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Iran Threatens Ukraine Over Caspian Sea Attack; Nearly 22,000 People Displaced in France; Suspect Shot Dead by Police After Driving Van into Crowd and Stabbing Police with Machete; Homan: I.C.E. Officer's Vetting is Under Review; Cockroach Party Claims Victory as Education Minister Quits; Around 100 Alphorn Players Perform in Swiss Alps. Aired 11a-12p ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN HOST, ONE WORLD: A race to contain the wildfires devastating parts of Europe. "One World" starts right now. Hundreds of

thousands of people forced to flee their homes as crews battle massive wildfires currently raging across France and Spain,

A U.S. official says military operations in Iran are on hold as another new front threatens to open up the war this one involving Europe. A shooting at

a food festival in Seattle leaves multiple people dead and more wounded. We'll have the latest on the investigation. Live from Atlanta. I'm Lynda

Kinkade. This is "One World".

At this hour, firefighters are racing to control historic wildfires raging across Southwest France and Central Spain, and destroying entire towns.

Take a look at these flames in Castellon, East of Madrid. More than 30,000 people have had to evacuate their homes. Officials there say the fires

remain uncontrolled.

Meanwhile, the wildfires in France are so intense they're generating their own weather systems. French officials have issued the largest evacuation

order since World War II. So far, 220,000 people have had to flee their homes.

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JEAN-CLAUDE, EVACUEE: Getting information about when we'll be able to go home is the big problem. We came here expecting it to be for 24 hours. Now

it's going to be 48 hours, maybe 72, maybe longer. So, we'll see. We'll adapt day by day.

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KINKADE: Our Melissa Bell is in South West France and filed this report.

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MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An inferno raging beyond all control. Five days in, the Gironde fire keeps

growing despite the rotation day and night of 2,500 firefighters. Plus, the civilians who've been drafted in to try and tame a blaze that seems to have

taken on a life of its own, creating its own winds.

This is what the firefighters are dealing with, even in those parts of the forest that the fire has gone through, that have been ravaged, where the

pines have been destroyed. As you can see, the ground, the soil, the nature of the vegetation are such that it is so hot that flames are constantly

popping up from it again.

The other challenge is this westerly wind that's been driving this monster fire always further to the southeast, where the biggest flames continue to

progress. And ever closer to Bordeaux and its satellite towns, forcing over the weekend an extra 55,000 from their homes. Overall, the number evacuated

so far, 220,000, according to authorities. Wendy and her family fled in the early hours of Saturday morning.

WENDY, EVACUEE: It's really not knowing why we're here in the first place, whether it's because the fire is approaching our home or because of the ash

that was blown our way by the strong winds? And in the end, not knowing when we'll be able to go back home.

BELL (voice-over): Christophe wouldn't leave without his neighbors, both in their 90s and diabetic. The hard part, he says, was getting them out of

their homes with their medicine in time.

CHRISTOPHE, EVACUEE: We never knew the war, but we have known calamities. Nothing like this, though. This type of fire.

BELL (voice-over): Spain too is battling several wildfires. One on the outskirts of Madrid. Another in the east of the country. Authorities say

that 60,000 people have now been displaced.

MARIA ANGELES SERRANO, EVACUEE: More than anything, I'm afraid because of what is being lost-nature itself. Material damage is one thing, but that

can be repaired, so to speak. What really hurts is emotional loss.

BELL (voice-over): A loss that will only be measurable when the fires are finally contained. Melissa Bell, CNN in the Gironde region of France.

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KINKADE: A pause in U.S. air strikes on Iran amid signs that the war could expand on a new front. Iran is now threatening Ukraine after Kyiv attacked

an Iranian vessel in Caspian Sea, the route for much of the country's trade with Russia. Iran says the incident cannot go unanswered.

At least one person was killed. Ukraine says it struck ships in the waterway transporting military cargo from Iran to Russia.

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Now this all comes as U.S. military operations appear to be on hold for a third night. Washington says it's meant to create space for diplomacy. Iran

says it will not allow the U.S. to determine the timing of the war. International Diplomatic Editor Nic Roberson joins us now from Jerusalem.

Good to have you with us, Nic.

