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Russia's War on Ukraine; Israel Strikes Gaza City ahead of Takeover; Appeals Court Strikes Down Trump's Sweeping Tariffs; Extreme Flooding Worsens in Parts of Pakistan; Details of Pressure on CDC Director before Firing; Leadership Crisis at Top U.S. Public Health Agency; Thai PM Removed from Office over Phone Scandal; Italian Revenge Porn Facebook Page Taken Down. Aired 3-3:45a ET
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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Hello. Wherever you are in the world, you are now in the CNN NEWSROOM with me, Ben Hunte in Atlanta. And it is so good to have you with me.
Coming up on the show, Russia hits Ukraine's Zaporizhzhya region just as a source tells us progress is being made on Ukrainian security.
Israel is declaring Gaza City a dangerous combat zone. It's carrying out strikes on the edge of the city.
And a big setback for U.S. president Donald Trump's tariff policy. A court says many of them are illegal.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (voice-over): Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Ben Hunte.
HUNTE: Welcome.
Ukraine says a new Russian attack on its southeastern Zaporizhzhya region has killed at least one person and wounded 22 others. Video shows crews fighting fires in destroyed buildings and paramedics rushing to care for injured residents.
Search and rescue efforts are underway. Ukrainian military Telegram channel reported explosions being heard late on Friday before saying it was a Russian attack that hit residential and retail areas.
This all comes after top Ukrainian officials say they met with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff to, quote, "push forward real diplomacy."
At the meeting in New York on Friday, Witkoff was also briefed on the massive Russian attack on Kyiv earlier this week. Ukraine's president says the death toll from that air assault has now risen to 25. World leaders and officials are denouncing the strikes as Kyiv calls for direct talks with Vladimir Putin. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JOHN KELLEY, ACTING U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TO THE U.N.: The latest drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, which resulted in numerous civilian casualties and damage to residential areas, the offices of the E.U. delegation in Kyiv and the building which houses the British Council, cast doubts on the seriousness of Russia's desire for peace.
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HUNTE: Meanwhile, we're learning that good progress has been made on Ukraine's security guarantees among the Coalition of the Willing. That is according to a European source who tells CNN that the group of more than 30 countries has offered up aircraft, troops and ships if a peace deal is reached.
CNN's Jennifer Hansler has the latest from Washington.
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JENNIFER HANSLER, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT PRODUCER: U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with a Ukrainian delegation in New York on Friday as diplomatic efforts to end Russia's war against Ukraine have largely faltered.
Top Ukrainian official Andriy Yermak described the meeting as coordinating efforts between the U.S. and Ukraine. And a key message seemed to be that Ukraine is willing to be a good faith player in these diplomatic negotiations and that Russia here is the problem.
Yermak said he briefed Witkoff on a number of, quote-unquote, "Russian war crimes," including the latest barrage of missiles and drones that killed more than a dozen people in Kyiv in recent days.
He also said he invited Witkoff to Ukraine. However, the key message in this post from Yermak was that Russia is not playing ball and that they are continuing to continue their hostilities against Ukraine and are not willing to sit down in these good faith efforts at negotiations.
He said, quote, "We believe that global pressure is needed to ensure Russia is genuinely ready to move toward peace and, in particular, to hold critically important leaders' meetings for that purpose."
Now, of course, president Trump has voiced optimism that presidents Putin and Zelenskyy could sit down for high-level discussions. However, there is no indication from Moscow that Putin is ready to have any talks to that end.
Now Ukraine and other European officials have voiced the need to increase pressure on Russia as it continues its deadly strikes against Ukraine and that they are hopeful that such pressure could lead Russia to engage in some sort of diplomacy -- Jennifer Hansler, CNN, the State Department.
(END VIDEOTAPE) HUNTE: Israel is carrying out strikes on the edge of Gaza City.
