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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.

Just ahead, President Trump is getting ready for what he calls a major announcement on Russia as he voices more frustration with Vladimir Putin.

Plus, slow-moving thunderstorms hamper recovery efforts after the deadly flash floods in Central Texas.

And Florida's controversial new detention center is supposedly meant to house some of the most vicious people on the planet. But new reporting reveals that may not be the case.

UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Rosemary Church.

CHURCH: I appreciate you joining us.

U.S. President Donald Trump is now teasing possible sanctions on Russia ahead of a major announcement he's planning to make sometime today. He says he's very disappointed with Vladimir Putin as his frustration with the Russian president grows.

It comes after Moscow hit Ukraine with escalating drone and missile attacks over the weekend. U.S. Senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal are pushing a bipartisan bill that they've introduced to slap sanctions on Russia. They say it could be the sledgehammer President Trump needs to end the war.

Meantime, the U.S. special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg has arrived in Ukraine. That is according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's chief of staff. He says they will discuss sanctions, weapons and quote "enhancing cooperation between Ukraine and the United States."

The President is expected to meet with NATO's Secretary General in Washington this week. That meeting comes just days after President Trump announced a deal with the alliance to send much-needed weapons to Ukraine.

CNN's Kevin Liptak has more now from the White House.

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KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: As President Trump promises this big announcement on Russia to come on Monday, he is also laying out a new plan to deliver defensive weapon systems to Ukraine. In particular, those Patriot missile batteries which are so essential.

As Russia ups its onslaught of missiles and drones towards Ukraine, the Patriot missile systems are the only devices that can intercept some of those Russian missiles. So they are absolutely essential to Ukraine's defense. A fact that President Trump reiterated on Sunday saying that Ukraine will need these weapons and describing a new scheme whereby European countries will buy the Patriots from the United States and then transfer them to Ukraine.

It's a setup that will essentially insulate the president from criticism that he's going back on some of his campaign promises to pull back support for Ukraine. He says that these will be paid entirely by the Europeans and that the U.S. will benefit because they manufacture and sell these weapons to their allies in Europe.

The President says he will be discussing this with the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte who will be here in Washington this week. This is all appears to be driven by the president's animus -- growing animus, towards the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The President again accusing Putin of duplicity, of saying one thing and then doing another.

Listen to more of what the President said.

DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: I am very disappointed with President Putin. I thought he was somebody that meant what he said and he'll talk so beautifully and then he'll bomb people at night. We don't like that.

LIPTAK: So essentially that's a less profane version of what the President said last week when he accused Putin of peddling B.S. He didn't use the word B.S. He actually used the curse word of saying things on the phone and then turning around and doing exactly the opposite.

And so the question of course now is whether President Trump plans to apply new sanctions on Russia. He stopped short Sunday of saying that he would be willing to do that but we did hear earlier in the day from the Republican and Democratic sponsors of a sanctions bill in the Senate saying that they were prepared to bring that up and they appeared confident that President Trump would eventually get on board.

Kevin Liptak, CNN, the White House.

(END VIDEOTAPE) CHURCH: Let's bring in Nina Khrushcheva, professor of international affairs at the New School and the great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushcheva. She joins us now from New York. Appreciate you being with us.

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NINA KHRUSHCHEVA, PROF. OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, THE NEW SCHOOL, AND GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF NIKITA KHRUSHCHEVA: Thank you.

CHURCH: So President Donald Trump will make a major statement on Russia's war in Ukraine in the hours ahead. We don't know what he will say, of course, but reports suggest he'll announce additional sanctions on Moscow, along with a weapons plan for Kyiv. What do you think the U.S. president will say?

KHRUSHCHEVA: Well, probably what you just said, certainly it's going to be more weapons. And it's interesting, once again, that Donald Trump basically, as he did from the beginning, saying this is not my war, Joe Biden started it. Europe will have to pay for it.

