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live from studio 7 at cnn center in atlanta, i'm rosemary church. it has been nearly a week, but election night in america goes on with control of the house of representatives still up for grabs. however, republicans are closing in. they have picked up another seat sunday night. they have won 212 compared to the democrats' 204. and they're close to the 218 seats needed for a majority, with 19 races still to be called. current house speaker nancy pelosi wouldn't speculate on whether she would seek another term as leader, take a listen. >> my decision will be rooted in the wishes of my family and the wishes of my caucus. but none of it will be very much considered until we see what the outcome of all of this is. >> meantime, democrats are taking a victory lap after keeping control of the senate

thanks to catherine cortez masto's victory in nevada. depending on the results of georgia's runoff, they might expand on that. senator lindsey graham tweeted that the republicans' upcoming senate leadership contest should be delayed because of that runoff. other top republicans our plan? what are we running on? what do we stand for? what are we hell-bent to get done? you know, there's no plan to do that. the leadership and the republican senate says no, you cannot have a plan, we're just going to run against how bad the democrats are. then they cave in to the democrats. >> mitch will be our leader but that is not to say we're not going to have a necessary debate about ideas. i think it's very, again -- one more time, important for us to explain to the american voter why republicans have a better vision for the future of our

country. >> if republicans do win the house, get ready for a battle within the party. the chamber's leadership is in the air and some members have said they will not support kevin mccarthy's speakership bid. cnn's melanie zanona has more. >> reporter: republicans are gearing up for an intense series of meetings as they return to washington for the first time since their disappointing midterm election results. republicans want to figure out what went wrong, why a red wave never materialized, and they must also decide the fate of their political leaders. in the house, gop leader kevin mccarthy is facing revolt from his rite flank, dozens of hardliners voting against him if he does not give in to their demands. republicans will likely have a razor-thin majority if they win

the house. our dana bash asked speaker nancy pelosi if she thinks mccarthy has what it takes to be speaker. >> why would i make a judgment about something that may or may not ever happen? no, i don't think he has it, but that's up to his own people to make a decision as to how they want to be led or otherwise. >> reporter: in the senate, gop leader mitch mcconnell is also facing backlash. a small but vocal group of republicans is pushing to delay their internal leadership elections, which are set for this wednesday, and former president donald trump has been calling republicans and trying to blame mcconnell for their underwhelming performance. however, based on our reporting, mcconnell does have enough support to become leader again. still, the internal gop blame game is sure to heat up this week. let's get perspective now from leslie vinjamori, head of the u.s. and the america's program at chatham house. she joins us live from london.

good to have you with us. >> thank you. >> midterms are supposed to be a referendum on the party of the incumbent president. instead, the republican party has been rocked by big losses after promising a red wave that never came. what went wrong for the gop? and will this, perhaps, signal the end of the road for donald trump, do you think? even as he gears up to announce another presidential bid this week? >> that is clearly the number one story. this is an extraordinary loss, the greatest loss for a party out of power in 20 years, and donald trump was presiding over it as the unofficial leader of that party. so really, you know, everything we've just heard from you, turmoil inside the republican party, to see what will come next, i think is the number one story. why did they go wrong? why did voters turn out and deny election to all of those election deniers in battleground states, many of whom donald trump had endorsed?

why did they support some of thinks rivals in the gop party? i think we saw voters really voting for stability, for moderation. we had lots of young voters coming out in support of abortion rights. i think the young voters who opposed the use of guns all over america's streets are now of voting age. they're on the streets voting. those young voters are largely democrat. really, i think it was a very big story that as bunches of republicans thought that the economic message that the inflation message that they were putting out would really win the day, it just simply hasn't. >> yeah, and the polls got it wrong again. so whatever happens in the december 6th georgia senate runoff election, the democrats will still control the senate. but counting continues for the house of representatives. and it looks like republicans