The Israeli military has declared it a dangerous combat zone. Israeli troops are expected to move in and take over the city in the near future. The new strikes have many Palestinians fleeing for safety. The Palestinian ministry of health says some people are moving deeper into the city to escape the fighting.
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The head of the U.N. Agency for Palestinian Refugees says the Gaza City takeover will lead to more death and more suffering.
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PHILLIPPE LAZZARINI, COMMISSIONER GENERAL, UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY: It has to stop immediately. As you know, people living in Gaza are now in a state of famine, which has been declared about a week ago.
And now we are talking about a major military offensive with a total evacuation of an extremely weakened population.
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HUNTE: On Friday, the Israeli military recovered the bodies of two Israeli hostages. One of them is Ilan Weiss. The second has not yet been identified. CNN Jerusalem correspondent Jeremy Diamond has more.
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JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, Israeli military bombardment and artillery shelling of Gaza City is indeed ramping up as Israel prepares for a full-scale invasion of Gaza City, where nearly one million people live and are now at risk of being forcibly displaced.
The Israeli military indeed carrying out a number of strikes that have set off huge plumes of smoke, particularly in the northern part of Gaza City, much of this seems to be a precursor for ground troop movement into that city.
As we know right now, there are Israeli troops that are operating just north of Gaza City in Jabalya, as well as in the southern Gaza City neighborhood of Zeitoun. It's not clear how close we are to that ground troop movement actually happening in Gaza City.
But the Israeli military now declaring Gaza City a, quote, "dangerous combat zone," ending the temporary 10 hour per day tactical pauses that were meant to allow humanitarian aid to flow in. In terms of that part of Gaza City, those tactical pauses effectively over now in Gaza City.
As an Israeli military official tells me, these are the initial stages of this Gaza City operation. 59 people have been killed over the course of the past day, according to the Palestinian health ministry. But, of course, there are the broader risks of exacerbating the already awful humanitarian crisis in Gaza as a result of this military operation with nearly a million people at risk of being forcibly displaced and Gaza City, of course, already gripped by famine, according to U.N. experts.
Now Israeli troops also operating elsewhere in Gaza and have recovered the bodies of two Israeli hostages. We only know the identity of one of those hostages so far.
His name is Ilan Weiss, he is 56, years old. He was killed in Hamas attack on October 7th on kibbutz Be'eri and his body was then taken into Gaza and has been held as a bargaining chip until now. But his body has now been returned to his family and will finally be able to get a proper burial.
The fate of so many other hostages still hangs in the balance, though, there are now 48 hostages remaining in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. But we know, of course, that the conditions in which they are being held in are desperate -- Jeremy Diamond, CNN, Tel Aviv.
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HUNTE: OK, let's go to the uncertainty about the future of president Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs on goods from other nations. A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday struck down many of those tariffs, saying Trump unlawfully used emergency powers to impose the import taxes. And it noted that power belongs to Congress.
But the ruling won't take effect until October. And that gives the Trump administration time to file an appeal with the Supreme Court. The president posted on social media, quote, "all tariffs are still in effect."
And he added that it would be a total disaster for the country if these tariffs ever went away.
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MAGGIE HABERMAN, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: The president has used a lot of emergency powers in a lot of situations that many who are watching don't think qualify as emergencies.
This was one that was always going to be difficult. And the further it got along down the process, the U.S. is going to end up in a position, if the Supreme Court upholds this ruling. And it is almost certainly going to go to the Supreme Court.
The U.S. is now going to be in a position of having to pay people -- countries, excuse me -- back for tariffs. That gets very complicated.
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HUNTE: Let's get some more now from CNN's Katelyn Polantz.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KATELYN POLANTZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTICE CORRESPONDENT: A federal appeals court has decided that the tariffs that Donald Trump issued toward Mexico, China and Canada at the very beginning of the Trump administration, those are illegal.
This is a big ruling against the Trump administration saying that Donald Trump just did not have the authority he thought he at that time to issue the sweeping tariffs that he did.
