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Belgium End Team USA's Dream Run With Dominant 4-1 Win; NATO Summit Talks Will Heavily Focus On Ukrainian Defense; Public Funeral For Iran's Slain Supreme Leader Enters Fourth Day; Public Funeral for Iran's Slain Supreme Leader Enters Fourth Day; Reports Say Commercial Ships Hit by Projectiles Near Hormuz; Hamas Says It Will Dissolve Its Government in Gaza; China Conducts Submarine-launched Ballistic Missile Test; Europe Facing Another Heat Wave; Typhoon Maysak Produces Deadly Flooding in China; Cuba Suffers Nationwide Blackout Amid U.S. Oil Restrictions; Prince Harry's U.K. Trip Does Not Include Royal Residence Stay; International Space Station Astronaut Captures Gorgeous Aurora. Aired 2-3a ET

Aired July 07, 2026 - 02:00   ET

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong.

Just ahead on CNN NEWSROOM, the dream is over for the U.S. men's team as Belgium wins by three points in the latest World Cup round.

President Trump is headed to the NATO summit in Turkey, where defense spending and the war in Ukraine will be high on his agenda.

And despite tight security and nondisclosure agreements, details about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding are starting to trickle out, and we have got the highlights.

ANNOUNCER: Live from Hong Kong, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Ivan Watson.

WATSON: All right, Team USA's World Cup journey may be over, but Belgium's journey is just heating up. Those fans back home celebrating the news that Belgium is moving on to the quarterfinals after a decisive 4-1 win over Team USA. Belgium dominated the pitch with tactical precision, scoring twice in the first half before exploiting a series of defensive mistakes from the American side. CNN World Sports Coy Wire has more from Seattle.

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COY WIRE, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: Just like that, America's World Cup dream is over after a round of 16 loss to Belgium, and within just days, all three host nations, the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, have all been knocked out. But what a ride for the U.S. This place was rocking. Fans could have

used a seat belt from the opening whistle, pure pandemonium. Breakout star Folarin Balogun returning after FIFA overturned his suspension, but Belgium struck first. Charles De Ketelaere bearing a goal in the ninth minute. The U.S. answered right back. Malik Tillman, penalty shot terminator, hammering home another rocket, second straight match with a goal, making it one all.

But before fans could even finish celebrating, Belgium punched back 60 seconds later. De Ketelaere becoming the first Belgian since detailed records began in 1966 to be involved in three goals in a single World Cup match, two goals, one assist, then came the dagger. Hans Vanaken capitalizing after a costly giveaway, putting Belgium in command. Final score 4-1. Belgium marches on to the quarterfinals to face Spain. America's magical run comes to an end. We caught up with some of the players after the game that hurt so bad.

TYLER ADAMS, U.S. MIDFIELDER: I mean, the support was unbelievable. I think our initial reaction as a team was that in this moment we let them down, but I think altogether people gravitated towards a team because we were relatable. We represented exactly what the U.S. was. Today wasn't a good day.

I think from a performance we can analyze the performance, you can analyze a lot of things, but the togetherness of the group, how we competed in large parts of the tournament, I think was really good.

So, yes, it's tough to judge right now. The overall tournament, obviously, after a loss, but I think overall there were positives that we're going to take away from it. Just doesn't feel right here, right now.

TIM REAM, U.S. CENTER-BACK: There's boys and girls who were watching and being inspired, and it should be how incredible this journey has been with this group.

WIRE: The scoreboard says Belgium advances, but this tournament may have done something bigger for the US, showing America how beautiful this game can be, bringing a nation together in divisive times, a nation that once hoped soccer would matter, now expects it to, and that may be this team's greatest victory of the entire tournament.

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WATSON: The controversial decision to let Team USA star striker play in the match against Belgium is still drawing questions about President Trump's interference and corruption within FIFA. CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene reports.

