00:00U.S. President Donald Trump sweeping new trade tariffs on more than 90 countries around the world have come into effect.
00:10U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in coming days as the U.S. ramps up pressure on Putin to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
00:20Authorities in the U.K. detain first migrants under the plan to towards boats crossing through the English Channel from France.
00:30The world experienced its third warmest July on record this year, according to the European Union agency that tracks global warming.
00:39The U.S. began officially levying higher taxes on imports from dozens of countries on Thursday, four months after President Donald Trump first announced plans to impose tariffs on most of the world.
00:52The White House said that starting just after midnight, goods from more than 60 countries would face tariff rates of 10% or higher.
01:02Products from the European Union, Japan and South Korea will be taxed at 15%, while imports from Taiwan, Vietnam and Bangladesh will be taxed at 20%.
01:13While seeking new trade agreements across the board, the Trump administration says it expects places such as the EU, Japan and South Korea to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the U.S.
01:28Trump's trade policies are aimed at reshaping the structure of global trade, which he believes is unfair towards the U.S.
01:37Despite the controversy, the U.S. has remained confident that the onset of its broad tariffs will provide clarity about the path of the world's largest economy.
01:47In late July, the EU and U.S. tentatively agreed on a 15% tariff for the vast majority of EU products.
01:56The deal is, however, preliminary and its details are yet to be fleshed out.
02:01U.S. President Donald Trump has hit India with an extra 25% tariff over its Russian oil deals, bringing total U.S. tariffs on the country to a steep 50%.
02:17India has not supported Ukraine-related sanctions by the U.S. and its allies on Moscow by continuing to acquire oil from Russia.
02:26The tariffs are set to take effect 21 days after the order is signed.
02:30The move is ostensibly aimed at cutting the Kremlin off from revenue to fund its ongoing war in Ukraine and pushing Moscow towards the negotiating table.
02:41U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are preparing to meet a Kremlin aide, said Thursday, confirming previous reports.
02:50A meeting could take place as soon as next week.
02:53The announcement comes after Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff visited Moscow, and one day before a deadline imposed by Trump for Putin to agree to a ceasefire deal is set to expire.
03:06Neither side confirmed what Witkoff's visit to Moscow entailed, with Trump refusing to call the meeting a breakthrough.
03:12Trump has previously expressed frustration with the Russian leader's inability to agree to even a temporary pause in fighting, with Russia continuing to strike Ukrainian towns and cities, despite U.S. efforts to seal a truce.
03:25Trump hinted it plans to hold a three-way meeting between himself, Putin, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a proposal the Kremlin played down.
03:34Moscow left the option of that meeting without comment, the Kremlin said Thursday.
03:39Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia was more inclined to agree to a truce following Witkoff's visit.
03:46He cautioned that it is important that Russia does not deceive Ukraine or the United States in the details of a potential ceasefire agreement.
03:55Russian strikes have killed at least six people and injured 35 others across Ukraine in the past day.
04:01Just one day before U.S. President Donald Trump's deadline for Moscow to agree to a ceasefire deal.
04:08The attacks killed four civilians in the Zaporizhia region, its governor said, where Moscow launched a total of 723 strikes on at least 12 areas in the past day.
04:19Another two civilians were killed in the wider Donetsk area, with additional injuries in Sumi, Kharkiv and Khezon.
04:26The strikes come just one day before a deadline imposed by Trump for Russia to halt fighting on Ukraine or face a wave of sweeping additional tariffs.
04:36On Wednesday, Trump appeared to implement his threats by hitting India with an additional 25% tariff over its purchases of Russian oil.
04:45The U.S. leader has said he will up the economic pressure on Russia should it continue to strike Ukraine past the ceasefire deadline date.
04:52British border authorities have detained the first group of migrants under a pilot plan that will send some who crossed the English Channel on small boats back to France.
05:06According to the U.K. Home Office, the migrants were detained on Wednesday, the day the program came into force,
05:13and will be held at immigration removal centres until they are returned to France.
05:18The groundbreaking principle here is that people can be returned to France if they arrive on these dangerous and illegal small boats.
05:26In return, we will take people who have applied legally through a legal process, been through security checks,
05:33but we should be returning people who have made these illegal crossings.
05:36U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron announced the deal last month.
