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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN HOST: Diplomats argue as more bombs falls. The U.N. fails to reach a solution for Syria after one of the bloody weekend of the civil war.

The great debate is just hours away. Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton prepare for their biggest stage yet.

And the golfer known as the King dies at 87. How the world is remembering Arnold Palmer.

Hello and Welcome to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church and this is CNN NEWSROOM.

Syrian government forces backed by Russia have, once again, bombed the city of Aleppo. Activists say the air strikes Sunday killed at least 85 people. At the same time world powers argued over how to stop the violence at the United Nations Security Council meeting.

Russia says bringing peace is almost impossible and there's a lot of finger pointing, Russia and Syria blame the U.S. for the collapse of the cease fire after a coalition air strike killed Syrian troops last week. The U.S. accuses Russia of barbarism in Syria.

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SAMANTHA POWER, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: Instead of pursuing peace, Russia and are Assad make war. Instead of helping get life- saving aid to civilians, Russia and Assad are bombing the humanitarian convoys, hospitals and first responders who are trying desperately to keep people alive.

Russia will argue today, no doubt, that these attacks are meant to fight terrorism and that the people killed in this offensive are terrorists or terrorist's sympathizers. This is absurd.

VITALY CHURKIN, RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N. (TRANSLATED): Perhaps, we should stop accusing people are who coming from politician who say that they have the best interest of the Syrian people in there. If they want negotiations, then they should go back to those foreign capitals where they disagreed with this earlier.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: And inside Syria, the bombing and fighting show no sign of

letting up. Senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen joins us now live from the Syrian capital of Damascus. So, Fred little to nothing achieved at the diplomatic level at the United Nations. So, what's going to take to stop the fighting there.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, I would say it's even worse than that, I would say not only has very little achieved as far as trying to get a ceasefire going and trying to get the weapons stopped there in Aleppo, but also in other areas of Syria as well.

We did have some shelling going on here in Damascus also, but the powers that are supposed to try to get some sort of cessation of hostility back on track they seem to have bigger risk between them than we have seen in a long time.

We've just seen the U.S. and the Russian they're trading barbs in the United Nations, you had some nations when the Syrian representative, the Syrian ambassador to the United Nations was speaking, walk out where as he then was saying or was vowing that Syria, the government would try to take back every inch of Syrian territory and that, of course, includes the eastern district of Aleppo as well.

So, at this point certainly very far from any sort of se station of hostilities. And that's something that we're also hearing as happening on the ground, where the air war there is obviously continuing, there's also a lot of shelling going on especially there in the eastern district. Activists there on the ground. We see more than 80 people were killed on Sunday alone in the violence that was going on there.

And these groups are also saying they believe that that death panel could very well rise because they simply don't have the resources to get to all the people who are still trapped underneath the rubble.

We've hearing reports some very heavy munitions being used. And you know, I was just speaking to the acting U.N. coordinator for this -- for Syria and he was saying right now it's very difficult and impossible to get any sort of aid to the people who are trapped there in eastern Aleppo, so certainly very dire situation where you had water shortages and the absence of water over the weekend.

And then of course also the complete lack of aid and the complete lack of any sort of cessation to the violence as well, Rosemary.

CHURCH: So, Fred, with the diplomacy offering no answers here, what options are left?

PLEITGEN: Well, there's very few options. I mean, right now what's going on is that the Syrian government acknowledges that it's pressing an offensive on the eastern district of Aleppo and they say that this offensive is a comprehensive one involving both air and ground forces.

And from what we've seen and what the Syrian government has acknowledged and what the opposition is saying as well. There seem to be two main areas of ground fighting in Aleppo in the south and the north of those areas that are besiege.

[03:05:03] There's one area, in particular, called Handarat Camp that was the place of some very heavy fighting it was overrun by government forces on Saturday and then lost most of that territory later when the rebel launched a counter offensive.

So, right now it seems as though, a military solution is what the at least the Syrian government seems to be pressing and it really doesn't seem as the international community at this point in time has very much leverage to try and stop that. It certainly looks as though any sort of effort for diplomacy is in a lot of trouble.

And the Russians even said so in that U.N. Security Council meeting. They believe that the prospects were trying to get any sort of diplomatic political solution for cessation of hostilities are very slim at this point in time.

