welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. >> and i'm bianca nobilo live from cornwall, england, coming up now on "cnn newsroom" into i'm headed to the g7, then to the nato ministerial and then to meet with mr. putin to let him know what i want him to know. >> u.s. president joe biden arriving at the g7 summit with a warning for vladimir putin. russia will face consequences for harmful activity.

plus scorching conditions flare wildfires in western u.s. states. now thousands are under evacuation orders. and chinese apps like tiktok and wechat face fresh scrutiny by the biden administration. we're live in beijing for reaction. ♪ joe biden has kicked off the first foreign tour of his pres presidency, determined to shore up damaged alliances and send a strong message to russia and china. the american president is now here in cornwall, england, where the g7 summit will get under way on friday but first he has a big meeting with the host, british prime minister boris johnson. joining us now we have nic robertson who is live.

nic, are you with us? >> reporter: i am indeed. >> i think we've lost nic. we've got nic. all eyes at the moment are going to be on this relationship between the prime minister boris johnson and president joe biden. based on what we know of both men and their political styles what can we expect from their meetings and what areas might they converged on and where might we see some challenges when it comes to deciding on policy? >> reporter: yeah, going on sort of past statements by president biden he perhaps doesn't consider prime minister boris johnson a natural ally because he described him as essentially a mini donald trump previously, but they will be allies and strengthening the alliance between the two countries with an atlantic charter that will look at strengthening trade ties, look at strengthening the mutual stand to stand up for democracy and talk about the sort of importance of shared

security relationships. so all of that coming in what's expected to be announced an atlantic charter, harkening back to the atlantic charter that was signed between franklin d. roosevelt and winston churchill. so that will be important and that will sort of help cover up any differences between them, but there will be tensions undoubtedly over specifically brexit, the northern irish protocols are causing boris johnson difficulty with the european union. he would like to have president biden's support on that, but biden shades his favor towards -- towards the european union and ireland and has said that the good friday agreement of northern ireland is a solid foundation and it is essentially the bedrock of peace in northern ireland and that's something that he doesn't want to see compromised and is concerned that it might be given boris

johnson's wrangling with the european union. so tensions in there, but i think the headlines from the event will obviously be very positive ones about strengthening relationship between the two countries. >> and, nic, something which often strengthens relationships, multilateral relationships, is having a common threat and deciding to take action on that to protect themselves. when we consider both perceived threats of china and russia, where does the u.s.a. stand on those threats and what do you think they want from their g7 allies to take action on both those countries? >> reporter: yeah, president biden has been really clear on this. he believes that we are at a historic inflection point where by democracies must stand up for the value of democracy, stand up to the autocrats and the populous around the world who would try to sell a different brand of leadership. and so he looks to the allies

here, which are natural allies in terms of support of democracy. to be able to send that clear message to both china on their human rights abuses and trade practices as well, but also very specifically to president putin who he will be having a summit with at the end of his meetings here in the uk and in brussels, and on that point he's very clear that transgressions by president putin will come at a price. >> we're not seeking conflict with russia, we want a stable, predictable relationship. our two nations share incredible responsibilities and among them, ensuring strategic stability and upholding arms control agreements. i take that responsibility seriously. >> reporter: so that stable, predictable relationship is something that united states allies look for as well and didn't get under president

trump. so in part this is also sort of reframing and stabilizing the u.s. relationship not just with the uk, but all the partners here at the g7 and the others, south korea, australia and -- australia and india who have been invited as well to the g7. >> nic robertson for us in carbis bay. thanks so much. i believe we have matthew chance standing by in moscow. i'd love to get your thoughts on some of the points that nic touched on there, this fighting talk from president joe biden almost as soon as he touched down in the united kingdom sending a strong message to vladimir putin. how has that gone down in russia? >> reporter: well, i mean, look, i mean, that kind of rhetoric coming from the u.s. president is not going to do anything in terms of changing the behavior of vladimir putin. in fact, within the past, you know, few hours, you know, last

