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how washington is working on a plan b to the agreement between russia and ukraine, we will take you live visit to ukraine, london, and nairobi. the fbi raises a red flag over chinese telecommunications equipment on u.s. shores. cnn has an exclusive report. >> we begin with the scorching temperatures across the northern hemisphere as heat waves blanket china, europe and the u.s. in california, a wildfire raging has burned through more than 15,000 acres, hundreds of firefighters are working to battle the blaze, and thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes to escape the fast-moving fire.

in europe the blistering heat is helping fuel wildfires in some areas. this was the scene increase as crews battled the fire there. one of several wildfires raging across the country right now, we are seeing scorching heat across much of china. we are standing by in beijing with those details, let's go to nina dos santos outside of london. at these wildfires continue to be a problem in london where we are no longer seeing the record temperatures of last week. >> reporter: that's right, it's a number of degrees cooler than it was when you hit a record of 40.2 degrees celsius, 104.5 fahrenheit at roughly this time last week, as you can see behind me, the grass remains parched, and it hasn't rained since, this is where the threat is coming. this is why you are continuing to see wildfires. incredibly rare in the united kingdom and incredibly rare near the center of urban

activity. where i am is just down the road from heathrow airport, a dozen kilometers outside the city center, and just behind me, 12 acres where much of somebody yesterday took firefighters several hours to put these claims out they eventually managed to dampen things but we saw three or four fire trucks had towards the site of the smoldering grassland to make sure that it doesn't reignite. this was replicated on various parts of the capital, just outside of london, we saw another 20 acres of grass and farmland blazing yesterday afternoon, and to the southeast, another fire as well that broke out, this has prompted authorities to warn londoners that even if the temperatures have abated, please do not use barbecues and certainly do not throw any naked flames or cigarette butts onto the floor of grassland like this if they are not fully

extinguished. this pales in comparison with what is happening in other parts of europe, you saw wildfires in greece where a building in places like the island which is a huge tourism destination at this time of year, ablaze, we also saw the western part of greece having to deal with huge wildfires, and fires raging in the outskirts of athens. in the canary islands, we also saw wildfires breaking out there, thankfully when it comes to the large amount of land that has been scorched in southwestern france, those fires, after weeks of firefighters tackling them around the clock have now been put out. that was still left 40,000 people at one point displaced. it is the specter of something that people in europe will have to get more and more used to in temperate climates like this in the uk. christina? >> all of this coming during peak holiday season in europe, thank you for now.

stephen, in beijing, we know that in china you are getting hit on two fronts right now, not just the heat but the surgeon covid cases. >> that's right, double whammy indeed, this heat wave in china has been unrelenting and widespread, hitting many parts of the country from the southeast including shanghai and its surrounding areas, all the way to the northeastern region, as of monday, 67 chinese cities have issued their highest level red alert, meaning temperatures could surpass 40 degrees celsius, that's 104 degrees fahrenheit in the coming 24 hours. many people across the country trying to escape the heat in their home towns, i returned from the southern island, nicknamed china's hawaii. the results are filled with domestic travelers and with crowds flocking to beaches and

pools, really undeterred by the challenges of traveling in china these days including the potential risk of getting stranded because of the government strictly zero covid policy. as you mentioned we are seeing a resurgence of covid cases across the country, with the health ministry on monday reporting more than 600 locally transmitted cases. that's alarmingly high by chinese standards, which is why we are seeing lockdowns and mass testing making a comeback in many parts of the country, including in shanghai where they just went through a brutal lockdown starting in april. that city reopened june 1st, we are dealing with a stubborn new outbreak for the past few weeks, with authorities ordering several rounds of mass testing for much of the cities 25 million residents. the next round is taking place tuesday through thursday when the temperature is forecast to hit as high as 30 degrees celsius. >> we have a feel for people trying to stand out for the testing and that heat. both thank you both very much.

