packing streets of hong kong, protesters showed their outrage as the city tries to pass a controversial extradition law and chinese officials blame the u.s. for the growing demonstrations. plus as women tried to escape north korea, many are trapped by human traffickers. we look at the dramatic attempts to bring them to safety. also ahead this hour, it's a world cup with french flare as fans excitedly watch the top teams face off for football's supremacy. we are live at cnn world headquarters in atlanta, and we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm george howell. the "cnn newsroom" starts now.

it's 3:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast, and good to have you with us. a massive protest in hong kong and the united states is getting the blame for it. a day after hundreds of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, as you see there, chinese state media say the u.s. orchestrated it all because of the trade dispute. but trade is not the reason why so many people came together. demonstrators came out in force protesting a bill that they fear gives the chinese government too much power in hong kong. the legislation would allow criminal suspects, and that could be defined broadly, criminal suspects to be sent to mainland china from hong kong. the protests were mostly peaceful but some clashes did break out during that time. authorities say at least three police officers were hurt and several arrests were made there. the city's chief executive, though, is promising to push ahead with that bill, but a pro-democracy lawmaker, in fact

several 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." 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. >> live in hong kong, our andrew stephens is on the story. and andrew, we're hearing now that the protesters are planning for more demonstrations in the coming days and the coming weeks as they follow this situation. tell us more. >> reporter: yeah, we're hearing this as well. there's been a press conference just in the last hour or so, george, at which protests, whic tracked at they say about 1

million people, massive, massive protest here in hong kong. the organizers are now calling for another protest on wednesday. wednesday is the day that the hong kong parliament will convene to look at the extradition bill for a second time. the second of three readings. after three readings it is voted on and likely come into law because hong kong -- the hong kong government does have the numbers in the parliament. so we're hearing there's going to be demonstrations or there's going to be a call for more demonstrations on friday. also hearing from the trade unions in hong kong. the hong kong federation of trade unions, the overarching body, is having an emergency meeting tomorrow to talk about whether there should be a general strike on wednesday. so there is still a lot of civic action. there's a lot of protest action still revolving around this very controversial issue. >> and andrew, of course the thousands of people who came together, we have seen riot police use pepper spray, use batons to push the demonstrators

back from parliament. how much of this will hong kong leadership put up with overall? because, again, we're hearing more protests are being called for. conversely, is there a sense among protesters that they feel these actions will make an impact? >> reporter: well, as far as the impact is concerned, there was negligible impact from yesterday's protest if you listen to the chief executive, carrie lam. she gave a press conference as well, at which she said we have introduced safeguards to protect the people of hong kong and we will push forward with this extradition bill with these new safeguards. 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: now, the additional measures she's talking about are things like a case by case basis, so when or if china asks for an extradition it has to be done on a case by case basis. the chief executive will look at it. the hong kong judges will look at it before agreeing to it. the other safeguard is that the crime has to be a serious crime meriting some seven years, at least seven years in prison. now, they're the safeguards she mentioned, but she spoke about those nine days ago, george.

a million people turned out 24 hours ago and she has not changed a line on her position despite this massive protest. >> and andrew, they have the numbers for this. they can push this through. look, the concept of one country, two systems is the prevailing framework that defines the relationship between mainland china and hong kong but there is an expiration date to that arrangement. son this just another example, andrew, of china poised to gain more control in a transition that is an inevitable reality for hong kong? >> well, yeah, it's a great point. the transition guaranteed under the basic law under the constitution, when hong kong went back to china in 1997, it was a 50-year transition. so by 2047, hong kong and china would then fully merge, but what we've seen in recent years is beijing putting on the pressure to speed up that transformation, if you like. we saw the umbrella movement when the beijing clearly closed down any talk of any sort of

