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viewers joining us from the united states and around the world. >> i'm max foster in london. >> ahead on cnn newsroom as donald trump further rounds out his next administration, we'll look at the odds of his more controversial picks being confirmed. concerns over chinese cyber espionage campaign targeting u.s. telecom providers. the latest on what exactly we know. and as cop 29 ends, ukraine sounds the alarm on the ecological toll of its war with russia >> this is cnn newsroom with max foster. >> well, we begin this hour with the incoming donald trump

three weeks since he was reelected to the us presidency, donald trump has picked most of his cabinet and high level staff advisers, directors and administrators. one of trump's last cabinet picks came on saturday with the choice of brooke rollins for secretary of agriculture. the latest pick follows a slew of other cabinet picks on friday, and that capped off a whirlwind week where his first choice for attorney general matt gaetz, withdrew, and trump named a new ag pam bondi, a longtime loyalist with the latest picks. axios says the next white house may include the quote most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times. for example, robert kennedy jr., who supports abortion rights would run health and human services, a pro-union centrist, would lead the labor department. a former democrat would be in charge of intelligence and the treasury secretary, someone who worked for years with george soros, a longtime democratic party

>> and consent to these appointments. i want to tell everybody, calm down. it's going to be >> what is it now? 60 days until the president is sworn in on january 20th. maybe a little bit less than that. there's a long way between now and then. a lot's going to happen. we've got to calm down. we've got to stop worrying about how did these people vote for donald trump that's not the question. it's why did they vote for donald trump? and now he's going to be the president of the united states of america. he's clothed, clothed with certain authorities, but he's got to follow the rules and go through this advice and i don't like this this recess

appointments idea at all. that's an attempt to game the system. and the american people should not stand for that. >> leslie vinjamuri ahead of us and americas program at chatham house, royal institute of international affairs us, leslie. i mean if we step back from this, it is a pretty diverse cabinet, isn't it it sure is now. >> absolutely. and i think both in terms of, you know, level and depth of experience in terms of sort of political background but the one thing that in terms of policy views, the one thing that i think stands out quite clearly as being, you know, a top criteria is, does donald trump believe that the people that he's appointing to his top table, to his cabinet are, you know, loyal to the president? have they demonstrated that? i mean you know, let's be fair. it's it's normal for an elected us president or any leader or any leader to wish to to have loyalists around him, people

that are loyal. but i think it's we know it's especially important for this us president. so that's top table. but beyond that there really is a lot of diversity. and you know, we've seen people that are very, you know, credible and serious appointed especially in the foreign policy team marco rubio, as this side is, you know, these are people who you could say are much more ideological, much more to use the term hawkish on questions of china, have in the past been much more supportive of defense of ukraine, a potentially even a ukraine being in nato. so the individuals selected on the foreign policy side don't even necessarily represent all of trump's views, but they are loyal. and so we have every reason to believe that when, um when trump weighs in, when he has views that they will align and follow align and follow his, his positions and again, that is the key thing. and, you know, on the

justice department, we've obviously seen a very different story. and this is where i think the question of loyalty matters most. this is where the the that trump has been worried about it having, in his view, been weaponized in the past, where he's really wants to redirect that department and that is, you know, potentially to the extent that we are concerned about project 2025, and that is the department that i think many people will be watching i just want to play you one soundbite. >> um that speaks to that really, you know, how trump will interact with this cabinet. let's have a listen everyone asks me, what do you tell president trump? >> he should do? i don't have to tell donald trump. he should do anything. he's done it. we had a great economy under trump. 1.0 2016 to just was one of the greatest periods in american history. i think under donald trump we could have a golden age for the next

four years. >> uh, they're talking about the treasury pick. but, you know, it's what he said towards the beginning of that soundbite that i found interesting, which was that you know, donald trump is in charge. you know, these are loyalists they're not necessarily autonomous figures. so this is a very powerful president with a cabinet that does what it is told to do yeah, i mean, i would you know, qualify that absolutely at the same time, it is reassuring that some of those picks and let's be fair, not all. >> and i think that's why we've seen, you know, gates withdraw his nomination. some of those picks are very serious people. and undoubtedly, um, a president, even donald trump and cannot possibly micromanage every single decision that's that's made. these are vast departments. there will be individuals below them, layers of individuals that they will have to decide who to promote, who not to promote, who to put,

