00:02Spanish authorities have announced they are creating temporary shelters in the
00:05enclave of Ceuta to host 1,800 migrants in a bid to ease the humanitarian crisis
00:11in the area. According to local media, around 4,000 people have been staying on
00:17El Trampolin Beach. The government, however, said it planned to gradually
00:20expand the capacity of the temporary facilities. The move comes after tens of
00:26thousands of migrants crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave last
00:30month. The majority of those that breached the border have since returned back to
00:34Morocco, but thousands remain, including many unaccompanied children. Those who are
00:41still in Ceuta are struggling to access food, water, shelter and sanitation as the
00:46city's resources are overwhelmed. At least 90 people died on both sides of the
00:52border, making it one of the deadliest migration crises to hit the region.
01:00At least 12 people were killed in an overnight Russian missile barrage on
01:04Kiev with another 33 injured, according to Ukrainian authorities. The strikes hit 12
01:11sites across three Kiev districts, damaging homes, a medical facility and an
01:15educational institution. Emergency crews rescued people trapped under rubble. In
01:21Solomiansky, the top two floor of a nine-story residential building were destroyed and fires
01:26broke out elsewhere. Beyond Kiev, Poland deployed aircraft and activated air defense systems to
01:33protect its airspace near Ukraine. Romania also scrambled two Spanish fighter jets and a
01:39Romanian helicopter after radar detected aerial targets near the Ukrainian border. Russia has
01:44intensified ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv while Ukraine has stepped up long-range strikes against
01:50Russian military and strategic targets. Moscow authorities said around 250 drones targeted the
01:56region overnight, with most intercepted away from the capital.
02:06European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde warned on Wednesday that Europe missed out on the first
02:12digital revolution and cannot afford to miss out again with AI. Lagarde told the International Business
02:19Council of the World Economic Forum in Geneva that the EU needs to complete its single market and
02:25integrate capital markets that remain too fragmented if it wants to win the AI race against the US and
02:32China. In 2024, her predecessor Mario Draghi had already pointed to AI as the last chance for Europe
02:39to rejoin the international tech race. Since then, the European Commission has promoted the uptake of AI
02:46as well as the financing of data centers. In addition, Lagarde stressed that access to capital is limiting AI
02:54investments as capital markets remain too limited at the national level. Hence, the ECB president called
03:01for speeding up key reforms currently under negotiation in Brussels, namely the Savings and Investment Union
03:08and single market integration reforms such as EU Inc.
03:16Belgium's largest wildfire in a century was brought under control on Thursday after a seven-day fight
03:23involving hundreds of firefighters in the High Fence Nature Reserve. The local governor's office said the
03:31fire is not expected to spread unless there is a major change in weather conditions. The High Fence fire
03:37expanded over the weekend to half the size of Manhattan, burning through peatland, pine trees and
03:44hiking trails. Authorities said the fire was now fully contained on its western side with operations
03:50continuing to the east to finish the job. But officials have warned it will take weeks or even months of
03:57soaking and dowsing to prevent the blaze from reigniting. Around 350 firefighters and other emergency
04:05personnel remain deployed, as do the many farmers who mobilized in support of the operation last week.
04:12All evacuation orders in the border region were lifted on Wednesday, allowing residents to return home.
04:19The blaze broke out for reasons still unknown in an area that was ravaged by massive fires in 1911
04:26during a similar period of heat waves. It was the country's largest wildfire since then.
04:36The Israeli military said on Wednesday it would open criminal investigations into two high-profile
04:42incidents involving the killing of Palestinians during the war in Gaza. The first being the fatal shooting of
04:485-year-old Hind Rajab, while the second involves the killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics. Hind Rajab was
04:55killed in February 2024, when Israeli troops opened fire on a vehicle she was traveling in with six of
05:01her relatives as they tried to flee the central Gaza city. Hind initially survived the attack that killed
05:07her entire family, and remained on the phone with the Palestinian Red Crescent, who sought permission from
05:12Israel to go and rescue her until gunshots and screams were heard. Around two weeks later, Hind,
05:19her family, and the bodies of two paramedics dispatched to rescue her were found dead.
