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Spain Edge Argentina After Extra Time To Win 2nd World Cup Title; Gas Prices Rise As U.S. And Iran Escalate Attacks; Iran Launches New Wave Of Missiles Toward Enemy Targets; Andy Burnham Set To Become New U.K. Prime Minister; Andy Burnham to Become Seventh British Prime Minister in a Decade; Spain Win Second World Cup Title with 1-0 Victory over Argentina; Russia Launches Large-Scale Missile Attack on Ukraine; Kiwi Ryan Fox Claims Victory at 2026 Open Championship. Aired 1-2a ET

Aired July 20, 2026 - 01:00   ET

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BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR: Hello wherever you are in the world. You are now in the CNN Newsroom with me, Ben Hunte in Atlanta. And it is so good to have you with me.

Coming up on the show, Spain are headed home, crowned as World Cup champions, snatching the title from Argentina.

Another night of strikes between the U.S. and Iran comes to an end. While the U.S. confirms the death of another service member. And Andy Burnham will soon become the UK's newest prime minister, how will he handle the job that so many have been unable to hold on to?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from Atlanta, this is CNN Newsroom with Ben Hunte.

HUNTE: Welcome. Football fans in Spain are waiting to welcome their reigning champions home in the coming hours. Massive crowds filled the streets of Madrid after the country's one nil World cup victory over Argentina and the celebration continued well into the night.

The match in New Jersey showed off Spain's impressive command of the ball. The team fended off Argentina's advances for nearly two straight hours with Ferran Torres scoring the game winning goal in extra time.

It was not a great match for Argentina. Its star, Lionel Messi struggled to keep pace and had nowhere to pass the ball. And at age 39, it could be his last appearance at any World Cup. But Argentina's disappointment led to Spain's second ever World Cup victory and its first since 2010.

U.S. President Donald Trump joined FIFA President Gianni Infantino to hand Spain its trophy and to award medals to all the players.

We'll hear from disappointed Argentina fans in Buenos Aires in just a moment. But first, let's join the party in Madrid where CNN's Pau Mosquera sets the scene for us.

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PAU MOSQUERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: History has been made. La Roja has claimed its second World cup at New Jersey's stadium and thousands and thousands of fans have watched how the Spain national team made history here from the Spanish capital. And many, after the match got to an end, decided to take on the streets as to celebrate until the very early hours of the morning.

Here you can see an image how thousands of them that were enjoying the match at Plaza de Colon fan zone are now heading to Sibeles where they are expected to be celebrated. Celebrating until this Monday morning. And amongst all the fans that just took the streets, we have this family. For example, what was your name? Juan.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Juan.

MOSQUERA: So, Juan, tell me, did you suffer much during this final?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it was horrible. We suffered a lot. They were tough playing against us. They didn't play really clean, but we managed to win. So it was great.

MOSQUERA: So now, Pilar, tell me, where are you heading? Where is the party at now?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're going to Cibeles to celebrate our champion.

MOSQUERA: Our victory. That's it. Like all the fans going to Cibeles. And lastly, remember, what was your name?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My name was -- my name is Alvaro.

MOSQUERA: Alvaro, tell me, what was the best moment of this match to you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The best moment was when Ferran Torres score the goal.

MOSQUERA: I believe that that's the favorite moment for many of those fans that are heading now to Cibeles. Thank you very much, family. Enjoy this moment.

So you can see this is a situation here in Madrid. If you enjoy big celebrations, this is the place to be right now. And let me tell you that Spain's national team is going to get here in Madrid this morning around noon time. Pau Mosquera, CNN, Madrid.

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STEFANO POZZEBON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Sadly, it wasn't to be. After a commanding performance in the World Cup final, Spain beat Argentina 1 nil. And here in Buenos Aires, it feels like the end of an era. It could have been the last match of Lionel Messi's international career.

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But really it's just a bittersweet tears for a nation that really supported the run of their national team. One of many is Guillermo. Guillermo, it felt like the end of an era. It could be the last match for Lionel Messi. How do you feel about it?

