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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and around the world. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Just ahead.
Donald Trump contradicts Israel's Prime Minister, acknowledging real starvation is happening in Gaza. The U.S. pledges more aid as the U.N. warns that the coming days are make or break.
Days of torrential rain has triggered deadly landslides around Beijing. Beijing will have the latest on China's emergency response, which has forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate.
And terrifying moments in New York City as a gunman opens fire in an office building, killing four people before taking his own life.
UNKNOWN (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is "CNN Newsroom" with Lynda Kinkade.
KINKADE: Appalling scenes of starvation in Gaza are prompting a shift from the U.S. President after mostly blaming Hamas for aid delays. Donald Trump now says Israel bears a lot of the responsibility. The President says the U.S. will establish food centers in Gaza to tackle the crisis.
Here's what he and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had to say during a meeting on Monday.
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DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: We also discussed, obviously, Gaza. And I think before we get to phase two, which is, you know, what's going to happen afterwards, we want to get the children fed. We made a contribution a week ago of $60 million, all going into food.
We only hope the food goes to the people that need it because so much, as you know, when you do something there, it gets taken by Hamas or somebody, but it gets taken. And we're prepared to help. We want to help, it's a terrible situation. KEIR STARMER, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: Trucks need to get in because
that's the only way you can get the volume in. And we do thank the President for the work he's done to try to get to a ceasefire, which we desperately need, but also to put aid into the region. There needs to be much more of that.
We need to galvanize other countries in support of getting that aid in. But yes, that does involve putting pressure on Israel because it absolutely, this is a humanitarian catastrophe.
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KINKADE: Well, Israel says it will continue to pause military operations in parts of the territory for 10 hours a day to ensure safe passage of convoys delivering that aid. It's also airdropping some supplies into Gaza, along with Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health says hospitals in Gaza are put at another 14 deaths in the past day due to famine and malnutrition. The U.N. aid chief warns the next few days will be make or break for humanitarian efforts. He says a lot of food has been trucked in this week, but a lot has been looted.
The starvation crisis in Gaza has been getting worse each day. CNN's Jeremy Diamond reports from Jerusalem. But first, a warning. His report does contain graphic images.
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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Desperate and hungry, thousands of Palestinians scramble onto aid trucks that have just entered the Gaza Strip. They grab what they can, anything for the chance to feed themselves and their families, many of whom have gone days without food.
This sea of desperation driven by months of Israeli restrictions on aid distribution in Gaza. Amid global outrage, Israel is now reversing course, ceasing fire in parts of Gaza for 10 hours a day and opening designated secure routes to allow more aid trucks to flow in, steps humanitarian aid organizations have sought for months.
The U.N. says more than 100 trucks of aid were delivered into Gaza on Sunday. Many more will be needed to even begin to alleviate this crisis.
As children scrape bits of flour from the beds of those trucks, the World Food Program says a quarter of Gaza's 2 million-plus population is now experiencing famine-like conditions. Israel also allowing airdrops into Gaza for the first time in months, sending Palestinians running to grab what they can.
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But as a rifle is fired into the air, a reminder that it is often the strongest, like gangs who steal and resell food at higher prices who are first to eat. I didn't get anything, this elderly lady says. I was crushed in the crowd.
While some manage to grab a full box, others emerge with just a few items, flour, oil, pasta. A far cry from what they would get if enough U.N. trucks were entering Gaza.
This aid is disgraceful, we are not dogs to be made to run after aid. People fought over it, this man says. We'd rather die of hunger with dignity than die in humiliation and filth.
Palestinians are also still getting shot and killed while trying to get aid. The Palestinian health ministry said 25 people were shot by Israeli forces while trying to get aid during the past 24 hours. The Israeli military said it was not aware of any casualties.
He's only 12 years old, what was his fault? This man cries out. He went to get flour to feed little children, his brother survives on sugar water to feel full.
In the hospital's morgue, this body is a testament to an entirely different weapon. Starvation has claimed 20 more lives in Gaza in the last two days, including 10-year-old Noor Abu Saleh.
She became like this because of hunger, thirst, and the siege. The siege imposed on us by the Israelis, her uncle shouts.
