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hello and a warm welcome. it's monday, fresh start to the new week. i was supposed to be on holiday, but i'm happy to be with all of you. welcome to you in the united states and around the world. i'm bianca nobilo. >> i'm max foster from london, just ahead on "cnn newsroom." >> this is the final day of antony blinken's trip to beijing. as they stabilize. >> china is definitely feeling the heat. i think you'll see a much more tempered response. the weekend of deadly gun violence. >> the chicago suburb of willo willowbrook, the juneteenth. violent shoot-out between pennsylvania state troopers and a suspect armed with a hunting rival. >> what has been called the massacre has shocked the nation. we have come to understand over how many months so many could

die. >> it's been time to stop paying for it. live from london, this is t "cnn newsroom." with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is monday, june the 19th. 9:00 a.m. here in london and 3:00 a.m. in mississippi. three dangerous torns hit the small town, also reporting structural damage in the area, after a twister barreled through and tornado and flood watch remains in effect this as the national weather service has issued a new tornado watch from northeastern and western alabama. large hail and damaging winds expected in those areas. >> at the same time, over 50 million people across the southeast are under severe storm threat. and triple-digit temperatures have 35 million from new mexico to southern massachusetts under

warning. and high stakes between the easing tensions between the two largest economies. >> and efforts may get a boost as antony blinken sits down with xi jinping. earlier, blinken closed the negotiations with wang li, calling them productive. >> this coming after he accepted an invitation to washington, both sides after the deeply strained relationship are playing down the relationship and a make breakthrough. u.s. legislates are weighing in on the key visit. >> second blinken is traveling to china a position of strength. second blinken has a strong hand to play here, i think it's the right time to go and sit down and make them known that united states isn't going anywhere. >> for the american public, see china now as a threat and the

administration, i think, is turning up the heat. >> the director of the eastern asian institute in singapore spoke to cnn earlier about the meetings in beijing, and the tensions that the two countries are looking to address. >> i think there's issues from both sides. on the one hand, china feels that the united states and its partners are increasingly forming a containment strategy to china. and specific interests, there are technology and the trade war unleashed by donald trump and more. the united states having declared that it wants to compete with china is increasingly fearful that accidents may happen, the lack of communication, the lack of interaction, could lead to senat inadvertent conflict that everyone wants to avoid. there's tensions, tensions around taiwan, the visit of diplomacy last was adding to the

military exercise that china unleashed afterwards, it was a source of tension. so there's lots of issues that such meetings need to discuss. >> cnn's kristie lu stout joins us with the latest. there are undoubted tensions, kristi, where the whole world has something to benefit keeping a dialogue going. >> yeah, a dialogue happening at the highest level, with antony blinken set to be with xi jinping. this has been confirmed a meeting that will take place in less than 30 minute from now, 4:30 local time. when that meeting takes place, it will be a critical sign of china's interests in taking steps towards rebuilding reend booting this critical relationship which is at its lowest point in decades, united states and chun, the two superpowers have been at issue

with trade and territorial dispute, et cetera, but high-level engagement is taking place. and the meeting that will take place less than half an hour from now between xi and blinken comes days after xi met with gates. at that meeting, xi called gates, the first american friend this year. and saying the foundation, in his words, the foundation is in the people. i want to bring you up to speed quickly on what blinken has done. earlier he met with china's top diplomat, wang yi, we have a readout about that meeting. this is what he said, he pointed out, quote, we need to reverse the downward spiral of sino/u.s. relations and find a right way for china to co-exist in the new

era, end quote. he also reiterated that taiwan is one of china's core interests which we also heard the previous day with blinken. senior u.s. officials say blinken's main goal here is just to re-establish the channels of communications between the u.s. and china, especially directed military-to-military communications. on sad, over the weekend, we heard from joe biden that he believes blinken's trip could help ease tensions and he opens to meet with president xi, quote, within the next few months. with blinken's meeting under way in less than half an hour that will pave the way for a new meeting. back to you, guys. >> kristi, we'll be watched. the u.s. is in a series of deadly gun vial. the most recent the side of idaho where four people were killed sunday night. >> one person was killed and 22 others injured in chicago after

multiple shots were fired into a crowd celebrating the juneteenth holiday. police are still looking for the people responsible for that incident. the cnn's camilla bern nal reports. >> reporter: no one is in custody at the moment and authorities have not identified a motive, but they are giving a better time line of what happened. they say this juneteenth celebration started around 6:00 p.m. they say that law enforcement officers were there at the event. but it was about at 12:25 in the morning 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.

