CNN 10｜Land shifting, trip of pontificate, Olympic rings

COY WIRE, CNN 10 ANCHOR: What's up everyone. The weekend is just around the corner. I am pumped and ready to rock with you one more time this week.

I'm Coy Wire, aka Coy Boy, or your boy Coy, as some of you've been calling me on social. Love it. This is CNN 10, your new show where I tell you the what, letting you decide what to think.

We're going to start with your headlines. We begin in Haiti, where the entire country is now under a state of emergency. Violent gangs have taken control of much of the capital city of Port-au-Prince, and they're trying to spread to other regions.

The expanded state of emergency comes as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken travels to the embattled nation. He's there to lend support to the Haitian government as it tries to get the violence under control.

The U.S. is the biggest funder of a U.N.-backed security mission trying to fight the gangs. America has pledged more than $300 million to help Haiti in its efforts to restore order.

Next, we head to the California town with a different kind of state of emergency, land shifting. It's happening in the Pacific Ocean city of Rancho Palos Verdes. The land in the area is moving so severely that it's tearing homes apart and disrupting power lines.

Officials say the land there has been shifting slowly for decades, but the problem has suddenly gotten worse and quickly. CNN's Stephanie Elam has more.


STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is the edge of a landslide here in Rancho Palos Verdes. Look at what it's done to this house, which is collapsing down into the earth here. You can see that it's sinking down below where it should be. You can see by the railing to the stairs to the house, and also you can see what it's done to the road beyond it. Even the house beyond that, you can see that it looks like it's shifting in the middle of the building.

Now, the land here in Rancho Palos Verdes is coveted because of the Pacific Ocean views along the coast here, but also the land's been shifting here for a long time, but just never at this accelerated clip, local officials say. They say it's moving in some places by about 10 inches a week, so much so that the governor has declared a state of emergency and they've cut off the power and the gas lines to certain neighborhoods because of the earth moving just so fast.

WIRE: Next up, Pope Francis is the 87-year-old head of the Catholic Church, but he's delivering a message of dialogue between all religious faiths as he travels across Southeast Asia and the Pacific. The Pope is the leader of the Roman Catholic Church, which has more than one billion followers worldwide. He's also the head of state of Vatican City, which is actually its own country within the city of Rome in Italy.

He became the Catholic Church's 266th Pope in 2013, and as Christopher Lamb reports, he's now embarking on the longest trip since his inauguration.

CHRISTOPHER LAMB, CNN VATICAN CORRESPONDENT: Pope Francis is embarking on the longest foreign trip of his pontificate. He's going to four countries across Southeast Asia and the Pacific, covering almost 33,000 kilometers. It's the longest trip that any Pope has embarked upon. Francis will be going to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore.

Now top of the agenda of this trip is interfaith dialog. Francis will be in Indonesia, which is a country which has the world's largest Muslim population. He'll be taking part in an interfaith dialog event at the Istiqlal Mosque, the largest Mosque in Southeast Asia. It's a mosque that is connected via a tunnel to the Catholic Cathedral across the road.

It is an embodiment of the vision that Francis has for Catholic Muslim relations, the importance of coexistence and friendship. And he will be hoping that this message of dialog between faiths can resonate across the world at a time of growing conflicts and rising religious extremism.

Now, Francis will also have the opportunity to support the Catholic communities in these Southeast Asian and Pacific countries, countries that are increasingly playing an important role in global Catholicism.

Now the Pope, of course, is 87-years-old. He uses a wheelchair. He's had some health difficulties. Some are asking whether he will be able to carry out this trip at all. Nevertheless, Francis has shown he is determined to embark upon this trip the longest of his pontificate. And he's showing people, those critics who perhaps, are doubting whether he has still got the energy left to be Pope, that he still has plenty of gas left in the tank.

WIRE: Pop quiz, hot shot. Which European capital city is home to a famous structure originally constructed for the 1889 World's Fair? London, Munich, Paris, or Rome?

If you said Paris, say ooh-la-la-wee-wee. The Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous landmarks in the world, standing some 300 meters, or 984 feet, towards the Parisian sky.



🌟 字数限制，完整文本见公众号【琐简】，回复"1"可进【打卡交流群】