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Iraqis Start To Bury Victim's Of Weekend Terror Attack; Wave Of Suicide Bombings Hit Three Saudi Arabian Cities Within 24 Hours; Law Enforcement Says It Is Ill-Prepared To Provide Adequate Security At Rio Olympics; NASA Spacecraft Reaches Jupiter; Deaths Of Japanese Nationals Prompts Japanese Businesses To Reevaluate Dealings In Bangladesh; Australia In Political Limbo. Aired 3-4a ET

Aired July 05, 2016 - 03:00   ET

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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Iraqis bury victims of the weekend's terror attack as the full scale of the devastation caused by the truck bomb begins to emerge.

Plus, yet another concern for organizers of the Rio Olympics. Police say they're not prepared to protect the thousands of people expected for the games.

And celebrations at NASA as their spacecraft reaches Jupiter and prepares to explore the solar system's biggest planet.

Hello and welcome to our viewers all across the globe. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom.

The magnitude of Iraq's deadliest terror attacks since 2003 is becoming even clearer. Here is what a Baghdad neighborhood looks like from above. This was a busy shopping district where people were celebrating Ramadan, now burned beyond recognition.

The death toll from Saturday night suicide truck bombing is staggering. Two hundred fifteen people killed, another 175 wounded. And ISIS has claimed responsibility for this attack.

Jomana Karadsheh joins us now from Jordan with the latest on this. And Jomana, 24 hours ago, you and I talked about the question everyone was asking, how did this truck bomb get pass all the levels of security apparently in place? What is being said about this now as the people of Baghdad make it known just how angry they are with their government?

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, that is a question they are still asking indeed. And the blame here, many are blaming their government, they're blaming the security forces, their officials about how a truck loaded with so much explosives managed to move undetected around the city.

We're talking about multiple checkpoints inside Baghdad, around Baghdad to even get to this part of the Karrada. And what we have seen in the past, Rosemary, is in the wake of attacks like this, some security officials, lower level security officials within a certain area are dismissed to try and calm down the anger that we have seen on the streets.

Then you hear announcements like we've heard from the prime ministers a couple of days ago with new security measures that will be introduced. But as we have seen in the past after attacks like this, Rosemary, that really does not stop these bombings.

And what you can tell here is that this is really a tragic reminder that yes, ISIS has lost ground in Iraq, lots of the territory that it used to control. But it still has the ability to carry out attacks like this.

A real reminder here that the battle, this fight against ISIS is not only won on the battlefield. They cannot only win this militarily. More needs to be done to fight the ideology and to try and stop suicide attacks like this, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes, that is exactly right. And, Jomana, how are people coping in the wake of this tragedy and what's their government planning to do to try and make sure this doesn't happen again. Of course they can't stop that, but there are ways of at least improving security.

KARADSHEH: Well, Rosemary, as we have seen from Ben Wedeman's reporting from the scene from Baghdad, you can just see that people are still in shock, there's so much grief, so much pain. But as we have seen in the past, Rosemary, the violence has become the reality of life for so many Iraqis that it does not stop them from going about their lives.

You know, we've heard some Iraqis now saying that they will not be celebrating Eid this week, that is the festival at the end of the holy month of Ramadan because they are in mourning, because of what has happened to the city and to their country.

But of course, the question on everyone's mind is, what is next? There is so much concern, Rosemary. And of course, what is the government going to be -- what is the government going to do about -- going to do about this, how can they try and minimize attacks like this?

This is going to be a very tough challenge as one security official I remember telling us a few years ago, it is very hard to stop suicide bombers, people who are so determined to kill and maim.

CHURCH: And, Jomana, we also talked 24 hours ago about those bombs that were being used, they were found to be fake in fact, they were being used to check whether some of these trucks, these cars were carrying bombs. They don't work. What is being done about that?

[03:04:57] KARADSHEH: That is the absolutely stunning fact here is that years after the manufacturer of this one (ph), this explosive detector was sentenced to prison in the United Kingdom for fraud, for selling this detector to various countries, Iraq was still using it.

We heard the prime minister saying that they are going to pull all these explosive detector out of the streets. It's no longer going to be used.

But about 18 months ago, Rosemary, I asked an Iraqi general while we were doing a tour of various checkpoints to see how the security there worked, I said "why are you still using it? You know these are fake, you know that it really is useless pretty much." And he said "it is better than nothing."