This is a Palestinian child. He says the world would be outraged if only she had been born anywhere else.
Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Jerusalem.
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KINKADE: I'm going to go to Gaza now, and CARE's response director in the enclave is Beckie Ryan. We appreciate you joining us from Gaza. Thanks so much for your time.
We've obviously just seen those harrowing images of kids, you know, dying of starvation. Yet the prime minister of Israel says that it's not happening, despite the reports from our correspondents, the NGOs, the doctors. Can you describe what you are seeing on the ground in terms of deaths caused by hunger?
BECKIE RYAN, CARE'S RESPONSE DIRECTOR IN GAZA: Yes, thank you. So I'm speaking to you from our health clinic this morning. This is our lab facility.
And downstairs, we receive up to 150 patients a day. And on top of that, a lot of mothers and children coming in for nutrition services.
What we've seen from our work here in Gaza is that the situation is critical. And the rate that it's deteriorating is astonishing.
You know, just a couple of months ago, we were seeing rates of 19 percent of children in our clinic that were representing as malnourished. But over the past few days, that has gone up to 32 percent, and already 19 percent was a horrific amount of children in terms of the nutrition situation. But 32 percent is incredible.
We are struggling in terms of being able to respond to this. We have therapeutic supplies to address severe acute malnutrition. But we do not have any more supplies left of the supplements that would prevent children from sliding into that scale.
So we really cannot support them into the way that we would like. We've seen people fainting in the streets. This is affecting our teams as well, coming to work without any food, if they're lucky, people are eating up to one meal a day.
But fundamentally, there's just no food in the market. So even those that are lucky enough and fortunate to be still earning a wage and have access to some funds, there's just nothing for them to buy. So they're in the same situation.
KINKADE: Yes. So even people you're working there with, trying to help the Palestinians in Gaza, you're even struggling to get food, right? How is that affecting the work that you're doing? How are you and your team coping?
RYAN: Yes. It's extremely difficult.
The team are extremely passionate about what they're doing. They're really motivated to continue the support. But just the level of efficiency and effectiveness we want to reach to, and we know that we can do in this situation, we're just not able to deliver.
On top of that, it's not just the food situation. It's also access to water, both the drinking and washing, because this is reliant on fuel. We're not getting the life-saving amounts of fuel that we need every day to be able to continue to deliver those services as well.
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So particularly in these types of temperatures, it's around 34, 35 degrees Celsius right now, and up to 90 percent humidity. It's increasing the food security situation to incredible heights as well.
KINKADE: Yes. Of course, Israel announced a one-week humanitarian pause in parts of Gaza to allow some aid convoys and limited food and medicine and fuel to come through from a single crossing. From your perspective, is that a meaningful breakthrough or just a piecemeal solution?
RYAN: What we're calling for with the humanitarian community is much wider access. We have so many trucks waiting outside, we know we can deliver at scale. We just need to be able to bring those in.
Considering the severity of the needs at the moment that we're seeing, a one-week pause is not going to make the impact or be able to address any of those nutrition or food security needs that we're seeing. We would just be back in the same situation in a week's time. So we really need a concerted, sustained access and ability to go to
the people and to support the needs for a longer period than that, because this is the result of two years' accumulation, and we need time to be able to address that at the scale we know that we can do as humanitarians.
KINKADE: Yes. Well, we appreciate all the effort you and your team are making there. Thanks so much for your time, Beckie Ryan, we appreciate it.
RYAN: Thank you very much.
KINKADE: Ukrainian officials say at least 16 people are dead and dozens more injured after Russian strikes hit a prison in Zaporizhzhya overnight. Moscow strikes coming just a day after U.S. President Donald Trump slashed his deadline for Vladimir Putin to end the war.
Trump now says the Russian president has 10 to 12 days to reach a ceasefire, and if that doesn't happen, the U.S. will target Moscow with harsher economic penalties. Trump told reporters that the peace process has been much more difficult than he expected.
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TRUMP: I was tough on Putin because I was the one that closed up Nord Stream and Biden came along and opened it up. I was very tough on Putin in one way, but we got along very well. And I never really thought this would happen.
