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IPC: "Worst-Case Scenario of Famine" Unfolding in Gaza; NYC Gunman Who Killed Four had Grievances with NFL; Trump: I Cut Ties with Jeffrey Epstein Over a Business Dispute; Women Band Together in Desperate Search of Food; Russia Ramps Up Attacks on Ukraine Amid Trump's Deadline; 10-Year Study Reveals how Daily Walks Can Reduce Risk of Alzheimer's and Dementia. Aired 11a-12p ET
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ELENI GIOKOS, CNN HOST, ONE WORLD: A U.N. backed initiative is calling a worst-case scenario of famine unfolding in Gaza. "One World" starts right
now. This warning comes as more food begins to arrive in Gaza, but humanitarian groups say getting it to starving people is both difficult and
dangerous.
Plus, 1 million women and girls in Gaza are facing mass starvation, violence and abuse, according to the EU and U.N. rather. I'll be talking to
humanitarian officials at U.N. woman about that alarming report and new details on the deadly mass shooting in New York City after a man walks into
a busy Midtown office building with an assault style rifle and opens fire.
Live from London, I'm Eleni Giokos, this is "One World". Gaza reaches a grim milestone amid a spiraling hunger crisis. Its health ministry says
more than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave since Israel's war on Hamas began nearly two years ago.
This is global monitors says a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding there. The U.N. backed, Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or
IPC, says mounting evidence shows widespread starvation, malnutrition and disease are driving a rise in hunger related deaths.
The warning comes as more food begins to arrive in Gaza, after a global outcry. Israel says it will continue to pause military operations to allow
more aid in. But aid agencies warn the supply remains far short of what is needed. Meanwhile, Israel's Foreign Minister says international pressure on
Israel is causing Hamas to harden its position in ceasefire talks.
We've got CNN's Jeremy Diamond Joining us now from Tel Aviv. Jeremy, good to have you with us. The U.N. saying that the worst-case scenario of famine
is unfolding in Gaza right now. Food Distribution is happening finally, due to those military pauses. How quickly can food get in? What are you hearing
about distribution and logistics right now?
JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN JERUSALEM CORRESPONDENT: Well, Eleni, it simply can't get in quickly enough, because we know that even once enough food gets in,
it's going to take some time for the people who are suffering from acute malnutrition to actually be able to recover.
With some doctors even warning that at this point, food could also be deadly for some individuals who are suffering from those acute stages of
malnutrition that they need also an influx of health care to properly monitor them and nurse them back to health.
The reality of what we are seeing on the ground is that indeed, more trucks of aid are not only getting into Gaza, but getting distributed throughout
the Gaza Strip. Just yesterday, about 200 trucks of aid were distributed in Gaza, according to Israeli authorities. The United Nations says that's
still well short of the 500 trucks a day or so, that they would like to see get into Gaza in order to begin to alleviate the starvation crisis.
But it's still much higher than the 70 or so trucks a day that we had been seeing for months now inside the Gaza Strip. And all of this is happening
as that U.N. backed body, the IPC, which is the global authority on food security, is indeed saying that the worst-case scenario of famine is now
unfolding in Gaza.
This is short of a formal declaration of famine, but it is based on the obvious evidence that has now unfolded, not only on the fact that they say
that some 20,000 plus children have now been admitted for treatment for acute malnutrition between April and mid-July, but also just on the scenes
that we are seeing on the ground, where they say that access to food has now plummeted to unprecedented levels in Gaza.
And that effectively, the conditions for famine on the ground have now been established in most parts of the Gaza Strip. That is a dramatic declaration
after this very same body warned in May that famine would take place in Gaza if serious actions weren't taken to avoid it.
And indeed, that was months ago, and instead, we saw Israeli restrictions over the course of those months, which drove us to this very situation that
we are now all watching unfold before our eyes.
GIOKOS: Yeah. I mean, there's such a huge backlog, and honestly, logistically speaking, this is definitely going to be a tough one to
manage.
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Jeremy, I want to shift over to another story that came out of the West Bank where Oscar winning Palestinian Odeh Hathalin was killed due to
settler violence. What more do we know about what transpired?
