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NASA Spacecraft Enters Jupiter's Orbit; 215 Killed In Deadliest Attack In Iraq Since 2003; Attackers Hit 3 Saudi Arabian Cities In 24 Hours; Father Identifies Son As Dhaka Attacker; Australian PM Under Fire In Very Tight Election; Five Candidates Vying To Replace Cameron; Poll: Trump Gaining Ground Against Clinton; Deadly Floods in Eastern China; Police: Can't Protect Visitors to Rio Olympics; Chris Evans Leaving "Top Gear". Aired 1-2a ET

Aired July 05, 2016 - 01:00   ET

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[01:00:10] ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: This is CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. Ahead this hour, Iraqis struggle to cope with the worst attack the country has seen since 2003.

Plus, anger in Brazil over what is being done to keep the streets safe in the final month before the Olympic games.

And NASA scientists break into cheers after a spacecraft enters Jupiter's orbit. Hello and thank you for joining us. I'm Isha Sesay. Newsroom L.A. starts right now.

A stunning new death toll and new images show the devastation from the single deadliest attack in Iraq in 13 years. At least 215 people were killed when a suicide truck bomb blew up in a crowded shopping district in Baghdad Saturday night. People were out celebrating the holy month of Ramadan. Jomana Karadsheh is following the developments and joins us now from Jordan. Jomana, truly, truly awful images out of Iraq, and one has to be concerned that as we get more details that this will deepen divisions in already unstable Iraq.

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Of course, that is always the concern after attacks like this, Isha, and that is what people would tell you is the aim, sometimes, of attacks like this by ISIS and other Sunni militant groups trying to reignite that sectarian war. At this point so far, we have not seen any sort of retaliatory attacks, those that you would see back in 2005 to 2007 during the height of the sectarian violence. What would happen then is you would have these major attacks and they would be followed by retaliation against the Sunni population who would be blamed for attacks like this. At this point, we haven't seen that yet, but of course this is always a major concern, Isha.

SESAY: Yes, indeed. The Prime Minister receiving a hostile welcome when he visited the scene. What are the political repercussions of this attack?

KARADSHEH: Well, I think, Isha, here people -- you have to look at what people have been going through. We're talking about now 13 years of frustration and anger that has been building up with politicians, with their elected officials in Iraq. And we have seen that since last summer when this protest movement picked up again, started again, people demanding reforms, they were demanding change, and this is something that Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has been promising them, and one of the most basic things Iraqis have been asking for is improving the security situation for them. So the Prime Minister is in a very tough position right now. As you mentioned, he received that angry welcome when he showed up at the scene of the attack. This is something very understandable. Iraqis are blaming their ministers, ministers of defense and interior, their government, for not providing the necessary security around places like Baghdad. So we'll have to wait and see, but usually in the aftermath of major attacks like this, anger is more directed at the government than the perpetrators of the attack.

SESAY: Given the situation that has long taken hold of Iraq's government, with it being deadlocked due to numerous other issues, some are asking whether Haider al-Abadi can survive, whether this attack that took place in Karrada could well be his undoing. What are you hearing on that front?

KARADSHEH: Well, I think, Isha, we need to look at how Haider al- Abadi did get into that position. He was a compromised candidate. He was someone that everyone really agreed on. It was a very difficult process to get to that point. And he did seem to have popularity on the street. He has promised to change things and people really understood that it wasn't just in Haider al-Abadi's hands. It is a political system that has been in Iraq since 2003 that was put in place by the United States when they invaded Iraq. This is a system that is based on -- it's a quota system where parliamentary seats, government ministries, are divided based on -- along sectarian lines, along ethnic lines, and political groups. So what people have been demanding, Isha, is a change to this political system, something that has been promised, as we saw a couple of months ago. Protesters were so angry with the situation and the ineffectiveness of the parliament, their inability to change this system that they really want to see changed, protesters broke into the green zone, the fortified green zone in Baghdad, stormed it and stormed parliament and government offices.

[01:05:09] So we will have to wait and see what comes out of this. But Iraqis are fed up with the system that they really think has not delivered on anything, from basic services to security, as we have just seen.

SESAY: Yes. Even more turbulent times in Iraq, if that's possible to say. Jomana Karadsheh joining us there from Amman, Jordan. Always appreciate it, Jomana. Thank you.

