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Biden Concludes Historic Three-Way Summit With Japan And South Korea; U.S. Approves Giving F-16 Training Materials To Ukraine; Residents Flee Wildfires In Western And Northern Canada; ECOWAS Sets "D-Day" For Potential Intervention In Niger; Violence Rattles Ecuador Ahead Of National Election; Death Toll From Maui Wildfires Rises To 114; Australia To Face Sweden In Third Place Match; Women's Football Continues Fighting For Equity. Aired 3-4a ET
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LAILA HARRAK, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Hello, welcome to our viewers joining us from around the world. I'm Laila Harrak.
A pledge to work together; Japan, South Korea and the U.S. conclude a major trilateral summit, with the hope of greater cooperation ahead.
F-16 fighter jets will finally be headed to Ukraine.
And a hurricane is churning in the Eastern Pacific, targeting Baja California and the southwestern U.S. with potentially catastrophic and life-threatening flooding.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from CNN Center, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Laila Harrak.
HARRAK: Taiwan is strongly condemning the latest Chinese military drills around the island, calling them, quote, "irrational and provocative."
China announced the joint air and sea maneuvers just hours after the leaders of South Korea and Japan attended President Biden's first-ever summit at Camp David, a historic event that publicly rankled Beijing. The Japanese prime minister and South Korean president addressed reporters afterward.
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FUMIO KISHIDA, JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER (through translator): Together with Joe and President Yoon, this has been a precious opportunity for myself to further deepen the relationship of trust and confidence for the first time ever, instead of in the sidelines of virtual conferences that we have held the trilateral summit on a standalone basis. (END VIDEO CLIP)
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YOON SUK YEOL, PRESIDENT OF SOUTH KOREA: From this moment on, Camp David will be remembered as a historic place, where the Republic of Korea, the United States and Japan proclaimed that we will bolster the rules-based international order and play key roles to enhance national security and prosperity, based on our shared values of freedom, human rights and the rule of law.
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HARRAK: The three-way talks only lasted several hours but the commitments that came out of them were substantial. We get more now from CNN's Arlette Saenz.
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ARLETTE SAENZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: President Biden using the presidential retreat at Camp David as the backdrop for a new chapter with South Korea and Japan.
JOE BIDEN (D), PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I can think of no more fitting location to begin our next era of cooperation, a place that has long symbolized the power of new beginnings and new possibilities.
SAENZ (voice-over): The president hosting the first ever summit between the three countries, a show of unity as they grapple with provocative moves by North Korea and an increasingly assertive China.
BIDEN: The summit was not about China. China obviously came up. Not to say we don't share concerns about the economic coercion or heightened tensions cause by China but this summit was really about our relationship with each other.
SAENZ (voice-over): The U.S., Japan and South Korea are increasing defense cooperation with annual military exercises and intelligence sharing. They're also setting up a three-way hot line to talk during times of crisis and will make their summit annual event.
The agreement falls short of offering NATO-style mutual defense assurances but ensures a commitment to consult if any one country faces a security threat.
BIDEN: This is not about a day, a week or a month. This is about decades and decades of relationships that we're building.
SAENZ: This trilateral summit once considered unimaginable due to decades of tension and the mistrust between Tokyo and Seoul, in part over a forced labor dispute during Japan's occupation of Korea.
But President Yoon and Prime Minister Kishida have gone to great lengths to mend faces in the face of shared security challenges as China's military and economic power grows in the region. BIDEN: Your leadership with the full support of the United States has brought us here because each of you understands that our world stands at an inflection point.
SAENZ: Camp David has a long history with high-stakes diplomacy, the wooded retreat 60 miles from the White House teeing up groundbreaking negotiations, including the Camp David accords in 1978 when Jimmy Carter acted as a mediator for breakthrough between Israel and Egypt.
President Biden now with his own mark on history making this case that strengthened alliances are key to America's future while taking a swipe at his predecessor, former President Donald Trump.
BIDEN: His America First policy walking away from the rest of the world has made us weaker, not stronger. America is strong with our allies and our alliances and that's why we will endure and it's a strength that quite frankly that increases all our three of our strengths.
SAENZ: President Biden went to great lengths to say that this summit was not about China --
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SAENZ: -- in part, to not further inflame tensions with Beijing. But so much of the president's efforts, from the start of his administration in drawing these allies close, is with having that eye on China's influence in the region.
President Biden, as he wrapped the press conference, told me he's hoping to speak with President Xi Jinping later this fall -- Arlette Saenz, CNN, traveling with the president at Camp David.
