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Obama Meets with Putin at G20 Summit; Cyber Security Experts Warn Hackers May Be Spying on Summit; German Voters Rebuke Chancellor in Her Home State; Syria Forces Reportedly Try to Lay Seige to Rebel Areas; Turkey Says ISIS Driven Out of Last Border Area; Hong Kong Election Examined; Latest on Hermine. Aired 3-4a ET

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[03:00:00] ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN NEWSROOM SHOW HOST: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin meet on the sideline of the G20 Summit as a mutual solution to curve the violence in Syria slips away.

And with world leaders gathered in China, cyber security experts warned about the potential hackers spying on the summit.

Plus, Germany leader suffers a blow after her party gets a stinging rebuke from voters in her home state.

Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and of course, all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. This is CNN Newsroom.

U.S. President Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin met on the sidelines of the G20 Summit earlier. But a U.S. official tells CNN that talks with Russia for a deal to establish in Syria are over for now.

The G20 summit will come to a close in less than two hours. And it looks like it will come and go without much progress on the Syrian issue.

Joining me now, our Matt Rivers at the G20 Summit in Hangzhou in China, and Frederik in Moscow.

So, Matt, let's start with you. As we said Russian and U.S. talks are over, no deal was reached on Syria. This is very frustrating. What happens next?

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it really is a little bit surprising for those of us here at the G20 following these talks. Yesterday, there was a kind of a feeling of optimism that there might be some sort of deal.

As late as yesterday afternoon really, there were some thought here that we could be talking about an agreement that might have been reached between the Russians and the U.S. in terms of coming up with the new cease-fire deal, and perhaps coming to an agreement on some sort of cooperation between Russian and U.S. forces in their ongoing fight against ISIS.

It was late yesterday evening here that Secretary Kerry from the U.S. came out and said that negotiations would end for that day would will pick up today. But it wasn't just a few hours ago that we did hear from a senior U.S. official saying talks between both sides have ended for now with no deal in place.

In terms of what happens next, that's the big question. And I think it centers on what the differences are between both sides that U.S. officials that CNN spoke to wouldn't say what the exact differences were. Are the difference really big and substantive or are they more technically -- technical minutia.

I mean, that's a big question that's obviously a big difference. How much is left for both sides to work out, and if and when these negotiations were resumed, what does that look like? Those are questions right now that we don't have answers to, bit certainly something we'll be following very closely.

CHURCH: All right. Just stand by there for a moment, Matt. I want to go to Fred Pleitgen in Moscow. Now we of course, we understand this meeting between the President of the United States and the President of Russia has achieved very little. And the foreign ministers as well.

So, where does it go from here? I mean, what needs to happen to get these two nations on the same page when it comes to forging some sort of peace deal in Syria?

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, there is certain things that certainly need to happen. And I think it's a wide array of issues that led to the talks of this point in time. Stalling I wouldn't say failing altogether.

It's interesting, Rosemary, because in the past couple of days, you have seen the situation where the U.S. seem to be quite skeptical that a deal could be reached.

You kept on seeing the Russians saying that yes, they thought the deal was closed, they thought the deal was eminent. The Russians actually in some occasions also announcing that a deal had already been made. But then the U.S. saying that it had not actually been made yet, and that there were still details that needed to be worried out.

The other thing that we've been seeing as well, though, is also a big ship in the battlefield and in Syria as well.

You have seen the forces that are loyal to Bashar al-Assad which is of course, the side that Russia supports in Syria making some pretty big gains around the Aleppo area. And there are certainly some people who wonder whether or not that might have also influence the negotiations, whether Russians may have change some of their negotiating tactics or demanded a new concessions from the U.S. because of the shift in the battlefield that's been going on there.

A lot of the issues between the U.S. and Russia. A lot of the issues between these two countries have focused around the issue of Aleppo trying to get some sort of cease-fire agreement, not really a peace deal.

But a cease-fire agreement going especially for the Aleppo area. Because of course, that's the area that's getting pounded right now.

[03:05:00] Aleppo and Idlib itself. It was about humanitarian corridor, for instance, into the western side of Aleppo that's held by the opposition where the Russians said they could secure those corridors. The U.S. very much skeptical that that would actually be the case.

And then of course, the big differences between who is an extremist that needs to be bombed and who is a rebel fighting the Assad regime that should not be bombed. That's been a big issue between the U.S. and Russia identifying the group that the two groups would come by together if an agreement came together.

So, certainly they still seem to be pretty far apart if now the negotiations have been stopped all together. And they are going to wait towards a later day.

