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00:00One of the main hospitals in southern Israel has been hit by Iranian strikes, injuring dozens of people.
00:10Chaos erupted in the Spanish parliament in the first session since a top aide of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was implicated in a corruption scandal.
00:20One of Israel's main hospitals has been directly hit by Iranian missiles.
00:27Local officials say dozens have been injured.
00:30Three of them seriously.
00:31And that the hospital has suffered extensive damage.
00:36Located in southern Israel, the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba provides services to approximately one million residents, according to the facility's website.
00:47Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will, quote, extract the full price from the tyrants in Tehran.
00:55The strike came as Israel attacked the Iraq heavy water reactor in central Iran.
01:00Iranian state television said on Thursday it claimed there was no radiation damage or damage to civilian areas, but Israel has urged the public to flee the area.
01:09The death toll of Russia's latest attack on Kyiv rose to 28 on Wednesday, as rescuers continued to pull more bodies from the rubble of an apartment building demolished by a Russian missile.
01:25Authorities said 23 of those killed were inside the building, which took a direct hit and collapsed.
01:32The remaining five died elsewhere in the city.
01:35It was the deadliest attack on Ukraine's capital this year.
01:38Ukraine's interior minister said that search and rescue operations lasted over 39 hours, involving 400 rescuers.
01:48Russia fired over 440 drones and 32 missiles into Ukraine overnight into Tuesday in an almost nine-hour-long attack, primarily targeting Kyiv.
01:58The Ukrainian air force said its air defences destroyed 428 air targets.
02:05Russia has launched a summer offensive along parts of the roughly 1,000-kilometer front line and has intensified long-range attacks that have struck urban residential areas.
02:15United States envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, is reportedly planning a trip to Belarus in the coming days to meet with President Alexander Lukashenko.
02:29It's believed his visit is an attempt to revive the largely stalled peace talks between Ukraine and Russia.
02:35However, given Lukashenko's close alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin, opposition leaders Vyatlana Tsikhanouskaya expressed strong doubts about his role in these talks.
02:48I don't think that Belarus can be a place for negotiations on the war because Lukashenko is part of this war.
03:01He's co-aggressing, he's serving to Putin's interests and he cannot be trusted at all.
03:09She added that the Kremlin's war in Ukraine has in fact drawn the Belarusian and Russian leaders even closer together.
03:18I think that the war was a blessing for Lukashenko and he doesn't want the stop of the war because he's earning huge money on militarizing of our economy.
03:28They're producing a huge amount of stuff for the Russian army and in this atmosphere of sanctions against Lukashenko's regime is a good source of income for him.
03:38So he's not interested in peace.
03:40He might want to be important in this deal but he's not an independent actor here.
03:48If the visit takes place, Kellogg would be the highest-ranking American official to travel to Belarus in some years.
03:58Chaos erupted in the Spanish parliament in its first session since Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's top aide was implicated in a corruption scandal.
04:07The chaos was orchestrated by far-right Vox Party leader Santiago Apsal who called Sánchez indecent, corrupt and a traitor before quickly leaving the chamber.
04:18Last week, Spanish police released audio recordings which confirmed that Santos Cerdán was involved in a scheme which saw him take kickbacks in return for public work contracts.
04:27Sir Don, who was the number three in command in Sánchez's Socialist Workers' Party, denied any wrongdoing and resigned from his post.
04:35Spanish lawmakers demanded Sánchez's resignation as they continued to press the premier to call for snap elections.
04:42Sánchez, however, deployed a more offensive tactic in a dramatic shift from last week's apologetic tone.
04:48The Spanish leader referenced corruption cases involving other parties in a bid to undermine their standing.
04:53Sánchez referenced the Gürtel case where hundreds of opposition People's Party officers were implicated in corruption allegations, including bribery, money laundering and tax fraud.
05:05Sánchez noted that his party actively addresses corruption issues as soon as they surface while accusing the PP and Vox of covering them up.
05:13PP leader Alberto Núñez Fehu accused Sánchez of attempting to act like a victim as he slammed him for being deeply entrenched in corruption.
05:20He also blasted Sánchez for not calling for snap elections as he claimed the Spanish premier knows he'd lose.
