00:01Britain is sending additional fighter jets to Qatar as tensions escalate across the Middle East.
00:11Prime Minister Keir Starmer says four Typhoon jets will join an existing UK
00:16squadron in the Gulf state to strengthen defence operations across the region.
00:23The announcement comes after a drone strike earlier this week on a Royal Air Force base
00:29in Cyprus. Starmer has justified the move claiming that Iran's actions are targeting
00:35global energy infrastructure.
00:37Iran is targeting oil and gas facilities in the Gulf and tankers in the Straits of Hormuz
00:44trying to inflict economic pain around the world. So we will continue to work with the
00:51industries affected and our allies to respond to any impact.
00:57Two Wildcat helicopters equipped with anti-drone capabilities are expected to arrive in Cyprus
01:03on Friday, while the British warship the HMS Dragon is due to deploy next week.
01:10Despite the military build up, the leader of the Labour Party insists the UK is pushing
01:15for calm, although he could not give a timescale as to how long the conflict in the Middle East
01:21will last.
01:23We are doing everything we can to de-escalate this. I can't give you a time base for this.
01:29I don't think anybody can. My strong view is that we need to de-escalate, and ultimately
01:36this will have to be a matter of negotiation when it comes to some of the core issues like
01:41nuclear capability.
01:43Starmer initially refused to have any role in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, but later
01:49agreed to a U.S. request to use two British military bases for a, quote,
01:54specific and limited defense purpose.
02:02Following Greece's move to send two frigates and four F-16 fighter jets, and France's immediate
02:08redeploying of the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier from the Baltic
02:12to Cyprus, other European countries are also taking action.
02:16Spain announced that by next week its Cristobal-Cologne frigate will arrive in the region. The vessel
02:22had been operating in the same area as the French carrier, conducting escort and training
02:27missions.
02:28According to the Spanish Defense Ministry, the frigate is expected to reach waters off
02:33the Greek island of Cree on Tuesday.
02:35Italy, after obtaining final approval from Parliament, announced that they will also send reinforcements
02:42to Cyprus. Rome noted that it will join the ranks of France, Spain and the Netherlands,
02:47and dispatch naval assets in the coming days to defend the Mediterranean island and EU
02:52member state.
02:53Defense Minister Guido Corsetto stressed that a direct attack against Cyprus or NATO countries
02:58would force allies to intervene, invoking Article 5 of the NATO charter and Article 7 of the EU.
03:05The Dutch frigate HNLMS Evertson is also headed to Cyprus and is currently sailing alongside
03:12the French carrier.
03:13On the British side, London has deployed its HMS Dragon warship.
03:17U.K. Defense Secretary John Healy arrived on the island on Wednesday and met with his Cypriot
03:23counterpart, Vassilis Palmas, where they held talks on bolstering defenses against possible
03:29future attacks. On Thursday, an alarm once again sounded at the British base in Akrotiri,
03:35which was attacked earlier in the week. According to government spokesperson Constantinos
03:40Biotis, the alert was triggered by U.K. forces as a precautionary measure after receiving
03:46intel of an incoming projectile.
04:14Cipriot authorities are also working to improve emergency SMS warning systems.
04:18after reports that not all residents were receiving important alerts.
04:27Azerbaijan has been deeply shaken by the Iranian strike on Nachshvan International Airport and
04:33a nearby school. The state is now formulating its response. President Ikram Aliyev has announced
04:40that the country's army was brought to full combat readiness after what he described as an
04:46act of terror by Tehran. During a meeting of the Security Council, he said the people of
04:51Azerbaijan should be assured that any hostile force will face our quote, iron fist.
04:58Here in Azerbaijan's capital Baku, security has visibly tightened after authorities say drones were
05:04launched from Iranian territory targeting civilian infrastructure in the country's Nachshvan
05:09exclave. According to Azerbaijan's Ministry of Defense, the unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs struck
05:16areas around Nachshvan International Airport and other civilian sites earlier today. The head of the
05:23emergency medical service department at the Nachshvan Autonomous Republic Hospital has confirmed that four
05:30people were injured in the attack. And officials are saying that the technical details of the drones and the full
05:36scale of the incident are still under investigation. Now, while the reported strikes took place in the city of
05:43Nachshvan, which is hundreds of kilometers away from here in Baku, there's already a noticeable increase in police
05:49presence across parts of the city. I was driving through earlier before, and officers can be seen stationed near busy
05:56public areas, including shopping centers. And that suggests that precautionary security measures are now in place.
