hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church and we begin with an explosive report on u.s. president donald trump's finances. it's raising fresh doubts about his carefully crafted image as a successful businessman. "the new york times" examined more than 20 years of tax return data for mr. trump and his business organization.

among the many revelations, he paid no federal income taxes at all for many years. he denied the allegation sunday evening, using a familiar refrain. >> it's fake news. it's totally fake news. made up. fake. we went through the same story -- you could have asked me the same questions four years ago, i had to litigate this and talk about it. totally fake news. no, actually, i paid tax, but -- and you'll see that as soon as my tax returns are -- it's under audit. they've been under audit for a long time. the irs does not treat me well. >> just a quick fact check here, an irs audit does not prevent the release of tax returns. but there is so much more. "the times" report details mr. trump's extensive financial losses, even when he was campaigning for president as a successful businessman. it also raises questions about potential conflicts of interest.

cnn's john harwood has more. >> reporter: on the evening of the first presidential debate between donald trump and joe biden, a bombshell report in "the new york times" reporting that the president paid only $750 in taxes the first year he was president. and a broader picture of a president under financial pressure who is relying on his status as president to keep himself afloat financially. this "new york times" report says that in 10 of the previous 15 years before the -- he became president, donald trump paid no income taxes. it says that he has $300 million in loans that he has personally guaranteed coming due within the next four years. potential loss of another $100 million from a disputed tax refund that he received from the irs. paints a picture of a president who is, therefore, using his properties to attract business from lobbyists, from the u.s. government, from foreign officials, all because of the tightening financial squeeze

that they depict him as being under right now. now, this is a president, of course, who sold himself to the american people as a highly successful businessman and said his success was the reason why they should hire him as president, to turn the country around. this report casts doubt on whether he had that success at all, whether he's a billionaire, as he has claims, and whether or not it shakes his own voters. many of those small donors, those blue collar voters who support the president, they may not defect from him, but this report takes away time, which is the one commodity the president doesn't have very much. he just has a few weeks left in the general election. he's trailing significantly nationally and in battleground states to joe biden. and the more time he has to spend defending himself against this charge, the more difficult it is for him to come back, and you can bet that he's going to be defending it on that debate stage with joe biden on tuesday night. john harwood, cnn, the white house. >> and as john just mentioned,

this story emerged just two days before the first u.s. presidential debate. a campaign official for democratic nominee joe biden says the report underscores the differences between the two contenders. >> i mean, look, it's the latest reminder how clear the choice is here between -- in this race between park avenue and scranton. you have in donald trump a president who spends his time thinking about how he can work his way out of paying taxes, of meeting the obligation that every other working person in this country meets every year. you know, with joe biden, you have somebody who has a completely different perspective on what it means to be a working family in this country. >> and democrats on the house ways and means committee requested mr. trump's tax returns back in april of 2019. they have not been provided, but the chairman of the committee insists this new report shows why congress needs the information, saying in part, and i'm quoting here, today's report

underscores the importance of the ways and means committee's ongoing lawsuit to access mr. trump's tax returns. and ensure the presidential audit program is functioning effectively without improper influence. well, u.s. house speaker nancy pelosi also referenced that lawsuit in her reaction to the report on president trump's taxes. the top democrat released this statement, writing, "the new york times" reporting provides a window into the extraordinary measures that president trump has used to game the tax code and avoid paying his fair share of taxes while hardworking americans are. this report provides further evidence of the clear need for the ways and means lawsuit spearheaded by chairman neil to access trump's tax returns and ensure the presidential audit program is functioning effectively. well, president trump, meantime, has spent years defending why he

can't release his taxes to the public. here are just a few of his excuses. >> tax returns are very complicated. i have many, many companies. i have, you know, tremendously -- i have a very complex system of taxes. and, frankly, i get audited every single year. so, you know, mine are unlike everybody else who never gets audited, i get audited every single year, which i think is unfair. >> i will release my tax returns against my lawyers' wishing when she releases her 33,000 emails that have been deleted. >> the only years that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax. >> that makes me smart. >> we're under audit, despite what people said, and we're working that out as -- i'm always under audit, it seems, but i've been under audit for many years because the numbers are big and i guess when you

