Nuclear powers have plunged to new cold War Era low in the past couple of years and this is a big opportunity to cool down the tone and make some progress on common ideas if progress could indeed be made. Now, vladimir putin is expected to arrive here In Geneva in about two hours, maybe a little more, and he will head straight to the lake wide villa, he is set to arrive there before President Biden. Ahead of the summit we have seen these adversaries take a couple of swipes at Each Other, mr. Biden did not back down calling his russian counterpart a Killer And Mr. Putin went out of his way to praise former president Donald Trump. Now, President Biden has just wrapped up meetings with nato, the eu and the g7 and they are part of a concerted effort to shore up Western Support ahead this have summit. Our own Phil Mattingly has more. America is back and which is why were here in full force. Reporter President Biden capping off a week designed to reinn vague rate americas closest alliances delivering a resolute message. Europe is our natural partner and the reason is were committed to the same democratic [ inaudible ] and they are increasingly under attack. Reporter a message repeated directly nearly two dozen conversations with key u. S. Allies in the g7, Nato And Today the eu. One carefully calibrated to be carried into the highest Stakes Moment of his first foreign trip, his Sit Down with russian president vladimir putin. Thats how i will prove that democracy and that our alliance can still prevail against the challenges of our time and deliver for the needs and the needs of our people. Reporter Biden Arriving In Geneva for that Sit Down with relations between the u. S. And russia at their lowest point since the Cold War, the two leaders set to participate in at least two meetings. A smaller Sit Down with biden, putin, Secretary Of State Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrov participating followed by an expanded discussion with fivemember delegations, the two leaders will not share a Meal Officials say and the talks are expected to last roughly four to five hours. The day will close with individual Press Conferences by each leader an intentional decision by u. S. Officials in an effort not to elevate the russian leader. The u. S. Agenda is lengthy and it will be delivered with clear intent officials say from firm warnings on cyber attacks, the Imprisonment Opposition Leaders and aggression in ukraine, to areas of Potential Cooperation like afghanistan, Arms Control and the iran nuclear deal. Im going to make clear to President Putin that there are areas where we can cooperate if he chooses and if he chooses not to cooperate and acts in a way that he has in the past relative to cybersecurity and some other activities, then we will respond. Reporter but even those areas of Potential Cooperation will come with significant skepticism from the u. S. Side. Id verify first and then trust. Reporter even as biden signals a grudging respect for what putin a leader who has confounded u. S. Officials for decades will bring to the room. He is bright, hes tough and i have found that he is a worthy adversary. Reporter and its worth noting that even though the two teams, u. S. Officials, russian officials have been in intense negotiations over the course of several weeks about how this sitdown would actually be structured. Two officials say both sides agree to include flexibility in terms of how the schedule will play out. What does that mean . It could mean the two leaders may consider having a Oneonone Meeting at some point. It doesnt mean they necessarily will, but the administration officials making clear they want the two leaders to gauge how the entire process will and should go based on the substance of their conversations, based on Progress Or Lack thereof that is occurring at the time. Its something to keep in mind, to some degree they understand there are two meetings set on the books, they think it will be four or five hours, if the two leaders get in the room, if things are going well and they believe there is an opportunity to delve deeper into a subject area there is a real possibility things may move in a different direction. It is realtime diplomacy at work. Phil mattingly, cnn, geneva. And both leaders have said they want more predictable, more stable relations with one another and we will wait and see whether or not they can achieve that at this meeting. I want to bring in Natasha Bertrand who has a lot of insight into how President Biden has been preparing for the summit. We talked about it in the last hour, but what do you think that President Bidens view is of vladimir putin and what hes going to face from the russian Leader Today . Reporter yeah, so this is not the first time that President Biden has met with vladimir putin. He met with him while he was Vice President in 2011 and he really likes to tell aides the story of how he looked at mr. Putin and he told him directly, look, i dont think you have a soul. And that of course is a riff on what george w. Bush had said to vladimir putin two decades earlier saying that he looked into his eyes and he saw his soul. President biden does