welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm max foster in london. we begin with breaking news out of north korea. north korea says it successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. as the united states prepares to celebrate its independence day, this rocket in theory could reach the u.s. state of alaska. pyongyang released these pictures a short while ago of what it says was the launch. state-run television says those orders came directly from kim jong-un. here's what else we know -- north korea says the missile reached an altitude of more than 2,800 kilometers. that's in line with what japan's military had earlier estimated. south korea's military says it flew a distance of more than 930 kilometers, landing in the

waters east of the korean peninsula. according to the japanese defense official, to one of them, that may have put it within japan's exclusive economic zone. president trump reacted on twitter. "north korea has launched another missile. does this guy have another better to do with his life? hard to believe that south korea and japan will put up with it much longer. hopefully china will end this once and for all." we'll get more from paula hancocks in seoul, south korea. andrew stevens is in hong kong. and we have more from tokyo. first to paula. so this is what north korea was looking for and what south korea, the u.s., was afraid of. >> reporter: exactly right. there is what north korea is claiming at this point. looking at the figures there, experts are trying to figure out how far the range is and how far it could hit.

experts saying it could hit potentially alaska. but what we are hearing from the north koreans is triumphant acknowledgment, triumphant announcement that they have launched an icbm. they say it is successful. they even said that they could now target the whole of the world. now clearly with the figures that they have given us, that's not accurate. but it shows that they have made a significant leap in technology if, in fact, this is all accurate. we are being shown images on kctv, north korean television. there's a full article declaring that kim jong-un was there, he ordered this. we saw a photo of him signing something, and then a piece of paper which looked like it was the test order that he signed himself. putting kim jong-un, the north korean leader, center this icbm test as we've seen with all the missile tests in recent months. certainly this bib of great

concern to those -- this will be of great concern to those in washington, japan, and certainly south korea. the tweet from the u.s. president was before north korea claimed it was an icbm. it will be interesting to see what reaction we have from him. the south korean president saying before that the military here was looking at the possibility it could have been an icbm and saying that if it was, he would make sure there was an appropriate response. we don't know what that appropriate response is, whether he will ask for more sanctions, we don't know what it would be. we have heard in past couple of days, the president saying he wanted north korea to come back to the negotiating table. clearly that is going to be a bit more tricky. max? >> that's one of the issues, isn't it? it was a clear provocation to the u.s. because it came on independence day. and kim jong-un would be well aware of that. >> reporter: it came on independence day in north korea. it wasn't quite independence day

in the united states due to the time change. but these missile launches always come fairly early in the morning or within the morning hours in north korea. so much has been made of the timing. it's anyone's guess whether or not this was specifically targeted for july 4th. we know a couple of times in the past north korea has favored this date for making a statement to the united states. let's bear in mind they also need to test their capability. north korea's leader, kim jong-un, has made it abundantly clear he will try and perfect an icbm. he wants to have an intercontinental ballistic missile that can hit the mainland united states, and he wants to be able to put a nuclear warhead on top. he says for self-defense. he says it's necessary because of a hostile u.s. policy. but north korea has been abundantly clear that is what it wants to do. when you look at the timing, you have to point out president moon came back from a summit with the president, he mentioned it,

saying this was disappointing it came a few days after his summit and comes ahead of the g-20 meeting in germany where you will have all the leaders, heads of state who would have been potentially talking about other issues. they're now likely going to be talking specifically about north korea. so yes, something can be said of the timing. but frankly, we don't know exactly why north korea does things when it does. max? >> no. certainly conversations, as well, between tokyo and washington. let's go to kaori. one of the responses the world is afraid of is a military response. do you think japan would support a u.s. military response to north korea? >> well, the u.s./japan security alliance is the bedrock of japanese national security agenda. and of course the u.s. is critical in that sense. i think for now the japanese side is saying that it wants to try and bring more nations to the table to try and cooperate

