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and a warm welcome it our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton. ahead for us here on "cnn newsroom," the race to find survivors in turkey and syria. experts warn time is running out as cold weather heightens the danger. another object shot down off the coast of the united states. details still murky, but u.s. president biden is calling the operation a success. and brazilian president da silva meets with the u.s. president. we'll have part two of christiane amanpour exclusive interview with brazil's leader. >> announcer: live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with paula newton. more than 24,000 people are now confirmed dead in turkey and
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syria five days after a powerful earthquake absolutely devastated those countries. in turkey, emergency crews continue digging through the rubble with their bare hands if they have to, hoping to find yet another survivor. on friday, they rescued a mother and daughter who had been trapped for 107 hours. you hear the applause there. but with each passing minute, hopes of finding more people alive are unfortunately fading. earlier a woman who lost dozens of her family members tried to describe what she's going through. >> translator: pain, pain, pain. we lost 60 people from our family. 60. what can i say? it's god's decision. it's been six days. we haven't changed our socks. we can't see the light of day. we light fires and wait outside.
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>> i mean the survivors, their expressions on their face just say it. they seem so incredibly lost and yet racked with grief. and now we have the staggering scale of everything that has been left behind. you know, can you bring us right up to date on what's being done now to make sure that this humanitarian crisis doesn't deepen further? >> reporter: well, paula, the devastation across turkey and the northwest area is immense to say the least. there has been a real outpouring of grief but also of support here in turkey. we've seen volunteers filling hangars with aid distribution, with support on that front as well as of course the support coming from the international community. president recep tayyip erdogan has visited some of the disaster zones, but he's been clear that the government is dedicating all its ministries to focus on that response effort. there has been some
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conversation, some questions around whether the turkish government did enough to prepare for such a situation, whether they've been quick enough to deal with the aftermath when it comes to providing that humanitarian support. the president says he is aiming to rebuild the collapsed buildings within one year, and he's offering to support people when it comes to paying rent or putting them up in hotels as part of the temporary accommodation scheme for those affected by the earthquake. but we've seen people here in istanbul, locals really taking this independent means of support, those most in need. in fact, just in the next hour, we are expecting to see two ships organized by the mayor of istanbul filled with aid as well as accommodation for those affected and even a health care medical facility on board heading towards that disaster zone. but of course there is concern still for those who have been impacted by this earthquake. and of course in particular for those in northwest syria, where
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it has been so difficult and proved so challenging to get aid across the border. now, we have heard from the u.n. confirming that a second aid mission has been able to cross that one single border crossing between turkey and northwest syria sponsored by the united nations or approved by the united nations. that is of course providing crucial aid. but the message that we're hearing from aid groups is that there still is so much more to be done in syria. thousands of people are now homeless, many of them displaced not for the first time but now multiple times following years of war in syria. real concern there. the syrian state government says it is allowing access from government-controlled areas into rebel-held territory for those aid deployments. but the aid groups say they aren't seeing this yet, and they need more. paula. >> yeah, and have already for days done without the very basics. nada bashir for us in istanbul, thanks so much. now we want to get more on the weather that people in turkey and syria are facing with
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cnn meteorologist derek van dam. >> challenging weather conditions continue for the earthquake recovery site in southern turkey and northern syria. this is the latest satellite loop. i want you to notice there's no real cloud cover across the region. so with clear skies allows what we call radiational cooling to take place overnight, and any heat that's trapped up during the course of the day just radiates right back into the atmosphere, and temperatures are cold. that is going to be particularly challenging for people living outdoors or anyone too afraid to stay indoors for the fear of further aftershocks. now, you can see just in general no precipitation in store, so i guess that's the bit of good news. we won't have to contend with rain or snow going forward with the recovery process. but it is the overarching theme here. cold weather continues for the days ahead. here's a look at the forecast. temperatures in some of the hardest-hit areas. you can see the aftershocks that occurred throughout this region kind of making almost a "t"-shaped pattern.
