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U.S. And E.U. Eye New Sanctions On Iran; First Group Of Jurors Chosen In Trump Trial; Zelenskyy Warns Ukraine Will Lose Without New U.S. Aid; U.N. Report Finds 30 Years of Progress in Sexual and Reproductive Health Have Bypassed Women in Marginalized Communities; Centuries of Cultural Heritage Wiped Out in Copenhagen Fire at the City's Old Stock Exchange Building; A Year's Worth of Rain Falls on Dubai, Flooding Roads; Colombian Superstar Shakira Announces Initial Concert Dates; Meghan Markle Unveils First Product From American Riviera Orchard. Aired 2-2:45a ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world and everyone streaming us on CNN Max. I'm Rosemary Church. Just ahead. The U.S. and E.U. are new sanctions against Iran after this weekend's unprecedented missile attack.

Donald Trump's hush money trial picks up steam. The first group of jurors were seated on Tuesday, but there are still spots to fill. And as the U.S. Congress drags its feet on passing new aid for Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggests lawmakers are playing politics when lives are on the line.

ANNOUNCER: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Rosemary Church.

CRAIG: And thanks for joining us. Israel's war cabinet is set to meet again in the coming hours to try and decide how to respond to Iran's aerial assault last weekend without sparking a broader conflict. While Israel's allies have urged military restraint, both the U.S. and European Union are planning to impose new sanctions on Tehran as a result of the strikes. The U.S. National Security Advisor says President Joe Biden is coordinating a comprehensive response with allies and partners, including the G7.

The sanctions would target Iran's missile and drone programs, as well as groups supporting Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps. Here's what the head of the U.S. Treasury had to say.

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JANET YELLEN, UNITED STATES TREASURY SECRETARY: The attack by Iran and its proxies underscores the importance of Treasury's work to use our economic tools to counter Iran's malign activity. (END VIDEO CLIP)

CHURCH: Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles toward Israel in its overnight assault, in retaliation for a suspected Israeli strike on an Iranian diplomatic complex in Syria earlier this month. Meantime, sources tell CNN the U.S. is expecting a limited response by Israel's military to the Iranian strikes with U.S. intelligence suggesting a small-scale attack inside Iran is most likely. But Israel has given no official word on its plans, or when a strike would occur. The IDF, again confirming its retaliation, is only a matter of time.

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REAR ADM. DANIEL HAGARI, ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES SPOKESPERSON: We respond the way that we will choose at the time that we will choose. We don't just have defensive capabilities, we will prove it. On Saturday night, we have offensive capabilities and we will know what to do and when to do and how to do it.

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CHURCH: On Tuesday, the Israeli military displayed what it says is part of an Iranian ballistic missile pulled from the Dead Sea after the weekend assault.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond was there and has more.

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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: This is just one piece of an Iranian ballistic missile that the Israeli military says Iran fired towards Israel over the weekend. At 36-feet long, this is just the fuel tank for that missile. The Israeli military says more than 120 ballistic missiles were fired at Israel in this attack. Only a handful of them actually making it through Israel's air defense systems.

And the Israeli military believes this missile was likely intercepted. You can see the holes in the sides of this fuel tank. This missile was actually found in the Dead Sea. It was recovered and it was taken to this base in southern Israel. But now Israel says it must respond. It must re-establish deterrence. They say this attack cannot go unanswered. The only question now is how the Israeli military will respond and when.

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DIAMOND: And so, when you see that video, you can really just get a sense of the size and the scale of these missiles and the destructive power that they could potentially deliver. I'm told that the warhead on top of that missile would typically weigh about a half a ton. A half a ton of explosives of destructive power. And so, you can just think if these missiles had indeed made it through Israel's air defense system, the kind of destruction that they could have caused.

We also spoke with the Israeli military's top spokesman Daniel Hagari. He told us that the timing and the mode of this Israeli response to this Iranian attack would be decided by them at a time of their choosing. But he did say that it would come.

Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.

CHURCH: At least 13 people were killed after a strike on Al Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza on Tuesday. Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital officials say the death toll includes seven children.