internationally, particularly using a venue like the upcoming g-20 to put pressure on north korea to try and contain the situation. a lot of strong language, i think stronger than usual, from the prime minister today regarding this latest missile launch saying that it is a clear sign that the threat from north korea is increasing. and the japanese government issuing a protest to what it called a clear violation of u.n. resolutions. the protest and comments from the prime minister are coming within minutes of the launch this morning. very quickly this time. the missile launches are becoming much more frequent. it wouldn't be the first time that one would land within the exclusive economic zone. but clearly the japanese authorities are growing increasingly frustrated at their inability to contain the frequency of the launches. i think the point that prime minister abe mentioned, the fact that he not only wants to cooperate and discuss with the

u.s. and china and south korea with the trilateral meeting scheduled this week on the sidelines of the g-20, but stressing the importance to engage other countries, particularly china and russia, to take what he called a constructive action regarding the north korea issue. i think clearly japanese prime minister frustrated, but keen to play sort of a mediator role in trying to contain this crisis. >> would that involve mediating with the north koreans itself? that's the sort of message we're hearing from seoul and washington, increasingly hearing at least. >> i think it would be difficult to assume that at this point. i think it would be more toward a concerted effort with its partners in south korea and the united states at this point. remember shinzo abe is in a difficult point in japan. his support rating is falling.

he's coming off a very, very big blow in local elections over the weekend. i think he's very keen to raise his profile here among local voters. i think that might play a part in what steps he might take from here on. >> andrew stevens in hong kong, we'll expect to hear from donald trump this morning, no doubt he'll tweet something. it's likely to be targeted at china, isn't it, and expecting china to step up and resolve this. >> reporter: absolutely. we've heard from donald trump saying that he perhaps, in his words, that china would make a heavy move. again, his words, on north korea over this latest missile test. really the chinese have been all about engaging north korea with the dialogue. they've stuck with the line despite the administration wanting more economic action coming from china. there's no doubt that china does hold a lot of leverage over

north korea in terms of economic -- basically an economic survival for north korea. something like 90% of north korean trade is with china. it does give you an idea of how powerful china could be. china will tell you and quite rightly that it is implementing all of the sanctions on north korea and is a signatory to the u.n. sanctions against the country. it says that's the way forward is pushing for dialogue. we've just heard from the ministry of foreign affairs just in the last half hour or so. they note the reports, they're still gathering information. certainly this stage, you can't detect a change of tone from china, from the foreign affairs. we've stated our position many times. china opposes the launch of this missile m. it urges north korea to stop action that's breach the united nations security council resolutions, et cetera, et cetera. we've heard all that before.

interestingly, given the fact that we've got the g-20 coming up next week with all the key players, virtually all the key players involved, that may be the time for china to start pushing for more dialogue, a concerted attempt to bring north korea to the table. it's almost as if the u.s. may be the odd one out and certainly listening to donald trump in pushing for economic action, hard-line action from china against north korea. >> some suggestion that donald trump might call for a meeting with kim jong-un in response. to do a deal and resolve it that way. is that something that china would support then? >> reporter: china would support that, very much so. it believes that the u.s. should be speaking to north korea about this. china says that is the most positive way forward. and that the chinese backed up by russia on this point. so it's very much a question of dialogue rather than economic action, certainly not military

action against north korea. so how donald trump goes forward now obviously remains to be seen. he has spoken to president xi. what you have to take into account as far as the mood music to this in a way, max, is that china and the u.s. are having their own tensions. strains are rising. after that meeting or telephone call between xi and donald trump, the chinese made it pretty clear that there's negative impact on the relationship because two of or three incidents recently by the u.s. which affects china which the chinese are not happy about. there is that background, as well. >> thank you. martin naves is a research fellow at the center for studies in london. he joins me. how do you think donald trump is going to respond later today, if you can try to predict it? >> difficult to predict it, but he will take this as a personal slight, as a provocation.

