00:00U.S. forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers on Tuesday after Iran's Revolutionary Guards
00:06targeted a U.S. Navy warship with ballistic missiles.
00:09U.S. Central Command said the warship successfully evaded the attacks and no American personnel
00:13were harmed.
00:14The crews of the five vessels were ordered to abandon ship before the strikes.
00:19Iran then launched missiles towards U.S. targets in Jordan, according to Iranian state media.
00:26Jordan's military said it intercepted 18 ballistic missiles while two others fell in unpopulated
00:31areas.
00:32No casualties were reported.
00:34The escalation followed Iran's capture of an unmanned U.S. underwater vessel near the entrance
00:39to Strait of Hormuz.
00:42Iranian state television broadcast images of what it said was the captured drone.
00:47Washington also imposed new sanctions on more than two dozen airlines and cargo providers
00:52linked to Iran's aviation sector.
00:53The latest exchanges have intensified the struggle for control of the Strait of Hormuz through
00:59which around one-fifth of the world's oil passed before the war.
01:05At least five people were killed and close to three dozen more were injured in Russian
01:10attacks on the Ukrainian capital overnight into Wednesday.
01:13The Kremlin fired a barrage consisting of missiles and drones targeting Kyiv, which has increasingly
01:19become a target in recent weeks as Ukraine continues to suffer from critical interceptor missile shortages.
01:25The missile struck civilian areas according to officials, hitting residential buildings, a school,
01:31and several warehouses, all of which sustained damage.
01:35The strikes also signal a definitive end to a temporary suspension of hostilities in both Kyiv
01:40and the Russian capital Moscow during a weekend visit by U.S. envoys.
01:45Elsewhere in Ukraine, a Russian drone strike killed civilians at a checkpoint on the border with Moldova,
01:51according to the country's State Border Guard service.
01:54The strike killed and wounded civilians who were near the checkpoint, though authorities did not detail how many,
02:00and caused fires, prompting its temporary closure.
02:03Meanwhile, the Russian defense ministry announced on Wednesday that it had shot down close to 600 Ukrainian drones fired into
02:11its territory overnight.
02:13The governor of the southwestern city of Novosysk says Ukrainian drones struck an oil terminal,
02:19killing at least four people and sparking a fire.
02:26SOTA's president, Juan Jesus Vivas, has accused Morocco of a policy of harassment towards a Spanish exclave,
02:32urging the EU to take a tougher stance and fund border security.
02:36Some 80,000 migrants entered SOTA starting on 30th of July over two days,
02:41in an incident that left more than 150 people dead at sea.
02:46Vivas met EU commissioners and lawmakers in Brussels, calling for help to return irregular migrants and restore normality.
02:54He accused Pedro Sánchez's government of failing to respond adequately,
02:58while Spain has not blamed Morocco and instead pointed to false claims on social media and human trafficking.
03:04Vivas said SOTA was on the brink of collapse and called for EU financial support for border infrastructure,
03:10as well as a permanent presence of Frontex and the EU asylum agency.
03:14The EU is financing Morocco's migration strategy with 160 million euros until 2027.
03:22Brussels is set to send a technical mission to SOTA this week to assess the situation.
03:34The arrival of around 80,000 migrants in the Spanish enclave of SOTA in July was a hybrid attack on
03:41an external border of the European Union,
04:03The arrival heightened tension with Rabat after police reports pointed to permissiveness by Morocco.
04:13the European security forces towards the border crossings.
04:17The objective is, and let's be very clear about that also,
04:22to weaken the Spain and through that to weaken the European Union.
04:26At the time when the European Union is going through a lot of electoral process at that time,
04:33when there are questionings in the European Union, including from political parties within the European Union,
04:39and where migration is a sensitive social issue.
04:43González-Laya believes Spain and the EU must have the best relationship possible with their neighbours,
04:48adding this is good for the stability of Europe.
04:54Passengers travelling to and from the UK faced severe disruptions on Tuesday after a technical glitch affected air traffic control
05:01systems.
05:03More than 1,300 flights were cancelled according to Flightradar24 affecting airports including Heathrow, Gatwick, Manchester and Birmingham.
05:13N.A.T.S. said it had identified a technical issue with its flight processing system and later confirmed the
05:19problem had been resolved.
