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00:00 A message for the world`s wealthiest nations from Brazil`s president at the Amazon summit.
00:06 Mother nature needs your money.
00:10 At least 41 people have died, including three children, after a migrant ship capsized while
00:15 trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa.
00:20 Poland sending 2,000 extra troops to defend its eastern border, prompting Moscow defense
00:26 chiefs to say they`ll bolster their western flag.
00:30 A dam in Norway was partially breached after days of rain and flooding brought by storm
00:35 hands, prompting emergency evacuations of homes.
00:41 At the end of a two-day summit discussing the fate of the Amazon`s rain forests, a stern
00:49 rebuke for the world`s wealthiest nations from the eight countries sharing the river`s
00:54 basin.
00:55 The American nations say the rich should pay their fair share.
00:59 A message they`ll be taking to the U.N. next climate summit in the United Arab Emirates
01:04 in November.
01:05 We are going to the World Cup 28 with the goal of telling the rich world that if they
01:13 want to effectively preserve what is left of the forest, they need to put money, not
01:20 only to take care of the forest`s World Cup, but to take care of the people who live down
01:26 there, who want to work.
01:29 The Amazon`s capable of absorbing almost a quarter of the world`s CO2 emissions. The
01:34 message from the summit is that it holds the key to the planet`s future.
01:43 At least 41 people, including three children, have died in a shipwreck off the island of
01:47 Lampedusa in southern Italy. Four survivors were rescued by a Maltese merchant ship and
01:52 transferred to the Italian coast guard.
01:55 On their arrival at Lampedusa, they told authorities that their boat left from Tunisia and was
02:00 capsized by a larger wave.
02:02 Thirty-four people were reported drowned last week in two other shipwrecks off the Mediterranean
02:07 island.
02:08 Some 92,000 irregular migrants have arrived in Italy this year, more than double the number
02:12 compared to the same period in 2022.
02:18 French Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne visited the scene of the holiday home for people with
02:22 disabilities in eastern France, where 11 people died after a fire broke out early Wednesday.
02:28 Borne expressed her condolences to the families of the victims and extended her gratitude
02:32 to the firefighters and rescuers on site.
02:35 Now an investigation is underway to determine how the fire started and whether the building
02:40 met safety standards.
02:41 "The owner was in a state of shock, so she was not able to answer our questions. As for
02:48 the safety of the building, it will be the investigation and the police that will be
02:57 able to establish what needs to be established in the matter."
03:06 Firefighters in the town of Vinsenheim, close to the border with Germany, said the fire
03:10 likely started on the home's upper floor.
03:12 The ground floor was made of stone and the upper floors were built entirely of wood in
03:17 the traditional style of the region, which could explain why the fire spread so quickly.
03:27 Five officers from France's elite tactical police unit RAID were taken into custody on
03:32 Tuesday in connection with the death of a 27-year-old man.
03:36 Mohamed Bendris, who worked for a delivery service, died in hospital in early July at
03:41 the time of violent riots in the southern city of Marseille.
03:45 He'd reportedly felt unwell while riding his scooter, but an autopsy showed traces of an
03:51 impact on his chest.
03:53 It's believed this could have been caused by a rubber bullet, possibly fired by the
03:57 police as they struggled to control violent riots in the city.
04:01 The protests were sparked by the death of a teenage boy who was shot dead by a policeman
04:05 during a traffic check outside Paris in late June.
04:08 The five officers were detained for questioning in the probe over Bendris' death, and two
04:12 of them were later released.
04:18 Eastern Norway and the dam at a disused hydroelectric power plant is overwhelmed.
04:23 It's thought the floodgates failed to open and the river Glommer, swollen by the torrential
04:28 rains brought by storm hands, spilled over the top.
04:35 Up to 20 homes downstream had to be evacuated.
04:38 "The last thing we can do is to ensure that the river continues to rise.
04:45 But we are working with the stakeholders who have helped us to get here.
04:55 We don't know what we're going to get into, but we are working on the evacuation, and
05:02 it's being taken care of by the police and the municipality."
05:07 The storm's impact has been felt across swathes of Norway and Sweden.
05:11 Floodwaters have washed away bridges, turned roads into rivers and uprooted homes, casting
05:18 them adrift and turning them into driftwood.
05:32 European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was welcomed by Slovenian Prime Minister
05:36 Robert Golub in Brdo pre Kranj, on Wednesday, where she witnessed Slovenia's devastating
05:41 summer floods first-hand.
05:44 Floods and landslides have submerged large parts of central and northern Slovenia over
05:48 the last week.
05:49 The European Union is now pledging short and long-term financial support to cope with the
05:53 aftermath.