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ALAYNA TREENE, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: For 24 days, it appeared that the World Cup was able to do something in America in 2026 that was very rare, which was it had little to do with Donald Trump, but that changed on Monday with President Donald Trump confirming to reporters that he had called up FIFA's President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review that red car decision last week that prevented the U.S. soccer team star striker from playing in the U.S. match against Belgium on Monday.

Now, the president argued that he didn't tell Infantino what to do, that he wouldn't even be allowed to do so. But then he went on to call that red card call a horrible and unfair decision. He also argued that perhaps the referee had some integrity problems. Listen to what he said.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I can't tell him what to do, but and I don't believe he made the decision. I think it was a committee that made the decision, and they made the right decision, because number one, it wasn't a foul.

And I think the referee's call was horrible. Nobody talks about that. They talk about the red card like it's fine. This referee, who is a little bit suspect, if you check his -- if you check his past.

TREENE: Now, of course, there's been a lot of controversy about this red card, and a lot of people questioning whether or not it was even warranted, but part of the reason Trump's intervention in all of this is causing so much stirs because of the relationship between Trump and Infantino.

I'd remind you that the two have developed a very close friendship in recent years, with Trump inviting Infantino to a number of different events, including a lot of moments in the Oval Office.

I was actually in the Oval Office once, when both of those leaders were heaping praise on one another, while the FIFA World Cup trophy sat on the Resolute Desk.

We also heard about Andrew Giuliani, he is the lead of the White House task force on the World Cup, and Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, that they had both put their heads together after attending the match last week between U.S. and Bosnia, and discussed this red card on the plane ride home. Giuliana, telling ESPN, "We put our heads together and kind of looked at it and said, well, there has to be a way to correct this injustice."

Now, Giuliani also told ESPN that U.S. officials only assisted U.S. soccer in coordinating their own appeal, and he reiterated that no one from the government, including the president, had ultimate influence over the FIFA organization's ultimate decision here.

All to say there are a lot of questions about the unprecedented nature of this, and it is going to really change some of the global perceptions about whether or not the decision by FIFA was ultimately a fair one.

Alayna Treene, CNN at the White House.

(END VIDEOTAPE) WATSON: For more on the FIFA Trump fallout, I want to bring in Steven Bank. He's a professor of law at UCLA that specializes in international sports law with an emphasis on soccer. Thank you for joining me, Professor Bank.

I want to start with this 13-point statement that FIFA disciplinary committee pulled -- put out, explaining its decision to lift Folarin Balogun's match ban, and it said that, "Said suspension of the implementation was decided considering all of the specific circumstances surrounding the incident and evidence available." Did you find the committee's justification convincing?

STEVEN BANK, PROFESSOR OF LAW, UCLA: You know, offer a justification. I mean, this was a lot of words without a lot being said. They mostly were defensive about being accused of not being independent. They tried to go through a little bit of the justification in the -- in the regulations for their discretion, but they didn't say why they chose this red card to reverse, or what was going on, what standard they used.

WATSON: Yes, they basically said they have the right to do this, and they also pointed out that the U.S. striker got a $40,000 fine.

But here's another question, I watched the English defender Jarell Quansah get a red card against Mexico yesterday. Does this open a can of worms, and now a British politician could reach out to FIFA and make the case to remove that player's match ban for his next match?

BANK: It certainly could. The regulations are written to give very broad discretion under Article 27 and it seems like FIFA is open for business to deal with politicians.

In some respects, all that's changed may be that we know about it. It may have happened before, but this is a pretty broad invitation, in some ways, to politicians to get involved, which is exactly something that the broad political neutrality prohibition in the FIFA statutes is supposed to prevent.

WATSON: And that neutrality that FIFA is supposed to have, you know, you followed this for a long time. What is FIFA is broader image around the world when it comes to neutrality and questions of ethics and corruption?