So, after two intense weeks of strikes and counter strikes between the U.S. and Iran, we have this pause. What are you hearing on the ground as to the

reason for this pause in operations, and where is diplomatic talks at right now?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Yeah, I think it's broadly understood that the chat, the opportunity was given for diplomacy.

Certainly, that's what we've been hearing from the White House. And the diplomacy that sort of took place during that pause was a team from Oman

going to Tehran. They went Friday.

They left late Saturday. And they were talking about the Strait of Hormuz. And they're talking about how it's going to be controlled in the future.

It's not clear what the output of that meeting was. There was progress, according to the Iranians. It was, you know, there are technical and

political talks ongoing subsequently.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman said at the weekend, but we've subsequently heard from Iranian officials that there's actually no peace

talks going on at the moment. And the Iranians have doubled down on their message of blocking ships that are not following their instructions, their

legal writ to go through the Strait of Hormuz.

Six ships, they say, have been forced to halt their efforts to get out of the Strait of Hormuz. So, it does appear that what was happening in that

diplomatic space, we haven't heard a final view from the White House about it. But it doesn't seem to have unlocked the key thing, which was how to

proceed, how the United States and Iran can come to an agreement over the Strait of Hormuz?

It's not clear how much longer that pause will go on. And it's questionable, you know, what that pause means for the wider region? We've

just had in the past hour or so drones flying from an Iranian-backed militia inside of Iraq targeting a Saudi oil refinery, and it's not clear

yet Saudi defenses were put up.

It's not clear yet if any of those attack drones were able to -- were able to get through. But if they did, or by virtue of that particular strike

itself, it shows that Iran's proxies in the region are still hitting the economic interests of the United States allies in the region. So, it's not

clear kind of where that ceasefire or pause stands right now.

KINKADE: Right. Yeah. So, despite what appears to be a quieter battlefield, you've got this conflict expanding geographically. You mentioned the Houthi

rebels accused of striking Saudi energy infrastructure. But also, I mentioned earlier Ukraine being accused of targeting an Iranian vessel in

the Caspian Sea. What does this all say about the risk for greater escalation involving more countries?

ROBERTSON: I think it makes it very clear that that potential is there. Iranian officials have said that this won't go Ukraine's actions, hitting

one of their ships and killing a crew member and injuring three others in a drone strike, won't go unanswered. And in the past, when Iran has given

this sort of message, it generally follows through.

Now, the Iranians are saying that this was a vessel coming from a Russian Port, Astrakhan, at the northern end of the Caspian Sea, 600 miles -- going

600 miles further south to Port Bandar Anzali in Iran. And it was just carrying steel.

But we've heard from President Zelenskyy who said, on the contrary, this was an Iranian shipment of weapons to Russia, and that's why they targeted

it. They targeted in the Caspian Sea over the past about eight months or so.

But it's been very well clearly documented that Iran, almost since Russia's war began in Ukraine over four years ago, that Russia has been relying on

Iranian-made drones and weapons support in that war, and for President Zelenskyy, that makes it a valid target.

So, there's contrary messages, but if the Iranians say they're going to strike back, that speaks to a further potential expansion of the war fronts

here. The whole issue, the whole tensions over the Strait of Hormuz, over Iran's nuclear weapons, over its proxies like the Houthis, the sort of

threat that they have to the region, it is all still very, very much in play.

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And I think what we're witnessing at the moment is it just bubbling up in different areas, even though the main protagonists are on a pause.

KINKADE: All right, Nic Robertson for us as always. Great to have you with us. Thanks so much. I want to return now to our top story: the devastating

wildfires ripping through Spain and France. We're joined now by Ira Szmuk, who lives in Bordeaux. Ira, really good to have you with us today.

So, I understand you've described some of the conditions in Bordeaux, the smoke that you're dealing with. You're saying that it's overwhelming, just

give us a sense what it's like for you on the ground there in Bordeaux.

IRA SZMUK, BORDEAUX RESIDENT: Well, first of all, I want to start with a bit of positive news that today it's much better. So today we see some

clear sky. But in the last few days we had a lot of smoke coming from the fires towards the center of Bordeaux, and it basically a horrible feeling.

You can't breathe. There's a smell of smoke and ashes everywhere. So, a lot of people have been just decided to leave, even though Bordeaux itself, we

have not received any evacuation orders so far. But people are just voluntarily decided that it's not the air quality is something they can't

you know deal with anymore, and they many are just to other parts of France.

