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[10:35:08] JONES: You mentioned -- we've mentioned Italy, Austria. You said about The Netherlands, as well. France, they've got presidential elections next year, as well. Both Marine Le Pen on the far right and also Francois Fillon, both of them have -- are right of center, to say the least.
Does this mean the end of the European Union as an institution that we know?
GOODWIN: Well, the EU is going to have a very difficult 18 months, there's no doubt about that. But also, when we talk about the rise of the populist right, let's not forget we should also be talking about the crisis of social democracy, because there is an idea in Europe today that's really failing to reinvent, and the intellectual reason for social democracy isn't as clear as it once was when they were nicely organized, class interests in Europe.
So, I think this is going to be a very tumultuous period. I think we're going to see lots of insurgents doing quite well.
And also, you know, we don't know where this is going to end. I mean, what is post-populism? What comes after all of these movements? What happens if they don't give their voters what they want? It's going to be an interesting time.
JONES: It will be interesting to see what the mainstream middle ground parties and politicians come up with, as well. Matthew Goodwin, thanks very much for your expertise on that. Appreciate it.
Now, we'll bring you analysis and reports from both those elections taking place on Sunday. We'll be live in Italy and in Austria. So, do tune back in to Connect the World on Sunday, when our Becky Anderson will be back with you live from Abu Dhabi. That's right here on CNN.
Donald Trump, whose populism we just mentioned there, is hitting the road today, taking a break from interviewing potential cabinet picks to get back among the people. The U.S. president-elect is kicking off what he calls a thank you tour, holding campaign-style rallies in key states that helped him clinch the election victory.
But before he heads to Ohio tonight, he'll make the case in another industrial state that he's already keeping his problem to protect American jobs.
Jessica Schneider has all the details for us.
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JESSICA SCHNEIDER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President-elect Donald Trump heading back into campaign mode, embarking on a "Thank You" tour in swing states that won him the White House. Trump will hold a rally in Cincinnati tonight after taking a victory lap in Indiana, celebrating a deal with Carrier to keep at least 1,000 manufacturing jobs from moving to Mexico. Carrier offering limited details on terms of the deal, receiving unspecified incentives from the state run by Trump's V.P. Mike Pence.
This as Trump's cabinet continues to take shape. The search for Secretary of State narrowed down to these four candidates. Close Trump adviser Newt Gingrich hammering Mitt Romney after his high- profile dinner with Trump Tuesday night.
NEWT GINGRICH (R), FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER: You have never, ever in your career seen a serious adult who's wealthy, independent, has been a presidential nominee suck up at the rate that Mitt Romney is sucking up.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): Trump also facing blistering criticism from the left over his newly appointed economic team. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren slamming Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs executive Steve Mnuchin, who headed a firm that made big money off the 2008 housing crisis.
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN (D), MASSACHUSETTS: He promised when he was running for President that he would break the connection between Wall Street and this Congress. And then what does he do? He turns around and picks a guy who had actually been one of the people who helped do all of those lousy mortgages.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): The President-elect's team defending the pick.
JASON MILLER, COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR OF PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP'S TRANSITION TEAM: It takes someone like Steve who understands how the system works, how we can go and make it more fair, how we can go and help American workers to get in there and actually change it.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): Capitol Hill also reacting to Trump's announcement, with no details as of yet, that he will separate himself from his billion dollar empire.
SEN. JAMES RISCH (R), IDAHO: You've got to be very, very careful on conflicts of interest. Sooner or later, this had to happen. And I suspect he's probably not very happy about it, but it's just one of those things that had to be done.
SCHNEIDER (voice-over): The Office of Government Ethics sending out an unusual series of tweets applauding Trump's pledge and encouraging the President-elect to divest his assets, a commitment that Trump has not yet made.
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JONES: Jessica Schneider reporting there.
Let's bring in Ryan Lizza, a CNN contributor and Washington correspondent for The New Yorker magazine. Ryan, great to see you.