CHURCH: Very frustrating, as people across the globe watch on wanting some answers here in the cessation of violence. Our Fred Pleitgen joining us there live from Damascus in Syria just after 10 o'clock in the morning. Many thanks, Fred.

Well, at least eight people are dead and 25 wounded after three bombings in Baghdad Sunday. These photos show workers cleaning up after the deadliest attack. Authorities say it was a suicide bombing that killed at least six people.

A police source says the bomber attacked Shia pilgrims who are preparing for the holy month of Muharram. ISIS claimed responsibility for that blast.

The U.S. presidential election is moving into the home stretch with the first of three debates for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Tens of millions of voters are expected to tune in Monday to watch the show down at Hofstra University.

Clinton comes to the stage as the debate veteran prepared to talk policy and Trump is a newcomer who shoots from the hip.

Jonathan Mann explains the challenges ahead for both candidates.

JONATHAN MANN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It is probably going to be the most important 90 minutes of the campaign. About 100 million people are expected to be watching, that's a bigger audience than either candidate has had so far.

And because the interest tends to wing just a little bit after the first debate this maybe the biggest audience for those two candidates until Election Day. It is a lot that we're looking forward to. But that is still ahead.

Let's talk about what we saw on Sunday because it's very, very telling. Sunday was a good day for Donald Trump. He received Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Trump Tower, that is the head of government of Israel going to see Donald Trump, not the other way around. And what that meeting offered Trump was an opportunity to show himself

meeting with a world leader, as if one leader to another leader, he's ready to do business. Donald Trump demonstrated that he can, without mishap, take on the role of the Oval Office of the commander in chief.

Hillary Clinton ended up meeting with Netanyahu as well. But once again, all that did was show that she's capable of doing what Trump is capable of doing. Vice versa, Trump can do what Clinton can do. He is a reasonable alternative. That's a very crucial message coming into the debate which is now, really, not that far away.

Because he wants to use the opportunity to show that he is a real alternative. He wants to reassure a lot of nervous Americans, that he's not just a buffoon millionaire who is going to bulldoze his way around the planet. And so, this is really a important opportunity for him to show calm, to show confidence, to show that he doesn't need a teleprompter to tone him down.

In fact, one of his advisers former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says, he's not even preparing all that much because he doesn't need to.

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RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: It depends on how much confidence he have in himself. And that's what we want. We want a president whose confidence in himself or herself. If you've got to over prepare, you have to over prepare, I mean, but if you have confidence in yourself, I mean, go with what got you there.

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MANN: Hillary Clinton's job is to make sure Americans are not confident in Trump. She has got her hope that he does something once again to show that, as she would say, a loose cannon, she has to do that to Trump and she has to do something for herself. Her biggest liability is that she doesn't seem sincere. She doesn't seem honest.

She has got to use 90 minutes which is not a long time to project authenticity, transparency, honesty, likability, one night is not a lot of time to do it in.

So, the impact that this debate will have, we're not sure. But here is one thing to keep in mind, we're talking about 90 crucial minutes that may boil down to just one moment, one gap, one encounter that is going to define the experience for 100 million Americans and a lot of people watching from around the world. It's going to be something to see. Back to you.

CHURCH: Many thanks to Jonathan Mann there. And later this hour we will take a closer look at what's at stake for each of the candidates in Monday's debate.

[03:10:06] Well, tributes are pouring in for golf legend Arnold Palmer who had died at the age of 87. Palmer won more than 90 tournaments including seven majors. Known as the king, he was credited with bringing gold to the masses. First off a win at the FedEx Cup here in Atlanta, Rory McIlroy spoke to CNN about Palmer's legacy.

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RORY MCILROY, GOLFER: I think Arnold meant a lot to a lot of people. He hear the golfer first and foremost, I mean, if it wasn't for Arnold Palmer I don't think the PGA Tour what it would be today for playing for the obscene amount of money that we play for. And he really brought the game to the masses in the 60s and '70s.

And even though he wasn't the most successful golfer of all time he's definitely the one that will leave the lasting legacy. I think of all sports over the past century, I'm not sure anyone if anyone is going to leave a legacy quite like Arnold Palmer.