not believe that he has a soul and he likes telling aides that he feels like he can read vladimir putin. He also likes to tell raeds that he believes that vladimir putin responds to signs of strength and that is why he will be going into this summit very cleareyed and very frank with the russian leader about what the u. S. Expectations are for the u. S. russia relationship. He has been preparing extensively as we mentioned for this summit. Hes been meeting with top russia experts, with his Secretary Of State Antony Blinken, with the national Security Adviser Jake sullivan but ultimately biden believes that putin is a rational actor, that is according to several aides, current and former officials who have worked with him on Foreign Policy issues, particularly russia extensively, he believes that putin will act in his best interest, in the best interest of his country and whether that means cooperating further with the u. S. Remains to be seen. Obviously that is going to be a big point of discussion here at this summit is where they can work together on certain issues, certain narrow issues, for example, in the middle east, on the iran nuclear deal, on Climate Change and whether they can come to some sort of agreement on the best way forward for the relationship writ large. The president of course feels like he is able to speak very bluntly to vladimir putin, he says that he will not back down, but of course he also knows that putin is susceptible to flattery. I think we will see a mix here in approaches by President Biden. Thank you for that, natasha. We will be getting a lot more reports from you today as this day and of course as this summit unfolds. I want to turn to my next guest Luke Harding toss the author of collusion, secret meetings, Dirty Money and how rufgts helped Donald Trump win. He is a foreign correspondent with the guardian and joins me from london. Thank you for taking the time to join us. I dont know if you had a chance to listen to natasha who said that President Biden believes that vladimir putin is a rational actor but The Big Question is what exactly the rationale is. What is vladimir putin willing to negotiate on and i want to turn specifically to the cyber sphere because it seems as how with some of the cyber attacks that have been going on, disinformation campaign, it seems as though vladimir putin views the cyber sphere as an eek have a Liesing Factor for russia when they are economically and militarily in many ways inferior to the west. Yeah, i mean, fred, i think that goes to the heart of the challenge that russia poses to the international community. If you cast your mind back to the Cold War that it was tanks facing out in Europe And West germany and so on. I think really what putin realizes is actually the new war is the war for the mind. Its the war for informational space. Weve seen a series of really quite devastating attacks by moscow against america and its allies, including of course the spectacular operation to help Donald Trump win in 2016 which you mentioned most recently the solar Winds Hack last year. My sense is actually regardless of the outcome of this summit and expectations are extremely low, i dont see the kremlin stopping this. Its cheap, its deniable, it discomforts the main adversary which is the way that russia still views the United States and unless there are really hard consequences spelled out by Joe Biden Today i think this kind of stuff will continue. Its been so interesting because the russians have said that they want an initiative together with the u. S. To work in cyberspace to fight against Cyber Criminals. So you think thats all talk . I mean, i think i wrote a previous book and its clear the stakes, the government, the bureaucracy and Organized Crime are basically the same quasi criminal organization. If vladimir putin wanted to rein in domestic Cyber Criminals he could do it in a Phone Call and he chooses not to do it because it embarrasses and weakens his adversary. Thats how he sees t the other thing of course is deniable. Putin is very food, hes very arch at saying that rogue actors inside russia are not formally connected with the states. Now, you know, formerly thats true but its a lie, its one of many lies. And so i think we can expect a Press Conference later on today where he says we had constructive talks, we want good relations but behind the scenes he will be liaising with his spy agencies, with the gau, Russian Military have been sending assassins all over the place with the srb and foreign intelligence. Im certain that these malign operations which are so problematic for western leaders including Joe Biden will continue. And of course one of the things we know that vladimir putin really fears in russia is instability and of course, you know, we have seen a rise in demonstrations against vladimir putin, antigovernment demonstrations if we look to the Far East of russia. There were some local issues there involved as well. One of the big things that Joe Biden wants to bring up or one of the things he wants to bring up is of course Alexei Navalny. Do you see any room for vladimir putin not necessarily negotiating but even