Europe will pay for it because this is for his constituents who actually kind of believed or wanted to believe his promise he's going to end this war. So he's once again saying we are not going to be part of it. We're just going to supply weapons because our weapons are the most beautiful and the most wonderful and the grandiose weapons of the universe, so that's one part.

With sanctions, it's not exactly clear whether he's going to be on board as of yet, because this 500 percent that promised all economists are saying that this is detrimental not only to the Russian economy will be, but also to global economy and to American economy and together with tariffs that can actually create problems, including the rising price of oil, which is also going to be felt in the United States.

So he may scream large, and that's how Russians look at it. That's how the Kremlin looks at it, is that Trump is a showman. He's going to scream large, but actually nothing from Trump will end up in actual deeds.

And that's how they basically, they and the Kremlin shrug it off and say, well, he's just a lot of (expletive) himself.

CHURCH: So how do you think Russia is preparing for this major statement from the U.S. President, especially if it's much tougher sanctions along with a Ukraine weapons plan? And how will President Putin likely respond to all of this?

KHRUSHCHEVA: Well, he'll respond with more war, that's for sure. There's more bombs on Ukraine. And in fact, the Russians now are saying, and even in the newspapers it has been going on, is that, well, finally we got to what America usually is, which is to destroy Russia.

And so now we're going to respond even more in kind. So if they want to bring more war to Russia, because one of the conversations are the long-range missiles that are going to be sent into the Russian cities.

So if they want that, fine. We're just going to, and Kyiv is a nice city, but, you know, our cities are nicer. So we're just going to do that.

So that idea that, I mean, Lindsey Graham, he's been going at it for, I don't know, decades, that the more you press Russia, the likely it's going to surrender. Actually, it's an absolute opposite.

The more you press Russia, the less it's going to surrender. So I believe that there is more pressure from the United States. Russia will respond with more war.

CHURCH: So Nina, what type of additional sanctions would actually make a difference? Because so far, the Russian economy has survived the Western sanctions. So what would it take to change that and really make a difference?

KHRUSHCHEVA: Well, it won't. That's the thing, I mean, Russian economy survived. It's obviously struggling somewhat, but not absolutely, not nearly as much as what's because it was supposed to be destroyed.

Remember when Joe Biden said, well, Putin will learn the high price and he will get off. I mean, the thing about the Russians is that any price not to be defeated is going to be paid.

So somewhat it's going to get worse. But Putin is prepared for that. And also this is not really I mean, we talk about militarized economy. It's not a military economy yet.

So if he needs to, there was going to be a military economy. There's going to be all hands on deck. And so that Russia can do it has a large population and now there's zero freedoms that people can protest against it, so that's going to be mobilized.

And the question is how Europe is actually going to mobilize its population. Are they ready for war? So in terms of waiting out and in terms of really paying the necessary price economically and everything else, Putin is ready.

CHURCH: And how important do you think it is that these additional sanctions come with a massive and sustainable U.S. weapons package for Ukraine?

KHRUSHCHEVA: Is it sustainable? I mean, how sustainable is it? We don't know.

I mean, it's somewhat do they actually is it in words or do they actually have those patriots that they can deliver? Because, for example, from Germany, we're hearing terraces, this long range missiles are going to be delivered to Ukraine. Oh, no, we don't have enough, it's not going to be delivered.

So as long as the West continues to flip flop on its own message and Trump continues to flip flop on its own message, there is a question if it's sustainable. And I don't think Putin believes that it's sustainable.

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CHURCH: Nina Khrushcheva, thank you so much for talking with us. We appreciate it.

KHRUSHCHEVA: Thank you.

CHURCH: Donald Trump's Middle East envoy says he remains hopeful for the prospect of a ceasefire in Gaza even as talks are said to be deadlocked and Israel continues its strikes. On Sunday at least six children were among 10 Palestinians killed at a water distribution point. The Israeli military says the strike missed its intended target.

CNN's Nada Bashir has more now from London but first a warning viewers may find some of the images in her report disturbing.

