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Firefighters Battling Flames In Southwestern France; Oman Launches Diplomatic Push Aimed At Ending Iran War; Kyiv Says 30,000 More North Korean Troops To Fight For Vladimir Putin; Palestinians Survey Damage From New Israeli Strikes in Gaza; Celebrities Join Drive to Fund Scholarships for Gaza Students; German Officials Say Ramming & Stabbing Was Islamist Attack; 15-Year-Old Detained After Seattle Food Festival Shooting; Tate Brothers to Stay in Jail as They Fight Extradition; Judge Says Enough Evidence to Try Singer D4vd for Murder; Bryan Kohberger Files to Withdraw Guilty Plea; United Bans Humanoid and Animal-like Robots From Flights; OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman to Brief Trump Officials, Lawmakers. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired July 28, 2026 - 02:00 ET
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ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN ANCHOR: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. I'm Rosemary Church.
Just ahead here on CNN NEWSROOM, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated as fires ravage France and Spain. We will take you to the scene as the heat shows no signs of easing.
U.S. President Trump is set to hold separate meetings with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu in the coming hours. We will have more on those high-stakes diplomatic talks.
And celebrities, including Nicola Coughlin and Gary Lineker, are joining forces to raise money for scholarships to help students in Gaza study in the U.K., we will speak with one of those students.
ANNOUNCER: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN NEWSROOM with Rosemary Church.
CHURCH: Thanks for joining us, and we begin in Europe, where another heatwave and drought conditions are threatening to make the wildfires in France and Spain even worse. Spain's prime minister calls it a climate emergency. More than 63,000 people have been forced from their homes near Madrid, and a fire in the province of Avila is now the biggest in Spain's history, burning more than 190 square miles or 50,000 hectares.
In southwestern France, authorities warn that the fires could burn for months. More than 220,000 people have been evacuated there. French President Emmanuel Macron says the fires have been stabilized in Gironde and are now contained in neighboring lands. Officials say more than 160 people have been detained or questioned over deliberately starting fires in France since July 6th. President Macron says the situation is unlike any the country has faced in decades.
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EMMANUEL MACRON, FRENCH PRESIDENT (through translator): We must understand that we are facing a completely unprecedented wildfire. The situation we are dealing with today is the most severe we have ever recorded, the toughest since the Second World War. More than 160,000 hectares have already burned, and the season is far from over.
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CHURCH: Our Melissa Bell is in Gironde with the latest developments from France.
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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An inferno raging beyond all control. Five days in, the Gironde fire keeps growing despite the rotation day and night of 2,500 firefighters. Plus, the civilians who've been drafted in to try and tame a blaze that seems to have taken on a life of its own, creating its own winds.
This is what the firefighters are dealing with, even in those parts of the forest that the fire has gone through, that have been ravaged, where the pines have been destroyed. As you can see, the ground, the soil, the nature of the vegetation are such that it is so hot that flames are constantly popping up from it again.
The other challenge is this westerly wind that's been driving this monster fire always further to the southeast, where the biggest flames continue to progress. And ever closer to Bordeaux and its satellite towns, forcing over the weekend an extra 55,000 from their homes. Overall, the number evacuated so far, 220,000, according to authorities. Wendy and her family fled in the early hours of Saturday morning.
WENDY, EVACUEE: It's really not knowing why we're here in the first place, whether it's because the fire is approaching our home or because of the ash that was blown our way by the strong winds? And in the end, not knowing when we'll be able to go back home.
BELL (voice-over): Christophe wouldn't leave without his neighbors, both in their 90s and diabetic. The hard part, he says, was getting them out of their homes with their medicine in time.
CHRISTOPHE, EVACUEE: We never knew the war, but we have known calamities. Nothing like this, though. This type of fire.
BELL (voice-over): Spain too is battling several wildfires. One on the outskirts of Madrid. Another in the east of the country. Authorities say that 60,000 people have now been displaced.
MARIA ANGELES SERRANO, EVACUEE: More than anything, I'm afraid because of what is being lost-nature itself. Material damage is one thing, but that can be repaired, so to speak. What really hurts is emotional loss.
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BELL (voice-over): A loss that will only be measurable when the fires are finally contained.
Melissa Bell, CNN in the Gironde region of France.
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CHURCH: Now to Spain, where CNN's Pau Mosquera has more on the efforts to contain the flames before weather conditions take a turn for the worse.