But I thought we'd be able to negotiate something, and maybe that'll still happen, but it's very late down the process. So I'm disappointed.
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KINKADE: Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised his American counterpart's determination. The Ukrainian President took to social media to thank Trump for, quote, "his focus on saving lives and stopping this horrible war."
But so far, Trump's ultimatums have not fazed Vladimir Putin. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh shows us what Russia's relentless offensive looks like inside eastern Ukraine.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The space left for Ukraine is shrinking from above, too. Lined with fishing nets to protect cars from Russian drone attacks, this is the road to Konstantinovka, one of three vital towns in the east Russia is slowly encircling.
PATON WALSH: Extraordinary low-tech bit of invention here to counter the high-tech problem of drones that have redefined warfare in Ukraine. PATON WALSH (voice-over): If you live here, you still need to get home. And, as we see on this Russian drone footage, the holes let Moscow's smarter drone operators in. One even lies in wait, filming the other drone as it strikes.
The town lined with prey. A drone hit this van at dawn. The driver killed, even if its explosives didn't go off.
Little has been spared here. Artillery grinding for months.
PATON WALSH: Well, something just flew in over our head there, but, again, when we move around this town, the clearer how more in the pincers it is of Moscow's summer offensive, but still these bizarre signs of ordinary life trying to persist.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Tatyana lives on the edge of town and is now carrying her stuff to safety.
TATYANA, KONSTANTINOVKA RESIDENT (translated): We don't have anywhere to go. I live on (the outskirts) and went to feed my dog and it's heavy there. Really heavy, everyone has left.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Oddly bustling, though, is the central market, where you'll notice locals turn away from our camera.
PATON WALSH (translated): How is it now? Ok?
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PATON WALSH: So, people here don't want their faces shown. Sometimes a sign that they're concerned the town may change hands or want simply not to be shown on television.
UNKNOWN (translated): As you see. Glory to Ukraine.
PATON WALSH (translated): Calm for now?
UNKNOWN (translated): There is no calm today. They are shooting of course.
PATON WALSH: She doesn't want to be filmed either. The same story, really.
And now we've just been told that a drone's been spotted, which may have been surveying the area, so we're told we should leave now.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): With the drones, for every new idea, there's something newer.
PATON WALSH: They're littering the battlefield now, this fiber-optic cable, meaning that drones can't be jammed and are instead linked back to their controller through this tiny cord that can extend for tens of kilometers.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): It is underground where they try to control the skies. Ukrainian commander Vasyl sees many Russians closing in and no new Ukrainians coming to help. This airstrike, a Ukrainian drone team targeted.
VASYL, 93RD SEPARATE MECHANIZED BRIGADE (translated): We have a critical shortage of personnel, we hardly get new recruits, the workload on the troops is very heavy. Ukraine has a lot of people but no one wants to fight. The war is over (for them).
The old personnel are left, they are tired and want to be replaced but no one is replacing them, because there are no (people).
UNKNOWN (translated): Cloud, fly around it and give me a close-up.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): They show us one success, this Russian tank covered in protective netting, which needed 70 Ukrainian drones to stop it. Some Ukrainian positions held by just a pair of soldiers, isolated, Vasyl said. No vehicles able to reach them.
VASYL (translated): We are currently supplying the infantry using drones. As dusk falls, we launch the Vampire of Kazhan drones. We load 10 kilograms of supplies, food, ammunition, water, batteries, chargers for radio stations.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): On their screens, a lone Russian is hit by a drone's grenade, but survives and shoots at the next one, throwing his helmet as it flies in. He again survives, but another comes and misses him by inches.
He takes off his armor and waves a shovel. Isolated, relentless, agonies for both sides.
VASYL (translated): We are tired. Everyone is tired of this war and I believe other countries are also tired of helping us. This war must end, that would be the best solution.
PATON WALSH (voice-over): Moscow wants that too. Just its ending is yet uglier still.
Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Konstantinovka, Ukraine.
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KINKADE: Well still to come, North Korea says it could be open to another summit with the U.S. President, but with one major condition. The announcement was issued by leader Kim Jong-un's influential sister.
