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00:00The EU foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, has called for a three-day humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza

00:06to vaccinate children against the poliovirus.

00:11Ukrainian President Zelensky intends on presenting a victory plan to the United States in September.

00:21There is a growing concern for the circulation of the West Nile virus

00:25after two new deaths were reported in Seville in Spain.

00:30The EU foreign policy chief has called for an immediate three-day humanitarian ceasefire

00:41in the Gaza Strip to allow the population to be vaccinated against polio.

00:48In a post on social platform X, Borrell warned that the quick spread of polio

00:54threatens all children in Gaza already weakened by displacement,

00:58deprivation and malnourishment.

01:02UN agencies, World Health Organization and UNICEF say they are ready to vaccinate around 640,000 children.

01:11Aid workers warn that without a humanitarian pause,

01:15a vaccination drive due to begin this weekend

01:18could fail to reach enough children to stop the fast-spreading poliovirus.

01:24A truce of three days is, first of all, totally insufficient to tackle the polio crisis in Gaza.

01:34And second, well, it's not a truce that we need, it's a ceasefire.

01:40The population is in constant displacement,

01:43so it's extremely difficult to provide humanitarian aid in Gaza at the moment.

01:49Polio has re-emerged more than two decades after it was eradicated in Gaza

01:54as the war-torn enclave remained under Israeli military operations for the last 10 months.

02:00The severe cases lead to irreversible paralysis.

02:06The UN has called for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to allow the population to be vaccinated against polio.

02:16Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the Kursk incursion is part of a victory plan

02:22that he intends on presenting to the President of the United States in September,

02:27as Ukraine is about to enter its fourth week into its incursion into Russia's Kursk region.

02:34The plan is prepared.

02:36I think it's fair that if I present this plan,

02:41I think it's fair that if I present this plan to the President of the United States,

02:46the success of this plan depends on him.

02:49They will give us what is in this plan or not.

02:52A UN watchdog shared his concerns about the risk of a nuclear incident

02:57after visiting a plant in the Kursk region.

03:01He is particularly worried about the proximity of the plant to the military front

03:06and the potential impact drones may have.

03:10The core of the reactor containing nuclear material is protected just by a normal roof.

03:19This makes it extremely exposed and fragile, for example,

03:25to an artillery impact or a drone or a missile.

03:33Zelenskyy says that the Kursk incursion has so far averted

03:38the threat of occupation of parts of the Kharkiv, Sumy and Chernihiv regions.

03:46French President Emmanuel Macron is in the throes of once again trying to form government,

03:52as our correspondent from Paris explains.

03:55France's political headache is far from being resolved.

03:58French President Emmanuel Macron relaunched a series of marathon discussions on Tuesday

04:04with various different parties in the hopes of forming a new government.

04:08On Tuesday he received the independent and centrist group called Lyot

04:12and on Wednesday he will be receiving the conservative right-wing party

04:16that was recently renamed as the Republican Right.

04:19However, the new popular front, the left-wing coalition that won the most seats

04:23in the snap parliamentary elections but came short of an absolute majority,

04:29has refused to participate in these talks after Macron rejected the possibility

04:33of any left-wing government claiming that it could endanger institutional stability

04:40as it would not survive a confidence vote in parliament.

04:44But with the upcoming Paralympics opening ceremony on Wednesday night

04:47and Macron's visit to Serbia at the end of the week,

04:50naming a prime minister is becoming more and more urgent.

04:54And that's because the resigning government under the prime minister, Gabriel Attal,

04:58has now been handling current affairs for more than 40 days

05:02and it's an unprecedented situation in France since the post-war period.

05:07And the clock is also really ticking because the government needs to present

05:11the crucial nation's budget plan by October 1st

05:15and right now it's looking like France is heading towards a hung parliament

05:19with none of the three main central political blocs looking like they want to form any sort of coalition.

05:26Sofia Katsenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.

05:32After a failed Syrian asylum seeker killed three festival goers here in the city of Solingen,

05:38Chancellor Olaf Scholz is saying that questions must be answered

05:42as to why the man hadn't already been deported.

05:45When officials tried to take him from his refugee accommodation

05:48and deport him to Bulgaria last year, he was nowhere to be found.