Now Saudi Arabia is the latest target of terror in the Middle East. A wave of suicide bombings hit three cities in less than 24 hours. Four people were killed in the holy city of Medina in a blast near the mosque where the prophet Mohammed is buried. The other targets appeared to be U.S. diplomats in Jeddah and the Shiite mosque in Qatif, but those attacks failed. The country's interior ministry has identified one of the bombers as a 34-year-old Jeddah resident who moved from Pakistan 12 years ago. No one has claimed responsibility for the attacks.

The bodies of seven Japanese victims of the terror attack on a Bangladesh cafe have returned home. A silent tribute was held for the victims immediately after the plane landed. The Japanese foreign minister and Bangladeshi ambassador to Japan laid flowers next to the coffins.

As Japan and other countries mourn, details are emerging about the men behind the attack. Authorities have released the names of five attackers and say most were from privileged backgrounds. CNN's Alexandra Field spoke to the father of one of those men and has this report.

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ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is the last family photo of Meer Saameh Mubasher, on his 18th birthday, six months before he stormed a cafe in his home city Dhaka. His gang of assailants slaughtering 20 civilians and killing two police officers. At the end of an 11-hour standoff with officers, one attacker had survived, fiver others died, Saameh among them.

MEER HAYET KABIR, FATHER OF DHAKA ATTACKER: When I have seen the body, I still want to believe that Saameh is not in that body. He is very calm, quiet, and loving boy.

FIELD: Meer Hayer Kabir learned of his son's role in the attack after seeing a picture of him holding a gun posted online by ISIS, the terror group claiming responsibility for the massacre and naming the killers as their own, including the 18-year-old who disappeared from his family home in February. Raised by affluent parents, given an education at one of the city's best schools, Saameh's father says he was immature for his age and without many friends, likely easily influenced, he believes, by an Islamist group.

KABIR: This is not my son's conscious decision. He's only 18. It is not biologically possible. And he is a human boy. He is on an abnormal boy. He is a human boy. He's caring boy. He's a family boy. We have been very close family. Somebody has picked him up. It is not his own decision.

FIELD: For months, his family searched for him, alerting police he was missing, but never learning where he was until the morning after the attack.

What do you say to the families, to the loved ones of the people who died in that restaurant?

KABIR: I don't know what to say. But I want to apologize to them on behalf of my son. He has got his worldly punishment, but I don't know how much involved he was, how willingly he was involved.

FIELD: As a boy, he had an interest in religion. His family never saw signs of extremism or radicalization. His father gave him a copy of the Koran so he could understand Islam, unfiltered, unwarped. It wasn't enough to stop him from joining the attackers who killed in its name.

If you could stop your son before he walked into that restaurant, what would you have said to him?

KABIR: Stop it. Stop it. It's a massacre. It's inhuman. It's unbelievable. How come? It cannot be. It cannot be. If I would know that for whatever reason he had been going there, first thing, I have to stop it with my life.

FIELD: Police say they now have two suspects in custody in connection with the attack. Both were injured inside the cafe. Both are still too injured to speak to investigators. They remain in the hospital. One has been initially identified by police as the sole surviving attacker. It isn't clear who the other person is. In Dhaka, Bangladesh, Alexandra Field, CNN.

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SESAY: Now Australia is in political limbo right now with votes being counted in a super-tight federal election. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conservative coalition is in danger of losing its majority and could face a hung parliament.

[01:10:04] The Labor Party leader is calling on Mr. Turnbull to step down and says Saturday's vote was a rejection of his economic agenda. We'll let you know as soon as the election results are announced.

NASA's Juno Space Probe has pulled off a tricky maneuver to enter Jupiter's orbit. Juno will get closer to the giant planet than ever before. The folks at NASA certainly have good reason to celebrate. This journey has taken almost five years. CNN's Paul Vercammen reports on what scientists are hoping to learn.

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PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Juno will be exposed to a barrage of Jupiter's radiation, said to be stronger than 100 million dental X- rays. Mission leaders are crossing fingers and lucky stars that no orbiting rocks or even something as small as a dust particle hit and damage the spacecraft.

DOCTOR SCOTT BOLTON, JUNO PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR, JPL: It's hard to describe. I'm torn with the incredible excitement and anticipation with, oh my god, we're going in. It's really happening, and I know it's challenging.

VERCAMMEN: Juno will dip as low as 2,600 miles from Jupiter's mysterious cloud tops.

