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Aired July 06, 2016 - 02:00   ET

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[02:00:19] ISHA SESAY, CNN NEWSROOM ANCHOR: This is CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN NEWSROOM ANCHOR: Ahead these out, the Pulse Nightclub, so the long overview report on Britain's rule in the Iraq war.

SESAY: Extremely tell us, that's how the FBI is describing Hillary Clinton handling of classified e-mails but it won't recommend criminal charges.

VAUSE: We'll organized time even ask for the cafes wifi faster, digitals on the terrorist behind the Bangladesh Siege.

SESAY: Hello, and welcome to our viewers the world. I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. Great to have with you with us, the third hour of news from L.A. starts now.

Well then, it's a south way from what we've here political bomb show.

SESAY: In a moments, the report will be made public and to British involvement in the Iraq war. They inquire with commissions seven years ago among many other things that suspected to analyze the rule of Tony Blair, the Prime Minister who led his country into the conflicts along with the U.S.. Back in 2010, he told the inquiry why he pushed for the innovation and denied, he stroked a secret deal with the United States.

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TONY BLAIR, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: This isn't about a lie or re-conspiracy or deceit or a deception. It's a decision. And the decision I had to take was given for them as history, given as they used to chemical weapons, given that they have 1 million people from the chord (ph), given 10 years of breaking U.N. resolutions, could we take the risk of this man reconstituting his weapons programs? Or is that a risky or it would be a responsible to take? And I formed the judgment and it's a judgmental yet. It's a decision. I had to take the decision. And I believe that the answer to the cabinet, so they're following (ph) instantly, that we were right not to run that risks.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SESAY: Well, let's break it now, Nick Robertson, that was willing developments from London first. Nick, good to have you with us as we await the findings of this report, I better ask you, what do we know about how it was compiled and why it took so long to get to this point? Seven years initially, we're expecting this old to be a wraps up in one year.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yeah, there's been a lot of concern that it's been delayed for political reasons, for various political reasons along the way. It was always going to be an uncomfortable rid and that was a part of the concern. It appears that it wasn't release sooner.

It then compresses 150,000 government documents that volume of material takes a lot to go through of course. It comprises 2.6 million worth. It expands 12 volumes that includes some of the Tony Blair's personal memos. The memos he was writing around about the time he was alleged to had conversations with the U.S. President George Bush about his willingness and Britain's readiness to get into the war. What is this going to do is going to look at the decisions that were taken in preparing Britain to go into the war. It's going to look at the quality of the intelligence into the WMD Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Not of which were found, Tony Blair made a very strong case of Britain to go war on the basis that Saddam Hussein could use chemical biologic, one week (ph) for the weapons and be able to target places within reach the -- Cyprus was one of those that was named of course where British military has basis. It could be targeted within 45 minutes. This became very, very controversial but there also be an investigation or analysis of how ready was a British Military to go to war. 179 British service men and women died, 1000 were injured, that will complains of lack of body armor, lack of ammunition, lack of the correct vehicles to deal with the type of environment they were in.

Now, Sir John Chilcot, our chill (ph) kind of put this report together. So he said, he's not aiming here to criticize anyone individually but it certainly not trying away from it. This is what he said.

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SIR JOHN CHILCOT, BRITISH PRIVY COUNSELLOR: I mean I'm not standing here to criticize into digital or in institution, however I make very fair runs of the start of the inquiry, but if we came across decisions or behavior which deserve criticism, we wouldn't try our way for making it and the day (ph) to have been more adherence and says, we are abound to do that.

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ROBERTSON: Now aside from where he puts individual responsibilities and races questions about individual's actions, the over all conclusion does appear to sort of raise the question and try to set the agenda for the future that it shouldn't easy for the country to go to war. [02:05:20] That really adequate on scrutinizing questions should be raise, he essentially through this report, once they make it harder to get into war like this again.

SESAY: Nic, one of the essential questions here is what the report will of course say about Tony Blair as you mention on whether he will face Christmas on Ossetia. And really what are the implications for Tony Blair beyond this report? What are your thoughts? What are the expectations?

ROBERTSON: Well the indications that we've been getting in advance to the report coming out. And as soon there was expectation that Tony Blair would be particularly heavily screwed tonight and potentially heavily criticize in this. But, the sort of atmosphere with the moment tenses suggest that Tony Blair while he will get this very careful examination will be seem to have believe the intelligence. He was getting to have believe passionately as we heard him say just a little while to go that Saddam Hussein needed to be removed, that Tony Blair will have been seems to have active for a good convections if you will.