So, you know, he meant a lot to a lot of pole. He was a very generous man. He had a lot for the community, a lot for charity, you know, the Children's Hospital up in Orlando and I was lucky enough to have, you know, to get some, you know, to get spend time with him and he was just a wonderful man with great stories.

And as I say, great charisma and have a lot of time for anyone that -- anyone that he met in his life.

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CHURCH: And U.S. President Barack Obama tweeted, "Here is to the king who was extraordinary on the links as he was generous to others. Thanks for the memories, Arnold."

Tiger Woods took to Twitter to say, "Thanks, Arnold for your friendship, counsel and a lot of laughs. Your philanthropy and humility are part of your legend."

Greg Norman said simply, "A legend was lost today. Rest in peace."

Former U.S President George W. Bush also -- praised Palmer saying this, "For all who loved the game of golf and love to see it played, there that never been a side quite like Arnold Palmer walking down the fair way toward the 18th green."

Well, on top of all his wins, Palmer was finally credited with making a country club sport popular with a public.

Michael (Inaudible) looks back at Palmer's long career.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Winner of seven majors and 96 tournaments overall, Arnold Palmer was one of golf's greatest and most charismatic players. His rise to stardom in the late 1950s and '60s coincided with the advent of televised golf and alongside his life-long friend and rival Jack Nicklaus.

Palmer brought golf into the forefront of the nation's sporting consciousness. His unique rapport with spanned Arnie's army, a loyal legion of fans that spanned decades and generations.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ARNOLD PALMER, GOLFER: When people say we treat other people as you'd like to be treated. They don't really think that although that's a nice thing to say. But, you know, I had it beaten into me that that was the thing to do, I have practiced that.

JOHN GARRITY, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SENIOR WRITER: Arnold Palmer is pretty much the fellow who took golf to the middle classes and the blue collar worker in America. It was considered the game for the elite for many, many decades. The high class resorts on the East Coast and the private country clubs.

And here came Arnold Palmer. the son of a green keeper from the mountains of Pennsylvania and the way he walk, the way he hips his pants, the way he smoke and flick away the cigarette it was compelling to women, it was compelling to men and suddenly golf was a game for the masses and not just the elite.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Palmer grew up next door to the local country club where his father worked as a golf professional and course superintendent. Then at the age 25, Palmer join the PGA Tour for the 1955 season. And won the first of his four master's title three years later.

In the early 60's. Palmer made the golf course his personal playground. He won 29 tournaments between 1960 and 1963 racking up four majors in that span, including a miraculous comeback from seven strokes down in the final round of 1960 U.S. Open. That performance paved the way for him being named Sports Illustrated, sportsman of the year. Palmer was later named the athlete of the decade by the Associated Press.

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GARRITY: I already saw the target and was ready to fire. And he was also ready to take the consequences. Sometimes --sometimes firing at the flag brought him glory. And there are a lot of times when firing at the flag put him in serious, serious trouble and he suffered the punishment. But it was so exciting to watch that the public was with him either way.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Away from the course. Palmer became, in the words of his agent, IME founder Mark McCormack, the first athlete to become a walking breathing, multimillion-dollar corporation.

[03:15:06] He nurtured business interests from club manufacturing to course design in construction. He haunts everything from cigarettes to rental cars.

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MICHAEL BAMBERGER, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED SENIOR WRITER: I think the ultimate genius of Arnold Palmer is his unbelievable understanding of human beings. And that's why Arnold Palmer had a 25 to 30 year career after he was done playing good golf, which is unbelievable.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Palmer won his last PGA Tour event in 1973 but continue to occasionally appear in golf's major. His final appearance as a player at the 2004 Masters was a record 50th consecutive.

The death of Arnold Palmer leaves golf without one of its most magnetic personalities and all-time great players. The king is gone, but the influence of his rainbow will remain with the game forever.

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[03:19:59] CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.

French President Francois Hollande is visiting Calais. The port city has become a symbol of the worsening migrant and refugee crisis. It's home to the so-called Calais jungle, a migrant camp housed over thousands of people. Half of the camp was dismantled earlier this year, and Mr. Hollande is vowing to close the rest of it.

