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Liverpool Star Diogo Jota Dies in Car Crash at 28; Jeffries Delays Vote on Trump Megabill with Long Speech; Stronger-Than-Expected U.S. Jobs Report for June; Israel Intensifies Strikes on Gaza as Ceasefire Talks Ramp Up; Ukraine: NK Sending up to 30K More Troops to Fight for Russia; China Showcasing Aircraft Carrier in Hong Kong. Aired 11a-12p ET

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ZAIN ASHER, CNN HOST: All right, the football world is mourning after the death of Liverpool's staff forward. "One World" starts right now. Diogo

Jota died alongside his brother when their car crashed in Spain. Authorities say the accident was likely because of a burst tire.

The U.S. House of Representatives look set to pass the president's domestic policy bill, despite a marathon speech by Democratic leader Hakeem

Jeffries. And health officials in Gaza say that dozens were killed in intensified Israeli air strikes despite signs of a potential ceasefire.

All right, coming to you live from New York. I'm Zain Asher. My colleague and friend Bianna Golodryga is off for the holiday weekend. You are

watching "One World". The football world is reeling from the death of one of its young stars in a tragic accident.

28-year-old Liverpool star Diogo Jota died in a car crash on a remote highway in Spain early Thursday morning. Jota's brother Andre Silva was

also killed in the crash as well. Media reports say the pair were traveling in a Lamborghini when their car careened off the road and caught fire.

Authorities are investigating whether a tire blowout caused the crash. Jota was one of the top goal scorers for Liverpool and helped lead them to a

Premier League title this past season. He was also a member of the Portuguese national team, which won the nation's League final in May as

well.

The news is especially tragic because Diogo Jota got married just two weeks ago to his longtime girlfriend. They actually have three young children

together. These are the wedding photos. So really heartbreaking on so many different fronts. I want to bring in CNN "World Sports" Amanda Davies with

more on this.

I mean, Amanda, this is beyond tragic, right? This is heartbreaking. I mean, there's so many different elements of this story. Not only was he

incredibly young, this is a 28-year-old man. It's hard to think of a 28- year-old in terms of past tense, but you've also got the fact that he just got married a couple of weeks ago.

And on top of that, he was killed with his brother in the car as well. I mean, walk us through what we know, for people who don't necessarily follow

soccer or football that much, tell us about Diogo Jota's life and legacy, Amanda.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN WORLD SPORT: I mean, frankly, put Zain, Diogo Jota was a footballer in his absolute prime. You said, you mentioned, he won the

Premier League title with Liverpool in May. We saw those pictures of him celebrating arguably the biggest domestic league trophy in the world.

Just a couple of weeks later, he led his country Portugal to one of the biggest European international competitions there are the nations league

trophy. Lifting that trophy in the victory against Spain was the last time we saw him on a football pitch, and then, as you rightly said, which almost

puts everything else it pales into insignificance.

Those wedding pictures we saw were of his wedding to his long-term partner, Rute from just 10 days ago. And the final social media post that he made

was just 19 hours before the news of his death emerged. He posted a video of their wedding day with the words a day we will never forget.

And you only have to look at the messages from across football posted underneath that video before the news of his death emerged to see with what

high regard, he was held from throughout the footballing community. Diogo Jota was, yes, one of the world's best footballers, but also a thoroughly

wonderful human being, by all accounts.

And that is a very common theme that we are seeing through all the tributes that are being paid, not just from football that the Portuguese President,

the British Prime Minister, yes, the head of world football, Gianni Infantino, but it is at Liverpool, in the last five years, the club that he

has represented since 2020 that the Anfield fans have really taken him to their hearts.

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The manager who took him from Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Midlands, to Liverpool, Jurgen Klopp posted this. This is a moment where I struggle.

There must be a bigger purpose, but I can't see it. I'm heartbroken to hear about the passing of Diogo and his brother Andre.

Diogo was not only a fantastic player, but also a great friend, a loving and caring husband and father. We will miss you so much. Darwin Nunez was

one of his current Liverpool teammates, and really echoes, I think, the thoughts of so many at the moment.

There are no words of comfort for so much pain. The Uruguayan wrote, I will always remember you by your smile as a good teammate on and off the pitch.

I send all my strength to his family, wherever he is. I'm sure he will always be with you, especially to his wife and three children.

