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hundreds of homes under water at this hour. als, employees at goog raleigh protesting tear concerns about the tech giant in china. we talk to the journalist that got access to their letter. we are live here in the united nations and all around the world, i'm george howell. >> i'm natalie allen. "newsroom" starts right now. the backlash is growing over the u.s. president revokeing security clearance for one former official and threatening to do the same for more. >> so far, 75 former intelligence officials have spoken out against it, issuing more sting rebukes for revoking the security clearance of former cia director, john brennan. >> 60 cia officials say the country is the weakened when a political litmus test is tied to security clearances.

>> that is on top of the former 15 directors, and director of national intelligence, serving under both republican and democratic administrations back to the 1980s they say the president's actions are politically motivated. >> and this from the washington post reporting the white house has already drafted documents revoking clearances for more people mr. trump feels should be punished for criticizing him or for playing a roam in the russia investigation and is planning to roll them out to distract from negative news stories and negative news cycles. >> so what is mr. trump saying before leaving for new jersey? he had plenty to say and our caitlin collins was there. >> reporter: president trump lashing out at the russia investigation, reminding critics his presidential powers go a long way. >> hello, everybody. >> reporter: defending his decision to strip former cia chief john brennan of his

security clearance and rejecting criticism he is trying to silence his critics. >> if anything, i'm giving them bicker voice. many people don't know who he is. now he has a bigger voice. that's okay with me, because i like taking on voices like that. i've never respected him. >> reporter: that as sources tell cnn trump is prepared to revoke more clearance in the coming days. his next target, bruce orr a little known department employee. >> i think bruce orr is a disgrey, i suspect i will be taking it away very quickly. >> reporter: he targets him because of his former connection with christopher steele. the justice department says or has no involvement with the investigation. >> for him to be in the justice department and doing what he did. that is a disgrace. >> that is disqualifying for mueller. >> reporter: trump reflg rerelevanting in what --

reveling in what he sees as rave reviews. >> security clearance is very important to me. >> reporter: but the reviews haven't all been positive. in a stinging rebuke, more than a dozen intelligence officials issued a joint statement criticizing the prove, calling it an attempt to stifle free speech. the president in his own words drawing a direct line between revoking clearances and the russia investigation. >> look, i say it, i say it again, that whole situation is a rigged witch hunt. it's a totally rigged deal it's not us. it is a rigged witch hunt. i said it for the long time. >> trump showing little interest if sitting down with the special council. >> mr. mueller has a lot of conflicks also, directly, yourself. so you know that. mr. mueller is highly conflicted, in fact, comey is like his best friend.

i can go into conflict after conflict. sadly, mr. mueller is conflicted. >> reporter: the president urging mueller to wrap things up. >> have him write up his report. we did nothing. there is no collusion. >> one thing is for sure, john brennan is not keeping quit over all of this. >> not by any mean the former cia director under president obama has been highly critical of mr. trump. he says mr. trump's claims with no collusion with russia. he says they are quote hogwash. after he was stripped of his security clearance, he said it was a part of a broader effort to punish critics and should warn all americans. >> his most stinging words came friday night when he said this. >> he's trump on power. he really s. i think he's abusing the powers of that office. i think right now this country is if a crisis in terms of what mr. trump has done and is libel to do. and so are the republicans on

the hill who have given him a parks are they going to wait for a disaster to happen before they actually find their backbones and spines to speak up against somebody who clearly, clearly is not carrying out his responsibilities? >> kate andrews, is a news editor at the institute of economic affairs joins us now from london. kate, thanks for joining us to talk about this. let's reiterate again what we had on that last report, 60 cia officials signing onto the brennan security clearance. all of us believe they write it is critical to protect classified information from unauthorized disclosure, but we believe equally strongly that former government officials had the right to express their unclassified views on what they see as critical national security issues without fear of being punished for doing so. we should point out these

officials served under republican and democrat administrations. is the president stepping into a minefield here? >> thanks for having me, natalie. i think it's really important to separate two issues here. the first is whether or not we can talk about a very important topic, which is whether or not in certain circumstances security clearance should be revoked and is appropriate to be revoked. i see circumstances in which it is. few look at the 13 guidelines of which you can revoke somebody's security clearance. they include things like outside issues, outside activities, specifically, also financial contributions that they might be getting from elsewhere. if someone has decided to go on the public speaking cirque or go on, get paid by national television to get paid for their views. i think they should question their security clearance we have to separate that from what donald trump is actually doing. >> what about dozens an dozens of former officials saying this is not about speaker fees.

