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00:00 Russia is claiming to have stepped up its offensive near Kupyansk, while Ukrainian soldiers
00:05 say they`ll keep fighting the war for as long as it takes.
00:11 Thirty-six people in Hawaii have been killed in wildfires sweeping across the island of
00:15 Maui. Thousands have had to flee their homes.
00:20 Norway and its northern neighbors prepare for more floods and destruction as Stormhands
00:25 continues its damaging path through the region.
00:30 An anti-corruption candidate in Ecuador`s upcoming presidential election is shot dead
00:35 just minutes after holding a rally in the capital city.
00:44 Russia is claiming to have recaptured Kupyansk, a village it was driven out of a year ago,
00:49 as residents of 37 villages in the Kharkiv region are ordered to evacuate their homes.
01:10 On the Ukrainian front line, there are reports of increasing attacks in border areas. Even
01:15 President Zelensky openly admits progress is slow, but soldiers training for the front
01:20 say there are good reasons.
01:21 There are three times more of them than ours. The army has no chance to move fast. We don`t
01:34 want to, we don`t want to.
01:37 It`s not a game or it`s not just news from the wallpapers or something like that. So,
01:43 for my opinion, we are not moving too slow or way too fast. We are moving like in that
01:50 - in that way that we can.
01:52 It`s coming up to 18 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Soldiers training for the front line
01:58 know they may well be fighting for many more months to come.
02:06 Thousands of Hawaii residents race to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island.
02:12 This was a home.
02:14 Destroying parts of a centuries old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest
02:19 American wildfires in recent years.
02:22 The fire took the island by surprise, leaving burned out cars on once busy streets and smoking
02:27 piles of rubble where historic buildings had once stood.
02:31 For all of the fires, they haven`t been able to determine what ignited the fires. There`s
02:38 three conditions that we got from the National Weather Service. They call it a red flag alert.
02:45 So that`s dry conditions, right? So you got dry fuel, trees, plants. You got low humidity
02:53 and high winds.
02:54 The reason it spread so fast is there are reports of gusts of up to 85 miles per hour.
02:59 So you know, that is so fast and that`s why Maui County had such a hard time doing containment
03:06 of the fire and because the winds were so high, we couldn`t provide the helicopters
03:10 to do the water bucket support.
03:13 In historic Lahaina, dozens of homes and businesses were flattened, including on Front Street,
03:18 a favorite with tourists. As winds died down, some aircraft resumed flights, giving pilots
03:24 a view of the devastation below. President Biden said he`d ordered all available federal
03:29 assets to help the island.
03:36 People in Norway are preparing for more flooding and destruction after facing the onslaught
03:41 of storm hands earlier this week.
03:46 Rivers swollen by days of heavy rain carried large amounts of water through the country`s
03:50 mountainous southeast, where vast areas were either inundated or hit by landslides.
03:58 Thousands of people living near waterways were evacuated, houses emptied and cars moved
04:03 to higher ground.
04:07 On Wednesday, a nearby dam partially burst after Norway`s largest river spilled over
04:12 and broke through the structure. Police said the situation is being continually assessed.
04:18 Helicopters were on standby to help move people out of remote areas.
04:24 Authorities said the flooding could last until Friday and major roads are likely to be closed
04:29 for days.
04:30 Both Norway and Sweden have issued orange and red weather alerts.
04:39 A candidate in Ecuador`s upcoming presidential election has been shot dead minutes after
04:44 hosting a rally in the capital.
04:46 Fifty-nine-year-old centrist Fernando Villavicenso was known for speaking up against corruption
04:52 and had revealed he recently received multiple death threats.
04:55 "Rivers of silver and wealth have gone to the pockets of white-collar criminals, from
05:03 Guayavera and even from Poncho. Because corruption does not discriminate. In corruption there
05:14 are criminals of all colors and flavors."
05:21 It's the latest attack in a recent uptick of startling violence in the South American
05:25 country.
05:27 Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso has blamed the killing on organized crime.
05:38 Fernando Villavicenso, who was 59, was running for Ecuador's presidency on a center-right
05:43 ticket. He'd been a left-wing trade unionist in his youth, an association that was to see
05:49 him lose his job with a state oil company.
05:52 He subsequently dedicated himself to journalism, working for Vanguardia magazine, but also
05:57 worked as an advisor to the deputy of the indigenous movement, Pachacutic Clevea Jimenez.
06:03 In 2017, both were sentenced to a year in prison for insulting President Rafael Correa.
