00:00Kiev asks Israel to arrest a cargo ship that is suspected to be carrying stolen Ukrainian grain from territories occupied
00:08by Russia.
00:10Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Maia says EU funds could soon be released to Hungary following a series of high
00:17-level meetings in Brussels on Wednesday.
00:20Ukraine has formally asked Israel to arrest a cargo ship carrying what Kiev suspects is stolen Ukrainian grain from territories
00:29occupied by Russia.
00:31Israeli authorities previously allowed a vessel with similar cargo to unload unchallenged at the port of Haifa.
00:39The Panama-flagged bulk carrier Panomitis is allegedly carrying over 6,000 tons of wheat and 19,000 tons of
00:48barley.
00:48It has been waiting to dock as the Ukraine-Israel diplomatic scandal escalated over the past few days.
00:55Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar criticized Ukraine raising the issue on social media site X earlier this week, accusing Kiev
01:04of Twitter diplomacy.
01:06However, a senior Ukrainian diplomatic source told Euronews that Israel had ignored other requests via diplomatic channels for the past
01:15one and a half months.
01:17Israel now says that the request is being examined.
01:21Kiev estimates that at least 15 million tons of Ukrainian grain have been stolen by Russia since its full-scale
01:28invasion began in 2022.
01:33Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Maia has said that EU funds could soon be released to Hungary following a series
01:40of high-level meetings in Brussels on Wednesday.
01:43Maia met with European Council President António Costa and Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in their first direct talks
01:51since his election victory on 12 April.
01:54According to Commission President von der Leyen, the pair discussed the steps necessary to unlock EU funds he imaged for
02:02Hungary,
02:03held up during the premiership of Viktor Orban, a long-standing critic of von der Leyen's presidency.
02:08In a social media post, Maia said that the talks were, quote,
02:13highly constructive and productive as he called for discussions to move at speed.
02:19Hungary risk losing around 10 billion euros in post-pandemic funds intended to support its economy unless Maia secures a
02:28deal before an August deadline.
02:30The Hungarian Prime Minister-elect will return to Brussels for an official visit on 25 May once in office.
02:41The European Commission will present next week its first European Anti-Poverty Strategy.
02:4693 million Europeans, one person out of five, live at risk of poverty and social exclusion.
02:53Many of them are affected by in-work poverty.
02:56Executive Vice President of the European Commission for Social Rights, Roxana Minzatu, told Euronews.
03:03Obviously, it is important that we present the right tools to support on a lifelong cycle, and this is new
03:10to our approach,
03:11people that are not just already affected by poverty, by low income, by lack of access to services, but to
03:17prevent these situations.
03:19And the main rationale beyond everything is that we cannot build competitiveness based on social fragility.
03:28Child poverty is put at the center of the strategy.
03:32We will present a reinforced child guarantee, which is our main tool, to make sure that children are not affected
03:40by their families' vulnerabilities,
03:43and that we are helping them go to school, have access to medical health care, to support services.
03:49The European Commission plans to rely on private investments, member states, and the European Social Fund to fund this strategy.
03:57Minzatu says 100 billion euros will be allocated to poverty prevention in the European Commission's proposal for the next EU
04:05long-term budgets.
04:12Closer to home, shorter stays, and above all, cheaper.
04:16Against a backdrop of geopolitical tensions, a global energy crisis, and inflation eroding purchasing power,
04:23the French are scaling back their vacation plans for the summer of 2026.
04:28According to an EFOP survey conducted for the French Tourism Alliance, only 37% of them say they are certain
04:36to go away, compared to 50% last year.
04:3971% of them plan to stay in France, favoring free accommodation options, such as staying with relatives.
04:46C'est vrai que le choix de la destination, là, on réfléchit à deux fois, on ne pense à quelque
04:51part, quand même.
04:52L'avantage, c'est qu'on a une maison de famille et que, du coup, ça minimise les coûts et
04:58les dépenses des vacances.
04:59On les a pris avant l'invasion américaine au Moyen-Orient, on va dire.
05:07C'était peut-être la première semaine où ça commençait à chauffer, donc les prix n'étaient pas encore à
05:14ce niveau.
05:15In the face of inflation, financial trade-offs are becoming increasingly important for many households,
05:22and the budget allocated to vacations is shrinking.
05:26On average, the French plan to spend 1,530 euros on their summer vacations,
05:32which is about 150 euros less than in 2025.
05:36Plus de 50% des Français envisagent de dépenser moins que l'an dernier sur les différents sujets,
05:44évidemment, l'hébergement, la restauration, l'ensemble des dépenses sur place.
05:48C'est-à-dire, c'est très sensible sur les dépenses, les dépenses faites sur place.