acknowledging that could be an issue between these two leaders . Important for the United States, but vladimir putin seems to be brushing it off. Yeah, i mean, thats right, fred. And you will note from his interview earlier this week with nbc that once again he refused to mention Alexei Navalnys name, he called him that person. And i think for putin its personal. If we believe bellingcat the investigative unit, if we believe western intelligence they are convinced that putin authorized this operation to poison navalny with novichok, an absolutely lethal toxic agent also used in salisbury in 2018. Navalny survived, recuperated in germany, flew back to moscow in an incredibly brave act and of course then he was swiftly arrested. My fear is that the more Joe Biden presses this the less productive it will be because if the international community is invested in Navalnys Release for putin that is a kind of thats an affront. Im pretty certain that navalny will stay behind bars regardless of what Joe Biden says today. Thank you very much for that. Luke harding there for us in london. Thank you for at that taking the time this morning to speak us. Rosemary, as you can see theres so many difficult topics on the agenda. There may be some where there might be mutual or shared interest where the two leaders believe they could not necessarily find a compromise but at least talk to Each Other about these issues and find a common ground on these issues, but there are some where it really seems that there are hardened positions on both sides. Of course, Alexei Navalnys fate being one of them, ukraine being another Big One as well. We will keep an eye on all of them as the day unfold. Fred, we will come back soon. Still to come on cnn newsroom, the new batch of emails showing how former President Trump and his allies pressured the Justice Department to try to overturn the 2020 election. Plus temperatures are forecast to hit all time highs this week across the western u. S. , including phoenix where it could hit 118 degrees by friday. The latest on the historic Heat Wave thats sizzling more than 50 Million americans. Not touching is still touching protection. Adding Lysol Laundry Sanitizer kills 99. 9 of bacteria. Detergent alone, cant. Lysol. What it takes to protect. Air wick our Essential Mist transforms fragrance infused with natural Essential Oils into a mist. To awaken your home with an experience you can see, smell, and feel. Its air care, redefined. Air wick Essential Mist. Connect to nature. Zoo welcome back, everyone. Newly released emails from the House Oversight Committee show how former u. S. President Donald Trump and his allies pressured top Justice Department officials to investigate false claims of Voter Fraud in the 2020 election. Former white House Chief of Staff Mark meadows was among those trump allies. Cnns Jessica Schneider has the details. Reporter newly released emails reveal how president Donald Trumps allies pressured then acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen to investigate false allegations that the 2020 election had been stole snoon this election was stolen. Reporter as trump repeatedly made the false claims in the weeks after the election, emails show repeated efforts from white House Chief of Staff Mark meadows to justice officials asking them to probe questionable reports about Voter Fraud around the country and even a Conspiracy Theory floated by an ally of Rudy Giuliani that italy was using Mitt Tear Technology and sat lies to somehow change votes. Rosen rejected the effort. I flatly refused, said i would not be giving Special Treatment to giuliani and his witnesses and reaffirmed that i will not talk to giuliani about any of this. When meadows sent rosen a Youtube Link about the italian Satellite Conspiracy Rosen forwarded to his deputy who bonded with the words pure insanity. They also showed meadow pushed doj to investigate fraud claims by the lawyer on the call with trump on January 2nd when he pressured georgia officials to find him votes. So, look, all i want to do is this, i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. Reporter one day before that call meadows emailed rosen saying there were allegations of Signature Match anomalies. In fulton county georgia. Asking justice officials to investigate. Rosen forwarded the email To Con Shoe and said can you believe this . I am not going to respond to the message below. It wasnt just meadows. The email showed trumps assistant sent a document claiming Voter Fraud in michigan and private Attorney Olsen contacted daj with a Draft Lawsuit challenging the election ruts. His email said i have been instructed to report back to the president after the meeting. It doesnt appear the meeting ever happened. Days before the January 6th insurrection after weeks of pushing back against claims from the president s allies another Doj Official wrote it sounds like rosen and the cause of justice won. