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hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom and i'm rosemary church. just ahead u.s. secretary of state antony blinken wraps up his high stakes talks with china's top diplomat. we'll go live to hong kong to hear what each side is saying now. another holiday weekend marred by gun violence. we're following shootings all across the united states. and russian opposition figure alexi alexei navalny facing new charges expected to appear in a moscow video link this morning. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. >> good to have you with us. we begin this hour in beijing where top diplomats from the u.s. and china met for talks in efforts to attach down tensions between the world waste two largest economies. hours ago u.s. secretary of state antony blinken held

closed-door discussions with china's top diplomat one day after meeting with china's foreign minister. both sides have come into these meetings with a goal of improving their deeply strained relationship but are playing down expectations of a major breakthrough. cnn's kristie lu stout joins us live from hong kong with the latest. talk to us about what has been achieved. what was discussed? what is likely to happen next? >> reporter: antony blinken has met with china's top diplomat for talks that spanned hours today, but all eyes on whether american's top diplomat will have the meeting later in the day with xi jinping. blinken is the first u.s. secretary of state of state to visit china in five years and we do have a chinese ministry foreign affairs read outof

today's meeting. let's bring it up for you. this is what was said. "we need to reverse the downward spiral of relations and return to a healthy and stable track and jointly find the right way for china and the u.s. to co-exist in the era." wong asked for unilateral sanctions to be lifted against china and halt its tech crackdown. on sunday blinken met with the chinese foreign minister in a meeting that was friendlier, definitely less combative in tone. they met for these candid talks that spanned for 7 and a half hours and they agreed to maintain high level ties and he accepted an invitation to visit the u.s. and he called for stable relations, which is important, and china made clear through that meeting sunday that taiwan is the core issue.

i'll quickly paraphrase what we heard of that meeting sunday saying that taiwan is the most consequential issue, the most pronounced risk in the china/u.s. relationship. going into this high stakes visit, expectations are set rather low. u.s. officials who briefed reporters said that they saw little chance of any sort of a diplomatic breakthrough given so many points of division between these two super powers, including taiwan, including trade, including technology, even the flow of the precursor chemicals that make fentanyl, these chemicals stem from china. now senior u.s. officials, they say that blinken's core goal here during this visit is to reestablish the channel of communication between these two super powers, especially direct military-to-military communications. also on the table, global issues where both nations have a stake in, have shared interests in, and could cooperate in like climate

change, like public health and economic stability. back to you. >> many thanks. joining me now from sydney is jocelyn shea, an adjunct professor at the australia- china institute at university of technology sydney and is a former senior diplomat specializing in australia-china relations. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you, nice to be here. >> so at the start of u.s. secretary of state antony blinken's high stake visit to china, expectations were low, but his invitation to meet again with china's foreign minister in washington, d.c. has been accepted and secretary blinken may even get to meet with president xi jinping in the coming hours. we're waiting to see. that's the big question, of course. so what is your assessment of how it's been going so far and what's been achieved exactly? >> well, it's such a relief,

isn't it? that's my primary emotion. we've been waiting five years for high level contacts to resume and whatever the outcome i think that's a very positive step forward. >> secretary blinken's goal is to reset china/u.s. relations and ease tensions between the world's two largest economies. how likely is it that he will ultimately achieve that goal and how crucial is it that he does given sensitive issues, such as taiwan, perhaps top of the agenda there, trade, human rights, chinese military assertiveness in the region -- australia knows all about that -- and russia's war in ukraine? these are big issues, aren't they? >> far too many issues. obviously they're not all going to be solved in one meeting. what we hope for is that there will be an ongoing dialogue.