have a name, you -- you're audited, but until such time as i'm not under audit, i would not be inclined to do that. >> former federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst renato mariotti joins me now. good to have you with us. >> hey, thank you. >> so after years of hiding his tax returns, "the new york times" now has access to two decades of donald trump's tax documents, revealing he paid no income tax at all for ten years except for $1,500 in 2016 and 2017. he enjoyed vast write-offs while his properties struggled. he's currently in an audit battle with hundreds of millions to come due. donald trump call it is fake news. what do you say to that?

>> well, if he wants to prove "the new york times" wrong, he can release his tax returns like everyone else does when they run for president of the united states. i have to say, this is a matter that is causing so much speculation and so much concern that, really, if he doesn't want to release his tax returns, ordinarily this is the sort of thing you would think the department of justice or congress would want to investigate. >> so if he doesn't release his tax returns, can we assume that this is all right then? >> i won't say that at all. first of all, obviously, there's an ongoing federal audit, and i think that right now, of course, the department of justice is under control of the trump administration. so i think what we're gonna have to do is wait and see what happens after he leaves office and, of course, new york state authorities here in the united states are investigating his state tax returns, so there may be some news there as well. >> so his tax debt also reveals that he's using the presidency to keep himself afloat. so what will happen when and if he loses office? what's his legal vulnerability here? >> you know, it'll be interesting to see what the next administration does. i have to say, there are some matters here that seem worthy of

investigation. a mere, for example, incorrectly taken deduction is not a crime, but if, for example, there was a false statement here, that trump knew about when he signed it, that potentially could be a criminal violation, and it seems on its face that these documents are at odds with trump's financial disclosures, which show him with significant assets and don't list the debts that are listed here by "the new york times." >> and we've also learned that he's in the middle of a tax audit that involves a $72 million tax refund that he requested. that presumably was the red flag here. so what have you learned about that? >> well, what we have learned here, of course, is that that audit is still ongoing. i will say, i represent lots of people who run into tax trouble, and it is possible to delay those investigations significantly, but i am surprised that trump has been

able to delay it this long and i think that congress needs to provide oversight and see whether or not trump or any of his allies in the administration are interfering with the irs. >> and what's your sense of how these documents fell into the hands of "the new york times?" do you think someone within the irs wanted to see these go public? >> i think it's more likely someone, for example, at trump's accounting firm wanted to see them go public. there's been a huge battle here in the courts over those tax returns. and, in fact, his accountant -- accounting firm was actually willing to comply but had to wait for the supreme court of the united states to issue a ruling along those lines. so it seems that since that ruling has delayed release until after the election, i wouldn't be surprised if someone at the accounting firm took it in his or her hands to release these before the election. >> and what about the legal vulnerability of his company? >> well, his company very well

could have -- is more likely to have liability than him because the company itself is, you know, making these statements and it's a little bit easier to prove that the company is doing so woefully than it is for trump individually because trump's own head can be difficult to decipher in terms of his intent. so i think there is potential liability for his company. and we're gonna have to see whether or not he wins re-election because i think we can count on the justice department not to take action until he leaves office. >> all right. we'll watch to see the ramifications of all of this. renato mariotti, thank you so much. >> thank you. and all of this coming right in the middle of a fiercely contentious debate about the president's ultra conservative pick to replace ruth bader ginsburg on the supreme court. on sunday democratic presidential nominee joe biden called the rush to seat judge amy coney barrett an abuse of power.

>> the senate has to stand strong for our democracy. they must not act on this nomination until the american people finish the process they're already begun of selecting their president and their congress. and the voters, in my view, are not gonna stand for this abuse of power. and if we're to call ourselves a democracy, their voices must be heard. >> the senate judiciary committee is expected to approve judge barrett's nomination in less than a month, setting up a full senate vote by the end of october. meanwhile, the president keeps pushing false rhetoric about widespread mail-in ballot fraud, telling the media on sunday he hopes judge barrett is paying attention to potential cases. >> i do. i'm sure she is. i think everybody is. i think everyone in the country. i think we've made it a very big issue, and it's an issue that the democrats tried to get away with. i don't think they're getting away -- i mean, so many reports now of phony ballots.

