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00:00President Vladimir Zelensky spoke on Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump in what the Ukrainian leader said was, quote, a very important and fruitful phone call.
00:13In a post on social media platform X, he said the pair discussed Russian airstrikes and broader frontline developments.
00:21He also said they spoke about opportunities in air defense and agreed they would, quote, work together to strengthen the protection of our skies.
00:30Zelensky then went on to thank the U.S. President for his support.
00:35The conversation comes a day after Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Ukraine, Iran and other issues in a call the Kremlin described as frank and constructive.
00:46But despite phone calls, the conflict still continues on the ground.
00:50Overnight and into Friday, Russia launched a massive aerial attack against Ukraine, mainly targeting Kyiv.
00:57While subsequent attacks also caused a blackout at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, said the country's energy minister.
01:04Also on Friday, a Russian Telegram channel reported that Ukraine had used a new type of drone to attack a strategic plant in the country's Rostov-Oblast region.
01:15Russia became the first country in the world to formally recognize the Taliban government in Afghanistan since the group seized power in 2021.
01:30The decision follows shortly after Moscow's top court removed the group's terrorist designation in April.
01:37Relations between the two countries have been historically complex.
01:42However, Russia in recent years sought to deepen its ties with Afghanistan.
01:47Germany wants to negotiate a direct agreement with the Taliban to take back Afghan nationals set for deportation.
02:04Iran suspended deportations after the group returned to power in 2021, but resumed flights in August last year with the support of regional partners.
02:13My idea is that we make agreements directly with Afghanistan to enable repatriations, German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrin said in an interview on Thursday, adding that a similar deal is being discussed with Syria.
02:28Germany does not currently recognize the Taliban government and maintains no official diplomatic ties with Kabul.
02:41On Friday, the United Nations criticized plans to strike a deal with the group, saying it was, quote,
02:46not appropriate to return people to Afghanistan due to documented human rights violations.
02:55Migration was a key issue as Germans headed to the polls to vote in last February's snap federal elections.
03:01The European Trade Union Confederation sound the alarm after the heatwave sweeping across Europe claimed its first victims in the workplace.
03:18Spain and France have both reported a heatwave-related death.
03:22Similar tragedies had occurred in previous summers in both countries, as well as in Italy and Greece.
03:28According to figures from the International Labour Organization, the EU has seen a 42% increase in heat-related deaths in the workplace since the turn of the century.
03:40The Confederation pointed out that when temperatures exceed 30 degrees Celsius, the risk of workplace accidents increases by 5 to 7%.
03:49And past 38 degrees, the risk is 10 to 15% higher.
03:53And we say that we also think that the evaluation of the risk must be made,
03:59not only of the temperature but also of other conditions that include the humidity,
04:04the humidity, the humidity, the humidity, the ventilation, the exposure to the solar light.
04:10Then we think that there should be the right to the medical visits,
04:15to the medical conditions, to the medical conditions, to the periodic conditions.
04:18And finally, a banal right.
04:22That to be absent at work without disciplinary provisions, without sanctions,
04:28in cases in which the worker perceives that extreme heat conditions are making him difficult.
04:37Trade unions are now calling for European measures to protect workers.
04:41They are asking for maximum working temperatures to be set accordingly for different sectors.
04:46Some member states have already set thresholds, but unions argue that these are not enough.
04:52There are also the conditions, as well as we do,
04:54To the medical conditions that allow people to protect their beds and to protect them,
04:58to protect them from the people who are in the field of the human
