hi. welcome to all of our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. just ahead on the show, pressure builds by the day on israel's longest serving prime minister, but benjamin netanyahu is not giving up so easily. president biden prepares for his first g7 summit. we'll discuss the top issues he will address with america's allies. and the duke and duchess of

sussex welcome baby number two. we're live. >> live from cnn center. this is cnn "newsroom" with robyn curnow. thanks for joining me this hour. israel's longest serving prime minister is on the verge of losing his job but not without a fight. the coalition seeking to oust benjamin netanyahu has asked the speaker to schedule a vote for this wednesday to form a new government. the man who would become the next prime minister is warning mr. netanyahu not to leave, quote, a scorched earth behind him. >> translator: i call from here on mr. netanyahu, let go, release the country to move on. people are allowed to vote for the establishment of the government, even if it's not you who is heading it, a government that is ten degrees to the right than the current one, by the way. >> netanyahu is looking to drag out the process hoping to find

defectors to derail the coalition and he seems to be following in donald trump's playbook to cast doubt on the whole process. take a listen. >> we are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion in the history of any democracy. >> we are joined from jerusalem with more on all of this. how inscendiary are these words? >> it will be seen in some quarters as the red rag to his right-wing base, and a direct appeal to the lawmakers who are going to be in this proposed coalition, he asked them to follow their conscience. >> translator: the time is late but not too late. i call you to do the right

thing, to do the right thing and vote against the left-wing government, and in any case i would like to promise we -- my friends and i will vehemently oppose the establishment of the dangerous government of fraud and surrender. if, god forbid, it is established, we will bring it down very quickly. >> the earliest the survey will take place is wednesday, and the loyalist is supposed to accept the proposal to vote on wednesday, and perhaps he will take the amount of time possible and we won't have the vote until next monday on june 14th, and the longer this goes on the more opportunity netanyahu will feel he has to pick off potential errors and get them to not support the coalition thus preventing it from come into being. >> what is the mood in israel?

after so many years of netanyahu, do israelis feel cheated, as he says, as he described, or is there a sense of optimism, or is there a political logjam where the stalemate might be broken? >> well, if you speak to netanyahu and his allies, they will feel dismayed and perhaps conceived if they vote for naftali bennett, and they have found them go into government with what they will feel with dangerous centrists and you will find those opposed to netanyahu who will be celebrating that at least after 12 consecutive years in office, they will see him leave that office. the soonest that vote will happen will be on wednesday and they may have to wait an entire week before they get an

opportunity to have that vote and they will hope to see netanyahu leave office for the first time in 12 years. >> thank you so much. live in jerusalem. appreciate it. and the professor of political science at the hebrew university of jerusalem. certainly israel is on the edge of pretty consequence actual change, or do you think netanyahu might pull a political rabbit out of the hat? >> well, that's exactly the situation and that's why i am not completely certain. although with every passing day and the unity being shown by all eight parties that want to replace netanyahu gives you hope there will be a smooth transition. as elliott said, it's more than likely that this will be dragged out for the full week so that we

will not have the vote until next monday, and that gives netanyahu a chance to pick at it. remember, the coalition will have 61 out of 120 seats. that's a razor-thin majority and netanyahu only has to find one deserter and then it's a whole new ball game. >> you are listening to mr. netanyahu's tone and his terms, and they are familiar to many americans, evoking the language even of donald trump. how are those warnings and threats sound to israelis? i asked the same question of elliott, but i want to get your take on how israelis are feeling like this is the end, of course, of a very dominant figure and how are they processing that? >> well, this is nothing new. i say this with much regret. netanyahu has led the country

for a dozen years and with every team in office he polarized the country even more. the fact that there's a coalition, and in israel we have proportional representation, and the fact that there's a coalition that wants to replace him after a dozen years, and for him this is illegitimate, this is fraud, this is the worst thing that has happened to democracies in the history of the world according to him. it shows you that for netanyahu, not only is anybody that doesn't agree with him and opposes him a deserter and trader, and we all know what should be done to that category, but also he doesn't understand the democracy also means transition of power, and we are all waiting with bated breath to see if this vote actually passes next monday and if so will he really pull a donald trump and not even show