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This video obtained by Reuters shows emotional scenes in and around the hospital morgue as families mourn the loss of their loved ones.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): My brothers were sitting by the door. My brother was wounded and his cousin too, and I lost my son. I do not have a house nor a husband nor anything anymore.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Oh, people of the world, what is happening is wrong. Have mercy on us. Stop the war. Stop the war. Children are dying in the streets.

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CHURCH: The Garza Health Ministry reports that more than 14,000 Palestinian children have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 7th. CNN has reached out to the IDF for comment on this strike, but has not yet received a response.

Displaced and desperate, thousands of Gazans are yearning to return to their homes. And as CNN's Jomana Karadsheh tells us, some of them undertaking a dangerous journey to get there. A warning, some of the images you're about to see are graphic and may be disturbing.

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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Their day started with rare excitement and joy. After months of hell, they thought they were returning to the homes they were forced out of months ago. On foot and in carts. Thousands of displaced Palestinians on the move again, some with their most valuable possessions.

They said we can go back home to Gaza City today, the Elan (ph) says, with her son and cats she took to the road. No one knows where the news came from. There was no official announcement from the Israeli military that civilians would be allowed back into Northern Gaza. But a rumor enough for those left homeless shattered by war. Now facing a looming Israeli offensive on Rafah where the majority of Gazans have been pushed into.

People here say they don't even know if they have homes to go back to. Little Hamad (ph) holds his tiny brother's hand and carries a bag of flour. Our house is gone. I'll live in a tent, Hamad says. I just want to go home. If I die, so be it. Death has become a reality. The longest here have been forced to accept. And on this day, they've had to accept that there will be no going home. The crowds were turned away.

Fear and panic as people run back. They say Israeli soldiers opened fire as young men tried crossing the checkpoint with women and children. Several injured among them five-year-old Sally (ph). She was in her mother's arms when she was shot in the head.

Two young men tried to cross with us her mother's Sabrin (ph) says. Soldiers started shooting and firing everywhere. My daughter was so scared I was holding her. Then I put her on the ground to walk. She wasn't responding. Then I saw all the blood on my hands.

The Israeli military is not commented on Sally's injury. They said the north remains a war zone and returns not permitted. Sally clings on to life unconscious on the hospital floor with the muffled cries of another injured child next to her. And at a hospital nearby another young boy back from a different nightmare when no child should ever endure. Eleven-year-old Nimr (ph) was out getting aid for his family when he says he was shot and detained for two weeks, taken to Israel where he underwent surgery, still in pain and shock he shows the camera his horrific scars.

The day they took me the soldier kicked me with his boot he tells his mother over the phone. My head still hurts. He kicked me with the metal tip of his boot. I was shot in the stomach lying on the floor. He hit me with no mercy. I'm waiting for the day to grow up, to be a resistance fighter and hit him like he hit me. The Israeli military is not responded to CNN's specific questions on Nimr's account. This is the first time in 15 days he's hearing his mother's voice.

I've missed you so much, he cries. They didn't let me see you. I wish I hadn't come back, Nimr says. I wish I had died.

Jomana Karadsheh, CNN, London.

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CHURCH: CNN has gathered a list of vetted organizations that are on the ground responding in Gaza.

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And you can find details on how you can help on our Web site at cnn.com/impact. After two days of screening dozens of New Yorkers, seven people have been selected to be jurors. After two days of screening dozens of New Yorkers, seven people have been selected to be jurors in the historic Hush Money trial of Donald Trump. The former U.S. president, the first to ever face a criminal trial, is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records.

Lawyers for both sides questioned prospective jurors on Tuesday as they looked for potential bias. The judge at one point admonished the defendant for audibly speaking and gesturing in the direction of a juror. Afterwards, Trump was asked his opinion about the jury.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What kind of juror in your mind is an ideal juror in this trial?

DONALD TRUMP (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Anybody that's fair.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you believe that the jury, the jurors seated today can be fair?

TRUMP: I'll let you know after the trial.

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CHURCH: Here's some of what we know about the four men and three women seated so far for this trial. Juror number one is a man originally from Ireland and he will be the foreperson for the jury. Juror number two is an oncology nurse and a native New Yorker. Juror number three is a corporate lawyer and is originally from Oregon. Juror number four is an older Puerto Rican man. He told the court, Trump, "makes things interesting."

