at 3:00 a.m. on the u.s.east east coast, following the breaking news this hour. a war of words between the leaders of iran and the united states. i'm george howell. >> and i'm natalie allen. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. this is our top story. the rhetoric escalating just hours ago on twitter. >> late sunday the u.s. president donald trump tweeted this. you'll see it's in all caps there. it says, "to iranian president rouhani. never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever

suffered before. we are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence and death. be cautious," said the u.s. president. >> president trump appears to have been responding to these comments from president rouhani. take a listen. >> translator: mr. trump, don't play with the lion's tail. this would only lead to regret. you will forever regret it. you are not in a position to incite the iranian nation against iran's security and interests. the iranian nation knows its interests and sacrifices to protect them. you are mistaken. >> president trump's top diplomat also took aim at iran. here's secretary of state mike pompeo on sunday. economic situation in iran is that the regime uses this same time to line its own pockets while its people cry out for

jobs and reform and for opportunity. the iranian economy is going great but only if you're a politically connected member of the elite. >> mike pompeo there. and now following this story, cnn international correspondent ian lee live in jerusalem. ian, look, i'm not sure if there has been reaction at this point given these exchanges, this latest response from the u.s. president. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu there certainly has been one of the president's biggest international supporters in this. >> that's right, george. and we're expecting him in about, though, this next hour to possibly say something at his cabinet meeting. but for the prime minister you're right. he has championed against this deal since the very beginning, since president obama was working with the other members of the security council in germany, iran to try to come up with this deal. he even went to congress to lobby against it. he failed in those efforts.

but with president trump he has succeeded. he has worked with the united states government to get them to pull out of the deal. the united states broke the agreement by pulling out of it. and israel has said that iran is an actor of bad faith. they revealed a treasure trove of information detailing iran's nuclear program. in that information it does detail in the early 2000s. the one thing, though, it has yet to reveal is iran not abiding by the iran nuclear deal, although israel says this information shows that iran is an actor of bad faith. but israel for their part, they see iran in multiple threats. first, you do have what israel perceives as a nuclear threat from iran, although there is no evidence that iran so far is producing a nuclear weapon. but they also have syria. and israel has been very adamant about iran not getting a

foothold inside of syria, where they're able to launch strikes or attacks toward israel. and so by the united states putting this economic pressure on iran they're hoping that that also puts pressure on their involvement in syria as well as their involvement with the lebanese militant group hezbollah. ? ian lee following the story live in jerusalem. thank you, ian. >> for more now let's turn to frequent guest scott lucas. he's a professor of international politics at the university of birm kham in england and the founder sxert of ea world view. thank you, scott, for joining us. this seems to have started with those comments by the iranian president, urging president trump to make peace with iran. then he made a reference to war. and that prompted the turs all caps threat from mr. trump. what do you make of it? >> there's three things in play here. all important. the first is that the trump administration is pursuing a policy of regime change in iran, which is markedly different, of

course, from the approach of the obama administration. secondly, the iranian leadership, not only the president but the supreme leader, have stepped up their rhetoric in the past few weeks. notably by warning that they will hinder the oil sales of other countries if iran's own oil exports are reduced by american sanctions. and then thirdly, donald trump has been known to use a dramatic tweet like this as a distraction when he's under pressure. for example, under the russia investigation and his meeting with vladimir putin. and there's nothing more distracting than threatening a war. >> right. this seems to be they're pointing -- you gave three options there. to the unraveling of the iran nuclear deal. because it's still very much up in the air as far as the future. >> no, the iran nuclear deal's dead. at least from the standpoint of the united states. >> that's what i meant. because others are trying to salvage it or go around somehow. >> yeah. but the point is that the u.s. is divided from those european allies now. that is why we're in different

territory. the europeans don't want regime change. russia and china don't want regime change. perhaps binyamin netanyahu wants regime change but his own military and intelligence officials are very wary, especially of military action. to sought united states, at least trump administration is pretty much in uncharted territory here. now, how far they go, how far they push, it right now it's a back and forth. because each time they push further for regime change like in the secretary of state's speech yesterday, the leadership of iran, especially the hard-liners, especially the supreme leader, they will hit back. they will say we will not stand down, we will not back down, we will have a resistance economy. and the danger here is not that you have a war that breaks out tomorrow but that you get a war by miscalculation or you get a war simply because these insults step up to a point where neither side wants to back down. >> right. but let's look at north korea for a moment. we had the back and forth with kim jong sxun donald trump and that led to a meeting.

