00:01U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on dozens of countries that the U.S. claims
00:06failed to properly stop forced labor. The new duties, which range from 10 to 12.5%,
00:13will replace global tariffs that rolled out earlier this year and expire on Friday.
00:18The tariffs announced on Thursday will affect 60 countries, including China, India and the
00:23European Union. Together, they account for 99% of U.S. imports. Trump had already imposed double-digit
00:33tariffs on almost every country in the world last year, but the Supreme Court ruled in February that
00:38the U.S. President did not have legal authority to do so. As a result, the administration had to pay
00:45refunds, and instead Trump announced temporary tariffs of 10%. These have now expired and will
00:51be replaced with the new tariffs. The decision has already drawn widespread criticism from
00:58impacted nations. However, the new tariffs are considered more resistant to legal challenges
01:03than the previous. U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to use frozen Iranian assets to pay
01:12for damage to ships and cargo in and around the Gulf. Trump wrote on his social media platform,
01:18that quote, any and all damages done to ships, cargo or anything related thereto will be paid for
01:27by Iranian money that the United States has in its possession and controls. In response to Trump's
01:34statement, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Arachi said Friday, the seizure of the assets to pay for
01:40shipping damage was, quote, an incendiary precedent. The latest exchange comes as the U.S. launched a
01:47thirteenth consecutive night of strikes on Iran, targeting military and commercial sites. Iranian
01:53state media reported explosions in the port city of Bandar Abbas, a key hub for military supplies and
02:00trade cargo, as well as on Qashem Island, home to naval assets capable of attacking vessels transiting the
02:08Strait of Hormuz. For Iran's part, Iranian state TV shared footage it claims shows missile launches at
02:15targets in the Gulf region. Meanwhile, as Washington and Tehran continue their standoff over the Strait of
02:22Hormuz, a new front emerged in the region with Yemen's Iran-backed Uthis, threatening to shut down
02:28another key trade route.
02:34The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday, holding steady as it waits to see how
02:42much of a lingering energy shock from the Middle East conflict will feed through into Eurozone inflation.
02:48The ECB's governing council held the deposit facility rate at 2.25 percent.
02:55Uncertainty remains high and the full inflationary impact of the energy shock has yet to play out.
03:03We are therefore closely monitoring the intensity and duration of the shock, as well as its indirect and second round
03:11effects.
03:12We are committed to setting monetary policy to ensure that inflation stabilizes at our 2 percent target in the
03:20medium term. With today's decision, we remain well positioned to navigate the uncertainty caused by the conflict.
03:29The decision follows confirmation last week that Eurozone inflation eased to 2.8 percent
03:36in June, from May's 3.2 percent, the first decline this year.
03:42The pause comes just six weeks after the ECB raised rates for the first time in nearly three years,
03:49responding to a war-driven energy shock that had pushed inflation to its highest since September 2023.
04:04The future Eurobank nodes are taking shape, and this time, European citizens themselves will have a say.
04:10European Central Bank President Christian Lagarde unveiled the 10 shortlisted designs on Thursday,
04:15from which the new bank nodes will be chosen.
04:18From more than 1,200 proposals considered, two broad themes ultimately emerged as the strongest ways of
04:25representing the continent's identity.
04:28One focuses on figures who have left their mark on the history of art, music, science, and literature.
04:35The other features rivers and birds as symbols of Europe's biodiversity and the need to protect it.
04:42Should the cultural theme be selected, the new bank nodes would feature some of the most influential figures
04:47in European history, including Leonardo da Vinci, Soprano Maria Callas, Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie,
04:53and Beethoven.
04:55Should the nature theme be chosen instead, the new bank nodes would depict several European bird species,
05:01each shown in a river landscape alongside major European Union institutions featured on the rivers.
05:08EU citizens will be able to express their preferences between the two themes through a survey on the ECB's website.