this is not about getting paid. this is about the president using the white house to try to stop criticism of him? >> well, exactly. and that is the second point. >> that is why donald trump is actually revehicleing security clean, which is hugely inappropriate and problematic. he's doing this as a political tacking the to go over his political opponents. that should not be at all when discussing the security clearance i think criticism of the president is extremely important. i don't want that to become a reason we can't discuss security clearance overall. i do fear that is happening a bit here. when somebody does decide they no longer want to sit as a civil servant in the uk there are strict rules of what you can say about the civil servant. that's true in the u.s., you are not supposed to be political either. if they want to take speaker

fees to do so, that's absolutely fine. then we can question whether it's appropriate. it's clear especially since this issue with bruce orr the president is not interested if following the rules or guidelines either. he is going after people for political sport. >> that is completely an proept or wrong -- inappropriate or wrong. >> the president thinks his actions on the russia investigation, no proof of that let's listen again to the former cia chief brennan on the president's move. >> i think he's out of control. he is -- has the steering wheel of the american vehicle in his hands and he's veering wildly right now. he's trying to preserve and protect himself. so what more demonstration do you want? when things get really, really bad, i'm glad that if his revoke my security clearance will wake people up.

>> clearly brennan may get more attention about his comments now because of his action. so is this move by president trump going to backfire? >> you know, that's really hard to say. president trump is always playing to his base. it seems regardless of what happens or the hugely questionable or downright, let's be honest racist things he sometimes says, it hasn't seemed to sway his base so much. it's hard to say the people that may show up in november to vote locally and for local representatives, it's hard to know. what is clear is that there is this huge standoff now between officials and the president of the united states, sometimes i wonder how many people are actually tuning into this debate. do they understand the connections? do they understand exactly what's going on here? because the language from the president is so different from the language of the officials, you would think there were two completely separate stories going on, we know the american

public is becoming much more pom larized in the age of trump, it's hard to know if there will be backlash, because people will support the side they began to begin with. >> we know republicans on capitol hill have been mum. we will wait and see if that continues. kate, we appreciate it. kate andrews for us from london. thank you. >> thank you. . now to this cnn exclusive a report on the war if yemen. we know now a bomb that was used to drop on a school bus this month by the saudi-led coalition. we now know that bomb was supplied by the united states. >> around 50 people were killed, including 40 children. we have more about it and this bomb that we are learning ability. we warn you the report does contain disturbing video. >> reporter: every day he visits the graveyard where his two little boys are buried. today he brought their five-year-old brother along.

>> people were screaming out the names of their children. i tried to tell the women it couldn't be true. then a man ran through the crowd shouting that a plane had struck the children's bus. >> reporter: on august 9th, he filmed his class on the long awaited school trip. a reward for graduating summer school. within hours, it had all gone horribly wrong. a plane from the u.s.-backed saudi coalition struck a bus carrying them. dozens died. some of the bodies were so mutilated identification became impossible. all that's left are the scraps of school books, warped metal and a single backpack. eyewitnesses say this was a direct hit in the middle of the market. >> translator: i saw the bomb hit the bus. it blew it into those shops and three bodies cleared into those

sides of the buildings. we found bodied everywhere. there was a severed head inside the bomb center. >> reporter: this video of the shrapnel was sent in the after math and sent to cnn. a cameraman working for cnn subsequently filmed these images for us. munitions experts say this was a u.s. mark ak-82 bomb weighing in at half a ton the first five digits are the cage incident. the commercial and this denotes lockheed martin. one of the top u.s. defense contractors. this particular mk-82 is a paveway, a laser hef guided precision bomb. it's targets accuracy up to a particular point of pride for lockheed martin. but with an arms deal with saudi arabia sanctioned and contracted out by the u.s. government. so why does the matter?