A strong belief that this needed to be done and a strong belief that the intelligence that he was being presented was correct. Now, the analyses will probably diving to how he used that intelligence. How that -- the information he was giving will refine them? How the information was cross check in advance so they're arriving at him? But it does appear at this stage that perhaps, he would get the hammering that was anticipated or suspected that he may get, you know, a couple of years ago Isha.

SESAY: OK, well Nic Robertson joining us there from London. Nick I always appreciate it, thank you.

VAUSE: Going to search about the Eid al-Fitr, the holy celebrated the end of Ramadan. The King of Saudi Arabia about to strike religious extremists who tagged with the young with an eye at hand. The warning comes after suicide bomb as felt in three Saudi cities in 24 hours. There was chocking attack in Medina, the resting place in the part of Muhammad Islam second holiest site.

SESAY: In Iraq, the interior (ph) is their stepping down just day after suicide track bombing that kills about 250 people in Baghdad.

VAUSE: Less than two weeks ago, the Iraqis was celebrating a significant win over ISIS by retaking the City of Fallujah. It was civil versus the turning point for Garland which is under pressure to unite the country of being some kind of stability. But, when the Iraqi Prime Minister went to decide on bombing over the weekend, he was greeted by an angry crowd. Many booed. All those chanted to get out.

Once again, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is expected to face premiered calls for him to go. Michael Pregent is a former Intelligence Adviser to U.S. General David Petraeus, who is a Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq. Michael joins us now from Washington. So, Michael, so far purchase have been muted to say the list. But as I guess because many Iraqis has still in shocked after this bombing. How long though could it be before this a return to maybe discrete demonstrations which results, you know, just a few months ago?

MICHAEL PREGENT, FORMER INTELLIGENCE ADVISER TO U.S. GENERAL DAVID PETRAEUS: Well there are actually plan demonstrations that are supposed to employs at the end of Ramadan to protest exactly what happen in Quran (ph). Protest Prime Minister bodies inability to protect the people and also to provide services. Remember 90 days ago, there were car bombs in Baghdad that prompted to putting Fallujah ahead of Mussel as the way to stop ISIS capability in Baghdad. So, any political capital that furnished your body gain after the Fallujah operation was lost this weekend when he was run out of town. Run out of that area in the Corado (ph) where the bombing took place.

VAUSE: And waiting in the wings politically, it seems Nouri al- Maliki, the former CI Prime Minister. And many blame the alienation and the anger felt by the Sunni minority.

PREGENT: Yes, I mean and one of the conditions for U.S. air strikes in Iraq was the Prime Minister Maliki had to go. Prime Minister Abadi simply inherited Maliki's security and intelligence apparatus.

And he's left with this sectarian military that Maliki actually built. And there were reports today that Maliki's people were actually paying of journalist in Baghdad to paint Maliki in opposite of lighting and criticizes the body. So, Maliki is definitely waiting in the wings to do something.

VAUSE: Yes, the Pentagon's spokesman, Peter Cook said today, there will be no change in the U.S. strategy when it comes to dealings with ISIS.

[02:10:07] This is what he said.

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PETER COOK, PENTAGON SPOKESMAN: This was clearly a devastating attack and a painful reminder of the lethal capabilities of ISO but it does not alter the strategy here and that is to go after ISO in Iraq, in Syria as an accelerated pace as aggressively as possible to try and limit their capabilities, their ability to carry out those kinds of tanks.

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VAUSE: So, Michael, do you think there should be some kind of rating for the U.S. here?

PREGENT: Well there needs to be, I mean if you look at Ramadi and Fallujah, both cities were rebelled, were punished, the populations were punished to read them of 600 to 1000 ISIS fighters. This is in the strategy that will permanently hold these two cities, both Fallujah or Ramadi still have remnants of ISIS in them and these victories are hollow unless there is true reconciliation with the senior population. And through outreach by this Baghdad government, a government that Prime Minister Abadi is not really in charge off. He is a compromise weak Canada behold into the sheer political parties and the good thing is Iraqis are getting tired of it. So, hopefully there will be some change.

VAUSE: OK, Michael, good to speak with you. Michael Pregent have join us from Washington, thank you.

PREGENT: Thanks for having me John.

