00:01Thousands of residents who were forced to evacuate from the region of Madrid
00:05returned home on Wednesday as the wildfires have been stabilized.
00:09Regional authorities said weather conditions improved overnight,
00:13which helped firefighting teams reduce the intensity of the fires.
00:17Also in Valencia, the regional government lifted similar measures.
00:21On Tuesday, however, firefighting crews were still tackling the blazes
00:24which were fueled by high temperatures and strong winds.
00:27Now we are in a task of maintaining the fire and refreshing,
00:33in other things, to avoid any restart of fires in areas
00:39that we thought the situation was already consolidated or stable.
00:45And in neighboring France, officials in the Gironde region also reported a second call night,
00:51adding that a major fire near Bordeaux is stable.
00:54However, authorities and firefighting crews stay on alert as the country is faced with yet another heatwave,
01:00the fourth one so far this year.
01:03Both the Gironde and Lende regions are under an orange-level warning,
01:07with temperatures expected to reach 41 degrees Celsius inland and 38 degrees Celsius on the coast.
01:14The wildfires that swept across Spain and France, which were fueled by extreme heat,
01:19are among the largest the two countries have experienced in recent history.
01:23Scientists and climate experts have warned that human-induced climate change
01:27is making heatwaves more frequent and intense,
01:30and increasingly likely to occur earlier and later in the year.
01:37In a visit to the divided island of Cyprus,
01:40UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced his intention to convene fresh talks
01:45on resolving the decades-long division of Cyprus.
01:48Guterres did not set a specific date for the talks
01:51and said that sufficient preparation must take place beforehand.
01:55The announcement came after an extra-lateral meeting between Guterres,
01:59the President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Khristov-Livis,
02:02and the Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Elkhirman.
02:05Under the 5 plus 1 format,
02:07the two Cypriot sides would be joined by current powers,
02:10Greece, Turkije and the United Kingdom, as well as the United Nations.
02:14Based on our discussions on the way forward,
02:19I decided that I would convene another 5 plus 1 meeting
02:23after adequate preparations on confidence building,
02:28methodology and substance,
02:30taking into account the convergencies already achieved.
02:35The Secretary General said there is a consensus among the two sides
02:40and the guarant of powers regarding the new meeting.
02:42He also clarified that there is no meeting scheduled
02:46on the Cyprus issue during the high-level week
02:48of the UN General Assembly in September.
02:51I don't want to have more 5 plus 1 meetings without results.
02:56I want a successful 5 plus 1 meeting
02:59in order to pave the way for a solution to be achieved.
03:04Substative talks on the Cyprus issue remain at a standstill
03:07following the collapse of the process
03:09in Kran-Montana, Switzerland in 2017.
03:13Nikos Christopoulidis welcomed Guterres' commitment
03:15and emphasized that the new effort must build on
03:19the negotiating achievements,
03:21the points of convergence and everything
03:23that had been agreed upon up to Kran-Montana.
03:26We have this conclusion
03:27in relation to the constitutional agreement
03:30of the negotiations.
03:32We start from 0.
03:34The constitutional agreement is worth
03:35in relation to the constitutional agreement.
03:37It is very important.
03:39And this is, if you want,
03:42a positive opposition that exists,
03:45something that is not available in the previous
03:46in relation to the role
03:48of the European Union.
03:51The President Christopoulidis said
03:52that preparation would begin immediately
03:54with Guterres' personal envoy
03:56Maria Angela Holgin and the European Union.
03:59He announced that he will meet on Friday in Nikosia
04:02with the European Union Special Envoy for Cyprus,
04:05Rafael Efito.
04:06On his part,
04:07Turkish Cypriot leader, Tufan Erkerman,
04:10described Guterres' visit as positive.
04:12He welcomed the emphasis
04:14on confidence-building measures
04:16and a new methodology.
04:18He said he was now more hopeful,
04:20arguing that any renewed process
04:22must focus on achieving results
04:24rather than holding talks for their own sake.
04:29UK authorities on Wednesday declared
04:31modern half of England in drought
04:33after record low rain
04:35and exceptionally high temperatures.
04:38It follows what is said to be
04:39the driest July on record
04:41with just 7% of expected rainfall nationwide
04:44and some parts of southern England
04:47seeing just 1%,
04:48according to the government's
04:50Environment Agency.
04:51The seven areas declared in drought
04:53comprises 51.4% of England.
04:57Describing it as a flash drought
04:59which develops quickly
05:00and is caused by a combination
05:02of very low rainfall
05:03and higher temperatures,
05:04it was the second consecutive summer
05:07parts of England
05:08were experiencing drought.
05:10According to the government's
05:12Environment Agency,
05:13rivers are running low,
05:14farmers are having to harvest crops early,
05:17wildlife risk is increasing
05:19and millions of people
05:20are living under restrictions
05:22on water use.
