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(CNN Student News) -- November 30, 2007
Quick Guide
International Update - Learn about new developments in stories that have been making headlines.
Republican Debate - Hear what Republican presidential candidates said during a recent debate.
World AIDS Day - Discover some of the progress that's been made in the fight against AIDS.
Transcript
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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: It's the last day of November, and we're glad you're spending it with CNN Student News. I'm Carl Azuz.
First Up: International Update
AZUZ: First up today, some new developments in several stories we've told you about recently. A legal case playing out between London and Khartoum. A diplomatic dispute between China and the U.S. Let's go around the globe to get the updates on those stories and some others.
Youssif has finished up another surgery and is on his way to his dream of being a normal boy. The 5-year-old was badly burned in January when he was attacked outside his home in Baghdad, Iraq. But a huge show of support helped Youssif and his family come to the U.S., where he's being treated for his burns.
Fifteen days in prison: That's the sentence a Sudanese court gave Gillian Gibbons on Thursday. The British teacher was charged with insulting religion after she let her students name a class teddy bear Mohammed, the same name as the founder of Islam. Gibbons could have faced up to a year in jail or 40 lashes.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf says he'll end his country's state of emergency on December 16th. He's been under pressure to lift the emergency rule and step down as the country's military leader. Wednesday, he did that, resigning his commission in the Pakistani military. And yesterday, he was sworn in as the nation's civilian president.
And China's cancellation of a U.S. Navy visit was "no misunderstanding." The USS Kitty Hawk battle group was supposed to be in Hong Kong for Thanksgiving. But China said "no" refusing the ship entry. Chinese officials aren't connecting the decision to any specific event, but they've hinted that it was a response to the U.S. recently selling arms to Taiwan and honoring the Dalai Lama.
Shoutout
GEORGE RAMSAY, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Today's Shoutout goes out to Mr. Browder's Social Studies students at Dutch Fork High School in Irmo, South Carolina! In what year was the first televised presidential debate? You know what to do! Was it: A) 1944, B) 1960, C) 1972 or D) 1984? Ready, set, GO! In 1960, Vice President Richard Nixon and Senator John F. Kennedy took part in the first televised presidential debate. That's your answer and that's your Shoutout!
AZUZ: Here's an interesting fact: Both of those men would eventually be elected president; Kennedy in 1960 and Nixon in '68. Now, the current Republican presidential candidates aren't part of the general election yet. They're still working to get their party's nomination. Part of that work included answering questions during a debate Wednesday night. Rick Vincent gives us a wrap-up of the event.
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RICK VINCENT, CNN REPORTER: Republican presidential candidates answered questions posted by the public on the Internet site YouTube in the second such debate hosted by CNN. Rudy Giuliani responded with religious fervor to an attack on his record on illegal immigration.
RUDY GIULIANI, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If you're gonna take this holier-than-thou attitude that your whole approach to immigration was so...
MITT ROMNEY, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Immigration is not holier than thou, Mayor. It's the law.
VINCENT: Tom Tancredo has made opposition to illegal immigration the centerpiece of his campaign.
TOM TANCREDO, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I reject the idea categorically that there are jobs that "no American will take."
VINCENT: Let's talk taxes.
RON PAUL, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You can easily pledge not to raise taxes, but you have to cut spending.
VINCENT: This question was posed about the death penalty.
TYLER OVERMAN, YOUTUBE CONTRIBUTOR: What would Jesus do?
MIKE HUCKABEE, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office, Anderson. That's what Jesus would do. (laughter)
VINCENT: And on interrogation tactics used against terrorists and prisoners of war by the United States, John McCain, a former POW himself, said torture is unacceptable.
JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Life is not "24" and Jack Bauer.
VINCENT: Fred Thompson expanded on a question about a military commitment to the Iraqi people.
FRED THOMPSON, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'm vested in a scenario of victory, and I see it happening there in Iraq today.
VINCENT: Rick Vincent, CNN, Atlanta.
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When I'm President
AZUZ: We're still 11 months away from the presidential election, and the winner won't be sworn in for another two months after that. So, candidates have quite a long way to go before they actually could become president. But as Jeanne Moos explains, you wouldn't know it by listening to them.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN REPORTER: You probably think there can be only one president of the United States at a time, right? Then how come they're all saying...
JOHN EDWARDS, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When I am president...
BARACK OBAMA, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ..when I'm president of the United States of America...
JOHN MCCAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: When I'm President, it won't be good enough for me.
MOOS: They say it without a trace of doubt in speeches...
HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And when I am president...
MOOS: They even say it in commercials...
ROMNEY COMMERCIAL: When I'm president.
MOOS: Saying "When I'm president" with such certainty is a mouthful.
PERSON ON THE STREET: Depends on your ego and how narcissistic you are.
MOOS: Spoken like a true psychoanalyst, which she is. Forget humility.
MAN ON THE STREET: How about "if " I am president of the Unites States?
MOOS: What's wrong with "if"?