will control it with a slim majority. so what will that mean for kevin mccarthy's efforts to become speaker of the house with pro-trump freedom caucus pushing for a deal in exchange for their vote for him? . >> i think it will be very turbulent, difficult to anticipate. it seems that position is very unstable for kevin mccarthy. you know, the republican party with what will -- if he do take that majority, will be razor thin with tremendous division across the party. the best that they will probably be able to do is to really double down with those -- holding those committee chairs on investigations which will be disruptive, trying to disrupt the president's legislative agenda. and you know, as we turn to president biden and the leader of china meeting today, one thing that will matter, i think, in the house if the republicans

take that majority, they will control a number of committees that look at things like intelligence, export controls, policies that are critical, america's policies towards china, and try to push a harder line. so they will have some leverage. but i think the big story of the day is that internal disarray and contest for who will come next as the leader of the republican -- who will take that nomination eventually for president in 2024. >> and what about senate minority leader mitch mcconnell? there's talk that his leadership post may be in jeopardy. what will likely happen there, do you think this. >> again, another impossible to know for sure because of the level of internal contest and disarray. that certainly seems to be, first of all, a far less attractive position now that the democrats have taken that majority in the senate.

whether he will hold on remains to be seen. there's a broader question across the entire political spectrum of whether this election will be the election that really leads to a much younger set of leaders across all the parties. this is one of the big questions in u.s. politics. we have older leaders of pretty much every single key position. there is going to be a moment where younger voters want to see themselves reflected at the top of the political spectrum. >> it's certainly an interesting point. we are used to seeing infighting on the democratic side of the political spectrum. now we're going to see more of that and we have been seeing more of that on the republican side. how big a wakeup call was this midterm election for the republicans, do you think? >> in my view, this is the biggest wakeup call that we've seen for the republican party. we have a former president who,

even back in 2016, he lost the popular vote. in 2018, he lost the house. in 2020, he then lost the presidency. added the senate to that loss. and now he's failed to deliver what should have been easy, right? a midterm election win, inflation was high, there's a lot of uncertainty in the u.s. economy, when historical precedent demonstrates that his party, the party out of power, should do very well. he's failed to deliver that. he's demonstrated that he is a loser. and this is, you know -- the republican party as it approaches the next two years, when are election years, will want to win. so i think there's a very significant wakeup call on the back of years of disinformation, division, internal disruption. will his base stay with him? a dwindling base certainly will. but whether the field will open

up and we will see internal change is the big question. i certainly hope that we will. >> all right, leslie vigimori, thank you for your analysis, appreciate it. fresh off some unexpected election wins here in the united states, president joe biden is in bali, indonesia, for the g20 summit. he met with the indonesian president earlier, but he's hs highly anticipated meeting with xi jinping is grabbing headlines. the chinese leader arrived in bali earlier today. we brought you those pictures. he'll meet mr. biden at a time when the u.s./china relationship is in its boston shape in decades. cnn is covering this story from all the angles with kevin liptak live in bali, indonesia, and steven jiang joining us live from beijing. kevin, let's start with you. president biden is there, emboldened by his wins in the midterm elections.

so what is he looking to gain here when he sits down, his first face-to-face meeting with xi jinping since he was elected, of course. what will he get out of this? >> reporter: right. i think he really wants to set some parameters for this relationship. as you said, it has deteriorated rapidly even over the last several months. and president biden wants to get in the same room with president xi, look him in the eye, set some red lines so that this tension, this competition, doesn't tip over into conflict. that's what the president hopes to achieve when he sits down with president xi today. officials have been frank, they don't expect any so-called deliverables to come out of this meeting. for example, there won't be a joint statement afterward that ticks through areas of cooperation, that talks about things that they have accomplished in the meeting. instead, the white house describes it, they want to build a floor. essentially prevent this meeting from deteriorating any further.

