us.

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in japan, recovery efforts are under way right now after a very strong typhoon ripped through the northeast of that country. take a look at the video there. so much rain. so much water that fell. record-setting rain left behind a trail of devastation, flooding homes, sub merging cars there. at least 15 people were killed and more than 100 others were injured. the severe weather also put part of the rugby world cup in jeopardy. in hours, they will take on scotland. covering the events there is christina macfarlane. what was it like to go through

that storm? and, secondly, what's the aftermath? >> reporter: wellive to say, george, i was out last night broadcasting during the storm. it ripped through at midnight. it was fast and it was furious. it was over in about an hour. winds registering 195 miles per hour. the situation right now from the disaster agency is that unfortunately 15 people have died. we have 141 people injured and 9 people are still unaccounted for as we speak. there are about a million people evacuated around the country in the past 24 hours. the biggest concern right now is still around the flooding and the potential for landslides across the country. up to a meter in certain parts of the country. here in tokyo, the flood defenses have held. the waters are recedinreceding.

>> the rugby world cup, japan to face scotland in the final stages of the group stages. how have the games been impacted? . >> well, the first of four rugby world cup games to take place today was canceled. that was namibia against canada. they couldn't let that game go ahead. it has been a colossal effort to get the other three up and running. none bigger than the match that is about to take place an hour from now where japan will take on scotland for a chance of history. the first time japan could make it through to the rugby world cup quart finals. they will have to beat or have a draw against scotland. if they go through tonight it will set up a quarterfinal against south africa which all rugby fans know is a rematch of the america of brighton. they pulled off one of the big

kwreft upsets by beating south africa. could they do that again on home soil? we'll have to wait and see. with the fans milling around the last couple of hours, we are counting down to the crucial match. everyone is delighted this has been able to go ahead today. . >> christina far hand giving us the reporting and of course what is left to see here in the coming hours of rugby. thank you. firefighters in southern california are working around the clock to contain several fast-moving wildfires there. in riverside county, take a look at the scene there. we know that two people died in the sandalwood fire. that fire still burning. and saddle ridge fire broke out thursday night. it destroyed 31 homes and burned 7,400 acres. more than 100,000 people in the l.a. area were forced to leave their homes. in the city of new orleans, rescue crews are searching for the last person missing after a building collapsed on saturday

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cnn's election team projects that louisiana governor john bel edwards has been forced into a runoff vote. edwards, seen here on the left, was the top vote-getter on saturday, but will fall short of the 50% threshold needed to avoid a runoff. he will face louisiana businessman on november 16th. the senior senator from the u.s. state of south carolina may be plushing justblushing after d by two russians pretending to be turkey's defense minister. the pranksters may have ties to

russia. >> reporter: they go by lexus and vovan. they convinced one south carolina senator they were turkey's defense minister. . >> hello, mr. minister. lindsey graham. >> good, mr. senator. thank you. >> i really appreciate you calling me. >> reporter: they first obtained two calls between who he thought was a turn issue official. he talked about an ideal scenario for u.s. relations with turkey and refers to kurdish forces which he refers to by shorthand as ypg as a threat. . >> here's the best case scenario. we open free trade negotiations between the two countries this year and we continue to work together to create cooperation

in syria that protects you against a ypg threat and we try to find a way to go to general knee that and settle the war in syria. >> reporter: a spokesman for the south carolina senator confirmed to cnn the prank calls happened and that they, quote, got him. in a second conversation, graham even offers a call with the president himself. >> the president told me to tell president erdogan that he wants to turn the discussion to a free trade agreement. and i can set up a phone call between the two presidents if you want me to. do you want me to do that? . >> yes. sure. >> and i'll be on the phone call. . >> senator graham is only the latest to fall victim to the russian pranksters. they have been blamed for hoax calls made to energy secretary rick perry and house democrat

adam schiff, even sir elton call took a call he believed was calling from vladimir putin. the duo denied insinuations they are backed by the russian deposit. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. >> and that's the news this hour. thank you for being with us. i'm george howell at the house that ted built, cnn world headquarters in atlanta. for our viewers in the united states, "new day" is next. for our viewers around the world watching on cnn international, vital sign ws dr. sanjay gupta is ahead. thank you for your time.

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