GUILLERMO, ARGENTINIAN FAN: Indeed, very sad. An illusion that fades away. Spain was superior. Well, the team gave it all and we are very proud to feel the this passion when we play and proud of the team and proud of the families that support the team and support the coach.

POZZEBON: And Guillermo, I've seen a lot of people clapping at the Spaniards when they won. There is a lot of football respect between these two nations.

GUILLEROMO: Yes, I think that's something that Scaloni always told us and said in the press conference. This is sport and sport unites the world. Fair play above all.

POEZZBON: Thank you so much. Scaloni being of course the Argentinian coach, Lionel Scaloni. The question is whether he will stick around with the team. But yes, this is the prevailing sentiment here in Buenos Aires, applauding the worthy winner and celebrating a run from the Argentinian team that surprised many because it was not a commanding run as well as in 2022.

Tomorrow, Monday, they will come back to Buenos Aires. They will be cheered and welcomed home as heroes. But tonight is for Spain. For CNN, this is Stefano Pozzebon, Buenos Aires.

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HUNTE: And there's Tracey Holmes, an industry professor in sports and media at the University of Queensland. She's also the host of the Sports Ambassador podcast and she's joining me from Sydney, Australia. Always good to see you, Tracey.

So Spain are the champions, but when people look back on this tournament, what do you think will be its defining image or moment?

TRACEY HOLMES, INDUSTRY PROFESSOR IN SPORT AND THE MEDIA, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND: Well, Ben, I think that very much depends on who you ask. If you ask the media, I'm pretty sure they'll tell you about the controversy around the whole red card dilemma, where President Trump phone President Gianni Infantino and the discussion was around the red card to the player Balogun for the U.S. which didn't in the end help the U.S. progress. But that's a defining moment of this World Cup. If you're looking for controversy, if you ask politicians, then again, it depends where they are.

If you ask some in Europe, they'll be saying they want the head of Gianni Infantino because they don't like political interference. But if you ask the fans, and in the end that is probably the most important asset of all, the fans will tell you they have been absolutely enthused through this World Cup and it didn't matter if they were watching in the packed out stadiums in the USA, Canada or Mexico, or whether they were watching at various fan sites around the world. It really has captured the globe's attention during this past month or so.

HUNTE: The first ever Super Bowl style halftime show, obviously divided opinion. Do you think that FIFA created a new tradition with it or was this something that football should just leave behind?

HOLMES: Look, I think this is one of those things where America does the halftime show really well and American audiences expect that because it's tradition. It's what happens at your major sporting events. I don't think it's going to catch on with other host nations around the world.

It might be something that FIFA would like because more advertising and more time between the halves of football means that they can generate more advertising. However, I think again, if you come back to the fans around the world globally probably not so popular, but the USA did pull it off this time around.

HUNTE: This was also the first 48 team World Cup. Looking back, did the expansion make the tournament better or was it maybe just a bit too big?

HOLMES: Yes, there were a lot of critics first up, weren't there, that were saying there just wasn't the talent around the world to sustain 48 nations. But I think that's been proven wrong, especially when you look at the nations from Africa. So they were boosted. They got almost double the number of births at this World Cup up to 10.

And from those 10, nine of them got through the group stage. Now that's a phenomenal effort. And so there is talk now of perhaps boosting the numbers even more. We're potentially looking at 64 nations next time around. But we're yet to see whether that plays out because there will be some critics with regard to that as well. So it depends on how well Gianni Infantino can sell that to his member associations.

HUNTE: Let's also talk about the ticket prices. I didn't go to the games, I couldn't afford those tickets. But they were massively criticized before the tournament and it maybe actually didn't make the impact people expecting on the games in any way. What do you think?

HOLMES: Yes, I think it was such a big talking point beforehand. And we know again the USA has dynamic pricing which is not unusual for concerts and sporting events and other major activities.

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For a lot of the rest of the world, they don't have dynamic pricing, although I'd suggest that it's probably going to catch on because of the way the market can then fluctuate and offer what the market will withstand. So for FIFA, it was no choice. They decided to go with it because they were making a percentage on all of those tickets sold. So there was a lot of controversy. There was a lot of opinion that perhaps stadiums would be half empty. That certainly didn't turn out to be the case. And there was also a lot of discussion around whether the only people that could afford to go were people that weren't actually football fans.