DIAMOND: Yeah, Odeh Hathalin was a prominent Palestinian activist who also worked as a producer on the Oscar winning documentary "No Other Land" which
talked about this growing settler violence in the West Bank. We know now that Israel police say that they have detained one Israeli civilian. That
man's name is Yinon Levi.
He is an Israeli settler who was sanctioned by the United States under the Biden Administration, those sanctions were then removed by the Trump
Administration. Yinon Levi was known to many of the activists in the area, and viewed as a problematic and dangerous settler in the area. We know that
there is video of Yinon Levi firing in the area where Hathalin was killed.
But we don't have video of the moment itself, and we don't know exactly who he was firing at in the moments of that video. But he has now been detained
and released under house arrest at this point, with Palestinian activists in the West Bank now calling for justice, which they have seen far too many
times, that that justice has too frequently been denied, Eleni.
GIOKOS: Yeah -- Jeremy Diamond, thank you so much for that update. Well, later this hour, they walk into the unknown. We'll be telling you about how
some women in Gaza are banding together in dangerous and desperate search for food. We are going to be listening to that story, and I want you to
listen to one mother and what she had to say.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The children tell me, don't go, mama, she says. Don't go to the aid centers. We don't want you to die, mama. Who'll take care of
us if something happens to you.
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GIOKOS: Well, the alternative is that they starve. Women are bearing the brunt of this war. The U.N. says 1 million women and girls are among those
facing starvation in Gaza. And later this hour, I'll be speaking to Sofia Calltorp, a top humanitarian official with U.N. Women.
Now turning to the deadliest shooting in New York City in 25 years. On Monday evening, a man armed with an assault style rifle killed four people
inside a Park Avenue office tower before turning the gun on himself. Authorities say the shooter may have been trying to get to the offices of
the NFL, whose corporate headquarters are in the building.
Sources tell CNN, the gunman had a note in his pocket saying that he suffered from CTE, it's a brain disease that has been linked to head
trauma. The shooter, who played football in his youth, asked for his brain to be studied.
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JESSICA TISCH, NEW YORK CITY POLICE COMMISSIONER: I want to be very clear, we believe this to be a lone shooter, and there is no longer an active
threat to the public. The shooter is believed to be Shane Tamura. 27-year- old male with a Las Vegas address.
The vehicle he exited is registered in Nevada to Mr. Tamura, according to our law enforcement partners in Las Vegas, Mr. Tamura has a documented
mental health history. His motives are still under investigation, and we are working to understand why he targeted this particular location.
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GIOKOS: Well, the building where the shooting took place, 345 Park Avenue, is in the heart of Midtown Manhattan. CNN's Omar Jimenez joins us now with
the latest. Omar, we're starting to get a lot more details. Could you give me a sense of what you're seeing on the ground and, importantly, what
authorities are saying?
OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, so right now, we're hearing a lot from New York City Mayor Eric Adams, who, for one, has said he believes
that the shooter may have been targeting the NFL, which has offices here, but even the morning after I want to show you here, you still see remnants
of the shooting.
Obviously, police officers in front guarding the entrances. But as you can see, that glass window pane cracked with what appears to be an impact point
with potentially where a bullet may have been able to go through. But then also, if you look over to the right, a similar impact point at the bottom
of that revolving door.
This was where the shooter, according to police, walked into the lobby and began just opening fire, killed three people in the lobby alone, including
a New York City police officer before making his way to an elevator bank. An elevator took him to the 33rd floor, where he encountered another
person.
Killed that person before turning the gun on himself. But I want you to take a listen to New York City Mayor Eric Adams about what they are finding
in the preliminary aspects of this investigation on why this person took the elevator that they did. Take a listen.
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ERIC ADAMS, NEW YORK MAYOR: From our preliminary investigation, he took the wrong elevator bank up to the NFL headquarters. Instead, it took him to
Rudin management, and that is where he carried out additional shootings and took the lives of additional employees.
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JIMENEZ: And as you heard from the mayor, regardless of elevator bank he took, he still killed at least four people here, one of them a New York
City police officer, Didarul Islam, an immigrant from Bangladesh, father of two, his family expecting a third child. And it's why, actually, right now
you can see flags at half-staff right now here in New York City to honor that police officer that was killed.