05:24Meanwhile,
05:25the UK's
05:26Meteorological Agency
05:27announced on Wednesday
05:28it had finalized readings in June
05:30and that both England and the UK
05:33saw a daily temperature record
05:35for the month of around 38 degrees Celsius.
05:38The UK is also experiencing
05:40its fourth widespread heat wave of 2026.
05:44According to the European Union's
05:46Copernicus Climate Service,
05:48Europe is the world's fastest warming continent,
05:50heating at more than twice the global average.
05:58Wildfires continue to ravage swaths of France and Spain,
06:01leaving ground crews battling to contain the blazes
06:04as summer heat intensifies and dries out vegetation.
06:09Operating around the clock,
06:11Brussels officials pull emergency assets from across 27 EU member states
06:15and 10 partner nations to relocate limited resources.
06:20Following France's request for assistance last week,
06:23aircraft from Slovakia, Slovenia,
06:25Portugal and Turkey deployed to the southwest
06:28with Serbia offering additional helicopters.
06:33The EU has steadily expanded its aerial fleet
06:36and stationed 25 weather and fire specialists in Brussels
06:39to assess fire spread and identify emerging risks.
06:42The team is monitoring the situation,
06:45monitoring the risk in France,
06:46how it will develop
06:47and is in continuous contact with the French authorities
06:50to see whether they would need additional support,
06:52whether they would need additional planes
06:54and if that would be the case,
06:56they would put this information in the system
06:58to all member states and participating states
07:00to try to get these additional resources.
07:03While officials confirmed all current aid requests have been met,
07:06upcoming heat waves risk triggering fresh blazes across the continent,
07:10keeping emergency teams on high alert.
07:18BMW will cut several thousand jobs in Germany,
07:22becoming the latest major German carmaker
07:25to launch a substantial cost-saving program.
07:28BMW's global workforce was expected to shrink
07:31by around 8,000 employees.
07:34The company and its works council have agreed
07:37a voluntary redundancy program targeting administrative
07:41and development roles while production will be excluded.
07:45The program would begin in October 2026
07:48and continue until the end of 2027.
07:52BMW would expect the measures to generate annual savings
07:56of around 1 billion euros from 2028.
07:59More than half of BMW's workforce is based in Germany.
08:03A substantial proportion of the reductions is therefore expected
08:07to occur in the country according to German media reports.
08:12Another carmaker, Porsche, is following this path in cutting jobs.
08:16The German luxury carmaker announced on Monday
08:19that it will cut a further 5,000 jobs by 2035 as it seeks to reduce costs.
08:25These announcements happen while several other major German carmakers
08:30have lowered their financial expectations amid deteriorating conditions in China,
08:36cost pressures and weaker consumer sentiment.
08:45Two-thirds of children across Western Europe were exposed to extreme temperatures
08:50in the first half of 2026.
08:52That is according to a report by Child Rights Organization Save the Children.
08:56Two-thirds of children across Western Europe were exposed to extreme heat
09:00just this far in the year.
09:02And we're still in the summer.
09:05This figure is three times the figure from the whole of last year.
09:09In Germany, the number of children exposed to extreme heat
09:12in the first six months of this year was larger than the last five years combined.
09:16Climate change is worsening every year that passes.
09:20The impacts on children are also worsening.
09:22And countries really have not adapted its citizens well enough to that.
09:29Children are particularly vulnerable to the heat as they are undergoing physical development
09:34and have lower capacity for body temperature regulation.
09:37The climate crisis is really a children's rights crisis
09:40because they are the most physically vulnerable.
09:44Their bodies are the most vulnerable to heat waves and other climate impacts.
09:49They are the least responsible.
09:51They were just born a few years ago.
09:54Most children, you know, they haven't done anything to deserve this.
09:57And third of all, they have to live with the consequences for the longest.
10:05French DJ Kavinsky was found dead at his home on Tuesday evening, the Paris prosecutor's office said.
10:11It added an investigation has been opened into the cause of death,
10:15but that first responders didn't regard it as suspicious.
10:20Kavinsky, whose real name was Vincent Belorger, was a leading figure of the house music movement, French Touch,
10:26alongside Daft Punk, Justice, Cassius and DJ Mehdi.
10:39One of his most popular tracks was Night Call, the soundtrack of the movie Drive starring Ryan Gosling.
10:45The track enjoyed a new lease of life during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
10:50Kavinsky, French Pride Forever, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote on his Facebook account.
10:56Culture Minister Catherine Pégard described the performer who appeared at the closing ceremony of the Paris Olympics in 2024 as
11:04one of France's most singular voices.
11:06Kavinsky would have turned 51 on the 31st of July.
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