SESAY: And a police from Bangladesh say they killed a Chef during last week hostage stand off at the Dhaka cafe thinking he was a terrorist.

VAUSE: And the Inspector General tells CNN, he was fleeing with the attackers. They were shot by snipers. They still investigating if he was involved, the popular cafe was stoned Friday night standing nearly 11 hour along the siege, 23 people were killed including two police officers. Commanders killed four terrorist and captured one.

SESAY: Most of the victims were foreigners, the bodies of nine Italian having send back home, arriving in Rome Tuesday. Well, the Co owner of that cafe says the attackers were incredibly calm and even used the restaurant's wifi to share photo.

VAUSE: And there's exclusive report, Ali Arsalan recounts what the staff told him about the siege.

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ALI ARSALAN, CAFE'S CO-OWNER: They were firing in the air and they came into the -- through this main entrance over here and through -- they went around this side also. From what we hear from our staff accounts, they stood with their backs to each other, and then we're firing at the foreigners and a couple of people also others there who -- they weren't sure about. So they were unusually calm like almost like army officers. That they seem to be very at ease with weapons. They seem to know what they are doing. They were shouting, "Allahu Akbar", you know, plenty of our staff have confirmed this.

I called them as soon as I heard the news and they told me that they were hiding, there was sounds of gun fire. Then these guys they were hiding, they go run to the roof. And then I ask them if they thought any body was hurt and they said, well by the, you know, by the way these guys were firing definitely we think some people are greatly injured. They found a couple of people hiding there including a Japanese national who was apparently shot then. And they brought our staff out over here and by which time our staff saw, they were basically all dead bodies lying on the ground.

There was another group of people who are upstairs, who were hiding upstairs. One of them had already fainted, I think by about 5:00 in the morning and not a short while after that, the gunman had come and released them, told them that we're not going to harm you if you're a restaurant staff and you're Muslims, we're not going to harm you. And then took them downstairs. They asked one of our staff for the wifi password. That's when they use a torch and they took pictures, apparently, they were very keen to get this message out that their mission was accomplished to there whoever their higher, you know, chain of commander or what ever was. They're no rush to go back and said going to be very difficult, this going to be a very, very difficult day. There was so much happiness here that it was peace and harmony here, you know, it's not that anybody was doing anything wrong in this place.

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VAUSE: On the phone (ph) now, there are new clues about the follow moment of Egypt air flight 804 before it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea. The planes caught with voice block volts which records conversations and noise from the flight deck, indicates there was a fog at the front hood jet that at least one pilot may have try to put it out.

SESAY: This come from the senior airline source. It's unclear whether the fire may be avionics related or mechanical or cause by someone accidentally on purpose. The Paris to Cairo flight crashed on May 19th killing all 66 people on board.

[02:15:09] VAUSE: And so break, when we come back, U.S. President Barrack Obama stepping out on the campaign fair with Hillary Clinton is going to forth that his former secretary of state is just ahead.

SESAY: Plus, the FBI will not press charges against Hillary Clinton but they direct to had some strong words for the way she handled classified information.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, ROAD TO RIO HOST: Hello everyone, I'm Michael Holmes and this is your Road to Rio update. The olympic games now just one month away, of course, the big question is we are ready. Organizing committee president, Carlos Arthur Nuzman think so, he announced that the city is so ready, "The games could start today." He also said, they will be in his words, a maximum success but not everyone is so sure.

On top of financial security and Zica concerns, Rio is facing a pollution problem. Sailors is complaining that oil sinks in Guanabara Bay that they knew that the sailing competition and turning their white boats brown and that oil is unavoidable. And oil isn't the most serious thing looking in Rio's waters, Brazilian site have detected drug resistant bacteria growing off several beaches including to the border of Guanabara Bay. They think the bacteria came from shores being tunneled in to the boat. So far, researchers and the Olympic Officials not recommending that the sailing venue be moved.

Despite all of the obstacles, athlete like the South Korean outraging ready for the games. The women's team has taken home the gold every Olympic seems actually became a medal of bank in 1988 and fight to continue that straight.

That is the Road to Rio update, I'm Michael Holmes.

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VAUSE: Welcome back everybody. We got the (inaudible), now of the U.K. has vote to quit the European Union. The race to replace outgoing British Prime Minster David Cameron is bound to three. From the Secretary Theresa May shown here on the left, won the supporters votes conservative members of Parliament on Tuesday. She's now likely been won two candidates. The queries (ph) will put forward for final vote by party members come September. Andrea Leadsom and Michael Gove also advance to the next round of voting.

