♪ hi, welcome to all of our viewers in the united states and all around the world. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. coming up on the show, the u.s. president on the campaign trail visiting states with huge spikes in coronavirus cases, but he doesn't mention the increases. also, covid cases on the rise in north of england, with new restrictions recommended. but the mayor of manchester is pushing back. and that is not sitting at all well with the prime minister. and thousands of women march across the u.s. protesting president trump and his supreme court nominee. will their message be heard?

♪ ten u.s. states reported on friday the highest number of new covid cases ever. that figure coming from johns hopkins university. one of those states is wisconsin, where the president held a campaign rally on saturday. as you can see here, he had one the same day in michigan as well, which has also been breaking covid case records. instead of mentioning these alarming new figures, the president criticized the state's governor for how these handling the pandemic. i want to play you a little bit of that. >> get your schools open. the schools have to be open, right? it will happen.

>> lock her up, lock her up! >> lock them all up. >> lock her up, lock her up! >> so those "lock her up" chants you heard are for michigan governor gretchen whitmer, the same governor who was the target of an alleged kidnapping not earlier this month. she says this is exactly the kind of rhetoric that is putting her, her family, and other officials in harm's way. she says it's just one of the ways mr. trump is trying to fire up his base. he's trailing by double-digits in the polls, and the election is just 16 days away. the president didn't focus much on surging cases in wisconsin during his campaign rally there, instead, he promoted what he called his successes during the pandemic. as jeremy diamond now explains, jeremy? >> reporter: president trump is now losing to joe biden, according to recent polls, by an average of 7 points. so the president campaigning here in janesville, wisconsin,

trying to win back some of his supporters. he talked about his support for law enforcement in particular, speaking here in this town of janesville, wisconsin, 60 miles from kenosha, wisconsin, where of course a black man, jacob blake, was shot by police. and after that there were protests, there was unrest that the president has, of course, amplified and talked about. what the president didn't talk about in janesville, wisconsin, is the surge of coronavirus cases happening in the state. wisconsin is experiencing one of the worst surges in the country at the moment. hospitalizations have tripled over the last month. and the state of wisconsin experienced a record number of cases just the day before the president came to janesville to campaign. the without's coronavirus task force itself has warned about these kinds of events that the president hosted here in janesville. the task force writing in its weekly report about the state of

wisconsin saying, quote, wisconsin's ability to limit further and avoid increases in hospitalizations and deaths will depend on increased observation of social distancing mitigation measures by the community until cases decline. lack of compliance with these measures will lead to preventible deaths. so that is what is so startling is to see the white house's coronavirus task force say, essentially, that these very same types of events that the president is holding, with thousands of people packed closely together, no social distancing, very few people wearing masks, will lead to preventible deaths. yet the president of the united states continues to hold these events. in fact, he has pledged to hold very similar events to the one we saw here in janesville, wisconsin, over the next two weeks leading up to election day. once a day, multiple times a day, perhaps, as well, in order to try and save his chances at re-election. jeremy diamond, cnn, janesville, wisconsin.

democratic p.m.tial nominee joe biden ahead 53% to the president's 42% in the latest cnn polls. biden's campaign manager is urging supporters to stay enthused and to fight as if they're trailing. she wrote to supporters, we cannot become complacent because the very searing truth is donald trump can still win this race, and every indication we laugh shows that this thing is going to come down to the wire. jason carroll tells us where mr. biden is focusing next, jason? >> reporter: as expected, the campaign putting much of its time, resources, and energy into battleground states, and states where they're doing early in-person voting. they're seeing some of those same images coming out of places such as north carolina. for his part, vice president joe biden will be in durham, north carolina, today speaking to voters, telling them to be patient, to get out there and vote. senator kamala harris will be doing the same on florida on

monday. she'll be making two stops there. biden not out on the campaign trail on saturday, neither was harris. biden met with advisers from his campaign on saturday. harris, for her part, as you know, a couple of people within her orbit have tested positive for covid-19. out of an abundance of caution, they physically kept her off of the campaign trail for a few days. she did test negative for covid-19 on saturday. looking ahead, again, you've got biden, he's going to be in north carolina today. you've got senator harris in florida. she'll be there on monday. jill biden will be in pennsylvania on monday. she will be in michigan on tuesday, jill biden. wednesday is the big day. that is the day that former president barack obama will be out there campaigning for biden. he's going to be doing that in philadelphia and a number of democrats are saying if there is one surrogate that you want out there stumping for you, that would be the one.