It's been a week of cabinet forming and Twitter storming. Does this give us insight into the Trump administration to come?
RYAN LIZZA, NEW YORKER: It does.
And, you know, I think there's a kind of consensus among journalists is pay a lot more attention to the cabinet formation rather than the tweet storms.
Sometimes, the tweet storms -- can cloud our vision in terms of what's actually important. You know, Trump likes to stir up fights with people on Twitter, but what's much more important is the backgrounds and policies that the people he's bringing into the administration have.
And on that front, I agree with Senator Warren and some of the other critics that if Trump's mission was to drain the swamp, was to attack Wall Street and Washington culture, we haven't really seen that yet from his picks. This is a very Goldman Sachs, business-friendly, billionaire friendly administration so far, and a series of people that are very much in line with the traditional conservative wing of the Republican Party, not so much this new nationalist populist wing that Trump talked about on the campaign trail.
[10:40:39] JONES: And Ryan, i was talking to someone yesterday who said that Trump's base supporters take him seriously, but not literally. Is that what the rest of us are going to have to do if we're going to get all these presidential announcements coming all in 140 characters?
LIZZA: It's great line and something that has kind of gone viral now, and that is something that, you know is a good lesson for some of the journalists covering Trump during the campaign when we took him very literally.
And I disagree with it a little bit. Some of the things he said on the campaign trail, we should take literally. And he is going forward with. i think he is serious about building a wall on the border with Mexico. I think he is serious about changing NAFA.
But at the same time, he has sanded off some of the rough edges of his most controversial proposals. He no longer talks about banning Muslim immigrants. He does seem to have -- or he is starting to, apparently, change his mind about a very important campaign promise that is going to be a political debate next year. And that is entitlement reform. Trump, during the campaign, promised not to touch our two big entitlement programs - the health insurance program for the elderly, Medicare, and our social insurance program for the elderly, Social Security. He said he wouldn't touch them.
The other Republicans in Washington want to dramatically restructure and, in some cases, either eliminate or privatize those programs.
And there are a lot more people in the incoming Trump administration and running congress who are in the restructure those programs. And so that's going to be something to watch in terms of can he keep that that campaign promise not to touch them?
JONES: absolutely.
All right, one of the other things that he promised was to bring jobs back to America. He has already gotten an early win on that, by striking this carrier air-conditioning deal. A lot of people praising that deal. But one person who isn't is Bernie Sanders. The former Democratic presidential candidate who, of course, campaigned passionately for the working class. Take a listen to this. Sanders wrote in The Washington Post that Carrier and its parent company, quote, "took Trump hostage and won."
He says Trump campaigned on a pledge to stand tough against corporate greed and, instead, he caved in.
Sanders has gone on to say that that precedent is dangerous, then, for workers because it means more companies will threaten to move jobs overseas, hoping to get some kind of handout then from the government.
Sanders goes on to say that Trump's Band Aid solution will only worsen America's wealth inequality.
He's on this sort of thank you tour at the moment. And he's going to be going on about this jobs deal, no doubt.
How does it read to you. Is this a success?
LIZZA: Look, it was a campaign promise. He said he'd try to keep this plant or at least jobs in the United States and not have them go to Mexico. In that sense, we'd be criticizing him if he didn't succeed in doing it. But the way he has gone about doing it has uniting economists on the right and left who argue that this will create the incentive for corporations to essentially practice a version of extortion.
You know, say, look, I'm going to -- they'll coming knocking at the door of the White House and say, look, I'm sorry, it's just not competitive enough in state X, and I've got to move this factory to Mexico. What are you going to do about it? And that's a very bad precedent. It's a very bad way to set policy, to incentivize corporations to hold workers hostage or their jobs hostage because you know you can extract something out of the federal government.
By the way, the sort of more libertarian wing of the Republican Party, you know, used to find this kind of ghastly, that the government would come in and basically, you know, amount a campaign of corporate welfare to incentivize companies. So, he is going to have to come up with a broad, national policy, not do this one by one thing in the Carrier case, or he's going to have every company in America trying to extort him.