up in order to transfer power to the next prime minister. >> so many unanswered questions, and also in many ways from a political point of view, fascinating this coalition makes as the process goes through the final procedural hurdles, and it will be historical reasons, and one is because of the first arab israeli members, and how difficult would it be especially for a government headed up by naftali bennett? >> you are 100% correct. we have had arab members of the israeli government before but they have come from the regular jewish zionist parties and this is not a regular arab party but an islamic party, so to have this type of party in government, and 20% of the population in israel are israeli

arabs, and this could be the counter action to the netanyahu polarization for the last 12 years, and the left wing fridge made up of the arab parties had palestinian interests at heart and not israel, and if it proves to really have the israeli arab interests at the top of its agenda, we could have the redrawing of the map of the politics, and even netanyahu negotiated with this party, in other words, this is the extreme left that is not only legitimate for a center left government, it could join a center right government and that's really a new ball game in israeli politics. >> the architect of all this, this very unusual grouping, the spectrum against the political landscape. is he one of the winners here,

at least politically? >> definitely. he's one of the only ones where if the government is not formed and we go for a new election, we will probably gain in the polls. he has shown himself over the last couple of elections to be a man of principle. when benny was willing to split in the middle and join the netanyahu government and yair lapid stayed out, and now in order to replace netanyahu, he has to have bennett become prime minister and he has one-third the seats of what yair lapid has. he's willing to do so. he gets an a plus grade in how he handled himself during the crisis, and he could give netanyahu an even harsher challenge. >> okay. thanks so much. appreciate all of your perspective and analysis.

thank you very much. >> thank you. vice president -- u.s. vice president kamala harris' first trip got off to a rocky start because of a technical issue with her plane, but she boarded another and arrived safely in guatemala. she's got a full day of meetings with entrepreneurs and innovators and, of course, guatemala's president. later she heads to mexico. ballots are being counted in mexico after the country's largest ever mid-term election, and the ruling coalition is expected to lose its super majority in the lower house of congress, and while the president would retain control the loss of a super majority would prevent him from passing major legislative and constitutional reforms without the help of opposition parties.

final election results are expected next week. and we're also keeping a close eye on a high stakes election in peru. voters lined up on sunday to cast their ballot for the next president. the elections there are too close to call and counting of ballots will continue throughout the night, as they await the results of the critical election. the candidates are urging calm. >> translator: we mobilize. we participate openly without fear, without hatred, without worries. i believe in peru there are no more undecided people, no more inclinations. above all, there's peru. long lived peru. long lived democracy. >> could be sometime before we get the final count from sunday's election. officials are urging peruans to wait for the votes to come in.

and then after more than a month of demonstrations against the president's social and economic policies that have left more than 40 people dead, negotiations between columbia's government and a national strike committee stalled. each side accuses the other of walking away or delaying the talks. india's second covid wave has left many children orphaned, and we'll see how one family is dealing with that unspeakable e tragededy.

welcome back. i'm robyn curnow. we are learning emergency workers are trying to rescue at least 17 people still trapped following a deadly train crash in pakistani province. the prime minister tweeted that he has ordered a comprehensive investigation into the crash. we'll keep you posted on any new details on that developing story. meanwhile u.s. secretary of state, anthony blinken is calling for transparency from china on the origin of the coronavirus.

he said beijing needs to be open and accountable, something that has not happened so far. >> what the government didn't do in the early days and still hasn't done is giving us the transparency we need for the international community, the sharing of information in real-time. that has to happen. to get those answers to do a proper investigation, the u.s. will need access to the labs? will you demand that and go as far as sanctions on china if they keep inspectors out? >> i think the international community is clear that we have to have the international community has to have access, it has to have information. it's profoundly in china's interest to do this as well, because, look, it suffered too in the outbreak of this pandemic. it presumably has an interest as well, especially if it purports

to be an international actor to do everything it can to make sure we can hopefully prevent this from happening again. >> the chinese government denies the virus was created in any of their facilities and suggests it was made here in the united states. the center for disease control and prevention reports more than 300 million coronavirus vaccine doses have been administered. over 63% of adults are at least partially vaccinated. the biden administration wants 70% receiving at least 1% by july fourth, but the vaccination rate has slowed slightly. >> jill biden and dr. anthony fauci stopping by an iconic church, hoping to increase the

vaccination numbers. what the first lady and dr. fauci made time to stop by the baptist church and speaking with not only church officials but to those administering the vaccine as well, and they recognize churches are not only the oldest institutions but the most trusted institutions in black and brown communities. >> people in this community trust this church and trust the people in the church, and that's how we are going to do it, you know, through the faith community, to reach out to the congregation, their flocks, as they come forward and be healthy. >> the first lady and dr. fauci did spend time with people getting their shots on sunday, not only thanking them for doing so but also asking them to spread the word. india's capital, new delhi