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PAU MOSQUERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, absolutely. And actually, we are constantly hearing and seeing how helicopters are flying overhead as to go to San Juan Reservoir to get water and drop it on the active fire fronts.
Actually, you can see here behind me the impact of the wildfires that are raging in western Madrid. What you're seeing on your screens are not common clouds. This is the smoke that is coming from the blaze, and the authorities say that so far these wildfires have engulfed around 28,000 hectares of forest land and forced to evacuate around 31,000 people.
But there are other side effects to the wildfires, for example, road closures. We are now standing on one of the regional roads that connects the city of Madrid with the towns most affected by the wildfires. But as you can see, all this part is closed, so everyone that is getting and driving this way is being redirected and forced to take another route.
And it's important to say, that the next few hours are going to be critical, according to the Spanish government. They say that on Wednesday weather conditions are going to worsen because we are expecting the fourth heat wave of the summer to impact the Iberian Peninsula, which means that the temperatures are going to rise again. And as you know, the higher the temperature, the lower the humidity, the greater the risk for the wildfires to continue.
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CHURCH: Elsewhere in Spain, residents of the island of Mallorca are protesting mass tourism. On Monday, crowds marched through the streets, signaling the strain they say tourists are putting on the local population and environment. Protests have been ongoing for weeks. Some even resulting in violent clashes with police. Reuters reports Spain welcomed nearly 97 million tourists last year, and locals say the island is at its limit.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Everything's at a breaking point. Transport links to and from the island, and the traffic are a nightmare. There are always traffic jams. The trains can't cope. You only have to turn around, and you'll see the trains coming at full capacity, and that's every single day.
Well, it's an island. There's a limit to the land, the resources, and everything.
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CHURCH: President Donald Trump will host Ukraine's president and Israel's prime minister in separate meetings at the White House on Tuesday. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Benjamin Netanyahu will also attend the late Senator Lindsey Graham's funeral.
A White House official tells CNN that President Trump's conversation with Ukraine's leader will revolve around the ongoing efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine. The U.S. president is downplaying Zelenskyy's allegation that Moscow is providing Iran with intelligence on U.S. military bases in the Middle East.
Trump said, "I don't think they've been doing it. Certainly not at a high level."
Israel's prime minister says Iran is one of the top issues on the agenda for his talks with the U.S. president. Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing for a renewed U.S. offensive against Tehran. President Trump acknowledged that he has, "A little difference with Netanyahu on Iran, but they are still closely aligned," and he claims Israel needs U.S. backing to survive.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Frankly, it would be very nice to a lot of countries that would not survive without us. And you know who wouldn't survive without us? Israel. Bibi's coming here. He'll tell you, if I didn't get involved and if I didn't blow up those nuclear, essentially soon to be nuclear weapons to dust, as they call it, Israel would have been terminated months ago.
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CHURCH: President Trump also claims the U.S. paused strikes on Iran because Tehran wanted to resume peace talks.
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TRUMP: Now, Iran took a beating over the last 14 days, and they asked us very nicely, please stop. Let's meet, and that's what we are right now. We'll see what happens. If we don't make a deal, we go back to the same thing.
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CHURCH: Meantime, in Iran, the foreign ministry says the country is not currently engaging in peace talks with the U.S. and will never allow it to, "Determine the timing of war and peace." All this as Oman launches a regional diplomatic push in hopes of finding a political solution to the conflict. CNN's Nic Robertson has more.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: The Omanis had a delegation in Tehran on Friday. They stay there through Saturday. They left late Saturday, they were talking about the Strait of Hormuz.
We heard today from the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, who said the talks were constructive, that progress was made, that they would continue at a technical and political level.
So, you can hear right there that the language kind of matches what we're getting from the White House, but the key details we're not getting right. And the key detail is, have the Iranians agreed not to try to charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz, which is -- which is the main issue in play right now.
Both countries have got their blockades ongoing at the moment, but the main hostilities are sort of abated. Perhaps President Trump will get more insights from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He'll meet President Trump at the White House on Tuesday. He's very likely to give the president an update on the latest intelligence that the Israelis have, and of course they've had intelligence that's pointed towards Pickaxe Mountain in Iran as a site where Iran may have tried to secure some of its highly enriched uranium and other centrifuges and other equipment that it uses to enrich uranium.