Another person killed in this was an employee for Blackstone that has offices here. Wesley LePatner described as a brilliant, passionate, warm
and generous person. We're still trying to figure out who the other two people are. But a fifth person shot and who is expected to be OK, is an
employee at the NFL who has said that, moving forward in the weeks and months to come, there is going to be increased security here as police try
to push through to a motive.
I should mention on the body itself. Law enforcement sources tell CNN, and we heard this from the mayor as well, that a suicide note was found
referencing CTE, that in brain injury brought on by head trauma. But again, police haven't quite pinpointed that as the motive.
Instead, it seems to be, at least for now, a piece of this investigative puzzle that officials are still trying to figure out right now, Eleni.
GIOKOS: Omar Jimenez thank you so much for bringing us the details being on the ground, on the very important story playing out in New York right now.
I want to bring in now CNN's Chief Law Enforcement Analyst, John Miller. He's got more for us. And John, we just heard from Omar and pieces of
evidence coming together.
You know, what is your take on this? He enters the building, goes into the lobby, kills people, then goes up to the 33rd floor. And, you know,
thinking about a corporate office is usually a lot of firewalls and very difficult to get up into different floors. And I wonder if there was an
alarm system that was activated. What is your sense right now in terms of the evidence that we're hearing?
JOHN MILLER, CNN CHIEF LAW ENFORCEMENT & INTELLIGENCE ANALYST: Well, once he opened fire in the lobby, killing the police officer and others, he made
his way to the elevators. He took a shot at a security officer who ducked down behind the security desk in the original volley of fire.
And you know, these elevators are controlled by access from the lobby. You get taken to the floor that you're authorized to go to. A woman was in the
elevator. It was on the ground floor. The gunman walked in. She then walked out, having heard the shots, and then he rode that elevator to the
destination.
It took him to the NFLs on the fifth floor. Rudin management is on the 33rd floor, and then came out shooting. We don't know, and we never will know in
all likelihood, whether he thought the whole building was NFL offices and wherever he got off he would find his targets, or if he just started
shooting when he got off at that random floor.
It appears he took stairs to a lower floor where he took his own life. Probably realizing at that point, this is not the place I -- you know had
come here to target.
GIOKOS: Yeah. I mean, it's really interesting. You've got New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and the hypothesis is that he was targeting the NFL,
which was based on what we heard about his suicide notes, the contents that he suffered from CTE, which is a brain injury associated with head trauma.
But what are we learning about the suicide note in particular, and how does that help us try and figure out the motive?
MILLER: Well, so the note, it's basically put together from different scraps of paper that he had on him. But he talks about CTE. He talks about
the football player, Terry Long. He seems to have watched a front-line documentary on CTE. And he references people who were interviewed, doctors
who commented, and quotes, people saying, you know, you can't go against the NFL.
Of course, for background, the NFL instituted a CTE program in 2015, where if you have head trauma, a possible concussion, first they take a baseline
brain reading, and then if you have head trauma, they take another reading before you can get back into play. You have to be signed off on by doctors
who read those things, and they have been involved in increasing their awareness of CTE.
But his notes were really all about his feeling that the NFL should have done more, could have done more sooner, and that seems to be behind his
motive.
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GIOKOS: This is the deadliest shooting in New York in 25 years, and we know that security is going to be shored up in that area, but I'm sure a lot of
corporate offices, a lot of people watching this and wondering whether they are protected and ready for this type of eventuality, a very tragic story
that's playing out, John, how do you think this is going to affect the city?
MILLER: Well, I think this is happening in a society where we have sadly become accustomed to these things occurring across the country. Very
unusual in New York City, having a rifle involved an assault weapon involved in a crime in New York City also unusual.
But I think what you're going to see is an increase in security to reassure people who work in that area and at high profile locations. And I'm sure
you're going to, over time, see that ebb back to normal. Listen, there was already layered security in that building. There were already two armed
police officers in uniform who were working off duty there to show a uniform presence.
There is a security team that works there, both armed and unarmed elevator controls. There is no layer of security for a regular public building where
thousands of people come in the course of several hours on every day, that is going to address somebody who walks in with a fully loaded assault
weapon, additional magazines and ammunition, who's bent on killing and opens fire the minute he walks in.
