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CNN’s Cyril Vanier reports. “,”descriptionText”:”French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour is being compared to former President Trump as well as Fox News’ Tucker Carlson for his far-right stance and rhetoric. CNN’s Cyril Vanier reports. “},{“title”:”China is helping this US ally develop ballistic missiles”,”duration”:”01:48″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com/”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/politics/2021/12/23/saudi-arabia-building-ballistic-missiles-with-china-liebermann-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”politics/2021/12/23/saudi-arabia-building-ballistic-missiles-with-china-liebermann-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/211223184353-saudi-missile-site-screengrab-for-video-2-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/politics/2021/12/23/saudi-arabia-building-ballistic-missiles-with-china-liebermann-dnt-lead-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/around-the-world/”,”description”:”US intelligence and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now actively developing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China. CNN’s Oren Liebermann reports.”,”descriptionText”:”US intelligence and satellite images show Saudi Arabia is now actively developing its own ballistic missiles with the help of China. CNN’s Oren Liebermann reports.”},{“title”:”Putin blames West for tensions amid fears of Russian invasion of Ukraine”,”duration”:”02:47″,”sourceName”:”CNN”,”sourceLink”:”https://www.cnn.com”,”videoCMSUrl”:”/video/data/3.0/video/world/2021/12/22/putin-russia-blames-west-tensions-ukraine-bell-liebermann-intl-tsr-sot-vpx.cnn/index.xml”,”videoId”:”world/2021/12/22/putin-russia-blames-west-tensions-ukraine-bell-liebermann-intl-tsr-sot-vpx.cnn”,”videoImage”:”//cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/211221191622-putin-1221-large-169.jpg”,”videoUrl”:”/videos/world/2021/12/22/putin-russia-blames-west-tensions-ukraine-bell-liebermann-intl-tsr-sot-vpx.cnn/video/playlists/around-the-world/”,”description”:”Russian President Vladimir Putin is blaming the United States and the West for growing tensions over u003ca href=”https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/21/europe/russia-europe-us-nato-ukraine-intl/index.html” target=”_blank”>Russia’s aggression toward Ukraineu003c/a>. 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