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Biden Meeting With Leaders Of Japan, India And Australia; China On Biden Taiwan Comment: U.S. Plays With Fire; Russian Soldier Sentenced To Life In Prison For War Crimes; COVID Aid to North Korea; New Partygate Scandal Images; Royal Appearance; Wall Street Rally; Russia's War on Ukraine; Coronavirus Pandemic; Baby formula Shortage; Monkeypox Outbreak; U.S.-Mexico Border; Water Crisis. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired May 24, 2022 - 02:00   ET

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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. You are watching CNN NEWSROOM. And I'm Rosemary Church. Just ahead as the U.S., Japan, India and Australia meet to tackle the huge global issues of Ukraine, COVID and preserving democracy, President Biden again finds himself backtracking on his comments about Taiwan.

We are just hours away from polls opening up in Georgia. Why this pivotal election is pitting Donald Trump against Mike Pence, and how the former vice president could one up his old boss.

Plus, Vladimir Putin receives a stinging rebuke from one of his senior diplomats. Why a top Russian official says he's never been so ashamed of his country.

ANNOUNCER: Live from CNN Center. This is CNN NEWSROOM with Rosemary Church.

CHURCH: Good to have you with us. Well, right now the second in-person summit of the Quad is underway in Tokyo. Leaders of this informal alliance, so, the U.S. Japan, Australia and India are now holding talks one on one. U.S. President Joe Biden has been meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He's also expected to speak with Australia's new prime minister Anthony Albanese. One key focus of all these meetings, Russia's war on Ukraine.

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JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Russia's assault on Ukraine only heightens the importance of those goals. The fundamental principles of international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty, international law, human rights must always be defended regardless of where they're violating the world. So the Quad has a lot of work ahead of us.

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CHURCH: The summit caps off Mr. Biden's trip to Asia and attempt to bolster U.S. alliances in the region and counter China's growing dominance. But the visit hasn't been without controversy. The White House is walking back Mr. Biden's comments that the U.S. would be willing to defend Taiwan militarily if China attacks. Mr. Biden is also clarifying that U.S. policy on the issue is unchanged.

But Beijing is pushing back telling the us not to meddle in its internal affairs. And CNN is covering this story from every angle with reporters spread out across the region. Our Kevin Liptak and Blake EEssig are alive in Tokyo. CNN's Steven Jiang is in Beijing with the reaction from China and our Vedika Sud is standing by in New Delhi. Welcome to you all. So Kevin, let's start with you.

And of course, we'd like to hear the main points coming out of the Quad summit, but also President Biden's clarification on what he said regarding Taiwan the day before.

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yes. That comment is still following the president a day later. And he was asked a little bit earlier today whether that U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity toward Taiwan was dead. And he said no. So, clearly kind of tamping down on the idea that he had thrown out this long standing policy toward Taiwan. Now, the White House did come out and clarify it.

But I will say talking for the president's aides today, you don't hear a lot of consternation about what the president said. And I think that's because the president and his team really do feel like the calculus has changed in all of this because of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. And that if there's ever a time to send a message to China, it's right now. And of course, that is why part of the reason the president has revitalized this Quad collective that he is meeting with today is to act as a counter to China in the region.

And so, the group did make a couple of modest announcements as part of their summit today about sharing of pediatric COVID vaccines, also a maritime information sharing program that all of these countries will participate in. But really the big takeaway is this image of these countries coming together meeting as a uniform block, while the president's aides say it's not all about China that these countries have other things that they have shared interests in.

That is certainly one of the messages that they hope that China and the rest of the world will take away from this in person summit today.

CHURCH: Right. And Steven, let's turn to you now in Beijing and get the latest on China's reaction to president's comments regarding Taiwan. And of course, his clarification today.