That's not a security issue. That's an American issue about where we are now with people, their issues guns and how they deal with them.
GIOKOS: John Miller, great to have you with us. Thank you so very much for that analysis
MILLER: Thanks Eleni.
GIOKOS: All right. Well, President Trump is heading home. After the break, we'll look at the progress he made during his private trip to Scotland and
the controversy that followed him there. Plus, the U.N. says more than a million women and girls in Gaza face mass starvation while finding food
becomes even harder. The plight of women, as the hunger crisis deepens. We'll be right back. Stay with CNN.
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GIOKOS: President Donald Trump is wrapping up his Scotland trip, and he's set to board Air Force One any moment now and head back to Washington.
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Earlier, the president cut the ribbon at an official inauguration of his new golf course, during which he touted the fires, he's putting out all
over the world.
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DONALD TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We'll play it very quickly, and then I go back to D.C. and we put out fires all over the
world. We did one yesterday. As you know, we stopped a war, but we stopped about five wars, so that's much more important than playing golf, as much
as I like, it's much more important.
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GIOKOS: The morning caps a whirlwind trip for the president. He put the finishing touches on a trade deal with the European Union. He also met with
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, issued a new ultimatum to Russia, applied pressure on Israel and gave new details about his relationship with
Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeff Zeleny joins us now from Edinburgh, Scotland for an overall wrap up, and he says golf important, but everything else he did was even a bigger
priority. But it's really interesting when you look at everything that was achieved. Take us through it and the impact on this trip.
JEFF ZELENY, CNN CHIEF U.S. NATIONAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT: Well, golf certainly was the reason that President Trump decided to spend a summer
weekend and a few extra days here in Scotland to open his golf course. As you said, it's his second course, and it's the second course, the second 18
holes on that specific course.
So yes, considerable time was spent on the course Saturday and Sunday and again today, but it was the other meetings, though, that really, you know,
are consequential and significant. Inking that trade deal with the European Union certainly is something that is really the next step in really
achieving the president's effort to reshape the global trading order, but it is Russia and Gaza.
Those two foreign policy challenges, obviously major frustrations for President Trump, really will signal what his legacy will be in terms of
reaching out America's hand to the world. And is he going to live up to his word by cracking down on Vladimir Putin. We will see about that.
Obviously, President Trump has delivered many ultimatums to Vladimir Putin. Most of them have fell flat, but yesterday, when he sounded exasperated
saying he does not want to talk to Vladimir Putin anymore, almost sounded dismayed at the fact that Putin has not listened to him.
Perhaps that is a bit of a dose of reality to what President Trump has long talked about. He said he was going to be elected. If he was elected, his
relationships with Putin would end the war on the first day in office. Well, obviously that was never going to happen, and certainly hasn't
happened.
So, on Russia, what does he do when that 12-day deadline is up. And on Gaza specifically, he said he plans to press Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin
Netanyahu. He was actually asked about that on the golf course. Let's listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: -- will you see next to Benjamin Netanyahu?
TRUMP: We're working together. We're going to try and get things straightened out for the world. Thank you very much.
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ZELENY: Trying to get things straightened out. Of course, that the urgent need is to get to food aid into Gaza, which has been very, very difficult.
So, will Netanyahu do more of a permanent ceasefire? We shall see. But President Trump making the statement here that starvation is unacceptable
certainly was something that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was hoping he would say it was one of the reasons for their meeting yesterday.
So, for all of this, certainly a successful trip for President Trump as he makes his way back to Washington shortly, Eleni.
GIOKOS: All right. So, Jeff, he's going to be facing reality when he gets back home. And the debacle, the Epstein debacle, is what he is going to be
dealing with on the domestic front. What can he expect? What can we expect in terms of news flow?
ZELENY: Look this ongoing scandal and really a political crisis on Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier. It does still hang over the White House.
They've been unable to sort of get beyond it, and President Trump yesterday, perhaps complicated that even more by giving some new answers to
what caused their falling out in the first place about two decades or so ago.