and authorities saying that more were also injured as they were trying to escape and run away from this chaos. take stay listen to what some of the witnesses say happened. >> we were all just out. the next thing you know, shots just got there going off, and everybody ran. yeah, it was chaos. >> i never have seen anything like this, obviously. honestly, i have a headache for the whole commotion. all i can do is check on my friends and see if everything was okay. >> reporter: and authorities say that 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, though, this is now one of 310 mass shootings in the united states. according to the gun violence archive. camila bernal, cnn, los angeles. meanwhile, in the state of missouri, the mayor 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 an office building. and the city's mayor told our jim acosta if they had stricter gun law this would never happen. >> it's tragic, especially with the proliferation of guns in our country our children 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 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. and tragedy struck in the state of washington after a man fired shots in a campground near an electronic darts music festival. on saturday, two people killed and several others injured. >> police caught the suspect as he tried to get away, shooting into the crowd as he fled. as a result, they cancelled the event event. in pennsylvania, a state trooper has died from a shoot-out, a second trooper is in the oofs-p hospital. the suspect shot at barracks before fleeing in a pickup truck. >> authorities say the suspect shot through the windshield striking and killing a 29-year-old state trooper. the gunman was eventually shot and killed. >> what i witnessed, and i will tell you in my many years with the pennsylvania state police and many serious situations was one of the most intense,

unbelievable gun fights i have ever witnessed. >> as he, stein, drove through a field, harshed harshberger's restaurant, a small restaurant there. there were people in that lot patronizing that big our troopers put themselves between those people by force by their vehicles and by engaging him, forced him away from the business. >> well, these incidents are once again prompting new calls for stricter gun legislation. it's a polarizing issue and a cnn law enforcement analyst says cities and states can't stop the violence on their own. >> certainly, more can be done locally at the state level. but something has to be done nationally, because, you know, part of the problem, people simply leave the jurisdiction that has tougher gun laws and go

somewhere where it's more lax and purchase the guns. so it's complicated. it's going to really take effort on all levels in order to really put together any kind of meaningful legislation that can begin to even try to curb some of the gun violence that we see out on the streets. coming up on "cnn newsroom," the kremlin's most prominent opposition figure is facing new political charges that could extend his prison sentence for decades. plus, ukraine is pushing back on russia's claims that it has destroyed valuable weapons systems donated by the west. and new footage shows aides of boris johnson partying during the lockdown. a senior british official is responding to this scandal. of listerine to your routine. new science shows it gets in betweenen teeth to d destroy 5x more plaque above the gumline than floss. for a cleaner,r, healthier mout. listerine. feel the whoa!

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western countries say all of the charges against navalny are politically motivated. salma abdelaziz joins us to alexei navalny potentially facing more decades in prison. what evidence is there for the charges? >> so, the charges first of all, and this is set to begin in a court very shortly, we are expecting to see alexei navalny by video link. that's important for several reasons, of course, his presence there is important. but also his families, his supporters say his health has been deteriorating in prison. that he's been unable to access nutrition and he's lost many, many kyle lows. the charges against him, first of all, are creating an extremist network and financing extremist activity. now, we don't have the details of what what russia judiciary is preparing for here. but his supporters say the charges are absolutely absurd. that's exact words they used on

his twitter feed. they believe that russian authorities are trying to use his group, his opposition work, to link that to extremism in some way. they're trying to accuse him of assassination attempts. they're calling these absolutely trumped up charges that are politically motivated. and again, he's already serving nine years in prison for parole violations and contempt of court. decades more in prison and i have to note, there's another case against him, one for terrorism as well that holds 35 years. and what doesn't bode well for alexei navalny today is that just a few days ago, one of his aides was sentence to 7 1/2 years in prison on extremist charges. >> to the politically motivated charges if that's what they are, alexei navalny still behind the bars implies that the government views him as a threat. so what kind of populist zporlt he enjoy in russia?