So, we will have to wait and see what is going to be done. It is a tough task. But again, it is about trying to fight this beyond trying to stop car bombs, beyond fighting it on the battlefield. More needs to happen on the political scene, Rosemary, in Iraq to try and stop ISIS from recruiting so many people from finding the ground in Iraq to recruit people. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Yes. So much more that needs to be done that should be done and we will stay on this story. Jomana Karadsheh joining us there from Jordan. Many thanks to you.

While search teams look for more possible victims of this bombing, families are beginning to bury their loved ones. They gathered in the holy city of Najaf on Monday. They carried coffins covered with Iraqi flags of cemetery and to the mosque.

And 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 Muhammad is buried.

Now, the other target appeared to be U.S. diplomats in Jeddah and a Shiite mosque in Qatif. But only the bombers were killed in those attacks.

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.

Well, hundreds of mourners gathered at a mosque in Dhaka Monday, just blocks from the site of a deadly terror attack. They came to pray before Bangladeshis who were killed in Friday's attack, and they were buried. Most of the victims were foreigners.

Well, Bangladeshi authorities are revealing more information about the men behind that attack. They have identified five gunmen and say most came from privileged backgrounds.

Alexandra Field spoke to the father of one of the men and has this report.

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 of 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, five others died, Saameh among them.

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

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FIELD: Meer Hayet 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 leaning the killers as their own including the 18-year-old who had 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.

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KABIR: This is not my son's conscience, this cannot be -- he's only 18. He's -- it's not viable. You don't think it's possible. And he's humanly boy, he's not abnormal boy. He's humanly boy, he is caring boy. He's a family boy. We have been very close family. Somebody has pick him up. It is not his own decision.

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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 the restaurant?

KABIR: I don't know what to say. But I want to apologize to them. (Inaudible) He has got his worldly punishment but I don't know how much involved he was. I mean, how willingly he was involved.

FIELD: As a boy, he had an interest in religion. His family never saw signs of extremism or radicalization.

[03:10:02] His father gave him a copy of the Quran so he could Islam, unfiltered, unwarp. It wasn't enough to stop him from joining the attackers who killed in its name.

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FIELD: If you could stop your son before he goes into the restaurant what, would you say?

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

(END VIDEO CLIP) 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 as 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, Alexander field, CNN.

CHURCH: Seven Japanese nationals were killed in Bangladesh. A silent memorial was held at Tokyo's Haneda Airport immediately after their bodies arrived.

This attack has prompted Japanese businesses to reevaluate their operations in Bangladesh.

Matt Rivers has the details.

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The victims here of course first on our minds. But the fact remains that there are other implications from this attack in Dhaka, namely, implications for the business community.

This has created a much more tense environment for the western and Japanese companies that operate in Bangladesh. So, CNN earlier today, confirmed with Uniqlo, the major Japanese clothing retailer, that for the entire month of July, they will be suspending any unnecessary, as they put it, business trips to Bangladesh.

And they told their company employees, 10 of them that live in Dhaka, to lay low and make sure they stay safe out of an abundance of caution because of what happened with the attacks.

And they're not the only company. We also confirmed today other big brands names that you might know, Toshiba, Mitsubishi Motors, a Obayashi Corporation which is a large construction firm, and Maruha Nichiro which is a big fishing firm. These are companies that are all doing the same thing, as they put it, out of an abundance of caution because of these attacks. It is having an impact here.

Now Bangladesh really relies on these companies. They -- a major part of the economy in Bangladesh's exporting, especially things like clothing. You know, company like Uniqlo really relies on manufacturing, cheap manufacturing out of Bangladesh to make sure that it can bring its products to markets around the world.

So, how these attacks will affect what's going on with the relationship between these companies and with Bangladesh are remains to be seen. but at least in the near term here, there is certainly more tension and frankly, a bit of fear on the part of these companies and for the safety of their employees in Bangladesh and in their manufacturing centers there.

Matt Rivers, CNN, Tokyo.

CHURCH: We'll take a quick break here. But still to come, there are some troubling warnings coming from Rio with the Olympic games fast approaching. The safety concerns from police, the mayor and even Rio's governor.

Plus, fishermen who make a living in the South China Sea are being targeted as several countries fight over territory in the disputed waters. We'll have that and more news when we come back.