iran certainly a different regime. however, mr. trump using harsh words like be cautious, you don't know what you're dealing with here. is there any merit to that? is there anything positive to say to that? when you look at the situation between the u.s. and north korea. >> i mean, there's an interesting theory out there and that is donald trump will threaten military action one year and then the next he wants to meet the leader of another country. but i think there's two major differences here. i think trump actually saw, even though i think it's a bit fanciful, that he could strike an individual deal with kim jong un in north korea. i don't think he sees that with the iranian leadership. especially because of the israel dimension that's in play here. and secondly, iran's supreme leader is not going to sit down with donald trump. he hates donald trump. not a big fan of the u.s. so we don't get a switch from the tough talk to awful a sudden a summit in tehran next year. >> now, suddenly -- donald trump

had hoped once he backed out of the nuclear deal that iran would call him up and want to talk about deal making. but that certainly isn't going to happen. how far are we from diplomacy between iran and the u.s. right now. >> we're half a world away from it. you're not going to get diplomacy. look, i just want to make this very clear, that the stated position of the trump administration may be oh, we'll have a new nuclear deal if iran accepts all the conditions. they aren't. what they want to do is bring down the leadership in iran. they want to bring down the supreme leader. they want to bring down president rouhani. i'm not saying whether that's right or wrong. but that's what they want to do. now, when you are threatening regime change, you cannot expect the iranian leadership to say that's all right, then, we'll talk to you, we'll have a new nuclear deal, it's not going to happen. instead the hard-liners are going to dig in. the supreme leader, the revolutionary guards, they're going to call on their population to sacrifice economically. they're going to demand no negotiations with the u.s.

they're going to escalate their involvement in syria. in other words, when you pursue regime change from washington, you don't get success immediately. you're going to get confrontation. and that's where we are. >> yep. they're certainly pushing back. scott lucas, we appreciate your insights. thank you. >> thank you. the u.s. president is also tweeting about russia's interference in the u.s. election, and he is reversing course yet again. >> he tweeted sunday that it's a big hoax. and he slammed barack obama, accusing him of failing to inform the trump campaign about russia. but that is not correct. in august of 2016 then candidate trump was briefed by u.s. intelligence officials that russia would try to infiltrate his campaign. >> sunday's tweet by mr. trump follows his stunning refusal a week ago to call out russian interference, that when he stood side by side with the russian leader. a day later he backtracked. listen. >> dan coats came to me and some

others. they said they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the sentence should have been "i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia." sort of a double negative. so you can put that in, and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good by itself. >> well, actually, it hasn't clarified much. there's been so much back and forth. and one of the president's staunchest supporters says mr. trump needs to do a better job clarifying what is his stance on russia. >> the evidence is overwhelming. it can be proven beyond any evidentiary burden that russia is not our friend and they tried to attack us in 2016. so the president either needs to rely on the people that he has chosen to advise him or those advisers need to reevaluate

whether or not they can serve in this administration. but the disconnect cannot continue. the evidence is overwhelming. and the president needs to say that and act like it. >> that from trey gowdy. now we're also hearing the top democrat on the u.s. house intelligence committee who had this to say about mr. trump's behavior regarding russia. listen. >> well, i certainly think he's acting like someone who's compromised. and it may very well be that he is compromised or it may very well be that he believes he's compromised, that the russians have information on him. we were not permitted to look into one of the allegations that was most serious to me, and that is were the russians laundering money through the trump organization. the republicans wouldn't allow us to go near that. i hope that bob mueller's investigating it because, again, if that's the leverage the russians are using it would not only explain the president's behavior but it would help protect the country by knowing that in fact our president was compromised. >> let's cross over to moscow and see how this is playing

there. our senior international correspondent sam kylie joins us. we all know that any talk of russian interference in the u.s. election drives russia nuts. so how's that playing over there, sam? >> well, it drives them nuts, as you say, natalie, often with delight because of course in the russian doctrine chaos in the ranks of the enemy or rivals is in and of itself victory. now, what we've recently had with yesterday's tweet or overnight tweet from donald trump suggesting that the 2016 interference in the u.s. political processes by russia was a hoax means that he's backtracked on his backtrack from his original statement from helsinki, which questioned the veracity of u.s. intelligence conclusions that that's exactly what happened. now, you might argue that this is good news for the putin

