Maximum alert in Europe due to forest fires

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Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate after record temperatures across Europe caused forest fires throughout the Mediterranean. Greece, Spain, and Portugal have all ordered mass evacuations after fires reached cities and towns in all three countries. In Portugal, thousands of firefighters continued to battle wildfires as flames lit up the night sky. The country is under a state of alert until Sunday due to the weather forecast and extreme fire risk.  #ClimateEmergency #EuropeBurning #MediterraneanFires #ExtremeHeat #teleSUREnglish

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00:00Welcome back to From the South. We continue with more information in Switzerland.

00:04Talks on securing a global treaty to combat plastic pollution have failed to reach an

00:09agreement at the United Nations. The talks towards a legally binding instrument on tackling plastic

00:15pollution opened on August 5th and had been originally scheduled to close on Thursday 14th

00:22in Geneva after five failed rounds of talks over the past two and a half years. The draft presented

00:29by the chair of the negotiation committee Luis Baez Valdivieso did not limit plastic production

00:35or addressed chemicals used in plastic products causing it to be marked non-acceptable by the

00:42European Union and rejected by most participant countries and organizations. On the other hand

00:46oil producing states want the treaty to focus primarily on waste management.

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