00:00U.S. President Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran had, quote,
00:04very good talks over the last 24 hours, but the ongoing ceasefire remains fragile.
00:10For the first time since the ceasefire took effect last month,
00:14Israel struck Beirut in Lebanon, reportedly targeting a Hezbollah commander.
00:2017,000 cases of rodents and external parasites inside Gaza
00:24have been recorded by the World Health Organization in 2026.
00:31United States President Donald Trump said Washington and Tehran had, quote,
00:36very good talks over the last 24 hours, suggesting a peace deal may be near.
00:42Trump's latest statement stands in stark contrast with his earlier remarks
00:46when he threatened to restart bombing Iran if it does not agree to reach a deal.
00:52Iran has yet to respond to the new proposal by the U.S.
00:56A spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministry told local media that the plan is under review
01:01and that Tehran would communicate its position to Pakistan.
01:05Now we're doing well. Now we have to get what we have to get.
01:09If we don't do that, we'll have to go a big step further.
01:12But with that being said, they want to make a deal.
01:16We've had very good talks over the last 24 hours, and it's very possible that we'll make a deal.
01:24Never a deadline. It'll happen. It'll happen, but never a deadline.
01:30While the ceasefire between the two is ongoing, it does remain fragile.
01:35On Wednesday, the U.S. military fired at an Iranian-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman
01:40as it tried to sail towards an Iranian port.
01:44Meanwhile, many commercial vessels remain bottled up in the Persian Gulf
01:49as they still cannot pass through the Strait of Hormuz.
01:56Israel struck Beirut on Wednesday, the first time it had done so since the ceasefire in Lebanon took effect last
02:03month.
02:04Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military had targeted a commander of Hezbollah's Radban force.
02:11A source close to the militant group later told press agency AFP that an operations commander of the force had
02:18been killed in the strike.
02:19According to an anonymous Lebanese security source,
02:23Radban leaders had been holding a meeting in the apartment building that was struck.
02:29The ceasefire in Lebanon went into effect on the 17th of April,
02:33but this attack risks putting further pressure on achieving a permanent deal between Lebanon and Israel.
02:40Israel has not been fighting with Lebanon itself,
02:43but rather with Iran-backed Hezbollah group inside the country,
02:46who were not formally part of the agreement.
02:49While the last Israeli strike on the Lebanese capital was early in April,
02:54Israel has continued bombing southern Lebanon since the ceasefire went into effect.
03:02Rats and parasites are spreading through Gaza's tent camps for displaced Palestinians.
03:08Since the beginning of 2026,
03:10the World Health Organization has recorded more than 17,000 cases of rodents and external parasites inside Gaza.
03:19Displaced Palestinians report of rodents gnawing through their few remaining treasured possessions.
03:43authorities are unable to carry out effective control campaigns due to an Israeli ban on pest control materials,
03:51such as rats poisoned.
03:53We can see inside the place,
03:56and the elder son,
04:00his children come three days.
04:02This is what we are good about.
04:03We are told,
04:04all time reached,
04:05and we don't know how to do it,
04:06and we don't know how to get rid of it.
04:08We need our water water or the oil.
04:10We don't know how to干 or we need anything to do.
04:32According to the International Committee
04:34to support the rights of the Palestinian people, estimates indicate that there are more than
04:3916 million tons of rubble in the Gaza Strip, an ideal environment for rodents to prosper.
04:46The presence of the rodents are also causing fear and psychological distress within the camps.
04:56Three patients with suspected Hantavirus from the cruise ship MV Hondias are being evacuated
05:03to the Netherlands. Meanwhile, the ship, which was docked in Cape Verde with all the remaining
05:08passengers, is expected to arrive in Tenerife, Spain's Canary Islands, on Saturday.
05:15Una vez ha concluido la evacuación de todas las personas sintomáticas en Cabo Verde,
05:22el barco va a continuar rumbo a Canarias, donde espera arribar en el plazo de tres días al
05:26puerto secundario de Granadilla de Abona.
05:29The CIA added that once in Spain, all foreign citizens will be evacuated to their country
05:35of origin. The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanam Ghebreyesus, said that the overall
05:42public health risk remains low, and that the disease is not like the COVID-19 pandemic.
05:49The WHO identified eight cases from the ship, including three deaths, one critically ill patient,
05:56and three individuals with mild symptoms. Passengers began falling ill a month ago.