independence, any talk of further democratic reforms to allow hong kongers to vote for their own candidates. not a list of candidates that had been approved by beijing. we've seen it since lawmakers being banned from taking their positions in parliament because they are deemed to be too disruptive and too critical towards china. so it is a slow, slow drumbeat of china taking on hong kong, moving in to hong kong, setting different parameters, which means that hong kongers are becoming more and more concerned, more worried. this is why we're seeing so many people coming into the streets. >> the arc of that transition under way. andrew stephens live for us in hong kong. andrew, thank you. and for more on the protests in hong kong, you can get the very latest and the background, more background on what is a complex story at cnn.com. now to the u.s. state of iowa. the race for 2020. we're getting close to it. 19 democratic candidates for president were in that key

election state pitching themselves to voters and to donors at the party's annual hall of fame dinner. our leyla santiago was there. >> 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. 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 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. >> leyla, thank you. let's get context and perspective now with natasha li la lindstaedt. good to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> look, for democrats looking to replace mr. trump as president, the latest poll from cnn in iowa shows the former vice president joe biden the favorite ahead of others in that state's caucus set for february.

bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, pete buttigieg, kamala harris all rounding out the top five, as you see here. we're seeing, though, joe biden with the smaller advantage than seen in recent national polls. natasha, what do you make of it? >> well, he had really high numbers, around 30%, and a lot of that was just due to name recognition. it was going to be really difficult for him to hold on to that because we already know a lot about him. he's very experienced, but what was likely to happen was there were going to be some other candidates that as democratic voters got to know them, in particular thinking of buttigieg, and to some extent warren, who has been doing a really good job of traveling around the country and really selling what her policies are, that the these candidates would get a bump. we have seen they have had a bump. particularly buttigieg, i think his bump is up 13%. warren is up 6%. so biden slipped a little bit, going down to 24%, and so he's going to have to come in really

strong in iowa and differentiate himself from all of these different candidates and why they really need him. he's going to have to explain, again, and again that he probably athe we're still 17 mo, has the best chance of beating trump in a head-to-head, with the latest poll revealing a 2020 matchup would be 53% for biden and 41% for trump. >> but what a crowded field we have. if we could pull that graphic up again to show if if we have it the democrats running to get the nomination for this general election. so many of them polling in the single digits, natasha. given this crowded field, do they have a chance of breaking out at this point? >> i really think only five candidates have a chance. biden, of course, sanders, buttigieg, warren and kamala harris. she's the only one, kamala harris has 5%. everybody else is just too far. i don't think beto o'rourke or cory booker really have much of a chance at this point, and they

will probably end up eventually dropping out. you have to really think about who has momentum and buttigieg and warren in particular have a lot of momentum. and as the field narrows a little bit more, they might be able to close in on biden's lead. i don't really see sanders being able to close in much because he's just dropping so much. he's gone down 9 percentage points. so i think it's really going to be -- end up being a three-way race between biden, warren and buttigieg. >> and at this point, the u.s. president focussing in on that key issue of immigration. that seems to be helping him with his base. again, we're getting close to 2020. not there but getting close. democrats in the meantime. i want to transition to this issue of impeachment because candidates running for president are talking about it. certainly they're talking about it in the house, but they seem divided in the house, natasha, on whether to pursue impeachment inquiries against the president

or whether to wait for mr. trump to become a private citizen should he lose come 2020 and rely on the various investigations to play out around him. how do democrats bridge the divide here? as the goal is to show that they're united against the president. >> right. and this is going to be difficult because we have progressive democrats in the house that really want to impeach and have really wanted to impeach since they took over. then you have the more i guess moderate democrats led by nancy pelosi who feel that if they initiate impeachment where they have no chance of getting a conviction in the senate might backfire against them in 2020. we look at the overall picture, you have 91% of republicans don't want impeachment proceedings to begin. 51% of independents don't want impeachment to begin and 23% of democrats don't want this. however, once impeachment proceedings begin, if we look at the nixon case, which contrasts actually with clinton's case, eventually as the information

