00:00More than 60 people have been killed and dozens injured after a fire tore through a shopping mall in eastern Iraq.
00:10European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposes a massive 2 trillion euro budget for the upcoming financial period from 2028 to 2034.
00:21The United States said all parties involved in the fighting in Syria agreed on specific steps to bring an end to the clashes.
00:28Secretary of State Marco Rubio said his statement followed after Israel launched a rare but powerful attack to the heart of Damascus on Wednesday.
00:39They said they were protecting the minority Druze community.
00:43Syria's interim President Ahmed Al-Shara however denounced Israel's actions.
00:48He said they sought to sow division and emphasize that Syria's priority is to protect its citizens.
00:53As I said they were saying that this is a lot of people from this country.
01:00Syria is not a place for any of us to protect or to protect or to protect or to protect or to protect or to protect or to protect or to protect or protect.
01:06I assure you that our rights and rights are one of us to prevent any of us to prevent any of us to prevent any of us from outside our country.
01:16The unrest in Syria's Soweda province began with tit-for-tat kidnapping between Sunni Bedouin
01:34tribes and the Druze community. On Monday, government officials who were sent to restore
01:39order also clashed with Druze fighters. Shortly following Israel's intervention,
01:43Syrian government officials and Druze leaders announced a renewed ceasefire on Wednesday
01:49evening. Six months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria's capital Damascus is filled with
01:58optimism, although the country's economic reconstruction is far from easy. The potential
02:03impact of a broader regional conflict, should tensions between Iran and Israel escalate,
02:09remains to be seen. Ninety percent of the population still lives below the poverty
02:14line, but the lifting of sanctions by the U.S. and the EU brought some relief.
02:19The dominating actor in Syria today, Khalil al-Sham, has been quite successful, despite its
02:26jihadist background, to normalize itself on the regional and international scene. And this
02:32has been materialized by belifting or the relief sanctions is something positive. It would allow
02:40for facilitation of trade, of food assistance. You have high unemployment migration of young
02:49skilled workers is still the case. Agreements with foreign investors were signed within hours
02:54of the announcement. Syrian banks are being reconnected to this weaved system, although a sustained economic
03:01recovery still depends on several conditions being met. If we do not tackle structural challenges
03:09of the economic system in Syria, this will unfortunately only increase social inequalities in Syria,
03:21reduce the significance of the productive sectors of the economy, etc.
03:25Trump's decision to lift sanctions has received a warm welcome here on the streets of Damascus that
03:32was followed by the EU's decision to do the same. A move seen as a way to offer international support
03:39to the country after the fall of Bashar al-Assad. But the scale of the challenge is immense. Economic recovery
03:47will require massive investments, most of which will likely come from neighboring wealthy countries,
03:55together with millions of people displaced by the conflict, both here and abroad, will need to be
04:01resettled. George Orlandi for Euronews in Damascus.
04:08An average of 28 children are killed daily in Gaza, and more than 17,000 kids have reportedly been killed
04:17in the ongoing war in the besieged Palestinian enclave, UNICEF said on Wednesday. Speaking before the UN
04:24Security Council, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell said each of the territory's
04:301 million children has faced immense suffering. According to UNICEF, these children will face
04:37lifelong impacts. Over the past 21 months of war, more than 17,000 children have reportedly been killed
04:43and 33,000 injured in Gaza. An average of 28 children have been killed each day, the equivalent of an entire
04:51classroom. Consider that for a moment. A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years.
04:57These children are not combatants. They are being killed and maimed as they line up for life-saving
05:04food and medicine. Meanwhile, at least 20 Palestinians were killed at a food distribution center in the
05:11Gaza Strip on Wednesday, mostly from a stampede. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation accused the Hamas
05:18militant group of fomenting unrest at a food distribution center, causing the stampede.
05:27At least 20 Palestinians were killed on Wednesday in a stampede at a food distribution site run by an
05:35Israeli-backed U.S. organization in Gaza. It's the first time the group has acknowledged deadly
05:41violence at its operation despite reports of Israeli soldiers opening fire at Palestinians queuing up
05:46multiple times. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says 19 people were trampled in the crowd crush
05:53and one person was fatally stabbed at a hub that operated in the southern city of Khan Yunus.
