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Here is happily milking this election for all the propaganda value it can get. cnn, moscow. >> i'm reminded of -- >> don't know what to say. >> reminded of gorbachev and reagan when they took that suspicion away. at a different point now. it's not just russians watching the presidential election. >> we've got it from china, as well. matt rivers gives us a look at how china views the race. >> reporter: i'm matt rivers in china, one of the countries most mentioned on the campaign trail. though one candidate certainly uses stronger language than the other. >> we can't continue to allow china to...

Suggesting that the election is rigged, that the establishment won't let trump win. one channel has predicted bloody social unrest if clinton becomes president, followed by the overthrow of the corrupt regime. >> it is a very effective message for the russian audience because the russian audience is very suspicious of america and western democracy and someone who rebells against the system definitely looks very good in the eyes of russia. >> reporter: which is why media here is happily milking this election for all the propaganda value it can get. c clarissa ward, cnn, moscow. so why is this...

These very tight, very tense waters. they are quick with .50 caliber machine guns but consider this. these are not big warships. they have a limited ability to defend themselves and if the iranians come alongside and essentially say you're coming with us, the prospect, very dismal, of seeing u.s. navy sailors potentially -- i'm saying potentially -- with the surrendering weapons with hands up is a very dismal prospect. but this has happened in the past. it happened to the british navy, several years ago during the height of the iraq war in the persian gulf. small boats were boarded by the iran...

For isis terrorists. two human rights groups in syria are reporting that a 20-year-old isis fighter killed his own mother in public because she had urged him to leave the group and flee with her from the isis capital of raqqah. cnn has not been able to independently confirm those reports. no doubt, troubling coming from those groups. let's talk about this and much more with cnn counterterrorism analyst phil mudd. phil, obviously it's horrific and a new low, if true, for isis. but what is the propaganda value of doing this for isis? >> you look at what this mother was accused of. she wasn't acc...

Well, the most propaganda value is the islamic state, and she did that facebook posting in the middle of the attack. which scared a lot of americans. so what she believed in, who knows, but it's the whole idea of violence that these people adhere to and their defense of their form of islam, and that's all they care about. they don't care about organizations. up next, anger on the streets of chicago. protesters demanding the resignation of the mayor. details on that. we'll take you there. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like ordering wine equals pretending to...