who joins us now, as we've been hearing from stephen and nina, there seems to be no end in sight for this heat wave that is affecting much of the northern hemisphere right now. what can you tell us, any relief on the way? >> we are going to get relief eventually but it looks like a long duration set up across the u.s., talking about some of the most densely populated cities in the u.s., into philly, feeling the wrath of what's going on with heat indices as hot as 105, in a few spots, boston included could feel his heart is 100 degrees across the region. we've touched on how hot it's been in the region for so many days, and it continues, 109, 112, point eastward into tulsa but it's the pacific northwest that is as impressive as it gets, this has been the area where they've been avoiding much of the excessive heat, we

talked about 250 million, 270 million americans dealing with temperatures above the 90 degree threshold. this was the last few million areas where we hadn't seen temperatures but, it's here now across the pacific northwest, seattle, portland toward eugene across the south as well where it could feel as hot as 100 to 109 degrees. climbing up, pretty impressive run of 90 degree days considering you get a couple of these per year, and now they are getting four of them in consecutive fashion. 79 is what you expect this time of year, and it speaks of the ridge of high pressure, we know how infamous this region is for cloud cover and scattered clouds of the leased. even this time of year but six of the next seven days hard- pressed to find much besides sunshine. working your way towards hong kong, the all-time hottest ever observed on record, 37.4 which is over 99 degrees fahrenheit, sunday afternoon, it had never reached 37 celsius in hong kong in recorded history, and what's

most impressive is the previous day on saturday was the hottest day ever and the previous day before that was the hottest day ever, so three straight days for hong kong bested its hottest temperature on record. not much relief, hot temperatures remain put, a few pockets of showers and thunderstorms over the next couple of days could bring relief, when you are talking 38 in shanghai, into the 40s to the north of this region, it's a pretty impressive amount of temperatures to see these records. shanghai has had three red alerts so far this year, you'll notice 17 red alerts is what has been observed on record since the 1800s, three of them having happened just in the past couple of days is pretty impressive. for this extensive heat ways in northern areas. >> all i can think about is the fact that it was hotter in london last week that it is in hong kong, something is not going right.

thank you very much for that. pope francis arrived on sunday for the first stop in his visit to canada. the trip comes as the roman catholic church tries to atone for decades of abuse against indigenous people at so-called residential schools. the vatican correspondent is traveling with the pontiff. >> pope francis arrived in canada to deliberately subdued welcome ceremony, because as he told us on the papal plane coming over from rome, he is coming to canada in a spirit of penance. penance for the wrongs done to indigenous people here. he was met at the airport by representatives of indigenous groups as well as by prime minister justin trudeau. pope francis did not take the stairs to come down for the papal plane, we know he has been dealing with a knee issue for some time, he took a chairlift from the side back of the plane, and was put into a

wheelchair. on the plane francis was standing, walking up and down the aisles with the aid of a cane, in order to say hello to journalists. given that his knee issue caused him to cancel only three weeks ago a trip to africa, we will have to see how the pope holds up during his six-day visit to canada. after a 10 1/2 hour flight from rome sunday is a rest day for the pope, his first full day of meetings and events begins monday morning. cnn, edmonton. still to come, how ukraine hopes to export its wheat if russia fails to honor the new grain deal. details on plan b, next. whoa..... ...which leaves you feeling... ahhhhhhh listerine. feel the whoa!

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of grain and deepening a global food crisis. on friday russia, ukraine, turkey and the un signed a deal to restart the exports. russia admitted sunday its forces had hit a ukrainian warship in odessa with high precision missiles. kyiv is warning the provocations like this will put the deal at risk. meantime russian foreign minister is trying to shore up support in africa after a meeting with top officials in egypt he will stop in ethiopia, uganda, and the republic of congo, all countries that rely heavily on wheat imports from russia and ukraine. cnn is covering this story from all angles, sebastian is here in london, and larry is live from nairobi, kenya, i would like to start with you in ukraine, we are hearing that despite these attacks, moscow are saying the grain is still going to be exported. what more do you know this hour? >> at this point, despite the

attack on the odessa port, it sounds like the ukrainian government and russian government say they are going to hold onto this agreement, which was reached friday evening in istanbul. as we learn more details from the russian foreign minister, where he says that ukrainians would sweep the mines surrounding the port, ukrainian blockaded ports on the black sea, and ships from russia turkey and another country that has yet to be determined would escort cargo ships carrying ukrainian wheat to the bosporus in istanbul, where they would then move on to world market, but, that missile attack had the entire ukrainian government crying foul, saying, you can't trust the russian government. the criticisms were echoed by the u.s. government, that you policy chief, by the british government as well.