He said that Epstein was trying to steal his help at his golf club, and he said he never went to Epstein's Island, an island of course which is
alleged to be the background for some of the sex trafficking and criminal activities. So, the reason that this remains a scandal, the reason that
this remains a controversy, is because this is something that the president and many people around him have been raising conspiracy theories about this
for nearly a decade.
And now that the power is in their hands, many of their supporters do not believe that they have done enough, not been forthcoming enough.
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So certainly, we will see how he deals with this in the coming days and if members of his own party give this arrest. But it seems like that is not
likely to happen. So, look many domestic challenges as well as the president shortly boards Air Force One and heads back to Washington.
GIOKOS: Yeah, and Jeff, we're actually watching live pictures now out of Aberdeen, Scotland, as President Trump wraps up his trip.
ZELENY: Yeah.
GIOKOS: And as you say, it was filled with a lot of golf, as the president said, but also very important conversations, which included citing the
finer details on that EU trade deal, meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, where we had a very lengthy press conference and he applied
pressure on Israel.
Spoke about starvation in Gaza, and also the efforts on the United States. And also, a lot of news coming through in terms of the pressure that he
intends to place on President Putin, as President Trump, wants to see him, trying to figure out how he's going to find a peace deal between Russia and
Ukraine.
One of the promises he made when he came into office that is President Trump there, leaving Aberdeen, Scotland after a four-day trip. All right,
we are monitoring these images as President Trump heads back home. Jeff Zeleny, thank you so very much for that insight.
Right and still to come on CNN, mothers in Gaza are facing unimaginable challenges as they struggle to feed their desperately hungry children. What
some women are now doing to find food that reports something else in just - -
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GIOKOS: Welcome back to "One World". I'm Eleni Giokos, live in London. Here are some headlines we are watching today. U.S. President Donald Trump is
leaving Scotland after a whirlwind trip that included diplomacy trade and the opening of a new golf course in Aberdeenshire.
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In speaking about Gaza during the trip, Trump actually broke with the Israeli prime minister over the situation in Gaza and the hunger crisis
paying out -- Officials say a man who shot up a skyscraper in New York may have been targeting the Office of the National Football League.
Police say the man killed four people and then turned his gun on himself Monday evening. A source says a suicide note in his pocket said he suffered
from CTE a disease linked to head trauma. Heavy rain in northern China is causing massive flooding on the outskirts of Beijing, where at least 30
people have been killed.
Flooding has damaged dozens of roads and knocked out power for more than 100 villages. Chinese state media reports more than 18,000 people have been
forced to evacuate. The U.N. backed IPC says a worst-case scenario of famine is unfolding in Gaza, while its alert is not a formal declaration of
famine.
The IPC says it's intended to draw urgent attention to the deteriorating situation. This as more international aid arrives. Well for parents in Gaza
with desperate and hungry children, the search for food is proving to be extremely treacherous, but mothers say they have no choice but to brave the
journey.
And they say walking together to find food may provide some measure of safety. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): -- walks into the unknown. Danger is everywhere in this darkness. A woman alone surrounded by men all
with the same desperate purpose, to find food to survive -- husband, was killed in an Israeli air strike. She's now the sole provider for a family
of eight, and can only leave them while they sleep to find food.
The children tell me, don't go, mama, she says. Don't go to the aid centers. We don't want you to die, mama, who'll take care of us if
something happens to you. The alternative is they starve. This group of women from one displacement camp, make the nighttime search together for
protection.
But even then, they are targets. This woman says, yesterday, I waited from 06:00 p.m. until 04:00 a.m. I got a bag of flour, but then a young man with
a knife said, drop the flour, or I'll kill you. This is the value of Gaza now my homeland. Everything around us is a risk to our lives -- says.
Whether it's thieves, Israeli soldiers, rockets or drones, everything. Their friend says she's come every day for a week and received nothing. She
just gave birth to her youngest child three weeks earlier. The women go back to their families at daybreak, empty handed.
More than 1000 people have been killed by Israeli fire waiting for food since late May, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The
Israeli military says it has fired warning shots when it feels threatened, but denies responsibility for the heavy death toll. These displaced women
from -- have a long walk ahead of them.
