[Frederik Pleitgen:] Angry protests as Turkey reels from a suicide bombing near the border with Syria and crowds accuse the president of being too soft no ISIS. We'll have a report from the scene of the explosion in just a moment. Also ahead, the defiant village with a demolition order hanging over it. We'll hear from an Israeli rabbi who is against the slated destruction and ask him why there is such international interest in the case of Susya. Plus, why has this video gone viral in Egypt? We speak to writer Shareen al-Feki about attempts to crackdown on harassment and why some women support drastic action.
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[Pleitgen:] At any moment, we could hear from Pope Francis as he addresses a conference on climate change and human trafficking. Mayors and other local politicians from around the world have gathered at The Vatican in answer to the pope's call to action. He's set to meet with them this hour. Our Vatican correspondent Delia Gallagher joins us now from Rome. And Delia, we know that these issues are very close to the pontiff. What are you what is he likely to say?
[Delia Gallagher, Cnn Vatican Correspondent:] Well, we expect them, of course, to encourage the participants. This is the first time that the pope is meeting with mayors, Fred. You know, he's been quite tireless on both of the issues of modern slavery and climate change to get them into the public eye, to make it a top priority for international and local leaders. And what the pope is trying to do now is work on a two-pronged approach. One is at the local level, represented by the mayors. The other is the international level. And I think he's speaking right now, Fred, so maybe we can take a listen to what he's saying to the participants. What he's saying, Fred, while we're waiting for the pope.
[Pleitgen:] Yeah, looks like the video is stalling there for a second. But let's talk a little more, especially about the modern slavery. What are the main issues for him there? Because it is a very different approach that he would take than, for instance, one that politicians would take, because he's obviously coming from a more spiritual perspective, isn't he?
[Gallagher:] Yeah, and a lot of the mayors have referenced that today, saying, you know he is the highest moral voice today that we have on this issue. The Vatican has been working for many years on the question of human trafficking. I think we've got some of what he's saying now. Let's take a listen, Fred.
[Pope Francis:] This is what I tried to express in the encyclical [inaudible] that we cannot separate man from everything else. There is a relationship which has a huge impact both the environment on the person and the person in the way they treat the environment. And also the rebound effect against man when the environment is...
[Pleitgen:] Video is stalling again there. He was obviously at that point in time just speaking about the politics toward the environment. He was, of course, very vocal on that issue, saying that man is obviously one with nature, that we can't separate ourselves, that man's actions obviously have great affect on the planet. How important, Delia and you're in these circles a lot how important is the environmental issue to him?
[Gallagher:] Look, the environmental issue is important to the pope, because it's important to everybody for creation care taking care of the Earth. But it's important to Pope Francis in particular because of his care for the poor. And what the Vatican states over and over again is the connection between climate change and its effect, in particular, on the poor, on poor cities. That's why the mayors are here and particular in the urban areas. In fact, they say that global warming is one of the causes of poverty and one of the causes of forced migration. And so they are calling on the mayors to help at the ground level in their urban areas with the poor, in particular. We know this pope has the poor at the top of his agenda. So any of these issues, human trafficking is another one, which affects mainly the poor. There was a mayor from India, from Kochi in Kerala said India has the highest number of slaves in the world and that they are enacting laws to help child labor laws to help them get an education to allow Indian families to work. So, all of these issues are interconnected. And what's unique about this conference is for the first time Pope Francis is bringing them together and saying one thing affects the other. And at the heart of it is his care for the poor, which is a gospel value, as they say here at The Vatican, that Jesus was concerned for the poor, that's Pope Francis's main focus in all of this Fred.
[Pleitgen:] Yeah, you're absolutely right. Of course, that is something that he has shown a lot since he became the pontiff. In fact, I want to hit on something else that you were saying, because it is quite interesting as well. Now, you were saying that the Vatican has obviously been pushing these issues, have been on these issues for a very, very long time. But it does appear as though they have become a little more prominent since this pope has come into office. What do you think?
[Gallagher:] Yes. Well, Pope Francis has totally ramped it up. I mean, he has made it his top priority, I think we could say. Certainly under Pope Benedict, even under John Paul II The Vatican has issued documents on creation care, care for the environment, on human trafficking, that's been happening for a number of years here at The Vatican. But Pope Francis has met with international leaders, has met with UN leaders, has in mind a meeting in December in Paris on sustainable development goals at the UN, so trying to actually affect policy. And when he issued his encyclical, which is mostly on creation care and on the idea of helping the environment and human trafficking, he said part of the reason for that is to influence the discussion on this. But he's not just stopping there, he's inviting the mayors to The Vatican so that he can get in on the ground level as well. So, I think it's clear that and all of the mayors kind of paid homage to him in their talks saying that he is really the most outspoken voice nowadays and really the only one capable of kind of bringing everybody together in this sort of neutral place without any kind of real bias one way or the other, other than to help the poor and to help the environment.
