00:00NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is set to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump this week after the U.S. leader announced plans to sell weapons to NATO allies for eventual transfer to Ukraine.
00:14Rutte will be in Washington on Monday and Tuesday for talks with Trump, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and members of Congress.
00:24The visit comes as Trump accuses Russian President Vladimir Putin of talking nice and then bombing everybody as Russia continues to battle Ukraine with intense air attacks.
00:35We're not paying anything for it, but we will send it. It'll be business for us and we will send them patriots, which they desperately need, because Putin really surprised a lot of people.
00:46He talks nice and then he bombs everybody in the evening. So there's a little bit of a problem there. I don't like it.
00:54Rubio said U.S. weapons Ukraine wants are deployed with NATO allies in Europe. These can be quickly transferred to Ukraine, and European countries can buy replacements from the U.S.
01:09Weapons which will be sent to Ukraine via NATO will include Patriot air defense systems, according to Trump.
01:15European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will suspend retaliatory tariffs on U.S. goods scheduled to take effect Monday until August 1st.
01:30She said the priority remains to reach an agreement with the U.S. after Trump announced new 30 percent tariffs.
01:37We have always been very clear that we prefer a negotiated solution. This remains the case, and we will use the time that we have now till the 1st of August.
01:48And on the second track, since the very beginning, we have worked and now are ready to respond with countermeasures.
01:57We've prepared for this, and we can respond with countermeasures if necessary.
02:03Other European leaders and Mexican President Claudia Sheehanbaum also responded to the announcement, expressing criticism.
02:10French President Emmanuel Macron and European Council President Antonio Costa backed the Commission's statement in separate posts on X.
02:18Irish Taoiseach Michael Martin called the announcement a setback, while Dutch Prime Minister Dix Hoof called it concerning and not the way forward.
02:31Israeli strikes killed at least 32 people in Gaza, as the Palestinian death toll surpassed 58,000 people after 21 months of war, according to local health officials.
02:44Officials at the Al Awada Hospital in central Gaza said it received 10 bodies following an Israeli strike on a water collection point in nearby Nusrat.
02:55Six children were reportedly amongst the dead.
02:59The Israel Defense Forces said it was targeting a militant, but a technical error made its munitions fall dozens of meters from the target.
03:08The Gaza Strip, the Gaza Strip, from the border to the border to the border to the border to the border to the border.
03:15There is no one square or one square or one square in the Gaza Strip.
03:20The result of the Syrian death toll, and the result of this war and this war, the war, the war that led by Netanyahu and the army.
03:29Despite months of talks aimed at securing a ceasefire, freeing Israeli hostages and getting aid into Gaza, Hamas and Israel remain deadlocked.
03:40Israel says it will end the war once Hamas surrenders, disarms and goes into exile, something Hamas refuses to do.
03:48Hamas says it is willing to free the remaining 50 hostages, about 20 of whom are said to be alive, in exchange for the war's end and the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.
03:57Search operations are ongoing in Spain's northeastern Catalonia region after severe storms caused flooding across the province.
04:11Catalan firefighters continue to search for an adult and a child on Sunday after they were reported missing a day earlier.
04:19They were last seen crossing a bridge and falling into the river.
04:22Spain's weather agency said there was a high potential for flash floods in eight provinces, and a disaster relief unit of Spain's military was deployed to the northeastern city of Zaragoza.
04:35Other countries across the continent have also issued alerts for heavy rain and storms, including Italy and Poland.
04:42The intense downpours come after Europe saw extreme heat waves across the continent, which has broken records and sparked alarm as temperatures reached above 40 degrees Celsius in parts of the continent.
04:55Europe must not scale back its engagement with Africa, the director of the United Nations Development Programme's Africa Bureau, Ahuna Itziakonwa, told EroNews in an interview.
05:12Itziakonwa once said Africa offers Europe valuable human capital and resources and called for a true partnership instead of the outdated donor-recipient model.
05:24I'm not sure that Europe can afford to reduce or shrink its presence in Africa.
05:31And I think it's more a recalibration of the partnership towards more partnership rather than donor-recipient relationship because, you know, you say Europe is a donor to Africa, and that's true.
05:45It's one of the biggest, largest donor portfolios that Africa has.
05:50But I think Europe needs to start measuring itself, and that's probably what's reflected in this shift beyond its donor characterization in terms of the relationship and put more value to what it means for Africa.
06:09So what it means for Africa isn't just treating Africa as a charity case where, you know, we're here to rescue, you know, populations on the continent of Africa, but actually recognizing Africa's value to Europe in terms of what Africa has to offer in its demographic.
06:25The population of Africa is very young, and this continent will probably make up, Africa will make up a quarter of the world's population in the next century, and that's important for a region like Europe, which is aging.
06:41But also, this is a continent that has critical minerals that Europe needs to power its future as it starts to also retreat from certain partnerships as a result of the war in Ukraine.
06:58So Africa's value to Europe is beyond a kind of a donor-recipient relationship.
07:06Librarians at a medieval abbey in Hungary are battling a beetle infestation that is threatening to wipe out centuries of history.
07:18The abbey believes climate change played a role in the infestation, as higher temperatures are favorable for the life of the insects.
07:25We haven't met such a long-term relationship with such a long-term relationship.
07:28We have been dealing with the
07:54about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves. They are then carefully placing them in crates
08:00where the disinfection process takes place. They hope to reopen the library at the beginning of
08:06next year.
08:24If we are talking about domestic flying, we have an ambition about zero emission flying
08:30in 2030. So that's our ambition. We don't want people to make new choices about the way they
08:39fly. We just want them to fly more green.
09:00It's about the time it takes to offload people or packages and cargo. You get it reloaded
09:06and you're ready to go again.
09:12There's not existing infrastructure in the ground in Europe like there is in the United
09:17States today. And we just are running an extension cord to one of our chargers. The more sophisticated
09:25solution is something that you put in that's permanent. And obviously that's all in the
09:29ground. So we look forward to a day when there's charge infrastructure all over Europe and we
09:34don't have to do that.
09:35We have the stands where the aircrafts typically are parked and turned around. And for those
09:40stands we will have to adapt them also with the electrical charging devices so we can have
09:45a mix of traditional aircrafts. And in the future when these aircrafts come to town, then
09:50we can also handle such aircrafts.
09:59A 25-kilogram rock is being auctioned for a price ranging between two and four million
10:07dollars. It's so exorbitantly priced because it's the largest piece of Mars ever found on
10:13planet Earth.
10:15It's more than double the size of what we previously thought was the largest piece of
10:21Mars. And we've only taken a small piece of it to study to confirm that it was Martian. But there's all sorts of
10:28interesting data that can be found inside of this rock.
10:31It'll be auctioned off at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday as part of a natural history-themed
10:37sale that also includes a juvenile dinosaur skeleton. The skeleton is large, standing at two meters in
10:43height and three meters in length. It's also incredibly rare.
10:46Juvenile specimens are really, really important. They're really rare for two reasons. They were very
10:57appetizing to adult dinosaurs. You know, nice, tender, young dinosaurs, much better than an old,
11:05you know, stiff dinosaur. But also their bones were really fine and were much less likely to survive the
11:15154 million year fossilization process. So we almost never find juvenile dinosaurs.
11:23The fossil is going anywhere from four to six million dollars.
11:31Sotheby says it's a chance for someone to claim a one-of-a-kind piece of history.
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