he's already tweeted earlier derogatory things about kim jong-un. i expect in the first stage he will try and bring additional pressure to china to cut off links to north korea. china provides the ultimate lifeline to north korea. still does. it's within china's strategic interest at the moment, ton create a major crisis with north korea. it's because of this different viewpoint between the united states that is trying to curtail the nuclear and missile program in china and doesn't want to push the north koreans too far that we have the basis of a real emerging crisis between beijing and washington. >> exactly. where's the compromise there? >> well, i think a compromise is possible. first thing to recognize is that

kim jong-un will never, ever, ever give up his nuclear weapons or his ballistic missiles. i mean, we have moved past that stage. what the united states does not want and what would be a red line for the americans is for the north koreans to deploy an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead to the continentcont continental united states. if they can reach an agreement whereby kim jong-un retains his lost line of defense -- his last line of defense, his nuclear capability, and markey is protected from extended range missiles on the nuclear warheads, then a compromise is possible. we have to still get to that stage. we seem quite far from there. >> yeah, china's got so many other issues it's concerned about around the world, as well. when it comes to the g-20 they're not going to just want

to focus on north korea. >> well, they may not want to focus on it. the question is how far is the united states prepared to escalate the problem. i believe that ultimately the united states will escalate the problem and make it the number-one issue in american/chinese relations. i cannot believe that the american president donald trump or anybody else can tolerate a situation where a leader like kim jong-un is able to target new york and los angeles with nuclear missiles. changes the strategic equation that we have grown used to over the past few decades qualitatively. i mean, everything will be different if the north koreans are able to do that. and every effort will be made by the americans to stop them doing that. whether that will lead to actual military conflict, that's hard to say because the military options are not great. i cannot believe that we can carry on at this stage with the north koreans testing more

missiles, moving on as we suspect to another nuclear test in the future and perfecting delivery capability. once the continental united states becomes vulnerable to a north korean nuclear strike, the american position has deteriorated in a matter that we've not seen since the russians first acquired nuclear weapons. >> okay. martin nagas at kings college. thank you. you're watching "cnn newsroom." a big test for donald trump, another one, as he heads to europe for the g2 summit. how world -- g-20 summit. how the world is preparing.

returning to breaking news. north korea announced it successfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile. kim jong-un ordered the test. the missile may have land friday japan's exclusive economic zone. south korea's military says it landed in the waters east of the korean peninsula after traveling some 930 kilometers.

u.s. president trump is concerned about the ability to target the u.s. with one of its missiles. one analyst told cnn this one would have been capable of hitting alaska. north korea is on the agenda for the g-20 summit that kicks off in germany later this week. there's a lot at stake for the u.s. president. all eyes will be on his first face-to-face meeting with vladimir putin, as well. international diplomatic editor nic robertson is with us from abu dhabi with what's at stake ahead. we can assume that north korea will up the agenda. i know it was already there. perhaps it will be more important now. >> reporter: it's certainly going to focus minds a lot. there's a lot on the agenda at the g-20. president trump was already planning a trilateral meeting in the margins with japan, with south korea, over concerns about north korea. president trump goes into this with many tensions, not just with the russians, for example. ukraine, syria, those are expected topics to come up in the conversation with vladimir

putin. there want? a specify -- there isn't a specified agenda for the meeting there, the g-20. we're told from the white house likely not to expect president trump to confront vladimir putin on allegations of hacking during the u.s. presidential campaign. you know, those tensions, if we listen to what the kremlin is saying, the spokesman for president putin, just yesterday said patience is running out with the united states over the diplomatic facilities that were closed late last year by the united states. president obama expelled several russian diplomats to the united states. russia did nothing at the time. now the indication from the kremlin is that patience is running out on that. president trump has tensions with china, as we've been talking about, over trade, over weapons sales to taiwan, over sanctions on a bank in china for not complying enough with

sanctions on north korea. then you go into the bigger picture, president trump at odds with the world on climate change. you have president macron recently saying, you know, th ththat -- to paraphrase what president trump said about put america first, make america great again, he said make the world great again. then there are tensions with angela merkel over trade, the way he's criticized her policy toward refugees. from a president trump perspective going into this, he has a lot of tensions ahead of him. many leaders will look to him, and he will feel the pressure to try to gather consensus on what to do about north korea. as we see, he -- he's not shown so far the temperament to gather that kind of compromise. >> thank you. trump's unpopularity may be shaping how some world leaders deal with him.