>> joining me from oxford, england, is thomas skiff, director of ucl center on u.s. politics. lovely to see you. a key point i think that's come out of the last few hours is that the biden team has warned voters not to be complacent. where do you think they see their vulnerabilities are? >> well, biden's team has been warning about complacency for quite a while. that does come with the territory of having a fairly sizable lead. the concern for democrats is if enough voters feel like a biden win as foregone conclusion, some might decide to stay home on november 3rd. simultaneously, biden's warning may reflect the fact that he's concerned about an enthusiasm gap. even if trump trails in the polls by 8 to pen percentage points, there are arguably more republicans who are extremely excited about casting their ballot for the president than there are democrats who are extremely excited about voting for biden. it again becomes a turnout game.

clearly, biden doesn't excite the liberal base as much as another candidate might have from the democratic primaries so this goes back to the challenge we talked about at length in the spring, about coalescing the progressive and moderate wings of the party. >> what do you make of this early voting? certainly it speaks to enthusiasm, potentially democratic enthusiasm. but you rightly mention enthusiasm on the other side, with the republicans. that is what massive turnout is about, it's about everybody coming out. what do you think is the message in that? what is it signalling? >> all indications are there will be a record number of mail-in ballots this year. of course, even participation in mail-in balloting is polarized by party. many more biden voters are expected to cast ballots through mail than trump voters. a nontrivial reason is how the parties have framed the pandemic, trump downplaying the risks to voting in person,

suggesting, without evidence, that mail-in balloting could be susceptible to widespread fraud. but there's no doubt mail-in pal well lots will be pivotal in swing states which adds another layer of complexity. both to making predictions who will win, as well as how trump might respond if the election ends up being decided by a thin marg margin. "the washington post" reported in the primaries, 500,000 mail-in ballots across 23 states were disqualified for technical reasons. worst-case scenario also is that that becomes a 2020 version of hanging chads. we can only predict what the fallout might be from that. >> that was going to be my next question. how likely a scenario is it that this election is decided in the supreme court? mr. trump has said he wouldn't mind if it goes that way. but do you think that that is an option that is certainly motivating this call from the

biden campaign? >> it's a great question, because lots of people are speculating about this. in any year, i think the chances that an election gets decided by the courts, like in bush v. gore, is limited. still, it's not an impossibility. both sides will certainly be lawyered up if the election results are close. that's especially the case this year, because the election logistics are just so much more complex than anything we've seen in the past with this overwhelming number of mail-in ballots in the wake of the pandemic. one of the reasons why trump said he wanted amy coney barrett confirmed before november 3rd is she'd be eligible to cast a vote in any case that might come before scotus. obviously when we saw the supreme court render a verdict in bush v. gore, that was divisive. but the country has a whole new level of polarization now. if this election does get adjudicated by the court system, it could impose even more severe strains on america's social and political fab lick. >> two weeks to go until that election. it is certainly a generational

one. thomas giff, live from oxford, thanks for your expertise and analysis. women's rights activists mobilizing all over the u.s. saturday's women's march drew thousands of protesters in washington and other cities nationwide, voicing opposition to president trump's supreme court pick and also encouraging women to vote. suzanne malveaux has more. >> reporter: the pink hats are back as thousands of women gather on the national mall for the women's march. i covered it in 2017 when there were 5 million people who participated throughout the country, 200,000 in d.c. it is markedly different and smaller because of covid-19. that is the way they want it. but they got the several thousand women that had the energy and the passion. they want voters to come out. they said 43% of those eligible to vote back in 2016 did so. they want to get those numbers up. we're looking here. this is where, just in the back

