i'm laila harrak and you're watching "cnn newsroom."ation rolled in from around the world friday over the execution of an iranian protester. mohsen shekari was hanged on wednesday and many nations have strongly denounced his death. european foreign ministers will discuss it monday at a meeting in brussels. german and the uk summoned their respective iranian ambassadors. even so, inside iran, protesters were undaunted. demonstrations were back in the streets of cities across the nation on friday. however, iranian authorities say more executions could take place in the coming days. 11 other protesters have also been sentenced to death. the u.n. human rights chief says the government's goal is to suppress the mass movement. >> we issued a tweet yesterday about the execution of mohsen shekari. very troubling and clearly designed to send a chilling effect to the rest of the protesters. >> the hanging of shekari is the first known public execution associated with iran's protest movement. cnn's melissa bell has details, but we must warn you, s

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i'm laila arauk. ahead this hour, georgia on the mind in american politics with election day for the senate runoff just around the corner. >>> first blood drawn in the world cup's knockout stage 14. the winners, the losers, and today's matchups ahead. >>> lava oozing from hawaii's mauna loa, inches closer to a main highway. cnn has a team up close and personal to the volcano bringing you the report. >> live from cnn center, this is "cnn newsroom" with laila harrak. >> we're just two days away from the final vote of the 2022 midterm elections on tuesday. people here in georgia will go to the polls in the state's u.s. senate runoff election. they'll choose between democratic incumbent, senator raphael warnock, and republican, herschel walker. state data says nearly 2 million voters have already cast early ballots. a warnock victory would grant democrats an outright majority in the u.s. sena, providing a legislative boost and making confirmation of the president's judicial nominees easier. dianne gallagh

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. >> reporter: yes, absolutely laila. heard from ukrainian military officials as well as western intelligence sources. it is set to be an uncertain beginning to the new year with the anticipation of potential intensification of russia's bombardment of ukraine. over the last ten months we have seen that bombardment continue, but despite that president zelenskyy has remained defiant. we heard him speaking just yesterday in his nightly address, a defiant tone to the nation, saying that the ukrainian armed forces are maintaining their positions in much of the eastern front lines and, in fact, making some slow advances in parts of the east. but over the last two weeks we have seen that bombardment continue and heavy clashes, of course, in missile attacks by the russian armed forces in key areas in the east, particularly on thursday when ukraine saw one of the largest barrages of missile attacks by the russian armed forces that they have seen since the beginning of russia's invasion ten months ago, attacking the country from al

janice rosen, towns uses around 8 meters of linen to produce 6 scarves, which he sells with his wife laila. janice has been running the business for 20 years, but doesn't know how much longer he can continue. the war in ukraine has changed every day. i'm very worried about everything to do with the war part of a he don't know how much you will is going to cost at the filling station with the bands. i think one think. and even just turning the lights on, it's up money. perfectly as guided alone, uranus has friends who are helping him to build his house. but the price of building materials in latvia has gone up by half. and he doesn't know when it will be finished. the rosenthal's live in a small village in western latvia, set in beautiful countryside. youngest takes the children to school each morning and brings them home again later. but all is not as idyllic as it seems with a population of just to 1000000 latvia is one of the poorest countries in the european union. it's economy traditionally closely linked to russia's. the war has had a disastrous impact on business owners like yon us,

play and pray with every team hoping to advanced to the knockout stages of the tournament. despite laila massey missing a penalty, it was argentina getting a crucial wind over poland. the 1st school was a bit clumsy lexus mcallister's shot went off his foot on to his chin up against the post and into the in the 6th and 7th minute julian aberice made it to him and that was how it ended. as a tina one, the group followed by poland, whose fans and plays saw a few minutes after the game that they, to mexico and saudi arabia both had a chance to claw their way to 2nd place in groups. see. after a scoreless, 1st half, mexico put itself in the corner kick. it made it easy for him martin. the strike was simply hard to tap the ball in the 4 to 7 minutes. free kick. 5 minutes later, all but settled the match from mexico. louis chavez, the last of the ball into the corner to help give mexico 8 to one victory. first, take a look at the final standings in the competitive group see with their victory over poland, argentina finished on top of the group and advanced to the knockout stages and look at po

