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00:00Ahead of their Alaska meeting, U.S. President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to offer Putin several economic incentives to end the war in Ukraine.
00:11At least three people have died in the U.S. states of Tennessee after heavy rain and flash flooding.
00:20As U.S. President Donald Trump prepares to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in Alaska,
00:26he is reportedly ready to present a proposal that includes several economic concessions to Russia in exchange for ending the war against Ukraine.
00:35Among the incentives would be access to Alaska's natural resources, as well as Ukraine's rare earth minerals, the Telegraph reported.
00:43In Kyiv, many Ukrainians were skeptical the summit will bring the war on Ukraine to an end.
00:48Many Moscow residents were more hopeful.
01:07Prior to Trump announcing the meeting with Putin, his efforts to pressure Russia into stopping the fighting had delivered no progress.
01:32Trump consulted with European leaders on Wednesday, who said the president assured them he would make a priority of trying to achieve a ceasefire when he speaks with Putin on Friday.
01:46Ahead of a historic meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin,
01:52a virtual summit took place with Trump, Ukrainian and European leaders.
01:56Following the summit, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said the top priority for the meeting was a ceasefire,
02:06something he says Trump agreed with.
02:07According to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, European leaders were jointly trying to steer the Alaska meeting between Trump and Putin.
02:37in the right direction.
02:41In Alaska, there must remain central European and Ukrainian security interests.
02:46That was the message that we have given to the American President Trump today as European and European leaders today to the American President Trump.
02:53And I can say that we were both in the assessment of the implementation, as well as in the reachable goal.
03:02Trump described the upcoming Alaska talks as setting the table for a second meeting which would include both Putin and Zelensky.
03:10Will Russia face any consequences if Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war after your meeting on Friday?
03:19Yes, they will.
03:21What will there be consequences?
03:22There will be consequences.
03:22Sanctions, tariffs?
03:23There will be.
03:24I don't have to say.
03:25There will be very severe consequences, yes.
03:27That will go rapidly.
03:29When asked what the format of a second meeting would be, Trump suggested it would either be bilateral or trilateral, depending on whether Zelensky and Putin wanted the U.S. president there.
03:40I think we'll actually get Democrats' support.
03:43The European Commission signed an agreement to safeguard Ukraine's energy security ahead of winter.
03:52The deal would mobilize 500 million euros to Ukraine's energy sector, and its state-owned oil and gas company Naftogaz would use the money to finance emergency gas purchases.
04:04The agreement aims to restore energy sources ahead of the autumn and winter months.
04:09The decision comes as Russia has recently intensified its attacks on energy infrastructure, causing storage reserves to drop significantly.
04:20Naftogaz said the deal is a strong indicator that its partners understand the scale of the threat posed by Russia.
04:26They reassured they would source natural gas competitively and that its contracts would meet European standards.
04:33Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Sfyridenko applauded the deal and called it a record-breaking agreement for the country.
04:39Israel's military has approved plans for an expanded operation in the Gaza Strip.
04:48As part of the plan approved by Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir, Israeli soldiers would move into areas where Israel believes Hamas is holding the remaining living hostages.
04:58No other details about the plan or a timeline have been released, but it comes just days after Israel's security cabinet approved plans for the takeover of Gaza City.
05:09The plan, however, has exposed a rift between the military and the government.
05:14Zamir previously warned that the plan could endanger the lives of the hostages and further stretch the military.
05:19Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded via a post on X, saying that if he objected the plans, he could resign.
05:28The statement comes as global outreach has been growing over the continuously rising civilian death toll in Gaza.
05:35In the latest of almost daily such incidents, local health officials reported that on Wednesday, dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were again killed by Israeli gunfire.
05:45Israel and Kurdish fighters should stop threatening the security and stability of Syria, according to the Turkish Foreign Minister Haqqan Fedan.
05:59Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, Fedan accused Israel and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces of undermining the country's efforts to reestablish itself after more than a decade of civil war.
