00:00At least three people were killed in overnight Russian strikes on Ukraine,
00:05while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Canada for talks.
00:10August, where the hottest month on record, tied with July 2023,
00:15according to data published by the European Climate Observatory, Copernicus.
00:21Russia launched 149 drones overnight across Ukraine,
00:26killing at least three people, while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is in Canada
00:31for talks with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
00:35At least three people were killed and 14 were injured in a Russian strike on Wednesday night
00:40on a car park in the city of Sumy, according to Sumy region official Ole Hirohov.
00:46While attacks on the eastern city of Kharkiv have left at least two people injured
00:51after residential buildings were damaged by drones, according to the city's mayor, Ihor Terekov.
00:57Ukraine's Special Operations Forces said they had carried out their deepest strike inside Russia,
01:04with their drones traveling 300 kilometers to target two gas-condensate plants
01:09located in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Ogrug, one of Russia's key oil and gas regions.
01:16Attacks were also reported on the southern Russian coastal city of Sushi
01:21by Ukrainian uncrewed surface vessels, sparking multiple fires, according to Russian officials.
01:29Meanwhile, Zelenskyy traveled to Canada on Wednesday to hold talks with Prime Minister Carney
01:35as he hopes to build a closer relationship with his allies.
01:40Carney said Zelenskyy's visit will focus on deepening defense, economic and energy cooperation.
01:50U.S. President Donald Trump slammed Democrats as extremists and staunchly defended the war in Iran
01:56while making the extraordinary pledge to pay every adult American $5,000.
02:02Speaking at the Republican Midterm Convention in Dallas, Trump said the conflict with Iran was necessary
02:07because Tehran was perhaps two, maybe three weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.
02:12He also appeared to acknowledge that the war had hurt the U.S. economy
02:17before explaining why he believed he had to start the conflict.
02:20Trump urged the voters to treat the midterms as if he were personally on the ballot,
02:26highlighting around 35 key House and Senate races and promising to visit those states.
02:31He also attacked Democrats as radical left Democrats,
02:35warning that the country could spend a decade recovering if they won.
02:39Trump then placed a $5,000 Trump dividend to every adult if Republicans retain control of Congress.
02:46And here is my promise.
02:48If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate,
02:53both of them,
02:55because of our economic,
02:58tremendous economic success,
03:00I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America
03:06for $5,000.
03:11The proposal could cost at least $1 trillion and would require congressional approval.
03:17$1 trillion, we're at 1776.
03:21Declassified documents show Spain's intelligence agency warned of possible migrant crossings into Sota
03:26at least a day before the mass influx on July 30.
03:31A CNI memo dated July 29 said Moroccan intelligence services had been warned about WhatsApp groups
03:37preparing an attempt to enter Sota during Morocco's throne day celebrations.
03:42The CNI also warned the Spanish government delegation in Sota and the Guardia Civil
03:47about possible crossings by sea and over the fence.
03:51One message referred to two groups with a combined 180,000 followers.
03:57The documents support defense minister Margarita Robles' claim that warnings were issued
04:02while Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the CNI had failed to anticipate the scale of the humanitarian crisis.
04:09Interior Minister Fernando Granda Marlaska has maintained that he did not receive an official warning
04:14of a possible mass crossing.
04:18In an interview with State Television, Sánchez admitted that his country needs to be better prepared
04:22for such hybrid attacks.
04:24There are reports of the situation that, effectively, in the previous days, the 30th and the 31th of July,
04:30were registered and were not only a meeting between the different departments of the government,
04:36but also with the autonomous city of Ceuta.
04:45The declassified documents also show that the National Center for Immigration and Borders
04:50had warned of a high likelihood of entries by swimming on July 29.
05:00At least five people have been killed and 86 remain unaccounted for after a passenger ferry
05:05caught fire off the Western Philippines.
05:08The MV June Aster caught fire on Wednesday evening, about 2.2 kilometers offshore,
05:13as it approached its destination of Koron in Palawan province.
05:17The ferry had sailed from Manila with 134 people on board, 117 passengers and 17 crew.
05:25More than 40 people were rescued despite challenging weather conditions, with the Coast Guard, military
05:31and other vessels involved in the search and rescue operation.
05:35The Philippine Coast Guard said the figures were based on live data and could change as the operation continued.
05:42Passengers were taken into smaller boats and brought towards shallow water,
05:46while smoke continued to rise from the shard vessel.
05:50The fire was the latest in a series of deadly ferry accidents in the Philippines.