Juror number five is a young black woman with a master's degree in education who teaches English and says she is not a political person. Juror number six is a software engineer who recently graduated from college and juror number seven is a civil litigator who has, "political views as to the Trump presidency" but does not "have opinions about him personally." Eleven jury spots remain. The judge hopes to fill these this week and begin opening statements on Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided on Tuesday over whether a federal obstruction law can be used to prosecute some of the rioters involved in the January 6th, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The court's ruling in the coming months could have serious ramifications for some 350 people charged for their part in the insurrection. CNN's Paula Reid has details from Washington.

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PAULA REID, CNN SENIOR LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Supreme Court's conservative majority appears likely to toss a criminal charge that hundreds of Capitol rioters and former President Donald Trump have faced a decision that could deal a significant blow to the Justice Department. Today's case centers on Joseph Fisher, a former Pennsylvania police officer who is charged with multiple federal crimes for his role in the January 6th attack.

According to court documents, even texting, take Democratic Congress to the gallows and can't vote if they can't breathe. LOL. He is challenging a federal law that makes it a crime for anyone who otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding. Arguing the law passed in 2002 in the wake of the Enron accounting scandal is not meant to apply to January 6 rioters. Justice Samuel Alito pressed Fisher's lawyer on the meaning of otherwise in that statute.

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SAMUEL ALITO, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: You may be biting off more than you can chew by suggesting if you are indeed suggesting that the otherwise clause can only be read the way you read it.

REID: Chief Justice John Roberts also took issue with prosecutors broadly interpreting a law that's geared toward prohibiting the destruction of records.

ALITO: You can't just tack it on and say look at it as if it's standing alone because it's not.

REID: The three liberal justices appearing to favor the government's position with Justice Sonia Sotomayor suggesting the court adopt a plain reading of the law.

SONIA SOTOMAYOR, ASSOCIATE JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES: There is a sign on the theater. You will be kicked out of the theater if you photograph or record the actors or otherwise disrupt the performance. If you start yelling, I think no one would question that you can be expected to be kicked out under this policy.

REID: And pushed back on the argument that the statute hasn't been used in response to violent protests in the past, pointing out January 6 is unprecedented.

SOTOMAYOR: We've never had a situation before where there's been a situation like this with people attempting to stop a proceeding violently. So, I'm not sure what a lack of history proves.

REID: Former President Trump has also been charged under the same law, though for different conduct. It's unclear what impact this case could have on his prosecution.

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REID: It's unclear how the outcome of this case may impact Trump's federal elections aversion prosecution. But next week, the justices will directly take up the issue of whether Trump has presidential immunity to shield him from those charges. Now, the decisions in both of these matters are expected in mid to late June.

Paula Reid, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: Coming up, Ukraine's president wants what Israel had over the weekend, full air defense support from the U.S. and NATO in the face of a massive aerial assault.

And roads turned into rivers in Thai and neighborhoods underwater, a look at the powerful storms that move through Dubai. We're back with that and more in just a moment.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. In the United States, far-right Republican lawmakers, a blasting House Speaker Mike Johnson's plan to advance several foreign aid bills without tying them to border security. One of the bills in limbo would also give military aid to Ukraine. Some Republicans are beginning to discuss who could potentially replace Johnson. And at least one hardline conservative is threatening to oust the speaker if he brings Ukraine aid up for a vote.

Meanwhile, Democrats are weighing whether Johnson's propositions for foreign aid will be good enough to win their support and whether they will give him the votes he would need to keep his job. One person who's ready for U.S. lawmakers to get to work, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He spoke with PBS News about the stalled military aid in Congress. He told the American network that the political stalemate proves nobody cares how many people are dying in Ukraine right now.

Mr. Zelenskyy repeated his earlier warnings that without U.S. aid, Ukraine risks losing the war. He says Russia is targeting Ukraine's most critical life-empowering systems, and a lack of air defenses meant Ukraine was powerless, as Russian missiles destroyed the biggest power plant in the Kyiv region last week. Mr. Zelenskyy pointing out that the U.S. and others jumped in to shoot down hundreds of Iranian missiles against Israel just days ago while leaving Ukraine out to dry.