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the opposition hates when i say that. we have the great vaccines, great companies, and we're going to have different vaccines, very powerful vaccines, great vaccines and therapeutics, but this is all happening very, very soon, so we're in great shape. >> well, as you can see on the map, cases are trending up across much of the united states. and top infectious diseases doctor, anthony fauci, warns that the u.s. is still in the first wave of the virus. u.s. health officials are warning of a potential surge in coronavirus cases during the fall and winter months, and this comes as almost half the country is reporting an increase in new infections and flu season is getting under way. cnn's natasha chen has the latest. >> reporter: over the past week, the seven-day average of new cases in the u.s. has been steadily above 40,000 a day. and that's concerning because the trend had come down in early september compared to the nationwide peak back in mid to

late july. and now that trend has started to slowly creep back up. on sunday, florida became the third state in the country to top 700,000 total cases, following texas and california. over the summer. but florida is also among about a dozen states whose new cases have actually fallen in the past week, compared to the week before. and governor ron desantis has moved the state into phase iii, removing any sort of restrictions on capacity limits in places like restaurants and bars. meanwhile, in new york city, deputies broke up a wedding of about 300 people in queens over the weekend, issuing them tickets for multiple misdemeanors. and health officials there on sunday warned that the cases of covid-19 are growing still at an alarming rate in parts of brooklyn and queens. on saturday, the number of new cases across the state of new york broke 1,000 for the first time since early june. and governor cuomo is warning people to still comply with wearing masks, social distancing and following local health

guidelines as the flu season approaches. natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. >> anne rimoin is a professor of epidemiology at the ucla fielding school of public health. she joins me now. good to talk with you. to make it look like covid-19 is starting to go away as the presidential election draws near? as donald trump focuses on the economy instead? >> i don't think that the american public should be listening to the white house press briefings as the sole way of determining whether or not where we are with this virus. there are plenty of -- there's plenty of evidence to suggest where we are going, looking at the daily trackers, looking at the john hopkins website, looking at the -- the state websites where we live,

listening to any public health professional on the news, dr. fauci, dr. redfield, even dr. hahn. i think if you listen to the public health professionals, they'll tell you we are -- we are still in the thick of it. and whether or not we have the task force meetings, which tend to be very political in nature, the fact still remains we are seeing a lot of cases. we're seeing more cases. we're seeing cases spike in many places and we're going to continue to see this. >> right. and a recent study just showed that fewer than 10% of americans have covid-19 antibodies, so we are nowhere near herd immunity, and a vaccine for the whole population is a very long way off. so how likely is it that we will all be wearing masks throughout next year? do we just need to get used to that idea? >> rosemary, even if we do have a vaccine that comes available, even this -- at the end of this year or beginning of the next year, it is going to take a very long time for that vaccine to be distributed to the entire population.

and a vaccine is not likely to be so effective that it will be the only measure in place. we are still going to be needing to wear masks, to social distance, to use hand hygiene, and so i think the american public, i think that the world needs to get used to wearing masks. masks do work, and, in fact, we could be saving lives right now by wearing a mask because we do know how effective masks are. we don't know what vaccine candidates are out there. so i think we need to be stopping -- we need to stop waiting for a magic bullet and do what we can right now, which is wear a mask and to get used to it because it is something that can save your life and save other people's lives as well. >> we appreciate your scientific guidance, as always. ann anne rimoin, many thanks. >> my pleasure. we turn to europe where governments are trying to handle

new waves of outbreaks. told to self-isolate in their dorm rooms after a large number of cases were confirmed on campus. in marseille, france, bars and restaurants will close for at least a week. cnn's scott mclean is live for us in london this hour and cnn's melissa bell is in the french capital. they join us both now. good to see you. so, scott, let's start with you. how are universities in manchester planning to feed and look after the 1,700 students being forced to self-isolate? >> reporter: hey, rosemary, so, yeah, both the city council in manchester and the university say these students will be taken care of in terms of food, their health care, their mental well-being as well while they're under isolation for the next 14 days, but obviously the number one priority for the broader community is the public health response to the coronavirus. and universities right now are a pretty big concern.

