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Trump Invites Putin To The White House And Washington Reacts; Intelligence Chief Surprised On Trump's Move To Invite Putin; Moscow Responds To Trump's Invitation; Russia Releases A Video Of New Arsenals; Boat Accident In Missouri, 11 Dead; Brexit's Irish Border Conflict; Singapore's Health Data Hacked; Whatsapp India To Restrict Message Forwarding After Violence; Mike Pompeo And U.N. Security Council Meet Regarding North Korea; Yuan Falls Against The Dollar; World Headlines; Montenegro Madness; From Revolution To Crisis; Remains In Ancient Coffin Not Alexander The Great's; South Korea Rejects Application To Lift Sunken Ship; 'Trump Derangement Syndrome' Isn't New. Aired 8-9a ET

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[08:00:00] ANNA COREN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, I'm Anna Coren in Hong Kong. Welcome to "News Stream."

A sequel to the summit. Donald Trump invites Vladimir Putin to the White House to the surprise of the top U.S. intel official.

Well, tragedy on the water. Rescuers try to find several people still missing from a deadly tourist boat accident in Missouri.

And little Montenegro stands tall. How the country is responding to the U.S. president's claim that it could spark World War III?

Well, U.S. President Donald Trump is waging a full out campaign to show he is standing up to Russia while also inviting its president to the White

House. Russia's ambassador says Moscow is open to the idea. The White House has spent every day this week trying to do damage control after Donald

Trump's first summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, but each day it's also digging up more controversy.

President Trump's invitation to Mr. Putin caught even the U.S. intelligence chief by surprise. Let's go straight to CNN White House correspondent Abby

Phillip. And Abby, the director of National Intelligence, Dan Coats, was completely in the dark about Trump's invitation to Vladimir Putin.

How does one of the most important security officials in the country appointed by the president not know that Donald Trump has invited the

leader of a country that he believes is actively working to undermine American democracy?

ABBY PHILLIP, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly the question that a lot of people here in Washington are asking. Why is it that the

White House seemed incapable of communicating with its own staff, its own national security team about this meeting with Putin and what exactly is

President Trump trying to accomplish here?

They are still trying to sort out what he said in his one-on-one meeting with Putin on Monday and already the president invited Putin here to

Washington. That would make it his first meeting here on U.S. soil in almost 10 years.

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PHILLIP (voice-over): The Trump administration responding to withering bipartisan criticism of his first summit with Russian president Vladimir

Putin by trying to schedule a second, inviting Putin to the White House this fall when the midterm elections will also be under way. The news

leaving the nation's top intelligence officer stunned.

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ANDREA MITCHELL, NBC NEWS ANCHOR: The White House has announced on twitter that Vladimir Putin is coming to the White House in the fall.

DAN COATS, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: Say that again.

MITCHELL: You -- Vladimir Putin coming to --

COATS: Did I hear you --

MITCHELL: Yeah, yeah.

COATS: Okay.

MITCHELL: Yes.

COATS: That's going to be special.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIP (voice-over): President Trump tweeting that he's looking forward to implementing some of the things he talked about with Putin during their

one-on-one meeting in Helsinki, despite the fact that multiple members of the administration say they don't even know what was discussed.

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GEN. JOSEPH VOTEL, COMMANDER, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: We have received no specific direction at this point.

COATS: I don't know what happened in that meeting. If you'd ask me how that ought to be conducted, I would have suggested a different way, but

that's not my role. That's not my job. So it is what it is.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIP (voice-over): The surprise announcement coming as the Trump administration was forced to backtrack again over President Trump's

openness to a proposal from Putin that would allow Russia to interrogate several Americans in exchange for his access to 12 Russians charged with

interfering in the U.S. election.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESDIENT OF THE UNITED STATES: He feels very strongly about it and he has an interesting idea.

What he did is an incredible offer.

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PHILLIP (voice-over): After four days of intense backlash, the White House press secretary announcing that while Putin made the proposal in sincerity,

President Trump now disagrees with it. Sanders' announcement coming shortly before the senate voted unanimously to oppose the idea -- its strongest

rebuke of the administration yet. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attempting to downplay the proposal.

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MIKE POMPEO, SECRETARY OF STATE: The administration is not going to send - - force Americans to travel to Russia to be interrogated by Vladimir Putin and his team.