But I think watching on, I wasn't in any of the venues either, Ben, but like you, I was watching on and I think we could see that there were very genuine fans inside those stadiums. That really elevated the atmosphere. So, you know, again, it depends on who you talk to. It's not cheap to put on these major events and so therefore ticket prices are not cheap either.

HUNTE: Very true. But $50,000 to see England play. Not sure about that one. But as FIFA starts planning the next World Cup, what do you think the biggest lesson from this one needs to be, apart from cheaper ticket prices?

HOLMES: Well, cheaper ticket prices and perhaps if there's more nations, there's more events and more scope for, you know, fans to be able to attend. So there's all of that mathematics to be worked out. I think as far as FIFA is concerned, they look like they're on an absolute winner because the amount of money that they projected to make in this four-year cycle leading up to this premier event, the World cup up, was about $11 billion. That has since been revised to $15 billion and it may even go higher than that again.

So if you think about the 211 member federations, which are all of the football associations in the various countries around the world, they all look to get a percentage of that. So, you know, the member associations are pretty happy with what FIFA has done. But if you're going to talk politics and if you're going to talk about some of the political interference and some of issues around the World Cup, well, that's a different scenario again. But a lot of that doesn't seem to impact on FIFA because its constituents are happy with the job that FIFA is doing, well.

HUNTE: All right, Tracey Holmes for now, thank you. Until the next one, see you.

HOLMES: Thanks very much, Ben.

HUNTE: U.S. Central Command says it has concluded a ninth consecutive night of strikes against Iran. Explosions were heard in cities across the northwest and coastal areas. Iranian state media reports its military also launched missiles toward, quote, enemy targets. This all comes after Tehran accused the U.S. of striking one of its nuclear power plants.

Meanwhile, the U.S. military reported the death of another American service member who was killed in northern Iraq during the controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone. Here's what President Trump said about the recent troop fatalities.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DONALD TRUMP, U.S. PRESIDENT: Well, we feel very badly. But you know, those great people, those great patriots were out there fighting that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. Iran has been very, very badly damaged. They've lost everything almost militarily. They've got very little left. They've got some missiles, they've got some drones. They've got some manufacturing ability. Not much. We control the strait. They don't control anything.

So we'll see what happens. But we hit them very again tonight. And we did that in honor of the probably three. It's probably three as opposed to two great patriots.

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HUNTE: Oil markets are reacting to the new strikes in the region. Let's have a quick look. There they are there. Brent crude. That's the international benchmark. And U.S. crude oil prices are now at their highest in more than a month. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout joins us live from Hong Kong for more. Good to see you again.

The price of oil is climbing as the Iran war expands. What is the latest?

KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDNET: Yes, the price of oil is indeed climbing, Ben, with the price of oil their highest level in more than a month. This is a U.S. and Iran exchange. In this tit for tat exchange of strikes has been going on for over a week now. As you pointed out just a moment ago, the price of Brent crude, the global oil benchmark, is now topped $90 a barrel.

And fund managers around the world, they are taking notice. I want to share with you a comment that we got from Shane Oliver, the head of investment strategy at the fund manager, AMP, and points out this the longer the strait remains closed and the war escalates, the greater the risk that oil prices will have to rise to around $150 a barrel to bring demand down to match the hit to supply adds. This is not our base case, but it is high risk again.

Now we're also keeping an eye on average gas prices in America. They are also on the rise.

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And according to AAA we are heading back to $4 a gallon gas territory. This is the average gas price in America is currently at $3.99 and American drivers right now are paying about 34 percent more at the pump than before the war began. We also heard earlier today from U.S. Central Command. They announced a ninth consecutive day of strikes against Iran.

