if we measure it, hopefully we did dismantle it. and white folks, if you don't think about your own bias then there is a chance you're going to end up in one of those videos harassing people who don't deserve it, or even worse, getting somebody killed. because we ain't all jared steven leony. they packed the streets of hong kong -- protesters showing their outrage as the city tries to pass a controversial extradition bill. but now chinese officials blame the united states for the massive demonstrations. we'll sort it all out for you. plus they fought for isis and now they're facing the consequences. we hear from two of the so-called isis beatles. also ahead this hour, a show on netflix brings attention to the deep rift between israelis and palestinians. we'll hear why it is both popular and controversial. we are live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta and we want to welcome our viewers here

in the united states and around the world. i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. 2:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast. china and the united states divided by the tug-of-war on trade, and now there is a new flash point to tell you about, a massive protest that took place in hong kong. chinese state media say the united states is behind it because of the trade dispute, but trade is not the reason so many people took to the streets there, as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators you see right there, people who said they came together to protest the bill they fear gives the chinese government too much power in hong kong. the linc would allow criminal suspects in hong kong to be sent to mainland china. emotions have been running high on this issue and the protesters there, well, it went straight through monday morning. for most -- for the most part, things were peaceful.

the clashes did break out there in some places. authorities say at least three people -- three police officers were hurt and several arrests were made during that time. the city's chief executive, though, is vowing to push ahead with this bill, but a pro-democracy lawmaker, many of them say it is time to get rid of it. listen. >> we want this bill to be scrapped altogether because there is no point to say that we can protect you under this label called "rule of law." under -- when it comes to china extradition. this doesn't make sense. this just won't work because there is no fair trial, there is no humane punishment guarantees on the mainland. >> our andrew stephens is following the story live in hong kong this hour. andrew, by pointing the finger at the united states over the issue of trade, it is completely

contrary to the reasons so many people expressed their reasons for protesting. it's really about this extradition bill that critics say gives the chinese government too much power over hong kong. >> reporter: yeah, it gives china the power to ask the hong kong government to extradite people who beijing accused of undergoing crimes or just someone that they don't like, someone who has been critical of beijing, so there is this real fear in hong kong, if you like, george, that this extradition order if it goes through will open up china -- to open up hong kong, excuse me, to the judicial system on the mainland of china, which as we just heard is not seen as fair, certainly not seen as impartial. so the people are coming out here really to make that point, and they made that point hugely. 1 million people according to protest organizers. i've been in quite a few

demonstrations here, covered them over the years, and it was certainly the biggest one i've ever covered, george. >> andrew, look, the chief executive, though, is defending this bill, pushing ahead this bill that would allow suspects, as you point out, to be extradited to mainland china. what did she have to say about it and did she address directly, andrew, the massive protests we're seeing with our own eyes? perhaps they don't see it in mainland china. perhaps it's blacked out now. but we see it here with our own eyes. hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of hong kong. >> reporter: that's right. to your point, china has been blacking out any coverage of cnn showing the protests. %-pe referring to earlier. but carrie lam, she ostensibly addressed it. she had a press conference. she told the press here they were listening to the people of hong kong and they had made changes to the extradition bill. they put in new safeguards. they made sure that extradition

would only occur on a case by case basis, but these safeguards were all introduced before the sunday march, the million-strong sunday march, so as far as her addressing what has happened in hong kong in the past 24 hours, she basically didn't. she has stuck to her guns to say that we have put in safeguards. she is not veering in any way. she's pushing towards having the next reading of this bill, which is the second of three readings on this bill on wednesday. and at this stage absolutely no indication of turning. just listen to what she had to say. >> i and my team have not ignored any views expressed on this very important piece of legislation. we have been listening and listening very attentively and very humbly to views expressed by various actors. so we have already made two sets of amendments to our proposals. one before the introduction of the bill and one after the introduction of the bill.