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PHILLIP (voice-over): As President Trump attempted to counter criticism that he projected weakness in Helsinki.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TRUMP: Getting along with President Putin, getting along with Russia is a positive not a negative. Now, with that being said, if that doesn't work

out, I'll be the worst enemy he's ever had.

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[08:05:03] PHILLIP (voice-over): The invitation to Putin coming as multiple intelligence officials issued stark warnings about the ongoing

threat to Americas Democratic systems.

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ROD ROSENSTEIN, U.S. DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL: The Russian effort to influence the 2016 presidential campaign is just one tree in a growing

forest.

COATS: I'm concerned about a cyber 9/11.

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PHILLIP (voice-over): House Republicans voting down an effort to increase election security spending amid chants from Democrats on the House floor.

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REP. STENY HOYER (D), MARYLAND: Vote yes on this amendment for your country!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE/FEMALE: USA! USA! USA!

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PHILLIP: And President Trump appears to be keeping a relatively low profile this morning. He hasn't issued any tweets on twitter so far and

only has one thing on his schedule. A private intelligence briefing before he heads to Bedminster, New Jersey where he will be at his golf course over

the weekend.

COREN: Abby, I love how you say he hasn't tweeted so far. But look, he did tweet yesterday saying that he's looking forward to his second meeting

with Putin and can start implementing some of the many things they discussed. The reality is no one know what those many things are that they

discussed in his two-hour one-on-one meeting in Helsinki. Has there been any further fallout?

PHILLIP: Anna, we've been asking the White House, the National Security Council, the Pentagon these questions for days now. And the response that

we're getting is generally nothing. Generally, we're looking into it, and that's because they're still trying to sort out via debriefing with the

president himself and also perhaps the translator who was in that room, what was committed to, but here's the problem. It seems very much that

Moscow is framing the narrative around this meeting.

They're talking about agreements and commitments that were made in that meeting with the president. They're saying that they are ready to go and

the United States is trying to put the brakes on that because, frankly, the intelligence community here, the military community here, they haven't

gotten any concrete guidance one way or another about what -- how to move forward.

There have been some talks about perhaps an agreement on issues like Syria, Ukraine, a nuclear armament, but all of those things are very complex. And

also frankly, what Russia wants from those meetings is unlikely to be what the United States is willing to agree to. So I think they're going to be

spending the next several weeks sorting this out and all of that probably needs to be dealt with before the president can sit down with Putin again

here in Washington, Anna.

COREN: Abby Phillip, good to see you. Many thanks for joining us.

Well, the Russian ambassador to the U.S. has spoken out about Mr. Trump's invitation. Let's bring in CNN's Sam Kiley with more on that. Sam, Russia

appears open to a second summit. How is Trump's invite being received in Moscow?

SAM KILEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: With considerable delight, Anna. The spoke -- not spokesman, excuse me -- the ambassador to

Washington from Russia is actually here in Moscow at the moment. He was at a big meeting with President Putin yesterday. Today, he's issued a

statement saying the following of the invitation from the White House to Vladimir Putin to visit in the autumn, in the fall.

He says, at this stage when we see that our leaders don't meet that often we are, of course, in favor of continuing this dialogue so that it is

ongoing, that our leaders meet not just occasionally but regularly so that they would know and understand each other better. Now, Anna, obviously, the

Russians are delighted with this and perhaps to reinforce the need for such a dialogue, if you like.

They also -- the Russia Ministry of Defense has just put out a bunch of videos and new military boasts about the sort of technology and hardware

that they're developing. The implication here, of course, being that as Donald Trump has said in Helsinki, there is a danger of an arms race and

it's highly important that these two leaders meet so that the arms race can be reined in.

As part of that, the Russians are claiming to be well ahead of the game in the arms race. For example, they say that they are developing a nuclear

weapon that is autonomous, that can fly nonstop anywhere in the world, that is not only a nuclear weapon in terms of delivery. It's called the

Beresknovic (ph), but it is also nuclear powered so it can go on infinitely.

They've got the thing called the Poseidon, which is an underwater equivalent of that. They say that they've got various other weaponry that

can be delivered from close to outer space. Again, capable of flying around all of the anti-missile, missile defenses available to NATO. And that's

absolutely key because of course it is the movement of NATO missile defenses into former Warsaw Pact.

The eastern European countries like Poland, Romania, Estonia, Lithuania, the Baltic countries, movement of NATO troops material into those former

Warsaw Pact and Soviet-influenced countries that has so angered and I have to say rattled the Kremlin under Vladimir Putin especially.