KINKADE: Of course, these wildfires --

SZMUK: -- kind of the situation right now.

KINKADE: Ira, these wildfires are spreading rapidly, and there are fears that conditions could get worse later in the week when temperatures

increase. How much information are you and friends in Bordeaux getting with regards to evacuation orders and the level of threat? How close are you to

the flames?

SZMUK: So, Bordeaux itself is not very close, so we are about, I would say, the center of Bordeaux is about 40 minutes from the where the fires are

now. So, it's not close, but it is when the weather becomes very hot and the wind becomes hot, it is approaching quite fast. So, it's something they

are talking about as a possibility, some of the suburbs around us.

So, I would say 10 minutes-drive from the center of Bordeaux. Some of them have already been evacuated in the last few days because of the strong

winds and the fear that it will just come faster than they -- it has been happening now. So, we are on kind of a standby.

It is a possibility that is being discussed. An evacuation so far, we haven't received any orders about it. But I think people are afraid that

when it does come, there will be too many -- like you know, huge of amounts of people trying to get out of a few, several exes at the same time, so

that's another fear that people have. And they that's why they also start leaving now before anything official have, you know, been received.

KINKADE: Yeah, before there is a mad dash to it to get out. I want to ask you about changes to your routine. We've heard that some residents have

changed their routine because of the smoke, the toxins in the air, and just the air quality concerns in general. How has your routine changed over the

last few days?

SZMUK: For sure, you basically can do if you want to get anything done outside, any shopping or anything that you really need from outside, you

have to do it in the morning. Once the wind changes its direction and it comes to Bordeaux, it's almost impossible to be outside.

A few -- I went out for a few minutes yesterday. All my clothes and hair were completely, you know, the smell of my hair it felt like I was inside a

barbecue for a couple of hours like it's overwhelming. Yeah so, it's something that once you can see -- you can see the sky turning gray and

it's kind of your sign to get inside and close everything.

And the problem is that the houses in Bordeaux they absorb all of that the heat and the smell and then even though like that during the night it

starts going away people really having they're struggling to sleep basically because it stays inside. Some -- I'm lucky enough to have air

conditioning in my house so it's easier for me.

And that's why I still haven't decided to leave. But people who don't have air conditioning, it's almost impossible to stay inside for, you know, when

it's so, so hot. And as we can see, the temperatures are rising again, so it will get harder again. And so, I don't see how, especially if you have

little kids. How you can stay in this situation right now?

KINKADE: I'm wondering --

SZMUK: Struggle, I think, for many.

KINKADE: Yeah, no doubt.

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Bordeaux, of course, is an international food and wine destination. And as someone who runs Lost in Bordeaux, I'm wondering, you know, what sort of

impact you're seeing on tourism? Are people canceling their plans, canceling their trip? What are tourists telling you?

SZMUK: Huge, yeah, huge impact. First of all, I think you know the insecurity of it all. People they don't know what to do with their tickets.

I mean, some people already came to Bordeaux when it all started happening, or a bit before, and now they're slightly in a situation where they don't

even know what to do. They don't have response from some of the hotels.

The information is mostly in French, so it's quite complicated for them to get to understand what to do next. So, I have been. I'm not an obviously

not an official person of Bordeaux, but I have been reached out by many, many tourists asking for some other directions in terms of two three hours

from Bordeaux where they can go by train and kind of change their you know holidays from this region.

Others are even talking about canceling in August because of this, like you know, they just have no idea how many days all of it will take. If people

have reservations for Cap-Ferret, for example, I don't even know when it will be -- when it will be possible to go there again. So, I think many

people are stuck in this position of like they don't even know if to cancel or not.

The positive thing I can point to is that if people were planning to go to the wine region, most of that part was not affected. So that's still you

know open to visitors. But it's true that many of them land in Bordeaux, so hence you know that's why so many people are canceling anyway, even if they

were not planning to go to the ocean or anything like that.

But it's definitely having a huge effect. It's it has a huge effect on businesses here because this region is really dependent on tourism, and we

have a very short season of it. So, there will be -- now we're mostly talking about you know the fires and the immediate damage, but I think

there will be a lot of discussions about the economic damages of that very soon.