they have been working to set it up since july. a month after that, house speaker nancy pelosi visited taiwan, setting off this furor in beijing. china cut off most channels of communication with the united states after that. but u.s. and chinese officials were able to continue talking about setting up this meeting. american officials said earlier today those talks were serious, they were constructive, they continued through the fall. they even continued until late last night as officials were still going over some of the agenda for this meeting. items they wanted to emphasize, items they wanted to deemphasize. when president biden walks into that meeting with xi, he knows what he wants to get out of him. his expectations are limited, but he has an idea what he wants to talk about. that includes the issue of taiwan, includes the issue of the economy, of what the u.s. calls unfair trade practices by china. it also has this whole set of

issues the u.s. wants to cooperate on. you hear about climate change, and of course north korea. the president will want to talk to xi about how to use his influence in pyongyang to try and convince the leader, kim jong-un, to back away from a nuclear program. now, i do think it's significant to note that this meeting is taking place in bali here in neutral ground on the sidelines of an international summit. it wasn't that long ago that it was fairly common for an american president to go to beijing, for the chinese president to come to the white house. i've covered several of those meetings. now it's almost unimaginable for that to happen now. so they do have to meet sort of in a neutral zone. u.s. officials, chinese officials, long ago identified this summit as the best place for that to happen. in addition to this being their first face-to-face meeting since biden took office, it's also one of the first times that president xi has left china since the covid pandemic. and how american officials view

that is he's ready to go back out kind of into the foreign stage. really enhance foreign relations in china. they do think that this is a good opportunity to talk to him at the front end of that as he begins to engage more on the world stage in an interpersonal way over the next several months. >> really important points there. steven, let's turn to you, joining us live from beijing, as we mentioned. what is president xi jinping hoping to get out of this face-to-face meeting with president biden? >> reporter: i think xi jinping wants time for china to obtain self-reliance, key economies, up grade its military to catch up with the u.s. xi can afford to play the long game, having achieved that precedent-breaking third term, enabling him to rule for life. that is one reason, probably, we've seen him offering a slightly more conciliatory tone,

telling a u.s. business lobby group he's willing to work with the u.s. to find ways to cooperate. there have been signs of possible tweaks in china's position on ukraine, xi jinping telling the visiting german chancellor that beijing opposes the threat or use of nuclear weapons, which is seen as a subtle rebuke to mr. putin, given the russian leader's nuclear posturing. all of this is why chinese state media, as well as officials, echoing american officials saying the meeting itself is a positive sign, stressing the importance of keeping lines of communication open at the highest level, especially when tensions are running high. the problem here, of course, the relationship is in a freefall. not because of the lack of a rapport between the leaders, who have known each other for years. it is really because how each side views its own strengths and the other side's intentions. washington, of course, has been increasingly vocal about china under sociaxi jinping becoming

authoritarian at home, more aggressive abroad. the biden administration has been doubling down on its effort to build this china coalition to continue its rise on the global stage. not only has biden kept most trump-era tariffs on china. the u.s. commitment to defend taiwan's military. all of this is why xi jinping has shifted the country's, the party's, top priority from economic growth to national security. that's why stakes are so high in this meeting, despite the very low bar of expectations set by both sides. >> all right, kevin lip pack, steven jang, many thanks. scott kennedy is the director of the project on chinese business and political economy at the center for strategic and international studies. he joins me now from falls church, virginia. thank you so much for being with us. >> happy to be with you. >> in just a few hours from now,

president biden sits down for his first face-to-face meeting with president xi since taking office. and while expectations are pretty low, how critical is this particular meeting at the g20 summit in bali to both the region and the united states? >> it's certainly an important meeting because they've not met since president biden was elected. because of the pandemic. they've talked by phone, video conference. this will be the first face-to-face meeting in a very long time. and the slate of issues that the u.s. and china have before them on economics and security, on climate, are broad and large. and the relationship has been declining. and that's trying to find a floor for the relationship is important to both countries as well as the region and the rest of the world. >> let's talk about that. because of course, it will be a high-stakes meeting that comes as economic and military