there will be contacts at the levels that matter, the decision making levels on both sides and i think the basic issue really is that dialogue can't achieve anything if there is no trust on both sides. so let's have both sides trying to build a level of trust and confidence so that people don't disbelieve as a first reaction whatever the other side says. >> would you -- >> that's both sides to be quite fair about it. >> right. would you assess taiwan as the toughest issue that they will need to deal with? >> absolutely. i mean i've been involved with australia/china relations more than 50 years and it was 50 years ago that taiwan was the big issue that led to a breakthrough and the establishment of regular

diplomatic relations between the united states and china and what a relief that was to then foreign minister tony street. i was looking just this last weekend at a speech that he made in new york to the asia society where he described our sense of relief that our two major strategic partners, china and the united states, had resolved that issue and it still remains the basic issue. >> right. just ahead of blinken's trip to china, treasury secretary janet yellen said the decoupling from china would be disastrous for the united states. instead she called for deepening economic ties between the u.s. and china. what's your reaction to that? >> well, decoupling, derisking, all these words are being used, but what we see at the moment

is a general movement for each side to become more inward looking and to go back not quite to that maoist philosophy of self-sufficiency, but to build up more self-reliance, to talking about trading with friends rather than based on economic considerations. so it's to the interests of the whole global economy that china and the united states can find a way of conducting normal economic and financial transactions. i think we all stand to benefit if janet yellen and her counterparts in china can find ways of resolving some of those issues. >> you mentioned it at the start of our chat here that there's a sense of relief. so the important next steps now so that they can continue any

advancement, any progress that is perceived on this visit, what would those next steps be, do you think? >> because you have set out such a broad agenda covering so many different areas of responsibility, so we need those senior diplomats and officials who are in charge of trade, technology, military, et cetera, each of them should be meeting with their counterparts. it's not a burden that one person can bear on his own or her own. >> jocelyn shea, thank you so much for talking with us. we appreciate it. >> pleasure. we are in the midst right now of a weekend of deadly gun violence here in the united states. the most recent reports come out of the state of idaho where four people were killed on sunday night. at least five other shootings were also reported across the

country. one person was killed and 22 others injured near chicago after multiple shots were fired into a crowd celebrating the juneteenth holiday. police are still looking for the people responsible for that incident. cnn's camilla bernard reports. >> reporter: no one is in custody at the moment and authorities have not identified a motive, but they are giving a better timeline of what happened. they say this juneteenth celebration started around 6 p.m. and they say law enforcement officers were at the event, but it was at about 12:25 a.m. when they received a 911 call that reported an alleged fight nearby. so these law enforcement officers responded to this 911 call and as they were doing that, they heard the gunfire. they immediately went back to the juneteenth celebration and what authorities are saying now is that an unknown number of suspects fired multiple rounds

on multiple weapons and it was chaotic according to many of these witnesses. unfortunately one person is dead. 22 are injured. authorities say more were also injured as they were trying to escape and run away from this chaos. listen to what some of the witnesses say happened. >> we were all just out and next thing you know shots got going off and everybody ran and yeah. it was chaos. >> i've never been in anything like this honestly. i just have a headache from the whole commotion. all i could do was check on my friends and want to see if everything was okay. >> reporter: authorities say right now they're talking to victims and witnesses. they're also going over surveillance video and cell phone video belonging to some of these victims and witnesses. unfortunately this is now one of 310 mass shootings in the united states according to the

gun violence archive. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. >> the white house is commenting on the mass shooting in illinois as well. on sunday white house press secretary corrine jean-pierre tweeted, "the president and first lady of thinking of those killed and injured in the shooting in illinois last night. we have reached out to offer assistance to state and local leaders in the wake of this tragedy at a community juneteenth celebration." meantime in the state of missouri the mayor of st. louis is calling a sunday shooting involving teenagers unacceptable. one teenager was killed in the incident and nine others injured. police say a 17-year-old suspect is in custody adding that they recovered multiple guns from the scene of a party inside the office building. the city's mayor told our jim acosta if st. louis had stricter gun laws, this would never have happened.