CNN's Will Ripley is following this story and joins us live from Taipei. Good to see you, Will. So, the North Korean officials have admitted their relations with the U.S. aren't bad, but at the same time they've ruled out any possibility of giving up nuclear weapons. What was said and what's behind this shift?
WILL RIPLEY, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I think relations with the U.S., Lynda, are essentially kind of non-existent at the moment. Even President Trump reportedly was trying to send letters to Kim Jong-un going through the North Korean mission at the United Nations, reportedly. And the North Koreans there refuse to even accept the letters. So there's no communication happening at the moment, at least that's the latest reporting that we've had.
And the two countries, of course, especially from the North Korean perspective, are enemies. And yet, Trump and Kim do have this unique relationship. They exchange letters, they met several times, and certainly there was more mutual conversation between the two of them than any North Korean or American leader before.
Which is why you now have the sister, or the younger sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Yo-jong, signaling, perhaps, through North Korean state media that talks with the U.S. could be possible, but there's one key condition.
If the United States accepts North Korea as a nuclear weapons state, and doesn't push for this full disarmament that the United States has always pushed for, and things have changed quite a bit since North Korea signed that agreement in Singapore with Trump and Kim, where they agreed to start the process of denuclearization, after the diplomacy essentially fell apart in Hanoi, even though there was one more meeting at the Korean Demilitarized Zone.
Kim did a strategic pivot, and he's now developed a very deep and deepening partnership with Russia, and Russian President Vladimir Putin just announced this week that they were going to be allowing direct commercial flights from Moscow to Pyongyang for the first time since the mid-1990s.
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And so -- in addition to that, of course, in addition to North Korea supplying artillery and troops and ballistic missiles for the war in Ukraine, where North Korean soldiers are on the ground learning about things like drone warfare, which you just saw in NPW's report that played right before me.
You have a very different dynamic at play, and so you also have a much more confident North Korea, and Kim Yo-jong warning that Pyongyang might use military force if pushed. She did, though, say that the relationship between Trump and Kim is, you know, quote, "not bad," but diplomacy at this stage would just be a hope unless denuclearization is taken off the table. The White House responding saying that President Trump would love to engage with Kim Jong-un to talk about a fully denuclearized North Korea.
So it seems as if the United States still hasn't really moved off of that point, and that's going to be a real sticking point between the two sides, preventing them from meeting.
But never say never, Lynda. President Trump is expected to be in this region later this year in October, he'll be in South Korea. Could there be an informal meeting or something then?
We'll certainly have to watch. I guess anything's possible.
KINKADE: Especially in that time frame. Will Ripley, good to see you. Thanks so much for joining us. Well, still to come, heavy rain over northern China triggers deadly
flooding around Beijing. We'll bring you an update on the situation on the ground there next.
Plus, a ceasefire appears to be holding after days of deadly clashes on the Thai-Cambodian border. We'll hear how civilians caught in a conflict are coping.
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KINKADE: Well, northern China has been pummeled by heavy rains in recent days and on the outskirts of Beijing storms have turned deadly, killing at least 30 people.
CNN's Kristie Lu Stout is in Hong Kong with the latest on the disaster.
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cars moving but not the way they should. On roads, now rivers in the northern outskirts of Beijing.
According to Chinese state media, dozens of people have been killed after days of heavy rain caused widespread flooding and triggered deadly landslides. Many more are missing.
China's leader Xi Jinping urging a quote, "All out search and rescue effort for those trapped or yet to be found. Emergency response must be activated and carried out at the earliest possible moment to fully protect people's lives and property, Xi said in a statement on Monday.
Guo Shuzen is still waiting for help. A wall of soil now sits in her auto repair shop after a landslide swept through the second floor of the building in Miyun, a suburb of China's capital.
GUO SHUZEN, LOCAL RESIDENT (through translator): By the time we got here, the landslide had already crashed into the house. I saw the water had nowhere to go. More than 80,000 people have been evacuated in and around Beijing and it's not just the capital in crisis.
LU STOUT (voice-over): Video from state-run media shows downpours and torrents of water in Hebei, Tianjin and Inner Mongolia. Even when the rains dry up, those affected will have to dig through the destruction left behind.