tensions continue to rise between the u.s. and china. as they also tackle tensions over taiwan, russia, and north korea. but president biden says they just have to work out where the red lines are on those issues, and the important problems for each of them over the next two years. is he right to downplay the complexities involved? or could that perhaps backfire? >> i think what the president is saying isn't that the relationship isn't complicated or that we don't need multifaceted solutions, but that on issues like taiwan, we're getting closer and closer to potential conflict. we have to really figure out how to avoid them. being very clear about what our red lines are. trying to explain them in a way that the other side will understand so that we stop sliding in the direction of conflict, got to be at the very top of the agenda. i expect taiwan will take the front seat in their discussion. >> and of course, it is worth

noting that president biden comes to this meeting with xi jinping boosted by his political wins back home and surprisingly shocking wins, it has to be said. how significant will that be for biden when trying to get the best for the united states out of this meeting? and what role, if any, will their personal here together play, given their did meet in china in 2011 when they were both vice presidents? >> they've met a few times before. in 2011 and 2012 when they were both vice presidents, correct. they've been in touch a lot since as well. you know, when i was in china, the past month and a half, i heard a lot of chinese asking about domestic politics in the united states, suggesting that the president was weak. they were reading "the new york times" and watching cnn and all the others suggest that the president and his party were going to do poorly in the midterms.

and so president biden actually goes into this meeting stronger than not only most americans expected, but that the chinese expected. and that may give him a little bit more credibility in his conversations with xi jinping on a range of issues. the chinese han been wondering, can they make a deal not only with this president but looking ahead, whether it's this president or others, what is the credibility of the u.s. government long-term? and coming in with a stronger domestic political hand will give the president an ability, perhaps, to reach further into the future than otherwise might be the case. and that's really important because we're talking about long-term strategic challenges, not things that could be solved in a week, a month, or even a few months. >> and as we mentioned at the start, expectations are very low. so if all that comes out of this meeting is keeping those

channels of communication open, would that be progress enough, for now at least? >> the level of communication now is the lowest it's been in several decades. the u.s. and china prior to the trump administration had hundreds of regular dialogues up and down the government. we have barely any lines of communication now. simply between the secretary of state, national security adviser, the u.s. treasury, the u.s. trade representative, and their counterparts. i hope that the two sides in this meeting would agree to have much more regular communication throughout the government. we don't need the resumption of these grand dialogues that we've had before, but just regular, ongoing dialogue. even about simple basic issues. of course, in august the chinese shut down conversations over climate change because of pelosi's visit and their reaction. restarting that would also be

some progress, but yes, regular communication is needed between the world's two largest powers on the planet. >> scott kennedy, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your analysis. appreciate it. still to come, police have arrested a suspect in connection with a deadly explosion in the heart of istanbul. we'll have the latest on that we'll have the latest on that investigation., and twice the choice. sirloin salisbury steak and all-natutural salmon. perfect for lunch or dinner. only at ihop. download the app a and earn free food w with every purchase.

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a suspect is now in custody in connection with the blast in istanbul which turkish officials are calling a terrorist attack. turkey's interior minister has blamed kurdish separatists for carrying out sunday's alack. at least six were killed and over 80 wounded in the explosion which happened on a busy street in the heart of turkey's largest city. for more on this we go to cnn's scott mcclain who joins us live from london. scott, what more are you learning? >> reporter: there was the video that was released by authorities in turkey which shows a woman

being arrested inside of an apartment in istanbul by armed police who go into the house and then quickly proceed to search the apartment, are, they find cash, jewelry, things like that. this woman, along with others who you can't see their faces in the video, are also led out, handcuffed by police. so that is what we know about the suspect at this point. as you mentioned, the interior minister says that this responsibility lies with the pkk, a militant kurdish separatist group. he didn't explain what precisely the connection was, but a turkish state broadcaster citing istanbul police says that this woman, this suspect who was arrested, is a syrian national. now, again, still a lot of questions to have answered here.

