00:03The EU is adding €130 million into drone technology as part of a broader push to strengthen border security and
00:11counter hybrid threats.
00:12The European Commission announced the funding at a meeting of Justice and Home Affairs ministers in Luxembourg.
00:18Another important topic today is how we work with new technologies, drones.
00:24That is important also for border protection but also for protecting our critical infrastructure.
00:31In February, the Commission unveiled an action plan on drone and counter drone security,
00:36including a €250 million call for national authorities to invest in land and maritime border surveillance.
00:43The scheme covers the purchase of drones and counter drone systems,
00:46the integration into national surveillance networks and other technologies designed to counter hybrid threats.
00:52Brussels has separately made €170 million available to EU border agency Frontex and national authorities to secure EU's external borders.
01:06Although the EU should not face energy shortages, oil and gas prices are set to go up this winter.
01:12EU Commissioner Dan Jorgensen told your news, stressing the situation should be taken extremely seriously.
01:18If you cannot afford to adequately heat your home, it doesn't really matter that you could actually buy it out
01:23there on the market if you cannot afford it.
01:25The EU Commissioner urged European governments to use existing fiscal flexibility to ease the pain at the pump for millions
01:32of Europeans.
01:33He also called to reduce demand for gas and oil by electrifying economies, investing in public transport and improving energy
01:40efficiency.
01:41Although some member states complain filling gas storage facilities is currently too expensive due to high prices,
01:48Jorgensen said it is important to keep these targets as the situation could become worse.
01:53No, we certainly don't scrap the targets. It's very important for our security of supply in Europe.
01:58Jorgensen added the EU is dealing better with this energy crisis than the one in 2022, as it has diversified
02:04its suppliers.
02:05We used to get most of our gas from Russia. Now, fortunately, we are out of that dependency.
02:12And we get from Azerbaijan, we get more fuel from Nigeria, we are talking to Canada, we have so many
02:19other possibilities.
02:20And obviously the US has become our largest source of LNG and that has helped us a lot.
02:29Meanwhile, US President Donald Trump has asked allies to release diesel stocks to lower the prices.
02:34Jorgensen said this option is currently being discussed, but it would have to be coordinated with the International Energy Agency
02:41and EU countries.
02:45British police arrested a dual UK-Iranian national on Thursday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security
02:52incident at a military air base in England that authorities have linked to Tehran.
02:58The 25-year-old man was arrested in central London on Thursday and police have searched two properties in the
03:03capital,
03:04officials from counter-terrorism police units revealed in a statement.
03:08It comes after Prime Minister Andy Burnham detailed on Thursday that there were strong indications of an Iranian involvement in
03:15the plot.
03:16Five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were arrested in the early hours of Sunday on
03:23suspicion of terrorism close to the RAF Fairford Air Base,
03:26which has been used by US bombers to strike Iran.
03:30The suspects have since been released on bail pending investigations and searches of the three vehicles linked to them originally
03:37believed to harbor explosives.
03:39Police said after search operations which forced the evacuations of dozens of homes in the area that only a quantity
03:46of petrol was found, but no explosives.
03:51AI agents attempted to hack US and Canadian government websites according to non-profit research lab Transluce,
03:58which claims to have evidence that Google and OpenAI's agents were responsible.
04:02Researchers documented incidents targeting the US Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada while agents were searching for publicly
04:10available information.
04:11In the US case, agents made more than 200,000 requests and attempted to test a database vulnerability.
04:19In Canada, 13 of 899 requests contained payloads designed to test the website's security.
04:26None of the attempts succeeded in accessing information that was not already publicly available.
04:32Transluce said the incidents appeared to form part of a broader pattern in which AI agents use aggressive or gray
04:39area techniques to retrieve information.
04:42Evidence suggested Google-linked agents were involved in the US incident while Transluce said it could not confidently attribute the
04:49Canadian attempts to open AI.
04:52Canada's cybersecurity agency said there was no indication government systems had been compromised.