Kristie Lu Stout, CNN.
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KINKADE: Well Thailand's acting Prime Minister says the situation on the border with Cambodia is calm 13 hours into the ceasefire. Earlier, Thai officials accused their neighbor of deliberately violating the truce, which Cambodia denied. The country's militaries are communicating, commanders from both countries met for negotiations.
Last week, clashes broke out over a contested border region, with both nations accusing the other of firing first. It led to the deadliest fighting in more than a decade, with 38 people killed, hundreds of thousands were forced from their homes. And after a week of violence, fear and uncertainty, they are desperate to go back.
Well last hour, I spoke with Sui-Lee Wee, the Southeast Asia Bureau Chief for the "New York Times." I asked her if the truce was holding.
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SUI-LEE WEE, SOUTHEAST ASIA BUREAU CHIEF, "NEW YORK TIMES": So we've been closely watching a military meeting today of the senior military commanders of both Cambodia and Thailand to see how they would work out this deal. So far, the signs look promising.
What I know from a Cambodian official so far is that they have agreed on four terms. One of it, which is to pull -- they would not deploy more troops to the areas where they've been fierce fighting. And that's very promising because the death toll has been escalating over the past few days and the human toll has been significant in terms of the number of evacuees and more than 160,000 people have had to flee their homes in recent days.
Another term of the agreement that we know so far is that they have agreed to implement a working group to discuss how to implement the ceasefire. That, of course, is the question going forward in the next few days of whether this will permanently hold.
KINKADE: Yes, exactly. I mean, that is the big question. I imagine for the 160,000 or more people that have had to flee, they want to return home. But are any returning home? Are they more waiting to see how this plays out and whether the ceasefire actually does indeed last?
WEE: What we know from (inaudible) is that the local government is closing a lot of the shelters that they've set up. There are now two major shelters left, and I think a lot of people there are still waiting to hear whether they can go home. I know a lot of them are very eager to do so, but they are also very cautious as they want to see how this will play out for them.
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KINKADE: And both sides have blamed each other for this latest flare- up along the border, but this isn't a new dispute, really, is it? Can you just give us some historical context? What is at the root of this long-standing tension, and how have previous flare-ups been managed or diffused?
WEE: Yes, it's been a decades-long conflict, and it really comes down to maps. And Thailand and Cambodia both use different maps to discuss this shared 500-mile long border that they have. They've managed to work out resolutions on a large part of the border.
It comes down now to four areas, about 100 kilometers left that they say are undefined.
And this is where the areas of fighting have occurred, around these ancient Hindu temples. And so, you know, it's just going to be intractable. And I think the reason the ceasefire came about is that a lot of the establishment is slowly realizing now that it's going to be futile to keep on fighting when there's not going to be an easy resolution to this.
KINKADE: Sui-Lee Wee, thank you so much for your time, from the "New York Times." We appreciate it.
WEE: Thank you for having me.
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KINKADE: Well, still to come, new details on what may have driven a government to commit a mass shooting in a New York skyscraper right in the heart of busy midtown Manhattan.
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KINKADE: Welcome back to "CNN Newsroom." I'm Lynda Kinkade. Let's check today's top stories.
Donald Trump says the U.S. plans to open food centers to address the hunger crisis in Gaza. The Palestinian Health Ministry says hospitals in the territory reported another 14 people dying of malnutritional famine, bringing the total since the war began to nearly 150. Israel is pausing military operations in some areas for 10 hours a day to allow aid deliveries.
A ceasefire on the Thai-Cambodian border appears to be holding the day after the countries agreed to stop the fighting. Military leaders from both countries just met and agreed to keep up that truce. At least 38 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since the conflict began last week.
And at least 30 people have died as a result of heavy rains across northern China. Flooding on the outskirts of Beijing has forced more than 80,000 people to evacuate. According to state media, downpours have cut off electricity to 136 villages, dozens of roadways have also been submerged.
New details are emerging about a possible motive for Monday's mass shooting in New York. A law enforcement source tells CNN that the government was carrying documents indicating he had grievances with the National Football League's handling of CTE, a brain disease linked to repeated head trauma. We're told the shooter, a 27-year-old man from Las Vegas, played football years ago and apparently had a suicide note alleging he suffered from CTE and had asked for his brain to be studied.