This woman says, either I return with food and my children shout with joy, or they will scream in grief because I didn't return. The crack of gunfire
nearby sends them diving for cover. Unsure of where is safe. A casualty being rushed past them to hospital, a reminder that safety is a concept
that left Gaza long ago.
When she returns to her tent, her children start crying when they see the bag is empty. The United Nations says the trickle of aid being allowed in
the breakdown of law and order and the dismantling of the U.N. led delivery systems has created new levels of desperation.
Gaza is now a place where the fittest survive and the most vulnerable are left with nothing. Back from their nightly trips to aid points -- share
what little food they managed to get. A friendship formed in displacement camps. I've seen death many times -- says, but I will keep going until I
get my children something to eat.
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CNN tracked down the two women weeks later, as food got scarcer and their bodies weaker, their journey has become even more perilous. Desperation
pushed them to try their luck at the American backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation -- says the American eight points are death zones.
I reached one and spent the night there. A sniper fired above my head. The bullet missed me by mere centimeters. She hasn't gone back since. Her three
children live on saline she makes at home and food from charity kitchens.
They always go to sleep hungry, she says. Her friend and tent neighbor -- hasn't given up on the long, tiring treks to find food for her five
children. I was just at -- she says. I left at sunset yesterday and returned this morning. There was gunfire and martyrs lying in front of us.
I couldn't bring anything. Without organized day deliveries reaching the most vulnerable, it remains an endless and usually futile pursuit. Paula
Hancocks, CNN, Abu Dhabi.
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GIOKOS: 1 million women and girls in Gaza are facing mass starvation violence as well as abuse, and that's according to U.N. Women. It says
malnutrition is soaring. Essential services have long collapsed, forcing the female population to adopt dangerous survival strategies.
It goes on to say women are enduring pregnancies without food and deliveries without water or medical care. And the Executive Director of
U.N. Women says, quote, women and girls in Gaza are facing the impossible choice of starving to death at their shelters, or venturing out in search
of food and water at the extreme risk of being killed.
Their children are starving to death before their eyes. This is horrific, unconscionable and unacceptable. It is inhumane. Well, joining us now, live
from Geneva. We've got Sofia Calltorp. She is the Chief of the Humanitarian Section at U.N. Women. Sofia, thank you so much for joining us.
It's really hurrying not only to see my colleague Paula Hancocks story out of Gaza, to show the plight of what people are facing there, but also
reading your reports in terms of what women and children are facing right now. The U.N. is saying that the worst-case scenario famine is happening
right now in Gaza. Describe the realities that you've heard.
SOFIA CALLTORP, CHIEF OF HUMANITARIAN SECTION AT U.N. WOMEN: Thank you for having me and as we have just heard, the situation for women and girls in
Gaza is just horrific. 1 million women and girls are facing mass starvation, and as essential services have collapsed, they are faced with
this impossible choice of, you know, starving to death in their tents or venturing out in search for food and water for themselves, for the children
at the extreme risk of being killed.
And they are seeing their children starving to death in front of their eyes. It's a suffering. It's a suffering that just must need -- must end
immediately.
GIOKOS: Yeah, and it's really difficult to see the images. But I also want you to listen to one woman, a mother of three, and her accounts of her
reality, Sofia. Take a listen.
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HEBA AL-GHAMARI, PALESTINIAN MOTHER OF THREE: I wish for the crossings to open, for the war to end, for this nightmare to end. I feel I'm in a
nightmare dreaming. So, we want the crossings to open and for food and drinks to be provided. Our children are dying from hunger, and
psychologically, we have no more energy to stand in soup kitchens and get food. We want for everything to open in the world to end.
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GIOKOS: Yeah. I mean, look, she's talking about the psychological impact, so you can imagine the trauma. She's talking about the physical impacts.
And then, of course, watching your children hungry and not being able to solve this. Tell me about some of the stories that you've heard, because in
your report, you talk about how women are trying to, you know, reuse scraps that they find. There was a story about a woman trying to find salt, at
least. I mean, it's pretty horrific stuff.
CALLTORP: You know, it's just horrific. It's unimaginable. And as you and women, we really stand with the women and girls of Gaza. We work with the
local women led organizations on the ground that are with close to nothing, trying to do what they can to support those women and girls, with trauma
care, with psychosocial support, and, of course, with the little food, food that there is, but the stories are just horrific.