night here local time the courts here made illegal alexei navalny's political outfit, meaning anybody who belongs to it, organizes protests on behalf of the opposition leader could face six years in prison. while joe biden in britain is saying we're going to stand up to autocracy you have vladimir putin here doubling down on the autocracy that he oversees. that along with all the other issues like election meddling, like hacking, like the military threat to ukraine and the host of other issues that stand between the united states and russia, it sets us up for what promises to be a very fraught political face-to-face meeting in geneva between the two leaders in six days from now, bianca. >> it does seem, matthew, that -- well, some experts believe that russia is sending a message to leaders ahead of that meeting in geneva and particularly -- and in particular the court in moscow

declared two organizations led by alexei navalny the opposition leader extremist groups. that means that those groups will have to shut down, that their members can't run in legislative elections. it's not unusual to see that type of behavior from russia, but given what alexei navalny had said in response, what can we expect to see? it sounds like there's going to be a coalition course. >> reporter: exactly. i mean, again, look, i mean, that decision by the moscow courts which is of course the conduit for decisions from the top, from the kremlin, just above the kremlin, say they deny that. has basically designated alexei navalny's group an extremist group and that's primarily, i think, for domestic reasons because we have parliamentary elections come up in russia in three months from september, the ruling party which is overseen by vladimir putin has had hits in the polls because of the economic situation, because of

the ongoing covid pandemic here and they're very paranoid that they are going to see their support and their representation in parliament eroded and lose seats, lose political ground to opposition candidates who are backed by alexei navalny. so they've moved decisively to prevent that from happening. but there is this other message as well as i mentioned which is this crackdown on dissent in russia, specifically the party of alexei navalny who is, of course, languishing in a prison for the next two and a half years at the moment does send a powerful rebuke as well to skroebd who is saying, look, we're going to crack down on autocracy, we're going to stand up to autocracy. it's putin showing that as he goes into this meeting with joe biden, the first face-to-face that they have had, by the way, since joe biden became the president of the united states, it shows that putin is not going to be backed down -- not going to be backing down and it sets on this issue or on probably any

other issue as well, it sets us up for what could be an incredibly tense standoff between these two figures. i'm certainly looking forward to witnessing the press conference that the two leaders may well hold at the end of that summit. >> you and me both, matthew. thank you. matthew chance for us in moscow. we did have a couple of technical difficulties i think that's because the weather is starting to turn, it's overcast with a downpour of rain. kim, president biden will be glad he's getting a dose of british weather. >> thanks so much, bianca. meat supplier jbs u.s.a. is revealing it paid an $11 million ransom after a cyber attack shut down its entire beef processing operation. the company's ceo says it was a difficult decision but paid the ransom to protect customers. officials are attributing the attack to a criminal gang believed to be based in eastern europe. the long awaited testimony

of former white house counsel don mcgahn has been released. in it mcgahn told the house judiciary committee that the then president trump repeatedly urged him to oust robert mueller the special counsel in the russia investigation. mcgahn described the former president as obsessed with the probe and says he considered trump's request a point of no return. cnn's ryan nobles has details. >> reporter: it took don mcgahn more than two years to appear in front of the house judiciary committee, but that happened last friday and his testimony, the trianscription of it was finally released on wednesday. mcgahn confirming that former president donald trump did have conversations and did make a push to try to remove robert mueller as special counsel, but mcgahn revealed that he pushed back on that. would not allow trump to take that step, and he even went as far as to say when trump asked him to deny that he had tried to remove mueller as special

counsel that he refused to do so because he was afraid that it would expose him criminally and so also potentially expose president trump criminally as well. mcgahn also talked about trump's disposition in this period of time. he described him as being out of control at points and even said that some of the things that trump was asking him to do were down right crazy. now, this testimony is important, but it likely won't amount to anything. the mueller report has already been issued, the former president has already beat back an impeachment proceedings but it was still important for house democrats to make this happen, to compel him to testify. they believe that that was important, the house speaker nancy pelosi putting out a statement late wednesday saying that his testimony alone, regardless of what it revealed, with as a victory for democracy. ryan nobles, cnn, on capitol hill. the u.s. attorney general is defending the department of justice following a series of controversial arguments that endorsed legal positions held by

the trump administration, including a defamation lawsuit related to a rape allegation against the former president. the department says since the comments in question were made while trump was president it, and not trump, should be the defendant in the case. merrick garland was asked to explain those moves while on capitol hill wednesday and here is what he said. listen to this. >> the essence of the rule of law is what i said when i accepted the nomination for attorney general. it is that like cases be treated alike, that there not be one rule for democrats and another for republicans. that there not be one rule for friends and another for foes. now, it is not always easy to apply that rule. sometimes it means that we have to make a decision about the law that we would never have made and that we strongly disagree with as a matter of policy. >> a bipartisan group of u.s.