we do know that before the deal was reached on friday, the ukrainians were already working with european partners to find alternative routes to export their wheat. for example, on river barges on the danube with help from romania, into central europe, on trains as well and on trucks, what i've learned from shipping experts is, nothing quite competes with the large cargo ships that used to operate freely before russia invaded ukraine, that used to operate freely, and that can carry much larger quantities of grain at far less cost. to those markets. it's because that's been stopped that the world grain prices have gone up dramatically. plunging potentially tens of millions of additional people into acute hunger. christina? >> legitimate concerns from ukraine after what we saw over the weekend. i want to turn to claire in london, choosing this moment to

conduct a full country tour in africa, beginning in egypt, who are the world's largest importer of grain. what are his intentions here? >> this trip accomplishes a number of goals for russia, this is another attempt we just saw in the middle east, to show that russia is not isolated on the global stage. provides opportunities to counter western accusations that the food crisis is russia's fault. he is saying this isn't our fault, this is because of western sanctions. it's also an attempt to rally supporters around russia's vision for the world, its alternate vision and bring them into the fold as an alternative to the u.s. this is what he wrote in an article published ahead of his trip, we know that our african colleagues did not approve of the undisguised attempts by the u.s. and satellites to dictate their will to everyone to impose on the global community a model of

the world order. he said we value the balance position of africans as regards the situation in ukraine and around it. he goes on to praise the fact that african countries abstained or voted against un resolutions condemning russia's actions in ukraine, he sees an opportunity, russia has been building its influence in africa over a number of years, and russia is an exporter of wheat. there are financial relationships to protect. >> a major pr exercise going on in africa. thank you very much, and thank you to ivan watson. let's go to larry in nairobi, you talked to the head of the u.s. agency for international development about a plan b for ukrainian grain exports. what did you learn? >> as they are still trying to talk to the russians to agree to their end of the deal, so that ukrainian grain can be exported through the black sea,

they have to figure out other ways to make sure that people in this part of the world are not affected because the global food crisis is deepest here in the horn of africa, many parts of the global south where they are dependent on wheat and corn from ukraine, that has led to an increase in commodity prices and gas and oil prices here, and that is exacerbating a dire situation because of a drought in kenya, and she called out china, she called out russia for what they are doing to make this worse. listen. >> this is the moment for all countries. that play leadership roles in the international system, as the people's republic of china clearly aspires to do and has done in certain domains. it's for them, for all of us, to show up and to dig deeper than we have so far if we are going to prevent this crisis from becoming a catastrophe. >> how big is the impact of russia's invasion into ukraine

in the current problem you see in kenya and somalia and ethiopia? >> in terms of food, more than half of the wheat in this country. in the country of somalia comes from ukraine. it is trapped in the port. of odessa, 20 million metric tons of wheat and corn are trapped. we can all hope and pray that the deal the united nations negotiated, but that russia immediately turned its back on by bombing the port of odessa, that deal somehow sticks. >> do you worry about russia's commitment to that deal if hours after it was signed they are bombing odessa, and what impact would that have if they don't honor their end of the deal? >> we've been living the contingency plan. there is no way you can trust anything vladimir putin says. we are working with ukrainians on plan b, plan b involves road and rail and river, and sending

in barges, and adjusting the rail systems so that they are better aligned with those in europe so the exports can move out quickly. there is no substitute for putin allowing the blockade to end. his blockade to end, and the grains being sent out the most efficient way possible. especially because we've lost so much time. >> she told me she appreciated the voice of african leaders that were instrumental in helping the russia ukraine deal be signed. you see why it's important to be making this ordination in africa because he's trying to rally african leaders who are in many ways supportive of russia or have up to abstained from the american side, but also convincing them that russia is not exporting hunger as has been claimed. >> larry, with that report, thanks very much.

good to hear that there is a contingency plan in place given how badly the grain is needed in africa. thank you. one of the americans who recently died in ukraine's donbas region has been identified. luke's mother said she was informed of her son's death by the u.s. state department. u.s. officials confirmed saturday two americans had died but did not provide any details about them or the circumstances. the state department says it's providing assistance to the families. the military rulers have executed two well-known pro- democracy activists along with two other men according to state media. the activists had been accused of being involved in what the military called terrorist acts. they were sentenced to death in january in a military trial that was closed to the public. these are the first judicial executions in decades, and human rights groups fear more could come, officials with human rights watch call the executions an act of utter

cruelty. still ahead, not one, but two simultaneous threats to global health. the world battles two differently diseased with deadly consequences. we will discuss whether pandemic fatigue could cause people to take both of them less seriously. and the bahamas says it may seek criminal charges after a boat capsized as a c. what we are learning about the deaths of more than a dozen people, coming up.