But as President Obama says, he believes that it is very important to try and reach some sort of an agreement because of course, there is that big civilian suffering. They are in Aleppo. So, certainly the two sides will continue and try to work something out.

But there certainly is a big drawback now that is happening there at that summit in China, Rosemary.

CHURCH: It is indeed. And of course, it is a process as you point out. These things take time. They can't be resolve in some side meeting like this. But we'll continue to watch that.

Fred Pleitgen, joining us there live from Moscow. Many thanks to you. Just after 10 o'clock in the morning there.

Let's go back to Matt Rivers. And, Matt, let's talk more generally now in the G20 Summit. Had there been any concrete achievements made, or has this just been a talk fest?

RIVERS: Well, what you hear often from critics of summits like this one, is that they end up just becoming talk fest. It ends up becoming the leaders of some of the largest economist in the world taking a group photograph, shaking each other's hand, sitting around the table. And you rarely see anything concrete come out of these meetings.

And there is certainly some validity to that point in the sense that we'd rarely do see one specific thing, one sort of agreement that comes out of meetings like this.

But proponents of this meeting say it's never a bad thing for these men and women who lead some of the most important countries in the world to get the chance to spend some time face to face together to be able to establish some personal relationships so when there are major crisis, they know each other. They might be able to respond a little bit better. And then, I think it also depends on who you ask whether there are

successes or breakthrough. If you take, for example, British Prime Minister Theresa May, does she feel after this summit ends later today that she was able to lay the ground work for some new trade deals that Britain is now force to negotiate after this Brexit vote.

Does President Xi Jinping of China feel like he got his message across that he put forth yesterday, saying that the world should be really, really in favor of free trade deals that would benefit his country.

If those two leaders feel that their messages were a success, then they would probably call this meeting a breakthrough of some sorts.

So, really you have two sides of the issue there. Some say these are just talk fest. Others say they are very, very important to the world stage; perhaps there are some very valid argument to be made for both sides.

CHURCH: Yes. Perhaps so. Matt Rivers is bringing us up to date from the G20 Summit which ends in a couple of hours from now. He's there in Guangzhou. And it is about just after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Many thanks to you, Matt.

Well, with no peace deal in sight, the Civil War in Syria is escalating and growing more conflicts. We've just learned of multiple bombings in three cities, Damascus, Homs, and Tartus, that's according to state media.

Now this comes a day after government forces launch a fresh offensive against rebels in Allepo. State media report Syrian troops recapture a military college in a southwestern part of the city.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says Syrian forces backed by allies are trying to re-impose a siege on rebel-held areas in the east. A rebel fighter tells CNN they have succeeded.

Now farther north, Turkey says ISIS has lost control of its last bit of territory along the Turkish/Syrian border. A Turkish military official tell CNN the area is now under the control of the Free Syrian Army. Those FSA's fighters backed by the Turkish military captured more than a dozen villages over the weekend.

Now, Syria isn't the only place where ISIS is on the run.

Libyan forces in the city of Sirte say they captured several buildings from the terror group on Sunday. The fighters loyal to Libya's U.N.- backed government say they are advancing on ISIS as a last hold out there.

And they launched their anti-ISIS campaign in May and have been aided by U.S. air strikes since early August.

Well, South Korea's Pyongyang has fired three ballistic missiles into the sea of its East Coast.

CNN's Paula Hancocks is live in Seoul, South Korea with the details. So, Paula, let's go over of what we know about this three ballistic missiles that were fired by North Korea.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, the information we have is from Seoul's Joint Chief of Staff. They say that they believe that these missiles flew about 1,000 kilometers.

[03:10:00] They say that they assume that they were Roding mid-range missiles. And that they actually were fired into Japan air defense identification zone. So, certainly a concern for Tokyo that they say that there was no prior navigational warning for this.

And this is something that has been picked up by Washington as well as senior U.S. administration official telling CNN that this launch was reckless, saying that it could potentially pose a threat to civil aviation and also to maritime issues in the region and those in that particular area.

Now certainly, this does not seem to be a concern for Japan, the second time it has got to this particular area in Japanese air space or waters of air space that Japan has a great interest in.

And we did hear from Japan's Minister of Defense, as well. He said that he wanted to heighten the state's vigilance following this.

Now we have had a widespread condemnation. Seoul has condemned of saying once again this violates the United Nation Security Council resolutions.

That the senior administration official from the U.S. also saying that this violates resolution, they strongly condemn it. But once again, North Korea showing that these resolutions are not going to prevent it from carrying out these launches. Rosemary.

CHURCH: A real concern for many people in the region there.

Our Paula Hancocks bringing us to date on the situation from Seoul in South Korea. It is just after 4 o'clock in the afternoon there. Many thanks.