KINKADE: Yeah, no doubt. Ira Szmuk, we hope you stay safe. We appreciate getting some perspective from you on the ground there. And we really do

hope those firefighters are able to get control of those fires in the next couple of days.

SZMUK: Thank you.

KINKADE: Thank you. Still to come, a community in shock after a food festival becomes the scene of deadly gun violence. We're going to take you

to Seattle next.

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KINKADE: Welcome back. Seattle, Washington is the latest community to be hit by gun violence in America. This hour, authorities are searching for

one of the perpetrators. On Sunday, two people apparently began shooting at each other at a food festival. Three people were killed; several others

injured.

Individuals hurt include a two-year-old boy. And following the chaos, one suspect was taken into police custody. A witness describes the scene to CNN

Affiliate KOMO.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know there was a lot of chaos. You know, my brother actually got pushed. You know, and he fell. He's pretty bruised up right

now, but he's OK. None of my friends got injured, thankfully, and it was such a surreal experience.

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KINKADE: Our Julia Vargas Jones joins us now live from Seattle, where that food festival was underway during this shooting. So, Julia, just explain

what investigators are saying about how this shooting unfolded, given that they have one suspect in custody, one still at large.

JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What they are saying, Lynda, is that those two people were shooting at each other, and they have that one person

in custody. Unclear if that person is collaborating with police on finding the second person, who they have not described as a suspect yet.

But we did hear from our analyst Juliette Kayyem earlier today that that could indicate the way that the police is thinking about a motive in this

situation. Of course, that is the next question, right? Why here? Why this festival?

I do want to just show you quickly, Lynda, what this is like this morning. We're walking for the first time into the festival and seeing places like

this. It's a scene frozen in time. The shooting happened at 06:00 p.m. last night. It's so clear that people just rushed out of their stalls, left the

food behind.

We're seeing what looks like pancake batter here. Just rest of food, losing so much money, and of course having such a scarring experience. We're also

hearing from some of those people who were here, like the one that you just played. But I want to -- I want to show you another one where this person

just recounting what exactly they heard and they saw in the moments right after 06:00 p.m. when those shots first rung out.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was about -- I was about 20 feet or less, maybe from one of the people who shot, and I couldn't really clearly see what's going

on. But I ran toward the gunfire, and there was a, I would say, at least two dozen shots. Multiple, sound like an automatic weapon.

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JONES: And what that speaks to is those weapons. Two weapons were recovered here on the scene, Lynda. And this is where people were running towards the

Space Needle that sees so many visitors every year. This iconic landmark of Seattle was just over there. We saw that people took cover.

We have one of the trucks that's removing parts of these stalls, starting to move. This breakdown happening right now. But we saw people taking cover

in the gift shop of the Space Needle. For you to just have a sense of the chaos that this was. Thousands of people were here. The ground here is

immense.

This festival sees hundreds of thousands of people every year. So, the amount of people that witnessed that chaos and that trauma is truly

immense.

KINKADE: Yeah, one of the largest festivals in Seattle on any given year, but certainly traumatic for anyone involved. Julia Vargas Jones, thanks so

much. A man suspected of staging a deadly attack at Saturday's Pride Festival in Berlin was shot dead by police Sunday following a major

manhunt.

Authorities say the attacker drove a van into the crowd, then attacked multiple people with a machete. One person was killed, 29 others injured.

Authorities are describing the incident as an Islamist terror attack. They say the suspect was a German citizen of Lebanese background who had tried

unsuccessfully to join the Islamic State group in Syria.

And questions remain as police continue to investigate. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen has more on what we're learning.

FREDERIK PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: There still, obviously, are a lot of questions here by the authorities as to how exactly

this could happen from a logistical point of view, as to how the attacker managed to get into the park with that vehicle, a white rental van that he

drove here on this path that I'm on right now.

And I want to show you exactly where I am. This is actually where, at least, the driving part of that rampage ended. You can see here this tree

was where the van was lodged against. I was out here for the better part of yesterday, and of course the night before when this attack happened.

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And you can see the tree really didn't budge, but all the bark's taken off. And we could see the forensic teams here for the German police working this

area for the better part of the day. And I can tell you the front of that van was absolutely annihilated.

