CARL AZUZ,
CNN 10 ANCHOR: A meeting between two world leaders is what's explained first
today on CNN 10.
I'm Carl
Azuz. Thank you for taking the time to watch.
It was the
first time that U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu met face to face since the American leader was inaugurated. In a news
conference Wednesday, President Trump said the U.S. would encourage a great
peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians, but that it would be the two
sides themselves that would have to directly negotiate that agreement.
What
President Trump didn't say was whether he supported the idea of a two-state
solution. In the Middle East conflict, this is the idea that Palestinians would
have their own country alongside Israel.
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CLIP)
DONALD TRUMP,
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm looking at two-state and one-state, and I
like the one that both parties like.
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CLIP)
AZUZ: But
experts say it's very unlikely that Palestinians would accept any agreement
that doesn't give them their own state. As far as Israel and the U.S. go, this
is expected to be the beginning of a friendlier relationship between the two
countries. They've historically been close allies.
But former
President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu often didn't get along. One
issue that divided them: Israeli settlements. President Obama strongly opposed
them.
On the
campaign trail, Mr. Trump supported them. But on Wednesday, as president, he
said he'd like to see Israel hold back on settlements.
Why are these
controversial?
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VIDEOTAPE)
OREN LIEBERMANN,
CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The city of Ariel is growing, one
of the largest Israeli settlements in the West Bank. A new neighborhood slated
for this hilltop. The city's university has 15,000 students and a sense of
permanence.
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved a thousand new homes here and promised
more.
BENJAMIN
NETANYAHU, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER (through translator): There is no way that
Ariel won't be part of the state of Israel. It would be part of Israel forever.
LIEBERMANN:
Ariel is located about 12 miles inside the West Bank. It's one of the
settlement blocks, areas with many Israeli settlements and few Palestinian
villages.
Israel
expects this to end up in Israel in any final status agreement.
Danny Tirza
shows us the blocks on his maps. He was the Israeli territorial expert during
decades of negotiations.
DANNY TIRZA,
FORMER NEGOTIATOR: You can see the orange areas here, this is the swap area
that we offered to the Palestinians. All these yellow areas will be Palestine.
And the blue areas, these are the (INAUDIBLE) blocks.
LIEBERMANN:
Land swaps had been talked about in negotiations, but former Palestinian Prime
Minister Ahmad Qurei warns the swaps have to be agreed upon. He says Israel now
is acting alone, and violating international law with settlement expansion.
Near Ariel,
the city's industrial park is growing. Forty-five companies with 3,000
employees, Israeli and Palestinian.
Like many in
Israel's right wing, park director Eleazar Zila (ph) sees a golden opportunity
with President Donald Trump who he sees as more sympathetic to Israeli
settlements and Am Yisrael, the people of Israel.
Settlements
are illegal under international law, imposed by virtually the entire
international community, because the West Bank is considered occupied
territory. Israel disputes this, saying Jews have a historic and religious
right to live in the West Bank. But the U.S. has traditionally had tremendous
sway on the peace process. Question now, which way is President Donald Trump
pulling?
What's clear
is settlement growth is accelerating, regardless of whether it's building a
foundation for peace or burying it in concrete.
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VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ:
President Trump says Israel has set an example that walls work to improve a
nation's security. It has a barrier along its border with the West Bank. It has
a fence along its southern border with Egypt.
According to
PolitiFact.com, experts say illegal immigration from Egypt to Israel has
dropped noticeably since that fence was built. But they say there are other
factors in how effective a wall can be, from how they're guarded, to how long
they are.
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CLIP)
TRUMP: We are
going to build -- the wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall -- wall --
wall -- wall. It will be big and it will be high and strong.
SUBTITLE: A
Brief History of Walls.
REPORTER: The
world has a lot of walls -- big ones, small ones, historic ones.
RONALD
REAGAN, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
REPORTER:
Divisive ones. Some are built to keep people in and some to keep people out.
Soon, the world may have a new one, the Trump wall, spanning 2,000 miles along
the U.S.-Mexico border.
Border walls
have had varying decrees of success.
Even the most
famous of all, the Great Wall of China was not able to completely stop
invaders. The Mongols simply rode around it.