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NADA BASHIR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, despite days of proximity talks in Doha around a proposed 60-day ceasefire and hostage release deal, negotiations appear to have stalled yet again, with both sides accusing each other of putting up new obstacles.

On Saturday, an Egyptian source with direct knowledge of those indirect talks told CNN that negotiations were deadlocked as a result of additional demands put forward by Israel, with a senior Hamas official telling CNN that talks had faltered as a result of new conditions introduced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, including new redeployment maps for the Israeli military in Gaza.

Those reports come after an Israeli source also told CNN last week that the key outstanding issue on the table was at that point the terms around where the Israeli military would redeploy in Gaza once the ceasefire takes effect.

But on Sunday, Netanyahu claimed Israel had accepted the latest proposal put forward by the U.S. and instead accused Hamas of rejecting the deal on the table. The Israeli Prime Minister is facing growing pressure at home in Israel for a deal to be struck to secure the release of the remaining hostages held captive in Gaza.

And on the ground in Gaza, the humanitarian toll continues to rise, with growing international calls for an immediate end to the war, as Israel's attacks on civilian areas continue.

On Sunday, several children were killed in an Israeli airstrike at a water distribution point in central Gaza, according to health officials in the Strip. Distressing video from the scene showed multiple casualties amid buckets and makeshift water carriers. The Israeli military later acknowledged the airstrike, claiming it had targeted an Islamic Jihad terrorist, but that the munitions had landed dozens of meters from the target.

This attack came shortly after Gaza health officials reported that 139 bodies were brought to Gaza's hospitals in the space of just 24 hours, with many more victims feared to be buried under the rubble of destroyed buildings. All this as families in Gaza continue to face crippling shortages of humanitarian aid and medical supplies.

Nada Bashir, CNN, London.

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CHURCH: More than a week after deadly flash floods swept through central Texas parts of the area are under mandatory evacuation orders. Slow-moving thunderstorms continue to threaten the area with heavy rain plus a potential for flash floods and rapid river rises.

In Kerrville storms forced ground searches to temporarily suspend operations. The chance for more thunderstorms continues today with rivers forecast to continue swelling into flood stage this week. At least 132 people have been killed in the recent disaster and 106 of those victims were in Kerr County according to local officials.

FEMA is facing scrutiny for its response in central Texas flood sites. Some agency officials are pointing to bureaucratic hurdles that led to obstacles in mounting rescue efforts. But the Department of Homeland Security is challenging those claims.

CNN's Julia Vargas-Jones has the latest.

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JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The rain putting a pause on all those search and rescue operations. We're hearing from those leading those operations that the safety of firefighters and Cajun Navy officers is paramount right now, and it's just too dangerous for them to be out on those waters today.

But tomorrow, the hope is that all of those operations will pick back up after that river crests and goes back down.

But I do want to show you one photo that was shared with CNN earlier on Sunday, showing just one vehicle under a pile of debris and gravel. It's not just water that they're battling. There's so much debris, so much mud.

And that just goes to show the difficulty of those searches as they continue to look for those people who are still missing. This as now we are hearing questions about FEMA's response in the first 72 hours after this disaster.

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CNN reporting that due to bureaucratic obstacles, officials inside the agency said that there was just so much red tape they could not deploy those search and rescue teams. They usually they would have been in place ahead of the formal authorization from FEMA just to have a quick response in the area.

Now, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem pushed back on those claims, saying that the response from FEMA was swift. Take a listen.

KRISTI NOEM, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY: You know, those claims are absolutely false. Within just an hour or two after the flooding, we had resources from the Department of Homeland Security there helping those individuals in Texas.

It was a heartbreaking scene, and I think it's been well covered about what the Coast Guard did, how they were deployed immediately and helped rescue so many individuals from those floodwaters. And we had Border Patrol down there with their tactical teams, and FEMA was there just within a few hours as well.

So those claims are false. They're from people who won't put their name behind those claims. And those call centers were fully staffed and responsive.