we'll see a few tested at the g-20. to discuss it is leslie vingamori, senior lecturer of international relations at the university of london, associate at chatham house, as well. he's a disrupter, isn't he? does he want people to like him, this meeting, or is it all about his constituency at home? >> well, i think donald trump wants to be liked. there's a question of who he wants to be liked by. he's always speaking in multiple languages or targeting multiple audiences. he's got his concern forever about his base, that sort of 70/20% who are loyal still. even the 38% that continue to support him. remember, he's going to the g-20 at a time when he's under a lot of pressure at home. not only on the ongoing investigations about russia and the allegations that there might be a connection between his campaign team and members of the white house and that, but even yesterday there was a court ruling that restricted his ability to undo the regulations that the environmental

protection agency is trying to undertake with effect to meth e methane. climate change is a key issue at the g-20. he's facing a lot of pushback in the courts and more broadly at home. more negative reactions to his tweets. he does want positive feedback. this is also taking place at a time where he's had very difficult relationships with european partners and has taken in the past days a harder line with china, with south korea, and then he wakes up to an icbm, we're told, being launched to north korea on july 4th. as we approach the july 4th holiday. this is a difficult time for the president. he will, given what we've seen from his personality, approach on the back foot, aggressive mode, a he has a first meeting with putin -- as he has a first meeting with putin. certainly what those in washington are watching intently. >> some suggesting you shouldn't underestimate the two of them.

they might try and find a way of each going head to head, it isn't going to work for either of them. >> no, and of course donald trump has wanted a strong relationship with putin and russia. he's wanted to change the nature of that relationship. his attempt has probably been the one thing most disappointing to him. foraging a -- forging a strong partnership with putin won't necessarily put him in a better place with respect to the united states and tensions. but putin will approach that bilateral meeting with a very clear agenda, with a lot of flexibility. he's popular at home. donald trump is not. and so trump doesn't, we're told, according to h.r. mcmaster, doesn't have a very clear agenda, is willing to talk about anything. but that means it's unpredictable what he'll say and how that will go. could go anyway as we know. >> and his dealings with angela merkel will be interesting, as well. it does feel as if after the meeting amongst european leaders that they'll unite behind her, give a united message to give

pushback on issues over trade, for example, and climate change in particular. >> that's right. remember the g-20 emerged after the 2008 financial crisis as being the key forum for bringing together the major economies, major economic powers to cooperate, ensure the success of globalism. now we have macron and merkel emerging at the forefront. and donald trump's on the back foot with his american-first agenda, his combative approach. america's got the upper hand. she's also facing elections, as we know, in september. it's playing well in a german context to take a harder line on donald trump. i think we'll be watching carefully. the last meeting between president trump and the european leaders, his first foreign visit, didn't go terribly well. it will be interesting to see whether he does try to change the contours of the relationships, or whether he goes home with a much -- in a much more difficult position.

>> going to be interesting. leslie -- >> it will be. >> thank you very much. you're watching "cnn newsroom." still to come, the chinese and russian presidents will be holding their own talks in the coming hour. we'll have a live report on that. and fighting isis from the sky. cnn exclusively meets the pilots working to turn the tide against the terror group. you know what's awesome?

