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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: New leadership for the U.K. Britain's next prime minister vows to forge a new role for the country outside the E.U.
Dallas plays its respects to the victims of last week's sniper attack as the city's police chief defend his decision to kill the suspect.
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DAVID BROWN, DALLAS POLICE DEPARTMENT CHIEF: This one ethical dilemma for me. I'd do it again.
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CHURCH: Also ahead, a new Pokemon craze that's about to sleep across the globe is also prompting caution from authorities.
Hello and welcome to our viewers all across the globe. I'm Rosemary Church. And this is CNN Newsroom.
Britain's Home Secretary is getting a promotion and it's a big one. Theresa May will replace David Cameron as Prime Minister on Wednesday. She's facing some daunting challenges. First and foremost, steering Britain's exit out of the European Union.
Max Foster reports, May is promising to see that through, even though she supported staying in the E.U.
MAX FOSTER, CNN LONDON CORRESPONDENT: A triumphant welcome for Britain's next prime minister. Theresa May is now heir apparent to the highest political office in the land.
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THERESA MAY, BRITAIN'S INCOMING PRIME MINISTER: I am honored and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its leader.
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(END VIDEO CLIP) FOSTER: Her victory speech coming earlier than expected after her had
rival suddenly threw in the towel, Andrea Leadsom telling journalists in a statement that the leadership battle was over.
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ANDREA LEADSOM, BRITISH PARLIAMENT MEMBER: I have, however, included that the interest of our country, are best served by the immediate appointment of a strong and well supported prime minister. I am, therefore, withdrawing from the leadership election, and I wish Theresa May the very greatest success. I assure her of my full support.
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FOSTER: The change of heart is coming amidst increased scrutiny over Leadsom's campaign. She was widely criticized following concerns that she may have inflated her C.V. and comments to a British newspaper suggesting being a mother gave her an edge over May.
She told the Times of London newspaper that Theresa May, who has said that she and her husband are unable to have children possibly has nieces, nephews, lots of people, but I have children who are going to have children who will be directly part of what happens next.
"Genuinely, I feel that being a mom means that you have a very real stake in the future of our country, a tangible stake." Monday morning, Theresa May, meanwhile, sit out her vision to leave the E.U. at a speech in Birmingham. She apparently didn't know that her plan was about to be put on the fast track.
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MAY: Brexit means Brexit, and we are going to make a success of it. There will be no attempts to remain inside the E.U.
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There will be no attempts to rejoin it by the back door, no second referendum. The country voted to leave the European Union, and as Prime Minister, I will make sure that we leave the European Union.
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FOSTER: The announcement on the detail of another departure on Monday is David Cameron, gave the time frame for his final day.
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DAVID CAMERON, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: On Wednesday, I will attend the House of Commons for Prime Minister's questions, and then after that I expect to go to the palace and offer my resignation so we'll have a new prime minister in that building behind me by Wednesday evening. (END VIDEO CLIP)
FOSTER: On Wednesday, the door closes on one political career at number 10 Downing Street, as the famous black door opens for another.
Max Foster, CNN, London.
CHURCH: And CNN political contributor, Robin Oakley is outside parliament, he joins us now live. Good to talk with you, Robin. So, many challenges lie ahead for Theresa May, not least of which is the learning push from the Scottish nationalist to break away from the U.K. How is she likely to deal with that, and, of course, the obvious challenge of leading Britain's exit from the E.U. and unifying her own party.
ROBIN OAKLEY, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: Well, as you say, that's massive list of challenges, Rosemary. And the roller coaster that is British politics at the moment shows no signs of slowing up.
To take all your question in order, the problem with the Scottish situation, with Scotland having voted for remaining in the European Union while most of the most of the U.K. voted to come out is one of the biggest things for Theresa May to tackle as Prime Minister.
[03:05:04] There are no very clear lines yet as to how she might do so. The first thing she's got to do is to build some kind of effective working relationship with Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish National Party leader and First Minister in Scotland.
But lots of other huge challenges she's got to take a decision postponed by David Cameron on the third runway for London airport. She's got to take a decision on the new high speed rail network connecting London with the midlands.
And as you say, the big question is negotiating the terms of Britain's withdrawal from the European Union. She's getting lots of advice from all quarters, former prime ministers and people writing learned articles this morning.
William Hague, one of the former Conservative Party leader saying she didn't rush things. She can take until September or October to set out her fate of how the negotiations with the European Union will go.