you know, within their top teams. a lot of policy comes down to implementation. so it matters a huge amount who you pick. but of course, on the treasury secretary, it's fascinating. somebody who worked for soros soros has been, you know, considered to be the evil enemy of the maga republican party. uh, so but but bessent has demonstrated and confirmed and it's clear that he's loyal, but he's got real expertise on questions of economic management he'll be critical to to trump's economic agenda. and, you know, one thing that i've been wondering about is if you have people that you trust deeply, that you believe firmly are loyal, does it give donald trump the opportunity to actually consider their views? does it give him more scope to trust them and possibly for certain individuals who are again, very expert in their own right over serious careers to

to kind of pull the president back from some policies, you know an extreme tariff war if it becomes inflationary, does it give those people more of an opportunity to, you know, to call for moderation from donald trump? some people will say that's very wishful thinking, but i think we did see, um, despite some headline claims from donald trump in his first administration that you know, below the radar, not everything looked as volatile as it sounded. and one example, you know, we know that donald trump put pressure on taiwan, but the pentagon actually increased defense spending for taiwan during his tenure. um, so again i think that below the level of the headlines, having those people in place that have the depth of expertise. so some some pics are reassuring. others, um much less so. and again max, i would go back to one of the outstanding concerns is, is the president intending

to execute on some of the more concerning parts of project 2025 rooting out permanent civil servants, making them, you know making the loyalty criteria more important than expertise and they distance themselves from project 2025. but we've seen with the fcc nomination with omb that those those people who wrote the wrote the the chapters for that publication for that project are, you know are right there at the back at the top so, um, i think that that those ideas clearly are going to be influential. >> uh, leslie, it's fascinating, isn't it, as that all unfolds. thank you so much for joining us thank you this is cnn breaking news and it's coming to us out of the middle east. israel says the body of an israeli man missing in the united arab emirates has been found, and that he's the victim of anti-semitic terrorism. he's been missing

since last thursday. cnn international diplomatic editor nic robertson has been following it for us. nick yeah, rabbi zvi cogan, he was a member of the chabad community in the uae this is a sort of a jewish outreach organization. >> he ran a grocery store, a kosher grocery store in dubai, and his family reported to the emirati authorities on thursday that he was missing the emiratis, along with the mossad and other israeli organizations, then began a very intensive effort. concerned about the possibility of terrorism to search for him last night that they were still searching for him. but today authorities in the uae confirmed that they have found his body and the israeli officials, the prime minister's office, the foreign minister as well calling this a heinous act of anti-semitic terrorism. and they will use all means possible to bring the perpetrators to justice within

the within all means of the law they are restating however, that there is a warning, a national security council warning in israel to citizens not to travel to the uae unless it's on important business and they've reaffirmed guidance for israeli citizens. they're saying to avoid business and and leisure locations that are frequented by the jewish and israeli communities they're to keep their profiles lower. if you will, to exercise more caution because of the rise of anti-semitic feelings around the world and in particular in this region. so this is a very sad day for his family who actually have already grieved before for one of their members who was killed in a terror attack in mumbai in 2007. um rabbi zvi cogan's wife, she is

the niece of one of those people killed in that attack in mumbai. back then. so a very very sad day for the family and for the country here max. >> nic robertson, thank you from an israeli strike on a residential building in beirut is now eight story building there. lebanon's national news agency says israel used bunker busting bombs. the israeli military didn't give any warning ahead of the attack and hasn't commented on it. attacks like this one are often used to target senior hezbollah commanders, but a lebanese security source tells cnn that no senior hezbollah member was in that building. in amman jordan, an incident near the israeli embassy has ended. jordanian security forces shot and killed a gunman after he fired at them. jordan's state news agency says the gunman's motives isn't clear but police

are investigating. in gaza, the israeli military attacked and destroyed a mosque on saturday smoke and debris fill the air as people run are some of them were rushing to help the injured, but gaza's health ministry says in this instance, only a few people were hurt. but in other parts of gaza, the ministry says more than 100 people have been killed by israeli military operations over the past two days. meanwhile, the un's aid agency says 97 aid trucks were looted in southern gaza, calling it one of the worst incidents of its kind. now still to come, a major breakthrough at the world's top climate summit. we were showing there. but why are so many nations unhappy? details just ahead. plus, we'll take a close look at the heavy toll the war has taken on ukraine's environment