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>> president biden's founder here says the covid 19 symptoms continue to improve significantly. his predominant symptom at the moment is a sore throat, and the other symptoms like the runny nose body aches as well as the loose cough is starting to diminish considerably according to the president's doctor. o'connor says that the president will continue on that paxlovid treatment as well as take tylenol and use the albuterol inhaler as needed for his cough. the president has completed his third day of isolation here at the white house, and day five will be on tuesday. his wife, first lady to doctor jill biden remains of their home in wilmington, delaware, and tested negative for covid 19 on sunday. earlier in the day on sunday, the covid 19 response coordinator at the white house was asked whether the white house would be transparent in providing information if the president suffers from any long-

term trubisky symptoms. here was his answer. >> we think it's important for the american people to know how well the president is doing which is why we have been so transparent. giving updates several times a day, having people hear from you directly, directly from his physician, and if he has persistent symptoms, if any of them interfere with his ability to carry out his duties, we will disclose that early and often. >> one big question, what president biden's week will look like as he remains in isolation here at the white house. he was last seen for dissipating virtually in a meeting with his economic advisers on friday. the president was scheduled to travel to florida on monday, that was pulled down diagnosed as covid 19, the white house has said the president was working over the weekend, with his staff and aides, and the message throughout the process is that the president has been able to continue working even as he's experiencing covid 19

symptoms. the presidents isolation will end on tuesday but he will not physically returned to work until he tests negative from covid 19. cnn, the white house. the covid 19 is part of the problem right now, the growing monkeypox outbreak is posing another challenge to the global health community. for more on this, let's bring in the emergency physician joining us live from hawaii. thank you for joining us. the who set alarm bells ringing by declaring this a public health emergency over the weekend. so soon after covid. what is that declaration mean and what does it enable the who to do? >> thank you for having me, and many people feel it wasn't soon enough, maybe a month ago might have been time. we are seeing doubling of cases in los angeles and new york week to week, and i think it

was prudent for them to release this, and it may feel like a little bit of fatigue coming so short after we are still dealing with covid, covid is far and away not gone away at all, what it does do is it sounds the alarm and also frees up the public funding as well for increased vaccines, medicines, and how we are going to combat this moving forward. right now the medication that we do use is in high quantities, and it's going to help governments move forward with the public health initiatives that are going to need to keep this from turning into something that is endemic meaning that it's inside the human population, the worst thing you could do is spill over into small animals like squirrels, where it's usually

in africa, that's in small mammals, that's where we think the reservoir is, we don't want to happen is to spill into other small mammals in the u.s., or across the world. >> i want to talk about transmissibility in a moment. you mentioned that you felt this declaration had come too late. we are seeing 16,000 cases around 75 countries in the world, and some experts are saying that the window to contain the disease is closing or has closed. what is your assessment of that? >> i think it's really hard to make a global assessment on something as complex as this but a month ago i remember texting and having a conversation with a local report here in honolulu that this is getting out of hand. this is screaming echoes of early 2020. maybe it's that it's come so short after a large pandemic that we didn't want to sound the alarm quicker, as soon as we should have.

i think it's a little bit late, time will tell, i'm hoping that the public health emergency of international concern that the who has released, will help us institute the public health measures, everybody who has been in contact with somebody who's had the virus gets the vaccine, who we have adequate support for people who need to isolate, because isolation is much longer with this virus compared to covid. it's on the border of 21 days, four weeks, so, people need support. >> on that note, what should people be looking for, how can people protect themselves from this virus? what practical advice do you have? >> being vigilant about what the symptoms are, and also if you are having symptoms such as fever, chills, headache is the

first initial symptom, but also swelling of the glands, in your armpit or neck or in your groin, that's a technical term. if you're experiencing any of that, make sure you don't go around anybody else, you isolate and make sure you get a test. on that note one thing that the international concern is going to also promote is testing. we know like before, testing was an incredibly insurmountable hill in the beginning of the covid pandemic. it's proven to be a difficulty here as well. >> what do you make of the official reaction to this so far? government health officials moving fast enough? >> we are one or two days into the announcement, and i think this is going to turbocharge things. i'm really hoping that governments stand up and do the public health measures.