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HARRAK: As we mentioned, Beijing has expressed strong disapproval of the Camp David summit, accusing the U.S. of trying to isolate China. South Korea is warning that North Korea might react with another missile launch. CNN Paula Hancocks has those details from Seoul.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's been called a new era of trilateral cooperation between the U.S., South Korea and Japan. The U.S. President, Joe Biden, did call the leaders of both Japan and South Korea courageous for getting to this point of recognition.
Public opinion here in South Korea has not always been behind this decision. We know both leaders, Prime Minister Kishida and President Yoon have spent political capital even getting to this point. Japan and South Korea do share common threats, North Korea and also a growing threat from an increasingly powerful China.
But they also have decades of tension and mistrust dating back to Japan's colonial past. But what we have seen in South Korea, the intelligence agency has warned that there could be a launch of a missile, it could be an intercontinental ballistic missile, from North Korea, around this summit and this decision.
They said they've seen increasing movement of vehicles in Pyongyang and also around the missile production facilities. They say if it doesn't happen just after this summit or in this time, it could happen next week.
That's when there's going to be a joint military drill between the U.S. and South Korea. We've also seen increased military activity in the region. Japan saying that it has had to scramble fighter jets as it spotted Russian planes off its coast.
And we also know there's been patrols between the Russian and Chinese navies in the East China Sea. All of this coming together to show that, according to the leaders of Japan, the U.S. and South Korea, there is this need to have an increased trilateral cooperation, to counter these threats.
We have heard from China's foreign ministry; they have reacted before this statement came out but knowing essentially what it would contain.
They say, quote, "Attempts to cobble together various exclusionary groupings and bring bloc confrontation and military blocs into the Asia Pacific are not going to get support and will only be met with vigilance and opposition from regional countries."
The response there from China, rejecting this trilateral cooperation. We could well see, very soon, a reaction as well from North Korea -- Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.
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HARRAK: Russia is pushing back against a Ukrainian raid in the southern part of the country. A Russian appointed official says Ukrainian troops have been cleared from the village of Kozachi Laheri. It's located on the southern side of the Dnipro River, between Kherson and the Nova Kakhovka dam.
Earlier this month, Russia said Ukrainians conducted a cross-river raid and tried to capture the village. But Ukraine dismissed that claim as an attempt to create hype and panic.
Meanwhile, someone has put up a Ukrainian flag in a major city in the heart of Russia. This video shows the flag near the offices of Russia's security service in the city of Nizhny Novgorod on Friday. Russian officials are still silent about the incident.
And back in Ukraine, six people are reportedly dead after two back-to- back blasts in the occupied city of Donetsk. Russian officials are blaming them on unexploded cluster munitions and an unidentified explosive device. Friday's incidents left six more people wounded.
Meanwhile, the U.S. has taken another key step before Ukrainian pilots can start training on the F-16 fighter jets. Jim Bittermann is in Paris with more. Jim, good morning. The U.S. gave the OK to Ukraine receiving coveted
F-16 jets.
Where and when will Ukrainian pilots undergo training?
JIM BITTERMANN, CNN SR. INTL. CORRESPONDENT: Well, there have been rumors for months, now, that the pilots have already undergone some training. But that has never been confirmed.
Now we have some confirmation about what's going to happen, from General James Hecker, the head of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and in Africa. In any case, General Hecker has told reporters that --
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BITTERMANN: -- basically the first group of pilots will probably be sent to England for training on propeller aircraft and also for language instruction, because everything about the F-16 is in English, from the training link manuals to the simulators. So they have to have pretty competent English to get trained in the F-16.
From there, they are likely to come here to France, where they will be trained in Alpha Jets. The Alpha Jets are these biplanes, two-place jets, the advanced fighter jets that the French use. You've probably seen them if you've seen the July 14th flypast, where they come by flying the colors of the French flag.
The acrobatic team in France, the Patrouille de France, use Alpha Jets and they'll be trained in those. They're kind of advanced fighters but basically a training aircraft. And from there, the pilots will go to Denmark, to be actually trained on the F-16s.
The F-16s themselves are likely to come from the air forces of various countries in Europe. There are 11 countries involved in this program and they're likely to come to from the air forces of Europe, where the F-16s are being gradually replaced with more advanced fighters.
And the pilots, according to General Hecker, are going to be some of the youngest pilots that the Ukrainian air force has, probably lesser experienced. And they will be probably the most efficient when they go back into battle.
HARRAK: Jim Bittermann, thank you so much.
Hurricane Hilary could dump more than a year's worth of rain in parts of California, Nevada and Arizona in the coming days. The National Hurricane Center says the powerful category 4 storm is churning south of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico.
Life-threatening and potentially catastrophic flooding is likely over much of Baja California and the southwestern U.S. Hilary is likely to make landfall in Mexico. But it's moving faster than expected and could arrive in California as a tropical storm.