The president is not expected to visit the camp, but, so, he will be meeting with local authorities.

Our senior international correspondent Jim Bittermann joins me now from Paris for more on this. So, Jim, what's expected out of this visit to Calais by the French president? And why did he decide to visit now?

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there are a couple of things going on here, Rosemary. First day he went up there early this morning to reassure the local officials and once again promise that this camp would be dismantled fully and permanently by the end of the year. That's kind of a campaign promise for him, because after all, we're in the midst of presidential campaign hieters.

And there are already have been visit -- visits to the camps by a number of other candidates. At least president -- former President Sarkozy and all should pay for both of them candidates for the presidency. They visited the area and tried to reassure people that they would take care of those problem. So, now President Hollande has to take the same assurances.

Here is what he had had to say today when he made the visit.

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FRANCOIS HOLLANDE, FRENCH PRESIDENT (TRANSLATED): There are, at least, 7,000 migrants. These are the latest figures in the month of August carried out by the Calais police. And even beyond this figure the situation is not acceptable and everyone here is aware of it.

From now, our objectives are clear to guarantee the security of the people of Calais, maintain public order and ensure for the migrants the refugees, conditions that are dignified because we are France. (END VIDEO CLIP)

BITTERMANN: The question of how to handle the refugees, and they may number as many as 10,000, that's another estimate that's been bended about here. It's exactly what the problem is. As you mention, the camp was dismantled, at least partially before but it just built right back up again.

There's even more refugees, it's the highest number of refuges that they've had up there. So, now the government is face with a problem of how to dismantle it in a way that, at least, makes some sense as far as the government is concerned as well as the refugees. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. Our Jim Bittermann bringing us that live report live from Paris where it is 9.22 in the morning. Many thanks to you.

The U.S. and South Korea are sending another message to the North with more military exercises after last week's flight of USB-1 bomber along the demilitarized zone. The two country's navies are putting on the show of force in the Sea of Japan or East Sea.

South Korean destroyer and the U.S. war ship equipped with a missile defense system were involved in Monday's drills. Earlier this month, North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test. And Chinese state media reports more than 40 aircraft flew over the western Pacific Sunday near Okinawa.

Japan scrambled a fighter jet in response, Xinhua reports fighters also patrolled in the country's self-declared air defense identification zone over the East China Sea. It's the biggest aerial exercise since the tribunal struck Beijing claim to most of the disputed South China Sea in July.

We turn to the weather now. And typhoon Megi is bearing down on Taiwan. Our meteorologist Karen Maginnis joins us now from the world weather center. Karen, let's talk about how soon typhoon Megi is likely to hit Taiwan and just how bad it's likely to be.

KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: This is going to be more of a direct hit on Taiwan. Then we've seen from the previous three systems and it moved across this region. I just took a look at this enhanced satellite imagery and it is looking much better organized. And what we were looking just even 12 hours ago. Its impact is going to be substantial. Let's give you Megi by the numbers.

Go ahead and take a look at the wind associated with Megi. Right now at 165 kilometers per hour. It makes it equivalent of category two, but could be category 3 equivalent as it makes landfall within the next 24 to 36 hours probably closer to that 24-hour time period, 205 kilometer per hour wind gusts moving towards the west northwest. It's just 17 kilometers per hour.

[03:24:58] So, what can we expect, just about midday on Tuesday, perhaps the early part of the afternoon, the eye of this typhoon is expected to cross over the south, central portion of Taiwan before it moves into the Taiwan Strait and effects the east central coast of China coming up by Wednesday.

Let's go back to the board and I'll tell you some more information about what we can expect this very broad system that will encompass much of Taiwan as we go into the next 36 and into 48 and 72 hours.

As I've mentioned this is going to be the fourth system. Nepartak that had 240 kilometer per hour wind, then there was Meranti to the south then we had Malakas that impacted portions of Japan as it made its way further towards the north.

But this one looks to be just about central Taiwan, perhaps just to the south of central Taiwan. And in its way we could see in excessive 500 millimeters of rainfall as it rings out all of that moisture, primarily on the eastern edge of the slopes of the mountains along the East Coast of Taipei or Taiwan.