laila santiago joins us now. what did he tell you? says he's still alive because he had a strong will to live and because he stayed positive. let's talk about the timeline as he laid it out. he says wednesday night he was on the cruse ship with his family. they had spent about two years planning this. it was a big group of 18 people. the last thing he remembers is hanging out with his family on that carnival cruse ship around 10:30 wednesday night. he admits he had a few drinks but said he was far from ineast bay -- he finds himself in the ocean swimming and the cruse ship is long gone. he doesn't even see it. i asked him how did you survive this? he said, one, i prayed a lot, even bargained with god, he said. he expected there would be a rescue effort. he didn't at any point think he wasn't going to survive, he says, because he knew his mom would make sure they found him. then he said he staye ed positi. one thing he says helped him do that was he sang songs. >> what songs did you sing? >> "sittin' on the dock of the bay." i made up

. >> reporter: laila ipsa has been chasing the campaign all fall who works in the show "power trip" onir to say in some ways warnock is running to be senator of georgia and herschel walker is running to be a republican in the senate? >> absolutely. and you know that because warnock all the time says "i represent all of georgia." this is not a partisan issue. the differences between me and my opponent are too wide." walker talks about make america great again. >> reporter: but all georgia voters facing some challenges after the republican-controlled state legislature enacted new laws after the 2020 election. runoff cycles were shortened from nine to four weeks long. there were fewer mail-in drop boxes. and the time to request a ballot was reduced. >> this is happening a full month earlier, which a lot of people thought would benefit republicans, because it gives republicans less of an opportunity to flex their early voting muscle. but it may have had the opposite effect, because it motive in order democrats than ever to vote early. >> reporter: the results, hours' long waits to vote in

la laila sanitiago skwrejoining us more on this. what did he tell you? >> reporter: yeah.ven i said to him this is a little hard to believe. it's unbelievable. do you understand why folks might be sort of in shock. and he said, yeah, i get it. it's a miracle. even he acknowledged that. okay. let me kind of walk you through how he lays this out. he went on a cruise with a big family, about 18 people. and he admits he had had a few drinks but said he was far from inebrriated. bottom line, we don't know how he went from having a good time with his family to ending up in the middle of the ocean on his own. eventually, his family reported him missing. and it was hours on end that he says he just kept on swimming and swimming. and here's the interesting thing. i asked him -- i said at any point did you sort of accept or think about i might not make it out of here. can you believe he said no, never even considered that as a possibility. he said he felt like he was praying. he was soaking in, if you will, everything that was around him, enjoying the sunrise, whatever he could see,

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laila santiago is following this and joins us. all captured on body camera. what did we fine out? entire exchange is short. under two minutes to be exact we what led to mary o'connor placed on administrative leave after she was being pulled over. she told the deputy that she was the tampa police chief and she was hoping he would let it go. so in the body cam footage you see that the golf cart is being pulled over. ko connor is in the passenger seat. her husband is driving. after the deputy proceeds to explain to them why they were being pulled over which was because they were driving a golf cart on the public road without the appropriate tags this happened. >> is your camera on? >> it is. >> i'm the police chief in tampa. >> how are you doing? >> good. i would hope you would just let us go tonight. >> reporter: she shows the badge. she later gives him the business card. if you need anything give me a call. she apologized for being the golf cart on the road without the appropriate tags and understands why folks think she handled it in an inappropriate way and she asked if the video

. >> cnn's laila seyla santiago w more on how migrants are reacting. >> reporter: there was a bit of a disappointing mood in many of the conversations i had with the migrants here. there was one mother saying she was fleeing violence in venezuela, and she took months bringing herself as well as her two young children, including a toddler all the way here. said they had been robbed in mexico, and that her intention had been to cross into the u.s. legally, but because of title 42, she was sent back. hearing that that remains in place for many of these migrants, not just this mother, many of the migrants we spoke to kind of echoed that same sentiment. as you can see behind me, these are migrants that have nowhere to go at this time. the city says that they have capacity at shelters, but many of these migrants say they fear getting on any sort of bus, not knowing exactly where they will end up, not having trust in any sort of individual who may be trying to help them. so the city is saying that this is an issue, trying to find a place where they can put some of the migrants that have com

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