The first such storm to do so in nearly 84 years. More than 42 million people are now under a tropical storm warning in southern California, including San Diego and Los Angeles.
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HARRAK: There is some encouraging news out of Canada, where about 1,000 wildfires are burning in the country's worst fire season ever.
In Yellowknife, capital of the Northwest Territories, 95 percent of its 20,000 residents have made it out after an evacuation was ordered for the entire city. A wildfire is just on the city's outskirts.
In British Columbia, a province-wide state of emergency has been declared; 15,000 homes in the B.C. interior are under evacuation orders and thousands of other residents have been warned they may need to get out, too. CNN's Paula Newton has this wrap up of the situation in Canada.
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PAULA NEWTON, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: It will be a critical weekend to come here in Canada, where wildfires threaten two large communities.
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NEWTON: And we begin in Northwest Territories. Its capital city, Yellowknife, under a strict evacuation order; more than 20,000 people were given less than 48 hours to get out. The most vulnerable, of course, were of concern; even those in hospitals and long- term care, had to be evacuated.
We had an update from federal officials. They indicated that the evacuation was going well and the military was also helping out with an airlift. While most of the people were able to leave by road, the fire threatening that community was, at this point, so critical, at such a dire stage, that they decided the entire city had to be evacuated.
They expect very few people to remain there this weekend, as they continue to battle that that fire.
Then, we have another situation in the interior of British Columbia, both in West Kelowna and in Kelowna itself. Firefighters there in the last few days just having a terrible time with a fire that sprang up on Tuesday but quickly grew in size and began threatening communities.
People there tell us that several structures, including homes, were destroyed. I want you to listen now to the fire chief of West Kelowna and how he described the harrowing night they had and the escapes and the rescues.
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CHIEF JASON BROLUND, WEST KELOWNA, B.C., FIRE DEPARTMENT: We fought hard last night, to protect our community. Somebody described it to me last night in the heat of the battle as it was like 100 years of firefighting all at once in one night. (END VIDEO CLIP)
NEWTON: Thankfully, as of now, no loss of life and officials are grateful for that, although, as I said, this will be a very long weekend with so many resources pouring into the region. But this is, really, just another chapter in what has already been an unprecedented, record-breaking fire season in Canada -- Paula Newton, CNN, Ottawa.
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HARRAK: West African leaders pick a day to potentially intervene militarily in Niger. They're still leaving the door open to a last- minute diplomatic solution. Details on their plan.
Plus, days after the leading presidential candidate was assassinated, voters in Ecuador will head to the polls this weekend. That story and more when we return.
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HARRAK: The West African bloc ECOWAS says it has picked a, quote, "D- Day" to launch a potential military intervention in Niger. At the end of the two-day meeting, the group said it had finalized its strategy but didn't specify when such an operation would begin.
It has insisted that military force can still be avoided if Niger's coup leaders restore democracy. CNN's Larry Madowo reports.
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LARRY MADOWO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Two major takeaways after the two-day meeting of the ECOWAS defense chiefs in Accra, the Guinean capital.
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MADOWO: One is that there will be another possible ECOWAS mission on Saturday to try and talk the military junta into releasing and reinstating president Mohamed Bazoum but that looks unlikely.
The second takeaway is an important one. ECOWAS now saying it will not engage in endless dialogue and it has now fine-tuned everything it needs for a military intervention as soon as that order is given. It's gotten member states to commit equipment that it will need, resources, personnel; they are a go.
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ABDEL-FATAU MUSAH, PEACE AND SECURITY COMMISSIONER, ECOWAS POLITICAL AFFAIRS: We are ready accept. All we are saying is that we are not ready to engage in endless babble. It must be fruitful and is objective (INAUDIBLE) the resolution of transitional (ph) order in the shortest possible time possible, in the shortest possible time.
We are also calling for the release of the legitimate president of the Republic of Niger.
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MADOWO: The ECOWAS political commissioner talking tough there, saying they hope this military intervention as a last resort, if it happens, is going to be short-lived and surgical.
But also making important points. They consider the Niger coup one coup too many and ECOWAS is doing this to defend its principles. It's not acting on the orders of any foreign power. It's doing this because ECOWAS believes in democracy.
It's very tough talk but one which has to be followed up with action, because we've seen a lot of tough talk from ECOWAS so far and not a whole lot of action and the military junta in Niger is not really responding -- Larry Madowo, CNN, Nairobi.
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HARRAK: Citing extreme violence, the International Rescue Committee is suspending some of its operations in Haiti. The aid group says the violence in the capital, Port-au-Prince, has escalated dramatically over the past few days.