And then arguably the biggest name in world football at the moment, alongside Messi, of course, Cristiano Ronaldo, one of Jota's Portugal

teammates who lined up alongside Jota at that nation's league success just a few weeks ago, saying we were only just together in the national team you

had only just got married.

I send my condolences and all the strength in the world to your family, to your wife and to your children. He said, it does not make sense. And this

accident happened at midnight 30 Thursday morning, Zain, in the early hours of Thursday morning in Spain. So, a lot of people across Europe waking up

to the tragic news.

And what we know, or what we've seen so often at these times and these moments at Liverpool, sadly, all too often at Liverpool. They've had these

real moments of tragedy. The Liverpool community coming together fans descending on Anfield to lay their flowers, their flags, their shirts, and

come together and pay their tributes and some really poignant scenes, which of no doubt will continue over the coming days.

ASHER: Amanda Davies, thank you so much for laying that out for us. He will be missed by a lot of people. For a bit more perspective on this, let's

bring in Keir Radnedge. He's one of the leading journalists covering football, and has been at every World Cup since 1996.

I mean, you know, you are someone here who has seen Diogo Jota grow up. You've seen him become one of the leading players for Liverpool. I imagine

this news, waking up to this news this morning must have hit you quite hard.

KEIR RADNEDGE, FOOTBALL JOURNALIST: Yes, it's really quite devastating. And I think that one of the most emotional things is that, you know, in a world

well, lots of awful things are happening. People look to -- sport and distraction, and a player like Diogo Jota, who brought so much enthusiasm

and happiness and enjoyment to his football, to his sport.

I think that's one of the things that really came over to people, whether they were watching him live in the stadium or via television. And I think

that's why this has been such a painful, painful day for so many, not just in football, but in sport generally.

ASHER: I mean, at 28 you know, you've -- I mean, he's -- Amanda Davies, was just saying, our reporter, they're just saying that this is of someone who

was in his prime, you know, this is somebody who was very special to watch on the pitch, and he had just such a great future in soccer and football

ahead of him.

But then also there's the personal element. He was tragically killed alongside his brother, God knows what his family is going through, on that

front and then on top of that, he literally had just gotten married to his girlfriend with whom he shares three children. For those of us who don't

follow football, who don't follow soccer as much as you do, obviously it's part of your profession.

Can you just talk to us about what made him sparkle? What made this man sparkle on the field?

RADNEDGE: I think what made him sparkle was the energy he brought every time he trod on the pitch, whether that was starting a match or as often

happened more recently, coming on as a substitute. He had this wonderful ability to suddenly enthuse people, to enthuse fans that no cause was ever

lost while Diogo was on the pitch, there playing.

He had an ability, an energy, a commitment, that enabled people to feel, oh, this is a man who can change the course of this match. It's a wonderful

gift to have.

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ASHER: Yeah, that is a really special gift. I mean, you think about the handful of players that can do that, that can change the course of a game.

I mean, we think about, you know, Tom Brady here in the U.S. as being a major football player that can also do that. That's a special skill to

have, as you point out.

Talk to us about how this is going to impact Liverpool as a club, do you think.

RADNEDGE: Liverpool as a club are intensely loyal to their players, to their staff, to their fan base. I mean Liverpool as a club has come through

so much tragedy that I think they have a real emotion and a real understanding of the emotional connection between the game and the fans and

the players.

This is what makes the Liverpool, if you like more than the football club, but a real family, and that's why this tragic accident will be felt so much

and so personally by Liverpool fans.

ASHER: You know, I really appreciate what you said, and I think you put it really well. You said that there's so much bad news happening, quite

frankly, around the world, that people really do look to sports and their soccer stars for a source of inspiration, for a source of hope, when you

know the world does seem to be falling apart around us.

And to have to wake up to this kind of really gut wrenching, tragic news that a prime, really famous, really beloved soccer player could be taken,

you know, in his prime, you know, just in sort of the middle of his career, when there's so much for him to look forward to, is really, it's

heartbreaking, quite frankly.

Keir Radnedge, thank you so much for your perspective. We appreciate you coming on the show. Thank you. Right, still to come the U.S. House Speaker

says Republican lawmakers are excited to pass Donald Trump's agenda bill, if the House Minority Leader would stop talking details ahead.

Plus, latest data is in, we're going to be crunching the numbers after the government posts the latest on how the U.S. job market is doing.

