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00:04How have the record-breaking temperatures impacted people across the continent?
00:11A fast-moving wildfire near Marseille has left more than 100 people injured
00:16and at least 400 people have been evacuated.
00:21More than 160 people are still missing in Texas
00:25after flash floods killed over 100 people during the weekend.
00:30In an effort to avoid mobilization,
00:34the Kremlin now allows foreigners to serve in the Russian army.
00:42Extreme weather has affected large parts of Europe over the last few days.
00:47In Portugal, 284 excess deaths were recorded during the ongoing heat wave,
00:52almost all of them people aged over 85.
00:55It comes after the country recorded its hottest ever temperature in late June.
01:01The extreme heat is expected to continue.
01:04In neighboring Spain, more than 18,000 residents were placed into lockdown as wildfires continued to burn.
01:10Large parts of Spain are on high alert for wildfires after the country experienced its hottest June on record.
01:18Meanwhile, France is also attempting to put out wildfires.
01:22Flights have been suspended at Marseille Airport because of a fire that is raging close to the southern French port city.
01:28Authorities urge people to stay indoors. The wildfire risk remains high.
01:35And in Greece, the Acropolis closed for several hours as temperatures exceeded 40 degrees.
01:41In Hungary, severe thunderstorms battered the country, uprooting trees, downing power lines and paralyzing rail traffic.
01:51The storm left many homes without electricity.
01:54Croatia also saw heavy flooding and wind damage, while other Balkan countries are still battling heat waves and wildfires.
02:07A fast-moving wildfire near Marseille has left more than 100 people injured, as flames threaten parts of France's second-largest city.
02:30Officials say some 800 firefighters have been deployed to battle the blaze, which at its peak spread at a rate of over 1 km per minute.
02:42At least 400 people have been evacuated, including 71 from a nursing home, but so far no deaths have been reported.
02:50Authorities are urging Marseille residents to stay indoors and avoid evacuating unless ordered to do so, so roads can be kept clear for emergency crews.
03:02People are also being told to keep windows closed to prevent toxic smoke from entering their homes.
03:09Weeks of heat waves combined with strong winds have increased the risks of wildfires in southern France, with several breaking out over the last few days.
03:17More than 160 people are still missing in Texas after flash floods killed over 100 people during the weekend.
03:30The number tripled after officials opened a hotline for families to report loved ones.
03:36Search teams are using heavy machinery to cut through fallen trees, dig out riverbanks and clear huge piles of debris in the race to find them missing.
03:45Crews in airboats, helicopters and hundreds of volunteers are involved in one of Texas's biggest ever search and rescue operations.
03:55The primary job right now continues to be locating everybody who was affected by this flood.
04:04There still remain those who are missing.
04:07We have to find every single person who's missing.
04:11Texas inspectors had reported the approved Camp Mystic's emergency plan just two days before the disaster.
04:21Two dozen people were killed at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.
04:27The camp did not evacuate and was hit hard after the nearby Guadalupe River surged nine metres in less than an hour.
04:36US President Donald Trump has announced a 25% tax on goods imported from Japan and South Korea.
04:49He also announced new tariff rates on a dozen other nations that would go into effect on the 1st of August.
04:54Trump posted letters on Truth Social warning foreign leaders against retaliating, threatening higher US tariffs in response.
05:04His moves have raised fears that economic growth will slow to a trickle, if not make the US and other nations more vulnerable to a recession.
05:11The US President is confident that the tariffs are necessary to bring back domestic manufacturing and fund the tax cuts he signed into law.
05:23However, despite the threats, the President showed a willingness to negotiate.
05:27Trump had previously set the tariffs to come into effect on July 9th.
05:32He has now moved this date to August 1st.
05:35Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba referred to the new deadline as positive as it allows for negotiation talks to go on.
05:43Meanwhile, South Korea's Trade Ministry said it would speed up talks with the US to reach a deal before the 25% export tax takes effect.
