00:00Donald Trump warned Iran that it was facing its last chance, quote, before decapitation,
00:06as claimed talks appeared to offer no breakthrough.
00:10Four days after the mass influx into Sota, the enclave is still far from returning to
00:15normal as up to 5,000 illegal migrants remain in the city.
00:20Extreme heat and environmental hazards are putting severe pressures on southern Europe,
00:24toxicity alerts in Spain, reactor shutdowns in France and a rising death toll in Greece.
00:30An index ranking the best countries and territories to relocate to in 2026
00:35has just been released and Estonia has come out on top.
00:40U.S. President Donald Trump warned Iran late on Monday that it was facing, quote,
00:46its last chance before decapitation, as talks between the warring sides appeared to produce
00:51no breakthrough. Speaking to reporters at the Oval Office, the U.S. President claimed that the talks,
00:57which Iran has denied are taking place, were requested by them.
01:01We have a little problem with Iran because we have many talks and we'll say we have,
01:07or we don't have, you know, we're straight about it, but they deny. But we are talking right now,
01:12we're talking, and we're talking at the request of Iran, backed by Saudi Arabia,
01:18backed by UAE and backed by Qatar in particular, but others also. Many countries called, many,
01:25the leaders of many are friendly with a lot of them, almost all of them, one way or the other,
01:29and they all wanted to give this a last chance. This is a last chance. This is not something that,
01:36if it doesn't happen, this is a last chance for them to sign a good document.
01:43Tehran issued its own set of threats back after reports emerged that the U.S. was exploring
01:49opening an alternative maritime corridor in the Strait of Hormuz to bypass Iran.
02:18Trump says the current talks are focused on two things, a complete reopening of the
02:23key waterway for commercial shipping and the country's denuclearization. Trump says the initial
02:29phase will focus on the Strait, while a second phase, expected to take longer,
02:34will tackle the Islamic Republic's nuclear capacity.
02:40Four days after the mass influx through Trahal, Sota is still far from returning to normal.
02:45Authorities have already counted 88 deaths and estimate that between 2,500 and 5,000 people
02:50remain in the city. Many of them are in this warehouse in the Alboran industrial zone,
02:54which was hastily set up to provide shelter.
02:56The first thing, we don't have any hot food, fresh food. They're taking a drink every time.
03:05We don't bring the drink, the drink, we don't bring the drink. We don't bring the drink with the
03:11water that we have to eat. We have the drink with the drinks, the toilet moves the drink. We have
03:19the drink with the water, and the water is living in the atmosphere.
03:21With hardly any bathrooms or running water, conditions at the facility have deteriorated as the days go by.
03:50We are going to leave the streets and we are going to leave the streets.
03:57Not all stories end in the same uncertainty. Some families have managed to be reunited right at the border crossing.
04:04But while some return, others continue to try to cross the same breakwater where dozens of people have already died
04:10this summer.
04:17Extreme heat and environmental hazards are putting severe pressure on emergency services across southern Europe.
04:24In Spain's Zamora province, emergency crews responded to a major fire at the Zaresa waste treatment plant in Roales del
04:30Palo.
04:32Dispatchers received nearly 40 emergency calls prompting authorities to issue toxic cloud warnings and close a lane on the A11
04:38motorway.
04:39Beyond the industrial emergency in Spain, severe heat across France forced nuclear operator EDF to shut down three reactors at
04:47the Shos and Katynon plants due to low river water levels.
04:52Hungary's only nuclear plant is also under strain due to low water levels in the Danube.
04:57The environmental crisis deepened further south in Greece where senior meteorologist Theodor Generos declared the current wildfire disaster one of
05:05the worst in a decade.
05:06The fires claimed five lives over the past fortnight with Copernicus data confirming over 12,000 hectares of land burned
05:14in a single week.
05:15Officials will conduct a comprehensive quantitative assessment once the fire season concludes.
05:27Romania's military carried out a controlled explosion near the Danube river's Bala Canal.
05:32They did so in an effort to redirect water flow into the river's main channel and towards the state-owned
05:38Cernovoda power plant.
05:40It comes as Central Europe is gripped by extensive drought as a result of back-to-back heat waves.
05:46Romania's defense minister warned that the plant could be completely shut down by Wednesday or Thursday this week due to
05:52the low water levels.
05:54On February, Wednesday, Wednesday, in the most happy case, the Cernovoda central of Cernovoda would be able to be closed.
06:03A day of the supplemental functioning of the central of Cernovoda is about three times more efficient financially than the
06:11costs of these operations.
06:12Romanian authorities had already shut down one reactor unit at the plant.
06:17The country's energy sector has been under a state of alert since Friday.
06:21Acting Prime Minister Ilya Bologyan declared a nation's state of alert in the energy sector on Friday
06:27and warned that the Danube's low water levels threatened the shutdown of the plant's second reactor.
06:38Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takeishi visited the southwestern prefecture of Kumamoto on Monday
06:44for the first time since it was hit by a magnitude 7.1 quake last week.
06:49Takeishi flew over the affected areas from an army helicopter and visited one of the best-equipped shelters,
06:55triggering criticisms on social media that her visit distorted reality.
07:00Thank you so much.
07:2938 people died during the quake, including one of apparent heat stroke,
07:34while taking shelter in a car in hot weather, official said on Monday.
07:388,500 people remained at crowded emergency shelters and more than 46,000 households remained without water.
07:46Local authorities stressed the abnormal heat has been pounding on the already difficult lives of the residents
07:52as temperatures were predicted to rise close to 40 degrees Celsius on Monday.
08:01A new index ranking the best countries and territories to relocate to in 2026 has just been released,
08:09and a Baltic state has come out on top.
08:12Estonia ranked first globally in the index thanks to its banking infrastructure,
08:16business opportunities and property rights for non-citizens.
08:20The index scores 192 countries across 24 metrics, which are grouped into four categories,
08:28financial and tax, livability and health, safety and stability, and settling and opportunity.
08:34In each metric, a country is rated out of 100.
08:38Estonia was rated 99 out of 100 for its currency and banking,
08:4296 for business opportunities, 82 for housing affordability, 86 for green spaces, and 77 for street safety.
08:52Its poorest metric was climate comfort, with 20 out of 100 due to its cold, dark winters.
08:58Five countries in Europe made the top 10 in the Global Relocation Index,
09:03with the next highest after Estonia being Portugal in fourth place.
09:39The safest way to view the eclipse directly
09:42is with a pair of solar eclipse glasses.
09:45They have special lenses in them that block out 99.9999% of the sun's light,
09:52only then making it safe to view.
09:54You've got to make sure that they are ISO certified,
09:57so that they've been through the rigorous safety standards testing.
10:01But as long as you know that they're safe to use,
10:03you can directly look up towards the sun when viewing the eclipse.
10:29If you want to see the full eclipse, you need to get into the path of totality.
10:32And to get into the path of totality,
10:34you're going to need to go to places like Greenland, Iceland, and northern Spain.
10:39Those are the places where the moon's shadow will be at its darkest,
10:42and you'll get that absolute 100% coverage of the moon in front of the sun.
11:16We'll see you next time.
11:17We'll see you next time.
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