But a massive in train that she faces, the most daunting task for any prime minister taking on the job outside wartime, Rosemary.
CHURCH: And, Robin, I did want to ask you this. Because when Theresa May launched her leadership bid, she was quick to rule out an early general election insisting that wouldn't happen until 2020. That gives her had a lot of time.
But back in 2007, she accused Gordon Brown of running scared of a general election when he took over from Tony Blair. Will that come back possibly to bite her in any way, and will pressure mount for her to call a general election, given some say her rise to the top job was undemocratic. OAKLEY: Well, yes, there are calls for an early general election
coming from the liberal democrats. But there are a tiny party these days. Also coming from some parts of the Labour Party. But in a sense, it's a very strange time for the Labour Party to be pressing her for an early election because today -- well, we saw yesterday the launch of a leadership bid against Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader who was said to have failed in the referendum campaign when Labour was supporting remain.
Jeremy Corbyn is a fighter facing a challenge from Angela Eagle, one of his former shadow ministers and the Labour Party is absolutely ripping apart at the movement because Jeremy Corbyn believes he still has the support of the activists out in the country who gave him 60 percent of the vote last September.
Whereas his M.P.'s at Westminster, 170 of them expressed the vote of no confidence in him. So, the Labour Party is not in a very good position to challenge at the moment. Though, as you say, it is embarrassing for Theresa May that back in 2007, she did say that when Gordon Brown took over without there being an election that that was not how things should be done. Rosemary?
CHURCH: Yes. It will be interesting to see what happens there. And of course, these divisions on both side of the political spectrum there. Robin Oakley, joining us from outside parliament. Thank you so much.
U.S. President Barack Obama will be in Dallas, Texas, on Tuesday to speak at a memorial service for the five police officers killed in an ambush last Thursday. Former President George W. bush will also speak. Both will meet with the fallen officer's family.
The Dallas Police Association held a vigil Monday night to honor their slain colleagues. More than a thousand people attended.
Well, Dallas police say they found bomb making materials in the gunman's home, but it's unclear what he planned to do with them. Investigators are trying to figure out his motive. The shooter's parents say he changed after his military service.
CNN's Ed Lavandara has the details.
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Dallas police investigators are piecing together mother than 170 hours of officers body cam video, plus dash cam footage and surveillance camera images to determine how the deadly attack unfolded.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown says investigators are still working to confirm that the killer acted alone.
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BROWN: We're going to follow every lead until it's exhausted, until I'm satisfied that this was a lone person.
(END VIDEO CLIP) LAVANDERA: Detectives are analyzing Johnson's weapon seize on the scene and in his home. Law enforcement sources tell us the attacker brought two hand guns and an assault style rifle to the attack and was wearing a bullet proof vest.
Sources says it appears the weapons were legally purchased, some bought online. But there are still questions about what his plans were for the explosives found in his home.
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BROWN: There was a large stockpile, one of the bomb techs called me at home to describe his concern of how large a stockpile of bomb making materials he had.
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LAVANDERA: And there are still questions about the letters R.B. that the killer wrote in his own blood inside the community college where he was killed.
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BROWN: I think that this killer obviously had some dilution. There was quite a bit of rambling in the journal that's hard to decipher.
[03:10:07] JAMES JOHNSON, MICAH XAVIER JOHNSON'S FATHER: I love my son with all my heart. I hate what he did.
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LAVANDERA: The killer's parents are speaking out for the first time in an interview with The Blaze. his mother says her son left the military after six years highly dissolution, calling him a good son.
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DELPHINE JOHNSON, MICAH XAVIER JOHNSON'S MOTHER: The ideal that he thought of our government, of what he thought the military represented, it just didn't live up to his expectation.
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LAVANDERA: All this as protesters took to the streets across the country this weekend with more than 300 arrests. In Atlanta, thousands shut down major highways. In St. Paul, Minnesota, police say some protesters threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at officers.
In Baton Rouge, police in riot gear took on protesters. And this photo of Ayesha Evans, a mother from Pennsylvania standing in the street as Baton Rouge officers rushed in to arrest her. That photo has gone viral on social media.
Chief Brown is addressing the protest today.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BROWN: Don't be a part of the problem. We're hiring. We're hiring. Get off that protest line and put application in.
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LAVANDERA: Ed Lavandara, CNN, Dallas.
