00:01On Saturday, Iceland will vote on whether to resume negotiations on joining the European Union.
00:07A yes vote would restart negotiations in Brussels, while a no vote would be a setback for the EU's enlargement
00:14drive.
00:15Iceland previously applied to join the bloc in 2009 following a financial crisis,
00:20but these negotiations were eventually suspended after a Eurosceptic coalition came into power in 2013.
00:27By then, Iceland's economy had largely recovered and public support for joining the bloc also faded,
00:34with fisheries being a main point of contention.
00:37However, a reversal came in 2024, when a pro-EU coalition government took office.
00:44Since then, major geopolitical developments reshaped the international landscape,
00:49such as US President Donald Trump threatening to seize Greenland and the Arctic becoming a hotspot for rare-earth minerals.
00:56This made a deeper cooperation with the EU a key variable in safeguarding Iceland.
01:03Opinion polls suggest the results are expected to be very close,
01:07with farming and fishing remaining among the most contentious issues.
01:15Six EU countries are intensifying calls for a bloc-wide windfall tax on oil companies as profit surge amid the
01:22war in the Middle East.
01:25Finance ministers from Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Portugal, along with Spain's economy minister,
01:32urged Ireland to put the issue on the agenda for next month's meeting of EU finance chiefs in Dublin.
01:37The ministers called for an EU-wide framework to tax windfall profits, drawing on the temporary Levi introduced in 2022
01:46after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
01:49Beyond the proposal, Germany's finance minister, Lars Klingbeil, said that excessive crisis profits should be returned to consumers.
01:57Energy companies have posted major earnings as the war disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.
02:02However, the EU has not yet signaled plans for a new Levi.
02:07The latter remains a preliminary draft while political divisions persist within member states, including Germany.
02:18A landslide at a waste site in Guinea early on Sunday has killed 30 people and injured several others.
02:25Heavy rain caused a mound of rubbish to collapse, burying nearby tents and shacks and destroying several homes.
02:55The waste site had been designated for closure on that same Sunday, days prior to the incident.
03:01The government had given residents living nearby eviction notices.
03:05According to local residents, they'd been asking for the closure of the dump for months.
03:10We, the UNIS, we did everything to avoid this.
03:13But it did not prevent this issue.
03:16Because we organized the settings, we organized the sacrifices, we invited the prime minister and the prime minister,
03:24but they did not take care of this issue.
03:27So what we did today, I did not take care of this issue.
03:30Because we did not take care of this issue.
03:32We did not take care of this issue.
03:39The surge and rescue operation was launched to try and find survivors.
03:47Europe continues to face severe weather with wildfires, floods and storms affecting several countries.
03:53In Serbia, an EU response evolving helicopters and firefighters is helping battle a blaze that has engulfed more than 1
04:01,600 hectares
04:02in the Deliplatska Paskara Nature Reserve.
04:04A Russian Ilyushin water bomber and Serbian army helicopters are also assisting.
04:09Beyond Serbia, a large wildfire near Bosnia-Croatia border forced village evacuations
04:15and closed the main highway between Trebnice and Dubrovnik.
04:20Croatian firefighters joined the response as strong winds pushed the flames inland.
04:24In Spain, flooding in Tarragona injured 11 people after more than 145 millimeters of rain fell in some areas.
04:33Meanwhile, firefighters in Valencia stabilized a wildfire that burned around 630 hectares and forced more than 1,000 people to
04:41evacuate.
04:43Further north, Poland recorded more than 6,500 storm-related incidents since Friday.
04:49Twelve scout camps were evacuated while conditions have since improved across much of the country.
05:01Around 10,000 people took to the streets of Stockholm, the Swedish capital, in protest against human-induced climate change,
05:09weeks ahead of a 13 September general election where the issue is top among Swedish voters' concerns.
05:16Sunday's protest came as experts have warned that the government's climate policy jeopardizes Sweden's emissions-cutting goals
05:24and to achieve net zero emissions by 2045.
05:28There is absolutely no party in Sweden who are even proposing politics in line with anything close to what science
05:37would take for us to avoid a climate disaster.
05:41I do not have hope in our elected officials, no. But I have hope in people, yes.
05:46Since taking power in 2022, Prime Minister Ulf Kristensen's right-wing government has cut petrol taxes
05:54and reduced requirements for petrol suppliers to add low-carbon alternatives to their mix.
