00:00A trilateral meeting will take place on Tuesday between Iran, China and Russia to discuss Tehran's
00:09nuclear program and the risk of sanctions being re-imposed, Iranian Foreign Ministry
00:13spokesperson Esmail Bagay said on Monday. The meeting comes ahead of renewed nuclear
00:19talks with France, Germany and the UK scheduled for this Friday in Istanbul.
00:30The three European powers, along with China and Russia, are the remaining
00:59parties to a 2015 nuclear deal that lifted sanctions on Iran in return for restrictions
01:04on its nuclear program. European countries have threatened to trigger the deal's snapback
01:10mechanism, which would allow sanctions to be re-imposed in the case of non-compliance by Tehran.
01:16Bagay said Iran is, quote, continuously coordinating with Beijing and Moscow on how to prevent the
01:21mechanism. He also noted that there is no plan for talks with the US, which ended after a 12-day
01:27conflict wedged by Israel and the US against Iran last month.
01:37Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that his country is planning to file international
01:42lawsuits against Russia. They are doing so with regards to the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that
01:47crashed in December last year. The plane was flying from Baku to Grozny when it crashed near
01:53the Kazakh city of Akhtau, killing 38 people. An initial report revealed that a Russian missile
02:00caused the plane to crash. Speaking to local media, Aliyev said that despite it being, quote,
02:06clear as day that Russia shot down the plane, whether they intended to or not, Azerbaijan did not receive
02:12a meaningful response from Moscow. We didn't get any answer from Russian officials about that,
02:22though it's already seven months have passed. For us, everything is clear. We know what happened.
02:31And we can prove it. And we know that Russian officials know what happened. And it's a question why they do not
02:40just do what any neighbor would have done. Our requests or demands are absolutely natural.
02:53The president added that Azerbaijan's demands are a guilty plea from Russia,
02:57prosecution of those responsible, as well as financial compensation.
03:02Where can you go to escape the heat? Climate refuges are becoming more of a solution. With a wave of
03:12intense heat gripping European cities, climate refuges are places that can offer the population some
03:18coolness and relief. Public parks and gardens, libraries, museums and schools are among places that are
03:25open during the day to receive people who are vulnerable to extreme temperatures.
03:30The city of Barcelona is associated with the rain. The effect of heat is intensified in these
03:33ondas of heat and happens normally in cities. This is because we have cities that are densely
03:40built, we have a lot of water that makes the sun absorb and at the end of the day we see
03:46that at six or seven evening it is even possible to have very hot even if there is not too much
03:49sun because the snow absorbed. Then we have several buildings and, oftentimes,
03:53sometimes straight roads, which makes it difficult to circulate.
03:58The city of Barcelona served as a model for the rest of Europe, not because it was a pioneer,
04:04but what really makes the Catalan City a great example is the clear criteria for defining
04:09what a refuge is according to this researcher.
04:13Not any space that is automatically a refuge climatic.
04:18I think it's important that these spaces really respond to the needs of these populations
04:26that are more vulnerable to extreme temperatures, they need to really have these minimum criteria.
04:34Like I said, they need to have a minimum space where people can sit,
04:39they can drink water, they can use the bathroom.
04:42In Lisbon, where thermal discomfort in homes is a reality,
04:47the City Council has not yet promoted the use of a cooling network,
04:51but data scientist Manuel Banza has created an interactive map where you can consult spaces
04:57like fountain, lakes and municipal swimming pools.
05:01There is a great thermal amplitude in the houses and Lisbon is one of the worst cities in Europe
05:07in terms of energy efficiency.
05:08Which means that, both in the winter and in the winter, people have difficulty
05:12to aquecer their own house or arrefecer their own house.
05:15And so there is a responsibility municipal and public to transform the public space
05:21into a space that is an extension of our houses.
05:24In addition to the discomfort, the heat also occurs associated with the increase of mortality.
05:29Portugal registrou 284 mortes in excess between 28 de junho and 3 de julho,
05:35durante o alerta de tempo quente.