As it moves over those mountains it will move into the Taiwan Strait and we can expect it to perhaps lose a little bit of its strait before impacting this coast. Somewhere between Shanghai and Hong Kong.

So, Rosemary, as we've mentioned before, Taiwan cannot see a break for this typhoon season, we go back to July and this is number four, but even along the central coast of China its impact is going to be great there as well, back to you.

CHURCH: Yes. It is certainly being tough to Taiwan. Thanks for keeping everyone in touch with what is going on there. Karen Maginnis joining us from the weather center. I appreciate it.

Well, it could draw more than 100 million viewers the Trump/Clinton debate is just hours away. What's at stake in a tight race. That's still to come, stay with us.

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CHURCH: And a very warm welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Rosemary Church. Let's update you on the main stories we're following this hour.

The U.S. is accusing Russia of barbarism in Syria. World powers argued over how to stop the violence there during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Sunday.

Russia says U.S. support the Syrian rebels that's hurting the humanitarian efforts. Syria has vow to retake all rebel-held territories including Aleppo.

The leader of Boko Haram appears in a new video that surface over the weekend. It shows him mocking the Nigerian government for thinking he was dead. He also taunts the parents of the nearly 300 school girls his group kidnapped from Chibok in 2014.

Golf legend Arnold Palmer has died at the age of 87. Nicknamed the King, the American won more than 90 tournaments including seven majors. Tributes to Palmer have poured in both for his dominance on the fairway and his philanthropy. He died at a hospital in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, that's about 70 kilometers from where he grew up and learn to gold in Latrobe.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are virtually tied in U.S. polls as they head into their first presidential debates. They'll take to the stage at Hofstra University on Monday night in New York.

It's one of three debates scheduled before the election in November.

So, let's bring in Jacob Parakilas from London for more on this U.S. presidential debate. He is assistant debate of the U.S. and the America's program at Chatham House. Always good to talk with you.

So, the first big debate is just hours away and both candidates are preparing in their very different ways. What is at stake here for both of them and who do you expect to come out on top?

JACOB PARAKILAS, CHATHAM HOUSE ASSISTANT PROJECT DIRECTOR: Well, what's at stake is that Clinton has a very small but apparently durable lead. She has led in most of the pools over the last few months although by a much smaller margin than she did after the conventions in August.

So, what's at stake for her is essentially maintaining the status quo, keeping in that lead, as small though it may be. For Trump the ground to cover is bigger. He needs to prove that he is capable of having a policy debate not just appearing on TV. He's a showman and everyone knows that he's a showman and that he's entertaining to watch.

But the bar for him to cross is quite high. He has to demonstrate that he can be presidential that he engages with the range of serious topics that the American president has to deal with. And of course, he has to exceed content in the polls not only in occasion outliers, but consistently to be the favorite to win.

So, there are different expectations for both of them and they have very different styles.

CHURCH: So, what would be your advice to each of them, to show the audience across the United States that they are, indeed, the one to lead this country?

PARAKILAS: Well, I think actually, despite the expectation I think there's a pretty good chance this debate will be relatively restrained.

If you think about in terms of game theory both Clinton and Trump have less to gain from going on the offensive than by sort of consolidating their positions and being as calm as possible.

I think that's -- my expectation therefore is that for this debate you'll see them both trying to demonstrate an atmosphere of sort of calm mastery of the topic and mastery of themselves. I suspect if there are going to be fireworks in the debate you'll see that later on in the second and maybe third debates.

CHURCH: And given Clinton's experience, the depths of policy knowledge, and of course, the experience in the political sphere, how do you explain why she isn't further ahead in the polls. Instead the two candidates they are neck and neck, aren't they? This could go either way, in fact.

PARAKILAS: Part of that is down to the extreme partisan polarization in the United States. I think it's largely due to the high degree to which partisans on both sides are simply committed to their party. I don't think a different candidate would be doing wildly different than Clinton. I don't think a different republican candidate would be doing wildly different than Trump.

Of course the polls are close enough that even a small difference could change the narrative and could change the person who has been in the lead, but I think what you're seeing in the polls as largely a reflection of the fact that the United States has divided into two increasingly isolated camps from each other.

