00:00Trump gave no further details on the planned meeting with Kim, which would be their first since Trump's first term
00:07in the White House.
00:10A Ukrainian national was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the September 2022 explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
00:21EU leaders have expressed their support to the International Criminal Court after the US announced it would sanction top officials.
00:30A new study shows that the temperature of the Mediterranean Sea has risen by two degrees, leaving a severe impact
00:37on our ecosystem.
00:41US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he will be meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un later
00:49this year.
00:50Trump also gave an unusually specific assessment of North Korea's nuclear weapons capabilities, saying they possess 57 nuclear weapons.
01:00I get along with him right. And you know what? The fact that I get along with him, that's a
01:03good thing, not a bad thing.
01:05He has 57 very powerful nuclear weapons. Should have never allowed it to happen.
01:11They should have never allowed him. If I were president, I wouldn't have allowed him. But he's got him.
01:14Trump gave no further details on the planned meeting with Kim, which would be their first since Trump's first term
01:21in the White House.
01:22The announcement comes days after Trump scaled back joint U.S.-South Korea military drills, which he said sent an inappropriate
01:31and hostile signal to Pyongyang.
01:34He also described North Korea as unthreatening and respectful during his presidency,
01:41though it has conducted a series of missile tests during that time.
01:51A Ukrainian national was arrested on Wednesday in Croatia on suspicion of involvement in the September 2022 explosions on the
02:01Nord Stream Gas Pipeline.
02:03According to German prosecutors, the person arrested is a trained scuba diver who was part of a group of individuals
02:10who planted explosives on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2.
02:15He was strongly suspected of jointly causing explosions, anti-constitutional sabotage and destruction of buildings and structures, they added.
02:24The undersea gas pipeline was linking Russia to Germany to carry Russian natural gas under the Baltic Sea.
02:31The incident had heightened tensions over the war in Ukraine,
02:36at a time when Europe was seeking to end its dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
02:41According to prosecutors, the aim of these explosions was to prevent Moscow from profiting from its energy revenues.
02:49Russia had accused the United States of being behind these explosions, an accusation denied by Washington.
03:01A Russian drone attack on a bus in Kherson in southern Ukraine killed four people and injured several others on
03:08Wednesday.
03:08In a post on Ex-President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed the attack as part of a, quote,
03:13safari hunt against Ukrainian civilians.
03:23Local media reported that Russia launched two ballistic missiles and 65 drones at Ukraine overnight into Wednesday.
03:31In Zaporizhia, two people were killed and at least 10 injured by Russian drone strikes.
03:35That's according to local authorities.
03:38The fire broke out on a second floor of the hostel.
03:41A furniture store was set ablaze and the roof of a nearby apartment building was damaged.
03:52EU leaders have expressed their support to the International Criminal Court
03:56after the United States announced it would sanction top officials investigating Israel's actions in Gaza.
04:02In a statement, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,
04:07and Council Chief Antonio Costa said that the ICC helps deliver justice to the victims of some of the world's
04:14most horrific crimes.
04:15They added that in order to carry out this essential work,
04:19its judges and officials must be able to act independently and without external pressure.
04:25The statement came after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio
04:28announced that the U.S. would sanction the ICC's President Japan's Tomoko Akane
04:34and senior lawyer Abdul Aissi of Senegal.
04:37The top officials have been tasked with probing war crimes allegedly committed by Israel in its war in Gaza.
04:43The ICC has described these sanctions as a flagrant attack on its independence.
04:53The party of European socialists is heading towards an internal showdown.
04:58Divisions among national delegations over migration policy is deepening in the wake of the Souter crisis
05:05in which over 72,000 people illegally crossed into the Spanish enclave from Morocco at the end of July.
05:12During the crisis, Denmark's center-left Prime Minister Mitter Frederiksen joined Italy, Germany, Finland and Sweden
05:20in criticizing Pedro Sanchez's government over its handling of the situation.
05:26Frederiksen co-led with Italy's far-right leader Giorgia Meloni
05:29a letter signed by 22 member states that criticized Spain's recent regularization of around half a million migrants.
05:38In a letter sent to the party of European socialists' president earlier this week,
05:44two heavyweights MEPs from Italy and Spain accused Frederiksen of selective solidarity.
05:50They argued that Frederiksen adopted the narrative of the radical right.