SESAY: Mean time, Liam Fox here, on the right was eliminated after finishing last on Tuesday. And Stephen Crabb with Grove from the race and he's now supporting Theresa May.

VAUSE: U.S. politics now and President Barrack Obama has made his campaign debut for Hillary Clinton.

SESAY: He joined in the North Carolina, Tuesday for rally and made a passionate case for the Democratic presidential contender.

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[02:20:09] BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I am here to tell you that truth is nobody fully understands the challenges of the job of president until you've actually set above this. So you can't fully understand what it means to make right from that decision.

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Until you done it, that's the truth. But I can tell you this, Hillary Clinton has been tested. She has seen at close what's involved in making those decisions. She has participated in the meetings and wish those decisions had been made. She seen the consequences of things working well and things not working well. And there has never been any man or women more qualified for this open than Hillary Clint.

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SESAY: They'll very passionate, and both were there.

VAUSE: He is really loving being out on the campaign. He's waiting for this for a while and can tell he's got of lying.

SESAY: Yeah it is.

VAUSE: So there definitely a problem.

SESAY: And so, they did allow for this statement, find up and ready to go.

VAUSE: Absolutely.

SESAY: Well, there was no mention of the FBI announcement that was earlier, the agency says it won't recommend charges against Clinton of the use of a private e-mail server watching the Secretary of State.

VAUSE: But now, the House Speaker Paul Ryan says republicans want the FBI directed to answer question about his decision. Joe Johns has more on the investigation.

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: The long waited results of the investigation onto Hillary Clinton used of private e- mail servers, no FBI recommendation of criminal charges to the justice department.

JAMES COMEY, DIRECTOR OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION: We believe our investigation has been sufficient to give as reasonable conference. There was no intentional misconduct.

JOHNS: While the announcement all but assures the presumptive democratic nominee is free from a threat of prosecution, she got no free pass from the FBI.

COMEY: Although we did not find clear evidence, let Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the Hillary deposit of information. There is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information.

JOHNS: Comey slamming Clinton fulfilling to exercise good judgment and one of the most sensitive government jobs in the world.

COMEY: There is evidence to support a confusion that any reasonable person, in Secretary Clint's decision or in the position of those with whom she was corresponding about those matters shouldn't known that an unclassified system was no place for that conversation.

JOHNS: Comey's announcement coming just days after FBI investigators interviewed Clinton this past weekend. And less than a week after a political fear are erupted and after former President Bill Clinton meet privately with Attorney General Loretta Lynch. The FBI director publicly rebutting what Clinton has been saying since last March above those classified e-mails.

HILLARY CLINTON (D) USA PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. There is no classified material.

COMEY: 110 e-mails and 52 e-mails chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.

JOHNS: Whether Clinton's private e-mail system was secured enough.

CLINTON: Well the system we use was set up for President Clinton's office. And it had numerous safe guards. It was on property guarded by the secret service and there were no security breaches.

COMEY: She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside United States including sending and receiving work collided e-mails in the territory of sophisticated in research. Given the accommodation of factors, we assess, it is possible the hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal e-mail account.

JOHNS: But ultimately concluding charges were not warranted.

COMEY: Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the e-mailing of possible information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would brings such a case.

JOHNS: With the announcement, the FBI director lifted a legal cloud that is hang over Hillary Clinton's campaign since she first enter the race. But the public rebuke that came along with it, it was so harsh that it could follow the candidate all the way to November.

Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.

VAUSE: This advice Donald Trump to slam the FBI's decision on Clinton calling it a tragedy.

SESAY: So there are (inaudible) of republican nominee has rally in North Carolina and then most of the time going after her may cause her vote to Hillary.

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[02:25:04] DONALD TRIUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We now know that she lied to the country when she said, she did not send classified information on her server. She lied.

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She sent vast amounts of classified information including information classified as top secret. Like a criminal with a guilty conscience, Clinton had her lawyers delete, destroy and wipe away forever. Except -- I still say there are geniuses that can find out. 30,000 -- think of this, 30,000 e-mails. This again disqualifies her from service and -- just think of it -- I mean, how can you have this? Hillary Clinton can't keep her e-mail safe and you know what folks? She sure as hell can't keep our country safe.