VARGAS JONES: The call centers that she is mentioning there have to do with reporting from "The New York Times" that contracts that had expired on July 5th, the day after the floods began here in central Texas, were not renewed until five days later, which delayed the answering of so many calls, thousands of calls to the crisis assistance line that went unanswered.

We're also learning that Kerr County officials here had submitted back in October a report to FEMA that said that this very nature of this event could happen in the next 12 months. All of that just chilling details as we look forward to Monday, where those officials will be meeting to talk about those responses here in Kerrville, Texas.

Julia Vargas Jones, CNN, Kerrville, Texas.

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CHURCH: Police in Kentucky say two women were killed by a gunman at a rural church on Sunday. Officers shot the suspect who was declared dead at the scene.

The incident began at a nearby airport when the gunman opened fire on police during a traffic stop. He then fled to the church where he began shooting at worshipers.

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LAWRENCE WEATHERS, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY POLICE CHIEF: The suspect may have had a connection to the individuals at the church. Four individuals were shot on church property.

Two female victims were pronounced deceased at the scene. The other two victims, both male, were transported to a local hospital. The suspect was shot by responding law enforcement and was pronounced deceased at the scene.

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CHURCH: One of the two men injured at the church is in critical condition. The officer shot during the traffic stop is in stable condition. So far police are not identifying the shooter.

Still to come a migrant farm worker has died from injuries he sustained during a chaotic ICE raid. How the Trump administration is responding.

Plus the U.S. government claims the people held at Florida's controversial new migrant detention center are all criminals. But a new report finds that's not the case. We'll explain.

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CHURCH: Welcome back everyone.

A California farm worker who fell from a greenhouse roof during an ICE raid has died from his injuries. Jaime Alanis Garcia is the first person known to have died during the Trump administration's crackdown on undocumented migrants. His family says Garcia worked at a farm producing cannabis, tomatoes and cucumbers for 10 years.

Hospital and government sources say Garcia may have been fleeing ICE agents when he fell about 30 feet from the greenhouse roof and broke his neck. The Homeland Security Department says agents arrested about 200 people suspected of being in the country illegally and says they were not pursuing Garcia.

The White House Border Czar is defending the agency's practices. He also denounced a judge who ruled last week that Homeland Security was detaining people in Southern California without probable cause.

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TOM HOMAN, WHITE HOUSE BORDER CZAR: Every officer has to bring articulable facts to raise reasonable suspicion and then it can briefly detain. I don't know how she knows that but I don't think any federal judge can dictate immigration policy.

That's a matter for Congress and for the President. The administration is never going to go against the judge's order. We'll litigate it, we'll win it, then we'll get back to doing what we're doing.

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CHURCH: The "Miami Herald" and the "Tampa Bay Times" say they have obtained a list of more than 700 migrants who have either been detained at or may be sent to what the Trump administration calls alligator Alcatraz. According to the report, lawyers are having difficulty locating their clients who were sent to the controversial facility in the Florida Everglades without their knowledge. The newspapers say that state and federal officials are not sharing information about who is detained there.

CNN's Rafael Romo tells us more about the report. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When President Donald Trump toured the migrant detention facility in the Florida Everglades earlier this month, he said that it would very soon house some of the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet, he said. But a new report published Sunday suggests that may not be the case.

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges in the United States are being held at alligator Alcatraz, according to an investigation by the "Miami Herald" and the "Tampa Bay Times," which obtained records about the migrants being held there. According to the report, there are more than 250 people who are listed as having only immigration violations, but no criminal convictions were being held together with those accused and convicted of crimes.

The report says only a third of the detainees have criminal convictions with charges that range from attempted murder to illegal reentry into the United States, as well as traffic violations.

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The information comes from a list of more than 700 migrants who are either already being held at the tent facility or are scheduled to be transferred there. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was part of a group of Florida elected officials and members of Congress who had access to the migrant detention center on Saturday for the first time since it opened earlier this month, reacted to the report on Sunday.

REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL): We were very suspect of that because they have a bracelet system of red, yellow and green, I believe. And, you know, there were -- we could hardly get up close to any of them, but it was clear that there were not many with red bracelets.