So, the Germans are saying that the van, which was driven by a man named Abdul B, who they say was a known Islamist, was going at a very high pace

through the crowd here. This is, I would say, about maybe 50 or 60 yards away from the actual route of that pride parade that was taking place.

But a lot of those parade goers were coming here into the park to either go to the parade or away from it. And really the two main questions that the

authorities are asking now is first of all how the van managed to get onto this park path because this is not a public road at all? And then whether

or not Abdul B, the man who they say was behind all this, was actually alone in that vehicle, or whether or not there might have been others who

were still involved?

There was another person of interest the authorities had said that person of interest had now been let go. Of course, we know there was a man hunt

going on for the better part of the day yesterday as they were searching for the suspect Abdul B. They found him then.

They say in a gardening colony in the west of Berlin. As the police approached them, they say that he approached them with a knife. He was

gunned down and killed. So, still a lot of questions remain open at the same time, as you noted.

KINKADE: Our thanks to Fred Pleitgen there. Well, still ahead, the Pentagon updates its Iran war casualty count after coming under scrutiny from the

media and lawmakers. We'll have the new figures next.

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KINKADE: Welcome back to "One World". I'm Lynda Kinkade, coming to you live from Atlanta. Here are some of the international headlines we're watching

today. Firefighters in France and Spain have another week of battling wild fires ahead of them. The fires are so hot they're generating their own

weather system.

Between the two countries, some 300,000 people have fled their homes, and now there's concern that things will get worse because temperatures in both

countries are getting hotter.

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People in Seattle are in shock after a deadly shooting Sunday. Authorities say two people opened fire at each other at a food festival. Three people

were killed, several others wounded, while one suspect is in police custody. They're still searching for a second person believed to be

involved.

The new front could be opening up in the U.S. war with Iran. Tehran is condemning an attack by Ukraine on an Iranian vessel in the Caspian Sea.

Kyiv said it was targeting ships transporting military goods from Iran to Russia over the weekend. Iran says the attack won't go unanswered.

Well, more now on the war with Iran, where the U.S. has paused nearly two weeks of consecutive air strikes. Sources say U.S. Vice President J.D.

Vance and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, both raised concerns about the escalating war and the depleting U.S. munition

stockpile.

This comes as the Pentagon updated its war casualty database for the Operation Epic Fury after coming under scrutiny last week. At least 18 U.S.

troops have been killed since the war was launched on February 28th. Another 624 troops have been wounded. It's worth noting the Pentagon hasn't

given a news briefing on the Iran conflict since early May.

CNN's Davis Winkie joins us now from Atlanta. Good to have you with us, and welcome aboard, Davis. So, just what's changed about the Pentagon's

casualty reporting? And why now?

DAVIS WINKIE, CNN REPORTER AND SENIOR FELLOW: Lynda, it's a situation where the Pentagon, while claiming that it's the most transparent Pentagon in

history has relegated casualty reporting for the Iran war to a somewhat obscure online database called the Defense Casualty Analysis System.

They recently updated this system over the weekend to create a new category for tracking casualties from the Iran war. That means there's two

categories there: one for Operation Epic Fury, the first phase, and a new one called Overseas Operations. That category has listed four soldiers

killed in action and 207 wounded since July 7th.

That date matters, and the split is likely due to the fact that the Trump Administration submitted a new War Powers notification to Congress a couple

weeks ago, saying that hostilities restarted with Iran on that July 7th date. That allows them to not have the same 60-day clock to require

congressional authorization to continue strikes, which they claimed was paused when they went into a ceasefire back in April, Lynda.

KINKADE: So, hundreds of U.S. troops have also been injured in this war so far. Have we got any detail as to the severity of some of these injuries?

WINKIE: Well, that's one of the challenges of them pushing reporters and the public to this database. The DECAST database doesn't indicate the

severity of U.S. troop injuries. And that means we're left to the snippets that Pentagon press officials are willing to give us.

One example is that with the strikes the two weekends ago that resulted in the KIA and additional wounded troops, Chief Pentagon Spokesperson Sean

Parnell said that just under 100 were wounded, and that most of them were mild traumatic brain injuries, and that most of the troops have returned to

duty.

But we now have this overseas operations category that has 207 wounded disclosed since July 7th, and that has more than 100 that aren't accounted

for in Parnell's earlier statement.