05:24In May 2025, 15 paramedics were killed in Rafah after Israeli troops opened fire on ambulances and other
05:32emergency vehicles responding to casualties. Their bodies and damaged vehicles were subsequently buried in a mass grave
05:39discovered by the UN and rescue workers about a week later. The Israeli military initially said the
05:45vehicles were advancing suspiciously without headlights or emergency signals, an account
05:50it later revised after phone footage emerged showing the opposite. Both incidents drew widespread
05:56condemnation from the international community who accused Israel of targeting civilians and medical workers,
06:02both crimes under international law. The IDF did not, however, address several other high-profile killings
06:08that had previously pledged to investigate, including strikes on a hospital in August 2025 that killed
06:14five journalists. North Korea fired an unidentified projectile of its east coast on Thursday,
06:24hours after disregarding a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea.
06:31South Korea's Joint Chiso staff announced the launch but gave no immediate details about the projectile.
06:38Kim Yo-yong, the sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, said reducing the drills did not change
06:43their provocative and aggressive nature. Beyond the launch, Kim Yo-yong denied communications between
06:49her brother and Donald Trump, despite the U.S. president saying Kim had responded to his request for talks.
06:56The comments came after Washington and Seoul confirmed they were shortening the 11-day
07:01ULCHI Freedom Shield exercises at Trump's request. South Korea said the drills would now end on the
07:0721st of August rather than 27th of August, while some joint field training would also be reduced.
07:14Trump claimed he would meet Kim Yo-yong again this year.
07:17I mean, they're coming up with...
07:21Since 28th of July, emergency helicopters have stopped landing at night at
07:25Haute-Pierre Hospital in Strasbourg. The reason? The presence of civilian drones at night in the helipad area.
07:32These drones loaded with packages are headed for the nearby Elso prison.
07:36Cell phones, cigarettes and drugs are dropped there.
07:39In Strasbourg, as in all prisons across France, this delivery method is on the rise.
07:44From 9 pm to 6 am, helicopters are therefore redirected to a nearby hospital,
07:49before patients are transferred by ambulance.
07:52This procedure comes at a cost. First and foremost, a human cost. An additional team must be mobilized.
07:57And in terms of time, caring for the patients takes an extra 30 to 40 minutes.
08:17For the prefecture and health authorities, the challenge is to find a solution quickly.
08:22The possibility of landing on a football field near the hospital is being explored.
08:36Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are moving back to the UK this month,
08:41but they won't be resuming their roles as working members of the royal family, according to reports.
08:46Harry and Meghan gave up their royal duties and moved to California more than six years ago
08:52to earn their living through lucrative contracts with Netflix and Spotify.
08:56However, one royal expert believes it is still possible for Harry to regain his popularity.
09:04If he really wants to come back to the UK and be a public figure again, then it will be,
09:11he will have to sort of move slowly and deliberately to sort of rebuild his presence here in the UK.
09:21But that is possible. Camilla has sort of shifted from public enemy number one in the mid-1990s to being
09:30one of the leading members of the royal family.
09:33The family plans to live at a private non-royal residence outside of London.
09:38Relations with the rest of the royal family soured when they moved to the U.S.,
09:43mainly due to frank interviews by the couple and to Harry's best-selling tell-all biography spare.
09:50Harry has recently expressed an interest in reconciliation with his father, King Charles,
09:55who is being treated for an undisclosed former cancer.
09:59Bucketham Palace has a policy of not commenting on the affairs of non-working members of the royal family.
10:10European surface temperatures are rising due to climate change,
10:15and the Mediterranean Sea has seen a rise of around two degrees, according to a new scientific study.
10:22The study by the World Weather Attribution Group shows that some of these areas are heating up
10:28faster than the global average. Researchers found that the change in temperature is severely
10:34impacting our ecosystems. Their marine life is moving from warmer waters up into the Mediterranean,
10:43and then from warmer, more southerly waters, such as down near Spain, is now pushing more north
10:49towards Ireland, and then the fish, say around Ireland, are being pushed even further north again
10:53towards the North Sea. So this is concerning on a number of levels, not just for marine life,
10:59but also for its impacts on human communities. Experts say that this is particularly being driven
11:06by the continued burning of fossil fuels. Meanwhile, Western European seas have seen an increase
11:13of over 1.3 to 1.4 degrees Celsius. According to the European Union's Global Warming Monitor,
11:21the world's oceans hit record high temperatures for a second straight month in July.