but if there is a connection with pkk, it's common for kurdish militant groups to operate out of iraq or syria where they can more easily operate than perhaps they can in turkey. because the turkish authorities have been in conflict with kurdish separatists for, really, the last four decades, costing tens of thousands of lives in the process. there have also been terror attacks, either claimed by islamic extremists or kurdish militants, that have plagued turkey. but not in the last few years. turkey has been trying to get tourists to come to the city, to come to the country, as of late. especially given the economic difficulties facing the country. yesterday afternoon was a perfect example of a perfect day for turks and tourists to be out. the weather was perfect on a sunday afternoon onn istiklal

street when the explosion went off. the justice minister described what he saw in security footage, a woman who had a bag, put it on a bench, sat down for more than 40 minutes, and one or two minutes after she sat down, that is when the blast went off. so that's why authorities were very quick they believe the suspect was a woman. again, still a lot of unanswered questions here. as for the victims, quickly, they include a married couple, they include a mother and her daughter, and a 9-year-old boy who was out with a male relative as well as for those who are hospitalized. the vast majority of the more than 80 people injured have been released from the hospital. there are still five who are receiving intensive care right now. >> heartbreaking story for those innocent bystanders. scott mcclain from london, many thanks. still to come here on cnn,

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♪ our top story this hour, fresh results from tuesday's u.s. midterm elections. in oregon's 5th congressional district, cnn projects republican laura chavez derima

beat democrat mccloud skinner. this is a pickup for republicans and a huge victory. votes are still being counted as control of the house remains up for grabs. nearly a week after polls closed. republicans need six of the remaining uncalled seats to take the majority in the house. meantime, democrats are celebrating a big victory after retaining control of the senate with a win in nevada on saturday. cnn's harry enten takes a look at how the democratic party defied midterm history this year. >> reporter: although votes are still being counted, the 2022 election will go down as historically good for the democratic party. normally in midterms the president's party does poorly, but in this midterm we saw the democratic party have a net gain of gubernatorial seats, not lose any senate seats, and they may gain one. and a net loss right now of less than 10 house seats. the last time that happened in a midterm election, 1934.

how did democrats pull this off? despite high inflation, the issue of abortion was also on the minds of voters. in fact, a look at our exit polls show that about as many voters said abortion was important to their vote as inflation. and those abortion first voters voted overwhelmingly democratic. and joe biden's popularity had sunk considerably over the course of his presidency. and indeed, our exit polls showed that only about 41% of voters had a favorable view of joe biden. but when you also ask them whether or not they had a favorable view of donald trump, trump's favorable rating was around the same level. indeed, there was a solid portion, a little less than 20% of the electorate, that did not have a favorable view of either donald trump or joe biden. and those voters who you might have expected to go overwhelmingly for the republicans, because joe biden is the president of the united states, in fact, basically split their tickets fairly equally. only slightly going for republican candidates. of course, it's not just about biden and trump. it's also the fact that there

were a lot of candidates running for the united states senate who in the minds of the voters were extreme. indeed, in pretty much all of the key battleground senate races, more voters said that the republican candidate was too extreme than said that the democratic candidate was too extreme. lastly in the governors races, a lot of republicans running denied that joe biden legitimately won the 2020 election, which of course he did. all of those candidates who were running in either swing states or blue states with current gop governors are either trail organize lost. the only one currently trailing cnn has not been able to project is kari lake in the state of arizona who is trailing. back to you. the ukrainian military says russia may be preparing to step up its attacks in the newly liberated portions of the kherson region. this as ukraine is taking stock of the widespread damage russian troops already left behind. ukrainian officials say russia

employed scorched-earth tactics when it withdrew, destroying most of the city's critical infrastructure. the area has also been littered with mines, one of which reportedly injured a family of four. president volodymyr zelenskyy says authorities have uncovered evidence of war crimes and that they're vinvestigating more tha 400 cases. >> translator: in the kherson region, the russian army left behind the same atrocities as in other regions of our country where it was able to enter. we will find and bring to justice every murder, without a doubt. >> cnn's sam kylie joins us from kyiv. good to see you. what more are you learning about this evidence of war crimes in kherson? >> reporter: as you say, rosemary, president zelenskyy has said that they're looking at