Well, Hong Kong's election result could rattle some nerves in Beijing following a record turnout. At least one former leader of the pro- democracy Umbrella movement, Nathan Law has won a seat on the legislative council.

Law and his fellow democracy activists support the Beijing/Hong Kong constitutional arrangements including potential independence from China.

A far-right party has delivered a bitter defeat to German Chancellor Angela Merkel as Christian democrats in her home state. Supporters of the Alternative fur Deutschland Party or AfD celebrated after exit polls showed them pushing into second place.

Mrs. Merkel's party came in third according to the polls. Her popularity has plunged after Germany took in more than a million refugees last year amid AfD has seized on that discontent.

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FRAUKE PETRY, AFD CHAIRWOMAN (TRANSLATED): The established party have less people's approval because they fool the people over and over again. We do not have an asylum crisis; we have a problem with illegal immigration. We have a Europe crisis because the German government ignores the fact that the European project has died.

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CHURCH: Mrs. Merkel is expected to make a statement after the official results are released.

Hundreds of thousands of people filled the streets of Brazil's cities on Sunday to protest the country's newly installed government of President Michel Temer.

The largest demonstration was in Sao Paulo. Organizers say more than 100,000 protesters showed up waving anti-Temer signs and chanting "out with Temer."

The former vice president took office last week following the Senate vote to impeach former President Dilma Rousseff.

Well, more questions arrive over Donald Trump's stance on illegal immigration. What one of his biggest supporters said about the issue. That's coming up.

Plus, we are tracking Hermine, the latest on the storm that just won't quick and where it's heading. After the break.

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KATE RILEY, CNN WORLD SPORT ANCHOR: I'm Kate Riley with your CNN World Sport headlines.

On Sunday, the battle for the Formula One driver's title was reignited. His team mate Sun rivals Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton locked on once again at the Italian Grand Prix. Rosberg ticket advances of a slow stop from Hamilton to take control of the race. It was a very straightforward win for him as he cruises his seven championship of the season and his second straight causing Hamilton's championship lead to just two-points.

This is also the first time Rosberg has ever won at this iconic venue.

It was a milestone career moment for England Football Cup on Wayne Rooney on Sunday as the Three Lions traveled to Slovakia earning his 116th Cup for the English national team winning the first of that World Cup qualifying campaign match for Russia.

In doing so, the forward become his country's most Cup outfield player for passing David Beckham's tally.

And on day seven of the U.S. Open, the top women of single player is starting to win their way into the quarter finals. Denmark Caroline Wozniacki reported an impressive victory of the eight seated Madison Key for the USA in their first ever meeting.

Next up for the day in it is 48th ranked Anastasija Sevastova.

And that's a look at all your sports headlines. I'm Kate Riley.

CHURCH: One of Donald Trump's more prominent supporters insist that the republican presidential candidate is backing away from his most controversial proposal.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani says Trump does not support mass deportations, and is opened to allowing some undocumented immigrants to stay in the U.S. His comments come just days after the Trump's campaign met with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto.

Giuliani sat down with CNN's Jake Tapper to discuss that meeting at to clarify trump's immigration plan.

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RUDY GIULIANI, FORMER NEW YORK CITY MAYOR: We had a ground rules for this meeting. And one of the ground rules was we were not going to discuss paying for the wall because that's not something we're going to agree about. What we wanted to do is to find areas of common agreement and maybe the president staff didn't brief it on them, maybe the president forgot it.

But, I mean, he brought it up, it wasn't right of the very beginning. It was sort of in in the middle of the sentence. And I just briefly said that's not on the table. And the reality is they have a disagreement over that.

JAKE TAPPER, STATE OF THE UNION SHOW HOST: And a lot of the pundits even those who are skeptical of Donald Trump seems to give that meeting very high marks. There are reports that you and Governor Chris Christie among others have been internally in the Trump campaign pushing Trump to do things more like that more presidential in tone for want of a better term.

But later that day, trump went to Arizona and he gave an immigration speech that was perceive as so harsh that even the Republican National Committee scrap plans to praise that speech in a way, sir, did you side of the struggle within the Trump campaign win the morning but lose the night?

GIULIANI: No, we won both. And both sides one of the other two sides. And I think if you have to read the A.P. story that came out of that speech. The A.P. story says "Donald Trump retreats on mass deportation."

It is true the speech was delivered and I'd say a dramatic style because it was a rally audience. But if you read that speech carefully, that speech is consistent of what he said in the past and at least a very big opening for what will happen with the people that remain here in the United States after the criminals are removed and after the border is secure. And he says in a very, very important sense which everybody seeds to

ignore but A.P., he says there, that at that time, when America is safe we will be opened to all of the options.