earlier, the rally began at freedom plaza, went to the u.s. capitol, and then to the supreme court. here at the national mall, this is where they're having the text-a-thon. they want to text 5 million people, reach 5 million voters, female voters, many of them new, to encourage them to vote this time around. they say it is that important, it is that critical. they are talking about fighting for reproductive rights, climate change, racial equality, among many of the causes. i had a chance to talk to many of the participants. here's just a sampling of what they're concerned about. >> i quarantined just to be able to go to this. but i only go out to go to the grocery store, that's all. i haven't even seen my grandchildren, my children. so it's just -- the whole country is just horrible. >> women are being demeaned in an even worse way now,

especially since we're in a time where everything is tumultuous, the world is spinning in opposite directions no matter whether it's black lives matter, whether it's women's rights. it's all connected in some way, shape or another. >> reporter: another priority of marchers is to slow down the process of replacing the late justice ruth bader ginsburg on the supreme court. not to rush it through, but to wait for the next president to be elected. that was her dying wish. that is something that they want the white house and congress to be clear on. suzanne malveaux, cnn, washington. the daily coronavirus surge again in the u.s., experts say it could get much, much worse this time. that's because the virus has spread pretty much everywhere. we'll show you how and where, next.

there is a new surge of covid cases in the u.s. and experts say it could be dramatically worse compared to spring or summer. here's why. the virus has made it to every region and not one of them seems to be safe. i want you to take a look at this map. the u.s. reported almost 70,000 new infections on friday, the most since the end of july,

using data from johns hopkins university. now that brings the total number of u.s. cases to more than 8.1 million. that comes as ten states reported their highest number of new covid-19 cases on friday. covid numbers are expected to rise even further as evan now reports. >> reporter: public health officials in the united states sounding the alarm as cases rise across the country and winter swiftly approaches. as you can see from this graphic, ten states across the country recently reported their highest single-day total of new covid cases since the pandemic began. dr. anthony fauci warns that more states are showing bad numbers, and if that continues, things could get a lot worse. >> you can't enter into the cool months of the fall and the cold months of the winter with a high community infection baseline and

looking at the map and seeing the heat map, how it lights up with test positivity that is in more than 30-plus states is going in the wrong direction. it's still not too late to vigorously apply good public health measures. and again, i emphasize, without necessarily shutting down the country. >> reporter: what dr. fauci is saying, people need to realize the things that kept the virus in check in the spring are also important for the winter. a diligent adherence to social distancing rules and mask requirements. without it, fauci says, america could be in for a very tough winter. ev evan mac santoro, cnn. a european government, new cases sweeping the continent. if the country is red or orange, virus numbers are really, really

going the wrong way. the uk just recorded another 150 deaths in the past 24 hours, and its leaders are feeling the pressure. the mayor of manchester is pushing back against prime minister boris johnson, who's considering tougher restrictions. in germany, the country recorded more than 7,800 new cases on saturday. that is a new record. one german governor warned the nation is in danger of losing control in some areas. and then in italy, which was one of the hardest-hit nations at the start of this pandemic, there were almost 11,000 new infections reported from friday into saturday, which is a new daily high there. so with coronavirus cases on the rise in northern england, the prime minister, boris johnson, is calling the situation there grave. yet mr. johnson and the mayor of manchester remain at logger heads over imposing additional restrictions. for more on the standoff between the mayor and the prime minister, i want to bring in salma abdelaziz. why is the mayor of manchester

pushing back? >> reporter: this is essentially for the mayor and his government a risk versus reward calculation. their argument is that the risk to businesses of shutting down under the three-tier system is not worth the reward in terms of the number of infections that would be brought down. their argument is a nationwide lockdown would be more effective at bringing case numbers down and would provide more of an economic package for businesses. of course, the prime minister disagrees. take a look at how this dispute has played out. an extraordinary act of defiance from the mayor of manchester, andy burnham. >> we have unanimously opposed the government's plans for tier 3. they are flawed and unfair. >> reporter: the city now faces an ultimatum from prime minister boris johnson. >> if agreement cannot be reached, i will need to intervene. >> reporter: downing street implemented a three-tier covid alert system to curb a second wave of coronavirus cases.