the reality is after these additional measures have been introduced and many of them concern human rights safeguards over and above what is now contained in the fugitive offenders ordinance, we were told, we received feedback that these additional measures are effective in addressing the concerns of the stakeholders. >> reporter: it's very clear, george, on the streets at that protest yesterday that the hong kong people don't want extra safeguards, they want this bill scrapped. pure and simple. and carrie lam, the chief executive, was asked whether she would scrap that bill and she actually did not answer that question. but these safeguards, they're just not going down with the people of hong kong. they don't feel they're going to protect them enough. human rights still remain an issue. it's not just people of hong kong. we saw thousands of lawyers marching on the streets in hong kong on monday. we've had any number of business

organizations on monday, business usually works hand in glove with the hong kong government, business is up in arms against this extradition order as well. so it's very much across the board, yet carrie lam has shown, as i said, no indication she's listening certainly to these latest protests and that she's going to make any changes at all. >> well, the framework between mainland china and hong kong remains one country, two systems, but, again, andrew, many people, many critics fear that this is the further erosion and encroachment of china, chinese law -- mainland law into hong kong. we'll continue to follow this story with you. andrew stephens, of course the best person to share the reporting and insight on this story from hong kong. thank you. and for more on the protests in hong kong, you can get the very latest and more background on this very complex story at cnn.com. breaking news we're following this hour. david ortiz, the former baseball

star with the boston red sox has been shot and wounded in his home country, the dominican republic. we understand that ortiz is currently in stable condition. authorities there say the shooter was on a motor cycle and came right at ortiz outside of a dance club. the bullet fired went through his stomach. ortiz's father spoke to reporters outside the hospital. listen. >> translator: the operation is over and he is stable. we're just waiting for the doctors to take him out of the surgery room. he's resting right now. no, there are no other damages we know of. he is stable. >> authorities say that several people are being detained and a reporter in the capital tells cnn the shooter was attacked by the crowd and is hospitalized. now for more on this story, we spoke earlier with journalist elan elanis olavaria who offered

this. >> reporter: people are still in shock about the situation and, yes, we do know something about the condition of david ortiz. he is currently stable. this information was confirmed by his father, mr. leo ortiz, and also by the local police that were there at the hospital. ortiz was shot by a gunman in a mot motorcycle. this happened at a very popular street known as avenue venezuela, known for its popular night life. ortiz was there with some friends spending some time. the men approached him directly and shot him in the stomach. this same bullet had an entry point and an exit point. it ended up wounding a tv presenter who was also there at the spot. ortiz was immediately rushed to the hospital where he went to surgery, and thankfully everything went well and he is

just now recovering from this horrific event. >> ortiz played with the boston red sox for 14 out of his 20 years in the major leagues and is a three-time world series champion. now on to u.s. politics. the u.s. trade situation with mexico. once again, president trump is threatening to impose tariffs if the new trade deal between -- rather, the new deal, i should say, between the two nations doesn't work out on migration. in a series of tweets, mr. trump also is disputing a "new york times" report that mexico had agreed on tougher migration enforcement months before the two countries came together on this deal on friday. here are some of the highlights of that deal. mexico will "take unprecedented steps to curb illegal migration. it will deploy its national guard throughout the country, focusing on its southern border with guatemala, and it will take action to dismantle human trafficking networks. in the meantime, the united

states will "rapidly return asylum seekers to mexico while they wait there in mexico. while they're asylum claims are being processed in the united states." it's something that the u.s. promised to speed up. our boris sanchez has more now on this story from the white house. >> reporter: the white house has declined to comment on this "new york times" story that indicates that certain portions of agreement between the united states and mexico on immigration were actually reached long before president trump threatened tariffs against one of the united states' largest trading partners. in a barrage of tweets on sunday morning, though, the president downplayed that "new york times" story and insisted that he deserves more credit for this agreement than he's getting. the president also making the case that previous administrations had tried to get some of these agreements on the books with mexico but couldn't and he could. he also hinted that there is one portion of this agreement that is yet to be unveiled to the public and that he's waiting for the right time to do that. the president is being backed up by certain key administration