That's because at that time he said that the U.S. was under a national emergency because of fentanyl and drug trafficking and organized crime across the southern border at the United States.
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And that was the impetus for tariffs against China, Canada and Mexico.
The Federal Circuit Court of Appeals that's based in Washington In a 7, 4 decision on Friday, they said that is just far too much of magnitude in issuing tariffs under this particular emergency authority that Donald Trump said he had at the time, it was not done correctly by the White House.
They do note that the president does have emergency powers around financial restrictions toward other countries and they were even used at times like after September 11, 2001, those terrorist attacks in the U.S. But this, what Donald Trump was trying to do this year, it just doesn't fly with this federal court.
Now it doesn't mean, though, that all of the tariffs are blocked. There are many tariffs that this court is not striking down at this time. They weren't part of this court case.
And there isn't a resolution right away on whether all of the tariffs from the beginning of the Trump administration will be blocked, the ones that were under these emergency powers responding to drug trafficking coming into the United States.
What happens next is very likely appeals. We do expect there to be a push by the administration to continue to argue for the tariffs and especially for the presidential authority.
And this court said that a lower court will have to decide whether there needs to be a more restricted view of what would be blocked. Whenever they look at this case, it will go back down potentially to the lower court as well. Back to you.
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HUNTE: The leaders of three of the world's most powerful countries will meet this weekend in China and each is under pressure from the United States. That story is just ahead on CNN NEWSROOM.
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HUNTE: Welcome back.
A key gathering at a summit in China this weekend will bring together three major world leaders, each under pressure from the U.S. Chinese leader Xi Jinping will host more than 20 world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin, at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It begins on Sunday in Tianjin.
Indian leader Narendra Modi will also be there. This is an opportunity for the three to strengthen ties amid tariff threats and other political pressure from the U.S.
Xi and Putin will be joined by North Korea's Kim Jong-un at Beijing's massive military parade on Wednesday. It's a show of unity by three strong men against the democratic West. Will Ripley has more.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Two of the world's most powerful strongmen, China's Xi Jinping and Russia's Vladimir Putin, greeting each other in grand, opulent pomp and ceremony.
President Xi once whispered they were driving history's change together. A rare glimpse into how both men see themselves, toasting a vision of a new world order, one less dominated by the United States.
Years earlier, they were flipping pancakes together. Xi gifted Chinese pandas to Russia. They marked Xi's birthday with ice cream and cake.
Sometimes the more reserved Chinese leader even went in for the hug. Just this spring, she was in Moscow watching Putin's military parade.
Now the roles reverse. Putin heads to Beijing for Xi's massive parade across Tiananmen Square, side by side once again.
What must this moment be like for Vladimir Putin?
JILL DOUGHERTY, FORMER CNN MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF: I think he's happy. I think he's happy that he is out on the world stage. He is now with his friends.
RIPLEY: But this time, Putin is not just shoulder to shoulder with Xi. Now North Korea's leader, Kim Jong U.N. joins the picture. Putin's newest partner. They signed a defense pact in Pyongyang. Kim has supplied weapons and thousands of troops for Putin's war in Ukraine.
There is a real value to having the three of them together face to face, isn't there?
DOUGHERTY: It's crucial to be in the same room. Just that idea, here we are, you know, against the West and the West is doing terrible things and we're going to undermine them. I think that brings them together, kind of bonds them in many different ways.
RIPLEY: For Putin, Kim provides vital military support. For Kim, it's cash and validation. And now, a rare seat at the table with two of the world's nuclear superpowers, appearing together in public for the first time.
And looming over all three, U.S. president Donald Trump. He's been praising the strongman for years.
TRUMP: Putin, very smart. President Xi is a brilliant man. How smart is Kim Jong U.N.?
RIPLEY: Today, the stakes go far beyond flattery. With trade, Ukraine and nukes causing tension, Xi, Putin and Kim are closing ranks. Their shared mission chip away at Washington's dominance, challenged the U.S.-led order that has defined global power for decades.
