00:00German Chancellor Friedrich Maas has warned the people behind hybrid attacks against his country
00:05as investigators widened the probe into suspected sabotage at Leipzig Hall Airport using drones.
00:21Investigators found a third drone on August 14, ten days after an earlier incident involving a drone found near a
00:27Ukrainian cargo plane.
00:28They also found around 50 grams of suspected military explosive near the airport.
00:34Beyond the airport, officers also found a possible drone control device, an antenna and electronic components attached to a tree,
00:42along with scorched earth and metal fragments that could indicate a blast site.
00:46The initial incident on 5 August caused flight diversions after an unidentified flying object was spotted near the airport.
00:54X-ray analysis later identified it as a drone.
00:57German authorities have repeatedly suspected Russia of orchestrating drone incidents as part of sabotage, espionage and disinformation campaigns,
01:06although Moscow has denied involvement.
01:08Germany's Air Navigation Service recorded 144 drones overflights last year, including 35 around Frankfurt Airport.
01:21The European Union has approved Ukraine's next spending envelope of 6.1 billion euros for defence procurement,
01:29as part of the bloc's 90 billion euros loan programme the EU executive announced on Monday.
01:35The approval comes as Ukraine marks 35 years of independence amid a rise in civilian deaths from Russian attacks due
01:43to Kyiv's shortage of air defence systems.
01:46According to a statement by the European Commission, the defence funding aims to supply Kyiv with air and missile defence
01:53systems, missiles, ammunition and radars.
01:56The funding also comes as EU leaders participated in key meetings in Kyiv on Monday, including the Coalition of the
02:04Willing Meeting,
02:05aimed at drumming up additional air support and energy supplies for Ukraine as it edges closer to winter.
02:14Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenskyy honoured the memory of falling soldiers on Monday,
02:23as the country marked their independence day.
02:27Zelenskyy and his wife laid flowers at the Wall of Remembrance, a memorial to Ukraine's falling defenders,
02:33alongside other European leaders, as part of the official celebration.
02:38No delegates from the Trump administration were present at the ceremony marking the independence day
02:44as Russia pushes on with its more than four-year-old invasion of the country.
02:53The United Nations and the Red Cross warned that the world is dangerously close to a future where autonomous weapons,
03:00so-called killer robots, could target humans.
03:03The organisations called for urgent international regulations, as there is currently no specific treaty on autonomous and AI-enabled weapons.
03:13Three years ago, we called on states to establish specific prohibitions and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems.
03:22Today, we renew this call with even greater urgency.
03:26The fundamental concerns remain unchanged, but the risks have intensified.
03:32We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line, the autonomous targeting of humans by machines.
03:42In 2023, the UN and the Red Cross called for states to establish specific bans and restrictions on the rapidly
03:49developing technology.
03:50By this year, lethal autonomous weapons systems are able to select targets and apply force without human intervention.
03:58There has to date been no confirmed use of fully autonomous weapons.
04:02But with the abundant use of drone warfare in the Middle East and Ukraine, some fear it could soon happen.
04:08After three years of talks, countries are set to decide in November whether to launch treaty negotiations.
04:20Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said that Armenia would begin preparing to apply for EU membership.
04:27It represents a historic geopolitical shift for a country formerly in Russia's orbit and for the South Caucasus as a
04:34whole.
04:35In a speech to Parliament, Pashinyan said Armenia would organize a referendum after formally applying to join the EU in
04:42the near future.
04:42Armenia is currently a member of the Russia-led collective security treaty organization.
04:48Yerevan was given an ultimatum a few months ago from alliance members to choose between continuing its membership or taking
04:56its own path towards the EU.
04:58Russian President Vladimir Putin also made it clear Armenia's EU accession would be incompatible with Yerevan's Eurasian Economic Union membership.
05:17In response to Pashinyan's announcement, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Armenia's departure from the CSTO may trigger what he
05:27called deep trade contradictions that will primarily harm Armenia.
05:37Usually peaceful, the French resort town of Les Deux Alpes was at the center of a controversy a few days
05:43ago following a video that went viral on social media in which the manager of this snack bar makes anti
05:48-semitic remarks.
05:57An investigation has been launched following this incident, but the incident has cast a chill over the resort which Orthodox
06:05Jewish families have been visiting every summer for decades.