officials on this, including the current acting secretary of the department of homeland security, kevin mcaleenan. making the case that the threat against mexican imports was what brought the mexican government to the negotiating table. listen to what he said. >> the president put a charge in this whole dialogue with mexico, with the terror threat, brought them to the table. the former minister of mexico arrived within hours, he arrived the next day with real proposals on the table. this is the first time we've heard this number of law enforcement being deployed in mexico to address migration, not just on the southern border but also on the transportation routes to the northern border and coordinated patrols in key areas along our southern border. >> as far as comments from secretary mnuchin of tariff negotiations still being at play, it's not really a surprise considering there is a 90-day window for both sides to come up with further agreements, more areas they can cooperate to stem the flow of migrants traveling

from central america through mexico into the united states. it wouldn't be a surprise to see president trump revisit this aggressive stance against mexico. recall that just a few months ago he threatened to shut down the entire southern border if mexico didn't do more to stop these migrants. the president ultimately relenting, giving in to the advice of some of his aides, but the president feels that immigration is an issue that's central to his presidency and he wants to appear to his supporters that he's very aggressive on it, something that will be key to his re-election chances going into 2020. boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. >> boris, thank you. a tragedy in the state of texas after a storm there and a giant crane comes tumbling down. >> the crane is falling over. oh, my god. >> up next, we'll hear from witnesses about what exactly happened in this deadly accident. >> oh, my god, you guys. also ahead, two british isis fighters known as the isis beatles apologize as they worry about their future and what's next. we'll hear from them and their story.

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just look at the scene here in dallas, texas. this is after a huge construction crane collapsed and it fell on to an apartment complex. the collapse left at least one

person dead and six others injured there. eyewitnesss say that crane sliced through the building, damaging residential areas and the parking garage. listen. >> we noticed it got really dark really quickly, so we walked outside on to our patio and the wind picked up incredibly quickly. all the pool furniture went into the pool. and i happened to say what if the cranes fall, are they going to fall on the building? and almost immediately after that, we saw one fall and it just sliced through the building. i mean, not to be cliche, but like a hot knife through butter, and it went from the fifth floor all the way through to what i can tell at least the third floor. i believe we found out that a second crane had fallen on the parking garage. we walked out to the parking garage to check on our vehicles and we just saw cars everywhere. i don't even know how to describe it. there's cars that were vertical. there were cars from maybe the eighth floor all the way down on

to the third floor where we park and where you see the pictures from. we don't know if they've accounted for everybody. i know they're going in to check for people still and animals still, so we're watching people come out with animals all the time right now. we don't know yet if a tornado hit or not. right now we don't know if it was just wind. we don't know if it was a tornado. we know that there was the thunderstorm that had hit. it was raining like crazy. and so that was the weather that happened. it's lightened up right now. there's no rain and blue skies on one side and clouds on the other. >> keeping in mind there were strong winds reported in that area at the time of the collapse, but officials, they aren't ready to say if that was the cause of what happened here. let's get the very latest now from cnn meteorologist pedram j javaheri in our weather center. pedram, this was a rather strong storm that came through. >> it was, yeah. the national weather service prompted this severe

thunderstorm watch just a couple of hours before the storm moved through here. the storm originated from oklahoma hour. by about 2:15 officially into the afternoon hours and moves right over the dallas metro. unfortunately, severe thunderstorms, meaning gusts exceed 50, 60 miles per hour. we had an observation come in at 70 miles per hour. which puts it just shy of a category 1 hurricane gust. when you go up into a city, densely populated city, tall buildings across the city as such. you often see the winds want to funnel through the buildings, pick up additional speed. another element in all of this, any time you exit the ground level, get up into higher altitudes, less friction aloft. that 71-mile-per-hour wind gust was a ground observation. 20, 30 stories up, you expect those winds to be about 20% to 30% higher. so in this case they would be higher if it started at 71, we're talking about potentially being closer to 90 miles per