You can imagine the conversations behind closed doors.
What pressure points does Trump respond to?
Can Xi use his influence?
Can Putin exploit his outreach?
Can Kim secure another summit?
Will they all meet together someday?
They don't know what Donald Trump will do next. Maybe even Donald Trump doesn't know. And that unpredictability will almost certainly be a topic of discussion behind the scenes as they all prepare to stand together on the same stage for the very first time -- Will Ripley, CNN, Taipei.
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HUNTE: Homes and buildings in northern India were washed away after heavy rain triggered flooding and landslides on Friday. Emergency crews were forced to wade through flooded streets to rescue people stranded in their homes. Officials say at least eight people are feared to be trapped under debris in one town.
Meanwhile, Pakistan is enduring some of the worst flooding in almost 40 years. Friday, floodwaters hit the outskirts of Lahore, the country's second biggest city, and another major town.
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Monsoon rains are only part of the problem. Surging water broke part of a water control structure at a key river separating Pakistan and India on Thursday. Pakistani officials say that contributed to flooding in some parts of Lahore.
India and Pakistan have been enduring an unusually intense monsoon season and further downpours are forecast for this weekend. Turmoil at the top U.S. public health agency could have global
consequences. Just ahead, how the dismissal and departure of leaders at the CDC could impact public health all around the world. That's coming up.
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HUNTE (voice-over): Welcome back. I'm Ben Hunte. Let's take a look at today's top stories.
Ukrainian authorities say Russia launched a wide-scale attack overnight. Ukraine's air force said it shot down most of Russia's 537 drones and 45 missiles. Officials say at least three people have been killed and 37 wounded in the last 24 hours.
Israel is carrying out strikes on the edge of Gaza City. The Israeli military has declared the city a dangerous combat zone. Israeli troops are expected to move in and take over the city in the near future.
The Trump administration plans to appeal a federal court ruling that struck down many of the sweeping tariffs that Trump imposed on goods from other nations. But the ruling won't be implemented until October. The court said Trump unlawfully used emergency powers that belonged to Congress to impose the import taxes.
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We're learning more about some of what led to the removal of the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week. People familiar with the situation say during meetings in recent weeks, top health officials repeatedly pressed Dr. Susan Monarez to commit to supporting potential new vaccine restrictions.
But she refused to bend to pressure. Four other senior CDC officials resigned after Monarez was ousted and, on Thursday, health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the appointment of the agency's number two, Jim O'Neill, as acting director.
And here is what the White House deputy chief of staff had to say about Kennedy and public health.
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STEPHEN MILLER, WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF: Secretary Kennedy, one of the world's foremost voices, advocates and experts on public health, is working hard to restore the credibility and the integrity of CDC as a scientific organization committed to the scientific method and getting to the root causes of the public health epidemic.
Secretary Kennedy has been a crown jewel of this administration, who's working tirelessly to improve public health for all Americans.
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HUNTE: Lawrence Gostin is a distinguished university professor at Georgetown and director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law. He's joining us from Washington, D.C.
Thank you so much for being with me. Lawrence, how are you doing?
LAWRENCE GOSTIN, O'NEILL INSTITUTE FOR NATIONAL AND GLOBAL HEALTH LAW, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: I appreciate being. With you, Ben. Thank you.
HUNTE: Thank you. I want to play you a clip from an interview. My colleague Kaitlan Collins had with three former CDC leaders who resigned this week. Have a listen to this.
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DR. DEMETRE DASKALAKIS, FORMER DIRECTOR, NATIONAL CENTER FOR IMMUNIZATION AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES: He's getting information from somewhere. Yes, he's getting information from somewhere. But that information is not coming from CDC experts, who really are the world's experts in this area.
Like folks from around the world call us with questions around these infections. And we are seen as the expert. CDC is seen as the expert in these areas. You know, we are the -- CDC is the preeminent public health organization, I'm going to say, in the world.