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VOLODYMR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE (through translator): When someone says that our allies cannot provide us with this or that weapon, or they cannot be in Ukraine with this or that force, because that would be perceived as if Ukraine is engaging NATO in the war, well, after yesterday's attack, I want to ask you a question, is Israel part of NATO or not? Here is the answer. Israel is not a NATO country.

The NATO allies, including NATO countries, have been defending Israel. They showed the Iranian forces that Israel was not alone. And this is a lesson.

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This is a response to anyone on any continent who says you need to assist Ukraine very carefully so you don't engage NATO countries in the war.

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CHURCH: Malcolm Davis is a senior analyst for defense strategy and capability at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and he joins us now from Canberra. Good to have you with us.

MALCOLM DAVIS, MILTARY ANALYST: Well, thank you for having me.

CHURCH: So, let's start with Iran bracing for retaliation from Israel after Tehran's weekend attack. And Iran now vowing to strike back at any imminent Israeli response. But most of those Iranian missiles and drones heading for Israel were shot down with the help of the U.S., the U.K., France and Jordan, all scrambling to help Israel. Ukraine does not receive the same reaction. Why the difference in response and support?

DAVIS: Look, I think the obvious answer to that is that Iran does not or at least not yet have nuclear weapons. Russia does. And I think it's a concern on the part of the United States, in particular, that Russia is making nuclear threats on a regular basis. They are, as I put it, rattling nuclear sabers. And the concern is that if the U.S. and its allies directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine, then Russia could choose to escalate.

And we end up in an escalatory cycle that leads to a nuclear exchange. So, I think Russian nuclear deterrence is working in that sense. There's also a degree of self-deterrence on the part of the U.S. that they don't want to risk that escalation. They don't want to risk things getting out of control. And thirdly, I think that there is real opposition on, you know, one side of the political fence in the U.S., the GOP

MAGA Group to assisting Ukraine in any case.

CHURCH: Yes. Let's look at that because $60 billion in U.S. aid for Ukraine remains stalled in Congress while Republicans squabble amongst themselves over how to aid Israel after Saturday's attack from Iran which is now fueling renewed pressure to do the same for Ukraine. But if Speaker Mike Johnson does that, he risks being ousted from his post. He's getting some threats from the -- from the right.

An extraordinary mix, of course, of politics and military considerations here. Where does all this leave Ukraine, though, militarily? And what happens if it doesn't receive that aid soon?

DAVIS: It leads Ukraine in a very difficult place. This morning there was a Russian drone attack which saw Ukraine run out of air defense missiles to defeat the attack. And so, some of the missiles got through. That sort of situation is going to be replicated right across the country, eventually, as Ukrainian forces continue to run low on weapons because the military aid is not being provided by the United States.

If indeed the GOP MAGA groups in Congress refuse to pass the Ukraine aid bill, then what will happen is eventually it's not just about defending against drones, Ukraine will run out of a wide variety of military munitions and ammunition and missiles to the point whereby they can't defeat Russian attacks. So, Russia would then have the advantage they could launch attacks, break through the Ukrainian lines and capture more territory. And that would place Ukraine in a very difficult situation.

CHURCH: And Iran's attack on Israel Saturday was similar to what we've seen in the Ukraine war, those waves of drones and missiles heading to a target, often with deadly consequences in Ukraine's case. And we know Iran is supplying Russia with some of the weapons it's using in Ukraine. What do those similarities tell us about the growing relationship between Moscow and Tehran?

DAVIS: Look, I think you have to see what's happening in the Middle East and what's happening in Ukraine as theatres of a wider war or a wider confrontation that is being waged by an axis of authoritarian states, Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, essentially against Western liberal democracies. They see an opportunity to challenge liberal democracies and to challenge the existing rules based international order to revise it.

And in that sense, we're seeing a very similar situation now to what happened in the 1930s emerge. So, I think that you are seeing real coordination on the part of Iran with Moscow. Iran is selling drone technology to the Russians and allowing the Russians to manufacture these Shahid drones in Russia to use against the Ukrainians. Russians are also getting assistance from North Korea and they're getting assistance from China to sustain their military capabilities and to sustain the war.

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So, this is clear opportunistic and deliberate coordination to confront and ultimately to challenge Western democracies.

CHURCH: Malcolm Davis, always a pleasure to have you with us and to hear your military analysis. Appreciate it.