STEVEN JIANG, CNN BEIJING BUREAU CHIEF: Rosemary, no official response to the clarification just yet by him. I think the Chinese are going to stick to their usual talking points saying Taiwan is the rarest of their so called red lines. Even though the ruling Communist Party here has never directly control the island, they do consider part of their territory which is why they've been lashing out at the president's remarks on Monday warning the us not to underestimate the Chinese people's resolved and capability to safeguard national sovereignty.

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JIANG: Now this kind of fiery rhetoric not new. But the real question seems to be on the minds of many analysts and likely many Chinese officials as well. How many of these presidential gaffes if you will, what convince -- what it take to convince the Beijing leadership here that there is a real shift in the U.S. policy towards Taiwan strategic ambiguity being replaced by strategic clarity, no matter how the White House and the president himself have backtracked up afterwards.

Now then, of course, the question becomes how would that shift change the calculation of Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping? Many seem to think this may not deter him from invading Taiwan. Rather, it would accelerate his planning and preparation. Because as much as the Chinese hate the comparison between Ukraine and the Taiwan, one likely lesson they have taken away from the war in Ukraine is the longer you wait, the harder it may become to take over Taiwan by force.

Given the likely improvement of Taiwan's defense capabilities with the U.S. getting more serious in helping and preparing the island to fight that war. Rosemary?

CHURCH: Yes. Exactly right. And Vedika, what more are you learning about the one-on-one meeting between India's Prime Minister Modi and President Biden given India has resisted the U.S. pressure so far to punish Russia over its war on Ukraine.

VEDIKA SUD, CNN REPORTER: And nothing has really changed in terms of India stand on Russia, Rosemary. That bilat meetings are underway and across the table, some key contentious issues will be discussed. The first like you pointed out would be Russia, given India's neutral stance now on Russia's invasion of Ukraine. By far, India has not really called out directly Russia's actions and invasion of Ukraine.

And this has been a point of contention with many western nations who have actually even sent their representatives to India over the last couple of months trying to get India to stick to the stance that the west has. But India has been very firm. Now, just ahead of the court meeting, a senior administration official from the U.S. has spoken out on India stan, he has said that the U.S. is conscious of the fact that India has a history with Russia.

It has its own -- its own views and outlook, and therefore they have to find a common ground. And that's exactly what Joe Biden will be looking to do. Although food security will be another key issue that the two sides will be discussing. Given that India has been weak export to other countries recently. Now, Biden is also very conscious of the fact that India is the counter to the geopolitical presence of China in the region, along with being an economic alternative.

So, all eyes will be on the key issues that are discussed during that bilateral meeting. What comes off it, Rosemary.

CHURCH: All right. And Blake, what are the significant regional goals and agenda that came out of the Quad summit?

BLAKE ESSIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, look, Rosemary, it's one of the worst kept secrets in international politics. But when Quad leaders from the United States, Japan, Australia and India came together this morning while wouldn't have been said directly, China was most certainly on the agenda. That's because experts say that the Quad mainly exists today to counter China's influence in territorial claims in this region.

Although China's economic growth is beneficial for its trading partners in the global economy. Quad members are looking to encourage Beijing to abide by international law, play by the rules and keep the seas free and open. Of course, China sees the Quad as a coalition of countries trying to limit its economic growth and is even called the block and anti-China clique that's emblematic of a poisonous Cold War mentality.

Now in an effort to strengthen its shared vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific Quad members were expected to discuss a number of topics including vaccine support, emergency -- emerging and critical technologies, counterterrorism, counter radicalization and the building of supply chains not dependent on any one country. Although the Quad isn't a NATO like mutual defense commitment.

Experts do say that continuing to upgrade security cooperation between Quad member states is an -- is important towards maintaining maritime security. And to achieve that goal, experts are saying that we'll likely see more naval drills in the future along with opportunities for sharing technology and intelligence. Rosemary?

CHURCH: All right. Vedika Sud, Steven Jiang, Blake Essig, Kevin Liptak, many thanks to all of you for bringing us up to date on the situation. Appreciate it.

