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>> i think the reason they did was because they discovered the name of the suspect in a prior investigation. it probably came across him, or he was reported into the called preventing radicalization program of the british government. he must have come up somewhere. and what they are doing now is probably they're going to all his possessions, especially through his laptop, his mobile phone, to see who else he is connected to, to make sure that this was really an act on its own, rather than part of a campaign, whether he received instructions from other people. whether there were other people involved in preparing this act of terror or something else. that's what they're busy with right now. >> and it does seem, so far as they're searching these two addresses, it doesn't believe there is another. look, peter, the history in the uk runs deep, and police while they might be heartened by the fact that he acted alone. you've been covering this for the better part of 15 years, you mentioned that prevent strategy, that's the uk's counterterrorism strategy. you yourself have spoken that can only go so far. what elements do you think would have been so difficult to grasp for the uk and law enforcement? >> well, we've seen a shift in the past years as note, paula, when we had 2005, the terrorist attacks in london, 7 of 7, that was a coordinated attack with you talk about groups that were organized in a radical fashion, that isn't so easy anymore. that doesn't happen anymore in the uk. what we're seeing now are these lone attackers who are part of sort of jihadist or extremists, they are hovering around, there are plenty of them. but it's often not quite sure to what extent they're connected. to what extent they're actually ready to do it. and for the police to have several thousand people like that, it's impossible to monitor them all the time. so you always have the risk of one of them, basically, doing something on their enin a place like essex, where you have not necessarily a lot of police on the ground. >> part of knew enter there with professor of security studies, peter neumann, king's college of london. and now for those in the united states who got the johnson & johnson vaccine, the booster, the numbers just don't lie. nick watt from los angeles. >> we do have 19 out of 19 unanimous yes votes. >> reporter: fda advisers just agreed with johnson & johnson. a second dose of their vaccine is a good idea. >> it will increase efficacy. and severe disease. and it will increase efficacy against all symptomatic covid. and it will increase the breadth of the immune response against variants. >> reporter: and they say, adults should get that second shot at least two months after the first. johnson & johnson said their vaccine protection against severe disease and death remains robust. but a v.a. study that it was high against all vaccines and in august, erosion, look at johnson & johnson. fell from 88% to just 3%. >> i think it's better as a two-dose vaccine. >> reporter: more than 9 million americans already have a booster, great. but this isn't. more people are getting a booster every day than getting their first shot. and unvaccinated adults are 19 times more likely to be hospitalized. and 11 times more likely to die. >> i urge everyone who's eligible for vaccines to get them. >> reporter: in chicago, cops must submit to testing or prove they're vaccinated. their union says, half vhaven't had the shot. >> even the ones who are like myself believe that a forced mandate is absolutely wrong. >> what we've seen from the fraternal order of police and particularly leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half truths and frankly flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection. and we're not having that. >> reporter: on november 8th, fully vaccinated foreigners can enter this country. this policy is guided by public health, says the white house, stringent and consistent. on the news you probably didn't want to hear but the cdc and the u.s. just updated its guidelines for the upcoming holiday, o outdoor gatherings, is it you're inside, wear a march. or just get vaccinated. nick watt, cnn. and you'll remember those cash awards that can not moat wait people. they found the number of people initiating vaccination actually went down. researchers speculate that lotteries may be less enticing than actual cash. now protesters in italy meantime are making their angry voices heard over the country's mandatory covid-19 green pass. ♪ >> no green card! >> you'll note here that the vast majority of italy's population is in fact vaccinate but some italians believe this has no place in health care. cnn's barbie nadeau. >> reporter: italy has become the first democracy to mandate a health pass against covid. starting friday, everyone has to show a green pass to prove they're fully vaccinated or have a recent negative covid test before they can go to work. and they can be fined up to 5,000 euros and employers 1,000 euros. most of the time they're compliant. more than 80% are vaccinated but not everyone is happy. some people have taken to the streets to protest the mandates, violently smashing a labor union last weekend. and gathering here to make their voices heard. barbie nadeau, cnn, rome. former u.s. president bill clinton is spending another night in a california hospital. he's been in the intensive care getting treatment for sepsis after a urinary tract infection spread to his bloodstream. he must remain in the hospital for monitoring and the antibiotics must be administered invir intravenously. he's in good spirits and health is trending in the right direction. we wish him a speedy recovery. the january 6th committee has questions for those involved in the capitol siege. and now a police officer has to answer obstruction charges filed against him. details after the break. plus, joe biden admits his ambitious spending bill will likely face cuts. what he says are areaing of potential compromise. that's next. who's on it with jardiance? 