administration, and you'd be right because at the same time the russians are saying the allegations against maria butina, the alleged agent of the kremlin who is seeking allegedly to have political influence on behalf of the kremlin through the national rifle association and others was a fabrication. so you link these ideas of hoax and fabrication seeking to undermine the very structures of the united states that are supposed to conduct investigations and prosecute people who've been found -- against whom there's been a case found as a result of those investigations. so again, the super suits at the kremlin, and i use that term because of course sergey lavrov said the consequences from the helsinki summit were better than super, natalie. >> right. and they're the ones that have been talking about what was

discussed much more so than mr. trump. you're saying he backtracked on his backtrack. that kind of sums it up, doesn't it? the confusion. we really appreciate it. sam kiley for us there in moscow. thank you, sam. all right. another target of mr. trump's tweets on sunday, his own justice department. >> this time the president accused the fbi and justice department of misleading the courts in order to get approval to spy on carter page. page of course the former trump campaign foreign policy adviser accused of also working for russia. >> the justice department released the evidence it used to get surveillance approval for page. page spoke with cnn's jake tapper about the accusations in the fbi request. >> this is so ridiculous it's beyond words. you're talking about misleading the courts.

it it's so misleading going through the 400-page documents. >> did you ever advise the kremlin or work with the kremlin on anything? >> jake, i've -- no. i've never been an agent of a foreign power by any stretch of the imagination. you know, i may have -- back in the g20 when they were getting ready to do that in st. petersburg i might have participated in a few meetings. >> carter page there speaking to my colleague jake tapper. still ahead, we're following the latest on breaking news in toronto. police there investigating a latenight shooting rampage, a shooting that left one person dead and more than a dozen wounded. also ahead here, north korea and the u.s. are still talking for now. why improved ties could be breaking down. we'll have a live report from that region. stay with us. this is not a bed. it's a high-tech revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side

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one woman is dead and 14 people shot after a shooting in toronto. police say the shooter is also dead. they are investigating every

possible motive including terrorism. >> investigators are working multiple scenes including outside a restaurant where the shooting took place. all of the victims were taken to hospitals. one of them a young girl is said to be in critical condition. one witness describes here what he heard and saw. >> sir, what did you hear tonight? >> several gunshots. lots of gunshots. that's about all i heard. >> how many shots would you say? >> i would say i heard at least 20 shots. in intervals. clipping, spent, reloading, clipping, spent, reloading. clipping, spent. that's what i heard. and then i saw the carnage as i ran down the street here to kind of follow the gunfire, i guess. pretty crazy. i saw at least four people shot here bit fountain. as you said, someone came out of the restaurant. so i missed that. another person in dimitri's i assume was shot because there was a lot of action going on there, towels trying to be

grabbed, trying to help people out i guess is what they were doing. that's all i saw. then obviously the police arrived and i'm standing here watching this. not cool. not cool at all. >> again, we know that one woman is dead. 13 others wounded. this is a story we'll continue to follow this shooting rampage that took place in toronto, canada. growing signs now that warming relations between the united states and north korea, well, may be cooling off. more than a month after the singapore summit with kim jong un president trump says that things are going well, but according to a u.s. official, in private mr. trump is frustrated, angry at the pace of denuclearization talks. following this story, our alexandra field is live in seoul, south korea. there was a point that according to our will ripley's reporting a bright spot here, north korea determined to continue with the talks. that at least must be resonating well in the region.