BANK: Yes, so start with, there's really two types of political neutrality. One is in the statutes that FIFA is supposed to remain neutral, and the second is in the FIFA code of ethics, that individual FIFA officials are supposed to be rein-neutral in their dealings with politicians, with governments.

And on the first, FIFA relies on neutrality all the time to say we can't possibly intervene, for example, in the U.S. when it's attacking Iran in the midst of holding the World Cup, that's we're supposed to remain neutral.

[02:10:09] But when it comes to President Trump, they were had no problem bestowing upon him the FIFA Peace Prize, which no longer had never existed before, and otherwise supporting him in his -- in kind of his political mission.

So, FIFA is -- the way I like to strike FIFA is it's politically neutral, not really politically fluid, maybe they pick and choose.

WATSON: And does this look like a clear example of FIFA picking and choosing when it came to this specific instance involving Team USA?

BANK: You know, it's -- it certainly looks like Donald Trump, who has a very long relationship with Gianni Infantino, that if he called him up, at least he got the call answered, and maybe some smaller country, or less powerful country, or country that wasn't hosting the World Cup, wouldn't have that opportunity. It's not really supposed to work that the -- that Article 27, this review procedure can be done because a politician calls up FIFA, it's supposed to be on their own motion, because they see something on the facts.

And that's the real problem here is that FIFA has developed a reputation for corruption. It's developed a reputation for essentially courting sort of very powerful, wealthy figures and authority figures and countries around the world, and you know that it's providing a certain bias that that people are just rubbing people the wrong way.

WATSON: Some of this may be moot now that Team USA has been knocked out of the championship, and Belgium is moving on to the quarterfinals. Can I ask you to take off your law professor hat -- professor hat, and just ask, perhaps as a fan, what you think of the World Cup so far. Have there been any moments that have stuck out for you? Anything jumped out for you? Anything that you're looking forward to moving forward?

BANK: So, I think the World Cup has been fantastic, really, and some of it is because largely the politics stayed on the sidelines. There was difficulties with Iran. They were not either forced to operate outside the U.S., but otherwise, in general, you saw huge fan bases, but you also saw lots of American fans getting excited, loving having these people from other countries come to their towns and come to and watch the games, they enjoyed the new customs, and there was really a good cultural exchange.

I think that's the issue. The World Cup at the fan level was working great, and frankly, I'm looking forward to more of that, seeing the Cape Verde stories, or the, you know, the Curacao stories, the small countries don't -- you know, for the first time, doing really well. The problem is, when the politicians get involved, it leaves everyone with a sour taste in their mouth.

WATSON: Well, those are other stories that the World Cup is supposed to be all about. Steven Bank, thank you very, very much for sharing your expertise here.

BANK: My pleasure. WATSON: OK, to Ukraine now, where Russian attacks continue to strike

fear around Ukraine's capital. Seven people were killed in a suburb of Kyiv on Monday. 29 others were injured, including four emergency responders, and meanwhile the Ukrainian military says it struck Russia's largest oil refinery, more than 1500 miles from Ukraine's border. The strike could worsen growing gas shortages in almost all of Russia's 83 regions. A Russian official confirmed several drones hit the refinery's northern industrial hub. It's unclear how much damage was inflicted, but emergency services are working to, "Mitigate the consequences."

U.S. President Donald Trump is on his way to the NATO summit in Turkey's capital. He has accused members of not meeting defense spending requirements, but NATO leaders plan to show him that they are spending money to defend Europe. The president is also signaling a renewed focus on ending Russia's war on Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will attend the summit as he fights for more aid for his country. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: President Zelenskyy really wants to be able to produce and get licensed for making Patriot missiles, defensive missiles inside of Ukraine. It's not clear that it's going to get that, but there is a defense investment fund forum meeting here tomorrow where there's expected to be a financial significant billions and billions, tens of billion dollars financial commitment to Ukraine to support them this year, next year in the war against Russia.

