00:01Ahead of his arrival to China for a landmark summit, U.S. President Donald Trump said he
00:07would ask counterpart Xi Jinping to open China up to American firms. The two leaders will discuss
00:13trade and the Iran war at the highly anticipated visit, which is set to last until the end of this
00:19week. Among those joining Trump on his trip are NVIDIA's Jensen Huang, Tesla's Elon Musk and
00:26other top CEOs, including Apple's Tim Cook. Trump's visit to Beijing marks the first trip
00:33made by U.S. President to China since he last visited nearly 10 years ago. But the U.S.
00:39leader's ambitions to ramp up trade will have to contend with political frictions
00:43over Taiwan and the war in the Middle East.
00:51The Pentagon said that the cost of the Iran war has risen to $29 billion, an estimate
00:58that is roughly $4 billion higher compared to two weeks ago. The rise in defense spending
01:03goes hand-in-hand with questions over U.S. President Donald Trump's endgame and the concern
01:09over the country's diminishing weapons stockpiles. For the second time in a few weeks, Defense
01:15Secretary Pete Hegseth faced heavy questions by U.S. lawmakers in Congress. Unlike last time,
01:21Hegseth also faced a lot more pushback from within his own Republican Party.
01:26Mr. Secretary, the war in Iran has not only cost 13 American servicemember lives, it is also
01:33costing American taxpayers dearly. Tens of billions of dollars and counting, and that's money that
01:40could be helping people perhaps get health care. But instead, we're paying for bombs dropped in a war
01:45that American people overwhelmingly oppose. Seems to me that there's been a different plan
01:51almost daily with dealing with this problem. Hegseth also rejected claims that Washington is
01:58running out of weapon stockpiles. I take issue with the characterization that munitions are depleted
02:04in a public forum. That's not true. And ultimately, we have all the munitions needed to execute what
02:09we need to execute, and we're going to ensure that we supercharge that going into the future.
02:13Iran and the U.S. remain in a standoff in the Strait of Hormuz, keeping global markets on edge.
02:19As a result, Trump has faced declining approval ratings domestically,
02:23with many U.S. citizens blaming him for rising gas prices.
02:30Former Ukrainian presidential chief of staff Andrei Yermak has been named a suspect in a major
02:36corruption investigation led by the country's Anti-Corruption Bureau and the Specialized
02:40Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office. In a joint statement, the agencies detailed that investigators
02:47had uncovered an embezzlement scheme to the tune of 9 million euros between 2021 and 2025.
02:54An organized group involving at least six other individuals are believed to have laundered the
02:59funds through a luxury property development project near Kyiv. The statement added that one
03:04of the members was the former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, who has been notified
03:09of the suspicion. And though Yermak was not named in the statement, Ukrainian media outlets widely
03:15reported that he was the individual in question. Yermak was a close ally of President Volodymyr
03:21Zelenskyy before he was dismissed earlier this year. He resigned after a corruption probe uncovered
03:27ties between him and various projects linked to fraud. Speaking to reporters in the Ukrainian
03:33capital earlier on Tuesday, Yermak declined to comment in detail, noting that he'll wait until the
03:39investigations are concluded.
03:44Hungarian ministers of the TISA government have been sworn in at the National Assembly,
03:50formally established in Peter Magyar's cabinet.
04:04The new government pledges to restore the rule of law, rebuild institutions, and the
04:09institutions, and deliver professional reforms across nearly all key sectors, from the judiciary
04:15and economic policy to healthcare, education, national defense, and environmental protection.
04:21A célunk egy működő és emberséges Magyarország megteremtése. Ez szolgálja a most felálló
04:31kormányzati struktúra is. A TISA kormány a nemzet és nem a miniszterelnök szolgálója lesz. A kormány olyan
04:42miniszterekből fog állni, akik a saját területükön már bizonyítottak, és akik képesek az első naptól fog
04:51visszatók.
04:53Peter Magyar announced that four ministries will play a central role in TISA's proposed
04:59systemic change, with the ministers of finance, health, education, and child welfare and justice
05:05granted veto power within the cabinet.
05:13Favorite Finland and nine other countries, including Israel, made it through the first Eurovision Song Contest semifinal on Tuesday.
05:21Acts from 15 countries performed their three-minute songs on stage, often with eye-catching
05:27choreography and pyrotechnics, and a bid for votes from juries in participating nations and viewers around the world.
05:34Belgium upset the odds to make it through, with Croatia, Greece, Lithuania, Moldova, Poland, Serbia, and Sweden
05:40also progressing.
05:43Estonia, Georgia, Montenegro, Portugal, and San Marino were eliminated, despite a guest appearance
05:49by 1980s icon Boyd George and San Marino's song Superstar.
05:54This year marks the 70th edition of Eurovision, which despite its spectacle, rarely escapes the politics in the background.
06:03Divisions are clouding this year's contest more than ever, with five countries, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, Slovenia, and Iceland,
06:10boycotting to protest Israel's inclusion over the conduct of its war in Gaza.
06:16There were also allegations it ran a rule-breaking marketing campaign to get votes for its contestant last year.
06:22The five-country boycott is a revenue and viewership blow to an event that organizers say
06:28was watched by 166 million people around the world last year.
07:01The urban art Biennale 2026 is really an international show.
07:06We have 50 artists from 17 countries, from three continents, and it's really showing street art, graffiti, urban art at
07:13its best.
07:14The urban art Biennale 2026 is really an international show, we have 50 artists from 17 countries, from three continents.
07:14We have a car, like installations like this behind me, which are sort of monumental, fossil mobility, which is covered
07:22from a Pompeii-like dust cover.
07:25Or we have this huge roof of Amparito, the writing on the roof of the Möllerhalle, which is really the
07:33biggest work in the show.
08:14I think that it's so dusty, and it's so old, but it's beautiful, you know, there's beauty
08:21in decay, and I think what I've done makes you kind of just perceive it in a bit of a
08:26different way.
08:27It's like a nice place, people walking around, there are bees, there are beautiful flowers,
08:34but yeah, we still remember the history, and that's super important.
08:50Here's a lot.
09:05You've got to be there, too.
09:08You know what I mean?
09:25We put a piece of paper and a lot of time in collaboration with the Thessaloniki Center, the Isla Hanay
09:33and the help of Léna Sosoflidi,
09:37of the book that has written a unique book about the Batcha,
09:40which is a huge historical archive,
09:42in order to get the knowledge of the Batcha as a political phenomenon
09:48and written it in the Ethnic Eucharist of the Ethnic Eucharist of Greece.
09:54We have found the story in the Rhapsodya Sigma of Odyssian,
10:01where in the newspaper, in the newspaper,
10:04The sleep that the Lopi brings to the Nislires is very clear to the Baçak.
10:18Before the bread and the bread, the bread and the bread, the bread and the bread,
10:23but the bread and the bread and the bread,
10:31Because it's been a hundred years old, so it's been a good thing for us.
10:37It's a good thing for Turkey.
10:42This could be a problem, but we need something to do with this.
10:48We need permission to do this.
10:50I don't know if this is a problem, but we need to do this.
10:57We need to introduce the world to us,
11:00and we need to introduce ourselves.
11:27You
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