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, confronting

president putin about attacks. and we're live in london with the royal reaction over baby number two. 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 this wednesday to form a new government. the man who would become the next prime minister is warning mr. netanyahu to not leave a, quote, scorched earth behind him. take a listen. >> reporter: i call on mr. netanyahu, let go. release the country to move on. people are allowed to vote for the establishment of a government even if it is not you heading it, a government that's

10 dough degrees to the right, by the right. >> he seems to be following donald trump's playbook to cast doubt on the whole process. >> translator: we are witnessing the greatest election fraud in the history of the country, in my opinion, in the history of any democracy. >> elliott gotkine joins me now live with all of this rhetoric, certainly potentially a historic few days ahead, but do you think mr. netanyahu still has a chance to change the trajectory of this coalition. >> robyn, until this vote has been held and they would appear to have the votes to win the vote of confidence to form the next government, that hasn't been finalized, benjamin

netanyahu has a chance to pick off members of the right wing parties to try to sway them in his view to see the error of his ways. some of the language has been quite incendiary. the domestic security agency issued a warning saying to tone down the discord. it could even lead to harm to individuals. and in some quarters there are concerns that some of the language we've been seeing has been echoing the run upto the assassination 25 years ago. certainly not helping is one of his law marms who went on television who described them

akind to terrorists and suicide bombers. some of netanyahu's allies have been ramping it up. >> thank you very much for that live report in jerusalem. earlier a spoke to a professor of political science and i asked how the hebrews might feel about the possible change in government and what they think of prime minister netanyahu's cries of fraud. take a listen. >> netanyahu has led the country for a dozen years and in every term in office he's polarized the country even more. in israel we have pure proportional representation which means the majority of the parliament really represents the majority of the population. the fact there's a coalition that wants to replace him after a dozen years and for him this is illegitimate, this is fraud,

the worst thing that has happened to democracies in the histories of the world according to him shows that for netanyahu, not only is anybody who doesn't agree with him and opposes him a deserter and a 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. >> president joe biden will host. this this will be the president's first. he'll be meeting with prime minister boris johnson and queen elizabeth ii.

he'll then travel to meet with the turkish president followed by more in geneva. earlier i asked the university of essex professor na t eor na n stint what that will be like. >> he said they wouldn't use dollar dominated contracts, so the key is to try to establish some type of relationship because the relationship is really at its worse. it can't get much worse than it is already. and there have been comments that there are miscommunication issues, there's actually some common ground here, and i think the key will be to establish a relationship but also to figure out what is the common ground and what can they move ahead

with to build trust between the two countries. >> meanwhile the u.s. energy secretary warns america's power grid is vulnerable to cyber attacks and enemies are capable of shutting it down. jennifer granholm's alert comes this week and says they really need to work with the white house. >> i think there are very maligned 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. the meat-packing plant is an exa example. we need to up our defenses. on the pipelines because the pipelines were a concern, the tsa which actually regulates the pipelines has now required the

pipelines to report cyber incidents to the federal government so we at least have intel. >> she says paying them would merely embolden the attackers. and u.s. senator joe manchin is defending his decision to vote against a sweeping votes rights bill. the majority of his fellow democrats support the bill and it would counteract republican efforts to curb voter access at the ballot box. while he spoke to fox news on sunday about the decision. take a listen. >> i think it's a wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together. i'm not supporting that because it would divide us further. it's not going to be united and it's not going to be the country we love and know and it's going to be hard because it will be back and forth no matter who's in power. >> now, his opposition is also a major setback for president

biden's agenda. those rules allow republicans to hold out many of the bills the administration supports. and an alabama congressman face as lawsuit looking to a colleague to be held partially responsible for the january 6th insurrection. mo brooks claims eric swalwell's team. his attorneys denied the accusation and if brooks thinks he wasn't properly served, he says he can contest it in court. and the u.s. passed a milestone over the weekend in its effort to vaccinate americans against the coronavirus. the centers for disease control and prevention reports more than 300 million vaccine doses have been administered. over 63% of adults have been