05:02The average price of diesel across the European Union has hit a record €2.24 per litre, up from €1
05:09.59 before the war in the Middle East.
05:13Twelve EU countries recorded new all-time highs including Belgium, Italy, Romania and Poland.
05:20diesel rose above €2.50 per litre in Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands while Germany reached €2.44.
05:29Belgium also hit a record with diesel averaging €2.43 per litre.
05:34Across the block, prices increased due to taxes which account for around 40% of the price paid at the
05:41pump.
05:42Prices have been driven higher by disruptions to energy supplies including the effective closure of Strait of Hormuz, a Houthi
05:49blockade of Saudi exports in the Red Sea and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries.
05:55High European refining margins have also added pressure particularly for diesel.
06:05Is Europe's path to a fossil fuel-free future putting at risk birds already in decline because of human-caused
06:13climate change?
06:15Spotting collisions at sea is hard. It's dark and the turbines are far from shore.
06:21But a new year-long pilot study may have changed that.
06:26According to the study from Vattenfall, Wildlife Imaging Systems and Wageningen University,
06:32covering both spring and autumn migration seasons, 22 possible bird collisions were identified.
06:40Two were confirmed and one more was considered highly probable.
06:44Researchers combined thermal cameras with artificial intelligence to detect small birds and bats at night and larger birds by day,
06:54even in fog or rain.
06:56Europe leads the world in offshore wind with more than 30 GW installed, enough to power over 26 million homes.
07:04Earlier this year, 10 countries including Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK committed to 100 GW of joint offshore
07:13wind across the North Sea by 2050.
07:17But while land birds rarely encounter these installations, experts say some offshore and coastal species continue to face heightened risk.
07:29Europe is insulating itself from the volatility of fossil fuel import costs thanks to a surge in solar power, according
07:36to a new report.
07:37Solar Power Europe analysis revealed that harnessing sunlight has saved Europe over 37 billion euros,
07:43with solar becoming the EU's largest single source of electricity in June, supplying 25% of the bloc's power.
07:49The ongoing war in Iran has led to record gas prices for months due to the blockade of the Strait
07:54of Hormuz,
07:55the vital shipping route that usually carries around one-fifth of the world's liquefied natural gas.
08:00The megawatt-hour price of LNG traded at around 32 euros on February 27, the day before the war broke
08:06out,
08:07and on September 30 it traded around 72 euros per megawatt-hour, a 126% increase.
08:13Meanwhile, several European nations have already demonstrated the concrete benefits of transforming their energy systems prior to the war,
08:20such as Spain, which has doubled its wind and solar capacity since 2019, adding more than 40 GW to its
08:26energy mix.
08:27To put it into perspective, that's a capacity to power more than 35 million households for a year.
08:33The UK also generated enough wind energy to power 23 million homes, a new renewable energy record.
08:39However, despite significant growth in renewables, Europe is still struggling to reduce its reliance on gas,
08:45as recent data from Eurostat shows that total EU gas-fired electricity generation increased by 3.9% year-on
08:52-year in the second quarter,
08:53while renewable generation grew by only 2.8% over the same period.
08:58Power sector analysts argue this is due to weak hydro and wind generation across the continent,
09:03which still brings gas back into the mix, underscoring the need for more solar infrastructure.
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10:14come off. Often people call it kind of music to colour or chromesthesia. But again, you
10:21can see that it's not just colour, colours there. It's the shapes, it's the movement,
10:27it's texture, and all of these things and how it's organised in space as well.
10:38It's a very tactile experience, and vivid. It's multi-sensory, because it's not just
10:46listening, it's also a feeling. And so sometimes you can see colours, or it reminds you of memories.
10:54So it's much more imagination-led.
11:03And there's been times where, like, yeah, sounds have overridden my thought process,
11:07and I'm like, whoa, what's going on? Like, it's not a curse, though. It's, I can't imagine
11:14what it would be like to not have it.