hour when you approach the area of where the crane's height was and continue to strengthen as you go farther up into the atmosphere. a tornado report was in into this region but certainly not in the dallas metro. only one report in the whole country and that was across the central area of texas. a really interesting comparison. of course, look at the month of may, just last month, an incredible 500 reports of tornadoes in that month and we're sitting at about 55 reports so far in the first third of the month of june. but here's the perspective. high pressure builds. we don't expect much in the way of severe weather over portions of texas. really the only area of concern across the eastern third of the country here with thunderstorms into the afternoon hours over the next 24 or so hours, and then the big story back besides this is what is happening around the southwestern united states. major heatwave in the works across that region. we do have heat warnings in place from portions of california into nevada on into arizona. temps in this region climbing up to the one teens out of palm springs. average for this time of year,

you think it's june, it's almost summer, it should be warm. 100 degrees is what they expect. 116 certainly a temperature that would get your attention across palm strings. phoenix climbs up to about 10 degrees above seasonal averages here in the latter portions of spring. big time heat out west. guys? >> pedram javaheri, thank you. more now on the new agreement between the united states and mexico. the u.s. president once again threatening to impose tariffs if a deal between the two countries doesn't work out. let's get some context on this now with james boyd. james, a political analyst and author joining us this hour in london. good to have you with us, james. >> good morning, george. >> so, again, with this word that tariffs are still on the table, still a possibility, james, if this current arrangement doesn't work out, does it come as a surprise to you and does this keep the pressure on mexico? >> well, i don't think so because, of course, this was something that donald trump had said when the deal was initially announced. the idea that although he was

pleased an agreement had been reached he reserved the right to reimpose these tariffs, return to them if indeed the deal wasn't carried on and implemented accurately in mexico. so the idea that he is still touting tariffs, which appears to be his weapon of choice in many ways, shouldn't, i think, come as a surprise at this point. >> let's talk more about this reporting from "the new york times" that parts of the deal, james, parts of them were hammered out many months ago behind the scenes. in response we're hearing from the acting homeland security secretary and from the president on twitter, all suggesting that tariffs -- that this threat did make a difference. do you think it really put pressure on the negotiations or was this more or less political theater? >> it's very difficult to tell at this point. let's be honest, "the new york times" has issued a tweet this morning standing by its reporting. you're clearly seeing a disconnect, however, between

what it is that "the times" is saying and what the white house is saying. and one of the reasons that this is so difficult to get an accurate read on, of course, is that we have a white house that seems very, very happy to almost legislate by tweet. when you are relying upon the president's tweet by tweet account for what is or isn't going on, it makes it very, very difficult to get an accurate read and give a fair assessment on either side, quite frankly. when you think about how dusty the white house press briefing room has become, it's hardly surprising that both the media and those of us who try to offer some analysis of this are finding it very difficult to get an accurate read of what's going on. so at this point we're in a standoff, if you will. clearly it seems as though key elements of this deal had been put in place by secretary nielsen back in the back end of 2018, and that what may or may not have happened is that there had been some movement with

regard to the numbers that mexico were prepared to move to the southern border, which may have come about rather late in the day and which the trump administration may or may not accurate be able to say was due to the threat of these tariffs which would, of course, been trounced today. >> all right. and for mexico's part, one big part of that agreement, as you point out, the enforcement surge. how big of a difference do you think that will make in terms of stemming the flow of migrants, which is what president trump ultimately wants? >> well, of course, this is what the american administration were pushing for. mexico have made the right noises about moving those troops to their southern border. to try to prevent the flow of migrants into mexico and then potentially on to the united states. certainly when you see the numbers of some of the individuals who are making that move across the u.s. southern border, the white house must be hoping that this has an impact. very clearly this is an administration which is putting

its stock into preventive measures, putting physical borders between people, be they troops or walls, rather than trying to go the other route which, of course, might be to try to address the causes of migration. so this will be a test case, i think, for this administration and its relationship with the mexican government at this time. >> always offering perspective and analysis today. live from london. james, we always appreciate your time today. thank you. >> thank you. around the world and in the united states, you're watching "newsroom." still ahead, one year ago cnn spoke with two british nationals who fought for isis, willing members of the so-called isis beatles there. today they are trying to send a very different message. we'll hear their words from prison. plus, 19 u.s. democratic presidential candidates all came together in iowa to make the pitch to the party faithful, slam the u.s. president as well. stay with us. everyone's got to listen to mom. when it comes to reducing the sugar in your family's diet, coke, dr pepper and pepsi hear you.