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ASHER: All right, more than six hours and counting. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is speaking on the House floor to delay the passage of

Donald Trump's tax and spending package. Once he finishes, Speaker Mike Johnson will make a statement, and then law makers are expected to pass the

president's entire domestic policy agenda.

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It follows weeks of intense infighting between Republican lawmakers and the late-night stalemate that held up a procedural vote. Eventually, the

Republican holdouts fell in line behind the president despite their harsh criticism of the bill. Once that hurdle was cleared, Jeffrey began his

speech at 04:54 this morning, 04:54 a.m. slamming the measure as an all-out assault on ordinary Americans, as he warned the legislation contains the

harshest, or rather the largest health care cut in U.S. history.

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REP. HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): I rise today in strong opposition to Donald Trump's one big, ugly bill, this disgusting abomination, the GOP tax scam

that guts Medicaid, rips food from the mouths of children, seniors and veterans, and rewards billionaires with massive tax breaks.

Every single Democrat stands in strong opposition to this bill, because we're standing up for the American people.

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ASHER: CNN's Lauren Fox on Capitol Hill for us. So, Hakeem Jeffries there using his magic minutes to delay the passage of this bill. But you know,

quite frankly, this bill is set to pass when he stops talking. And so, my question to you is that, you know, Hakeem Jeffries was just saying that

every Democrat is against this bill.

There were actually quite a few Republicans, House Republicans, who were also against this bill, but they went to the White House, they spoke with

the president. The president was able to get them on board. Do we know what the president actually said to them to win them over?

LAUREN FOX, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. I mean, there was a series of meetings yesterday at the White House when it was very clear in

the morning that Speaker Johnson and GOP leaders had quite a significant amount of work to do to win over holdouts.

And the problem and issue for leadership and the president really was the fact that this was not just coming from hardliners and conservatives, but

there were also real concerns from Republicans that hail from swing districts, especially when it came to some of the severe cuts to Medicaid

that came out of the Senate bill.

What we know, of course, is that most of those members who were concerned about the Medicaid cuts voted yes. There was one notable exception to that,

Representative Brian Fitzpatrick, who is a Republican from the swing state of Pennsylvania, he voted against advancing the rule last night.

He has previously expressed concerns about Medicaid cuts, whether or not that's the primary reason. We don't know. Speaker Johnson told me a few

minutes ago that there were a series of convictions that Fitzpatrick held against this bill, and he's still having conversations with him, but that

just gives you a sense of one way they got many of the moderate holdouts.

On the other side of things, we've talked to a number of conservatives who had a round the clock discussions with the president, with administration

officials trying to make sure that their concerns about expiring energy credit, energy tax credits were addressed, and we know that they met with

Leg Affairs at the White House.

We know that they had conversations with treasury, with CMS. These were all part of a bigger effort to ensure that they felt like the implementation of

this bill, even though the underlying bill itself couldn't be changed, might move things in a direction they were comfortable with, that's

something that speaker Johnson has also confirmed to us, and other hard liners have made clear that that is part of what got them to yes on this

bill.

So that just shows you, the length of this effort to get people on board over the course of the last 24 hours was huge, because when we started

yesterday, it was very clear that Johnson did not have the votes, when they started the rule vote in the evening, it was clear Johnson did not have the

votes working the floor, opening this up, putting this on to a public pressure campaign that clearly made the difference here.

ASHER: All right, Lauren Fox, thank you so much. Appreciate it. Let's bring in Kevin Liptak at the White House. So, Lauren essentially laying out how

the president was able to win over some of those GOP holdouts. I mean, this is a big deal for the U.S. President. I mean, this is a win for him, Kevin.

KEVIN LIPTAK, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE REPORTER: Yeah, it's highly consequential. I think, Lauren, laid out some of the sort of nitty gritty

specifics of what the president was talking about. I think big picture, the president made this into a loyalty test for Republicans, and there were not

many Republicans who decided that they wanted to go astray of that particular test.

The president now very clearly having a stranglehold on the Republican Party. He really does now appear at the height of his political power,

whether it's over these Republicans or any other matter that now comes across his desk, and this will be, I think, an important component to his

legacy.

You know, whether you're for or against the bill, everyone seems to agree that this will now be a major imprint on the president's standing the

question, I think, going forward and the task both for the president and for Democrats is to define exactly what that legacy is.