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SESAY: Well, at the same rally, Trump made some controversial comments about former Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein.

VAUSE: And keep in mind, Hussein's regime was listed as a sponsor of terrorism.

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TRUMP: Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn't read them the rights, they didn't talk. They were a terrorist, it was over.

Today, Iraq is "Harvard for terrorism." You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq.

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SESAY: Coming up next, probably it was age, CNN Show State of the Race with Kate Bolduan.

VAUSE: Next here on Newsroom LA from where else more of that reporting, the British involvement in the Iraq whole families of the soldiers who died looking for answers in capture.

SESAY: Plus, we'll as soon learn to face of former Paralympian Oscar Pistorius, will be sentence for the murder of his girlfriend. Stay with us.

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[02:30:14] KATE BOLDUAN, CNN ANCHOR: Hillary Clinton, check your inbox. You're not being charged just as President Obama hit's the campaign trail with Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump. Well, his mad about all of it.

This is the State of the Race tonight.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Out judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. I never believe this was going to be something in the criminal realm region close it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is evidence that there were extremely careless.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think, these fighting by the FBI are a clear indictment on Hillary Clinton's judgment and fitness to be president.

DONALD TRUMP, (R) PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE: I think she should be in jail for what she did with her e-mails.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Then I'm with her.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Enough of the e- mails. Let's talk about the real issue facing America.

PRES. BARACK OBAMA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I am fired up and I cannot wait to get out there and campaigning for Hillary.

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ISHA SESAY, CNN ANCHOR: He's involvement in the Iraq War. It is expected to examine all facts (ph) of the conflict including the role of chief British proponent then Prime Minister Tony Blair.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: But you've she'll got report as it call improvise critical access to families who lost love ones in Iraq.

SESAY: Our CNN's Phil Black report, they are hoping for closure.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In September 2005 Major Matthew Bacon was killed in action by a road side bomb in Southern Iraq.

ROGER BACON, FATHER OF FALLEN SOLDIER: We're still waiting. But we're still waiting. And it hurts. It really does.

BLACK: He's waiting for answers, information a conclusion that will explain why his son went to war and why he didn't come home.

BACON: Is when you don't know and when you just left there hanging. But it becomes really, really difficult. So, Mr. John's going to get on with it.

BLACK: He's talking about Sir John Chilcot.

JOHN CHILCOT, BRITISH COUNSELLOR AND FORMER CIVIL SERVANT: This committee will not shy away for making criticisms.

BLACK: The man in charge of Britain's independent inquiry into the Iraq War.

Chilcot has a huge job examining every aspect of Britain involvement in the conflict, the political decision, intelligence, military planning and combat, what went wrong, what lesson should be learned.

CHILCOT: We are court of law.

BLACK: The inquiry started back in 2009 and held regular public hearings questioning key decision makers including the former prime minister who had champion the case for war.

TONY BLAIR, FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: And no regret. Responsibility but not a regret for removing Saddam Hussein.

BLACK: Those hearings wrap up into 2011. And the inquiry was expected to present its final reports soon after. It was initially delayed by a debate with public service with the secret documents. The inquiry wants to publish including personal notes between Tony Blair and U.S. President George Bush. That was resolved.

CHILCOT: I'm facing a genuine difficulty in regarding the Maxwellisation process.

BLACK: That's local bureaucratic jargon for allowing a right of reply to those who'll be criticized in the final report before it's published. It is supposed to ensure fairness. The families of the soldiers killed during the war say they are increasingly finding the inquiries process incompetent and cruel.

BACON: It is running -- and we can't get on with the rest of our lives without having this concluded and out of the way.

BLACK: The expectation on Chilcot's inquiry has always been great because the war has always been deeply unpopular here. After a six- year investigation, there's now huge demand to finally learn why Britain joined an invasion without public support. Phil Black, CNN, London.

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SESAY: Well, we'll have coverage of the release of the Chilcot report live from outside the British houses of parliament. That begins at 10:30 a.m. in London, 11:30 a.m. if you're Berlin. It's right here on CNN.

VAUSE: (inaudible) Oscar Pistorius will soon be sentenced in South Africa for the murder his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius was first convicted of manslaughter in 2014 but that was later are graded to murder on appeal. He could face a minimum 15 years sentence.

David McKenzie joins us now live from Pretoria where the sentence will be read. So David, what of the prosecution and what are the defense asking for?

DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, certainly the prosecution John is asking for at least 15 years. That's the mandatory minimum sentence here for murder. They say that because he shot through the door four times killing Reeva Steenkamp is girlfriend and they feel he hasn't shown significant remorse.

One of the mitigating factors that the defense has said is one of the key reasons that his disability, the fact that he wants to work for a charity group. Devout his life to children's group that he shouldn't get any prison time at all, the defense saying that he should get some sort of house arrest like he is in right now at the moment.

[02:35:02] Most legal experts believe that's very unlikely that it probably will be facing a long time in prison and maybe heading from this court behind me straight to at jail cell after the sentencing hearing finish is done.

VAUSE: And David is the end of the road legally. And when they say 15 years as a minimum is that really a minimum or is there some negotiation there?

MCKENZIE: Well, there's often this question in the law of the judge, of the high court to decide where in there 15 years or below they can go. In fact there's a lot of discretion. There are bound by other rules. But to put it in simple terms, the judge could reduce that time for time already served. Pistorius spend a year in prison already and on the correctional supervision and his uncle class mansion.

And could say that because he has a disability that's another mitigating factor. But, you know, most people feel like might be heavy a sentence. And is it the last push in this legal saga that is lasted for years and grip (ph) South Africa.

You know, it should be you never know. If it is a very light or an extremely heavy sentence, then both sides can appeal to actual sentencing. But there's no other legal avenue for Pistorius to try and change the verdict itself, which is for murder, so likely his going straight to the prison, John. VAUSE: OK, so assuming that he does go from that courtroom to a prison cell. What will the condition be like inside that jail for Pistorius?

MCKENZIE: Well, prison conditions in South Africa are often pretty terrible frankly, and this maximum security prison has had issue with overcrowding, abuse of prisoners and all sort of complains.

However, Pistorius himself will be in the hospital wing most likely in the same private cell or a similar one that he was for a year. We visited that cell sometime ago. So he weren't necessarily have it as bad as other prison convicted and sentence for murder.

But the defense as long said that its common practice for someone with this kind of disability who, you know, hasn't got mobility and would be a high profile target potentially. That it is the norm to be place in that kind of setting. So he will have his own cell. He will have access potentially for and to do the gym work like he did the past. But it is a much harsh environment of course compared to where he has been staying which is in a very up market section of South Africa's capital in his uncle house. John.

VAUSE: OK, David. And reminder that -- or sentence rather is expected in about an hour for notice, how long it takes this might we don't know. But David you will be there, you will be brings us to live.

David McKenzie there in Victoria, thank you.

SESAY: A quick break now. And when we return Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton may differ in party and policy. But they've got one thing in common unfavorability. A look what's turning voters off next.

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[02:41:44]VAUSE: Welcome back everybody opinion pause in the U.S. repeatedly show that bogus (ph) stock with two presidential candidates. They really, really, really don't like.

SESAY: Really, really, really don't like.

VAUSE: Really.

SESAY: Really. ABC News report that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are the two most unpopular presumptive major party nominees and polling as far back as 1984.

VAUSE: Well, we have two reports now on some of the big issue for these candidates. Debra Fe (ph) is looking into the controversy over anti-Semantic imagery which was Twitted out by Donald Trump.

SESAY: There's a try but first, here's CNN's Tom Foreman on Clinton's trust issues.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: 2008 in the heat of the Democratic primary Hillary Clinton describe a harrowing flight and a dash for safety in Bosnia a dozen years earlier.

HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESUMPTIVE NOMINEE: I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down.

Good to see you.

FOREMAN: But video of her smiling, shaking hands, posing for pictures proves the story is not true. And Clinton backtracks.

CLINTON: I made a mistake in describing it.

BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: So help me god.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Congratulation.

FOREMAN: Almost when she came to Washington her trustworthiness has been under fire. Mid stories of her role and real estate deals and firing at the White House, conservative columnist William Safire calls her a congential liar. And time and again her actions have given opponents ammunition.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think New York State should recognize gay marriage.

CLINTON: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. OK.

FOREMAN: She opposed same-sex marriage then she back it.

CLINTON: Where I support marriage for lesbian and gay couples.

FOREMAN: As the Obama administration was saying that Benghazi attacks grew from a spontaneous protest. The Secretary of state was privately e-mailing that it was the work of Al-Qaeda-like group.

REP. JIM JORDAN, (R) OHIO: State departments experts knew the truth. You knew the truth.

