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00:01Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Rosenzhelioskov, resigned after tens of thousands of Bulgarians

00:06joined protests over allegations of widespread corruption.

00:11Ukraine reportedly struck another oil tanker from Russia's so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea on Wednesday.

00:19U.S. forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela,

00:24prompting swift condemnation from Nicolas Maduro's government,

00:27which called it an act of international piracy.

00:32Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Rosenzhelioskov, resigned on Thursday

00:35after tens of thousands of Bulgarians joined protests across the country

00:39demanding that the government step down over allegations of widespread corruption.

00:45Media estimates based on drone footage put the number of demonstrators at over 100,000,

00:50with some reports claiming up to 150,000 people had gathered in the Bulgarian capital.

00:55Students from Sofia's universities joined the rallies,

01:00which organizers said exceeded last week's protests that drew more than 50,000 people.

01:05Further protests took place in more than 25 major cities across Bulgaria,

01:10including Plovdiv, Varna, Veliko Tarnovo and Razgrad.

01:15Bulgarians abroad also gathered on Wednesday with demonstrations held in Brussels, London, Berlin,

01:19Vienna, Zurich and New York.

01:21The demands included the resignation of the government and better living and working conditions.

01:31Ukraine reportedly struck another oil tanker from Russia's so-called shadow fleet in the Black Sea on Wednesday.

01:39Authorities said naval drones caused critical damage.

01:41Russian officials claimed that three Ukrainian sea drones attacked the tanker

01:47while a British aircraft was allegedly operating in the western part of the Black Sea during the attack.

01:54Ukraine's security service said the oil tanker was sailing under the flag of Komoros

01:58and was traveling at a fast speed with its transponder turned off.

02:02The vessel was traveling inside Ukraine's exclusive economic zone off the coast of Crimea

02:07and was heading towards a port terminal in Russia.

02:11The EU, the UK, Canada, Australia and Switzerland have previously sanctioned the tanker

02:17for its role in transporting Russian oil and for operating with its vessel identification systems disabled.

02:23Russia uses a shadow fleet which consists of all tankers often traveling under flags of countries

02:29like Komoros and Panama to circumvent Western sanctions.

02:37Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic appeared to suggest he had received a message from Moscow.

02:42He was caught saying so on a hot mic during a visit to Brussels

02:46in which he held talks with top European Union officials.

02:50Vucic was walking next to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen

02:54ahead of taking a family picture.

02:56The two were accompanied by EU Council President António Kosta.

03:00I've got a message from Moscow now.

03:03No, no, let's wait till we are my friend.

03:07It is not yet clear what message from Moscow Vucic was referring to.

03:11However, the Serbian president is one of the few European leaders

03:14who maintains a communications channel with the Kremlin

03:17as the EU broke off diplomatic ties with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

03:23Vucic was in Brussels on Wednesday for a Serbia-EU bilateral meeting

03:28to discuss, among other themes, the country's EU membership bid.

03:32U.S. President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that U.S. naval forces had seized an oil tanker

03:42off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro.

03:48The seizure was led by the U.S. Coast Guard and supported by the Navy.

03:53Trump did not offer additional details but said the U.S. would keep the oil aboard the tanker.

03:59As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,

04:06a large tanker, very large.

04:10Largest one ever seized, actually.

04:13And other things are happening.

04:15Venezuela's government in a statement condemned the seizure as a blatant theft

04:19and an act of international piracy.

04:22Using U.S. forces to take control of a merchant ship is incredibly unusual

04:27and marks the Trump administration's latest push to increase pressure on Maduro.

04:34The seizure also follows a series of deadly strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean Sea

04:40and Eastern Pacific Ocean,

04:43a campaign that is facing growing scrutiny from U.S. Congress.

04:47Ukraine does not need lessons about democracy.

04:54Nobel Peace Prize winner Aleksandran Madvychuk told your news in an interview on the Europe Today program.

05:01Madvychuk was referring to claims by U.S. President Donald Trump

05:04that authorities in Kiev are using the war as an excuse to avoid an election.

05:09Ukraine don't have a need to be lectured about election.

05:13In 2004, millions of people in Ukraine organized a French revolution

05:17when our electoral right was stolen.

05:20So we value elections.

05:21The question is, do we have security to organize elections?

05:26This is the main question.

05:27Ukraine was slated to hold elections in 2024,

05:31but could not go ahead after martial law was put in place following Russia's invasion in 2022.