partially vaccinated. the vaccination rate has slowed. there's a push by the first lady and the top infectious disease expert to reach that goal. polo. >> reporter: over the weekend, first lady, joe biden, and the infectious disease expert stopping by an iconic harlem church, promoting the message of getting vaccinated, hoping to increase the vaccination numbers. both the first lady and dr. anthony fauci made a stop here and speaking not only with church officials but those who have been administered the vaccine as well to see first hand the efforts that are ongoing with communities of color. they recognize churches are the oldest and most trusted institutions in black and brown communities, so they stopped by to really share that message. >> the people in this community trust this church and trust the people in the church, and that's how we're going to do it through the faith community to reach out

to their congregation, their flocks, and say come forward and be healthy. >> both the first lady and dr. fauci also spent some time with some of the people that were getting their shots on sunday, not only thanking them for doing so, but asking them to spread the woeld. polo sandoval, cnn, new york. the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is calling for transparency. he was asking. he said beijing needs to be open and accountabling something that just hasn't happened so far. >> what the government didn't do in terrell days and still hasn't done is given us the transparency. we need access for inspectors and experts, the sharing of information in real time. that has to happen. >> so to get those answers to do a proper investigation, we're going to need the u.s. to demand

access to the labs. will you demand that? go so far as to put sanctions on china? >> i think the international community is clear we have to have -- the international community has to have access. it has to have information. it's profoundly in china's interest do this as well. look, it suffered, too, in the outbreak of this pandemic. it presumably has an interest as well, especially if it purports to be a responsible international actor to do everything it can to make sure we can hopefully prevent this from happening again. >> the chinese government denies the vie was was created in any of their facilities and suggested it may have been made in the u.s. you're watching cnn. still to come, calling on a higher power that is an answer to their prayers in a forecast. but, when grease and limescale build up,

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vice president harris's first diplomatic trip got off to a pretty bumpy start sunday. her plane had to turn around shortly after departure, but she

boarded another and arrived safely in gauatemalaguatemala. she's there to discuss the flow of migrants from the region. she has a day full of meetings with entrepreneurs and guatemala's president. later she heads to mexico. meanwhile the ruling coalition there is expected to lose its supermajority in the lower house of congress. that's according to preliminary results from mexico's largest ever midterm elections. the last of the supermajority would prevent him from passing major reforms without the help of opposition parties. final election results are expected next week. and we're also waiting on the outcome of a very high stakes election in peru. security stood by voters on sunday. right now the election is just too close to call. we have the latest from

colombia. >> reporter: its gave an early small lead to the right wing candidate, but the election remains too close to call in the early hours on monday. speaking to lima earlier on monday morning, they say these are resulted that only reflected votes that were cast in the police station closest to the counting centers, that means urban votes from the cities of peru. others were yet to be counted. yet with less than 50% of the vote counted so far, he was awarded a lead over her rival left wing candidate of less than 5% points and that's why the election is really tightly contested. these early results are in line

with the expectations that gave a stronger support for fujimori in the urban areas such as the capital of peru, lima, instead to a high school teacher who never held public office a fairer share of support in the rural areas of peru, more impoverished regions in the highland. it's not the first time that such a tight contested race takes place in the presidential elections. just in 2016 fujimori lost to eventual former president with just 49.9% against 50.1%. police in california have arrested two suspects accused in a road rage shooting that left a

6-year-old boy dead, aden anthony leyos was gunned down while sitting in his car seat while his mom was driving him to kindergarten. it's not clear yet if they have lawyers. and the western u.s. is in the midst of what are calling an extreme drought. utah's governor has asked people to pray for rain. meanwhile there are flash flood watches on the gulf. what can you tell us? >> we have a big event. it's going to be significant. it transitions more across the arklatex region into the tennessee valley, ohio river valley. ly have accumulated some six

inches of rain fall. use lated heavier amounted as we look over the next several days. across the west, yes, extreme fire danger over the next few months. they say these summer months coming up could be the worst we've seen. a very high fire danger and a critical fire danger over the next couple of days. we're looking for a threat mainly across the northern tier states. a frontal system is kind of lagging across the region. ahead of the front is where we've seen record-setting temperatures, temperatures 20 degrees warmer than we've seen this time of the year. even burlington, vermont, saw a temperature of 95 degrees on sunday afternoon. all right. thunderstorms expected to cross the arklatex region, going into tuesday transitioning more toward the central mississippi river valley, and we'll start to see some of the rain making its

way toward the mid-atlantic which may be good because that will stop the temperatures we have seen soaring over the past few days. they can see it going into the next five days where you see this orange shaded area. you could see between 4 and 6 inches of rainfall, but maybe 2 and 4 inches would be some of the most common amounts we could see. we could see more than 130 cities at record-setting temperatures going in toward wednesday. so several days of searing heat. and speaking of that. we're looking at wind gusts of 45 miles an hour across the great basin. most of the west in dangerous fire conditions. ro robyn, babb to you. >> therein you, karen maginnis. really appreciate it. a person is expected to care for his six siblings as they lose both parents to covid. we have that s story next.