RICK NYBAKKEN, JUNO PROJECT MANAGER, JPL: Some of the challenges are, we're going into the most treacherous places in the entire solar system. Radiation fields are really intense. But we focused on how to respond to that and make the spacecraft relatively immune.

VERCAMMEN: This vault is designed to protect Juno's most sensitive electronics, its brain and heart, from Jupiter's enormous blasts of radiation. The titanium armored vault will cut down the impact of Jupiter's radiation. Perhaps Jupiter is best described as our solar system's super freak. It's so big, more than 1,000 Earths would fit inside. It spins so fast, days are ten hours long. Its gravity is so strong, a person weighing 100 pounds on Earth would way 240 on Jupiter. It's so old, scientists say it was the first planet formed in our solar system.

NYBAKKEN: Jupiter, though, maintains its ancient record, sufficient that when we study it really close, we think we can understand how Jupiter formed and how our solar system formed.

VERCAMMEN: Proving esteemed scientists have humor, three lego figurines are hitching a hitching a ride aboard: the god Jupiter, his wife Juno, and the astronomer Galileo. And no plastic or paint. This trio is made of the finest space-grade aluminum. Paul Vercammen, CNN, Pasadena, California.

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SESAY: Retired NASA astronaut, Leroy Chiao, joins us now from Houston, Texas. Thanks so much for joining us, Leroy. This is an incredibly complex mission which required careful choreography due to Jupiter's radiation and rings of debris and dust. Give us some perspective on what NASA has accomplished here with Juno.

LEROY CHIAO, FORMER ASTRONAUT, NASA: Sure. With Juno just getting it to where it is now is pretty amazing. I mean it was travelling through space for almost five years, and at the end there, the gravity computer, accelerated the vehicle to over 167,000 miles an hour, and then this braking pulse had do to be done correctly, had to be done at the right time, slowing the spacecraft down just enough to get it into the proper orbit. And if it had been an under burn, then it would have skipped off and would not have entered. An over-burn, it could have burrowed too deeply towards the planet, so it looks like right now, it looks like everything went perfectly and it is entering this orbit. As you mentioned, the radiation environment is quite harsh. Jupiter has a very strong set of magnetic field lines that captures the sun's radiation and other cosmic radiation and the spacecraft is going to have to fly through those magnetic fields. And it's because of that that we've seen these awesome auroras, these awesome pictures of aurora that have been happening on Jupiter, but it also provides quite a harsh environment for the spacecraft.

SESAY: Yes. Leroy, as you lay out all the challenges that this mission has, I can't help but wonder what it's like inside mission control right now, just how stressful an environment that is. Can you give us some sense of how things are playing out in mission control right now?

CHIAO: Sure. I think there's a lot of celebration going on in mission control, frankly, because a lot of these people have been waiting five years to see if this probe is going to get into the right orbit and it has. Of course, it's not out of the woods, as we have been talking about. It's going to have to pass through the radiation and it's going to have to survive. But I'm confident that it will because it's specifically designed for that environment. And so I think the folks at mission control are breathing easy that it entered the right orbit and now we're just waiting to see how it goes as they go through this harsh environment and they start making their measurements.

SESAY: So let's talk about that. Let's talk about the images, the data that the scientists are waiting from Juno. What are the expectations here?

[01:14:52] CHIAO: Well, Juno is going to give us an unprecedented look at Jupiter. It's got an amazing array of sensors on it that's going to study the atmosphere, peer down below the clouds. It will give us an idea how much water, therefore how much oxygen is involved in the composition of the planet. It's going to give us some clues as to whether or not it has a rocky core. There are some ideas that it does, some ideas that it doesn't. And so it's going to be studying both the gravitational as well as these intense magnetic field lines, and the radiation involved inside of them. So it's really going to give us a great look that we haven't had before about, you know, kind of the biggest planet and the biggest mystery of a planet that we have in our solar system.

SESAY: Leroy, at a price tag of over $1 billion, I've got to ask you, does Juno's potential findings have any real-world applications? In other words, what difference will it make? I think that's the question a lot of people at home have.

CHIAO: Well sure. I mean, missions like this, you can't correlate it exactly, like saying, it's going to bring down the cost of your electricity or anything like that, but it will further certainly humanity's knowledge of the solar system, just like New Horizons did earlier, late last year, when it gave us those stunning images of Pluto and showed us things about the planet that we didn't understand. So this mission, like the other ones, will give us more understanding about our solar system and about universe, which will help us understand our own planet a little bit more. So there will be some indirect ways that this mission might benefit the common person here on the Earth, but otherwise, it's all part of the exploration that is part of what we are, part of who we are as a species of human beings, our curiosity of understanding our environment, including what goes on well past the boundaries of Earth's atmosphere.

