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00:00A tsunami hit parts of Russia's Kural Islands in Japan's Hokkaido after a powerful 8.8 magnitude
00:09earthquake struck off the coast of Russia early on Wednesday.
00:16Damage and evacuations were reported in the Russian regions nearest to the quake's epicenter.
00:22Tsunami warnings are also in place for other islands in the region,
00:25as well as for Alaska, Hawaii, Ecuador, and the United States' west coast.
00:32The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center warned for waves of 1 to 3 meters,
00:37and countries and islands including Hawaii and Japan have issued evacuation orders.
00:42New Zealand, the Philippines, and the west coast of Canada are also on alert.
00:47The earthquake's epicenter was just off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia's far east.
00:53It was the strongest to hit the region since the 1950s.
01:01The first tsunami waves sparked by a huge earthquake off Russia have hit the island state of Hawaii.
01:08Sirens sounded and evacuation orders were triggered as the state is on full tsunami alert.
01:14Flights in and out of the island of Maui are grounded.
01:17As a safety precaution, all passengers in the airport's depth must immediately evacuate to the second floor terminal overall.
01:28The powerful 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia's far east.
01:32On Tuesday evening here in St. Peter's Square,
01:47Chief Bishop Fisichella led the inauguration mass for the Jubilee of Youth.
01:52He welcomed the hundreds of thousands of young pilgrims who flocked to the capital on the occasion.
01:59Some of them arrived here from conflict zones and thanked them for making the effort.
02:06This is the largest event of the Vatican's ongoing Jubilee year.
02:12For the first time in its history, the Catholic Church has celebrated a two-day event
02:18entirely dedicated to digital missionaries and Catholic influencers as a way to show how much the digital environment has become a true mission field.
02:32As the Vatican's Secretary of State, Pauline, put it, quote,
02:36The digital world needs hope.
02:40And addressing digital missionaries at the end of the mass celebrated by Cardinal Tago on Tuesday,
02:48Pope Leo urged them to mend nets, nets of relationship, of love.
02:55And in a world torn by conflicts, the Pope highlighted the importance of spreading a message of peace.
03:05The Jubilee of Youth includes a series of meetings, events, activities culminating on Sunday
03:11when Pope Leo will lead a mass in Torbergata on the outskirts of Rome.
03:18Giorgio Orlandi for Euronews and the Vatican.
03:21Authorities in Poland have charged a Colombian national with terror offenses
03:31for his role in two arson attacks allegedly carried out on behalf of Russia.
03:38Poland's counterintelligence agency said the 27-year-old set fire to two construction supply depots in May last year,
03:47following orders from Moscow.
03:48Russian secret services allegedly encouraged South American citizens coming to the EU to commit.
04:18crimes, offering them an easy way to make money.
04:24More than 1,300 firefighters were deployed to battle three major forest fires in the areas of Oroca,
04:31Ponte de Barça and Penamacor on Tuesday, authorities said.
04:35In Ponte de Barça, nearly 400 firefighters, more than 100 land vehicles
04:40and two helicopters have been mobilized to fight the flames.
04:44In Oroca, more than 600 firefighters have been sent to fight the fires, which prompted authorities
05:01to evacuate a village and close the popular paver walkways.
05:04In Penamacor, the fight against the flames is going well, according to the regional command.
05:15The majority of Portugal, except the Faro region, is under a yellow alert until at least Thursday,
05:20following weeks of soaring temperatures.
05:22The U.S. is planning to destroy contraceptives worth around 10 million dollars that were intended
05:35for less developed nations.
05:37The U.S. State Department has confirmed this decision, resulting from President Donald Trump
05:44freezing all foreign aid earlier this year.
05:47We are currently in the Belgian city of Hill, located in the province of Antwerp.
05:52Behind me is the warehouse that has been storing U.S.-funded contraceptives for the past months.
05:57The warehouse is not accessible at the moment, but according to a U.S. document from April,
06:02these supplies include over 50,000 intra-uterine devices, almost 2 million doses of injectable
06:08contraceptives, and over 2 million packets of oral birth control.
06:11U.S. lawmakers are trying to prevent these stocks from being incinerated, but they may
06:17not pass the necessary bills in time.
06:20NGOs, the U.N. and the Belgian government are also trying to explore all possible options
06:25to save the stocks, but have not succeeded so far.
06:29Today, what it means, the destruction of these contraceptives, is the danger of women
06:35everywhere in the world, and especially in Africa, because they were destined in poor countries
06:41in Africa.
06:41And it's also the danger of the issue, because we talk about implants, we talk about preservatives,
06:48and preservatives are also what protects sexually transmitted infections, it's what protects
06:54the VIH.
06:54The French Green Party also sent a letter to Emmanuel Macron and the European Commission
07:00requesting that they urge the U.S. to suspend the destruction of the supplies and mediate
07:06diplomatic efforts alongside NGOs to ensure these products reach their intended recipients.
07:13The Commission has told us that they have taken note of the concerns raised and that the
07:17EU remains strongly committed to promoting sexual and reproductive health and rights.
07:22the EU executive will also continue to monitor the situation closely to find the most effective
07:28solutions.
07:29Paula Soler, Euronews, Brussels.
07:52What we find is we have to remember that one's sort of fitness and one's health is affected
08:04by both how healthy the muscles are in terms of their metabolism, the way they use energy,
08:12how fit they are, as well as how well your heart and your lungs and your circulation.
08:16So, in order to get those organs to adapt, we have to push them and typically the heart and
08:26the lungs are probably not able to withstand long periods of high intensity work.
08:34So, rather than taking a traditional approach where you just do a long steady, you go for a jog
08:39or you go for a walk at a steady pace by inducing these little zaps of hard exercise, we are pushing
08:49the muscles and the heart and the lungs into a region where they then have to adapt a bit
08:54more.
08:58Our sort of public health recommendations fit into this, you know, for the public we talk
09:04about them getting 150 minutes per week of moderate activity or 75 minutes per week of
09:09more vigorous activity or some combination of the two.
09:13So, this Japanese walking fits in perfectly into that.
09:18We can have more vigorous activity and we can have more moderate activity all at once.
09:29One of the benefits mentally if you have to up the intensity is you then have to be much
09:34more focused on the activity itself.
09:40Almost like a similar way to mindfulness, you have to focus in on what you're doing and
09:44that seems to have a benefit.
09:49Everything you do with a computer requires moving and mostly you actually use your hands,
10:06sometimes you use your mouth, but it's really actually excruciatingly slow.
10:10And the idea was to take the nerve signals that you use to move your hands and instead use
10:29those nerve signals to directly control a computer, what we call a peripheral neural interface.
10:36And this has huge advantages in terms of the richness and the speed with which you control
10:41a computer.
10:42It gives you, the person running the computer, a lot more agency and a lot more facility.
10:48This research that we're publishing demonstrates that there are some inherent what we call scaling
11:01laws that allow us to build a general model for really all of civilization such that people
11:08can put on a band and start using their brain directly to electrification their brain in a general
