00:00The US military says it has shot down Iranian radar systems and sites in response to Tehran's
00:06earlier wave of attacks on Friday targeting the Strait of Hormuz and Washington's Gulf Arab allies.
00:12The US Central Command said Iran had earlier launched seven ballistic missiles targeting
00:17Kuwait and the tiny island of Bahrain, six of which were intercepted, while a seventh failed
00:23to reach its target. The attacks come at a time of heightened tensions, as the Trump administration
00:28looks to ramp up pressure on Tehran to secure a peace deal. US President Donald Trump says he's
00:34confident the war, which started on the 28th of February, will come to an end soon.
00:41One way or the other is finished. It's either finished with a piece of paper or finished a
00:45more difficult way, although you could say a much easier way. US officials have been saying that
00:51negotiations over a potential deal are in the latter stages, but have not detailed what sticking
00:56points remain between the two sides. Iran has, however, stated that it wants at least
01:01$24 billion in frozen assets freed, a US withdrawal from the region, and a permanent truce in Lebanon
01:08as part of any arrangement.
01:14The French, German and British leaders will meet their Ukrainian counterpart in London on Sunday.
01:20French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
01:26will discuss with Zelensky the way forwards at a time when Russia, in a state of military,
01:32economic and strategic failure, is persisting unsuccessfully with a deadly war, the Élysée
01:38Palace said. On Friday, Macron welcomed the letter from Volodymyr Zelensky to Vladimir Putin aimed
01:45at achieving peace.
01:46So I think it's a good initiative and it's a good thing that there are discussions that
01:51can be repeated. Now my wish is to look at the future and to say how we can reorganize
01:57a dialogue to build the ceasefire and peace. And I think that's the interest of Ukraine
02:02and Russia.
02:04Speaking at an EU Western Balkans summit in Montenegro, Macron also said that the next meeting
02:10of Coalition of the Willing Members will take place in Paris on the 13th and 14th of July.
02:16Latest Russian strikes in Ukraine killed at least seven people. An attack on an agri-food
02:22site near Kiev claimed four lives.
02:28A Ukrainian sea drone exploded in Romania's port of Konstanta on Friday, with Ukrainian and
02:34Romanian officials saying it had veered off course due to Russian electronic interference.
02:39Romanian president, Nikus Ordan, said information from Ukraine was received ahead of time, allowing
02:45officials to take precautionary measures.
02:56NATO said it was monitoring the situation after Romania informed it of the incident.
03:02We have already ordered inside SAFE a lot of equipments. And what we ask to our partners
03:08inside NATO, we ask that they supply us some of the equipments during this one, one-and-a-half
03:16year time.
03:17The maritime incident occurred a week after a Russian aerial drone that was part of an attack
03:22on Ukraine went astray and struck an apartment building in Romania's city of Galati.
03:28Romania's department head for emergency situations said helicopters were deployed to search for
03:33more drones and that the authorities issued text message alerts to residents. Meanwhile,
03:39European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed solidarity with Romania in a post
03:43on X, calling the incident a direct consequence of Russia's war against Ukraine.
03:54Slovenia's parliament has approved its new right-leaning government under Prime Minister
03:58Janes Jansa, which has pledged tax cuts, targeted spending and an anti-corruption drive.
04:04The vote came after parliamentary elections held in March that produced no clear winner.
04:10Former Liberal Prime Minister Robert Golub's freedom movement won most votes, but he was unable
04:14to muster a parliamentary majority. Jansa and his populist Slovenian Democratic Party formed
04:21a coalition government with other right-leaning groups in parliament.
04:25The new government also has the backing of a non-establishment truth party that first emerged
04:30as an anti-vaccination movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
04:35It is Jansa's fourth term in office. The political veteran is an admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump
04:41and was a close ally of former populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,
04:45who was defeated in a landslide election in April.
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