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00:00Ukraine's army chief tells President Volodymyr Zelensky the situation is under control as

00:06the military incursion into Russia continues.

00:11Health officials report the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years.

00:16The U.N. calls for a truce to roll out vaccines.

00:21The Grafen Reinfeldt nuclear power plant is demolished as Germany continues to move towards

00:27renewable energy sources.

00:35Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been briefed by Army Chief Oleksandr Sirsky

00:40about the ongoing incursion into Russia's Kursk region.

00:44Sirsky said battles are ongoing and that Ukrainian forces continue to make territorial gains.

00:50He also said he hoped a number of Russian soldiers would be taken captive to exchange

00:55for Ukrainian prisoners of war.

00:59In his nightly address, Zelensky said the operation aimed to destroy Russia's logistics

01:03and drain their reserves.

01:06He added, the occupier is suffering losses and this is very helpful for our defense.

01:12The Ukrainian military push into Kursk has seen Kiev's forces seize several villages,

01:18take hundreds of prisoners and force the evacuation of tens of thousands of civilians.

01:23It's the largest attack on Russia since World War II, but Ukrainian officials have repeatedly

01:29said that the aim of the operation isn't to occupy Russia, but to force Moscow to negotiate

01:34peace on Kiev's terms.

01:41Palestinian health officials have reported the first case of polio in Gaza in an unvaccinated

01:4610-month-old child in the city of Deir al-Bala.

01:50After discovering the child's symptoms, tests were conducted in Jordan's capital Amman and

01:55the case was confirmed to be polio.

01:58It's the first case of the disease in at least 25 years in the coastal enclave, which has

02:03seen health and sanitation facilities devastated by the Israel-Hamas war.

02:10On Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for seven-day pauses in fighting to

02:16allow agencies to roll out a vaccination campaign across the Strip.

02:21Two rounds of polio vaccinations are expected to be launched at the end of August and September

02:26across Gaza in a bid to prevent the spread of the disease.

02:31Over 1.6 million vaccine doses will be delivered to Gaza and vaccinations will be administered

02:36by 708 teams across the Strip.

02:44Germany's decommissioned nuclear power plant at Grafen Reinfeldt has been demolished after

02:49a short delay.

02:50The demolition of the plant's two cooling towers was pushed back by almost two hours

02:55after a pro-atomic energy activist scaled a pylon and protested its destruction.

03:01Grafen Reinfeldt began commercial operations in 1982 and was Germany's oldest nuclear power

03:07plant.

03:08But as part of the government's policy to transition away from nuclear power, it was

03:12closed in 2015.

03:14Under its Energiewende strategy, Germany is aiming to have around 80 percent of its electricity

03:20supplied from renewable sources by 2050.

03:23In the time that Grafen Reinfeldt was operational, it provided over 11 percent of Bavaria's energy,

03:29according to the German utility company E.ON.

03:33The 55,000 tons of concrete rubble produced by the demolition will be used to fill the

03:37two collecting basins below the towers.

03:46A large fire has broken out in a car park in the southern city of Loris where dozens

03:51of vehicles are said to be parked.

03:53The fire started in an industrial area which has no homes but is next to several warehouses.

04:00The car park is believed to be used by a car rental company and the cause of the fire is

04:05unknown.

04:07The Portuguese National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority said 56 firefighters

04:12and 21 vehicles are on site trying to put out the blaze.

04:21SpaceX has launched an epic rideshare mission carrying 116 payloads from nine different

04:27companies.

04:28A Falcon 9 rocket took off from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Friday morning.

04:36SpaceX is expected to confirm the deployment of the payloads later.

04:40The Transporter 11 launches SpaceX's 80th this year and more than 70 percent of the

04:46satellites on board will be deployed to the Starlink communications network.

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