in fact, scotland has actually banned university students from going to restaurants or bars, to try to contain outbreaks on campus and stop them from getting into the wider community. while that university that you mentioned in manchester is forcing 1,700 students to quarantine or else they will face disciplinary action. the uk government has made all kinds of restrictions, rules, regulations over the past two weeks, but now british prime minister boris johnson is facing somewhat of a revolt from mps within his own party who want to make sure that parliament gets a chance to actually vote on any new coronavirus restrictions or rules or laws that are made. here's one of those mps over the weekend. >> people think that liberty dies, it dies like this, with government exercising draconian measures without parliament with a shifting blanket of rules that no one can understand. it's extremely serious. i don't think i look like a

hysterical person to you. i'm saying this is a very serious moment. >> reporter: so a prominent labor mp was asked about this amendment that those conservative mps are pushing in parliament. and he said that he was sympathetic to their cause, but ultimately would not say whether his party would support it. rosemary? >> all right. and to paris now. melissa, several cities are tightening restrictions. what all are they doing? >> well, what we've seen is this steady rise in positivity rates, and more worryingly here, rosemary, a rise of the number of people in icus. the number of people in intensive care units has nearly triple in less than a month. that's how fast this illness is progress and how fast the second wave is going. restrictions in 11 cities including paris. from tonight, bars will have to close at 10:00 p.m. there was pushback from that from local authorities, as you'd imagine. the hardest of all will by the marseille region where the rise

has been even faster and the icus are under even greater strain. behalves a bars and restaurants were closed entirely. we're told that's for two weeks, we're told there will be a reassessment. a constant balance trying to protect the health care system as it was in the first wave threatened, rosemary, but trying to ensure what fragile recovery had been achieved economically can continue. there is a great deal of unhappiness from restaurant owners, bar owners in places like marseille, and you can expect, i'm sure, a few protests. they've threatened them. they think it's unfair they're being made to bear the brunt of this. again, quite objectively, the number of people entering icu, the number of covid-19 patients entering icu that is shooting up. it's about protecting the health care system and ensuring that it can continue to function, rosemary. >> all right. many thanks to both of y an exp details president trump's financial losses along with how

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success playing a business mogul than actually being one. president trump is dismissing the report as fake news. and claims he pays a lot in federal income taxes. he also says he's willing to release his tax returns once he's no longer under audit by the internal revenue service. david cay johnston is a pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter who has written extensively on president trump. he spoke earlier about "the times" report with cnn. >> donald trump's enormous deductions in 2008 and 2009, $1.4 billion of deductions, and there's nothing i see in "the times" reporting that would explain deductions of that size. now, why is that important? because donald has been tried twice for income tax fraud. a story i wrote five years ago. he lost both of those cases. he just made up deductions in

those cases. one of the implications of "the times" stories is he made up deductions. questions specifically in "the times" report about whether improper deductions were taken for certain kinds of legal fees that are personal, and whether possibly there was a disguised gift that was turned into a tax deduction involving ivanka. >> well, while president trump defends his tax issues, he's also preparing for another battle, the president and joe biden will face off at the first presidential debate on tuesday in cleveland, ohio. cnn political correspondent arlette saenz has more on how both men are preparing. >> reporter: joe biden and president trump will face off here for the first time in cleveland as they're heading into that first general election presidential debate.