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Does, as the president say this bill expand growth by that 4.5-billion- dollar tax cut, or, according to his detractors, will it explode the federal deficit in ways that will have repercussions for decades to come?

Does, as the president say, this strip out waste, fraud and abuse from the social safety net system, or, as his detractors say, will millions of

people be stripped from the health insurance rules?

All of those questions, we have projections on them from the Congressional Budget Office, but those questions will be answered in the months and

potentially in the years to come as this bill becomes implemented. And certainly, the task for President Trump will be trying to sell this to the

American people, because polls right now do show that this bill is broadly unpopular.

You know, recent history is sort of littered with presidents who used their congressional majorities to pass these major pieces of legislation, only to

later come and regret that they didn't do a better job of selling it to the American people, often because their party lost the majorities in the House

or the Senate during the midterm elections.

And so, this ends, in one way, the saga of trying to get this bill passed, but in another way, it begins the process of President Trump trying to

really frame it around his legacy and all of the objectives that it accomplishes that he promised he would do on the campaign trail, but

clearly a very consequential moment for him.

The White House very eager to get this signed, potentially as early as tomorrow after it passes in the House, later today, as expected.

ASHER: Yeah. And the president had made it clear that he was hoping for that July 4th deadline, and that it looks like that he's going to get that.

So just in terms of other foreign policy news that we are looking at today, I understand that President Trump started speaking with Vladimir Putin at

around 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time.

This is an interesting timing, because it comes right around the time that the U.S. has actually paused some weapon shipments to Ukraine, which

obviously, as Zelenskyy has pointed out, that is a huge win for Russia. Do we know what is being discussed specifically on this call, Kevin?

LIPTAK: We don't know the specifics of what the two men will be discussing, but I think the idea of these weapons being paused will certainly arise in

this conversation. Remember, it was just last week that President Trump, on the sidelines of the NATO summit in the Netherlands, said that he was

actually open to sending new patriot missile batteries to Ukraine.

Now the pendulum seems to have swung in the opposite direction the administration saying that they're worried about U.S. stockpiles dwindling,

hence this pause that has been put in place. But when you look at sort of all of the successes that the president has had over the last couple of

weeks, whether it's this bill, whether it's the Middle East, whether it's that Supreme Court ruling, the issue of Russia and Ukraine really does

remain one of the major outstanding issues that the president hasn't been able to resolve.

He's pinned the blame both on Putin and on the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. You know, last week at NATO, the president said he

thought Putin was misguided, even though he thought he was ready to settle this war. I think the question now becomes how he plans to do it.

There has been this sort of diplomatic flurry. This week, the French President Emmanuel Macron speaking with Putin for the first time in three

years. So, you do see some of the gears turning, but I think the contours of the settlement, they're still very much in question.

ASHER: Right, Kevin Liptak, live for us there. Thank you. A fresh sign today, the U.S. economy is chugging along despite uncertainty over how

President Trump's tariffs could shake out. The government's jobs report, released just hours ago, shows stronger than expected growth.

147,000 jobs were added in June, while unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1 percent. Let's analyze these numbers with Betsey Stevenson, she's a

Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. Betsey, thank you so much for being with us. So, I think what's interesting

about these numbers that the headline numbers look quite impressive, actually.

I mean, are they out of this world? No, but it does show that the U.S. economy is chugging along quite nicely. On the other hand, though, if you

sort of take a peek under the hood, a lot of these jobs that were added are actually government jobs, especially at the state and local level. Can you

just give us your take on this jobs report?

BETSEY STEVENSON, PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Well, you just pointed out the contradiction in this report. I mean, the

jobs growth, the number of jobs being added, is probably higher than we think the steady state rate of growth is in jobs right now. So, you know,

we're looking sort of for 50 to 100,000 jobs a month in order to sort of keep up with population changes.

And what we saw was 147,000 so that's very fast. And then you look at it, and you see that almost half were in government.

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A lot of that from not federal government, the federal government still shedding jobs, but probably some accounting issues around hiring teachers,

because there was a lot of jobs added for teachers at the state level. And then there was also a lot of the jobs were in what Treasury Secretary Scott

Bessent calls government adjacent health care and social assistance.

So then when you look a little bit deeper at the private sector, it doesn't look terrible, but, you know, it didn't look particularly strong or great.

