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00:00 Libyans plead for help from the international community after the deadly and devastating floods.
00:06 Aftershocks are felt in a village near the Moroccan city of Marrakech,
00:14 nearly one week on after an earthquake rocked the country.
00:17 China tells the European Commission a probe into electric vehicles could damage business relations and increase prices for customers.
00:29 The European Parliament accuses Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko of being complicit with President Putin in committing war crimes in Ukraine.
00:38 Search teams comb streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea to look for bodies in the coastal Libyan city of Derna.
00:51 It's where the weekend storm caused the collapse of two dams, unleashing a massive flash flood that's killed over 5,000 people.
00:59 Residents who've survived are overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster.
01:04 Bodies, they say, are everywhere, inside houses, in streets, at sea.
01:09 Many are pleading for international help.
01:11 This city is completely submerged. There are people in the sea, and there are people who are drowning.
01:20 Even the graves are not clean.
01:22 And we keep saying, "Oh, my God, help us, come on."
01:26 There's no need to say, "No, you're right."
01:29 International help is on the way. Jordan has already dispatched a military cargo plane loaded with relief aid.
01:36 They're just one of several foreign governments offering help.
01:40 France and Italy are leading the European effort, and Turkey is sending equipment.
01:45 The storm hit other areas in eastern Libya, too, including the towns of Beda and Susa,
01:53 where a vital medical centre was flooded and hundreds of families were displaced.
01:58 The United Nations has pledged $10 million to help support Libya's traumatised survivors.
02:06 [Sound of explosion]
02:08 Rescue workers, villagers and journalists run at the moment an aftershock is felt in the village
02:23 near the epicentre of the earthquake that struck Morocco last Friday.
02:27 Search teams are still scouring the rubble in hope of finding survivors.
02:34 Morocco is well past the 72-hour window when rescues are considered most likely,
02:39 but people can still be saved well beyond that period.
02:42 Many of those who have escaped the destruction of their homes stay nearby in makeshift camps.
02:49 To some, they are the fortunate ones.
02:54 Many remote communities say they are still waiting for promised aid vehicles
02:58 to arrive with desperately needed food and tents.
03:01 [Sound of tents being moved]
03:03 At the moment, the strength of the Moroccan people is more visible,
03:07 and a little less of the institutions, but they are working too.
03:10 The Moroccan authorities are galvanising efforts and dropping supplies from the air
03:15 to remote communities until lorries can reach them.
03:18 The aid, which includes tents, is intended to be only temporary.
03:22 Soon the rainy season will start, and makeshift shelters will be totally insufficient once the weather turns.
03:30 [Sound of chainsaw]
03:32 China has warned that the EU Commission's launch of an anti-subsidy probe
03:40 into Chinese electric vehicles could harm bilateral trade and raise prices for European consumers.
03:47 The investigation was announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
03:51 during her State of the Union address to Parliament on Wednesday.
03:55 China responded by urging the Commission not to resort to what it called unilateral trade tools
04:00 to block China's EVs in the EU and raise their costs.
04:05 Chinese investment in Europe was among the issues discussed in a meeting
04:09 between von der Leyen and China's Prime Minister at the recent G20 summit.
04:13 Brussels is trying to steer a difficult course of boosting trade with China
04:18 without undermining European producers.
04:21 It accuses Beijing of swamping European markets with unfairly subsidised electric vehicles
04:27 to the detriment of domestic carmakers.
04:30 China denies the claim.
04:32 Members of the European Parliament had mixed reactions to Ursula von der Leyen's State of the European Union speech.
04:43 She herself hails from the biggest European party, the European People's Party,
04:48 and the leader of their parliamentary group Manfred Weber expressed support
04:52 for the implementation of the Green Deal.
04:54 He also welcomed the investigation into Chinese electric carmakers' subsidies.
04:59 With China we have to see the unfair behaviour on the markets, the subsidies the Chinese are paying.
05:06 And that's why we have to protect ourselves.
05:08 We have to use our methods, our tools we have to protect our market.
05:12 And what we see currently in the electric vehicles field is obviously financed by subsidies by the Chinese.
05:19 That's why yes to trade, but let's not be naive.
05:23 The second largest group, the Socialists and Democrats, were critical of what von der Leyen said in relation to migration,
05:29 in particular when she stressed the need for more agreements like the one signed with Tunisia.
05:33 For MEP Pedro Marques this practice leads to human rights violations
05:37 and also helps to finance an authoritarian regime in Tunis.
05:41 The S&D group also missed any meaningful reference to current social issues.
05:46 I have to say this clearly from the group.
05:48 For us it was bluntly absent from this speech all the social dimension of the current situation.