>> it's tragic, especially with the proliferation of guns in our country how our children now have access to guns and are using them on each other. this is unacceptable. in missouri we don't have any laws when it comes to guns, not even common sense gun safety laws, and the missouri legislature has preempted cities from enacting common sense gun safety laws on a local level which we all know poll very well about red flag laws and universal background checks. all of those and especially the bill that they didn't take any action on this year would have kept guns out of the hands of minors. police in western pennsylvania are trying to figure out why a heavily armed gunman on sunday targeted officers killing a state trooper and seriously wounding another. the pennsylvania state police say 29-year-old trooper was fatally shot through the

windshield of his patrol car after the suspect shot at police cars near the department's barracks and wounded another officer. police finally killed the gunman in a shootout that one officer described as the most intense gunfight he's ever seen. break coming breaking news coming into cnn, weather officials describing an extremely large and dangerous tornado moving through a town luem in mississippi. a flood watch also remains for the area for the next four hours. the national weather service has issued a tornado watch from northeastern louisiana to western alabama. over 2 million people are currently under a tornado watch and large hail and damaging winds also expects in those areas. at the same time over 50

million people are under a severe storm threat across the south and triple digit temperatures have around 35 million from southeastern new mexico to southern mississippi under heat alerts. in new orleans the good times roll, but the temperatures are rising. the city has opened three emergency cooling centers to help residents deal with the brutal heatwave. officials say heat index values were forecast to hit 115 degrees fahrenheit or 46 degrees celsius. city and fire department officials have also set up four hydration stations which will provide water and sunscreen. coming up here on cnn newsroom, the kremlin's most prominent opposition figure is facing new political charges that could extend his prison sentence by decades. plus more than 300 pakistani nationals are among the dead after a ship carrying migrants sank off the coast of

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both ukraine and russia are reporting fierce fighting along the front lines. ukraine's president says the toughest battles are happening in the south. in the east ukrainian forces are firing on russian positions near the city of bakhmut. president zelenskyy said his troops are repelling troops around that area. officials in moscow are accusing ukrainian forces of shelling inside russia, saying three settlements of the western region of kersk came under fire sunday causing damage to several buildings and fallout from the destroyed dam continues. the united nations is slamming russia for denying humanitarian aid access to occupied areas that have been flooded. jailed russian opposition figure alexei navalny is facing new charges that could keep him behind bars for several decades to come. navalny is due to appear in a

moscow court via video link next hour to attend the first hearing in a new extremism case against him. the outspoken kremlin critic is already serving two prison sentences for alleged fraud and parole violation. if he's convicted on the new charges, he could be facing another 30-year term. what more are you learning about these new charges navalny is facing? >> reporter: yes. a very significant hearing that will be taking place in just under an hour. alexei navalny is expected to attend this new criminal case, this new court hearing, via video link. you'll remember, of course, that he's already serving a 9 1/2 year prison sentence for parole violations, fraud, and contempt of court, although it's important to remember that he and his team and human rights groups maintain these are politically motivated, that his imprisonment is politically motivated. as for the charges he's facing

today, there are multiple charges, including creating an extremist network and financing extremist activity. this could extend his prison sentence by up to 30 more years. you'll remember he is, of course, the most prominent face of the opposition against president putin. he was poisoned by russian intelligence in 2020 with the nerve agent according to him and his teams and human rights group. germany treated him after that poisoning. he returned to russia in 2021 but was imprisoned upon landing in russia and his time in prison has caused his health to deteriorate according to his family. he is unable to access enough nutrition. he's lost many, many pounds. he looks more sickly according again to his family. so seeing him via video link today will be important for his family, his support ers to see

the state of his well-being. this is not the only case coming up against alexei navalny. there's another case, one of terrorism charges, that his team also says is being prepared by russia's judiciary. that could carry another 35 years in prison and a reminder that just a few days ago one of his aides was sentenced to an additional 7 1/2 years in prison on extremism charges. that, of course, does not bode well, but all this happening in the context of what human rights groups are warning is an increasing, an intensifying crackdown by president putin on any critics in an attempt to silence opposition against him and against the war in ukraine. >> many thanks. pakistan's government says more than 300 of its citizens are among the dead after a ship

carrying migrants sank off the coast of greece last week. the country has declared a national day of mourning. joining me now, sophia, what more are you learning about this? >> reporter: rosemary, this is a tragedy shrouded in a lot of confusion. we don't have here in pakistan an exact number of how many people are actually dead. i mean they have said that it's close to 300. some reports from the government themselves are saying a little over 300. we don't have a breakdown of how many women and children are included in this breakdown. what we do know is that now we're getting a lot of testimonials that have been coming out in pakistan by