DAVIS: Thank you very much.

CHURCH: Violent clashes between protesters and police broke out in Georgia for a second night over a controversial law under consideration by parliament. Crowds filled the streets of Tbilisi around the parliament building as police in riot gear attempted to push them back. There are also reports of police using water cannon to hold back the masses. Georgia's president says parliament's majority party is directly provoking the protest by pushing a law requiring any group accepting funds from abroad to register as a foreign agent or be fined.

The law has been denounced by the president multiple Western countries, including the U.S. and Britain and the human rights watch. Critics call it the Russian law noting its similarities to Kremlin tactics.

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NIKA MELIA, OPPOSITION MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT: (INAUDIBLE) let us without sovereignty. They would ask to say no to any protest. And that is right. The (INAUDIBLE) Georgians with different occupations gathering on a daily basis on the main enemy of the state.

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CHURCH: Still to come, 400 years of history wiped out in a matter of hours after a massive fire ripped through one of Denmark's most famous landmarks. We'll have that and more when we return.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone. A new U.N. state of world population report says there has been tremendous progress in sexual and reproductive health and rights for women over the last 30 years, but not so for millions of women and girls who are poor or belong to marginalized communities.

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They've been shut out of the progress because of racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination. Joining us now from Geneva, Switzerland is Dr. Natalia Kanem, the Executive Director of the U.N. Population Fund. Thank you so much for being with us.

NATALIA KANEM, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, U.N. POPULATION FUND: I am delighted. Thank you. Rosemary.

CHURCH: So, this new U.N. Report finds that 30 years of progress in sexual and reproductive health has benefited many women and girls, but has ignored and left out some of the most marginalized communities who are the millions of women and girls who haven't benefited from this progress?

KANEM: Well, the report by UNFPA is highlighting that, yes, there is progress but who exactly is marginalized is easy to discern. In the past 30 years, the huge progress was made with the easy to reach. If you were more affluent, if you were more urbanized, if you were part of a majority population, as a woman, as an adolescent girl, you have done well.

What the report highlights in terms of inequalities is, how about people who are so-called hard to reach geographically, rural areas, for example, and marginalization because of deep discrimination. This means that we've got to try harder when it comes to make the health system willing to be welcoming. This is true of young people. It is true of indigenous women, African American, and women of African descent generally die up to six times more in childbirth and pregnancy than the majority population.

So, what we are saying is lets use the data that we have and lets accept that these promises that were made were supposed to reach everybody. So, let's make life equitable for all women, all adolescent girls.

CHURCH: Indeed. And how does racism, sexism, and of course, other forms of discrimination continue to play a part in preventing gains in sexual and reproductive health for women and girls? KANEM: What the report really does that I hope will be appreciated is it highlights how attitudes, how society can either reinforce the quality or they can make it difficult for people who are deemed different. If you have a disability, for example, your risk of gender- based violence goes up and the ability to make sure that we predict and help a teenage girl with any type of difference to understand her human rights and her values makes a big difference. We are using strategies, for example, of youth-friendly clinics, trying to tell the truth to young people who, for example, may go online for information about sexuality and fertility.

This is part of human life, human reproduction, human intimacy. We want to make sure that when they go on that social media site that there is good information, reliable information, and that the aspect of being pre-judged because you are young, because you are black, because you are disabled, whatever the -isms may be, for people of different gender diversities as well, the attitude should be welcoming and it should be emphasized that information is lifesaving.

No one should die while giving birth because of ignorance, right?

CHURCH: Yeah.

KANEM: The tragedy and the report brings this out, is the teen pregnancy is a part of ignorance and we've got to face up to that and give good facts to young people all over the world.

CHURCH: Indeed. And of course, you did touch on this a little earlier, but those numbers in the report are horrifying. 800 women die every day giving birth, a quarter of women can't say notice sex with their partner, and nearly one in ten women can't make their own decisions about contraception. In 40 percent of countries with data, women's bodily autonomy is diminishing.

So, how surprised were you buy those numbers? And of course, the lack of progress specifically in that area?