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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT 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 single tournament gets to play. On the men side, there was a clinical straight set performance by both Andy Murray over Nick Kyrgios and Roger Federer over Steve Johnson, because 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 set 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, Agnieszka Radwanska was the big loser. The Polish star was beaten three sets by Slovakia Dominika Cibulkova. And Cibulkova is due to be getting married on Saturday. But her unexpected progress has put her big date in jeopardy.

The Golden State Warriors may have missed out on the NBA title but they got a pretty good consolation prize. Kevin Durant the forward announce the move after spending nine years as a star in Oklahoma City, a period devoid of any NBA titles is 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.

CHURCH: With one month before the Rio Olympics, new concerns are being raised over just how prepared the city is. Now Rio's Mayor is lashing out at state officials over the policing of violent crimes. He says the state is failing at taking care of people.

There are also reports of foreign journalists and one athlete being robbed at gunpoint. Rio's governor says he's mainly worried about the threat of a lone wolf attack during the games.

Now police officers also have a strong warning for anyone visiting Rio during the games.

CNN's Arwa Damon reports.

ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Rio police are marching straight to the international terminal to give not an Olympic, but a warning. "We won't be able to protect you." "Violence is on the rise here," an officers say, they haven't been paid in months. The government says the claims are legitimate and is working towards

normalizing the situation. But to the officers, it's hardly reassuring.

These two men, Paolo and Joel, not their real names, operate under a different set of orders.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): If I talk I can be punished or even arrested for this.

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

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We are numbers, nothing more. You encounter a drug trafficker armed with lots of ammunition and you only have 20 bullets. It's absurd.

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

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): We have a common saying here in Brazil. For the English to see. I believe that the politicians here are doing everything for the English to see.

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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 hotspots like Copacabana instead of favelas like Mare where the criminal gangs run the streets.

In an event like this that is meant to be re raising awareness about police brutality were constantly being talked and filming is just an indication which is (Inaudible). Right now there's a lot of concerns about this (Inaudible).

The government's own statistics show the number of people killed by police, including civilians caught in the crossfire, has nearly doubled in the last year.

[03:20:01] Human rights groups say the police are not just poorly trained but trigger happy.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): They don't care if there's a child in the middle. They shoot their target

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

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

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DAMON: And do they probably won't. Over the next month, the federal government plans to flood Rio's tourist zones and Olympic venues 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.

CHURCH: And 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.

RIDDELL: Everyone wants the Olympics until they have to pay for it. The greatest show on earth doesn't come cheap if you're putting on the show. Just ask Montreal, the host city for the 1976 summer Olympics thought the budget for the stadium complex was going to be $134 million, but the costs spiraled out of control and the debt wasn't paid off for more than three decades.

The circular stadium was nicknamed the Big O. But it quickly became the big owe. It's much of (Inaudible) retractable never worked during the games. The iconic Leaning Tower wasn't completed until for 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 when 20 African nations boycotted because of the inclusion of the New Zealand, 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 single race in '72, but then won 11 of 13 events in Montreal. Subsequently proved to have been doping. They have the time defended their muscular stature and deep voices with the immortal line "we're 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 of the cost.

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

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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 is a perfect Romanian gymnast, Nadia Comaneci also inspired a spike in newborn baby girls bearing her name the following year.

Forty years later, those involved in the game has returned 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 in order to avoid the mistakes of the past. It sound advice, but it may be too late for Rio.

Don Riddell, CNN, Montreal.

CHURCH: But it's not all bad news for the Rio Olympics. A new rapid transit bus tunnel has opened in the city ahead of schedule. It's part of a 26 kilometer highway project. The plan is to serve an estimated 70,000 passengers daily.

Another major story we're following this hour. NASA's Juno spacecraft has successfully entered orbit around Jupiter, getting closer to our solar system's largest planet than ever before.

Juno will circle Jupiter 37 times over 20 months to study the planet. A big challenge will be dodging Jupiter's intense radiation field. And we will have more on Juno's journey later in the program.

Well, China will hold military drills near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea starting Tuesday. It's an area contested with Vietnam and Taiwan, an international court is set to rule on another dispute next week between China and the Philippines.

And fishermen in Vietnam are finding themselves caught up in the territorial dispute.

CNN's Saima Mohsin reports.