So, there may well be new information put in front of the president by the Israeli prime minister, who is keen, perhaps let's not say for the war to continue, but the war pausing the way it has caused him political hardship at home, and he's got elections coming up in three months, so he'll be minded to try to find a way to persuade President Trump that there is still work to be done on Iran, and perhaps present a roadmap for that.
It also likely thanked President Trump for putting a sort of a speed bump in the path over Saudi Arabia's civilian nuclear deal with the United States by saying that Saudi must normalize with Israel before that can go ahead. That's something the Israeli Prime Minister is grateful for. Big picture, did those talks give the product the president wants? That's the space we're in right now.
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CHURCH: Joining me now is Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar. Good to have you with us.
MEHRAN KAMRAVA, PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY IN QATAR: Thank you, Rosemary. Good to be here.
CHURCH: So, President Trump says the U.S. halted strikes on Iran because the regime requested peace talks, but Iran's foreign ministry says there are no current negotiations with the U.S. And this comes as other reports suggest the pause is more about U.S. concerns over the depletion of munitions. So, what's your reading of what's happening here?
KAMRAVA: Well, we've seen repeatedly that President Trump cannot necessarily be taken at his word, and he has had a different interpretation of events as they've transpired.
So, what we're seeing is both sides eager to de-escalate, both sides eager to negotiate, but neither side willing to indeed claim that they want to negotiate.
And so, through the good offices of Oman this time, and then previously Qatar and Pakistan, the two sides are talking either directly or indirectly.
CHURCH: And the Saudi Defense Ministry says it intercepted several drones targeting oil facilities that were apparently launched from Iran-backed militias in Iraq. So, it appears Iran is not pausing attacks. What's your reaction to that?
KAMRAVA: Indeed, what the Iranians are trying to do, and what they've tried to do from the very beginning, is to turn a military conflict into an economic one, to inflict economic pain on the United States on global energy markets, and particularly on America's regional allies. Same time, they've tried to give themselves (AUDIO GAP) having either the Houthis or allied militias in places like Iraq and elsewhere conduct attacks on their behalf.
CHURCH: And even with all these mixed messages, oil prices for the global benchmark, Brent crude dropped 6.7 percent to trade at around $90.00 a barrel, and this despite maritime traffic through the Strait of Hormuz and indeed the Red Sea slowing over the weekend. So, why are oil prices dropping do you think?
KAMRAVA: Well, one of the things we've seen repeatedly is both Iran, in particular, and oil producers in general, have overplayed their hands in the past. Not just in the conflict over the Strait of Hormoz and between Iran and the United States and Israel, but also between Russia and Ukraine, the oil producers assumed prices would shoot up and they stabilized after a while. And that's what we're seeing, consumers have wisened up to this manipulation of events by oil producers.
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CHURCH: And President Trump says that U.S. attacks will start again if Iran doesn't make a deal. So, how likely is it that we'll see diplomatic negotiations between Iran and the U.S., despite what's being said publicly? And what might an off-ramp look like at this point in the war?
KAMRAVA: Well, that's a really good question, Rosemary, and I don't know if we really know the answer. The Iranians and the Americans have two very different conceptions of negotiations. The Americans want something quick and decisive. The Iranians want something long and drawn out and detailed.
And so, hopefully, the regional states, the mediators like Oman, Qatar, Pakistan, even Turkey and Egypt will be able to step in and to reconcile these different assumptions that the Iranians and the Americans have of what negotiations mean for either side.
CHURCH: Mehran Kamrava, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your perspective and analysis. Appreciate it.
Well, the tide could be turning in Russia's war on Ukraine. Still to come, how North Korea may be coming to Vladimir Putin's rescue once again. We'll explain.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is warning that North Korea is once again preparing to come to Russia's rescue. He says Pyongyang plans to send another 30,000 troops to fight alongside Vladimir Putin's forces in the war on Ukraine. CNN's senior international correspondent Will Ripley has our report.
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WILL RIPLEY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At a cemetery for North Korea's fallen soldiers this weekend, Kim Jong-un, his wife and daughter, walked past the graves of Korean War dead. Now, Ukraine says Kim could send 30,000 more North Korean troops into another war.
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kim sent more than 100 soldiers to march in Moscow's Victory Day parade in May. South Korea and Western militaries estimate more than 10,000 North Korean troops helped Russian forces recapture the Kursk region.