is easing some restrictions as covid cases are dropping there. metro trains are operating at 50% capacity. here's another positive sign. india just reported its lowest number of new covid cases in 61 days. we are joined from new delhi with more on these hopeful numbers, at least, and some of these indications that things are slowly opening up. >> reporter: well, finding a silver lining of sorts at this point in time. just over 100,000 cases being reported from india like you mentioned for the first time in 61 days because some restrictions are being relaxed as well, and we have to wait, watch and see how caution people are and the restrictions in place, and with the imminent threat of a possible third wave in the future, it could affect children according to the medical experts.

577 children have already been orphaned between april 1st and may 25th of this year due to the second wave of covid-19, and over 1,700 according to the commission of children's welfare have lost their parents to the pandemic in the last year and a half. i did speak to a family of seven siblings. the eldest is 23 and the youngest is all of four, and here's her story of how she's been coping with helping all her siblings stay together. her biggest fear being if she does not earn enough she will lose them to child welfare organizations. she lights the oil lamp in memory of her parents every morning. just 23, she's now the head of the family and caregiver to her six siblings. these children, the youngest only four years old lost their mother and then their father to

the brutal second wave of covid-19 in india. >> translator: my 14 and 9-year-old sisters know about our parents. i have not told the three younger ones. all they believe is they are unwell and recovering in the village. >> reporter: in the last week of april when the crisis hit the capital of delhi hard, and they had a shortage of hospital beds and oxygen. her 39-year-old mother was suffering from high fever. her oxygen levels dropped. after being turned away from many hospitals, she was admitted to a medical facility in a city about 170 kilometers away, where she took her last breath. >> translator: all she wanted was to get better. she wanted to fulfill her responsibilities as a mother. she wanted to be saved. >> ten days later her father

also infected by the virus and heartbroken couldn't be saved. she said her parents loved each other very much. you're very brave. it's hard to console this young woman who is barely out of her teens. she has not had much time to grieve. she brings in about $70 a month holding classes. before his death, her father was the only earning family member. i asked if she is worried about not making enough to sustain the family and about siblings being taken away by authorities? >> this is my biggest fear. i will do all that i can to keep them with me.

>> reporter: calls to child welfare organizations reporting often and abandoned children especially through the second wave have been relentless. >> the biggest challenge is who takes responsibility, if i can put it that way, and that's where it's so important that we link them to the services needed so that there can be a determination of especially kinship care. >> orphaned, her memories is all she's left with. >> translator: one of my favorite memories is of my parents dancing on my sister's birthday in december. it was the first time they danced in front of us. it's now one of the lasting memories we have of them. >> reporter: in the midst of this raging pandemic that took not one but both parents, she

did not let her siblings out of her sight, and this door opens to very few. $70 is what she earns, robyn, and three of them, three of the youngest siblings are not in school right now, and they are eligible but she doesn't have the money to enroll them after the demise of her parents, and this is not just her story but thousands of children in india that recently lost their parents to covid-19. >> powerful stuff. thank you from new delhi. president biden expected to discuss the recent cyber attacks with pvladimir putin in geneva. here's why. >> criminal enterprises seem to be engaged in the attacks and it's an obligation on the part of any country including russia if it has a criminal enterprise

acting from its territory acting against anybody else to do what is necessary to stop it and bring it to justice.

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brussels where he will meet with the turkish president and vladimir putin in geneva. the white house says president biden will address the increased threat of cyber attacks with the russian leader. joining me to discuss all of this is the professor of government at the university of sussex in england. wonderful to have you on the show. let's talk about mr. biden's first trip abroad, and it's very wide ranging and he's meeting everybody from the queen to allies and competitors and he wants to talk about the pandemic and economic equality and free trade and a host of other issues. is this a tickle of box getting to know, yeah, i'm the new sheriff in town? >> i think the main focus is biden wants to communicate to other european and western partners that the u.s. is back and diplomacy is back, and this is something secretary of state tony blinken has said many