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i'd rather not. welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom" live from atlanta. i'm george howell with the head lines we're following for you this hour. in hong kong, the chief executive there says the city's legislature will push forward with a controversial extradition bill. this despite hundreds of thousands of protesters who filled the streets marching against it on sunday. as you see there. the bill would let suspects be sent to mainland china. the protests were mainly peaceful but officials say at least three police officers were hurt there. american airlines is keeping its boeing 737 max flights out of the air, at least until september 3rd. the airline says the extension will mean the cancellation of 1

115 flights per day. former boston red sox star david ortiz was shot and injured in the dominican republic. he is believed to be in stable condition. police say he was shot by a mot motorcyclist heading right towards him. 2020 race for president, and the state of iowa. 19 democratic candidates for u.s. president were in that key election state and they're making their pitches to voters and donors at the party's annual hall of fame dinner. our leyla santiago was there in cedar rapids. >> reporter: a lot of the voters i talked to said that this didn't necessarily make it any easier for them to narrow down that short list. in fact, it makes it more difficult. so let's talk about what actually happened here. you had 19 of the 23 candidates

all in one room making a five-minute pitch to voters here in iowa. remember, iowa, the very first caucus state. that's why there's a lot of focus here. among the candidates you heard them talk about issues, not so surprising, abortion, voting rights, health care, and every single one of them made sure to sort of flex some muscle in talking about beating president trump in 2020. >> i'm running for president because we can't take four more years of donald trump. i'm running for president to beat donald trump. and i'm running for president because beating donald trump is not enough. >> we need a president who lives like you live. we need a president who has the grit that you have. and we have a president right now that doesn't understand the dreams that you have. i will be that president.

>> while we are all united in the need to defeat trump, there are disagreements amongst us as to the best way to do that. in my view, we will not defeat donald trump unless we bring excitement and energy into this campaign. >> now, what you did not see here for the hall of fame dinner, you did not see the front-runner, vice president joe biden. his campaign says that he had a longstanding family commitment that had been scheduled awhile back. that's why he's not in iowa. but some voters tell me they took offense to that. that perhaps they didn't see themselves as a priority for the front-runner, vice president joe biden. that said, he will be here on tuesday on t tuesday, on the very same day that president trump will also be in iowa. take note of the timing. we are just a few weeks away

from the very first debate for these candidates. that will be in miami at the end of the month. leyla santiago, cnn, cedar rapids, iowa. and now to the race for britain's top job. it is at a critical point. who will be there at number 10? 11 conservative lawmakers are hoping to replace theresa may as the party leader and then as the prime minister of that nation. and the nomination process ends in just a few hours. that means if the candidates don't get the support of at least eight lawmakers before 5:00 p.m. local time monday, they're out of the contest. a series of votes to whittle down the nominees begins thursday. the conservative party hopes to have a new prime minister announced by the end of july and then it's on to tackle brexit. the isis vision for a caliphate, it is ruined, it's over, and now the fate of thousands of isis fighters detained by the united states, by the u.s.-backed syrian

kurdish forces, well, it remains uncertain. our nick paton walsh spoke with two british nationals from the notorious isis group referred to as "the beatles." they're now in custody and confessing to crimes. cnn sent a camera crew to the prison facility were they were being held so nick paton walsh could interview them via video link about their offenses, their fears and their uncertain future. >> reporter: their bravado gone, broken and begging to learn their fate. this is what's become of the widely reviled british isis fighters known as the beatles in captivity in syria. >> i consider my role in this whole scenario, this whole episode as one of my mistakes. yeah, i would like to apologize for. >> who would you like to apologize to? >> everybody involved. everybody who was affected directly or indirectly.