came out, republicans started to turn on richard nixon and his approval rating went down to the low 50s. so it could be that they initiate impeachment. might not be that popular in the beginning, but as the information is revealed and they make the case against the president, they'll be able to get a consensus amongst the u.s. public that this was the way to go. the other legal argument is that if they initiate impeachment they're going to have a wider power to subpoena documents and to get depositions. so it's going to be a really tough decision for them to make, but i still think they're trying to be cautious, lay out the case and eventually some information might be revealed that will lead nancy pelosi to say, okay, i think we need to start initiating impeachment proceedings. >> natasha lindstaedt with perspective for us. natasha, thank you. >> thanks for having me. some news to share with you now about former boston red sox star david ortiz. he's now recovering after being shot several hours ago in his home country, the dominican

republic. police say ortiz was with friends at a dance club in the capital city of santo domingo when the gunman walked up and shot him. the bullet going through his stomach. ortiz has undergone surgery. afterwards, his father spoke at 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. >> police say several people have been detained. a reporter in santo domingo tells cnn the shooter was attacked by the crowd and is hospitalized. just a short time ago fellow dominican ball player pedro martinez tweeted this image of himself and ortiz. martinez is on the right hugging his much bigger friend. he wrote, "i'm at peace kwing you are out of danger." this just in tocourt has fo

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as part of cnn's freedom project, we examine the dangers of north korean women, what they face when they're defecting. thousands have made the dangerous journey over the

border into china searching for a better life, but soon many of the women find themselves subjected to human trafficking. this story is about two of those women kept in a building in northeastern china for years, who managed to make a dramatic escape. our paula hancocks has the story. >> reporter: a dramatic escape from a fourth floor window. two north korean defectors flee a tiny flat they've been held captive in for years. when i was climbing down the rope says a woman we will call lee, i knew i could fall. i also knew it would be worse if i got caught because i would be sent back to north korea and my

whole family would be punished to what i did. we are hiding her identity for safety. sold her to a cyber sex operator who she says kept her in this building in northeastern china for five years. she and other trafficked defectors were forced to work long hours, sometimes only sleeping a few hours a day. she says she was beaten by her captor. she allowed her to leave the apartment with him once every six months. i had to do everything the customers asked me to. i saw so many perverts. it's a story shared by thousands of north korean girls and women who escape north korea to what they believe will be a better life. london-based nonprofit organization korea future initiate published a report as many as 60% north korean female refugees in china are trafficked into the sex trade. a spokesperson for the chinese government said in a statement to cnn, "i want to stress that the chinese government pays high

attention to foreign citizens' legitimate rights according to law, and also combats activities of human trafficking women and children." lee's chance of escape came when a customer recognized she was north korean and being held captive and put her in chunk with a south korean pastor. lee was able to contact chun online to plan her escape. chun says his christian aid organization has helped around 1,200 defectors reach seoul since 1999. in these cases, he says, the best option is to talk to the person holding the woman and ask them to release her or for her to pick the lock and run. using a rope from the fourth floor is the last option we take. the route through china and on to a third country like laos or myanmar is incredibly risky. if caught, china sees defectors as they see as illegal economic immigrants back to north korea. activists say they face

punishment, imprisonment or in some cases death. a woman we will call yun was held prisoner for eight years in the same room as lee. they travelled five days and nights through china, managing to evade detection. they arrive in a third country we're not naming for security reasons and enter the south korean embassy. they were very nervous in the embassy, the pastor tells me. in north korea they'd learned south koreans are bad. they were filled with such mixed emotions. this is a journey thousands have taken before them, seeking asylum in south korea, a journey an unknown number can only dream of. still trapped in china's multimillion dollar sex industry. paula hancocks, cnn, seoul. >> one person who knows this plight very well is journalist julie zuog. she's written about china's sex trade and enslavement of women.

earlier she explained to us what happens to most women when they escape into china and what can happen if they're caught and sent back to north korea. >> ngos estimate about 70% to 80% of women who cross into china end up being trafficked. some of them will be sold by their initial broker who passing them on to a second, third, fourth, fifth broker. they pass into different hands like that and get sold each time and finally end up being sold to the operator of a cyber sex chat room. some other women actually end up knocking on doors once they cross the border. chinese people's homes and then get sold by these people on to a broker. china doesn't consider them as political refugees, even though the u.n. has repeatedly said it should. it considers them as illegal economic migrants, and thus decides to send them back when it catches them. for someone being sent back to north korea, that means facing probably weeks of interrogation

and torture and then several months or even several years in a political reeducation camp or in a labor camp. depending on the gravity, according to north korea, of what they've done. so the ones that face the we'll be right back.