Well, heavy fighting has been reported in parts of eastern Ukraine where Russian forces have been intensifying their attacks in recent weeks. One official says Russian missile strikes have damaged the railway infrastructure in the Dnipropetrovsk region and the head of the Donetsk regional military administration reports fighting in the direction of linemen in Luhansk. At least one civilian has been killed there and four others injured.

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CHURCH: Other nearby towns have been hit by heavy shelling and rocket attacks. And this comes as Vladimir Putin faces growing opposition to the invasion, including from a longtime Russian diplomat. Boris Bondarev, a 20-year veteran of Russia's diplomatic service announced his resignation Monday in protest against the war. In a statement he wrote, "The aggressive war unleashed by Putin against Ukraine and in fact against the entire Western world is not only a crime against the Ukrainian people, but also perhaps the most serious crime against the people of Russia.

Inside Ukraine, the president says his country is holding its own against a brutal Russian assault.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VOLODYMY ZELENSKY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE(through translator): Since February 24th, the Russian army has launched 1474 missile strikes on Ukraine using 2275 different missiles. The absolute majority is on civilian objects. In less than three months, there have been more than 3000 airstrikes by Russian planes and helicopters. What other country has withstood such a scale of blows?

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CHURCH: Meanwhile, U.S. officials tell CNN the Biden administration is considering sending U.S. Special Operations Forces to help guard the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. But they say the discussions are in the very early stages. The embassy reopened last week after being closed for three months.

On Monday, the war hit a milestone of sorts. It didn't happen on a battlefield but in a courtroom. A young Russian soldier was sentenced to life in prison for war crimes. Here's the story from Melissa Bell.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over):A blow for the first Russian soldier to stand trial in a Ukrainian court since the start of the invasion.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The court found Vadim Shishimarin guilty.

BELL: Twenty-one-year old Vadim Shishimarin, sentenced by a civilian court to life in jail for killing an unarmed civilian in a village in northeastern Ukraine. Four days after Russia invaded the country.

IRYNA VENEDIKTOVA, UKRAINE'S CHIEF PROSECUTOR: Today, more than 13,000 cases only about war crimes. And now we have first sentence, what? It's not enough. It's only begin. It's mean that these three monsters, our investigators and prosecutors properly have done the job.

BELL: Shishimarin confessed to killing the man in court last week, but said he'd been under intense pressure. A fellow soldier confirmed Shishimarin was obeying orders and had no choice but to fire the fatal shot. His lawyer says he'll file an appeal.

VIKTOR OVSYANNIKOV, DEFENSE LAWYER (through translator): I believe and continue to believe that a person who carried out an order cannot be convicted under this article.

BELL: The judge said because the crime broke international law was "against peace, security and humanity," the court couldn't impose a shorter sentence.

ANDRIY SUNYUK, UKRAINIAN PROSECUTOR (through translator): This will be a good example for other occupiers who may not yet be on our territory, but are planning to come or those who are here now and plan to stay in fight.

BELL: On Friday, Shishimarin had made a final plea for clemency. VADIM SHISHIMARIN, RUSSIAN SOLDIER SENTENCED (through translator): I'm sorry and I sincerely repent. I was nervous the moment it happened. I didn't want to kill, but it happened and I do not deny it.

BELL: The Kremlin says it's concerned about Shishimarin and will seek ways to assist him.

Melissa Bell, CNN, Kyiv.

CHURCH: And just ahead. Mike Pence bucks his former boss endorsing a different candidate than Donald Trump in the Georgia governor's race. We'll have more on that on the other side of the break. Stay with us.

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CHURCH: Well, voters will be going to the polls Tuesday for primaries and runoff elections in five U.S. states. Now Donald Trump's name is not on the ballot but his influence looms large and Republican races across the country. Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for governor in Arkansas. And a slew of other candidates are hoping to capitalize on their connections to the former president.

