. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda, and this is cnn welcome back to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and around the world. >> i'm kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. several sources tell cnn the u.s. funded aid work around the world has largely been brought to a standstill. president donald trump's 90 day freeze on nearly all u.s. foreign aid continues into a third week as he tries to reshape the federal government. secretary of state marco rubio claims he's issued a blanket waiver for life saving programs. multiple aid workers and contractors with the u.s. agency for international development say that doesn't reflect the situation on the ground. usaid operates around the world, providing life saving resources for millions through u.s. suppliers. but now those who rely on the agency say the future looks uncertain. cnn's larry madowo reports from uganda. >> i feel traumatized. i feel low. >> 36 year old samuel linda has been living with hiv since 2014, getting his life saving drugs from a usaid project. but his supplies are almost out. >> i feel like the

salvage the world health organisation says an ebola of ebola which killed a nurse in the capital, kampalarebels said the pause in fighting and almost 300,000 injured in recent fighting the in and around goma after it was seized by rebels. regional fighting has seen hundreds of thousands since the start of 2025 — more than 400,000 people western governments have condemned the offensive and there are warnings of escalating risks to the escalating health risks to the local population. about escalating health risks with the rainy season intensifying. there are still bodies of people who died in the violence and hospitals and health centres are overwhelmed a teenager after a 15—year—old boy was stabbed to death at a school in south yorkshire. they came to leave messages for a boy who was stabbed to death here. the enormity of what's happened proving too much for some. we don't know why it happened because he was a sound lad, anyway. he loved football and had many friends through the game. were called to reports of a stabbing anxiously at the cordons, waiting for their children to be let out. a

meanwhile, patients at this usaid funded facility in the ugandan capital, kampala, wait, hoping their treatments are still available. nearly 1000 employees here have been followed after the u.s. stop work orders. it's still running for now, though no one knows for how much longer its leader, doctor andrew campbell, is a uc berkeley alum who is grateful for american generosity but worries about the future for his staff and patients. >> we are. >> in the throes of an ebola outbreak, and before the ebola outbreak. uganda is grappling with an outbreak. so we find ourselves in a situation where a number of. >> infectious diseases have converged. >> usaid is a lifeline to millions here, millions who would be stuck without it. these are thank you notes from patients here to the medical team at the infectious diseases institute in uganda. they cover hiv, tb, mpox and even the current ebola outbreak. the country's eighth. the implication is that u.s. funding has kept patients like these ones alive. the u.s. is one of uganda's largest donors, spending more than half $1 billion in health care al

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. >> trying to stem it right now in kampala. >> uganda. >> there's an ebola outbreak. and last week, perhaps not this week because of the shutdown. but last. >> week, americans. >> were working. >> in the clinics stemming and. >> trying to stop that ebola outbreak. >> and keep. >> in mind, it's only 15 hours. >> from kampala. >> to new. >> york city. >> and somebody that has that infection could wind up. and so this is part of the work. the vaccination programs, more than 26 million people are alive today because of. a program called pepfar, which is dealing with hiv aids. so these programs deal with. >> medical services. >> they protect us here in the united states from. infections and pandemics that could come our way. and also, we are feeding people that are in desperate trouble. i often i've been saying that before. musk puts the usaid in the wood shredder. he ought to go to a. >> famine camp. >> and hold a starving baby in his arms, and then come back and decide whether usaid is appropriate in us. usaid has figured out and is actually producing an emergency supple

kampala is having its first ebola epidemic in years right now. and there is a us team there that is would be leading the response to ebola. so it doesn't spread. and among other things, come here. that ebola team in uganda has just been axed with no warning, as uganda is having a brand new ebola epidemic. does that seem smart? even if you don't consider the fact that one of the teams just axed by trump and rubio and musk with no warning, is the us team that designs really highly specialized treatment regimes for individual patients who have multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. why do you need to do that? you need to do that because you don't want multidrug resistant tuberculosis to overrun the globe. right? the people who are designing specialized treatment regimes for people with potentially the most dangerous pathogen in the world. axed with no warning, stop work. and by the way, you can't even access your email or any of your files. do you think that makes the people who actively have multidrug resistant tuberculosis right now somehow magically