and each of the candidates has been preparing in their own ways. joe biden spending the weekend in wilmington, delaware, and he's been meeting with his top advisers as he strategizes how to take on president trump. and the president has also said that he's prepared a little bit, but ultimately said the job of the presidency is what has given him preparation heading into this debate. now, this debate will look completely different from past general election presidential debates due to the coronavirus pandemic. there will be no handshake between president trump and joe biden as they take the stage. one of the precautions that's being taken because of covid-19. the audience will be much smaller. sometimes these debates can have up to 900 even 1,200 people depending on the venue. this one, we're told, will have between 60 to 70 audience members. everyone who is on hand will be tested for covid-19. as the debate commission has really adapted to ensure that the candidates and the audience is safe and healthy in the middle of this pandemic. but this will be the first time that biden and trump will be on stage face-to-face making their case to general election voters. biden has said that he expects a lot of the president's attacks to turn personal as they are both preparing to make their

cases to voters on tuesday. arlette saenz, cnn, cleveland, ohio. and be sure to tune in. cnn will carry tuesday's debate live. our special coverage begins at 7:00 p.m. eastern. that's midnight wednesday in london. and 7:00 a.m. in hong kong for our international viewers. well, president donald trump's nominee for the supreme court is headed towards one of the quickest confirmations in morn history. the senate judiciary chair lindsey graham says he expects the committee to sign off on amy coney barrett on september 22nd. that could set up a whole senate vote to send her to the high court just days before the november 3rd election. democratic leaders say the president is in a hurry, so his nominee can invalidate the affordable care act. that is the health care law known as obamacare. cnn's jessica schneider reports from washington.

>> reporter: democrats are really drilling into this idea that a confirmation of amy coney barrett in particular a speedy confirmation would be detrimental to health care in this country. that's because one week after the election on november 10th, the supreme court will hear arguments about the constitutionality of the affordable care act. in particular, whether that individual mandate, which has been struck down to zero dollars penalizing people if they don't get insurance, whether that is constitutional, and if it's not, if the entire affordable care act should be struck down. now, it was back in 2012 where the chief justice john roberts sided with the liberals to save the affordable care act, ruling that the individual mandate was constitutional because it was a tax. but in 2017, amy coney barrett, before she was on the seventh circuit, she wrote this about the decision, saying chief justice roberts pushed the affordable care act beyond its plausible meaning to save the statute, and it's that line that's giving democrats pause as to how amy coney barrett will come down on the question of the

affordable care act, and house speaker nancy pelosi is saying it could have huge practical effects all across the country. >> it doesn't matter what the process is here. what matters is what it means personally to the american people. if you have a pre-existing medical condition, that benefit will be gone. if you are a woman, we'll be back to a time where being a woman is a pre-existing medical condition. if your children are on your policy, say your adult children are on your policy, no longer will they be, and that in a time of a pandemic. and if you have seniors in your family who are having long-term care paid for by medicaid, they're gonna be pretty soon moving back home and living with you. >> reporter: the trump administration is advocating for the affordable care act to be struck down. in fact, the president tweeting on sunday that it would be a, quote, big win if the affordable care act was struck down, saying that they would come up with something to replace it. however, the president so far has only issued an executive

order with really no teeth about pre-existing conditions. saying they will be protected, but not really explaining how. now, the arguments, while they will be one week after the election, a decision likely wouldn't come down from the supreme court until the spring or early summer of 2021. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. cnn political commentator doug heye joins me now. he is a republican strategist and former rnc communications director. thank you so much for talking to us. >> thanks. it's good to be with you. >> so "the new york times" has obtained president trump's tax return data which reveals he paid only $750 in federal personal income taxes in 2016 and again in 2017, but no income tax at all in 10 of the previous 15 years because he reported losing significantly -- significantly more than he made. stunning when you consider he claims he's a man of considerable wealth and

infuriating when you consider what the rest of us pay in income tax. what do you think middle-class americans and blue collar workers will make of all of this? >> yeah, i think it's going to be simultaneously important and not important, and let me explain why i say that kind of contradictory thing. it's important because this tells us a lot of what i think a lot of us already knew, and it is important politically because donald trump for the first time with the announcement of the supreme court nominee has been on offense. for seven months as we've been going through covid and obviously the more than 200,000 american death toll and the economic impact that that has had, he's been on defense for seven months. he had been on offense -- last night his event announcing the supreme court nominee could not have gone better for him. and less than 24 hours later, he's back on defense. that's why it's important. why i say it's unimportant because only 5% of voters right now are undecided.