Now we saw professional and business services losing jobs. You know, those are those marketers who work marketing things that now have tariffs, that

people aren't selling because of the tariffs, so they laid off their marketer and that's sort of the underlying weakness that you're pointing

to.

ASHER: Yeah, I mean, it's interesting, and you laid it out so beautifully. One of the things that I was sort of looking for in this jobs report is,

when you think about the tariff sensitive sectors, and I, you know, when I think about those, I'm thinking of transportation, I'm thinking of

construction, I'm thinking of manufacturing.

I mean, how did they do because one of the things that the jobs report actually talked about is that there hasn't been that much change in those

specific sectors. We're seeing sort of like mediocre trends, like, they're not necessarily adding jobs. Are they shedding a ton? No.

But, you know, manufacturing, for example, lost 7000 jobs that's, you know, that's not nothing. So, give us a sense of how the sort of tariff sensitive

sectors are doing in the private sector?

STEVENSON: You know, you refer to this thing called tariff sensitive. And I think the point that a lot of economists, myself included, have been trying

to make is more sectors are tariff sensitive than you realize, because you know your job at target probably depends on target being able to import a

bunch of stuff that people can afford to buy, because it was at a low cost, because we were taking advantage of comparative advantage in a low tariff

environment, and so lots of jobs are potentially exposed to tariffs.

Now, if you want to ask about things like manufacturing, the whole goal of the tariffs is so that American manufacturing can grow.

ASHER: Yeah. Exactly.

STEVENSON: And so far, that's not working.

ASHER: Right.

STEVENSON: I think the problem is that a lot of the stuff that we make overseas, we will do without, rather than make it home. And so, at the end

of the day, what that's going to do is, you know, cause reallocation towards other types of goods and services, and that's going to be a little

bit of a process.

ASHER: And just in terms of how Jerome Powell is going to assess these numbers, I mean, obviously, you know, he does this for a living, so he's

not just going to look at the headline number. Of course, he's going to take a look at what sectors are adding jobs, and he's going to notice the

fact that half of the jobs that were added here are government related, and not necessarily in the private sector.

You know, this idea of a September rate cut had pretty much been baked in at this point. But, you know, the headline number is Brazilian, and he's

going to take that into account too. How does he assess these particular jobs report for June?

STEVENSON: You know, you're right that he's going to look at a lot of different points of data. And you know, one of my favorites the Chicago Fed

President, said he doesn't like to think of himself as a hawk or a dove. He likes to think of himself as a data dog.

And so, I think of the entire Federal Reserve Board team as a bunch of data dogs looking through all sorts of numbers, but at the end of the day, all

the fed can do is decide whether it makes sense to stimulate demand, and it doesn't matter whether it's government or the private sector that's

demanding those jobs.

If we have very fast job growth and we have low unemployment, they don't want to stimulate demand any further. So, I think this report obliterates

the idea of a rate cut in July.

ASHER: Right.

STEVENSON: People didn't think that was very likely, but it obliterates it, and I think it still raises questions about whether a rate cut in September

is a good idea. There's a lot more data to come in between now and then. We see jobs reports like this, and we see prices ticking up, and there's no

rate cut in September.

You know, we start to see the labor market the weakness in this report. Maybe it shows up a bit more, a bit stronger in our next report. And prices

say, stay stable, and that starts to make the case for a September rate cut. We're all going to have to be data dogs if we want to predict what's

going to happen.

ASHER: Yeah. And also, the revisions are what you also have to look at as well, because we had a series of dramatic downward revisions up until now.

Now we're getting these upward revisions for last month and the previous month as well, so that also has to be looked at too.

All right. Betsey Stevenson, thank you so much. I hope you enjoy your holiday weekend with Justin and the family. Appreciate you being with us.

STEVENSON: Thank you.

ASHER: All right. Still to come, Israel ramps up its strikes across Gaza, even as a ceasefire proposal gathers momentum. A live report from the

region, ahead.

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ASHER: Right, welcome back to "One World". I'm Zain Asher, here are some international headlines we are watching for you today. U.S. House lawmakers

are expected to give President Trump a legislative victory when they vote on his mega policy bill. But Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries is

trying to delay the passage of that measure, with a floor on -- with a speech on the floor that is lasting nearly seven hours.

American employees added 147,000 jobs in June, while the unemployment rate fell to 4.1 percent this according to just released data from the Bureau of

Labor Statistics, the numbers show resilience in the market, despite concerns about President Trump's tariff policies.

