00:00Germany's far-right AFD won a commanding victory in Sunday's Saxony and Halt election but fell
00:05short of the seats needed for a majority.
00:10An Amazon cargo plane overshot a runway at Miami International Airport, crashing into
00:15vehicles, killing five people and injuring five others.
00:20Nepal held a day of mourning for victims of the August 26 floods which killed over 1,300
00:25people.
00:26Search efforts for the missing thousands continue.
00:30Germany's far-right AFD won a commanding victory in Sunday's Saxony and Halt election but fell
00:35short of the seats needed for a majority.
00:38Final results gave the party 43.8% of the vote and 39 seats in the 83 Member State Parliament.
00:45The CDU came a distant second with 17.2% and 15 seats.
00:50The Social Democrats, Greens and Left Party each won eight seats, leaving AFD's opponents
00:54with a difficult task of forming a stable government without it.
00:58AFD candidate for Governor Ulrich Siegmund said the party had written history and had a clear
01:03mandate to govern.
01:05The result marked a major setback for Chancellor Friedrich Marx whose CDU had led Saxony and Halt
01:10for 24 years.
01:12The party has campaigned on tougher migration policies and lifting sanctions against Russia,
01:17although foreign policy remains outside the powers of German states.
01:21Turnout reached 77.8%, one of the highest levels in recent elections.
01:31European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is visiting Greenland on Sunday and Monday
01:38in a show of support for the island amid President Trump's call for the US to acquire it.
01:44Von der Leyen is expected to sign a joint declaration between the EU and the Danish Autonomous Territory
01:51on Monday.
01:52Trump has claimed the US needs to take control of Greenland for its national security,
01:57arguing that either China or Russia would otherwise seize the island.
02:02Von der Leyen has previously said the EU is working on a massive European investment surge
02:08in Greenland in a bid to ramp up Arctic security, proposing to allocate €530 million.
02:15In January, five political parties in Greenland's parliament released a joint statement saying,
02:22we do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes, we want to be Greenlanders, it
02:27read.
02:28The US currently operates one base on the island, used for missile warning, missile defense
02:33and space surveillance missions, according to the US Space Force.
02:40At least five people were killed and five more were injured after an Amazon cargo plane overshot a runway
02:46at Miami International Airport on Sunday night, crashing into vehicles on a nearby road.
02:52Videos circulating online showed the plane lying on its belly after coming to rest beside a roadway near two trucks,
02:59appearing largely intact, despite officials earlier responding to fires after the crash.
03:04Local officials say more than 60 Miami Fire Department units were mobilized to respond to the scene
03:10after the collision sent plumes of thick black smoke into the sky.
03:14Three of those injured in the crash sustained critical wounds,
03:17while two others were hospitalized with less severe injuries.
03:21The plane arriving from San Juan in Puerto Rico crashed around 2 p.m. local time,
03:26prompting the busy airport's closure for much of the afternoon.
03:29It's not yet clear if the plane, a Boeing 767 operated by Amazon Prime Air,
03:35suffered a mechanical failure as it was landing.
03:38Authorities are also investigating whether harsh weather conditions played a role,
03:42as ongoing thunderstorms limiting visibility, coupled with wind gusts of close to 50 km per hour,
03:48were recorded at the time of landing.
03:55American Envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner discussed what they called substantive plans
04:00for next steps to end the Ukraine war during their meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow,
04:06the White House said before they headed to Kyiv on Sunday.
04:11Putin's foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov described the talks as constructive, frank and useful afterward,
04:18but didn't talk about specific outcomes.
04:21He said the Russian side told the Americans that Moscow was confident it could achieve its military goals
04:26of seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.
04:29Both Russia and Ukraine vowed not to strike each other's capitals for three days
04:34to allow for the negotiations to take place.
04:37It was Kushner and Witkoff's eighth visit to Moscow during the war,
04:41but it's their first visit to the Ukrainian capital.
04:44U.S. efforts have so far not led to a breakthrough in the war,
04:48and peace efforts have stalled in part because of Washington's war with Iran.
04:53Russia has occupied large swathes of eastern and southern Ukraine,
04:56and Putin has insisted Moscow is intent on seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.
05:06Talks in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv between U.S. peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner
05:12and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his team have begun, according to Zelenskyy.
05:18Kushner and Witkoff arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for their first visit,
05:23a day after holding talks with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.