>> reporter: they're accused of torture in isis' network of prison cells, which they deny, but now they do offer a rare confession. they tried to arrange ransoms for some of isis' european hostages. >> i was a fighter abstracting from them email addresses for communications. >> if it was a proof of life question, something that only they would be able to answer. >> why did you agree to that role? >> it just so happened that way. >> same as what alexander just explained. initially just liasing between the foreign prisoners and people dealing with their negotiation process. >> with their families to try to extract a ransom? >> yes. >> koti admits to helping via remote from syria to get a firearm to help an isis assassination plot that failed

in 2016. >> i was the acquisition of the firearm. as far as the details of any plot and what he then went on to do, i had no involvement in that. >> reporter: the grins they had when i met them a year ago in person were long gone. >> i miss fish and chips. >> reporter: now isis' so-called caliphate has been defeated. there too are thousands of isis prisoners held in northern syria that don't know what will happen to them. the uk doesn't want them back, so they will stay here or face the death penalty in iraq or more likely the united states. >> i don't understand. why are you doing this now? are you trying to avoid being sent to the united states? >> if anything, i think that confession will maybe hasten or extradition or rendition to the united states. i don't think this is something that will prevent me from going to the united states at all. i don't see how that could be possible. i don't know where this goes on

from here on, i just know that i want this period, this portion to just be over. i know -- i know this is what needs to be done. the truth has to come out. >> reporter: isis slowly executed foreign hostages gruesomely, yet the pair insists they had no role in these murders or torture. several former hostages have, however, said they were tortured by british accented men matching their appearance. the fate of a dozen french prisoners, some seen here in these old isis propaganda videos, has been swiftly decided in the past weeks, sent from northern syria to iraq. there an iraqi judge has sentenced them to death by hanging, often after only ten minutes' deliberation and representation by lawyers, many have not met before the trial. responding to claims u.s. forces arranged the transfer, a coalition spokesman said u.s. forces have taken custody of a small number of isis fighters

from the syrian democratic forces from transfer to the government of iraq but provided no details. >> we want to eat mcdonald's. >> reporter: american isis suspects like samantha al hasani have been sent back to the united states for trial. their fate unclear. will an iraqi hangman serve as a deter ant deterrent or the sign that some countries don't want to bring them to justice? nick paton walsh, cnn, london. >> nick, thank you. in sudan, a campaign of civil disobedience is under way. take a look at the capital city, the streets of khartoum. many people staying home from work following the military's deadly raid on a protest camp last monday. protesters are demanding a civilian government following the ouster of omar al-bashir. >> translator: the people cannot be governed by force, and i am not saying this neither as a

member of the opposition nor someone who supports the government, but the people do not want this government, and as you can see, the streets are empty, shops are closed. i personally want a civilian government. >> translator: the situation is not normal. everything is closed. i couldn't find bread. i couldn't find anything actually except for these vegetables right here. life is at a standstill. >> an opposition medics group says 11 hospitals are shut down and medical services are being disrupted by sudanese authorities. the group says two people were killed sunday, bringing the death toll since the crackdown to 118 pop killed. we'll be right back after this. working with top airlines to turn their unsold seats into amazing deals, family reunion attendance is up. we're all related! yeah, i see it. and because priceline offers great deals by comparing thousands of prices in real time, sports fans are seeing more away games. various: yeah-h-h! is that safe? oh, y... ahh!

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it was an historic win on sunday as rafael nadal beat dominic thiem to clinch his 12th french open title in paris. nadal is the first player to win 12 titles at any grand slam

event. journalist robbie ubba has more now from paris. >> reporter: for years people have wondered will rafael nadal catch roger federer on the grand slam ladder. he's been close but for the first time he's closer than ever. pulled to within two grand slams of federer thanks to his record 12th crown at the french open. this year nadal became the first player ever to win the same major a dozen times. nadal said earlier this tournament he felt someone would come along one day and better his trophy haul. he was being genuine, but it could be wrong on this one. his mastery of roland-garros is unmatched by any tennis player on any surface in any era. dominic thiem may have lost but he demonstrated why he is one of the fittest players in tennis. after beating world number one novak djokovic in their

semifinal, he still tested nadal early before running out of steam. thiem could win the french open one day, but that might only happen when nadal is no longer a concerned. that might not be any time soon. >> thank you so much. the women's world cup is also under way in france. on sunday, italy landed a win in their return to the tournament after a 20-year absence. they beat australia in stoppage time by a score of 2-1. brazil got a big start with the 3-0 victory over jamaica's reggae girls. scored a hat trick in her 139th cap. england won the day against their great rival scotland by a score of 2-1. they are the favorites in that competition. this year's women's world cup in france has been called the biggest to date. fifa's goal, to sell a total of