A source says the new ceasefire proposal between Israel and Hamas would include a dramatically increased flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza. The

source says it includes five hostages released over 60 days. Details about the timeline and other issues will be ironed out during talks to finalize

the deal.

And football fans are paying tribute to Liverpool and the Portugal star Diogo Jota. Jota and his brother died in a car crash earlier today. The 28-

year-old had been a leading goal scorer for Liverpool and helped lead them to the Premier League title this past season.

Right, U.S. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania, will meet the last freed Israeli-American hostage, Edan Alexander in the Oval Office in the

next couple of hours. He was reunited with his family in May after intensive and indirect talks between Hamas and the Trump Administration

that bypassed Israel.

Alexander was serving in the IDF when he was abducted on October 7th, 2023. Israel is intensifying its strikes across Gaza, even as negotiations to

reach a ceasefire with Hamas -- Palestinian health officials say more than 80 Palestinians were killed across the enclave on Thursday.

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Authorities say that it includes dozens of people seeking aid and others sheltering at a school turned displacement facility. The Israeli army says

it struck some 150 terror targets over the past day. This ceasefire talks gain momentum. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is expected to discuss the

latest plan during the visit to the White House on Monday.

CNN's Jeremy Diamond joining us live now from Tel Aviv. So just talk us through what is in this latest ceasefire proposal, this idea that over a

60-day sort of temporary ceasefire period, that five hostages would be released. What more can you tell us?

JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, Zain, let's focus in on what's new about this latest ceasefire proposal compared to the one that

Steve Witkoff presented about a month ago, that's the U.S. Special Envoy of course, this time, you know, a lot of the new things in here are aimed at

bridging the gap with Hamas' demands.

One of those being stronger assurances from the United States that they will keep Israel at the negotiating table to negotiate in good faith, an

end to the war, meaning that the United States is actually going to actively push for Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement to end the war,

either during the 60 day ceasefire, or for those negotiations to continue and for that ceasefire to be extended past those 60 days until the two

sides reach a permanent ceasefire.

We will have to see whether or not those assurances are strong enough for Hamas, which has insisted on an up-front guarantee for an end to the war

thus far. We're also learning that Israeli hostages will be released in five different phases over the course of that 60-day ceasefire, about half

of the living hostages, half of the deceased hostages, expected to be released over that 60-day period.

That's different as well from what was presented about a month ago by the Americans, where there would only be two phases of hostage releases over

the course of the first week of those 60 days, another change to address Hamas' concerns. And then you have on the humanitarian aid front, Israel

now committing to allow humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza through the traditional humanitarian channels run by the United Nations, rather than

through that controversial U.S. and Israeli backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Now what's important to note is that Hamas is now reviewing this latest proposal, which we've been told Israel has indeed accepted so far. We

believe that they are meeting today to discuss it, and Hamas' response could come as early as today. It could come tomorrow. It could also come

later.

We just simply don't know. But if Hamas agrees to this, that will mean that there is a major framework agreement between these two parties. You will

still need some days most likely of detailed proximity talks between Israel and Hamas to sort out the kind of final details about the implementation of

this ceasefire, including, for example, the timetable for Israeli troops to withdraw from Gaza over the course of this deal.

But barring that, of course, a framework agreement between these two sides would be a major development, and it would certainly open the pathway for a

final agreement about a ceasefire for 60 days, and one that could eventually be extended into a permanent one, Zain.

ASHER: That is the hope. Jeremy Diamond, live for us there. Thank you so much. Let's bring in Shaina Low, Communications Advisor for the Norwegian

Refugee Council. She joins us live now from Amman, Jordan. So, Shaina, as our reporter in Tel Aviv, Jeremy Diamond was just laying out for us.

As part of this sort of proposal, the ceasefire proposal Israel, if it does get signed by all parties, Israel, would actually increase humanitarian aid

into the enclave, quite significantly. And more importantly than that, they would actually allow the UN to control the distribution of the aid, instead

of the very controversial GHF the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.

Because obviously, up until this point, only a trickle of the necessary humanitarian aid has been allowed into Gaza. And I think really what is

heartbreaking for a lot of people to see is that a lot of Palestinians who have tried to get access to food end up being shot at. 600 people have been

killed by all accounts. I mean, give us your reaction to that.

