We start this hour with breaking news. For the first time france has engaged in air strikes against isis targets inside syria. That report according to reuters news agency. The statement also said we will strike each time our National Security is at stake. Until now, france has only taken part in strikes in iraq. Just friday, iraqs foreign minister said he wanted Coalition Forces to hit more isis targets. France has also been speaking out against the seer yn president. French foreign minister saying he has no future role in the country, despite the fact that western officials have said that about bashar al assad. Translator there has been a lot of comment on the role of assad and when he should or can be a stabilizing in syria. Hes the main person guilty of the kay as. Hes committed crimes against unity according to ban kimoon and continues to be the origin of the tragedy. If we are to consider and say to the syrians that the future of their country lies with mr. Bashar al assad, we will expose ourselves to failure. Activists say a ceasefire in syria has been broken. According to the syrian observatory for human rights, they shelled a village idlib province. Pope francis in the United States. Resting up this hour for this final day of his sixday u. S. Visit. He ended saturday with a festival of the families. He joked about the tensions and conflict common among the loved ones. Listen. Translator families have the difficulties. Families quarrel. And sometimes plates can fly. And children bring headaches. I wont speak about motherinlaws. [ laughter ] translator but in families, there is always light. And then there was this. Another emotional highlight of the festival when the pope hugged and blessed the disabled man who came up on the stage with his mother. There was another moving moment of at that event. People from Different Countries shared stories of their struggles, that i triumphs and values and the role that family played in getting through those hardships. The marriage, we have blessed the holy father, we adored her. Two weeks from our first baby, she took yil one evening and by the second day she was gone. We were heartbroken. [ inaudible ] we were confused. But god in his faithfulness and love brought up so much goodness from this, this death gave us life. My husband and i went in search of our faith. We had to seek god for who he is, then we met a gradually, we put our faith into our life. Then in this way we had a better understanding of one another and happiness gradually came into the relationship. Today we have four children. A touching moment there. Its very clear to see that each play that the pope visited during his tour in the United States, huge crowds were to follow. Rosa flores was at that festival of families and has more on the peoples reaction in the city of brotherly love. I got to tell you, one of my favorite moments is when pope francis popped jokes because that showed his character, his smile, his wit and everybody out here just really loved it. He said, you know, im seeing all of these beautiful things about families and youre probably thinking its because im single and the crowd started laughing. He said, oh, im not going to go into the motherinlaw. Its just these tiny little moments. But he connects so well with people because he identifies with chat like that. Everyone does. Because we all have families and we all joke about our families and even poke a little bit about motherinlaws. But i to set the scene. All of these folks heading home. The last count we got, unofficial but from a Police Officer on scene. He says that maybe 250,000 to 300,000 people, well get the official numbers later, theyre starting to disburse and head out. Their hearts filled with emotion and faith as they saw the holy father on the popemobile and you saw the emotion and the electricity in the air as pope francis rode in his popemobile and waved and blessed everyone along this route looking at pope francis. Then again, i talked to a lot of these folks and they were so excited. It was a moment of a lifetime. People came from all over the country and all over the world, quite frankly, because they couldnt wait to just set their eyes on the holy father to be able to be in the same space with him, to share a little space and a little moment with the pope, a pope of the people, a pope of mercy. That was our rosa flores reporting there from philadelphia. Irans Supreme Leader is demanding an apology from saudi arabia for the deadly stampede. Ayatollah khamenei said that saudi rulers need to accept their responsibility over the tragedy. Saturday the iranian president rouhani addressed a summit in new york. Translator i express my to to the families that are mourning the loss of their loved ones in this tragic event and emphasize the need for attention to the injured as well as investigating the causes of this incident and similar incidents in this years hajj pilgrimage. A Saudi Foreign minister met with u. S. Secretary of state john kerry on saturday. He rejects irans criticism of its handling of the pilgrimage and says it shouldnt be making politics of the tragedy. At least 769 died in the stampede and 136 of them were reported to be iranians. Hundreds of people are still missing. Powerful typhoon continues to strengthen approaching taiwan now and is predicted to reach land by monday. Lets get information on this from our meteorologist derek van dam who is tracking the storm. This storm strengthened considerably, george. Its a formidable threat in the next 18 hours but northern sections of taiwan, including taipei from 24 hours out to 48 hours out. We look towards southeast china, thats tuesday and wednesday. Well time this out for everybody watching. Heres the latest from the joint Typhoon Warning Center. 