And we mean we are calling for an unhindered, immediate humanitarian access at scale to support the women and girls -- and, of course, for the release
of all hostages, and for an immediate ceasefire, so that we can, you know, have a sustainable peace and moving to support the women and girls --
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GIOKOS: So, as it stands right now -- yeah, so as it stands right now, the IDF has implemented these tactical military pauses, which is assisting in
distribution of aid. You've seen some aid drops from Jordan, the UAE. It's not nearly enough to make dent.
And I just have to mention, when the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was distributing aid, it turned deadly for so many people. What do you make
right now these military pauses, and I think for everyone, it's everyone's watching and saying, how long are they going to last? And then there's
enough food going to get in.
CALLTORP: I mean, what we need is unhindered, immediate humanitarian access at scale. That is the only thing that is going to make sure that we can
come in and support the women and girls and the population of Gaza in this horrific situation. That's really what we need right now, and that's our
call to action.
GIOKOS: President Trump in Scotland, said there is starvation in Gaza. And he said, and I'm paraphrasing here, you cannot make this stuff up. That's
in contradiction to what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying. He's saying he denied starvation, and frankly, he was quite vehement about it.
Do you believe that food, in many respects, has become politicized and weaponized in Gaza?
CALLTORP: I mean, for us, it's all about the needs of the women and girls. And just today, there was an IPC report released where we heard that 17,000
pregnant and breastfeeding women are facing acute malnutrition. And for us to attend to the needs of these women and girls.
And the 1 million women and girls in Gaza facing mass starvation, that's really our focus now. And again, our call for traction, for -- access at
scale is more --
GIOKOS: And yes, Sofia, and also, just to end, women and children have been disproportionately affected in this war. And I thank you so much for
sharing your insights and giving us a bit of a reality check on what's going on in Gaza. Thank you.
CALLTORP: Thank you.
GIOKOS: Well, for more information about how you can help those impacted by the war in Gaza, you can go to cnn.com/impacts. We'll be back after the
short break. Stick with CNN.
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GIOKOS: Russia is responding to U.S. President Donald Trump's latest ultimatum to bring about a ceasefire in Ukraine. The Kremlin says it has
quote, taken note of Trump's decision to cut the ceasefire deadline down to 10 or 12 days from 50, if the war does not end, the U.S. says it will
target Moscow with harsher economic penalties.
Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy took to social media thanking Trump for quote, his focus on saving lives and stopping this horrible war. So far,
Trump's ultimatums have not fazed Vladimir Putin. Ukrainian officials say at least 17 people are dead and dozens more injured after Russian strikes
hit a prison in Zaporizhzhia overnight. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has more on Russia's ramped up attacks on Ukrainian cities.
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NICK PATON WALSH, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): The space left for Ukraine is shrinking from above too, lined with fishing nets to protect cars from Russian drone attacks. This is the road
to Kostyantynivka, one of three vital towns in the East Russia is slowly encircling.
WALSH: Extraordinary low-tech bit of invention here to counter the high- tech problem of drones that have redefined warfare in Ukraine.
WALSH (voice-over): If you live here, you still need to get home, and as we see on this Russian drone footage, the holes let Moscow's smarter drone
operators in one even lies in wait, filming the other drone as it strikes. The town lined with prey. A drone hit this van at dawn, the driver killed,
even if its explosives didn't go off. Little has been spared here. Artillery grinding for months.
WALSH: Well, something just flew in over our head there, but again, the more we move around this town, the clearer how more in the pincers it is of
Moscow's summer offensive. But still, these bizarre signs of ordinary life trying to persist.
WALSH (voice-over): Tatjana (ph) lives on the edge of town and is now carrying her stuff to safety.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We don't have anywhere to go. I love on [the outskirts] and went to feed my dog and it's heavy there. Really heavy.
everyone has left.
WALSH (voice-over): Oddly bustling though, is the central market where you'll notice locals turn away from our camera.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How is it now? OK?
WALSH: OK. So, people here don't want their faces shown. Sometimes a sign that they're concerned the town may change hands or want simply not to be
shown on television.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As you see. Glory to Ukraine. Calm for now? There is no calm today. There are shooting of course.
