a confrontation that isn't dying down. the u.s. and iran keep trading insults as president trump sends his top diplomat to the region to come up with a solution. plus, a stinging defeat for the president of turkey with almost all votes counted. his ruling party loses out on the mayor's seat in istanbul. and it is down to just two as sweden and italy fight to host the 2026 olympics. we tell you why one sports analyst is wondering why would they ever want to. maybe it's not what it used to be. hello, everyone. welcome to our viewers joining us here in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. >> and i'm george howell from cnn world headquarters in

atlanta. newsroom star "newsroom" starts right now. the united states' president says he is not looking for a war with iran, but senior officials in donald trump's administration are refusing to take military action off the table. >> and that's raising concerns about the u.s. strategy during a time of heightened tensions in that region with tehran. the u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo is on his way to saudi arabia and the united arab emirates. he says that he wants to build a global coalition against iran. >> president trump admits some members of his team take a harder line on iran but says he listens to opposing views. >> do you feel like you were being pushed into military action against iran by any of your advisers? >> i have two groups of people. i have doves and some hawks. >> you have some serious hawks. >> yeah, john bolton is absolutely a hawk. if it was up to him, he'd take on the entire world at one time,

okay? but that doesn't matter because i want both sides. >> here it is. look, you can't have nuclear weapons. and if you want to talk about it, good, otherwise, you can live in a shattered economy for a long time to come. >> well, that hawk they were talking about, president trump's national security adviser, is in israel. >> oren liebermann has details of john bolton's talks with the israeli prime minister. and bolton's warning to iran. >> reporter: the meeting between national security adviser john bolton and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu began exactly as you would expect, both men began by talking about the strong relations between the u.s. and israel and thanked president donald trump for furthering those relations. then both men launched into an attack on iran. these are both hardliners when it comes to iran and it certainly showed once again. netanyahu railed against the iran deal and then ticked off a list of what he views as iran's aggressive acts in the region, including attacks on israel and others. one thing netanyahu didn't mention at all was trump's

decision to call off a retaliatory strike against iran. instead, he praised more sanctions against iran. it was bolton who warned that more military options against iran are not off the table. >> neither iran nor any other hostile actor should mistake u.s. perusenrudence and discretr weakness. no one has granted them a hunting license in the middle east. as president trump said on friday, our military is rebuilt, new and ready to go. by far the best in the world. sanctions are biting and more added last night. iran can never have nuclear weapons. not against the usa and not against the world. >> reporter: netanyahu has tried to press other nations to sanction iran as well in recent days. next up for bolton here is a meeting with his israeli and russian counterparts. that meeting was always going to be about iran, but mostly about iran in syria. now it could have far wider

implications for the region. one interesting point to watch here is that russia is much more on iran's side than israel or the u.s. those meetings begin monday. oren liebermann, cnn, jerusalem. president trump's decision to call off a retaliatory strike against iran for its downing of a u.s. drone, well it's getting mixed reactions in iran. >> fred pleitgen has details from tehran. >> reporter: some pretty remarkable language coming out of iran today. on the one had, you had jabhat zarif praising president trump for going against his senior advisers and allies and not ordering a strike on the iranian military and you have iranians warning the u.s. of dire consequences if there are strikes in the future. the foreign minister said he believes there are indications what he calls is the "b" team trying to box him, president trump, into military action against iran.

the "b" team is something that jabhat zarif has long referred to being john bolton, the national security adviser and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and mohammed bin salman. praising trump in the end saying prudence prevented it. and went on to tweet that what he believes is economic terrorism is causing tensions. of course, economic terrorism is what the iranians refer to as america's campaign of maximum pressure. of course those very tough sanctions on the iranian economy. meanwhile, a senior iranian general coming on and essentially warning the united states, saying that if there was a strike on iran that there would be a big response coming from the iranians. and he said that that could lead to what he called an unmanageable situation in the middle east. of course, the iranians have for a very long time been saying that essentially there would be no such thing as a limited strike on iran. there would always be a big response and that that response would probably not only involve