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watching "cnn newsroom." thanks for being with us. i'm george howell with the headlines we're following this hour. in hong kong, organizers are calling for more demonstrations, this against a controversial extradition bill. hundreds of thousands of people protested on sunday. the measure would allow suspects to be transferred to mainland china, extradited. hong kong's chief executive has vowed to push forward with that bill. the u.s. president is once again threatening tariffs on mexican imports. president trump tweeted the u.s. would consider them if the new u.s.-mexico deal on migration doesn't work out. he also disputed a "new york times" report that mexico had agreed on tougher migration enforcement months before friday's deal. american airlines is keeping its boeing 737 max flights out of the air until september 3rd. the airline says the extension will mean the cancellation of 115 flights per day. boeing 737 max has been grounded around the world since march. this following two deadly crashes.

in the state of texas, a huge construction crane collapsed on to an apartment building. one person has died from that accident. at least five other people were injured. take a look here. this crane left a massive hole in the middle of this apartment complex. rescue -- rescuers, they're now looking for any additional victims inside that mangled mess. high winds were reported in the area at the time of the collapse, but officials aren't ready to say if winds were the cause. here's how one eyewitness described the devastation. listen. >> 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. >> again, what we do know is a strong storm passed through the dfw metro flex. pedram javaheri is here to tell us more about it. >> the storm originated out of the state of oklahoma through the morning hours, traversed through north texas and eventually as it moved its way through the dallas metro area, blossoms into a tremendous thunderstorm here. severe thunderstorm watches issued in advance of this. a warning issued once the storm moved into the city. 71-mile-per-hour gusts observed in the dallas area with this particular line of thunderstorms. it's a serious storm when you factor in just a few miles per hour shy of what would be a category 1 hurricane. take a look at this. at ground level, we know a 71-mile-per-hour observation, altitudes 20, 30 stories up, typically you see the wind speeds increase some 20 to 30% because there is less friction

aloft. the higher up you go, you often see winds at greater speed. you take a look, severe weather was really prevalent across this region on sunday afternoon. one report of a tornado, but that was not in the dallas metro area, but dozens and dozens of reports of wind damage and also a nice chunk of reports there also with hail damage. in fact, officials across the dallas metro area reporting ping-pong ball sized hail coming down across that region. it really speaks to the significance of these storms. but here goes the front. that's the front. the next one beginning to push through the eastern portion of the united states. thunderstorms expected across this region. areas from washington on into new york city getting quite a bit of wet weather over the next 24 or so hours. the other big story is what's happening across the western united states. major heatwave in the works across portions of the central valley, parts of oregon and nevada and, of course, the desert of arizona. temps rising 10 to 12 degrees

above average. look at portland, oregon, average temperature, right around room temperature, 72 degrees. >> pedram, you know as well as i, they don't really have air conditioners up there in the pacific northwest. >> that's true. >> so it is hot. pedram, thank you very much. >> yeah. now to libya, and a cnn exclusive. thousands of sub-saharan african migrants and refugees are stranded in the country. libya was their gateway to safe haven in europe, but it is now in chaos as rival factions battle for power there. it's been that way since the toppling of moammar gadhafi eight years ago. the migrants there are caught in the middle. europe won't take them in and going home is not an option for them. freelance cameraman gabriel gained exclusive access, but as cnn's international

correspondent ben wedeman reports, their pleas for help or falling on deaf ears. >> reporter: a priest leads prayers in a makeshift church. refugees in libya, strangers they are in a strange land. caught in a war not of their making. >> today is the holy day, sunday. >> reporter: they drew their own icons, crafted the crucifix. freelance cameraman gabriel gained access to this detention center, home to around 900 people on the outskirts of the capital, tripoli. most are refugees and migrants from sub-saharan africa. the united nations warns that more than 5,000 migrants and refugees in similar centers in tripoli are in danger as the city has become a background between rival governments. in april, gunmen with the so-called libyan national army led by war lord hamfta broke ino