This after three U.S. service members have died since Friday and global shipping is under threat. According to the UK MTO, a vessel is on fire near the Strait of Hormuz. The incident took place off the coast of Oman and separately but related overall shipping maritime traffic across that critical waterway is declining sharply. New data to share with you from LSEG. Sharing this, number one, no

visible liquefied natural gas tankers that pass through the strait to this Thursday. On top of that, four vessels that was it made the crossing on Sunday. That's down from eight the previous day. And three oil tankers and one very large tanker entered the strait since Friday.

Now we're also monitoring the Asian markets. There is a lot of concern, a lot of caution out here and want to zero in on the Seoul Kospi to see how it's performing this day. And if you could bring up the data, you'll see losses there in the Seoul Kospi, investors weighing the escalating situation in Iran. You can see there it's trading down about three and a third of 1 percent.

But on top of that, another factor is falling confidence in AI chip valuations. But the Iran war is top of mind here. Don't forget South Korea is very much exposed to the Hormuz energy crunch. So much so that last year before the war broke out, South Korea sourced some 70 percent of its crude from the region. Ben, back to you.

HUNTE: OK, Kristie, thank you so much.

Joining me now is Amena Bakr, the head of Middle East Energy and OPEC Insights for Kpler. Is good to see you. We are now seeing even more US strikes on Iran alongside Iranian attacks across the region. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke earlier about the US's objectives. Let's have a quick listen to that.

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MARCO RUBIO, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: The only reason why the U.S. is conducting strikes is against assets of Iran that are being used to attack global commercial shipping. The Straits of Hormuz are international waterways and they continue to launch against ships in that international waterway.

Other countries should join us in this effort that the United States is involved not just in protecting those ships but in targeting the places that they use to launch these missiles and drones.

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HUNTE: OK, so are you surprised that we're still here? So many months later.

AMENA BAKR, HEAD OF MIDDLE EAST ENERGY AND OPEC PLUS INSIGHTS, KPLER: Well, it was expected the MoU, despite it was signed in maybe in good faith in the beginning, but it clearly did not address the big political rift between the U.S. and Iran. So it was expected that we would end up back to square one, back to the attacks.

And I think the only solution from here is not continuing these military attacks that are affecting the region at whole and the whole world if we're talking about oil prices, but just going back and resuming these political discussions and political talks.

HUNTE: How worried are energy ministers and Gulf governments right now that this conflict could spill into an even longer disruption of oil exports?

BAKR: It's a very, very concerning situation. And it's a concerning situation, as we saw over the weekend, that Iran has resumed its attacks on energy infrastructure. It targeted Bahrain and Kuwait once more, and Kuwait announced that its energy infrastructure had been hit severely. And that's just going to delay the recovery process.

And when we're talking about a recovery, it's not just about the stranded vessels that we saw initially when the MoU was signed, we saw some stranded vessels leave the strait. It's about repairing the facilities that were damaged during the war. And the longer we wait, the longer we are going to have an obstruction in, in supply. So it's a very concerning situation for the region.

HUNTE: How nervous are Gulf states right now about being pulled further into this conflict, even if they aren't actually direct participants?

BAKR: Well, I mean the Gulf states really have no part in this conflict. This is a conflict between the U.S., you can argue Israel and Iran and they're just caught up in the middle. And that's why we've been seeing calls from, from Gulf states, including the UAE post the Kuwait attack that we saw going saying that, you know, hostilities have to stop and they need to resume the political talks.

And it is impacting economies here, it's impacting oil exports.

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Sure, there are contingency plans by some of the countries, including the UAE and Saudi Arabia, but that does not take us back to anywhere close to pre-war level. So I would say overall, very alarming, very concerning situation that needs to end soon.

HUNTE: And while all that is happening, markets have reacted, but not dramatically so far. Are traders betting that this disruption will be short lived? What's going on?

BAKR: I think that traders are again trading on sentiment. I absolutely agree with the statement that was said earlier that the longer this trade is closed for that we might hit three digit oil prices. But that really depends on how fast the prices could move to reacting to fundamentals.

For the time being, we're seeing traders react on tweets and sentiments and there is this kind of notion that there's a lot of supply in the market, which isn't true too today in the crisis we're in, we're in a much worse state because countries haven't been able to fill their strategic preserves.

