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Suicide Attack Near German Music Festival; Russia Catches a Break from the IOC; Australian Delegation Deems Rio Olympic Village Unprepared for Athletes; Democratic Convention Already Facing Another E-mail Controversy; MH370 Families React to report Pilot Simulated Route; Opposition Holds Pro Democracy Rally in Turkey; Satire Magazine Faces Coup Backlash in Turkey; Clinton's Steadfast Campaign to Win the White House. Aired 1-2a ET

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[01:00:10] NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Another attack in Germany. This time a suicide bombing right outside a music festival as it was just about to get under way. We'll have a live report from the city from our Fred Pleitgen, who has just arrived.

There is more controversy rocking the Rio Olympics. Russia's athletes are catching a break from the IOC.

And the big convention for U.S. Democrats is already facing controversy. Can you say e-mail scandal?

And hello, everyone. Welcome to our viewers around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM. We're coming to you live from Atlanta, and those stories are all ahead here on this hour. I'm Natalie Allen.

Breaking this hour, police in southern Germany are searching for answers after a suicide attack injured 12 people. No one was killed, none of the citizens that were the target. The explosion went off near a music festival that was about to get under way in the city of Ansbach. That's close to Nuremburg. Authorities say the bomber was the only person killed. A witness described what happened.

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THOMAS DEBINSKI, WITNESS (Through Translator): People were definitely panicking. The rumor that we were hearing immediately was that it had been a gas explosion. But then people came past and said it was a rucksack that exploded. Definitely a rucksack that exploded. Someone blew themselves up. And after what just happened in Munich and today in Reutlingen, what you hear about, it is very disturbing.

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ALLEN: There was a shooting in Munich on Friday. An attack on a train a few days before that.

Fred Pleitgen who just arrived in Ansbach and he joins me now on the phone with the very latest. And Fred, very good police work that this attempt was foiled. And it

didn't take long for police to figure out who this person was.

FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): No, it certainly didn't. It was only a few hours after this incident took place that the Bavarian Interior minister called a press conference in the middle of the night, here German time, which is very unusual. And that already led us to believe that this was going to be something quite big for the police here. And then saying that they identified the person who blew himself up as a 27-year-old refugee from Syria.

They already have a lot of information about this man. Very, very quickly. And one of the reasons was that he was known to police for various offenses, that he apparently committed in the past two years that he'd been in Germany.

Now the other thing that they said is that his application for asylum in Germany had been -- that he had not been granted. But still he had not been deported back to another country yet because of the war situation that's going on in Syria. So this was certainly someone who was known to the police. At the same time, there were also a lot of details about what exactly happened.

This apparently happened in the latter half of the festival that was going in. He apparently tried to get in, but he didn't have a ticket. So the security didn't let him in. He then stood close to the entry point to this music festival and then blew himself up. And one of the things the police believes is that he seemed to have wanted to cause much more carnage than he actually did because they did find nails, screws and other metal parts that seem to have been part of this explosive device after forensic workers there went to the scene, and police obviously cordoned off the area -- Natalie.

ALLEN: Yes. And the good news in this is he -- no one else was killed. But on the other end, it's been a --

PLEITGEN: Yes.

ALLEN: A very difficult week or two weeks there in Germany with these attacks. And you were saying earlier this is the first suicide bombing in the country.

PLEITGEN: Yes, by all accounts this is something that the Interior minister said as well, is that to his knowledge, and by all accounts, this is the first suicide bombing to take place in Germany. Of course the authorities here, they have already put in place a special investigation commission to see what exactly is behind all this. Whether or not this was Islamists motivated, whether some bigger organization like perhaps ISIS is part of this. Whether it was ISIS inspired. Those are all things that the authorities here are still trying to find out.

At this point, they say they simply don't know. But you're absolutely right. It's been a devastating couple of days for this state of Bavaria where Ansbach is. And certainly for the whole south of Germany, where you had an attack in Wuerzburg where an Afghan refugee attacked people there on a commuter train with an axe and knife.

And of course you had that horrible shooting that took place in Munich where nine people were killed and the shooter then killed himself. Yet another attack that happened in the town of Reutlingen, which is also in the south of Germany, where another man from Syria stabbed a woman to death there. That happened yesterday. And now you have this. So certainly at this point in time, Germans very, very uneasy about the security situation in many places.