230 Kilometers Per Hour. That makes this 10 kilometers below super typhoon status. Gus at 280 Kilometers Per Hour. Thats around the center of this particular storm. Thats called the eyewall. Speaking of that, were starting to see nightfall overtake this part of the world at the moment. What youre looking at is also visible satellite imagery. This is a zoomed in version of the eyewall. As it goes black, thats the sun setting. Let me show you a few things on this. Look at the dark center of this storm. That is the eye of the typhoon. That particular area is where we would typically find calm winds, even the sun comes out or in this case the moon comes out. Its the outer periphery of that eyewall where we find those 230 kilometer per hour wind gusts. Lets time the storm going forward. The islands will start to feel the effects of typhoon force winds. Thats 110 Kilometers Per Hour or more roughly in the next 12 hours. That would be early monday morning. By late monday evening into early tuesday morning, well start to see the weather conditions deteriorate quickly across eastern sections of japan or rather taiwan first, then the western sections of taiwan and that includes taipei and then we start to focus our attention on the province across the taiwan straits. Heres a look at the forecast for taipei. The wind gusts will exceed 100 Kilometers Per Hour. It will only get worse from there. Not only a wind maker, its a rainmaker. Over 300 mountains above 3,000 meters that will help squeeze out the available moisture and we could dump 250 millimeters of rain or more, by the way, george. That has the possibility of bringing landslides, mudslides, all kinds of problems associated with the strength of this type of a typhoon. Something that residents in taiwan, the islands and southeast china need to hon. Tore very closely and have final preparations under way. We talk about densely populated areas. Especially on west side of taiwan. Roughly 300 people per square kilometer. Thank you very much. Part of a campsite in queensland australia is underwater thanks to this massive sinkhole. It was opened off a busy beach in the region. This video shows the severity around 140 people were evacuated as the sinkhole swallowed a car. A caravan of campers. No one is missing or injured at this point. This is a natural process of erosion. Thats all it is. Just a gradual removal of the bedrock underneath the ocean, that sandstone is the bedrock. Ee vicinitily the groundwater eventually the groundwater, the sandstone particles, it gets carried away and forms a void and that eventually causes a sinkhole. It happens to be that this was sudden and it eroded across that region. Every country in the world is susceptible to sinkholes. Take a look at the video there from the sinkhole. When you see it there alongside the beach. Its incredible. Scientists need to go there and assess exactly what happened. More than likely, this is a process called execution it can be from lower of water tables and the natural water drainage patterns change along coastal areas like that. Seen it happen on land. On a beach, first time ive seen it. Seen it in florida. Under way in cat loan i cant, it is the largest scene of the largest proxy vote for the secede in spain. Its to form its own government. Cat lans began heading to the polls. What it could mean for its place in the european union. Scenes of unity and defiance in the streets of barcelona early this month. A human mosaic was formed pointing towards the new country they aspire to build. The independence further is expected to peak as catalans go to the polls. A proxy vote on independence. If a coalition of Pro Independence party even without a majority vote win at least 68 seat in the parliament, they hope to translate that win into forming an independent state. Translator weve done everything we could to change the status quo and leave cat loan i cant to real change. Central government is not authorized a vote on the ground it is unconstitutional and they came to avoid a political crisis, that membership in that with the newly independent region, it would by fact of its independence become a third country with respect to the union and may apply to become a member of the union. Some argued that what catalonia is doing is that would be damaging to the country as well as the region. The country would be taken out of the european union. Also, the the banks will lose access to the euro system. That will create problems. [ inaudible ] i think both spain and catalonia have a lot at stake. Over 7. 5 million people, its been the industrial heartland of spain. It accounts for almost 20 and thats what the entire countrys economic out pit. Its home to companies we know. As well as the airlines. The gdp is roughly on paragraph with portugal. Its such a critical part of the countrys economy that already the government is wanting banking restrictions like greece could be imposed. Economic threats designed to change direction of the vote. Cnn, london. Youre watching cnn newsroom and still to come this hour, u. S. And iranian leaders meet for the First Time Since signing the nuclear deal. That story coming up. You know, its always bugged me that we couldnt say that, cheerios are gluten free. Oats dont contain gluten, but sometimes grains that do, get mixed in. So we took them out which means now, cheerios can be enjoyed by everyone just original cheerios . Honey nut cheerios too, buzz. We are getting reports of clashes between Israeli Police and palestinians outside the mosque in jerusalem. Its one of the holiest sites for muslims