CHURCH: And one doctor who treated the police officers Thursday night is describing the intense emotions he felt. Trauma surgeon, Brian Williams spoke about his own roar and complex feelings as a doctor, as an African and as a caring member of his community.
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BRIAN WILLIAMS, TRAUMA SURGEON: I stand with the Dallas Police Department. I stand with law enforcement all over this country. This experience has been very personal for me, and a turning point in my life. There was the added dynamic of officers being shot. We routinely care for most of Daesh victims.
But the preceding days of more black men dying at the hands of police officers affected me. I think the reasons are obvious. I fit that demographic of individuals. But I abhor what have been done for these officers and I grieve with their families.
I understand the anger and the frustration and distrust of law enforcement. But they are not the problem. The problem is the lack of open discussions about the impact of race relations in this country, and I think about it every day.
And as long as I'm able to save those cops when they came here that night. It weighs on my mind constantly. This killing, it has to stop. Black men dying and being forgotten, people retaliating against the people that are sworn to defend us. We have to come together and then all this.
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CHURCH: A powerful message there to the nation. And the police shootings of two men last week, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile has spurred more protests across the United States.
Here in Atlanta, Georgia, 16 people were arrested during a fifth night of demonstrations. Protesters began their march blocking traffic near a busy mall. And in Chicago, the Black Lives Matter group held its first official march.
And the Black Lives Matter movement is facing criticism after the shooting deaths of the five officers in Dallas. But protesters are now answering back as police say the gunman, quote, "expressed anger for Black Lives Matter."
Members of the movement disown the shooter and despite the events in Dallas, they want to go forward with their message.
Miguel Marquez has the details. MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And this is what the movement
doesn't want to see go away, all the progress that has made that they fully made over the last few years. They want to draw a very sharp line between what happened in Dallas and between what they say is inequality and racial injustice when it comes to dealing with police.
Black Lives Matter. The movement, keeping up the fight. But the deaths of five Dallas police officers during the Black Lives Matter protest has brought criticism like never before.
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[03:14:59] GREG ALLEN, EL PASO POLICE CHIEF: Black Lives Matter, as far as I'm concerned, is a radical hate group. It's a consequences of what we saw in Dallas is due to their efforts.
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MARQUEZ: Autumn Marie is the Black Lives Matter organizer in Harlem. She has been with the organization from the beginning, from the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the death of Trayvon Martin to the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri to the death of Freddie Grey in Baltimore. She says Dallas may have complicated their efforts, but the movement won't back out.
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AUTUMN MARIE, BLACK LIVES MATTER ORGANIZER: It's the response to Dallas that makes our life -- that might make it harder. But it's a response, and it's a response to people. People have a choice in how they respond.
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MARQUEZ: The choice response for some believe the Black Lives Matter movement were dividing America.
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RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: And when you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I think their argument is...
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GIULIANI: Black lives matter, white lives matter, Asian lives matter, Hispanic lives matter, that's anti-American and it's racist.
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MARQUEZ: Organizers like Autumn Maris say Dallas was a horrible incident that never should have happened. But Black Lives Matter had nothing to do with it.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MARIE: We will not allow when a tragedy. And tragedies that were not committed by us or anyone affiliated with us, and are completely not connected to us, has been stop the movement. We will not allow them to then say we'll take it as the back in the back of us.
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DIAMOND REYNOLDS, PHILANDO CASTILE'S GIRLFRIEND: And this is bigger than Philando.
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MARQUEZ: The shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota are just two of the most extreme incidents driving support for the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. and around the world.
Castile was pulled over 52 times from 2002 to 2016, causing many to suspect he was racially profiled. It is treatment like that Black Lives Matter movement hopes to eradicate.
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MARQUEZ: Whatever momentum you had you're trying to regain that now, yes?
MARIE: It gives us more work to do. We've fought really hard in the last few years.
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CHURCH: And another U.S. community is coping with a deadly shooting involving law enforcement, this time in a courthouse. Authorities in the State of Michigan say an inmate grabbed an officer's gun and shot and killed two court bailiffs outside a holding cell. Two other people were wounded.
The inmate got into the courtroom area where officers open fire and killed him. Authorities say he was being held on several felony charges. The two injured people are expected to be OK.
Well, in just hours, a major ruling is expected from an international tribunal over who has rights in the South China Sea. And while it won't be binding it will likely upset China in a very big way. And we will have a live report on what's at stake here.