05:37Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly said they support a new ballot,

05:40but point to the logistical complications of doing so while the country is being at war.

05:46Nonetheless, the Trump administration is pushing for a prompt Ukrainian election

05:50to be written into any peace deal.

05:54A new world inequality report warns that fewer than 60,000 of the world's richest people

06:00own more wealth than half of the entire world put together.

06:04The report highlights extreme gaps in income and wealth,

06:08which translate into unequal distribution of political power.

06:12A global elite amounting to 0.001% of the population is three times wealthier than the bottom 50%.

06:20At the same time, the top tier contributes disproportionately little to public finances.

06:26Middle-class workers on a high professional salary such as doctors, teachers and engineers

06:32pay a higher share of their income in tax than a billionaire

06:35whose wealth is based on offshore structures or capital gains.

06:39Global wealth inequality also leads to an unequal contribution to climate change.

06:45The report shows that a person in the global top 1% income group

06:49emits on average around 75 times more carbon per year than someone in the bottom 50%.

06:56At the global scale, the top 1% accounts for 41% of all greenhouse gas emissions

07:02under ownership-based accounting.

07:04The report argues that the international monetary and financial system

07:08is structurally set up to favor rich countries and drain resources from poorer ones.

07:14Crucially, the report argues this pattern is not the natural outcome of free markets,

07:19but the result of political and institutional design.

07:22The report concludes that the current global system reproduces inequality between countries

07:28in a way that echoes, in a subtler form, older patterns of colonial extraction.

07:37The daughter of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado accepted the Nobel Peace Prize

07:43on her mother's behalf on Wednesday, after officials said Machado would not attend the ceremony.

07:48Machado has been in hiding and has not been seen in public since January,

07:53when she was briefly detained after joining supporters in a protest in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

08:00She wants to live in a free Venezuela, and she will never give up on that purpose.

08:07That is why we all know, and I know, that she will be back in Venezuela.

08:14The Nobel Institute awarded Machado the prize for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in Venezuela.

08:20She won an opposition primary election and intended to challenge President Nicolás Maduro

08:25in last year's presidential election, but the government barred her from running for office.

08:30The lead-up to the election saw widespread repression, including disqualifications, arrests, and human rights violations.

08:36UN human rights officials and many independent rights groups have expressed concerns about the situation in Venezuela,

08:43and called for Maduro to be held accountable for the crackdown on dissent.

08:51Iceland is the latest country to announce it will not be taking part in the Eurovision Song Contest next year,

08:58after the organizer EBU said Israel could participate.

09:01Iceland's public broadcasters said the decision to allow Israel to join caused disunity.

09:08Local media said a crowd had gathered outside the broadcaster's headquarters to show their support.

09:15The announcement comes a week after four other countries announced they were pulling out of the contest for the same reason.

09:22Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Ireland all said they wouldn't participate,

09:27citing Israel's offensive in Gaza as a reason for the boycott.

09:30Well, we would like to see other countries and other broadcasters, such as the BBC,

09:36follow the lead of RTE, follow the lead of the Spanish broadcaster,

09:40because we cannot understand how European broadcasters would continue to support the state of Israel being in the Eurovision,

09:50given that Israel targets and kills broadcasters, journalists and camera crews,

09:56and continues to refuse to allow EBU members to send their own stuff in.

10:02The EBU has previously said it strives to remain politically neutral.

10:07However, in 2022, it banned Russia from competing following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

10:13Archaeologists in the United Kingdom have uncovered the earliest evidence of humans making fire at 400,000 years old.

10:26It has long been known that ancient humans used naturally occurring fire more than one million years ago,

10:32but it has remained unclear when exactly humans learned to create and control fire themselves.

10:37So we have this evidence for a fireplace.

10:41We have next to it archaeology artefacts made by Neanderthals.

10:45But what really makes this site extraordinary is the discovery of these two little fragments.

10:51And this is just a tiny little fragment of iron pyrite.

10:54So this is a mineral that can be used for striking, you strike it with flint and it creates sparks.

11:02So it's part of a fire lighting kit.

11:06So this is evidence that not only were Neanderthals using fire at this site,

11:10but they were also, they were making the fire using flint and pyrite.

11:15The archaeological team spent four years analysing the materials to rule out natural wildfires.

11:21Tests showed temperatures above 700 degrees Celsius and repeated burning in the same location,

11:27indicating a hearth was used multiple times.

11:31Other fossils of the same age were found in Britain and Spain,

11:34exhibiting traits linked to Neanderthals.

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