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00:00Churches, memorials and libraries. Russia has damaged or destroyed over 500 cultural sites in Ukraine, including 150 religious sites in three years of war, according to UNESCO. This includes the Transfiguration Cathedral in Odessa and the Theatre in Mariupol.
00:22This is deliberate, this is coordinated and this is strategic because our enemies, the aggressors, Russian aggressors know that a nation is more than just territory. A nation is the people, it's the stories, it's the tradition, it's the values, it's their culture, which is why we must be strong on this point. We must continue to support our Ukrainian friends.
00:46The protection of Ukraine's cultural heritage, threatened by three years of war, was at the heart of the Conference on the Reconstruction of Ukraine in Italy. The EU will dedicate a further 2 million euros to support Ukraine's cultural sector, bringing its contribution to 7 million euros this year and 48 million euros since the start of the war.
01:11So the war in Ukraine, it's not just a war for our territory. It's a war on values. It's a war on culture. And Ukrainian culture is part of European culture, which is why we must recognize its value and why we must protect it.
01:28We must look at what is happening in Ukraine, because whenever a democracy is under attack, culture is always the primary target, which is why culture must be the primary defense as well.
01:42To deliberate destruction of cultural heritage is a war crime, according to the UN.
01:48Fighters with a Kurdish separatist militant group that has waged a decades-long insurgency in Turkey began laying down their weapons in a symbolic ceremony on Friday.
02:01The ceremony took place in the mountains outside the city of Soleimaniya in northern Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
02:08An Iraqi state-run news agency reported that the process will take place in multiple stages, starting with a symbolic ceremony and eventually leading to a full regional disarmament.
02:20Earlier, the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK, announced it would disband and renounce armed conflicts, ending four decades of hostilities.
02:28PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, who's been imprisoned on an island near Istanbul since 1999, urged his group in February to convene a congress and formally disband and disarm.
02:40The jailed leader renewed his call in a video message broadcast on Wednesday where he said,
02:44quote, I believe in the power of politics and social peace, not weapons.
02:50Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the group's steps towards peace and expressed hope it will bring stability to a region battered by conflict.
02:58A preliminary investigation revealed that two fuel control switches of the Air India plane that crashed last month were cut off moments before the fatal incident.
03:12Shortly after takeoff and once the plane reached its top recorded speed, both engines were switched from run to cutoff, resulting in a loss of engine thrust.
03:22The report also revealed that prior to the crash, there was confusion between the pilots.
03:29One pilot could be heard on the cockpit voice recorder asking why the other had cut off the fuel.
03:34The other pilot responded that he had not done so.
03:38The report does not state how the switch could have been flipped to the cutoff position.
03:42On the 12th of June, the London-bound flight crashed shortly after it left the runway in India's northwestern city of Ahmedabad.
03:50The plane was carrying 230 passengers.
03:54Everyone on board except for one passenger was killed.
04:00Supporters of Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday protested against U.S. President Donald Trump and in favor of taxing the super-rich.
04:11Unions and social groups in Sao Paulo organized the protest as a call for confronting what organizers called an anti-people congress.
04:21Brazilian President Lula da Silva had said that he would impose retaliatory tariffs on the U.S.
04:27if Trump followed through on a pledge to boost import taxes by 50% over the South American country's criminal trial against his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