senators is trying to keep president joe biden's infrastructure hopes alive after some key talks with republicans collapsed. the small group has been discussing what to include and how to pay for t biden had proposed a $1.7 trillion plan but republicans are double down saying raises taxes isn't an option they're willing to consider. well, it's fire season once again here in the u.s. last year was the worst on record for california as you may remember but this year might be even worse. we will take a closer look. stay with us. for the power of a deep clean in minutes try mr. clean clean freak unlike bleach sprays, clean freak begins deep cleaning on contact with 3x the cleaning power to break down tough messes in seconds so, it's perfect for stovetops, tough bathroom soap scum, and even stainless steel.

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the u.s. is taking a big step towards helpingt vaccinate. it's bought 500 million doses of pfizer's covid-19 vaccine to donate worldwide. a source tells cnn president biden will announce the news at the g7 summit today. now, it comes as the vaccination drive at home continues. the cdc says there are now eight states that fully vaccinated more than half of their residents. u.s. surgeon general is warning that the rise of variants means a greater risk to those not vaccinated. >> we are blessed, absolutely

blessed, to have multiple options here in terms of vaccines. there are places in the world where these vaccines are not available and my hope is that people will take advantage of this opportunity that they have to protect themselves, protect their communities and get vaccinated as quickly as possible. there will be another pathogen that comes our way like covid-19, the request he is will we be ready. >> meanwhile, about two dozen states have decided to scale back their daily tracking of covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths. that's according to johns hopkins university. some health officials are calling the move premature. the company behind the controversial keystone xl pipeline is officially walking away. it was supposed to carry oil from the tar sands of canada into the u.s., but president biden revoked a key permit for it on his first day in office. tc energy then had to suspend all construction. environmental groups and indigenous leaders have been fighting the project for years. they are now hoping for more

wins, especially with the line three and dakota access pipelines. parts of the western u.s. are dealing with wildfires and the massive drought there isn't helping, but on the other side of the country it's the complete opposite problem, you're seeing firefighters in virginia rescuing people trapped in their cars because of flash floods. meteorologist tyler mullin joins me live. the potential for this fire season to be even worse than last year considering how dry it is out there, but let's start with the opposite problem, the flooding. >> out across the southeastern u.s. we seem to be have a little trouble turning off the spigot. this area of low pressure is slowly moving to the north on this thursday and it is giving way to more in the way of rainfall across the southeast. here in arkansas and portions of northern mississippi some of us have seen nearly 20 inches of rainfall over the last three days and we're going to add those totals as the system does push up to the northeast.

from the mid south all the way up into the mid-atlantic we do have about 13 million americans under a flash flood watch. you can see here in washington and also the outer banks of north carolina we can see some substantial rainfall amounts over the next few days there as well. pushing out to the west we have this weather maker pushing east and that is going to increase the fire risk out across the west coast. we currently have about 25 large active wildfires at the moment, the west is terribly dry. we have 96% of the west coast in a drought right now. as that system pushing over it's actually going to cause the humidity levels to drop and the wind gusts to pick up and that's a recipe for a very, very extreme risk for fires, especially out here in utah and portions of colorado. that's where we have the highest threat level here. we also have red flag warnings and fire weather watches up for

this part of the country as well. kim, i want to end with this, because not only is that system going to elevate the fire risk there across the west coast, it's also going to lead to fairly substantial severe weather outbreak later on tonight across the northern central plains and that will last on into the wee hours of friday. >> something more to watch for. thanks so much meteorologist tyler mullin. appreciate it. billions of plastic pellets have been released into the sea following the devastating fire on a ship in sri lanka. an environmental group tells cnn that the plastic pellets have been the biggest pollutant so far contaminating almost 100 miles of a scenic beach but the arduous cleanup is under way. you can see the huge number of bags piled up on the beach. thankfully there are still no signs of an oil spill from the submerged ship. still to come on "cnn newsroom," president biden says tiktok can stay for now, but