SESAY: Truly fascinating. Leroy Chiao joining us from Houston, Texas. Appreciate it. Thank you so much.

CHIAO: Thank you.

SESAY: Time for a quick break. Britain's Tory's aren't the only political party looking for a new leader. Why a prominent leave campaigner says he wants his life back.

Plus, a tweet from U.S. presidential hopeful, Donald Trump, ignites a firestorm. The post that has critics alleging anti-Semitism.

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DON RIDDELL, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don Riddell with your CNN WORLD SPORT headlines. They call it Manic Monday at Wimbledon in which everyone still going in the singles tournament gets to play. On the men's side, there was a clinical straight sets performance by both Andy Murray over Nick Kyrgios, and Roger Federer over Steve Johnson. If they keep winning, they'll meet in the final. In the women's draw, it has been another day of upsets, but we are still on course for an all- Williams final on Saturday. However, Serena wasn't entirely happy in her straight sets win against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The grass was slippery and Serena fell during the opening set. She even threatened to sue the tournament over the conditions. But afterwards, she took that back. Elsewhere, the third seed, Agnieszka Radwanska was the big loser. The Polish star was beaten in three sets by Slovakia's Dominika Cibulkova. Cibulkova is due to be getting married on Saturday but her unexpected progress has put her big date in jeopardy.

[01:20:08] The Golden State Warriors may have missed out on the NBA title, but they got a pretty good consolation prize, Kevin Durant. The forward announced the move after spending nine years as the star in Oklahoma City, a period devoid of any NBA titles. It's reported that he will sign a two-year contract worth more than $54 million with the option of making even more money when the salary cap jumps next year. That is a quick look at your sports headlines. I'm Don Riddell.

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SESAY: One of the most vocal architects of Britain's leave campaign is stepping down. Nigel Farage announced Monday he is resigning as the leader of the U.K. Independence Party.

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NIGEL FARAGE, LEADER, UKIP: I now feel that I have done my bit, that I couldn't possibly achieve more than that we managed to get in that referendum, and so I feel it's right that I should stand aside as leader of UKIP.

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SESAY: Farage has led the party since 2010. He's also a member of the European Parliament. Farage is just the latest British politician to resign following the Brexit vote, including Prime Minister David Cameron, and voting begins Tuesday to replace him. Isa Soares is in London.

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ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Another week starts here in Westminster with another ambitious contender emerging. Prominent leave campaigner, Andrea Leadsom, set out her intentions today. Her message? Let's get on with it and leave.

ANDREA LEADSOM, CONSERVATIVE PARTY LEADERSHIP CONTENDER: Not everything needs to be negotiated before article 50 is triggered and the exit process is concluded.

SOARES: One of her key policies, new restrictions in the right of E.U. nationals to live and work in the U.K., insisting there will not be bargaining chips in negotiations.

LEADSOM: The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Freedom of movement will end and the British Parliament will decide how many people enter our country each year to live, work, and contribute to our national life.

SOARES: Meanwhile, her rival, frontrunner Theresa May, has suggested that those nationals could be used in the bargaining over British trade agreements with the E.U. British Foreign Secretary, Phillip Hammond, and May ally, unwilling to (inaudible) in a radio interview.

PHILLIP HAMMOND, FOREIGN SECRETARY, UNITED KINGDOM: When you go into a negotiation, all the parts are moving, all the parts are on the table. And it would be absurd to make a unilateral commitment about E.U. nationals living in the U.K. without at the very least getting a similar commitment from the European Union about British nationals living in the E.U.

SESAY: The U.K. Conservative Party split due to Brexit with each contender now jockeying for position. Theresa May currently out front as favorite, Andrea Leadsom running second. Just as Secretary Michael Gove has been licking his wounds, bloodied after his battle with former mayor of London, Boris Johnson. Meanwhile, Stephen Crabb and Liam Fox struggling to build support for their bids.

Members of Parliament will vote on Tuesday on who they think should lead the party negotiations in Brussels and what is becoming increasingly likely is that Britain could have its second female prime minister sitting at that very table. Isa Soares, CNN, London.