SHAINA LOW, COMMUNICATIONS ADVISER FOR THE NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL: Well, first of all, it's shocking that we're at this point that 600 people have

been killed in a month trying to seek out food. No one should have to face the decision of whether to starve to death or risk their life to go get

food.

We have been calling, along with the U.N., for the traditional mechanism to bring in aid, which is run by the U.N. and supported by humanitarian

partners like the Norwegian Refugee Council. We've been calling for that system to be re implemented, and for us to allow to bring in the aid that

is stacked up in trucks and in warehouses in Egypt and in Jordan, and allow that to come in freely.

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The current conditions on the ground are so desperate, the stories I'm hearing from my colleagues are simply heartbreaking that we cannot even

wait for a ceasefire appeal to be ironed out. We need that aid to enter now. We need the crossings open now, and we need to be able to do what

we've been trying to do for the last 20 months, which is save lives.

ASHER: What is at stake if the status quo continues? I mean, obviously there is a lot of hope for this particular ceasefire. It's obviously backed

by the U.S. It comes on the heel of this very brief war between Israel and Iran, in which, you know, the Israelis and the U.S. can sort of appear to

sort of take a victory lap.

But let's say the ceasefire proposal doesn't go ahead, which we've seen time and time again. So many people have gotten their hopes up, only to

have their hopes dashed at the last minute. This ceasefire proposal doesn't take effect. What is at stake for the people of Gaza, especially when you

know, as you point out, we talk about the fact that they are relying on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which that's a system that has proved not to

be working at this point in time.

LOW: Well, we're going to continue to see innocent people lose their lives through bombardments and through deprivation, deprivation of essential

resources and supplies. Just in the last day, the UN was finally able to access the last of the fuel reserves in Gaza, and are in the process of

distributing that fuel to continue running essential services, when that fuel runs out, hospitals will stop working.

Water desalination plants and water pumps at water wells will stop running. People will no longer have access to clean drinking water. Sanitation

services are already collapsing. Garbage is piling up. We are going to see the continued spread of preventable and curable diseases.

But a population that has been so heavily starved and deprived of meaningful assistance that people, innocent people, will die because they

cannot recover from illnesses that you or I would easily be able to recover to because we have access to medicine, we have access to food.

We have access to clean water. The situation right now is one in which -- when I speak to my colleagues, they know that death could find them at any

moment. We saw just yesterday, the head of Indonesian hospital killed humanitarians, rescue workers in the hundreds have been killed over the

last 20 months.

And we know that that will continue unless there's a ceasefire, and unless aid is able to enter at two scale and be distributed to Palestinians in

Gaza, wherever they are.

ASHER: The temperature right now, I just looked it up. Temperature right now in Gaza is almost 90 degrees Fahrenheit. That is unbearably hot, when

you combine that with the fact that there is very little aid, you know, and just the sort of the really difficult conditions that people are

experiencing on the ground.

How does the -- I don't say warm weather, the unbearably hot weather, complicate the conditions for Palestinians on the ground?

LOW: And it's not just about the heat in Gaza. It's also about the humidity. Remember, Gaza is on the coast, so I just checked about an hour

ago, and the humidity level was 76 percent. So, it is stifling. It is oppressive. And we have now over 700,000 people who have been newly

displaced since Israel broke the ceasefire 3 months ago, 3.5 months ago.

And so those people, many of them, do not have any type of shelter to protect them from the sun, to protect them from the heat, they are exposed

to all of the elements, with very little resources to cool off, very little water accessible to stay hydrated. It's going to lead to exhaustion.

It's going to lead to dehydration, and when you compound it with the level of trauma and stress and deprivation that people have experienced over the

last 20 months, it's just going to be catastrophic.

ASHER: Right, Shaina Low, live for us there. Thank you so much. Right, still to come, Ukraine is set to face additional forces on the battlefield.

How many troops North Korea is expected to send to assist the Kremlin, ahead.

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ASHER: Turning now to Russia's war in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say North Korea is set to triple the number of its troops fighting for Russia

by sending as many as 30,000 more soldiers to the front line. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.

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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): They brought near suicidal, ruthless tactics, the rumblings of a war going global. 11,000 North Korean troops helped Russia expel Kyiv soldiers

from its border of Kursk. But that, it seems, is just the start.