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900 kilometers, putting it in theory in the range of hitting alaska. the u.s. is currently celebrating independence day. u.s. president trump will meet his russian counterpart, vladimir putin, in germany this week. syria and ukraine are likely to top the agenda. it's unclear whether mr. trump will bring the alleged russian interference in the u.s. election last year up. ahead of that, mr. putin and chinese president xi jinping will hold talks in the coming hour. matthew chance is in the russian capital. let's join him with more. north korea's already on the agenda there. it's going to be even higher today. >> reporter: yeah. they've already had a working dinner. xi jinping and vladimir putin had a working dinner at yesterday local time to discuss the escalating crisis on the korean peninsula. they share a common position on that crisis saying that they basically, to summer rise what their views are, saying they believe there's a sort of cycle of escalation underway.

they're very much opposed, both russia and china, to the deployment by the united states of an anti-missile defense system, the thad system, being assembled in south korea. they feel it undermines their own strategic defenses, as well. and because it encourages north korea, they say, to escalate its own military tactics. they're calling for negotiation, talks, in other words, it try and bring an end top this crisis. these words were in response to the apparent testing of the intercontinental ballistic missile by the north korean regime. that happened overnight local time here in russia. the two leaders have yet to meet and yet to discuss what their views are on that issue. in the past, i can tell you that russia and china have criticized and expressed concern about the launch of missiles from north korea, and the expectation is that they will do the same

again. perhaps stopping short of the kind of acute criticism that's been levelled at the north koreans by others in the west, particularly the united states. >> meanwhile, they're trying to strengthen ties in this delicate relationship. that's partly in response to tensions with the u.s. >> reporter: from a russian point of view there is certainly and perhaps from the chinese point of view, as well, really since 20132014 -- since 2014. russia has signed billions in trade deals with china. particularly a major gas pipeline deal which was signed a couple of years ago which is worth something like $400 billion and is a major departure from the way that russia normally sells gas to countries. that's one aspect, this commercial relationship. there are $10 billion worth of deals expected to be signed later today. there's also growing diplomatic

and military partnership between them, as well, and it's drawing a counterbalance to the political and military strength of the united states. >> okay. matthew, thank you very much, indeed. we've been watching that meeting, of course. meanwhile, isis has taken a major blow. the very city it considers its capital, raqqa in syria. u.s. central command says american-backed syrian forces breached a wall surrounding the old city. isis militants have been using it as a strategic fighting position. the group is suffering heavy losses in raqqa as coalition forces drive their way in. syria is likely to be top of the agenda when the u.s. president meets with russian president vladimir putin in a few days. and as barbara starr reports, the battle for raqqa is just one of the many challenges both sides are facing. >> reporter: u.s. marines firing artillery at isis positions. unprecedented video, much of it shot from a drone overhead,

underscoring the growing danger from more than an estimated 700 u.s. combat forces on the ground. the u.s. war against isis in syria is at a critical stage. u.s.-backed forces including snipers are now inside raqqa trying to end the islamic state that abu bakr al baghdadi declared three years ago this month. but tens of thousands of civilians are still at risk from isis and syrian president bashar al assad. president trump is about to meet with russian president vladimir putin for the first time. the white house says the war in syria is likely to be discussed. the u.s. goals -- >> the need to deescalate the syrian civil war, to defeat isis there and to end that humanitarian catastrophe. >> reporter: it's all about to get a lot tougher. >> putin believes that he is in the cat bird seat at this point. >> reporter: with the u.s. no

longer regularly calling for assad's removal, there is little pressure on putin's backing of assad. and this recent firing of russian cruise missiles also an indication that moscow support for assad fits vladimir putin's only goals. >> he is going to seek to enhance that russian influence because he believes syria is the jumping off point for further russian activity in the middle east. i don't think president trump necessarily understands that. >> reporter: president trump's special envoy has just been to the outskirts of raqqa to figure out what happens next. raqqa will need money, organization, and manpower. but it's not likely the trump administration would supply that full effort. >> once raqqa's liberated, we believe it's critical for local officials to take over responsibility and take over responsibility for post-liberation security, but most importantly, governance down the road. >> reporter: but the fundamental

question remains to what extent will the trump administration expand the u.s. effort to help rebuild these war-torn areas. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. iraqi forces are expecting to regain full control of mosul by the end of the week. that's according to the reuters news agency. the military is making critical new gains as it pushes into mosul's old city. compare that to a year ago when all the territory in green there was under isis control. it's believed there are just a few hundred isis militants left in the city as the battle plays out on the streets of mosul. up in the skies above the persian gulf, a different mission is being led from the "uss george h. w. bush," a state-of-the-art aircraft carrier. senior citizen has more from our exclusive access of muhammad lila. >> reporter: they're the unseen faces in the war on isis.