SAIMA MOHSIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Like his father before him, Le Tan makes his living from the sea. He's fished these waters for 31 years, but lately his job has become a lot more dangerous. [03:25:04] LE TAN, VIETNAMESE FISHERMAN: First they took our fish,

then the essential equipment. If they liked it, they took it. If they didn't, they threw it away.

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MOHSIN: Tan describes the day when Chinese men boarded his boat, stole his equipment and threatened him and his sons. This happened last year that he says his boat has been targeted four or five times over the past decade.

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TAN (TRANSLATED): Once they tased my son three times in his spine.

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MOHSIN: He's been targeted because he fishes in the Paracel, the chain of islands claimed by Vietnam, China and Taiwan. Vietnamese authorities say hundreds of fishermen from Ly Son, the small island up the east Coast of Vietnam, report being intimidated, beaten, or robbed by men on Chinese flagged boats within the Paracels.

Yet, despite the danger, the local government says it's encouraging men to keep fishing these waters, calling them defenders of Vietnamese territory. The Chinese foreign ministry says it has no knowledge about Vietnamese fishermen being beaten or tased away.

And the Paracel Islands are its sovereign territory along with most of the South China Sea. China is building manmade islands laying down air strips deploying sorties to air missiles in defiance of competing claims by other regional players.

And the U.S. has waded into the fight challenging China by running freedom of navigational operations in the region and calling for an end to demilitarization of the area.

Washington's message seems to have done little to sway local opinion.

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PHAM TI HUONG, LY SON DISTRICT VICE CHAIRMAN (TRANSLATED): Concerning Americans ideas but peaceful solution between Vietnam and China, even with this peaceful solution, the right to Vietnam to these islands are undeniable.

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MOHSIN: CNN wasn't allowed to speak to the Ly Son fishermen without a government minder present. But Vietnamese officials are keen to show them off the victims of China's aggression.

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TAN (TRANSLATED): We protect our country to the next generation.

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MOHSIN: It's an elevated calling for the fishermen of the remote island in Ly Son, in its ongoing dispute with China, Vietnam is mustering defenders wherever it can find them.

Saima Mohsin, CNN.

CHURCH: Donald Trump's campaign has edited a tweet but not before it sparked a firestorm. Why the social media post has critics alleging anti-Semitism?

Plus, the race for Britain's Conservative Party leadership is heating up with voting set to begin soon. We will hear from the leader leading contender. That's coming up.

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CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers all around the world. This is CNN Newsroom. And I'm Rosemary Church. Let's check the main stories now.

The extent of the damage done by an ISIS attack in Baghdad is becoming clearer. At least 215 people were killed when a suicide platform blew up in a busy shopping area Saturday night. People had gathered there to celebrate Ramadan. It is the deadliest single attack in Iraq in 13 years.

A wave of suicide bombings hit three cities in Saudi Arabia in 24 hours. Four people were killed in Medina in a blast near the mosque where the Prophet Mohammed is buried.

And the country's interior ministry has now identified the bomber in Jeddah as a Pakistani national who moved to Saudi Arabia 12 years ago.

Japan lost seven nationals in the deadly terror attack in Bangladesh. A silent memorial was held at the airport in Tokyo after the bodies arrived Monday. Japan's foreign minister and the Bangladeshi ambassador were there to pay their respects.

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

For the latest, let's bring in Sky News Australia reporter, Dan Bourchier, he joins me live from Canberra. Dan, great to talk with you.

So, a lot of people are asking why it's taking so long to determine the results of this federal election. We get that the postal and absentee votes have to be counted. But how does that explain such a long delay and when will we likely know the outcome?

DAN BOURCHIER, SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA REPORTER: Rosemarie, hello to you. There was really a wrap around 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, local time here. Where the electoral commission essentially stopped the counting and over the following today goes into what's called a process of checking to ensure the postal votes that are coming in have been completed properly.

Now we know there are more than a million votes still to be counted. That's around 25 percent of all Australians to be voted. And that will determine the 10 states that are left yet to be decided in this election.

Many of those on very tight margins of around 1,000 votes or less. In fact, one that I looked a few moments ago has 85 votes in it. So, way for thin margins that we're talking about here. And both parties vying for those states to hit the lucky number of 76 states that they need to be able to form a majority. If not, it will be dealing with the five or six independents in the lower House.