already 400 alleged cases. now, that is just in the last 48 hours, effectively, since kherson was liberated. some may relate to some of those smaller settlements. we've seen this pattern elsewhere before. the ukrainian government is saying it is fitting the pattern that we saw in izium, the other large city that was liberated a couple of months ago in the northeast of the country. but kherson was also a hotbed of partisan resistance activities. this was the regional capital where the russians tried to hold illegal referendum in order to try to justify their illegal annexation of that region. it is a place where the locals were very resistant right from the very first days of the occupation against the russians. so the anticipation is that there could be a lot more horrific finds in that location. but, and this is an important aspect, just as the russians have been able to evacuate that area and conduct a pretty

well-ordered military withdrawal, they would have planned to hide most of their crimes. so it's also going to be very difficult for investigators to get at who did what, exactly, even if they find horrific evidence. and there may well be examples of that evidence being moved too, and by that i mean victims or the materiel used to create victims in kherson. the fighting continues elsewhere in the country. and also, as you rightly point out, ukrainians are warning they anticipate, and we're beginning to see evidence of that, the russians will use the dnipro river as a natural barrier against the ukrainian advance and start to bombard ukrainian civilians and military positions as people return to kherson province. they still, the russians, control about 60% of kherson. they can use that depth to hide their artillery and pound those

areas they've so recently evacuated. that is going to be a major concern over the next few days, indeed, through christmas and beyond. >> all right, sam kiley live from kyiv, many thanks. throughout the war, moscow's attacks have shattered the lives of ordinary people. among them a 6-year-old boy in mariupol who lost his parents to shelling in the first week of the invasion. thankfully, the boy eventually found a new home in kyiv with a loving couple that now plans to adopt him. cnn's salma abdelaziz has their story. >> reporter: like any 6-year-old child, elyas' energy is endless. he wants constant attention and entertainment and craves affection from the two people who care for him most. "now we have that love," they tell me, "that love that makes you a family. we did not have this baby, but our love is real." maria and vladimir are elyas'

legal guardians. they've been a family for more than six months and the company plan to formally adopt him and become parents to a child orphaned by this war. the pair was forced to flee their home in the east for kyiv because of shelling but refused to give up on their dream of starting a family. >> this was such a difficult decision, to adopt during a war. did you hesitate? did you think maybe this is not the right time? >> translator: we had been planning to adopt for many years. the war pushed us to make it happen sooner. now we wonder, why did we ever wait? >> reporter: elyas' mom was killed in mariupol, his birthplace. she left home to find food and was struck down by shelling in the first week of war. unaware of his wife's fate, elyas' father went looking for her the next day only to lose his life too. elyas was left with neighbors where he sheltered with strangers for weeks in a cold, dark basement. when they ran out of food, elyas

says he started to eat his toys. the newfound parents are trying to give elyas a sense of security. >> hello, hi! >> reporter: when we visit their home in kyiv, we see why that's a challenge. blackouts caused by russia's strikes on the power grid leave the family without electricity for hours. >> translator: sometimes he gets scared. he is hysterical and he'll tell me it's like being back in mariupol in the basement in the darkness. du >> reporter: the young family try to make things normal, playing games, watching movies, anything to ease elyas' worried mind. do you get afraid in the dark? "not anymore," he says, "i know the lights will come back on." and they do, during our interview electricity is restored and elyas runs to switch on the lights. ready to play again. but first, he wants to put on his spider-man costume. he says it makes him feel strong and brave.

when you look at the sacrifices and the suffering that elyas has endured that that young couple forced out of their home on the front lines have endured, you begin to understand just how much the victory of kherson means not just on those front lines, but across ukraine and beyond. those millions of refugees forced out of their homes. it gives that momentum. it gives that morale boost to the troops. it begins to fulfill that promise that president zelenskyy has made to his people, to win back every inch taken by russian forces. >> incredible report, our thanks to salma abdelaziz for that. still to come, a court in iran handed down its first death sentence to a protester after demonstrations rocked the country following the death of a young woman in police custody.