According to the United Nations, more than 2,400 people have been killed in Haiti since the start of the year. That includes more than 350 lynchings by vigilante groups and others. The U.N. also says there have been 951 kidnappings since January.
The family of an assassinated presidential candidate in Ecuador has filed a legal complaint against the government. They accused the state of murder by willful omission for failing to protect the life of Fernando Villavicencio, knowing that he had received threats from various criminal groups.
The complaint came just days before Ecuadorians head to the polls for the presidential and legislative elections. Security issues and disillusionment with the political class will be top of mind for many voters. Nearly 100,000 troops will be deployed to ensure public safety for Sunday's vote.
Last week's assassination and a spate of other violent attacks have marred the election in a country struggling with corruption. CNN's Rafael Romo has our story.
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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN SR. LATIN AFFAIRS EDITOR (voice-over): She may lose her right eye but it could've been worse. Gissella Cecibel Molina says she was only a few steps behind presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio on August 9th when he was shot, as he was leaving a rally in Quito, the capital. She says she was so close to the candidate when he was assassinated
that her doctor told her a fragment of a stray bullet hit her in the right eye.
The brutal murder of Fernando Villavicencio, an outspoken anticorruption candidate and former investigative journalist, has shaken the country ahead of this Sunday's presidential and legislative elections.
ANDREA GONZALEZ NADER, ECUADORAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Fernando was shot three times in the head.
ROMO (voice-over): Andrea Gonzalez Nader, Fernando Villavicencio's running mate and still a vice presidential candidate for the party's replacement, says his tragic assassination is a gruesome reminder that violence in Ecuador has reached such high levels that everybody is at risk.
NADER: And that's the way we have to choose on these elections on the 20th of August. Like he used to say, we have to choose between the mafia or making our country again a safe place for all.
JAN TOPIC, ECUADORAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We have to take control of our borders.
ROMO (voice-over): Jan Topic is running for president as the law and order candidate. The 40-year-old business man who once fought for the French Foreign Legion says violence in Ecuador won't stop until the security forces put an end to the drug trade from neighboring countries.
TOPIC: All of that cocaine and heroin that comes into the country, helps to finance the corruption of politicians, cops, soldiers, judges, DAs. By the very fact that we're not controlling our borders means that you have all this influx of money that is clearly corrupting the country.
ROMO: The married father of three told us that his own family hasn't been immune to the kind of insecurity that affects many Ecuadorians.
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ROMO: The candidate told us that, just last week, he received a death threat at home in the city of Guayaquil but he says he won't be intimidated.
TOPIC: Our campaign slogan is to go from fear to hope.
ROMO: Is Ecuador a failed state?
TOPIC: We're on our way to becoming a failed state definitely, on the brink maybe. I want to say on the brink. But definitely we have to take action sooner than later.
ROMO (voice-over): Multiple acts of violence have shaken Ecuador in the last few months. In July, Agustin Intriago, the mayor of the port city of Manta, the sixth largest city in Ecuador, was gunned down, one of several murders or attempted murders of elected officials as well as local and regional candidates this year.
In the last days of the campaign, this is what Ecuadorian voters have seen. At a rally, the man who replaced Fernando Villavicencio, the murdered candidate, was surrounded by a SWAT team, himself wearing a tactical helmet and bulletproof vest.
As for Molina, the national assembly candidate who was shot in the eye, "We all have to go out and vote," she says. "The world has to know," she added, "that Ecuador is kidnapped by the mafia" -- Rafael Romo, CNN, Quito, Ecuador.
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HARRAK: The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no stranger to facing questions from journalists here in the United States, including at CNN, and with other international media. But his lack of interviews inside his own country has led to frustration among some Israeli journalists. Elliott Gotkine has the story.
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GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, ABC HOST: Mr. Prime Minister, thank you for joining us.
ELLIOTT GOTKINE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Benjamin Netanyahu loves to talk.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. Prime Minister, thank you so much for speaking to Bloomberg.
GOTKINE (voice-over): And if you've watched any U.S. news network this year, there's a good chance you'll have seen the Israeli prime minister being interviewed.
Switch to an Israeli channel, though, and you'll have missed him.
GOTKINE: Since he became prime minister, yet again in December, Netanyahu has given multiple interviews to news outlets, including several to CNN. Yet with the exception of the pro-government channel 14, he hasn't sat down once with an Israeli news network.
GOTKINE (voice-over): This has exasperated Israeli news anchors.
YONIT LEVI, CHANNEL 12 ANCHOR (through translator): Netanyahu did 22 interviews in English since he got elected. We'd be happy to interview him, too. I can do the interview in English if that's his thing.
GOTKINE (voice-over): According to this former Netanyahu ambassador to the U.S., the true reasons include reassuring U.S. investors and ratings agencies and getting his message across to the American people.