[01:05:02] And that's also something that was reflected with some of the eyewitnesses that spoke after this attack in Ansbach took place. And I can tell you, just having arrived here, the city is absolutely or the center of town is absolutely cordoned off at this point in time as the police continue to do their work and have certainly set a very wide perimeter to let -- for forensic workers there work without any sort of interference and certainly try to keep the public away from this area -- Natalie.

ALLEN: I'm sure they want to stay away.

Fred Pleitgen, just arrived there. We know you'll be doing more reporting for us in the hours to come. And we just want to reiterate, no one killed in this bombing except the suicide bomber.

Fred, thank you.

Now to Munich. New details are emerging about the gunman behind Friday's rampage there that Fred just mentioned. Investigators say the teenager apparently planned this attack for one year. Nine people were killed when the 18-year-old opened fire. 35 people were injured. Authorities says the gunman had researched mass shootings.

And police have arrested an Afghan teen on suspicion of being an accessory. He is believed to be a friend of the gunman. Police say he gave them conflicting statements.

People have been paying their respects to the Munich shooting victims at a memorial near the scene. Mourners laid flowers and lit candles while others cried. Most of the people killed in the attack were teenagers.

Officials in western Germany have arrested a Syrian asylum seeker who they say killed a woman with a machete. Police say the suspect and the woman got into an argument at a bus stop before he attacked her on Sunday. He also injured two other people as he fled. Police say the suspect was previously known to them for property thefts and assault.

ISIS is claiming responsibility for another deadly suicide bombing in Baghdad. Security officials say the blast killed at least 21 people and wounded 35 on Sunday. It was in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in the northern part of the capital. This happened just weeks of a truck bomb plowed into a Baghdad shopping district, killing nearly 300 people.

The International Olympic Committee is facing major backlash around the world after it announced it would not issue a blanket ban on Russia for the upcoming Olympics in Rio. Just two weeks before the games, it looked like Russia could miss them entirely. A report from the World Anti-Doping Agency said the country had engaged in state- sponsored doping. But now the IOC is leaving the fate of the athletes up to each sports' respective federation.

The decision has not satisfied critics who think Russia is getting off too easily, but their athletes will now have a chance to try and earn back their country's reputation.

CNN contributor and former Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty has been following the story for us. She is now live in Moscow.

And Vladimir Putin have been very outspoken on this. And it seems like he has had somewhat of a victory here.

JILL DOUGHERTY, CNN FORMER MOSCOW BUREAU CHIEF: Well, yes. I mean, look at is the Russian headlines. I mean, the headline really is no overall ban. And I have to tell you now the Russian media are reporting that the gymnastics team has arrived in Rio. So those are the types of headlines that the Russians definitely want to see.

When you look behind the headlines, Natalie, it's more complicated, because really what the IOC was saying, although there is no overall ban, they are saying that the individual athletes really were tainted by that report from the McLaren report, which came from the World Anti-Doping Agency, giving evidence of massive state-sponsored doping. So what these athletes now will have to do is individually prove to these individual sports federations that they indeed are clean.

And you mentioned President Putin. He has taken, you know, the approach that there is no state-sponsored doping here. However, we're taking these charges very seriously. And so he is created or asked the Olympic committee to create a commission, a high-level independent commission on anti-doping. Five officials had been put on temporary leave. And then the Olympics committee is saying we're going to completely revamp the anti-doping program that we have. So the government is taking steps trying to prove that they indeed take it all very seriously.

ALLEN: And meantime, though, the track and field team, that's where this all started, correct, with the doping investigation. They're out, period. Is that still the same?

DOUGHERTY: They are. Exactly. Except for one who is Darya Klishina. You know, she's a long jumper. She had trained in the United States. And so the rationale there was that she was not implicated in doping that was going on here in Russia. Therefore she could participate.

[01:10:11] ALLEN: Jill Dougherty live for us in Moscow there. Many people around the world have opinions on this one. And now we've got something else to think about when the Olympic Games begin. Thanks, Jill.

Well, by many accounts, the lead-up to the Rio Olympics has been, well, a disaster. And now there is another concern. One country says it won't be moving its athletes in to the Olympic Village. Shasta Darlington explains why.