The NFL has offices in the building where the shootings took place and the league's commissioner says one of their employees was seriously injured in the attack. That person is now in hospital reportedly in a stable condition.
Four people, including an off-duty police officer, were killed in the shootings. Authorities say the gunman then took his own life. CNN's Shimon Prokupecz reports.
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SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN SR. CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: Monday night the police commissioner releasing new information describing just how everything unfolded just around 6:30 when the gunman walked into the lobby ambushing the people in the lobby, including an NYPD police officer who was working security, killing that officer, shooting others in the lobby, then getting in an elevator and going up to the 33rd floor where he continued his rampage. A lot still remains unknown.
The FBI, the NYPD, and also the Las Vegas police department and officials there are helping to try and piece some of this. That is where the gunman is from, the NYPD, saying he drove here, double parked his car, and then walked into the building firing at those people.
Of note from the NYPD that the suspect does have a documented mental health issue. That's certainly going to raise a lot of questions and for now we're just hoping to learn more about the victims.
We know a lot about the police officer who was a father of two. His wife was expecting their third child, only 36 years old with about four years on the job.
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So a lot more still that we need to learn here and hopefully that'll happen in the coming days.
Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, New York.
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KINKADE: Well an unprecedented development. A Colombian judge found former president Alvaro Uribe guilty of bribery and abuse of process in a decade-long witness tampering case. This is the first time a prominent Colombian leader has been convicted at trial.
Stefano Pozzebon has more from Bogota.
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STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: The ruling that found the former Colombian president Alvaro Uribe guilty is historic because it's the first time ever that a former head of state has been convicted of a crime in Colombia.
Uribe has been one of the most powerful and consequential leaders in Colombian recent history and on Monday he was found guilty on two charges, abuse of process and bribery. This is coming at the end of a judiciary case that has lasted for more than 12 years. At the same time Uribe was found not guilty of a separate bribery charge.
Also the attorney general is demanding jail time and we know that the sentence will be read at the end of the week. Many in Colombia have celebrated the ruling against Uribe who has often been associated with paramilitary formations in some of the darkest chapters of Colombia's civil war. At the same time he has never been found guilty up until Monday night, Uribe's defense instead has already claimed their intention to appeal the ruling and claimed innocent.
This ruling carries enormous significance also because Colombia is less than a year away from a presidential vote where many expected Uribe to play a key role in selecting a unitary candidate for the right-wing and conservative movement. It's yet to be seen if the fact that he's been found guilty in this process means that he will also lose some of his political weight.
For CNN, this is Stefano Pozzebon, Bogota.
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KINKADE: Well Independence Day celebrations in the Peruvian capital Lima turned violent as anti-government protesters clashed with police. Several people were reportedly injured as demonstrators approached congress.
That's where the President Dina Boluarte was delivering a speech detailing plans for mining and construction projects worth a combined $10 billion. Remains to be seen if the deal will help the president's approval ratings which stand at just 2.4 percent.
We'll be right back. You're watching CNN. Stay with us.
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KINKADE: With starvation an ever-present threat in Gaza, staying home isn't an option for parents with hungry children. As our Paula Hancocks reports, some women are now banding together to brave the dangerous search for food, hoping there's safety in numbers.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Umar Labad walks into the unknown. Danger is everywhere in this darkness. A woman alone, surrounded by men, all with the same desperate purpose, to find food, to survive. Now Labad's husband was killed in an Israeli airstrike, she's now the
sole provider for a family of eight and can only leave them while they sleep to find food.
The children tell me, don't go, mama, she says. Don't go to the aid centers. We don't want you to die, mama, we'll take care of us if something happens to you. The alternative is they starve.
This group of women from one displacement camp make the nighttime search together for protection, but even then, they are targets.
This woman says, yesterday I waited from 6 p.m. until 4 a.m. I got a bag of flour, but then a young man with a knife said, drop the flour or I'll kill you. This is the value of Gaza now, my homeland.