[08:10:08] This of course the threat and NATO did promise not to that. The threat, as far as the Russians perceive it, is getting closer. So this is

their opportunity to say we've got better stuff than you so you better talk to us about it. We'll come to Washington to do that. Anna?

COREN: And the release of the video, certainly the timing is rather interesting, considering it comes just days after Helsinki. Sam Kiley, good

to see you. Many thanks for that.

Turning now to the U.K. and the investigation into the death of Novichok victim, Dawn Sturgess. Sources tell CNN she apparently put the nerve agent

on her skin thinking that it was perfume. They say the deadly dose was contained in a perfume bottle. Her partner was also poisoned and remains in

hospital.

Their incident came after a former Russian spy and his daughter were both poisoned by Novichok in a nearby English town in March. A source says U.K.

investigators have identified two suspects in that attack.

Well, a boating accident in the U.S. state of Missouri has killed 11 people including children. The tour boat was caught on camera just moments before

it sank on a lake in Branson and we need to warn you that you may find these images very disturbing.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's kids in there and a poor baby.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There is on this side.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at that driver (inaudible) just back in.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god.

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COREN: Absolutely terrifying. Well, you can see the duck boat rocking violently in this video shot by passengers on a nearby boat who watched in

horror as the tragedy unfolded. Thirty-one people were onboard that boat that sank. Six people are still missing.

That happened during a thunderstorm that saw wind gusts of more than 100 kilometers an hour. Divers are still searching for the missing. Well let's

head to CNN Center where Diane Gallagher has much more. Dianne, talk us through what happened that led to this tragedy.

DIANNE GALLAGHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So Anna, they are still trying to determine that at this point. You mentioned the thunderstorm with those

nearly 100 kilometer winds per hour that were happening, those gusts. That happened roughly 30 minutes, a severe thunderstorm warning before this boat

began to sink, before those 911 calls came in.

Now, again, that video very disturbing to see -- 31 people onboard. There are 11 confirmed deaths. Six people are still missing. Now, divers are

going to go back out this morning to go and continue their searches trying to find them. The president of the company spoke with CNN about 20 minutes

ago and said that one of the missing is one of the two crew members who were onboard. The captain, a man with 14 years experience as a duck boat

captain with this company, he is in the hospital.

But as far as what happened, they are still trying to figure it out. The weather, the sheriff's office says that they do believe that it was

weather-related, but at this point they're still trying to work on why it was not able to get to shore as some of the other boats including duck

boats could get back to the docks, and sort of trace the steps back in that manner, Anna.

COREN: And Dainna, I understand that there were life jackets onboard this boat. Do we know why they weren't used?

GALLAGHER: So, regulations do not require duck boat passengers to be physically wearing their life vest on these trips, but they do have them on

the boat. According to the owner, they were not sure why the people may not have been wearing them once the weather got choppy. They don't know if

people were wearing them.

The sheriff said they cannot guarantee. You can look at the weather and just how violent those waves are. And that is a lake. Table Rock Lake, it

is (inaudible). It is near Branson, Missouri, which is a pretty popular tourism spot for families and church groups here in the United States.

So, the summer months they are very busy with families visiting, and of course, children are among those 11 dead and we do not know as far as those

six who are missing how many are adults and how many are children, just one was that crew member.

COREN: And Dianne, we're just hearing -- my producers just told me the governor of Missouri has updated the death toll. It now stands at 13.

Dianne Gallagher, thank you for that update.

Well, the Brexit battle heats up. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May delivers a speech in Belfast on a very contentious issue. What she had to say about

the Irish border and the E.U.'s post-Brexit plan.

And after a spate of lynching in India fueled by social media, Whatsapp is announcing some changes. We'll tell you more. That's next on "News Stream."

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COREN: Welcome back to "News Stream." live from Hong Kong. Well, British Prime Minister Theresa May has given a speech in Northern Ireland at the

end of a tumultuous two weeks in the Brexit process. In it, Mrs. May rejected the European Union's backstop plan in which Northern Ireland would

remain closely tied to E.U regulations after Brexit if the two sides failed to reach a deal.

Well, our Bianca Nobilo has been following the story and she joins us from London. Bianca, as we say, Theresa May, she has denounced the backstop,

which her government negotiated with the E.U. as part of the Brexit agreement. What does this mean for negotiations moving forward?