05:55In January, a ferry carrying more than 340 people sank, killing at least 52.
06:04An explosion at a weapons depot near Syria's northwestern city of Idlib killed at least 14 people
06:10and injured 11 others, the country's health ministry said on Wednesday.
06:15The depot was used to store weapons and munitions left over from the country's civil war from 2011
06:21until 2024, according to authorities.
06:25They said the cause of the blast near the town of Sarmada was not immediately clear.
06:29Initial assessments indicated the explosion was caused by munitions.
06:34The incident was the second deadly blast in Idlib this month,
06:38after a car carrying ammunition exploded, killing five in the city of Binnish.
06:43Syria is ranked among the world's most heavily contaminated countries for unexploded ordnance.
06:50Explosions involving munitions-laden cars or arms depots have sporadically occurred in Idlib,
06:56a former frontline province among the areas most severely affected by the civil war,
07:01where multiple armed factions stored weapons throughout the conflict.
07:05Humanitarian organizations have called for intensified international and local efforts
07:09to clear mines and war remnants from the province,
07:12which they said continue to claim Syrian lives on a recurring basis.
07:20August was the hottest month on record, tied with July 2023,
07:26according to data published on Thursday by the European Climate Observatory Copernicus.
07:31The global average air temperature was 1.65 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial reference value.
07:39August was the first month since November 2025 to exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius,
07:46the limit set by the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.
07:50The extra-polar oceans also broke a record for their average temperature last month,
07:55due to global warming Copernicus points out.
07:58The average temperature reached 21.07 degrees Celsius in August,
08:04the highest ever recorded for that month, surpassing the record set in 2023.
08:09For the European continent specifically,
08:12these figures mark the end of the hottest summer ever recorded in Western Europe,
08:17with prolonged, intense and early heat waves beginning as early as May.
08:22For the region, the summer of 2026 broke the record set during the same period in 2003.
08:29The continent also suffered from widespread drought,
08:33with exceptionally low water levels in rivers such as the Rhine, the Danube, the Vistula, the Rhône and the Po.
08:40The drier-than-average conditions also led to numerous wildfires in several regions across Europe.
08:52Europe's housing crisis has escalated to an emergency,
08:56as many young people across Europe find it impossible to buy or even rent a home.
09:01The European Commissioner for Housing, Dan Jorgensen, has told your news.
09:05Property prices across the EU have skyrocketed by roughly 60% over the past decade,
09:11while in the same period, average rents rose by over 20%.
09:15So prices in many cities in Europe are way too high.
09:18So we see normal people with normal jobs not being able to find a place to live,
09:24being crowded out of the cities where they serve as police officers, nurses and teachers and so on.
09:29So this is totally unacceptable and we need to act.
09:32Despite not holding any direct competence or legislative power over housing,
09:36the European Commission unveiled new rules designed to give local and national authorities
09:41legal backing for restricting short-term holiday rentals.
09:44The Commissioner also acknowledged that tightening the screws on short-term rentals is not a silver bullet.
09:50We also need to do more to build more houses, to renovate more houses,
09:56to find new purposes for buildings that are already existing so that they can become houses.
10:01We need to cut red tape so that it's easier to provide more housing.
10:05We need to mobilize more financing.
10:08We need to make it more feasible and easy to build social housing.
10:12While short-term rentals represent just 1.2% of the EU's total housing stock,
10:18they can account for up to 20% in some tourism hotspots.
10:28Greek traffic police in the Attica region have launched a new round of intensive checks on electric scooters
10:34after serious accidents in which miners were badly injured.
10:37In the first eight months of the year, 56 road accidents involving any scooter were recorded in Attica.
10:44Greek legislation has already been tightened.
10:47The use of electric scooters is prohibited for people under 17.
10:51An insurance requirement has been introduced and stricter penalties are provided for riding them on roads
10:57where the speed limit exceeds 50 km per hour.
11:01Fines are also foreseen for businesses that sell, rent or supply electric scooters to people under 17.
11:07The debate is not confined to Greece.
11:10Paris and Madrid have banned dockless rental electric scooters.
11:14Brussels will implement a similar ban from January 2027.
11:18Some countries chose instead to tighten the rules.
11:21Finland, for instance, introduced a minimum age of 15 for using most electric scooters
11:27as well as an alcohol limit of 0.5%.
11:30In Hungary, compulsory insurance has been extended to certain categories of electric scooters.
11:36In Hungary, compulsory insurance has been extended to certain categories of electric scooters.