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>> i do yes. >> president joe biden is acknowledging he's not going to get everything he wanted in the $3 trillion spending plan. while visiting connecticut mr. biden suggested free community college may be an area that does get cut. it comes as his build back better agenda has hit a brick wall on capitol hill. cnn's phil mattingly has an update. >> reporter: president biden hitting the road and the playground to unlock his stalled agenda. >> too many folks in washington still don't realize it isn't enough to invest in our fris infrastructure, we also have to invest in the people. >> reporter: to the dual prong and currently frozen multitrillion packaging. >> both bills are not about left versus right, not against moderate against progressive. >> reporter: facing criticism, biden using remarks in connecticut to press the urgency of the moment. >> these bills are not about competitiveness versus conplaisancy. >> reporter: while growing increasingly impatient with the talks as two key democrats, senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema remain on the fence. >> my number is 1.5. >> reporter: neither senator committing to a price tag which they have sought to keep $2 trillion. sinema voting on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure proposal first. a nonstarter for house progressives. manchin has laid out the package from the scale of free college and medicare and the coal state democrat sharply opposed to many of those climate measures. biden has spoken to both this week, according to officials as talk remain ongoing and the clock tickets to the end of the year, two considering democrats. the october 31st surface transportation fund, an unofficial deadline of sorts and november 2, the virginia governor's race. >> i hope the house will get that to president biden's desk asap. it would help here. >> reporter: with democrats increasingly concerned inaction could have electoral consequences. >> we will get both done, i'm confident. obviously, the sooner we can get one and then the other done, the better for the people and better for the race in virginia. >> reporter: while the president was pitching his proposals in public behind the scenes for the last several days. white house officials have been engaged in intense negotiations with key outstanding lawmakers i'm told. going granular level to each plank of the proposals basically trying to close out the proposals. it's not something necessarily they had a time line at this moment but one thing that's made clear by officials over the last few days now is the time for decisions to be made. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. violence in beirut leading to the worst street battles in years. now, some lebanese fear that could be a prelude for another civil war. that's ahead. plus, chinese astronauts are back at the nation's space station. their plans for the next six months. to each their own love. the vera w wang love collectio. designed for zales the diamonond store. what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? 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>> reporter: by dissent, this time it will not go over the edge, paula. there are still vivid memories of the civil war. there is anger at what has happened. there is massive frustration at the collapse of the lebanese economy. anger to the fact that the investigation into the august 2020 port blast here in beirut has really led nowhere, but those memories of the civil war are still very vivid for many people here. particularly, because of what happened on thursday and where it happened. they fired round after round in the air. supporters of the shia movement after the funerals for those killed in thursday's violence. the worst of the lebanese capital has seen in more than a dozen years. all the dead were from the shia secr sect including the hezbollah. the lebanese forced reject the accusation. here in the neighborhood of shia, the men with guns aim in one direction. at about a 45-degree angle, up the street, at the adjacent district, the predominantly christian neighborhood. and what goes up must come down. it was on the road that divides the two neighborhoods that the lebanese civil war began in april 1975. and for many, there's a fear lebanon is going full circle. of course, we hope this isn't going to lead to civil war, says this man. >> this may not be the start of what some think is the civil war, but what this does show is that there's no shortage of weapons in this country. state authority, however is in short supply. soldiers stand guard just a few blocks away, but don't intervene while gunmen spray bullets into the sky. he lives on the other side of the dividing line. here the entire neighborhood was reminded of the events of the civil war, she tells me. it's hard to ignore the echos. and, paula, it was in this area, just two years ago tomorrow, that the so-called lebanese revolution happened. that was the moment where there was -- that rare moment of unity when lebanese across the sectarian spectrum came together, calling for a better country. a better future. but even though it was two years ago, it seems like much longer than that. paula. >> yeah, indeed, ben, especially for the young generation of lebanon who desperately want to stay and make a life in their country. ben wedeman on the streets of beirut. appreciate it. now for the second day in a row, friday has become a day of terror. dozens are dead after attack in kandahar. isis-k says its responsible. nick waiten walsh has the latest round of bloodshed. a warning you might find this report both graphic and disturbing. >> reporter: the victims came here to worship during friday prayers at a shia mosque in afghanistan. an act of faith that for two weeks in a row has been the target of suicide bombers. witnesses say multiple attackers entered a mosque shia setting off a series of blasts and killing dozens of workers. >> translator: firing started after the prayers. heading towards the windows many people were martyred or injured there. >> reporter: and in kunduz, at least 