not abiding by these new measures, the government says, means more people will die. but absel khan, a member of parliament for manchester, says it's the prime minister, not the mayor, putting lives at risk. >> i'm disappointed. i think they've been incompetent. i've never seen anything like this from a british government. >> reporter: why won't you implement tier 3 restrictions as the government requested? >> of course it's going to help, but it will not be what we need. we need more. i think that's my first concern. second point is the impact economically will be huge. >> reporter: take a look around, this shopping district is absolutely packed. and that's what this debate is about. under the restrictions pubs and bars would be shut down, households would be banned from mixing together, but this would still be allowed. that's why some, including the country's scientific advisers, say a nationwide lockdown is needed. it would also come with more

financial support to help businesses survive this second hit. pub owner tim flynn says if he closes his doors under the three-tier system, he may never be able to reopen again. >> a local lockdown will not do it. i have no problem with a short two, three-week lockdown. but this local lockdown will not do it. and their packages offering the bits is peanuts. >> do you support the mayor? >> i do support the mayor 110%. >> reporter: he is not alone. on the streets of manchester, it's hard to find support for the prime minister. we're asking whether you support the mayor or the prime minister on coronavirus restrictions? >> probably the mayor. >> the mayor. i'm on the mayor's side, definitely. >> yeah, i'm siding with the mayor. >> yeah, the mayor. >> reporter: what's your opinion of prime minister johnson? >> can't say it on tv. >> reporter: while the government remains in a state of paralysis, the virus continues to spread.

talks between these two sides have stalled. there have been no direct negotiations between the government of manchester and downing street since thursday. that mp we spoke to in the piece said he expects, while there's nothing on the calendar, his person at expectation is this could be resolved on monday. we are going to be hearing from both prime minister boris johnson officials and the mayor himself on the sunday morning talk shows today in britain. >> you just got me as i sneezed, hopefully i didn't make that on-air. thank you very much. yesterday you had someone yelling behind you, so we're even now, salma, thanks a lot. we're going to continue talk about coronavirus. italy is facing that second spike as well. the country is reporting escalating record cases. schools have also shut down. this time the country is dealing with the pandemic much, much more aggressively, as ben wedeman now reports from naples. ben? >> reporter: for the north day in a row, italy has reported

record-high daily increases in the number of new coronavirus cases. numbers far higher than what we saw earlier in the year when italy was the european epicenter of the pandemic. yet deaths remain relatively low from coronavirus. still in the double digits. now, we're in naples where the governor of this region has ordered schools and universities to be closed, restaurants have to close their doors by 9:00 p.m. we also had the chance to speak with the region's senior ineffective disease specialist who told us that this region is taking a much more aggressive approach to testing. in the past in italy, you had to show symptoms of the disease. now all you need is a doctor's referral. so testing is much more easily available for those who want it, regardless of whether they show symptoms.

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states and all around the world. thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow coming to you from cnn's world news headquarters in atlanta. if it seems that more people are early voting for this u.s. presidential election than usual, you'd be right. more voters than ever are going to the polls early or requesting absentee ballots. let's compare this time to 2016. 17 days before the election, and there were only 7 million early voters a errs in a bit more tha the states. this time it's over 22 million among almost all of the states. but despite all of these high numbers, there's no way to tell who is a favorite to win. that's because polls show joe biden supporters are more likely to vote before election day than president trump's supporters. and then here in the u.s. state of georgia, early voters are certainly coming out in droves. look at these images, these lines. polls haven't even been open a

week. as of noon on saturday, there were over 1 million in-person votes. that's up 134% from last election. natasha chan has been on the ground and she filed this report. >> reporter: the wait in the afternoon is significantly shorter than what we saw this morning when the doors opened at 8:00 a.m. we saw people here who said that they had already been waiting more than three hours just to make sure that they could cast their vote. in fact, if you see the fence line and the yellow tape that's currently empty this morning at 7:00 a.m., that was completely full. a lot of energy and enthusiasm from voters who say it's so important for them to cast their vote. in fact, across the state of georgia, we are seeing more than 100% increase in turnout, combining both early in-person voting with absentee ballots, compared to this point in the 2016 election. we met first-time voters in line