[03:20:02] Meaning, that Donald Trump as he expressed himself in one of his interviews recently would find it very, very difficult to throw out a family that's been here for, you know, 15 years and they have children to have whom citizens.

That is not the kind of America he wants. His main focus of that speech, and I think the reason for the emotions in it was because of all those mothers who came up whose children were killed by illegal criminal immigrants.

TAPPER: Right.

GIULIANI: And all the policies, all 10 policies, are largely directed toward criminal illegal immigrants, which the Obama administration releases into the streets of our city.

TAPPER: So, let me just figure out...

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GIULIANI: Which is actually that they have an insane policy. I was a prosecutor most of my life.

TAPPER: But, Mr. Mayor.

GIULIANI: Who catch and release. They catch criminals and they release them.

TAPPER: I just want to -- I just want to understand what you are saying here. So, Mr. Trump will not be trying to kick out the dreamers, he will not be having a deportation force and he'd no longer wants to get all 11 million undocumented immigrants out of this country?

GIULIANI: What he said in the speech is after we secured the border and after we remove the criminal illegal immigrants to a large extent that you're not never going to get 100 percent, then and only then can we look at this in a very rational way in which we can look at all the options and be open to all the options.

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CHURCH: Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaking there with our Jake Tapper.

The Clinton campaign says there is nothing benign about Trump's pledge of mass deportations. Her campaign release this statement saying, "Immigrant families know the meanings of humane of fair and can see straight through their cynical ploys." Trump's message to immigrant families is clear. Everyone must go."

Well, new CNN poll of polls shows Hillary Clinton once double digit lead over Donald Trump is now cut in half. The democratic presidential candidate has 42 percent supports to Trump's 37 percent in a full way match up.

Our John King breaks it down.

JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Donald Trump says as we reach this point the polls are closing in his direction. And to a degree, he's right. Let's take a look.

Back in the beginning of the month just after the convention, Hillary Clinton had a 10-point lead of the national polls. These are averaging out all the national polls. If you look at the most recent ones, Hillary Clinton's lead is down to five points over Donald Trump.

So, Donald Trump is right. In the national polls the race is tightening from the beginning of the month.

Here is Donald Trump's problem. When you go state by state through the key battleground Hillary Clinton is leading in all of them. Now some of the leads are relatively small, but even Florida at the beginning of the month was one, now it's four on average.

Ohio at the beginning of the month was one, now it's a three-point Clinton lead. North Carolina are very close race. Pennsylvania in single digits, but still that's a very comfortable lead of seven points.

Virginia has moved in Clinton's direction by even more. Her running mate helps there. Michigan, single digit for the Clinton lead. Wisconsin closer than a lot of people would think but still a Clinton lead. Colorado a big Clinton lead.

That's the problem when you look at the battleground states, is that if the election were held today by our projections, Hillary Clinton would be already at the top 273 electoral votes.

Donald Trump could win all of these yellow states. The toss-up he could win them all and not clinch the presidency. To get there he's got to turn some of these that we lean blue. He's got to turn some of the blue red. Pennsylvania would be the biggest prize.

Hillary Clinton though, is not over yet. One of her biggest weaknesses in this rust belt that Donald Trump is targeting, blue collar voters.

CHURCH: John King taking a look there at the tightening race for the White House.

All right. I want to turn to the weather now. And in the U.S. the massive storms that have been beating out the eastern sea board could regain some strength. The National Hurricane Center says Hermine is moving out to sea where it's expected to regenerate winds up to 120 kilometers per hour or about 75 miles per hour.

Millions of people from Virginia to New England are still under tropical storm watches and warnings. So, let's get more on this.

Our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri joins us now. And this is a real concern, isn't it?

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes.

CHURCH: As we were saying earlier, it is the storm that won't go away.

JAVAHERI: Yes.

CHURCH: It just keeps regenerating it. What is going on with that?

JAVAHERI: It's a holiday weekend, too. You know, so what happened is the storm is actually transitioning from being a tropical storm to a post-tropical storm.

And essentially al that means is tropical storms that feeds off warm waters. Post-tropical feeds off cooler water. And they have upper levels steering currents like the jet streams that help them. In this particular storm it's not tropical anymore.

So, you take a look at it. There is the presentation on satellite. It's kind of fanned out the upper level winds are pulling the system apart but still sitting there with wind at 70 miles per hour.

Keep in mind, you get up about above 73 miles per hour it is a hurricane force storm. At this point it's not anymore. But still, that difference in a couple of miles per hour is negligible.