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>> they're finally coming down for the world's top climate summit in baku azerbaijan on saturday. nearly 200 countries committed the cop 29 summit. after days of intense negotiations. as part of the deal, developed nations have pledged $300 billion annually to help poorer countries tackle the devastating impacts of climate change. the amount, however falls far developing nations say is needed to help them cope with climate change. many have criticizing the deal as vastly insufficient, but president joe biden is praising the agreement as an historic outcome his country's war with russia could end next year, as he braces for a new trump administration. volodymyr zelenskyy, expressing that confidence, that confidence as he awaits trump's so-far unknown proposals for resolving the conflict

when russia wants this war to end when america has a stronger position, when the global south is on the side of ukraine and on the side of ending the war it will happen. >> i'm confident in that it will not be an easy path, but i am confident that we have every chance to do it. >> next year. >> well zelenskyy said that said last week that the war will end, quote, faster when trump returns to the white house. for his part, trump said last july he could settle the conflict in just one day. but he didn't and still hasn't provided any detail on how he plans to do that. all this as the russian president says, moscow will begin mass producing the hypersonic ballistic missile it fired at ukraine this week, which caused so much alarm. now, while trump has cast doubt on continuing

the u.s. aid commitment to kyiv, he did meet with nato secretary general mark rutte in florida on friday. nato says the two discussed a range of global security issues facing the alliance. rutta and his team also met with trump's pick for national security advisor congressman mike wallace. now, we mentioned a few moments ago that the cop 29 summit has come to a close and ukraine used that forum to raise awareness about the massive ecological toll that russia's war is taking there, as the country does its part to combat climate change. nevertheless, ukraine's pavilion in baku highlighted the initiatives it is undertaking. this includes the goal of achieving climate neutrality by 2050 as part of the nation's path towards eu membership. but amid this ukraine says it's documented what it describes as more than thousands of environmental crimes committed by russia since moscow's full scale invasion in 2022. among them more than 330mi÷ of burned forest and other vegetation.

the occupation of nuclear reactors in zaporizhzhia and one of the most staggering the destruction of the kurakhove dam in southern ukraine which led to flooding that stretched for an estimated 230mi÷. russia denies any involvement in the dam's destruction. svetlana grichuk is the minister of environmental protection and natural resources for ukraine. she joins us now from kyiv. thank you so much for joining us. i think a lot of people will be surprised from outside the country that you've still got this huge focus crisis you're facing >> good morning and first of all, i want to use this opportunity and to to thank all americans for for your support during this full scale invasion. and before this full scale invasion. about the environmental damages because of war. that's true that we we have a lot of really a lot of

damages and we already recorded more than 6000 with special like crimes crimes cases against the against the environment and during this more than 1000 days of, of war, we estimated that environmental damages because of hostilities approximated is approximated as 71 billion of dollars. and this amount is not final because russia continue attack continue targeted our environmental facilities, our energy facilities everything and during this period we we lost more than 3 million hectares of ukrainian forests for example. and we estimated that it cost us six, $26 billion. and but what is the more important

than, for example greenhouse gas emission absorption potential of our forests, decrease because of this actions by during the cop 29, we tried to discuss with all partners, with all parties that it will be not possible to achieve the climate goals first of all, we need to to stop actions like we have in ukraine. we need to stop war because at the same time, when we discussing the the climate neutral economies. et cetera, et cetera. at the same time, russia destroyed all efforts in ukraine. >> um a lot of people obviously consistently concerned about the nuclear reactors and then being hit and the amount of, you know, that would be a real seismic environmental impact, wouldn't it, away from the lives that would be lost. um, how are you protecting those