And South Sudan's rival leaders urged their soldiers to lay down their guns after deadly battles in the streets. The latest on that and more.
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DON RIDDELL, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Don Riddell with your CNN World Sport headlines.
The Iberian country of Portugal has been celebrating victory at the European Championships after the victorious team returns home after beating France 1-nil in Paris at the final of Euro 2016.
After receiving a colorful reception upon landing back in Lisbon, man of the match, Pepe carried the trophy down the steps. Thousands of fans lined the streets with the players on an open top bus parading the first major trophy in the country's football history.
Jordan Spieth has become the latest major name in the sport of golf to pull out of the Rio Olympics. International Gold Federation president Peter Dawson confirmed that the world number three had withdrawn, making it 12 of the world's top 20 golfers skipping Rio.
Spieth's decision also means not one of the world's top four will be involved when the golf returns to the summer games for the first time since 1904.
It may not be surprising, but it certainly looks like Usain Bolt is going to the Olympics. The six-time gold medalist hadn't officially qualified for the Jamaican sprint team after injuring his hand string at the national trials recently.
Multiple reports on Monday, though, say that he's going to be given a medical exemption to make the squad. Bolt has won the 100, 200, and four by 400 relay at the Beijing in London Games. He's hoping to make it 9 out of 9 in Rio. The games start on August the 5th.
That is a quick look at your sports headlines. I'm Don Riddell.
CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.
We are expecting a ruling within hours from the permanent court of arbitration in The Hague. At issue, territorial claims in the South China Sea. The Philippines wants the court to settle its dispute with China over rights to some waterways. China already told the court it does not accept arbitration initiated by the Philippines.
Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Vietnam have similar claims.
And CNN's Matt Rivers joins us now live from Beijing. So, Matt, what's at stake here and what's the court likely to decide on this sensitive matter?
MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What's at stake here really goes to what is at the heart of this issue. On the one hand, you have China that has claimed historical sovereign active rights over nearly all of the South China Sea and therefore the economic rights that come with sovereignty.
And what the Philippines, on the other side of the equation have argued that what China has done in the South China Sea, build up those islands, seized territory that the Philippines claimed as its own, that that violating international law among other things. And that disqualifies China from those economic rights that it would get from owning or claiming sovereign over all of that land.
So, that's what the Philippines took to the court. Now, very interestingly, the Philippines specifically did not mention sovereignty in a very carefully worded complaint to the court because this court does not have jurisdiction over sovereignty issues, over who owns what in the South China Sea.
The reason that China is not -- the reason why China is not -- has said that it's not going to accept the ruling of this court or respect the decision is because it's saying really what the court is deciding on is not economic issues, its sovereignty issues. So, there is a lot at stake here in terms of who controls what in the South China Sea.
And frankly, the overall perception, will China follow what this court decides. Many suspect that this court will decide in favor of the Philippines or will China continue to move forward as a more unilateral actor and continue to go against what this international community that the Philippines and others have said is illegal in terms of international law.
So, a lot at stake here. But I think most analysts are suggesting that the court will decide, at least in some way in favor of the Philippines.
CHURCH: Yes. But, of course, it's not binding, is it, the decision? So, that's clearly very important here. But it's more symbolic in a way, isn't it? Because if China does ignore this and move forward, what does that tell the world?
RIVERS: Right. And there is absolutely no way. You're not going to see the U.N. sending in troops here to make sure that China ceases all island building activity if that is, in fact, what the court decides in some way.
So, you're right, there is no way to enforce this. But it is going to be interesting in terms of how China responds. China could respond in a number of different ways. It can continue with the status quo as it exists right now and just kind of continue to develop the work that's already done.
[03:24:58] It can maybe engage diplomatically more if it feels that there is a lot of headway against it with the international community, or perhaps it could double down on its position, build more islands, ramp up its military development in the South China Sea.
And perhaps set up more incidents with countries like the United States and its allies where there could by some tension there. So, there is a lot of different ways for China to respond. We'll find out in the coming hours, at least initially, what they plan on doing.
CHURCH: We certainly shall. CNN's Matt Rivers joining us live from Beijing. Many thanks to you.
Well, there is renewed hope that a fragile ceasefire will hold in South Sudan. The country's president and vice president, who have been bitter rivals, are urging their soldiers to lay down their guns.