BIANC NOBILO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. The backstop is a tricky issue for her at the moment because essentially the backstop that the U.K. government

fought was agreed was not what they think is being expressed in the E.U.'s legal document because, of course, as British prime minister, she argues

she can't possibly countenance in the event of no deal.

Northern Ireland essentially breaking off economically from the rest of the U.K. and then being closer to the island of Ireland. She says that's

unworkable. So implied there, Anna, is the idea that their backstop would be that if there's no deal, the entire of the U.K. would remain in the

union with the rest of Europe.

Now, obviously that's not something which anyone is striving for at the moment. So Theresa May said that she hopes that eventuality won't even need

to be considered. Today, though, she did dig her heels in. She said it is now up to the E.U. to evolve its position. So she's saying that the U.K. is

not budging on this. Let's take a listen to some of the red lines that she once again laid out.

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THERESA MAY, PRIME MINISTER OF THE UNITED KINGDOM: The economic and constitutional dislocation of a formal third country customs border within

our own country is something I will never accept and I believe no British prime minister could ever accept.

And as MP's made clear this week, it is not something the House of Commons will accept either. We remain absolutely committed to including a legally

operative backstop in the withdrawal agreement but it must be one that delivers on all the commitments made in the December joint report.

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NOBILO: Now Anna, there was something else that was quite important the prime minister mentioned in her speech today. She admitted that there is no

technological solution yet, which can solve this issue. And the issue of Northern Ireland always a sensitive one is even more so at the moment and

that's because there has been a mocked uptick in violence in recent months in the region.

Now, we all know the history of Ireland and Northern Ireland and just how politically sensitive it is, but it's got to the point that after six

nights of rioting, both the Democratic Unionist Party that the support wanting to be part of a union with the rest of the U.K. and Sinn Fein, the

Irish nationalist party signed a joint agreement calling for calm in Londonderry or Derry, depending on where you're from and what you call it,

just a week ago.

[08:20:09] So that really underscores the levels of tension that exist in Northern Ireland at the moment, which is very important context to the

continued negotiations at this point.

COREN: Bianca Nobilo, joining us from London. Many thanks for that.

Well, hackers have stolen details of over 1 million patients of Singapore's National Health Care System. On Friday, Singapore's Ministry of Health

announced that 1.5 million patient records have been stolen. Hackers took information recorded between May 2015 and July 2018 and stole the names,

gender, address and birth dates of patients. Authorities also said the hacker specifically and repeatedly targeted the prime minister's personal

information.

Well, Facebook owned WhatsApp says it will try placing limits on message forwarding in India. The measure comes after viral hoaxes spread via the

messaging application have been blamed for a spate of mob violence in India. With more, let's got to CNN's Nikhil Kumar who is live for us from

New Delhi.

Nikhil, India, it has WhatsApp's biggest market with more than 200 million users. How extensive are these new measures in stopping the spread of false

rumors and misinformation that have led to over a dozen deaths in India?

NIKHIL KUMAR, CNN NEW DELHI BUREAU CHIEF: That's right, Anna. More than a dozen deaths, 16 at least, because of rumors, as you said, spread on

WhatsApp forwards that were sent on the platform. They've happening for a few months and before these latest measures that came out today, which

would -- they're being tested right now -- but they would limit the number of chats that a user can forward a message to and they will limit them to

five.

So that mean that per chat is just about 250. That means you can only send one message and forward to five more chats, about 1,200 people could see

it. That's the limit. That's what they're testing out for this market. Before this, they introduced measures to make sure that people could

recognize when they see a forwarded message.

And this was, again, a warning to users that when they'd receive a message, they know that it's not a message composed by the sender. It is something

that the sender has forwarded to them. All of this is because of these attacks. These attacks that all seemed to follow a very, very similar

pattern.

Rumors mostly to do with child kidnappings here in an area. There'll be a rumor that there's a child kidnapping gang on the prowl, the rumor will be

circulated. Certain outsiders will then be identified as being, you know, that the rumor is talking about and people would then launch upon them. The

most recent attack was only in the middle of July, a 32-year-old man unfortunately lost his life in that attack. Three of his friends were

severely injured as a result.

All of this has put this pressure on whatsapp from the government here to act, to help control the spread of these messages to make sure that such

mob attacks don't happen. The one that I was just talking about, the one in which the 32-year-old was killed. It was a mob that was made up of 2,000

people mobilized because of messages spread on this platform within hours. Anna?