05:32The conflict in the Middle East will further worsen the global economic outlook already strained by ongoing trade disputes.
05:40The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva, told Euronews in an interview.
05:49What we witness now is more turbulence in the Middle East, which adds to uncertainty and therefore bad for business.
06:02Of course, even worse for the people that are affected by the war.
06:08For now, what we see is relatively contained impact to the area where military activities take place.
06:21But there is a push of oil prices up now at around $75 a barrel.
06:32And we don't know what would be the longevity of this conflict.
06:38Neither we know whether there would be spillovers beyond the affected countries.
06:44Since Donald Trump's return to power as leader of the world's largest economy,
06:50international trade has been disrupted by a wave of tariffs imposed by the U.S. administration on its global partners.
06:57Negotiations are currently underway with the EU, which currently faces tariffs of 50% on steel and aluminium,
07:0325% on cars and 10% on all its exports to the U.S.
07:08Well, the global economy has proven to be remarkably resilient to shocks and that resilience continues.
07:16We live in a more shock-prone world, a world of higher uncertainty.
07:23And for this world, countries need to work hard to be more resilient.
07:29Do reforms at home that would make your economies stronger.
07:34In an uncertain context, she also sees opportunities to be seized.
07:39An outlook shared by the European Commission, which is pursuing a strategy of diversifying its trading partners
07:45by expanding the number of trade agreements worldwide.
07:48In Europe, we see increase in bilateral and plurilateral agreements,
07:57which I expect to be a big feature of the future of trade globally, not just for Europe.
08:05So, great moment for Europe, a defender of rules-based global economy, to step up,
08:17to take that leadership role of making sure that we move to a world in which, in the end,
08:24the level of tariff and non-tariff barriers goes down.
08:32The U.S. Federal Reserve has opted to keep interest rates unchanged for a fourth straight meeting.
08:38It comes despite U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly urging Fed Chair Jerome Powell to slash rates to boost the economy.
08:46In support of our goals, today the Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave our policy interest rate unchanged.
08:52We believe that the current stance of monetary policy leaves us well-positioned to respond in a timely way to potential economic developments.
09:01Powell says the decision to maintain rates was to allow the federal agency an opportunity to assess how Trump's global tariffs could disrupt the economy.
09:11Every forecaster you can name who is a professional forecaster with adequate resources and forecasts for a living
09:20is forecasting, you know, pretty significant, everyone that I know is forecasting a meaningful increase in inflation in coming months from tariffs
09:28because someone has to pay for the tariffs.
09:31Trump, speaking to reporters ahead of the Fed's announcement, predicted that Powell would not decrease rates.
09:37He slammed the Fed chair and accused him of having a personal agenda against him.
09:41So we have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed. He probably won't cut today.
09:47Europe had 10 cuts and we had none.
09:50And I guess he's a political guy. I don't know. He's a political guy who's not a smart person.
09:56But he's costing the country a fortune. I think he hates me, but that's OK.
10:00You know, he should. He should. I call him every name in the book trying to get him to do something.
10:04The Federal Reserve foresees inflation, which currently sits at around 2.1 percent, spiking to 3 percent by the end of the year.
10:12They also expect a modest increase in unemployment, as well as growth slowing from 2.5 percent last year to around 1.4 percent.
10:22Powell noted that despite the projections, Fed policymakers are anticipating two rate cuts this year.
10:27The U.S. Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for children.
10:37The justices ruled 6-3 that the 2023 law restricting minors' access to treatments such as puberty blockers was not discrimination.
10:46Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the ruling does not violate the Constitution's Equal Protection Clause,
10:52which requires the government to treat similarly situated people the same.
10:56The three liberal judges on the panel denounced the ruling, arguing that it may have profound impacts.
11:02Justice Sonia Sotomayor stressed that the ruling effectively abandons trans children and their families to political whims.
11:10The case also provides protection to many efforts by the Trump administration to roll back protections for transgender people.
11:17The ruling can now be used as precedent by 26 other states which have similar laws to Tennessee.
11:22Since returning to office, Trump has moved to define sexes as male and female,
11:28banned transgender athletes from women's sports, and restricted their access to public spaces.
11:34The Supreme Court has also previously granted Trump the freedom to kick trans service members out of the military despite ongoing lawsuits.