>> reporter: sure. look, publicly officials here in south korea echo a lot of what officials say in the u.s. publicly, which is that they maintain optimism about what the possibility of these talks is in the future. what they could potentially yield. the reality is that there have been no concrete actions and no plans for concrete actions since that singapore summit, which yielded nothing more essentially than an agreement to get started on what is really the hard work. so we know that there is a long road ahead. the u.s. has been very clear, even just a few days ago, in saying that they will keep sanctions against north korea in place until there is progress. north korea has bristled at that and chafed under those sanctions. so we have seen mounting hostility from north korea in the form of rhetoric, not just directed at the united states but also now directed at south korea. criticism of the administration here and the threat it seems that they could potentially renege on another agreement that they made to south korea. that is to reunite some of the families between south korea and north korea that were torn apart

decades ago by war. the two sides had agreed when they started talking earlier this summer to go forward with an official reunion in august. this is dearly important to so many people who have been separated for so long. this is an aging population, people who are in their 80s and 90s hoping to reunite with loved ones. it could be a last chance for them. they are hoping this will happen in august. but george, over the weekend we saw in state news out of north korea that there could be obstacles in terms of bringing this reunion about. north korean state news demanding now the repatriation of 12 north korean waitresses who they say were abducted in 2016. south korea has since 2016 contended that the women defected. this has again long been an issue of contention. but george, this is the first time that north korea is using the subject of these waitresses and tying them to the issue of the reunions. so this is a moment where everyone's really sitting back and watching and waiting to see whether or not north korea is ready to continue to act in good faith here when it comes to the agreements that they've made

with south korea and also ultimately with the united states. george? >> the demands are flying back and forth. alexandra field following it all live in seoul, south korea. thank you. there has been another shooting at a church in the united states. this happened in the state of nevada, and one person was killed. >> in fallon, nevada. officials say a man walked into the mormon church on sunday afternoon. that man then firing a gun and then walked home. police say that this man, 48-year-old john kelly o'connor, later surrendered to police. the police chief talked about kelly's possible motive. listen. >> initially, it does not appear that this attack had been directed upon the church but the individual victim. staff is currently working on obtaining additional information. we're getting a search warrant for mr. o'connor's residence and conducting interviews with witnesses at this time. >> again, one person was killed.

a second person had a injury to their leg. israel's defense minister says the main commercial border crossing into gaza will reopen on tuesday provided conditions remain quiet there. >> that announcen't coming from avigdor lieberman after israel launched what it called a wide-scale attack against hamas targets in gaza over the death of an israeli soldier. >> the u.n. secretary-general has urged hamas and israel to "step back from the brink of another war." so far the ceasefire appears to be holding. we turn now to a deadly ambush on a taxi minibus. this occurred in south africa. police say 11 taxi drivers were killed late saturday when gunmen jumped onto the road from bushes and opened fire on the bus. >> four other people were critically injured. the victims were traveling back to johannesburg from a funeral. police say they didn't know who the gunmen are or why they

attacked. a bold rescue in syria's civil war. what we're learning about the evacuation of the white helmets and hundreds of civilians. that story ahead for you. also ahead, powerful tropical storms are pounding east asia. five of them, in fact, all at the same time. and this is the result right here. pedram will have that for us coming up in our next half hour. ahh... summer is coming.

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hour. >> at least 14 people we understand including a young girl have been shot in the city of toronto, and we understand one of the victims has died. police say the shooter is also dead, but they have no other information about him and they are asking for the public's help. they're now working multiple scenes including outside of a restaurant. police say they're investigating every possible motive including terrorism. >> police have arrested three men in london in connection with an acid attack that badly injured a 3-year-old boy. it happened saturday in a shop in worcester, england. the boy had serious burns on his face and arms. and investigators believe the attack was deliberate. police already had another suspect, a 39-year-old man, in custody. the leaders of iran and the united states escalating a war of words just a few hours ago this tweet from the u.s. president saying "the iranian president rouhani never, ever threaten the united states again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few

throughout history have ever suffered before." mr. rouhani was quoted warning the u.s. a war with iran is the "mother of wars." meantime, president trump is slamming the fbi and justice department for releasing evidence surrounding this man, carter page. he's the former trump adviser accused of working for the russian government. page denies, that and mr. trump says it shows the fbi and justice department are biased. that's his allegation. when u.s. prosecutors charged maria butina with being a russian spy last week it opened up a new rift between the two countries. >> that's right. the russians and butina say she's just a pro-gun lobbyist who met with high-ranking politicians and gun groups for her job. prosecutors say she's something more sinister. our matthew chance takes a look at just how maria butina is. >> reporter: she shot directly to the heart of american