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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Blocked toilets, leaky pipes and exposed wires. Just a few of the reasons Australia's Olympic delegation says it won't move in here to the athlete's village.

The 31 towers have been decorated with team signs but as the village open its doors to many of the 17,000 athletes and coaches slated to sleep here, controversy on the very first day.

KITTY CHILLER, AUSTRALIAN OLYMPIC CHEF DE MISSION: We felt that our building was not safe because of the combination -- because of the combination of plumbing and electrical issues. When we did our stress tests yesterday afternoon, there was significant leakages from plumbing pipes.

DARLINGTON: Organizers said hundreds of athletes moved in on Sunday and they were working quickly to resolve the problems.

"Every Olympic Village, because of their magnitude, needs some adjustments until it becomes perfect. The important thing is that everything will be resolved before the game without disturbing athletes."

We toured some of the Spartan apartments before inauguration.

(On camera): There is this discussion about whether or not there will be air-conditioning. They did not want to pay for it. But with the Zika scare, they had to put it in the rooms, is that right?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, they put air-conditioning in all the bedrooms, fans in non-bedrooms. But no televisions.

DARLINGTON (voice-over): The outdoor space helps compensate. Swimming pools, tennis courts and bike trails.

The U.S. delegation, which expects to have 500 athletes and staff staying at the Olympic Village, said as with the case of every game, they're working to resolve, quote-unquote, "minor issues."

For the Australian delegation, the problems are far from minor.

CHILLER: Every village has teething problems. It's very difficult to suddenly have 20,000 people in a confined space such as an Olympic Village. I have never experienced -- this is my fifth Olympic Games, a village in this state or lack of state of readiness at this point in time.

DARLINGTON: The latest snafu less than two weeks before the start of these very controversial games.

Shasta Darlington, CNN, Rio de Janeiro.

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ALLEN: Rio's mayor offered the Australians a little taste of home to make them feel more comfortable in the Olympic Village.

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EDUARDO PAES, RIO DE JANEIRO MAYOR (Through Translator): We are here to welcome our guests. Whatever adjustments we have to make, we make it. As host, we want them to feel at home. Brazil has this thing of welcoming guests well.

It's natural to have to make adjustments. But we want Australians to feel at home here. I almost feel like putting a kangaroo here for it to jump up in front of them.

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ALLEN: A spokesman for the Australian Olympic Committee told a newspaper they don't need a kangaroo. They just want plumbers to fix the leaks in the apartments.

Rio has dealt with no shortage of problems in the run-up to the games. We'll explain the one potential threat that is taking precedence over everything else as we push on here on CNN NEWSROOM.

Plus, major fallout for U.S. Democrats just before the party's national convention. What is behind the chairwoman's decision to resign. That's next.

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[01:17:35] ALLEN: Welcome back. There is a shake-up in the U.S. Democratic Party just hours before the national convention opens in Philadelphia. Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz says she will resign at the end of the party's convention this week. Top Democrats have been pressuring her to step down after WikiLeaks released thousands of e-mails that appear to show party officials favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders during the primaries. Sanders says he is not surprised by the news, but his focus is on defeating Donald Trump in November.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D), FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think the focus, though, that I am going to go forward on right now is to make sure that Donald Trump, perhaps the worst Republican candidate in the modern history of this country, somebody by temperament, somebody by ideology must not become president of the United States.

I'm going to do everything I can to defeat him, to elect Hillary Clinton and to keep focusing -- keep focusing on the real issues facing the American people. (END VIDEO CLIP)

ALLEN: Trump has been blasting the Democratic chairwoman on Twitter ever since she made the announcement to step down. Here is one of those tweets. "I always said that Debbie Wasserman Schultz was overrated. The Dems' convention is cracking up and Bernie is exhausted. No energy left."

The e-mail scandal could overshadow Hillary Clinton and her new VP pick at the convention. Senior Washington correspondent Jeff Zeleny is there for us.

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JEFF ZELENY, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: As Democrats gather here in Philadelphia for their convention starting Monday, Tim Kaine and Hillary Clinton are the center of conversation. But that's not all. The bombshell news on Sunday that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, is suddenly going to resign her seat come Friday threatened to disrupt this entire convention.