So, that's what President Zelenskyy will be looking for. President Trump is going to be coming in here looking for something else. He's going to be looking to make sure that his NATO European partners that has been leaning on for a long time to up their defense spending 5 percent of GDP is what is required by agreement last year of the Hague declaration from the Hague leaders summit of five percent GDP by 2035.

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So, President Trump's going to be looking to see who's doing that, who isn't doing it. And I think it's very interesting to see how he deals with countries like Spain that aren't stepping up and haven't so far made a commitment to getting to that level of spending over the next nine years.

And I think there's anxiety here. When President Trump walks into a NATO summit these days, there's worry. It was only a few months ago that he wanted to take annex Greenland, which is part of Denmark, which is a NATO allies country. And then on top of that, President Trump's been frustrated with the way his NATO allies have not, in his opinion, stepped up sufficiently during epic fury, the US-Iran war. He wanted more support. So, all of that is in the mix here. President Zelenskyy will be very focused on what he needs. President Trump undoubtedly very clear and determined to get what he wants out of it as well.

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WATSON: OK, to get another perspective on this, I'm going to turn to Timofiy Mylovanov, he's the president of the Kyiv School of Economics. He's also a former Ukrainian minister of economic development and trade, and he joins me now from Budapest. Thank you very much for sharing your time.

I wanted to ask, first and foremost, Kyiv and Ukrainians living there have endured several nights of deadly bombardment just over the course of the last week. How are people coping with the threat and the destruction and the death that they are witnessing, particularly over the last couple of days?

TIMOFIY MYLOVANOV, PRESIDENT, KYIV SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: Yesterday, I was already in Budapest, speaking at the Central European University, but my office of students, I have a lot of student helpers and employees, actually about 12 people. I asked them how they are doing, and they said, one of them says, oh, I'm OK, just my building, the wall is my -- in my -- in my room, it has cracks in it, but I'm OK, I'm coming to work, and at 10:00 a.m. everyone is at work, so it has become routine, sort of routine heroism, but people also die every time, and then you know another student posted on BeReal, I'm alive today, great, coming to work, so.

WATSON: This conflict has been raging for years now. Does it feel as if it is in a new phase with an even bigger intensification of the air war between these two enemies?

MYLOVANOV: It is true that it feels that way. There's also data that shows that way that intensity increased, and it continues to gradually increase over the entire 4.5 years period of the war. It also is true that Ukraine has found a way to intercept most of the drones and even cruise missiles, but not ballistic missiles, and that's the gap. That's where we in Ukraine need patriots, ballistic interceptors, and that's the real vulnerability.

But it also feels like Russia is a bit desperate now, because it has not been making much progress on the front line and actually losing territory in some areas, so it has increased double down, triple down on attacks on civilians in the rear.

WATSON: I mean, and I do have to point out, as we're speaking to you, we're seeing images of the aftermath of apartment buildings that have been struck in Kyiv, and I personally remember I've seen exactly those kind of same images in the first and second year of the war reporting in Ukraine.

I guess a question is the intensification of these types of aerial attacks hitting residential buildings. Is there any sign that it could change the calculus on the side of the Ukrainians or break Ukrainian spirit, given that that is a strategy that Russia has used for more than four years now, bombing apartment buildings?

MYLOVANOV: I don't think so. I don't think the President Zelenskyy or politicians or people are changing their views as a result of these attacks. I think that's a serious miscalculation on the part of Russia trying to hit civilians. People take much more serious alerts. Alerts are important for people. People go to the shelters much more than before, so you know it is a real war for 4.5 years, and people die every day.

But I think Mariupol and Bucha and overall other areas, which were occupied, and the stories that people are telling after coming or surviving the camps and prisons in Russia teach Ukrainians that the alternatives is much worse.

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WATSON: What are you watching for at this upcoming NATO summit in Ankara? Are you anticipating any possible important developments for Ukraine?