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SESAY: The latest poll shows Republican Donald Trump narrowing the gap over Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for U.S. President. "USA TODAY"/Suffolk University poll has Clinton around 45 percent and Trump at 40 percent, the same poll showed Clinton up by 11 points two months ago.

A Twitter post slamming Clinton has backfired on the Trump campaign. Critics are lodging anti-Semitism charges against the presumptive Republican nominee. CNN's Sara Murray explains.

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SARA MURRAY, CNN POLITICS REPORTER: Today, Donald Trump is standing by this tweet that's ignited a firestorm. On Saturday, Trump blasted out the graphic, declaring Hillary Clinton the most corrupt candidate ever, over a six-pointed star and dollar bills, the imagery evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes, and it appeared ten days earlier on a white supremacist message board.

[01:25:02] But the presumptive GOP nominee is making no move to apologize, today tweeting, dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star in a tweet as the star of David rather than a sheriff's star or a plain star. But that doesn't explain why, amid the brewing backlash, the campaign deleted the tweet, replacing it with this image, attempting to cover the star with a circle. Some are seizing on it as a sign of a troubling pattern.

JONATHAN GREENBLATT, CEO AND NATIONAL DIRECTOR, ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: Now it's hard to call it anything other than a pattern. And it's a pattern that, to us, is perplexing, troubling, and we think, wrong.

MURRAY: And today, the Clinton campaign's director of Jewish outreach piled on, saying, Donald Trump's use of a blatantly anti-Semitic image from racist websites to promote his campaign would be disturbing enough, but the fact that it's part of a pattern should give voters major cause for concern. Trump allies quickly sprang to his defense.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who knows how this gained our attention, and I don't know. But what I do know is that there was nothing anti-Semitic about our campaign, certainly nothing anti-Semitic about Mr. Trump.

COREY LEWANDOWSKI, FORMER CAMPAIGN MANAGER, DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT: It's the same star that sheriff's departments all across the country use all over the place to represent law enforcement.

MURRAY: But it's not the first time Trump fired off tweets with nefarious undertones. He's previously re-tweeted apparent neo-Nazi supporters. In another case, he blasted out inaccurate and racially charged crime statistics and he faced an avalanche of criticism after failing to denounce white nationalist David Duke in this interview with Jake Tapper.

JAKE TAPPER, CNN HOST: OK. I'm just talking about David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan here, but --

DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't know -- honestly, I don't know David Duke. I don't believe I've ever met him, I'm pretty sure I didn't meet him, and I just don't know anything about him.

MURRAY: Now, Trump is looking to change the conversation and (ph) gin up speculation about the veep stakes, tweeting his pleasure at meeting Indiana Governor Mike Pence this weekend, and announcing his meeting with Iowa Senator Joni Ernst today.

Now while Donald Trump eventually did disavow David Duke and the KKK, he is still not disavowing that tweet. He put out a statement clarifying a little bit but mostly just trying to turn things around on Hillary Clinton, saying, these false attacks by Hillary Clinton trying to link the Star of David with a basic star often used by sheriffs who deal with criminals and criminal behavior, sowing an inscription that says, Crooked Hillary is the most corrupt candidate ever, with anti-Semitism, is ridiculous. Clinton, through her surrogates, is just trying to divert attention from the dishonest behavior of herself and her husband. Of course, that still doesn't answer the question of how an image that originated, appears to have originated on a white supremacist website, eventually ended up on Donald Trump's Twitter feed. Sara Murray, CNN, Washington.

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SESAY: Next on NEWSROOM L.A., just weeks before the Rio Olympics, police have an alarming warning for visitors -- we won't be able to protect you.

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[01:31:21] SESAY: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

The headlines this hour.

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SESAY: Heavy rain triggered deadly flooding in eastern China. 186 people have been killed and more than one million residents are evacuated. Some areas have seen more than 450 millimeters of rain in the last four days.

Let's bring in Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. He joins us now with more.

Pedram, how much longer is this going to go on for?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: This is something that we expect typically in the beginning of July when it comes to the amount of rain that has come down. The longevity of the event and it will continue for a couple more weeks. In the beginning of July this is where you expect the heaviest rainfall. The particular region hard hit just west of Shanghai. And the progression will take it to the north. And the models show you it is in place over the next 48 hours or so. We have a several thousand kilometer stretch of land with tremendous rainfall in the same spots that are having problems four days of rainfall that has accumulated to 450 millimeters. In Paris or Barcelona that amount of rainfall takes eight months to come down. So shows you the significance of the event. And we have additional heavy rainfall in China and the Korean peninsula and Japan as well. And what is concerning is what is offshore. This is the first typhoon in the Western Pacific, Nepartak. By this time tomorrow, 160 KPH and the next day up to 185. But Thursday night it could be 215 kilometers per hour and eastern China could be in the trajectory of this storm Thursday night to Friday morning. It's something to watch over the next couple of days.