So we're running on a much lower stock level. And yes, prices are not reacting in the way that we expect them to react. But there is a tipping point or a breaking point. It's just hard to know when that would happen.

HUNTE: All of that being said when you're speaking to your sources all across the region, what is the biggest fear today?

BAKR: Well, the biggest fear really is not knowing how this conflict will end and when this conflict would end. And a lot of the countries here in the region would like to go back to resuming their normal level of production and repairing all of the damage that has been done.

So, all of this uncertainty is I think the one of the biggest concerns. And also traffic through the Strait of Hormuz to return to what it was pre-war level, meaning that no country Iran did not charge tolls. This is a natural waterway and it should be open for all trade and it should return back to what it was.

HUNTE: OK. Awesome insights. Amena Bakr in Dubai. Thank you so much. Speak again very soon, I'm sure.

BAKR: Thank you.

HUNTE: Still to come, being British Prime Minister is no easy task. Can Andy Burnham break the cycle of his predecessors and deliver the changes that he's promised the UK? I'll ask an expert next.

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HUNTE: Welcome back. In the coming hours, Andy Burnham is set to become the British Prime Minister. The new Labour Party leader will be the UK's seventh prime minister in a decade. He succeeds Keir Starmer, who won the position in a landslide victory just two years ago, but leaves the role after months of controversy.

Burnham spent nine years as the mayor of Greater Manchester and has promised the U.K., quote, a new era of possibility. That comes in addition to another promise made to the Labour Party just days ago.

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ANDY BURNHAM, BRITISH LABOUR PARTY LEADER: As your leader, I will set a direction that is distinctively labor. From here we do it differently. We win by being us.

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HUNTE: Joining us now Is Martin Farr, a senior lecturer in Contemporary British History at Newcastle University. Good to see you, sir.

Andy Burnham will become Britain's seventh prime minister in just 10 years. What does that level of political turnover say about the health and stability of British politics? And why has it become so difficult for Prime Ministers to survive?

MARTIN FARR, SENIOR LECTURER IN CONTEMPORARY BRITISH HISTORY, NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, Yes, it's been 10 years since we've had a Prime Minister serving a full term and it's not coincidental that it's been the Brexit decade. And so much of the uncertainty we've had in the parliamentary system has come about through that referendum, that direct vote, which was grafted onto a parliamentary system most MPs themselves, most lawmakers, did not support the decision of the people.

And so that disjunction, and indeed the next Prime Minister who replaced David Cameron, Theresa May, had campaigned to remain. So the difficulties of trying to manage a popular vote in that way place enormous pressure on the system, on lawmakers, and indeed further undermined the confidence and the faith that the public had in their leaders, which led them to vote for Brexit in the first place.

So there's much more to it than that, but that, I think, is the proximate cause for the political instability. Additionally, there's the long term consequences of the crash of 2008 and stagnant living standards and the cost of living crisis, which has gone on now for 10 years.

And in the light of that underpinning lack of economic growth, lack of wage increases in wages, we see the appeal of insurgent parties, populist parties, who want to do things differently. And so this has created this maelstrom of political circumstances which claimed its latest Prime Minister or will claim the latest Prime Minister this afternoon,.

HUNTE: Burnham wasn't elected by the public as Prime Minister. So is there any serious pressure for a general election or is it just wider acceptance now that this is simply how British parliamentary systems work?

FARR: It has become something of the norm for Prime Ministers to change in between general elections. But ironically, that increases the pressure on them to have an election, particularly if, as may be the case with Andy Burnham, he chance a different course than that on which Labour was elected only two years ago.

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So there's no constitutional or historical precedent for an election to be called. The evidence is mixed. When they are called, they can work. They may not work.

He may be tempted to go early in the autumn if the polls are looking good. But even then I suspect he'll be consigning over a hundred of his backbenchers to unemployment because they will certainly lose the majority they have.

So the suspicion is that he would rather have a solid majority for at least three years than risk that in a general election, as we're seeing in Clacton with Nigel Farage and his by-election.