[03:24:59] The concern is in the shift in the forecast is that initially the storm was in the forecast that remain much closer to the coastline. If that was the case you get more of the piling up of water that takes place on the immediate coastline. And that really causes significant coastal erosion and damage.

At this point, that storm has actually shifted at some 200 miles from the east. You notice the wind component is more northerly so the waves will be -- the winds will be more parallel towards the coastline as oppose to going directly towards the coast and piling up.

So, the storm surge threat has been limited a little bit. So, two to four feet across places like Hampstead toward Atlantic City around New York City and Long Island as well. You notice north of it around portions of say Connecticut onto New Hampshire there. You should see as much as much three to five feet storm surge.

But here's the perspective. The rainfall will be now want to stay offshore. Good news in that sense. But still want to point out this is a dangerous storm as far interacting it really. Turning off the water across this region to where it can make dangerous go for beach goers in this region.

But the storm will eventually want to push offshore into cooler waters and weaken over the next two to three days.

But I want to show you what's developing right now across parts of Mexico. This is coming out of Acapulco in Mexico where we have another tropical storm. Newton is our next storm in line here. It has really intensified rapidly in the last couple of hours.

And the concern with this is the forecast track of where the storm would be headed. At this point it takes directly towards Cabo San Lucas. Winds at 110 kilometers per hour, it would actually be right around 70 miles per hour. So this would be just shy of a category 1 hurricane.

But of course, we know Cabo is heavily populated. And also, a lot of tourists this time of the year and active across this region. So, the storm system could move in and some heavy rainfalls, some dangerous winds associated with it as well around the Cabo San Lucas area.

Sometimes from Wednesday out towards Thursday will show you some damages coming out of Japan as well as from recent tropical activity.

But, Rosemary, it is been very, very busy. And of course, we know the first couple of weeks of September. Now, typically September is the peak season for hurricane. The sun has been shining up for months now and warming up these oceans so the energy at a maximum across parts of the tropics.

CHURCH: It is always a worry, isn't it? And particularly if people are not ready for these sorts of things and the beauty if you are giving heads up is that people can be at least be primed and ready.

All right. Thanks so much, Pedram. Always a pleasure.

JAVAHERI: Yes.

CHURCH: Well, many people hope for a Syria peace deal at the G20 Summit in China.

Were those hopes fulfilled or dashed? What we have learned about the outcome of the U.S./Russia talks, that's coming up.

Plus, the G20 puts many of the world's famous leaders in the same place. We will explain why security experts are concerned that put their data at risk to hackers.

Back in a moment.

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CHURCH: And a warm welcome back to our viewers here in the United States, and of course, all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church. I want to update you on the main stories we've been following.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered a political humiliation in her own backyard. Exit polls show the anti-immigrant Alternative fur Deutschland Party surged into second place in Mrs. Merkel's home state.

The center left social democrats finished first. And they could continue to govern the state in a coalition with Mrs. Merkel's Christian democrats. South Sudan has agreed to receive 4,000 more U.N. peacekeeping troops

to protect civilians in the war-torn country. There are already 12,000 peacekeepers in the nation.

The latest wave of violence began in July with clashes between troops loyal to the president and those loyal to the former vice president.

U.S. President Barack Obama is at his final G20 Summit, he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines earlier. But officials say that discussions between the U.S. and Russia on the Syrian conflict ended without an agreement.

Mr. Obama may address that in his news conference after the summit ends.

In Syria, at least 14 people have been killed in explosions targeting government held areas in several cities. That is according to Syrian state media. The blast happened their Homs, Damascus, and Tartus.

Our Jomana Karadsheh joins us now from Amman, Jordan. She is been closely following the situation in Syria.

And, Jomana, I want to start with what you know and what you've learned about the series of blast in Syria and who's been affected by them?

JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, we are continuing to get more information about these blasts taking place in several areas, as you mentioned in several cities, most of them regime controlled parts of the city. But also, in the north eastern part of the country targeting a Kurdish area.

Here is what we know. According to the state news agency, SANA, they say that there have been several explosions. The deadliest of which was on a bridge on a main highway leading to the regime-held coastal city of Tartus there. According to local officials, they say at least 11 people were killed and 49 others were wounded.

Now in Syria's third city, Homs, according to the governor they are speaking to state media, he says that at least three people were killed and four others were wounded when a car bomb detonated at a military check point at the entrance of al-Zahra.

This is a predominantly Alawite neighborhood, we have seen targeted previously in the past. A third attack according to the state news agency was near Damascus on a main road, still not -- we don't have much information about that attack and any casualty's figures.

