00:01The World Health Organization is calling for more support to combat the Ebola outbreak at the Democratic Republic of Congo.
00:09Three lions at the Tokyo Zoo have died from suspected heat stroke and others are under treatment, a spokesperson for
00:17the Tama Zoological Park said on Tuesday.
00:21Total Energies has signed a deal with Shell to buy its solar, wind and battery storage projects in Europe.
00:30Apple has launched a fresh legal challenge against the UK after the government renewed its attempts at gaining access to
00:37users' encrypted iCloud data.
00:40Extreme heat and environmental hazards are putting severe pressure on emergency services across southern Europe.
00:46In Spain's Zamora province, emergency crews responded to a major fire at the Zaresa waste treatment plant in Roales del
00:53Palo.
00:53Dispatches received nearly 40 emergency calls prompting authorities to issue toxic cloud warnings and close a lane on the A
01:00-11 motorway.
01:01Beyond the industrial emergency in Spain, severe heat across France forced nuclear operator EDF to shut down three reactors at
01:10the Shoes and Katenon plants due to low river water levels.
01:14Hungary's only nuclear plant is also under strain due to low water levels in the Danube.
01:19The environmental crisis deepened further south in Greece where senior meteorologist Theodor Generos declared the current wildfire disaster one of
01:28the worst in a decade.
01:29The fires claimed five lives over the past fortnight with Copernicus data confirming over 12,000 hectares of land burned
01:36in a single week.
01:37Officials will conduct a comprehensive quantitative assessment once the fire season concludes.
01:49Firefighters in the Netherlands are rushing to contain a blaze that is spreading in a nature reserve in the country's
01:54south.
01:55It's the latest in a string of wildfires across Europe caused by deadly heat waves and drought.
02:01The fire started on Monday and hundreds of emergency workers took part in fighting the blaze overnight as helicopters resumed
02:08operations on Tuesday morning.
02:09The biggest challenges in blus is that it is high, high in the trees.
02:15Kroonvuur, where we have to do with a wind that is a little bit of a wind.
02:20The fire is moving through the trees.
02:23And you have to be able to do that.
02:24The blaze spread to 100 hectares as of early Tuesday and was still not under control, provincial authorities said on
02:30their website.
02:31The winds kept changing direction and sped up the fire's spread.
02:35And firefighters say they don't have enough equipment to deal with forest fires, which are very rare in the Netherlands.
02:42Human-fueled climate change has accelerated moisture loss from soil, lakes and rivers,
02:46heightening the risk of extreme droughts and allowing fires to spread faster and burn more intensely.
02:55The World Health Organization is calling for more support to combat the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo,
03:03which is still outpacing response efforts.
03:05The outbreak is the biggest ever to have hit the DR Congo, despite being declared less than three months ago.
03:12As of Tuesday, 3,802 cases had been recorded, with 1,707 deaths, the latest government update showed.
03:21The outbreak is mostly concentrated in eastern Congo's remote Ituri province, which accounts for nearly 90% of cases.
03:28The cases have also been confirmed in five other provinces.
03:31The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that it was monitoring over 17,000 potential contacts,
03:38with nearly 80% of them being seen daily.
03:41While there are no proven vaccines or treatments, two clinical trials for post-exposure drugs are ongoing in Ituri province,
03:48as well as two separate vaccine trials in the United Kingdom and Canada.
03:54Three lions at the Tokyo Zoo have died from suspected heat stroke, and others are under treatment,
04:02a spokesperson said on Tuesday, as the big cats struggle with the high humidity in the Japanese capital.
04:09One three-year-old female died on Tuesday, another aged 11 died Friday, and the third, aged 15, died on
04:18Sunday.
04:18Unfortunately, three lions after the last three-year-old female died on Tuesday,
04:27were still dying on Tuesday, and the next two-year-old female died on Tuesday, and the last three-year
04:31-old female died on Tuesday.
04:31The lion has all been infected, but the second one has been infected with the disease, and the next two
04:41-year-old female died on Tuesday.