46 people were killed. isis-k, affiliate in afghanistan claiming responsibility. the back-to-back, just escalating fears that isis-k, enemies in the taliban and the west growing in strength in this new afghanistan. and they're planing peace and stability. the taliban says it has ordered its fighters to arrest those responsible for this latest attack, but only to protect the minorities it now governs, but also because any attack on kandahar, the birth place of the taliban, is for this new administration, just too close to home.paton walsh, cnn, londo. now, a school official has sparked an uproar about teaching history in texas. why she asked teachers to bring in books with opposing views on holocaust. that's ahead. quit cold turkey. kidddding me?! instead, start small. with nicorette.e. which can lead to something big. start stopping with nicorette hi. so you're the scientist here. does my aveeno® daily moisturizer really make my dry skin healthier in one day? 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>> sure, thanks for having me, paula. if you look at it on a high level, china wants to become what they call a comprehensive space power. one of the leading in the world. and possibly the leading space station in the world. so, if we get a little more specific, that would include having significant launch capabilities. their own space station, various technology missions and different constellations of various satellites. so basically pretty comprehensive space capabilities across a wide variety of applications. and if we think about why do they want those components in do they use those for in terms of ambitions, i think there would be soft power aspects. from a domestic consumption perspective people like to see their country going into space. it stirs patriotic feels and a lot of anger as well, there are provincial and city governments trying to support is it. whether that's sustainable or long term, it's not clear but that's what's happening now. and there are some of these very big projects like lunar-based or space stations, where there's really only a couple of different countries that are going to be doing these projects. if you're any of the 200 countries that wants to be involved you would not to partner with one of those countries. from that perspective if china has this suite of capabilitys it makes it a more attractive partner for a lot of different countries. >> you mentioned international cooperation. but how important is this really as a competitive fear for china as well, to either keep track with the united states? or possibly even surpass it in terms of space exploration. >> there's a certain -- yeah, there's a certain degree of competition. and certain degree of trying to, i'd say, maintain pace, with the leading companies or countries in the west. but i do think it's also important to consider that there's a rather -- there seems to be a degree of reactivity as opposed to being proactive. up until 2019 there was zero space in china at all. it was very state controlled and not a lot of room for innovation. really once you started to see spacex and other companies make leaps and bounds, that's when you saw the impetus on the chinese side to open up, more potentially disruptive innovation. and we've seen more recently the phenomenon with the star wings. this big project done by spacex to deploy satellite around the world. and they've launched a jaw-dropping number of satellite. something like 1500 satellites over the last 18 months. and again, no one in china was really talking that much about this constellation concept until really starlink was announced and the others. and it didn't accelerate some starlink started to accelerate. there's certainly a competitive environment. but at the moment it's reactive rather than proactive. i don't think china is at the point where they are, you know, coming up withed me term term or even ten-year term on the horizon projects that would be world leading. i think a lot of it is still playing catch-up for the moment. >> and we're used to china having played catch-up over the decades then they catch up and surpass. on one specific point, though. do you think those ambitions could expand to weaponizing space in any shape or form? certainly given the intense rhetoric over the last few years? >> so, in terms of specifically weaponizing space, i think we've seen pretty clear messages from the government in china needing to have sustainable use of space. and needing to have, you know some degree of coordination and collaboration. that kind of thing. that being said, a lot of specific technologies that are being developed by the space sector would certainly be dual use. i mean, the chinese government does have a very explicitly laid out program of military civil fusion. that is basically an idea you that will have many technologies that would be developed that would have either military or civilian uses. and there would be a lot of commercial space companies that are developing technology ahead of military use. so militariizeding case, i thin that's par for the course. >> yes, certainly, par for the course with the united states as well. i'm sure you would argue. it's interesting, though, just to see how this unfolds. and really a certain benovelence. appreciate your time. >> thanks as well. aside from normalcy, it's party time in amsterdam. clubs, bars, discos reopening after the government in the netherlands lifted covid restrictions. one monitor event, amsterdam dance music festival attracts thousands to dozens of venues, they are taking i should point out, covid cautions that included on-site testing. and that does it for me and this hour of "cnn newsroom," i'm paula newton. for our viewers in united states and canada, cnn's "new day weekend" is up next and for everyone else it's "connecting africa." ♪ my name is monique, i'm 41, and i'm a federal contract investigator. as a single parent, i would run from football games to work and trying to balance it all. so, what do you see when you look at yourself? 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