Now to the northeast of the country, according to a spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces, these are the U.S.-backed Kurdish and Arab forces fighting in the northern part of the country.

They say that a bomber on a motorcycle targeted a security force, a Kurdish checkpoint in Hasaka, and they say that at least five members of the security forces were killed in that attack and several others were wounded. Now, so far, Rosemary, there's been no claims of responsibility for

this string of attacks. But this as the spokesman we spoke to says they believe that this bears the hallmark of ISIS. We have seen attacks like this in the past claimed by ISIS.

So far, no claim of responsibility. But of course, there is always this concern that we have been hearing that as ISIS loses ground in Syria and Iraq, that they will be reverting to more of these sort of coordinated high profile attack.

But again, no claim at this point, Rosemary.

CHURCH: Yes, that is a real concern for sure. And, Jomana, let's go back to the G20 Summit which hasn't offered much hope for those civilians caught up in the war in Syria.

[03:35:04] What has been the reactions so far from the region to this lack of progress for peace talks between Russia and the U.S and what do people feel needs to happen next.

KARADSHEH: Well, over the past couple of weeks, Rosemary, we have been speaking to activists and residents in the city of Aleppo in the besieged part the rebel-held part of Aleppo and the eastern part of that city. And they haven't had much hope of any sort of sustainable peace deal that would come out of these talks.

They have always been very skeptical of Russia. They see as the ally of the regime in this case. They blame the Russians for a lot of the bombings that this city has been through. So, a lot of skepticism of about what would come out of these talks and they have seen cessation of hostilities in the past like the one that went into effect back in February fall apart.

So, there wasn't much hope. But of course, the real concern here a key factor in all of this has humanitarian aid. There has been this hope that maybe some sort of agreement would be reach as we heard from the United Nation really calling for any sort of pause in the violence to deliver much needed humanitarian aid into besieged areas.

And overnight, we have seen a very worrying development where the rebel-held part of Aleppo is under siege again after the fighters last month managed to open up a route into the city. This has been blocked off again by the Syrian regime and their allies, essentially putting eastern part of Aleppo under siege again.

Where we have seen the violence escalating, where we have seen this humanitarian crisis unfolding.

So, this is going to be a major concern as we see that these talks have resulted in no deal. The impact on the ground especially on the civilians more than 250,000 of them just in this part of Aleppo. And of course, there are other besiege areas the concern is for them here, Rosemary.

CHURCH: It is frustrating. It is heartbreaking. Thank you so much. Our Jomana Karadsheh bringing us up to date from

Amman, Jordan, watching the situation in Syria. It is 10.36 there in Amman. Many thanks to you as always.

Well, in years passed, the G20 Summit has been targeted by cyber- attack. And many feared that this year's meeting would be no difference.

Our Clare Sebastian explains the digital threat.

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was September 2013, a crucial G20 Summit in St. Petersburg dominated by the conflict in Syria. The leaders at this point unaware that some of their computers have been infiltrated.

For two months before that meeting according to a cyber-research firm FireEye, Syria's team e-mails have been sent to several European foreign ministries.

They contain attachments which was once opened and downloaded militia's software allowing hackers to spy on their target. FireEye said it trace that hack to China. Beijing denied any involvement.

And it wasn't the first time the G20 had been targeted. Two years earlier, French government computers had been infected with malware before a G20 finance minister summit in Paris. There was no conclusive evidence on who is behind it.

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TONY COLE, FIREEYE V.P. & GLOBAL GOVERNMENT CTO: It's definitely a major target for hackers so, and you know, specifically nation state attackers because they are trying actually to steal data that can actually help them understand a government's negotiating position.

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SEBASTIAN: Spying at international gathering is nothing new. The difference now they interpret makes it easier.

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COLE: In years passed, if you think about espionage wen i took place it would cause any government an enormous amount of money. Today, you know, for a minimal amount of money, a couple of hundred thousand dollars you could be very well equipped.

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SEBASTIAN: Experts says G20 delegation need to equip themselves against potential threat. They advise using clean or (Inaudible) to avoid carrying personal data, avoiding hotel Wi-Fi, and even adding cyber security experts to their physical security detail.

We contacted several G20 delegations to see what precautions they were taking for this summit in China. None would comment although a former U.S. official speaking on condition of anonymity told us, President Obama and all his staff all use encrypted phone and satellite link when they travel.

The president even takes portable soundproof tent for secure communication. This is one from a 2011 trip to Brazil.

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DMITRI ALPEROVITCH, CROWDSTRIKE CO-FOUNDER AND CTO: There is no question if the landscape is changing.

