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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order ending many U.S. economic sanctions

00:07on Syria.

00:10The European Commission has announced an agreement in principle on a new trade deal with Ukraine

00:15which EU officials describe as more fair and realistic.

00:20The fourth edition of the International Conference on Financing for Development opens in the

00:25southern Spanish city of Seville, with the U.S. notably absent from the event.

00:31Santos Serdan, who is the former aide of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, was detained

00:36without bail in a corruption order.

00:41U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order ending many U.S. economic sanctions on

00:48Syria on Monday.

00:49This follows a promise Trump made to interim Syrian President Ahmed al-Shahra in May.

00:56White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt said the move was to encourage the country

01:02towards peace.

01:03And this is in an effort to promote and support the country's path to stability and peace.

01:10The order will remove sanctions on Syria while maintaining sanctions on the former President

01:15Assad, his associates, human rights abusers, drug traffickers, persons linked to chemical

01:20weapons activities, ISIS and their affiliates, and Iranian proxies.

01:25Another U.S. government official said the move is aimed at ending Syria's financial isolation

01:32and detracting investment from the region as well as the U.S.

01:40The European Commission has announced an agreement in principle on a new trade deal with Ukraine.

01:46The new agreement replaces the existing temporary post-war framework with a long-term, more modest

01:51investment.

01:52Since 2022, trade between the EU and Ukraine was governed by the Autonomous Trade Measures,

01:57or the ATM.

02:00They eliminated all tariffs and quotas on Ukrainian agricultural exports to Brussels, offering

02:05crucial access to European markets during wartime.

02:08The new agreement, however, is less ambitious than the scheme it replaces which expired earlier

02:12this month.

02:14The EU's Agriculture Commissioner, Christoph Hansen, says that it aims to strike the right balance

02:18between supporting Kyiv's trade with the bloc while addressing the sensitivities of a number

02:23of EU agriculture sectors and related concerns.

02:27The ATM has sparked outrage in a number of European countries, particularly France and Poland,

02:32as farmers protested the spike in Ukrainian imports.

02:36Some of the new key provisions of the deal include greater protection of EU markets specifically

02:41for sensitive products like eggs, sugar and wheat.

02:45The Commission has also agreed to gradually align its production standards, including animal

02:49welfare and the use of pesticides with those of the EU by 2028.

02:53Both sides are now set to work on finalizing technical aspects of the deal.

02:58The Commission will then present it to Member States and the European Parliament in the coming

03:02days.

03:07Lithuania and the Philippines have signed an agreement on Monday to build a security alliance.

03:12The agreement comes as both countries mutually expressed alarm over growing aggression threatening

03:17their regions by countries like China.

03:19The Memorandum of Understanding was signed in the Philippines' capital, Manila, between

03:23Defense Ministers Dovila Shakaliana and Gilberto Teodoro Jr.

03:28The pact aims to foster cooperation between the two nations, particularly in the fields of cybersecurity

03:33and defense industries.

03:35It also covers other areas including the production of munitions and maritime security.

03:40Lithuania's Shakaliana described Vilnius' concern over growing, quote, authoritarian access

03:46of Russia, which includes China, North Korea and Iran.

03:49For years, multiple Asian countries including the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia and Brunei have

03:56been involved in prolonged territorial standoffs with China.

03:59Beijing has regularly used water cannons in dangerous maneuvers against Filipino vessels and

04:05fishermen, accusing them of encroaching in what it calls ancient Chinese territory.

04:09Shakaliana condemned the hostilities in the South China Sea, a key global trade route, calling

04:15it an attack on the democratic world.

04:18The agreement with Lithuania was part of Filipino President Ferdinand Marcos' effort to intensify

04:22security alliances between Asia and Western countries.

04:26Manila also has a treaty alliance with the United States to boost its maritime defenses.

04:31representatives of many countries descended on Seville on Monday for a high-level conference.

04:43The four-day conference, co-hosted by the United Nations and Spain, aims to tackle the growing

04:48gap between rich and poor nations and drum up funding for developing countries.

04:53The notable absentee in the fourth edition of this conference was the United States, which

04:57in previous editions of the event was a major contributor.

05:01Washington pulled its participation at the last minute as it rejected the outcome document

05:05of a preparatory meeting held on June 17.

05:09The document had been negotiated for months by the UN's 193 member countries.

05:15U.S. diplomat Jonathan Schrier noted that Washington's commitment to international cooperation

05:19remained steadfast but said the text crossed many of the U.S.'s red flags. Undeterred,

05:25UN Under-Secretary General Li Junhua expressed optimism that the conference can still deliver

05:30success. The Chinese diplomat, who oversees the UN's economic and social affairs program,

05:36said the participants of the conference, through unity, can build on the momentum of previous editions.