MYLOVANOV: Three things: one is I hope there will no -- there will be no rift or additional sort of friction between the United States and Europe, between President Trump and the European allies. It is important that the NATO health, the relationship between the U.S. and the -- and Europe continue to be solid, but there are all kinds of symptoms that things can go wrong. So, I'm watching for that.

Perhaps more importantly, commitments to support Ukraine financially and militarily through years beyond 2027 because if we have that support, Russia knows, and counterintuitively it knows that, you know, the war will come to an end. More support Ukraine gets, the faster the war will be over.

And the third one, it's something specific about the relationship between Ukraine and NATO, and the views of NATO allies, because Russians for foreign policy, and in fact domestic policy, is single- minded. It's war.

So, NATO has to step up infrastructure and build it together with Ukraine to contain Russian threat for coming years.

WATSON: Quickly, do you see Europe, the European partners that President Trump has so frequently criticized in the past, do you see them offering more assistance to Ukraine, becoming more consolidated and united? Are there any changes that you've witnessed over the past couple of months?

MYLOVANOV: Yes, we do. Yes, I do. Here is one number for you. There are about 150 plus joint ventures which have been set up recently by maybe not in two months but recently with European partners and Ukraine, so consolidation is happening and Europeans are much more serious this year than in the past.

WATSON: All right, Timofiy Mylovanov, live from Budapest. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts.

OK, the public funeral for Iran's slain Supreme Leader is now into its fourth day, and there is still no sign of his son and successor, who hasn't been seen publicly since his father's killing. We'll have a live report with the latest on the procession.

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WATSON: Welcome back to CNN. The public funeral for Iran's slain Supreme Leader is now in its fourth day. These are live images from Qom, Iran, an important holy city about 80 miles or some 130 kilometers south of the capital, Tehran. The country is staging a week of mass funeral processions for the late Ayatollah before he is buried on Thursday.

CNN's Paula Hancocks is with us live from Abu Dhabi now. Paula, can you walk us through some of the imagery of these days of mourning, so they're basically historic since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he was only the second supreme leader in the Islamic Republic of Iran to have been laid to rest.

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So, Ivan, we're hearing from Iranian officials that they believe there will be millions of people that will be coming to the funeral, to the processions, and to the commemoration of the late Supreme Leader.

Now, as you mentioned, there, he -- his body, and those of the other family members who were killed on February 28th by that U.S. and Israeli strike are currently in the city of Qom. This is considered to be the second most sacred city in Iran. It is somewhere that we know that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had studied at the Qom Seminary, also under his predecessor, the first Supreme Leader of Iran.

And from here we will then see tomorrow, so on Wednesday the procession will be taken to Iraq, to sacred cities there to share Islam before being laid to rest in his hometown of Mashhad on Thursday.

So, this is a weeklong event where we are seeing significant crowds in many parts of the country. And then of course tomorrow to Iraq as well.

Now, what we saw on Monday was interesting. This was really that the most significant crowds that we have seen in the streets of Tehran. At least hundreds of thousands were flocking those streets, trying to get close to the vehicles that were carrying these coffins through those streets, and we did see a lot of anger on the streets against America. There were chants of death to America, death to Israel, not unusual when it comes to these pro-regime events, certainly.

But what we did see as well was we saw through state media the stoning the devil ceremony, which is basically a hard ritual where Muslim pilgrims throw pebbles to stone the devil.

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And what we saw was the devil was a picture of the U.S. President Donald Trump. So we really are seeing that anger playing out. Of course, this is not the overwhelming feeling in Iran. There are many who do not support this regime, who will not be anywhere near this procession. Ivan? IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT& ANCHOR OF "CNN NEWSROOM": And meanwhile, you have negotiations that have taken a pause during this period of mourning and ongoing incidents taking place around the Strait of Hormuz. Can you bring us up to date on that?