america's fighter pilots 30,000 feet in the sky, providing critical condition air support to troops down below. we were given exclusive access to the "uss jordan s george h.w home to more than 40 f-18 fighter jets and the pilots. you see the massive firepower that's all around us. this is the most advanced ship in the fleet. from this runway to my side, they launch anywhere from 12 to 20 air strikes against isis targets a day. >> a unique experience -- >> reporter: scott wells spoke to us in the hangar bay with engineers working around the clock. for him the hardest part of the job isn't the job, it's being away from his wife and two young daughters for seven months straight. how do you stay in touch? >> via e-mail, pictures.

occasional phone calls. while we're underway, there's no skype, facetime, anything like that. it's very challenging. >> reporter: the ship runs like a small town powered by twin nuclear reactors. with a crew of 5,000 on board, there's always activity. with launches during the day and with infrared lighting at night. by the time the deployment is over, the military says the pilots on boards will have dropped more than a million pounds of bombs in iraq and syria. >> at the end of the day we need to make sure we're putting bombs in correct positions to take out isis. >> reporter: that hasn't always happened. the pentagon has been dogged by accusations that its air strikes have killed hundreds of innocent civilian since the campaign began three years ago. one monitoring group says the number is well over a thousand. the u.s. military maintains that it takes "extra ordinary measures to mitigate the loss of civilian life."

>> thank you -- >> reporter: kenneth whitesell is a rear admiral in the u.s. navy's fifth fleet. he spoke to us while f-18s were taking off below. >> the war is very -- not a clean business. some of the times, you know, a motorcycle or a car can come into an area where the weapons fall. >> reporter: most air strikes are planned days, even weeks in advance. right up until the last second, a pilot can abort the mission if they see unusual activity on the ground. >> when something comes up and they see someone who they haven't identified on the ground, they know we're not going to drop that bomb. that bomb can wait maybe an hour, maybe another day, maybe another week. >> reporter: for the pilots on board, it's a responsibility weighing heavily on their shoulders. knowing their decisions can mean life and death. cnn, on board the "uss george h.w. bush." you are watching "cnn newsroom." still to come, a heartbreaking fight between doctors and parents for the right to decide a sick child's fate.

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messages of hope and support are pouring in for the parents of charlie gard, a baby with a rare genetic disease. they're fighting courts who say doctors are allowed to pull the plug on charlie's life support. the family's plight has got the attention of some of the world's most powerful men. we have more on his story. >> reporter: max, such a painful story. this is pitching the uk's top pediatrician against two desperate parents. all of whom have charlie's best interests at heart but who want to go about protecting them in fundamentally different ways. the tubes that keep him alive will be turned off soon. his parents' last hope, to take him to the states for highly experimental medical treatment,

blocked by the british and european courts. their last wish refused -- to take him home to die. >> he's a soldier. he will fight. he will fight to the very end. he's still fighting. but we're not allowed to fight for him anymore. our parental rights have been stripped away. we can't even take our own son home to die. we've been denied that. >> reporter: little charlie gard was born healthy but diagnosed the following month with a rare genetic disorder, a form of mitochondrial disease which has left him, doctors say, with irreversible brain damage. >> we're still fighting! >> we're still fighting! >> save charlie gard! >> save charlie gard! >> reporter: at the weekend protests in london against the decision to turn off life support. and after the pope sent a message to the parents from the vatican saying he was praying for them in the hope that their desire to accompany and care for their own child will be