The biggest test of Trump's power will be here in the Georgia Republican governors primary, where he is backing former Senator David Perdue. The latest Fox News poll shows incumbent Brian Kemp leading Purdue by a more than two to one margin. Trump has lashed out at Kemp for not supporting his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The winner will face former State House Democratic Leader Stacey Abrams.

She narrowly lost the governor's race to Kemp back in 2018. Governor Kemp got some high-profile help in the final rally of his primary campaign. He was joined on stage by former Vice President Mike Pence.

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MIKE PENCE, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I am here to support Brian Kemp in tomorrow's Republican primary. I can honestly say I was for Brian Kemp before it was cool.

When you say yes to Governor Brian Kemp tomorrow, you will send a deafening message all across America that the Republican Party is the party of the future.

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CHURCH: And that endorsement is not sitting well with Trump who claims he salvaged Pence's political career when he picked him as his running mate in 2016. Trump accused Pence of parachuting into this year's race is in a desperate attempt at relevance.

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DONALD TRUMP, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Brian Kemp is truly a embarrassment to the Republican Party because of what's taking place in your great state Georgia and David will make a massive upgrade as your governor.

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CHURCH: Republicans are going after Abrams for comments she made over the weekend about the quality of life for Georgians. Take a listen

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STACEY ABRAMS, GEORGIA GUBENATORIAL CANDIDATE: I am tired of hearing about being the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.

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ABRAMS: Let me contextualize. When you're number 48 for mental health, when you're number one from maternal mortality, when you have an incarceration rate that's on the rise and wages that are on the decline, then you are not the number one place to live.

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CHURCH: Governor Kemp responded on Twitter calling Georgia the best state to live, work and raise a family. His opponents in the Republican primary took it a step further.

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DAVID PERDUE, GEORGIA GUBENATORIAL CANDIDATE: You just see what Stacey said this weekend? Said that Georgia is the worst place in the country to live. Hey, she isn't from here. Let her go back where she came from. She doesn't like it here. The only thing she wants to be president of the United States. She doesn't care about the people in Georgia. That's clear.

When she told Black Farmers you don't need to be on the farm and she told black workers and hospitality and all this you don't need to be -- she is demeaning her own race when it comes to that. I am really over this. She should never be considered for material -- for a governor of any state, much less our state where she hates to live.

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CHURCH: Tia Mitchell is the Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal Constitution and she joins me now from Atlanta. A pleasure to have you with us.

TIA MITCHELL, ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Thank you.

CHURCH: So here in Georgia, we are looking at what could possibly be the biggest test of Donald Trump's endorsement power in Tuesday's GOP gubernatorial primary where Trump's pick David Perdue has slipped so far behind Trump's nemesis, Governor Brian Kemp, that polls and early voting indicate Republicans are abandoning Trump's endorse candidate in droves. Could this be Trump's biggest loss yet and what might that mean for him and of course, his kingmaker status?

MITCHELL: I do think if Governor Kemp wins the primary outright Tuesday night, as the polling indicates, it will be former President Trump's biggest loss thus far. And it will be an indication that his pool, his reach over the party has limitations. It doesn't mean he doesn't have an effect over Republican politics. It just means that it'll be a very clear demonstration of Trump's limitations. It'll show that there is a way to win in key races, particularly in swing states without being closely aligned with Trump. And until recently, Republicans didn't think that was possible.

CHURCH: And Donald Trump's not only going after Governor Brian Kemp but also his own former Vice President Mike Pence who is here in Georgia supporting Kemp. Trump is calling pence irrelevant and desperate. What are the optics of that and the political implications, particularly while Pence backs a winner and Trump backs a loser?

MITCHELL: Well, what we might be seeing right now is somewhat of a preview of what could be the Republican primary in 2024. Former Vice President Pence, you know, looks like he may be open to running in 2024, even if Donald Trump runs too. So there isn't any love lost between them ever since January 6 2021 really. And I think this is further indication of that split, Pence decided to back Brian Kemp which honestly says it could be an indication of something that could benefit Pence in the long run even more than it benefits Governor Kemp.