because the devastation inflicted by the mk-82 is all too familiar in yemen. in march, 2016 a strike on a mark using this similarly laser guided 2,000 pounds mk-84 killed 97 people. in october, 2016, another strike on a funeral hall killed 155 people and wounded hundreds more. then the bus attack on august 9th, where they're still counting the dead. the u.s. doesn't just sell out the coalition in its battle against the iranian-backed rebel outshihoo houthi militias. president obama blocked sales to saudi arabia over human rights concerns. six months later under the newly elected trump administration, then secretary of state rex

tillerson overturned the ban. >> look, there is a balance that needs to be struck. the president also photoed that the saudi versus a right to defend themselves. they were being attacked from across the southern border by hewitt tis who we houthis in iran aided by missiles. i will tell you we certainly had under the obama administration deep concerns about the ways the saudis were targeting. we acted only those concerns by limiting the kind of munitions that they were being given and try dentally trying to argue for them to be more careful and cautious. >> reporter: saudi arabia denies targeting civilians and defends it as a legitimate military operation and a retaliatory response to a houthi ballistic missile the day before. when asked to comment the coalition spokesperson tells us the coalition is taking all practical measures to minimize civilian casualties. every civilian casualty is a

tragedy, adding it would not appropriate for the coalition to comment further while the investigation is under way. the u.s. wouldn't comment on the origins of the bomb, but the state department is calming for a saudi-led investigation which the u.s. defense secretary supports. >> wars are always tragic, but we've got to find a way to protect incidents in this one. >> reporter: osama's cell phone footage is all he has of the two boys, their last happy moments. osama's father is optimistic the investigation will change anything. in a country where loss has become common place, they aren't even praying for justice anymore, just peace. cnn, london. earlier i spoke we are tired u.s. air force lt. col. rick

francona, a senior military analyst. he described the way the saudi coalition planned targets. >> reporter: this strike was probably a quick reaction strike. there was a houthi missile attack on saudi arabia the day before. one person was killed when the missile was intercepted. the saudis were looking for retaliation. that's the story for this war, tit for tat. it continues. so the saudis wanted to strike back. they probably had a quick reaction pack annual ready to go and said we know the houthis are using this area for their command and control and planning and probably launched a soared diright -- sortie right at that. i have no doubt they hit what they were aiming at. the problem is the target selection process really needs to be looked at. >> right. absolutely. you mentioned a school bus was right there at that market when it took a direct hit. the u.s. has worked with saudi

arabia to protect civilians in this war. it's noth happening, is it? is there an explanation? >> explanation, the saudis are fought following procedures. there is a validation process. for decades we have been working on this with them. ki tell you working with the saudis can be challenging and frustrating. you can teach them, but they don't always listen. >> that was retired leiutenant general steve francona. they are not targeting civilians and the target on the school bus was a% stake. hundreds of people lose their lives, it is intense there in india. when we return, our meteorologist is here to explain why the condition there is are so bad. .

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the financial damage has reached almost $3 billion so far. it's the worst flooding to hit kerr ram ala kerala's state in nearly a century. >> this is the worst they've seen for a long time. >> just on friday alone they've had over 80,000 water rescues. >> incredible. >> it's incredible to see the rescue. the prime minister of india, he got a first-hand glimpse of what was happening. by the way, there are over 1300 personnels being deployed to help with the rescued, 38 helicopters, here's prime minister modi and his view outside of his airplane, just tragic to see what is happening to this part of the country that he governs and here's another image from his airplane. you can see just inundation from the heavy, heavy flood water. check out the satellite image. this is a year ago from google earth. pay attention to this portion. this is kochi.

this is a digital globe image. so the flooding is invisible from space. we have had over one month's rainfall in a four-day period in some portions of southwestern india. incredible rainfall totals. in fact, the waters were so high at the kochi airport, that water was lapping up at some of the engines of the jets that are parked on the tarmacs. this is incredible. the india meteorological, overall, that i are down with rainfall totals. kerala, the state, has had the worst rainfall across the region. the good news is there is a silver lining. some computer models depict it will move further to the north. it doesn't mean it will stop immediately, but perhaps some of it could move out of the southwestern areas southeastern