05:22But disruptions continued as airlines and airports worked to clear the backlog.
05:27Heathrow suspended arrivals for the remainder of the day while departures resumed with disruption expected to continue.
05:35Flights were also affected at Luton, Stansted, Liverpool and Edinburgh as well as Dublin Airport in Ireland.
05:43Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander welcomed the resolution but said it would take time for flights to fully resume,
05:49urging passengers to continue checking with their airlines.
05:57They were hailed as heroes during the wildfires, heatwaves and droughts that struck France this summer.
06:04But for French firefighters, this recognition is no longer enough.
06:08They are demanding more material, financial and human resources.
06:13On Tuesday, eight professional firefighters' unions began a six-week strike.
06:17In particular, they are criticizing the government's proposed civil security modernization bill,
06:22which they consider insufficient, giving the needs on the ground.
06:25And the 29th, massivement, the anger goes up.
06:28They groaned in the casernes.
06:30With what we have this morning, they are not close to it.
06:33This is a certainty.
06:35The sapeurs-pompiers, we have said in the conference, it's the last social retreat.
06:38And we, a call, we go.
06:40There is always a victim behind.
06:42We refuse to go.
06:43We refuse to go.
06:43However, there are things that we do not need to do.
06:45The government must take its responsibilities to center our mission.
06:48There is no more degradation on the remaining security.
06:50We have seen the last summer, during the field of forest in France,
06:54where we have seen the sapeurs-pompiers intervene with limited moyens of protection,
06:57French sapeurs-pompiers,
06:59and European sapeurs-pompiers,
07:01which come, for example, with more respirator protection,
07:03more advanced for protectors.
07:05According to the Unions, France should follow the Romanian model
07:08to address structural problems facing firefighters.
07:29To keep up the pressure, the unions are planning a demonstration in Paris on the 29th of September,
07:35just before the government presents its 2027 budget.
08:00The perennial aspect of Kernza was attractive in that it has some neat features or some neat
08:09traits that highlight some of that sustainability and conservation, things that we were interested
08:17in anyway.
08:26Over time, it becomes really deep-rooted and generally years two and three and four when
08:32you really see.
08:33And those would be eight to ten, maybe even twelve feet of roots, which helps with infiltration
08:42and water holding capacity, helps with drought tolerance, helps build organic matter.
09:16Farms are getting yields.
09:18It's on the range of twenty to forty percent of what they might get from a wheat crop in
09:23this area.
09:25So it's much lower and therefore the prices have to be much higher and so that is a barrier
09:30to its broader adoption.
09:52So, would you let a humanoid rob out into your home to do the cleaning?
09:56In San Francisco that now costs around 26 euros an hour.
10:01American startup Tao Robotics has developed a humanoid cleaner designed to tackle the same
10:06everyday chores a person would.
10:08It's a humanoid, so it can do basically everything a human can do.
10:12It can vacuum clean, it can mop the floor, it can wipe kitchen counters, it can dust off some shelves.
10:20Tao Robotics launched a service about a month ago, more than 50 homes have already been cleaned
10:25and there is now a waiting list for people wanting to try it.
10:30It's exciting, it's the fact that it stumbles a little bit almost makes it endearing.
10:36A little bit like watching a child and I think that's kind of like how it's entering society.
10:40It's not about expecting it to be completely perfect but the fact that it can climb back up
10:45after it falls or like pick something up that drops.
10:47It's like the error correction that kind of makes it like seamless and kind of like in my home.
10:53But the robot isn't working alone yet.
10:55The human operator controls it remotely, seeing the home through its cameras as it carries out each task.
11:04Tao Robotics says its robot still cannot match the speed or ability of a human cleaner,
11:09but for some customers taking a little longer is worth it if the robot handles the jobs they would run.
11:15rather avoid.
11:17Like I don't want to clean the toilet.
11:19I'm willing to wait a little bit more and read a book or do some work.
11:22So I'm very excited, it's like a glimpse of the future.
11:25For now, that glimpse of the future comes in one hour slots.
11:29Tao Robotics says it hopes to offer longer cleaning sessions as the service develops.
11:34And cleaning is only the beginning of its ambitions.
11:37The company eventually wants its humanoid robots to help with some repairs and maintenance and even elderly care.
11:45Two single thirds.
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11:49Phil Stopp.