CHURCH: And of course, the other big race to watch in Georgia is the one for secretary of state which is currently looking very close. Trump's endorsed candidate Jody Hice is going up against incumbent Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who of course refused to bend to Trump's pressure to overturn the vote in Georgia in 2020. How do you expect this race to end? And what could it mean for the state and indeed the nation if Hice wins and is perhaps able or open to doing Trump's bidding at the next election?

MITCHELL: Right. Probably this race even more so than the governor's race. Not only is a referendum on Trump, but it's a referendum on the big lie. Because Brad Raffensperger was so vocal in resisting President Trump. You know, he was in that call where Trump told him to find the votes and he was very critical of former President Trump throughout the aftermath of the 2020 general election.

Then on the other side, you have representative Jody Hice who's a member of Congress, who tried to reject ballots. He tried to overturn the election in Joe Biden's Electoral College victory.

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MITCHELL: So there's a very clear contrast and as we know the secretary of state's office is what is ultimately in charge of running elections in Georgia. So, of course, there will be a Democratic opponent in the general election. Right now it's looking like Hice and Raffensperger could go to a runoff in June. But if Hice becomes the nominee, then that would be a chance that the person in charge of running the elections in Georgia, particularly in 2024 where Trump could be back on the ballot, would that person be Jody Hice? Would that person be willing to bend the rules, break the rules to help Trump win Georgia, even if the ballot shows he did not?

CHURCH: Yes, it is a chilling prospect, no doubt about it. And of course, more than 850,000 Georgians turned out for early voting despite new restrictive voting laws. What does that reveal to you?

MITCHELL: Well, you know, the voting laws and senate bill 202 in Georgia made a lot of tweaks to how elections were run based on the misinformation and disinformation by Trump and his allies after the 2020 election. So, the critics have said, it's not that, you know, the law was intended to widely depress turnout. They say the law was intended to in the margins, keep certain people from voting.

And where that could have an impact is if the race is close, whether we're talking about tomorrow night at the primary, whether we're talking about the general election in a close race, could some of those changes, knock off just enough voters to make a difference? That's what we don't know yet. But that's the true concern that critics has had about that law.

CHURCH: Tia Mitchell thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it.

MITCHELL: Thank you.

CHURCH: And be sure to follow all the key races right here on CNN. We are expecting the first results Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. on the East Coast, that is 7:00 a.m. in Hong Kong. Well, just two weeks into the job and South Korea's new president is already extending a gesture of goodwill to Pyongyang, as the North fights a COVID crisis. President Yoon Seok-youl speaks with CNN in an exclusive interview when we return.

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CHURCH: Yoon Seok-youl's political career is off to a whirlwind start. South Korea's new president is a foreign policy novice. But he's already been thrust into the world stage after a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden. And just two weeks into the job, President Yoon is tackling his country's relationship with North Korea head-on. President Yoon spoke exclusively with CNN's Paula Hancocks in his first interview since his inauguration. And Paula joins us now live from Seoul.

Good to see you, Paula. So, what did President Yoon have to say specifically about his approach to North Korea and, of course, other critical issues?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rosemary, he appears to have a dual-track approach at this point. Now, we've just heard from the joint chiefs of staff today that they believe that North Korea's preparations for a missile and a nuclear test are completed. The U.S. intelligence still says they believe it could happen while President Biden is still in the region, he's currently in Japan.

And so, this is the backdrop that this interview was carried out against. And I did ask President Yoon about what happens if there is a seventh underground nuclear test. And he did say that it would be a stronger and firmer response than before, and it would be in conjunction in tandem with the United States. Now, he also pointed out that if there was dialogue to be had, it was up to North Korea and Kim Jong-un to initiate it at this point, of course, if he wanted it. And it is a very big if. But he did point out that he has no interest and doesn't want North Korea to collapse. He would like North Korea to prosper alongside South Korea.