conservatism. combining a passion for guns with an irresistible charm rarely associated with the u.s. gun lobby. >> i'm a representative of russian federation here, and i am a chairman of the right to bear arms. it's a russian non-profit organization. >> reporter: in fact, prosecutors say she was a russian agent accessing conservative groups like the national rifle association, the nra, to influence u.s. policy. it certainly got her privileged access to leading u.s. republicans like john bolton, now u.s. national security adviser but back in 2013 an nra official who agreed to appear in a pro gun video used by butina's russian lobbying group. >> should the russian people have the right to bear arms? i can share with you a word about what this particular freedom has meant to americans and offer you encouragement as

you consider embracing that freedom. >> reporter: butina's social media accounts feature numerous videos of people shooting guns as well as meetings she attended as a speaker. her u.s. defense lawyer says she was just an energetic networker. and even the russian foreign minister has taken up her cause with his u.s. counterpart. in a recent phone call sergey lavrov told u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo that the case against butina was fabricated and stressed the unacceptability of the actions of the u.s. in arresting her. according to u.s. court filings, butina offered sex in exchange for a position in a special interest organization in the u.s. and was in close contact with a sanctioned russian national about her work. >> i'm visiting from russia. >> ah. good friend of obama, putin. he likes obama a lot. go ahead. >> my question will be about foreign politics.

>> reporter: it's also known that work brought butina into contact with donald trump. the russian lobbyist asking the then presidential candidate in 2015 about russia and sanctions. >> i believe i would get along very nicely with putin. okay? and i mean where we have the strength. i don't think you'd need the sanctions. >> reporter: russian media is kags the butina case as the latest example of anti-russian hysteria in the united states. with kremlin-controlled television track down her father in deepest siberia to plead her innocence. "she had to meet lots of different people for her future profession," valeri butin tells state media. "she did nothing illegal. of that i'm certain," he adds. but there's far less certainty in the united states, where it remains unclear whether this flame-haired russian really was just a pro-gun lobbyist or she had her sights set on an even

bigger target. matthew chance, cnn, moscow. >> matthew, thank you. we're learning much more about a daring rescue effort in southern syria. members of the white helmets were among 422 civilians evacuated by israeli forces over the weekend. >> that rescue group is credited with saving thousands of lives. israel says they were under threat amid a russian and government offensive. israeli forces moved them into jordan after a request by the u.s., canada, sxechlt u countries. cnn's jomana karadsheh is tracking the story from istanbul. she joins us live for a look at why there was such a global effort to rescue the rescuers and why now. jomana. >> reporter: well, you know, natalie, this is one group in syria that has been receiving funding support from some western countries over the years. over the past month we've seen the regime backed by their

russian allies making significant gains in southwestern syria in derra and other provinces. that's when the concern was raised about the white helmets and their family members. in the past week or so we've learned there was discussions at high levels between western nations to try and put a plan together to get them out of the war zone. at the height of the syrian civil war often it was the white helmets who wrt first on the scene. with no local police or emergency services, residents in rebel-held areas turned to these syrian volunteers recognized by their iconic protective gear. >> they have all chosen to risk their lives to save others, and that makes every single one of them a hero. >> reporter: the group rescued tens of thousands of people caught up in the conflict, often saving the war's most vulnerable.

like this baby girl. after 12 hours of digging and drilling volunteers finally reached this two-week-old baby trapped under the rubble. but now it's the white helmets themselves who are being rescued as town after town in southern syria is reclaimed by the government there's been increasing concern over the fate of the white helmets. the regime and their russian allies have long labeled the group as terrorists, accusing them of staging chemical attacks and faking rescues. in an internationally coordinated mission and an unprecedented move, hundreds of syrians including white helmet volunteers and their family members have been evacuated out of the country by israel into jordan. the group will stay there before being resettled in germany, britain, and canada, the three countries jordan says have pledged to take them in. canada has praised the work of the white helmets saying, "we feel a deep moral responsibility towards these brave and selfless

people." the uk's foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, has described the rescue as "fantastic news" and has thanked israel and jordan for acting so quickly on the request. he says the white helmets are the bravest of the brave, adding that "in a desperate situation this is at least one ray of hope." a moment of international action in a conflict where that has rarely brought any good. this time it may have saved hundreds of lives. and you know, natalie, these 422 civilians are considered the lucky ones here. there are tens of thousands. the number fluctuates on a daily basis according to the united nations. anywhere between 140,000 to 160,000 who are stranded in quneitra province on the border with the occupied golan heights. they have nowhere safe to turn to. they have been displaced by the fighting. and both jordan and israel have sealed off their borders. jordan says for its part it

cannot take in any more refugees. so there's a lot of concern still for the fate of those tens of thousands. >> we will be continuing to follow it very closely. jomana karadsheh for us. thank you so much. we're following extreme weather bearing down on east asia. a deadly heat wave in japan breaking records and sending people scrambling for shelters. stay with us.