05:38Joana Maron Carvalho, para a Euronews, em Lisboa.
05:41Will the new EU long-term budget turn cohesion policy into a regional hunger games?
05:52For decades, cohesion funds have helped reduce regional disparities across the EU,
05:56supporting projects from modern roads to hospital upgrading and job training.
06:01But a major shift is around the corner.
06:04Under the proposed EU long-term budget, cohesion policy would be merged into a single mega fund,
06:11combined with other spending priorities.
06:13Many warn that this budget simplification could lead to fierce competition for resources,
06:18raising alarm bells among regional leaders.
06:21This is what's happening with putting agriculture, migration, border control, cohesion policy into one bag,
06:33in one container.
06:35It would turn it to a hunger games, turning against the farmers, to the mayors, cities,
06:43turning against housing, unemployment and agricultural subsidies.
06:48Of the total EU budget of 2 trillion for the 2028-2034 period,
06:55865 billion will be earmarked for the single mega fund
07:00that will merge other spending lines, including the EU's agriculture and fisheries subsidies,
07:05cohesion policy and the European Social Fund,
07:08which supports employment and education across the EU.
07:12Beyond the funding rates, the new delivery model for these funds
07:15is seen as a move away from the EU's long-standing approach of shared management with local authorities.
07:20It's a clear centralization, it's a clear top-down model,
07:25instead of being an active part of designing and implementing the policies.
07:31So we will be kicked out from the design part, from the management part,
07:38from the creation part,
07:40and we will be just implementers fighting for money
07:42and putting it, you know, farmers against cities and regions.
07:49With many details of the proposal still unclear,
07:52the coming months will be crucial.
07:54Local governments are calling for greater involvement
07:56and everything before the final EU budget is locked in.
08:05Protesters chanting and honking horns almost drowned out
08:08an entire interview made by Alternative for Germany Party's leader Alice Weidel.
08:16At times, both Weidel and the presenter had to lean forward
08:19to understand each other amidst the noise.
08:21The group, the Center for Political Beauty, was behind the protest,
08:32which involved 25 people who equipped a bus with a powerful loudspeaker.
08:41At least 17 people were killed and 11 others are missing
08:45after torrential rains triggered flash floods in South Korea.
08:48Thousands of people were evacuated from danger zones
08:52after heavy rain slammed the Korean Peninsula for five consecutive days.
08:56The fast-moving water caused major damage to critical infrastructure
09:00as well as to vehicles and properties in the southern town of Sanchong.
09:04Southern regions received between 61 and 79 centimeters of rain since Wednesday,
09:10swelling water bodies leading to the disaster.
09:12Indonesian rescuers said on Monday that three people died
09:20and more than 560 were evacuated from a ferry
09:24that caught fire at sea a day earlier.
09:27Authorities previously said five people had died,
09:30but the National Search and Rescue Agency revised it to three
09:33after two passengers initially reported as dead were saved in a hospital,
09:38including a two-month-old baby whose lungs were filled with seawater.
09:42A Coast Guard vessel, six rescue ships and several inflatable boats
09:46were deployed in the rescue operation.
09:49Many survivors were pulled from the sea and taken to nearby islands.
09:53Local fishermen also rescued passengers found drifting in life jackets.
09:58Officials said the fire that began in the ferry stern
10:01was extinguished within an hour.
10:03Being an island archipelago,
10:05ferries are a common mode of transport in Indonesia.
10:07Disasters occur regularly with weak safety enforcement often blamed.
10:12At first, we used a deep learning model to translate the brain signals
10:38into the intended words.
10:41And then we used a last language model to make the match of the decoded words
10:46and make up for the errors in the EEG decoding.
10:50As scientists, we look at a medical condition
10:58and we look at what function has been affected by that medical condition.
11:03What is the need of the patient?
11:06We then address that unmet need through technology
11:11to restore that function back to what it was.
11:17After that, the sky's the limit.
11:33Te Ching Jai