and jews. Its sheen its share of violence in the recent weeks. Lets go to jerusalem, orien lieberman standing by. There have been similar incident in the past month at that very mosque. Is there a sense that this could be related to the same group, the violence that were seeing . No definitive answer on that yet, george. Police say they were Palestinian Youths or arab youths. Thats how they described the people a couple of weeks ago behind the clashes. It is possible but nothing definitive on the exact people here. What happened, according to israel police, this area, this holy site, the complex surrounding it was only open to muslim worshippers, no visitors because of the islam holiday. There were Police Standing outside of one of the gates and thats when they say there was stone throwing there and clashes that ended fairly quickly. This was on a much smaller scale than what weve seen over the past months. This ended fairly quickly with no injuries and no arrests. As for previous clashes that have tied into this tension surrounding this holy site, which is one of the holiest sites for muslims in the noble sanctuary and the holiest site for jews known as the temple mount, a couple of weeks ago police say arab youths barricaded themselves inside and cleared out the arab youths and led to the tensions. They called it an attack on this muslim holy site and its tied into the recent clashes. The tension and a lot of this anger going back and forth about one of the holiest sites in jerusalem. Again, george, much smaller scale what we saw this morning but all tying into that same same complex situation and its always a complex situation when it comes to the old city of jerusalem. A very similar storyline that were sharing with viewers around the world from what we talked about oren, a couple of weeks ago. Oren lieberman live from jerusalem. Thank you for your reporting. Irans foreign minister and the u. S. Secretary of state met in new york. Irans foreign minister, Mohammed Zarif and secretary of state john kerry sat down in new york at the United Nations to discuss the agreement as well as regional instability in syria and yemen and the status of detained u. S. Citizens in iran. Zarif wanted to focus primarily on the implementation of the nuclear deal. Cubas president raul castro was among the leaders president at the u. N. This weekend. Castro addressed the changing relationship between the United States and cuba after restoring diplomatic ties and he said there is still work to be done. Translator the reestablishment of the diplomatic relations between cuba and the United States of america and the opening of embassies an the policy changes by president obama with regard to our country constitute a major project that however, the economic commercial and financial blockade against cuba persists bringing damages and hardships on the cuban people and standing as the main obstacle to our countrys economic development. Also at the u. N. , chinese president says its the worlds responsibility to help developing nations. He spoke saturday at the u. N. Sustainability Development Summit in new york. Mr. Xi pledged 2 billion to help fight poverty. That will increase by the year 2030. Translator looking to the future, china will continue to take a right approach to justice and interests by putting justice before interests and join the other countries in their concerted efforts to realize the post 2015 development agenda. China has been under fire for not doing enough for developing nations. Critics argue that china can afford to do more since this is the worlds second largest economy. Youre watching cnn newsroom and still to come this hour, the pope shares a message of freedom, family and faith. A closer look at pope francis speech at the festival of families as this broadcast continues around the world this hour on Cnn International and cnn usa. Oh, look. We have a bunch of. 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The headlines were following this hour. For the first time, the French Military launched air strikes against isis targets inside syria. France said that the strikes were based on intelligence gathered from air surveillance operations they conducted over syria for the past two weeks. Until now, that country has only taken part in strikes in iraq. Powerful typhoon is headed towards taiwan. It is set to make landfall on monday. The joint Typhoon Warning Center says that the storm will continue to intensify over the coming hours. The wind gusts have been up to 240 kilometers or 150 miles an hour. Irans Supreme Leader says that his country is owed an apology from saudi leaders for the deadly hajj stampede. They say saudi leaders are dodging responsibility. Theyre still investigating what caused that stampede. Youll remember that it killed some 769 pilgrims. More than 130 from iran. Live pictures from an important election in catalonia which could lead to the country becoming an independent country from spain. If it wins, a Coalition Party hopes to achieve independence with within 18 months. Spain, however, says the vote is unconstitutional. More now on the popes visit to the United States. In just a few hours, he will begin his final day of the trip. Earlier, my colleague spoke with cnn vatican correspondent, Delia Gallagher about the popes message at the festival of families in philadelphia. Well, this was the reason that pope francis came to the United States in the first place to celebrate this world meeting of families and this was the event tonight. He electrified the crowd. He threw away his prepared remarks. He started in spanish with a translator, telling them why the family is important, telling us h