tan later. they need a little relief. >> thank you. in italy, 13 of the 18 victims in the genoa victims in the bridge collapse are being remembered. >> this is live from the convention center. some families are boycotted ing, though, they are protesting the negligence they claim caused the bridge to come down. burial services for four of the victims were held friday. >> cnn contributor barbie nadeau joins us now. we saw the images of this service, the state funeral in progress as it's happening now, barbie, many people there are coming together to support the dead. there are some boycotted ing this event. -- boycotted ing this boycottin

event. >> reporter: there are still more people under the rubble, there could be more that were on the bridge at the time. but people are considered as not a natural disaster but a man-made disaster. they don't think this is a moment for a state funeral. we saw applause from those crowds, though, that were in that convention center in genoa when the first responders came in. that was a touching moment. we seen the local catholic priest to the families, kissing the coffins. there are 18 covered up with white flowers. one is smaller for a young boy who died in this terrible tragedy, but the people who have decided not to participate are angry. they don't want to be a part of the quote/unquote parade of politician at this particular moment, george smr as far as those still unaccounted for. we understand the search continues there. tell us more about the efforts

that are still under way. >> reporter: well, they haven't given up hope on finding someone alive. just like in an earthquake, or any other disaster, there could be a pocket of air where someone could survive. they thought one person under the rubble was alive. he had apparently gone along and reached his destination. so there was relief for one family in this tragedy. but they are working around the clock, removing this huge concrete and break it up in a way to not further cause a collapse in hopes of finding the remaining people involved in this terrible tragedy. >> barbie, thank you. donald trump doesn't like the price tag for a military parade he wanted to stage. many in the military didn't want

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clearance. brennan said he is quote drunk on poi power. 74 other have rebuked the president for his actions. the jury in the paul manafort trial will resume on monday. the former campaign manager is accused of tax evasion and bank fraud. on friday, mr. trump called the trial very sad and said manafort is quote a very good person. in southern india, the chief minister says at least 324 people have died in floods or land sliced since the start of monsoon season in may. about half died in the past ten days. indian officials say the financial damage reached about $2.7 billion. so far, this is the worst flooding to hit kerala state in nearly a century. in italy, these images of a joint state funeral in progress

as it's happening 11:31 a.m. in genoa, italy. a time when people are being remembered, they lost their lives when a bridge collapsed will. some families are boycotting the operation, protesting the negligence they claim caused the bridge to come down. burial services were held on friday. u.s. president donald trump wants everyone to know who cancelled his idea for a military parade. >> in his view. he says local washington politicians who just wanted too much money to hold it, he blames them for it as cnn's caitlin collins reports, those politician aren't exactly disagreeing with him. >> reporter: he saw it and he wanted it. >> it's one of the greatest parades i've ever seen. >> reporter: a grand military parade, this put unat the bastille parade last year. when president trump learned in

washington it would cost according to some reports north of $90 million. he halted it and blamed d.c., tweeting the local politicians who run washington, d.c. poorly know a windfall when they see it. when asked to give us a police for holding a great celebratory military parade, they wanted a number so ridiculously high that i cancelled it. trump's hometown mayor tweeted back, yep, i'm murial bowser, mayor of washington, d.c., the local politician who finally got through to the reality star in the white house with the realities of $21.6 million. sad. it doesn't include the biggest item on trump's wish list, a military show of force. >> we don't feed a practice i'd to celebrate all this president has done for those brave men and women in uniform. >> reporter: the president down playing the news of pomp and

circumstance could instead pay yearly salaries for more than 4500 active soldiers. but it was president trump who insisted on the parade in the first place. >> we're actually thinking about the fourth of july, pennsylvania avenue, having a really great parade to show our military strength. >> reporter: as for a new parade planned the president said he will go to the paris sprayed i parade celebrating the ends of the war november 11ing, which for whatever it's worth, it's veteran's day here in the u.s. president trump says he could hold it in 2019 once costs are down. though he didn't cite any reasons why the costs could go down in a few months. >> thank you. china is stepping up its military capabilities in alarming ways. this according to united states. in a few report the pentagon says that china is actively developing a fleet of long range nuclear equipped bombers.