SESAY: We're counting down to the Rio Olympics now just one month away. CNN will be following all the developments leading up to the games. Here's what you can expect. Brazil hosts more than 10,000 athletes from 206 countries. They will compete in more than 300 events across 42 sports and nearly 5,000 medals will be awarded.

The entire event will place incredible challenges on Rio's police. With just weeks to go, they have an alarming message for the city's visitors.

CNN's Arwa Damon reports.

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(SHOUTING) ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Rio's police are marching straight to the international terminal to give not an Olympic welcome but a warning: We won't be able to protect you.

Violence is on the rise here and officers say they haven't been paid in months. The government says the claims are legitimate and is working toward normalizing the situation. But to the officers it's hardly reassuring.

These two men, Paulo and Jarow (ph) not their real names, operate under a different set of orders.

[01:35:20] UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): If I talk I can be punished or even arrested for this.

DAMON: They are with the military police fighting Rio's hidden civil war.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We are numbers, nothing more.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): You only have 20 bullets. It's absurd.

DAMON: They risk talking to us because they say they watched their fellow officers die to preserve Rio's image not to protect its people.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): We have a very common saying in Brazil, for the English to see. The politicians are doing everything for English to see.

DAMON: For the English to see, meaning put on a show for public consumption. They say the city's scant resources are used to patrol tourist hot spots instead of favellas where the criminal gangs run the streets.

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DAMON (on camera): Even an event like this that is raising awareness of police brutality we are constantly stopped from filming. There is a lot of concerns about inadvertently filming armed men.

(voice-over): The government's statistics show the number of police killed by police including civilians caught in the cross fire has doubled in the last year. Human rights groups say the police are not just poorly trained but trigger happy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): They don't care if there is a child in the middle, they shoot their target.

DAMON: State security officials tell CNN they have taken measures over the year to expel officers for inappropriate behavior and say they have decreased the use of heavy weapons. But here, residents say the raids are increasing and indiscriminate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translation): It seems there is an order to put fear in the people so they stay calm and don't cause trouble in the city so the foreigners can't see that the city is chaotic.

DAMON: And they probably won't. Over the next month, the federal government will flood the tourist zones with troops. But for Rio's residents living in the shadow of the games, it's security they will never see.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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SESAY: All the problems surrounding the Rio games are reminding many of the 1976 Olympics in Montreal.

CNN's Don Riddell explains why some call those Olympics the worst ever.

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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: Everyone wants the Olympics until they have to pay for it. It greatest show on earth doesn't come cheap if you are putting on the show.

Just ask Montreal. The host city for the 1976 Summer Olympics thought the budget for the stadium complex would be $134 million but the costs spiraled out of control and the debt wasn't paid off for three decades.

The circular stadium was nicknamed the "Big O" and it was the big owe. The retractable roof never worked during the games. The iconic leaning tower wasn't completed until more than a decade afterwards. And in all, the final bill was almost 12 times the original estimate.

That's why some call the Montreal games one of the worst ever Olympics. But it wasn't all their own fault. It's not Montreal's fault that the African nations boycotted because of the inclusion of New Zealand team, a protest connected to South Africa's apartheid government.

And then there was the East German women's swimming team. They didn't win a race in '72 but then won 11 of 13 events in Montreal. They were proved to have been doping. They, at the time, defended their muscular stature and deep voices with the immortal line, "We are here to swim not sing."

But here in Montreal some will tell you a different story. The mayor, a former Canadian sports minister, Denis Coderre, says it was all worth it no matter the cost.

DENIS CODERRE, MONTREAL MAYOR: It's not about concrete. It's about people. And this is -- everybody -- I still have goose bump. I remember the people when they were cheering. And you forget about the infrastructure. You just felt that, hey, this is something special. This is about the world. Is in Montreal.

RIDDELL: For the fans in attendance, the games were inspirational, putting Montreal on the world map, and kick starting a sporting and cultural revolution in Quebec.

The star of the games, the Romanian gymnast, Nadiya Comaneci, also inspired a spike in newborn baby girls bearing her name the following year.