06:10 Villavicenso fled to the United States before he could be jailed. The sentence was later
06:16 quashed, but on his return from exile, Villavicenso once again complained about Correa, highlighting
06:22 alleged irregularities in oil contracts with China.
06:26 A contemporary of Villavicenso's, Correa served three terms as Ecuador's president with a
06:32 left-wing agenda before leaving the country to live in exile.
06:37 In the election scheduled for August 20th, Villavicenso was running as a candidate who
06:41 would offer an alternative to what he called Correismo, saying he wants to break the influence
06:47 of powerful groups he dubbed a mafia on political life in Ecuador.
06:52 He vehemently denied rivals' claims that he was a covert candidate for President Guillermo
06:58 Lasso.
07:01 A closed mine in Jutki, one of many areas across Poland facing problems because of former
07:08 mining activities. A bald patch in the forest showing where the ground has collapsed.
07:13 And there are more places at risk of sinkholes. In Trebinje, some 270 hectares of land are
07:20 in danger.
07:21 "Since last year, we have had a certain amount of land that is in danger. And yes, it is
07:26 a real concern for the residents, because it concerns the areas they use every day. Whether
07:31 it is a garden, a cemetery, sports grounds, sports fields, tennis courts. We also have
07:38 a closed cultural centre there. We are now studying the areas near schools, as well as
07:44 directly below people's houses, because these lands also exist directly near houses."
07:52 People living in the area say that even going mushroom picking can be dangerous.
07:58 Entry into an increasing number of forests in the region is forbidden because of the
08:02 threat of sinkholes.
08:04 "We would like to get more information on this issue, so that people feel safer. There
08:13 are more and more landslides, so it would be good to be up to date with all this information."
08:20 Locals also say they are not getting enough help from the government and complain about
08:24 a failure to come up with long-term solutions. When sinkholes occur, they are quickly filled,
08:29 but residents say the underlying threat remains.
08:32 "The threat of landslides is monitored on a regular basis, both in the case of the
08:40 Upper Silesian Coal Deposit. The risk is higher and landslides occur more often. However,
08:55 they can occur in places where there have been no such incidents. It is not a very large
09:00 area in the Upper Silesian Coal Deposit. However, there are areas where exploitation was
09:05 very frequent, and the land was not yet plowed. So the risk is probably higher there."
09:14 The problem of sinkholes is often overlooked due to its regional nature, but is a serious
09:19 concern for many inhabitants of Poland. In towns such as Srebrenica, it is possible that
09:25 this partial evacuation of the population will be necessary.
09:28 Magdalena Wadowni, for Euronews, from Katowice.
09:33 Disney+ is in trouble. Parent company Walt Disney announced on Wednesday that the television
09:38 streaming service lost over 11 million subscribers in comparison to the previous quarter. This
09:44 is in large part due to the Indian market, where Disney+ Hotstar subscriptions dropped
09:49 by 24% after it lost broadcast rights to a popular cricket league. Walt Disney says it
09:54 will raise the price of Disney+'s ad-free tier by 27%. And, like rival Netflix, the
10:01 streaming service also wants to tighten the screws on password sharing.
10:08 The lead guitarist of the band, Robbie Robertson, has died aged 80. His manager said he passed
10:15 away on Wednesday in Los Angeles, surrounded by family. As the guitarist and lead writer
10:20 for the band, Robertson mined American music and history for such classics as The Wait
10:25 and The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down. He later worked on the soundtracks for several
10:30 Martin Scorsese movies, including The Departed and The Irishman. The band profoundly influenced
10:36 popular music in the 1960s and 70s and fashioned a new sound immersed in the American past.
10:45 Tottenham and Bayern Munich have reportedly reached an agreement over the transfer of
10:50 Harry Kane, for a deal worth more than 100 million euros. It is now up to the striker
10:55 to decide whether he wants to move to the German side.
10:59 Kane is entering the last year of his contract at Spurs and can leave as a free agent in
11:04 2024, which puts pressure on Tottenham to sell him this summer if they want to get any
11:10 money from their star player.
11:13 The striker, who is the second highest scoring player in Premier League history with 213
11:18 goals, has never lifted a major trophy at the club.
11:23 Kane could be key to revitalising Bayern, which lacked a focused goal scoring threat
11:28 through the centre last season after Robert Lewandowski left for Barcelona.
11:34 His move could also be a symbolic moment for the England team, whose players are generally
11:39 reluctant to leave the riches of the Premier League.
11:41 (audience laughing)