KANEM: Well, you know, it is shocking. It is absolutely shocking to me. And I really believe that the pushback against women's rights is affecting families writ large. When you have a situation where agreements that were made are not being delivered on, where is the pre-natal care? Where is the sensitivity on people's jobs? Where is the school girl who needs menstrual supplies going to get these things? If law and policy don't provide, it is not controversial that women go through biological systems of reproduction and in fact, the report also highlights that for men, it is better to have gender equality, for example, in a workplace where everyone can take their parental leave without guilt, without being pointed at.

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KANEM: So, it is very shocking that nearly half of women today are not able to exercise autonomy over their own body. And this goes all the way from gender-based violence and femicide, death at the hands of an intimate partner, to things like female genital mutilation. We need to roll back the attitudes that say someone else will decide for a woman or a girl. Women and girls are perfectly capable and they want to exercise their autonomy over for their own body and wellbeing.

CHURCH: Let's hope we see more progress in this area. Dr. Natalia Kanem, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it.

KANEM: Thank you too. Thank you.

CHURCH: More than four centuries worth of Denmark's cultural heritage gone in an instant after a massive fire engulfed an historic landmark in Copenhagen early Tuesday. CNN's Isa Soares reports.

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ISA SOARES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Huge fumes of smoke billows into the sky as a piece of Danish history goes up in flames. On Tuesday, rescue services tackle the raging fire engulfing Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange. The fire was seen swirling around one of Denmark's most famous landmarks, moments before its historic 56- meter spire collapsed. Emergency services said the fire started in the morning. Just a few hours later, nearly half the building had been destroyed.

JAKOB VEDSTED ANDERSEN, DIRECTOR, GREATER COPENHAGEN FIRE SERVICE: This is a very historic building built back in 1,620 by a King Christian IV. So it is a very historic building in Copenhagen and a big part of the Danish inheritance.

SOARES (voice-over): Although there have been no reported injuries, about 400 years of Danish cultural heritage had been destroyed. But this didn't stop employees, rescue workers, and members of the public from trying to rescue its artwork. According to CNN affiliate BT Denmark, Brian Mikkelsen, a Chamber of Commerce Director, was one of the people who helped rescue some of its historical paintings.

BRIAN MIKKELSEN, CEO, DANISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (through translator): Some of the most important things that mattered in history, for example, Christian IV (inaudible) paintings. But it is the building itself which is an institution and in itself a signature of Danish business life for over 400 years.

SOARES (voice-over): Danish government owned channel TV2 said valuables were being rescued by 45 fighters inside the building. But it is still stunned onlookers who watch the flames burn with some comparing the tragedy to Paris' Notre Dame fire in 2019.

ELISABETH MOELTKE, COPENHAGEN RESIDENT: This is our Notre Dame. This is our a national treasure. I have been in there several times and it is a magnificent building. So it makes me feel very, very emotional.

SOARES (voice-over): That emotion over the historic building would still be felt for weeks to come, as the cause of the fire is yet to be determined. But with Copenhagen's mayor saying they will do everything they can to replace its damaged heritage, the long road to restoration won't be easy.

Isa Soares, CNN, London.

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CHURCH: The desert city of Dubai has recorded a year's worth of rain in just 12 hours, about 100 millimeters or nearly four inches, enough to turn roads into rivers. Dubai, like the rest most of the UAE, has a hot and dry climate and does not have the infrastructure to handle so much water. The heavy downpour forced some drivers to abandon their vehicles and run to safety. And the water rushed into the ground floors of homes and businesses.

We'll be right back.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. The initial dates are out for Shakira's first world tour since 2018. The Colombian singer will kick things off November 2nd in Palm Desert, California with stops across the U.S. and Canada. She announced the tour during a surprise music set at Coachella last week. The concerts will feature music from her latest album which was released in March and is a mix of pop, reggaeton and rock. Shakira says, it describes her journey from vulnerability to resistance. Tickets go on sale April 17th.

Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has unveiled the first product from her lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard. Fashion designer Tracy Robbins shared the photos of the jars of strawberry jam, the brand center. But so far, details of the business have been sparse. In addition to the brand, Meghan continues to work with husband Prince Harry as part of Archewell Productions, which has two new non-fiction series in production at Netflix.

And I want to thank you for joining me this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. "World Sport" is coming up next. Then, I will be back in 15 minutes with more "CNN Newsroom." Do stick around.

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