who said they're very excited to be here. here's what they said. >> we need change in this country right now. honestly, it's important for the younger people to come out. it's our country to run, at this point. it's not for the older generation anymore, it's us that are coming up now. >> reporter: we talked to her brother, douglas, who's 23. he said he missed voting in the 2016 election because he made the mistake of thinking that the outcome was guaranteed. so he and his family talked to me about how every vote matters. a lot of people with similar sentiments saying that the issues driving them to the polls this time include the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic and the government response to police brutality. natasha chen, cnn, marietta, georgia. >> thanks, natasha. u.s. polls show that president donald trump is deeply unpopular with many woman voters. he's very much aware of that gender gap. it also explains this appeal he made on saturday. >> they'll kill your jobs,

dissolve your borders, raise your taxes, destroy your suburb, i saved your suburbs. women, suburban women, you're supposed to love trump. >> kay boulden went to pennsylvania, where 50% of white women voted for mr. trump in 2016. but here's what some of them are saying this time around. >> i'm probably a good example of someone who's gone through a lot of change in four years. >> reporter: holly, registered republican, is a working parent of two kids living in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. she voted for donald trump in 2016, and she wasn't alone. 50% of white women in pennsylvania did the same, according to exit polls. >> what do you feel today about your vote four years ago? >> i can tell you how i felt four years ago. shame. >> do you regret your vote? >> i -- where we are today? yes.

i do. i don't think this is the "great again" everyone thought it was going to be. >> reporter: holly is voting for joe biden. and so is ninbell. >> what drew you to donald trump? why did you vote for donald trump then? >> for his celebrity, 100%. >> it was the brand? >> it was. >> the image? >> absolutely. successful. funny. he was funny. i loved his show, celebrity apprenti apprentice," never missed it. >> was there a moment you decided, i cannot support him anymore? >> it was almost instantly. >> reporter: it's not just outside the cities where suburban women are questioning their support for donald trump in pennsylvania. it's even out here, in westmoreland county, rural pennsylvania, considered trump country. we're about to meet two of them. >> she's older. >> i'm older. >> you're definitely sisters. >> reporter: joan and julie are registered democrats, and both

voted for trump in 2016. >> i feel like i've been duped. i got it wrong, and it hurts my heart. i mean, it truly hurts my heart. because the things that i saw, i didn't take seriously enough. >> throughout the campaign, he was making sexist, miss todgistic remarks. then the "access hollywood" tape. how did you guys process and digest that? being out there and voting for him? >> it was not easy. i look at myself and i think, how could i do that? >> i feel like i did a disservice to women. i by voting for this guy. >> there is a moment in the last four years when you said, i can't do this again? >> the covid pandemic. it was the absolute last straw for me. he didn't create the virus, but he kind of left us all in the dark, guessing what was going on. and that wasn't fair to us. >> reporter: among the women we spoke to, the coronavirus, the president's handling of the

pandemic, and the racial unrest following the police killing of george floyd, were the overwhelming driving issues. >> george floyd's killing was a pivotal moment for me. when i read that he was begging for his mom, as a mother myself, it just brought me to my knees. to see what's happened since -- i feel like he's added fuel to flames of hatred. and that really bothers me. >> no justice, no peace! >> reporter: ninbell, who registered as a republican in 2016, just to vote for trump in the primaries, now protests weekly in her town just outside philadelphia, often met by groups she used to consider herself a part of. trump supporters setting up counter demonstrations. >> i think trump kind of thrives on that, on that division. i see it in my own town.

>> integrity. that's what we're lacking. >> and accountability. >> yeah. being the mom of a 9-year-old, that's one thing that i push with my son all the time is, you made a bad decision, it's your fault, you learn from it, you move on. we have a president who, nothing that happens is ever his fault, it's always somebody else's fault. >> there are consequences. >> there are consequences. he's about to find them out. >> reporter: the women we talked to don't speak for every woman in pennsylvania, of course. but what they have to say and why shows the uphill battle that donald trump is facing right now in this battleground state. the latest polling shows trump trailing joe biden by 23 points among women in pennsylvania. kate baldwin, cnn, new york. >> let's bring in our polling expert, harry anton, senior political writer from new york city. harry, wonderful to see you. i know you crunched the numbers, and i want to get your take on

