00:00U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back annual joint military
00:06exercises with South Korea, citing Seoul's refusal to help with the war against Iran
00:11and his quote, very good relationship with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un.
00:16The 11 days of exercises involving 18,000 South Korean soldiers were designed to beef
00:22up readiness against North Korean threats.
00:24The exercises are one of two main combined drills conducted by the South Korean and U.S.
00:30militaries annually, along with their springtime training.
00:33Trump lambasted the drills as costly and quote, totally inappropriate and hostile to Pyongyang,
00:39which he said has been unthreatening and respectful during the course of his presidencies.
00:44The Republican president also indicated that he had wanted to back out of the trainings
00:49altogether, but signaled that it was too late to do so.
00:52Trump noted that South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung replied no thanks to Washington's
00:58request for Seoul to join its war efforts to quote, denuclearize Iran, though he labeled
01:03it as somewhat unrelated to the new measure.
01:06The move is a sharp turnaround from how his administration has viewed South Korea in recent
01:11months, with Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth in May praising the longtime ally for its commitment
01:17to increasing defense spending.
01:18Trump has also previously sought to end the exercises in his first term following a meeting
01:24with Kim Jong-un in Singapore in 2018, calling the drills provocative back then.
01:34U.S. actress Hayden Panettiere, star of popular TV series including Heroes in Nashville, has died
01:41at 36.
01:43Panettiere's father announced the actress' death in a statement provided to ABC News Sunday.
01:48No cause of death has been given.
01:51Panettiere's prolific career started when she was appearing in commercials before her
01:56first birthday and later included staring roles in Remember the Titans, Scream 6 and The
02:02Bug's Life, where she voiced Dot.
02:05Her depiction of a cheerleader with superpowers in the series Heroes propelled her to universal
02:10fame.
02:11She had been open about her struggles with alcohol and depression.
02:16In May this year, she published a memoir titled This Is Me, A Reconning.
02:21She is survived by her 11-year-old daughter, Kaya, with her former partner, Ukrainian boxer
02:26Vladimir Klitschko.
02:36Wildfires are continuing to burn across several parts of Europe, with firefighters battling
02:41major blazes in Belgium, France, Germany, Croatia and Greece amid persisted heat and dry conditions.
02:49A fire in Belgium's High Fence Nature Reserve more than doubled in size over 24 hours at the
02:56weekend to around 3,000 hectares, making it the largest in the country's recorded history.
03:03On Saturday afternoon, local media reported that 600 people had been asked to evacuate
03:09in Belgium's Liege province.
03:11Authorities said more than 250 firefighters and other emergency service workers were deployed
03:18on Saturday night.
03:19Meanwhile, across the border in Germany, emergency services made significant progress in fighting
03:25a fire in the Hürtgen forest that forced around 2,000 people to evacuate on Friday.
03:31Residents were able to return home on Saturday evening, according to local German media.
03:37In Spain, firefighters continued to battle a massive blaze that has been ongoing for more
03:43than a week in Aragon's northern Huesca province.
03:46The flames are threatening a 1,000-year-old monastery.
03:5412 people have died and at least 10 were seriously injured when a Polish tour bus crashed in northeast
04:01Hungary in the early hours of Sunday.
04:04The accident took place on a motorway when the bus, which was transporting pilgrims back
04:09from Serbia to Poland, veered into a ditch and overturned on its side.
04:14Media quoted police as saying the driver had fallen asleep at the wheel.
04:19Interior Minister Gabel Posfaj announced that the man has been taken into custody.
04:25Five of those injured were fighting for their lives, a Polish diplomat told a press conference.
04:31According to disaster management authorities, there were 57 passengers and two drivers on
04:37the tour bus, which was headed towards Nile Caza.
04:40After receiving on-site treatment, the injured were transported to hospitals across four different
04:46cities.
04:47Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Medjar and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk both expressed
04:52their condolences to the families of the victims.
05:00Overnight strikes from both sides have killed 12 people in Russia and Ukraine as long-range
05:04missile and drone attacks intensified.
05:07In Ukraine, Russian strikes killed two people at a steel plant in Kiririch, with two more
05:12killed in Zaporizhsia and one in Sunni.
05:15A popular outdoor book market in Kiev was also hit, sparking a major fire.