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee is on the Judiciary Committee and pledged an investigation into the efforts. They were using the power of the White House the executive to undermine our separate but equal powers. We as a Congress Cannot Stand for that and you can be assured a deep investigation may result in actions that will move this to a criminal realm. Reporter but republican jim jordan says the emails from trumps allies were perfectly appropriate while the response wasnt. That is a problem. When the president , the Chief Of Staff to the president of the United States asks someone in the Executive Branch to do something and they basically give him the finger, i think thats the problem we should be looking into, but thats not what the democrats are going to look into. Reporter despite congressman jordans objections the House Oversight Committee wants answers. They have sent letters to meadows, Donohue And Jeffrey clark who is reported to have met with President Trump in the weeks after the election. Maloney is seeking all of their testimony before the committee. As for mark meadows, he declined to comment on the emails when our Cnn Producer spotted him at the capitol. Jessica schneider, cnn, washington. The biden administration has announced a new strategy to combat domestic terrorism. Their goal is to build a national framework for the Government And Law enforcement to share domestic terrorism related information. And to prevent future terror attacks. The u. S. Torn general tied the new policy directly to the insurrection at the u. S. Capitol in january. The Resolve And Dedication with which the Justice Department has approached the investigation of the January 6th attack reflects the seriousness with which we take this assault on a mainstay of our democratic system, the peaceful transfer of power. Attacks by Domestic Terrorist right side not just attacks on their immediate victims, they are attacks on all of us collectively aimed at rendering the fabric of our democratic society and driving us apart. But the plan has its critics, like the aclu which says and im wroegt here we are deeply disappointed that the administration failed to impose safeguards against biased profiling, overbroad Law Enforcement Information Sharing and other measures that harm free expression and equal protection, including the very communities that white supremacists target. In arizona firefighters are losing ground against a massive wildfire thats already burned nearly 57,000 hectares. If that wasnt enough western states are sweltering under a record breaking Heat Wave. Cnn Meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has more. Good morning, rosemary. It is really incredible when you think about the long Duration Event here in place with the excessive temperatures and as you noted all Time Records being set. Look at this, on tuesday 107 degrees in Salt Lake City, utah, that not only sets the daily record but ties the all time hottest temperature ever seen in the city of course that includes the month of june. You have to look at Salt Lake City because records here have been standing since 1874, records have been kept since that time, thats 50,000 calendar days only three times has it ever been as hot as it was on tuesday. The widespread coverage of it seen in sharon wyoming, laremy, wyoming, where all time temperatures were observed. In Las Vegas The Heat has been on in recent days, temperatures have been near or above 110 degrees, all time hottest on the strip in vegas 117 degrees, 116 is what is expected on wednesday afternoon. Speaks to the rare nature of this heat and important to note summer in the northern hemisphere doesnt start until sunday. Widespread coverage, massive dome of high pressure, sinking air, warms air by compression so we are he seeing widespread coverage underneath this dome where the hot air is trapped. We expect this to continue through saturday, maybe even into sunday. In this period upwards of 275 records could be set across the western United States. Las vegas notice over the next week temps finally cool off to 4 degrees above average at that point, thats 104 this time next week. Phoenix climbing up to 118 degrees before trying to cool off into early next week. Again, over 50 plus until americans approaching 60 Million americans underneath excessive Heat Alerts with temperatures in places such as death valley, california, nearing 130 degrees. Rosemary . Thank you so much for that, pedram. The cdc is calling the Delta Variant first identified in india a variant of concern. They believe the variant to be more transmissible than the regular strain of covid19. Vaccines, treatments and tests that can detect it also may be less effective. The u. S. Surgeon general says its one more reason to get vaccinated and other experts agree. The vaccines that we have do appear to be effective against the Delta Variant but you have to get both doses of the mrna vaccines and the study that was done two doses of pfizer gave you 88 protection, but one dose gave you only 33 . So the key is get vaccinated, get both doses. All states will be wise to continue testing because we dont want to make the same mistake that we did at the beginning of the pandemic. My concern is that the pockets of the country that have low vaccination rates actually also dont have robust public health infrastructure. They are already scaling