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00:00Pope Leo XIV appeared to target Trump's dismissal of AI safety concerns as a hoax,
00:06stressing that AI leaders should be listened to.
00:09Russia strikes Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in central Kiev
00:14as Moscow launched another wave of strikes across Ukraine that killed at least seven people.
00:21Fighting in the north of Ethiopia continued to rage over the weekends.
00:30Pope Leo XIV offered a radically opposing view to that of U.S. President Donald Trump's
00:36on the need for further AI safety measures.
00:39Speaking to journalists as he departed France following a four-day visit
00:43and the first apostolic journey to the country in 18 years,
00:47the pontiff noted that industry experts' concerns should be listened to.
00:51In recent months, various top AI executives, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amadei,
00:57have sounded the alarm that AI may be advancing too rapidly
01:00and that a deceleration is needed for safety measures to catch up.
01:05If someone were to ask me, am I in panic mode?
01:09No, I'm not. I sleep at night.
01:11I do think that the concerns raised by many of the experts, specialists in AI,
01:17should be taken seriously.
01:18I don't think that that is fake news, as some have said,
01:21to try and cause, whether financial or some other kind of benefit.
01:27Trump had, on more than one occasion, dismissed such concerns as a hoax
01:31stemming from his political opponents
01:33and even berated figures like Amadei for raising them.
01:36We need to continue to invite political leaders,
01:40the leaders of AI, social organizations, associations,
01:46to come together and look at what is happening already
01:50and what could be down the road.
01:52To simply say, oh, it's not going to happen and close our eyes to it,
01:56I think is probably not the most responsible way to go about that.
02:00The U.S.-born Pope has been one of the most notable figures
02:04championing greater AI safety regulations.
02:07Just days after his election,
02:09he dedicated his first encyclical to AI
02:11and urged major players in the space
02:13to do more to prevent the technology
02:15from posing catastrophic risks to humanity.
02:27We are standing right at the site of the attack
02:31here in Kyiv's city center.
02:32This here is the National Academy of Science,
02:36which was hit earlier.
02:38And as the rescue teams are working here,
02:40as you can see,
02:41there was another attempted attack right now
02:44with the air defense intercepting another drone
02:46right above the site.
02:53The U.S.
03:06You can see it right on the inside.
03:07It's the National Academy of Science Ukraine.
03:10There is no one.
03:11There is a business center and other buildings.
03:36There is a lot these days and in fact there are no breaks between the air raid alerts and the
03:41drone attacks in the capital these days.
03:43And you can see the rescue workers here working right behind me.
03:46The emergency services also confirmed that here in the center of Kyiv next to this building and in the building
03:51itself there are no military targets.
03:53This is the National Academy of Science of Ukraine.
04:06EU foreign ministers made on Monday to strengthen the bloc's response to hybrid attacks.
04:11They have been tasked with developing the EU's emergency security protocol designed to help EU countries coordinate their responses when
04:19a hybrid threat is identified.
04:21Of course we need to be vigilant because we see in the intelligence that Russia is planning more sabotage acts
04:28and actually you know attacks against our democracy to divide our society to intimidate our societies from refraining to help
04:38Ukraine.
04:38So this is something that they have in mind and we have to keep this in mind as well to
04:45be you know standing up to these threats.
04:48The urgency has been underscored by a series of recent incidents including the breach of Finnish airspace by a Russian
04:56aircraft on Friday prompting Finnish and Swedish authorities to scramble fighter jets.
05:01The Finnish defense minister said this incident should serve as a springboard for Europe to strengthen its air defenses.
05:08We need money, we need joint procurements, we need cooperation.
05:13The incident came on the same day that the Danish Defense Intelligence Service set the risk of Russian military action
05:20against NATO countries was growing while describing an outright invasion as highly unlikely but not impossible.
05:30Up to 300 tanks remain set up in this central hub of Madrid's Puerta do Sol following several days of
05:38protest for the right to housing in numerous Spanish cities.
05:41The government is racing against the clock to negotiate with its former ideologically opposed allies to push through a royal
05:50decree that would serve as a temporary solution.
05:53I just want to support a cause because in 2016 I also stayed in the street for a pirate fund.
05:58We have been supporting a rentist system that has permeated in all levels of the government,
06:04both in the municipal government, the autonomous government and the national government,
06:06in which we are constantly struggling and we are losing access to a safe living.
06:11The people, to be able to create a minimum stable life project, need to know that they will be able
06:15to stay at a long term.
06:16And, in fact, Berlin, Germany, Austria, Central Europe are the model we want to walk in this,
06:23especially in the incline generation, which we are already many, and we need some stability.
06:26The draft of the so-called, quote, Mary Carmen Decree, named after the 87-year-old disabled woman who was
06:34evicted from her home
06:35and has now become the catalyst for the protests, offers some clues as to what the actual decree law might
06:42contain.
06:43Among the measures published in July were an extension of rental contracts through 2028.
06:50The Ejecutivo will not only have to agree with Juncia Podemos, but to prove if the real Decreto-Ley,
06:56which should be voted in the Congress a month after the Council of Ministries,
07:00serves for contenting the growing popular pressure and a union union that asks, among other measures,
07:06prices of indefinities.
07:08Javier Iñiguez, for Euronews, from Madrid.
07:15Fighting in the north of Ethiopia continued to rage over the weekend, raising fears of a return to a 2020
07:22-2022 war
07:23in which an estimated 600,000 people died.
07:27Heavy clashes have resumed between the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the federal government since Wednesday.
07:33The TPLF has seized airports and launched attacks into the neighboring Ethiopian states of Afa and Amara,
07:41saying they were engaged in a defensive war against the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
07:46The headquarters of Tigray TV, seen as the key outlet for the rebel authorities in the Tigrayan capital,
07:52Mekele, was hit by a drone on Sunday.
07:54Meanwhile, Ethiopia's army commander on Sunday accused Egypt, Eritrea and Sudan of backing armed groups
08:01fighting its troops in the north of the country.
08:04The TPLF has joined forces with six other armed groups around the country
08:08in what it dubbed the Ethiopian People's Forces Alliance for Survival,
08:13aiming to overthrow Abiy's government and install a transitional administration.
08:24Thousands have been evacuated from Mexico's Baja California,
08:28as Hurricane Polo made landfall on Tuesday threatening flash floods and mudslides.
08:35Strong winds churned the sea and waves of Puerto San Carlos,
08:39a small fishing port of nearly 6,000 people.
08:44This year's Pacific hurricane season is shaping up as more severe than usual,
08:48as the Super El Nino wreaks devastation in the form of historic droughts and flooding.
08:55The military has deployed nearly 7,000 troops in the state,
08:58where classes were suspended and public servants have been ordered to work from home where possible.
09:05Forecasters said it would hit the Mexican mainland after lashing Baja California sore,
09:10and that life-threatening winds and flash floods were expected.
09:14It could bring heavy rain and flooding to parts of the U.S. southwest later in the week.
09:21All the people of the U.S.
09:44All the people of the U.S.
09:48I don't think it's a place to be able to see each other and be able to see each other,
09:50isn't it?
09:53That's what I thought.
10:15It was a very difficult time for me to live in the past, and I was able to live in
10:22the past, and I was able to live in the past.
10:24There was a lot of freedom, and there was a lot of people who came to me, and I felt
10:28like I had a lot of joy.
10:31It was wonderful to see the景色.
11:00I want to feel the same thing.
11:03I want to watch videos,
11:05especially when the weather is in the weather.
11:07I don't know if it's not a situation where people are walking.
11:12I want to watch videos and watch videos.
11:17I'm watching videos and streaming.

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