00:01The European Union has approved Ukraine's next spending envelope of 6.1 billion euros for defense
00:08procurement as part of the bloc's 90 billion euros loan program the EU executive announced
00:14on Monday. The approval comes as Ukraine marks 35 years of independence amid a rise in civilian
00:21deaths from Russian attacks due to Kiev's shortage of air defense systems. According to a statement
00:27by the European Commission, the defense funding aims to supply Kiev with air and missile defense
00:33systems, missiles, ammunition, and radars. The funding also comes as EU leaders participated
00:40in key meetings in Kiev on Monday, including the Coalition of the Willing meeting aimed at
00:46drumming up additional air support and energy supplies for Ukraine as it edges closer to winter.
00:55Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelensky honoured the memory
01:01of falling soldiers on Monday as the country marked their Independence Day. Zelensky and his wife laid
01:09flowers at the Wall of Remembrance, a memorial to Ukraine's falling defenders alongside other European
01:15leaders as part of the official celebration. No delegates from the Trump administration were
01:21present at the ceremony marking the Independence Day as Russia pushes on with its modern four-year-old
01:27invasion of the country.
01:32On Saturday, Iceland will vote on whether to resume negotiations on joining the European Union.
01:38A yes vote would restart negotiations in Brussels, while a no vote would be a setback for the EU's
01:44enlargement drive. Iceland previously applied to join the bloc in 2009 following a financial crisis,
01:51but these negotiations were eventually suspended after a Eurosceptic coalition came into power in 2013.
01:58By then, Iceland's economy had largely recovered and public support for joining the bloc also faded,
02:05with fisheries being a main point of contention.
02:08However, a reversal came in 2024, when a pro-EU coalition government took office.
02:15Since then, major geopolitical developments reshaped the international landscape,
02:20such as US President Donald Trump threatening to seize Greenland
02:24and the Arctic becoming a hotspot for rare earth minerals.
02:27This made a deeper cooperation with the EU a key variable in safeguarding Iceland.
02:34Opinion polls suggest the results are expected to be very close,
02:38with farming and fishing remaining among the most contentious issues.
02:46After several unfortunate incidents in previous years, tourists visiting Greece this summer
02:52appear to be better informed about the dangers of ultraviolet radiation
02:56and the health risks associated with excessive sun exposure.
03:00In central Athens, increasing numbers of visitors can be seen sightseeing
03:05under the protection of hats and sunglasses, while some are even carrying umbrellas.
03:10I travel with hats, and this umbrella also is UV protection, so it's all UV protection.
03:17Red Cross volunteers who assist visitors during heat waves confirm that tourists are arriving better prepared.
03:24People tend to use more hats and other protective methods, such as sunscreen and sunglasses,
03:33compared to the past, because I think they're more educated now about the UV radiation
03:39and how the sunlight and sun exposure can affect the skin and the aging of the skin and skin cancer.
03:46Last summer was the third hottest on record in Greece, yet the extreme heat did little to deter tourists,
03:54with the country welcoming a record 38 million visitors.
04:01Six EU countries are intensifying calls for a block-wide windfall tax on oil companies,
04:06as profit surge amid the war in the Middle East.
04:11Finance ministers from Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Portugal, along with Spain's economy minister,
04:18urged Ireland to put the issue on the agenda for next month's meeting of EU finance chiefs in Dublin.
04:24The ministers called for an EU-wide framework to tax windfall profits, drawing on the temporary
04:30Levi introduced in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
04:35Beyond the proposal, Germany's finance minister, Lars Klingbeil, said that excessive crisis profits
04:41should be returned to consumers. Energy companies have posted major earnings as the war disrupted
04:46shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. However, the EU has not yet signaled plans for a new Levi.
04:53The latter remains a preliminary draft while political divisions persist within member states,
04:58including Germany.
05:06New Zealand's prime minister proposed a law banning under-16s from using social media.
05:12Prime Minister Christopher Luxen said platforms such as Instagram and TikTok would be required to verify users' age.
05:19We would never knowingly let our children wander into places in the real world we know to be unsafe.
05:24We put boundaries around cars, around alcohol, around gambling, because we know children aren't yet equipped for them.
05:32And yet online we've left them almost completely unprotected.
05:37Meta could be fined up to 10% of their global revenue if they fail to comply.
05:43This is a generational shift. We are the first generation of parents raising children in a
05:48fully digital world. There is no rule book for this, but we know enough to act.