05:55The Italian and Spanish delegations point out that Denmark enjoyed European solidarity
06:01during open threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to seize the autonomous territory of Greenland.
06:08Denmark's Social Democrats' membership of the European Socialist Party is not in question.
06:14The aim is rather to find common ground on this sensitive topic.
06:25The Latvian president has come to one of Europe's most sensitive borders
06:28as the Baltic country faces growing security threats from its eastern neighbors,
06:32from irregular migration to the risk of war.
06:35I'm standing here in Latvia with Belarus being just on my side.
06:39The fence behind me was built two years ago to cope with irregular migration.
06:43The Belarusian regime is being blamed for the high number of migrants attempting to enter Latvia.
06:48And the timing is no coincidence.
06:51Partly this is because Latvia had five elections in October, that's number one.
06:56And of course then it's really important somehow to show that we are not able to cope with the pressure.
07:05Latvia finished its fence along the 173-kilometer border with Belarus this year.
07:10But all the work to strengthen the border protection should be completed by the end of the year.
07:14Latvia is adding surveillance systems, cameras, drones and towers.
07:18In the meantime, migrants are finding increasingly difficult ways to get through.
07:21Either climbing the fence or even digging under.
07:24On some days of the summer, Latvia has recorded more than 100 attempted illegal crossings.
07:29Also testing.
07:31Testing of our capabilities, testing of our resolve and trying to find great spots.
07:38And the challenge goes well beyond people trying to cross the border.
07:42The Baltic country just days ago had a drone shot down in its territory,
07:46experiences hybrid attacks and is preparing even for a threat of war.
07:50These blocks, all these fortification materials would help us to enable this terrain.
07:56Latvia is strengthening its border defenses by prepositioning fortification materials,
08:00planning minefields and other obstacles
08:02and integrating drone and deep strike capabilities into a defense line.
08:05Are you expecting more hybrid threats from Russia and Belarusian?
08:09I think we are much better prepared, but we never can rule out anything.
08:15The United Arab Emirates has severed economic ties with Iran by halting all trade, commercial exchange
08:22and financial transactions until further notice.
08:25The decision follows after Iran fired two ballistic missiles towards the country on Tuesday,
08:31which Abu Dhabi says were directed at shipping.
08:34Both of the missiles fell into the sea, one of them inside Emirati territorial waters.
08:41Tehran denied targeting the UAE, which has been a major trading partner for Iran.
08:46Abu Dhabi has previously slammed the targeting of commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz
08:51as a violation on the freedom of navigation and said Iran used the strait
08:55as a tool of economic coercion and blackmail.
09:03Iran has executed over 900 people since the beginning of 2026,
09:07according to a report by human rights group, the Abdurrahman Burraman Center.
09:12The Washington-based group documented 901 executions between January and July
09:17and 28 executions in August alone.
09:21The rights group noticed a sharp increase in the use of capital punishment,
09:25cross-cases involving national security, drug-related offenses and members of ethnic minorities.
09:32At least 56 people were executed during the seven-month period on political or national security charges.
09:3913 were accused of espionage and 14 were sentenced on other security-related charges.
09:44Drug-related offenses accounted for at least 268 executions.
09:49The figures also show a disproportionate impact on ethnic minorities and other vulnerable groups.
09:55The report documented the execution of 16 women and two people under the age of 18
10:00at the time of their alleged offenses.
10:03The latest figures add to growing international concern over the scale of executions in Iran.
10:15European surface temperatures are rising due to climate change,
10:19and the Mediterranean Sea has seen a rise of around 2 degrees, according to a new scientific study.
10:27The study by the World Weather Attribution Group shows that some of these areas are heating up faster than the
10:33global average.
10:35Researchers found that the change in temperature is severely impacting our ecosystems.
10:41Their marine life is moving from warmer waters up into the Mediterranean,
10:48and then from warmer, more southerly waters, such as down near Spain,
10:52is now pushing more north towards Ireland,
10:54and then the fish, say, around Ireland are being pushed even further north again towards the North Sea.
10:59So this is concerning on a number of levels,
11:02not just for marine life, but also for its impacts on human communities.
11:06Experts say that this is particularly being driven by the continued burning of fossil fuels.
11:14Meanwhile, Western European seas have seen an increase of over 1.3 to 1.4 degrees Celsius.
11:22According to the European Union's Global Warming Monitor,
11:26the world's oceans hit record high temperatures for a second straight month in July.
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