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00:00The EU and its allies must come up with practical solutions to provide Ukraine with security

00:05guarantees, according to European Council President Antonio Costa. Costa spoke in a

00:11virtual briefing with the coalition of the willing leaders, including Commission Chief

00:15Ursula von der Leyen, following a Washington summit.

00:19Now is the time to accelerate our practical work to put in place a guarantee similar to NATO's

00:28Article 5 with continued United States engagement. The coalition of willing should remain closely

00:38involved in this process. The Ukrainian armored forces will be the first line of defense.

00:47That is why we must enhance, reinforce and unblock our military support to Ukraine.

00:55European leaders have been cautiously optimistic about US-led efforts to bring forward a peace deal,

01:01but have reiterated concerns over Europe's ability to trust Russian President Vladimir Putin.

01:06Both Denmark and Finland's leaders said Tuesday that the Russian leader must show he's serious

01:11about a peace agreement. A breakthrough for Ukraine's European allies is Trump's commitment to participate

01:17in providing security guarantees for Ukraine. Trump on Tuesday, however, ruled out US boots on the ground

01:23in Ukraine and gave no specifics about US support in a post-war settlement. The UK has said a

01:29reassurance force headed by the UK and France would involve allies sending troops to non-contact areas.

01:36Ukraine's membership to the EU is also on the table as a safety carry, although it is currently stalled

01:41by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Despite an uptick in diplomacy around ending the war,

01:48Russia struck Ukraine overnight with a wave of missile and drone attacks from Monday into Tuesday.

02:01Seated around the same table at the White House, five European leaders, the President of the European

02:07Commission and the Secretary General of NATO all rallied around the Ukrainian President to support his

02:12demands in the face of Donald Trump. EU is back at the negotiating table on a possible peace agreement

02:19between Ukraine and Russia, according to this expert. I dare say that the EU is back, but now we must stay

02:27firm and show determination. And it also means the willingness to accept risk, especially by giving a

02:34security guarantee to Ukraine with boots on the ground. The European priority was to push for security

02:41guarantees for Kyiv to be an integral part of any possible future peace agreement to protect Ukraine from

02:48another Russian attack in the future. In a U-turn, the US President hinted for the first time that the US might

02:54provide Ukraine with security guarantees. Trump said this time that Europeans have to deliver a security

03:02guarantee coordinated by the United States. That's really a change of view because initially he says

03:07this was our job and the US or NATO would not be involved. So there is evolution there in the good sense,

03:14but still it's very short on detail. What remains to be agreed is what security guarantees the US and EU would

03:21be prepared to provide to Ukraine. Best would be the one closest to Article 5 of the NATO Treaty.

03:28A security guarantee means that I promise to go to war if your security is threatened. Everything less

03:34than that is support, but it's not a security guarantee. The best way to make that credible is by

03:41pre-deploying troops in Ukraine after a ceasefire or a peace agreement. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

03:48said Western allies would formalize security guarantees for Ukraine within 10 days.

03:59When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office

04:04in February, his wartime attire became a flashpoint in a disastrous session. But for Monday's meeting

04:11between the two leaders, Zelenskyy was dressed to impress. During the meeting, a reporter who in

04:17February had taken Zelenskyy to task for not wearing a suit, instead gave him a compliment.

04:22I didn't do any ceasefire. First of all, President Zelenskyy, you look fabulous in that suit.

04:27I said the same thing. Yeah, you look good. I said the same thing. Yeah,

04:31I said the one that attacked you last time. I remember that. I apologize to you. You look wonderful.

04:37Uh, no, my first question for you, President Zelenskyy. In the same suit.

04:41Since 2022, Zelenskyy has mainly worn the same military style outfit as an act of solidarity with

04:52Ukrainian troops fighting Russia's invasion. Israel says it is studying Hamas's response to a ceasefire

05:02proposal in Gaza, but has so far not yet weighed in with a response of its own.

05:07The deal, which is partly mediated by Qatar, would include a 60-day truce, the release of some of the

05:14hostages held by Hamas in return for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, a flood of humanitarian

05:20aid into Gaza, and talks on a lasting ceasefire. We are yet to receive a response from the Israeli side.

05:27So we cannot make any claims that a breakthrough has been made. But we do believe it is a positive

05:34point when we have a positive response from Hamas over the agreement that was there on the on the

05:38table since a couple of months ago. Meanwhile, hospitals in Gaza continue to be overwhelmed with

05:46bodies and injured people due to continued Israeli strikes. And UN agencies warned that the trickle of

05:52aid entering Gaza is insufficient to avert widespread starvation. The risk of starvation is everywhere in

05:59Gaza. This is a direct result of the Israeli government's policy of blocking humanitarian aid.