which voting bloc you think could swing this, either way. i want to talk about seniors, i want to talk about suburban women. start with seniors. we're seeing some trends? >> definitely. seniors was a group that donald trump won last time around. he won it by about 5, 6 points, depending on exactly what you looked at in terms of the final pre-election polls. the polls right now, you see that trump is trailing among seniors by 10 points in an average of the most recent polls to former vice president joe biden. if, in fact, joe biden ends up carrying seniors, he's going to be the first democratic candidate to carry seniors in at least 20 years, if not 24, depending which polls you look at. so there is no doubt to me at all that donald trump has lost his grip on those voters aged 65 and older, and they are a group heavily in joe biden's corner at this point. >> i think covid has a lot to do with that. let's also talk about suburban women. in many ways, mr. trump carried them as well last time around.

again, we're seeing a lot of trends that see them turning against the president. why? >> yeah, i mean, look. if you look right now, the current average of polls, suburban women are favoring former vice president joe biden by 21 points. the final preelection polls in 2016, hillary clinton was only leading them by 12 percentage points. i think a number of reasons. obviously the pandemic has something to do with it. but it goes beyond that, right? women are larger against the president of the united states, white women especially, have moved significantly against the president. i think it has to do with a number of factors, including economic factors. women want to make sure there's the affordable care act that's in place. obviously president trump trying to get rid of that. the tax cuts that passed a few years ago, women voters don't tend to like that. the other thing i'll mention is, president trump has been trying to say, oh, i'm going to keep your neighborhood safe, to suburban women. in fact, they don't trust him on that issue whatsoever. a recent fox news poll indicated

suburban women were in joe biden's corner when it came to racial equality and the police. there's a slew of factors running against the president among suburban women. >> but still, we're hearing from the biden campaign and democrats, also perhaps a little bit cautious after 2016, but they are urging folks not to be complacent. then again, we know, you know, that the electoral college can throw up anything. can you put a number and a percentage on mr. trump's chancchance s right now? >> here's what i would say. if you were to take a die you'd find in a casino, what's the chance you roll a 6 in any one roll of the die? then perhaps trump's chance is a little bit worse than that. but i will point out over and over and over again, we still have a little bit over two weeks to go. there are some historical examples where someone in trump's position, no matter how poor it is at this point, have come back and won. but there is no doubt, when you look at the national polls, the swing state polls, that the president is behind at this point.

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live pictures of a historic trip about to get under way in the middle east. it's been called the first-ever direct commercial flight from israel to bahrain, and it's set to take off shortly in that plane behind the red carpet and these speakers. we know the u.s. treasury secretary, steve mnuchin, will be on board. he's leading a u.s. delegation along with israeli officials. after bahrain, they are also set to visit the uae. for the latest, let's go straight to bthe airport in

israel. oren lieberman, what's going to happen next? >> reporter: these are statements from the delegation that will head to bahrain. for the israeli delegation, a one-day trip, they'll come back tonight. the speakers here, u.s. achld to israel david friedman, secretary may nun chin, one of the members who worked on the agreement. worth noting the plane you see sitting behind them, the elal flight, is the flight that made the first commercial flight between tel aviv and the united arab emirates a few weeks ago. it will be making the first flight between israel and bahrain with the israeli and american delegation set to discuss a range of topics, technology, investments, a

number of other fields, to get these bilateral discussions or trilateral, with the american delegation, on the way here and begin to expand what was signed on the lawn of the white house between israel and bahrain, the agreement that began the process of formal i'ding and normalizing diplomatic relations between israel and bahrain. we know this team is trying to build on that momentum with israel and the uae and see if they can get other arab and muslim states on board. that would be another major diplomatic accomplishment, not only for israel but for the u.s. and president donald trump. right now the focus is on bahrain. the flags behind these speakers, the israeli flags, the american flags, and of course the bahraini flag, as this flight is set to get under way here in a short time. >> we will watch that and monitor those images. also, we're expecting this first-ever uae delegation to visit israel. that is also going to be seen as historic. >> reporter: very much so. this is after the israeli delegation visited the uae a few weeks ago. now the reciprocal visit, the