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welcome back. i'm robyn curnow live from atl atlanta. in india, shopping and malls are opening and trains are at 50% capacity. if you want to take a look at this. india reported its lowest number of covid cases in 61 days. we're joined live from new delhi. so there is light at the end of the tunnel. there's certainly some good news in terms of the infection rate, but the aftermath, what is left

behind, is still devastating and life changing, isn't it? >> reporter: absolutely, especially for children because they've been affected by this second wave of covid-19 still going on. it's being spoken about by medical experts and state governments talking about ramping up of supplies. if you remember especially in deli, there was a huge, huge problem with oxygen supply during the peak of the second wave. with you saw cases were over 400,000. but the worry is with the children, and my team did visit a family of seven siblings. they lost their parents to covid-19. they lost their mother in the month of april and their father ten days later, and the

unfortunate bit is a 23-year-old girl is now the head of that family. she only earns about $70 a month, and that's what she has to sustain her family. here's her story. she light this oil lamp in memory of her parent every monthing. just 23, she's not the head of the family and caregiver to her six siblings. these children, the youngest only 4 years old lost their mother and then their father to the covid in india. >> translator: my 14- and 9-year-old sisters know about their parents. i haven't told the three younger ones. all they believe is they're unwell and recovering in the village. >> reporter: in the last week of april when the crisis hit the

capital delhi hard, they were experiencing a shortage of covid beds and oxygen. vivica's 39-year-old mother was suffering from high fever. her oxygen levels had been dropped. after been turned away from many hospitals she got her mother into a medical facility where she took her last bront. >> all she wanted was to get better. she wanted to fulfill her responsibilities as a mother. she wanted to be saved. >> reporter: ten days later her father also infected by the virus and heartbroken couldn't be saved. an emotional vivica says her parents loved each other very much. >> my father doted on mommy. they're together now. >> you're very brave. it's hard to coal this young

woman who's barely out of her teens. she's barely has time to breathe. she takes classes. she brings in $70 a month. before their deaths, her fare was the only earned member. i asked vivica if she's worried about not making enough and her siblings being taken away. >> this is my biggest fear. i will do all that i can to keep them with me. >> reporter: they're reporting often 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. >> reporter: orphaned, her memories is all she's left with. >> translator: one of my favorite memories is 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 doesn't let her siblings out of sight. this door opens to very few. in a span of ten days she's cremated both her father and mother, robyn. this is not just the story of seven siblings, but so many children across india currently. according to the indian government during the second

wave from april 1st to may 25th, 577 children were orphaned by covid-19. now, the biggest challenge for the indian government while they deal with the second wave and the onset of a possible third is to ensure that these children are taken care of financially as well as psychologically. ro ro robyn? >> okay. thank you for that story. more than a pandemic after they were forced to drop anchor, cruise ships are preparing to set sail. once again caribbean will resume cruises from florida and texas starting next month and vaccines won't be required for passengers. >> reporter: a political storm brewing on land, one between florida governor ron desantis and the center for disease control suggests it will be anything but smooth sailing. right now most are advertising

with vaccine requirements burkes royal caribbean abruptly change ed on friday. they will require passengers 16 and older to be vaccinated but no vaccinated requirements for its sailings from texas and florida, florida, where businesses can be fined for requiring customers to show proof of vaccination. >> i'm surprised. i think they're on the better side of it. >> reporter: a cruise industry maritime expert says the cruise ship industry is unique and they're trying to keep passengers safe. last year a number of cruise ships remained unable to dock when coronavirus spread through tight quarters. ships sat idle for 15 months. now the cdc has laid out a framework to get them back in motion, either have trial sailings or abide by certain