JONES: The devil will be in the detail, of course, of this deal. And we don't know all the detail as yet.
LIZZA: Absolutely.
JONES: That's all we have got time for this time. Ryan Lizza, thank you much for your expertise.
LIZZA: Thanks, Hannah.
JONES: Appreciate it.
Live from London, you're watching Connect the World. And still to come...
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are no longer going to be safe behind those keyboards. We are going to find you, and we are going to prosecute you.
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JONES: Going after would-be predators online. We look at a brand-new initiative, fighting sex trafficking on the internet.
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[10:47:21] JONES: You are watching CNN and this is Connect the World with me, Hannah Vaughn Jones in London. Welcome back.
The CNN Freedom Project is taking an in depth look at the demand side of sex trafficking. A new website is tackling the problem by going after the people who make their purchases online. And as our Robyn Curnow finds out, the system is making a difference.
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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sexual predators lurking behind their computer screens are no longer as hidden as they think.
YouthSpark, a non-profit that provide services to trafficking victims recently launched a new initiative that tackles the lesser discussed side of the trafficking problem, demand.
ALEX TROUTEAUD, YOUTHSPARK EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR: When every day you are serving youth who've been sexually exploited, at some point you sit back and say, what's causing this? Because it's nothing wrong with the kids.
We really felt like we owed it to the youth that we work with to work upstream a little bit and start doing what we can as an NGO, to address the exploitation that they were being faced with.
CURNOW: Demand tracker is simple, an employee posts ads online offering juveniles up for sex. Unlike the other ads on sites like this, hers are decoys and the models, all adults, agreed to pose for them.
She clicks, posts and waits. But when a would-be predator calls or texts the number in the ads demand tracker automatically adds the number to a public, searchable database. The caller is also sent a text message letting them know their number is being identified and is available to law enforcement.
TROUTEAUD: Guys get involved in this bad behavior, they start somewhere. If the first time you do that you realize, whoa, someone is watching and I'm going to be held accountable for this and law enforcement are paying attention. That's the kind of message that we think will educate men to change their track real fast.
CURNOW: In the four months that demand tracker has been operational it has recorded 12,000 unique numbers. The system does have its limitations. It can identify phone numbers but not who places the calls and it can't separate intentional calls from misdials.
If someone wants their number removed from the public phasing list there is a button on the site that allows them to do that but the number still remains in the database itself.
Trouteaud says police are mainly concerned with numbers that show up multiple times as these are likely not accidental. It's not perfect but many in law enforcement see it as a great start to tackling demand.
DALIA RACINE, DEKALB COUNTY GEORGIA DISTRICT ATTORNEY: It may not be something that we could use in a particular case, but I think it is good to help with pushing legislation to make tougher laws against the purchasers. It could help in bringing together training curriculum on how to track purchasers by looking at their patterns and their habits.
[10:50:07] CURNOW: It also sends a clear message to predators.
RACINE: We are coming after the demand side just as hard as we are after the exploiters and after the supply side of this issue. And you are no longer going to be safe behind those keyboards. We are going to find you and we are going to prosecute you.
CURNOW: Robyn Curnow, CNN, Atlanta.
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JONES: Well, tomorrow, Friday, the CNN Freedom Project will introduce you to a group of students running an endurance race to save the lives of trafficking victims.
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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For 24 hours, teams of eight from Hong Kong-based schools will run continuous relay laps, a bold mission to raise awareness of modern-day slavery and money to fight human trafficking.
KESHAV MONON, BUSINESS DIRECTOR, 24 HOUR RACE: Slowly, I started to go back to my home roots. And when I found out more about problem of slavery in India, how it manifests in many different forms, I felt really bad.
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JONES: An important story to tell. You can watch that tomorrow only here on CNN.
And do stay with us. We'll be back after this short break for more on Connect the World.