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back to our lead in the arrival of u.s. president joe biden in cornwall, england, for the g7 summit. it's his first trip abroad since

taking office, it also represents a major attempt at fence mending with america's most reliable european allies after four years of president trump's belligerent isolationism. later today president biden and prime minister boris johnson will embrace a renewed atlantic charter, a strategic document between the u.s. and uk dating back to 1941. the prime minister as summit host said covid-19 and climate change would be major areas of discussion among many others. >> here at the g7 what we're looking at is making sure that we have a new treaty on pandemics, working to that, building back greener, building back better, which is why we're looking at what's going on here in cornwall with all the green technology, but also talking about the values we have in common, everything we want to do together. it is a huge agenda. >> it's worth noting that the g7 actually has eight members if

you factor in the eu. from 1998 to 2014 the group was called the g8, but then russia who was then a member was suspended for annexing crimea. kaitlan collins shows us what president biden hopes to accomplish at this year's summit. >> the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing -- >> reporter: on his first trip abroad president biden is hoping to restore america's standing while reassuring the allies that his predecessor spent four years torch. >> i'm heading to the g7, then to the nato ministerial and then to meet with mr. putin to let him know what i want him to know. >> reporter: his week-long trip begins with a stop on the cornish coast of england for the g7 summit before a trip to windsor castle to meet with the queens. next the president will sit down with weary nato allies, he finishes his trip with a face-to-face sit-down with

russian president vladimir putin in geneva. as a former senator and vice president biden is bringing decades of foreign policy experience with him. >> he's been getting ready for 50 years. >> reporter: but he will also have to grapple with new challenges. as infections surge in countries where vaccines are in short supply there are major questions about u.s. plans for vaccine sharing. >> we have to end covid-19 not just at home which we're doing, but everywhere. >> reporter: sources say president biden plans to announce the u.s. has purchased and will donate 500 million doses of pfizer's vaccine worldwide by 2022. >> there is no wall high enough to keep us safe from this pandemic. >> reporter: on the diplomate front biden is saving the most high stakes meeting for last. >> i will travel to geneva to sit down with the man i've spent time with before, president vladimir putin. >> reporter: it will be the first meeting between a u.s. president and the russian leader since donald trump publicly embraced putin in helsinki. >> i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: among the tense

topics will be the rise in russia-based ransomware attacks on critical u.s. infrastructure. >> i've been clear, the united states will respond in a robust and meaningful way on the russian government engages in harmful activity. >> reporter: the white house still unsure if putin will take questions alongside biden like he did with trump. >> i'm going to communicate that there are consequences for violating the sovereignty of democracies in the united states and europe and elsewhere. >> reporter: while visiting u.s. troops after arriving in the uk, biden driving home this message on democracy. >> we have to discredit those who believe that the age of democracy is over as some of our fellow nations believe. we have to expose as false the narrative that the decrees of dictators can match the speed and scale of the 21st challenges. >> reporter: and president biden is scheduled to have several one-on-one meetings with world leaders while he is abroad on

this first foreign trip. of course, the first one is going to be with the host of the g7 summit, british prime minister boris johnson. kaitlan collins, cnn, traveling with the president in cornwall. with us to talk about this is cat reena thompson of the university of ex a ter where she is a senior lecturer in security and strategic >> let's begin by talking about president biden and prime minister boris johnson. what do you make of their political styles? do you see areas where they might be aligned and areas where there are likely to be more of a clash? >> in terms of letteredship styles they are quite different. joe biden is known for reaching across the aisle and wanting consensus, whereas boris johnson, let's not forget that very recently there was the so-called purge, the remainor purge in 2019 where members of the torrey party including churchill's grandson were expelled from the conservative

party for voting against a no deal brexit. so he's had a very hard party line in that regard. so, yes, it's interesting to see how those different styles will come into place today, especially very important for the uk in context of global britain to have those closer ties with the u.s., the so-called special relationship. >> apparently which annoys the prime minister so he's trying to call it other things, but global britain is an important point to make. here we are, britain has left the european union. what image does boris johnson want to project to the world and specifically to president biden about what the uk stands for now, where its new partnerships will be, which direction it will be looking in globally for the future of its new strategic and economic partnerships? >> i think one mistake people make when talking about brexit is this idea that people voted because they don't want the uk to be on the world stage.