restrictions with the most latitude on ships where at least 95% of passengers and crew are vaccinated. desantis has sued the cdc over this with no end of a legal battle in sight. >> make no mistake about this, had we not done what we did -- and i think a lot of those cruise lines would admit this. had we not done what we did by suing, you would not be talking about sailing right now. there's not a single elected official in this country who's done more to liberate the cruise lines from a bureaucracy that is totally out of touch. >> in my opinion this has nothing to do with helping business. it has nothing to do with keeping people safe. it has to do with him playing to a very small but vocal base of his supporters in an effort to win in 2024. >> winkleman said desantis won't likely win this lawsuit saying the cruise industry wants to go back to work. the cdc isn't the issue here. the badly conceived vaccine

passport law is. the politicking and rule changes have left passengers confused b through travel agent who specializes in cruises says most people hoping to get on a cruise soon are already vaccinated oer plan to be before getting onboard. >> i think people are so excited that they didn't get to cruise last summer or this summer, whatever i need do, i'll do it, because i want to get on that ship. >> reporter: businesses are allowed to ask customers they're vaccinated but the customer do not have to answer and that cannot be a condition of entry. those getting on a cruise even if they're fully vaccinated should be tested before and after the trip and should be quarantined afterward even in testing negative. the duke and duchess of

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some happy news. prince harry and his wife meghan are celebrating their new daughter, lig bet diana mountbatten witness. >> reporter: harry and meghan weekending baby lilley or lilibet diana mount mountbatten-windsor paying homage to princess diana. meghan said everyone is settling at home and archie is glad to be having a little sister. at this hospital born in one of

those upscale birthing rooms with the sofa and the recliner and other bed and whatnot, and i was speaking with a former royal watcher in the uk who has now moved to this area, he lives by the markles in montecito. he said one of the things about them, they wanted to preserve their anonymity. they've been able to do so. he described how he thinks some rather upscale guests may drop off baby gifts. >> i fully expect oprah to go over and ellen to go over with baby presents. i'm sure they'll be absolutely bombarded with kchristenin ing gifts. >> reporter: if you say, how did they have the baby without the paparazzi? that's very much the strategy. they wanted to move to california and have the private life. there aren't the number of

paparazzi chasing them around here. i'm paul vercammen. now back to you. >> thanks to paul for that. and whatnot. anna stewart joins me live from london. anna, so this baby will be known as lili we understand. >> it's a special name. it's short for lilibet which is the queen's nickname at home. she's had that nickname since she was a toddler. she couldn't say elizabeth. family is still very important to prince harry and meghan. the name is really a tribute to the queen, this baby very much of the windsor dynasty, and the royal family are thrilled to welcome the arrival of lili. we've had tweets interest prince charles.

wishing them all well at this special time. also from the duke and duchess of cambridge. we are all delighted by the happy news of baby lili. congratulations to harry, meghan, and archie. we're not sure when they'll get to meet baby lili in reality. they haven't seen baby archie since august 2019 when they moved to canada. that's all due to covid restrictions. there are speculations harry could return to the uk in july which would mark what would have been princess diana's 6 0th birthday. there's no date in the diary. and as of yet, no photo of baby lili. >> no, there isn't. but we do know she will not have a title yet. she's not eligible even though meghan suggested otherwise in that interview with oprah, she was wrong, and this baby will be

like archie. just plain old archie and lili until prince charles will be king. >> no title for baby lili yet. it'sed on the grandchildren that get hrh prince and princess titles. the slight exclusion is the queen granted exclusion to prince william's children. when prince charles is king under current convention both archie and lili will be eligible for hrh titles. >> thank you. coming up on cnn, people are frightened after militants carried out one of the deadliest attacks in years. we have details. that is next.

