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UNIT 1 – NORTH KOREA
CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: Can a nation make a major ______________ without the world knowing for sure what happened? That’s the subject of our first report on CNN 10. I’m Carl Azuz. Thank you for watching. North Korea is a ______________, communist country. It’s government controls the media so there’s no __________________ there and the news that is reported is only what the government allows But according to South Korean ____________, Kim Yo-Jong, the sister of North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-Un is ___________________. She now appears to be in charge of one of the most important political organizations in North Korea. This group keeps close tabs on the ruling party’s ______________ to make sure they’re _________ enough to the government It also determines political jobs, keeps the communist party _______________ and indoctrinates North Koreans with the government’s ideals. If Kim Yo-Jong is now in charge of the country’s organization and guidance department, it would make her the __________________________________ in the country. But this has also raised questions about her brother’s health. Kim Jong-Un reportedly has an ____________ He said to be a _____________________. He usually keeps a grueling schedule with a lot of ____________________ but he’s sporadically _____________ from the public eye earlier this year without an ___________________. Though again, that’s not unusual in North Korean ____________________
UNIT 2 – TIKTOK
In the United States, there’s a controversy right now over a possible government ban on _______________. The Trump Administration says the Chinese _______________ application collects huge amounts of _______________ from its users. Their internet searches, wherever they’ve gone with their phones and the U.S. has given TikTok’s owner until ____________________ to fix the problem or possibly sell its _________________ to a U.S. company. TikTok is _______________. It says the Trump Administration didn’t give the company a __________________ to defend itself and that the upcoming ban is politically motivated against China. TikTok has been banned in ____________ over it’s data collection practices but the company still has an estimated ___________________ around the world including ___________________ in the U.S. alone. CNN 10 contributor Chris James has more (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) CHRIS JAMES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: TikTok’s future is uncertain UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I have urged that TikTok be ____________________ in America JAMES: The video sharing app and the Chinese company that introduced it to the world are in President Trump’s crosshairs PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: When we want no _____________________ with China. It’s got to be an American company. It’s got to be ____________________ It’s got to be owned ______________
TikTok’s algorithms among other things. Facebook collects similar information but where that data is physically stored makes all the _____________________ UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It’s important to understand that all technology companies ultimately answer to governments of the countries in which they ______________, where they’re based and where they operate. So the same way that Facebook ultimately has to answer the ___________________. Congress, for example, can demand that Mark Zuckerberg testify. The same applies in China except with one major difference China’s a far less free country and has far less ___________________ of people’s rights and people’s _____________________ from the government. So the issue isn’t whether right now TikTok’s ________________ information to the Chinese government. It’s that they ________________ could be doing so if the government so wanted. Congress, the president, the government really needs to create a ________ in dealing with this kind of problem going forward. There are going to be apps that come from places that aren’t the friendliest to the United States. That’s reality. We need a framework for how to deal with those situations. Not to deal with them ________________ after 10’s of millions of people already have it. UNIT 3 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This just in. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the
__________________- and we have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Another one just hit the building. Wow. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are no ________________. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It appears that something hit the Pentagon on the outside of the fifth __________________. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a report now that a large plane crashed this morning north of the Summerset County Airport which is in western ________________. (END VIDEO CLIP) CARL AZUZ, CNN 10 ANCHOR: It all started at 8:45 on a clear Tuesday morning. We had a live camera up on what looked like a _______________ across one of the World Trade Center towers. A passenger plane had flown into it and I remember some of us here at CNN thinking this was some sort of ___________ event. Then a second plane flew into the other tower. That was at 9:03am and at that point there was this deepening ______________ in everyone. Something was wrong in a way we’d never seen before. ____________, bridges, tunnels in New York and New Jersey shut down. Within ______________ President George W. Bush said we were under an apparent _____________________ and minutes after that every airport in the country was closed. That had never happened before. It wasn’t over though. At __________ a third passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon. ________________ rolled up from that part of that huge building. All eyes and many cameras were on that and the two __________________ in New York and all of us watched at 10:05, one of those towers gave way where it was smoking. The top part crushing down
World changing events that occurred ____________ years ago today. I’m Carl Azuz for CNN 10. The attacks of September 11th, 2001 were the worst terrorist attacks ever made on American ____________. They were physically carried out by ______________ Al-Qaida terrorists who hijacked the four planes. ______________ people were killed, that included hundreds of __________________, police officers and port authority officers who lost their lives trying to save others. In remembrance of the victims, ____________________ was established. President George W. Bush signed it into law a few months after the attacks. No members of the Senate or the House of Representatives voted against that bill and every year since Patriot Day has been a time when memorials, ____________________ and church services have been held in honor of those who were killed on September 11th. This Friday, Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential __________________ Joe Biden are both scheduled to attend a memorial even in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. That’s where United Airlines Flight 93 _______ in
Ceremonies are also scheduled to take place at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and at the National September 11th Memorial and Museum in New York City. Though these remembrance events are going to be ________________ this year because of corona virus concerns. In New York for example, the traditional reading of the ___________ won’t be done live. Recordings of family members saying the names will be featured instead.
UNIT 4
There’s no debate that Friday’s are awesome but there are some presidential debates coming up in America. And we’ll have an objective report on them in just a few minutes. I’m Carl Azuz. This is CNN 10. First story today, an international agreement that the White House says will mark the dawn of a new _________________. The leader of Israel and the __________________ of Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates met this week at the White House. They were there to sign what’s been called the Abraham Accords, named for the father of Judaism, Christianity and _______. The agreements effectively ___________________ between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE. And that’s significant because the last time something like this happened was in __________ when the Jewish nation of Israel and the Arab nation of Jordan signed a _________________. Critics say the new agreement does not solve the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians which has challenged the Middle East for __________________. But the improvement of relations between Israel and the two other countries is seen as a __________________ for the Administration of U.S. President _____________________ which helped bring the three Middle Eastern nations together. For decades, American leaders have been at the center of __________________ concerning the Middle East. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The gesture was simple but the consequences _____________ the region. In
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: While this peace was _____________ by its leaders, it is overwhelmingly desired by the people. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Less than a month later, Bahrain announced it too would ____________________________ with Israel. (END VIDEO CLIP) AZUZ: Election Day in America is on Tuesday, November 3rd. Voters will determine who sits in all _____________ voting seats of the U.S. House of Representatives. Americans will choose 35 of the 100 seats of the U.S. ______________ and they’ll decide who will lead the country for the next __________________. The two men on the ballot, incumbent Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential _____________ Joe Biden were determined by the primaries and caucuses held across the country earlier this year. The next big dates on the calendar are September 29th, October 7th, October 15th and October _____ and CNN 10 contributor Kelly Mena tells us why. Kelly! KELLY MENA, CNN CORRESPONDENT AND CONTRIBUTOR: Thanks Carl. Today, we’re going to be taking a look at the upcoming presidential debates. When it comes to political argumentation, nothing beats the general election presidential ___________________ and this year there are three, between Republican President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Joe Biden plus one between ___________________ Mike Pence and Kamala Harris. The presidential debates are all about presenting ideas and showcasing _________________ to millions of Americans. They’re also form of political theater for Americans to see
candidates in action and raw when it comes to facing their _____________. 2016 debates between Hillary Clinton and then Republican candidate Donald Trump were some of the __________ in history as Americans got to weigh each candidate’s policy and _______________ against each other. The first debate between Biden and Trump will take place on September 29th in _______________. They will be divided into six ________________ of about 15 minutes each on the major topics. Each candidate will get two minutes to respond to each question with the remaining time going for discussion and _____________________ between the candidates. Carl, with less than __________________ until the first presidential debate, the end of September will give Americans the first glimpse at the Biden-Trump political _____________________.