CLINTON: Well, Congressman there was a lot of conflicting information.

FOREMAN: A two year congressional probe produce no evidence overt wrong doing, just as the FBI investigation and to her e-mail produced no proof of crime in what she is called a mistake.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: You defended President's Obama immigration policies, now you say there too harsh. You supported his trade deal dozen of times. You can call it the goal standard. Now suddenly last week you're against it. Will you say anything to get elected?

CLINTON: Well, actually I have been very consistent over the course my entire live.

FOREMAN: Plenty of her supporters seem content with that and they note anyone's political views can change. They dismissed many of her critics says political enemies just as she dismisses the idea that this could crater her campaign.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Would you vote for some that you don't trust?

CLINTON: Well, people should and do trust me.

Thank you.

FOREMAN: But poll shows most voters still do not.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

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DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump creating more controversy, Tweeting a picture of Hillary Clinton next to his six- pointed star, a pile of cash and the words most corrupt candidate ever. The message immediately sparking outrage with critics complaining the graphic of both anti-Semantic imagery.

[02:45:02] And reports the Star of David have been posted to a white supremacist board 10 days earlier. A Trump surrogate defending her boss saying "The image had been circulating on social for weeks and it's possible Mr. Trump didn't know it originally came from."

SCOTTIE NELL HUGHES, CNN REPORTER: So it automatically assumed which has what many people have done that this was taken for my message board. And anti-Semitic message board is not only wrong.

It's absolutely irresponsible.

FEYERICK: Trumps campaign also rejecting the accusation that his tweet was anti-Semitic by insisting the star represented a share of speech.

His social media director, Daniel Scavino saying, "The image came from an anti-Hillary Twitter account."

However, it's not the first time. Trump has repeatedly tweeted material originating from the neo-Nazis and white extremist.

In January, this one from "@WhiteGenocideTM", others with the hushtag "WhiteGenocide" and hushtag "AltRight." It's unclear to what extend Mr. Trump knows which supporters are white supremacist. What is clear is that many hadn't embrace to as their candidate.

In an interview with affiliate WWWBT Virginia's Imperial Wizard from the rebel brigade explained.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think Donald Trump would be best for the job. The reason a lot of clan members like Donald Trump is because a lot of what he believes. We believed in. We've -- we want our country to be safe.

FEYERICK: That is resonated with white extremist.

One group running this robocall during the primaries.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The white racist dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called racist. Donald Trump is not a racist.

FEYERICK: Trump's campaign disavowed the group in an interview with Erin Burnett.

ERIN BURNETT, CNN ANCHOR: When you hear that, does that shock you that you'd denounced that?

TRUMP: Nothing in this country shocks me. I would disavow it but nothing in this country shocks me.

FEYERICK: Then there was criticism of Trumps delay and denouncing former KKK leader David Duke. He endorsed Trump saying, "A vote against Trump is a vote against white America".

JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: Will you unequivocally condemn David Duke in say, that you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacist in this election?

TRUMP: We'll just see who understand. I don't what to think about David Duke, OK? I don't know anything about what you even talking with white supremacy or white supremacist.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.

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SESAY: Well, the Jewish writer for the New York observer has written a letter to the news papers owner, Donald Trump's son-in-law over the controversial tweet.

Jared Kushner is Jewish and his wife Trump's daughter Ivanka converter to two days Judaism before they were married. In the open letter, the writer asked how Kushner could allow such anti- Semitic imagery.

VAUSE: She writes, "When you stand silent and smiling in the background, his Jewish son-in-law, you're giving his most hateful supporters tacit approval. Because maybe Donald Trump isn't anti- Semitic. But I know many of his supporters are, and they believed for whatever reason that Trump is the candidate to them".

Kushner later defended Trump saying, "He embraces people of all racial and religious backgrounds."

SESAY: Time for break.

China has been devastated by intense rain and deadly flooding for weeks. But the worst can be still to come. The latest forecast, up next.

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[02:50:25] KATE RILEY, CNN REPORTER: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headline. We are under 24 hours away from the first semi- final of the European championship, Portugal just one step away from the final but they haven't made it easy for themselves. They yet to win a match in 90 minutes, so far opponents Wales from their best ever run in a major tournament. They meet in Lyon on Wednesday.

All the pre-match talk has inevitable being about the Real Madrid team mates Christiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale going off against each other. And what surely represent the best opportunity to win some silverware their country.