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda, and this is cnn. >> breaking news. a major blow for donald trump from a federal judge. he appointed that judge, blocking trump's plan to gut usaid, at least for now. a ruling that the president must pause his plans to place some 2200 employees on leave. that decision, coming after trump made it clear that he was shutting the humanitarian aid agency down, writing, quote, usaid is driving the radical left crazy and there is nothing they can do about it, because the way in which the money has been spent, so much of it fraudulently, is totally unexplainable. the corruption is at levels rarely seen before. close it down. in response from elon musk. quote. yes, mr. president, while crews today were removing the agency's name from its headquarters in washington, donald trump was moving on to his next targets, the department of education and the department of defense, which of course, has billions of dollars in contracts with elon musk. >> have you directed elon musk to review pentagon spending, given it's the biggest discreti

. >> in kampala, uganda and this. >> is cnn. >> tonight. a federal judge saying he will pause a midnight deadline to shut down usaid. but how long will that pause last? the reality is, there are real consequences tonight to the agency being shuttered. it is a lifeline to millions. larry madowo is out front. >> i feel traumatized. i feel low. 36 year. >> old samuel linda. >> has been living. >> with hiv. >> since 2014. getting his life. >> saving drugs. >> from. >> a usaid. >> project. >> but his supplies are almost out. >> i feel like the world is ending tomorrow because i don't know where i'm going to go. i don't know my tomorrow if i'll be alive or dead. >> he distributes. >> u.s. funded. >> condoms in his community to stop new infections and make sure the infected keep taking their medications. meanwhile, patients at this usaid funded facility in the ugandan capital, kampala, wait, hoping their treatments are still available. nearly 1000 employees here have been followed after the u.s. stop work orders. it's still running for now, though

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a calabash garden, south, west of kampala, the atmosphere here is almost magical. farmer godfrey k, gloria fills the gourds as a natural alternative to plastic containers and bottles. the release the river is just one example of how plastic pollutes the environment and threatens bio diversity. more and more people are realizing the plastic waste is a huge problem. this is now i know, fortunately this is a new market. there's something new on market. this one has added on our income. after harvesting, the guards are dried and then hollowed out. it's important to farmer t gloria that nothing goes to waste. what comes out as the weights due to that, the seeds that comes from insight? no, that's fee before the peaks that's kind of produced. some of would do uh, a buzz on some of the re tell me where the peaks, so they kind of still get something that's not what you say you put in there with. so you see now there is nothing we can do with color, bosh, or traditionally used as a vessel for storing dairy products and other things. st. vendor christine, among a, has seen an increase in sales data

and right now, ebola is once again in kampala, uganda. usaid was working in those clinics to stop that outbreak. they're not there anymore. so maybe that will expand. and it's just 15 hours away from washington, d.c. >> and we're. >> already gets on a plane and we're here. >> and we're seeing, congressman, the impacts of this. there's a headline in reuters about a burmese refugee who died after being discharged from a shut us funded clinic. and then you have the impact here at home. this headline from the washington post about how gutting usaid actually threatens billions of dollars for u.s. farms, quote, purchases and shipments of u.s. food aid worth over $340 million, including rice, wheat and soybeans, have been paused during trump's foreign aid freeze. that's according to officials in an email obtained by the post. my question for you, congressman, is when republicans inevitably take a victory lap on this, say that they have cut government waste. what is democrats? counterpunch. >> it's not waste. it's an essential american program. i

. >> kampala don't. >> contain people with. >> ebola who. >> bring that disease elsewhere.nst america, they root against democracy. therefore. they root against u.s. aid and are thrilled that it's the united states government itself that is taking this agency off the field. but the. >> other. >> reason they're cheering is that usaid does really important democracy work, really important anti-corruption work, supporting independent journalists, training. >> them to make sure. >> that they can go out and about and. cast sunlight on what is going on in those countries. >> joining our coverage, andrew natsios, he was the administrator for usaid during the george w bush administration. he's now an executive professor at texas a&m university. andrew, i wonder if you could just take us through what people, what people don't understand about how nonpartisan usaid mission is? >> well, any agency or department. >> of the. federal government follows the lead. >> of the white house. so the. >> fox news and other. >> groups are attacking. >> aid for having some social cultural programs,