CNN has learned up to 30,000 more may be headed to the front lines, according to Ukrainian intelligence, for use in a summer offensive. With

Moscow hungry for manpower, and Pyongyang keen to school its troops in brutal trench and drone warfare. They were first seen here in October, but

recently, the routes used then could be active again.

A troop carrying Ropucha ship was seen here on May the 18th, the same type of vessel at the same Russian port used in transports last year, experts

said. Ukraine also assesses Russia will refit transport planes like the one seen on the tarmac here again in June at North Korea's Sunan airport, to

move so many North Koreans.

Likely air or rail will take them across Siberia to the front line, 10 kilometers east of Kursk. This camp has enlarged in recent months. Further

evidence of North Korean builds up. CNN has geo located to hear this six minute video report from a part Korean-Russian Correspondent.

The report surfaced 48 hours after the Kremlin's first admission of the North Korean deployment.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Such a good bunker. Warm.

WALSH (voice-over): They're not only training, but appear to have new long term bunker accommodation and equipment, the tastes of home red Korean

pepper and homemade propaganda. It says revenge for our fallen comrades. This Russian instructor says his new trainees are aged 23 to 27.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The guys arrive in good physical condition. Their fighters are as good as ours. The enemy runs away first. And the enemy does

run, because it's afraid of a --

WALSH (voice-over): And there's a translation sheet to get over the language barrier, which meant the first units operated separately from the

Russians. State media has shown videos of both countries now training together. Here in the same training ground, a Russian shows how to use a

shotgun to take down a drone.

Others practicing clearing buildings together. More signs are open. Putin's top presidential advisor, Sergei Shoigu.

KIM JONG-UN, SUPREME LEADER OF NORTH KOREA: Welcome.

WALSH (voice-over): Visiting Kim Jong Un here for the second time in a fort night, announcing 1000 mine clearers and 5000 military construction workers

to rebuild Kursk region.

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Perhaps a sign, Moscow is indeed short of the manpower it has sent mercilessly into the fight, but also that it is not short on allies who

share their ruthless commitment. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, London.

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ASHER: Chinese navy is putting on a show of force in Hong Kong. Still to come, we get a look at China's massive aircraft carrier.

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ASHER: Right, China is showcasing its powerful naval fleet as massive Shandong aircraft carrier, sailed into Hong Kong waters earlier today for a

five-day visit. It's China's first domestically built aircraft carrier. CNN's Ivan Watson has more from Hong Kong.

IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is a pretty rare sight, a Chinese aircraft carrier, the Shandong now making a five-day visit

to the Port City of Hong Kong. This is one of the largest weapons in China's military arsenal. It is the length of more than three football

fields, and it can carry more than 40 aircraft.

Many of them are J-15 fighter jets. And when it's conducting flight operations, they would launch off of that ski jump sloping bow over there.

Now this is a very potent symbol of China's relatively new naval power. I'm going to give you a little context here, around seven years ago, I was in a

small boat in this same harbor, looking at a very different aircraft carrier.

It was the USS Ronald Reagan making its own visit to Hong Kong. In the years since then, relations between Beijing and Washington have sharply

deteriorated, and we haven't seen a U.S. Navy ship here in many years. In the meantime, around 2020, the Chinese navy is believed to have grown

larger by number of ships than the U.S. Navy.

Today, China boasts the world's largest navy. This is one of two fully operational Chinese aircraft carriers built entirely this one in China.

There is a third aircraft carrier currently undergoing sea trials, and reportedly a fourth larger and more advanced aircraft carrier is currently

under construction in China.

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This carrier, the Shandong, was recently operating off of the Eastern Coast of Taiwan, that is that self-governing island that Beijing claims for

itself and has not ruled out the possibility of using force to take it under control one day. So, there's a lot of tension and a lot of Chinese

military and naval muscle flexing that's ongoing around Taiwan.

The Shandong recently was conducting exercises as a strike force, as well as the other Chinese aircraft carrier out in the open Pacific Ocean. And

that is considered to be a milestone, some naval experts say for the ongoing development of the Chinese navy.

Beijing clearly, has ambitions to project its naval power further into the high seas. Bringing this carrier here is aimed at whipping up more

patriotism among the residents of Hong Kong and also demonstrating to the world China's growing naval power. Ivan Watson, CNN, Hong Kong.

ASHER: All right, stay with us. We'll have much more "One World", after the break.

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