it sounds like here in the u.s. and in europe they are starting to, we have to realize that look at the last two decades of the century compared to the 19th century. how many different viruses have spilled over from the animal community? how many times have we had to say there is a new thing that we have to worry about, and the common denominator really is, if you look at a study in 2013 there was a study back then that said, climate change is what may be leading to this specific virus monkeypox virus in combo spreading to different areas. that me needed to spread internationally. it has spread internationally before but not in this scale. this was protectable by scientists from ucla and the university, if we want to get a handle of our global public health, we've got to get a handle also on climate change. >> two important points, thank you very much for giving us

your thoughts on this, let's hope that people do move to protect themselves in the way they need to. thank you. an infant is among 17 people found dead after a boat capsized off the bahamas. the prime minister says the victims were haitian migrants, likely trying to reach the u.s. cnn matt rivers has the details. >> reporter: what authorities in the bahamas are saying likely happened here is that what it was around 1:00 a.m. early sunday morning when a twin-engine speedboat carrying 60 people left the coast of one of the islands in the bahamas called new providence, it was shortly thereafter the authorities say they responded to an incident involving that boat, when they got to the scene roughly 7 miles off the coast they recovered the bodies of 17 haitians. recovering those bodies finding out 15 of them were female, one of them was male, and the last body being that of an infant.

they say they rescued some 25 people from the water and they say they are investigating this as a human trafficking incident and say the likely destination of the speedboat was miami, florida. we know that the number of haitians seeking to make these journeys to try and get to the united states by about, those journeys have been increasing as of late, look at the numbers from the united states coast guard. it was in late june that the coast guard put out a press release saying they had intercepted more than 6000 people from haiti, trying to get to the united states by boat. since october of 2021. that number is roughly 4 times the amount of people from haiti that were intercepted in a similar manner in all of the previous fiscal year. that's a clear trend and well every single migrant has his or her own individual story about why they are going to the united states, what is true is that the bottom broader trend going on affect everyone.

you have huge levels of poverty, of hunger, food scarcity, a political vacuum that's been left since that country's president was assassinated in july of 2021 and in part the vacuum has led to incredible levels of gang violence that have decimated huge portions of the capital city that has created a rat massive number of internally displaced people some of whom have tried to migrate to the united states, we don't know the individual stories behind the people involved in this latest incident, we know it illustrates how dangerous journeys like these can be. cnn, mexico city. [ laughter ] [ indiscernible. ] >> hundreds of migrants had to be rescued in the mediterranean over the weekend. the german ngo says it saved more than 400 migrants from five different boats in 12 hours. the italian coast guard rescued

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>> you are watching the moment china successfully docked a new laboratory module to its space station under construction. docking marks the penultimate phase as china aims to complete its orbital outpost by the end of the year. three astronauts were aboard the space station as the docking took place, china is pursuing its own space station as its astronauts have been excluded from the iss due to

the largely u.s. objections. the last component for the chinese station is set to launch in october. and fbi investigation has determined that chinese tech giant has equipment in the u.s. that could disrupt highly restricted defense department communications. that includes airwaves used by you a strategic command which oversee the nuclear arsenal. cnn has more on what the fbi found in an exclusive report. >> it all started with an fbi counterintelligence that [ indiscernible. ] the obama administration, and was ultimately braved to the trump white house in 2019. the fbi knew that equipment made by the chinese telecom company was still being used by small rural cell service providers in the midwest that were located near sensitive u.s. military installations in colorado and nebraska. including nuclear missile silos.