WALSH: OK, she doesn't want to be filmed either. The same story, really. And now we've just been told that a drone has been spotted, which may have
been surveying the area. So, we're told we should leave now.
WALSH (voice-over): With the drones for every new idea, there's something newer.
WALSH: Littering the battlefield now this fiber optic cable, meaning that drones can't be jammed and are instead linked back to their controller
through this tiny, tiny cord that can extend for tens of kilometers.
WALSH (voice-over): It is underground where they tried to control the skies. Ukrainian commander, Vasyl sees many Russians closing in and no new
Ukrainians coming to help, this airstrike, a Ukrainian drone team targeted,
VASYL, 93RD SEPARATE MECHANIZED BRIGADE: We have a critical shortage of personnel. We hardly get any new recruits the workload on the troops is
very heavy. Ukraine has a lot of people but no one wants to fight. The war is over [for them]. The old personnel are left they are tired and want to
be replaced but no one is replacing them. Because there are no [people].
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cloud, cloud, fly around it and give me a close-up.
WALSH (voice-over): They show us one success this Russian tank covered in protective netting, which needed 70 Ukrainian drones to stop it. Some
Ukrainian positions held by just a pair of soldiers. Isolated Vasyl said no vehicles able to reach them.
VASYL: We are currently supplying the infantry using drones. As dusk falls, we launch the Vampire or Kazhan drones. We load ten kilograms of supplies.
Food, ammunition, water batteries, charges for radio station.
WALSH (voice-over): On their screens, a lone Russian is hit by a drone's grenade, but survives.
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And shoots at the next one, throwing his helmet as it flies in. He again survives, but another comes and misses him by inches. He takes off his
armor and waves a shovel, isolated, relentless agonies for both sides.
VASYL: We are tired. Everyone is tired of this war and I believe other countries are also tired of helping us. This war must end. That would be
the best solution.
measure solid saving effect somewhere a video. So, you started doing them for my heart.
WALSH (voice-over): Moscow wants that too, just its ending is yet uglier still. Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, Kostyantynivka, Ukraine.
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GIOKOS: We're going to a very short break. We'll be back right after this. Stick with CNN.
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GIOKOS: Welcome back. Now there is new evidence and the power of a daily walk. A 10-year study shows it can significantly reduce the risk of
cognitive decline, especially for those with certain genetic variations or a family history of Alzheimer's disease. CNN's Jacqueline Howard has more.
JACQUELINE HOWARD, CNN HEALTH REPORTER: Walking has long been connected with health benefits, including cognitive benefits, and now this new
research, it's being presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference. It includes data on nearly 3000 adults.
It found that walking has a protective benefit against cognitive decline, especially in people with an APOE4 genetic variant. That's a variant that's
associated with an increased risk of Alzheimer's. So greater walking was tied to slower decline in people carrying this genetic variant.
And this association, it was slightly greater among black adults compared with white adults, so it may have a slightly greater benefit for the black
community. But overall, this is an important message for people who have a genetic risk factor tied to Alzheimer's disease.
And it's estimated that at least one in five people are carrying a genetic variant that is associated with an increased risk but even if you have this
genetic variant, new research tells us, staying physically active is one thing you can do to reduce your risk. Some other things to consider,
prevent diabetes or manage it, if you've been diagnosed.
Watch your blood pressure, prevent or correct hearing loss, limit your alcohol intake, don't smoke.
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These are all ways to help keep your brain healthy as you age.
GIOKOS: So, go and take that nice long walk. Right. And finally, this hour, a 4000-year-old handprint has been found on a clay model inside an ancient
Egyptian tomb. Cambridge University researchers discovered the imprint while preparing for an exhibition. It was on the base of what's known as a
soul house, a building shaped clay model found in burials.
Researchers say the handprint was likely formed by a potter who moved the soul house while it was still wet. Right, if you care to see it, it'll be
on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge in October. Very exciting stuff. OK, so stay with CNN, my colleague, Bianna Golodryga has more "One
World" after the break. From me Eleni Giokos, thanks so much for joining us. I will see you soon.
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