05:53Peut-être plus que sur l'hébergement, 60% des gens pensent qu'ils vont réduire ces dépenses.
05:58Access to vacations remains heavily influenced by social inequalities.
06:0384% of affluent households plan to go on vacation, compared to only 58% of lower-income households.
06:14Snow cover in Greece's mountains, a vital source of water for communities, agriculture and natural ecosystems
06:20during the dry summer months, has declined by more than half over the past four decades.
06:25This is revealed by a new study by Konstantin Aleksopoulos and Ian Willis of the Scott Polar Research Institute at
06:31the University of Cambridge.
06:32An international team of university researchers use the combination of satellite imagery, climate data, terrain maps and artificial intelligence
06:40to analyze how rising temperatures in the Mediterranean have affected snow cover in Greek mountains.
06:46Using a tool called Snow Mapper, the researchers found that snow cover was decreased by 58% over the last
06:5240 years
06:53with the rate of decline accelerating since the beginning of the 21st century.
06:58Researchers use satellite images from NASA and ESA missions,
07:01but because clouds and shadows of an abstract clear observation,
07:04the team employed an artificial intelligence technique, machine learning, to fill in the main gaps.
07:09This led to the creation of a tool that provides daily snow cover maps at a 100-meter resolution
07:14for 10 of Greece's highest mountain ranges, covering the period from 1984 to 2025.
07:20A result showed that Greece is losing its winter snow cover faster than most other mountain ranges,
07:25which could have serious consequences for communities, agriculture and the natural environment.
07:30The loss of snow cover from the world's mountains is another important indicator
07:33of how climate change continues to put pressure on the natural environment, particularly in countries like Greece.
07:39The research team also included scientists from the British Antarctic Survey,
07:42the National Observatory of Athens and the Hellenic Mountain Observatory.
07:49In a classified location in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Ramatwell, French authorities made a miraculous discovery.
07:57At a depth of 2,500 meters lies Camara 4, the deepest shipwreck ever discovered in French waters.
08:04It's a 16th century vessel, which was located in 2025 during a seabed survey operation conducted by the military.
08:12It was an exceptional discovery for Operation Calliope 26, a mission conducted jointly by Cephysmaire,
08:19a unit of the French Navy, and the Department of Underwater and Submarine Archaeological Research of the Ministry of Culture.
08:26The objective for us is that this position remains a secret, because today there will be several missions that will
08:35be done to be done
08:36to evaluate on a long time, on a long time, the vestige, to understand why it has fallen here, its
08:45characteristics,
08:46and also to make the mobile prélèvements, to get additional information from this discovery.
08:53The tugboat used for this operation is equipped with a remotely operated underwater vehicle capable of descending up to 4
09:01,000 meters.
09:02The vehicle also had several cameras and articulated arms to retrieve items.
09:07We are going to take a series of pictures that are separated by each other and that will be re
09:12-mounted
09:13through a photogrammetric treatment, which will allow us to generate an ortho-image,
09:18which is a complete plan of the EPA, and also a 3D model on which we will be able to
09:22do measurements,
09:23and take the calibre of the fer, the length of the steering wheel, the dimensions of the cannon.
09:29These are all elements of the base that will provide us to collect all the documentation of the EPA.
09:35Hundreds of pictures and richly decorated plates were discovered,
09:39some of which were collected for analysis once back on land.
09:46At the agency's laboratory in Marseille, the ceramics were gently cleaned by professionals.
09:53The object that we hold between the hands is one of the most profound objects
09:59in the EPA today in France.
10:01A temporary exhibition is planned at the Musée de la Marine in Toulon next November
10:07to showcase the mission's findings to the general public.
10:10The wreck, meanwhile, will remain on the seabed to comply with the conservation guidelines recommended by UNESCO.
10:20A humpback whale that has been stranded in shallow Baltic sea waters in Germany for nearly two months
10:27has finally began its journey towards the North Sea.
10:31The whale, affectionately known as Timmy, is being carried along by a tugboat.
10:36It is hoped that he will find his way home in the Atlantic Ocean after roughly three days.
10:42The German environment minister for the region said the humpback was doing well.
10:47He is now on the Danish waters. He is calm. He has also vocalized him today.
10:56That means it is good to him.
10:58Repeated attempts to rescue the whale ended in failure as his health deteriorated.
11:03Some activists called for him to be left to die in peace.
11:08Officials gave up at the start of April until authorities were persuaded by entrepreneurs
11:14who came up with a rescue plan and funds.
11:17Some scientists have, however, expressed skepticism over whether the whale will survive the journey.
11:23But the veterinarians of the private initiative evaluated that the animal was fit for transport.
11:30The location of the tugboat carrying Timmy can be tracked online on vesselfinder.com.
