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00:00 As Greece continues to battle its wildfires, explosions were heard at the Volos military
00:04 air base, while some tourists and locals remain on the island of Rhodes.
00:11 Kiev calls for more air defense systems as fierce fighting rages on in southern Ukraine,
00:16 including the port city of Odessa.
00:21 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is in Washington to meet with U.S. President Joe
00:25 Biden as part of her first visit to the U.S. as head of state.
00:31 Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces fresh charges in the classified documents case,
00:35 adding to his legal woes.
00:47 As forest fires continue to ravage Greece, several loud explosions were heard at the
00:51 Volos Air Force Base on Thursday evening after the flames reached the building housing weapons.
00:57 The blast spread fear among local residents and shattered several window panes.
01:02 No injuries were reported as surrounding villages were evacuated and all military personnel
01:07 were relocated before the blaze reached their weapons depot.
01:11 Meanwhile, on the island of Rhodes, some tourists and locals remain, despite the declaration
01:16 of the state of emergency and the subsequent evacuation of 20,000 people.
01:21 Local businesses are dependent on the busy summer season for income, and a complete evacuation
01:26 could spell economic disaster for them.
01:29 Economically, no family in Kiotari area is going to survive the winter.
01:36 It's heavy because nothing's open.
01:38 You can't open.
01:39 What are you going to open to locals?
01:40 They don't go to dinner every day.
01:42 No one goes to dinner every day.
01:45 You save, you work hard in the summertime.
01:48 You work very hard.
01:49 You work 14 hours a day, even more.
01:53 Meanwhile, firefighters say as many as 10 fires have been contained around Rhodes.
02:00 So far this summer, 124 fires were reported across the country, with thousands more declared
02:06 across the European continent.
02:12 July 2023 is set to be a record breaker as the hottest month on record, possibly the
02:18 warmest in human history.
02:20 A few of the highs that have been set this month, we had 52.9 degrees Celsius in China,
02:27 48.2 degrees Celsius in Sardinia, 39.6 degrees at night in Algeria, and sea temperatures
02:35 of 37.2 degrees in Florida.
02:38 Now we have been building up to this for some time.
02:42 If we have a look at this graphic, then the black line shows daily global surface temperatures
02:47 this year since January, and it's above average all year, building up to the peaks that you
02:53 see there in July.
02:55 Now this new all-time record is actually the culmination of the heat waves we've seen on
03:00 land and also in the oceans.
03:02 Here's Samantha Burgess from the Copernicus Climate Change Service.
03:05 So all of this additional warm air and warm surface water is kind of feeding back on each
03:13 other, so we're seeing record temperatures warmer than we've ever seen before.
03:18 You may have heard that 2023 will be warmer because the El Nino phenomenon is back in
03:24 the Pacific, part of a natural cycle on our planet.
03:27 But scientists say it's actually too early for that.
03:31 It's not El Nino yet, so the expectation is that with El Nino developing right now, we
03:38 will get warmer temperatures to come.
03:41 And the expectation is that the temperatures for 2024 may be even warmer still.
03:46 Indeed, the seasonal forecast for the rest of the year does show continued above average
03:52 temperatures over land.
03:54 So what can we do?
03:55 Well, world leaders will have to act quickly at the G20 and COP28 summits in order to slash
04:02 emissions of CO2 and methane into the atmosphere as soon as possible.
04:06 Doing so will slow down the rate of warming, but there's no instant remedy.
04:13 The heat and the weather extremes that we have been experiencing are with us for decades
04:17 to come.
04:21 A visit to one of Ukraine's historic cathedrals damaged by a series of Russian airstrikes
04:27 on the southern city of Odessa.
04:29 Moscow has pounded the city, which houses Ukraine's main ports, since it withdrew from
04:33 a critical deal that previously allowed Kiev to export its grains despite the war.
04:38 Ukraine is now seeking more air defense systems to better protect the southern parts of the
04:41 country.
04:42 I heard the announcement about the liquidation of the consequences of the Russian strikes
04:47 on Odessa and the region, and here, at the St. Perebrozhensky church that the Russians
04:52 tried to destroy, I feel that our people, our spirit is still stronger, stronger than
04:59 Russian terror.
05:01 Meanwhile, fierce fighting continues on multiple points along the over 1,000-kilometer front
05:07 line.
05:08 This village in the Kilmanetsky region was struck twice this week, damaging a local cemetery.
05:15 This video released by Ukrainian forces reportedly shows the moments its troops took control
05:20 of a Russian position near the embattled city of Bakhmut, capturing supplies, including
05:25 a machine gun.
05:27 But while Ukraine has claimed some advances, such as the reclaiming control of a village,
05:32 Moscow has praised its troops for repelling attacks in the southeastern Zaporizhia region,
05:38 and Russia's Ministry of Defense claims it resisted nine attacks by Ukrainian forces
05:42 in the Donetsk region.