COREN: And Nikhil, by restricting the number of people that you can forward messages, video images to, does this really go far enough in

addressing the problem that has really alarmed the Indian government and rightfully so?

KUMAR: Well, this is the big question. So as I said, you can still, if you -- once this is actually rolled out, it's being tested right now, you could

still forward a message to five chats. So that's above 1,200 people. Now you can just imagine that is still snowballing given the right

circumstances. So there is that question about how effective this could be.

And the opposition parties here in India, they actually blame the government. They are saying the government by blaming WhatsApp is shirking

responsibility for what is really a law and order problem as to why these mob attacks are taking place in the first place. Where is the police? Where

is the law and other operatives?

So there is this blame game going on. While the government is saying that WhatsApp cannot run away from responsibility. From this, WhatsApp

(inaudible) has said that it's horrified by all of this in addition to the measures. They took out newspaper ads earlier this month with tips for

users to spot fake messages.

They have also been working with academics and the authorities to make sure this doesn't grow into a bigger problem and that it is brought under

control. But a lot of people are asking this question, whether it will in fact be effective. Anna?

COREN: Nikhil Kumar, joining us from New Delhi. Good to see you. Many thanks for that.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is set to meet with the U.N. Security Council in just a matter of hours. Well last night, he hit back at

accusations that talks with -- over denuclearization, I should say, with North Korea are not going as expected.

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MIKLE POMPEO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATES: No one was under any illusion that this was going to happen in hours or days or even weeks. It's going to take

time to achieve this outcome.

[08:25:00] We hope for a brighter future for the North Korean people and if Chairman Kim continues to follow through on his commitment, the people of

North Korea will have a brighter future.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COREN: Earlier this week, Pompeo said some progress has been made with North Korea, but there is still a lot of work to do.

Well, China's currency has taken a plunge again. The yuan weakened by nearly 1 percent against the U.S. dollar Thursday and continued sliding

Friday and hit its lowest level in over a year. Here's our Matt Rivers with the look at why that might be.

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well China's currency continues to fall against the dollar and the war of words between the U.S. and Chinese

officials is heating up. So let's start with the currencies. So the yuan ended the week here in China substantially lower against the dollar, but

the question is why.

So we know the yuan does not float freely against other currencies like the euro or the dollar. The government here sets a daily range at which it can

be traded. A weaker yuan means a more competitive environment for Chinese exporters. And analysts tell CNN that the move can be taken as a sign that

financial regulators are trying to help this economy cope with American tariffs, a threat to this economy that has now just posted its slowest

growth rate last quarter in nearly two years.

And all of this comes at a time when Chinese officials are reacting to U.S. criticism. So during a CNBC hosted conference in the U.S. Wednesday, White

House economic adviser Larry Kudlow laid the blame for the ongoing trade tensions on China and specifically on its president Xi Jinping.

Kudlow told a reporter at that conference that lower ranking officials here have been prepared to make a deal that President Xi refuse to make a

compromise. There have been now three rounds of official trade talks between the U.S. and China. And despite certain promising signs including

that now infamous pronouncement by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, that the trade war was, quote, on hold, none of the three rounds managed to

produce a deal.

That lead to the U.S. moving forward with tariffs on $34 billion worth of Chinese imports to the U.S. with $16 billion more due to take effect soon,

totaling $50 billion. President Trump has threatened to also up to $500 billion in tariffs if China doesn't back down. For its part, China has

already retaliated with tariffs on $50 billion worth of American imports and says it will continue to retaliate in kind.

Now, if there is one thing that you don't do in China these days, is criticize its strongman ruler President Xi Jinping. So, predictively the

normally mild tone Ministry of Foreign Affairs had strong language in response to Kudlow's criticism of Xi with a spokesperson saying in part,

quote, the United States flip-flopping and promise breaking is recognized globally in front of people all over the world that the relevant United

States official unexpectedly distorted the facts and made bogus accusations is beyond imagination of ordinary people and is shocking.

So a tough week for the yuan against the dollar and no signs that this ongoing trade war is slowing down. Matt Rivers, CNN, Beijing.

COREN: Still ahead on "News Stream," President Trump said they could start World War III earlier this week. Now Montenegrans have their say.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They said Montenegro was aggressive. Maybe if you make some mistake.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. I don't know.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do I look like Aggressive men?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know. You tell me.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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ANNA COREN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Anna Coren in Hong Kong. You are watching "News Stream." These are your world headlines.