these people who have so sadly died in greece. there is a lot of anger not just against the pakistani government, there is an economic crisis here in pakistan. there are a lot of questions being asked about what has led so many people to actually flee this country to be in these dire situations where they lose their lives. pakistan has an imf loan due to expire the 30th of june. there is record inflation. there is a food shortage crisis as well, but along with that in the many newspapers here in pakistan there have been very angry op eds and editorials against europe's very according to these editorials phobic policies against immigrants. there is an unraveling of grief in this country. there are lots of people in pakistan asking many questions.

a lot of them don't know details. our colleagues in greece tell us that pakistani community leaders who have been fielding phone calls from worried family members trying to get answers about where their family members are, where their brothers are and what's happened to them because at the moment we do have a number. we don't have a definitive number and breakdown of how many of these people, families, children, women, and that is something that we'll understand in the hours to come. so what has happened in greece is an immense tragedy here in pakistan and will have an impact across the country. >> heartbreaking for all those families. many thanks. still to come, the u.s. supreme court is gearing up to rule on some high profile cases this month. we will take a look at some of

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universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor in admissions plans, has to do with plans on the of harvard and the university of north carolina. the schools say that they want to be able to consider race in order to make sure that their campuses are diverse. they say that the campuses are often a pipeline to society and it's a better academic environment to have a diverse academic experience. on the other hand, challengers say it violates equal protection. they say it mounts to racial discrimination and it shouldn't be allowed. the supreme court in this case will consider whether to overturn decades old precedent. there's another case having to do with president biden's student loan forgiveness plan. the plan was put in place to give relief to millions of borrowers in the wake of covid. some of them would get up to $20,000 of relief, but here republican-led states said that the biden administration didn't

have authority basically to erase billions of dollars of debt. they said in that case it would have to be congress that stepped in and in oral arguments the conservative justices seemed very skeptical of the biden administration's position in the case. finally, there's a really important case that is important to the lgbtq community. it involves a website designer. she wants to expand her business to make websites that celebrate weddings but does not want to create them for same- sex marriages and here the lgbtq community comes in and says if she wins, then businesses would have a license to discriminate, but on the other side, she says, the website designer, she looks at this through a lens of free speech. she says that the government can't force her to create a custom product with a message that goes against her religious beliefs.

a senior british official is apologizing after a video emerged showing former aides of boris johnson partying during a lockdown in london. the new footage was called terrible and completely out of order. cnn's scott scott mcclain has more. >> reporter: this is a timely example of lockdown rule breaking within the conservative party. this video was published by the british tabloid "the mirror," shot at conservative party headquarters in december 2020, at a time when social distancing restrictions were enforced and two households were not allowed to mix indoors. there were exceptions for work, but this was clearly not that. the fact that the party took place at all has been reported

by cnn before, but this is the first time we've seen a video of it. here's part of it. now london's metropolitan police has handed out fines for lockdown parties in the past. the force told cnn it is aware of this footage and considering it. the conservative party previously said that it had disciplined some of the people involved. conservative cabinet minister michael gold was asked about this video on sky news today and said it was completely out of order and terrible in his words. now the gathering was organized by the campaign staff of london conservative mayoral candidate shawn bailey, who previously apologized and resigned as a chair of a committee he led at

city hall. he has a lifetime appointment to the house of lords, the uk version of the senate. the man who made that appointment is boris johnson. the video's release also comes days after a parliamentary committee report found johnson deliberately misled parliament about his own separate lockdown parties. the report found johnson gave unsustainable interpretations of the rules that he helped to write with. for example, he insisted and continues to insist in some cases that the parties were essential for work purposes. parliament was scheduled to vote monday on whether to accept the findings of the report which could have landed him a 90-day suspension, but since johnson resigned as an mp in advance of the report's release calling it a witch hunt, they will now debate whether he should even get the customary former members pass to enter parliament at all. scott mcclain, cnn london.

police in austria arrested a man and two teens accused of planning to attack a pride parade in vienna. officials say the trio targeted the annual rainbow parade, which is part of the largest lgbtq+ event in austria, but police say the paradegoers were never in danger. the suspects are austrian nationals who authorities say became radicalized online and developed sympathy for isis. the youngest was 14 years old. still to come, the chilling investigation into a mass grave found in kenya linked to a religious cult, why police are calling what happened at the church disturbing and inhumane. that's when we return.