MICHAEL OREN, FORMER ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO THE U.S.: You have to have marpekim. Marpekim are elbows. GOTKINE (voice-over): Then there's the lack of deference he gets from
Israeli interviewers.
OREN: When you go on Israeli television, it's not like "Meet the Press," where someone says, "Oh, my distinguished college from across the aisle."
It's not like that. It's, "You fascist bastard from across the aisle," and they're pounding you and kicking you. And that's really what it's like being on Israeli television.
GOTKINE (voice-over): A Netanyahu spokesman didn't respond to CNN's request for an interview but he did provide hope for Israeli news anchors last Saturday night.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The prime minister goes around the world, telling and thwarting the lies and fake news that are being spread. And very soon he will be interviewed by Israeli networks again.
GOTKINE (voice-over): When that happens, expect sparks and tough questions to fly -- Elliott Gotkine, CNN, Jerusalem.
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HARRAK: A new chapter is being written in the rich legacy of Camp David after President Biden hosts the first ever trilateral summit with the leaders of Japan and South Korea. Those details, just ahead.
Plus, new details in the Georgia election subversion case against Donald Trump. When the former U.S. president is expected to turn himself in on the state charges and what that could look like.
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HARRAK: Welcome back to our viewers around the world, you're watching CNN NEWSROOM.
U.S. President Joe Biden is touting a new era of cooperation with Japan and South Korea after hosting the country's leaders for a summit at Camp David. They made commitments to strengthen military coordination with annual exercises and share intelligence.
The meeting was meant to serve as a show of unity as the countries grapple with provocative moves from North Korea and an increasingly assertive China.
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HARRAK: Andrew Yeo is a senior fellow at the SK-Korea Foundation, chair at the Brookings Institution, also a professor of politics at Catholic University and joins us from Washington, D.C.
Good to have you with us, sir.
How does this three-way security pact help President Biden and the other two leaders?
What happens if there is a change in leadership in the U.S. or Korea or Japan?
ANDREW YEO, SENIOR FELLOW, SK-KOREA FOUNDATION; CHAIR, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: So this isn't the first meeting of these three leaders. In fact, this is the fourth meeting in the last year, that they've had.
But I think the Camp David really solidifies the gains that have been made in terms of joining together to address threats from China, from North Korea. But there is some concern that, because of domestic issues in Korea and Japan, both leaders, President Yoon in South Korea and Prime Minister Kishida in Japan, their approval rating is relatively low.
And there are still some irritants, tensions within the Korea-Japanese relationship.
But I do think that, after today's meeting, after all the deliverables in terms of routinizing the meetings, having an annual leaders' meeting, having meetings at various levels at the foreign ministers level, the national security advisors level, all these meetings I think is to help institutionalize this trilateral cooperation.
So if there is any historical irritant that comes up, they can still lean back onto these channels that they've created through this --
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HARRAK: What are the risks and potential challenges for Seoul and Tokyo?
How much of the departure does this security pact represent in both these countries' respective regional strategies?
YEO: Yes. So if you asked me this question maybe three or four years ago, it would've been very hard to see these three countries, especially Korea and Japan, come together. But they face similar challenges.
Of course North Korea has been launching missiles after missiles since 2022. And that's a concern for both countries. And there's greater concerns about China as they become more assertive.
So the point of these meetings is to indicate that Korea and Japan, along with the United States, are on the same side, they're on the same team, they share the same values. And that's something that was reiterated in the spirit of Camp David agreements. So I think that's one of the messages that's coming up in this meeting
and it's not just for allies and for their domestic constituents at home; it's a message to competitors and adversaries, like China, North Korea and Russia.
HARRAK: How is this outcome of this meeting resonating in the region, especially now that we're seeing several defense alliances emerging?
YEO: What we're seeing is a web of alliances, what I like to call a network of overlapping alliances and institutions. And this is the signature trademark I think of President Biden's policy in East Asia, in the broader Indo Pacific.
We've seen the strengthening of the Australia-U.K. -- United Kingdom -- United States trilateral, AUKUS. There's also the Quad.
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YEO: So we've seen President Biden, since day one of his administration, saying he's going to strengthen alliances and institutions. And so the trilateral summit is another piece of this puzzle. And I think that's -- most of our allies and partners welcome U.S. commitment to the region.
Of course, we've heard comments from China. They feel that what the U.S. is doing is encircling, containing China, that they're trying to set up -- they're setting up these alliances in preparation for the militarization and conflict.
But if you look at the record in terms of who is breaching international norms or laws and rules, I think CCP in this, the Chinese Communist Party, and Xi Jinping have to think a bit harder to see what is actually causing instability in the region.