KINKADE: Interesting. Got to do some more digging. Davis Winkie, good to have you with us. Thank you.

WINKIE: Thanks.

KINKADE: Temporary protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living in the U.S. is expiring. Monday night's deadline comes after the

Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the Trump Administration's decision to terminate the program last month. The U.S. Department of Homeland

Security says it's now safe to expatriate Haitians to return home.

A claim that's disputed by many advocacy groups. The White House Border Czar says the vetting undergone by the I.C.E. officer involved in a

shooting in Maine two weeks ago is under review. He was speaking after domestic abuse allegations surfaced against David Brouillette (ph), an

immigration and customs enforcement officer who fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian man.

An attorney for Brouillette's ex-wife referred to the allegations of domestic violence, while a second ex-wife filed a complaint against him for

protection from abuse. CNN's Priscilla Alvarez joins us now with more on this. So, Priscilla, good to have you with us.

Just what exactly is being reviewed under the I.C.E. vetting process? Are they looking at background checks, psychological checks, domestic violence

cases, or all of the above?

PRISCILLA ALVAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has not detailed what exactly they're looking at when it comes

to this officer's case?

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And what type of vetting, if any, had occurred with him last year. According to one of his ex-wives, he said that he started working for

I.C.E. last year. Now, what we do know from White House Border Czar Tom Homan is that there is a type of review that is ongoing and that is linked

to the investigation. This is how he described it to our colleague Dana Bash just yesterday.

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TOM HOMAN, WHITE HOUSE BORDER CZAR: If those are facts, I don't think he should ever clear vetting. You know, when they harvest somebody, put them

through a vetting process and look at all that stuff. So, I know, based on that information, that's part of the ongoing investigation. I.C.E. has

about 30,000 employees. They all go through vetting, and this is a kind of a rare instance.

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ALVAREZ: Part of what he is referring to there is the history of this I.C.E. officer that was connected to that shooting in Maine. That includes,

for example, that he had lingering cognitive issues due to a serious head injury. That's according to court records that were reviewed by CNN.

And both of his ex-wives had also accused him of abuse in court records. Now, also in court records, David Brouillette, the officer, has denied or

disputed those allegations. But taken in totality, it has raised alarm among current and former I.C.E. officials about how he could have gotten

this job.

Now, my sources over the course of the last year had shared concerns about the way in which the administration was pushing through its hiring of

I.C.E. agents. They had a number that they were trying to reach of 10,000 additional agents, and there was concern that the speed at which they were

trying to get there was leading to some cut corners and minimal background checks.

Now, the Department of Homeland Security has disputed that that was the case, but at least in this case, they are having to review how exactly

David Brouillette got the job at I.C.E. Now, we should also note that Homan had also said that these officers linked to these shootings, will or are

likely on administrative leave, which is part of the protocol when there is an ongoing investigation. And there are many investigations into what

happened both in Maine and also in Texas.

KINKADE: And so, Priscilla, just give us some perspective as to what the I.C.E. officers are trained under. Is it similar to the use of force

standards that other, you know, law enforcement offices undergo, and if not, is there a review to change that?

ALVAREZ: Now, every federal agency has their own protocol. Now, I.C.E. does train under similar use of force policies, but they're not all the same.

And I.C.E., in this case, is also reviewing what training agents and officers are getting and getting additional training.

Now, when White House Border Czar Tom Homan shared that with Dana Bash yesterday, he didn't suggest that it was because any mistakes have been

made, but rather because officers generally will get additional training when necessary.

Now, again, training is so key here because of the way that I.C.E. is conducting these immigration arrests. They are, for example, doing more of

these vehicle stops that led to these two fatal shootings. And on that front, there is clear use of force policy, but there is not a clear policy

on vehicle pursuits.

So, for all of these reasons, there is additional training that is being added, and also training that is being looked at into how I.C.E. agents are

coming to be, particularly because they are working under immense pressure to deliver on numbers.

Those numbers being around 2000 immigration arrests a day. And as someone who's covered immigration for a long time, that is a large number to reach

because these arrests are not easy to do.

And so, given the state of the administration's immigration crackdown, there are certainly a lot of questions among federal law enforcement

sources, both current and former, about the way in which these agents are trained and whether they are ready to be doing some of the arrests that

they are doing. Not in all circumstances. There are veteran agents that remain at I.C.E., but particularly with those who are new to the agency.