06:05Pressure on Israel is mounting to respond to the ceasefire proposal as the prospect of an expanded

06:11assault on areas sheltering hundreds of thousands of civilians has sparked condemnation inside Israel

06:17and abroad. Israel has vowed to continue the war until all the hostages held in Gaza are returned

06:23that Hamas is disarmed. Finnish politician Emilie Peltonen was found dead in the country's parliament

06:33building in Helsinki on Tuesday in what authorities believe was a suicide. The death of Peltonen,

06:40who was an MP of the Social Democratic Party, sent shockwaves through Finland's political sphere.

06:45The country's parliament is currently in summer recess, but Prime Minister Petri Orpo suspended all

06:51political work on Tuesday as a mark of respect. He also held a minute of silence for Peltonen.

06:58The 30-year-old had been out of the political spotlight in recent weeks,

07:02and in June he announced that a kidney problem and subsequent infection had kept him away from work.

07:13Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will declare the areas affected by the deadly wildfires as disaster

07:19fires. The fires, currently ranging for a tenth consecutive day, have burned through an area

07:25of more than 3800 square kilometers, according to the EU's European forest fire information system.

07:31Thousands of Spanish firefighters aided by soldiers and water bombing aircraft were still at work

07:37battling the flames, particularly severe in the northwestern Galicia province. The Interior

07:42Ministry says firefighting units from Germany arrived in Spain on Tuesday, as part of a European

07:48coordination agreement and will be helping to fight the blazes. Madrid says at least four people were

07:54killed in this year's wildfire season. Police have detained more than 20 people for suspected arson,

08:00and are investigating almost 90 others for allegedly sparking or contributing to the disaster.

08:06The country is still battling a dozen active fires, which continue to rage despite the end of Europe's

08:11record-setting heat wave, bringing in cooler temperatures. In neighboring Portugal, more than 3700 firefighters

08:18were at work on Tuesday to brave the flames. At least two people were killed by the fires, which have also

08:25torched over 2300 square kilometers. The figure is a five-fold increase over an almost two-decade average,

08:33ranging from 2006 to 2024.

08:40Norwegian prosecutors have indicted the eldest son of Crown Princess Meta Meret on multiple charges

08:45following a lengthy investigation. 28-year-old Marius Borg Hojby was charged with close to three

08:51dozen counts, including multiple counts of rape and abuse. He was also charged with other offenses,

08:57including violence against a former partner, making death threats, and traffic violations.

09:02Hojby faces up to ten years behind bars if convicted on all counts. His defense attorney

09:08in a statement said that his client denies all charges of sexual abuse and the majority of violence

09:13charges and plans to fight it in court. Prosecutors say they expect the trial to begin in mid-January

09:19next year and estimated to last around six weeks. Italy's Ventina Glacier has now melted so much due

09:29to climate change to the point where geologists can only continue measuring it remotely.

09:35The Lombardi Glaciological Service says it will now use drone imagery to measure the annual retreat

09:40of the glacier and keep track of its ongoing shrinkage. Geologists, who've been measuring the

09:46glacier on site for the past 130 years, say it's far too dangerous for future in-person visits.

09:52The simple stakes planted on the glacier as a benchmark to measure its retreat are now buried

09:57under piles of rock slides and debris, rendering the terrain unsteady. The glacier has been in steady

10:03retreat since geologists first began measuring it in 1895. Experts say melting has accelerated on the

10:10Italian iceberg in recent years, having lost about 430 meters in the last decade alone, with nearly half

10:18of that since 2021. Italy's glaciers, primarily found in the countries north along the Alps and Dolomites,

10:25have been steadily receding due to inadequate snowfall in the winter and record-setting hot summers.

10:31The Lombardi Service says the Alps represent a climate hotspot, recording double the global average of

10:36temperature increases since pre-industrial times, resulting in a loss of 64% of alpine glacier volume.

10:46After eight years of planning, a church in Sweden began a slow-motion five-kilometer journey to make

10:52way for the expansion of Europe's largest underground mine. The Karuna Church, a Lutheran church, will roll to

11:00its new home over two days at the pace of just half a kilometer per hour. It's being moved as a

11:06nearby mine is expanding deeper underground, causing residents to see cracks in the buildings and roads.

11:14Officials have moved numerous buildings to a new downtown at a safe distance from the mine.

11:22Thousands of visitors descended on Karuna to watch the spectacle,

11:25which included an early morning blessing and a performance from Sweden's 2025 Eurovision entry.

11:36Monday т for singing and Hamilton decided the Lombardi Look wouldn't work if we're a student.

11:52He treated paar Eckhart for specific reasons for putting on private water wrestling into a Supervision

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