00:01Five men have been arrested on suspected explosives offences after British police declared a major
00:08incident near a Royal Air Force base in the UK on Sunday, leading to the evacuation of
00:14local residents. Gloucestershire police said in a statement that residents from the Welford
00:19area were being evacuated. Welford is close to Raff Fairford, a military base that hosts
00:26the United States Air Force. The statement added that an Army Specialist Explosive Ordnance
00:31Disposal Team was examining multiple vehicles, although they believed the incident to be
00:37contained. According to the U.S. Air Force, the base is home to two military units, while also
00:43serving as the preferred bomber-forge operating location in Europe for USAF Global Strike Command.
00:50In July, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards issued a warning to the U.K. against allowing the
00:56U.S. to operate bombers from Raff Fairford. Any base that is used to invade Iran's territory
01:02is our legitimate goal, the IRGC said in a statement.
01:11Russia's Sergei Lavrov rejected Germany's calls to ease off its dangerous path of escalation
01:18toward the country, instead accusing Germany of being Ukraine's main sponsor during the first
01:24meeting between the two foreign ministers since Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion. Tensions rose
01:30in September after Berlin accused Russia of being behind a drone attack in Leipzig Hall airport.
01:37Lavrov later defended Russia's war in Ukraine and criticized the West during his UN General Assembly
01:50speech.
01:54Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that it was clear the Kremlin was not
02:13preparing to bring the war to an end any time soon.
02:21At least two people have been killed and 19 are in hospital after a bus crashed in Germany with
02:28Filipino tourists on board who were heading to Munich's beer festival, according to local authorities.
02:34The bus carrying approximately 35 people traveling from Milan veered off the highway west of Munich and
02:42overturned. Investigators were looking into the cause of the crash, which was not immediately clear.
02:48The crash comes just weeks after a Dutch tour bus crashed in eastern Switzerland, killing five people.
02:59Azerbaijan has announced planned investment projects worth billions of dollars. This follows a series of
03:0523 agreements with international investors at the Azerbaijan International Investment Forum in Baku.
03:11The agreements cover some of the fastest growing areas of the economy.
03:14The confirmed amount that we can say today is $10.8 billion of 26 contracts that have been executed.
03:24In various fields ranging from AI to energy, from manufacturing to production. And in that sense, that's a figure which
03:33we operate as of today.
03:35Azerbaijan's economy minister says the non-oil and gas economy already accounted for 71% of GDP in 2025, with
03:43the government
03:44targeting 82% by 2030. The scale becomes even bigger when combined with projects announced during Baku Energy Week in
03:51June.
03:52Together, planned joint projects announced this year are valued at $16.7 billion.
03:57However, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said investments into oil and gas were still the biggest.
04:03The contracts which actually led to development in oil and gas sector, signed 30 years ago, still are absolutely untouched.
04:14Not a single word was changed. Not a single word was changed. And that was one of the factors to
04:19attract investors.
04:20So already we have a very credible portfolio of being a very responsible partner.
04:26Baku is trying to turn investment into a broader economic transformation and strengthen its position as a business and connectivity
04:33hub between Asia and Europe.
04:35Nadira Tudor, Euronews, Baku.