40 years later, those involved in the games return here to celebrate the anniversary.

Meanwhile the next Olympics in Rio is dealing with a multitude of problems. Montreal's mayor says the future games need to be transparent, authentic and sensible to avoid the mistakes of the past. It's sound advice but it may be too late for Rio.

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[01:40:20] SESAY: Don Riddell reporting there.

Time for a quick break. More upheaval in the U.K. but this time on a TV show. Coming up, who is bailing after the "Top Gear" tune up sputtered.

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SESAY: The BBC show "Top Gear" is making more changes. Chris Evans is leaving after one season.

As Max Foster reporters, this year's "Top Gear" was not a high performance model.

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MAX FOSTER, CNN LONDON CORRESPONDENT; Chris Evans is a huge name in British television and a very well-known car enthusiast, but he couldn't make his version of "Top Gear" work. The latest figures for his latest show dipped below two million in the U.K. and that is well below what Jeremy Clarkson ever achieved. At the end of the last series, fronted by Jeremy Clarkson, he was bringing in six million viewers in the U.K.

Chris Evans was coming under pressure in the British newspapers for losing so many viewers in such a short space of time, and he bowed out less than two months into his new series.

A lot of the criticism was around how he didn't have chemistry with his co-presenter, Matt Leblanc. It seems Matt Leblanc is going to stay in position. But a huge pressure on him now to try to create a comeback for "Top Gear" when he is only two months into the job, too.

This is the BBC's biggest earner around the world and it's desperate to see this one through.

Max Foster, CNN, London.

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SESAY: A lot of money on the line. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM, live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

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But first, World Sport starts after the break.

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[01:45:42] KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: Welcome to CNN "World Sport." I'm Kate Riley.

Mondays are hard and at Wimbledon it was harder than any other Monday because it's manic Monday. That's because it's Manic Monday, a term used to describe when every player left in the singles draw takes to the court. In summary, that's a total of 16 matches, eight on the men's side and eight on the women's. It's up for grabs in the men's draw. After the shock departure of Novak Djokovic. For the first time in his career, Andy Murray is the favorite at Wimbledon. Any motion that the pressure might affect him was quickly dispelled in his fourth round match against Nick Kyrgios the Brit. Even though the Aussie looked to be holding his own early on. It was a clinical performance ending in a 7-5, 6-1, 6-4 victory. Murray advances to his ninth Wimbledon quarterfinal in a row, a feat only matched by Pete Sampras and John McEnroe. Meanwhile roger Federer is aiming to get in the history books again. He is looking for his 18th grand slam title and on Monday faced American Steve Johnson. He won in straight sets as well on center court. His last grand slam title came at Wimbledon in 2012. So without Novak Djokovic in the draw the top half looks like Federer is for the picking and the bottom half Lucas Pouille will have to wait for his opponent. The encounter with Berdych was stopped for lack of light.

In the women's draw, it's been another day of upsets but we're still on course for an all-Williams final on Saturday. Venus is in the last eight for the first time since 2010. And Serena's defense of her title is going well. However, Serena was not happy in her straight sets win against Svetlana Kuznetsova. The grass was slippery and Serena fell during the first set. In the heat of the moment she was even heard threatening to sue the tournament over the conditions. But afterwards, she took it back.

Now the third seed Agnieszka Radwanska was the biggest loser today. The Polish star was beaten in three sets. This was the latest installment in an increasingly dramatic rivalry at Indian Wells this spring. Radwanska came from a match down to win. But in Wimbledon, Cibulkova's unexpected progress has put her wedding date this Saturday in jeopardy. She says if she makes it to the semis she will postpone the wedding to the following week. This is how the draws stack up. As I mentioned, we are still on course for that all-Williams final. It has happened four times already and Serena has won three of them. The Golden State Warriors may have missed out on the NBA championships

this season but on Monday they got Kevin Durant to sign for them. The forward announced he was making the move after spending nine years as the star in Oklahoma City. It was a period devoid of any NBA titles. His decision comes after the Thunder were denied a place in the finals by the Warriors who came from 3-1 down to win the Western conference finals. It's reported he will sign a two-year contract worth more than $54 million with the option to make even more money when the salary cap jumps next year.

