00:01Ukraine kept up its heavy drone assault on Russia setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south
00:07as President Vladimir Putin acknowledged for the first time on Sunday that the country was facing
00:12a certain deficit of fuel and vowed to strengthen protection of oil facilities and boost fuel output.
00:37Speaking to a Russian state TV reporter, Putin described the Ukrainian attacks on oil refineries
00:44as an attempt to cause a split in Russian society and force Russia to halt. He also said that Ukraine
00:51has proposed a halt on deep strikes, arguing that Kiev made the offer because Russian strikes deep
00:58into Ukrainian territory are more powerful and devastating. The Russian leader added that
01:04Kiev also offered to limit the fighting to the four regions that Russia annexed but never fully
01:09captured, Donetsk, Luwansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia. He rejected the proposal, arguing it would allow
01:17Ukraine to relocate its forces.
01:23The EU's civil protection mechanism has sent 700 rescuers and experts from 12 countries to find
01:30more than 68,000 people still missing following devastating earthquakes in Venezuela. Experts say
01:37the first 72 hours after natural disasters are the key narrow window for finding the living. After
01:43that, the search becomes one of recovering bodies. At the end of Saturday, authorities reported that
01:49the death toll had reached 1,430 with more than 3,200 people injured. In total, 24 countries from
01:59around the world have sent 521 tons of supplies, 86 units with dogs trained to locate people trapped
02:06beneath the rubble, and more than 2,700 search and rescue personnel, according to Venezuela's acting
02:11president. EU foreign policy chief Kayakala said she had held a call with Rodriguez to convey European
02:19solidarity and the mobilization of 5 million euros in emergency assistance. In addition, Pope Leo XIV
02:26prayed on Sunday for the hundreds of Venezuelans who died in the quakes and reiterated support for the
02:32victims' relatives. Thousands of guests traveled down to Brussels on Sunday to celebrate the 250th
02:44anniversary of U.S. independence. The invite-only event is held in a large park in the Belgian capital,
02:50which is located near the EU institutions. And everyone gathered in Brussels to celebrate 250 years of American
02:57independence. U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Bill White opened the ceremony. Among those attending are
03:06Belgian Prime Minister Barte Weyver, NATO Secretary General Marc Rutte, and European Parliament President
03:12Roberta Metzola. And U.S. military personnel based in the Belgian capital are also in attendance.
03:20However, the event drew widespread criticism. On Sunday morning, Greenpeace unrolled a massive banner
03:27in the city center, condemning the occasion to promote Trump's political and corporate agenda.
03:33And several organizations including Extinction Rebellion and Rise for Climate demonstrated outside
03:38of the park in protest against the privatization of the public park.
03:46France has recorded around 1,000 more deaths than expected since Wednesday, as a record-breaking
03:52heat wave struck much of Western Europe for days. The agency said areas under red alert for heat had
03:59been particularly badly affected, and 85 percent of the deaths had been those aged 65 and over.
04:05Parts of France have topped 40 degrees this week, piling pressure on hospitals and first responders
04:10amid a surge in emergency call-outs. Temperatures soared to record highs across Europe this week.
04:17According to the latest forecasts, they remained particularly intense on Sunday in Germany,
04:22the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, while they slowly began to ease across the Netherlands,
04:27Belgium and France. Germany experienced its highest temperature on record of 41.5 degrees on Saturday
04:35afternoon, while Danish authorities said temperatures had reached 37 degrees, the highest since records began
04:41in 1874. Scientists have shown that recurring heat waves are a clear marker of global warming driven by
04:48humans burning fossil fuels, and warned they are set to become more frequent, longer and more intense.
05:31This is the rooftop of the Associated Press office here in Paris, and we're going to try a little
05:36experiment. This is a thermometer that I usually use at home in the kitchen to tell me whether my rose
05:41chicken is ready or not. It has the advantage of going up to high temperatures. Now out here in the
05:46sun,
05:47the thermometer is giving me a reading of 34 degrees. That's approaching about 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
05:54But let's see what happens when we put it on some zinc and see whether that reading changes.
06:0143, 44, 45. Now I've left this up here for a couple of minutes and we're up to 48 degrees
06:08Celsius.
06:1144, 45. Now we put it on some zinc statue.
06:41it started off okay, I thought it would be short,
06:45and the problem has just been that it doesn't recede even in the evening,
06:49so you don't even get that time to have some cool air
06:53and to pretend it's not there before it comes back.