CHURCH: Yes. That does seem to be what we're looking at here. How much of an impact can presidential debates have, do you think, can it win or lose an election for a candidate. What does history tell us on that?

[03:34:58] PARAKILAS: Well, the conventional wisdom is that it's much easier to lose an election in a debate than to win one. When you look back at the history of debates, the things that are remembered are the sort of gaps.

Now, it's not clear that those are actually what did in campaigns. I think the political science on that is a little bit mixed. The short term polling impact of debate can be very significant. You saw that in 2012 when Obama was perceived to have done very poorly in his first debate with Romney and his poll numbers collapsed by the number of points and Romney was briefly in the lead in the polling.

Obama recovered after the first debate. He gave what was strongly, was considered to be stronger performances in the second and third debate. And the trend line sort of went back to where they had been right before the first debate.

So, the extent to which it's possible for a debate to ultimately shape the race is somewhat contentious. It can certainly have a short term impact and that can have knock on effect. But on the whole, I think structural conditions are a stronger prediction.

CHURCH: A lot of people are going to be watching this. We will see what the outcome is. Jacob Parakilas, many thanks for joining us and sharing your analysis. We appreciate it.

Well, of course as we said, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will square off in their first presidential debate Monday night. And as we've seen in the past, a candidate can stumble in the first debate and never recover.

Chief political correspondent, Dana bash reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it can be.

DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Kennedy versus Nixon, exactly 56 years ago.

The first televised presidential debate in American history and an instant historic lesson in what to do.

REAGAN: Which point of you and which party do we want to leave the United States?

BASH: And what not to do.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Nixon, would you like to comment on that statement?

RICHARD NIXON, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: I have no comment.

BASH: Richard Nixon was shifty eyed and sweaty coming across as a nervous wreck next to calm, cool John Kennedy. It was a turning point for JFK's campaign.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. Ford, would you like to respond?

BASH: In 1976, President Gerald Ford agreed to the debate since the Nixon debacle and made his own epic mistake that helped cost him the election to Jimmy Carter.

GERAD FORD, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: There is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and...

BASH: That was flat wrong. And immediately diminished Ford's stature. Over the years candidates better understood the impact of TV debate, but it still didn't always go as planned. Some first debates turned out to the beginning of the end of a campaign especially when a moment fed into pre-existing doubts.

In 2000, Vice President Al Gore repeatedly let outside as George W. Bush was speaking. So many watches in Gore came across as rude and dismiss. In 1988, Mike Dukakis made it through his first debate but his second go at it was a disaster.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Governor, if Kiddie Dukakis were rape and murdered would you favor an irrevocable death penalty for the killer?

MICHAEL DUKAKIS, FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR: No, I don't, Bernard. And I think you know that I proposed the death penalty during all of my life. I don't see any evidence that is deterrent and...

BASH: Dukakis's antiseptic policy response instead of a human one was a campaign and political career ender. And who can forget President George H.W. Bush caught on camera looking at his watch in 1992 coming across as disengaged and out of touch. Precisely how Bill Clinton had been trying to paint him.

Not all debate debacled killed the campaign, just last cycle, Barack Obama choked big time in his first face off with Mitt Romney. Obama was able to redeem himself in later debates.

REAGAN: There you go again.

BASH: Ronald Reagan's first debate performance in his reelection bid was also a flop.

Reagan rebounded with debate number two with a prepared line, delivered perfectly.

REAGAN: I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

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CHURCH: And the best political team on television will be working around the clock, as the candidates step into the ring at Hofstra University and you can catch it all Monday right here on CNN.

We'll take a short break here, but coming up, we will introduce you to an organization that is giving sex trafficking victims a fresh start in Dutch kitchens. Back in a moment.

[03:40:00] (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHURCH: The CNN Freedom project is dedicated to shining a light on human trafficking and putting an end on modern day slavery.

A trendy eatery in Amsterdam is proving that education can be a powerful weapon in this fight. The goal is to give trafficking victims the skills they need to integrate back into society.

CNN's Isa Soares reports.

ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Thousands come to see the infamous sex workers of Amsterdam's red light district. It's on this street that social worker began her fight against human trafficking.