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we have forecast temperatures for saturday afternoon to stay below freezing for most locations in central and southern portions of turkey. and as we head a little further south, maybe bumping up just above freezing. but it's the overnight lows i'm particularly concerned about. you can see the forecast here staying well below zero for southern sections of turkey. we're talking about anywhere from negative single digits to negative teens. again, that is for forecast minimum temperatures through the course of the weekend and into early next week with temperatures rebounding through the course of the day, of course. no significant weather changes in store for the next seven days, but also no major weather systems moving through. that's the good news. back to you. >> thank you, derek. now, if you are looking for more information on how to help earthquake survivors, go to cnn.com/impact. there you'll found a list of organizations working on rescue and relief efforts. now, for the second time in less than a week, u.s. fighter jets have taken down an object flying over american airspace.
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now, officials said the latest one was shot down friday over frozen water near alaska's northern coast on president joe biden's order. now, it happened to be unmanned this time and didn't appear, in fact, to have surveillance equipment or even the ability to actually steer itself. another difference here, the object was at an altitude of 40,000 feet and posed a risk to civilian aircraft. officials say they're not exactly sure yet what it was. >> we're calling this an object because that's what the best description we have right now. we do not know who owns it, whether it's state-owned or corporate-owned or privately owned. we just don't know. >> now, mr. biden was asked about the mission to shoot it down friday afternoon. listen. >> do you have anything to say about the object shot down over alaska, mr. president? >> success. >> so authorities say they have now mapped the debris field and
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hope to get answers once they retrieve that wreckage. air raid sirens went off right across ukraine again friday night, and officials reported explosions in dnipro after a barrage of russian strikes on the energy grid across ukraine earlier in the day. russia launched more than 100 missiles, rockets, and drones, knocking offline a significant part of ukraine's generating capacity. but the vast majority of ukrainians at this hour still have power, water, and heat, and that's according to the country's prime minister. meantime, ukraine's air defenses are about to get more weapons to help them fight back. lithuania is sending dozens of anti-aircraft guns, which officials say can shoot down both drones and warplanes. and further west, some u.s. military hardware arrived in germany, also on its way to ukraine. it was the shipment that includes those bradleys, those armored vehicles and air
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defenses which were promised to kyiv last month. now, a car roomed into people at a bus stop in jerusalem on friday in what israeli police are calling a terror attack. a 6-year-old boy and 20-year-old man hit by the vehicle were killed, and five others wounded. the driver was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. he's been identified as a palestinian who lived in east jerusalem. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu ordered that the house where the suspected attacker lived be demolished. now, brazil's new president gives us an exclusive interview. he sits down with our christiane amanpour. what lula da silva says about divisions in his country and why he won't be sending weapons to ukraine. you'll want to hear this. wake up to a new you. with mucinex nightshift, it's not cold and flu season. it's always comeback season.
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the white house friday and ahead of that meeting, lula da silva sat down for an exclusive interview with cnn's christiane amanpour. and here's what he had to say about divisions within his own country and why he will not be sending weapons to ukraine. >> people who are looking at brazil's democracy are looking, as i said, at the divided nation. you saw probably a recent article that was written about you, saying that half the population loves you. half the population despises you. i wonder what you think about that but also, more importantly, the fact that unifying brazil is apparently going to be the key to shoring up democracy and making sure that bolsonaro's mode does not come back after your term in office. how do you do that when half the population, as i said, despises you? >> translator: well, we're going to have elections in brazil after the u.s. elections. and let's see what's going to happen in the u.s. because here
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there's also a split, much more or serious as brazil. the republicans and democrats are very split up. love it or leave it, that's more or less what's going on. so in brazil, we are a country that have more peace. the president, in his way of life, he likes to enjoy news of soccer and carnival. we're not a people that has that culture to hate. we don't have the hatred culture. what happened is we had a fake news, an industry that we managed to fight under equal conditions. and i am convinced that not everybody that voted for bolsonaro follows bolsonaro-ism. i'm convinced a lot of people that voted for him don't like the wovgers party, don't like lula maybe. but when we win an election, we have to rule for everybody. i don't want to know if the mayor of one city or the governor of a certain state is in favor of bolsonaro.