05:41With inclusive engagement.

05:46Santos Cerdan, who is the former aide of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, was detained without

05:52bail on Monday. He is being investigated along with the former transport minister, José Luis Abalos,

05:59and his aide, Goldo Garcia, for receiving money for awarding public contracts.

06:05It comes as part of a corruption inquiry that could derail Sanchez's minority government.

06:09Srdan's case is the latest and arguably the most serious in a series of scandals.

06:14The Prime Minister issued a public apology earlier this month when Srdan resigned from office.

06:21He did so in order to deflect calls from his political opponents for a snap election.

06:26Srdan has denied the allegations.

06:33Both the Hungarian government and the opposition are trying to interpret Saturday's Budapest Pride

06:39march, which was attended by an unprecedented crowd in their own interests.

06:44According to Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the event was not a spontaneous civic initiative,

06:49but instead was ordered by Brussels and carried out by quote-unquote their puppet politicians.

06:55Although more than 100,000 people took part in the march despite a ban imposed by the government,

07:01pro-government press is claiming it as a success for the Prime Minister.

07:04They believe that the opposition has aligned itself with Pride and claim polls indicate

07:09the majority in Hungary is opposed to this.

07:12An analyst at Research Institute Political Capital, however, believes the mass demonstration

07:18created an awkward political situation for Orbán's party, Fidesz.

07:22A Fidesz idézte elő azt, hogy ez a téma elnyire fontossá vált.

07:26Ők dobták be azt az ötvetet, vagy azt a törvényt, ami be akarta tűlteni a Pride-ot.

07:31Ehhez képest a Pride megvalósult, és egy soha addig nem látott méretű embertől megvett rajta részt,

07:36kifejezve a szolidaritását.

07:37Nem csak az LMBTQ közösséggel, de kifejezve az ellenérzését, vagy az ellenérzését

07:42azzal kapcsolatban, hogy a Fidesz be akar tűlteni egy rendezvényt.

07:46Úgyhogy ez a Fidesz állította ezt a csapdát, és saját maga esett bele ebbe a csapdába.

07:52By managing to mobilize such a huge crowd, Orbán rendered himself as the king of pride in Europe.

07:58That is what Peter Magyar, leader of the Tisa party said.

08:02And according to Budapest's mayor, Hungary revealed a different side this weekend,

08:07one of a country of solidarity, freedom and Europe.

08:16The battle to reach Europe's 20-40 climate targets has begun.

08:22On Wednesday, the European Commission is due to present its proposal for a 90 percent reduction in CO2 emissions,

08:29to take the block towards carbon neutrality by 2050.

08:33France led an initial offensive at last week's European Summit, setting out its framework.

08:38The word flexibility has appeared repeatedly in the context of climate targets for the European Union.

09:06The Commission hopes this will bring Europe's capitals on side.

09:10We need some clear orientation around 20-40 and the reduction of 90 percent of our emissions by 20-40 is a clear goal.

09:21Then how we can combine the different pieces, the eventual flexibilities is the thing to be discussed.

09:28But we are working hard and we will travel our proposal in the coming days.

09:33For environmental NGOs, granting flexibility is precisely what could end up jeopardizing European efforts to battle climate change.

09:40The one that everyone talks about here in Brussels is about international credits.

09:44So this is basically the fact that the EU and member states could pay other countries outside the EU to basically cut their greenhouse gas emissions.

09:54And then this will be included in the 90 percent of cuts of greenhouse gas emissions within the EU borders.

10:01That's a very big issue because this will divert investments for industry or for people, municipalities outside the EU.

10:08And this will be more expensive and will have less positive impact on the people and industry in the EU.

10:15Paris is asking for more time to negotiate and should be able to count on the support of Budapest and Warsaw.

10:22However, other member states such as Germany, Spain, Finland and Denmark fully support the 90 percent CO2 reduction target.

10:30Dozens of Israeli settlers set fires, vandalized military vehicles and attacked soldiers at a military base in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday night, the military has said.

10:45In a response to the violence, the military used stun grenades against the settlers.

10:50Israel's defense minister Israel Gatz vowed to eradicate violence, quote unquote, from the root.

10:59Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Sunday's attack.

11:02And far-right security minister Itamar Ben-Gavir has also offered a condemnation.

11:07A rare move as he has often defended Jewish settlers accused of similar crimes.

11:13Violence by extremist settlers has risen alongside growing tensions in the region.

11:19On Wednesday, three Palestinians were killed when Israeli settlers stormed a village near Ramallah.

11:25The West Bank is home to some three million Palestinians living under seemingly open-ended Israeli military rule and 500,000 Jewish settlers.

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