HARRAK: I know time will tell but what do you think?
Will this pact persist?
YEO: It's hard to predict the future. But given the trends that we're seeing now, I think it would be very hard to walk back and reverse the gains that have been made. Of course, domestic politics has always been a thorn in the side of this trilateral relationship.
But I think what the leaders are doing is they're trying to change the narrative so Korea sees Japan as being on the same team, that they share the same values. And I think for prime minister Kishida, he's also trying to shift that narrative.
So we can't promise that there won't be steps -- it's a two step forward, one step back process. But I think the gains that were made today were very significant and it would be hard to walk back or completely dissolve this trilateral cooperation that's been cemented.
HARRAK: Andrew Yeo, thank you so much for speaking to us.
YEO: Thanks so much for having me. (END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRAK: When Prime Minister Kishida arrives back in Japan, one of the first things he'll do is visit the disabled nuclear power plant at Fukushima, one of the world's worst nuclear accidents.
The prime minister's visit on Sunday is a prelude to some of the facility's radioactive wastewater being released into the sea. No final decision has been made about when that might happen but it has sparked protests in Japan and South Korea.
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HARRAK: Donald Trump is expected to turn himself in at a jail in Georgia next Thursday or Friday over the state's election subversion case. That's according to a senior law enforcement official. But there's a lot of prep work that still needs to happen. CNN's Paula Reid reports on how it will all likely play out.
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PAULA REID, CNN SENIOR LEGAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: On Monday, Trump's team is going to head down to Fulton County, Georgia, to negotiate the details of this expected surrender.
And the DA, Fani Willis, has given all of the defendants until next Friday at noon to surrender.
Right now, it's our understanding that Trump is likely to do his surrender toward the back half of the week. Here's what's going to happen when he goes to surrender.
He is going to surrender to the Fulton County sheriff's office. And this process typically involves a mug shot and fingerprints. The mug shot is important, because, at the federal level, they did not take a mug shot of the former president because they said we use those.
They don't release them but they use them for law enforcement if someone goes on the lam. Trump is one of the most recognizable people on the world. They don't really need a mug shot for that. And it's unclear if Fulton County is also going to make that kind of exception.
Another big difference between the state and federal appearances here is that he's going to be processed next week. Then, a judge will schedule a court hearing. At the federal level, all of this happened on the same day.
So the judge will have to schedule a hearing and the district attorney has asked for the initial appearances of all of these defendants to happen the week of September 5th.
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HARRAK: The death toll keeps rising in Hawaii, as recovery crews and dogs search through the debris from the Maui wildfires. We'll have a report from Maui. And in just minutes, the latest on the wildfires ripping through one
Spanish island. What's behind the (INAUDIBLE) slow down with the blaze and how residents tell us they're trying to stay safe.
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HARRAK: The death toll from the wildfires in Maui now stands at 114. Officials expect the number to rise as the search continues through more than 2,000 homes and businesses that burned. They say more than 60 percent of structures have now been searched.
The governor of Hawaii says there are 470 rescue workers and 40 search dogs combing through the disaster area for more victims. CNN's Bill Weir has more.
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BILL WEIR, CNN CHIEF CLIMATE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With noses 40 times more powerful than ours, a trained cadaver dog can smell a body buried 15 feet deep. But in Lahaina, the challenge for these good boys and girls is not depth but breadth, as they work 3.5 square miles of ash and loss.
For their handlers, this is painstaking, heartbreaking work. For the dogs, it's hot and hazardous.
CAPT. CELINA SERRANO, LOS ANGELES COUNTRY FIRE DEPARTMENT: Oh, easy, easy. This way, buddy.
WEIR: Who is this?
SERRANO: Over here. So this is Prentiss.
WEIR: Hi, Prentiss.
Prentiss is a ...
SERRANO: He's a boy.
WEIR: -- boy.
SERRANO: Yes.
WEIR: Hi, bud. Hi, good boy. You hurt your foot.
WEIR (voice-over): Burned paws and clumsy booties are just two more things to overcome for search and recovery teams from 15 different states around the nation.
SERRANO: Come on, buddy.
WEIR (voice-over): Los Angeles County Fire Captain Celina Serrano has been working and living with her Labrador partner for nine years, including her state's deadliest ever campfire which laid similar waste to Paradise, California.
(on-camera): Are you also looking for bone fragments or signs or is it purely the dog triggering the search?
SERRANO: We will. We do. We have some rescue team members that are coming with us and they are also searching, see what anything is visible that they can make out.
WEIR: Yes.
SERRANO: It is a little difficult, though, because there's some stuff that you -- it's just -- you're staring at this debris and it's starting to look like it's bone but it really isn't. And so that's where we really rely on the dog.