05:43 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is in Washington as part of her first visit to
05:51 the U.S. as head of state.
05:54 She met with U.S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday at the White House to discuss global trade
05:58 in China.
05:59 The talks also focused on international aid to Ukraine.
06:03 Both leaders highlighted their commitment to supporting Kiev and defending their economic
06:07 interests.
06:08 "The people of the United States are also standing strong with Ukraine and I compliment
06:13 you on your very strong support and defending against Russian atrocities and that's what
06:19 they are.
06:20 It's not just a war but they're Russia's committing atrocities."
06:25 "Competition from other nations that do not meet our standards in terms of worker protection,
06:31 safety, environmental protection undermine our companies and workers.
06:38 So a free trade without rules has shown its limits.
06:43 We must find the right balance between openness and the protection of our economy."
06:49 Her visit comes amid concerns from Washington over her far-right ideology, but her consistent
06:55 backing of Ukrainian sovereignty and advocating for a stronger NATO have managed to ease some
07:00 of the fears.
07:01 Former U.S. President Donald Trump faces three new charges in the case accusing him of mishandling
07:09 classified documents, including attempting to obstruct the investigation and the willful
07:14 retention of national defense information.
07:17 Prosecutors claim Trump asked his staff to delete surveillance footage at his Florida
07:20 Mar-a-Lago estate.
07:21 That has been vital to the investigation.
07:24 Trump's lawyers have dismissed the new charges as an alleged attempt by current U.S. President
07:28 Joe Biden to harass the 77-year-old, a head of the 2024 presidential race.
07:34 The new charges came the same day Trump said his lawyers met with Justice Department officials,
07:39 head of a separate expected indictment, over his alleged efforts to overturn the results
07:44 of the 2020 election.
07:50 Randy Meisner, a co-founding member of the hugely successful rock band The Eagles, has
07:55 died in Los Angeles aged 77 after a long illness.
08:00 Meisner added high harmonies to such favorites as "Take It Easy" and "The Best of My Love"
08:05 and stepped out front for the Waltz Time ballad "Take It to the Limit."
08:09 He was in the band when they released "Hotel California" in 1976, one of the most popular
08:14 songs in rock history, but left a year later to launch a successful solo career.
08:19 These two cubs are the first of a very rare tiger population, the Sumatran tiger, born
08:32 in a zoo in seven years.
08:35 San Diego Zoo released a video of the siblings, a male and a female, who were born earlier
08:39 this month.
08:40 There are fewer than 600 Sumatran tigers worldwide, including those in zoos, and the arrival of
08:49 the twin cubs is seen as a great success.
08:52 The mother will keep the cubs nearby for a few weeks before they will be allowed outside
08:56 for visitors to enjoy.
09:03 As the Women's World Cup enters its second week, gender issues in sports persist.
09:09 Despite progress in recognition and visibility of female athletes, wage inequality remains
09:14 a major challenge.
09:15 We are in huge wage inequalities.
09:20 The average salary of a WNBA player was 110 times less than that of a male NBA colleague.
09:28 We have a small overview of the inequalities.
09:31 From the players that we surveyed, which were 362 players across six continents across the
09:39 world who played in the World Cup qualification pathways for the World Cup 2023, there were
09:46 huge disparities within the wages that players received to compete for their national team.
09:52 29% of players were not paid at all for this competition.
09:57 And that meant that 66% of players had to take unpaid leave or vacation from another
10:03 form of occupation in order to compete in the World Cup qualifiers.
10:08 Wage inequalities in the world of sports are not limited to income.
10:12 Training conditions for female players also require improvements.
10:16 Female athletes say they've received hand-me-downs from the men's team.
10:19 We women often collect the tickets that stay with the boys.
10:23 All the equipment that stays with the boys and that is, for example, too big or too
10:29 small for the boys, that's what we're going to get back.
10:31 So typically, I have girlfriends who played in the WFC Nantes not so long ago and who
10:36 collected the size 43 socks that stayed with the boys.
10:42 Discrimination also manifests through disparities in media coverage given to women's sports.
10:49 We are still faced with huge inequalities between the dissemination of women's sport
10:56 and men's sport, while we see that there are studies that show that there is an interest
11:01 in spectators and spectators, and that when the channels finally broadcast and take
11:06 this financial risk and also in terms of audience, they have results.
11:12 And public discrimination starts in the private sphere with prejudice, intimidation and sexism.
11:19 I have witnessed the ambient misogyny that reigns in this environment.
11:24 We only win 3-0 to the spectator.
11:27 The one who trains us is extremely unhappy with this score and ends up threatening us
11:33 with rape, and he looks at us like that, one by one, pointing at us with his finger and
11:39 he says, "You want to do the bitches with me?
11:43 I'm going to fuck you all one by one."
11:45 (whooshing)