Fighting between forces loyal to each man has killed more than 150 people in the past few days including two Chinese U.N. peacekeepers. Both the U.S. and the U.N. have condemned the violence. The U.N. says the attacks on its compound where thousands of civilians have taken refuge may constitute war crimes.
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BAN KI-MOON, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: The renewed fighting is outrageous. It is yet another grievous setback. It deepens the country's suffering. It makes a mockery of commitments to people. Many people have been killed in heavy fighting. There are growing fears that many more could die in another round of violence.
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CHURCH: And our David McKenzie has been closely following the developments in South Sudan. He joins us now live from Johannesburg, South Africa. So, David, we're hearing this as South Sudan's president has declared this unilateral ceasefire.
The vice president says his troops must respect that. How significant is this corded represent some sort of turning point, or is it is really going to be more of the same, the fighting continuing?
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, right now, there's been a calm that has descended over Juba, the capital of South Sudan, starting late last night into early this morning. So, that ceasefire at least now appears to be holding, but they were, you know, false hope before through the last five days when there wasn't now that then resume with fighting.
And I think what is significant here is that both sides called very directly for the fighting to stop, even saying that if they found soldiers on the street, they would arrest them and if they resisted, there would be shot.
So, there is a sense that they're trying to regain control over their own forces. It appears for a significant amount of time there was a lack of command of control over both factions, both the government forces and the opposition forces within the capital Juba.
Now, the latest on the ground is that it's calm. Also just hearing from the Ugandan military spokesman they are going to be working to evacuate their citizens not deploying a force into Juba per se. But they say they will have some military personnel there to keep their civilian safe as they move out.
There is obviously a large portion of Kenyan civilian and as foreign nationals, particularly Indian in Juba that will be looking to try and leave if there is a significant lull in the fighting.
And still, though, the question is what is the death toll and the toll on civilians after these several days of fierce fighting? And these 7,000 people fled to U.N. compounds alone. Many were hunkered down in churches trying to find any safe place they could as that artillery shelling went on.
And several reports of looting and aggressiveness towards the civilian population outside of just the direct threat of being called in the crossfire. Rosemary? CHURCH: And of course, recognition on both sides that this ceasefire
has been heard, at least for now. But how do they resolve this obvious tension between the president and the vice president. What happens next?
MCKENZIE: And it's going to be very difficult to resolve because the peace process after the Civil War which broke out in late 2013, is in tatters they might not physically be fighting right now. But there has been this very bloody fighting between those forces loyal to the president and those loyal to the vice president.
And it does appear some other sort of factional break away forces of opposition have been also at play. It's very murky, very confusing. As the dust settles and hopefully that ceasefire holds, we will get a better with idea of what was going on.
I think it was very telling that in the early stages of this recent uptick and violence, both the president and the vice president were giving a joint press conference and seemed to have no idea exactly what was going on. Which then itself to theory that there were people just acting on their own accord in the fighting as opposed to direct command and control.
[03:30:04] Most or international players involved in the South Sudanese peace process have condemned this fighting. As you hear there from the U.N. secretary get to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, it's going to be very difficult to get past this point.
But at this stage, what they do need is enough -- you know, stop a lull in the fighting to sort of figure out what's going on and to try to hand as they wanted.
CHURCH: All right, 9.30 in the morning there in Johannesburg, South Africa. Our David McKenzie joining us live and bringing us up to date in the situation in South Sudan. Many thanks to you.
And this just in, Iraqi authorities say a car bomb in northern Baghdad has killed at least six people. The attack hit a vegetable market in the mostly Shiite neighborhood. Twenty five other people have been wounded. No one has claimed responsibility at this point.
Now it comes a day after U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Washington will send 560 more troops to the country. Most will be stationed at an airfield south of Mosul. Iraqi forces recaptured the base from ISIS last week, it will be used as a staging ground for the assault on the terror in Mosul.
And this also just in to CNN, Secretary Carter has just arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan on a surprise visit there. Reuters reports he plans to meet with U.S. commanders and Afghan officials.
And still to come here on CNN Newsroom, Donald Trump tries a new tactic in the wake of the police murders in Dallas.
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DONALD TRUMP, (R) U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I am the law and order candidate.
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CHURCH: A warm welcome back to our viewers all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. I want to update you on main stories we've been following this hour.
Britain will have a new leader on Wednesday when Prime Minister David Cameron steps down, and Home Secretary Theresa May takes over his job. May's only remaining challenge have bowed out of the race on Monday. She's promising to make Britain's exit from the European Union a success and unite the country.