STEPHEN BJUNE, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, FEMA URBAN SEARCH AND RESCUE: So we've actually brought in about 40 different search K-9s, which is a fair amount of K-9s for this kind of project because we want to make sure that we're doing it as fast as we can while still remaining as accurate as we can.
So at the end of this, we've got the highest confidence. But as far as the timescale, it's really going to be about that ability to work through this kind of technical search to make sure that we bring everybody home.
WEIR: Because you're really searching at the granular level, aren't you?
BJUNE: In lot of cases, this is a lot smaller than what we're typically dealing with. But again, we're making sure that the sensitivities and the somberness of this because this is a very special site to the people of Hawaii and certainly the fact that we're talking about homes, communities and lives that are all missing and all lost.
So this is something we take very serious. We're taking with a lot of respect and we have to make sure that everything down to the smallest thing is treated with that level of respect.
TIARE LAWRENCE, LAHAINA COMMUNITY LEADER: Not knowing where your friends and family are still missing today. A lot of people are just so hurt and in pain.
WEIR (voice-over): According to the last update from the governor, over 1,000 people remain missing. And while they understand that forensic science takes time, Lahaina survivors are agonizing over how that number remains unchanged.
WEIR: What do you make of this number of the missing?
You know, how accurate that is and whether --
LAWRENCE: I believe it. I know this because I know plenty of people who got out, who know people were stuck. A lot of people didn't make it out.
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LAWRENCE: But that number is real. I hope it comes lower. But at this point, we're over eight days. We're on our 10th day. And if we haven't found them yet -- they're gone.
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HARRAK: That report by Bill Weir.
In Washington state, a growing wildfire is spreading through the city of Medical Lake. The mayor telling CNN a few hours ago an unknown number of structures are now lost from the flames. Luckily, no casualties have been reported so far.
The state's Department of National Resources says at least 3,000 acres or 1,200 hectares have burned. At last report, two state-run medical facilities in the city are sheltering in place. The entire city was already under an evacuation order and the department says it's expanding the order to include the nearby town of Four Lakes.
Firefighters and people who live on the Spanish island of Tenerife are working to keep wildfires from spreading any further. This is what they're up against.
At this point the fire has slowed, thanks to efforts from fire crews and improved weather. Authorities even lifted some restrictions for residents on Friday.
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HARRAK (voice-over): They load their truck with whatever belongings will fit. This family in the Spanish canary island of Tenerife rushing to save their property and themselves as a raging wildfire moves closer to their home.
Residents move quickly to cut down any vegetation that may fuel the flames. Thousands of people have evacuated from the area since Wednesday. The blaze has burned some 4,000 hectares so far, mostly on the northern part of the island.
CELESTINO SUAREZ, TENERIFE RESIDENT (through translator): The ash has reached the town center. People here are really concerned. We are watching the big mountain and the blaze. We saw this firewall and we will see if they can control it. The situation seems pretty bad.
HARRAK (voice-over): Firefighters scrambled Friday to contain the fires by dropping water over the area. The mountainous terrain has made it difficult for them to put the flames out from the ground.
Officials said Thursday it deployed more than 370 personnel and 17 aircraft to help in the effort. Firefighters tried desperately to keep the fires from spreading to the village of Esperanza. Nearly 4,000 residents were ordered to shelter in place earlier this week, according to authorities.
One woman says it's extremely stressful, having the fire come so close to her home.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): You see fires in other places. But, when you live it yourself, it's harder. Seeing this on fire, we've always said that that part was going to be the worst part to extinguish. And it's true, because it's super difficult for them to operate there.
HARRAK (voice-over): The Canary Islands' regional leader called the fires the most complex the Atlantic Ocean archipelago has faced in 40 years. Southern Europe has seen extremely high temperature this summer.
Temperatures rose above 37 degrees Celsius on parts of the Canary Islands, a popular tourist destination. The combination of scorching heat and dry windy weather conditions have been to blame for the wildfires, according to officials.
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HARRAK: A killer whale that performed in Miami for decades has died. The Miami Seaquarium said in a social media post that Toki, the orca, passed away on Friday. The medical team believes she died from a kidney condition.
She had been in captivity since 1970. The Seaquarium announced in March that Toki was going to be released back into the ocean but she died before that could happen.
A new champion will soon be crowned at the Women's World Cup. Ahead, we'll preview Sunday's match between the trailblazing teams of England and Spain.
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HARRAK: We're just moments away from the third place match of the Women's World Cup. For the first time, Australia will be fighting for the bronze medal after posting their best-ever run at the tournament. The co-hosts are set to play in front of another home crowd.
But they will have a tough challenge against Sweden, who are looking for their second straight bronze medal and fourth in team history.