Now, on the other side, he's also talking about COVID in North Korea. It was well over a week ago that Pyongyang admitted that they do have a COVID outbreak. Although recently they have said that they believe that it is under control, which is extremely hard to believe knowing what we do about this pandemic. But I did ask the president about his offer for vaccines and mass testing kits to North Korea, saying clearly, they won't be able to publicly accept it, how else can you offer it?

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YOON SUK YEOL, SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT (through translator): If North Korea accepts these medical supplies to quickly distribute them to its people, we will provide them in any method that North Korea wishes. It could be through a third country or an international organization. We are fully prepared.

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HANCOCKS: Now, just a couple of days ago, there was a funeral in North Korea, one of the elites of Pyongyang. Someone who is believed to have groomed Kim Jong-un when he was younger. Now, we saw from state-run media that Kim Jong-un himself was one of the pallbearers. He was front and center and very emotional at that funeral. Most wearing masks. Kim Jong-un wasn't. But again, there were hundreds of people at that funeral. Rosemary?

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CHURCH: Yes, very critical point there. Paula Hancocks, joining us live from Seoul, many thanks.

Well, the Partygate scandal isn't over for Boris Johnson. What we are hearing about new images of the British Prime Minister ahead of the full report into the illegal lockdown gatherings. Back in just a moment.

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The survivors are literally the best among us. They have persevered and have so much resilience and we have so much to learn from them. We look at vulnerable people and think that maybe they -- they're just cast aside or they're not important. But I think, really, we need to look to them if we want to move forward on issues like human trafficking.

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CHURCH: In the UK, the full report into COVID lockdown bridge is at Downing Street could be published as early as today. And this comes as new images of the British Prime Minister fuel more controversy. These were obtained by ITV News, and they appear to show Boris Johnson giving a speech and raising a glass at a Downing Street party on November 13, 2020. ITV says, it understands there were other people at this event.

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That would have been a violation, of course, of COVID rules at the time which allowed only two people from different households to be indoors together. And CNN can't independently verify these images and we've reached out to Downing Street for comment.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth attended the Chelsea Flower Show in London on Monday. She was driven around the Royal Horticultural Society's annual festival of garden design in a buggy to save her the strain of walking. And this is the latest in the series of public appearances for the 96-year-old monarch who's faced recent health concerns. Next month, Britain will celebrate her platinum jubilee in honor of her seven-decade reign.

And for our international viewers, World Sport is up next. For everyone here in the U.S. and Canada, I will be here with more news in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Finally, something to cheer about on Wall Street. The Dow soared on Monday. Looking to bounce back from its longest weekly losing streak in almost a century. Strong earnings from J.P. Morgan Chase and other banks drove the rally. Along with comments from President Biden about maybe lifting some of the tariffs on China. The Dow was up nearly 620 points a gain of almost two percent. The Nasdaq and S&P 500 also surged. Let's take a quick look at the futures, the rally could be short-lived, as you can see, our numbers there in negative territory. We'll see what happens.

Well, stolen grain mass graves, a 40-mile convoy at one time all these images may have been hidden by the fog of war. Now, thanks to commercial satellite companies, the world can see what's happening. CNN Alex Marquardt has the story. But we must warn you, some of the images you're about to see are graphic.

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ALEX MARQUARDT, CNN SENIOR NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voiceover): These new satellite images show what appears to be the ramping up of theft by Russia of Ukrainian grain being poured into the open hold of a Russian ship. This was in the Crimean port of Sevastopol on May 19the. Then, two days later, a second ship docks and it too is filled. Now, both Russian ships are sailing away.

This weekend, President Zelenskyy accused Russia of fueling of food crisis, and of gradually stealing Ukraine's food supplies and trying to sell them. An earlier image from Maxar Technologies shows one of those same Russian ships in a port of their close ally, Syria. The Ukrainian grain waiting to be unloaded onto trucks. These extraordinary revealing images are so close and so clear that they look they could be taken by drone or helicopter.