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HUNTE: The CDC has historically led on global health, from HIV and AIDS to Ebola and COVID.
But after what we just heard, how worried should we be for the agency may no longer be able to live up to that reputation?
GOSTIN: Well. you know, I've been working. Very closely. With CDC now for. Over 40 years. With Democratic and Republican administrations. CDC has always followed the science.
And this is the first time that I know of that. Really the key credential for secretary Kennedy. Is obedience to a political orthodoxy rather than the scientific information. And the evidence.
So we ought to be very worried. I think the seat -- we turn to the CDC to keep us healthy and safe and they're gutted and hollowed out.
HUNTE: We are seeing major resignations at CDC. I've even got contacts there, who are looking to leave right now.
Is there a brain drain happening, do you think?
And if so, what would that mean for the expertise that the whole world has relied on for so long?
GOSTIN: Well, I mean, to me, it's very personally sad and I think the world should be very worried. We're seeing this on many fronts.
But the resignation of key CDC leaders, the firing of the director of CDC for doing nothing more than her job, which is to follow the scientific evidence, to propose a recommendations on the nation's health; huge cuts in funding, huge cuts in biomedical research.
We're seeing a brain drain as we speak with, morale at CDC. I've never seen anything quite so devastating for the staff there.
HUNTE: The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO and cuts to USAID's health programs are very much in effect.
Do you think that we've seen any real impacts on the ground yet following those changes?
GOSTIN: Well, yes, of course, because, I mean, the cut in funding to WHO has meant that they've had to slash their staff by about a third. And the Geneva headquarters of WHO Is being hollowed out.
Also with USAID cuts, we're seeing -- people are not getting their medication, who are not getting their vaccines. Many are getting sick. And many are dying needlessly.
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So the -- what's happening is clear. It's already happening. I mean, one of the things that really struck me is that secretary Kennedy sent an email to CDC staff today, saying that the public had lost confidence in them and he's going to restore it.
And incited the way that RFK has dealt with the measles outbreak. Well, we all know that the measles outbreak got out of control. We nearly lost our measles elimination status in the United States. Vaccines have been questioned.
And that's what happens. So the harms are happening now but they're going to only magnify going forward.
HUNTE: Let's look ahead if we can.
If the next pandemic or even a regional outbreak strikes without the U.S. playing its traditional role, what risks are we facing?
GOSTIN: I think we're in enormous global risks.
I mean, if you, you know, ask ministries of health around the world, literally in every region, CDC usually has a presence there. And certainly when there's a public health emergency, whether it's Ebola, Zika, mpox, COVID, influenza, the first phone call that's made is to the CDC.
But we've lost our capacity to be prepared. And in fact, the huge cuts in all funding for mRNA vaccine research means that, when the next pandemic hits, Americans and people around the world will be knocking on CDC's door and no one will be there.
HUNTE: If the U.S. continues to step back, do you think someone else might step in to that leadership void?
I mean, can the E.U., China or private individuals realistically fill the gaps that are left behind?
GOSTIN: No, they can't.
I think China is trying to. But China has a highly self-interested, transactional way of dealing with countries. European leaders, Germany, France, the U.K., they're actually cutting back on global health funding, much of it to fund the war in Ukraine. So I don't see any democratic nation stepping up to really fill the void of the United States.
HUNTE: Lawrence Gostin, thank you so much for joining us now. Appreciate it.
GOSTIN: Thank you. Ben. Thanks for having me.
HUNTE: Thailand's former prime minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra apologized on Friday after the country's constitutional court removed her from office, citing ethical concerns.
She became Thailand's youngest prime minister when she took office in August 2024, serving only one year in the post. CNN's Mike Valerio has more now on that ruling and the controversial phone call at the center of this case.
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MIKE VALERIO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Well, Paetongtarn Shinawatra, who was Thailand's youngest ever serving Prime Minister, is now removed from office, effective immediately.