. >> ebola outbreak in uganda, to make sure that those flights that come from kampala don't contain peoplewho bring that disease elsewhere. so they root against america, they root against democracy, therefore, they root against u.s. aid and. >> are. >> thrilled that. it's the united states government itself that is taking this agency off the field. but the. >> other reason. >> they're cheering is that usaid does really important democracy work. really important anti-corruption work, supporting independent journalists, training them to make sure that they can go out and about and cast sunlight on what is going on in those countries. so a lot of the elections, for example, that maduro stole or that putin rigged the documentation of that happens because brave venezuelans or russians are out there willing to document that. and some of that training, you know, over the years has come from the united states and specifically from usaid. so democracy. programing is a small part of the overall enterprise of development and humanitarian response, but it's one that definitely gets under the skin of t

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda. and this.. >> so who knew president trump actually means what he says no matter what his top officials say he means. case in point tonight, his plan to take over gaza tuesday, he laid it out. americans would take control and turn it into what he described as a middle east riviera and send the 2 million palestinians who live there to egypt, jordan and or several other unspecified places. kaitlan collins asked who would end up living in the gaza strip in the newly refurbished riviera. and he said the world's people, palestinians included, when asked, and the u.s. would have what he called a long term ownership position. now wednesday, the people around him said, no, that's not that's not his plan. secretary of state rubio described a completely different kind of plan, a kind of a tear down and refurb plan for for palestinians. >> so what he's very generally, very generously has offered is the ability of the united states to go in and help with debris removal, help with munitions removal, help wit

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda, and this is cnn. >> here are some of the top stories we are following this morning. investigators have recovered all major wreckage from last month's mid-air collision between an american airlines plane and a blackhawk helicopter. the debris from the january 29th collision over the potomac river in d.c. has been moved to a secure facility for a detailed examination to determine what caused the crash. the accident killed 67 people, making it one of the deadliest aviation disasters in recent history. five former hostages from thailand, released last week are now back in their home country. hamas abducted the men during the october 7th attacks. thailand's labor minister says around 5000 thais were employed in the area where hamas attacked. human rights watch says thailand has dominated the foreign migrant worker market in israel for the past decade. and after more than 24 hours of disruption, sony says its playstation network is back online. the company announced on x just after midnight that services had fully recovered from an operational issue

right now, there's an ebola pandemic outbreak in kampala, uganda, and a marburg outbreak in tanzania. these are deadly, potentially pandemic diseases. it is much cheaper for us to invest in nurses and clinics and health care to contain those pandemics in africa, than to risk someone getting on an airplane, coming here and spreading it in the united states, where we'll spend billions responding to just a few cases, i think we are safer and stronger when we push back on terrorism and i.s.i.s., push back on china and russia, push back on pandemics around the world through the soft power outreach of nonprofit partners to usaid like world vision, save the children and care, you referenced elon musk. let's go there next. so half the country wants to see a reduction of the size of government. we tried it the conventional way 15 years ago. it was called simpson-bowles. it never even got to a vote in the congress. so what do you say to the people who they might be unsettled about this approach, but they like the work being done everyone likes the idea of cutting the federal bureaucracy and cut

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda, and this is cnn. thinking we

. >> in kampala, uganda, and. >> this is. >> cnn. >> this week, president trump is expected to announceled reciprocal tariffs on several countries in an effort to restore what he believes is fairness to international trade. while it is not clear what form those tariffs will take, cnn's richard quest spoke exclusively with french president emmanuel macron about how concerned he and other european allies are about this. >> look, i think it's not the top priority in the current environment given all the challenges we have. we have to fix ukraine. we have the situation in middle east. we have this competition between us and china, and we have all this innovation from a.i. to clean tech as well, to deliver. honestly, i don't think it should be the top priority. nevertheless, what is the concern of president trump? and you know that we have a very good relation and we speak very regularly. he says i'm not happy with the situation with europe because i have a trade deficit. when you look at the situation, my first question to the u.s. is the european union your first problem? no, i don't think

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda, and this is cnn. >> every good story has to have a villain. every good story has to have a villain and a, you know, and people hate success. you know, over time, people like to see something different. if i was on the outside looking in, i'd be saying the same thing. i'm sick of the chiefs. >> of your success. oh, there he is. sunday's super bowl showdown pits superstar quarterback patrick mahomes of the kansas city chiefs against. why is the music starts playing against jalen hurts. let's go back to jalen hurts. he's nice to look at at the philadelphia eagles. there we go. the chiefs are looking to be the first time in nfl history to go back to back to back a three peat. our next guest knows what it's like to celebrate three super bowl wins already. but not not in a row. you're taking a look at all three of those with that crazy, wild looking mascot who i sort of love. let's bring in kansas city, missouri mayor quinton lucas. oh, wow, you are really ready for the moment. i see you're dressed in all your spectacular chiefs memorabilia. it's gr