And soon, Putin may be getting something even bigger from his partner in Pyongyang, says Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenskyy, set to meet President Trump tomorrow in the Oval Office, a White House official says.
Russia wants to bring in another 30,000 North Korean troops, Zelenskyy says. Adding Ukraine's military has solid reports, preparations are underway to receive them. He says they're headed to southwestern Russia, about 150 miles from Ukraine's border.
Zelenskyy says Kim may also be sending several ballistic missile launchers.
North Korean missiles are a lethal part of Putin's war machine. Ukraine says they're growing more accurate with every strike.
Russia is helping North Korea learn how to wage war, improve its weapons, and gain real combat experience, Zelenskyy says.
Kim built a new war memorial in Pyongyang with thousands of graves and space for many more. Ukraine's military estimates more than 6,000 North Koreans have already been injured or killed fighting for Russia, part of Putin and Kim's deepening anti-West, anti-U.S. alliance.
A drastically different outcome than the vision of Kim's grandfather, North Korea's founder Kim Il-sung, who once hosted former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
MIKE CHINOY, FORMER CNN BELJING BUREAU CHIEF: And I recall Kim Il-sung saying to me, we want to have good relations with the United States. That's all gone now.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Former CNN Beijing bureau chief Mike Chinoy made 17 reporting trips to North Korea. He says after Trump's diplomacy collapsed, Kim made a hard pivot to Russia and never looked back.
CHINOY: And I don't think he's interested anymore in having that kind of relationship because I don't think he trusts the United States.
RIPLEY (voice-over): Instead, Ukraine says, Kim is betting big on Moscow, a bet that could soon mean another 30,000 North Korean troops fighting for Russia.
RIPLEY (on camera): Despite thousands of North Korean troops. Fighting for Russia, only two are known to have been captured alive. Ukrainian officials say that's because North Korean soldiers are under orders to avoid capture at all cost. Kim Jong Un has even praised what state media called soldiers who self-blasted with grenades rather than surrender.
Ukrainian forces say some North Korean soldiers have shouted Kim's name before pulling the pin on a grenade, choosing to die instead of being taken prisoner.
Will Ripley, CNN, Taipei.
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CHURCH: At least 30 people were reportedly killed when armed men attacked a village in northwestern Nigeria. Eight children were among the dead, and several others sustained injuries. Parts of the north are battling a deadly insurgency by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram and splinter group ISWAP. No claims of responsibility for this attack in Kaduna State.
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Well, the people of Malawi are getting a new power source. The country in southeastern Africa has installed a utility-scale battery storage system. The 20-megawatt facility should help stabilize Malawi's power network. The country currently relies on the Shia River for most of its hydropower, but higher temperatures are expected to reduce water flows. Only 25 percent of people in Malawi have access to electricity. The government hopes to increase that to 70 percent by 2030.
The U.N. says the vast majority of Gaza's universities have been damaged or destroyed, and one charity is giving Palestinians from the war-torn enclave a chance to study in the U.K. We'll explain how. That's next.
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CHURCH: Palestinians in Gaza are reeling from new Israeli strikes, which are further destroying the war-torn enclave. Residents say Israelis ordered evacuations before hitting this storage facility in Gaza City. Much of Gaza remains in ruin after two years of war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants.
Since the ceasefire last year, nearly 1,200 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed by Israeli attacks, while four Israeli soldiers were killed by Hamas fighters. A Palestinian woman describes the misery of living amid the strikes.
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SHATHA JARADA, GAZA RESIDENT (through translator): All of Gaza is threatened and under fire. Now we want to be displaced, but there is no safe place to go, neither in the south nor the north. All of Gaza is under danger. We don't know what the solution is. They are saying that the war ended, but the war is back and more difficult than before for us.
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CHURCH: Palestinians from Gaza are pushing toward a future, no matter the challenges, and that future includes higher education for their children. The British government says it will help university students leave Gaza to attend U.K. schools if they have fully-funded scholarships. And the British charity, Phoenix Space is raising money to fund it with the help of celebrities who are auctioning off memorabilia. Some of the items on offer, legendary British football star Gary Lineker's signed shirt from his time playing in Japan, and a signed backstage photograph from Nicola Coughlan and Siobhan McSweeney from the hit show "Derry Girls."