one such detention center. cameras vividly record the chaos and carnage. the attackers killed three men and wounded nearly three dozen others. sammy from recalls what happened. >> the soldiers immediately opened fire. i don't know what happened. >> reporter: the residents have been moved to safer ground, but some still have open wounds from that attack. the thousands of migrants now caught in libya are perhaps the world's most vulnerable people. stranded in a land at war where human traffickers and slave traders appear to have free

reign. europe won't take them in and many face persecution or death if they return home. here the milk of human kindness has evaporated. this woman from sudan says the fear, severity and deprivation have taken its toll. >> you look at the eye office these people and how they look. there is malnutrition. there is no good medical treatment. there is no good water. there is no food. we are just living. >> reporter: just living, he says. 21-year-old mohammad jafis, also from darfur, has a simple remind tore anyone who will listen. no one, however, is listening. ben wedeman, cnn, beirut. just ahead here on "newsroom," two british isis fighters known as "the isis beatles" confessed their crimes

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welcome back. we want to show you the situation in sudan where a campaign of civil disobedience is presently under way. take a look here in the capital city. the streets of khartoum mostly deserted on sunday. people there chose to stay home from work. this after the military's deadly raid on a protest camp last monday. protesters are demanding a civilian government following the ouster of omar al-bashir back in april. >> translator: the people cannot be governed by force. and i am not saying this neither as a member of the opposition nor as 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 on sunday, bridgeting ng death toll since the crackdown to 118. with the isis vision of a caliphate in ruins, detained isis fighters by kurdish-backed u.s. forces remains uncertain. our nick paton walsh spoke to two nationals from the notorious isis group referred to as "the beatles". they are now in custody and confessing to their crimes. cnn sent a camera crew to the prison they're being held so nick could interview them about their offenses, their fears and uncertain futures.

>> 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 ex-tracking earthquake tracking from them email addresses for communication. >> 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 liaising between the foreign prisoners and people dealing with their negotiation process. >> with their families to try to extract a ransom? >> yeah. yes. >> reporter: koti admits to helping via remote from syria to getting a firearm for an isis fighter for his failed assassination plot 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 who noent know 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 our 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 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 u.s. for trial. but to those left behind, their fate unclear or possibly with an iraqi hangman serve as a deterrent or a sign some nations don't want to finish the task of bringing them to justice. nick paton walsh, cnn, london.

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what an historic night. a win on sunday. rafael nadal beat dominic thiem, clinching his 12th french open title in paris. nadal is the first player ever to win 12 titles at any grand slam event. journalist ravi uba 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 now he's closer than ever before. for the first time nadal's pulled to within two grand slams of federer thanks to his record 12th crowned at the froenench o. 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 lossed, but he demonstrated why he is one of the fittest players in tennis. after beating world number one novak djokovic in their semifinal and spending three hours on court saturday, he still tested nadal early before running out of steam.

thiem could still win the french open some day, but that may only happen when nadal is no longer a contender, but that might not be any time soon. ravi uba, cnn, paris. >> ravi, thanks. also under way in paris, the women's world cup. italy landed a win in the their return to the tournament after a 20-year absence. brazil got a big star with a 3-0 victory over jamaica's reggae girls. striker christiane scored the the hat trick. england won the great day with their rival scotland 2-1 this year's women's world cup has been called by many the biggest to date. fifa's goal, it is two-fold, to sell 1 million tickets and capture a tv viewership of 1 billion. our amanda davies explains the excitement in the host country

is not that high at this point. >> 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 not 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? is there not one? >> the women's world cup. >> so what do you know 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. so, yeah, 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 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. and thank you for being with us for "cnn newsroom." i'm george howell at the cnn center in atlanta. for our viewers in the united states, "early start" is next. for viewers around the world, my colleague max foster is on deck, live from london. thank you for being with us. do you want me to go first or do you want to go first, brea?

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