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00:00 The West African Eco-Waas bloc has said it will deploy a standby force to Niger to restore

00:06 constitutional order following the country`s coup.

00:10 With dozens confirmed dead, officials in Hawaii warned further casualties are expected as

00:15 devastating wildfires swept through the island of Maui.

00:20 Russia is claiming to have stepped up its offensive near Kupyansk, while Ukrainian soldiers

00:25 say they`ll keep fighting the war for as long as it takes.

00:34 In Abuja, leaders of the West African Eco-Waas bloc prepare their latest response to the

00:39 coup in Niger. The deadline they`d set for a restoration of the president passed on Sunday.

00:46 Emphasizing there was still hope, the Nigerian president announced a more robust approach.

00:52 Direct the committee of the chief of defense staff to activate the Eco-Waas standby force

01:00 with all its elements immediately. Order the deployment of the Eco-Waas standby force to

01:11 restore constitutional order in the Republic of Niger.

01:16 It`s not the first time Eco-Waas has delivered a military response to a political crisis

01:21 in the region. There have been seven interventions in the last 30 years. However, it seems to

01:26 pose President Bizoum`s life could be on the line, with the coup leaders telling the Associated

01:30 Press he would be killed if there was any military attempt to restore him to power.

01:36 We still recognize President Bizoum as the elected -- democratically elected president

01:43 of Niger. And the conditions he is being held in right now are unacceptable.

01:51 The president and his family are under house arrest in his palace with limited food and

01:55 water as with each passing day, the coup leaders grip on power in the country appears to be

02:00 strengthening.

02:06 Thousands of Hawaii residents raced to escape homes on Maui as blazes swept across the island.

02:12 This was a home.

02:14 Destroying parts of a centuries old town and killing at least 36 people in one of the deadliest

02:19 American wildfires in recent years. The fire took the island by surprise, leaving burned

02:25 out cars on once busy streets and smoking piles of rubble where historic buildings had

02:29 once stood.

02:31 For all of the fires, they haven`t been able to determine what ignited the fires. There

02:37 is three conditions that we got from the National Weather Service. They call it a red flag alert.

02:45 So that`s dry conditions, right? So you got dry fuel, trees, plants. You got low humidity

02:53 and high winds.

02:54 The reason it spread so fast is there are reports of gusts of up to 85 miles per hour.

02:59 So you know, that is so fast and that`s why Maui County had such a hard time doing containment

03:06 of the fire and because the winds were so high, we couldn`t provide the helicopters

03:10 to do the water bucket support.

03:13 In historic Lahaina, dozens of homes and businesses were flattened, including on Front Street,

03:18 a favorite with tourists. As winds died down, some aircraft resumed flights, giving pilots

03:24 a view of the devastation below. President Biden said he`d ordered all available federal

03:29 assets to help the island.

03:36 Russia is claiming to have recaptured Kupyansk, a village it was driven out of a year ago,

03:41 as residents of 37 villages in the Kharkiv region are ordered to evacuate their homes.

04:02 On the Ukrainian front line, there are reports of increasing attacks in border areas. Even

04:07 President Zelensky openly admits progress is slow, but soldiers training for the front

04:12 say there are good reasons.

04:13 It`s not a game or it`s not just a news from the wallpapers or something like that. So,

04:35 for my opinion, we are not moving too slow or way too fast. We are moving like in that

04:43 way that we can.

04:44 It`s coming up to 18 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. Soldiers training for the front line

04:50 know they may well be fighting for many more months to come.

05:00 Speculations about the Wagner Group`s withdrawal from Belarus suggest that aspects of the deal

05:05 between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Wagner Group leader Evgeny Prigozhin following

05:09 Wagner`s armed rebellion on the 24th of June have collapsed.

05:14 In its latest update, the Institute for the Study of War reports that Russian inside source

05:19 claims that Wagner forces are conducting the first stage of withdrawal from Belarus by

05:24 busing groups from five to 600 personnel from Belarus to the regions of Krasnodar, Rostov

05:33 and Voronezh, and that the second stage will begin after the 13th of August.

05:38 Now, the U.S.-based think tank insists it has not observed visual evidence of Wagner

05:43 forces moving out of Belarus, adding that the insider source claimed that a small group

05:49 of Wagner instructors would remain in Belarus to train Belarus forces.