Mahmoud Hasanain is a Palestinian student from Gaza who is now attending the University of Glasgow. He joins me now from Cairo, Egypt. Mahmoud, your story has inspired a celebrity-backed campaign to help other Palestinian students secure scholarships, so they can also study in the U.K. So that is fantastic. And of course, as a self- taught computer scientist from Gaza City, you're now living your dream, studying at the University of Glasgow.
But how difficult was it to apply in the middle of Israel's war in Gaza and also secure a scholarship at one of the top U.K. universities? Tell us your story.
MAHMOUD HASANAIN, GLASGOW UNIVERSITY STUDENT FROM GAZA: So, to start off, ever since the war took place, we've been displaced from one place to another, going -- basically trying to survive. So at first, I spent an entire year trying to survive, provide food, electricity and water for my family. After we'd been kind of stabilized, living in the same room, eight family members, I was like, we need to start chasing my dream and now there's no possible solution for what we're going through. So luckily, my phone supported eSIM cards, so I took my phone, bought myself an eSIM card and went all the way to the top of the highest cliff in our city, just raising my hand just to get a Wi-Fi connection, to fill in the applications and see all the required documents that are required from me and then go back home.
There's no home, obviously, my home was completely destroyed. I'm going back to our tent and then filling in all the applications, lighting up a candle at night when everyone is asleep, filling in the paper, writing my personal statement, getting all the documents required, and then going next day to the same place, risking my life, raising my hand all the way up with my phone, again just to get a Wi- Fi connection to fill in the applications.
So I was, regardless of everything, I stayed determined, I kept on pushing forward. And I knew there's a goal that has to be done and a dream that has to be chased.
CHURCH: That is an extraordinary story. Just the challenges you've faced to get where you are today and of course, to help other Palestinian students study in the U.K., several celebrities, as we explained, are auctioning items right now to fund scholarships for students in Gaza who have secured offers at various universities. How will this work exactly? And do you think they'll be able to raise enough?
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HASANAIN: Honestly, the same story happened to me. We had no clue that we're going to be evacuated. We had no clue that we're going to have the funding required for us to be evacuated, (inaudible) for you to be evacuated from Gaza. You need the -- you need the fully-funded scholarship for you to be eligible to be evacuated.
So, all I had the same situation is being applied to my brother who's one of the exceptionally talented students who have managed to graduate, being the first amongst his entire school, alongside with other Palestinians who have offered -- who have secured themselves offers in top U.K. universities regardless of the circumstances and everything they're going through.
Here they are, pushing forward and hopefully, with the auction and everything going on with Gary Lineker and many more celebrities taking place in the auction happening with the charity Phoenix Space, hopefully we could raise awareness and support these Palestinian students who are desperately in need of the funding required in order for them to take up their places in top U.K. universities.
CHURCH: Right. You mentioned your older brother, Muhammad (ph). He's still in Gaza as you say with this offer to study business and management at your university in Glasgow. So he has the offer but he currently has no funding to do that. So will this auction be able to help him get there along with so many other students in Gaza, do you think? There's a lot riding on this, isn't there?
HASANAIN: Indeed, indeed. This auction that's currently taking place, which has been launched yesterday, it's going to hopefully is going to raise as much funds as possible to not only help my brother be reunited with me here at Glasgow University and for him to also chase his dream and study business and management, and for him to be able to give back to the society, also help the Palestinian students who are still in Gaza. And hopefully, if you get as hundreds, our aim is to get like hundreds of Palestinian students who have already secured themselves offers after a consistent hard work day after another. And all we can hope for is the best and hopefully, they could take up their places here at Glasgow -- at U.K. universities.
CHURCH: Absolutely, I hope that happens for your brother and of course, all of those other students. And Mahmoud, tell us what are you hoping to do once you graduate?
HASANAIN: So for me, since I'm studying computer science at Glasgow, technology as you see, sophisticated technology that's growing rapidly, Gaza's circumstances at the moment, no infrastructure, everything is completely demolished. So I genuinely believe that technology will help rebuild Gaza faster, smarter and more sustainably for the future and help provide a better future for Gaza.
CHURCH: An extraordinary goal there and of course, an incredible achievement and what you've done so far and again as we say, we hope you can share all of this with your brother and so many other students trying to get out of Gaza. They have their positions, they just need this funding.
Mahmoud Hasanain, thank you so much for talking with us. We appreciate it.
HASANAIN: Thank you.