HANCOCKS: Yes. So we know from the U.K. Maritime Agency that there has been a vessel that was struck by an unknown projectile. This was a vessel that was heading into the Gulf of Oman, so close to the Strait of Hormuz.

Now, the U.K. Maritime Agency says there were no casualties as far as they know, no environmental damage. But of course, what this does is it shakes confidence for insurers, for the seafarers trying to traverse that crucial waterway. Now, we have some figures to show just how few are getting through.

From Friday to Sunday, 108 boats got through the Strait of Hormuz. That's really the pre-war daily number that we would have seen. So there are vessels getting through, but it is still a lot lower than it usually is, despite the fact that we've heard from the U.S. president that this is a waterway that is free and open. Certainly not the case at this point.

WATSON: Right. And I must point out that a U.S. official told Axios that Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps was responsible for firing at least two missiles at commercial ships on Monday. So no shortage of tension there. Paula Hancocks, live from Abu Dhabi, thank you very much for this update.

All right, moving on. Hamas says it has dissolved its government in Gaza, a move meant to put pressure on Israel as the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal stalls. But Israel says it is nothing more than a stunt. Those details when we come back.

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WATSON: Welcome back to the program. Concern and Criticism from New Zealand and Australia. That's after China conducts a rare test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile. A spokesperson for the People's Liberation Army Navy says the test launch took place in the Pacific Ocean and was part of China's annual military training schedule. But New Zealand and Australia say China's actions threaten peace and stability in the region.

The U.S. State Department said it had monitored the launch of an unarmed ballistic missile. It added that China's, quote, "rapid and opaque nuclear weapons buildup is of great concern to the region and the world."

Hamas says it is complying with a key requirement of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, announcing it will dissolve its government so a U.S.-backed group of Palestinian technocrats can take charge. This is meant to pressure Israel to move forward with its own commitments under the truce, including an end to attacks in Gaza.

The Hamas statement made no mention of disarmament, another key ceasefire demand. But for the people of Gaza, the announcement changes little on the ground. There is no peace for them amid continuing Israeli airstrikes and unimaginable living conditions.

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MOUNIR KHEDR, DISPLACED PALESTINIAN (through translator): We wish from God that handing over this Hamas Administrative Committee brings improvement. We wish from God to be relieved from the tents, mosquitoes, mice that are eating us up and our children. This is not life. We are living in torture, death. We ask God that the entire world will look at us with an eye of mercy.

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WATSON: A U.N. human rights body is calling on Israel to immediately release Palestinian Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and pay him reparations. It accuses Israel of arbitrarily detaining him against principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This comes after a dire warning from the doctor's lawyer, as CNN's Jomana Karadsheh reports.

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JOMANA KARADSHEH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Prominent Palestinian pediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is in imminent risk of death in Israeli custody, according to his lawyer who met with him on Thursday.

Lawyer Nasser Odeh told CNN that he barely was able to recognize Dr. Abu Safiya, that his physical and psychological condition had seriously deteriorated over the past few weeks.

NASSER ODEH, LAWYER FOR DR. HUSSAM ABU SAFIYA (through translator): He was brought to the visiting room with his hands and feet shackled. Signs of violence were visible on his face and around his eyes. He was unable to breathe or walk.

KARADSHEH (voice-over): Israel has accused him of being a Hamas operative, but has never charged him. Dr. Abu Safiya told his lawyer that shortly after a hearing on an appeal to his detention before Israel's Supreme Court last month, which the court denied, while he was being held in solitary confinement, four or five prison guards entered his cell and beat him all over his body using a hammer.

After being transferred to the underground Rakefet prison facility, his lawyer says he told him he'd suffered daily beatings and that he lost consciousness several times.

KARADSHEH: The Israeli Prison Service that has repeatedly denied abusing prisoners and insists that it abides by international humanitarian law did not respond to CNN's request for comment.