companies were using as a woman in part because it was cheap and reliable, but the fbi as part of its investigation determined that the equipment at the capability to intercept or disrupt restricted defense department communications. eventually giving china a pivotal and dangerous window into america's nuclear arsenal. as one source described it to us, this was in the vfd category. as part of the same investigation the fbi discovered that the leading regional provider was placing weather and traffic cameras atop a number of their towers and live streaming them as a public service. intelligence officials tell us they believe those live streams could be used by beijing or any other nation state to track patterns of sensitive military movements. the combination of these things was profoundly disturbing to u.s. counterintelligence officials. china denies using any of you, to spy on the u.s. and denies that their equipment could be used for such a purpose. this comes at a time when the u.s. government has worried about what officials tell us has been a dramatic escalation of espionage activity on u.s.

soil by china over the past decade. in the meantime, the agreement remains in place, these small rural companies have a mandated by the fcc to rip and replace the equipment, but the amount of money congress as appropriated to reimburse them is about $3 billion short of what it's going to cost these companies to get the job done. the bottom line is that three years after the fbi briefed the white house on its findings, and three years after the fcc passed its rip and replace rule, that equipment still remains in use. cnn, washington. much of the technology used in espionage has dual purposes, especially in the civilian community. national security analyst juliet explains why that makes it so hard to determine if a threat really exists. >> this has been a long-term challenge, we call this technology dual use technology, it has totally benign purposes,

weather, climate, satellite, visuals, but it also can have nefarious. one of the challenges for the fbi and commerce department is, how do you figure out what's being used for innocent or benign purposes, and what's being used for bad purposes? that is the dual use challenge and there's a regulatory framework in the security arena that covers it, right now these tele-communications companies are supposed to essentially rip and replace the technology chinese technology out, the money is not there, it's been a very slow process, in the meanwhile we know the commerce department has started an investigation some of these larger counterintelligence, and technology investigations, in terms of whether the technology is being used for nefarious or spy purposes, the commerce department and fbi investigation are ongoing from this great reporting is that

the fbi is opening up counterintelligence investigation, against china, once every 12 hours right now, that's how pervasive this concern is. >> as the war in ukraine rages on, singers and dancers in odessa remain undaunted. after the break, a look at what the odessa ballet must endure amid the russian invasion.

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you, call one 800-7100 20. in ukraine, the odessa opera and ballet theater continues performances despite russia's invasion. after being closed for months due to war, the theater once again offers a reprieve from the sounds and shelling in gunfire. now, more than ever these performances are sending a message of strength. cnn ivan watson reports. >> there is great beauty in ukraine, amid the pain and suffering. in the southern port city of odessa, dancers and rehearsal tried to tune out russia's deadly war. this is more than just a beautiful expression of art and

culture. against a terrible backdrop of this war, these dancers open a single of defiance. a sign that ukrainians are not giving up. the odessa opera and ballet theater stands like a jewel. albeit one protected by sandbags. the russian rockets and missiles periodically pound odessa. residents here cling to prewar normality. that includes the city's 135- year-old opera. this is the opera's director. >> it's beautiful. >> do you still need opera and ballet? when there is a terrible war? >> all people need this. it's very important for society opera house, it's a good life. >> the good life, tonight's

ballet performance, but amid preparations there is an interruption. an air raid siren warns of a possible attack. i am ushered downstairs. >> this says shelter. >> musicians and dancers wait in the basement. the threat delays the start of the show. two of tonight ballerinas try to stay limber. >> it's not normal. >> why are you sitting here? >> are you afraid? >> of course we are afraid, though we are getting accustomed to these threats, and that in itself is horrible. after a long delay the opera get the all clear. audience members emerge from their own shelter and take their seats.

the music of chopin fills the hall. and, for the briefest of moments, the war seems very far away. the reality is some of these performers sent their children away to safety for other countries. a number of the artists and crew are defending their country serving in the ukrainian armed forces. while those on stage struggle to keep the city's cultural spirit alive. soloist katerina crosses herself before entering stage right. after a few steps, this curtain suddenly closes.

>> bad news. the third air raid siren of the night has just gone off. the curtain just came down, and the show has been brought to a stop. >> translator: i want the whole world to start screaming. to stop this horror so that innocent people and children stopped dying. i asked for help, the ballerina says. and for people not to remain silent. ivan watson, cnn, odessa, ukraine. >> danish cyclist won his first tour de france title on sunday. the 25-year-old is the second day to wear the yellow jersey, cycling's most prestigious prize after finishing second and last year's race, he beat the two-time defending champion this year by more than 3 1/2 minutes. good for him.

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