05:59The organization accused Hamas of instigating panic and spreading misinformation that led to
06:03the violence but provided no evidence to support those claims. Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry and
06:09witnesses said GHF workers used tear gas against the crowd inciting a panic. Palestinians who were at the
06:16Khan Yunus site also say stun grenades and pepper spray were also used on the crowds of people lined up.
06:21Dozens more were injured and were transferred to nearby hospitals for treatment.
06:27Gaza's health ministry says it's the first time people were killed by a stampede at an aid site.
06:38Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suffered a major political blow on Wednesday after a key
06:43partner in his coalition quit government. The far-right ultra-Orthodox Shas party's surprise withdrawal
06:49leaves Netanyahu whose domestic support has been waning with a minority in parliament.
06:54Shas, who has long served as a kingmaker in Israeli politics, said it would be leaving over
06:59disagreements surrounding a proposed law that would mandate military service for all.
07:03Ultra-Orthodox men were granted exemptions from compulsory service via a decades-old arrangement by
07:09Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. It's the second ultra-Orthodox party to quit
07:14government this week after United Torah Judaism announced it was leaving on Tuesday. Shas ministers
07:20are expected to resign from their positions on Thursday morning. The party's leader Arya Dery did
07:26however note that it would not undermine Netanyahu's coalition from the outside and could still vote
07:31with it on some legislation. The announcement comes shortly before the Knesset goes into summer recess,
07:37set to begin on July 27th. A fire at a shopping mall in eastern Iraq has killed more than 60 people.
07:48The blaze ripped through the five-story building just one week after its opening, injuring dozens more.
07:55Three days of national mourning have been declared as the Iraqi government has vowed accountability and
08:00pledged to launch a probe against the building's owner. This is not the first time tragedy has struck due to
08:07poor safety standards in Iraq. In 2021, a fire at Nasiriyah Hospital, fuelled by banned flammable cladding,
08:15killed over 60 people. And in 2023, more than 100 people died at a wedding celebration after pyrotechnics
08:23ignited ceiling panels.
08:24Growing scrutiny against espionage is leading higher institutions of learning in Denmark to reject
08:38foreign researchers, as officials report threat levels to be high. University authorities in the
08:45Nordic nation say they are particularly vigilant when researchers come from Russia, Iran and China,
08:52a sensitive Danish research must not fall into wrong hands.
08:58They will be afvist with a point that they will have access to information,
09:01so they will set them in a risk for being set under press for to deliver information to a different power.
09:06Avancered technology can use very, very, very many powers.
09:10And that makes interest, intensity, concurrence, and trust.
09:15At Ouse University, one of Denmark's foremost institutions of higher education, at least 24 foreign
09:25researchers have been rejected so far this year. The tightened rules on this also come in light of
09:32Denmark's security and defense agenda for its six-month rotating presidency of the European Union.
09:382 trillion euros. This is the amount proposed by the European Commission for the EU's next budget period
09:47from 2028 to 2034. This envelope, known in European jargon as the multi-annual financial framework,
09:54represents a significant increase on the previous financial year. The Commission
09:58chief is proposing to merge the various European programs into three main pillars.
10:03The first accounts for 48% of the total budget. It covers agricultural policy, cohesion, fisheries,
10:23and social policy. But this regrouping of historic European programs into a single envelope is causing
10:29concern among the member states and the farming community. The second concerns the Union's
10:34competitiveness. Allocated 410 billion euros, or 23 percent of the proposed budget, this envelope is
10:41intended to finance innovation, industry, and clean technologies. These are all elements that must
10:47ensure European sovereignty. This envelope also includes budgets for defense and space sectors,
10:53where funding has been increased five-fold. The third pillar, roughly 11 percent of the
10:58proposed budget concerns Europe's place in the world, like strategic partnerships,
11:02humanitarian aid, and the enlargement of the Union. The Commission is also proposing a reserve of
11:08100 billion euros for Ukraine.
11:10A peine présenté, ce projet de budget fait déjà l'objet de critiques. Les rapporteurs au Parlement
11:16européen évoquent un manque d'ambition et estiment que les calculs budgétaires ne tiennent pas la route.
11:20Ces eurodéputés soulignent que ce cadre menace des programmes historiques tels que la politique agricole
11:26commune. Enfin, ils craignent que cette structure favorise 27 programmes nationaux
11:30aux dépens d'une vision commune. Grégoire Lory, Euronews, Bruxelles.
11:34Grégoire Lory, Euronews.
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