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00:01One of the main hospitals in southern Israel has been hit by Iranian strikes, injuring dozens of people.
00:11Chaos erupted in the Spanish parliament in the first session since a top aide of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was implicated in a corruption scandal.
00:21One of Israel's main hospitals has been directly hit by Iranian missiles.
00:26Local officials say dozens have been injured, three of them seriously, and 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.
00:47Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will quote, extract the full price from the tyrants in Tehran.
00:54The 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.
01:07But Israel has urged the public to flee the area.
01:13Chaos erupted in the Spanish parliament in its first session since Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's top aide was implicated in a corruption scandal.
01:21The chaos was orchestrated by far-right Vox party leader Santiago Abscal who called Sanchez indecent, corrupt, and a traitor before quickly leaving the chamber.
01:32Last week, Spanish police released audio recordings which confirmed that Santos Serdan was involved in a scheme which saw him take kickbacks in return for public work contracts.
01:41Serdan, who was the number three in command in Sanchez's Socialist Workers' Party, denied any wrongdoing and resigned from his post.
01:49Spanish lawmakers demanded Sanchez's resignation as they continued to press the premier to call for snap elections.
01:56Sanchez, however, deployed a more offensive tactic in a dramatic shift from last week's apologetic tone.
02:01The Spanish leader referenced corruption cases involving other parties in a bid to undermine their standing.
02:08Sanchez referenced the Gürtel case where hundreds of opposition people's party officers were implicated in corruption allegations including bribery, money laundering, and tax fraud.
02:18Sanchez noted that his party actively addresses corruption issues as soon as they surface while accusing the PP and Vox of covering them up.
02:28PP leader Alberto Nunez Fehu accused Sanchez of attempting to act like a victim as he slammed him for being deeply entrenched in corruption.
02:35He also blasted Sanchez for not calling for snap elections as he claimed the Spanish premier knows he'd lose.
02:45In an attempt to motivate people to come back home, Ukraine is allowing multiple citizenship for the first time ever in the country's history.
02:54The parliament in Kyiv, Vrhovna Rada, decided in a bill passed on Wednesday.
02:57Alexei Chernyshov, Ukraine's vice prime minister and minister for national unity, says it is a crucial step to motivate the Ukrainians to come back home.
03:06Not only those who left after Russia's all-out war in 2022, but also those who had to leave Ukraine when Russia first invaded in 2014.
03:14There are Ukrainians who stepped into the citizenship of other countries and we want to continue their Ukrainian identity to give this opportunity to them.
03:23Within the current setting, there was only one choice of Ukrainian passport, so now our citizens have the solution.
03:34Chernyshov told Euronews that Kyiv expects a third of those who left Ukraine since Russia's full-scale invasion in early 2022 to come back once the peace solution is reached.
03:45I heard it from many ministers of European Union countries and they value a lot Ukrainian presence.
03:54That is why we will also have to compete among the labour markets and to provide better conditions.
04:01That is why I am so keen on economic development and future increase of this component in Ukraine.
04:08The conflict in the Middle East will further worsen the global economic outlook already strained by ongoing trade disputes.
04:25The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Krystalina Georgieva, told Euronews in an interview.
04:32What we witness now is more turbulence in the Middle East, which adds to uncertainty and therefore bad for business.
04:46Of course, even worse for the people that are affected by the war.
04:52For now, what we see is relatively contained impact to the area where military activities take place.
05:06But there is a push of oil prices up now at around $75 a barrel.
05:15And we don't know what would be the longevity of this conflict.
05:22Neither we know whether there would be spillovers beyond the affected countries.
05:30Since Donald Trump's return to power as leader of the world's largest economy,
05:35international trade has been disrupted by a wave of tariffs imposed by the US administration on its global partners.
05:40Negotiations are currently underway with the EU, which currently faces tariffs of 50% on steel and aluminium, 25% on cars and 10% on all its exports to the US.
05:53Well, the global economy has proven to be remarkably resilient to shocks.
05:59And that resilience continues.