PERSON ON THE STREET: Exactly. It's not a bad word.
MOOS: If you're running for president it is.
EDWARDS: I'll tell you what kind of torture will be tolerated when I'm president of the United States; no torture will be tolerated!
MOOS: Even dark horse candidates put their names on administrations that probably never will exist.
CHRIS DODD, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: That I find highly offensive. That will not happen in a Dodd administration.
MOOS: Talk about confidence. Listen to Hillary's response to Katie Couric.
KATIE COURIC, CBS EVENING NEWS: If it's not you, how disappointed will you be?
CLINTON: Well, it will be me.
PERSON ON THE STREET: [Laughs]
PERSON ON THE STREET: Good for her.
MOOS: Cocky or confident?
PERSON ON THE STREET: Arrogant, but she gets that from her husband.
COURIC: I know that you're confident it's going to be you, but there is the possibility that it won't be, and clearly you have considered that possibility.
CLINTON: No, I haven't.
MOOS: Critics gleefully jumped on Hillary once when she mentioned being president "again," though she was never quite president the first time.
CLINTON: That's what I'm gonna try to do as president again.
MOOS: Though maybe she just meant she was making the point again, not planning to be president again. Just think of all the losers who have been proven wrong.
BOB DOLE: When I'm president of the United States.
MOOS: Not.
PERSON ON THE STREET: In fact, I could say it more convincingly.
MOOS: Let's hear.
PERSON ON THE STREET: When I'm president of the United States.
PERSON ON THE STREET: When I'm president.
PERSON ON THE STREET: When I'm president of the United States.
PERSON ON THE STREET: And when I'm president of the United States.
MOOS: When I'm president, when I'm president, when I'm president. But our favorite usage dates way back in 1932. And at least Betty Boop did actually become President Boop.
BETTY BOOP (SINGS): When I'm the president, oh when I'm the president. I'll give you a great big kiss when I'm the president, yea!!!
MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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Word to the Wise
RAMSAY: A Word to the Wise...
pandemic (noun) a disease outbreak that occurs over a wide area and affects many individuals
source: www.wordcentral.com
AZUZ: One of the most severe pandemics the world is facing right now is from HIV. It stands for human immunodeficiency virus. What it does is attack the body's immune system, which is what helps us fight infections. HIV can lead to AIDS, which has claimed millions of lives. And every year, the world dedicates one special day to the fight against this deadly disease.
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CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: You can hear it in the concerts and conventions; you can see it in the rallies and the ribbons. World AIDS Day, marked each year on December first, has three main goals: raising awareness about the disease, remembering those who've died from it and pushing for a cure.
SHARON STONE, ACTRESS AND ACTIVIST: Every year, we like to do something to bring people together to take a good look and say, "Are we doing everything we can to combat AIDS and HIV?" And of course we never are, because we have so many people in the world living with AIDS.
AZUZ: The United Nations classifies HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, as the most serious infectious disease challenge to public health. Today, an estimated 33.2 million people are living with HIV, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. The silver lining here: That number is down. Last year, there were more than 39 million estimated cases of HIV. Avert.org, an international AIDS charity, says the reduction is due to more accurate counts of the number of people living with AIDS. But there's also been a decrease in actual cases. Officials in Kenya, Zimbabwe and the Ivory Coast say greater awareness and better behavior have contributed to a drop in HIV cases. And thanks to international efforts and some serious R and D, the fight against AIDS is raging.
BONO, MUSICIAN AND ACTIVIST: The United States is leading the world on the battle against HIV/AIDS. It's a historic thing.
AZUZ: That's due in part to the advent of anti-retroviral drugs that help prevent HIV from spreading in the body. To be clear, there's no cure for this disease. But there's a lot more hope for victims now than there was in 1981, when U.S. doctors discovered acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
LAURA BUSH, U.S. FIRST LADY: The fact is you can measure progress, because you can see how many people actually have gotten treatment.
AZUZ: The challenge is getting that treatment and education to those who need it. And that's something that World AIDS Day aims to accomplish, along with the total eradication of HIV/AIDS.
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Promo
AZUZ: To commemorate World AIDS Day, we've put together a One-Sheet that gives students some background information on HIV and AIDS. And we've got a Learning Activity too that helps them research some ways to prevent the disease. You can find them both at CNNStudentNews.com!
Before We Go
AZUZ: Before we go, the season of giving gets started a little early. We've all lost control of a shopping cart some time. But losing hold of the handle was really costly for one Massachusetts woman. Her purse was still in the cart and it was full of cash she was using to shop for Christmas presents. Now, follow this path: Truck snags runaway cart, purse rips, money goes flying, town comes to rescue. That's right, when people heard about the incident, they started giving donations to help make up for the missing money
Goodbye
AZUZ: And that act of kindness is where we wrap things up this week. We'll see you on Monday for more CNN Student News. We have you have a great weekend. I'm Carl Azuz. E-mail to a friend 
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