uae visiting here. baufs coronavirus, this will take place entirely at the airport. they'll do an official statement, perhaps a signing ceremony. all the meetings between delegations will be at the airplane. because of coronavirus numbers throughout israel, which has been improving, but are not good enough for the uae to feel comfortable going to jerusalem. regardless, it will be an h historic visit, the first-ever delegation to israel tuesday on a flight from abu dhabi. that, too, a very big deal for israel, for the u.s., for the bahrainis, for the gulf, for the emiratis. >> these vegentlemen are about board. thanks to you, appreciate it. we're learning more chilling details about this deadly attack on friday in a paris suburb. france's anti-terror prosecutor said an 18-year-old accused of beheading a teacher, approached

students outside the school and asked them to point out the victim. officials say the attacker was a russian refugee of chechen origin and decapitated the teacher because he showed cartoons of the prophet mohammad. >> translator: my daughter attends this school. i knew him by sight. it's not a teacher she had but i knew him by sight. so it's unfortunate. you think of the family. just for giving a lecture on freedom of expression. when you put it in perspective, it's just a lesson. human madness, that's where we are today in france. it's unfortunate. just a lesson. just a caricature. frankly, it's hard to imagine that someone could do it just for that. a drawing. a simple drawing. >> the victim was a 47-year-old history and geography teacher. he was on his way home when he was attacked. coming up here at cnn, stuck in limbo during the coronavirus. one rugby player has to decide

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results won't be official for another three weeks, but new zealand prime minister jacinda ardern is saving victory in the election. she said she'll corner for ev-- govern for every new zealander. >> tonight we are living in an increasingly polarized world, a place where more and more, people have lost the ability to see one another's point of view. i hope that this election, new zealand has shown that this is not who we are, that as a nation we can listen and we can debate. after all, we are too small to lose sight of other people's perspective. >> prime minister ardern's success at the polls was due in no small part to the measures she took to halt the spread of covid in new zealand. that allowed more than 46,000

maskless fans to attend a huge rugby match today near auckland in the cup between new zealand and australia. isn't this amazing? don't you wish you were there? maybe not if you're an aussie, the all blacks won 27-7. athletes navigating life during the pandemic. one of the stars of kenya's rugby 7s team hoped he would have an olympic medal by now. instead he's training on his own and not getting paid, as david mckenzie now reports. >> reporter: andrew amonde likes to lead by example. after months of lockdown, the 14-year veteran and captain of kenya's sevens rugby team is back to training. training without his teammates, or even a contract. >> all the contracts were canceled.

we have to do this for free. because i love this game, you know? when i started playing rugby, i developed a love for it. i got into and it it's something that i do with passion. >> reporter: a love of the game tested by covid-19. organizers scrapped the popular global sevens tournament when the pandemic struck. suddenly out of cash, the kenyan rugby union says it was left with little choice but to stop paying its players. he says the 81est team members were hardest hit. >> there's no other can go, there's no jobs for them now. they're full-time rugby players. the only thing they can wait for is for rugby to resume and for them to get back their contract. >> reporter: when cnn visited the sevens team in 2018, they were on a high. their success growing the fast-paced sevens game in keen yeah, even competing for attention with the country's fabled runners. but the national team has struggled to win games since then.

monde says it's time to rebuild. >> it's been tough. to get to the expectation level of fitness. >> reporter: his goal is to medal in tokyo. that's a challenge. under kenya's strict lockdown rules, he can't compete or practice with his teammates. hard work and sacrifice is something he and the kenya sevens team know all about. their fans don't call them heroes for nothing. david mckenzie, cnn. >> thanks, david, for that story. and thank you all for watching. i'm robyn curnow. i'm going to hand you over to my colleague, anna coren, who picks things up from here. more cnn continues after the break. look here, it's your very own all-in-one

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magnificent. xfinity x1 just got even better, with peacock premium included at no additional cost. no strings attached. the@rallies has co-vid spikes. both battle ground states he visited saturday are seeing rising cases. but donald trump hardly mentioned the pandemic. millions of americans already have made up their minds and cast their ballots. we'll look at what record settling early voting numbers mean for the election. and later, what pandemic? new zealand has 46,000 fans to watch with no masks or social distancing. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world.

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