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confirming u.s. secretary of state antony blinken will meet with chinese president xi jinping in the coming hours. this news coming on the second and final day of blinken's high stakes visit to beijing that aims to stabilize strained relations between the united states and china. just a short time ago blinken met with china's top diplomat wang yi. this was the big question, wasn't it? >> reporter: yes. >> now he is meeting with xi jinping. talk to us about the significance of this coming on this final day of his visit. >> reporter: absolutely. it has been confirmed this final day of this visit to beijing the u.s. secretary of state will be meeting with chinese leader xi jinping. this has been confirmed by a u.s. state department official. the meeting will take place at 4:30

a.m. that will be necessary in taking the steps to rebuild the relationship between the u.s. and china which has hit its lowest point in decades. the two countries have been at odds over a growing array of issues that we've discussed at length here on cnn from taiwan to trade to technology, the war in ukraine, fentanyl, chemicals, territorial disputes in the south china sea. the list goes on, but high level engagement will soon take place between america's top diplomat, antony blinken, and china's leader xi jinping in beijing, the meeting to take place less than an hour from now. when it happens, it comes just days after xi jinping met with the microsoft co-founder and philanthropist bill gates. during that meeting when that took place also announced last minute, she called gates his first american friend he had

seen this year and he said that the foundation of u.s./china relations is "in the people," but blinken is set to meet with xi jinping within the hour. he is the first u.s. secretary of state to visit china in five years. let's recap what happened in the run-up to that big meeting. blingen met with china's top diplomat wang yi, a meeting that took over three hours, and according to a ministry of foreign affairs readout, this is what wangyi said, "we need to reverse the downward spiral of china/u.s. relations to promote a return to a healthy and stable track and to find the right way for china and the u.s. to co-exist in the new era." he asked the u.s. to lift unilateral sanctions, to end the tech crackdown and that taiwan is one of the core interests and without a doubt,

taiwan will be at the top of the agenda. >> just repeating that breaking news, we're learning now that u.s. secretary of state antony blinken will meet with chinese president xi jinping in less than an hour from now. kristie lu stout is bringing us details there. hundreds of bodies have been found in a kenyan forest as part of an investigation into a religious cult that urged members to starve themselves and their families. according to court documents, the cult's leader encouraged his followers to "neglect the children to starve and die." cnn's david mckinzie spoke with families affected by the group's practices and we warn you his report contains disturbing material that may be hard to watch. >> reporter: he called it the wilderness, luring his flock to a remote corner of kenya. we've come to try and understand how over many months so many could die. in this forest the dead are

still being found. forensic teams carefully removed the remains of members of a christian death cult from shallow graves. they have already unearthed more than 300 people, many of them children, many showing signs of starvation. >> it's painful. it's just so painful. it was so painful. >> reporter: francis says his daughter and son-in-law both abandoned good jobs and took their children to the forest cult. what happened next is hard to comprehend. >> they wished to die. >> the members of the cult, including your own family, they were starving the children. >> yes. >> reporter: and then when the children didn't die quickly enough -- >> they suffocated them. >> reporter: -- they suffocated them. >> yes. >> reporter: and this is your own blood. >> and i wonder where my

children or my child, my daughter, could change to be such an animal, a wild animal, to kill her own children. >> reporter: pastor paul mckenzie began his cult in malindy. this is the church where pastor mckenzie had a huge following in his sermons. he amplified his message online. he preached a doomsday prophesy for at least a decade calling on the faithful to reject modern society, pull children from school, avoid hospitals. he demanded total devotion. you must deny yourself. you must reject yourself. you must reach a point of ending your life he says for the sake of jesus. his anti-government stance got him arrested and detained but never prosecuted in. 2019 the church was closed

down. later the pastor started his forest community. we found a former cult member. we agreed to hide her identity for her own safety. she escaped the forest last year. why did you move your whole home and all your children and move into the forest? the pastor used to call me she says. "he was calling me telling me, my daughter, you are being left behind and when the arc is closed it, will be too late. so i decided to go." when the covid pandemic hit, she says many saw it as evidence that the prophesies were real. mckenzie charged her family $80 for a piece of land in galilee. there were seven other bible -named areas. in december trips for food and water suddenly stopped says this village elder.

