00:01The United Kingdom is on course to record its warmest summer on record as Europe braces for yet another heatwave.
00:11The Hungarian Parliament elected a new president after his predecessor was ousted by a constitutional amendment.
00:20The recent Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has now claimed over 2,000 lives
00:26and is on track to be the country's deadliest in history.
00:31The United Kingdom is on course to record its warmest summer on record,
00:36that is according to the country's National Weather Service.
00:40Provisional statistics showed that the current recorded mean temperature across the UK from the 1st of June until the 10th
00:47of August
00:47was just under 16.5 degrees Celsius, that is 1.88 degrees Celsius higher than the average for the same
00:55period
00:55between 1991 and 2020.
00:59The figures also show last month was the driest July on record for England and Wales.
01:04Nearly three-quarters of England and the whole of Wales is already officially in drought.
01:10Last week the Met Office had issued amber heat alerts for parts of the UK,
01:15with temperatures expected to reach up to 37 degrees Celsius in some areas.
01:19Western mainland Europe is also gearing up to face yet another heat wave this week.
01:25Europe is the world's fastest warming continent, with temperatures rising at around twice the global average.
01:32This summer's record temperatures has left 38% of Europe's land in drought.
01:43Graveline Nuclear Power Plant in Northern France has shut down three reactors after a swarm of jellyfish clogged pumps used
01:50to cool the units.
01:51Three reactors were taken offline on Monday and output at a 4th was cut by half, Energy Group EDF 7
01:57Tuesday, leaving just one operating at full capacity.
02:01A sixth reactor was already offline for scheduled maintenance.
02:05This situation has no impact on the safety of the facilities, the safety of personnel or the environment, EDF said.
02:12France has seen nuclear power production disrupted by multiple heat waves and droughts this year, with EDF shutting down several
02:20reactors in June and July because of extreme heat.
02:23The Graveline Nuclear Power Plant near the northern city of Dunkirk is the largest in Western Europe, with six 900
02:30megawatt reactors.
02:32The nuclear power plant was also temporarily taken offline a year ago after jellyfish clogged its seawater pumping stations.
02:41The severe drug that has plagued Europe this summer has now also affected the grape harvest in Hungary's most famous
02:49wine region.
02:50Grapes are smaller and vines struggling to survive due to high temperatures in the Villani wine region, causing the harvest
02:58to start sooner than normal.
03:01We're already comfortable to think of that a lot of water has a lot of fresh air masses.
03:08We are not the only at the sky in our country, but it's a hot light.
03:13But it's very cold and especially during cold rains, because we feel the المutasins that we're not the only at
03:19the pasture, we are in any given time,
03:21but we don't have any significant factor in the season.
03:25Expertise is important in the winemaking business, but even seasoned farmers are
03:29powerless against the forces of nature. Though the wine's quality is not expected to be seriously
03:35compromised, the quantity of grapes ready for harvest is expected to be around 30% lower than in previous years.
04:00In the previous years, the harvest of red grape varieties in Vilani began in early September,
04:06but this year it is expected to start earlier. Exactly when will depend on the progress of the
04:12forced ripening caused by the drought.
04:19Hungarian lawmakers approved former Supreme Court Chief Andres Baca as the country's new president
04:25on Tuesday. The move comes following the contested removal last month of the previous head of state,
04:31as Prime Minister Pieter Magyar works to loosen the grip of his predecessor,
04:36Viktor Orban, over state institutions. Baca served 17 years as a judge on the European
04:43Court of Human Rights. He was elected with 140 votes in favor and six votes against.
04:51We think that Baca Andres is a sovereign and sovereign political party who does not believe
05:00that it will be used in any way. In his inaugural address, the new president said he had not expected
05:10to take on such a role, but seeing that young people and rural voters had voted for change,
05:15accountability and social reconciliation, he felt ready to step into the position.
05:40And he said that the government complaints of the要件 of the president,
05:45I thought of it.
05:46He was elected to the government for the President.
05:47Mr. Fidesz Party along with its ally, KDNP, boycott the parliamentary vote.
05:53They argued that the TISA party illegitimately removed the previous president.
05:57What happened?
06:28Sipos Egyi Zoltán, Euronews, Budapest.
06:57Dr. Al-Ansari says,
06:58Qatar supports those efforts and is closely following the talks.
07:07Dr. Al-Ansari says,
07:17Doha wants freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz restored immediately and in line with international law.
07:23Dr. Al-Ansari says,
07:34Qatar says any future arrangement over the Strait should have regional consensus and respect international law.
07:40Adil Halim, Euronews, Doha.
07:44A powerful earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have killed at least 132 people and injured 570 across western Colombia with the
07:53death toll expected to rise further.
07:57Cauca and Rizaralda recorded the highest number of victims with at least 60 and 15 deaths respectively.
08:03Around 13 people were also killed in Choco.
08:06The epicenter was near San Jose del Palmar in southeastern Choco while Cali suffered the greatest infrastructure damage.
08:15Colombia's newly inaugurated president declared a state of emergency as authorities search for survivors.
08:33Aside from rescue efforts, Cali and Pereira imposed curfews to prevent looting as Caldas also introduced restrictions.
08:40The earthquake caused power and mobile phone outages while six airports in western Colombia were closed.
08:47The tremor was also felt in Ecuador and Panama.
08:59An evil outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 2,000 people out of over 4
09:06,000 confirmed cases.
09:07As country officials warn, it could become the largest in the country's history.
09:13The case fatality rate of the current outbreak is estimated to be 45.9%, putting it close behind the DRC's
09:21deadliest evil outbreak in 2018-2020.
09:26The emergency was declared on the 15th of May, but it is thought to have already been spreading for several
09:32weeks.
09:32Aid workers say the outbreak continues to outpace the response that has been expanding across the five eastern provinces affected.
09:40On Friday, WHO vaccine experts recommended a full-scale human trial of the only existing approved Ebola vaccine,
09:48to see if it offered cross-protection against the current strain spreading across the country.
09:59Europeans on 12th of August will be able to see a unique event, a solar eclipse.
10:04The total eclipse will be visible in Greenland, Iceland, Spain and a small area of Portugal.
10:10Other parts of Europe will experience a partial solar eclipse.
10:13Although eclipses occur quite frequently around Earth, the moon's shadow falls on different parts of the planet each time.
10:20It happens in a specific place only every 400 years.
10:27So if you have an eclipse passing by your village or your city, it will not come back before 400
10:33years.
10:34So it's almost a lifetime event that you want to see.
10:38But those getting ready to watch it should get special eclipse glasses to protect their vision.
10:43First, we should be very careful because watching the sun, you should not do that, never, except when at the
10:52point in a few minutes when there is eclipse,
10:55where the sun is totally blocked and then you can watch it for a few minutes only.
10:59But before and after, you should wear all these glasses. These are special glasses.
11:04And with these glasses that should have this ISO and also European community sign, these are the ones you should
11:14buy.
11:14Simple sunglasses won't do the trick.
11:17You should not buy any glasses because the glasses need to be dark enough.
11:23Sunglasses also, we are negative, picture negative that people add. We don't use them anymore.
11:29And also CD. You should not use a CD to block it because they don't block enough.
11:36And then some light is passing by and this can be very dangerous for your eyes.
11:40Also a camera. You should not point the camera and look at the camera because this is also bad for
11:45your eyes.
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