CHURCH: Incredible situation. And why, Dan, why did voters apparently turn their backs on the Liberal Party and what impact this all uncertainty having on Australia right now.

BOURCHIER: Well, it seems that hundreds of thousands of voters have not only turned their back on the Liberal Party but also the Labor Party on the ideologies of the major parties moving instead to smaller fringe parties that have, some would say, more extreme views and this is starting to affect some areas of confidence.

We've heard comments that Australia's triple A credit rating could be at risk if we head into a hung parliament situation. And we've seen leadership device happening on both sides of the political divide as the parties look at who should be their leader going forward.

Today, I spoke to the former Prime Minister John Howard, I asked him what he took from it and he said there are significant lessons here for both political parties.

[03:35:00] Now, in addition to this, we know that whoever does form the government the majority or minority, will have another issue of those nine or so cross benches in the upper House who come from very extreme fringes of the political divide also.

CHURCH: Incredible. Dan Bourchier, always great to talk with you. I appreciate it.

A Twitter post criticizing U.S. democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has backfired on the Donald Trump campaign. The post has critics leveling charges of anti-Semitism against the presumptive republican nominee.

CNN's Jason Carroll has details of Trump's newest controversy and how he's trying to deflect it.

JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump under fire for a controversial tweet evoking anti-Semitic stereotypes. On Saturday, Trump posted a tweet with a picture of Hillary Clinton over $100. A six-pointed star that resembles the star of David and the caption, most corrupt candidate ever. Trump taking to Twitter to blame the press for the backlash writing

dishonest media is trying their absolute best to depict a star and a tweet as the star of David rather than a sheriff star or a plain star.

But Trump deleted the tweet on Saturday reposting the graphic but using a circle instead of a star.

CNN, through the use of an internet archiving site found that that same graphic tweeted by Trump appeared 10 days earlier on an internet message board filled with anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and neo- Nazi ideology.

And adviser to Trump's campaign had trouble explaining who tweeted the image or how that person found it.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Somebody had to go and find this. This isn't the result of a standard internet search.

ED BROOKOVER, TRUMP CAMPAIGN ADVISOR: Those things get tweeted and re-tweeted and reposted on Facebook. It did not have to be found on any message board like that.

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CARROLL: Trump's tweet drew a sharp review from the director of an anti-defamation league.

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JONATHAN GREENBLATT, ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE NATIONAL DIRECTOR AND CEO: 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.

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CARROLL: Hillary Clinton's campaign is calling on Trump to apologize for the post saying "Trump should be condemning hate not offering more campaign behavior and rhetoric that engages extremists."

Supporters of Trump reject accusations that the presumptive GOP nominee is intolerant or anti-Semitic. Trump's daughter, Ivanka converted to Judaism before her marriage to Jared Kushner, and Trump has taken out staunchly pro-Israel position on the campaign trail last week, calling out a man in New Hampshire who criticized the country.

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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Israel is a very, very important ally of the United States.

(APPLAUSE)

And we are going to protect that 100 percent, 100 percent. They've been our most reliable, it's our true friend over there. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CARROLL: But Trump has also stirred controversy, including his refusal to initially disavow the support of former KKK leader, David Duke in an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper in February.

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TRUMP: I don't know anything about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you're even talking about with white supremacy or white supremacist. So, I don't know, I mean, I don't know, did he endorse me or what's going on?

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CARROLL: Trump is trying to shift the focus from the current controversy with the republican convention just two weeks away and a vice presidential announcement looming. Trump is sending out several tweets about potential running mate, including Indiana Governor mike Pence and Iowa Senator Joni Ernst who Trump met with in New Jersey.

CHURCH: Jason Carroll with that report.

The latest poll taken before the Twitter controversy shows Trump narrowing the gap over democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for U.S. president.

The USA Today staff of university poll has support for Clinton around 45 percent and Trump at 40 percent among likely voters. The same polls show Clinton up by 11 points two months ago.

Well, Britain's Conservative Party will soon vote for their new leader. We will hear from candidates vying for the top position. That's coming your way.

And NASA celebrates a major success. The message is received from hundreds of millions of kilometers across the solar system. back in a moment.

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CHURCH: Some dramatic pictures now that demonstrate the powerful and unexpected force of nature.