iran's military against the u.s. military but probably also iran's proxy forces that they control throughout the entire region. fred pleitgen, cnn, tehran. >> so, the question is, where does this go from here? we're joined now by a senior research fellow on the middle east at chatham house. thanks so much for talking with us. you just heard the back and forth charge, countercharge. i want to begin with what you think about iran's statement that it thinks the united states as far as sanctions goes is committing economic terrorism. >> this is the iranian response very much playing into domestic sentiments both at the political elite level but to the popular level as well, where ordinary iranians are really suffering from the pressure of sanctions. all foreign companies that were in iran since the iran nuclear agreement was signed in 2015

have withdrawn and daily life is becoming harder and harder for iranians. so economic terrorism kind of elevates even further the issue, nationalizes the issue and creates a greater sentiment and an affinity between people who might be frustrated with the government and the iranian regime. >> what are your most concerned about right now? we had a president who was going to strike but he didn't. we heard bolton say don't -- don't think prudence is weakness, you know? it's prudence. and now we have iran talking tough as well. what is the thing that is most concerning with this middle ground where this situation seems to be stalled? >> i think the middle ground is positive on the one hand because it's very clear that both sides do not want a whole-scale escalation and direct military conflict, but it's dangerous because it's here in the middle

ground where it's clear there is some sort of stalemate, that we can continue to have rising and falling tensions that could go on for a very long time. because iran seeks some kind of sanctions relief from president trump before they come back to the negotiating table, and president trump is doubling down on his sanctions policy and will release new sanctions against iran today. so we're in a stalemate. >> right. so the catch-22 continues with trying to get to that negotiating table. is this a crisis of mr. trump's making? he pulled out of the obama-era nuclear deal. or is this something that also iran is responsible for? >> with regards to the nuclear portfolio and iran's commitment to its nuclear program, this is a crisis of president trump's making. iran definitely get up to no

good outside of its borders, it supports non-state actors, it interferes in other countries and it does have a concerning ballistic missile program, although it is not the only one in the region that has that, but with regards to the nuclear program, iran was compliant 14 times affirmed by the international atomic energy agency. and this this crisis, which is manufactured by washington, has created deep frustrations in europe where american allies feel like they're left holding the bag and would have rather focused on the issue of regional tensions and ballistic missiles, and instead we're sort of back on this nuclear hamster wheel that for the time being was resolved. >> right. france has reached out. european uni european allies want to speak to iran. britain in somewhat distracted by brexit, as one can understand. i want to ask you about president trump and his

leadership, this abrupt stop to stop the attack on iran. is this part of his tough talk but doesn't always act tough? for example, he once threatened north korea with fire and fury like the world has never seen and months later said that he and the north korean leader were in love. could he make a dramatic shift on iran? >> i think from the beginning president trump's iran policy was very much directed towards bringing iran back to the negotiating table. i've always read him as seeking negotiations and maybe those negotiations wouldn't result in a very different deal, but he wants a trump iran deal, and that trump deal would also benefit american companies and be very america first. the problem here is that president trump's advisers might have different objectives and in this scenario where he dialed back tensions, i think he's trying to present himself as the moderate. the good cop against his advisers.

and this is important in advance of his potential re-election next year where he hasn't had so many foreign policy victories. where the case of north korea continues to be also in a stalemate. so presenting himself as the diplomat is i think part of his strategic calculus in the pre-election season. >> we'll see what happens next. we appreciate your expertise very much. in london for us, thank you. >> thank you. now to turkey where the main opposition party is claiming a major victory over the ruling party of the nation's president recep tayyip erdogan. with more than 99% of the vote counted, now to be the next mayor of istanbul. >> he addressed crowds of cheering supporters, saying he is willing to meet with president erdogan, who backed his rival. results for the run-off election are not yet official, but they are poised to deliver a significant blow to the erdogan

