00:00Poland calls for a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday following Russia's Wednesday drone incursion.
00:11Russian attacks on Ukraine continued overnight into Thursday,
00:15targeting several positions across the Sumy and Donbass regions.
00:21Rome's mayor Roberto Gualtieri wants to make the Tiber River swimmable by 2030.
00:30Poland calls for a UN Security Council meeting following Russia's drone incursion, according to officials on Thursday.
00:39Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk thanked soldiers and allies for repelling the Russian drone attack during a visit to the Lask Air Base.
00:48Overnight on Wednesday, multiple drones were shot down over Poland's airspace during a Russian attack on Ukraine.
00:55As a result of the attack, a house in the village of Wiliki, near the Belarus border, was damaged by debris.
01:02In an address to Poland's parliament, Tusk stressed that this was no mistake and that the drones flew directly from Belarus.
01:10Accusations which Russia has rejected.
01:12In a rare show of solidarity, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said they stand in solidarity with Poland.
01:19But Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski demanded that Hungary condemn the Russian aggression.
01:26German Chancellor MERS stressed the state of NATO's air defence,
01:29saying the drone incident highlighted the urgent need to reform the alliance's defences in Europe.
01:36So what is the general interpretation from NATO about this attack?
01:40Well, there is a strong consensus that this is a very deliberate strategy by Putin to bait Europe
01:46and to test NATO unity amid a strained transatlantic alliance.
01:51Experts from NATO that I've spoken to say that if there isn't strong condemnation by Donald Trump,
01:56such as sanctions against Russia or progress on security guarantees,
02:00then Poland and Europe will look like they're out in the cold.
02:03Russian attacks continued overnight into Thursday, targeting various positions across several cities and regions.
02:14Ukraine's Air Force says the Kremlin fired a barrage of dozens of missiles and drones targeting civilian sites and residential areas.
02:22An attack on an educational institution in the northern Sumi region damaged the main building as well as several workshops and vehicles.
02:29The shockwave from the blast caused windows to blow out in at least three nearby residential buildings.
02:37Elsewhere in Sumi, an attack on the Mirapilya settlement injured several people after Russian rockets struck the area.
02:44A separate attack in the nearby settlement of Krasnopilya also injured at least one person.
02:50Meanwhile, Ukraine says it has successfully attacked a Russian ship in the Black Sea.
02:55The ship, valued at 51 million euros, is part of the Kremlin's infamous Black Sea fleet of warships and aircraft carriers.
03:04Officials say a Ukrainian-produced drone struck and damaged the ship's navigation and communication systems.
03:11Ukraine's intelligence service says the ship was carrying out intelligence and patrolling missions at the time of the strike.
03:16U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to crack down on what he called rhetoric of the radical left after conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot.
03:30Kirk was murdered as he spoke at an event on a college campus in Utah.
03:36The event was part of his America Comeback Tour, in which Kirk toured the states giving speeches and hosting debate circles.
03:43The attack was reportedly targeted, police said, and has prompted an outpouring of condemnation from across the American political spectrum.
03:51On campuses nationwide, he championed his ideas with courage, logic, humor, and grace.
04:00It's long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.
04:18For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals.
04:30This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.
04:40Kirk was a prominent activist and media personality, known for co-founding the non-profit Turning Point USA when he was only 18.
04:51The group is widely credited with giving a platform to young Americans with conservative ideals.
04:56The organization and its funding grew steadily over the years.
05:00Kirk enthusiastically backed Trump during his first presidential campaign in 2016.
05:05Kirk was praised for mobilizing the youth vote during Trump's third election campaign in 2024, where he encouraged new young voters to register.
05:14Supporters said Kirk showed people genuine decency and respect, even when disagreeing with others' ideas.
05:20At least 72 Palestinians have been killed and 356 injured in Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, according to Gaza health officials.
05:36The famine has now caused a total of seven deaths in the past day.
05:40Seven victims were also killed by the Israeli army while waiting for food near distribution points run by the army and overseen by the U.S. company GHF.
05:51Israel intensifies its operations on Gaza City, targeting Hamas infrastructure, as Palestinians continue to leave Gaza City,
06:00struggling to transport their belongings after facing another Israeli evacuation order.