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i want to know if he's interested or she's interested in solving the problems of the brazilian people. if he's interested in that, he can come and join me. it's always split. in germany, it's split. you saw macron's election in france. there was a split in the nation and in the u.s. the only strange thing that happened, what's happened here at the capital because never could we imagine that in a country that was a simple democracy, someone could try to invade the capital or be so inhuman as trump was. and bolsonaro is a copycat of trump, as if you would put it in a machine and take a photograph. it would be the same thing. bolsonaro and trump, they don't enjoy trade unions. they don't like business sector. they don't like workers. they don't like women. they don't like black people. they don't like to talk with the business sector. it's him and his lies. it's just him, and he doesn't enjoy to talk to the press. and so we changed all that. we changed all that, my dear,
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christiane. and brazil slowly will come to have an -- and democracy will prevail. that's my commitment. i hope four years from now, you can come back and make another interview with me, and you'll see how brazil has still continued democratic. and let me tell you one more thing. bolsonaro, there's no chance for him to come back to the presidency of the republic. now it's going to depend on our capability to build a narrative, the correct narratives about what he represented to brazil in the past because the extreme right is around the world. it was in the u.s. it's in brazil. it's in spain. it's in france. they're in hungary. they're in germany. we have now an organized extreme right in the world and if we're not careful, this will be a nazi attitude from them. this is a denial attitude that was never seen before. so since i'll enjoy democracy and it's democracy is the best
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way for you to exercise power, to live with a democracy and with the others with diversity, we talk to president biden to improve our relations between the two countries. the u.s. is very important for us, and i believe that brazil has also certain importance for the u.s. so what we want is the two big nations that are truly democratic, that they can help each other to strengthen democracy around the hemisphere and around the planet earth. >> you talk a lot about democracy, mr. president, and it looks like you're going to come up against president biden on a key defense of democracy around the world, and that is ukraine. you do not believe, i don't think, in the western support for ukraine's defense, and you have said it many times. why not? i mean some people have asked, why is lula so committed to
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democracy at home and not abroad? >> translator: well, i am highly committed with democracy in any part of the planet earth. what i believe is that in the case of ukraine and russia, it is necessary to have someone talking about peace. it's necessary that we should build up enteinterlocutors to t with the different parties in confrontation. we need to find interlocutors that can sit with president putin and show to him the mistake that he made to invade the territorial integrity of the ukrainian territory. and we have to show to ukraine that they have to talk more so that we can avoid this war. we have to stop the war. so why i'm going to talk to president biden, i don't know what he's going to say to me, but what i want to say to him is following. it is necessary to build a set of countries to negotiate peace. >> but you have those countries. you're one of them. russia, china, india, none of them seems to want to talk about peace. they're just basically talking
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about russia, helping russia. >> translator: well, i want to talk about peace. i want to talk about peace with putin. i want to talk about peace with president biden. i want to talk about peace with xi jinping. i want to talk about peace with india, with indonesia. i want to talk about peace with everybody because for me the world will only develop itself if we have peace. >> that's nice. but do you believe that a country which is a sovereign, independent, democratic country like your own, like ukraine, has the right to self-defense and to defend itself against an illegal invasion? >> translator: of course it has the right to defend itself. of course. of course it has that right because the invasion was a mistake on the part of russia. russia couldn't have done that, and after all it was part of the u.n. security council. and so this was not discussed at the u.n. security council. so what i want to say is the following. it's already done. the mistake was already done.
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now we have to find people to fix the mistake, to fix the error that was made. i know that brazil doesn't have that international political clout to promote that in this perverse rational of conflicts in the world. but i can say to you i will dedicate a lot of my time to find a way for someone to start talking about peace. i was with the german chancellor a week ago. >> and he asked you to send l leopards to ukraine, and you said no. >> no. it was not the tanks. it was ammunition. >> okay. ammunition. >> translator: i didn't want to send because if i send the ammunition, i would join the war. if i sent the ammunition from brazil, the ammunition you're asking for -- >> but you just agreed it's defense. >> translator: i don't want to join the war. i want to end the war. i don't want to join the war. this is the dilemma and this is my commitment. i'm visiting china next month and i'll talk a lot with president xi jinping about the role china has to play on the peace issues.