05:43While the pilot involves a limited number of people, U.K. officials suggest the deal is a breakthrough because it sets a precedent.
05:53However, critics say the program will do little to deter migrants because the numbers returned to France are small
06:00and lupos will allow people who enter Britain illegally to remain as they pursue human rights claims.
06:07Double standards in the EU's application of international law towards Ukraine and Gaza are eroding Europe's credibility with the Global South.
06:23This is what the former EU ambassador to the Palestinian Occupied Territories and the Gaza Strip,
06:29Svenkun von Burgstof, told Eronews in an interview.
06:33The ex-UN voice said that the bloc is eager to strike trade deals with countries from the Global South.
06:41But Europe's stance on Israel is undermining its credibility and making it harder to be taken seriously.
06:47For instance, there is a noticeable lack of strong support from the most Global South countries for Europe's efforts against Russia.
06:56Two countries, the Bahamas and Micronesia, these are the powerhouse of the Global South supporting us in our just and legitimate fight against Russia.
07:06Meaning, people don't take the EU and the member states seriously when we pledge to actually support human rights and defend international law.
07:15If we want to regain our own moral credibility and legitimacy, we need to act against what we are seeing every day in Gaza.
07:24Unless we do that, we are losing our partnerships and our credibility across the world.
07:30Kuhn von Burgstof served as EU ambassador between January 2020 and July 2023.
07:37He was recently a coordinator of a letter sent by 58 former EU ambassadors to heads of governments and EU institutions,
07:47calling for actions against Israel due to the ongoing situations in Gaza and in the West Bank.
07:54They outlined some recommendations on how the EU can put pressure on Israel.
08:00We can act with what we call qualified majority, where at least 15 member states representing about two-thirds of the European population
08:10can actually decide on a matter of commercial policy to take action.
08:14And here we suggest that, for instance, we end or suspend all preferential trade arrangements in Israel.
08:21We also suggest and propose that all trade with the illegal settlements in Israel, meaning in the occupied Persian territory, is being stopped.
08:33The world experienced its third warmest July on record this year, according to the European Union agency that tracks global warming.
08:45Despite a slightly lower global average temperature, scientists at the EU Copernicus Climate Change Service said heat and deadly floods persisted in July.
08:54Hot weather and dry conditions following an unusually dry and warm spring fuelled fires across southern Europe last month.
09:05Northern European countries also felt the heat, with Finland and Norway suffering from heat waves and record temperatures.
09:13While not as hot as July 2023 or 2024, the hottest and second hottest on record,
09:20they warned that this does not mean climate change has stopped.
09:24According to the monitoring agency, new temperature records and more climate extremes are to be expected
09:30unless greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere are brought down.
09:35Greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels like gasoline, oil and coal are the main cause of climate change.
09:42A majority of EU countries are proposing changes to simplify the EU's deforestation law,
09:54a legislation approved in 2023 which aims at reducing the EU's impact on global deforestation.
10:01But the NGO Earthside has warned that these changes could facilitate illegal exports of timber from Russia and Belarus.
10:10In an interview with Euronews, Tara Ganesh, a timber expert at Earthside,
10:15said that the simplification measures would create more opportunities for fraud.
10:20Lighter rules could be applied to certain third countries,
10:24potentially resulting in fewer inspections and no mandatory geolocalization requirements.
10:29Well, that's where the EU deforestation regulation would really, you know, close the circle in terms of the existing EU legislation
10:38and make it a requirement across the board for companies to not just know where their wood is coming from,
10:45because the EUTR to some extent already requires that,
10:48but to show geolocation coordinates, for example, for where the wood in their products, you know, comes from,
10:54which is a very, very powerful tool because, you know, that can be used to debunk fake harvest claims, fake origin claims.
11:02The expert said that eight of the countries pushing for these amendments are, incidentally,
11:08benefiting significantly from the illegal timber trade.
11:12According to the NGO, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Slovenia,
11:20account for 67% of the revenue generated from the fraudulent activity since the sanction came into force.
11:28Incidentally, a lot of the member states that were calling for the Norris proposal
11:31were also some of the member states that were getting some of the highest volumes of, you know, conflict plywood.
11:37Russian and Belarusian timber has been under EU sanctions since July 2022,
11:44following the start of the war in Ukraine in February that year.