At least 13 people have died in a boating accident in the U.S. state of Missouri. The boat capsized and sank during a severe thunderstorm. Thirty-

one people were on board at the time. Fourteen survived. Divers are looking for those still missing, but the governor says hopes are fading that anyone

else could have survived.

French President Emanuel Macron fired a senior security adviser who is being investigated for beating up a protester. The bodyguard was caught on

camera dragging and hitting a man at a May Day rally. The incident counts as polling shows Macron's popularity waning after his election.

In Washington, U.S. President Donald Trump is inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to visit the White House in the coming months. The news came

as a surprise to the national intelligence chief who is onstage at a national security forum when he first heard it. The Russian ambassador says

Moscow is open to the idea.

The Balkan nation of Montenegro has hit back after President Trump said it's full of quote, very aggressive people and could lead the U.S. and

other allies into World War III. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is in Montenegro where he has been speaking to the locals about Mr. Trump's comments.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Welcome to the front line and the collapse of the west as we know it. Menacing, militant

Montenegro.

DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: They're very aggressive people. They may get aggressive and congratulations, you're in

World War III.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know what to say. I think that this is really stupid.

WALSH: No, he said -- he said Montenegro is aggressive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe he makes some mistake. No, I don't know. Do I look like an aggressive man?

WALSH: I don't know. You tell me.

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No. I think no.

WALSH: Where are you going now? To start World War III?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

WALSH: Where are you going instead?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Drink coffee.

WALSH: Yet, that's the drums of war you're hearing there. But make no mistake, nobody is giggling here about Russian ambitions to increase its

influence in the Balkans and control this deep water port.

It's even accused of trying to kill the prime minister of orchestrating a coup in October 2016. Two alleged Russian agents sought by Interpol

warrants still with a sophisticated plot.

Well, it was here investigators say that dozens of radicals are supposed to gather, spurred on by Russian intelligence and seize some state buildings

including this, the Parliament, paralyzing the government, ruining the elections and doing their best to make sure that NATO wanted little to do

in this chaos with this tiny aspiring member.

But Montenegro joins NATO all the same just 10 days after Donald Trump got perhaps the closest he ever had to the country when he pushed its prime

minister out of the way at a Brussels NATO summit.

And its minuscule army of 1,500, less than one U.S. Army Brigade will soon partially be on the Russian border, part of a NATO exercise in the Baltics.

But now the U.S. commander in chief has said he won't necessarily come to their defense. They feel safe still. Was the fight to get NATO's Article 5

collective security really worth it?

SRDJAN DARMANOVIC, FOREIGN MINISTER OF MONTENEGRO: We have no intention whatsoever to start World War III. We are too small for that. But we really

believe that Article 5 is unconditional and rock solid.

WALSH: This isn't exactly what the Russians wanted to hear.

DARMANOVIC: Maybe, maybe, it might be music for their ears. But still, I believe that we are not less safe.

WALSH: But Here, the most powerful man in the world offhand meetings bring not just laughter but real concrete consequence.

Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Podgorica, Montenegro.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COREN: A key anniversary in Nicaragua has been overshadowed by a bloody government crackdown.

[08:34:57] Huge crowds gathered in the capital Managua Thursday to mark 39 years since the end of Somoza regime. The dictator was toppled by the

Sandinista revolution which first brought current president, Daniel Ortega, to power.

Just to the south, a different story has been playing out. The government is under fire over its crackdown against protests which started three

months ago in response to proposed austerity measures.

The Organization of American States says more than 270 people have been killed. The government says the number is much lower. President Ortega

addressed the crowd about the violence.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DANIEL ORTEGA, PRESIDENT OF NICARAGUA (through translator): It has ban painful battle. A painful one because we have faced armed conspiracy

financed by internal forces that we all know of and from external forces which we have recognized.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COREN: CNN's Robyn Curnow has more on the turmoil.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN HOST AND CORRESPONDENT: It was the day people's resistance was met with overwhelming state violence. Months of rebellion in

Nicaragua was confronted brutally as authoritarian ruler, Daniel Ortega, looked to silence dissent, pitting gunfire and snipers against locals

wearing construction helmets and fashioning crude rockets out of plumbing material.