05:27The talks focus on ending the more than four years of war,
05:31which began with Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
05:37Yuri Ushakov, a Kremlin aide, called U.S. talks with Putin extremely frank
05:42and said that the U.S. had multiple ideas on possible routes to a settlement.
05:47Meanwhile, a White House official told media that Russia had told the Americans
05:53that Moscow was confident it could seize the rest of eastern Ukraine.
05:58Despite both leaders agreeing to halt strikes during the talks on their mutual capitals,
06:03attacks continued on other parts of the countries.
06:06Russia reportedly attacked Ukraine with 108 drones,
06:10while Russian air defense claims to have destroyed 258 Ukrainian drones last night.
06:20Nepal held a day of mourning on Monday for victims of devastating floods that struck on August 26.
06:26It was the 13th day since the disaster, which killed more than 1,300 people in Nepal and Tibet
06:32and left around 5,000 missing, according to Nepal's disaster management agency.
06:37Families carried out mourning rituals, while some performed symbolic funerals for relatives whose bodies had not been found.
06:45Search efforts continued particularly at 12 hydropower projects
06:49where authorities said around 900 workers were missing and roughly 500 were believed trapped in tunnels.
06:57Specialist teams from India, China, South Korea and the United States joined the search through debris, damaged structures and tunnels.
07:05Some rescue experts described the operation as an unprecedented challenge,
07:09while the Nepal army said rescuers were continuing searches on the ground by air and inside tunnels.
07:23Germany has just taken a historic step in space.
07:27The Spectrum rocket built by ISAR Aerospace lifted off from Andoya's spaceport in Norway
07:32and delivered its payload into low Earth orbit.
07:35This was the rocket's second flight.
07:38Its first attempt in 2025 ended just 30 seconds after launch, crashing into the sea.
07:44With this launch, ISAR Aerospace becomes the first European company to reach orbit with a rocket of its own,
07:50achieving the opening milestone of the European Space Agency's European Launcher Challenge.
07:56Spectrum stands 28 meters tall and 2 meters wide.
08:00Powered by 10 engines, 9 in the first stage, 1 in the second,
08:04it can carry up to 1,000 kilograms into low Earth orbit.
08:07On this flight, named Onward and Upward, it carried six commercial and educational payloads,
08:13including several CubeSats and a scientific experiment.
08:16ISAR Aerospace's success puts Andoya's spaceport on the map as a real option for launching low Earth orbit satellites from
08:23continental Europe.
08:48ISAR Aerospace's success
08:48The American Space Agency
08:53The American Space Agency
08:53The American Space Agency
08:54you know that they literally banned women from most of the things like they have banned schools
08:59on on girls past grade six and women are not allowed to to work anymore they're not even
09:06allowed to go to the park uh you know like simple things in life they're not allowed to do it
09:14anymore
09:14obviously uh besides my singing career i am also an activist for women's rights in afghanistan
09:22and i thought you know what we need to stand against this injustice against taliban what they're doing
09:31and um so i thought initially would be a great idea to do this ladies only concert
09:36where we show uh the power of women where we stand together as women and
09:43raise our voice and raise awareness against the injustices that's going on afghanistan
09:58there's so much that i could do in my country there's so much but right now i am unable to
10:04do
10:04that because of the fact that i'm not allowed to go to back to afghanistan i'm not allowed to
10:09physically be there be on the screen of the tv give out my messages be that support and that hope
10:15for
10:15afghanistan i cannot do that anymore so much but the one thing that i'm grateful for the fact that
10:21we were able to establish the organization outside afghanistan i have this organization called defa
10:28which stands for defenders of equality uh freedom and advancement for women i speak to around a hundred
10:38afghan women or girls inside afghanistan on on a monthly basis through my organization defa through
10:46zoom and i actually get to speak to them ask them questions hear their stories and i keep on telling
10:51them to not give up hope to keep fighting to keep fighting for the rights to to raise their voices
10:58and be
10:59hopeful because i honestly i do feel from the bottom of my heart that these dark days will pass they
11:05will
11:05not exist forever this is at least as a human this is what i think because what they have brought
11:11upon
11:11women in afghanistan is it's ridiculous and it's inhuman and inhumanity and and this kind of uh life
11:20i don't think it can last forever people will uh eventually raise their voices people will eventually
11:26stand up against them and uh justice will prevail maybe it will i don't know when maybe it will last
11:33another two three four or five years but it cannot be forever i don't believe that
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