A freak storm at a beach in Southern Cuba created multiple waterspouts that roared ashore and knocked over some 30 homes. No deaths. But at least 38 people have been injured. Waves rose to five meters as the waterspouts moved in and quickly.

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RY ALEJANDRO, PLAYA CAIMITO RESIDENT (TRANSLATED): It was impressive how the water was coming out and you see how the water was rising and the dark clouds. There were about seven waterspouts and we got back, we ran in the opposite direction the waterspouts were moving towards and we hid inside the house. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: Seven waterspouts there, incredible.

And nearly 200 people are dead after massive floods and a levee break in China. The demonstration stretches far and wide. State-run media reports that the levee gave way on Monday.

The national highway is submerged and thousands of people have been forced from their homes.

So, we have our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri going to talk more about this. It's extraordinary, isn't it?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is. You see some of these videos and it reminds us of things we've seen with land falling and tropical storms and hurricanes and typhoons globally, right, when you have so much water inundating a large population area.

And this is nothing to do with that, it's just a daily rainfall that's been happening for every single day, really since the beginning of May. And that's now culminating to what we're seeing in this region.

So, the big question now is when is it going to retreat and unfortunately, the next couple of days get a little rougher in sense of what we have ahead of us.

So, I'll just show what's happening, you know, these are seasonal rains, a plunge rains, we often touch on happening between May through the beginning and end of July eventually, they've got over 180 fatalities at this point all of it having to do with heavy rainfall and the persistence of it leading to the flash flooding that we've seen.

But notice, just the next two days, just lights up over an expansive area. In fact, if you put a ruler and calculate the distance here in Google earth you can do such a thing and pull the map up, and you would be able to see 3,000 square -- 3,000-kilometer area of land going from the Korean Peninsula all the way down towards Northern Vietnam where you have rainfall persisting across this region.

So, the last couple of days, we've touched on the amount of rainfall what it compares to, in places like Ma Cheng (ph), which is just west of Shanghai, 450 millimeters has fallen in the last four days.

And again, if you're watching this across Europe, say out of Barcelona, out of London, out of places like Paris, those amounts of rainfall totals now would take you eight months to achieve what's happened here in four days.

[03:45:08] That's why we're seeing the flooding concern that is continuing for this region. And notice the rainfall is still there.

But notice the corner of your screen, here we go, that's our first typhoon of 2016 approaching here sometime late Thursday into early Friday. That's what I'm most concerned about as far as bringing additional rainfall on top of what's been happening in this region.

And this point and that part take is a category one equivalent storm system well out there in the Western Pacific. Over the next couple of days, it will get to a category two, eventually three, if you think a category four potential that would be a super typhoon sometime Thursday night into early Friday.

It could impact northern portions of Taiwan, Taipei, would be indirectly impacted potentially by this. And then you work your way into the northern fringe of this, at this point, Rosemary, we're watching this for Friday to Saturday time period, Eastern China again away from the main hardest hit areas that we just touched on, but still a lot of rainfall in this area more and more so coming this week.

CHURCH: Well, thanks for keeping everyone up to date on what is happening there. I appreciate it, Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Yes.

CHURCH: OK.

Members of Britain's Conservative Party will begin the first round of voting today to replace David Cameron as party leader. Mr. Cameron stepped down last month following the Brexit vote. Five candidates are vying for the leadership position.

Isa Soares has the latest.

ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: another weak start here in Westminster with another ambitious contender emerge the. From her leave campaign, Andrea Leadsom set out her intentions today. Her message, let's get on with it and leave.

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

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SOARES: One is a key policy new restriction on the rights of E.U. nationals to live and work in the U.K., insisting they won't be bargaining chips in negotiations.

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LEADSOM: The United Kingdom will leave the European Union. Freedom much 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.

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SOARES: Meanwhile, her rival, front runner Theresa May has suggested that those nationals could be used in the bargaining over British trade agreements with E.U.

British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, a May ally, unwilling to take about a concrete plan of action in a radio interview.

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PHILIP HAMMOND, BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY: 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 the very least getting a similar commitment from the European Union about British nationals living in the E.U.

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SOARES: The U.K Conservative Party split due to Brexit with each contender now jockeying for position. Theresa May currently out front's favorite. Andrea Leadsom running second.

Justice Secretary Michael Give 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 increasingly likely is that Britain could have its second female prime minister sitting at that very table.