>> the report says beijing is likely training its pilots for missions targeting the u.s. and new stealth architect could be ready to go in the next ten years. now, china's ministry of defense says the u.s. needs to stop looking at its military construction with a quote cold war mentality. gookle is trying to reassure its employees that the company isn't compromising its values. >> this comes after more than a thousand workers are reportedly pushing back on the possibly that google could launch a censored version of its engine in china. on thursday, google's ceo says the company isn't close to doing that, but he admits they are exploring more options. >> reporter: in the bustling marketplace of the most pop late country on earth -- populated country on earth, u.s. tech giants are trying to come in.

it means playing by china's rules. is google ready to do that? they have been planning a censored version for china in order to capture a piece of the international office. >> it's a very big market. 1.3 billion people there. they want these service, companies like google, they want to get in this. >> reporter: now google may be facing the biggest road block yet. internal activism against the app that would block such terms like human rights and religion. according to "new york times," more than 1,000 google employees signed a letter referred to the project called dragon fly. it raises ethical and moral issues. it goes oranges appearing to demand more transparency. google needs to know what we are building. right now we don't. >> the employees say we don't

want this. it doesn't follow our beliefs, but these are businesses and you know google is going to keep looking at china. >> reporter: google's ceo tried to reassure people at a town hall meeting. he says, we are not close to searching a launch product in china and whether we could do so or could do so is all unclear. google declined to comment on the town hall meeting or the authenticity of the letter. >> somebody, some whistleblower inside the company decided to put that out there and basically into the press which forced the ceo to respond. you know he was thinking about it but the time line is something that's not public. he's saying it's a long way off, he didn't say no. >> reporter: google suspended its search launch in china over hacking. at the time one of the company's co-founders reportedly objected to totalitarianism in the country. eight years later, jumping back

into china may mark a shift for the tech giant, which has long advocated a free and open market. zain asher, cnn. some breaking news to tell you about at this hour the former secretary general of the united nations kofi annan has died. and a diplomat from ghana served in the u.n.'s top post from 1997 to 2006. if 2001, he was awarded the nobel peace prize along with the entire united nations. it was for their work for a better org united and more peaceful world. the united nations migration agency tweeted a life well lived, a life worth celebrating. >> cnn's richard roth has a look back at the life of the u.n.'s 7th secretary general. >> i, kofi annan. -- >> reporter: kofi annan was the

seventh secretary general in the united states history. >> this is my first day. it's like the first day in school. >> annan received quite an education serving ten years at the helm of the united nations. there were personal highs and lows. from winning the nobel peace prize to failing his fight to stop the u.s. invasion in iraq. born in ghana and university schooling included the big chill of minnesota at mcallister college. kofi annan spent most of his adult life at the u.n.. the man called coffee rose to the top over half a century, staffers recall his ability to lead and inspire. anone did manage to avoid career ending moments serving in the department of peace keeping n. 1994 the u.n. security council and others were accused by the field commander in rwanda of ignoring his warnings.

the world was reluctant to the send troops in. >> i believe at that time that i was doing my best, but i realized after the gen side that there was more that i could and should have done. >> reporter: the next year, thousands of muslims were massacred in srebanitza. he says it would shake his global thinking the secretary at the time would take the heat. madeleine albright would black him. walk's candidate, kofi annan. >> i didn't have such a dream. it never happened that somebody from the system was electeding is general. >> reporter: he championed human rights. it was annan whose charm and style elevated to him international rockstar status.

the man and the organization accepted the nobel peace prize in 2001, months after 9/11. >> we have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. >> reporter: it would not be a smooth second term for annan. friends of annan reported he appeared to the press to be distant, unable to stop the invasion of iraq. he later called the assault illegal. >> i think the west's moment of course was can call as an organization and i really did everything i can to try to see if we can stop it. >> reporter: a personal nightmare when a truck bomb killed many u.n. personnel sent to baghdad by annan. >> so you can imagine shock when that brutal death of my friends and colleagues happened. >> reporter: iraq brought more bad news for annan the so-called

oil for food u.n. agreement with iraq led to corruption. the report later cleared annan. the reserved annan erupted when a reporter pressed him about a mysterious mercedes tied to his son. >> you have been behaving like a grown school boy in this room for many, many months and years. you are an embarrassment to your cliques and to your profession. >> reporter: a warmer engaijt on his final day when he drew a standing ovation in the general assembly. he spent a lifetime in and career fueled by tragedies and triumphs. >> so again the u.n. migration agency letting us know coffee inan has died at age 80. we heard from richard roth there in that report. he is now on the line with us from new york. richard, certainly, you've covered the united nations for many, many years, kofi annan's name was there for many of those