TOOS HEEMSKERK-SCHEP, THE NETHERLANDS NOT FOR SALE DIRECTOR: When I started in '95 prostitution wasn't legalized because just to point out to you that area there was full with Nigerian girls. Girls who came from the head of state who started there with $40,000 with the head state back pay to their traffickers.

And it was also just as the opening of the Iron Curtain and so we got all of a sudden this whole group of east European girls into the Netherlands. And it was really just by being with my feet in this area and talking and having conversation with the girls that I started to learn about their situations.

As a social worker I was approaching the girls the street behind me was actually known as a street where only Hungarian girls who are working. And to know and then the girls approach me all they were sharing that they were trafficked or exploit.

And when they had to be taken out by the police and being brought to a safe house then I learned that OK, and now they are in the safe and now what? How are they are going to build up that future again, how do they make a new life again, how do they get a profession?

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SOARES: Frustrated wanting to do more, Toos Heemskerk-Schep jump to collaborate with the Not for Sale Foundation. The team identified branch restaurant at the new trend in Amsterdam. Man an idea formed to build a profitable eatery where traffic survivors will be trained, gained education and work alongside professionals.

[03:45:04] After four years of planning, Dignita (Ph) opened in 2015, the NGO supplements donations with income generated from each dish sold. Their motto is simple. Do good, eat well.

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HEEMSKERK-SCHEP: What we see is special with those who had been exploited in what kind of form will be used like products, so only focusing on job training is not enough. So, we think it's incredibly important also that they become part of our community here.

So, egg is an emulsifier.

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SOARES: To date, 162 trainees have joined the program graduate more than just a certificate. For one young woman trafficked from North Africa, the training of its camaraderie sparked a talent. The pain inflicted by her exploitation is still raw. But she is focused inspired to become a chief. Dignita, she says, saved her life.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I met the government it was difficult. I always wanted to kill myself. There was no energy in my body. While there, I was asked about whether I wanted to go for training. I didn't know what Not for Sale meant. But afterwards, I gave it some thought, I said, you know what, I will just have a look for a day to see what it is.

I was happy there and afterwards I went again. I'm always happy when I go. I felt like a flour without water. But when I started the training, I got my energy back.

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SOARES: One of the first dishes trainees learn to cook is soup. Twice a week, it buy to the Dignita store and (Inaudible), a former brothel located in the red light area. From here volunteers deliver takeout orders to the women behind the windows.

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HEEMSKERK-SCHEP: The soup outreach and whatever we are doing here is just an opportunity to be in contact with them. The fact is that at the moment we had three girls coming from the windows, who had been exploited, who has been forced to work as a prostitute.

And although we have legalized system, it doesn't want to say that the crime is totally out of this business. There are still girls who have been exploited, and so for those we want to be there and for those we want to be the first.

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SOARES: Toos her call to provide opportunity after rescue she hopes will be heard. Their ambitions, meanwhile, to scale Dignita's business model beyond Amsterdam.

Isa Soares, CNN.

CHURCH: And on Tuesday, we will introduce you to a trafficking victim, who, after years of being enslaved found her way to the national stage in the U.S. as a leading voice against human trafficking. Here is a preview.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I was in the house, I was a slave for three years and now, so my first day coming here is like. This is the first day that I'm actually free.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In the years since her rescue, Ima has helped establish a national survivors network for cause. Less than a year ago, she was named to the president's task force against trafficking. And just recently, she received another invitation, Hillary Clinton's staff wanted her to speak at the Democratic National Convention.

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CHURCH: Wow! To hear more of her incredible story Tuesday as part of the CNN Freedom Project.

Parisians enjoyed a car-free city over the weekend. Just ahead, why most vehicles were banned from the streets in avenues. Back in a moment with that.

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MAGINNIS: Well, for some time now the Eastern United States has been wanting, at least a little bit of taste of fall, but now it looks like this weather system moving across the east will usher us in from a very summer-like weather pattern to definitely some fall temperatures. But much real estate across the central U.S. is going to be very quiet, that's good news.

Take a look at weather conditions it will be windy in Chicago, 19 expected high temperature, in New York, 22, very comfortable weather conditions but you'll start to see those temperatures decline a little bit over the next several days.