respected, now donald trump has weighed in, too. "if we can help little charlie gard as per our friends in the uk and the pope, we would be delighted to do so." charlie's case is extremely complicated. the treatment that the u.s. is offering is called nuclearside bypass therapy. it's never been tested on a strain of the disease as rare as charlie's is. even the u.s. specialist offering it says he thinks it's unlikely to reverse charlie's brain damage. that's why the british courts ruled the way they did. they saidy that didn't want charlie -- said they didn't want charlie to be the subject of medical experimentation if there was no chance of him getting better. that his rights to die with dignity must come first. that's not the way his parents see it. sadly for them, the pleas of a pope and a president already too late. of course, from the parents' point of view, any chance of improvement in charlie's condition they will jump at,

however small that might be. in this country, if doctors and parents conflict over the care of a child, it goes to the courts. so however comforting the words from donald trump may be, he doesn't have authority over the british courts. this has gone all the way up through the high court system, to the court of, peel, to the supreme court -- the court of appeal, to the supreme court and european court of justice, all of whom have sided with the doctors that it is in charlie's best interests to turn the life support off. max? >> the story of charlie gard. i'll be back in a moment with more "cnn newsroom."

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the g-20 summit this week. new jersey's beaches and parks will be open for the july 4th holiday following three days of closure because of a crippling budget deadlock. the state legislature finally passed its budget on monday, having missed their july 1st deadline. state governor chris christie has signed off on it, ending a three-day government shutdown which saw between 30,000 and 35,000 state workers furloughed. and while the beaches were closed to the public over the weekend, christie and his family were pictured relaxing on the empty sands. there's been strong criticism from local media. christie says he doesn't care what people thought of those pictures. >> when i -- the way i took the question is, hey, were you laying out, getting a tan today? that wasn't what i was doing, and that's not what the pictures show. i'm sitting with a baseball hat, shorts, and a t-shirt talking to my wife and guests. i don't apologize for it. i don't back away from it. and i think my poll numbers show

that i don't care about political optics. >> christie may not have care good his beach pictures -- cared about his beach pictures, but the internet did. here's jeanne moos with more on that. >> reporter: for a governor lounging on a sunny beach, chris christie sure is getting a lot of shade all because a photographer in a plane spotted the governor relaxing on a new jersey state beach that was closed to everyone else because of a budget standoff. >> you would think you would still want to leave office with not everybody hating your guts. >> yeah. >> reporter: a plane with a banner "tell governor christie get the hell off island beach state park" was cheered. [ cheers ] >> reporter: it was a mocking reference to the time the governor said -- >> get the hell off the beach. >> reporter: to make beach-goers take shelter from a storm. waves of mocking tweets rolled in. island beach state park is all mine. it didn't help that when asked the governor first said he didn't get any sun. >> i didn't get any sun today. >> reporter: which his spokesman

tried to explain away by saying he did not get any sun, he had a baseball hat on. true the governor has a residence there. >> this is where we live. one of the places we live. >> reporter: but what will live on are the photo-shopped memes. governor christie transported to "from here to eternity" to the george washington bridge, scene of bridgegate. from forrest gump's bench to "planet of the apes." another time chris christie thought he had the whole beach to himself. not so sunny, the governor's poll numbers in his own state. his approval rating has hit low tide -- 15%. photojournalist andrew mills shot the photos. "i've been on enough stakeouts to know what i've been made, and governor chris christie looked right at me as i pointed the long-range lens at him." the governor tweeted that new jersey beaches are open in 119 of our 130 miles of coastline. but use sunscreen and hydrate. instead of hydrating, people are

venting that the governor sunbathing is like saying let them eat sand. jeanne moos, cnn -- >> get the hell off the beach -- >> reporter: -- new york. i'm max foster in london. for viewers in the u.s., start start is next. for more -- "early start" is next. for more, stay tuned for more on the latest missile tests from north korea. you know what's awesome?

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north korea claims it successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. one that can reach u.s. territory. a sharp turn in a critical foreign policy week for president trump. his response is sure to affect this week's g-20. "early start's" live coverage begins right now. good morning, everyone, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. happy independence day, everybody. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. the fact that it's fourth of july not lost on kim jong-un. breaking overnight, north korea announcing its successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile ordered by leader