There is an uproar over WikiLeaks. E-mails that were sent out by members of her committee back during that competitive primary that indicated that her committee was not impartial at all in the fight between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton.

This has Bernie Sanders supporters outraged. Democrats wanted to quell this controversy before the convention begins. It's why she is stepping down. But she is still expected to speak on Monday evening -- Monday afternoon here in Philadelphia.

What we're watching for is will she be booed by some of those Sanders supporters who believe that she tipped the scales for Hillary Clinton.

This whole conversation is threatening to overshadow, at least in the short-term, Tim Kaine, the new member of this Democratic ticket, the senator from Virginia who will be front and center at this convention as well.

[01:20:06] Some other convention news. Mike Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, Republican, is also set to address this convention on Wednesday and deliver an endorsement for Hillary Clinton as a poke in the eye of Donald Trump. The Clinton campaign had a little surprise here, they were holding up their sleeve about this Bloomberg endorsement. They decided to announce it today to get ahead of some of this other news about Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

But the convention here in Philadelphia underway Monday for the first day to historically nominate the first woman to a major party ticket to be president of the United States.

Jeff Zeleny, CNN, Philadelphia.

(END VIDEOTAPE) ALLEN: Here is a look at the 47th Democratic National Convention by the numbers. It's being held at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also home to the NBA 76ers and the NHL Flyers. An estimated 50,000 people will attend, including more than 4700 delegates and 354 alternates. The party is spending an estimated $85 million to host the event. Philadelphia is the fifth largest city in the U.S. home to more than 1.5 million people.

Here are some of the headliners at this week's convention on Monday. First Lady Michelle Obama will take the stage. Also Clinton's former rival, Senator Bernie Sanders. Former President Bill Clinton is Tuesday's main speaker. Then President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden will try to fire up the crowd on Wednesday.

The convention ends Thursday night with daughter Chelsea Clinton followed by the nominee Hillary Clinton.

And a reminder, keep it right here on CNN. We'll have extensive coverage of the Democratic National Convention. We'll be live in Philadelphia throughout the week.

Monsoon rains have led to a building collapse in West Bengal, India. At least seven people died. Also the search continues for an Indian Air Force plane that went missing in the monsoon.

For more on it, let's turn to our meteorologist Pedram Javaheri. Hello, Pedram.

PEDRAM JAVAHERI, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Hello, Natalie. Good seeing you.

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[01:25:06] ALLEN: Just kind of speechless, though, over that Iraqi heat. That's just unreal and probably dangerous.

JAVAHERI: Yes. Almost 130. And you know, Iraq is one of the areas that is most susceptible on our planet when it comes to climate change. A lot of desertification in place in recent years. So the heat really stings across that area.

ALLEN: Yes. Something to watch, for sure. Pedram, thank you.

When a teenaged gunman opened fire in Munich, one man desperately tried to get his attention. We'll have his story on how he was working to confront the attacker, just ahead here.

And Brazil is taking steps to shore up security ahead of the Olympic Games. We'll show you what they're doing to be proactive against any threat of terror.

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ALLEN: Welcome back to our viewers around the world. You're watching CNN NEWSROOM live from Atlanta. I'm Natalie Allen. Here are our top stories.

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[01:30:08] ALLEN: Authorities in Munich, Germany, are gathering more information on the teenager who gunned down nine young people Friday.

Fred Pleitgen spoke with a witness who tried to stall the shooter.

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FRED PLEITGEN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As Munich shooter, Ali Sonboly, was gunning down people on his rampage, killing nine and wounding many more, just a few hundred yards away, Thomas Salbey was on his balcony for an afternoon beer.

"I heard gunshots on the park deck. Then I looked down and I saw that idiot standing there with a gun in his hand," he tells me. "So I finish my beer and threw the bottle at him."

Instead of hiding inside his apartment, Thomas Salbey yelled at the attacker, leading to an insult-laden exchange caught on camera by another tenant of the house.

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"I told him you idiot, are you stupid or something? He said, I'm a German-Iranian or something like that. I said you are a total idiot."

But soon the situation escalated far beyond verbal abuse.

"He aimed the gun over here," Thomas Salbey says. "I think he was trying to shoot the guy filming from this building. I heard bam, bam, bam. So I took cover. I could see the impacts of the bullets on the house."