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japan is suffering its hottest day on record. a city near tokyo registered a temperature of 41.1 degrees celsius monday. that is nearly 106 degrees fahrenheit. central tokyo feels like 38 degrees, which of course is no picnic. >> at least 40 people have died as much of the country is in the grip of this brutal heat wave. the humidity and the lack of air-conditioning in many buildings is making it very difficult to keep people cool. all of this comes just weeks

after massive flooding that killed more than 200 people there. and in vietnam at least 21 people have died from all of this. more than a dozen are missing. so much rain. flash floods and landslides swamped entire villages. government groups are working to salvage homes, health care centers and hospitals that were damaged. but more rainfall is on the way. >> that's not news people want to hear there. and also, tropical storm ampil is battering eastern china. nearly 200,000 people have been relocated from coastal areas hit by strong winds and heavy rains. it's disrupting travel too. more than 500 flights from shanghai have been canceled, and the city's ferry services have been suspended. of course due to the gusting winds there. our meteorologist pedram javaheri has a lot to cover this day live in our international weather center. pedram, tell us more about what is happening in this extreme weather. >> it's a series of storms. none of them have been a menacing feature, no large-scale

category 2, 3, or 4 type storm. but the storms have all been either tropical storms or tropical depressions and you take a look across portions of the western and central pacific, we're talking about five disturbances. tropical storms 13, 14, and 15 lined up across that region. and of course son tinh over portion of vietnam and ampil over eastern china. all of this have impacted tens of millions of people across this region, and the impacts continue. the heavy reinfall continues. and of course it is the wet season. you expect to get some heavy rains. as you advance the maps, we'll kind of show you exactly what we're talking about when it comes to the systems and the way they progressed over identical spots and have produced heavy rainfall over identical spots. that's the concern over this region. we are watching this to continue at least the next week or so here, george and natalie, with the heavy rainfall that's expected to come. but you notice the map just highlighted with a tremendous amount of activity right now across the pacific ocean. >> a lot of people 2349 path of those storms. pedram javaheri, thank you so much. we'll keep in touch with you.

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both houses of british parliament's summer break cannot come fast enough, especially for the prime minister of the nation, theresa may, who's held on to that office despite two very tumultuous weeks. for more on this let's bring in cnn's nina dos santos live from number 10 there. there have been pointed criticisms from the u.s. president, numerous resignations, a host of complications around brexit, but theresa may is still standing. the question, is she standing strong or barely standing after all of this? >> well, at the moment she's not standing here at number 10. she's actually en route to the north of england. the reason why there's no clouds above the saeft government which are indeed next door at number 11 where her chancellor is. he's also on an away day. this is the penultimate day of parliament as you quite rightly point out, george, which means for the moment theresa may is still in power although her position doesn't necessarily look that much surer than it was a few weeks ago. feverish speculation over the weekend in some of the

pro-brexit newspapers that another key cabinet minister could be ready to resign. this means that although theresa may definitely deserves a break will she be able to get one? here's a look at her summer of survivabili survivability. >> the ayes to the right, 305. the nays to the left, 302. so the ayes have it. the ayes have it. >> reporter: theresa may has staved off a rebellion on crucial trade bills, survived multiple government resignations in the past two weeks. >> it is not too late to save brexit. >> reporter: and endured a roller coaster visit from president donald trump. >> i didn't criticize the prime minister. i have a lot of respect for the prime minister. >> reporter: after all that you'd have thought that britain's beleaguered leader deserves a break more than most. but can she really afford to let her guard down this summer? her majority since her ill-fated 2017 general election and with