Videos which we can't verify ourselves, shared on WhatsApp by local bloggers, show a friend being shot. Off camera, he says, "be strong, my

friend." Locals said by dawn, hundreds of police were swarming the streets, sweeping away what was left of the rebellion.

The siege have built over the past week. Police surrounding one church as they moved in. And the death toll rising with 10 killed in the past week

and over 270 dead since the unrest began. President Daniel Ortega has led Nicaragua to the brink, accused of hoovering up wealth and a corrupt

nepotism that has seen his wife sponging up power in key positions.

Pension reforms to try and keep the pilfered state coffers afloat were eventually scrapped after protests but the collapse continued. The U.S. has

sanctioned key officials for corruption, repression and extrajudicial killings and pulled its diplomats out.

Central America's poorest country now facing the question of whether the brutal crackdown will end the violence or foment longer, angrier unrest.

Adding to the regional turmoil that has sent thousands north through Mexico to the U.S. border, yet another reason Central America is slowly emptying

northward and spiraling towards greater suffering.

Robyn Curnow, CNN.

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COREN: Remains discovered in an ancient coffin in Egypt have been identified following speculation that they might belong to Alexander the

Great. We have details, next.

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COREN: An ancient (INAUDIBLE) discovered in Egypt does not contain the remains of Alexander the Great. That is according to archaeologists who say

it contains the remains of what appeared to be a family of three.

The 30-ton coffin is the largest to be discovered in the city of Alexandria. Its size fueled speculation that it could be the final resting

place of the ancient Greek ruler who founded the city.

[08:40:06] The South Korean government is not letting a salvage company raise a famed Russian warship from the bottom of the ocean, at least not

yet. The company announced its rediscovery this week and applied for permission to bring it up. The government said it received insufficient

documentation.

It is asking for floor plans of the ship's location, an operation plan, and other financial documents so it can re-assess. The company told CNN last

week the vessel itself, which scuttled in 1905, is worth about $900,000 and it's thought to have a fortune of gold on board.

Well before we leave, President Trump has faced an avalanche of criticism over the Helsinki summit and more now. Mr. Trump and others are accusing

his critics of suffering from a syndrome that you won't find in the annals of psychiatry. CNN's Jeanne Moos has more.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The summit pushed Trump critics over the edge in their disdain for the president's behavior.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Slobbering --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Supine puppy --

MOOS: Such disdain has triggered a counterattack.

SEN. RAND PAUL (R), KENTUCKY: "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has officially come to the Senate.

MOOS: Well, actually it's been everywhere else.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Full blown "Trump Derangement Syndrome?"

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has become a thing. I never heard of "Trump Derangement Syndrome." I'm not a doctor but --

MOOS: You don't need a degree in psychiatry to make the diagnosis.

FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN HOST: "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Hatred of Donald Trump so intense that it impairs people's judgment.

MOOS: The president himself is citing (ph) TDS. On "The View," Judge Jeanine Pirro pointed at Whoopi, saying she had --

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, ACTRESS, COMEDIAN, TELEVISION HOST: Did you just point at me?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.

GOLDBERG: Listen, I don't have Trump derangement. You know what's horrible?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What's horrible is --

GOLDBERG: When the president of the United States whips up people --

MOOS: It took a commercial break to calm her down.

GOLDBERG: I very rarely lose my cool but I also don't like being accused of being hysterical.

MOOS: TDS is nothing new. Fifteen years ago, someone coined a term "Bush Derangement Syndrome" which was followed by "Obama Derangement Syndrome."

Now --

ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: She got a little bit of "Trump Derangement Syndrome." I'm hoping that one of these

comedians will come up with an anti-anxiety medication for these liberals. Just take one tablet a day, maybe a suppository, and take it easy.

MOOS: But who needs a suppository when Jimmy Kimmel has a cure?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you feel like the world is out to get you? You may be suffering from "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Ask your doctor about

"ReZine." "ReZine" and get you back to living the life you used to love.

MOOS: Maybe critics have to resign themselves to feeling deranged.

Jeanne Moos.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's called "Obama Derangement Syndrome."

MOOS: CNN.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What we affectionately call "Bush Derangement Syndrome."

(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Trump Derangement Syndrome."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Make yourself great again. "ReZine."

MOOS: New York.

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COREN: I think a lot of people would be taking it. That is "News Stream." I'm Anna Coren. Don't go anywhere. "World Sport" with Patrick Snell is

coming up next.

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