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this is the work that i have to do. i started with the german chancellor. i talked with macron on the phone. i'll talk with president biden. i'll talk with xi jinping. all the countries, we have to have a group of people and countries that talk about peace, not war. peace. and show that peace is the only wail that can re-establish the dignity of human life, the right for them to work, to live with dignity and decency. this is what putin has to understand and zelenskyy and the ukrainian people and the russian people has to understand. but we have to build a narrative for peace because russia is not a tiny country that you can treat it as a small country. no, you have to build a narrative, a narrative to give the russians the minimum of conditions to stop the war as the u.s. stopped the war in vietnam. it wasn't easy for the u.s. to stop the vietnam war, and it did stop one day. it had to stop the war. so if they started doing wrongly, now we have to fix it. let's stop the war, and then let's discuss around the
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negotiation table what we want truly. >> can i ask you a final question, personal question? you've had a dramatic life story, a dramatic comeback to power after having been in prison. you also have survived this january 6th challenge, this insurrection. you're also the oldest brazilian president ever to be inaugurated. president biden is one of the oldest american presidents. what drives you on? what drives people like you at your age to keep doing this? >> translator: amanpour, what i say, i always say that aging only exists for those that doesn't have to fight for a cause. if you have a cause to fight for and you dedicate to that cause, aging doesn't exist. it doesn't exist. it disappears. that's why i say every day i have 77 years of age, and i say that i have the energy, a power of someone that's 30 years of
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age. i have a willingness to work 24 hours a day. i don't sleep because i have a home. my home is the brazilian people. i have to improve the lives of my people that they can eat three meals a day. we had hunger in brazil, and now we have 33 million people that are in hunger in a country that is the third largest food producer in the world. a country that has the large efest animal protein production in the world. once again i'll end hunger in my country. once again we're going to go that the brazilen economy goes back to growth. i saw biden's speech on the state of the union. i read his speech. i think it's a speech that i could make it in brazil very easily. if i did his speech today in brazil that biden did some days ago, i would be called communist in brazil if i made that same speech. >> you know, they do call you
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communist, your detractors. on that note, thank you very much for being with us. >> translator: i want to thank you, amanpour. >> as spirited as ever. president lula there. he knows the challenges ahead of him as christiane pointed out several times. he's leading a divided country right now. we want to thank christiane for that interview. i'm paula newton. for our international viewers, the next frontier is ahead. for viewers in the u.s. and canada, we'll have more "cnn newsroom." don't go away.
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the fbi is expected to search the washington office of former u.s. president mike pence and that will come in the coming days apparently. that's after investigators search pence's indiana home on friday and removed several documents. at least one of them marked classified. a spokesperson for pence says the fbi also removed six additional pages that were not marked classified. these pages were not discovered when the vice president's attorney did an initial review last month. it's not clear what the documents are related to or what level of sensitivity or classification they may have. a spokesperson says pence was not at home during that search. now, former u.s. president donald trump meantime his legal team has turned over more classified materials and a laptop to federal prosecutors. according to multiple sources
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familiar with the investigation, trump's attorneys also returned an empty folder marked "classified evening briefing." now, the trump team apparently discovered pages with classified markings in december while searching through boxes at trump's mar-a-lago resort in florida. also an aide to the former president had copied those same pages onto a thumb drive and laptop apparently without realizing that they were classified, so they were turned over in january. now, you may recall fbi agents searched mar-a-lago in august and seized hundreds of classified documents and other presidential records. five people were injured at los angeles international airport when a shuttle bus collided at low speed with an aircraft that was also on the ground. that's according to the airport and the los angeles fire department. the aircraft was being towed from a gate to a remote parking area when it and the shuttle bus collided. four of the five injured were actually transported to nearby
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hospitals. the airport says there was no major operational disruption, and flights continue as normal. this incident, though, as you can imagine, is being investigated. the death toll in monday's powerful earthquake continues to climb, but even now, days later, emergency teams remarkably are finding survivors. a teenage girl was rescued after more than 100 hours of being trapped under the rubble near the quake's epicenter in southern turkey. she could communicate and move her arms as she was carried out to the ambulance. onlookers called it a miracle after she endured below-freezing temperatures at night. now, almost a week of searching and it's becoming, as you can imagine, harder and harder to find those survivors. still many responders in turkey are refusing to give up hope. cnn's nick paton walsh has more on those rescue operations. >> reporter: over 100 hours
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after the worst quake in nearly 100 years, and still there are lights that won't go out. naked feet a reminder this happened in everyone's sleep. and this new dawn so welcome. no better way to show you're alive than this smile. the crowds at each site, larger, louder in success. now the number of living buried is smaller. this woman's husband was pulled out moments before her. they don't have to go far to be reminded how so many searches end. the preciousness of each moment of hope is most acute here, where military helicopters and ambulances form a stream, rushing the injured to hospitals in other turkish cities because so many here are crippled. we see a 3-year-old girl, conscious, her 2 months old sister the same. it is unclear if they know where
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their mother is. nobody here does. another ambulance arrives with another injured person who urgently requires treatment. also two so tiny, they share a stretcher and on board must be carried in their arms. they too fly without their parents. about 15 patients in total this morning. remember, though, this is how most stories are ending here. hurried graves in a cemetery dug by hand and cardboard. even this a relative luxury in a time of nothing. two families of four who died in
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the same building. across this city, though, the task of burying so many also urgent. back at the same rubble site, another search has begun. this resident explains its interior. the hope now is for yeshim's brother, mother, and father. a nurse, she's been here since tuesday. >> translator: i've been struggling for five days. everyone has lost hope now and is sending me condolences. officials told me they'd only find a corpse, and now two people have come out alive. we need professional rescuers. the fire brigade quit on us. we found those two just now with construction workers. i brought three body bags. maybe i need them and a graveyard.