Everything around us is a risk to our lives, Omkata says. Whether it's thieves, Israeli soldiers, rockets or drones, everything.
Their friend says she's come every day for a week and received nothing. She just gave birth to her youngest child three weeks earlier.
The women go back to their families at daybreak, empty-handed.
More than 1000 people have been killed by Israeli fire, waiting for food since late May, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Israeli military says it has fired warning shots when it feels threatened, but denies responsibility for the heavy death toll.
These displaced women from Beit Lahia have a long walk ahead of them.
This woman says, either I return with food and my children shout with joy, or they will scream in grief because I didn't return.
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The crack of gunfire nearby sends them diving for cover. Unsure of where is safe.
A casualty being rushed past them to hospital, a reminder that safety is a concept that left Gaza long ago.
When she returns to her tent, her children start crying when they see the bag is empty.
The United Nations says the trickle of aid being allowed in, the breakdown of law and order, and the dismantling of the U.N.-led delivery systems, has created new levels of desperation. Gaza is now a place where the fittest survive and the most vulnerable are left with nothing.
Back from their nightly trips to aid points, Omkata and Umberlao share what little food they managed to get. A friendship formed in displacement camps.
I've seen death many times, Umberlao says, but I will keep going until I get my children something to eat.
CNN tracked down the two women weeks later. As food got scarcer and their bodies weaker, their journey has become even more perilous. Desperation pushed them to try their luck at the American-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Omkata says the American aid points are death zones. I reached one and spent the night there. A sniper fired above my head.
The bullet missed me by mere centimeters. She hasn't gone back since.
Her three children live on saline she makes at home and food from charity kitchens. They always go to sleep hungry, she says.
Her friend and tent neighbor, Umberlao, hasn't given up on the long, tiring treks to find food for her five children.
I was just at Zakeem, she says. I left at sunset yesterday and returned this morning. There was gunfire and martyrs lying in front of us. I couldn't bring anything.
Without organized aid deliveries reaching the most vulnerable, it remains an endless and usually futile struggle. It remains an endless and usually futile pursuit.
Paula Hancocks, CNN, Abu Dhabi.
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KINKADE: Well, still to come, we know a brisk walk is good for you, but how about your brain? Still ahead, we'll have the research on the benefits of daily walking and reducing the risks of Alzheimer's and dementia.
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KINKADE: Well, there is new evidence in the power of a daily walk. A 10-year study shows it can significantly reduce the risk of cognitive decline, especially for those with certain genetic variations or a family history of Alzheimer's disease. CNN's Jacqueline Howard reports.
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JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH REPORTER: Walking has long been connected with health benefits, including cognitive benefits. And now this new research, it's being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference. It includes data on nearly 3000 adults.
It found that walking has a protective benefit against cognitive decline, especially in people with an ApoE4 genetic variant. That's a variant that's associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's. So greater walking was tied to slower decline in people carrying this genetic variant.
And this association, it was slightly greater among black adults compared with white adults. So it may have a slightly greater benefit for the black community.
But overall, this is an important message for people who have a genetic risk factor tied to Alzheimer's disease. And it's estimated that at least one in five people are carrying a genetic variant that is associated with an increased risk.
But even if you have this genetic variant, new research tells us staying physically active is one thing you can do to reduce your risk, other things to consider. Prevent diabetes or manage it if you've been diagnosed, watch your blood pressure, prevent or correct hearing loss, limit your alcohol intake, don't smoke. These are all ways to help keep your brain healthy as you age.
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KINKADE: Our thanks to Jacqueline Howard.
Well, an Arizona artist has won the record for the state's tallest mural, and it's quite the sight. Leila Pan-Ian painted this 230-foot mural on the side of an apartment building in Phoenix, it's more than 70 meters of art she free-handed in just two months.
She and her assistants worked through the heat and the rain to finish the piece. The artist says she wants her art to remind people to dream big.
That does it for this edition of "CNN Newsroom." Thanks so much for your company, I'm Linda Kinkade. Have yourselves a wonderful day.
"Amanpour" is up next, and stay tuned for "Early Start" with M.J. Lee starting at 5 a.m. in New York, that's 10 a.m. in London.
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