>> it's very difficult to know that. but we know about alexei navalny in 2020, he was pointed by nov novichok and he was arrested when he returned to russia in 2021. responsible landing, he's been held in prison ever since. he is the most prominent face. so abroad for many, he is the one you see when you think of opposition. and what we do know is that there's been increasing anger, increasing opposition, to president putin, especially in the context of the ukraine war. in the context of partial mobilization. and the response to that from the kremlin, according to human rights groups, is an intensified crackdown. so in some ways, alexei navalny is so prominent, because it's so difficult to come up with an opposition voice when you have such a repressive response coming from the kremlin. >> without doubt, salma, thank you so much for joining us. ♪

both ukraine and russia are reporting fierce fighting along the front lines, ukraine's president said the toughest battles are happening in the south but they're also raging in the east. >> these ukrainian forces are firing on russian positions near the eastern city of bakhmut. president volodymyr zelenskyy said his troops in that direction around that area. he also said that russia is lying about ukrainian losses. >> translator: no matter who in russia says that our patriots have been allegedly destroyed, they are all there. they're all functioning, and they're all shooting down russian missiles. and they're shooting down missiles with maximum efficiency. not a single patriot has been destroyed. >> the russian side is getting conflicting reports about its own losses. a russian-backed official in the zaporizhzhia region said ukraine

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i'm bianca nobilo. i'm max foster. let me bring you up to date, secretary of state antony blinken is said to meet with xi jinping. russian opposition alexei navalny 54ed by video link in a moscow court to attend the first hearing in an extremist case against him. for students planning to enter college in the u.s. and those who graduate with huge debt will want to keep a close eye on u.s. supreme court rulings in the days ahead. a look at what to expect and those other high-profile cases. >> reporter: all eyes are on this conservative supreme court to see just how fast and how far the conservatives want to go to move the court to the right. one big case they're considering considers affirmative action and asks the question whether colleges and universities can continue to take race into consideration as a factor with

dismisses plans. that has to do with plans for harvard and university of north carolina. the schools say they want to be able to krl race in order to make sure their campuses are diverse. they say their campuses are often a pipeline to society. and it's a better academy environment to have a diverse academic experience. on the other hand, challengers say it violates equal rights protection. they say it equates to racial discrimination and shouldn't about allowed. the supreme court will consider in this case 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. here, republican-led states said that the biden administration didn't have the 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 conserve justices is seemed very skeptical of the biden administration's decision in the case. and finally, there's a really important case important to the lgbtq community. it involves a website that wants to celebrate weddings but does not want to create them for same-sex marriages. 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. cnn, washington. now, to the former president facing charges over his handling of documents. >> mark esper says he should not

be trusted with the nation's secrets again if the allegations are proven. >> well, based on his actions, again, if proven true, under the indictment by the special counsel, no, i mean, it's just irresponsible action that places our service members at risk. places our nation's security at risk. you cannot have these documents floating around. they need to be secured. and to another republican presidential hopeful, chris christie said sunday, it was a useless idea to force republican contenders to sign a pledge to back the party's ultimate nominee in order to participate in primary debates. >> the former new jersey governor who kicked off his presidential bid earlier this month said he expressed his views on the pledge directly to republican party officials. >> look, i think the pledge is just a useless idea, you know, we're republicans. and the idea you support the republican whether you won or whether you lost. you didn't have to ask somebody

to sign something. it's only in the era of donald trump that you need somebody to sign something on a pledge. so, i think it's a bad idea. but, look, i will do whatever i need to do to be up on that stage to try to save my party and save my country from going down the road of being led by three-time looser donald trump. in the hours ahead, u.s. president joe biden will head west for a three-day trip to california. >> a white house official said mr. biden will highlight his administration's climate commitments and announce new federal funding for climate projects. he's expected to deliver remarks before attend two fund-raisers. a senior british official is apologizing after video showing aides of former prime minister boris johnson partying during 2020 lockdowns in london. the housing secretary shared his thoughts during an interview with sky news. take a listen. >> well, i think it's completely out of order. i just want to apologize to

everyone, really. who looking at that image will think well these are people who are fighting rules that were put in place to protect us all. i think you should follow the procedures, it's absolutely important that when you have a process for appointing someone to any public body, including the house of lords that you follow the rules. >> the matter is raising even more concerns as parliament is set to vote on whether johnson misled them about those parties. cnn's scott mclean has more on the partygate scandal. >> reporter: now, boris johnson is not in this individuals, nor was it shot at downing street. but it is a timely example of lockdown rule-breaking during his own conservative party. this was pushed by the british tabloid the mirror and shot in headquarters in december 2020. at the time when social distancing restrictions were enforced. and two households were not