06:10In Daniel, a deuxième and continuing the deal has started to protect the country's efforts to fight against Israel.
06:29Since insurgents ousted former President Bashar al-Assad in a rebel offensive in December, the interim government in Damascus has struggled to maintain stability.
06:38Attempts to merge the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces with the new Syrian army have stalled,
06:43and there has been scattered outbreaks of violence between the two sides.
06:50At least three people from the same family were among those killed during heavy rain and flooding in the U.S. state of Tennessee,
06:58as submerged roads caused chaos and led to dramatic rescues of people trapped in their cars.
07:04The three, a mother, father and child, were killed when saturated ground caused the large tree to fall on their car in Eastridge just after midnight, emergency officials said.
07:17Authorities said they found another body on Wednesday while searching for a man who was swept away when he ran past firefighters and a barricade blocking a flooded road on Tuesday.
07:29This summer, severe thunderstorms are bringing heavy rainfall and flash flooding across parts of the U.S., grounding flights and forcing emergency rescues.
07:40By the end of last month, the U.S. National Weather Service had already issued more than 3,600 flash flood warnings nationwide, nearly equal to its annual average.
07:51The Stop Destroying Video Games petition has reached over 1.4 million signatures across the European Union.
08:04If validated, the European Commission will have to examine the initiative and decide whether or not to present a proposal to the European Parliament
08:13aimed at preventing video game distributors from blocking their titles.
08:17Those who began the petition gave the example of the online racing game The Crew.
08:46Launched in 2014 by the French company Ubisoft, which has not been accessible since 2024.
08:53They denounce a growing practice that, in their view, undermines consumer protection and destroys cultural heritage.
09:00All we are asking is, when the game is turned off, so that it has an end-of-life plan.
09:06So it remains reasonably playable.
09:08We don't expect it to be completely playable with all the bells and whistles.
09:11Just that the core of the game is still playable for a person who legally bought it.
09:18Video 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.
09:30They 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.
09:41They also assert that this would increase the cost of creating video games.
09:45The River Spree, which runs through Germany's capital of Berlin, is known for its canals full of tourists on boats.
09:56But others want it to now be opened up to the general public for swimming in.
10:03An organization called Flussbad Berlin, or the Riverbath Berlin, wants Berlin's waterways opened up to swimmers and people who would like to take a dip in the water.
10:12They feel that the 100-year ban on inner-city swimming is outdated.
10:17Flussbad Berlin have been campaigning to overturn the ban for nearly 10 years, and say local authorities are slow in moving forward with their demands.
10:25Also, ich verfolge das. Das ist eine Frage seit Jahrzehnten, und andere Länder, Städte haben das auch geschafft.
10:31In Basel, in Paris, ich würde sagen Berlin, let's go, get it done.
10:38The city has raised safety and pollution issues.
10:41Wir sind heute hier, weil wir gegen das pauschale Badeverbot in innerstädtischen Berlin demonstrieren.
10:47Und wir sind der Meinung, das muss fallen, es ist obsolet, es ist überfällig, und es ist wahrscheinlich nicht mal mehr legal,
10:53hier das Baden zu verbieten.
10:57The campaign group says it has checked Berlin's water quality for swimming.
11:04Erstens ist es ein Grundrecht der Menschen baden zu gehen.
11:07Das klingt komisch, aber wir alle sollen baden dürfen.
11:11Das zweite ist, wir haben Klimaveränderungen, und wir brauchen das Gewässer, wie hier, um uns abkühlen zu können.
11:19Es ist quasi eine klimapolitische Sofortmaßnahme, die sehr leicht umzusetzen ist.
11:25Freiheit!
11:26Ja, wir wünschen Berlin Freiheit, in Bezug auf Schrift.
11:34According to Organisers and the police, over 1,000 people demonstrated in central Berlin,
11:39and over 700 people went swimming in the Spree River.
11:42Ja, wir wünschen Berlin's water quality, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift, in Bezug auf Schrift,