05:54 "We were with you in the first days, immediately with the material that was needed.
06:04 It is the mobile bridges, the excavators, the helicopters and the technical team and
06:10 the crews.
06:12 And of course we will stay as long as it is necessary."
06:16 The extreme weather has led to the deaths of six people.
06:20 Slovenia's National Weather Service says a month's worth of rain fell in just 24 hours.
06:25 The government estimates that the damage could exceed half a billion euros.
06:30 "A steel fence rather than an iron curtain.
06:36 This is the border between east and west that Poland is reinforcing.
06:40 It's to send 2,000 extra troops there, saying it fears Belarus is about to step up its hybrid
06:46 warfare tactic, weaponising flows of refugees and orchestrating a migration crisis at the
06:53 border.
06:54 Russia prefers to see the threat coming from the west."
06:57 "The threat of Russian military security has increased significantly in the western and
07:02 north-western strategic areas.
07:03 A major destabilising factor is NATO's entry into Finland and Sweden's future.
07:06 In Finland, it is likely that additional Russian troops will be deployed.
07:10 There are risks associated with the militarisation of Poland."
07:25 But there are also distinct signs of militarisation in Belarus.
07:29 Moscow has deployed strategic nuclear weapons there, and following its failed mutiny, Wagner's
07:35 mercenaries have also been stationed in the country.
07:40 Cold War tactics in the summer months.
07:48 Russian MOD pictures of multiple launch rocket systems.
07:52 Targeting, it says, Ukrainian army positions.
07:55 It's not possible to verify when and where the pictures were shot.
07:59 It's also unclear which side has the upper hand in Kupyansk, 120 kilometres east of Kharkiv,
08:05 though both sides report heavy fighting and claim advances.
08:10 Candles and prayers in Odessa, where Ukraine's president was visiting a cathedral bombed by
08:15 Russia.
08:16 "I heard the news about the liquidation of the consequences of the Russian attacks on
08:20 Odessa, on the region.
08:21 And here, at the St. Petersburg church, which the Russians tried to destroy, I feel that
08:28 our people, our spirit is still stronger.
08:31 Stronger than Russian terror.
08:35 We are looking for the PPO system to protect Odessa, our whole South.
08:39 I thank everyone in the world who joined this work with us."
08:46 As work continued in Odessa, there were reports from Kuprovsk in the east that Russia had
08:50 deliberately targeted rescue workers in a so-called double-tap ballistic missile strike,
08:55 hitting the same site twice to maximise casualties.
08:58 "Ukrainian forces appear to have conducted a limited raid across the Dnipro River and
09:09 landed on the east bank of the Kherson region," says the Institute for the Study of War in
09:14 its latest report.
09:16 Although Ukrainian officials say that the reported raid is not confirmed by the military
09:21 general staff at this stage.
09:24 Several Russian bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces landed up to seven boats, each carrying
09:29 around six to seven people on the east bank of the Dnipro, near the Russian-occupied village
09:36 of Kozachi Lagari, here, broke through Russian defensive lines and advanced up to 800 metres
09:45 deep.
09:46 "Hotspots on available NASA fire information for resource management system data from the
09:50 past 24 hours in the area appear to confirm that there was significant combat likely preceded
09:57 or accompanied by artillery fire."
09:59 Moscow-appointed administration of the occupied parts of Kherson region downplayed the reports
10:05 of the Ukrainian landing and claimed that Russian artillery fire repelled the Ukrainian
10:09 boats and that there are no Ukrainian troops in this area.
10:14 However, the majority of prominent Russian mill bloggers claimed that Ukrainian forces
10:20 did manage to use tactical surprise and land on the east bank here in Kozachi Lagari before
10:29 engaging Russian forces in small arms exchange.
10:32 Ukrainian forces first established a bridgehead on the Russian-controlled east bank of the
10:36 Dnipro River near the Antonivsky bridge in June.
10:42 Later in July, Moscow-appointed administration of the occupied parts of Kherson region said
10:47 it had been eliminated.
10:49 The Institute for the Study of War says in its latest update that Ukrainian forces are
10:54 present on the east bank, although it remains unclear whether Ukrainian troops have established
10:59 an enduring presence.
11:05 After months of anticipation, a single ticket sold in the US state of Florida has won the
11:09 Mega Millions lottery jackpot, America's third largest ever at more than 1.5 billion euros.
11:18 The prize had continued to swell since April, when a four-month unlucky streak saw no one
11:24 match the game's six winning numbers.
11:27 Now the winner, who hasn't yet come forward, will have to choose whether to take their
11:31 prize as a more than 700 million euro lump sum or collect an annuity over 30 years.
11:38 (whooshing)