Hello, and a very warm welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im paula newton. Ahead here on cnn newsroom, Vladimir Putin and kim jongun ref up talks in Eastern Russia. What the two are expected to discuss. Plus, the presumed death toll from the catastrophic flooding in libya has more than double and as many as 10,000 are still missing. And the u. S. Takes a key step in a deal to free five americans being detained in iran. What critics are saying about that agreement. And we go straight to our breaking news. Kim jongun is heaping praise on russias Vladimir Putin as the two sit down for their first facetoface talks in more than four years. The meeting in russias far east follows days of warnings from the United States about these two leaders possibly sealing a deal on weapons. But theyre not talking about that publicly, at least not yet, any way. Instead, the russian president spoke of cooperation on humanitarian and economic issues. And in a veiled s