government. >> turkey's president has tweeted his congratulations and his party candidates has conceded. >> as our arwa damon explains, it is a local election that means big things for the entire country. >> reporter: sunday's vote was never really about the position of mayor, it was much bigger than that. >> it's really so important today for all of the people in istanbul because this is not just a local election, it's also a struggle for democracy as well. >> reporter: many within the opposition felt that the decision to rerun the elections was eroding the country's democratic nature. that the ballot box may not survive the tenure of turkish president recep tayyip erdogan. the vote ended up doing much more than that, handing the opposition party candidate a landslide victory, taking the margin between him and the ruling party's candidate from 13,000 votes back in march to

more than 750,000 this time around. an indisputable win. >> translator: this is a new era for everyone in istanbul. this is a new beginning. in this new phase, we're opening justice, equality, love and tolerance. waste, arrogance and discrimination will end. today 16 million people in istanbul showed their belief in democracy trusted in justice and made us believe it again. >> reporter: they also invigorated a fatigued opposition who now hopes that they have found a charisma and political savvy to rival erdogan's. the hopeful messages of the campaign, his own calm and measured demeanor, his promises which he will now face the challenge of having to keep, especially as a secondary

governing body, the city council, is still controlled by the ruling akp. >> what they're chanting is the opposition candidate's campaign slogan translated to mean "everything is going to be great." there are street parties like this happening throughout the entire city. for so many here this is being viewed as a new dawn in turkish politics, and they're not just celebrating their candidate's mayoral win, they're celebrating for turkey's democracy as well. arwa damon, cnn, istanbul. ethiopia's government says the northern state is now under its full control after a failed coup in the key region. officials say at least four people were killed during saturday's unrest including the country's army chief of staff and the head of the region. >> ethiopia's prime minister, eexpressed condolences to the

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controversial. >> yes, cameroon's players staged on-field protests after multiple calls didn't go their way. as mark bolton reports, it stems from the use of video replay technology. >> reporter: a hot and heated night in northern france. and cameroon consternation at events either side of halftime. all in all this was a 90 minutes that will not be remembered for footballing reasons. as early as the 14th minute, thanks to steph hatton, but it was when england doubled their lead in the first half injury time that cameroon's protests began. ellen white's goal was originally ruled out for offside but eventually rewarded after the referee consulted var, the new video replay system. the dominance by the lionesses follows and caused a six-minute delay to the restart of the game. ahead of kickoff for the second half. the cameroons frustration

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and going out world wide about a team coming to the side and refusing to play. i'm proud of my players for their discipline and the belief they had in going out there and just playing the game of football. >> reporter: football wise, england perhaps showed the characteristics of champions, self-restraint was certainly evident, focus and discipline. england have won four from four, yet we still haven't seen the best of them in this tournament. next they face norway in their quarterfinals. cameroon go home. all right. here in the united states, heavy rains in the heartland of the u.s. are causing floods, causing power outages and at least one death. >> parts of missouri, oklahoma and arkansas received rainfall totals of 5 to 7 1/2 centimeters in just a 12-hour period. and a 64-year-old woman in oklahoma was killed sunday morning when her car was swept into a creek.

our meteorologist karen mcginnis is following this. karen, it seems it's just like week after week we talk about the midwest just getting hammered with rain. >> yes. we've been stuck in a very dynamic weather pattern that has really impacted the midwest quite a bit. now that we're officially into summer, we're still seeing that wet weather pattern. usually we start to see some drying out take place, but the early part of the spring, the midwest was very rainy and wet and now we sigh' frontal system draped all across the great lakes, the ohio river valley, across the tennessee river valley and into texas. now, this is the flash flood threat all the way from minneapolis, louisville, nashville into texas. i'll point out one area we're really focused on. kind of this area in between oklahoma and arkansas. the lee river in van buren out of its banks and will probably be at a record level. that will inundate some

low-lying areas, some areas with communities. this shows you just how dynamic and just how much rainfall there has been between 100, 150 milammeters. this over the past 48 hours. but all the way from omaha, kansas city, there were high-water rescues in kansas city over the last couple of days because the water was so heavy there. take a look at what happened in des moines as we show you this video. now, it's evening video. this is from a drone. you can see how much water. it looks like kind of an area in a downtown area. typically these underpasses are areas that are very much prone to flooding, but this, as i mentioned, coming out of des moines. not a good idea to drive your vehicle through water that comes up to your headlights. as they say, turn around, don't drown. they saw just about 2 1/2 inches of rainfall or about 62 milammeters of precipitation. all right.