back testing and reporting on the number of new cases which i think is a big mistake. The last thing that we want is for is to have a repeat of the problems from earlier on in the pandemic where every one case turned out to be the canary in the coal mine, meant that we were missing so many others. Reopening may be the right thing to do, i think its good for us to resume our prepandemic lives. Continue to increase vaccinations in the meantime but also dont forget about testing, Contact Tracing and those basics that are really important to controlling this disease. And the u. S. Doesnt have a handle on it quite yet, the country now has surpassed more than 600,000 covid related deaths. Thats almost as many as the number of soldiers believed to have died in The American civil war. According to johns hopkins university, only eight other countries have reported more than 100,000 covid deaths. And we now return to our special coverage of the biden putin summit. Our Fred Pleitgen is standing by In Geneva. Over to you, fred. Thank you very much, rosemary. Coming up we have a topic that russia most certainly wants to avoid but that almost certainly will be raised and that is Human Rights and the fate of jailed on Significance Leader Alexei Navalny. President biden has been very, very outspoken on that topic. It would be a tragedy, it would do nothing but hurt his relationships with the rest of the world in my view and with me. Needles. Essential for sewing, but maybe not for people with certain inflammatory conditions. Essential for sewing, because there are options. Like an unjection. xeljanz. 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Mr. Biden discussed the summit at least two dozen European Leaders and separately President Biden declared america is back and vowed to repair relations that were strained during the trump administration. All right. I want to bring in our own Jeff Zeleny who has been with President Biden at really every step of the way, jeff. How much momentum do you think that President Biden is carrying into the summit with vladimir putin after shoring up that support for western countries, for European Countries and also hearing their Point Of View on the summit as well . Reporter fred, i think the trip was designed exactly for this reason. To have this summit between President Biden and President Putin at the very end because President Biden really has talked with most every World Leader he has met with, both at the g7 in cornwall, england, as well at Nato Headquarters and at the Eu Summit in brussels about President Putin, trying to get some buyin for this meeting. As you know very well theres been a decent share of criticism for why is President Biden meeting with President Putin so early in his term . Why is he meeting with him without a specific strategy for a Russia Outline . Well, the reason is he is, you know wants to begin this dialogue, but he was trying to get bits and pieces of information from World Leaders along the way frrks Angela Merkel to the leaders of baltic countries. Going into this meeting there is No Doubt that President Biden has significant momentum at least in terms of his standing among the leaders of democracies, the question is what will that mean for his meeting with President Putin. Is he, you know, going to you know, that going to change how he operates . Probably not, but at least in a public Relations Way it certainly builds the momentum that he is the new american president a and he is taking call of these messages into this Summit Today In Geneva. One of the things that youve been reporting that i found fascinating over the past couple of years because youve reported on President Biden and Joe Biden before he was president for such a very long time. Is that many people have been asking why does he need this Facetoface Meeting . Why was it so important for him to Sit Down facetoface with vladimir putin. This is really the core of who Joe Biden is, isnt it, meeting with People Facetoface and getting his point across, right . Reporter it absolutely s particularly after about a year and several months of virtual meetings and telephone meetings, he really wanted to get out in the world and have some of these conversations and have some of these Oneonone Meetings. Now, when you say the Word Reset is President Biden trying to reset relations with President Putin the White House says, no, no, not trying to reset, just trying to essentially frame what could be a cooperative partnership with limits obviously with russia or not. I mean, President Biden is trying to see at least according to his advisers, you know, by looking President Putin directly in the eye if there can be areas of cooperation on nuclear arms, on climate, on the iran nuclear deal. Thats about it obviously. There are many other areas dissent, but President Biden believes his time on the World Stage really for the better part of his public life can lead to the better result than the last four Marne President s. Healthy reason for skepticism on that, but we will have to see how the summit here today plays out. Thank you very much for that. Jeff zeleny right near In Geneva. We will be hearing a