STEPHEN WOOD, SENIOR DIRECTOR, MAXAR NEWS BUREAU: You can actually see the grain pouring into the open hole of the ship.

MARQUARDT (voiceover): Stephen Wood and his team at Maxar spotted the ships in this much wider image of Crimea.

WOOD: This is 400 miles up in space. To be able to see that kind of level of detail, the ships, the cab of the truck, pretty phenomenal stuff.

MARQUARDT (voiceover): Maxar and other commercial satellite companies have played a critical role in what we know about Russia's war in Ukraine. With satellite imagery that is unprecedented both in quality and how it's being used.

WOOD: Before, this was only available in the halls of CIA or the U.S. government or friendly foreign governments. To now, we're showing it on CNN.

MARQUARDT (on camera): We're keeping a very close eye on that column of Russian vehicles, that convoy we've been talking about for several days.

MARQUARDT (voiceover): They alerted the world to the famous 40-mile- long Russian convoy outside Kyiv. The rows of hundreds of mass graves near Mariupol. Potential war crimes in Bucha. And the aftermath of the Russian bombing of the Mariupol theater.

WOOD: The satellite is in the final stages of getting ready to be shipped very soon.

MARQUARDT (voiceover): We were given a rare tour of Maxar satellite factory in Palo Alto, California by CEO Dan Jablonsky, joint projects with NASA, and others. Construction, underway on six new Maxar satellites which will allow them to scan a single spot on earth 15 times a day. For decades, Maxar has provided all kinds of images to both private clients and to the U.S. government, their biggest customer.

MARQUARDT (on camera): How much does the U.S. government tell you where to look?

DAN JABLONSKY, CEO, MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES: They tell us where to point the satellites and take the imagery, and then that's what we feed into them as a service. The same way we do -- we would do for Google Maps, for example.

MARQUARDT (on camera): Will the intelligence community, for example, say we know that there is a war crime that has been committed. There are all these mass graves, for example. Train your satellites there and then push out those images to the press.

JABLONSKY: They actually -- they might ask us to make those collections but they don't -- they do not influence or ask us to necessarily put out what we're putting out to the public.

MARQUARDT (voiceover): Maxar is now giving imagery to the Ukrainian government, part of the U.S. aid for Ukraine. In a fight, the U.S. and others now say that has resulted in Russian war crimes.

MARQUARDT (on camera): To what extent are your images going to be critical in these war crimes investigations?

JABLONSKY: For example, the bodies that were found on the street in Bucha. We had images correlating at that exact same time where these bodies were. Down to the place, the time, and the moment. It's having that kind of fidelity of data that we now have that makes that possible. And I also think it will play an important part.

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MARQUARDT: Each one of those cargo ships that we showed you in those new satellite images can carry 30,000 tons of grain. Russia, of course, denies that they're stealing it. But what they aren't taking, they are targeting or blocking from getting out of Ukraine.

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Devastating for Ukraine and the world which gets so much of its food from Ukraine. At least now, thanks to these satellite companies like Maxar, we can see it all happening. Alex Marquardt, CNN, Washington.

CHURCH: For the sixth week in a row, the amount of children testing positive for COVID-19 in the U.S. is rising. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, new cases were up 72 percent last week versus two weeks prior. But still short of the peak in January. The group says, more than 13 million children have tested positive for the virus since the start of the pandemic.

Vaccine makers, Pfizer and BioNTech, are sharing new data on their COVID-19 vaccine. Preliminary results from drug trials show three doses of the shot appear safe and promote a strong immune response in children from the age of six months to five years. Children younger than five are not yet eligible for COVID vaccines here in the U.S.

Pfizer's chairman and CEO says he hopes to make the shots available to younger children as soon as possible with authorization. Pfizer and BioNTech say, they will submit the finished data to the FDA this week.