[02:40:00] KARADSHEH (voice-over): Dr. Abu Safiya was the Director of Gaza's Kamal Adwan Hospital. He was detained by Israeli forces in December 2024. We profiled Dr. Abu Safiya that year before his detention. He shared with us his diaries from inside his hospital that was under siege. Despite the risks and despite his immense loss after his son was killed in an Israeli strike, he refused to leave, insisting he would not abandon his patients.

KARADSHEH: The rights group, "Physicians for Human Rights Israel" and his lawyer are urgently calling for a judge to visit him for an independent medical examination and for his immediate transfer to a different facility before it's too late, they say.

KARADSHEH (voice-over): His lawyer says Dr. Abu Safiya told him, quote, "This is the last time you will see me. They brought me here to kill me. I don't see myself surviving. This is the end."

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WATSON: OK, much of Europe is suffering under another heat wave. Just ahead, we'll update you on a huge wildfire and how people are trying to stay cool.

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WATSON: Welcome back, I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. Chinese officials say at least four people have been killed in the city of Nanning after Typhoon Maysak triggered deadly flooding. Floodwaters reached waist level in this video from Xinhua News Agency.

Emergency crews are evacuating stranded residents with officials saying hundreds more are waiting to be rescued. More severe weather has also hit farther north in Hubei province. CCTV reports at least five people were killed after a rare tornado tore through the region. Officials say the passing typhoon and the early rainy season are fueling the severe weather.

Heat warnings are in place across much of Western and Central Europe. The ongoing high temperatures are especially difficult to handle in places where few homes and public buildings have air conditioning.

CNN's Pau Mosquera is in Madrid with more.

PAU MOSQUERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: 39 degrees Celsius, around 102 degrees Fahrenheit, that's the peak temperature recorded in Madrid during this Monday afternoon. Quite a suffocating start to the week, right? Well, the responsible is no other than the second heat wave that is impacting the West of Europe. More specifically, large parts of Portugal, Spain and France that during the day have been under heat warnings because of the high temperatures.

This is why, for example, here in the Spanish capital many have been looking for climate shelters. Places where to cool off that are spread all around the city. Many of these climate shelters are located inside of public buildings, but some others are located on the outside, as for example, the park of Arganzuela that you can see here behind me. This place is called as Playa de Madrid, Madrid's beach.

As you know, here in Madrid, we have no sea. There is no beach. We only have Manzanares River going around the city, but here the young ones and the adults can enjoy the public fountains and have some fun under the water jets, as you can see here on image. And this is quite a good way to keep cool from the heat because this second heat wave of the summer is going to last at least until Thursday, and that is why the authorities are asking the population not to get to the streets during the central hours of the day or to keep themselves very well hydrated.

Pau Mosquera, CNN, Madrid.

WATSON: Nice to see those kids making the best of a hot and sweaty situation. Let's move on to Cuba now because the island has suffered yet another nationwide blackout. It's not yet clear what caused the outage, but the country's grid operator confirmed an investigation is underway. Cuba has been grappling with an energy crisis made worse by sharp declines in fuel imports. Earlier this year, U.S. sanctions forced the island nation's top oil suppliers to cut off shipments to Cuba.

On Monday, the Cuban president criticized the import restrictions, accusing Washington of trying to spark a social explosion through asphyxiation.

Still to come, it was one of entertainment's worst-kept secrets, but now details are trickling out from the tightly guarded wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

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WATSON: Welcome back to the program. The rift between Prince Harry and the British royal family does not appear to be closing. The Duke of Sussex is visiting the U.K. this week to participate in several charity events but he will not be staying at Buckingham Palace or another royal residence.

CNN's Christina Macfarlane has all the details.

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CHRISTINA MACFARLANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prince Harry is in London this week. Where he'll sleep is another question. His team said Monday, a room at Buckingham Palace, courtesy of the King. But within hours, the palace begged to differ. A royal source telling CNN that Harry missed the deadline to confirm and by the time a request came in for him, the staff had already been stood down.