05:14Once the winning design has been selected, the ECB will proceed with the technical stages required to produce the new
05:20bank nodes,
05:21which are expected to enter circulation from the end of 2026.
05:28Activists behind the far-right Save Europe Act campaign are taking the European Commission to court
05:33after it refused to register a petition calling for a suspension of legal migration channels
05:38and the re-migration of legal third-country nationals deemed unintegrated.
05:44The Commission rejected the initiative on Thursday, arguing it would discriminate on the grounds of race and ethnic origin
05:51and was therefore manifestly contrary to EU values.
05:56Austrian activist Martin Schellner, the movement's leader, told Euronews their legal team is ready to file a lawsuit as early
06:03as Monday.
06:03The petition calls for a temporary suspension of non-Western immigration channels,
06:08including study and family reunification visas,
06:11and the return of legally resident non-European nationals considered a serious cultural or financial burden.
06:18The campaign is backed by nationalist figures including Hungary's Viktor Orban,
06:23Spain's Santiago Abascal, Romania's George Simeon and Italy's Roberto Vanacci.
06:28While European citizens' initiatives require one million signatures from at least seven member states
06:34to be considered by EU institutions,
06:37the campaign says it has gathered nearly 600,000 signatures informally.
06:41Welcoming the rejection, Green's MEP Cristina Guarda described the petition as hate propaganda promoted by the far-right.
06:54The United States and Saudi Arabia have signed a nuclear agreement that would allow the kingdom to develop a civilian
07:02nuclear program.
07:04The Trump administration hasn't released the details of the deal,
07:08but the framework would give Saudi Arabia the ability to enrich uranium through its own facility.
07:14The agreement was signed alongside what they say are bilateral safeguards against non-proliferation.
07:22In a statement, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright noted that the highest standards of nuclear safety and non-proliferation
07:31would be upheld.
07:32Uranium enrichment can produce fuel for nuclear power plants,
07:36but the same technology can also be used to build nuclear weapons.
07:40Because of this, U.S. lawmakers from both parties have voiced opposition to the idea of a civilian nuclear project
07:48for Saudi Arabia.
07:49The deal, which still needs to be sent to Congress for review, is expected to last 30 years
07:55and would involve using American technology to develop the program.
08:00The deal reportedly does not include the International Atomic Energies Agency additional protocol,
08:07which would allow for more monitoring, inspections and verification.
08:17Thousands of young people in India continued to protest on Thursday
08:21in what has been dubbed the Kokroch protest, sparked by a scandal involving leaked exams.
08:29Demonstrators who were met on Thursday with tear gas, water cannons and batons by police
08:34are demanding the resignation of India's Education Minister, Dharmendra Pradhan,
08:40as well as examination system reforms and compensation for the families of students who died by suicide after the exam
08:49paper leaks.
08:50There have been resignations taken all the way down, when things have not gone or, you know, done the way
08:56they should be.
08:57So we deserve the accountability we need and we want the government to give the compensation to the families
09:04who have been, you know, who have lost their sons and children.
09:08In response, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the issue on Thursday,
09:13calling for fast-track courts to handle examination paper leak cases.
09:19The movement has gained a wider following among Indians over government accountability,
09:24unemployment and economic opportunity.
09:27The over-a-month-long protests are considered one of Prime Minister Modi's government's biggest challenges yet.
09:49There we see the number of cases increasing every single day, we see more and more community deaths,
09:56we see new cases in new areas and what the response is today just can't catch up to the size
10:03of the spread of the outbreak today.
10:25There are places where you have one community death in a new area and in a few days you have
10:3017 new cases.
10:32It's such a great example of how infectious anyone is that stays in the community as soon as they have
10:38symptoms.
10:39So if we don't have proper surveillance in place, if we're not able to monitor every single person that was
10:45in contact with a confirmed case,
10:46every single person that's at risk of developing the disease, if we're not able to monitor this, the outbreak will
10:52continue.
11:10We'll see you next time.
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