00:00Firefighters in France and Spain are struggling to contain wildfires that have displaced some 270,000 people in evacuation orders.
00:10Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared that his party should break from opposition politics and establish a new resistance
00:18politics.
00:20French authorities say nearly 98,000 hectares have burned in the country this year,
00:26a historic record just as officials in the southwestern region announced evacuation orders for three suburbs of the city of
00:34Bordeaux.
00:35Residents of Loaillon, Essene and Merignac on Saturday were told to leave the area immediately via planned evacuation routes.
00:44Some 200,000 people have been evacuated in southwest France in the Gironde and Lens region in the past week.
00:52Earlier on Saturday, Prime Minister Sebastián Le Conu ordered the armed forces to deploy a military transport aircraft to help
01:01combat the fires alongside some 100 firefighters from Paris.
01:06Meanwhile, in Spain, a national state of emergency was declared on Friday for the first time with at least 60
01:13,000 people evacuated as fires burned near the capital of Madrid.
01:18According to Prime Minister Sanchez, the priority is to, quote, save lives.
01:23France and Spain have both requested additional help from other EU countries to cope with the blazes via the bloc's
01:31civil protection mechanism.
01:36Former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addressed a crowd of supporters on Saturday
01:40and declared that his Fidesz party should break from opposition politics and establish a new resistance politics.
01:47In his speech, he said the European Union has too much power and that so-called patriots must take over
01:52Brussels.
02:16Speaking on Peter Magyar's new government, Orban said there was no longer time for the party to dwell on the
02:22election loss
02:22and that it must turn its attention to defending Hungary's freedom, which he claimed was under threat.
02:28He accused the ruling TISA party of wanting to build a new authoritarian system,
02:33as well as trying to eliminate Fidesz altogether by driving its leaders out of politics.
02:38It comes after several senior officials from the former government administration have been placed in pre-trial detention
02:45in connection with investigations into the disbursement of public funds.
02:52A popular attraction in Hungary is attracting thousands to wander through a cornfield near the Romanian border,
02:59a local initiative that has created Central Europe's largest corn maze.
03:05This year the organizers carved fairytale characters, a castle and a unicorn into the four and a half hectare cornfield
03:11in Kisombor.
03:12In the beginning, when the kukorica is set up like 7-8 levels, then we turn it up, so it's
03:20very small,
03:20and it's very easy to see, and then we start the exploration, and it depends on the 3-4-5
03:27-6 days of the time period,
03:29depending on how much we can stay with us.
03:32Children are given a map to help them find their way, but the challenge is still far from easy.
03:38The 2-and-a-half kilometer maze is full of dead ends, making it easy to lose your bearings.
03:48The maze was first created 18 years ago by volunteers from the Kis Maria Hortensia Local Heritage Association,
03:59with the aim of attracting visitors to an area facing depopulation.
04:03Since then, between 2- and 3-thousand people have come here each year to try traditional folk skill games
04:09and lose themselves among the corn.
04:12Our goal was to introduce the Kisombor to the Kisombor to the Kisombor to the Kisombor to the Kisombor to
04:22the Kisombor to the Kisombor.
04:27The corn maze will be open to visitors until the 22nd of August.
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