can they be protected at all >> as you said before, they think the beginning of the war since 4th march of 2020 second, russia occupied the the npp, the biggest npp in europe and the situation now is very difficult. for example, we need to provide electricity for the cooling system to zaporizhzhia npp from ukrainian power system and we have just two lines which connected the zaporizhia npp and ukraine and every, every week, some sometimes often russia destroyed these lines and it could happen. some nuclear accident any days. and we try to we try to fix very quickly. we try to protect. but it's not under ukrainian control and we need to danger and not just for ukraine, but also for for europe for neighbor countries

and also for for all the world because it could stop the nuclear development in the world and we need to understand also that without the nuclear energy, it will be also very difficult to achieve the climate goals. >> absolutely. um in terms of climate goals and progress there, we had the cop summit finally, an agreement was reached there. it was a lot of negotiation wasn't it? i think a lot of people will look at the figure that finally came out of it as a huge amount of money going to these developing nations. do you feel it's enough, though, because there have been a lot of complaints, particularly from india, very vocally saying we need a lot more money if you're going to compensate for the climate suffering that we've faced every time the process and but we need to understand that the decision which we adopted during the cop 29, it's a we try to move on. >> we we could not stop. and

yes, it's every time discussion how much money we need and who will provide who will be the recipients of this money but we need to to move on and it's i think it's a good result to the developed country. and multilateral financial institution will provide the money for mitigation and adaptation actions around the world and for ukraine. it's a very important to to to have the access for to this money because now we understand that we need to rebuild our country on the green way we need to use the climate neutral technologies because we don't have any in other ways. we understand that we need to rebuild our country and we need to rebuild. we need to start this process now, and we need the support from from countries, from the different funds because um because we

have a lot of damages, really a lot. it's infrastructure. it's energy, it's environment. and um, but we understand that we could do it with, with international support and here in inside ukraine we also we accumulated all the efforts, all the funds and we already started the rebuilding process the green rebuilding process. >> okay. um, svetlana grindavík really appreciate your time and thank you for sparing it for us today. thank you under control after burning for hours in the capital of the philippines. it broke out on sunday morning in a shantytown district of manila with thick smoke rising near the port. fire and rescue units responded within an hour and had it under control by mid-afternoon there were no casualties reported or homes destroyed. the cause is still under investigation. now

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trump's choice to lead the department of defense, is facing allegations of sexual assault. and cnn's harry enten shows us how that's affected his chances of confirmation obviously, there was the sexual assault allegation that was lobbied up against him. >> and over the last week, as that allegation has gained some more press, you can see that the betting markets have significantly gone down on hedgecock's odds. so this is the chance that he gets confirmed as defense secretary. a week ago, he had a 77% chance. look at where we stand today, 57%. that's only a little bit better than a coin toss and that's a drop of 20 points over a week. and of course, you know, most confirmations fly through the senate. so the idea that you have someone who's just a little bit north of 50% is quite unconventional well, two other controversial trump picks are director of national intelligence. harry tells us how likely it is that they will be appointed so what's the chance that gabbard

gets confirmed? >> look at this just 59%. that's just about 3 in 5. that's nothing. 3 in 5 things don't happen. all of the time. how about rfk jr.. for health and human services secretary. look at that. just 65%. just a 2 in 3 shot. now, i should point out that matt gaetz, who obviously dropped out to be ag, was below 50% before he dropped out in terms of the betting markets. but the bottom line, if there is one thing that we should have learned over the last few years, is that anything that is not a sure thing is definitely not a sure thing so at this particular point, while individually, gabbard and rfk jr.. are likely to get confirmed, they're more likely than not the chance that both of them do. i'm not quite sure that they're north of 50% at this point, and that's quite the thing. given that, you know, trump thinks he has this giant mandate. but the bottom line is, you know, sometimes you run into a brick wall. if you nominate folks who are unconventional. >> that's true enough. as democrats in the u.s. try to