that's less than half of what we saw in 2016, so there just aren't a lot of voters right now who are going to be able to make up their mind on this. so i think it's more unimportant than we would have thought of four years ago when everyone was clamoring for this. >> nonetheless, this all leaves the president particularly vulnerable tuesday night when he debates his democratic rival joe biden who will, no doubt, exploit this new information, placing the burden on the president to put up or shut up by presenting his tax returns, if he wants to prove this is, as he suggests, fake news. how will he likely to respond to this during the debate? because i'm sure biden will keep hammering this. >> yeah, for joe biden, it's a very clear opportunity. he can say donald trump, which is it? are you the successful businessman that's been lying to the irs? or are you the unsuccessful businessman -- are you -- to use donald trump's parlance, are you a loser who should have been fired and lying to the american people? but we know what donald trump is going to say on this.

it's what he's said on so many issues that have gone against him in the past. he'll call it fake news. he'll dismiss it. to his base, that will work for donald trump. that question is, for the 5% of voters who just haven't made up their minds right now. i should emphasize people are already voting in states right now. will this be the issue that decides the election? >> doug heye, thank you so much. >> any time. appreciate it. donald trump's former campaign manager has been hospitalized after reports of attempted suicide. police responded to a call from bad parscale's wife who said her husband was armed and threatening to harm himself. officers took him to a medical center for temporary detention and evaluation. parscale was demoted from his job earlier this year, but still maintains a senior position in the trump campaign. the campaign says they are ready to support him and his family in any way possible. for our viewers in the united states, if you or someone you know is in need of help,

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long-simmering tensions between armenia and azerbaijan appear to have flared up again. both sides blame the other for new fighting. they also accuse each other of attacking civilians. and these images come from the twitter account of an azerbaijani official. they appear to show damage to a building and someone wounded. and this is from the armenian defense ministry. it shows what is said to be destroyed tanks from azerbaijan. the latest clashes center around the region seen in green here. it's internationally recognized

as being part of azerbaijan but it's governed by a majority group of ethnic armenians. so let's go live now to cnn's nick paton walsh. he joins us from london. so, nic, what is the background to this fighting and what's the latest information you have? >> well, at this point, we're just hearing from azerbaijan that they've called for a partial mobilization of some of their forces, which would suggest a continuing escalation of this fight. that partial mobilization brings in some reserves potentially to bolster the forces they already have. now, there have been flare-ups over the past three decades plus of this simmering conflict. it is a mountainous area, as you said, which is run by ethnic armenians, but internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan. azerbaijan has long said it intends to retake it and its rhetoric has gotten tougher in the past months, at times often it seems bolstered by turkey, a key backer of azerbaijan whose

president, erdogan, just recently said it would come forward in all means to assist azerbaijan here. over the weekend clashes began. not entire clear who was responsible for initiating the conflict. there have been flare-ups, as i say, over the past decades. the most recent one in 2016. as it currently stands, we are seeing over 30, it seems, casualties on the armenian side of fighting here. azerbaijan accepts it's got some military casualties, too, and possibly over 20 civilian deaths as welling. claims, too, that perhaps territory has been taken by azerbaijan, but that's been contested, too, by the armenian who say it's been retaken. very unclear precisely how this is escalating at this point. what is clear is that you would normally in the past expect these flare-ups to be diplomatically fixed quite fast. it seems to be continuing to be escalating at this point. moscow, who traditionally take the side of armenia in this, often with some neutral as well, are playing the phones here.

