Latest news bulletin | August 13th, 2025 – Morning
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00:00European leaders bar Hungary reiterates steadfast support for Ukraine ahead of Putin and Trump talks in Alaska.
00:07At least 100 Palestinians were killed in the past 24 hours as Israel continues to carry out attacks across Gaza despite global criticism.
00:19A wildfire near the Spanish capital of Madrid kills one and forces hundreds to evacuate.
00:26The leaders of 26 European Union member states, all bar Hungary, rallied behind Ukraine ahead of talks between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart on Friday.
00:40Trump is set to meet Putin in Alaska as part of US efforts for a ceasefire push.
00:45European leaders said they welcomed Trump's efforts but highlighted that Ukraine's territorial borders should be respected in a ceasefire agreement.
00:53Let me remind you that at the same time the EU is extremely active in all fronts to support Ukraine and put Ukraine in a position of strength.
01:06The only leader that refused to sign the agreement was Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
01:11Orban said that he refused to sign the statement because European leaders were not invited to the meeting in Alaska.
01:17He called for them to initiate an EU-Russia summit instead to give Europe a seat at the negotiating table.
01:24Hungary has in the past rejected motions calling for joint European military or financial support for Kyiv.
01:31Russian forces have pushed into eastern Ukraine, reports suggest, days before US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are set to meet.
01:44A map from Ukraine's open source intelligence project called Deep State shows Moscow's troops pushing towards a highway in the Donetsk region.
01:56Russia has been trying to advance in this area for months, endangering a key Ukrainian logistics route.
02:03The US-based think tank, the Institute for the Study of War, said it would be premature to call the sudden push a breakthrough.
02:10However, it warned that Moscow's troops were likely to seek to push further in the area in the coming days.
02:16The development comes as Putin and Trump are set to meet in Alaska on Friday as Trump pushes for a ceasefire.
02:24Despite the truce talks, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that Moscow was preparing the redeployment of troops and forces to launch a new offensive on Ukraine.
02:39At least 100 Palestinians were killed and some 500 others were injured in the last 24 hours as Israel continues its attacks across Gaza.
02:49The Gaza Health Ministry says at least 69 people were killed in airstrikes across several positions, primarily in the north near Gaza City.
02:57At least 31 others were killed en route to eight collection points, with eyewitnesses saying Israeli troops opened fire on crowds of people.
03:05It's the latest in a series of fatal incidents involving the Israeli-backed USAID operation, run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
03:13Israel says it only fires warning shots and does not shoot at people, while the GHF claims that no fatal incidents have occurred on their premises.
03:22The US-Israeli aid scheme was announced as a replacement for traditional UN systems, which have been facing major restrictions to their operations.
03:30Many have criticized the initiative, which came after Israel accused Hamas of looting UN aid, slamming it as insufficient.
03:37The UN says more than 90% of Gaza's 2 million population are at risk of famine.
03:43Gaza's Health Ministry also said five more people died from starvation on Monday, bringing the total famine-related deaths to 227, including 103 children.
03:54On Tuesday afternoon, the UK released a joint statement with 27 of its allies, mainly in Europe, condemning the worsening humanitarian suffering in Gaza.
04:04The statement, endorsed by France, Germany and Spain, called on the Israeli government to take immediate steps to alleviate humanitarian suffering.
04:12Norway's sovereign wealth fund has sold its shares in 11 Israeli companies as they criticize the country over its conduct of war in Gaza.
04:23The management of the fund, which invests profits from Norway's oil and gas, said in a statement that by the end of June, they had investments in 61 Israeli companies.
04:32The fund noted that it decided to sell all its shares in 11 of those firms that are not in the Norwegian Finance Ministry's Equity Benchmark Index.
04:41They also added that they will fire all external managers running their investments in Israel and run those operations in-house.
04:49Top-level management of the fund said the decision was taken in response to what they called an extraordinary humanitarian crisis in Gaza
04:57and acknowledged that maybe these measures came too late.
05:02The situation in Westbredden and Gaza has changed over the last time.
05:06We could have done some arrests that have simplified the government here and take the government home.