what i find in my research a people who voted to leave want the uk to continue to have a very active international role, the difference is they want the uk to do that more unilaterally instead of multilaterally. so we can debate for a really long time whether the referendum was the right way to go about this pivotal decision in the uk's history, right, this is a momentous thing that's happening, right, whatever you voted it's a big change, but on one level it was a very simple question, do you want the uk to continue to work in this multilateral institution that is the eu or do you want the uk to work unilaterally. so that's an important difference and i think johnson is quite keen on this idea of global britain and here we are on the global stage. he's also been changing how uk -- the uk works domestically. this integrated review we just had. so he's really keen on bringing different areas of foreign policy that had previously been in separate departments together. we have the foreign aid

department has been subsumed or joined i should say with the foreign commonwealth office and trade is becoming more integrated in that also. so i think this is also part of this idea of global britain. it has these important reforms that are taking place. >> and in direct contrast to president donald trump, joe biden has intervened in the brexit discussion between the uk and europe and he clearly sees it as a real difficulty when it comes to preserving peace on the ireland and the fact that he feels the need to get involved because that's an important issue for him for numerous reasons. how difficult do you think that's going to make things for boris johnson. >> it's a strange thing that's happened because historically part of the special relationship was uk was the bridge between europe and the eu and the u.s. and now we find ourselves in this bizarre situation where the u.s. is trying to bridge the uk and europe. so, yes, i hope -- it's been a

very difficult situation. brexit was done, right, all the fine print which is absolutely essential to maintaining the union hasn't really been worked out. i hope they can find a way to solve this. >> it is a very interesting role reversal that you mentioned. thank you so much for joining us today. >> thank you. >> great to hear from you. kim, back to you in atlanta. all right. thanks so much, bianca. u.s. president joe biden has revoked a series of trump era executive orders aimed at banning tik tok, wechat and chinese-owned apps. he has replaced them with his order which calls for a broad review of security risks posed by apps linked to foreign adversaries including china. steven jiang joins me from beijing. some republicans said that this was a step backward, democrats saying biden is taking a step forward and beijing we're hearing now saying it's a step in the right direction. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: well, that's just

one part of their response, kim, actually. a commerce ministry official as you said said the removal of the ban against tik tok and wechat is a step in the right direction but he also noted this latest executive order from mr. biden's white house and urging the u.s. government not to put in economic issues. a foreign ministry official went further and saying the u.s. government should not generalize the concept of national security or abusing its state power to unfairly crack down on chinese companies. these responses not surprising but this latest move from the white house obviously reinforcing this notion of a continuity of washington's china policy from trump to biden since both presidents do agree on the threats or potential threats from beijing and want to address them head on. their approach obviously different with mr. biden deciding not to target individual chinese companies because frankly mr. trump's earlier orders had not been able to take effect due to a series

of lawsuits. mr. biden now trying to adopt this broader approach but some would say taking a step further as well with u.s. officials now trying to frame his latest order as a strong commitment to not only an open and secured internet but also the protection of um rights both online and offline since they say mr. biden finds it unacceptable that countries like china that do not share the u.s. democratic values are able to leverage technology or american sensitive data to harm u.s. national security or even advance their own authoritarian agenda around the world. that notion, that interpretation obviously not being received well with chinese officials say this is really a reflection of the so-called outdated cold war mentality and attitude from the u.s. towards china. >> thanks so much. steven jiang in beijing. a new report says park police in washington didn't clear protesters from lafayette park so former president donald trump could take pictures in

front of a church last year, but as cnn's brian todd finds out, some experts are skeptical of that report. >> reporter: it was one of the most disturbing scenes in a summer full of them. june 1st, 2020. using tear gas, rubber bullets and batons law enforcement officers pushed back protesters and journalists, clearing them from lafayette park just in front of the white house. now a jarring new report on that incident, the interior department's inspector general says the park police did not clear lafayette park for then president trump's trip to st. john's church, but did it to allow a contractor to install a security fence around the white house. >> we did not clear the park for a photo op. there is 100% zocor lags between our operation and the president's visit to the church. >> reporter: but the report says investigators did not talk to then attorney general william barr who has been accused of being behind the effort to clear