So what exactly is behind this move?
Well, a court in Thailand ruled that the now former prime minister violated Thailand's ethics rules in a controversial phone call. The context this goes back to tense border clashes over the summer between Thailand and Cambodia.
Paetongtarn got on the phone with Cambodia's former prime minister, Hun Southeastern, and could be heard calling him, quote, "uncle," and appearing to criticize her own army's actions.
Paetongtarn added in that phone call that if Hun Sen, quote, "wants anything, just tell me and I will take care of it," end quote, contentious remarks that became the center of the court case against her. The phone call was recorded and leaked, confirmed as authentic by both sides. And here is Paetongtarn after Friday's verdict.
PAETONGTARN SHINAWATRA, FORMER THAI PRIME MINISTER: First and foremost, with respect for the justice process, I accept the verdict of the constitutional court. However, as a Thai person, I would like to affirm my sincerity and my genuine intention to always work for the country.
In the leaked audio clip, I didn't ask for anything for my personal gain.
VALERIO (voice-over): So this leaked phone call struck a nerve in Thailand, where nationalist fervor was already running high over the border dispute and opponents accused Paetongtarn of compromising the country's national interests.
The five-day conflict eventually resulted in at least 38 people dead, mostly civilians and forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
Paetongtarn is now the latest, the fourth member of her family to be dismissed as premier.
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Her father, aunt and uncle have all been forced out of office. So as for what happens now, parliament will have to approve a new prime minister. If they can't, it raises the prospects of new elections and Thai voters may have to decide who becomes prime minister next -- Mike Valerio, CNN, Seoul.
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HUNTE: Italy's prime minister says she's disgusted. Just ahead, why she and other women say fake online images are causing them real distress.
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HUNTE: Welcome back.
Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni is speaking out about a website that reportedly posted fake pornographic images of prominent women, including her. The site was shut down on Thursday after a national outcry. CNN's Barbie Nadeau has more from Rome.
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BARBIE LATZA NADEAU, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni has expressed her disgust and anger after the discovery of a website containing altered photos of her and other prominent Italian female leaders in intimate situations.
The big question now is whether the existing revenge porn laws, which came into effect in 2019, will cover this, since those laws are designed to protect women in domestic violence situations and stalking situations.
This is quite different because many of the images that depicted these female leaders, including Meloni and her sister, along with the female head of the opposition party and many female actors and influencers, are altered images of them taken at political rallies or in press reports. Now Meloni said she was disgusted by the site and called for strong
punishment for those involved, either posting or even those commenting on the post. Now this comes after a Facebook page called Mia Moglie or My Wife, which had 32,000 members, was removed by Meta last week.
That came after police found that mostly men were posting intimate photos of their wives, girlfriends and even sisters without their consent.
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And activists now say there are even more of these sites online and on social media.
Police say they have collected information on many of the members of both these sites and have asked anyone to come forward if they know of other sites. They are determining what, if any, laws have been broken and just who should face justice -- Barbie Nadeau, CNN, Rome.
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HUNTE: The skies over southwestern Paraguay are alive with color this weekend. For the first time, the South American nation is hosting a world championship for hot air balloons.
More than 30 pilots from some 20 countries are competing. The competition runs through Sunday, as long as wind conditions cooperate. Organizers hope it will spur tourism and become an annual event.
Brazil's government is recognizing a group that's worked for a decade to rescue and treat wild animals.
What is that?
Wow, OK. That's cute.
The Institute for Free Life helps animals rescued in cities and those saved from illegal trafficking. Brazil's environment minister says the group's cooperation with public institutions is fundamental to strengthening the country's environmental policy.
Look at those cute animals. Aww.
Thanks for joining me and the team. I'm Ben Hunte in Atlanta and I will see you at the same times tomorrow. "WORLD SPORT" is next. And then there's so much more CNN NEWSROOM at the top of the hour. See you tomorrow.
