[Kristie Lu Stout:] No to a peace deal: Colombians vote against a plan to formally end a decade world with FARC rebels. Donald Trump's tax trouble. We look at how the Republican is playing down a New York Times report that shows a near billion dollar write off. And robbed at gunpoint: robbers in Paris steal jewelry worth millions of dollars from Kim Kardashian West. The Colombians are not sure what's next for the country as voters reject a peace deal between the government and FARC rebels. The deal ended more than 50 years of conflict and the decision has left the nation, as the president put it, without a plan B. And now the rebels and the government have to go back to the drawing board. And many of those who were against the deal say it didn't provide jail time for an armed group that committed murder and rape. It's estimated some 220,000 people were killed and as many as 5 million were displaced. And for just over half of those who voted, FARC's past crimes were just too much to forgive. Now, CNN's Sasha Darlington is in neighboring Brazil. She joins me now live from Rio. And, Shasta, this result was so shocking, It's been called Colombia's Brexit. I mean, what led to this outcome?
[Shasta Darlington, Cnn International Correspondent:] That's exactly right, Kristie. I mean, this comes as a complete surprise, even to those Colombians who voted against this peace deal, and that's because as in the Brexit vote that we saw in Europe, the polls ahead of the referendum had been showing the supporters of the peace deal really winning by a comfortable majority. After all, this was going to bring an end to a 52-year civil war, the longest running war in the Americas. In the end, again, everyone was taken by surprise. Colombians rejected the deal by this major razor thin margin, we're talking about 50.22 percent versus 49.78 percent, a few tens of thousands of votes. This is, of course, as you mentioned, because so many people just haven't gotten over the decades of violence that saw 220,000 people killed, some 5 million displaced. It's a major blow to the Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos. This comes after almost six years of negotiations and just a week after this very high profile signing of the deal that was kind of assumed that it would go ahead. The deal was with Santos, with the FARC rebel leader who is known as Timochenko,. The UN secretary-general was there, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and presidents from across the region. Now that it has been rejected, this is what we heard from President Santos.
[Lu Stout:] OK, unfortunately we don't have that sound available, but just to figure out what's next. We have this no vote to this landmark peace deal, right. President Santos has made these remarks. This was a deal that took years to make. Is there still going to be a truce here? What's next for Colombia?
[Darlington:] Basically, as President Santos himself said, there isn't a plan "b." However, both Santos and the FARC leader, Timochenko, said they are committed to peace, so the first step is Santos is sending his chief negotiator back to Havana, Cuba, where the original deal was hammered out, where Timochenko is standing by. The problem is, they had this whole timeline of events that were supposed to follow this vote with the rebels coming out of the jungle, trading in their arms, really beginning to get integrated into normal Colombian life. And, of course, the FARC creating a political presence. Well, the big question is, will they go ahead with that, it's very unlikely that the rebels will be handing over their weapons if Colombians just voted no against the peace deal. So they have to sit down and see if they can come up with terms that are more digestible to Colombians. The main stumbling block has been this provision that basically rebels won't see jail time, that they will so quickly get this fast tracked to a political presence, so what will they be willing to give up? They have been pretty defined on those points. We'll have to see going forward, Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] All right. CNN's Shasta Darlington reporting on what's next after that shocking vote and result there in Colombia. Thank you, Shasta. Now a battle is under way in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The Taliban claimed that they launched an attack from four different directions. The Afghan military is defending the city and western forces are ready to help as this tweet shows on your screen, saying update U.S. enablers, including air power, are in position and prepared to assist in Kunduz as needed. Now, the Taliban captured Kunduz for a brief time last year. Our senior international correspondent Ivan Watson is following developments in Afghanistan from here in Hong Kong. He joins us now. And Ivan, I understand fighting is still underway. What's the latest?
[Ivan Watson, Cnn International Correspondent:] That's right. The battle has been raging throughout the day since this predawn offensive, this coordinated offensive carried out by Taliban militants who have taken to publishing videos purportedly filmed of their militants in the streets of Kunduz. They've been distributing these videos to show some of the gains they've made into the city. Now, Afghan government officials told us, yes, they are, in fact, fighting back against the Taliban, against this offensive, fighting both on the ground and in the air, Kristie, using some of the new helicopters from this fleet of MD530 Cayuse Warrior helicopters that have been supplied over the course of the last year to the western-backed Afghan military. A spokesman for the Afghan police in Kunduz vowing to us by phone that Kunduz will not fall as it did just a little bit more than a year ago when the Taliban mounted a similar offensive on this strategic northern city Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] That's right. This attack, it comes one year after the Taliban briefly captured Kunduz. So one year on, have they changed, are they now better able to launch attacks?
[Watson:] Well, some of the arguments I've heard from at least one western official is that this time around the Afghan security forces are more prepared, whereas they were routed in the assault that took place a little bit more than a year ago. This time they are fighting back. But there are real concerns here, Kristie, that the civilian population will and is being caught in the middle. We've been getting eyewitness accounts of large numbers of people trying to flee the fighting in Kunduz. We're also getting and accounts from an Afghan lawmaker from that city who is monitoring the turmoil from Kabul and she's raising the alarm there are many people trapped inside between the warring factions that cannot escape, she says, because the exit routes have been cut off by the Taliban militants themselves and that raises a specter of people very much being caught in the middle not able to escape. We've been supplied a few photos showing the deserted streets, people terrified of setting foot outside of their homes for fear of being caught in the crossfire as this battle continues to rage, Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] Many, many civilian lives are at stake here. So, this is yet another test for Afghan forces. Can they fend off the Taliban from Kunduz? Can they keep the city secure?