Someone who doesn't want his team to miss out on a major championship is the legendry Ryan Giggs who is cheering on the Welsh football team after playing for them for many years. And in their first major tournament since 1958, Wales are just 90 minutes away from the final. Giggs gives us his thoughts, next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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[01:51:37] RILEY: We are anticipating two heavyweight clashes in the semifinals of the European championships this week. We've got the host France against the world champions, Germany. While the other game between Portugal and Wales is a little more unexpected. But it's a showdown between Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale. How much longer can the Wales fairy tale continue? Wales in their first major tournament since 1958. They are 90 minutes away from the final.

And here is the Welsh legend, Ryan Giggs, talking with our Amanda Davis and Owen Hargreaves.

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RYAN GIGGS, WELSH FOOTBALL PLAYER: Momentum in football is key. And the Welsh team have got that momentum and the nation behind them. And really, there's a little bit of a relaxed atmosphere at the same time because they are not expected to go further. Probably the pressure is more on Portugal.

AMANDA DAVIS, CNN WORLD SPORT CORRESPONDENT: Where is that momentum come from? Is it just down to Chris Cole?

OWEN HARGREAVES, CNN FOOTBALL ANALYST: I think Ryan's right. I think momentum in football is one of the most underrated things in confidence. You saw even with that goal. I don't think the season that he had I don't think he could have thought he could score a goal like that but the momentum they gathered throughout that game it gave the rest of the team confidence. You saw how they celebrated. But missing Ramsey is going to be massive for them. He's the one player that kind of gets on the ball and gets it to the key players at crucial moments. It's going to be difficult to find someone to fill in for him.

DAVIS: Coming to the tournament, everybody was talking about Wales as a one-man team and it's only Gareth Bale and it says more that the other players have absolutely stepped up around him.

HARGREAVES: I think everybody expected them to play defensive and on the counter attack with Ramsey and Bale but I thought they were brilliant in terms of keeping the ball in possession. I was impressed and I think everybody was. They deserved to beat one of the best teams in the world in Belgium. DAVIS: What about facing Portugal, what is the biggest challenge?

GIGGS: Well they obviously have talented individuals, they have Ronaldo and Nane (ph) and they are not just holding on or just hanging on. They are out-footballing teams.

DAVIS: Who would rather have, Gareth Bale or Ronaldo?

GIGGS: At the moment, Gareth Bale. It's hard to say that with Ronaldo. The other night he could have quite easily have had a hat trick. He had four or five decent and you're always thinking he's going to come good, he's going to come good. But at the moment, I was impressed with Gareth Bale the other day because he didn't score and he didn't make any goals but his work rate and what he did for the team is something that probably Cristiano Ronaldo doesn't doe. He is just a match winner.

HARGREAVES: Cristiano wants to score goals and be the main man. There is nothing wrong with that. He sacrificed a lot in his life to do that. I think Bale is probably a little bit more down to earth and more humble and one of the boys, really.

DAVIS: Chris Cole said it's about daring to dream. Can you as a Welsh fan and player dare to dream?

GIGGS: You can because of what you witnessed. Portugal, but in Belgium, no. Belgium are probably a better team. So what is there to fear?

And he's got 10 goals in the tournament. That's more than anyone else, I think. They got decent defensive record. So what's there to be scared of?

[01:55:21] DAVIS: Do you wish you were still playing?

GIGGS: Yeah, definitely.

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Definitely. These are the games that obviously as a player when you finish, you miss.

DAVIS: In some ways, Ryan, this is perfect timing for you, to fill what you could only imagine is going to be a big hole now that you decided to leave Manchester United.

GIGGS: No, it's exciting. It's exciting. In my career I've never been one to look back. I always look forward. And I enjoyed the last couple years as a coach. I want that to continue.

DAVIS: A lot of people might be surprised you have chosen to leave now because of the excitement over Jose Mourinho arriving.

GIGGS: I want to be a manager in my own right. I had a great apprenticeship working under Sir Alex and playing under Louie. And I really enjoyed it. So I mean, Jose Mourinho is a top, top manager and you know, United is always about winning trophies and he is proven.

DAVIS: Would you like to be carrying on your managerial career with the Wales set up?

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GIGGS: Obviously, you know, Chris is doing a great job. To be successful you need team spirit and you need to know your teammates have your back. Everyone knows your job. That's what you are seeing with Wales. Chris is doing a fantastic job and long may it continue.

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RILEY: Yes, and thank you so much to Owen Hargreaves and Ryan Giggs. And we'll be all watching to see if Wales can keep their run going when they take on Portugal.

Thank you for joining us. I'm Kate Riley.

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