05:12It is serious when there is a question about whether the system works.
05:17Now we have done some measures and it is working with more measures.
05:21The fund says it will continue to strengthen its due diligence and intensify monitoring of investments in Israeli companies.
05:33A wildfire near the Spanish capital of Madrid has killed one person and prompted hundreds to evacuate.
05:41The blaze in Tres Cantos burned through two housing complexes,
05:44with one man dying from burnt injuries after being evacuated by helicopter to a nearby hospital.
05:51The fire advanced around six kilometres in just under 40 minutes, a regional minister said.
05:57Smoke from the flames threatened the nearby town of San Sebastian de los Ralles,
06:02where residents were warned to close their windows and doors and stay away from the vicinity of the fire.
06:07Firefighters were eventually able to contain the fire by Tuesday morning,
06:13after deploying at least 14 teams and three helicopters.
06:17I have a friend who has burned the whole house, the Hípica.
06:20She burned the whole house.
06:22Her business, her restaurant, her house, everything.
06:27In southern Spain, some 2,000 people were ordered to evacuate as forest fires advanced.
06:33Spain is facing one of its worst summers for wildfires in recent history,
06:38with flames tearing through thousands of hectares of land.
06:45July 2025 was the third hottest month on record globally,
06:49the latest climate bulletin from the EU's climate service Copernicus showed.
06:53In Europe, the average temperature for July 2025 is just over 21 degrees Celsius,
06:581.30 degrees above the 1991 to 2020 average for July,
07:04making it the fourth warmest July on record.
07:11Meanwhile, July 2025 was 1.25 degrees above the pre-industrial level globally.
07:17It was only the fourth month in the last 25 months,
07:20with a global temperature less than 1.5 degrees above this level.
07:24Does this mean the landmark Paris Agreement,
07:29which is ratified by all EU member states
07:31and aims to limit the long-term average temperature increase
07:34to 1.5 degrees above the pre-industrial level, has failed?
07:39The short answer is no.
07:40For this, levels have to be breached for at least two decades.
07:43The Paris Agreement refers to a long-term average temperature of 1.5 that shouldn't be exceeded
07:54in order to avoid the most catastrophic and irreversible consequences of climate change.
08:00What we have seen over the past couple of years is temporary breaches of this limit.
08:08But once we have reached this 20-year average global temperature above 1.5,
08:15that's when we can consider that we have exceeded the limit of the Paris Agreement.
08:21Recent predictions show that the breaching of this temperature might occur as soon as 2030.
08:26This long-term warming trend is directly related to the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
08:32In other words, climate change hasn't stopped.
08:35Across Europe, the effects of this are being witnessed,
08:37from the extreme heat to the catastrophic floods affecting several countries this summer.
08:42Experts are clear.
08:44This warming trend won't stop if greenhouse gases continue to be emitted.
08:48And even if at some point in the next few years we might reach this 1.5 degree limit set by the Paris Agreement,
09:01we must continue doing everything we can to cut greenhouse gas emission.
09:10As we often say, every fraction of the degree matter.
09:14If greenhouse gases are not stabilized or decreased,
09:17experts have warned that the world should prepare for new temperature records as well as a worsening of their impact.
09:27The Philippine military has blamed China for the collision of two Chinese Navy and Coast Guard ships
09:32while trying to drive Philippine fishermen and Coast Guard from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea.
09:38Manila said in a statement on Tuesday that it would assess how to respond to Beijing's use of military force against civilians.
09:45The Philippines foreign ministry slammed the Chinese vessels for posing a grave danger to its nationals.
09:51They added that the collision resulted in visible heavy damage to the Chinese ships and possibly even injuries.
09:58It's the latest in a string of maritime confrontations between the Philippines and China,
10:03who often face off in territorial standoffs in the contested waters of the South China Sea.
10:08The United States, a long-time treaty ally of the Philippines,
10:12condemned the latest reckless action by China against a Filipino vessel.
10:16China accused Manila for the confrontation, saying its ships intruded in its territory, prompting Beijing's immediate response.
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