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>> reporter: into dusk, the dig inches carefully forwards with no time limit or guarantee it will find anything. the city center swamped in dust and the heavy knowledge that the longer their patience and struggle, the less like i it is to be rewarded. nick paton walsh, cnn. u.s. president joe biden heads to poland later this month with the war in ukraine about to enter a second year. he'll arrive in poland february 20th, four days before the anniversary of russia's invasion. mr. biden will meet with his polish counterpart and other leaders from the region. the white house says he wants to send a message that allies will continue to stand by ukraine against russia's aggression. sam kiley has more now from eastern ukraine, where russian forces already are ramping up their attacks. >> reporter: clearly there's a great deal of interest in the visit of a u.s. president to poland to mark the anniversary
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on february 24th of the latest russian invasion of ukraine. but the reality on the ground is that the ukrainians are grappling with another russian offensive. they believe that the much vaunted spring offensive has come early, effectively with very intensive attacks by professional military personnel from the russian airborne divisions in the eastern part of the country and also renewed activity around the city or rather town of bakhmut. now, that is a town that has been very, very bloody focus of the russian efforts with these wave upon wave upon wave of attacks by conscripts and volunteers from the wagner mercenary group being thrown into a battle that they're simply not going to survive, and winning ground incrementally at gigantic human cost. now on the ground, fighters on the ukrainian side are saying
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they're seeing more professional effort thrown into that. they believe if you combine that with the overnight bombardment with cruise missiles, with the drones that have been brought in by iran, more attacks against the national infrastructure, particularly the energy infrastructure of the country, certainly the ukrainian perspective is that the latest russian offensive has begun. so what they would like to hear from the biden administration before he gets to poland, but certainly by the time he gets to poland, is clearance to supply them with long-range missiles and the jets they say they so badly need to defend themselves firstly, and secondly to rid their country of the russian invaders. sam kiley, cnn, in eastern ukraine. coming up for us, the latest in the double murder trial of alex murdaugh has the family's housekeeper takes the stand. and literally fill out each personon's name on a label
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how much their accident case is worth.h barnes. t ouour juryry aorneneys hehelpou turning now to the ongoing double murder trial of alex murdaugh, the disgraced south carolina lawyer. now, new testimony from the family's housekeeper reveals that maggie murdaugh, alex's wife, was worried about the possibility of money being demanded from the family in a lawsuit. the housekeeper also said maggie was suspicious that her husband wasn't being honest with her in the days before her killing. murdaugh has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder and two weapons charges. cnn's randi kaye has the latest now from the courthouse in south carolina. >> reporter: there was a dramatic moment in court when
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the defense started pushing for a mistrial. it was denied by the judge, but they were pushing for that mistrial after the prosecution started questioning the murdaughs' former housekeeper about maggie murdaugh's state of mind and how maggie murdaugh felt about the money situation in their marriage. the defense basically said that is hearsay because maggie murdaugh is no longer hear and cannot testify about that on her own. but much of the day, the housekeeper spent testifying about what she saw alex murdaugh wearing the day of the murders. both the prosecution and the defense asked her about this, and here's what she said. >> was that sheriff there? >> no, sir. >> were these shoes that you called house slippers, were those there in. >> no, sir. >> did you ever see those house shoes again? >> no, sir. >> and where did he usually keep them? >> in the closet. >> when he left that night, on the night of the 7th and went to his mother and father's house,
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you don't know what clothes he took with him, what shoes he was wearing. you have no idea, is that correct? >> that is correct. >> reporter: the prosecution has been laying the groundwork that alex murdaugh allegedly showered and changed his clothes after killing his family. that's why there was so much talk about the clothing. now, the housekeeper did testify that she found a pair of khaki pants that alex murdaugh had been wearing the day of the murder. she found those the following morning, and on cross-examination, the defense asked her, did you see any bloodstains on those pants? did you found any bloodstains or any blood in the shower, and her answer was no. looking ahead, the state expects to rest its case on wednesday. the defense will pick it up from there, and they say their defense case could likely last another week. randi kaye, cnn, walterboro, south carolina. the super bowl kicks off tomorrow, but there's already some pushing and shoving over the traditional pregame presidential interview. details on that saga in a few