05:21President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had launched more than 1,500 drones into Ukraine
05:26over the past weeks.
05:29Meanwhile, Ukraine launched hundreds of drones into Russia in one of its largest aerial attacks
05:34since the full-scale invasion began in 2022.
05:38Russian authorities said five people were killed in Rosto, two more in Bolgorod and Moscow,
05:43while a Wild Berries warehouse in Podols caught fire.
05:48Russia's military said it destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones, including 600 reportedly heading towards
05:54Moscow.
06:03More than 290 people, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, were intercepted on Saturday by Moroccan
06:10authorities near the border with the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, according to local media.
06:16One Moroccan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, called the intervention a routine
06:22operation to prevent attempted irregular migration.
06:26One migrant from Sudan explains that he is looking for opportunity.
06:50On Wednesday, Moroccan authorities had announced another potential influx of migrants to Ceuta
06:56following a new wave of online disinformation, saying the border would be open.
07:02This comes two weeks after around 72,000 people rushed into the tiny territory,
07:08although the vast majority of them have since been returned to Morocco.
07:15Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia say they have recovered more bodies following a magnitude 7.7 earthquake that shook the
07:23country on Saturday.
07:24Rescuers dug through the rubble, searching for those buried beneath landslides triggered by the quake across six agencies on Flores,
07:33a predominantly Catholic island in the country.
07:36At least 53 people have died from the earthquake, but authorities fear the death toll could be much higher.
07:43More than 900 homes were destroyed and 450 more damaged in east Nusa Tengala province,
07:50forcing around 5,000 people into temporary shelters.
07:54According to the National Disaster Management Agency, in the Flores region alone, some 241 homes were damaged.
08:02Authorities say they have since recorded at least 995 aftershocks, but only 46 were felt by residents.
08:10Meanwhile, relief workers have begun distributing ready-to-eat meals, drinking water, blankets, and medicine,
08:17while emergency shelters were being set up for displaced residents.
08:21Indonesia is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions due to its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire.
08:33The Taliban government this weekend marked five years of rule in Afghanistan.
08:38Taliban fighters took power on August 15, 2021, after taking over the capital city of Kabul and the withdrawal of
08:47U.S.-led troops.
08:48Five years later, its supporters took to the streets in celebration,
08:52while its critics denounced tightening restrictions in all areas of daily life.
08:58Women are effectively being erased from public life and now suffer the most from Taliban government measures since they took
09:05over in August 2021.
09:07A few examples include being banned from public spaces, including parks and from most jobs,
09:14a blanket ban on playing sports and even showing their faces or speaking outside their homes.
09:20Women are also not allowed to look directly at men they are not related to by blood or marriage,
09:26while education for girls beyond age 12 is outlawed.
09:30Although Taliban officials have forged unofficial ties with multiple countries, mostly in Asia and the Middle East,
09:36Russia is the only country that recognizes them as Afghanistan's legitimate government.
09:42In a move that was widely criticized, EU officials held a technical meeting in Brussels with the Taliban last June.
09:49to discuss the return of Afghan migrants to the country.
09:57The Panathinaic Stadium has welcomed marathon runners, rock stars and the athletes of the first modern Olympic Games.
10:04Built entirely of white marble, it is undergoing its first systematic cleaning in more than a century.
10:10It was reconstructed for the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and also serves as the site of the Olympic
10:16Flame Handover ceremony,
10:18including the preparation for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.
10:47The process requires special care as a stadium is made of the same gleam.
10:51of the climbing marble used on the Acropolis, a fact that makes cleaning it a particularly delicate and demanding task.
10:57The cleaning work reveals the marks left on the historic monument by the passage of time, weather conditions and millions
11:02of visitors.
11:02The goal of cleaning is not to make everything white, it is to remove the dirt and the first layers
11:08of organic material that is deposited on the surface.
11:11With the growth, it is something that is fully problematic for monuments, because they expand, they have the attention to
11:18be bigger,
11:19and in some cases they leave material that is leave stains on top of the marbles.
11:24As the work progresses, the stadium's original glow is gradually being restored.
11:30After all, it is the stadium's pure white gleaming marble that gave it its widely known Greek name, Kalimarmaro, meaning
11:36beautiful marble.
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