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda. >> and this. >> is cnn president trump's comments that canada should become the 51st u.s. >> state was originally brushed off by many as a joke. >> but canadian prime minister justin trudeau, he doesn't think it's so funny. he was overheard telling a business gathering on friday that trump is serious. cnn's paula newton has more for us. >> while many. >> considered this a hot. >> mic moment. >> in true fact, the prime minister has been warning people since he visited trump in november after he was reelected that the president is serious. he doesn't understand why canada can't just become the 51st state, and he will continue to try and press that argument. now, this was a conference of business and labor leaders where they are all getting together to try to really formulate a plan and how to fight a proposed american tariffs. but i want you to listen now to justin trudeau as he was addressing that room when he thought the media had left. listen. >> mr. trump has it in mind that one of the easiest ways of doing. >> this is. >> to. absorbing our co

. >> i'm larry madowo in kampala, uganda, and this is cnn. thinking we might see some history. instead, we got a historic blowout. we just went out there and execute the game plan, the preparation that we had all week. it really showed out there. >> president trump announced that he would be unveiling reciprocal tariffs on countries that tariff the u.s. >> very simply. if they charge us, we charge them. >> the european union is not fit for purpose when it comes to dealing with something like president trump. >> i think it could be the opposite. when you have direct contacts. >> live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster and christina macfarlane. >> hello. welcome to our viewers joining us around the world. i'm max foster. >> and i'm christina macfarlane. it's monday, february 10th, 9 a.m. here in london, 3 a.m. in new orleans, louisiana, where the philadelphia eagles have denied the kansas city chiefs a chance at history with a decisive victory in super bowl 59. the eagles led from start to finish, dominating the chiefs in all three phases of the game. philadelphia

. >> in kampala, uganda. >> and this is. >> cnn. >> tonight, congresswoman nancy pelosi says that democratsave a plan to counter president trump's aggressive political agenda as her party has been zeroing in on elon musk, holding rallies at the very agencies that he has been working to purge. now, almost three weeks into the second trump presidency, the former house speaker says change is coming we're very proud of. >> hakeem jeffries. >> our leader. he has given us guidance on our priorities, what we're here to fight for, but also how we counter the trump administration with litigation in the courts, legislation on the floor of the house, as well as communication and mobilization at the grassroots level. in about 6 or 7 months, you're going to see such a change. by the time we start our campaigns in this fall for next fall, you're going to see a very different picture about the democrats vis a vis donald trump. >> not everyone believes that the current democratic leadership can deliver on that. my source tonight is calling for a new generation of leaders and is also seeking to unseat pelos

. >> that come from kampala don't contain.> so they root against america. >> they root against democracy, therefore, they root against u.s. aid and are thrilled that it's the united states government itself that. >> is taking this agency off the field. but the other reason they're cheering is that usaid does. >> really important democracy work, really important. anti-corruption work, supporting. independent journalists, training. >> them to make sure that. they can go. >> out and about and cast sunlight on what is going on in. >> those countries. >> joining our coverage, andrew natsios, he was the administrator for usaid during the george w bush administration. he's now an executive professor at texas a&m university. and joining us here at the table, former undersecretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs during the obama administration, rick stengel. andrew, i wonder if you could just take us through what people, what people don't understand about how nonpartisan usaid mission is? >> well. >> any agency or depa

i'll never forget being in kampala, the capital of uganda, run by evangelicals who moved there and devoted their lives to providing skills training, counseling, thousands and thousands of refugees were pouring into uganda from the civil war in south sudan to the north. on an easter weekend trip with my friend and republican colleague bob corker, we got to see firsthand the services that were being delivered in the very north of uganda to recent refugees profoundly traumatized, most of whom had family members murdered in front of them and who had walked hundreds or even thousands of miles, a quarter million people had flowed over the northern border of uganda and were resettling in the b beattie beattie refugee camp. to see the hands of volunteers was to be touched by the remarkable humanitarian work of americans. and our partners, ugandans, ken kenans. i mentioned there is an outbreak of ebola in uganda and in tanzania there is another outbreak, horrific virus infections that can tear through a village or community. but the danger of having an out break in a capital city of millions of peo