But then the Herald story comes out this morning and shows that hundreds of these 900 detainees have no criminal conviction. And that was our suspicion to begin with.

ROMO: Wasserman Schultz also said that migrants are packed into what she described as cages with 32 people inside each holding unit and only three toilets available. In an interview on CNN "State of the Union" with Dana Bash, White House Border Czar Tom Holman dismissed the claims, suggesting the Democratic lawmakers complaints about conditions that alligator Alcatraz are politically motivated. This is what he had to say.

HOMAN: I've been doing this job since 1984. Detainees complained about the conditions of detention. And I said this many times, you can simply go ice.gov and look at the detention standards ICE has and had the highest detention standards in the industry.

ROMO: After touring the detention center Saturday, Representative Darren Soto, a Democrat, said lawmakers also witnessed evidence of flooding, highlighting serious concerns of what could happen to detainees if their severe weather during what forecasters said may be a busy hurricane season.

Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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CHURCH: Donald Trump issues a new trade threat to Canada. Ahead, we will look at the impact his proposed 35 percent tariff is having. Back with that and more in just a moment.

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CHURCH: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom." I'm Rosemary Church. I want to check today's top stories for you.

U.S. President Donald Trump is teasing possible sanctions on Russia as the war rages in Ukraine. We are expecting a major announcement from him later today. It comes as NATO Secretary General travels to Washington this week to meet with President Trump.

With Gaza ceasefire talks faltering in Doha, there's been no let up to the Israeli airstrikes. On Sunday, six children were among 10 Palestinians killed at a water distribution site. The Israeli military says the strike missed its intended target; a dozen others, including a prominent doctor, were killed in a separate strike in central Gaza.

More thunderstorms are forecast for central Texas today, and rivers are expected to swell to flood stage this week. Slow-moving thunderstorms brought heavy rain to the region on Sunday, adding to the devastation from the deadly flash floods just over a week ago.

President Trump is threatening massive new 30 percent tariffs on products from the European Union and Mexico starting August 1. Mexico's president says she is confident her country will reach a trade agreement with the U.S., and the E.U. is delaying its trade countermeasures against the U.S. They were due to take effect on Monday, but are now on hold until early August, so there's more time to negotiate a deal.

President Trump says his tariff threats are working.

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TRUMP: We're dealing with other countries and certain countries that would rather have a deal than a regular tariff. And we're willing, if they're willing to open up. These are countries that have been shut to us, but we've been open to them.

In other words, they wouldn't let us do business there, but they would do business in our country. It's not a fair deal.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CHURCH: President Trump is also threatening Canada with a 35 percent tariff. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says trade negotiators from both countries are working toward an agreement by the August 1st deadline.

For more on this, we're joined by Blayne Haggart. He is an associate professor in political science at Brock University in St. Catharines, Canada. Appreciate you joining us.

BLAYNE HAGGART, ASSOCIATE PROF. IN POLITICAL SCIENCE, BROCK UNIVERSITY: My pleasure.

CHURCH: So U.S. President Donald Trump is now threatening a 35 percent tariff on Canadian goods starting next month. And while Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney started out talking tough in response to Trump's tariff demands, you and others are now criticizing the Canadian leader for giving in to Trump. And you say that Carney's reaction no longer makes sense.

What do you mean by that? And do you think Carney is capable of standing up to Trump in the end?

HAGGART: Well, I think anybody is capable of standing up to Trump if they have the right strategy. The problem is that the Prime Minister is his response to these crazy tariff demands that have, as you know, gone back months now, has been to pursue a comprehensive trade and security negotiations that can't possibly work because Donald Trump is a serial liar and an authoritarian whose word can't be trusted. So therefore, it doesn't really make sense to enter into these kind of like far reaching negotiations in the first place.

CHURCH: What is the other option to that?