forge a path to recovery after president-elect trump's second victory. the party will have to grapple with why some voters particularly women, felt uneasy with trump but voted for him anyway. exit polls showed that vice president harris had an overall eight point advantage, with women in 2020. president biden had a 15 point advantage. cnn's john king talks to voters in a state that set the tone very early on in the american election cycle. reporter there's some right at the gate right now shanen ebersole loves her land and her cows rain or shine. >> sometimes, if you want to play cowboy, you got to do cowboy things like stand in the rain. >> her vote for donald trump, a vote to protect her way of life. >> the vast majority of people who voted for trump are not the far right crazies. that is not who we are. we're simple americans who want to live our lives and do our jobs and make our own choices in our own

homes and we want that for our neighbors who feel differently than us to we have to be an optimist to run a family cattle ranch trump sees his mandate as the economy and the border hopes he understands a lot of his voters didn't like all that campaign. >> talk about the enemy within and retribution we have spoken. >> we are not letting him be a bully, but we want him to stand firm. >> she is more bullish about trump now than when we first met. back then, trump had competition in the iowa caucuses and ebersol wanted a republican who could be both president and role model. >> he didn't bring us together because of the divisiveness, because of my liberal friends that were literally scared for their safety. >> but when trump rolled to the nomination, ebersole's choice was easy because of biden-harris farm and climate policies. trump won 75% of the vote here in rural ringgold

county. >> we felt as though washington and the far edges of our country were governing the rest of middle america. >> okay, come over here. >> betsy sarcone is another now proud trump voter who initially wanted something very different. so how did you get from i can't take it. i'll vote for biden to i'm going to vote for donald trump. and i'm actually relieved and happy about it. >> i think i've come to the conclusion that i don't love donald trump as a person, but i do think that he is right for the country right now and that he is going to chart a different course. and we're currently on betsy sarcone lives in the des moines suburbs, says her real estate business is slow, and she hopes trump somehow helps lower grocery prices. >> also high on her wish list. >> i'm a mom, single mom of three kids, so that does make a huge difference in my life. >> mia sarcone finds some of trump's cabinet picks disappointing, but she frames it this way she could not support vice president harris so now she thinks she has to be patient with the president

elect, whose calling card is unpredictable. >> the kristi noem, the matt gaetz not necessarily excited about it. um worried? i wouldn't say i'm worried. i voted for change, as did the majority of the people, and that's what we're going to get. so i don't think worrying about it every day is going to do me any good the trump won the majority of the vote emboldens his most fervent supporters, people like chris mudd. >> i think it's important that we round up every illegal and ship them out, and we have to come. we have to figure out a way to get them back to work. i do believe to work. i do believe that we do need immigration. the country needs immigration. it just needs to be legal. >> what would you say to democrats who say that they are literally fearful that they think the mass deportations mean spirited, or they think his ads about transgender americans were mean? what would you say to them? >> i would say, get over it. um you know, there's i don't believe that there's anything to be scared of. >> mud owns midwest solar, a

startup that benefited from biden clean energy incentives. his vote for trump could hurt his business. >> it's possible. but like i've said since i started talking to you, i sell value. i'm selling saving money. i'm not selling the green energy side of the business. i'm selling value. >> some big solar jobs require parts made in china but again, mud says trump should go full steam ahead with trade tariffs. >> most of our stuff is tariff free, so i want to see more more products and services get built in this country. i want to see our pharmaceuticals get produced here instead of in china. i think that we need an american economy that's building things creating things. >> trump's critics call it sloganeering, but the america first thing echoes in the small cities and rural outposts where trump ran strongest. >> why are we bringing argentinian beef in why are we bringing new zealand and australian beef in? and then exporting some of our beef? why don't we first just feed our

beef to our americans maisie helps keep the cows on track in the pastures tia is a show cow so grooming is an everyday chore. let me live my life in the middle of nowhere, where there's more cows than there are people. doordash isn't a thing. pizza delivery is not a thing. you can't even get pizza delivered. hey mama's ebersol's hope is the trump changes a lot in washington and leaves her happy place just as it is. i just stand here and watch my cows and enjoy it. >> john king, cnn kellerton, iowa. >> it's my happy place cyber espionage campaign could become one of the biggest national security challenges facing the incoming trump administration national security officials met with us telecom executives at the white house on friday to share information on the chinese spy efforts. >> the spy campaign has targeted the phone calls and