Belize City traveling further to the south with early morning thunderstorms, 31 degrees, Nassau and Bahamas, thunderstorm and 23 is the expected high temperatures there. And 23 with thunderstorms in Mexico City. Across South America, Bogota, Columbia, we'll keep clouds around afternoon and evening thundershowers or some rain fall, 20 degrees the expected high there.

And if you are traveling towards Rio de Janeiro, mostly cloudy and just about 22 for the afternoon temperature and then for Monte de Dios, 21, looks like a beautiful day and should be mostly sunny skies, Sao Paolo, morning clouds, afternoon sunshine. Look for a high temperature of 20 for the afternoon reading there. Rio Gallego, early morning rainfall and high of only around 13.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Trading hubs like Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong are well-known. But what about Fujairah. It's not as famous but the rulers of this coastal Emirates have big plans. If they have their way it will become a world class shipping center.

CNN Money John Defterios explain.

JOHN DEFTERIOS, CNN EMERGING MARKETS EDITOR: Up close and personal with a thousand foot long super tanker in the Arabian Sea. The Kelly with a capacity of two million barrels just calling on what was a sleepy port of Fujairah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did we catch any vessel crossing today?

DEFTERIOS: From the the control tower, arbor master captain Thomas Masoud (Ph) monitors the flow of tankers hovering offshore represented by the dots on the screen. The Emirate is leveraging its prime position, 70 nautical miles south of the Strait of Hormuz, the world's busiest oil shipping lane to create a strategic energy hub.

Captain Mousa Morad has been on the front line of its build out for three decades.

Did you ever think that you would get to this scale.

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MOUSA MORAD, PORT OF FUJAIRAH CAPTAIN GENERAL: Not at all. Not at all. I mean, we have been tiny port, we suggest as we are going to serve our three other here.

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DEFTERIOS: The loading of a super tanker is a major milestone for the rulers of Fujairah. They launched their plan during the first Gulf War seeing a long line of tankers parked outside the port due to conflict.

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FEREIDUN FESHARAKI, FACTS GLOBAL ENERGY FOUNDER AND CHAIRMAN: It gives a comfort level also. A psychological comfort of a vision is important as the economic value.

DEFTERIOS: But because if it's strategic location.

FESHARAKI: Because of strategic location.

CHRISTOPHER PAUL BAKE, VITOL DUBAI LIMITED MANAGING DIRECTOR: I think the capacity to be able to bring in this kind of vessel fully laid, so this is going to be the deepest port in the Middle East gives it, yet, another dimension to this growing storage hub.

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DEFTERIOS: All told, over $5.5 billion have been spent here, money allocated during the heavy days of $100 oil. Being able to host super tankers is the final piece of the puzzle for Fujairah. It already stores nearly 60 million barrels on shore and it receives oil via pipeline from neighboring Abu Dhabi.

[03:54:59] Fujairah has emerged as the third largest energy hub after Singapore and Resurgam.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are looking I think this facility to compete internationally because there is also aspiration to go build the second one.

DEFTERIOS: This is the UAE version of doubling down on investment to secure market share.

Today on shore storage tanks are bursting at the scenes with the global glove of some 3 billion barrels, so super tankers like the Kelly are loading up and coming offshore as storage.

Now they can do so right in the heart of the world's oil belts.

John Defterios CNN Money, Fujairah.

CHURCH: Stroll down in Champs Elysees and you are likely to smell more car fumes than Channel number 5. But officials in Paris are hoping for a break from the smog. Many of the city's streets were car- free over the weekend. Bikers and joggers were out in full force. The mayor has been pushing to reduce pollution and the new law will ban all diesel cars from city limits by the end of the decade.

Well, some highly chilled, highly skilled, I should say, K-9s and their owners wrote the ways for a dog surf competition in California over the weekend. Check out this fall like a dog smoothed maneuver. The dogs were judged on simple skills including the length of their ride and their confidence on the surf board. The top surfer prize went to visitor Brazilian Labrador. There was an unusually high surf for the competition which unfortunately led to many wipe outs. The proud doggy there.

And thanks for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to connect with me anytime on Twitter @rosemarycnn, I love to hear from you.

Stay tuned now for more news with Hannah Vaughan Jones in London. And have yourself a great day.

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