05:53And now, feeling the pressure from the far right,

05:56it's not just Germany that's talking tough on deportation.

05:59Other governments in Europe are too.

06:02Many governments around the council, which is an institution,

06:07which is a new institution, are obsessed with security,

06:12with the security dimension towards migration.

06:15And more than that, we are all aware in the European Parliament

06:18that there are many governments who see migration as a kind of a threat,

06:22as a kind of a menace, as a kind of a crisis to EU security or to EU identity.

06:32The Migration and Asylum Pact, finally approved in May after almost four years of negotiations,

06:38already seems to be unsatisfactory for some European states.

06:42They're asking for exemptions and new measures on deportations.

06:46And it's this last point that seems to be a crucial one.

06:49Some member states are aiming at the, of the rules governing return

06:56of rejected asylum seekers to countries of origin or other transit countries.

07:04But also Wunderlein herself, the president of the commission,

07:07has said very explicitly that she aims at finding a novel approach,

07:15at defining a novel approach to returns.

07:19Another side of the coin for European countries is getting Mediterranean states

07:23to stop migrants setting out for Europe in the first place.

07:26And recently, the European Commission has entered into agreements

07:30with Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt to achieve this.

07:33I think it's very likely that we will see a strong push towards externalisation,

07:39so the outsourcing of responsibilities to third countries in the next cycle.

07:45That being said, first of all, it takes two to tango.

07:49There must be cooperation with third countries on these issues

07:53and very few third countries are willing to cooperate because domestically

07:57these are seen by most third countries as divisive and unpopular.

08:03Meanwhile, eight states have suspended the free movement rule

08:07that's at the heart of the border-free Schengen area

08:10for much longer than they're legally allowed to.

08:15There is a growing concern for the circulation of the West Nile virus

08:24after two new deaths were reported in Seville in Spain.

08:27This raises the number of the fatalities as a result of the virus this summer to five.

08:34This pharmacy poster reads,

08:41These poster reads don't make it easy for mosquitoes

08:44and lists places prone to breeding grounds for the insects, such as stagnant water.

08:49The mosquitoes were detected in towns near the Guadalquivir River,

08:53such as in Coria del Rio.

08:56Earlier this month, residents of the town staged a protest

09:00and urged the government to take more effective measures.

09:05Romania also noticed a spread of the virus.

09:08One country reported one fatality and 22 infections since the beginning of the summer.

09:1380% of infected people will show no symptoms

09:17and the risk of developing a more severe form of the disease is rare.

09:21That is according to the World Health Organization.

09:24The organization also says people over the age of 50

09:28and immunocompromised persons are at a higher risk.

09:34The best way to stay protected is to apply insect repellent,

09:37wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers,

09:39and when possible, avoid being outside between dusk and dawn.

09:48Spain signed a cooperation with Mauritania

09:51in an effort to tackle irregular migration to the Canary Islands.

09:56Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez recognizes the country's need for migrants

10:01and does not intend to halt migration altogether,

10:04but instead wants to regulate the process.

10:06Migration is not a problem.

10:09It is a need that involves certain problems.

10:13That is why we must promote formulas that allow us to manage

10:17in a human, safe and orderly way.

10:21The Canary Islands, close to the African coast,

10:24are used as a stepping stone for migrants and refugees to reach continental Europe.

10:31Since January, more than 22,000 migrants arrived on the shores

10:35of the Spanish archipelago.

10:37That is according to Spain's Interior Ministry.

10:42Speaking with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani,

10:46Sanchez said he wants to introduce its circular migration program

10:50between the two nations.

10:52Sanchez's visit to Mauritania is part of a three-day tour of West Africa,

10:57with his next stop being Gambia and Senegal.

11:00These three countries are where the majority of migrant boats

11:04depart from to make the dangerous Atlantic journey to the Canary Islands.

11:12Rock legends Oasis have announced they will be reuniting

11:16for the first time since 2009

11:19and will play reunion shows next year in a world tour.

11:23Both Noel and Liam Gallagher shared the news of the Oasis Live 25 tour

11:28on their social media sites.

11:30Though they've called it a world tour,

11:32the shows confirmed so far include dates only in the UK and Ireland

11:37in July and August 2025.

11:40Tickets go on sale this Saturday.

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