here's that area i was telling you about, van buren, all the way to little rock and down towards the ozarks regions. but those aren't the only areas. it is fairly widespread from the midwest, tennessee valley, nashville, you're going to see another round of rainfall already for the year and a surplus for the month of june. heavy rainfall where you see the yellow. could see damaging winds, large hail, heavy downpours. i think we take the tornado risk out of that. and then the forecast radar, well, new york city, not just yet, but going into tuesday you'll pick up some wet weather. back to you guys. >> on and on. what is the inclination for people to drive through a flooded area? >> it's always dangerous. >> there's always a few. >> in a hurry. >> all right. karen, thank you. still ahead, there is no break in the tensions between washington and tehran. still ahead, why president trump is sure that iran will come to the negotiating table. we'll see. meantime, president trump says he's putting the brakes on massive immigration raids for now.

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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. >> i'm natalie allen. here are our top stories this hour. turkey's main opposition party is claiming victory in istanbul's race rerun for mayor. more than 99% of the vote has been counted but results aren't official yet. the projected winner, though, ekrem imamoglu, says it is a victory for democracy in turkey. in ethiopia, the government

there says the northern amhara state is now under full control after a failed coup there. four people were killed including the army chief of staff and the head of that region. the prime minister expressed his condolences to the families of the victims. tens of thousands of czechs are demanding the resignation of their prime minister andre babish. they demonstrated in prague sunday in what organizers call the biggest protest since the fall of communism. babish is accused of fraud and collaborating with a communist-era secret police. the billionaire tycoon has been dubbed the czech trump because of his business empire and populist leanings. what a couple of weeks it's been in the middle east. the tensions between the united states and iran. you'll remember the u.s. president called off those retaliatory strikes against iran for downing a u.s. drone, but instead there are new sanctions expected to go into effect late

monday. >> our boris sanchez reports that president trump is confident that they're working and these sanctions will bring tehran to the negotiating table. >> reporter: president trump with a rare appearance on one of the sunday morning political talk shows. the president in speaking with nbc bragging about how sanctions from the united states have crippled iran's economy. he says he believes that the iranians are not trying to provoke him with acts like shooting down that military drone, but, rather, that they are growing desperate and that they want to negotiate with him. the president says that he does not want war, however, he cautions that the u.s. military has been rebuilt and is ready to go. he says he wants to talk with the iranians. effectively the administration looking for a new nuclear deal. we heard the same from vice president mike pence when he spoke to jake tapper on "state of the union" sunday. listen to what pence said. >> the president's message to iran is very clear. that we are not going to allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon and we're not going to stand by while iran continues to sow

malign influence across the region. that's why tomorrow the president will announce additional sanctions against iran. the president's made it clear that we are not going to tolerate any threats against american forces, american interests, america's allies in the region and we'll never allow iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. >> as for those sanctions promised by president trump, they are set to take effect on monday. in the words of national security adviser john bolton, who spent the weekend traveling in israel, they would be biting and they would further cripple iran's economy. as for the potential outcome of any military conflict with iran, president trump told nbc news, "it will be obliteration like you've never seen before." boris sanchez, cnn, at the white house. a domestic story for you. the clock is ticking for immigrants in these ten u.s. cities. u.s. president trump has postponed widespread raids targeting about 2,000 families who have been ordered to leave the country.