We're expecting a ruling within hours for a court in The Hague on territorial claims in the South China Sea. The Philippines filed a complaint against China, but Beijing already told the court it does not accept arbitration initiated by the Philippines.
The Dallas Police Association held a vigil to honor the five officers killed in an ambush last Thursday. More than a thousand people attended.
U.S. President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush will speak at a memorial service for the fallen officers on Tuesday.
We're now back to Dallas, Texas, where the city's police chief is defending his decision to use a robot to kill the sniper who fatally shot five police officers.
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BROWN: This one ethical dilemma for me. I'd do it again, chief, I'd do it again to save our officer's lives.
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BROWN: To use the robot? I would use any tool necessary to save our officers' lives and I'm not afraid to say it.
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CHURCH: And many people have never even heard of a police force using a robot to deliver a bomb.
CNN's Sara Sidner takes a closer look at how it's done.
SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A robot in a pound of C-4. This is what Dallas police used in an unprecedented move to save officers' lives. In the heat of battle, the Dallas police used the extraordinary tactic likely a first in America, a robot with a bomb to kill a cop killing sniper.
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BROWN: We knew through negotiation this was the suspect because he was asking us how many did he get. And he was telling us how many more we wanted to kill.
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SIDNER: He had already killed five officers, wounded seven and two civilians during a 45-minute gun battle.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Move out! He's in that building right there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He shots from that building.
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SIDNER: Chief Brown made the final call after a two-hour negotiation. He hold his SWAT team to come up with a creative plan that would keep officers out of the line of fire and take out the suspect.
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BROWN: They improvised this whole idea in about 15, 20 minutes. Extraordinary.
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SIDNER: That plan involved this kind of robot secured with C-4 explosive.
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SIDNER: So, that right there is a pound of C-4.
MATT BARNETT, EXPLOSIVES EXPERT: Yes. This is 454 grams of C-4.
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SIDNER: We asked explosives expert, Matt Barnett, to show us how this might have work in the scenario detailed by the chief. First, officers had to maneuver the robot to the second floor. This is a similar model. Notice the arm extension. That would have held the C-4 explosive in place.
Police then had to get it close without the suspect knowing it was there. It was positioned behind a brick wall.
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BARNETT: This two by four right here is going to simulate the arm of a robot. This C-4 will be attached to this arm directly against the wall right here.
(END VIDEO CLIP) SIDNER: We set up strategically placed cameras and built a brick wall with three bars inside to demonstrate the blast range. To give you some idea of just how powerful a pound of C-4 can be, we're standing more than a football field away from that wall and when it explodes, those fragments could be dangerous to the human body even here. That is outside. Inside a building, Barnett says the damage to the human body would be exponentially worse.
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BARNETT: In a close environment, yes, a pound of C-4 is a lot.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fire in the hole. It's three, two, one.
SIDNER: So, it wouldn't necessarily be the blast that killed the person, but the fragments that killed the person.
BARNETT: That's right, yes. The wall becomes the lethal aspect of it.
SIDNER: It would go right through you, basically.
BARNETT: Oh, absolutely, like butter.
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SIDNER: For anyone choosing to criticize the department's use of the bomb carrying robot, the chief was asked whether or not he would do it again, and he said absolutely if it meant saving lives of these officers or civilians.
And as far as the cost, the robot was damaged. It cost the department $150,000. And the C-4, if you buy it in bulk, it costs about $20 a pound. Back to you.
[03:40:00] CHURCH: Sara Sidner there. And Donald Trump is taking a tough new tone on the campaign trail after the Dallas shooting, calling himself the law and order candidate.
But Hillary Clinton's camp is once again using Trump's own words against him.
CNN's Jim Acosta has the latest.
JIM ACOSTA, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump seized on the attack on police officers in Dallas as a turning point in the campaign.
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TRUMP: It's time for a hostility against out police and against all members of law enforcement to end and end immediately right now.
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ACOSTA: Presenting voters with a critical choice.
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TRUMP: I am the law and order candidate. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, is weak, ineffective, pandering and as proven by her recent e-mail scandal, she's either a liar or grossly incompetent, one or the other. Very simple.
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ACOSTA: After delaying his attacks on Clinton in the aftermath of the carnage in Dallas, Trump returned to bashing the former Secretary of State over her use of a private e-mail server.
