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All right, the fighting in aleppo may be in its final stages. it seems syrian government forces are tightening their grip on the city. at least the american part of it. proclaiming yet another neighborhood as tens of thousands are now running for their lives. in addition to the hundreds of thousands already fleeing. cnns senior international correspondent fred pleitgen spent the weekend in aleppo. what is the situation on the ground, my friend? >> its absolutely devastating, chris. its getting d...

Shes always inspired me and encouraging me, even if shes illiterate and she cant read or write. but still, i would like to make something to show her that i can do it, even if im a girl. im female. sorry. >> no. it means a lot to me that you would share that. >> yeah. >> yeah, here we are. were lucky. ♪

Security confinement unit. >> due to his behaviors in the past, trafficking, extortions, intimidations we consider him to be a risk to our safety. therefore he was placed on administrative segregation. >> trotter has spent many years in confinement reading and writing. he has found particular meaning in mary shelleys "frankenstein." >> as a child i always watched the movie "frankenstein" so i recently read the novel. i was like, hey, i started to look at the monster kind of differently. i was li...

Im happy to hear you talk about the healthy part of democracy because you and i both know the obama administration has had blemishes when it comes to its record on press freedom. things could be much, much worse. many journalist advocacy groups are very concerned that a president trump is going to clamp down on press freedoms. are you in a position to commit or can the president elect commit to upholding the same levels that president obama administration did with regards to first amendment prot...

Teachers are designers of instructional processes. theyre really part of the professional system. theyre not the last whale in a big bureaucracy. i think theres a lot we can learn from the success of singapore. remember, in 1965 singapore became independent. 2% of the an adult population could read and write. this is a fairly recent success story. singapore has become rich because it invested in education. >> fascinating report. fascinating conversation. thank you both very much. next on "gps,...

Differently. >> one final thought. the highest performing country consistently is a very rich country. singapore. if you had could wave a magic wand and have the united states adopt one singapore strategy, what would it be? >> coherence in policy. strong link. its basically a system that is very carefully crafted and designed that has a close link between policy and practice. teachers are designers of instructional processes. theyre really part of the professional system. theyre not the last whe...

>> trotter has spent many years in confinement reading and writing. he has found particular meaning in mary shelleys "frankenstein." >> as a child i always watched the movie "frankenstein" so i recently read the novel. i was like, hey, i started to look at the monster kind of differently. i was like, who is really the monster? to me this place is dr. frankenstein and we are the monsters. and i call this the belly of the beast. were the outcast. were the forgotten. >> all right. >> in my spare ti...

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[ latin ] >> oliver: at the vatican today, pope francis said special prayers for hurricane, earthquake, and flood victims in costa rica, nicaragua, and italy. vatican television broadcast the news worldwide. seth doane got a rare behind the scenes look at the high-tech operation. ♪ >> though 70,000 people packed into st. peters square in vatican city, an even larger audience watched on tv. this mass last sunday was covered by 12 cameras including two sweeping "jibs" - those cameras on long arm...

And it was all transmitted to the world at the highest-quality possible: 4khdr. youre broadcasting at a quality level that most of us cannot imagine - that most of us have never seen - because our tvs arent that if. >> its the very first time. >> a first for the vatican. stefano dagostini is the head of vatican tv. he explained how theyre early-adopters of the latest technology. you describe vatican tv almost like a laboratory for television - why? >> because its easier for the companies - f...