KINKADE: All right, Priscilla Alvarez, good to have you on the case. Thanks so much. Well, still to come, young protesters are declaring victory after

India's Education Minister resigns. So, what's next for the so-called cockroach party? We'll have a live interview.

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KINKADE: A youth movement in India, known as the Cockroach Party, is claiming victory after the education minister resigned. It comes amid

mounting pressure from the group and follows weeks of protests, sometimes violent clashes between demonstrators and police.

The Cockroach Party has been demanding accountability over allegations that entrance exams for prestigious medical schools were leaked and sold,

forcing millions of students to retake the tests. I want to bring in the Spokesperson for the Cockroach Janta Party, Vaishnavi Gaur. She joins me

now live from Delhi. Thanks so much for your time today.

VAISHNAVI GAUR, COCKROACH JANATA PARTY SPOKESPERSON: Hi, Lynda. Thank you for having me.

KINKADE: So, I want to get some perspective on your response to the education minister resigning. How much political power does your movement

actually have right now?

GAUR: I think it's more than political power. What we have right now is a huge mass mobilization, a consciousness among citizens, a majority of the

youth in the country. And that is exactly the pressure that has been put on to get the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, who is our education

minister.

Because in the era of since 2014 in the Modi government, there has not been even one resignation. So, it's just not the political power; it's just

across political spectrum, the young people came together. There was a mass mobilization, a mass consciousness awareness, which has led to this.

KINKADE: And your movement helped to put education reform and exam integrity at the center of a national conversation. From your perspective,

has the government followed through on all of your demands?

GAUR: Yes, our first demand was accountability. So, the current, actually, sorry, the previous education minister under his tenure, there were

multiple exam leaks that had happened. And in India itself, in the last 10 years, more than 70 papers had been leaked, as one of the youngest

countries, where education remains you know the pivotal point for intergenerational mobility.

It is a big deal for the majority of the country. The idea was that the first demand, the resignation. The idea was that if under one minister

continuously papers are getting leaked, and the minister is not made to resign, then no matter what reforms you get through, what changes you get

through, nothing will be implemented because there is no responsibility.

So that was the first demand that the responsibility and accountability should be inserted into the institutions, democratic institutions, which

has been accepted and he resigned. The second was, of course, that sadly more than 20 kids took their lives by suicide after the prestigious medical

examination got leaked.

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The families have been assured a compensation; that demand has been accepted. And after the 20th March, there was a brutal crackdown by the

police. And also, the innocent protesters were detained and arrested under cases, so that demand we asked for all the cases to be retrieved by the

police, and all the police who were involved in assaulting young women or other protesters should be prosecuted.

These two demands are being followed through. By tomorrow, we will have a written draft, and we hope that it will be implemented as well.

KINKADE: I also understand that police detained protesters and volunteers, and as part of the agreement, the police had to release them. Is anyone

still being held?

GAUR: There are some detentions that are happening across some states Assam, Bengal and Bihar. We have taken this up the government. We did a

press conference today as well, asking the government to follow through the assurances. Tuesday was their deadline, so tomorrow we will see. If not, we

have also intimated them that we will go back to the protest site and sit.

KINKADE: So, if police don't release them, you will continue with your protest?

GAUR: Yes.

KINKADE: And talk to us about the long-term efforts of the so-called Cockroach Party, because after the government does indeed promise to carry

out most of your demands, you know, some analysts are wondering whether this particular protest movement is just a response to a specific education

crisis?

Or whether there's a bigger view here, a growing frustration from the young people of India who are frustrated with government accountability and

politics, what do you see the future of the Cockroach Party and this movement?

GAUR: I think the future of this movement, I will say, not just Cockroach Janata Party, because now it's even bigger than us. It's broad. This party

started with because our honorable chief justice called the youth as cockroaches. It was incredibly insulting because education in India

currently is not affordable.

And the employment opportunities are decreasing day by day. For the country with such a young, large population these are very pressing issues. And as

I said, the NEET issue, the medical examination, was something that just came up when the party was formed. It was one of the most pressing issues

that we took up.

And while we sat, we understood that this was not just one medical examination problem; it was a whole public examination system failure. So,

we have also given the government a demand charter to fix that public examination system. But this was a very, very niche demand.