dissatisfaction building on both sides of the house about how she plans to go about brexit, some would argue it's a wonder theresa may has held on this long. the prime minister even xrd bringing forward parliament summer recess, so concerned she was about the prospect of the confidence vote in her leadership. and with labor now polling five points ahead, the one thing uniting her deeply divided conservative party is the prospect of a government led by jeremy corbyn. >> after two years of dither and delay the government has sunk into a mire of chaos and division. the agreement that was supposed to unite the cabinet led to the cabinet falling apart within 48 hours. >> reporter: with may spending parliament's penultimate day with her cabinet in england's northeast, there's little time for those wishing to unseat her. though that doesn't mean that mps can't spent summer plotting from afar. the real test for may will come in september, when the writing could be on the wall or not as

the conservative party hosts its annual conference. yet despite last year's embarrassing show she still survived. >> our economy is back on track. >> boris asked me. >> as she makes it past the domestic battles, brussels length next test in an october summit seen as pivotal for clinching a trade deal with the eu. but when britain leaves the block in march of the following year. if there's no deal to rubber stamp by december, a hard brexit could be on the cards. so for now the prime minister's future looks just as uncertain as that of her country. >> i'd like to wish you a very good break over the summer. >> reporter: well, george, it's that prospect of a no bill brexit that has dominated the newspapers over the course of the weekend with the newly appointed brexit secretary

dominic webb taking to the airwaves saying he would rather have a good deal -- or no deal at all than a bad deal and of course he'd rather have a good deal but when it comes to the type of deal he would refuse to pay the european union money that the uk technically owes, that the prime minister had originally said she would pay, if he didn't get the type of deal that he wanted. remember that the newly appoi appointed brexit secretary just like his predecessor voted in favor of leaving the european union. so here we have it again. we have a combination of warring factions within the cabinet who are likely to war over the course of the summer over the ideology behind brex sxit whether or not the uk should be left to leave the eu without a deal at all. whether that would be a bad thing, economists generally say that would be terrible for the uk's economy. and of course remember that when number 10 and all those parliamentarians get back from their summer break there will be less than six months to go before brexit actually really happens, george. >> thaelsive deal. we'll have to wait and see. nina dos santos live outside number 10.

thank you so much. there in london. italy's francesco molinari made history at golf's open championship. >> certainly did. he hell off some of the sport's biggest names including rory mcilroy and tiger woods to do what no italian golfer has done before. cnn's alex thomas reports for us from scotland. >> reporter: with the wind strengthening on the final day of britain's open golf championship, this became a bit of a war of attrition for the leading prayers, and it also brought to mind the fable of the tortoise and the hare. while the slightly flashier players fell by the wayside, francesco molinari just plodded along par after par after par and lifted the claret jug. the first italian golfer ever to win a major. >> amazing to stand here with the claret jug. i knew i was coming in with some good golf. my record around here was terrible.

it didn't make me too optimistic about the week. but i just tried to not think about it and focus on hitting good shots day by day. i felt really good this morning when i came here, i felt like i was ready for the challenge. obviously conscious it could have gone either way. but i knew i was going to do my best today. >> reporter: molinari was playing alongside tiger woods and for a short period it looked as if the veteran american would complete what would have been one of the most miraculous sporting comebacks of all time. in the end his dream was dashed, but he admitted he enjoyed being back in the heavy-duty competition. >> it was a blast. i was saying earlier that i need to try to keep it in perspective because at the beginning of the year if you would have said you're playing in the open championship i would have said i'd be very lucky to do that. it's going to sting for a little bit here. but given where i was to where

i'm at now, blessed. >> tiger woods said afterwards he had taken heart from what serena williams had achieved, reaching the ladies' singles final at wimbledon after the birth of her first child. and on this performance at korns tooe both woods and serena lend up winning another major title in the near future. alex thomas, cnn, carnoustie. >> a good story to end on. we appreciate, alex, for that. thanks for joining us these past two hours. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell. "early start" is next here for our viewers in the united states. >> for everyone else stay with us for more news with max foster from london. thanks for watching. . . . .

some tough talk from iran met with a blunt warning from the united states. president trump says further threats from tehran will bring severe consequences and the secretary of state compares iran's leadership to the mafia. >> i don't think they did anything wrong. they went to the court. they got the judge's to approve it. >> republicans refuting the claim that newly released documents prove his campaign was spied on. the president taking to twitter undoing a week of support for