The public aren't always very keen to have continual elections, so I suspect he'll be quite keen to damp down speculation about the possibility of an early general election.

BEN HUNTE, CNN ANCHOR: Makes sense to me. Keir Starmer entered Downing Street with one of Labour's biggest ever election victories, but lasted barely two years. What ultimately brought him down?

FARR: I think historians will look back at this -- I mean, historians will be able to explain this. I think a layperson will look back and wonder why he was brought down, given there was no overarching crisis or scandal which brought him down.

It was the continual undermining, the underwhelming, almost one could say, underwhelmed from the outset as prime minister, that his majority was very large in parliamentary terms, but not in terms of popular vote or in public opinion.

And he lacked the personal charisma, the magnetism, the ability to construct a story, a narrative that a politician would need to compensate for those limitations.

It's thought that Burnham has that ability to be able to speak to the public, to emote, to engage, to use wit, to be quite nimble, to be an attractive person.

Starmer, for whatever his private strengths may be, and this applies to many prime ministers I could -- I could mention in private, it didn't really come across in public.

He was not an engaging politician. He reinforced the sense that voters had of an out-of-touch elite. He represented what many would regard as a north London kind of mindset, which is rather detached from the rest of the country, never mind the rest of London.

And Burnham speaks with a regional accent. He's the first north western prime -- first northern prime minister, really, culturally since Harold Wilson in 1976. And that is one reason why he won the Makerfield by-election so emphatically. And that's one reason why Labour thinks that he is the only person who's able to deal with the threat of reform to former Labour voters and of the Green Party on the left to former Labour voters.

If he can bring together that Labour coalition, then Labour has a chance of staying in office in three years' time.

HUNTE: So on that, do you think that Burnham will get any sort of political honeymoon, or do voters expect him to give them immediate results?

FARR: I'm afraid voters do expect immediate results. I was listening to Vox Pops in Clacton the other day, and the expectation that things would -- life would change in Clacton because they have a new MP within two years is a rather naive view of how politics works.

But I think that there is a culture now of immediate expectation of gratification and indeed of conveying one's dissatisfaction with things whether this is through polling or through questionnaires and feedback and so on. So I think there will be very limited public honeymoon for him. And

the challenge he has, of course, is that his in-tray is the same as Keir Starmer's in-tray and how he can generate economic growth, and how he can revive democracy.

He's setting quite high ambitions for himself. In many ways, Starmer limited his opportunity as prime minister by underwhelming in terms of what he thought he could achieve. He was saying things would get worse before they could get better.

Burnham has been very clear that he needs to -- he feels he needs to revive the country almost. This is the last chance, not just for the Labour Party, but for our system of government.

So expectations are extremely high and the recent pattern and history has been that they're not usually met.

HUNTE: Ok. Martin Farr, thank you so much. I'm sure we'll speak again very soon about all of this. Thank you for now.

There has been a constant at 10 Downing Street to help ease each of these transitions of power. Larry the Cat, also known by his official title of Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, is preparing to serve under a seventh prime minister in his role.

Larry is a celebrity in his own right and has lived at the political headquarters since 2011. We'll have to wait and see how he welcomes his new team.

And you can join us for special coverage as Andy Burnham is set to become the U.K.'s next prime minister. It starts at 11:00 a.m. in London and 6:00 a.m. in New York right here on CNN.

All right. After the break, Spain are crowned World Cup champions, snatching the title from Argentina. And we'll show you how New York celebrations transformed over the course of the final match.

That is ahead.

See you in a moment.

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HUNTE: Welcome back.

More now on our top story.

Spain are World Cup champions for the second time after beating Argentina one-nil in extra time in Sunday's final. Spain dominated the pitch but didn't break through until substitute Ferran Torres scored the winner in the 106th minute.

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HUNTE: They are now the first team to win the cup after giving up just one goal for the entire tournament.

That is the sound of cheers reverberating across Rocafonda, the working class and multi-ethnic neighborhood, where one of Spain's star players, Lamine Yamal, grew up.

His fans filled the streets after Spain's victory over Argentina. Overcome with excitement.