05:57 There are millions of families suffering with inflation, with the cost of living, with the cost of housing,
06:02 and we had no word from von der Leyen on concrete policies towards these European families.
06:09 The liberals from the Renew group said that von der Leyen should have highlighted the fight to save democracy
06:15 and rule of law in Poland and Hungary, much more.
06:18 But the group leader welcomed the Commission's call for a renewed effort at enlargement
06:22 and von der Leyen's coupling of the issue with internal reforms of the bloc.
06:26 I really wish that we move forward on the enlargement,
06:30 but that means that the European Union is also working on its institutions,
06:35 its capacity to decide at 32, at 33, and also all the rules on the rule of law that I mentioned.
06:43 There are still countries with a lot of corruption that needs to be settled first.
06:47 There are countries on which we still need to reform the judicial system.
06:51 Unsurprisingly, the Eurosceptic far right in the European Parliament rejected the speech altogether.
07:01 After Brexit, there could have been a European Union that would have been more modest and reluctant,
07:07 but we saw a European Union ever since that is more radical and more extremist than ever before.
07:14 The speech was the last such grand self-reckoning from President von der Leyen
07:19 before Europeans go to the polls in June and the mandate of her European Commission will end.
07:29 The European Parliament says Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko
07:33 is complicit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in committing war crimes in Ukraine.
07:38 In a resolution adopted by lawmakers,
07:42 the International Criminal Court is being urged to issue a warrant for his arrest.
07:46 Lukashenko, it claims, has enabled Russia's unjustified war of aggression
07:52 and therefore carries direct responsibility for the destruction and damage caused to Ukraine.
07:59 In a separate charge, it also accuses Belarus of playing a role in the forcible deportation of Ukrainian children
08:05 from territories temporarily occupied by Russian troops.
08:08 It named Russia's Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova,
08:12 already wanted by the ICC for the illegal transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
08:18 As a consequence, MEPs want the application of mirror sanctions against Belarus,
08:23 similar to those applied by the EU against Russia.
08:27 The European ban on Ukrainian grain entering the Polish market ends on September 15th
08:37 with farmers there strongly opposing plans to lift the restrictions.
08:41 They face losses in the face of cheaper Ukrainian grain and a lack of government support.
08:47 Today, there is a struggle whether the Ukrainian grain embargo will be lifted on September 15th.
08:56 The European Commission and our government can say what they want.
09:01 We know that Ukrainian grain is still flowing, both for technical purposes and...
09:06 The difference in the ton of wheat is up to 200-300 zlotys per ton.
09:10 There is simply too much Ukrainian grain left in Poland.
09:13 Our situation is financially bad.
09:16 But the ruling party says it won't allow Ukrainian grain to enter the Polish market till the end of the year,
09:23 even if it means standing against Brussels.
09:26 Fortunately, this is not a problem for Polish farmers.
09:29 This is a problem in the relations between the Polish state and the European Commission.
09:33 Polish farmers are not in danger because if the EU does not introduce this ban,
09:41 the Polish state will.
09:44 Poland currently transports Ukrainian grain, but farmers say the capacity of the ports
09:50 isn't sufficient to adequately and timely export Polish and Ukrainian grain.
09:55 And the grain is backlogged and waiting to be loaded onto ships.
09:58 Officials disagree.
10:00 We started preparing and improving our infrastructure.
10:05 We prepared additional parking spaces for cars.
10:09 Operators declare that they still have a supply of capacity.
10:13 This is a total of 300,000 tons per month.
10:17 After difficult years, farmers no longer believe promises fearing they will stop immediately
10:23 after the elections in Poland on October 15th this year.
10:26 What the ruling party says before the elections is what we farmers consider a miracle year.
10:32 Miracles that they can promise us everything and pay us for everything.
10:36 We don't want that. We simply don't want centralization and manipulation,
10:41 both price and food manipulation.
10:44 The owner of the grain behind me doesn't know for how much and when he will sell it,
10:49 and yet he already needs to invest in the production for the next year.
10:52 Unfortunately, even another three months ban is not a long-term solution
10:57 to the problems of both Polish and Ukrainian farmers.
11:00 Magdalena Chodownik for Euronews from Solnica.
11:05 I considered...
11:06 Leading US Senator Mitt Romney, one of the Republican Party's fiercest critics of Donald Trump,
11:12 says he will not run for re-election in 2024.
11:15 The one-time presidential candidate and ex-Massachusetts governor, who's 76,
11:20 said the country was ready for a younger generation of politicians.
11:24 Romney was one of the only members of Congress to vote twice to impeach Trump,
11:28 earning him the wrath of the former president and his supporters.
11:32 Reacting to it on social media, Trump described it as "fantastic news for America."
11:38 headquarters.