After that contest, Spain and England will compete in the championship match on Sunday. Both teams will be playing for their first-ever title in their finals debut.
Joining me now is CNN Sports analyst Christine Brennan, also a sports columnist for "USA Today."
What a tournament. Let's talk about the finalists and start with Team England and specifically Coach Sarina Wiegman.
CHRISTINE BRENNAN, CNN SPORTS ANALYST: She is having an amazing run and well-deserved, what a genius. Just tactical brilliance. What she has done over the last few years with her home nation, the Netherlands, taking them to the Final four years ago against the United States.
The moving over to be the coach, the manager of England, and not only winning the European championship, 2022 Euro, but also, of course, now taking England to the final this time.
So two finals in a row in the World Cup and also the two finals in the Euro of 2017 and 2022. She is definitely, I believe, the best coach in women's football today and probably one of the best coaches in football, men's or women's today.
And to hear the English players talk about what they think of her, the respect they have for her, how much fun they're having while they're learning and growing in the tourist, England seems to be building game to game in a way that any coach and any team would just dream of as they now head into the final against Spain.
So when you think of England and inventing football, inventing soccer, and then for 50 years from 1921 to 1971, England said women could not play football, what in the world were they thinking?
What an unbelievably terrible decision. But boy, oh, boy, England is back now and they really are ready to be on top of the world.
HARRAK: They are but so are La Roja, the Spanish women's team. They are just a win away as well from World Cup glory.
Can they do it?
What did they have to overcome?
BRENNAN: This is a young team, a team that seems to come at you in waves, so impressive and just a delight to watch on the field.
Yet, the story off the field, as many know, it's certainly -- this is a bittersweet time for Spain, because we know that last fall there were 15 players, who signed a letter. And they were very concerned about the training methods of the coaching staff, about not being listened to, athletes' rights, all the things that are so important, that we expect and talk about in women's sports.
And especially this tournament, this Women's World Cup has been all about empowering women. And to think that in Spain they didn't listen to the women and they rebuffed them. And only three of those 15 women are on the Spanish team at this World Cup. So Jorge Vilda, the coach, and everything about this story is really
troubling. And it's great for the players on the field now and if they win that's wonderful.
But to think that the Spanish Federation could celebrate winning a Women's World Cup in 2023 is, as I said, bittersweet and troubling and obviously an issue that will carry on beyond this World Cup.
HARRAK: Now what's next for women's football?
Do all national teams have a fair shot or does the game still need to develop a little more?
BRENNAN: I think what we've seen is some nations that, in the past, have been quite misogynistic and sexist and didn't care at all about women's football. Obviously now they've come into the 21st century. And they're getting with the plan. And they're loving what they're creating.
We're seeing that in places like Jamaica and Colombia and, of course, we've seen it with the run of Spain.
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BRENNAN: And they're having their best World Cup by far. And England, after being, missing three of the first four Women's World Cups back in the '90s and the early part of this century.
So we're seeing that but we know there's a long way to go, to get to prize money. FIFA is talking about equal prize money for women and men. Four years from now we'll see how that goes. We'll see if that rank misogyny, that we have seen in many nations, for example, like Argentina, where is there women's team compared to their men's team?
We know Brazil had to fight for years, Marta and her teammates had to fight all kinds of stereotypes and all kinds of trying to go over hurdles for years with their team that was so entertaining and was so successful in the women's game.
And we know that there are a lot of places that it's not equal. And the United States has led the way, in many ways the Johnny Appleseed, sowing the seeds for the sport, fighting for equal pay, winning equal pay, being role models and leaders.
Obviously this time on the field of play not so good for the U.S., not at all; very troublesome time for the United States with its women's national team. But the building blocks that the U.S. has shown the rest of the world, I think -- let's hope each and every World Cup we see growth and we see more equality and we see more nations that we didn't expect coming in and playing great football because it's all there for the taking.
If you give women a chance, if you give girls and women a chance, they will take that chance and they will make your nation proud. And that's really what this World Cup has been all about.
HARRAK: Christine Brennan, thank you so much, enjoy the final.
BRENNAN: Thank you, you, too, Laila, take care.
HARRAK: Finally this hour, a United Airlines pilot said he reached his breaking point. That's why he took an ax to a parking gate at Denver International Airport. Video shows him whacking the exit gate more than 20 times.
And airport employees struggled to get the ax away from him. According to the sheriff's office the pilot said he was trying to make it easier for everyone else waiting to get out of the employee parking lot.
The pilot was arrested and charged with criminal mischief. United says he's been taken off the schedule while they investigate.
That wraps up this hour of CNN NEWSROOM. Kim Brunhuber picks up our coverage after a quick break. Please stay with us.