[Watson:] Well, that's a big question here. And certainly when Kunduz fell, albeit for just a few days, almost exactly a year ago, that was seen as a big blow to the Afghan government, to the entire western project in Afghanistan to prop up this government, because it showed that the government couldn't hold on to a city. Now, in the statement where the Taliban claimed responsibility for this offensive, Kristie, they also claimed that they were encircling the capitals of two turbulent southern Afghan provinces, Uruzgan and Helmand Province, indicators of the advances they have made over the course of the last year. The U.S. military has told me that the Afghan security forces are suffering 20 percent more casualties at this time this year than they were suffering last year. And if this city falls again, it will be a blow not just to the Afghan government, Kristie, but also to the U.S., which has invested billions and billions of dollars in propping up the Afghan government, the Afghan security forces, and has invested U.S. lives on the ground, as well, in what has been without question the longest U.S. foreign war in American history Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] Ivan Watson reporting there on the Taliban attack on Kunduz and the counteroffensive which are still under way. Thank you, Ivan. Now, in Syria, medical care is already something in desperate need and now violence has hit two locations: a hospital inside a cave in the Syrian city of Hamaa has been forced to close after being attacked. And in the past hour, a suicide bomber targeted the city causing injuries. In Aleppo, Syrian media report that troops control the area around the bombed al-Kindi hospital and now one of the largest rebel groups in the city says it will not surrender. Nic Robertson is in Istanbul. He's been monitoring the situation. He joins us now. And Nic, the Syrian army on Sunday issued that report saying that it would leave the eastern part of Aleppo, it would guarantee safe passage to rebel fighters and rebel fighters have responded to that. What are they saying?
[Nic Robertson, Cnn International Correspondent:] At the moment, the main rebel group, or the one that says it's the largest rebel group in that eastern rebel-controlled part of Aleppo, is saying, no, they are not going to put down their weapons, they're not going to buy into this offer from the Syrian government. We've been through this before. A month or so ago, the Syrian government, backed by the Russians, said that they would create humanitarian corridors in and out of the city that would allow the civilians to go out on a number of routes and the armed rebels to leave. Well, the rebels would put down their weapons, but they would be able to leave. Now, this seems to be a rehash of that again and they are saying absolutely not. The UN says the situation in Aleppo is utterly desperate in the rebel-controlled area. 275,000 people short of fuel, that means they can't cook bread, a staple, short of water, because the water pumping station that supplies has been damaged, short of electricity, as well. The government has made gains in the northern part of that rebel-controlled area around a hospital, called the al-Kindi hospital, that is strategically important for the government. It's also cost the rebels ammunition, military equipment in terms of defending that area, and that's equipment that they can't replace because they are now surrounded and cut off. So the UN says the situation there is deeply worrying, deeply troubling, and that the health care system in that eastern rebel-held area of Aleppo is close to collapse only one hospital functioning. And that in part, according to the UN and others, is because Syria, backed by the Russian air force, is targeting, or appears to be targeting, is hitting on multiple occasions, hospitals, sometimes the same hospital again and again, as we saw over the weekend, Kristie.
[Lu Stout:] As the fighting rages on and the human suffering continues in Aleppo. Nic Robertson reporting for us. Thank you, Nic. Now, the UN's aid chief says that the violence in Syria has reached a level of savagery that no human should have to endure. So, you might be shocked to learn that the government has recently released a tourism video bizarrely set to the music from Game of Thrones. Becky Anderson has more. And a warning, you might find some of the images here graphic.
[Becky Anderson, Cnn Correspondent:] A city in ruins. This is what we've come to associate with Aleppo. Entire city blocks destroyed. Graphic images of survivors of barrel bombs. The all too familiar images of Syria's second largest city after five years of civil war. But from Syria's tourism ministry, a totally different narrative of the city. This video appeared on its Facebook page showcasing the green boulevards, swimming pools and century old architecture of western Aleppo. All set to the familiar soundtrack of a popular American TV show. The regime controlled Western Aleppo is home to about 1.5 million. While life for the more than 250,000 living in the rebel-held east seems a world apart with devastation on almost every corner. It's a divide seen throughout many parts of Syria. This video was tweeted out by Sana showing another side of the same city which has been at the center of the country's civil war. Mocking the perception of Aleppo as one of the world's most dangerous cities. The disconnect between the horror on the ground and the rhetoric put forward by the Syrian government in supporters like Russia is so glaring that for some, it's becoming absurd. A sentiment perhaps best captured by U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. Expressing his frustration over the broken cease-fire deal at the U.N. general assembly.
[John Kerry, Secretary Of State:] I listened to my colleague from Russia, and I sort of felt a little bit like they're sort of in a parallel universe here.
[Anderson:] But it's not the first time the Syrian government has been accused of misrepresenting life in the war-torn country. This video from the tourism ministry showing the Mediterranean resort of Tartus, made headlines in August with its sleek productions and techno soundtrack. One of their latest videos shows a Christian festival in the city of Maaloula, recaptured from rebels just last year. Echoing the constant line that government-held Syria is a safe place for minorities. Damascus says it's not trying to lure foreign visitors with these glossy productions. Rather, they say they're targeting Syrian tourists. But for international onlookers, these scenes might seem tasteless from a regime accused of killing hundreds of thousands of its own citizens. But Syria remains a country of contrast, where lives for some citizens seem night and day from the reality for others. Becky Anderson, CNN, Abu Dhabi.
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