the park for the president's walk to the church. >> i mean, it is surprising to me because the timing of it all. obviously there was a need to have security around the white house that would include fencing, but the fact that it occurred at just the moment before the president decided to walk across the street to st. john's and hold up a bible for a photo op seems a bit on the suspicious side. >> reporter: during the protests that day president trump made a defiant declaration. >> i am your president of law and order. >> reporter: then he made his way across lafayette park. >> is that your bible? >> state bible. >> reporter: trump held up that bible at st. john's church. the u.s. park police was executive order, accused of using force so the president could stage a photo op. >> when i realized that people have been hurt and terrified for a political stunt, i -- like

offended hardly begins to describe how i feel. >> reporter: but the new ig report says the park police and secret service decided to establish a more secure perimeter around the white house in response to the destruction of property during racial justice protests in the days just ahead of june 1st. the report says those agencies started implementing the plan for a fence on the morning of june 1st and that it wasn't until mid to late afternoon that day that they learned of trump's potential movement to the park, which they were not given a specific time for. while the new report says park police followed appropriate policies on june 1st of last year it doesn't completely absolve law enforcement. it says officers from the bureau of prisons arrived late, missed a key briefing and inappropriately fired pepper ball munitions at the crowd. also say protesters clearly could not hear three dispersal warnings issued by the park police before they cleared that area. brian todd, cnn, washington.

the risks are deadly, but u.s. officials expect a surge of migrants will try to cross the border from mexico in the coming months. we will explain how they're trying to stop them ahead. stay with us.

the u.s. is responding to the political crackdown in nicaragua with sanctions. senior members of daniel ortega's regime including his daughter are the targets. police arrested seven high profile opposition leaders accusing them of acting against the sovereignty of the country, leaving ortega almost unopposed in his election. antony blinken calling the arrest has wave of oppression. the u.s. is on pace to surpass last year's number of migrants at the border. u.s. border officials say they encountered more than 180,000 migrants at the u.s. mexico

boarder in may and are bracing for an increase in traffic during the unforgiving summer months. migrant deaths at the border have soared with covid-19 playing a role in some of the cases. rosa flores has our report and we have to warn you some of the images may be disturbing. >> reporter: this was the end of the american dream for this man. >> he has a mexican voter's card. >> reporter: who authorities believe crossed the border on a raft, walked for five days and ran out of water, his arms scratched by the brush. and for this woman. >> she's only 24 years old. >> reporter: authorities say she drowned in the rio grande and had been in the water for three to five days. her body is so grus some we can only show you her clothes. they are two of more than 1,500 migrants who died on the texas border since dr. stern started tracking the deaths after joining the web county medical examiner's office in 2007. >> the majority are heatstroke,

hyper therm i can't or heatstroke and dehydration. >> reporter: she tracks migrant deaths across these 12 south texas counties and says this year has been deadlier than recent years. >> typically our busiest months in july and august and we are not even there yet. >> reporter: last year by this time 45 migrants had died on the border. this year that number has already tripled to at least 128 and 30% says dr. stern tested positive for covid and in some cases considered a contributing factor in the deaths. >> saying this as a physician there is a safer way to do it than coming across the border. >> reporter: despite the deadly dangers the flow of migrants is on track to surpass the 2019 crisis, the last time a migrant surge occurred mostly due to poverty and violence in latin america. in may alone border authorities encountered around 180,000 migrants on the southwest border, the current surge in part driven by the misconception among migrants that the biden administration was allowing

migrant families with young children into the country. border patrol uses horse units to rescue migrants from some of the most remote locations. >> how dangerous this terrain? >> it's very dangerous. >> reporter: according to the border patrol deputy chief more than nearly 8,000 of the migrant rescues conducted nationally have happened here to gear up for the most dangerous and deadly months of the year -- >> you can see here the actual mobile beacon right there. >> reporter: this sector is deploying 13 beacons like these to help migrants call for help. >> this takes it to a whole another level, efficient, solar powered, never going to run out of power. >> it's visible from different locations. >> we have a flag. >> reporter: those beacons coming too late for some migrants. >> why do you think they would put carpet on the bottom of their shoes. >> to erase their footprints.