Well, more relief is on the way for U.S. families coping with the nationwide family baby formula shortage. The White House says the second flight of formula will be leaving Germany Wednesday morning and heading straight for the U.S. The shipment is expected to contain more than 100 palettes of Gerber infant formula. And this, along with the first delivery on Sunday, is the equivalent of about one and a half million, eight-ounce bottles.

The delivery is part of the Biden Administration's Operation Fly Formula meant to address the shortage. In the meantime, doctors are warning parents and caregivers not to dilute or mix their own formula.

Health officials are tracking the spread of monkeypox around the world. As the virus typically found in West and Central Africa is now suspected reaching Washington State. A CNN tally confirmed cases in at least 15 countries. The UK and Portugal reported additional infections on Monday, while Denmark confirmed its first case.

The virus is not as contagious as COVID-19 and anyone can get or spread it. But the CDC warns some groups may have a greater chance of exposure in this outbreak, particularly the LGBTQ plus community.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MARIA VAN KERKHOVRE, W.H.O. HEALTH EMERGENCIES PROGRAMME: What we are seeing are cases being detected in the communities of men having sex with men, who identify as having sex with men. But as surveillance expands, we expect that more cases will be seen.

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CHURCH: The CDC is in the process of releasing vaccines from a national stockpile for high-risk people.

While tens of thousands of migrants are still waiting to enter the U.S. from the Mexican border despite a judge's ruling keeping in place Title 42. The COVID-related rule allows border agents to turn migrants away from the U.S. CNN's Matt Rivers met with some asylum seekers on the Mexican side of the border and here's his report.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Speaking in foreign language).

MATT RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Are you nervous that the authorities are not going to allow you to enter the country?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): Yes, very much so. More than the nervous. It's the uncertainty of not knowing how long we will have to be here, especially for the baby, he's only a year and a half old. So, yes, it's difficult.

RIVERS (on camera): Well, thank you so much for your time. (Speaking in foreign language). OK.

So, his story there, very similar to other stories that we have heard in this shelter. The shelter is called El Buen Pastor, The Good Shepherd Shelter, and it is completely full at the moment. The majority of migrants here right now are actually Haitian. But as you just heard from our interview there, he is Venezuelan. There are people from Honduras here. And this shelter, which can hold 80 people, is now completely full.

And we can show you some of them. I want to enter into one of the dormitories here and just bear with us because it's a little dark as we transition from sunlight to darkness here. There's no light in here. But you can see just how completely full this dormitory is. It is just bunk bed next to bunk bed next to bunk bed. There are dozens of people that are living in this facility. Most of whom are spread out throughout the facility. They've asked us to respect peoples' privacy here so that's why you're seeing empty beds. But there are people who are sharing bunk beds here.

Now, remember, Ciudad Juarez is one of the most dangerous cities in Mexico. And as a result, people that come into the shelter can actually leave unless they have a good reason to do so. One of those legitimate reasons would have been to apply for asylum at the border. And many people were hoping here that with the expiration of Title 42, that they could have gone to the border to do that more easily.

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Of course, that didn't happen with the federal judge in Louisiana continuing to allow that policy to be in place. And that's been very disappointing for people here. Many of which -- many of whom would have gone to the border to try and apply for asylums.

And we spoke to the director of this facility earlier today, who told us that things can't continue like this. He's building another facility just across the street that he says can house more than double of what he can hold right now. And yet, when that is finished in two months' time, he says he already knows that there won't be enough people, enough room, rather, to handle all of the people that he says are still going to be in this area.

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CHURCH: California's governor says the State needs to cut back its water usage now or restrictions may come into play. The State is in its third year of an extreme drought and reservoirs are at critical lows, with some at half the historic average. The State Water Resources Control Board will vote on new regulations on Tuesday.

And thank you so much for your company. I'm Rosemary Church. I will be back with more news in just a moment. You're watching CNN. Do stick around.

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