00:00The European Commission is discussing with Spanish officials fresh financial supports
00:05to potentially bolster border force and humanitarian assistance.
00:11Tehran's foreign ministry announced that Iran and Oman have agreed on a proposed shipping
00:16route through the Strait of Hormuz.
00:21Authorities place 27 Italian cities on red alerts as a blistering heatwave grips Europe.
00:30Hiroshima commemorated the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the city on Thursday
00:36with a ceremony held at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.
00:41The European Commission has confirmed that discussions between Brussels and Spain
00:46were ongoing regarding extra financial support for Ceuta
00:49after 72,000 individuals entered the Spanish autonomous city in Morocco last week.
00:54We can actually confirm that yesterday the Commission actually received a first needs
01:01assessment from Spain, so we're now really very quickly looking into this document really
01:08to identify the best way we can provide support.
01:11The Commission said the application has not yet been finalized, nor has the amount of funding requested.
01:17The amount would be in addition to the €114 million of emergency assistance already made available
01:24following an extraordinary meeting convened to discuss the migration crisis on Tuesday.
01:29It could cover a range of elements going first from actually equipment and services for border management.
01:42In view of the current situation, we see the need.
01:47And also, it could also provide humanitarian assistance and medical assistance.
01:53Spanish officials said on Monday that 70,000 individuals had already returned to Morocco
01:59after last week's episode, which resulted in at least 88 deaths.
02:04Despite this, up to 5,000 individuals, including 860 unaccompanied minors, have remained,
02:10according to the president of Ceuta.
02:12NGOs operating in Ceuta say they are not prepared to deal with this type of crisis,
02:18adding that many children who arrived are suffering from heat stroke and hunger.
02:26Iran and Oman have agreed on a proposed shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz,
02:31Tehran's foreign ministry announced on Wednesday.
02:34Tehran said the agreement includes technical, legal, security and environmental points.
02:40Official sources told Iranian media that the final touches were being added to the deal
02:45and that any reopening of the strait would depend on the United States ending its naval blockade of Iran's ports.
02:52U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted Tehran is keen to do a deal to reopen the routes to
02:58shipping,
02:59but Iran denies this and says the U.S. is not involved in the negotiations with Oman.
03:04Iran also said that even if an understanding was reached,
03:08it would not mean that the strait had become safe for all passing vessels.
03:17Italy's health ministry placed all of its major cities on red alert on Thursday as a blistering heat wave grips
03:23Europe.
03:24The alerts stretched from Triest in the northeast to Palermo in Sicily,
03:28the signal a health risk for the entire population, not only vulnerable groups.
03:33Meanwhile, the temperature reached 41.2 degrees Celsius in Austria, near the Slovak border,
03:40the highest ever recorded in the country.
03:42It is also facing severe drought with rainfall levels so far this year far below the long-term average.
03:48In neighboring Hungary, prolonged drought and record low water levels on the Danube River
03:53have severely affected the country's only nuclear power plant,
03:57which relies on river water to cool its reactors.
04:00Operators at the PAX plant have reduced output to about 10 percent of normal production,
04:06leading authorities to ask major industrial users and households to cut electricity consumption.
04:12Germany also faces growing concerns over the impact of drought on transportation and industry
04:18as water levels on the Rhine and other rivers continue to fall.
04:22The heat wave reached its peak across the Balkans on Thursday
04:25as temperatures neared 40 degrees Celsius and authorities battled drought and wildfires.
04:31In Serbia, firefighters struggled to contain several blazes after days of dry weather.
04:36In neighboring Croatia, tourists in Dubrovnik sought refuge in shade
04:40as temperatures soared along the Adriatic coast.
04:47The barge sinking operation has been postponed by one day.
04:50The reason behind this decision is the safety of the divers involved in this operation.
04:55Following the destruction of that Pâljoaia rock formation, the Danube's flow has changed,
05:00creating currents that are too strong to carry out a safe control sinking.
05:30The sinking of the bars represent the final solution.
05:33This is the final stage of the operation that began after the detonation of the Pâljoaia rock.
05:38The barges will form an artificial barrier on the Bala Danube branch,
05:42with the purpose of diverting more of the Danube's flow toward the Cernavoda nuclear power plant.
06:06However, experts say that this stabilization is not enough for the water level to rise by another 10-12 centimeters
06:14and extend the safe operation of the Cernavoda reactor to sinking the four barges remains essential.
06:27Hiroshima marked the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city on Thursday.
06:33The city's mayor criticized major powers for waging wars and resorting to nuclear threats.
06:39He urged them to stop justifying the possession of nuclear weapons as a method of deterrence.
06:44He said,
07:14I will not be able to create a return to the 3rd of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
07:23Prime Minister Sanai Takaichi, who attended the memorial for the first time as Prime Minister,
07:28said she will take a realistic approach toward achieving a world where nuclear weapons are never used.
07:34The ceremony, however, comes at a time of speculation that Takaichi's government may ease its non-nuclear principles.
07:56The bombing of Hiroshima on the 6th of August in 1945 destroyed the city and killed 140,000 people.
08:05A second bomb dropped three days later and Nagasaki killed 70,000.
08:10Japan surrendered on the 15th of August, ending World War II and Japan's nearly half-century of aggression in Asia.
08:20Ukraine has struck two Russian oil refineries hundreds of kilometers from the border in an overnight attack,
08:27President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday, as Russia hit a train station and commercial ship in Ukraine.
08:35According to Zelenskyy, Ukraine had hit oil refineries in the Bashkostan and Yaroslav region, about 700 kilometers from the front
08:44lines.
08:46The attacks were, quote, strengthening the prospects for diplomacy, Zelenskyy said.
08:52The attacks come after Russia's assaults on Kyiv that killed at least 17 people on Wednesday and injured dozens more
09:00as Kyiv deals with a shortage of interceptor missiles.
09:05Zelenskyy said later Wednesday that he had spoken to NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter about securing more interceptor missiles.
09:13Both sides have been intensifying their long-range attacks in recent months, leading to a jump in civilian deaths.
09:21In July, Russian attacks killed at least 377 civilians and wounded some 2,129 others in Ukraine, making it the
09:32deadliest month of the invasion since April 2022.
09:38London Metropolitan Police have arrested a 47-year-old woman after four men were stabbed in Covent Garden on Wednesday
09:45afternoon.
09:46Emergency services responded to reports of a violent attack in the busy shopping district at around 12.30 p.m.
09:53Paramedics treated four men aged 34, 39, 42, and 52 before transporting them to major trauma centers as a priority.
10:02Two victims remain hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, while two others have been discharged.
10:09Witnesses reported seeing police officers deploy tasers to detain the suspect, who was known locally in the area.
10:16Officers seized a pair of scissors at the scene.
10:20Authorities cordoned off the streets for several hours with air ambulance crews landing in nearby Trafalgar Square.
10:29Detectives confirmed the investigation remains at an early stage, but is currently being treated as a mental health-related incident.
10:42Myanmar's former Jinta chief Min Ong Lain arrived in Bangkok on Thursday for his first visit to Thailand since becoming
10:49civilian leader.
10:50His visit comes in an effort to improve the country's diplomatic standings and gain political legitimacy after years of isolation.
10:59As a general, Lain led a 2021 military coup that ousted Democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
11:06The move triggered a civil war estimated to have killed more than 100,000 people on all sides.
11:12Lain became Myanmar's president in April following state-managed elections.
11:17Since then, Myanmar has been trying to get back onto the diplomatic playing field.
11:22While the European Union has excluded Myanmar's leadership from high-level summits since the military coup,
11:28Thailand and other regional countries have tried to normalize relations with the country.
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