05:54 The images provided by Planet Lab suggested that dozens of tents were erected in July

05:59 at a former military base outside Asipovichi in Tselny.

06:04 This is less than 100 kilometers southeast from the capital Minsk and 230 kilometers

06:11 north of the Ukrainian border, which has been fortified since Russian troops crossed it

06:17 moving towards Kyiv in the early days of the full-scale invasion.

06:22 According to the Institute for the Study of War, the insider source claimed on the 6th

06:26 of August that Wagner forces that did not deploy to Libya urgently went on leave in Russia

06:33 and that Wagner`s command called on their fighters to keep in touch because the new

06:37 orders could come at any time.

06:45 People in Norway are preparing for more flooding and destruction after facing the onslaught

06:50 of storm hands earlier this week.

06:54 Rivers swollen by days of heavy rain carried large amounts of water through the country`s

06:59 mountainous southeast, where vast areas were either inundated or hit by landslides.

07:07 Thousands of people living near waterways were evacuated, houses emptied and cars moved

07:12 to higher ground.

07:15 On Wednesday, a nearby dam partially burst after Norway`s largest river spilled over

07:21 and broke through the structure.

07:22 Police said the situation is being continually assessed.

07:26 Helicopters were on standby to help move people out of remote areas.

07:32 Authorities said the flooding could last until Friday and major roads are likely to be closed

07:37 for days.

07:38 Both Norway and Sweden have issued orange and red weather alerts.

07:49 Residents of the small city of General Tishevo in Bulgaria turn out to show support for their

07:54 mayor.

07:55 He`s been accused by European prosecutors of misuse of 169,000 euros in subsidies, granted

08:02 for improvements to municipal housing.

08:06 After his release on bail, the mayor declared himself calm and ready to plead his innocence

08:10 in court.

08:21 The allegations relate to declarations made about energy efficiency improvements made

08:25 between 2017 and 2019.

08:35 Dmitrov is backed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party and with elections due next October,

08:40 some supporters believe the legal process is politically motivated.

08:48 Pisa celebrated the 850th birthday of its famous Leaning Tower on Wednesday.

08:54 It was the 9th of August 1173 when the cornerstone of the Pisa Cathedral bell tower was laid.

09:01 The celebrations included free entry to all the monuments in Pisa`s Piazza del Duomo,

09:07 except the tower, which was lit up and closed for security reasons.

09:12 There was also a free concert by Iranian pianist Ramin Barami, featuring pieces by Bach, Beethoven,

09:18 Mozart, Brahms and Chopin.

09:26 The fisherman's quick hands and sunburned face conceal the strong and noble soul of

09:31 an environmental activist and an art lover.

09:34 Paolo the fisherman, as everyone in Tuscany's Morema area knows him, has been fighting against

09:40 trawler fishing for almost 40 years.

09:42 This type of fishing is illegal within three nautical miles of the coast and in protected

09:47 marine reserves.

09:49 Paolo has been fighting against the interests of big industry and the infiltrations of organized

09:54 crime.

10:15 Trawler fishing in coastal waters destroys the Poseidonia, a marine plant providing the

10:20 sea with oxygen and it devastates the entire marine ecosystem with the disappearance of

10:25 fish and the whole sea life cycle.

10:28 Through his association, the House of Fish, Paolo the fisherman managed to involve entrepreneurs

10:33 and artists in the creation of a submerged museum, where the beauty of the statues laid

10:38 on the seabed is actually preventing the trawler fishing and repopulating the sea.

10:44 The fight of Paolo the fisherman continues uninterrupted with the same determination of

10:51 40 years ago.

10:52 He has experienced loneliness, discomfort, but also the support of many people and international

10:55 environmentalist associations.

10:56 Now his project goes on.

10:59 He does not intend to stop because the sea is a good of all and is fundamental for our

11:04 survival.

11:05 "The sea is my life and this gave me a great emotion when that light is taken

11:12 from the sea.

11:14 If I had said I would continue to put blocks of cement in the sea, now you would not be

11:22 here.

11:23 Nobody would have listened to me."

11:28 Where there were only concrete blocks before, now there are 44 statues from famous artists,

11:34 among them the British sculptress Emily Young.

11:37 They're protecting the seabed from trawler fishing.

11:40 Paolo wants to get to 100 and you can bet he'll make it.

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