06:04Azerbaijan's Defense Ministry says that the Islamic Republic of Iran bears full responsibility for the incident and is
06:11warning that the attacks will not go unanswered. Nadira Tudor, Euronews in Baku.
06:19Qatar's Interior Ministry announced Thursday that authorities are evacuating residents in the area around the U.S.
06:26embassy here in Doha, calling it a temporary precaution. This comes after U.S. embassies and consulates were
06:31targeted in the UAE, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia earlier this week. Meanwhile, the Qatar news agency says Prime
06:38Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdurrahman bin Jassim Al Thani received a phone call from Iran's Foreign Minister,
06:43Abbas Aragji, the first direct contact between the two sides since the war began six days ago.
06:49During that call, Qatar's Prime Minister reportedly rejected Iran's claim that recent missile attacks
06:54were not aimed at Qatar, but were instead targeting American interests. Sheikh Mohammed pointed specifically
07:00to strikes near Doha's airport and Qatar's LNG production facilities and called for the attacks to stop
07:05immediately. At the same time, Qatar and the UAE say they'll cover hotel stays and meals for passengers
07:11stranded because of airspace closures. Here in Doha, the airspace remains closed, leaving around 8,000
07:17transit passengers stuck waiting for flights out. I spoke with an American traveler who was on his way
07:22home to Texas, connecting through Doha after attending a friend's wedding in India.
07:27I would say that this is definitely a scary situation. But, you know, luckily, everyone,
07:31like the Qatari citizens, they've been so wonderful and helpful. You know, I've kind of expressed some
07:38concern as to, you know, like, what, like, should I leave the country? Should I go to Saudi Arabia and
07:44fly out or there? But, you know, a lot of Qatari citizens have told me they were like, stay put,
07:50it's fine, because Doha and Qatar are pretty safe, which I do believe as well. But it is just nice
07:56and
07:56reassuring having a local say that. The U.S. State Department says about 17,500 Americans have
08:03returned to U.S. soil from the Middle East since the start of this war. Adil Haleen, Euronews, Doha.
08:13U.S. President Donald Trump has fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after weeks of
08:20criticism over immigration enforcement and disaster response. Noem faced tough questioning
08:27from lawmakers earlier this week and has faced a wave of scrutiny since the shooting deaths
08:32of two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration officers. Trump says Noem will
08:38instead serve as a special envoy for a new Western Hemisphere security initiative called
08:44the Shield of America's. She is the first Cabinet Secretary to leave during Trump's second term.
08:53The U.S. President says he'll nominate Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullin to lead the U.S. Department
08:58of Homeland Security, though he must still be confirmed by the Senate.
09:08Is this Ukraine extending your hand to Hungary? On Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
09:15mentioned a possible timetable for restarting the Druzhba oil pipeline. The pipeline supplies Russian
09:22oil to Hungary and Slovakia. However, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban accuses Kiev of deliberately
09:28blocking the flow of oil. This issue weakens the European Union. Hungary is using its
09:58veto power in the 27-member bloc to hold up the passage of the EU's 20th sanctions package and to
10:05prevent Brussels from delivering a €90 billion lifeline loan to Ukraine. In a letter sent this week,
10:13Hungarian Prime Minister asked European Commission President to increase political pressure on Ukraine
10:19to restart crew deliveries. Kiev claims that a section of the pipeline in western Ukraine
10:25was hit by a Russian drone late January.
10:31Rising sea levels caused by climate change could threaten millions more people. According to a new
10:38study published in the journal Nature, researchers studied hundreds of scientific studies and hazard
10:44assessments, calculating that about 90 percent of them underestimated baseline coastal water
10:51heights by an average of 30 centimeters. If we take this hypothetical one meter relative sea level rise, we
10:59figure out that this underestimates global coastal population by up to 12 percent. Adjusting to a more
11:06accurate coastal height baseline means that if seas rise by a little more than one meter, waters could inundate
11:13up to 37 percent more land and threaten 77 million to 132 million more people, the study said. The problem
11:22is said to be
11:23much more prevalent in Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific region and less so in Europe and along Atlantic coasts.
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