lot more from you also in the next couple of hours, really throughout the entire day as the summit unfolds. One of the key areas that many people will be looking at and certainly many or some families in the United States will be looking at is possible prisoner swaps between the u. S. And russia of course there have been a lot of names that have been put out there. Trevor reed being one of them but also the former marine paul whelan, he was arrested in russia in 2018, convicted in 2020 on Espionage Charges which and and his family says are trumped up. The question is whether or not there is any headway that can be made there. Over the past couple of days the russian Foreign Ministry said that they had been in talks with the u. S. About prisoner swaps but that paul Whelans Case was excluded however the kremlin has said in the form of a spokesperson for vladimir putin that the two president s would have to discuss that issue. They said that speculation about it would be inappropriate but it could be discussed by the two president s. Now, cnn managed to speak to paul Whelans Brother and he had this to say about the upcoming summit. Its difficult because on the one hand you want him home more than anything, you want him to come back to our family and to michigan, but i dont know that anybody is willing to have him traded for the merchant of death or some other terrible person who is sitting in a u. S. Prison. Its a very difficult situation. The president is responsible for all of The American diseases wherever they are and so its a very difficult situation for him to have to decide about. And of course there is another really important prisoner whose fate will most probably come up and that is the russian opposition top tigs Alexei Navalny. Last year he was poisoned with a chemical Nerve Agent novichok, the United States holds Russia Accountable for that poisoning even though the russians have denied that. The u. S. Had a has heavily criticized the imprisonment of Alexei Navalny however the russians continue to say that that is legit and on Emb Embezzlement charges. Vladimir putin has no intention about talk about this topic. When he was recently brought up in an Nbc Interview i want you to take a look at his reaction. Will you commit that you will personally ensure that Alexei Navalny will leave prison alive. I perceive from the premise that the person you have mentioned the same kind of measures will apply not in any way worse to Anybody Else who happens to be in prison. His name is Alexei Navalny. People will note that you i dont care. I dont care. You see vladimir putin visibly irritate there had and joining me now from london is the Executive Director of Alexei Navalnys anticorruption foundation which has just recently been declared an Extremist Organization in russia which is very, very grave for your organization. What do you expect from President Biden in this summit and what do you hope he can achieve for Alexei Navalny . Well, the u. S. President and the russian president have a wide agenda, it includes security issues, iran, china, Climate Change. I dont know what place will Human Rights issues and the situation with Alexei Navalny take among this wide range of issues, but i hope it is prominently featured and it deserves the attention that it requires. Its been quite interesting because the Kremlin Yesterday or senior aide to vladimir putin has said that they do believe that the kremlin does believe that President Biden is going to raise the issue of Alexei Navalny, of his treatment, of his imprisonment. Do you believe that theres any chance that the treatment could get better or that he could even be released . I think its a long process. We advocate his release for a long time, for the last six months and mr. Biden and u. S. Administration has been really supportive, raising its voice against this unlawful incarceration. Navalny really has become the most prominent political prisoner now globally. So i hope there is some movement on this issue as a result of this summit. As weve noted, your organization, Alexei Navalnys organizations have been key clard Extremist Organizations in the russian federation making it almost impossible pretty much impossible to do anything there. How are you going to try to continue your work or try to make a difference especially in the run up to the parliamentary elections that are coming up in russian . Its not the first instance of pressure on our organization, on our activists. We have always regrouped, we evolved and we found ways to fight this regime. A lot of opportunities take place online and they will continue in particular the system of tactical voting that we employed in previous elections in russia will now be used during the parliamentary elections in september. One of the things that i have to ask you is do you have any update on how Alexei Navalny is doing on his health and how hes being treat there had in russia in that jail . Following his Hunger Strike which lasted three weeks his medical treatment was improved, so hes now back to normal in terms of eating, even though his health issues still remain, but hes feeling much better. I want to thank you for joining us this morning. Of course you will be keeping a close eye on the summit, we will be keeping a close eye on the summit. We will have much more from geneva and around the world, thats coming up after the break. No, hes not in his room. Dad, why didnt you answer your phone . Your mother loved this park. She did. So its another day. Yeah thats what most people think. But in business its never just another day. Every day is the day. Theres the day your store has its biggest sale. The day you have a Make Or Break presentation. And the day your team operates from across the country. But theres also the day you never see coming the day when nothing goes right. See thats the thing. You never know what the day might bring. 