06:00Swedes will go to the polls to elect a new parliament with the ruling right-wing bloc,
06:04trailing in opinion polls and making a change of government likely.
06:13Wildfires across Europe are exposing a potentially deadly threat beneath the landscape,
06:18unexploded bombs and mines left from World Wars I and II.
06:22Some weapons have exploded in intense heat, with blasts reported in France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
06:29In Belgium, fires have spread across former battlefields, including the High Fence,
06:34where emergency services have been adapting to the risk of buried munitions.
06:39Beyond the immediate threat to firefighters, Belgium's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service responds to more than 3,000 calls every year
06:47and disposes of up to 250 tons of wartime munitions.
06:51Climate change is increasing the risk, researchers say, as extreme heat and drought can trigger explosives or expose weapons hidden
06:59underground.
07:00Drought has also revealed weapons in rivers and lakes.
07:05In Slovakia, falling water exposed two naval mines, while bombs emerged from receding waters in Hungary and Germany.
07:20A relic from World War II that everyone has been talking about for weeks.
07:24This motorcycle has laid in the mud of the Danube for more than 80 years.
07:29Low water levels in Budapest have exposed the wreckage.
07:32Euronews returned to the site of the discovery.
07:35Here there were many tires from the last time of the war in Budapest.
07:42These tires were all thrown down here, directly after the war.
07:48And then later, these stones came on.
07:51Fighting raged around Budapest for 102 days in 1945.
07:56Tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died.
08:00To commemorate the battles for Budapest, the motorcycle recovered from the Danube will later be part of an exhibition.
08:31What the mud had preserved over decades is now becoming visible piece by piece.
08:35In addition to the motorcycle, there is also equipment and military identity tags belonging to two soldiers.
08:42The camps were taken into the depot,
08:46in the largest soldiers of the army in Ungarn,
08:51in the army in Budapest.
08:53The camps were cleaned up,
08:55were taken into anthropologically,
08:57and then in October or November
08:59were invited to the other soldiers in this year.
09:03And until then, the experts are trying to find out more about the two men.
09:07If they were fallen,
09:09they would have broken his comrades.
09:12The upper part stays with the soldiers with the two holes.
09:15The upper part stays with the soldiers,
09:16and the upper part takes the comrades and sends them to the central place.
09:20This would give the fallen soldiers a grave after more than 80 years,
09:24and perhaps one bearing their names,
09:26but the Volksbund and the Hungarian Institute and Museum of Military History
09:30remembrance is also a form of peace work.
09:37Every year on August 15th,
09:39hundreds of members of the Greek community
09:41returned to Imbros, Orgo Xeada in Turkish,
09:43to celebrate the Dormition of the Virgin Mary.
09:47The Greek community once constituted the majority of the island's population.
09:52Now the annual festival brings people together.
09:55It's like a film.
09:57I think it should be supported,
09:59and I think it should be a part of the war.
10:01I think it should be a part of the war.
10:04I want to live in the museum.
10:08It's a part of the Greek community,
10:09the most famous son of the island,
10:10the ecumenical patriarch,
10:11Bartholomew.
10:12Every year,
10:13he returns to Imbros,
10:14to celebrate the feast of the Assumption.
10:16Many fear, however,
10:17that the island's Greek cultural heritage and tradition
10:19are on the verge of disappearing.
10:20Many people came from the United States,
10:22but from the United States and Europe,
10:25the many people came from the Australia.
10:29And from Australia,
10:31I think it's very beautiful.
10:33but we're not sure.
10:35But we're not sure.
10:36We're not sure.
10:36We're not sure.
10:37We're not sure.
10:38We're not sure.
10:38We're not sure.
10:40The village is very beautiful.
10:44Giorgos Bakiis was born on the island.
10:47He left at the age of 18
10:49because of the violence and returned after his retirement.
11:14Timolayon Chaknis was born on the island,
11:16he left also and returned after he retired.
11:19Today, he teaches his songs to young musicians on the island.
11:24My parents were very good.
11:29I had a lot of fun, and I had a lot of fun.
11:33I had a lot of fun.
11:35I had a lot of fun, and I had a lot of fun.
11:35I had a lot of fun, I had a lot of fun.
11:46I had a lot of fun.
11:46You were even worried about them.
11:47Also, you guys had many fun,
11:47and they didn't come to me.
11:47I don't voy aCor scriver.