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so after some strange and, i confess, confusing backfield maneuvers, the traditional pregame super bowl interview between the u.s. president and the host broadcaster, it's off. fox, which is often a biden critic, has been trying to set up the interview with joe biden for weeks now. but his administration never committed to speak with the
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right-wing channel. then the white house proposed a workaround that they were happy with, which was apparently an interview with fox soul. that's a streaming platform geared towards black viewers. but after several back-and-forths, the white house finally said it's off. the president will not sit down with the right-wing network. now, he has never, in fact, granted fox an interview during his presidency. now, you may not believe your eyes, and guess what? that's exactly the point of our next story. now, so-called deep fakes are the latest propaganda tool, and it seems that china now is taking full advantage of this new technology. selina wang investigated for us and she reports now from beijing. >> hello, everyone. this is wolfe news. i'm alex. >> reporter: on first glance, these look like news anchors. >> and the top leaders of china -- >> reporter: on second glance,
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you might notice something uncanny. and how their voices don't align with their mouth movements. that's because they aren't real people. they're deep fake avatars made with artificial intelligence. it's unclear who's behind this, but last year, pro-china bot accounts sent them out over twitter and facebook. >> this is the first time we've seen footage of an entirely fictitious, fake person . we've been tracking these since at least 2019, and routinely am plifies narratives that align with beijing's specific interests. >> reporter: a report was issued on this campaign that says in part more videos portrayed the u.s. in a negative light that focused on any other theme, presenting it as law-breaking, racked by civil strife and failing in the fight against covid-19. >> this meeting is of great significance.
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>> reporter: they pushed china's geopolitical agenda. >> gun violence has killed nearly 40,000 people. >> reporter: and expose america's shortcomings. the u.s. national security commission on artificial intelligence says ai is deepening the threat posed by cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns that russia, china, and others are using to infiltrate our society, steal our data, and interfere in our democracy. >> hey, there. i'm anna. >> hey, there. i'm jason. >> reporter: these fake news anchors, they were made with technology from british artificial intelligence company synesthesia. let me show you how easy it is to create your own deep fake video. i'm on the synesthesia company website. i'm clicking on create a free ai video. for the script, how about let's have the avatar say, hi, i'm a correspondent for cnn. they say, i'll get the video in my email in just a few minutes. >> hi, i'm a correspondent for cnn. >> reporter: synesthesia's
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website shows its technology is mainly used for corporate training and marketing videos. the company said in a statement to cnn, the recent videos that emerged are in breach of our terms of service, and we have identified and banned the user in question. graphica says these news anchor deep fake videos are low quality and did not get a lot of traction on social media. >> to build a better world with our -- >> reporter: but this technology is spreading rapidly around the world. a few years ago, a chinese tech firm made this deep fake video of then-president donald trump speaking mandarin as a demonstration to promote their company's technology at a beijing conference. chinese state media has even created a whole team of ai news anchors. they're showing it off as a novel new technology that can mass produce shows with these anchors that can work 24/7. the proliferation of deep fake videos makes it dramatically harder to combat disinformation. experts say it's used by foreign and criminal actors will only
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grow, bending our reality. selina wang, cnn, beijing. >> and something to keep in mind. all of this is going on as we continue to explore the capabilities of ai, right? art official intelligence. i want to thank selina wang for that package. i'm paula newton. thank you for your company. kim brunhuber will have more "cnn newsroom" right after a short break. when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and runningng. i was printing o out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it rereally easy and seamless. pick an ordeder, print everything you need,, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers.
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