allowed to mix indoors. now, there were exceptions for work that 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 that we've seen a video of it, here's part of it. >> now, london's metropolitan police have 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 had said that it had disciplined some of the people involved. conservative cabinet minister michael gove was asked about this video on sky news today and said it was completely out of order and terrible in his words. now, it's gathering was

authorized by sean bailey who previously apologized and resigned of a chair of a committee that he led at city hall. oddly enough, though, bailey was just given a pierage this week, meaning he has a lifetime appointed to house of lords. the uk's version of the senate. and the man who made that award is boris johnson. and a video found that johnson deliberately led parliament about his own separate lockdown parties. the report found that johnson gave uninterptable versions. 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 custom marry former members pass to enter parliament at all. scott mclean, cnn, london. >> it feels like quite a long time, all of that? but it's hard to stomach when you watch it. looking at the reaction of social media, that was the thick of the lockdown laws, wasn't it? >> it was, and we've heard so many people saying their parents died in the hospital alone during his time. or people committed suicide because they couldn't get the help that they needed or the comfort and companionship that they needed. time isn't going to take way of that away for people. regardless of what you think of covid restrictions this was the government setting these rules and regulations. and the party behind the government. so they obviously should have been following other rules that they were asking people to. still to come, a chilling kenya raid at a religious cult, why police are reporting what

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♪ a few days after a brutal massacre at a ewe uganda school, the families of victims laid their families to rest. 49 of the 51 victims were students, some of them were as young as 13. six students are still missing from the attack and are considered abducted. >> the president of uganda sent his condolences in a sweet saying the attackers would be hunted. and islamic group known as the allied democratic forces is being blamed for the attack. according to the u.s. state department, they had ties with isis since 2015. in sue zan, a 72-hour cease-fire between the two warring sides, residents say is there was a lull in fighting after intense clashes the night before killed at least 17 civilians in an air strike in

south khartoum. it comes the u.n. is set to host say donors contest for the country. and thousands have fled to neighboring chad, 2 million people have been permanently displaced. as the fighting between the army and rapid security forces enters its third months. tens of thousands of sudanese are needing to soothe sudan, and as cnn finds out conditions in the refugee camps are dire lacking even basic facilities. >> reporter: this is africa's largest refugee crisis. and you can see the conditions here for yourself. the people here are being largely ignored by the world. aid agencies are doing what they can, but it is simply not enough. south sudan is one of the poorest countries in the world. they barely have enough to feed and shelter their own returnees. and they are also now being

asked to absurd fleeing sudanese and other foreign nationals with limited support from the outside world. and it is almost impossible. with rainy season starting, what you see here, it's only going to get worse. so many of these speaks to us say that they feel a sense of humiliation, that the messes they're receiving from the world, from the international community, is that they're not worthy of support. in aid arrives here in meaningful quantities, it's hard to argue with that. cnn. hundreds of bodies have been found in a forest in a religious cult that ordered themselves to starve themselves. they asked the leaders to, goat, neglect the children to starve to die. cnn's david mckenzie has the

report. and we warn it contains disturbing material that may be hard to watch. her he called it the wilderness to his flock to kenya. we've come to try to understand how over so many months so many could have died. the data still being found. teams carefully remove the members of a christian cult from shallow graves. they've already unearthed 300 people, many of them children, many of them showing signs of starvation. >> it's painful. so painful. just so painful. is this my daughter. >> reporter: he 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 watched them die and

they starved the children. >> reporter: the members of the cult, including your own family, they were starving the children? >> yes. >> reporter: and when the children didn't die quickly enough -- >> -- they suffocated them. >> reporter: they suffocated them? >> they suffocated them, yes. >> reporter: and this is your own blood. >> and i wonder where my children, my daughter, could change to be such a mark. on children. >> reporter: pastor paul mckenzie began his cult. this is the church where the pastor had a huge following in the 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 much 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. they said 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 of your children and move into the forest. >> reporter: the pastor used to call me, she says, he was calling me, telling me, my daughter, you are being left behind. and when the ark is closed, it will be too late. so, i decided to go. when the covid pandemic hit, she said many saw it as evidence that the prophesies were real. mackenzie charged her family $80 for a piece of land in galilee.