Thomas Salbey says he was angry, feeling powerless, unarmed, trying to confront the gunman.

"If I would have had a gun, I would have tried to take him out," he says. "Maybe I wouldn't have killed him, but at least I would have tried to hold him up."

But what he did manage to do was buy time.

(voice-over): The shooter was moving around right here on this park deck. And Thomas Salbey, standing there on his balcony, says the exchange with him lasted for about 20 minutes. He was trying to stall the gunman, to give authorities a chance to catch up with him. But he says, at some point, the shooter stopped communicating and ran off.

(voice-over): Police later found Ali Sonboly's body. Police saying all indications are he killed himself.

While Thomas Salbey didn't manage to stop the rampage, he says he hopes his efforts distracting the shooter prevented even more carnage.

Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Munich, Germany.

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ALLEN: Good for him.

Well, growing terror concerns at the Rio Olympics have overshadowed a lot of the early excitement. Brazil is moving in thousands of soldiers and a huge security operation designed to keep the games safe.

CNN's Rosa Flores looks at the preparations.

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ROSA FLORES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Rio de Janeiro is fortified by 85,000 police, soldiers, and firemen for the Olympic Games. That was the plan all along.

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FLORES: With the attacks in Europe in recent days and weeks, and 11 Brazil nationals arrested after reportedly planning to attack during the Olympics, the plan seems to be working. The small army of Brazilian forces are policing airports and major tourist sites where thousands of spectators are expected. Behind the scenes, officials are sharing intelligence with other countries and working as if a terror attack is eminent during the Rio Games, according to Brazil's minister of justice.

And it's already paying off. Four people were denied Olympic credentials during a background check for possible terror ties.

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FLORES: Brazilian authorities running mock security drills in preparation for various types of attacks, including hostage events with casualties. Even nuclear emergencies are being considered.

(on camera): Despite the intense police presence, Brazilian officials insist these extra officers are focused on urban crime like petty theft, and that Brazil doesn't have a history of terrorism.

(voice-over): The 11 Brazilian nationals who were arrested for plotting an attack were deemed amateurs by authorities, who say the suspects tried to buy weapons online and train in martial arts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is very hard for the authorities to disrupt every sing isle plot. We need to remember the old adage that the authorities have to be successful all the time. The terrorists need to be lucky just once.

FLORES: A jihadi messaging group is encouraging lone wolves in Brazil and lone wolves around the world willing to travel to Brazil to terrorize, according to Site Intelligence Group (ph), an organization which monitors jihadi activity online. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That ISIS has done it through their official

channel is a concern. And that they are making an effort to get the message out, not just in Arabic or English, but Portuguese, the language of Brazil itself. So that is something that we should be taking very seriously.

FLORES: The biggest challenge remains the same, preparing for the unknown.

Rosa Flores, CNN, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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ALLEN: They've been waiting for answers about their loved ones for more than two years. Now the families of those on board Malaysia Airlines flight 370 face a new report suggesting the pilot conducted a flight simulation that closely matched the final suspected route of the missing plane.

Andrew Stevens talked with families in Kuala Lumpur about it.

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[01:35:16] ANDREW STEVENS, CNN ASIA-PACIFIC EDITOR: The last time I saw Jaquita Gonzalez was almost 18 months ago. Her pain at the disappearance of her husband, Patrick Gomez, allegedly on MH370, was still raw.

When we meet again at her home in Kuala Lumpur, she is still waiting for answers. Instead, she is dealing with more questions.

(on camera): There is new information coming out that the pilots may have plotted the course into the deep southern Indian Ocean on the simulator. It's been described as evidence that this could have been a suicide flight.

JAQUITA GONZALEZ, HUSBAND ON M7370: Why now? Because it was investigated earlier on, and they said he was OK. Why now are they saying that he had plotted a flight to the Indian Ocean and that's what his intention was? And then bringing politics into play --

STEVENS: So you don't believe it?

GONZALEZ: No. Because we were all questioned, the crew family, you know, and from what I gathered from that investigation that was done on the families and everybody, we were told that we were all cleared. Why now are you saying that the captain -- you know, well, if it is true, then show us the proof.

STEVENS (voice-over): Grace Nathan's mother was also on flight 370. She is now an advocate for the families. She is also struggling with the new development.