The Berlin
Wall was meant to stop East Germans from migrating en masse to the West. But
thousands still scale it, tunnel under it and even flew over it. And in 1989,
it was torn down.
Israel says
the West Bank wall has helped stop terrorist attacks on its citizens, but the
U.N. condemned the barrier as illegal and an unlawful act of annexation,
something Israel denies.
And the U.S.
isn't the only country reinforcing its borders. Hungary has put up razor wire
fences to halt the wave of refugees flooding. And Spain has put similar
barriers around its enclaves on the North African coast.
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VIDEOTAPE)
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CLIP)
AZUZ
(voice-over): Ten-second trivia:
What sports
styles include freestyle and folkstyle?
Wrestling,
swimming, boxing or skiing?
Two of
wrestling's main styles are freestyle and folkstyle. The other is Greco-Roman.
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AZUZ: And
it's the Freestyle World Cup that's happening right now in the Middle Eastern
nation of Iran. It runs today and tomorrow.
There was
some doubt about whether the American team would be there. Iran is one of the
countries included in President Trump's executive order that temporarily banned
certain immigrants from entering the U.S. And Iran said it would retaliate in
legal and political ways. That might have kept the American wrestlers from
entering Iran for the competition. But after the executive order was blocked in
U.S. courts, the wrestlers were allowed into Iran.
Political
trouble continues between the two nations. Iran's leaders have spoken
repeatedly against the U.S. under administrations, including those of
Presidents Obama and Trump. President Trump has repeatedly criticized the
controversial 2015 nuclear deal that included the U.S. and Iran.
But for the
wrestlers, competing in this year's world cup, these issues aren't on the mat.
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VIDEOTAPE)
FREDERIK
PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A tough sporting
mission with a twist of diplomacy. America's national wrestling team is in
Kermanshah, Iran, for the World Cup -- a trip that almost fell through because
of tensions between the U.S. and Iran.
Olympic gold
medalist Jordan Burroughs saying the team is just happy to be here.
JORDAN
BURROUGHS, TEAM USA WRESTLING: It's really difficult for a period of time, but
we stayed the course. We continued to train, continued to prepare. And luckily,
we were able to come.
PLEITGEN (on
camera): Of course, there was a lot of uncertainty for the Team USA wrestlers,
not knowing for a very long time whether they'd be able to come here to Iran at
all. But now that they've made it, they say their main focus is to compete hard
and win big.
(voice-over):
Iran and America are wrestling powerhouses. Many U.S. wrestler stars (ph) in
Iran like Olympic gold medalist Kyle Snyder.
KYLE SNYDER,
TEAM USA WRESTLING: No, I can say there's a little bit of turmoil politically.
But definitely, you don't see that within the sport. You know, we respect each
other as competitors and as people.
BILL ZADICK,
HEAD COACH, TEAM USA: This is my fourth time in Iran. We've been treated
extremely well, as we have in the past and as we tried to reciprocate when they
come to the United States.
PLEITGEN: The
head of Iran's wrestling federation tells me politics have no place in the
sporting rivalry.
"We are
two very powerful international wrestling", he says. "And along with
others, we're trying to help the sport internationally to promote wrestling throughout
the world."
Iran and the
U.S. are clashing once again on the wrestling mat. And now that the diplomatic
hurdles have been cleared, the athletes say their only focus is trying to win
it all.
Fred
Pleitgen, CNN, Kermanshah, Iran.
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VIDEOTAPE)
AZUZ: These
pictures get "10 Out of 10".
Horsetail
Fall is a waterfall in California's Yosemite National Park. But every February
for a couple of weeks, the water is on fire. It's an optical illusion that
happens when the setting sun hits the waterfall at just the right angle.
And because
of all the rain and snow California's gotten recently, the waterfall is bigger
this year than it's been in a while, making for spectacular displays of what's
called the "Fire Fall" -- which sounds kind of like a James Bond movie.
But if a
waterfall becomes a fire fall, a hot ticket for any fire-tographer who can't
lava-lone a photo opportunity that's almost too hot to handle, there's really
no way to beat the heat, except by taking really cool photos which one might
call molten out of 10 on CNN 10.
I'm Carl
Azuz.
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