HAGGART: Well, the other option is basically to -- is to basically recognize that the foundations of the Canada-U.S. and the North American relationship have changed that in order to make a comprehensive deal basically impossible and kind of go from there. And what that means is accepting that we will not have guaranteed access to the U.S. market.

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There's still going to be trade, but we won't be able to get that kind of false security of an agreement that the United States has made very clear that they will only honor it so far as they feel like.

CHURCH: Well, as things stand now, what impact do you think will -- this new tariff threat of 35 percent of Canadian goods have on the ongoing trade war and negotiations between the two neighbors? And if these talks end in a new deal, what do you expect it will look like?

HAGGART: Well, I mean, that's the thing is that how the prime minister, how Canada will act, I don't know. But we've already seen, for instance, Mark Carney, the Prime Minister, basically walked back our digital services tax that was set to go into place just to keep Donald Trump again, a serial liar and someone who's never kept his word on anything, just talking towards an agreement.

So, again, what I'm suggesting is the whole point of trying to do this, it just doesn't make sense. And so we might end up with an agreement. We'll have to make concessions in order to get that.

In other words, we'll have to give up policy autonomy. But at the end of the day, we're not going to be getting anything. We might get temporary relief, but that -- but it won't actually get us anything that will keep the tariffs down over the long term.

And it's the long term that's important for Canadian businesses because, you know, investments in an economy in an area happen over years. And so you need the year over year certainty. And so no matter what the Prime Minister and Donald Trump sign, that certainty is just not going to be there.

CHURCH: So you mention that digital services tax and as you say, Mark Carney did indeed dump it because Donald Trump threatened that these talks, these negotiations would not go ahead if he didn't dump it. And of course, it has to be pointed out that any U.S. President in the past and present has never accepted this digital tax. So in that sense, surely Mark Carney had very little options except to do what he did, dump this digital tax and proceed with negotiations.

HAGGART: The problem is that if it weren't the digital services tax, it would have been something else, because the Canada-U.S. relationship is so complex. There's so many different parts of it that there's always going to be irritants. And so Mark Carney is on the digital services tax.

Now, Donald Trump is looking and saying, hey, your supply management, the system that Canada uses to manage its agricultural system. Oh, maybe we should get rid of that.

What about we've got hate speech legislation that might be coming online, hate speech legislation that might be coming down the pipe as well. Well, why not deal with that?

There's always going to be something. And so what Carney has shown here is that basically we're OK with giving away any of these things. But again, to get nothing in return.

CHURCH: And just finally, I mean, polls do suggest that Carney's government is still getting strong support. So it's not over yet.

So what's your best advice to Carney as he continues to negotiate with Trump for a fair trade deal for Canada? Because that's the path he is on.

HAGGART: He is on that path. It's the wrong path, is what I'm saying. We have to give up this idea that's based in the way that North America used to exist, it used to be that North America as a shared economic entity was a thing.

But the problem is, and what the prime minister has his actions have not really recognized, is that this had a political basis, had a basis in the respect for national sovereignty, the rule of law, the embrace of multilateralism and human rights, and also the U.S. self-restraint in pursuit of a long game of mutual benefits.

That is no longer the case, the United States is seeking domination. And so any Canadian strategy, as difficult as it might be, has to take that into account. And that's just not happening right now, it's a problem.

CHURCH: Blayne Haggart, thank you so much for talking with us. I appreciate it.

HAGGART: Thank you.

CHURCH: Trade ministers from the European Union are meeting today to discuss trade with the U.S. and with China. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout joins us live from Hong Kong with more. Good to see you, Kristie.

So what are we expecting to come out of these talks?

KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Rosemary, according to this schedule, this discussion is kicking off right now.

What is happening is this. E.U. trade ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss trade policy on China ahead of a much anticipated E.U.-China senior leaders summit due to take place not in Brussels, but in China later this month.

And this comes at a time of tension between Brussels and Beijing. And this was made abundantly clear by recent remarks by the E.U. chief, Ursula von der Leyen. It was last week when she accused China of overcapacity and trade distortion.