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welcome back. i'm robyn curnow. monday mark as third day of national mourning.

a gunman laid siege on friday and into saturday. the government says terrorists killed more than 130 people. some of them were children. residents are calling out for greater security. they've really seen a surge in attacks by militants linked to al qaeda and isis. let's go straight to johannesburg. david mckenzie joins me with more on what we know about this attack. i know you've reported details are sketchy, but give us some idea of what took place. >> it was a horrifying attack, and the scale is quite breathtaking, and, you know, more than 100 people killed, at least seven children. some of those details have been hard to come by. what we do know is they were gunmen who came in late on friday, perhaps early saturday

morning according to multiple sources, firing indiscriminately in this village. i believe it may, may have something to do with a sur surp attack to try to counteract the presence of al qaeda and militant-linked groups, but it was a large-scale attack with many dead, and today is the last day of national mourning, but the overall insecurity remains. more than a million people have been pushed out in the last two years alone. this violence is only getting worse, not better in recent months, and the citizens are afraid. >> translator: for some time they had stopped, so we thought everything was okay. but now we see it is starting again. people are being killed. this news we just heard about

really 'affects me as a burkina. we're looking for security in the provinces. >> reporter: that border region stretching into chad has become really a no-go zone for many people and they're living in a constant state of insecurity. there's a large french force looking to take on these islamic groups, but many analysts in recent months i have to say military intervention by both the g7 countries, france, u.s., and others, hasn't really led to any kind of long-term stability since 2013. the fear is that these groups will exptend their influence which could mean the entire region being under the threat of

insecurity. there are those who believe it might be time to look at governance issues in these border regions as a primary way of solving these problems. as you know, robin, that doesn't take a short amount of time and requires a huge amount of effort. >> okay. indeed. david mckenzie. live in johannesburg. we are learning now that emergency workers are trying to rescue at least 17 people still trapped following a deadly train crash in pakistan. province officials say at least 30 people are dead after two trains collided between stations. the prime minister tweeted that he had ordered a comprehensive investigation into the crash. our cnn producer is joining us live from pakistan. hi. this is certainly troubling, the death tolls from the two trains colliding.

what can you tell us? >> well, robyn, we know this happened extremely early in the morning, around 3:30 a.m. we know the passengers were fast asleep. these were two sleeper trains, one going into the province and the other coming back, and they both collided. one train derailed and the other drove right into the derailed train, which is why we saw trains fall off the tracks and the casualties are so high. rescues are under way. it's late afternoon in pakistan. it happened early in the morning. there are people being trapped indoors. we see on local media there are people calling while being stuck called their loved ones telling them we're stuck in this specific number carriage, but they're not able to be found.

it is very much a rescue effort that's under way. it's raised a lot of questions about the safety of railways in pakistan. we've seen railway services being suspended between the two most popular provinces, and we just to wait and see how this unfolds in the hours to come and how high the death toll will go. ro robyn? >> it's deeply concerning that people are trying to phone loved ones saying where they are in the wreckage and they're still not being rescued. how many more hours of daylight is there and how hopeful are authorities on the ground they're going to get to all of these people who we know are still alive? >> reporter: well, robyn, this is a very remote part of pakistan. it's in a remote part of the

province of singh. they don't have the ability to fly them to the right facilities. even ones being injured are givetown right care. we know the armies are on the ground. it's about 2:00 in pakistan. it's summer, so the days are long. it's also hot. the numbers go up as high as 43 degrees 4rks 4 degrees, so there's a lot of concern on the ground. there are people scrambling to save them, and we'll have to see how it unfolds. robyn? >> thank you for that. sophia saifi, thank you. we'll check back in in the coming hours. hopefully some people will manage to be rescued, these devastating images coming out of southern pakistan.

thank you. tennis superstar serena williams lost in the championship. and she's not the only one bowing out. coy why has our minutes. coy. >> we start in paris. america's tennis a great serena williams once again denied the chance for a grand title. roger federer also bowing out, but this time due to injury. the 20-time major championship has been playing his first major since double knee surgery. he said, quote, it's important i listen to my body and don't push myself too quickly. there's no greater feeling than being back on court. see everyone soon. there was a historic day in golf. a fill pena yuka saso wins her

first major. that's unthinkable. too nba playoff action and' two of the best words in sports. game seven. clippers beat the mavericks. they made history, hitting 23 pointers in front of their own crowd. that's the most in any game seven in nba history. robyn, back to you. >> coy, thank you. so staying with sports news. u.s. gymnastics champion simone biles capture d captured the re. nearly five points ahead of the runner-up. biles became the first woman to land a yurchenko double pipe in competition just a few weeks ago. what an amazing athlete.

thanks for joining me. i'm robyn curnow. i'm going to hand you over to "early start."

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