1 million tickets and capture a global tv viewership of 1 billion by the end of the tournament. as our amanda davies reports, the excitement level in that host country, though, it is not that high, at least not yet. >> reporter: it's sunday afternoon and here we are in the paris fan zone where as you can see there are a few supporters, but it's not really buzzing, and for all the talk that this is set to be the biggest and best women's world cup yet with tv audiences of a record 1 billion people around the world, whilst there is some interest, i think it's fair to say there's no exactly overwhelming world cup fever on the streets of paris. >> how excited are you about the women's world cup? >> i'm very excited about the women's world cup, especially brazil. >> have you got any interest in any of sport going on at the minute? >> at the minute, maybe, like, sometimes we watch soccer, but now that the season is over so we're not -- not into soccer

now. >> how about the women's world cup? >> oh, women's world cup. it's now? >> going on right here in france. >> what? >> do you know what sport is happening in france, in in paris at the moment? >> i don't know. i think tennis. i think, no? >> oh, roland-garros. >> roland-garros. and the football. >> football? >> the women's world cup. >> so what do you think that's going on at the moment? >> roland-garros tennis tournaments. >> anything else? how about the women's world cup. >> oh, yeah, that's also right now. >> have you heard about the women's world cup. >> in fact, i went to see one of the matches. argentina against germany. >> germany won yesterday. did you not watch? >> was it true that the world cup is here for women? >> have you met many other people who are here as fans of the tournament as well?

>> not too many. but when we came here, obviously there's people from australia and brazil and the usa. once you get into this bit, it's good. >> you should be watching. france are going to win the world cup. france will win. >> yeah, i know that. so i don't know any names. of the women's game. i don't know any names. >> maybe that will change over the next few weeks. >> now you know the world cup is going on. might you watch some of the women's world cup? >> 100%. >> we have to. >> but it's ridiculous that we didn't even recognize that the world cup is here in in france. >> so there's definitely room for improvement, but it is still early days with over three weeks of football left to play. the real hope for the women's game moving forward is that the action on the pitch leaves a more lasting legacy off it. amanda davies, cnn, paris amanda, thank you. a long-running conflict in the middle east is the focus of a hit show on netflix.

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writers who served in that undercover military unit. >> this is not reality, it's fiction, so it's not really what's going on on the ground. what's really going on on the ground is even more complicated than what we have in the show, but i think that the show does allow you to have kind of a look, a small window in what's going on over there between israelis and palestinians. >> "fauda" is not a political series, but anything to do with the israeli-palestinian conflict is inherently political. >> it doesn't show the context in which this -- the events after happening. it seems as if everything is very personal. you don't see the occupation. you don't understand why is this happening, you know? you don't see the context of things. >> reporter: the gritty often brutal show has been praised and criticized for its portrayal of palestinians. even so, main actor leo raz says the fan has shows in the arab

world. >> i was inneabu dhabi, i was filming a movie there. hundreds of people from all over the middle east came and talked to me about the show, how they love it, how they are understanding now the situation in israel because it -- because we brought them another point of view that they haven't -- they didn't have. >> reporter: with season three in production, questions inevitability turn to what's in store for the viewers. the "fauda" team is mum. >> this is the season a lot of surprises, a lot of action. >> reporter: there is only one hint to the show's future. they've already started writing season four. >> cut. >> cut. >> moving on. >> reporter: oren liebermann, cnn, jerusalem. >> oren, thank you. and we end the show this hour with a worker at a florida theme park being recognized for helping a young boy with autism. 9-year-old ralph on the left was looking forward to riding the amazing adventures of spider-man at universal studios, but when it was finally his turn, the

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