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TRUMP: Crooked Hillary Clinton is the secretary of the status quo. And whenever Hillary Clinton goes, corruption and scandal follow.
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ACOSTA: The Clinton campaign appeared ready for the attacks with the preemptive web video highlighting Trump's past comments seemingly supporting some of the world's worse actors.
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TRUMP: Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? You know what he did well, he killed terrorists. He did that so good.
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ACOSTA: But at an event on veterans in Virginia, Trump had backup.
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CHRIS CHRISTIE, NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR: We need to stand behind the men and women in blue in this country.
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ACOSTA: Just as Trump is in the final days of selecting a running mate, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was ripping in the Clinton, too.
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CHRISTIE: That's not a person with who will stand for the rule of law. That's a person who will stand for the rule of her.
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ACOSTA: Sources familiar with Trump's vice presidential search saying Christie has now been fully vetted, but there are other apparent finalists. Indiana Governor Mike Pence is said to be high on the short list, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is actively lobbying for the spot. Pence will be with Trump in Indiana Tuesday.
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MIKE PENCE, INDIANA GOVERNOR: And I'm prepared to make that case anywhere across Indiana and anywhere across this country that Donald Trump would want me to.
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ACOSTA: Just days after Trump auditioned Gingrich in Ohio.
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TRUMP: Newt has been my friend for a long time. In one form or another, Newt Gingrich is going to be involved with our government.
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ACOSTA: But others in the hunt may be losing their luster. Retired General Mark Flynn who was under consideration said he was in favor of abortion rights over the weekend.
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MICHAEL FLYNN, RETIRED U.S. ARMY: I think women have to be able to choose what they -- you know, that sort of right of choice.
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ACOSTA: Then today, he seemed to flip describing himself as a pro- life democrat. As for Trump's rally with Pence on Tuesday, there are ramblings back in Indiana that the governor could be the odds on favorite.
State GOP officials are scrambling to find a replacement for Pence who is running for re-election as Governor. Pence has to decide by Friday whether he wants to be Trump's vice president as state law in Indiana won't let him run for both jobs.
Jim Acosta, CNN, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
CHURCH: And be sure to tune in for a special CNN town hall with U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan hosted by Jake Tapper. That's at 2 a.m. Wednesday morning in London, 90 a.m. in Hong Kong right here on CNN.
Severe shortages are fueling crime in Venezuela. We will meet a couple who survived an express kidnapping in what's become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. We're back in a moment.
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CHURCH: Venezuela's collapsing economy has cause life threatening shortages of food, medicine, and other basic supplies. But it's also leading to some troubling crimes and sparking fears of all-out anarchy.
Paula Newton has the story. PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Food riots and looting. This is now
the only daily diet Venezuelans can count on as food shortages fuel an already devastating level of crime.
Watch here as security cameras detail the chaos, looters swarming a bakery in Delhi in Caracas, the capital.
People hopping over counters grabbing whatever they can even the cash register. A free for all for food and a new battleground in a country that is already one of the most dangerous in the world.
Crime has been spreading like a contagion through Venezuela with nightfall many self-impose a curfew. But some have learned it's not enough.
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LUISA SALOMON, EXPRESS KIDNAPPING VICTIM: We were on our knees and with our heads on the ground, like that. And they put the gun like that.
NEWTON: What were you thinking at that time?
SALOMON: I thought it was over.
NEWTON: Luisa Salomon and Julio Salvalza (Ph) explain how they survived an express kidnapping Venezuelan style. They were driving a few hours outside the city, took a wrong turn and they say an armed gang surrounded them.
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SALOMON: They were scary. We -- I couldn't see their see face because they look evil, evil seriously.
NEWTON: They tried to escape, but they were hunted down in remote woods. Battered and frantic they started to negotiate for their release. The kidnappers named their price.
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NEWTON: A $1,000 U.S.
SALOMON: Exactly. And they asked that. They didn't have that. So, I told him no, there is no way in hell that our family will find that.
NEWTON: You had the courage to say that to him there is no?
SALOMON: Yes. In that moment, we talked to them like serious.
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NEWTON: They've negotiated their lives down to a few hundred dollars. Their families pull the money together and less than 24 hours after the ordeal began, they were released. But they knew all too well how it could have been ended. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SALOMON: There was a case when there's a couple been kidnapped and the guy just shoot at the car and burned it with them inside.