there were other biblical names with more than 1,000 follower. still, they made trips to a regular village for food and water. in december, those trips suddenly stopped says the woman. the starvation had begun. he says they alerted authorities, but they did nothing. even after hungry children started escaping to the village. it's been called the massacre has shocked this nation. pastor mackenzie and his closest followers are being held under terror laws. what happened in the forest? >> i can tell something about that, for two months, you don't know what's going on outside there? have you been there? >> reporter: he says there needs to be justice. he mounted a rescue mission to get his grandchildren out. when they found his grandson efrin, he was close to

starvation. his two brothers were already dead. he went through hell. >> he went through hell. i'm telling, in fact, when he was rescued, they told us you can come here maybe late, a bit late but the family said already gone through to see jesus. >> reporter: the very highest levels of the kenyan government has apologized for their inaction and the pain it's caused. the scale of what happened in the forest is still being understood. hundreds ever still missing. and many more mass graves need to be exhumed. and the details of this alleged crime and this cult are certainly horrifying and it could get much worse. they finished the third phase.

three phases of exhumations, they will be doing many more. in that remote part of that forest close to kenya where they haven't explored and could be finding many more bodies. max, bianca. >> you actually spoke to mackenzie and he's not giving anything away. is there any reason why he did this what motivated him? >> i've spoken to cult experts. one question i had was did he believe his own prophesies. and that is a very difficult question to answer at this point. certainly, he said that his followers should starve themselves to death, according to the allegations and court documents and witnesses. he denies all of that. but he himself was not starving nor were his senior leaders of that church in the forest. in fact, the way he put it is the children should starve, then the women, then the men and finally him as the man who he said was god's messenger on the

issues of these prophesies. one striking detail and the hold that he had on his members, last week, more than 60 members of the cult who had been held in an undisclosed location in an area where they've been getting counseling are still refusing to eat. i spoke to a doctor at the main hospital there, he said many of those who were desperately ill and highly malnourished didn't want to be fed because they didn't want to miss out on their chance to arise to heaven. this should be put in the context of some of the worst mass starvation and cults of its kind in the last few decades. and i think unfortunately, the details are only going to get worse, max, bianca. >> david mckenzie, thank you very much. we'll be right back. ♪ neutrogena® hydro boost lightweight. clinically proven. 48-hour hydration. for that healthy skin glow.

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good and sounded strong as he delivered his angelus over a crowd that gathered in st. peter's square saturday morning. just two days after being released from the hospital in rome. the pope underwent surgery, june 7th, three hour procedure. he was not strong enough to give his angelus from the hospital but he looked his good this sunday. the vatican will cancel the audience and keep the schedule light. however, she scheduled to meet leaders of cuba and brazil in private audiences. normally, the pope does not old audiences in july so he will be keeping a lighter schedule. all of this during two important trips he has coming up. the first week of august, he's expected to go to portugal, and end of august, a'stole youic

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adoration. i think intellectual he understands it, but i don't think he feels it. >> proud dad. you know when the rubik's cube was first released. they prophesized it as having one conclusion but 3 billion can different combinations to think if that's true -- >> that's a lot of testing. i can do one side. takes me half an hour. >> and owners in northern australian are celebrating after breaking a guinness world rescue. it's devoted to the organized single breed of dogs. the leader felt it was time that dachshunds have been the top dog. >> we're hoping we can beat the bag beagles. >> the official tally was 1400 damage hounds that beat the previous record set in 2018. >> sausage dogs or dachshunds?

>> i'll go with sausage dogs. rainbow flags filled the skies of vie yen that saturday and thanks to police it was a peaceful event. officials say three austrians between the ages of 14 and 20 were arrested suspected of planning an attack. >> but they say they were sympathizers but confident they followed the plot. >> translator: had we made this information immediately after the arrest, the participants may have experienced anxiety and fear and reacting in panic. that's ultimately the goal of terrorism. cause anxiety and fear in the public. it's also our job not to let that happen. >> about 250,000 people attended the parade on saturday to celebrate members of the lgbtq plus community. >> thank you for joining us here on "cnn newsroom." i'm bianca nobilo.

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