CHURCH: Of course. Still to come, demands for answers after a deadly attack on one of Europe's largest pride celebrations. We'll have the latest on the investigation in Berlin. Back with that and more in just a moment.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. Germany's interior minister is reportedly promising a sweeping security overhaul after the deadly attack on Berlin's pride celebration on Saturday. The vehicle ramming and stabbing attack, which left one person dead and 29 injured, has led to calls for tougher security measures and debate as to why the suspect was not in prison for a prior conviction.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen has more on the investigation.
FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, we're actually on the scene where all of this happened and this is inside a public park, one of the main parks in Berlin called the Tiergarten. This is actually a footpath and bike path here in this park.
It's not a public road. Nevertheless, the attacker drove the car down this footpath, ramming into lots of people. Now, I want to show you something here because it's actually this tree that the vehicle rammed into, which then stopped that driving rampage. If the attacker hadn't driven into this tree, potentially even more people would have been injured and potentially killed.
As it stands, the authorities are saying 29 people were injured, one person was killed. And afterwards, the attacker apparently left the vehicle and as he made his getaway, started stabbing people along the way. Now there's several questions that the authorities here are answering.
First of all, they say that this is an Islamist motivated terrorist attack, as they put it. They've named the attacker as a man named Abdul B. who was born in Berlin, is 21-years-old, is of Lebanese descent and apparently tried to go to Syria to join ISIS in the past. So he had already been convicted by a juvenile court here in Germany and was on probation actually when all of this happened.
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Now the authorities are also questioning how the vehicle managed to get into this park because, of course, there was that big pride event going on. There were a lot of barriers that were actually set up in the days prior to this event. So that's one of the things the authorities are looking into.
And one of the other things they're also still looking into is whether or not there might have been others who were also involved in this plot. They say, right now, that's still very much up for investigation. But as you can imagine here, the city of Berlin is very much in shock. Of course, the pride community is also very much in shock as well.
The German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, he came out and he urged people to stay strong in the face of acts like this.
CHURCH: We have new information on the deadly shooting in Seattle, Washington. According to the Associated Press, a 15-year-old has been detained in connection with Sunday's incident. Court documents reveal that police believe the teen is one of at least three shooters who may have engaged in a gang-related shootout at a popular food festival.
At least two people were killed as a result and one of the suspected shooters was also killed. Four others were wounded, including a two- year-old child.
Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in a Florida jail while they fight extradition to the U.K. They're facing multiple rape, assault and sex trafficking charges. CNN's Carolina Peguero reports from Miami.
CAROLINA PEGUERO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: While the Tate brothers remain in federal custody here in Miami, their legal team says that they're going to continue to challenge the extradition request from the U.K. and looking for an immediate release or a bail for the brothers. Now, they were not present in today's hearing.
Last week, there was unsealed court documents revealing alarming details from prosecutors about the latest sex crimes charges and allegations against them, including rape and sex trafficking by four additional alleged victims. The brothers, however, have denied all allegations against them and their attorneys have vowed on requesting more information and documents from the U.K. and the U.S. authorities that prove these allegations.
And while the Tate brothers together face 59 charges, the treaty and the agreement between the U.S. and the U.K. of this extradition request still remains in effect until September 16th. In the meanwhile, the judge has made the next hearing scheduled for August 13th while the Tate brothers remain in federal prison.
Carolina Peguero, CNN, Miami.
CHURCH: A judge in Los Angeles has ruled there is enough evidence to move forward in the murder case against the singer known as D4vd. He is accused of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez. Her mutilated body was found in the trunk of his car.
Prosecutors say D4vd killed the girl to prevent her from disclosing details about their relationship ahead of his album release. The 21- year-old singer, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, has pleaded not guilty. He will be held without bail until his arraignment on August 31st.
Well, the man convicted of killing four University of Idaho students in 2022 wants to take back his guilty plea and go to trial. Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty last year to the murders as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty. But on Monday, Kohberger filed a petition to withdraw his plea claiming it was the result of threats, false promises and wrong information. He's serving four consecutive life sentences without parole.
Well, after the break, big techs race to build wearable A.I. devices and the privacy concerns raised by accessories that can see and hear everything around you. Back with that and more in a moment.
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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone. United Airlines is now banning passengers from bringing robots on board. The company says the new policy specifically prohibits humanoid and animal-like robots in the cabin and as checked baggage. United cited safety concerns, saying those devices often use batteries not allowed on their planes. Other robotic devices, including some children's toys, may still be accepted.