>> reporter: the items of the man and women are documented, all are clues about who they are and the dreams that were cut short. >> even if you say to yourself it's worth my life, i'm willing to risk my life, think about your family. >> reporter: dr. stern believes she has enough evidence from the man and the woman that you watched in this story to identify them, but that's not always the case. she says that she has about 160 bodies in her custody, some of them have been identified, others have not. rosa flores, cnn, laredo, texas. all right. after the break we will head back to cornwall, england, where we're soon expecting the leaders of the u.s. and the uk to meet for the first time ahead of the g7 summit. stay with us. you love rich, delicious ice cream. but your stomach doesn't. well, that disagreement ends right now. lactaid ice cream is the creamy, real ice cream you love that doesn't have lactose.

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u.s. president joe biden will meet with british prime minister boris johnson in the next hour. their first in-person meeting coming one day ahead of the g7 summit. they plan to unveil a new atlantic charter dealing with issues from security to climate change, but what are other european leaders hoping to

accomplish this week? a new survey shows they have a lot of work to do to regain public trust for their handling of the pandemic and it shows which countries europeans see as a threat. >> the members for russia and china show that there is kind of an awareness in europe that those pose a severe threat. what is, i think, most striking is how many europeans want to see the eu as beacon of democracy and as advocate for human rights also globally and i think that sits very nicely with president biden's agenda to allowing the democracies of this world in kind of the fight between democracies and authoritarian regimes. >> well, once the g7 summit wraps up president biden and the first lady will travel to windsor castle on sunday to meet with britain's queen elizabeth. he will then head to brussels for the nato summit.

the queen at 95 years old has met with 12 u.s. presidents during her rain. mr. biden will be the 13th. the only president she never met during her time was lyndon johnson. now, a new sculpture aimed to ensure g7 leaders use their heads when tackling a greener future at the summit. the mount rushmore style artwork has appeared on a beach near the meeting site in cornwall. you are looking at the heads of each g7 leader made of discarded electronics. the organizers of the installation was to highlight the growing threat of e waste. that does it for me here on "cnn newsroom." i will be back tomorrow for more of a coverage of president biden's trip. >> great stuff. looking forward to it. thanks so much, bianca. the french open semi-finals promise to be a blockbuster as one of the matchups pits rafael nadal against know jack djokovic. don riddell has our minute in

sports. >> raf nana dal got a new statue at the french open now he is on the brink of a 14th roland-garros title but will have to meet his nemesis there. in the quarter final nadal dropped his first set in two years but still pre veeld. while in the other match novak djokovic mocked to out bettitini and he was pretty promise wd himself, too. the women's draw is wide open. swantek is out beater by sakkari. she will play krcjcikova next. the phoenix suns continue to shine in the nba playoffs after making their first post season appearance after some 1 years. they are 2-0 up and for the second consecutive season the islanders are into the finals of

the stanley cup they beat the bruins 4-2, it's the lightning next in tampa bay. back to you. scientists are hoping some small mysterious flashes of light can help them understand the big picture about our universe. the fast radio bursts come from deep space, but it's not clear what's causing them. but the canadian chime telescope has reported hundreds of them since 2018, far more than before. experts say that could help them understand both where the bursts are coming from and our universe in general. and finally those in green land, northern russia and canada will be lucky enough to glimpse a solar eclipse today. the moon will block out the sun creating a ring of fire effect. the eclipse starts at around 5:50 a.m. eastern time which is a little less than an hour from now. all right. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber. "early start" is next.

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all right. good morning, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports from england, uganda, washington, moscow and tokyo. this is "early start." i'm christine romans. >> and i'm laura jarrett. it's thursday, june 10th. it's 5:00 a.m. here in new york. well, we are about to find out whether joe biden's half century of diplomatic experience is enough to move the needle with allies and adversaries abroad. today is the first day of meetings in the uk ahead of major summits with g7 leaders and russia