06:02A Dutch woman died in South Africa on April 26, after having left the cruise and taken a commercial
06:09flight following the death of her husband. Officials are now trying to trace people on
06:14that flight. The first symptoms included fever and gastrointestinal disorders, acute respiratory
06:20distress syndrome, and shock. The rare disease is usually spread from infected rodents, typically
06:27through urine, droppings, and saliva.
06:34European capitals have failed to provide targeted measures to shield suffering households and
06:40businesses from soaring energy prices, Helge Berger, deputy director of the International Monetary
06:46Fund, told Euronews Europe Today programme. He urged member states to focus on concrete solutions
06:53for the most vulnerable. Governments are trying. It's usually a mix of good and bad policies,
06:59but most governments have in some way or the other tempered with the energy prices, which is not the
07:05way it should be going. So as time passes, if the situation continues, we need to be more targeted.
07:11According to the IMF, oil prices have surged by around 70 percent, while European gas prices remain
07:18roughly 45 percent above pre-war levels. Although less severe than the 2022 shock, the increases are
07:25still expected to weigh heavily on growth. In the current energy shock, the IMF noted that 33 percent of
07:33electricity subsidies, if untargeted, could go to the 20 percent richest of the population, compared to 11
07:40percent for the poorest. This gap is even wider when it comes to transport fuel subsidies, which the IMF
07:47identified as potentially benefiting the richest households for 34 percent, rather than the poorest
07:53for 9 percent if the measures are untargeted.
08:00The Minister for the European Union of the Catalan government, Dramadouc, has told Euronews that when
08:07it comes to taking a stance against criticism from Washington, Spain is more resolute in its position
08:13than the European Union. Duc, who acts as the link between Brussels and Barcelona,
08:19said Madrid has been, quote, smart in analyzing the situation concerning President Donald Trump,
08:25including on the conflict in the Middle East.
08:28We were also among the first in criticizing this conflict, or the way this conflict has been
08:34open or produced in Iran, and then how in the following weeks this position was adopted also
08:44by a majority of member states of the European Union. This means that we were just, let's say,
08:53more convinced about our own positions.
08:57You think the EU is not convinced of its positions?
09:00I think that the EU has evolved a lot in the last months. I think that there was a turning
09:04point,
09:05which was all the threats against Greenland. I think that this opened wide the eyes of many
09:12governments in this continent, and since then the positions have changed.
09:17Shifting the conversation of politics to a more local level, Duc argued that a closer relationship
09:22is needed between regional governments and Brussels.
09:25Many of the decisions that are taken in Brussels by the Commission, the Council of the European
09:30Parliament, at the end of the day, have to be applied by the regional governments, not by the
09:35national ones. Competencies on agriculture, on fisheries, on trade, on housing, on many, many,
09:42many other topics are in the hands of the Catalan government, which means that in reality what you
09:47need is a very good relationship between those who are deciding here in Brussels and those who are
09:51implementing the rules, the European laws in the territory, in this case in Catalonia.
09:57Duc said European and Catalan priorities are more aligned than most would think,
10:02with shared interests such as strategic autonomy, defence and energy.
10:10Berlin has been for years the ultimate tourist magnet in Germany, yet the German capital seems to
10:15be losing its appeal. While Berlin recorded 34.1 million overnight stays in 2019, that number had
10:23dropped to just 29.4 million by 2025, a decline of nearly 15%. For nearly two decades, tour guide
10:32Reinhold Stein has been showing visitors around Berlin, or more precisely, his neighborhood of Neukölln.
10:38He knows exactly where the problems lie.
10:41Einerseits betrachten sich wirklich viele über die Sauberkeit, also die sind eher erschrocken
10:46über die Verschmutzung. Die Verkehrssituation empfinden viele auch als sehr schwierig. Zugausfälle,
10:53S-Bahn-Ausfälle, überfüllte Busse und das sorgt für viele auch für Frust.
11:00But cultural workers suspect another cause. Berlin used to be the techno-capital of the world.
11:05But now, more and more clubs and cultural spaces are having to close down. Ludwig Eben is also
11:12facing this problem. He runs the humble paying club, but now a hotel is set to be built next door.
11:21Das Problem, wenn ein Hotel da gebaut wird, die Leute wollen auch schlafen. Und wenn diese Fenster
11:27in Richtung zum Club gehen, dann ist eben die Gefahr da, dass da Lärmanzeigen kommen und dass
11:32immer kurz oder lang der Club schließen muss.
11:36This is a problem that affects roughly half of Berlin's clubs in similar or different forms,
11:41as the Club Commission Interest Group recently warned.
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