GRACE NATHAN, MOTHER ON MH370: I don't know what to believe. Until there is, for example -- the Malaysian authorities and the investigation team in Australia have said that they already dismissed that it was possibly like pilot suicide or controlled ditching, or at least they have dismissed the pilot suicide portion of it. So I mean, I could just feel like I'm back to where I always am, in the middle of this floating around, not knowing what to think or what to believe. It's all very stressful, really.

STEVENS: For Jaquita, it's not just an emotional toll she is dealing with. Since Patrick's disappearance, she has been diagnosed with cancer. But she draws strength from her family. And together they keep Patrick's memory alive. This Saturday was his 57th birthday. Every year, he and their daughter, Michelle, would celebrate their birthdays together, along with the rest of the family. This year was no different.

GONZALEZ: Patrick is not a thing of the past. I can't let Patrick go just like that. He still means a lot to us and constantly, every day, we talk about Patrick. He still is a very big part of my life.

STEVENS: Andrew Stevens, CNN, Kuala Lumpur.

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ALLEN: The families have been through so much. That plane disappeared in March of 2014.

In Turkey, Istanbul hosted a massive pro-democracy rally. We'll tell you how it brought together political foes.

Also, a Turkish satire magazine is facing backlash in the wake of the failed coup in the country. We'll talk with people who write for the magazine.

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[01:41:43] ALLEN: In Turkey, bitter foes came together in Istanbul in a rally to support democracy. The main opposition party invited ruling party supporters to attend Sunday's demonstration, and they agreed. Both sides had opposed the failed military coup earlier this month. The rally comes as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is said to meet with opposition leaders later Monday.

Our Nic Robertson has more. He is in Istanbul.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL DIPLOMATIC EDITOR: Part concert, part celebration, but a very clear message for President Erdogan here. This party, this opposition party doesn't want to see an autocratic rule emerge here. This is the opposition party, the CHP Party, the Republican People's Party. The message coming from on the stage here is that they are anti-the coup. They say they were some of the first leaders to come out to oppose the coup when it began.

But what you see here are their supporters. They are secular.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So this flag has a reason. We have --

ROBERTSON: Ataturk, the founder of the country.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The founder.

ROBERTSON: The secular founder.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Secular founder. And he also put in place the fundamentals for this democracy to work in the best way.

ROBERTSON: The message from some of the leaders here, they said that they're concerned about autocratic one-man rule. They said that the future of the country should be secular. That important to you, secular future?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it's important for me. But now we are talking about the coup, not about the secular. It's our business. We can decide it. We can vote for the people who is trying to be more autocratic. But now, if there will be a coup, we can't change it.

ROBERTSON: The message from the leaders up here on the stage, very, very clear, against autocratic rule. They want a secular future for the country.

So while the detentions and the suspensions are going on throughout the country, the real concern is what happens next. Is Erdogan and his AKP Party going to try to take more power? That's the worry here. That's what the CHP, the main opposition party, is saying here. That is a message that seems to be picked up from all perhaps tens of thousands and more people who came here to listen to their leaders.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Istanbul, Turkey.

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ALLEN: At least one Turkish magazine is also wary of the government seizing more power. "Le Man" is a satire publication often compared to France's "Charlie Hebdo." It says the Turkish government prevented it from publishing its edition on the coup and says it now faces other threats.

Ian Lee has more now on the state of satire in Turkey.

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IAN LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This cartoon, the Turkish government doesn't want you to see. On one side, the military, the other, anti-coup demonstrators. Both sides about to engage in a deadly game of chess.

One played out in the streets on July 15th during a coup attempt.

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LEE: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the plot on exiled cleric, Fethullah Gulen. "The cover says this isn't a battleground for Erdogan or Fethullah

Gulen," says the editor-in-chief of "Le Man." "This is our country. And the fact that they used it so viciously in six hours, around 300 people died."

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[01:45:15] LEE: The coup failed, but tensions remained high the following week.

(on camera): The night before the edition's release, "Le Man" tweeted out the front cover. Threats immediately came in and protesters began to gather here in front of their offices, saying don't you remember what happened to "Charlie Hebdo."

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(voice-over): The 2015 shooting at the French satirical magazine killed 11 journalists.