diplomatically it seems to try to solve this. turkey, as i said, clearly in support of azerbaijan and this falls into a more troubling pattern more broadly of turkey on the side of front lines for russia's proxies as well. we've seen that in syria. we've seen that in libya, too. the problem is now, we're heading possibly into the third day of violence here in this long-simmering conflict and the u.s. was calling for restraint here and an end to the hostilities. isn't so foremost in the diplomacy, distracted elsewhere, many concerned this could continue to escalate. rosemary? >> all right. nick paton walsh, many thanks. joining us live from london. well, the first weekend since the secret inauguration of belarus president alexander lukashenko was filled with unrest. in minsk, tens of thousands of people took part in demonstrations against his election, saying the results were not legitimate. it is the 50th day of such protests. the european union and the united states say they also do

not recognize lukashenko as the country's legitimate leader. but police detailed dozens of people and used tear gas in at least one city to clear the streets. protesters have been turning out by the thousands. each week to support an opposition candidate now living in exile and demand an end to lukashenko's regime. new evacuation orders have been issued in napa county, california, after a wildfire burned at least 2,500 acres overnight. nearly 2,000 people are under mandatory evacuations as the glass fire continues to spread. the fire is burning near saint helena in california. just east of santa rosa. california is in the midst of an historic fire season. five of the top 20 largest wildfires in the state's history have occurred in 2020. well, access to dubai's

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welcome back. well, access to a port for dubai was a critical part of the agreement between israel and the united arab emirates to normalize relations. the abraham accords as they're known will impact multiple economic sectors, including shipping, medicine, technology and banking. now the chairman of the international logistics company dubai ports world says it will make the entire region more secure. cnn's john defterios joins me now from dubai with more. good to see you, john. so can business be the glue that keeps diplomacy and trade on the same track moving forward? >> i like the way you say that, rosemary. there is a very strong view here that if you share a common interest in business then diplomacy falls into place. they do have a common dna from

my travels to israel about a dozen times on assignment. living here for nearly a decade, but there is no overlap when it comes to business here and this is about market access. this is a country, a federation of 10 million people with access in the broader neighborhood of 2 billion, right, rosemary? the subcontinent of of africa where they've made great inroads in the past two decades. saying the last seven decades haven't worked, so let's turn that upside down, if you will. here's the chairman of dp world. >> we have been wasting our time in confrontation, cold war, hot war. it didn't work. for us at least. and we believe that this is gonna strengthen the opposition in the result -- in the meantime, as uae, we are looking at an opportunity that can come out of this that help both. >> many believe that you signed

a number of mous, and as we say in english, window dressing. a lot of show, nothing inside. what's the counterargument to that, what's been signed so far. >> not at all, actually. one thing you know in uae, we don't waste our time with mous. mous are just kind of document to set the pace. we know what we want to do. we know the business and we know how we can get the business. it's about technology, adaption, it's about logistics, it's about connection, it's about ability of both to take and do business. we need something from them. in technology. they need something from us. they need our market. they need our location. they need to learn how we do business in uae. because the way we do our business is totally different. they've been in isolation for a long time. >> isolation no more, though, i have to say, rosemary. looking at new frontiers.

you talked about the sectors they've signed already. new areas like defense, particularly when it comes to electronics, a.i., for example. energy. israel has major gas deposits in the eastern mediterranean. they have the expertise here. food security which is a major issue for both. and finally tourism development, property development. even saw emirates airline sign an agreement to serve kosher food on flights on they re-establish those in the region and carry israeli passengers going forward to all corners of the world. and finally, one sensitive issue is the haifa port. dp world looking at haifa with an israeli partner right now, but the u.s. is not eager to see the chinese there in the agreement they have into place, and they're resisting and pushing against the israelis to break that contract. i don't think it's likely. >> all right. john defterios, many thanks. and thank you for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm rosemary church. i'll be back with another hour of "cnn newsroom" after this short break. stay with us.

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i. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and around the world, you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, "the new york times" reports donald trump has long been avoiding taxes but will that revelation make a difference in this election? the world closes in on 1 million covid deaths. india tops 6 million cases and several u.s. states are heading in the wrong direction. president trump says we could see the landmark abortion rights case