NEWTON: They tell me they spoke to police, but no one has ever been arrested. Express kidnapping still flourish, they say, random, terrifying and adding to an unnerving collapse in civil order here. Hungry and desperate Venezuelans adding to the crime of criminals and gangs as anarchy becomes a real risk.
Paula Newton, CNN, Caracas.
CHURCH: And be sure to tune in for more in-depth coverage of the economic catastrophe in Venezuela. CNN's Paula Newton will be reporting from Caracas all this week.
A new Smartphone game is challenging Pokemon fans to get up and go for a chance to catch them all. But it's already creating some bizarre and risky situation. Details on the craze, just ahead.
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AMARA WALKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, everyone. I'm Amara Walker. This is your Road to Rio update.
A British Anti-Doping Agency has sent investigators to Kenya to look into a report that Kenyan doctors gave banned performance enhancing to four British athletes. The allegations were made using secretly filmed video in a sting operation by the Sunday Times and German broadcaster, ARD.
The World Anti-Doping Agency says it will also investigate.
Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova is definitely out of next month's Olympics. A court of arbitration for sport announced it will deter its decision on her doping ban and P.O. until September.
The court said that both parties need more time to prepare their case.
And U.S. golfer Jordan Spieth says he's not going to Rio. On Monday, he withdrew from the selection process citing concerns about the Zika virus. With Spieth the top four ranked golfers of the world have now pulled out of the summer games.
This is the latest blow to the sport after a century-long absence from the Olympics. Team USA announce its women's gymnastics team for the Rio Olympics, they're looking to defend their gold medal from the 2012 games. Leading the Americans three times world champion, Simone Biles.
Gabrielle Douglas and Aly Raisman will return the U.S. team after participating in the London games.
And that is your Road to Rio update. I'm Amara Walker.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CHURCH: Portugal's football team returned home to a hero's welcome. This was the feast of homecoming for the new kings of Europe. The national team showing off the Euro 2016 Silverware to thousands of adoring fans. Portugal beat host France 1-nil Sunday, in case you haven't heard in the Euro 2016 final.
Well, it's only been after a week and the makers of the already wildly popular new Smartphone game, Pokemon Go are making emergency changes to the app. They say a coding error gave them unprecedented access into players personal lives.
For some users with iPhones, signing into the game using your Google account allows the company to read your e-mails. That's because the app gets full access to your Google account. The gaming company says Google will reduce the app's permission to access only basic profile data.
But people all over the U.S. are now on a quest to level up on Pokemon Go. The app turns the popular 1990s game into an augmented reality experience. Some claim it's helping them exercise, but it's also led to some trouble.
Nick Parker explains.
NICK PARKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is New York's iconic Central Park, built in 1858. It's known for its hot dogs, it's horses and now it would seem a host of brightly colored Pokemon characters just waiting to be caught.
[03:55:11] Just days after its release, Pokemon Go has certainly captured the imagination of some people enjoying a stroll.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I haven't seen anything that comes close to it. There's been other, like, GPS games, but there's never been one this popular or this in-demand.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm just surprised how like the virtual -- how the reality is like -- it's right in front of you.
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PARKER: The engrossing nature of the game has already given rise to a series of bizarre events around the world. These gamers from New Zealand hide a kayak to get to a Pokemon gym which happen to be out on Lake Wellington.
In the United States one user uncovered a body while following the game and four suspects were arrested, accused of lying in wait for gamers and then robbing them at gun point. User awareness of their surroundings is one potential issue.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's like hard to pay attention. I was just walking around my backyard and my dog jumped out of me. That's like -- I thought it was Pokemon.
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PARKER: But some of the benefits are also clear.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Makes me be a lot more active. I'll do x, y, z in one go. Now it's go to the shop, that's a few blocks further.
PARKER: So, it's helping you get fit.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Definitely. You know, I saw a me, and it was like that NFL has been trying to get kids fit for 20 years and Nintendo did it in 24 hours.
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PARKER: So, the game getting used off their surface and out into their neighborhood to explore. By any measure, this is a huge step forward for augmented reality, giving Nintendo a much needed shot in the arm as investors eye their stable of other much loved characters for future potential.
Nick Parker, CNN, New York.
CHURCH: How about that? Thanks for your company. Connect with me on Twitter @rosemarycnn. But stay tuned for Max Foster in London with more news. Have a great day.
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