"Now we should always take political Islamist threats seriously because they do as they say," he tells me. "If not today, tomorrow, when there is an opportunity."

Protesters accused "Le Man's" cover of supporting the coup.

"I would not support any coup," he tells me. We don't have to settle for the lesser of two evils. We want democracy, and we want it now."

Turkish police quickly secured "Le Man's" offices. But a court banned the edition from publication.

CNN requested comment from Turkish officials, but did not get a response.

These are uncertain times for political cartoonists. Only one agreed to talk to us on the condition of anonymity. We'll call him Adam.

"I enjoy expressing myself," says Adam. "I can't do anything else. This is how I matter. Occasionally, I'm worried and scared. But we take that risk."

At 21 years old, Adam is just starting out. But he is aware of the power of the pen.

"This cartoon I'm working on depicts how I feel when I draw," he tells me. "I sensor myself sometimes. I want to make people laugh, but worry will I anger someone? Will I get hurt? Will this get others hurt? Will it bring people to the streets?"

In Turkey's age of uncertainty, a picture speaking louder than words.

Ian Lee, CNN, Istanbul.

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ALLEN: Hillary Clinton is poised to make history this week. Coming up, a look at her sometimes bumpy path to the Democratic nomination.

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[01:51:19] ALLEN: It's kind of e-mail scandal, part deux. While the Democratic National Committee deals with its e-mail scandal, party delegates will convene a historic convention in just hours. Hillary Clinton will officially become the first female presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party.

Tom Foreman tracks Clinton's steadfast campaign to win the White House.

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HILLARY CLINTON, (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE & FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: That is why I am running for president of the United States.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There was never really any doubt that Clinton would run, that the Democratic establishment would back her, or that she had learned lessons about connecting with voters.

CLINTON: Because it's your time, and I hope you'll join me on this journey.

FOREMAN: In many ways, her journey through this race started eight years ago.

CLINTON: Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it.

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FOREMAN: Her primary loss to Barack Obama in 2008 disappointed those who thought she would be the first female nominee for a major party. But Clinton backed Obama, became secretary of state, and piled up credentials she had touted in this campaign.

CLINTON: I am ready on day one to --

FOREMAN: But experience also brought vulnerabilities. She was hammered by Republicans over her handling of the Benghazi attacks in which four Americans died while she was secretary of state. Her response in a congressional hearing was turned into a punch line.

CLINTON: What difference at this point does it make?

FOREMAN: Some voters called her pledge to support women hypocritical, considering her long silence on her husband's behavior. CLINTON: You are very rude, and I'm not going to ever call on you.

FOREMAN: Despite it all, Clinton's campaign was a juggernaut, raising tens of millions of dollars, staying relentlessly on message, and never flinching, even as Bernie Sanders launched an unexpectedly robust challenge, hitting her over highly paid speeches she made to bankers.

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS, (I), VERMONT & DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: One of us has given speeches on Wall Street for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I think we should release it and let the American people see what that transcript was.

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FOREMAN: Then came something bigger.

UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Did you wipe the server?

CLINTON: Like with a cloth or something?

FOREMAN: She laughed off revelations she used a private e-mail server to conduct State Department business, insisting she had done nothing wrong. But after investigating, FBI Director James Comey shredded her defense. And while he would not press charges --

JAMES COMEY, FBI DIRECTOR: There is evidence that they were extremely careless.

FOREMAN: Still, Clinton has managed to outrun Sanders. And for the most part, dodged the controversies. And now she is finally poised to make history as a woman at the head of a major political party where no other has stood before.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

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ALLEN: And CNN will be in Philadelphia all this week covering the Democratic convention. So stay with us and we'll be bringing you what happens.

A year ago, the NASA space agency released to the world the first images from a satellite camera one million miles away. And that camera has been busy ever since. Look at that, a picture of earth. This is time-lapse video of what has been captured in a year's time. One of the most interesting events captured was the eclipse back in March. You can see is it very briefly slowed down in these images. NASA is also showing off images of the sun burping. These are solar bursts off the surface and then drawing back in. Brilliant. NASA said the images had to be enhanced with red color, otherwise, they would be impossible to see. Thank you as always, NASA, for wowing us.

[01:55:20] And thank you for watching. I'm Natalie Allen, at CNN.

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