05:53It is unclear whether the bill will pass due to opposition from two of the three parties in the
05:59coalition government. Australia banned children from social media in December. The UK, France and others
06:06in the UK, France and others. A landslide at a waste site in Guinea early on Sunday has killed 30
06:14people
06:14and injured several others. Heavy rain caused a mound of rubbish to collapse, burying nearby tents and
06:21shacks and shacks and destroying several homes.
06:23The first part that has fallen, the people have tried to come to the rescue.
06:29Is there not any people at the bottom? Is there not any people at the bottom?
06:32Is there not any people at the bottom? That's how the people are coming.
06:33And when they are coming at the bottom, they are up to see if there is no one.
06:38That's how the second part has fallen in three times, in a cascade.
06:45The waste site had been designated for closure on that same Sunday. Days prior to the incident,
06:52the government had given residents living nearby eviction notices. According to local residents,
06:58they'd been asking for the closure of the dump for months.
07:00We, the UNIS, we did everything to avoid this. But it did not prevent this issue.
07:07We organized the meetings, we organized the sacrifices, we invited the prime minister,
07:13we invited the prime minister, the department, but they did not take care of this issue.
07:18So what they did today, I was accused of it. We did not take care of the measures
07:23so that the disaster was closed. However, they had promised us. They had promised us.
07:28That's been a year.
07:30A search and rescue operation was launched to try and find survivors.
07:40The Red Cross voiced alarm after six workers taking part in a bid to contain the deadly Ebola outbreak
07:47were harmed in attacks last week in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
07:51In a statement, the organization said that attacks against volunteers and humanitarian personnel are unacceptable.
07:58Last week, the World Health Organization warned these assaults affect the Ebola response.
08:03Yesterday, one of our ambulance was attacked here, you know, one of the ambulance of the response operation was attacked
08:10here, you know, in Punia.
08:11And we are really quietly, extremely, very regularly challenged by this situation, by this attack on healthcare services.
08:18Since the Ebola outbreak was declared in May, twelve volunteers have been injured,
08:23ambulances have been damaged, and equipment has been destroyed during eleven violent incidents, the Red Cross said.
08:30Tensions have emerged with local communities over the handling of Ebola victims' remains.
08:35Burials must be supervised as corpses remain contagious.
08:39In Eastern Congo, youth caravans raise awareness for Ebola amid the attacks on health workers.
08:45On the ground, when the response teams arrive to do their work, there are young people who attack them,
08:55so that they cannot do their work well.
08:58So this activity is organized to show to these young people that the disease exists really,
09:04and we must all unite our efforts so that this disease can be eradicated.
09:09More than 2,500 deaths from above 5,300 confirmed cases of Ebola have been registered in the DOC according
09:18to the WHO.
09:38The industry uses upward of 70 highly toxic chemicals in the dyeing process.
09:43Over 30 of them are irretrievable, meaning no matter what you do to the water after you use them,
09:48they stay in the water, so they'll end up in the ocean.
10:06We're using petrochemicals for things that nature can provide, and that's a mistake.
10:12Color is one of the worst things to make out of petrochemicals,
10:16because nature makes every color in the world, rivers still run clean,
10:20and we should do the same thing with how we put color into things.
10:28Rather than extract color from nature, we borrow the information of how the pigment or dye stuff is made in
10:35nature.
10:35We put that code of how to make the color into a bacteria,
10:39very similar to how you make beer, but instead of alcohol we're brewing the color.
10:48On polycotton we're seeing upward of 77% savings in water, 51% savings in energy, and 31% savings
10:57in emission by doing things biologically.
11:04Natural does not mean non-toxic, so we test every single product that we make,
11:10and we test it way beyond the standard that the synthetic dyes get tested,
11:14ensuring that there's no harm to human health or the environment.
11:22It's helped really highlight our solution to the problem and bring more awareness to brands and manufacturers.
11:29We've had outreach from all over the world following the exposure.
11:33Here is a little bit of a natural effort in the environment for us.
11:33The way we form the nature of the nature is the natural nature of the nature and the natural nature.
11:39If we go to the nature of the nature of the nature of the nature,
11:41it may be a part that we have created in the nature.
11:43Here is a Session where we have an issue about the nature of the nature of the nature.
11:44The nature of the nature is going to be a perfect nature.
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