06:05Many, however, refused to leave due to the lack of funds and shelter in the south.
06:11Israel released footage claiming to show troops moving in the Gaza Strip.
06:16The military said in a press release that its troops had completed their operations in Chanyunis and they have dismantled tunnel routes.
06:24Rome's Tiber River swimmable by 2030, according to the capital's mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, speaking from the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, it is a highly achievable goal.
06:40Gualtieri said that he had already involved Environment Minister Pichetto Fratin and the heads of the Lazio region in a feasibility and cost study.
06:51He added that the cost would be lower than what Paris spent to make the Seine swimmable, as it is not as polluted.
06:59The mayor clarified that some areas of the Tiber would already be swimmable, adding that the Metropolitan City Police are inspecting all points where wastewater is discharged into the Anion River.
07:11Last July, the Seine River became swimmable again for the first time since 1923, at a cost of over 1.4 billion euros.
07:22This 90-year-old modernist building in Brussels, which once housed the Citroën garage and car showroom, is being renovated to become the Belgium's capital's first museum of contemporary and modern art, scheduled to open in November 2026.
07:49After the federal government refused to make available its collection from that period, the Canal Foundation turned to international partners, eventually signing a five-year contract with Francis Pompidou Center.
08:02Since 2018, the Canal Foundation created a public art collection of contemporary art here in Brussels, which did not exist until today, but we said that to be able to launch this project, it would be good to have a international partner, not belgo-belge because it did not work with the Royal Museum of the Beaux-Arts, and so after multiple contacts and meetings and discussions, it is with the Pompidou Center that we decided to make this partnership.
08:28As well as showing works from the Parisian institution, along with its own collection, the museum aims to be an arts and cultural hub and stage music, dance and theatre performances.
08:39But there is also the so-called external project to promote social cohesion in nearby neighbourhoods with considerable sociocultural diversity and pockets of poverty.
08:49It is not just creating a place, opening the doors and saying, come on, it is also a whole work that the teams have for now more than 8 years, working in schools, in local associations, in contact with young people, in communities around us, in Molenbeek, in Laken, in the north neighbourhood, to respond to the needs, but also to co-create or co-construise projects, artistic or not.
09:14Half of the 40,000 square metres facility was set aside for people to enjoy amenities, ranging from restaurants, a children's playground and a library.
09:24In the first quarter of 2026, the cultural programme will be unveiled.
09:29Around 120 years of cultural creation will be made available in the exhibition area and many more activities will be disclosed.
09:39Isabel Marques da Silva, Euronews, Brussels.
09:44Is the EU about to start scanning your text messages?
09:50For years, claims have been circulating that the European Union wants to enable governments and private companies to read people's text messages as part of a planned law clamped down on online child sexual abuse.
10:02Recently, these claims have intensified, with users alleging the block will scan all encrypted messages, even as they're being typed, making users fear for their privacy.
10:11It's often referred to as chat control.
10:14But the idea that Europeans have to brace themselves for the immediate end of private messaging is misleading.
10:21The possibility of scanning private messages is part of this planned new law on child sexual abuse, and it is indeed being considered.
10:28But the Commission is proposing specific and limited detection orders.
10:32While there are legitimate concerns that this could spell the end of digital privacy as we know it, proponents insist that detection orders do not apply by default to everyone and would be limited in time and scope.
10:44They would also have to be requested by a national authority, and then approved by a court or an independent authority.
10:50Secondly, the Commission's proposal is only the starting point.
10:53For the law to pass, the European Parliament and the Council of the EU both need to agree on exactly the same text, which has not happened yet.
11:00In fact, the Parliament has already voted for changes that go against broad scanning, especially for encrypted apps.
11:07And the Council is itself split.
11:09A majority of countries, like France, Spain and Italy, are in favour of strong scanning rules, while Austria, the Netherlands and Poland have said they will not accept them.
11:17Others, including Germany and Belgium, remain undecided.
11:20Because of this division, several planned votes have been delayed.
11:24A new one is now scheduled on the 12th of September.
11:27So, there is a legitimate debate about whether this proposed law can tread the line between safeguarding children on one hand and ensuring online privacy on the other.
11:36But panic that the EU is about to immediately scan messages even before they're being sent is still premature.
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