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CRISTINA MURCIA, SPANISH FOOTBALL FAN (through translator): It's very exciting. My heart was split. Spain comes first. Come on, I love you, Spain. This is my second home, I love you.

BIEL GALLEGO, SPANISH FOOTBALL FAN (through translator): Spain played how it had to play with control, with ball possession and shooting several times. They played perfectly. They played all the minutes they had to.

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HUNTE: Yamal is just 19 years old, one of the youngest to ever play in a men's World Cup final. But he hasn't forgotten his roots. During the tournament, he wore a Rocafonda headband and has used a signature goal celebration throughout his career as a shout out to his supporters back home.

CNN's Gloria Pazmino brings us the reaction to the World Cup final in New York.

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GLORIA PAZMINO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was Argentinian territory for most of the day here in New York City, but now it is very much a Spanish party.

Fans from Spain have been gathering here in the last few minutes just celebrating this world championship.

We've been hearing them chant the names of these players, talking to me about how much this means to them to be a world champion for the second time.

I want to show you what it looks like right now. Everyone celebrating as they take in this win. You know, it was a sort of a nail biter of a game, a really close game until the very last minute.

There was a lot of stress here in Times Square as people were trying to watch.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel great Spain won.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It sucks. I'm sad.

PAZMINO: You're sad. Why?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Messi, the best player in the world, he lost. Well, guess what? Ronaldo is better.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm over the moon right now. Always knew Spain was going to win from the get go. I was always rooting for Spain. I knew it was going to be a hard game. You know it was going to be a close game.

But I knew the Argentina defense weren't going to be there today. And I knew Spain were going to pull through.

PAZMINO: What did you think of the whole thing? And especially being here in New York, seeing everybody come together to celebrate football.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So I had my speculations at first. I was like, oh, is it going to be a good host thing? But I can't lie, it exceeded my expectations. Like Mexico, Canada, U.S.A., over the top.

PAZMINO: This is a moment and a place that shows us what this World Cup was all about. Gathering -- the gathering of communities, the gathering of all different cultures and people coming together to celebrate this beautiful game.

That's what this World Cup has been all about. We're seeing it play out right here, people are celebrating, the fans celebrating their team.

I even spoke to a fan from Egypt who was rooting for Spain today. He told me he felt like he finally got his justice after that Egypt- Argentina game.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It should have been Egypt versus a Spain final. But hey, at least Spain beat Argentina.

PAZMINO: Good vibes here in Times Square. A lot of celebration that I think we're probably going to miss here in New York city now that this World Cup has come to an end.

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HUNTE: This year's World Cup final featured its first ever half-time show, bringing a Super Bowl style spectacle to soccer's biggest stage.

Madonna kicked off the star-studded production, entering the stadium in a dune buggy driven by Brazilian soccer legends Ronaldo and Ronaldinho.

K-pop stars BTS then took to the stage to perform their hit "Dynamite". And the stars of the feel-good soccer comedy "Ted Lasso", Jason Sudeikis and Brendan Hunt made an appearance in character to introduce Justin Bieber and deliver one of their famous pep talks.

Well, after that, Shakira and Nigerian musician Burna Boy performed the official World Cup anthem. The show also featured the Muppets, there they are, as part of an

orchestral arrangement of the White Stripes Seven Nation Army. And Coldplay frontman Chris Martin joined Shakira along with an elementary school chorus and the Sesame Street Gang for the grand finale.

All right. A wildfire has swept through southern France. We'll bring you all the details of that blaze next.

And smoke from fires in Canada has been drifting into the United States. Hear what President Trump had to say about all of that, next.

In a moment.

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HUNTE: Russia has launched one of its largest ballistic missile attacks on Ukraine since the war started more than four years ago. Ukraine's air force said the main target of Sunday's assault was the capital, Kyiv, which faced a variety of missiles and attack drones, too.

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HUNTE: Authorities say at least 16 people were killed and 77 injured across Ukraine, mainly in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.

The large-scale attack prompted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to issue a plea for allies to expedite deliveries of previously promised air defense packages.