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I want to show you the comments that she delivered last week to the European Parliament, the E.U. chief saying this, quote, "Let me be clear, if our partnership is to move forward, we need a genuine rebalancing: fewer market distortions, less overcapacity exported from China and fair reciprocal access for European businesses in China," unquote.

Trade tension between these two major trading entities has been simmering for quite some time now on a variety of fronts. I want to show you the full list for you, if you could bring it up to you, for example, on tariffs on Chinese EVs, on tariffs, for example, on European brandy, on the E.U. ban on medical device tenders for Chinese firms, Chinese curbs on E.U. medical device purchases and Chinese curbs of rare earth exports, this is the stuff that's used in everything from cars to appliances.

Now, despite the ongoing trade tension, we've heard from China saying that they were optimistic and they're calling for greater coordination and communication between China and the E.U.. In fact, this is what we heard from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs recently.

MOFA saying this, let's bring it up for you, making this statement. "China is ready to enhance communication and coordination with the EU to prepare for the upcoming summit and inject new dimensions into an open up new prospects for the China-E.U. Comprehensive Strategic Partnership."

So a lot of positive vibes in that statement there. But perhaps it's because there is so much at stake, Rosemary, these are two major trading powers.

China, the second largest economy in the world, E.U. the third largest. And together, they account for about one third of global trade. Back to you.

CHURCH: All right. Our thanks to Kristie Lu Stout bringing us that live report from Hong Kong. I appreciate it.

Well, this year marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Coming up, the story of one Japanese researcher working to recover the remains of the victims of that tragedy.

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We turn now to Japan, where a university researcher is painstakingly unearthing the remains of World War Two atomic bomb victims. He seeks to remember those killed in Hiroshima and bring closure to their families.

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CNN's Hanako Montgomery has the story.

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HANAKO MONTGOMERY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On the island of Ninoshima, researcher Rebun Kayo digs and sifts slowly, uncovering fragments of human remains from the war that devastated Japan now 80 years ago.

After the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, some 10,000 victims, dead and dying, were ferried to Ninoshima. The small island in Hiroshima Bay became a field hospital and then a mass grave.

REBUN KAYO, UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER (through translator): Boats piled with bodies came to the shore here. Then the soldiers dug a hole and buried them here, one after the other.

MONTGOMERY (voice-over): One day, Kayo plans to bring the bone fragments he collects to a Buddhist temple to be enshrined.

KAYO (through translator): The bones in here, they haven't been treated humanely for 80 years. It'll be 80 years this year. They've been buried in the earth like they're objects.

MONTGOMERY (voice-over): Kayo has been coming here for years, driven by the loss of three members of his own family killed during World War II, whose remains were never recovered. Now he searches through the ground to bring dignity to others and to have a reminder of the effects of nuclear war.

KAYO (through translator): People today who don't know about the war focus only on the recovery of Japan, and they move the conversation forward while forgetting about these people here.

In the end, it becomes like, even if you drop an atomic bomb, you can recover. That's why there will be people who think it's okay to drop the bomb again. There will always be people who try to justify it in a way that suits them.

MONTGOMERY (voice-over): For Kayo, this is not an act of archaeology, but remembrance.

Hanako Montgomery, CNN, Tokyo.

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Still to come, a race is underway in Europe to launch satellites into space. Why they want to be less dependent on the U.S.. We'll take a look.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.

A race is underway in Europe to launch satellites into space to make them less dependent on the United States. This comes as NASA faces funding cuts due to President Donald Trump's efforts to trim down the federal workforce. CNN's Lynda Kinkade has details.

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Two small spaceports, one in Sweden and one in Norway, are racing to launch the first satellites from mainland Europe into space. Their motivation? To decrease Europe's dependence on the U.S., according to experts.

In 2024, the U.S. had 154 launches of hardware into orbit. Europe had just three.

STEFAN GUSTAFSSON, CHIEF STRATEGIST, SWEDISH SPACE CORPORATION: Europe lacks defense space infrastructure to a dangerous degree. So we really need to put efforts there.

