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[00:12.96]I'm Carl Azuz with CNN STUDENT NEWS.
[00:15.15]And I'm we're jumping right in to our current events coverage
[00:17.39] with the report involving the European Union.
[00:19.61]It's an organization of 28 countries.
[00:21.96]It's holding a meeting in Brussels, Belgium this week.
[00:25.38]And one of the major topics on its agenda is Europe's ongoing migrant and refugee crisis.
[00:29.83]There are more people streaming into Europe now than at any point since the Second World War,
[00:35.88]and there are a lot of disagreements among E.U.
[00:37.76]members and their citizens about how to address the situation.
[00:41.04]Another topic involves whether Britain will ultimately remain part of the European Union.
[00:46.13]Because this is an economic cooperation, the stakes are high.
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[00:50.28]MAX FOSTER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What is the E.U.?
[00:52.29]The European Union is a group of countries that work together to create a single market,
[00:57.21] to allow goods, capital, services and people to move between the member states,
[01:02.39] as long as they follow the rules and they pay the entry fee.
[01:05.84]But we're getting ahead of ourselves.
[01:07.63]To start this story, we need to go right back to the end of World War II.
[01:12.03]After six years of fighting, Europe was disseminated.
[01:15.74]Economies were collapsing and mistrusts
[01:19.09] was rife as old enemies face the prospect of recreating trade ties.
[01:23.17]France and previous occupiers Germany faced the difficult task of creating a unity for profit.
[01:29.97]So, they started talking, mainly about steel and coal.
[01:34.29]In 1951, a total of six countries, France, Belgium, West Germany, Italy,
[01:40.33]Luxembourg and the Netherlands
[01:41.77]reached their first accord by uniting the steel and coal industries,
[01:46.30]creating the European coal and steel community, or the ECSC.
[01:50.92]They later introduce the European Economic Community, EEC, in 1958.
[01:57.09]These two organizations are seen as the origin of the modern European Union,
[02:01.76]that wouldn't adopt its name until 1993.
[02:05.25]More than six decades later, the European Union now represents
[02:10.24]more than half a billion people across 28 countries and with a common currency,
[02:15.85] the euro, which generates an estimated 14 trillion euros in GDP per year.
[02:20.83]The premise: countries who are economically linked are less likely to have conflicts.
[02:26.82]But it isn't a totally happy marriage for many countries.
[02:30.69]As some are affected differently by world events,
[02:33.91]there had been arguments over financial regulations,
[02:36.83] bailouts and different approaches to migration.
[02:39.79]This has given rise to anti-E.U.
[02:42.62]parties across Europe,
[02:44.50]with many calling for their countries
[02:46.66] to withdraw from arguably the world's most powerful union.
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[02:51.21]AZUZ: The U.S. Supreme Court cancelled the regular conference it had scheduled for today.
[02:55.25]It's a time for mourning, following the sudden death of 79-year-old Justice Antonin Scalia.
[03:00.67]Government officials say he passed in his sleep last weekend.
[03:03.86]Justice Scalia's body is lying in repose at the court.
[03:07.84]And many people are wondering what happens to Supreme Court cases
[03:11.21]with an even number of justices on the bench.
[03:13.93]What if a decision is split 4-4? The answer is that the lower court's ruling would stand.
[03:20.31]Those particular cases would not be overturned.
[03:23.38]But if multiple courts ruled differently on a case,
[03:26.41]a 4-4 at the Supreme Court wouldn't really decide anything.
[03:30.92]The justices do have the option to hold over cases, though.
[03:34.76]They could put off ruling on them until a ninth justice is confirmed.
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[03:39.41]AZUZ: You've heard of reindeer in the Arctic or may be pulling a sleigh.
[03:46.89]But you probably wouldn't expect to find one under water.
[03:49.86]Well, one was.
[03:51.14]During World War II, in a submarine.
[03:54.01]Her name was Pollyanna and she was a gift from a Russian submarine crew to a British one.
[03:59.75]Pollyanna spent six weeks aboard the HMS Trident
[04:02.98]before eventually being transferred to a zoo when she was back on dry land.
[04:07.66]Now, that's random!
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[04:09.49]AZUZ: All right.
[04:13.58]Before one Democrat and one Republican on the U.S. presidential ballot this November,
[04:18.51]the parties have to decide whom to nominate.
[04:21.41]Part of that process is playing out in all 50 states,
[04:24.61]but unlike the contests in Iowa
[04:26.48] and New Hampshire where Democrat and Republican candidates
[04:30.69]were voted for on the same day,
[04:33.15] the next two states hold their votes for Democrats and Republicans on different days.
[04:37.05]This Saturday, South Carolina will be focused on Republican candidates.
[04:40.60]Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore
[04:42.49] recently suspended his campaign, so six GOP candidates are still in.
[04:47.40]Jonathan Mann takes us to the Palmetto State.
[04:50.26] South Carolina hosts the first in the South primary,
[04:54.60]with Republicans voting February 20th, Democrats a week later.
[04:58.06]Known for its beaches and barbecue, the Palmetto State is a Republican stronghold.
[05:03.55]Almost three quarter of voters describe themselves
[05:06.33]as somewhat or very conservative in the state's last GOP primary.
[05:09.99]Nearly as many, 65 percent, say they were born-again or evangelical Christians,
[05:14.72] and about a quarter said they were active or former military.
[05:17.56]South Carolina is more diverse than Iowa and New Hampshire, with the sizable African-American community.
[05:24.03]The vast majority of them, Democrats.
[05:26.67]You may recall, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley,
[05:31.26]a rising start in the Republican Party made headlines last summer
[05:32.81]when she ordered the removal of the Confederate flag from the statehouse in Columbia.
