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00:00Kamala Harris has picked Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to be her running mate in the 2024

00:07presidential election.

00:11The World Health Organization, WHO, warns that COVID-19 infections are surging globally

00:17including at the Paris Olympics.

00:22Political instability threatens Bulgaria's ongoing issues and dossier with the European

00:27Union.

00:33Kamala Harris has confirmed her running mate in the 2024 presidential election will be

00:39Minnesota Governor Tim Walz.

00:41Harris praised Walz's record as governor, writing he delivered for working families

00:46like his in a post on X.

00:50Walz, who grew up in a small town in Nebraska, was a social studies teacher, a football coach

00:55and a union member before he got into politics.

01:00He ran for governor in 2018 and defeated Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson by more than

01:0611 points.

01:09He governed through the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests that emerged in the wake

01:14of the murder of George Floyd.

01:17Harris will introduce Walz at a rally on Tuesday evening in Philadelphia.

01:23COVID-19 infections are surging globally including at the Paris Olympics.

01:30According to the WHO, the virus is unlikely to decline any time soon.

01:35The virus is circulating in all countries.

01:38Data from our Sentinel-based systems across 84 countries reports that the percent of positive

01:43tests for SARS-CoV-2 has been rising over the last several weeks.

01:48Overall, test positivity is above 10 percent, but this fluctuates by region.

01:53In Europe, percent positivity is over 20 percent.

01:56The UN Health Agency is also warning that more severe variants of the coronavirus may

02:01soon be on the horizon.

02:03The Olympic Games have not been spared.

02:07In recent months, regardless of the season, many countries have experienced surges of

02:11COVID-19, including at the Olympics.

02:14Currently, there are at least 40 athletes who have tested positive.

02:17The WHO is urging governments to strengthen their vaccination campaigns, making sure that

02:22the highest risk groups get vaccinated every 12 months.

02:28At least eight people have been injured after a rocket attack on the centre of Kharkiv,

02:34according to the regional prosecutor's office.

02:38Over 25 cars and at least 15 buildings were also damaged in the attack, the office said.

03:08It comes as the governor of Kherson reported a Russian drone dropped explosives on the

03:18outskirts of the city, injuring at least five people.

03:23Meanwhile, the Russian Ministry of Defence has released footage of what it says shows

03:29the cruise of Ka-52 helicopters striking a temporary deployment point of the Ukrainian

03:35armed forces.

03:43It is a rare public display of Russian secret agents.

03:46The Russian state television interviewed two former spies who have returned to Moscow as

03:51part of the biggest prisoner exchange since the Cold War.

03:55Prior to their arrest in Slovenia in 2022, the couple were posing as Argentine citizens

04:01and allegedly had been using Slovenia as their base since 2017.

04:05We were threatened that the Argentine side allegedly wanted to take our children, that

04:10the children could be given to another family.

04:15But we felt that the Slovenian special services were doing everything possible to save the

04:26children in Slovenia, so that we could be together.

04:30The West released Russian spies as well as a convicted Russian assassin, while Russia

04:35released journalists, a former US Marine and political activists.

04:40One of the political activists released by Russia is Ilya Yashin, who was serving time

04:45in jail for criticizing Russia's war in Ukraine.

04:49Upon his release to Germany, the Russian opposition politician thanked his supporters on a live

04:54stream.

04:55For me, it is very important to convey my point of view and to conduct anti-military

05:00education among the citizens of Russia who remain in Russia.

05:04The chief of the Committee to Protect Journalists says that the release of journalists from Russian

05:08captivity does not mean that press freedom in Russia is improving.

05:14Our concern is that this doesn't set a precedent for future governments to feel that they can

05:21simply take innocent journalists, for example, imprison them and use them as bargaining chips

05:27for the release of prisoners abroad.

05:32She adds that Russia was the fourth largest jailer of journalists worldwide in 2023, making

05:38it one of the most restrictive environments for journalists globally.

05:46Iran and Russia have agreed to fast-track their friendship, according to political officials

05:52that attended a meeting in Tehran on Tuesday.

05:55Secretary of Russia's Security Council Sergei Shoigu met with Iran's new president Massoud

06:01Bezeshkian amid increasing hostilities in the Middle East.

06:05In a document provided by the Iranian government, Bezeshkian referred to Russia as a friend,

06:11with a Russian delegate emphasizing the need to speed up the build of the North-South Corridor,

06:16an international transport hub connecting the countries.

06:20Bezeshkian also spoke about Gaza, describing the assassination of Hamas' top leader Ismail

06:27Haniyeh as a violation of international law and stating Israel will receive a response

06:33for its crimes.

06:35The talks come as the U.S. and its allies work to prevent a wider regional war after

06:40Israel killed Iran-allied militants.

06:43The European Commission also called for calm in the region, with a spokesperson telling

06:47reporters in Brussels its leaders continue to work to defuse the tensions.

06:56China says it has launched a rocket carrying 18 satellites in an effort to enhance its

07:02presence in space.

07:05The Long March-6 carrier rocket was launched from north China's Shaanxi province.

07:11China's government's news agency says the rocket has now safely reached its pre-programmed

07:16orbit.

07:19It's the latest triumph in China's space program, which in June became the first to bring back

07:24rocks from the far side of the moon.

07:31When Leon Marchand dives, France holds its breath.

07:35The 22-year-old French Olympic swimmer won four gold medals and one bronze medal at the

07:40Paris Olympics, a record for France.

07:44In the fan zones and behind the screens, the extraordinary performances of the four-time

08:10Olympic champion give rise to scenes of joy.

08:34After the Tokyo Olympics, Leon joined coach Bob Bowman in Arizona, former mentor to Michael

08:40Phelps.

08:41His legendary flows have been particularly praised.

09:00After the Olympic excitement, Leon Marchand says he wants to take a vacation.

09:05After that, he will be training to do more exploits ahead of the Los Angeles Games.

09:11The black mussels produced by Romania are exclusively wild, harvested from great depths

09:18and rocky areas.

09:20Although they are as good as the Bulgarian ones, they are smaller and far fewer.

09:50Matei Daciu has been waiting years for the green light from the authorities to be able

10:15to grow Romanian mussels in the sea near the restaurant he owns.

10:21He has invested in storage spaces and bivalve sand cleaning devices, which are lying unused.

10:28in the sea, put here, sanded, cleaned, analyzed and sent to the tourists' table.

10:48How much did the investment cost?

10:54Romanians have been eating Bulgarian mussels for a long time.

11:03In fact, they often go directly to Bulgaria to get them.

11:23Without an agreement between the authorities and traders, the Romanian seaside risks losing

11:40tourists, who, in search of good seafood, will have to cross the border into Bulgaria.

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