[Pleitgen:] That's Delia Gallagher, thank you very much for joining us there from Rome. The pope, of course, a moral authority, someone who also has a lot of influence on politicians as well. Thank you very much, Delia. And you can join us all this week for an in depth look at this global problem of modern day slavery. Be sure to watch this CNN Freedom Project documentary "Children for Sale: The Fight to End Human Trafficking," that's Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in London, 9:00 p.m. Central European Time. And of course only here on CNN. Now Turkey has always been a stone's throw away from ISIS. And now it's feeling the danger like never before. A devastating bomb blast near the Syrian border has some Turks outraged and pointing the finger at their leaders for how they've handled the threat. This protest in Istanbul turned violent after some in the crowd shouted slogans blaming the government. Monday's explosion in Suruc killed 31 people and wounded at least 100. The victims were attending a support rally for the battered Syrian border town of Kobani when the bomb went off. Now Turkey's prime minister says one suspect has been identified. He's also said a connection to ISIS has, quote, "gained probability." Our own senior international correspondent Arwa Damon traveled to the site of that horrific attack.
[Arwa Damon, Cnn International Correspondent:] This is the cultural center in Suruc where the attack took place. And we do need to warn our viewers at this stage that the video they're about to see is incredibly disturbing. But we are deciding to broadcast it to show the inhumanity and terror of the attack. And now 24 hours later, this is the scene. The group that had gathered not only talking about and wanting to bring attention to the Kobani reconstruction efforts, but they had also gathered donations for the children: toys, schoolbooks, now symbolically placed here, a sign of defiance against the sheer violence that did take place. Many people, though, very angry at this stage, with the Turkish government. The crowds here earlier chanting anti-government slogans believing that the authorities should have done more to protect this nation from the threat posed by ISIS. In Gaziantep, there was a mass procession earlier in the day before the victims killed in the attack were taken to their various resting grounds. Many of those who perished here were from different parts of the nation. The Turkish prime minister also saying that they have identified the suspect in the attack, but they are not publicly disclosing that information. They're still investigating what linked the individuals may have had. The Turkish authorities had previously eluded to this attack being the work of ISIS revenge for Turkey's most recent crackdown on individuals, hundreds rounded up over the last few weeks, suspected of having links or ties to ISIS. This attack not necessarily coming as a surprise. People have been bracing themselves for the violence in Syria to spill over, but still shocking this nation to the very core. Arwa Damon, CNN, Suruc, Turkey.
[Pleitgen:] And of course we'll be continuing to follow that investigation as it goes on. And if something new happens we will of course inform you immediately. Well, he's been labeled an embarrassment to his fellow Republicans and compared to Godzilla by liberals, but don't call him a loser, well not yet anyway. A new nationwide poll shows billionaire and U.S. presidential hopeful Donald Trump taking a commanding lead among likely Republican voters. The former reality TV star is scheduled to appear at a campaign event in South Carolina this hour, a key state in the race for the Republican nomination. Trump will be boosted by that new poll, the Washington PostABC News survey shows him with 24 percent support among likely Republican voters, that's nearly double his nearest Republican opponent. There are some caveats, however. And we have our own CNN's Dana Bash on the scene in Bluffton, South Carolina to tell us what those caveats are. Dana, how likely is he to win?
[Dana Bash, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Well, it is I think way too early to answer that question, but I think the one thing we can say is that everybody in the Republican establishment, his Republican opponents are quite surprised by how well he is doing. I mean, that is a pretty significant lead, as you just mentioned, to have double digit lead on a national level. Now, as you mentioned, he is a reality TV star. Donald Trump is a celebrity, no question about it, and that does fuel some of that. But, you know, the issue for him, and the issue for voters, and I've just been anecdotal gleaning this and talking to some of the people who are here to listen to him speak today. This is a retirement community in South Carolina, is he's not a regular politician. I mean, that's what I heard over and over again from voters coming to listen to him saying that he's a doer, that he doesn't speak like everybody else. One even said that he has I'll clean it up, cajones. And that they like that about him. So, that's the plus and part of the driving issue for his rise in the polls. The negative is, of course, the fact that his truth to power sometimes can backfire and he can go a little bit too far, as he seemed to have done when he questioned Senator John McCain and whether he really should have war hero status, because he was captured in Vietnam and a prisoner of war for five years in the so-called Hanoi Hilton. I have to tell you, South Carolina is veteran rich. And I've spoken to some veterans here again just anecdotally who say it's not a disqualifier, that the organizations, veteran's organizations came out and condemned him, the Democrats, Republicans said that you can't say that kind of thing, but some here say that, you know, it's not necessarily a disqualifying thing. One said that he's on probation, but he wants to hear what Donald Trump has to say today.
[Pleitgen:] He's certainly spicing up the Republican race, isn't he. Dana Bash, thank you very much there in South Carolina. Now, Donald Trump is not the only on shaking up U.S. politics, though. Coming up in 20 minutes, we'll look at the rise of the liberal challenging Hillary Clinton. Plus, we'll go to the West Bank to a Palestinian village, which Israel is set to demolish despite calls from the EU and the United States to not do that. An international debate just ahead.