06:26This incident has also sparked a lot of talk and brought to light potential sources of tension that may exist
06:33in alpine resorts between the local population and vacationers.
06:36D'autres personnes, even when we walk in the street with children, who talk bad aux children because they have
06:41a key-pop,
06:41it is to say that the people are frustrated that there are children, that there are a lot of Jews,
06:45so it's not the only one, finally.
06:47When I was at Tignes, there were problems, for example, on the piscine, on the fact that they have to
06:52be bathed,
06:53that the men and women, they have to be bathed, they have to be bathed, they have to be bathed,
06:57they have to be bathed, they have to be bathed.
07:01That's the right word, but in any case, there is a need for adjustment, and sometimes they have to be
07:05bathed, simply.
07:07The mayor of U.S. also responded to the controversy. He said he remembers moments of tension in the past,
07:13but he assured that the situation has improved significantly.
07:22Roofs were torn off and homes were damaged after a tornado tore through a village in the southwest of France
07:28on Monday, injuring 41 people.
07:31The tornado hit the village of Bomas, where the destruction was significant. An estimated 300 homes were damaged.
07:38Over 120 emergency workers were deployed to the scene and reinforcements are expected from nearby regions.
07:45Authorities said 15 people were taken to the hospital.
07:50Videos circulating online show an impressive vortex of wind moving through several communities.
07:55The National Weather Service said winds had reached up to 117 km per hour.
08:02French authorities had placed several regions of the country's southwest on orange alert for storms.
08:07Numerous areas were hit by power outages.
08:10The storms also upended the transportation network, delaying trains, forcing road closures,
08:16and causing delays and cancellations at airports in Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice, Toulouse, and even Paris.
08:28Around 3,000 people in Indonesia's South Sumatra province have performed a special Islamic prayer for rain
08:34as huge blazes continued to score swaths of forests and peatlands in the central and western regions.
08:40They met in the courtyard of the governor's office as thick smoke shrouded roads, buildings, and public facilities,
08:47significantly reducing visibility.
08:50South Sumatra Governor Herman Duru said the prayers would complement ongoing firefighting and drought mitigation measures.
08:57He added that it would also serve as a moment for residents to unite in confronting the environmental challenges facing
09:03the province.
09:05South Sumatra has the highest number of wildfire hotspots in all of Indonesia,
09:09with the latest government data recording its tally at 1,429, followed by West Kalimantan, which sat at 1,226.
09:20Officials say wildfires have so far burned an area close to 1,000 square kilometers in July alone,
09:26with 20 square kilometers in the southeastern province.
09:321 million children in Afghanistan are suffering from life-threatening malnutrition in a worsening new crisis hitting the country,
09:39the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
09:42UNICEF's Afghanistan representative Tajuddin Ayewali said that if there is no treatment or rapid intervention,
09:48those children are at risk of dying.
09:51The UN agency added that the total amount of malnourished children has surpassed 3.7 million across the country,
09:57though most are not classified as severe cases.
10:01Afghanistan has endured repeated periods of widespread hunger in recent decades,
10:05as it had struggled through civil war and other crises.
10:08An economic collapse followed the Taliban government's return to power after U.S.-led forces withdrew in 2021,
10:15creating instabilities greatly affecting children.
10:19Ayewali said that nearly 40% of children admitted to hospitals with severe wasting and medical complications
10:25were babies under the age of six months old.
10:28Meanwhile, children under two years of age make up more than 80% of severe acute malnutrition cases in Afghanistan.
10:38Germany's economy grew more than previously expected in the second quarter,
10:41with GDP rising 0.3% from April to June.
10:46The revised figure from the Federal Statistical Office was higher than the initial estimate of 0.2%.
10:52Year-on-year GDP increased by 1%, revised from 0.9%.
10:57Exports rose 2%, helping drive growth, while household and government consumption increased only 0.1%.
11:05Manufacturing output also rose by 0.9%, led by the chemical and electrical equipment industries.
11:12Beyond the latest growth figures, Germany's IFO Business Climate Index rose to 88.8% in August from 86.7
11:21% in July,
11:22suggesting improving sentiment across major sectors.
11:25However, high energy prices and weak domestic demand remain risks.
11:30Germany's government now expects the economy to grow by 0.5% in 2026, down from its previous forecast of
11:371%.
11:38The economy has struggled in recent years amid high energy costs, stronger Chinese competition and U.S. tariffs.
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