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What is the latest Ons Thesis really Air Strikes and could they perhaps trigger a new round of violence in the region . Reporter the idf says they launched these Air Strikes after incendiary balloons were sent by militants in gaza over the border and there are reports that these balloons caused at least 20 different fires. The idf said that they struck Training Complexes and meeting facilities of hamas and according to palestinian media there was material damage but no casualties have been reported yet. But its a clear escalation of course and it goes to show you that the ceasefire that was struck after that 11day Conflict last month with hamas led militants in Ga Sfla is tenuous, fragile and could change at any minute. The militants said that they launched those balloons partly in response to a march by right wing jewish groups through jerusalem yesterday, known as the Flag Day March when these groups celebrate when israel took control of the Western Wall in East Jerusalem in 1867. It was supposed to take place last month but as it was getting under way hamas began Firing Rockets in jerusalem in response to this march. Yesterday this was seen as a provocative move by these groups because thousands of these marchers at one point went to damascus gate plaza, the main entrance for muslim worshippers to enter the old city, the muslim quarters. Thousands were waving israeli flags, chants, some were chanting incendiary slogans, they were saying things like jerusalem is ours. This march was condemned by palestinian leadership and seen as a clear test for this new government just sworn in on monday who allowed this march to go forward. I do think that the Air Strikes overnight show that the israeli officials are no longer accepting things like balloons being sent over, incendiary balloons being sent over that they will get a hard response, in the past sometimes things like incendiary balloons would not have received a strong response such as Air Strikes, that would have been reserved for rockets being fired. They are change the dimensions and now will be responding to any sort of provocation from hamas with things like Air Strikes, but it just goes to show you how sensitive and fragile in ceasefire remains. Hadas gold joining us live from jerusalem. Meet chinas newest team of space fairers. Beijing is sending three astronauts up in chinas first Human Spaceflight in about five years. The crew is scheduled to launch thursday moving. They will orbit the earth for a threemonth stay as they work on chinas space station. Its the third of nearly a dozen missions needed to get the station complete by 2022. Now to what appears to be an unprecedented in a nufr by chinas military. 28 chinese War Planes including nuclear capable bombers made an incursion into Taiwans Air Defense zone on tuesday. Its the largest such incursion since taiwan began reporting on chinas threatening flights last year. It comes just a day after nato leaders warned of the military challenge posed by beijing. And cnns Will Ripley is following the developments for us, he joins us now live from taipei. So, will, what message was china trying to send taiwan and of course the rest of the world with these War Planes . Reporter i think its safe to say, rosemary, the message is dont mess with chinas sovereignty, but it may be aimed at multiple players here. Obviously this act of Military Intimidation which did not violate International Law because they didnt go into taiwanese Air Space was meant to intimidate taiwan which china has claimed as part of its territory more than 70 years even though the island has been governing it self for that entire time. This is the only chinese speaking democracy in the world. Also its a message aimed at the United States analysts are telling me. This is a Slib Rat Attempt to conduct whats called kind of a gray zone operation, to have nuclear capable bombers which would not be needed frankly if there were to be a Military Conflict with taiwan, but could be used to target u. S. Military bases in japan and guam, that analysts say is certainly a signal meant for the u. S. And it comes at a time as you mentioned the G7 Communique 48 hours or so before this incursion and it was on June 6 when three u. S. Senators decided to fly into taipei on a c 17 a military aircraft, another Photo Op for the u. S. 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