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Dmitri Alperovitch's firm CrowdStrike uncovered evidence back in June that the Russian government was behind a hack on the U.S. Democratic National Committee.

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ALPEROVITCH: Before nation states were primarily engaged in espionage where they would come into your network to steal your documents. Nowadays, you have to worry about the public leaking of that information. Information influence information will be conducted against you.

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SEBASTIAN: So, amid the public shows of unity of the G20 there may be more complex of political place inside the space.

[03:40:04] Clare Sebastian, CNN Money, New York.

CHURCH: Jihadists in Syria are using drugs for an on edge of the battlefield. What makes this Amphetamine so dangerous and so powerful. That's coming up.

Plus, for families like this, filling these bottles is a daily struggle, why water taps are running dry in the West Bank. That's when we come back.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.

Well, many ISIS militants are being fuelled by something frightening. A black market drug that gives them more energy, more pain tolerance and a mindful of pure hallucinations.

Now Syrian authorities say they seized 400,000 tablets of this drug on Saturday.

Our Brian Todd follow this report last November on just how dangerous it is.

BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A captured ISIS militant named Kareem tell CNN how he got his battlefield courage. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (TRANSLATED): "They gave us drug hallucinogenic pills that would make you go to battle not caring if live or die.

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TODD: When our CNN team interviewed Kareem last year he was being held by Kurdish militants in northern Syria. It was impossible to know if he was telling the truth or if he was being coached by his captors.

But now a U.S. official tells CNN it's believed that some Jihadist fighters are using drug Captagon, a dangerous and powerful amphetamine. How would it feel them on the battlefield?

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ROBERT KEISLING, MEDSTAR WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: It keeps you awake. You can stay awake for days at a time. You don't have to sleep. But and it gives you a sense of well-being and euphoria and you think that you're invincible and that nothing can harm you.

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TODD: Recently, the U.N's drug Zsar said ISIS and the Al Qaeda affiliated Nusra Front were believed to be smuggling the chemical precursors for Captagon.

[03:44:59] A U.S. law enforcement officials tell CNN there is a robust black market for the drug in the Middle East.

Analyst say the profits funds weapons purchases for Jihadist groups.

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MATTHEW LEVITT, WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY STEIN PROGRAM DIRECTOR: Hezbollah and people affiliated with Hezbollah have a long history in a production and sale of Captagon. At one point there was a fight between Hezbollah affiliated persons because some people were angry they weren't getting a cut of some if this business.

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TODD: Captagon was developed in the 60s and was first used to treat people with hyperactivity. It's since been banned in the U.S. and elsewhere.

And while some question the drugs prevalence among fighters who treat Islamic purity, analysts say Jihadists can find a justification

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TODD: Is it hypocritical, is it a violation of cultural religious principles? DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS, FOUNDATION FOR DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACIES SENIOR

FELLOW: Jihadist would argue that this is not hypocritical. That, first of all, it's not a drug that's been taken to get high.

TODD: Physiatrist Robert Keisling whose treated thousands of addicts says Captagon's so hallucinogenic it can make a user hear voices and see things that aren't there.

That can hurt you on the battlefield, right?

KEISLING: Absolutely. Yes. But I think they have made a decision that keeping these guys awake for four or five days at a time and giving them a sense of invincibility is worth whatever harm or the side effects that the drugs have.

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TODD: For whatever sense of euphoria or invincibility Captagon might produce, Dr. Keisling says, there are horrible downsides. Users, he says, can become psychotic, brain damage, and of course, can get addicted to the drug for years to come.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: Many families in the West Bank face a serious water shortage. Taps are being shut off and Palestinians and Israelis blame each other for the crisis.

Our Ian Lee traveled to the West Bank to see firsthand how families are coping.

IAN LEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's a long journey for a 3 and 5-year-old. One kilometer there, one kilometer back. But five times a day, Ratalen Faten (Ph) journey to this spring. This is how the Ismael family and the village of Artas fetch water.

Thousands of people rely on this stream used for cooking, drinking, as well as cleaning and beating the heat.

Hanamismil (Ph) takes me to her house to show me why. Their faucet ran dry two months ago. "Every day I take my daughters to the spring to fill up tanks and bottles. Water has been our main daily concern," the mother of three tells me.

The source of the water crisis in the occupied West Bank is muddled. As Palestinian authorities see it Israel is to blame.

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JAMAL DAJANI, PALESTINIAN PRIME MINISTER SPOKESMAN: The Israeli national water company Mekorot has got off supplies sometimes by 50 percent and sometimes totally to some localities and town and villages.