the starvation had begun. he says they alerted authorities, but they did nothing. even after hungry children started escaping to the village. what's been called the shakahola massacre has shocked this nation. pastor mckenzie and his closest followers are being held under the law. what happened in the forest with your followers? >> i can tell nothing about that because i've been in custody for two months, so i don't what is going on outside there. have you been there? >> reporter: francis says there needs to be justice. he mounted a rescue mission to get his grandchildren out. when they found his grandson ephraim, he was close to starvation. his two brothers were already dead. >> he went to hell. he went to hell. i'm telling you, in fact, when he was rescued, he told them that if you can find me, have

already gone to see jesus. >> reporter: the very highest levels of the kenyan government have apologized for their inaction and the pain it has caused. the scale of what happened in the forest is still being understood. hundreds are still missing and many more mass graves need to be exhumed. david mckenzie, cnn, kenya. we'll be right back. neuriva plus is a multitaskerr supporting 6 key indicators of brain health. to help keep me sharp.p. neuriva: think bigger.

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looked strong. now the vatican has canceled his wednesday audience and will keep his schedule light. however, he is scheduled to meet the leaders of cuba and brazil in private audiences during the week. normally the pontiff does not hold wednesday audiences in july. so he will be keeping a lighter schedule. all this is ahead of two very important trips he has coming up, the first week of august expected to go to portugal for world youth day, and the end of august he has an apostolic voyage to mongolia. within the past few hours the third man's golf major of the year is in the books and the winner might surprise you, not rickie fowler or golfing superstar rory mcilroy or last year's masters champion scottie scheffler. it's the relatively unknown wyndham clark who got himself out of some tough situations of

the sunday's final 18 holes to emerge victorious. the 29-year-old from denver, colorado, won his first ever pga tour event last month and emotionally dedicating that victory to his mother, who passed away ten years ago after a battle with breast cancer. >> i just felt like my mom was watching over me today and she can't be here and miss you, mom, but i just feel like i've worked so hard and i've dreamed about this moment for so long, there's been so many times i've visualized being here in front of you guys and winning this championship and i just feel like it was my time and thank you. for most of us solving a rubik's cube is no easy feat, but for one speed cuber from california, it is a walk in the park. >> yes!

>> that is speed cubing legend max park and he made history last weekend by solving a rubik's cube in just 3.13 seconds, that's right, seconds. the 21-year-old now holds the guinness world record for fastest time ever solving the cube. the champion's father spoke about his son's achievements. >> i don't think he sort of really is impressed with sort of the pageantry and the fame that comes with it. i think he's so much more focused on beating the time and his goals. it's funny because i think part of his autism prevents him from really understanding the fame or adulation. i think he intellectually understands it, but i don't think he feels it. >> well done. finally tonight, a big bear with a big problem, this fellow was captured on video trying to figure out how to escape from an upper story window of a house in colorado. you can see the bear hanging by

its claws from the window sill deciding if there's some way it can make it down safely. it even considers the roof before heading back inside. the bear tries to climb out multiple times before rethinking the escape route and obviously came up with a good solution finally escaping through another window on the ground level. well done. thanks so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. have yourselves a wonderful day! cnn newsroom continues next. the sleep number climate360 smart bed is the only smart bed in the world that actively cools, warms, and effortlessly responds to both of you for up to 44 minutes morore restful sleep per night. save $1,500 on the sleep number climate360 smart bed. . shop nw only at sleep number. hihi, i'm sharon, and i lost 52 pounds on golo. on other d diets, i could barely lose 10-15 pounds. thanks to golo, i've lost 27% of my body weight,

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