KINKADE (voice-over): The continent's only successful orbital launch location is in French Guiana in South America.

GUSTAFSSON: European Union, on its territory, has no own rocket launch facilities.

KINKADE (voice-over): While Europe seeks to expand, NASA is facing cuts.

This week, more than 2000 of NASA's senior staff announced their departure. A part of continued efforts from President Trump to trim down the federal workforce.

On Wednesday, Trump announced that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will be the interim head of NASA, a position typically chosen from a pool of scientists, engineers, academics or public servants. These moves follow the proposed White House budget for 2026, which would cut NASA's funding by 25 percent and slash staff by 5000.

In June, French President Emmanuel Macron voiced his support for European satellites while speaking at the Paris Air Show, stating that space in some way has become a gauge of international power.

But Europe's hopes are not without hurdles. In late March, Andoya Spaceport in Norway conducted its first test launch, a small rocket made by German startup ESA Aerospace.

While not the desired outcome, the Nordic countries push on.

Lynda Kinkade, CNN.

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CHURCH: A thrilling win for tennis star Jannick Sinner, the world number one, took home his first ever Wimbledon title after a four set thriller against the two time reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz. Sunday's showdown proved to be a rematch to remember for the sport's new big two in the Roland Garros final.

Just five weeks ago, Sinner lost to Alcaraz in what's being called one of the greatest men's tennis matches of all time. Sunday's win is Sinner's fourth Grand Slam title.

And a surprise result in the football world. Chelsea dominated Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup final on Sunday. CNN World Sports Patrick Snell was there for all the action.

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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Chelsea are Club World Cup champions again, the Blues adding to their 2021 triumph by delivering an absolutely sensational performance to well and truly shock the reigning European champions Paris Saint-Germain and all before the watching Donald Trump.

SNELL (voice-over): The U.S. President arrived in his box ahead of kickoff, joined by First Lady Melania Trump and the FIFA president Gianni Infantino.

Chelsea were superb from the word go. Cole Palmer with a brilliant composed strike and ice cool finish in the blistering New Jersey heat. Minutes later, it was to Palmer with breathtaking skill, which left PSG's defenders bamboozled. Same player, same finish, same celebration. PSG by now were completely outclassed and Chelsea were 3-0 up before

the break. A wonderful chip finish from Brazilian star Joao Pedro after he was played in by Palmer.

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The big money signing from Brighton with his third goal in three matches.

And then came an historic first ever halftime show at a FIFA tournament with Doja Cat among the headline performers before an unexpected twist as Cole player Chris Martin appeared on stage as an unannounced halftime performer.

The second half saw tensions rise as PSG's Joao Neves saw red after yanking Chelsea's Marc Cucaracha by the hair. Then after the full time whistle, a confrontation between Chelsea's Joao Pedro and PSG players plus their manager Luis Enrique, Joao Pedro falling to the ground in the process. This was Chelsea's day though, 3-0 the final score, a moment they were determined to savor with their ecstatic fans.

Then came the trophy lift, Chelsea the first ever winners of the newly revamped tournament. Trump, who'd been booed by some as he walked out, appeared on the podium along with Infantino to hand the trophy to Chelsea skipper Rhys James. While Infantino carried on walking, Trump though stayed put to sample first hand the Chelsea celebrations.

COLE PALMER, CHELSEA MIDFIELDER: I knew he was going to be here but I didn't know he was going to be on the stand when we lifted the trophy so I was a bit confused.

SNELL: Well, whatever was going on there, there is no doubt that the Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca has delivered an absolute masterclass. He'd already guaranteed the Blues' Champions League footy for next season. His team also won the UEFA Conference League and now they are officially the best club side in the world.

Patrick Snell, CNN, East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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CHURCH: Amazing win. And thank you so much for your company, I'm Rosemary Church. Have yourselves a wonderful day.

"Amanpour" is coming up next. Then stay tuned for "Early Start" starting at 5 a.m. in New York, 10 a.m. in London.

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