times, especially after the trump years where trump rejected nato and western allies and caused disarray, particularly in the g7 and in nato and so biden has his work cut out for him because there's a lot of trauma that the european union faced in dealing with the trump administration and they are not so trusting of what the u.s. is going to do. so biden has to keep the focus on the u.s. returning to this multilateral action, and he has other issues at hand, and one of the other issues is the pandemic, and there's climate change and critical issues in dealing with russia that he wants some partnership with his european allies on. >> i want to talk about that conversation he will have with mr. putin in a moment, but when he meets with the european allies, and there could be a

little tremor after the trump years, and they have moved on, and what do they need if they want to be brought back into the fold, what does mr. biden need to tell them to soothe them? >> well, i think that's going to be difficult because the way the european leaders feel, there had been many, many decades, the consistency of the u.s. policy, and they are worried the biden years is just a blip and there could be a return to more authoritarian populist style of leadership, and biden pulled out of afghanistan unilaterally without much consultation at all, and he will have to show that he is committed to multilateral decision making,

and i think he will face difficulties if he has any grand plans that are quite expensive, and the u.s. doesn't have the soft power it once had. >> with mr. putin, what needs to be said? how does it need to be said? what comes out of the meeting? >> this is such a tricky meeting. the u.s. and russia are basically involved in alternative warfare, in a nonconventional warfare with all the cyber attacks taking place from russian hackers on u.s. interests, and it's really laughable to say that putin doesn't know that this is taking place or isn't in control of these types of attacks. this is very classic putin. so there's a lot of tension going into this meeting already and the russians are obviously tense because the u.s. employed sanctions, and they said if you employ more sanctions we will

not use oil contracts anymore, and so the key is to try and establish some type of relationship because the relationship is at its worse, and can't get worse than what it is already, and we have russian diplomats saying there's issues and there's some common ground, and they want to figure out what is the common ground and what could they move ahead with to build trust between the two countries. >> many have said that the biden administration's focus on alliances and need for multilateralism is not about making nice with old partners but about using traditional partners against the rising china. how much will china be part of all of these conversations? what needs -- what is the message mr. biden is bringing on that? >> china is a huge part of the

conversations because it's just growing in power exponentially, economic power, political power and trying to exert more soft power. the other issue is the u.s. and china have a very independent relationship and the european union is far more dependant on china than even the u.s. is, so there's not going to be much push to isolate china, and the key will be how to have a united front to engage china to make it a more effective partner, because as it becomes more isolated and connected to russia and authoritarian states, it's proven it's not effective and helpful to western countries to have china on doing its own thing, and this goes against a lot of western interests. >> fascinating. it's certainly going to be a pretty big week for this president. always good to speak to you and get your analysis. thank you. >> thanks for having me. so the u.s. energy secretary warns america's power grid is

vulnerable to a cyber attack, and enemies are capable of shutting it down. the warning comes amid the rise in the ransomware attacks over the last few weeks, and she stressed private companies need to work with the white house. take a listen. >> i think that there are very malign actors who are trying, even as we speak, there are thousands of attacks on all aspects of the energy sector and the private sector generally. i mean the meat plant, for example. it's happening all the time. we have all got to up our game with respect to our cyber defenses. the president is doing that by executive order, and to quickly say on the pipelines, because the pipelines were a concern, obviously, the tsa which actually regulates the pipelines have now required the pipelines to report cyber incidents to the federal government so that we, at least, have intel.

>> granholm is also urging companies not to pay the ransom, and joe manchin is defending his decision to vote against a sweeping voting rights bill. it would counteract republican efforts to curb voter access at the box. manchin spoke to fox news on sunday about his position. >> i think it's the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together, and if we continue to divide and separate us more, it's not going to be the country we love and know and it will be hard because it's back and forth no matter who is in power. >> his opposition to changing filibuster rules is a major setback for president biden's agenda. the current senate rules allow republicans to hold up many of the progressive bills the

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monday marks a third day of national mourning in burkina faso. a gunman terrorists killed more than 130 people, some of them children. residents are calling now for greater security. african's region that includes burkina faso has seen a surge of attacks from isis and terrorists.