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an iranian court has issued its first death sentence to a protester convicted of alleged, quote, enmity against god amid protests following the death of mahsa amini. state media says the protester allegedly set fire to a government center. five others who took part in the protest received sentences of five to ten years in prison. cnn's melissa bell has been following the latest developments. she joins us now live from paris. so melissa, what are you learning about this death sentence that's been issued to a protester? >> the first of its kind and a worrying development, of course. it was earlier on sunday that we also heard from the iranian judiciary that there were more than 700 people who had been charged as well with various security-related charges, all to do with these protests. of course, that is of huge concern because we heard over the course of the weekend that

updated toll for the number of people believed to have been killed in iran since the protests began from the norway-based iran human rights ngo which put the figure at 326. emphasizing that that was undunduty -- undoubtedly an underestimate. a figure expected to rise because of the nature of the iranian judicial system, warning there were many people taken into custody who were likely to be charged and face execution. i think the confirmation from the judiciary on sunday about that sentencing confirms those fears. meanwhile, there is no sign that these protests are going anywhere. we've seen over the course of the last few days and weeks several iranian personalities, both from the world of sports and the world of film, making their protests clear on social media. keeping that momentum going. on the streets those protests continue. these are the latest videos we've been able to confirm here at cnn that are from provinces in iran's southeast.

and you can see there the people out on the streets again, the chanting "death to the dictator, death to khomenei." protests that are representing incredible bravery in the context of the repression we've seen. again, repression that appears to be continuing as the regime continues to keep a close eye on these protests. again, announcing the further charges against people who have been arrested these last few weeks and that sentencing. and that, of course, of huge significance. we keep an eye over the course of the next few days to see how much worse the protests go and whether that momentum is kept up. >> we thank you for following this story, melissa bell live from paris. still to come, the goat goes to germany. tom brady and the buccaneers battle the seahawks in munich in an historic game for the nfl.

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first nfl player to wesin a gam in four different countries. cnn's fred pleitgen has more on the fanfare surrounding this contest. >> reporter: german fans clearly thrilled to have the nfl here in this country. the game sold out within minutes and the nfl says they could easily have sold hundreds of thousands more tickets if there would have been the capacity. football's a huge deal here in ger germany. a lot of people follow the game. certainly, take a look at this game, it was so interesting to see before the match started, it was obviously a seahawks/bucs game. there were people wearing jerseys from pretty much every nfl franchise that's out there. that's because people here love the jail of football, and they say they want to see more of it in their country. >> unbelievable feeling. to have an nfl game in germany, like five years ago it was simply impossible. so it's simply amazing. >> actually, i'm a bengals fan. but today, seahawks against bucs, i go with the bucs because they have tom brady and i'm a

brady fan. >> having a lot of fun with the 12s out here, we're going to win today! >> reporter: a legendary venue, the allianz arena, home to soccer club bayern munich. they tell us this is the first time a nonsoccer event has happened in this venue. for the nfl an important game with the bucs and seahawks sitting atop their divisions at the same time we know tom brady has been having some problems as of late. however, he did speak about his own excitement about playing history in germany. >> yeah, that was one of the great football experiences i've ever had. says a lot for 23 years in the league and for regular season game, and the fan turnout was incredible. it felt like a very electric from the time we took the field. >> reporter: the nfl says it has a commitment for three more games here in this country, two in frankfurt, one more here in munich. however, judging from the fan

reaction to the game we saw on sunday, there certainly is a lot of appetite not just in germany but in continental europe in general to have more of the nfl. fred pleitgen, cnn, munich, germany. thanks for your company. i'm rosemary church. have yourselves a wonderful day. "cnn newsroom" continues with max foster and bianca nobila. some are of intensity, others, joy. all are of - ahhhh. listerine. feel the whoa! moderate to severe eczema still disrupts my skin. despite treatment it disrupts my skin with itch. it disrupts my skin with rash. but now, i can disrupt eczema with rinvoq. rinvoq is not a steroid, topical, or injection. it's one pill, once a day, that's effective without topical steroids. many taking rinvoq saw clear or almost-clear skin while some saw up to 100% clear skin. plus, they felt fast itch relief

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