>> mr. trump says that he delayed the raids for two weeks to allow democrats and republicans to work out a way to close immigration loopholes and to handle the influx of migrants seeking asylum. >> he tells nbc news the democrats have the power to solve the problem. >> if the democrats would change the asylum laws and the loopholes, which they refuse to do because they think it's good politics, everything would be solved immediately, but they refuse to do it. they refuse to do it -- >> let me ask you this -- >> you know what? if they change, i used to say 45 minutes, it's 15 minutes. if they changed asylum and if they changed loopholes, everything on the border would be perfect. >> let's talk about all of this now with peter matheus. peter a political analyst and professor of political science at cyprus college joining us this hour from los angeles. good to have you, peter. >> good to be here, george. >> so we know that the house speak nancy pelosi spoke with president trump and asked him to

call off the raids. do you see this as a true olive branch from the president to democrats or do you see something more in it? >> i believe that he knows an election is coming up and, you know, 37% of americans say that they're not supporting him for re-election -- i'm sorry, only 37% are supporting him. 60% want someone new in the oval office. that's a number that has shook him up a bit, i think, and he wants to appear more reasonable to work with democrats and to win back some of the independent voters that he lost. i think this is probably the main motive. i don't see him having a change of heart like that overnight about immigrants. he's been very severe on them. asylum seekers, to mix them up with undocumented immigrants coming for economic reasons, that's two totally different things and really something that she should take note of. >> let's switch topics now. i want to talk about what's happening with iran and the united states. mr. trump saying that he is willing to talk with iran with no preconditions. he's also doubling down, though,

on economic pressures with new sanctions that are set to take effect later monday. jabhat zarif called the approach economic terrorism. does this pressure, in your view, move iran back to the negotiating table or does it push them to dig deeper? >> i think you're already seeing them dig deeper and shooting down that drone was part of their effort to stand strong in their point of view against the u.s. sanctions. the sanctions have really bitten hard, george. people are suffering for lack of food and medicines. it's really hurting the economy, the civilian economy, not the mullahs who run the country. this is a very bad thing. i think shey should have stuck jcpoa that president obama negotiated with six other countries and iran wouldn't be able to start building a nuclear weapon for another ten to 20 years. that was a much better deal. general mattis said it was in the national security of the united states, we shouldn't get rid of it, but president trump

with drew a withdrew and put very heavy sanctions on iran, which is counterproductive in my view. >> the question whether president trump may be concerned, a bit nervous about what's ahead. here's what he told chuck todd with "meet the press." i don't think we have that with us right now, but just essentially making the case that he is looking at 2020 with certain, you know, concern. tell us, what do you think? do you think the president is looking at what's coming up, concerned about the poll numbers, concerned about winning? >> absolutely. for example, a fox poll showed that bernie sanders would beat president trump by nine points. joe biden would beat him by ten points. trump knows those are real numbers that could very well hold up. he's very concerned. i'm not used to losing. i have to win. i'm also concerned what could happen once he's out of office with some of the investigations

that began while he's in office. that's another thing he should be thinking about very seriously. he might actually be thinking about that and really wants to win at least four more years. it would be a tremendous disgrace if he lost after one term because only one president in recent years has done that, and that's george h.w. bush bush and it would be a rejection towards his policies and immigrants and right-wing reactionaries and white supremacists. all of those things would be shot of the sky if he loses. >> peter matheus, appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you, george. well, major cities across the world are beginning to ask themselves this question. is it really a prize to host the olympics or is it a major burden? we talk about why it's becoming more daunting to be an olympic host city. coming up next. mankind has ever faced. we got the idea that if we took two dimensional patient imaging and put it in holographic displays,