06:55And this particular apartment, because of the fact we have only one window
06:59and because of the fact it gets light from about midday to when the sun sets,
07:04which here is like 10pm, it means it's just baking in the whole afternoon,
07:08and it's impossible to just get a respite from it.
07:22Just as produced, first of all with the colour, which is dark blue,
07:25which means that it clearly, instead of reflecting light and reflecting heat,
07:29it actually traps it within itself,
07:32and because there's probably a lack of insulation, because these are pretty old buildings,
07:35like the apartment is recently renovated,
07:36but one of the biggest sources of emissions in France and in Europe is buildings,
07:42not only construction materials and everything and construction processes,
07:46but mainly from using energy to cool down or heat up the buildings,
07:50because they're not well insulated.
08:06Several Iraqi political officials were arrested early on Sunday on corruption charges,
08:11Iraq's state-run Iraqi news agency reported.
08:14The arrests were reportedly based on a statement made by the former deputy minister of oil,
08:19who was arrested last month.
08:21Iraqi security forces carried out raids inside the heavily fortified green zone compound
08:26that houses key government institutions and foreign embassies.
08:29The arrests are likely to have ripple effects across Iraq's fractured political landscape,
08:34where accusations of corruption frequently intersect with rivalries over power and influence.
08:42The history has returned to where it belongs.
08:46More than 80 years after the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps,
08:49four Greek families received the personal belongings of their loved ones,
08:53who perished in these death camps.
08:55The items had been preserved for decades in the Aros and archives,
08:59the largest international repository of documentation on Nazi crimes,
09:03which holds more than 30 million documents and thousands of personal belongings of victims of Nazi persecution.
09:09With perseverance and deep respect for history,
09:12middle school and high school students searched for traces of the victims' families.
09:16A wallet containing a few coins, a ring and a pocket watch with its chain,
09:20were the only belongings that survived from the life of Dimitris Vafiadis.
09:23Thanks to an investigation conducted by students of the 2nd General High School of Coropi,
09:29his nephew Dimitris Vafharelis was eventually located.
09:58A watch, a silent witness to a life cut short,
10:00has been returned also to the family of Γιώργος Σαγματόπουλος.
10:04With the help of a student group from the 7th Junior High School of N.I.
10:07his sister's granddaughter, Παναγιώτα Γαλάνη, was located.
10:11Είμαι πολύ συγκινημένη.
10:13Δεν το περίμενα μετά από πόσα χρόνια να έρθει στα χέρια μου ένα κοιμήλιο.
10:20Και σήμερα μαζί με εμένα βρίσκεται και οι αδελφοί του Γιώργου Σαγματόπουλου.
10:25Δεν είναι ζωή, αλλά θα ήταν πολύ συγκινημένοι και πολύ χαρούμενοι.
10:29Θυμάμαι τη γιαγιά μου που είχε ψάξει.
10:33Δεν μίλαγε όμως για αυτό το θέμα, για τον αδελφό της.
10:37Αλλά όποτε μίλαγε, δάκρυζε.
10:40Στυνδέσεις που παρακολουθήθηκαν σε τις αναπτώσεις,
10:42δημιουργούν ότι η μέρος μπορεί να παρακολουθήσει ζωή
10:44όταν παρακολουθήθηκε στην γενερή γενερασία.
10:47Για μένα ήταν ένα αταξίδι ψυχής, ήταν σύνδεση με τους ανθρώπους αυτούς
10:56και φυσικά για να το κάνεις όλο αυτό πρέπει και ο ίδιος να ανακαλύψεις πράγματα
11:02για τα δικά σου τραύματα, αλλά και την προσωπική ή οικογενειακή σου ιστορία και μνήμη.
11:11Με την απόδοση των τελευταίων αντικειμένων, η Ελλάδα έγινε η πρώτη χώρα
11:15που κατάφερε να εντοπίσει τις οικογένειες και των εννέα θυμάτων ναζιστικών στρατοπέδων
11:20των οποίων τα προσωπικά αντικείμενα φυλάσσονταν στα αρχή Άρολσεν.
11:24Έτσι έκλεισε ένας κύκλος 80 ετών αναζήτησης και ιστορικής αποκατάστασης
11:29με μεγάλη συμβολική αξία.
11:31Από την Αθήνα για το Giro News, Φέι Δουλγέρη.
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