Latest news bulletin | August 14th, 2025 – Morning
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00:00Israel's military has approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip.
00:07As part of the plan approved by Chief of Staff El Zamir,
00:11Israeli soldiers would move into areas where Israel believes Hamas is holding the remaining living hostages.
00:17No other details about the plan or a timeline have been released,
00:21but it comes just days after Israel's Security Cabinet approved plans for the takeover of Gaza City.
00:27The plan, however, has exposed a rift between the military and the government.
00:32Zamir previously warned that the plan could endanger the lives of the hostages and further stretch the military.
00:38Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded via a post on X,
00:43saying that if he objected to the plans, he could resign.
00:46The statement comes as global outreach has been growing over the continuously rising civilian death toll in Gaza.
00:53In the latest of almost daily such incidents, local health officials reported that on Wednesday,
00:59dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were again killed by Israeli gunfire.
01:04Ahead of a historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin,
01:14a virtual summit took place with Trump, Ukrainian and European leaders.
01:21Following the summit, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said the top priority for the meeting was a seeds fire,
01:27something he says Trump agreed with.
01:29I said to the President of the United States of America and to all our European colleagues Putin.
01:39He tries to press the meeting on the Alias, on all directions of the Ukrainian front.
01:44Russia tries to show that it is possible to occupy all the Ukraine.
01:50According to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European leaders were jointly trying to steer the Alaska meeting between Trump and Putin in the right direction.
02:03In Alaska, there must remain central European and Ukrainian security interests.
02:10This was the message that we have given to the American President Trump today.
02:17And I can say that we were both in the assessment of the implementation, as well as in the reachable goal.
02:25Trump described the upcoming Alaska talks as setting the table for a second meeting which would include both Putin and Zelensky.
02:33Will Russia face any consequences if Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war after your meeting on Friday?
02:41Yes, they will.
02:43What will the consequences be?
02:44There will be consequences.
02:45Sanctions, tariffs?
02:46There will be, I don't have to say, there will be very severe consequences, yes.
02:49That will go rapidly.
02:52When asked what the format of a second meeting would be, Trump suggested it would either be bilateral or trilateral,
02:58depending on whether Zelensky and Putin wanted the U.S. President there.
03:03I think we'll actually get Democrat support.
03:08Russian strikes killed at least six and injured 15 just days ahead of truce talks
03:13between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
03:18Four were killed in the Kherson region, including two civilians in a car.
03:25Kherson's governor said the strikes hit and damaged residential areas and infrastructure,
03:31such as a high-rise building, five houses, a cell tower and several vehicles.
03:37Attacks in the Donetsk region killed two and injured another ten.
03:43Moscow launched at least 49 Shahed-type drones overnight, with Ukrainian air defences shooting down 32.
03:52Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones hit an oil pumping station in Russia's Bryansk region overnight, sparking a fire.
03:59Emergency services were sent to the scene.
04:02The strikes come as Putin and Trump are set to meet in Alaska on Friday, as part of U.S. efforts to reach a cease-fire deal.
04:11Wildfires across Europe are causing massive damage and the evacuation of thousands as a heatwave scorches the southern part of the continent.
04:23Firefighters battled to control wildfires on the outskirts of Greece's third-largest city of Patras.
04:30Seven major wildfires forced multiple evacuations, destroying homes and businesses.
04:37High winds hindered firefighting efforts on nearby islands, where authorities were on standby to evacuate tourist resorts.
04:45Other severe fires burned in the western part of Greece's mainland and on the island of Hyos.
04:52In bordering Albania, wildfires burned forests, houses and killed at least one person.
05:02Several villages have been evacuated as the wildfires continue to affect parts of the country.
05:08Authorities say around 30 fires are endangering residents and burning forest areas.
05:14Albanian officials say they mobilized around 1,000 firefighters, army personnel and local staff to fight the flames.
05:24In Spain, thousands are facing evacuation orders as wildfires burn across the Iberian Peninsula.
05:31Firefighters have largely contained a blaze outside Madrid that broke out on Monday night.
05:37The fire killed a man and affected over 1,000 hectares of land.
05:41Several people have been arrested by Spanish officials as the alleged perpetrators of fires that have broken out.
05:48In Portugal, emergency services are battling a series of wildfires amid another heat wave.
05:54Authorities there said three major fires that started over the weekend were of concern.
05:59Around 2,000 firefighters are on the ground to try to tackle the flames, with more than 700 working to control a fire in Trancoso.
06:07An extreme weather alert was extended until Friday throughout mainland Portugal.
06:13Italian firefighters are tackling a wildfire on Mount Vesuvius, where fires have been blazing since Friday.
06:19Planes drop water over the flames hundreds of times to contain the wildfire.
06:23Europe is warming faster than any other continent, according to the EU Copernicus Institute.
06:28And wildfires have massively impacted the continent over the summer.
06:35The Stop Destroying Video Games petition has reached over 1.4 million signatures across the European Union.
06:43If validated, the European Commission will have to examine the initiative and decide whether or not to present a proposal to the European Parliament,
06:51aimed at preventing video game distributors from blocking their titles.
06:56It is a form of kind of planned obsolescence.
07:01Many games, I can send you a list, there are about a thousand of them that we just researched a couple of months ago,
07:06where they have an online component.
07:10And that online component, when it gets turned off by the publisher, not editor, but the publisher of the video game,
07:18that game is unplayable.
07:20Those who began the petition gave the example of the online racing game The Crew,
07:25launched in 2014 by the French company Ubisoft, which has not been accessible since 2024.
07:31They denounce a growing practice that, in their view, undermines consumer protection and destroys cultural heritage.
07:38All we are asking is, when the game is turned off, so that it has an end-of-life plan.
07:44So it remains reasonably playable.
07:47We don't expect it to be completely playable with all the bells and whistles.
07:50Just that the core of the game is still playable for a person who legally bought it.
07:56Video Games Europe, the lobbyist for the video games industry, said in a statement published in July that shutting down an online game must be an option for companies when it is no longer commercially viable.
08:09They added that private servers are not an alternative, as there would be no data protection, no removal of illegal content and no fight against dangerous content.
08:19They also assert that this would increase the cost of creating video games.
08:24Dramatizzo S.
08:26Dramatizzo S.
08:27It is important that we are in the 21st century prepared for this civilizacijski
08:49step, that we can give people the opportunity to be autonomous.
08:55It is important that we can give people the opportunity to complete their own decision.
09:01This law is mandatory. Every person can make the final decision in the final decision,
09:09whether they want to help them in the final decision.
09:12They can make the final decision in order to make the final decision in order to make the final decision.
09:20This law doesn't provide any responsibility in the final decision.
09:25It is important that the civilizacijs will be given an answer in order to make the final decision.
09:31It is important that the civilizacijs will be given an answer in order to make the final decision.
09:39It is important that the civilizacijs will be given an answer in order to make the final decision.
09:45The civilizacijs will be given an answer in order to make the final decision in order to make the final decision.
09:59campaign, the civilizacijs will be given an answer in order to make the final decision.
10:05Anything Savage takes a few weeks and will ever come in the final decision.
10:06Our difficult decision is now for the young man of Philip Smith go to make the final decision.
10:11I remember we are educating the current of the civilizacijs and instead of making the final decision.