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present. woolery was nominated for a daytime emmy award in 1978. he was inducted into the american tv game show hall of fame in 2007. chuck woolery was 83 years old a deadly winter storm is battering northwest europe with strong winds, heavy rain, snow and ice. storm bursts snarled roads and shut down rail service across much of england. police say a man in southern england died when a tree fell on his car in ireland. it was flooding that caused the havoc. at least 60,000 homes and businesses are without power. the uk met office issued snow and ice warnings and flood alerts in northern and central england. in france thousands remain without power after another storm hit earlier this week. americans are heading into a holiday week with a thanksgiving on thursday, and it's a major travel holiday, and the weather could make those trips challenging in some parts of the country, i'm afraid. cnn meteorologist

allison chinchar has your forecast for sunday and beyond all eyes are on the forecast for this big holiday travel weekend, and really even going into next week, just in time for thanksgiving. >> now, when we look at the forecast for sunday, it's really actually nice for most of the eastern half of the country. it's really going to be in the west where we have some of our bigger problems. even then, this next system that's going to be sliding into the west coast is not going to be anywhere near as bad as the system that we had earlier in the week. now we've got a couple of different areas, one that's going to start to bring some light rain into areas of the ohio valley and down into the southeast. once we get towards the latter portion of the day monday, by then that system that just entered the west coast now is going to overspread portions of the mountain west. and so by the time we get to mid part of the day, tuesday denver starting to see their forecast begin to deteriorate. pretty quickly and could cause some travel hazards there. but also on the flip side by the time we

get to tuesday night, that first system begins to exit, clearing the way for some nicer weather. at least temporarily. before that system in the west begins to overspread farther east as well. so once we get towards late wednesday now chicago down through memphis, starting to see some rain and snow into the forecast there. the concern really becomes thanksgiving day itself, when that main system really over spreads a lot of moisture essentially from new york all the way back into portions of east texas. now, the real question here is about the timing for new york city specifically, when you take a look at most of this, you'll notice most of it just really starts to spread into that area. by the time we get to thursday afternoon and into the evening. this is important because a lot of eyes are going to be on the new york city macy's day thanksgiving parade. now, as we mentioned, there is heavy rain in the forecast late in the day. but what about in the morning? those first couple hours likely to be okay. it's the back half of the morning when we're really going to start to see some of those rain chances begin to increase regardless of whether it rains

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products included in the recall are yusheng brand cooked chicken, chinese brand spicy duck necks and braised pork belly, and brown sauce, among others. in a statement, the usda's food safety and inspection service reported that the problem was discovered after performing routine testing and follow up activities of finished product by yusheng food in late october. the usda says the recalled product tested positive for listeria monocytogenes. additional testing confirmed the presence of listeria in those products as well as environmental samples collected by fcis. the usda says that consumption of food contaminated with l monocytogenes can cause listeriosis, a serious infection that primarily affects older adults. persons with weakened immune systems, and pregnant women and their newborns. some of the symptoms include fever, muscle aches headache, stiff neck, confusion loss of balance and convulsions sometimes preceded by diarrhea or other gastrointestinal

symptoms, yusheng said in a statement to cnn that although the woman reported eating the company's products before she became ill, there was no proof. they said, that they were the cause. officials say if you bought any of these products, you should throw them away or return them to the place of purchase. earlier this year, officials reported other listeria outbreaks including last month in contaminated salmon being sold at costco and over the summer involving boar's head deli meat. rafael romo, cnn atlanta in ecuador, a trip to the dentist has just become a little less scary for children. >> this is aldo, an adorable labrador retriever whose job is to cuddle with kids to distract them from the noises and the panic of oral procedures. aldo has been trained to understand around 30 different commands including climbing onto the chair of his owner, dentist glenda so children can pet his fur

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