>> details are, i have to be honest, quite sketchy. late friday and early saturday morning there was a raid, an attack by unknown militants in the eastern part of the country. the death toll, as you say, is extremely shocking. it's unclear how many people exactly died. more than 100 certainly. scores of injured fled to nearby villages to get treatment. as part of a broader security deterioration of that part of burkina faso and that region as you described. people are angry and scared. it has been bad but it's certainly getting worse. >> translator: for sometime they had stopped so we thought everything was okay, but now we see it as starting again. people are being killed. this news we just heard about really affects me as a burkina

bay, and we need security so there's peace in the country and pr provinces. >> and securing security is a tall order at this point, because that area is effectively lawless. al qaeda and isis militants are often in retaliation against the defense groups set up by civilians to defend against the jihadi groups that obviously pulls them into the fighting. while these kinds of jihadi groups were attacking mostly police and u.n. out posts in previous years, there really is a terrible escalation of the fighting to take on civilians. at least seven children killed in this current massacre, and it

really doesn't show any signs of abating despite there are several thousand french groups as well as a drone base, and i am seeing that given the military action has not led to results, and the difficult issues of governance needs to be dealt with and that's a long process with no short-term gains necessarily. >> appreciate that. thank you. now the simple act of tweeting can get you arrested in nigeria, africa's most populous country banned twitter after the social media giant deleted a post by the president. officials say they will prosecute users, and a number of countries are slamming the twitter ban, canada, the eu and u.s. and uk issued this joint statement. they say they are disappointed and the path to a more secure nigeria lies in more and not

less communication. let's go to stephanie joining me now. what is the reaction there in nigeria with the radical step being taken? >> reporter: well, everybody is shocked it's illegal to do a simple thing like tweeting out here. and nigerians are very active on twitter and this has caught the attention of the company that set up their first headquarters not in nigeria but in ghana a few weeks back, and everybody expected it would be nigeria given the activity and interests here with twitter amongst citizens in the country, and it's a really important platform here for many people. there's outrage and anger and

frustration. many nigerians have turned to private networks as vpn, and it's a software that masks your location, and they are getting past a ban because they blocked access to twitter on your normal phone line, you can't access twitter. but they are using vpn, so it's unclear how the prosecutions are really going to work. nigeria government has said it's a temporary suspension and night an out right ban and it says twitter is using double standards by deleting the president's remarks but not a group that has led a lot of unrest in the southeast has clashes between the nigerian army and this group, and there's conflict there right now, and the government says twitter

doesn't understand the political landscape by wading into this and deleting the president's tweets which is why they issued a temporary suspension on twitter. many people say in a week where young children have been kidnapped, at the youngest four and five, twitter should not be the main concern of the government. you know, it's an ongoing situation and, you know, there's a lot of shock and anger, robin. >> thank you. now the black box has been recovered and handed over to authorities for the investigations, and the governorance says no oil or fuel leaks have been found so far, and the ship started to sink

last week after it was gutted by fire. you are watching cnn. still to come, there's now more than one person in line to the -- one more person in line to the british flown. details of the birth of prince harry and his wife's baby girl. that's next.

meghan, are celebrating the birth of their daughter over the weekend, lilibet diana mountbatten-windsor was born on friday in california and the duke and duchess of sussex is making sure her name honors two women. we have more on the baby that will be known as lily. >> a name fit for a queen, really, and lilibet diana is the family's nickname and has been since she was a toddler and struggled to say elizabeth. family is clearly really important to prince harry and

mega ph meghan. we have tweets from prince charles and his wife, camila, saying congratulations to harry, meghan and archie and lilibet. given prince harry has said in the past they will only have two children for environmental reasons, we do expect this to complete the sussex set. >> and this baby is well like her brother, archie, is not eligible for a title despite harry and meghan saying otherwise in their interview that we know is incorrect, and that doesn't mean one day she

won't have one, so how does that work out? >> the thorny issue of titles have been brought up with the birth of lily, and it has been suggested archie was not given a title against royal protocol, and that's not the case, and at the moment it's grandchildren down the male line, and it's the prince william and prince harry and princess beatrice, just that generation. as you say, lily will be eligible for a title as will archie when prince charles becomes king. >> when will they all meet? do we know? are there any plans for lily to say hi? >> i can't wait until they all meet. i have to say there's no date in the diary, and it was hoped

something might happen around the 1st of july which was princess diana's 60th birthday, and there's nothing yet but just pure speculation. the royal family has not seen archie except from video and since 2019, so it has been a long time. >> good to see you. thank you so much. u.s. gymnastics champion simone biles has the most titles in u.s. history. the four-time olympic gold medalists won nearly five points ahead of the runner up. biles became the first woman to land a yao chanco double pike a

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hi. welcome to all of our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm robyn curnow live at cnn in atlanta. israel's prime minister is fighting to the bitter end to keep his grip on power. and president biden prepares for his first g7 summit. on his agenda,