04:42Reacting to the news, animal rights group PETA said the lions named Mugi, Ichiko and Luena were, quote,
04:51born, lived and died in confinement, deprived of everything that makes life worth living for a wild animal.
04:59Japan sweltered through its hottest summer on record last year,
05:03and parts of the country have hit 40 degrees Celsius in recent weeks, causing thousands of people to get hospitalized.
05:10The Tamar Zoological Park said the lion enclosure has been closed to the public until further notice.
05:20The five biggest Western energy majors, BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell and Total Energies,
05:28reported combined net profits of almost 40.60 billion euros in the second quarter
05:35as earnings multiplied amid the U.S.-Iran conflict.
05:39For BP alone, total revenue increased 47% to 60.43 billion euros in the second quarter from a year
05:49earlier
05:50as the conflict disrupted global supplies of fossil fuels.
05:54As fossil fuel prices soared year on year, profit after tax jumped to 3.38 billion euros in the April
06:02to June period
06:03from 1.4 billion euros in the second quarter of 2025.
06:08According to a BP earnings statement, the latest reporting period has been, quote,
06:14marked by one of the most disrupted periods in the global energy market.
06:19Energy majors around the globe are enjoying soaring profits from their trading operations
06:25as oil and gas futures swing between sharp gains and losses on the latest headlines linked to the Middle East
06:32conflict.
06:33BP's performance had generally lagged behind that of its rivals in recent years
06:37and slashed clean energy investment as the group pivots back towards its more profitable oil and gas business.
06:50French energy giant Total Energies has signed a deal with Shell to buy its European onshore renewable energy businesses.
06:58Total will acquire around 4 gigawatts of electricity production, mainly solar and wind power in operation
07:04or being built in Italy and the Netherlands, as well as solar, wind and battery storage projects in Italy, Britain
07:11and Spain.
07:11The sale is worth several hundred million euros, but the exact amount was not disclosed.
07:17At the same time, Total Energies said it would sell a 50% stake in a portfolio of wind and
07:23solar assets in Germany, Spain, France and Poland
07:26to the US investment firm KKR in a deal that values the portfolio at 1.8 billion euros.
07:32The portfolio represents around 1.2 gigawatts of electricity production.
07:38Total has nearly 10 gigawatts of production sites already built or underway in Europe, with a further 27 gigawatts under
07:46development.
07:50Apple has launched a fresh legal challenge against the UK government after it demanded access to its customers' encrypted data.
07:57The latest comes months after it withdrew security features for UK users, rather than comply with an earlier version of
08:05the same request.
08:06The US technology firm filed a complaint with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal,
08:12an independent court that examines claims of unlawful conduct by UK intelligence services.
08:17At the heart of the dispute is whether the UK government can force Apple to give it access to iCloud
08:23data
08:23that is so strongly encrypted that even Apple claims it cannot read it.
08:28The UK backed down on its original demand last year following a heated dispute with Washington.
08:34That first order, issued under the Investigatory Powers Act in January 2025,
08:40sought access to UK and US customers' data alike.
08:43The scope was subsequently narrowed with London instead issuing a Technical Capability Notice,
08:50known as a TCN, limited to UK users only, later in 2025, which Apple is now fighting.
08:57TCNs compel companies to hand law enforcement agencies information for cases including terrorism and child sexual abuse,
09:05even where that data is protected by encryption.
09:08Apple has long insisted that it will not build any form of compelled access into its products,
09:13the company argued that any such tool, once built,
09:17poses a security risk to all users, not just those targeted by a specific request.
09:58I've just installed my new exhibition, Pop Mythology, in one of the most important archaeological sites in the world.
10:04I became an artist when I became a lobster.
10:07The lobster is my mythological avatar, my artistic persona.
10:11For this exhibition, I wanted to really explore the metaphysics of time.
10:15I believe art can transcend time as a membrane beyond.
10:20And in the works, I wanted to explore ruins from the future,
10:24as well as important symbols from the past, such as ancient columns of antiquity.
11:30We're right back.
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