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international olympic committee are expected to cast their votes and to choose a winner on monday. >> here are the two. either milan, italy or stockholm, sweden will walk away with the prize. four other cities that were originally in the running dropped out due to the size and cost of hosting the games. well, let's take a closer look at all of this with cnn sports analyst christine brennan. she is a sports columnist at "usa today" and a veteran of covering the olympics. christine. good to have you. how are you? >> natalie, i'm great, thanks. how are you? >> good, thank you. all right. monday, we will learn who will win the 2026 winter olympics. it is always a thrill when the envelope is opened, the cities are gathered, the winner's name is read, but you say it's time for a new system in the way cities are chosen. what's wrong with the current one? >> well, there's a lot wrong with it. and rio has debt up to its eyeballs, sochi back in the

winter games in 2014, 51 billion with a "b," $51 billion price tag. it's bankrupting cities. it's holding cities hostages -- hostage. you've got leaders, civic leaders who just have to throw up their hands and say we can't be a part of this anymore. which is why you see fewer and fewer cities that have actually even gone for the games. something that used to be such a crown jewel, to be able to say you hosted the olympics. i love the olympics. i've covered them since 1984 and l.a., and i do think they're a great thing for a city, but it's just become so difficult, so expensive. the international olympic committee demands they want all kinds of first-class hotels and this and that and the other thing and it's just not commence ate, frankly, with the way the world is now with economics, with the environment app concerns of so many places, so many cities around the world and so many countries, and i think that's what you're seeing as this just kind of has reached critical mass and people are

saying enough is enough. >> right. i can remember being a news anchor for many, many years. it seems the past several years all i can recall reporting about vis-a-vis olympics is "will they be ready?" because of the cost. because of the building. it is overwhelming. >> well, it is. and the idea i floated a few months ago -- i'm not holding my breath for the international olympic committee to accept it. but would be to have a rotation where you would maybe have, say, sydney, london, los angeles, established olympic cities hosting the games every four years, summer olympics and have a wild card, you'd have another country in that 16th year for the fourth of the four, and then you'd repeat the cycle again. and maybe instead of, you know, instead of sydney, maybe you'd have them in the region, in the pacific region. you'd have them go to tokyo, but you wouldn't force cities like rio or like sochi, even though

that's a very different story because of putin's interest in wanting to make that a big show for him. but you wouldn't then find these cities that are literally affected, natalie, for decades to come in terms of the financial stresses, the white elephants, the stadiums that are just going to sit there forever not being used, and, again, environmental concerns, which are top of mind i think for so many. so it's an idea. as i said, i'm not expecting anyone to adopt it, but i do think something needs to be done because, again, what we're seeing is more and more cities just saying, uh-uh, not for us, we're out of here and just see two cities, as we see now on monday, just two cities going for another olympic games. >> right. the race to get there is exciting, titillating, but when it comes down to it, it bankrupts cities and can be demoralizing when it's supposed to be this beautiful thing. but you mentioned vladimir putin because that reminds everyone

it's politics, too. >> oh, without a doubt. politics in sports? shocking. you know, and, yes, and beijing, for example, hosting the 2008 summer olympics and then it's going to be hosting the 2022 winter olympics, which is just so strange and some call it weird. it's just bizarre. that's, again, because it was only caukazakhstan going for th 202 winter games. by the way, when i said cities for the 2026 winter games, which is what we're talking about right now, you actually have two countries, main cities, but italy and sweden. so you've got stockholm and milan, but then you also have regional places that you can have things, and even in the case of sweden, they're talking about having bobsled and the sliding sports in latvia, which i think is fascinating. and that is a response, natalie, frankly, to this -- the cost overruns and the great financial concerns that, okay, the international olympic committee does seem to be.

>>ing it just a little bit anyway and saying, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, we can't just force these things on a city or a country. so in the case of sweden, they're looking out to another country, latvia, so that they don't have to build a bobsled track, and in the case of italy, they would, again, use a lot of existing facilities across that region. so that's where we are now, and i think there may be a little sanity, a little prudence coming into the conversation, although it's certainly late to the game for many of those cities that are still dealing with the costs many years after the olympic games. >> yeah, absolutely. we had them here in atlanta, and they just put up the olympic rings at the park next door. took awhile to get there. well, it's an interesting concept, a rotating system. we'll see if the ioc listens to christine brennan's idea. i hope so. christine, thank you, as always. >> natalie, my pleasure. thank you. >> fascinating. >> in the meantime, it will either be milan or stockholm. it's announced on monday. all right.

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