Isa Soares, CNN, London.

CHURCH: After a tricky maneuver, victory for NASA's Juno team. What scientists hope to learn now that the spacecraft is orbiting Jupiter.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, everyone. I'm Michael Holmes. This is your road to Rio update.

With the Olympic Games in Rio just one month away, the city's mayor lashing out at state officials of what he calls a terrible security situation in the city. Eduardo Paes tell CNN the state is doing a horrible job preparing, but that the Olympic Games themselves will be safe, thanks to an influx of soldiers.

Six-time Olympic gold medalist Usain Bolt has withdrawn from Jamaican national championship. Bolt tweeted that he has a grade one tear in his hamstring and is seeking treatment. Jamaican rules allow for medical exceptions in the trials so Bolt could still be added to the team and compete in the Olympics.

Japanese golfer Hideki Matsuyama has announced that he is pulling out of the Olympics because of the Zika virus. Matsuyama is now the 7th golfer to withdraw from games. This the latest of the sport after a century-long absence from the Olympics. Football star Neymar is helping to promote the Paralympic games by playing blindfolded. As part of Panasonic's dream FITA Project, Neymar is trying his hand at a variety of Olympic and Paralympic sports.

The project aims to encourage people to leave their comfort zone and make a positive change in the world.

That is your road to Rio update. I'm Michael Holmes.

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CHURCH: NASA's Juno space probe has begun its tour of Jupiter. Mission control cheered, hugged as Juno pulled off a tricky maneuver to enter Jupiter's orbit just a few hours ago.

The spacecraft was launched nearly five years ago to study Jupiter's composition and evolution. Juno will circle the gas giant 37 times over the next 20 months. But for now, NASA is touting Monday night's success.

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RICK NYBAKKEN, NASA JUNO PROJECT MANAGER: First we have to take care of some business. So, we prepared a contingency communications procedure and guess what? We don't need that anymore.

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So, tonight, through tones, Juno sang to us and it was a song of perfection. Do you realize that after $1.7 billion -- billion mile. They're going to kill me. After a 1.7 billion mile journey, we hit our burn targets within one second on a target that was just tens of kilometers large. Isn't that incredible?

That's how good our team is.

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And that's how well the Juno spacecraft performed tonight. You see a handful of people up here. But what we represent is a team of almost 900 people that built and launched Juno.

And roughly 300 people that operated it and got us all the way through into Jupiter orbit tonight.

GUY BEUTELSCHIES, SPACE EXPLORATION SYSTEMS LOCKHEED MARTIN DIRECTOR: There's a saying, you know it's not rocket science. Well, today, yes, it really was rocket science, OK? So, to put a spacecraft in orbit around the most intense planet in the solar system, you've got to fire the main engine at exactly the right time at exactly the right place.

That's not easy. And it may look easy when you watch it. But behind the scenes there's a tremendous amount of work that goes on. There's a tremendous amount of pride and dedication and passion that this team has put into this.

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CHURCH: Well done. And Juno will give us our best look yet at our solar system's biggest planet. With its solar panels extended, Juno is the size of a basketball court.

[03:55:05] Its instruments will peer beneath the planets cloud layer starting its chemical makeup and mapping gravitational and magnetic fields.

Now this should help solve the mystery of whether the planet has a solid core. As for Juno, the probe's name has a double meaning. It's an acronym for Jupiter near polar orbiter. And a Roman -- in Roman mythology, Juno was Jupiter's wife. The goddess Juno was able to see through the clouds that Jupiter had surrounded himself with in order to hide a love affair. Just in case you're wondering.

Iceland's football team has returned home to a warm welcome from thousands of fans. The Euro 2016 squad arrived in the capital to cheering crowds on Monday despite their crushing 5-2 loss to France in the quarterfinals.

Fans say they are happy the team made it so far into the Euros. And this was Iceland's first tournament appearance.

Show stopping fireworks lit up the sky in several U.S. cities for Monday's Independence Day celebrations. In Washington, hundreds of thousands of people gathered for fireworks and a concert on the west lawn of the capitol building.

And New York's Fourth of July show didn't disappoint. Five barges, one loaded with fireworks for the spectacular display.

And thanks for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to connect with me any time on Twitter @rosemarycnn. And CNN Newsroom is back with Hannah Vaughan Jones after this short break. Do stick around. Have a great day.

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