To add to the drama, Tuesday brings a verdict in Harry's privacy case against the Daily Mail's publisher and concerns were raised about him staying at a royal residence while that ruling is pending. His team isn't having any of it. Harry, they say, accepted once his own security had finally been sorted.

And the palace, they note, had known about that judgment since Thursday. "It is therefore unclear why, having formally accepted the accommodation offer, it is now being withdrawn at the last moment." But that's not all. Duchess Meghan and the couple's children were meant to travel too. That trip's off for now but British authorities confirm there'll be no publicly funded security for the family.

Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet haven't set foot in Britain together since 2022. And this was supposed to be the trip that changed that, that is, until the perennial security battle reared its head. The fight goes back to 2020, when Harry and Meghan first stepped back from royal duties. A memoir, a Netflix series and a public rift with his brother, Prince William, all followed.

Then in 2024 came his father's cancer diagnosis. Harry kept fighting anyway and lost his case in the Court of Appeal. Still, he told the BBC last year, he'd love reconciliation. In September, the two sat down for tea in London, a rare hour that looked, for a moment, like a start. Buckingham Palace, for now, isn't saying any more.

Christina Macfarlane, CNN, London.

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WATSON: OK, there was incredibly tight security, no phones allowed, non-disclosure agreements. But despite all of that, details about the highly guarded wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are starting to trickle out online.

CNN's Elizabeth Wagmeister reports.

ELIZABETH WAGMEISTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: Just a few days after the wedding of the century, we are getting some details inside of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's fairytale romance, where she truly transformed Madison Square Garden into what we hear was a garden party of sorts. It looked nothing like the arena in New York City.

And if you take a look at this photo, this is the entrance where guests walk in. It looks like a red carpet of sorts. Now, if you're wondering how guests got this photo because there was a strict no cell phone policy, well, zoom into the top of this photo and you will see at the top of the stairs is where all of the wedding guests -- yes, all 1,000 wedding guests had to turn in their phones.

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They had no cell phone for the rest of the night. That includes the most famous people in the world who were there, everyone from Brad Pitt to Jennifer Lopez, even they could not have phones.

Now, we're also getting a first look at the flowers, thanks to a wedding guest who posted and said that she caught the bouquet. If you take a look here, you'll see the flowers look very understated. I'm sure there were many more flowers in there, probably not so understated when we get the full picture. I was standing outside of Madison Square Garden and we did see trees being carried in to Madison Square Garden. So I'm sure it was anything but understated. But in this photo, you see the flowers are white and pink with green foliage and very whimsical.

And we're also getting a look at a little gift that guests were given. They were apparently given handkerchiefs that had a lyric from one of Taylor Swift's songs, had the date and had their names. I'm sure that there were a lot of tears during their vows. So it's a good thing that they had their handkerchiefs.

Now, of course, what we're all waiting to see is Taylor's wedding dress. According to a guest who posted on X and then deleted, they said that Taylor wore a stunning long dress with a long veil and that Travis wore a white tuxedo.

Again, we're going to have to wait to see what that looks like until the couple decides to share some photos themselves. Back to you.

WATSON: All right. Let's go to space now. Canadian Astronaut, Jeremy Hansen has announced his next big mission, and that is retirement. The Artemis II crewmate says he's stepping down from his full-time role as an astronaut in September.

He was the only international astronaut to fly along with the mostly NASA crew in April. Hansen says he'll continue to serve as a reservist member of the Royal Canadian Air Force to leave the door open for future opportunities.

And finally, stunning pictures from space. European Space Agency Astronaut, Sophie Adenot captured video of an aurora shimmering in the Earth's atmosphere, look at that, while she was on board the International Space Station. She said it is the most amazing one that she has seen on her mission. Quite a view there.

Well, thank you for joining us this hour. I'm Ivan Watson in Hong Kong. "CNN Newsroom" with Polo Sandoval is next after this quick break.

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