I believe that this part and parcel of getting rid of the indigenous people from their own land. (END VIDEO CLIP)

LEE: A 1995 agreement gives 80 percent of the West Bank's water to Israel. The divide is stark between Palestinian towns and Israeli settlements. Palestinian store water in tanks on their roofs, while settlers have communal tank.

Palestinian also received less than the World Health Organization recommended 100 liters a day. Settlers at times have face shortages, too.

Israel's water national company recently announced the plan to significantly increase the amount of water to settlement.

CNN request with an interview with Israeli authorities but they gave us a statement. They accused the Palestinian authority of stealing water and not upgrading infrastructure saying, "The reasons for problems with the water supply is an increase in the water for agriculture and drinking. The poor infrastructure, stolen water and delay in projects because the joint water committee hasn't met."

That Israeli-Palestinian hasn't met in over five years.

While both sides blame each other, Palestinians face health risks. Many Palestinians are forced to use unsafe sources like the Artas Spring. You can see there's trash nearby, and if you continue to look around over here, you can see that there is also animal feces.

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JUNE KUNUGI, UNICEF'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE: It's about 140,000 people in need of just basic water and safe water for daily life. Their children, you know, getting diseases, they see worms in the water but they have no other choice.

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LEE: It's a risk the families of Artas continued to take as they're left with little choice but to gamble on the spring down the road.

Ian Lee, Artas, the West Bank.

CHURCH: And we'll take a short break here. But still to come, Dubai has added yet another stunning piece of architecture to its landscape.

We take you inside the city's newest opera house, that's when we come back. Stay with us.

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JAVAHERI: Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri on Weather Watch right now.

Watching a couple of tropical storms, warnings that have been in place across the northern portion of the United States, off around the eastern seaboard there. And all is associated of what is left of what was once a hurricane

Hermine now tropical, post-tropical storm or extra tropical storm. That is essentially what it says is it lost a lot of its tropical characteristics that sits there and producing some strong waves.

And certainly a storm surge potential. But notice the wet weather aspect of it all remains offshore. So, certainly worth noting if you're along these beaches, it is a bad idea to get into the waters as it almost seems like it's not a bad day.

The storm system remains offshore but the water have churned enough up to where it makes it a dangerous scenario there to be playing around in the water on a holiday weekend. Of course, around the United State.

But the temperatures around New York City will go at 28 degrees. Atlanta warms backup into 30s. San Francisco, a blustery day at 21- degree afternoon in store. Some showers streaming in around portions of Vancouver, British Columbia.

Watching a new tropical storm. This is Newton sitting there just off of Manzanillo, Mexico. The concern with this is the initial track estimation will take this forecast storm right towards Cabo San Lucas, and sometime towards the middle portion of this week.

This point doesn't look like it will get to hurricane strength but still could produce some dangerous weather across portions of Mexico that not only are heavily populated, but of course, a lot of tourists make their way towards that region. And thunderstorms again are going to move in later this week.

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CHURCH: The doors to Dubai newest state-of-the-art concert venue are officially open. The Dubai Opera House took more than three years to build to the tune of $330 million.

Here's a look inside.

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JASPER HOPE, DUBAI OPERA'S CHIEF EXECUTIVE: This is genuinely ground breaking technological model.

It is a theater and it hosts productions and concerts but it is much more than that. What we can do here that almost no one else in the world can do is transform ourselves very, very quickly, some buttons and a fuse from homes, couple of hours work and before you know it, we can be a completely different building.

Sure, the use of hydraulics, getting rid of something like 950 seats here in the stalls. We can create a completely flat floor environment.

[03:55:03] PLACIDO DOMINGO, OPERA HAOUSE TENOR: Well, it is wonderful to be able to inaugurate an opera house. There is the modern conception but having the old opera house feeling. I was in the hall when they were doing the rehearsal of The Barber of Seville and that will tell me a lot where the acoustics and the possibilities of the theater which I find it fantastic.

It has been done a lot for cultural already. In this country the icing of the cake is to have an opera house.

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CHURCH: Magnificent. All right, well, there is some good news and bad news to report about the world's endangered species. We'll start with the bad news.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature says the eastern gorilla is now listed as critically endangered

mainly because of illegal hunting. The population has declined more than 70 percent in the past 20 years. But there are others in the animal kingdom who have feared much better.

The giant panda are long time presence on the endangered list is being downgraded to vulnerable. The giant panda population grows 17 percent from 2004 to 2014.

And thanks so much for joining us. I'm Rosemary Church. Remember to connect with me any time on Twitter @rosemarycnn. Early Start is next for our viewers here in the U.S., for everyone else, stay tuned for more news with Max Foster in London.

And have a great day.

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