05:51Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree allowing foreigners to serve in the Russian army, not only during a state of emergency or martial law, but also during draft periods.
06:08Moscow has recently intensified its summer offensive against Ukraine.
06:13Allowing foreigners to serve in the army would therefore strengthen the recruitment process while avoiding formal conscription.
06:19According to a British intelligence update, the majority of foreign recruits came from South and East Asia.
06:27The UK Ministry of Defense suggested the main factors motivating foreigners to sign up are financial incentives and the possibility of obtaining Russian citizenship.
06:36U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States will send more weapons to Ukraine on Monday.
06:47The decision announced during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu comes just days after the Pentagon paused key arms deliveries to Kyiv, citing concerns about falling stockpiles.
07:01Trump also said that he was disappointed and not happy about the fact that Russian leader Vladimir Putin has not stopped his war yet on Ukraine and that this war would never have happened if he had been president.
07:29Last week, Trump held separate calls with both Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
07:36Volodymyr Zelensky.
07:46Civil society and the media face increasing challenges in the EU warns the rule of law report.
07:52This commission report takes the pulse of democratic institutions in the 27 member countries through four pillars.
07:59Of the 2025 rule of law report, there is no progress in respect of many specific recommendations and of course that is a concern.
08:07And so where we find that the space within which civil society operates or where we find that that is narrowed, for example, or where we find that the media are under undue pressure and influence, then we have to call that out.
08:24In Italy, a new law on security aimed at combating terrorism and organized crime could have repercussions for civil society and media freedom.
08:37So in the case of Italy, the important thing is to continue with the efforts to introduce the agreed reforms to the justice system.
08:46We have made recommendations having looked at the four key pillars in the rule of law area.
08:52So for example, in the media, having a system in place for the funding of public service media in Italy is a specific recommendation that we have made.
09:04In Greece, Poland and Hungary, concerns persist about the independence and impartiality of media regulatory authorities.
09:12In Hungary, journalists and media outlets were accused of serving foreign interests and have been investigated.
09:18The crackdown on civil society in Hungary was also underlined in the report.
09:23Commissioner McGrath mentioned a deteriorating environment and the legal uncertainty that organizations have to face in the country.
09:33Vincenzo Genovese, Euronews, Strasbourg.
09:39And we can never let extremists rewrite history.
09:43It's the debate that's caused a stir in the European Union institutions.
09:47A vote of confidence tabled against President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presents an opportunity for MEPs to take stock one year after the European elections.
09:58Going into the vote, von der Leyen firstly has the full support of her European People's Party, the strongest force in the House.
10:06The motion of Strasbourg is an initiative by anti-Europeans who want to weaken Europe, who want to weaken European institutions and who want to reduce the trust of the citizens in the European Union.
10:18It is not meant to improve anything, it is not justified and it is also irrelevant.
10:23The Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens have no intention of weakening the pro-European coalition formed around the EPP.
10:31Their leaders, however, have seized the opportunity of the debate to air their grievances with the Commission.
10:37The radical left is also expected to reject the motion of censor, however, some MEPs may abstain to show their opposition to Ursula von der Leyen.
10:47In this moment, the issue that counts is to try to give Europe a different hope, a new leadership, a profound change in progress,
10:57a profound change in politics that do not satisfy us in any way.
11:01In the beginning of the regime, this is extended to the social politics, to the Green Deal,
11:06to everything that this Commission does not do, or worse, is trading in the past.
11:12Thirdly, the European Conservatives and Reformist Group will be divided at the time of the vote,
11:18the motion of which was tabled by one of its members.
11:21Finally, the most right-wing groups in the chamber, the Patriots for Europe and the Europe of Sovereign Nations,
11:26are expected to vote in favour of the motion, which on paper seems doomed to fail.
11:31The vote on the motion of censor on Thursday will likely indicate the levels of discontent within the European Parliament