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JONES: welcome back. You're watching CNN. And this is Connect the World. And with me, Hannah Vaughn Jones.
It has been three decades since we first pinned on red ribbons supporting those suffering with HIV. But are we any closer to a cure today, this being World AIDS day.
Somewhere around the world, a teenager becomes infected every two minutes, but there is hope for a cure with the largest vaccine trial in nearly ten years well underway in South Africa.
CNN's David McKenzie has more now from there on how we might be nearing a generation free from the virus.
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DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Just one pill, that's all Patience Mputa (ph) needs, a far cry from the cocktail of drugs just a few years ago.
But no matter how good the treatment becomes, for this mother and daughter, the impact of HIV is permanent.
TITILA MPUTA, HIV VACCINE TRIAL PARTICIPANT: I went out to school, when and I left her, she was fine, and then when I came back, she was not here and they told me that she was in the hospital, she had had stroke.
MCKENZIE: Four successive strokes, complications of the virus, crippled Patience (ph), it crippled her family.
The words are a struggle, the pain, unmistakable.
The massive rollout of antiretrovirals saved thousands of lives, but the epidemic still rages on. Worldwide, it is estimated an adolescent becomes newly infected every two minutes.
Luyanda Ngoobo's HIV was passed on from his mother at birth. He is part of a generation of young people that must take drugs their entire lives.
LUYANDA NGOOBO, ACTIVIST: I am a human being. Why am I not like the other kids? Why am I (inaudible)? Why am I sick all the time?
MCKENZIE: In these neighborhoods, not everyone knows who is on antiretrovirals, but it is estimated in South Africa, more than 3 million people are on HIV drugs, that's the most in the world. And it is a massive health burden.
UNIDENIFIED FEMALE: You need to take the drug absolutely every single day, that's quite a tall order for a young person.
[10:55:09] MCKENZIE: Linda-Gail Bekker runs a research center in the heart of (inaudible) Township. She says AIDS is the number one killer of young people here.
LINDA-GAIL BEKKER, PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL AIDS SOCIETY: If we ultimately want control of his epidemic, we are going to need to control the numbers of people becoming infected. And there is no better way, no more sustainable way, than having a prophylactic vaccine. It is a holy grail of epidemic control.
MCKENZIE: But the virus is complex. For 30 years, while treatment has improved, a vaccine remained out of reach until now.
BEKKER: We've seen immune responses that make us very optimistic. So, I think we are at, you know, rightfully and justifiably feeling optimistic.
MCKENZIE: Fanning out into the hardest hit communities, volunteers are being recruited for the first major vaccine trial in nearly a decade.
UNIDENITIFIED FEMALE: We laugh together, we debate together. We are always are arguing. We like watching TV and making our own stories up.
MCKENZIE: The treatment saved her mother's life, but Titila she doesn't want anyone to suffer like her mother. She, herself, is HIV negative, so she volunteered to participate in the initial study that cleared the way for the landmark vaccine trial.
UNIDENITIFIED FEMALE: You get to be the superhero that you want to be. You get to bring change in many people's lives just by you, like you doing this can help 1,000 more people out there. You doing this can create an HIV-free generation.
MCKENZIE: Too late for her generation, but now hope for the next.
David McKenzie, CNN, South Africa.
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JONES: And you can find much more of CNN's in-depth reporting, just like David's there, over on our Facebook page. Just head across to Facebook.com/CNNconnect. There's that and there's much more there.
And as always, you can reach out to me directly on Twitter. So, if you'd like to get in touch, it's @HVaughnJones.
Now, you think someone drives an armored truck loaded with gold might be careful about locking it up. Perhaps even really, really careful. Well, you'd be wrong. Check out this casual heist. This guy steals a bucket full of gold flakes from the back of this wild open lorry in broad daylight, in the middle of New York. His haul? Worth more than $1.5 million.
Well, police are still looking for the suspect and those were your parting shots.
I'm Hannah Vaughn Jones. That was Connect the World. Thanks so much for watching.
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