This week, OpenAI CEO, Sam Altman will travel to Washington to meet with members of the Trump administration and top lawmakers on Capitol Hill. He's expected to brief officials on the company's latest A.I. models and their potential impact. Now, this comes after OpenAI disclosed that one of its A.I. systems went rogue during testing, autonomously breaching another company's systems. The incident has raised alarms with lawmakers now proposing an A.I. kill switch in response.
It would allow federal authorities to halt A.I. models and conduct independent security audits of the technology.
Well, the next big thing in A.I. may be something you wear. Tech companies are racing to build wearable devices that can see and hear in hopes they'll one day replace the smartphone. CNN Tech Editor, Lisa Eadicicco, takes a look at some of those new A.I. devices and the serious privacy concerns some are raising.
LISA EADICICCO, CNN BUSINESS TECH EDITOR: Tech companies are releasing a wave of new A.I. wearables that are meant to sometimes replace some of the duties of your smartphone. Other devices want to record what's happening around you, so that they can provide more advice after learning more about your day.
But really, the common thread here is that these companies, both large tech companies and startups, are trying to invent what could be the next version of the personal computer in the A.I. era. The smartphone was essentially invented for the Internet era. It allows you to take the web with you in your pocket.
Now, companies are wondering if there's going to be a new type of device that's better suited for interacting with A.I. agents. And that's why we're seeing a lot of these devices like smart glasses, other wearables like the Amazon Bee Pioneer bracelet, the Plaud NotePin S.
I've been using all three of those devices over the past couple of months. And I did find them useful in certain specific situations, like recording a conversation with colleagues at a networking event with their permission. Much easier to do that just by tapping a button on my wrist rather than holding my phone out the whole time.
Same thing with smart glasses. I liked being able to look at a landmark and ask Meta's A.I. Assistant for more information about it instead of taking out my phone to Google something. But there are a lot of privacy concerns here. A lot of the experts I've spoken with are concerned about how these gadgets can be misused.
Now, they do have lights that indicate when they're recording, but people might not always be familiar with that. And they might not even know to look for it. So the concern here is that recording with your glasses, even with that light on, or with one of these bracelets or pins that can record, people just might not think to look at those devices to see if you're recording or not. And that can maybe lead to some concerns for the people around you.
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So I think that's going to be a growing area that privacy experts will continue to look at as companies do continue to expand in this direction. Back to you. CHURCH: Marvel Studios has a new Black Panther. British actor, David Jonsson was unveiled at the San Diego Comic Con and will be the next to don the suit. Ryan Coogler, who directed the first two Black Panther films, revealed the third installment in the series will be released in December of 2028. Johnson will play the son of the previous Black Panther who was portrayed by the late Chadwick Boseman.
Well, the stars of Ted Lasso hit the red carpet in Los Angeles a short time ago to celebrate the premiere of the comedy's fourth season. The Apple TV smash hit produced in part by CNN's parent company will drop a new season on August 5th. It's been three years since the series wrapped its third season, which followed American coach, Ted Lasso, as he led an English soccer club.
Now, Season 4 gives him a new challenge, bringing his inspirational coaching skills to women's soccer. Hannah Waddingham, one of the show's stars, says this season is especially important.
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HANNAH WADDINGHAM, ACTOR, "TED LASSO": The fact that we're highlighting that there needs to be more funding put into women's sports, absolutely, and it has to be from like schools upwards and it needs to not be a thing like, oh look, let's go and watch a women's game, you know. It has to be equal and we got to fill those stands, inspire our girls.
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CHURCH: She's so fantastic.
Well, scientists are getting a rare look at the Amazon's elusive "Ghost Dog" from over two decades of hidden camera footage. Researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society used 34 camera trap surveys to document the short-eared dog in a major study conducted between 2001 and 2024. The study compiled 500 records across Bolivia, providing new insight into one of Latin America's least known wild animals.
The French beaches where allied forces landed on World War II's D-Day have been added to UNESCO's list of protected world heritage sites. More than 156,000 troops landed by sea or by air on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marking a key step towards the liberation of Europe from Nazi Germany. The U.N. agency says the five landing beaches form an exceptional cultural landscape shaped by the events of D-Day and their enduring remembrance.
I want to thank you so much for your company this hour. I'm Rosemary Church. "CNN Newsroom" with Polo Sandoval is next, after a short break. Stay with us.
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