06:01We live in a more shock-prone world, a world of higher uncertainty.
06:08And for this world, countries need to work hard to be more resilient.
06:14Do reforms at home that would make your economies stronger.
06:18In an uncertain context, she also sees opportunities to be seized, an outlook shared by the European Commission,
06:26which is pursuing a strategy of diversifying its trading partners by expanding the number of trade agreements worldwide.
06:32In Europe, we see an increase in bilateral and plurilateral agreements, which I expect to be a big feature of the future of trade globally, not just for Europe.
06:49So, great moment for Europe, a defender of rules-based global economy, to step up, to take that leadership role of making sure that we move to a world in which, in the end, the level of tariff and non-tariff barriers goes down.
07:12The U.S. Federal Reserve has opted to keep interest rates unchanged for a fourth straight meeting.
07:22It comes despite U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly urging Fed Chair Jerome Powell to slash rates to boost the economy.
07:29In support of our goals, today the Federal Open Market Committee decided to leave our policy interest rate unchanged.
07:36We believe that the current stance of monetary policy leaves us well-positioned to respond in a timely way to potential economic developments.
07:45Powell 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.
07:55Every forecaster you can name who is a professional forecaster with adequate resources and forecasts for a living, everyone that I know is forecasting a meaningful increase in inflation in coming months from tariffs because someone has to pay for the tariffs.
08:16Trump, speaking to reporters ahead of the Fed's announcement, predicted that Powell would not decrease rates.
08:21He slammed the Fed chair and accused him of having a personal agenda against him.
08:26So we have a stupid person, frankly, at the Fed. He probably won't cut today. Europe had 10 cuts and we had none.
08:35And I guess he's a political guy. I don't know. He's a political guy who's not a smart person, but he's costing the country of fortunes.
08:43I think he hates me, but that's OK. You know, he should. He should. I call him every name in the book trying to get him to do something.
08:48The Federal Reserve foresees inflation, which currently sits at around 2.1 percent, spiking to 3 percent by the end of the year.
08:57They also expect a modest increase in unemployment, as well as growth slowing from 2.5 percent last year to around 1.4 percent.
09:06Powell noted that despite the projections, Fed policymakers are anticipating two rate cuts this year.
09:12Thousands of demonstrators rallied in Madrid, Barcelona and Naples on Sunday to call for an end to what they call the touristification of their cities.
09:29In recent years, mass tourism has surged in Europe for a number of reasons.
09:33The more available income in middle classes in many of the countries, more accessible travel in terms of air capacity, but also in terms of airfares and also in many, many countries.
09:46And I always give the example of Europe with Schengen, the facilities of crossing borders, which have dramatically changed over the decades.
09:55The number of international tourist arrivals in Europe has risen from 416 million in 2005 to over 747 million in 2024, according to UN tourism.
10:08Between 2019 and 2024, tourist arrivals rose by 18 percent in Portugal and 12 percent in Spain and France.
10:16In Italy, on the other hand, they fell by 10.5 percent over the same period.
10:22On one hand, this influx of visitors generates jobs and revenue for tourist regions.
10:28In 2023, Spain earned US$92 billion from international tourists.
10:34France received US$71 billion, while Italy and Portugal took in US$55 billion and US$27 billion, respectively.
10:42But at what cost?
10:43The increase of short-term furnished accommodation is contributing to soaring property prices and growing housing difficulties for locals.
10:52Between 2015 and 2023, property prices rose by an average of 48 percent in the EU, according to Eurostat.
11:00This was 105 percent in Portugal, 47 percent in Spain, 31 percent in France and 8 percent in Italy over the same period.
11:08The sector itself needs to define what's the carrying capacity in certain destinations, where and how can we manage better.
11:17And in this situation, new technologies help because you can do a lot with tracking movements of people.
11:24You can have more data and you can have better information.
11:26Some municipalities, victims of their own success, have taken the problem head on.
11:32Amsterdam has banned the construction of new hotels and Dubrovnik has limited the daily number of cruise ships that can dock.