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VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): The danger remains even now, and this must be taken into account. Russia is placing its bets on ballistic missiles, and it is because of them that Putin still believes in his war.

It is very important that our partners understand what is happening and that we need air defense missiles to protect lives literally every single day.

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HUNTE: A wildfire in southern France has forced several evacuations of towns on the Mediterranean coast. Local authorities say strong winds and drought fueled the blaze's rapid spread. They added that the fire has scorched around 450 acres of land.

Experts warned last month that record temperatures in western Europe had worsened the risk of wildfires. The average high temperature in the area was 38 degrees Celsius. That is 11 degrees above average.

President Trump has suggested that Canada should pay damages for wildfire smoke that has drifted into the United States in recent days. He says he spoke with the Canadian prime minister, that is Mark Carney, at the World Cup final on Sunday.

The president had previously suggested using tariffs to retaliate for smoke affecting the United States.

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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I told him, you got to stop these fires from coming in and, you know, poisoning our air. Our air has been poisoned.

I have a good relationship with Mark Carney. But, you know, we got to stop the fires up there. If we can help them, we'll help them. But maybe they should pay us some damages or something, or we should do some tariffs.

But it was terrible. I mean, you had businesses closing.

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HUNTE: At least six people are dead after two earthquakes in the mountains of Peru. More than 20 people are hurt also. The quakes hit about 300 kilometers east of the capital, Lima, late on Saturday.

Authorities say dozens of homes were either destroyed or damaged, affecting about 300 people who were given tents for shelter.

Peru is located along the Pacific Ring of Fire, a zone that accounts for about 85 percent of all seismic activity in the world.

Flooding in Chile has stranded families and inundated homes with mud. Severe storms in the country's central north regions pushed army and police forces into rescue mode.

Chile's military police had to carry out an aerial rescue after a family had to be airlifted from their rooftop as floodwaters rose around them.

In one city, a mobile field hospital was set up after several hospital wards were destroyed.

A state of emergency was declared across ten regions of the country through Tuesday to coordinate response efforts.

Awful scenes there.

We will have all the details from the Open Championship as the 39- year-old Ryan Fox achieves a career first. That is next on CNN.

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HUNTE: 39-year-old golfer Ryan Fox took home the Claret Jug as he claimed victory in the Open Championship. The win at Royal Birkdale gives Fox his first career major title. And he becomes only the third New Zealander to win a men's major golf championship. He managed to beat out American Cameron Young with four birdies in the

last six holes. They were tied until Fox set up a 12-foot putt on the 18th hole and drained it.

Now to a marathon unlike any other, hosted in one of the harshest places on earth -- the geographic North Pole. 22 runners from seven countries competed in this year's North Pole Marathon.

Held on drifting sea ice, runners had to endure tough conditions and a wind chill of minus-5 degrees Celsius. They were even guarded by armed polar bear patrols.

Denmark's Rikke Dam won the women's title and China's Shengxian Wang finished first in the men's division.

The annual toe-wrestling championship returned to the English town of Ashbourne over the weekend. The sport can be seen as the foot's answer to arm wrestling, with the contest dating back to 1976.

This year's champion was Casey Brooks, who claimed the men's title by defeating reigning champion Ben "Toe-tal Destruction" Woodroffe. But the former world champion wasn't about to give away any trade secrets.

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BEN "TOE-TAL DESTRUCTION" WOODROFFE, FORMER TOE-WRESTLING CHAMPION: Yes, I mean, I don't like really saying too much about my technique. It's a bit of a trade secret.

So yes, for me, I just, you know, keep my cards close to my chest and then, yes, like I say, we win.

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HUNTE: Actors brought history to life at a festival in Romania this weekend. Visitors were transported back in time to watch ancient warriors and Roman soldiers battle for the conquest of present-day Romania.

The festival also featured traditional dances and immersive workshops too, showing what daily life would have been like in the Roman era.

Well, all right. That's all I've got for you. Thanks for joining me and the team.

I'm Ben Hunte in Atlanta.

There is so much more CNN NEWSROOM right after this break.

I will see you next week.

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