years. . >> yes, and i knew him when he was the director of u.n. peace keeping before that there is no doubt anybody of a certain age covering the united nations and following the united nations for the ten years when he was secretary general the name kofi annan is almost larger than life. it's also because the following two u.n. secretary general have for various reasons chosen a lower profile route to go. in fact, i dare say that few went out onto the streets of major cities in the world and you asked who is the current secretary general of the u.n., you would hear, isn't it kofi annan? it was a very, of course, always a tumultuous time in the world, but he started as a secretary general i would say just as the internet was in its infancy and television news coverage of the u.n. was paramount,les, then, print media covering the u.n.

extensively from the u.n., annan and his team knew that was a good way to get the message out. i think it was good for both sides, though, yes, he certainly had his critics, some would say he was teflon as i had just mentioned in that lifetime report. he was somehow able to move on from being entangled with the rwanda genocide when he was the director of peace keeping, later on, there were other moments and you saw his frustration with the iraq war, but for kofi annan, i can tell you personally, huh couldn't have but feel like he was a friend. you are supposed to maintain some independence from the people you cover, but i thought it was all genuine and i traveled around the world with him from tunisia to east timor as it was known then and the man was, had a touch that people i think fell that if he entered a room he had a way of possibly

solving some global crisis. it's obviously much more complicated now. he wasn't always able to do. that that was a time in which we were covering him. natalie, george. >> getting a perspective from senior correspondent richard roth on the phone with us. perspective we can get from you from traveling with him, knowing him. we will take a break. after the break, we will bring in our david mackenzie as well as cnn covers the breaking news of kofi annan died at the age of 80-years-old. stands by. we'll be right back. the chili pepper sweat-out. not cool. freezing away fat cells with coolsculpting? now that's cool! coolsculpting safely freezes and removes fat cells with little or no downtime. and no surgery. results and patient experience may vary. some common side effects include temporary numbness, discomfort,and swelling. ask your doctor if coolsculpting is right for you

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news this hour, the formering is general of the united nations kofi annan has died. the diplomat from ghana served in the u.n.'s top post from 1997 to 2006. >> and in 2001, he was awarded the nobel peace prize along with the entire united nations and it was for their work, for a better organized and more peaceful world. the united nations migration agency tweeted this a life well lived. a life well celebrating. our david mackenzie is live in johannesburg. you had live interactions with him many times, what can you tell us on a personal level? >> reporter: on a personal level he was as richard described, in his presence, you think he had a very powerful presence, a soft spoken diplomat who had an outside influence on world

affairs, decades, in fact. his family saying he died on saturday after a short illness. he was 80-years-old. his children were at his side during that brief illness and tragic death. they say as a spokesman deeply committed, throughout his life in a more peaceful world and searching the current climated of diplomacy, which sees more around nationalistic interests than international diplomacy. he? a way was a throwpack from another era, a career diplomat that managed controversy to get the highest job at the united nations. i dealt with him mostly in the kenyan violence many years ago, ten years ago or more, where he helped to try to broker peace deals. even thing is general, he had a significant amount of power as a global statesman him you could

come in and bring towing boring and all disagreeing sides of difficult arguments and be a peace maker. so he has had an impact beyond his time at the united nations. >> david, what were his most challenging times in his leadership roam, would you say? >> well, i think certainly before he took his role at the secretary general, which he touched on, was something he had been heavily criticized over the years, also the reform process within the u.n. i have to say wasn't seen as particularly successful necessarily but it still is something that they are trying to get through that unwielding global organization. but again, as richard says, if you go and speak to people about coffee afan, they still associated with him with the leadership of the united nations as though you had two secretary

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following breaking news at this hour, the former secretary general of the united states kofi annan has died. he held the top post. >> in 2001 he was awarded the nobody el peace prize along with the entire united nations for their work for a better organized and peaceful work. the agency tweeted a life well lived. a life worth celebrating.

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