The William sisters have both advanced in the Wimbledon semi-finals. Serena, Venus another major triumph to equal Steffi Graf all time mark of 22.

Made easy work of Russian, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, she took the match in straight sets. The 36-year-old Venus needed a tie breaks, take the opening set against Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova before crossing the second 16th.

German rider Marcel Kittel has won stage four the Tour de France in a dramatic photo finish. The margin between Kittel and the Frenchmen behind him on the line look like a master of inches. The Slovakia in Peter Sagan may said, "I retain the overall lead."

And that's local all your sport headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

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VAUSE: Three men have been rescued after the heavy slaughtered a mine in Southern China. The men were among six miners trapped underground for 38 hours.

SESAY: The rescuers later found the bodies of the other three miners. Now China is breaking to even more bad weather.

Well, the first (inaudible) storm all the seasons has quickly strengthened into super typhoon. And it's moving in the direction of East Asia.

Meteorologist, Pedram Javaheri joined us with more. Pedram, how's it looking? Where is it right now?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, you know, it is not looking Isha and John. You know , this storm is sitting about 1100 kilometers, to just South, East of the Taiwan.

The concern with this Isha just told you. It is a super typhoon. It is done from what they tropical storm just about 24 hours ago to super typhoon status. And again, incredible strengthening with the storm system getting up to above 260 kilometer per hour, anything above 240 is what gives you super typhoon status.

And the sheer size of storm is menacing as they come. In fact you measure the storm. It sits about 1.4 million square kilometers that's the cloud coverage of this storm. That's roughly the size of the State of Alaska where the country Mexico. That's how expensive for the storm this is and of course when you track it. We know it's going to get stronger in the next 24 hours potentially gets up to 280 kilometers per hour.

This is an incredible storm system at it is. And but moving rather quickly, 33 kilometers per hour. But we think parts of Central and Northern Taiwan late Thursday night would be in the path of the storm system. Of course Southern Japan, Ryukyu Islands would also be directly impacted by the storm system in this area as dangerous as it comes.

In fact the storm surge associated with this. And of course and the wave height associated with this succeeding 10 meters in spot.

And the one piece of good news is when you think about Central Taiwan it is actually rather sparsely populated. The Central Taiwan Mountains among the highest density of tall mountains anywhere in the world will really do a good job to shred the storm system apart. Beyond that we're talking about the incredible population of course of Eastern China that fit in place.

And I did the math on this, Isha and John. Its 154 million people that lived in this region from Fujian and north towards Shanghai. You put that population as a perspective you would have to take the entire population of the country of France and Germany put it together. I would come less than the amount of people that could potentially be dealing with the storm system on Friday evening that would approach them.

The rainfall imminent concern here with especially with these mountains. There would flash flooding concern and landslide concern. And then Eastern China, you guys just touched on what's happened here in recent days. Among the most devastating flooding we've seen since the late 1990's for part of China.

And we're here talking about quarter of a meter to half a meter of rainfall coming down through this weekend over an area. It's already fully saturated. It's not going to be a good recipe.

And we were watching this carefully again, knowingly the Central Taiwan mountains are sparsely populated. And you can actually weaken the storms system before it reemerges over the Taiwan straight. That's the one piece of good news we're hoping on here with the storms that weaken as it approaches of very high population area that's already been inundated. John and Isha.

[02:55:05] VAUSE: OK, at the same time Shanghai have been put on a high temperature weather alert, so there's a lot happening there in China and across the Asia.

Pedram, thank you.

SESAY: Thank you Pedram.

JAVAHERI: Thank you. SESAY: Well, one of the biggest 4th of July fireworks shows in the U.S. wasn't as big and beautiful as seen on T.V. (inaudible) here's what viewers saw on live broadcast from Washington fireworks exploded and beautiful clear skies.

VAUSE: Of the bright red glare. But this is what it really looked like in D.C. Monday night, clearly an over card.

Broadcast admitted using old fireworks footage at a time, because of the poor weather. Network says it was the patriotic thing to do.

Social media they lift on anger hashtag "faithful" (ph) so that could be pretty popular. Noting fake about this news caster. Genuine, hundred percent real.

SESAY: Yeah. OK. You watching CNN Newsroom live from Los Angeles. I'm Isha Sesay.

VAUSE: I'm John Vause. The news continues with Rosemary Church

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