We've also understood during the 20 years sitting that the broader education and employment problems are huge, and these are going to be the

issues for which the movement, the Cockroach Janata Party, is going to stand for and also raise the issues in future.

Our agenda is first of all to go to the grassroots to understand these issues more intricately. I must tell you that as a two-month-old movement

which started as a satire, we do not have the capability or the understanding right now.

So, if you ask me some future goals, the future goals of the movement is to go to the grassroots, to go to the most village level to understand the

issues of the youth, and then to bring them up to the government again and fix the system.

KINKADE: Vaishnavi Gaur, we really appreciate your time, your perspective, and all the efforts being made right there in India. Thanks so much for

joining us.

GAUR: Thank you so much, Lynda.

KINKADE: Well, CNN has reached our repeated leader, multiple Indian government ministers, and to the BJP seeking an interview, but has not

received a response. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with much more.

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KINKADE: Welcome back. Cuba's President is slamming the U.S. for its oil embargo and sanctions on the island nation, calling President Donald

Trump's policies political genocide. The speech was part of a celebration marking Cuba's Rebellion Day, the anniversary of the start of the Cuban

Revolution. CNN's Juan Carlos Lopez reports from Cuba.

JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, CNN ES ESPANOL CHIEF CORRESPONDENT: Now, people are leaving this plaza in Pinar del Rio, on the western part of the island,

every year a different province organizes a July 26th commemoration. What happened on July 26th?

It was 1953 a group of rebels attacked military installations in Santiago de Compo on the other side of the island, and that's seen as a precursor of

the Cuban Revolution that came to place in 1959 with Fidel Castro heading that movement.

Now, today's act happened very early, 05:15 in the morning. According to the organizers, it had to do with the time the attack happened. So, you had

people congregating at this very vast plaza very early in the morning.

The act took only one hour, and the main speech was that by Miguel Diaz Canel, rejected U.S. foreign policy, said U.S. foreign policy will not make

them leave government. He called it a genocide, and criticized the U.S. for imposing a recurring number of sanctions that include the restriction of

fuel supply to the island, where fuel is very scarce.

Rolling blackouts are the norm. Finding fuel is very difficult and it's very expensive. But he said they are keeping their promises and they are

trying to overcome this crisis with political reforms, economic reforms that will be discussed by the National Assembly the following week. Juan

Carlos Lopez, CNN, Pinar del Rio, Cuba.

KINKADE: Well, over the weekend, the Swiss Alps were filled with the sounds of bells ringing, whips cracking, yodeling, and the ensemble pieces of

around 100 horn players. The Annual International Alp Horn Festival attracts players of the ancient horn from around the world. CNN's Ben Hunte

reports.

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BEN HUNTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Warming up for the big event, playing the Alphorn, an ancient wooden instrument over three meters long,

isn't just tooting your own horn. It's mastering the sounds of the Alps.

PHILIPPE CHEVALIER, ALPHORN PLAYER FROM GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND: What's beautiful about a piece is thinking that the audience sees a story in it,

and that's the most beautiful thing that can happen. Playing something that gives people goosebumps.

HUNTE (voice-over): And when more than 100 Alphorn players come together for a musical performance on a Swiss mountain plateau, more than 2,200

meters above sea level. It's a stirring symphony of the instrument's past and present.

PHILIPPE BABAZ, ALPHORN PLAYER FROM FRANCE: It's refreshing. It's magnificent, and we're in a truly superb mountain setting like this, and

it's really where the instrument lends itself to being played.

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HUNTE (voice-over): Players from around the world gathered over the weekend at the Annual International Alphorn Festival in Switzerland to perform

together using the iconic instruments that mountain folk once used to call their cattle and communicate across valleys.

OLIVIER BRISVILLE, ALPHORN PLAYER FROM FRANCE: People imagine that the Alphorn is always played in the mountains, but in fact, most of the time it

is either in towns, in villages, or in halls. So, playing it outdoors in its natural setting is really a pleasure.

HUNTE (voice-over): A sound that carried across the Alps for centuries. Still resonating today by calling people together. Ben Hunte, CNN.

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KINKADE: We'll stay with CNN. We're going to have much more "One World" after the break. I'm Lynda Kinkade. Stick around.

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