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00:00 The world renowned Catholic shrine of Fatima. Pope Francis visited the sanctuary on Saturday
00:06 on the fourth day of his visit to Portugal. He skipped his speech, praying with about
00:10 200,000 people before greeting dozens individually as his aides pushed him through the crowd.
00:17 The church believes the site to be the place where Virgin Mary appeared to three shepherd
00:22 children in 1917. They said she gave them three messages, with the first two a vision
00:28 of hell, seen by believers as a prediction of World War II and a warning about Soviet
00:33 communism. The Portuguese Bishop of Fatima spoke alongside the pontiff, calling for peace
00:39 in worldwide conflicts that dramatically target children, including the war in Ukraine.
00:46 The Pope has returned to the Portuguese capital, where on Sunday he'll preside over a final
00:53 mass as part of the World Youth Day celebrations.
00:56 Torrential rains and heavy floods swept through parts of Slovenia on Friday, killing at least
01:03 three people, cutting off roads and bridges and surging into buildings. The prime minister
01:09 described the devastation as catastrophic. Two of the dead victims are reported to be
01:14 Dutch tourists. Residents of the central city of Selje were ordered to evacuate as the banks
01:19 of the Slovenia River neared breaking point.
01:21 "At the moment, the priorities are to solve the people who are still threatened by flooding.
01:26 The second priority is to establish a traffic light just before we reach the key facilities."
01:32 The situation prompted the EU's Commissioner for Crisis Management to issue weather alerts
01:37 in several EU countries for the whole weekend.
01:41 Heavy flooding has also struck parts of southern Austria as persistent rainfall continues.
01:46 Emergency services have been working flat out in the districts of Carinthia, Styria
01:51 and southern Bergenland. New warnings have been issued in the districts of south-east
01:55 Syria, Deutschlandburg and Leibniz. Residents are being asked to refrain from non-essential
02:00 car journeys and to stay at home.
02:06 Spanish and French firefighters were still trying to control a wildfire on the Mediterranean
02:11 coast near their border on Saturday.
02:14 High winds were helping to spread the blaze that's affected over 400 hectares and has
02:19 led to the evacuation of more than 130 people.
02:24 The fire broke out late Friday afternoon south of the border town of Porbo, a very touristy
02:30 area which has a train station allowing connections between the two countries.
02:37 Russian officials say a Ukrainian drone hit one of its tankers in the Black Sea near Crimea.
02:47 They said the vessel's engine room was damaged in the attack in the Kerch Strait.
02:51 Writing on Telegram, an official said there were no casualties among the 11 crew members,
02:56 although a Moscow-appointed official in Ukraine's partially occupied Zaporizhye region said
03:00 several crew members were wounded by broken glass.
03:05 The incident, the second sea attack involving drones in a day, briefly halted traffic on
03:09 the Kerch Bridge, the 19-kilometre link between Russia and annexed Crimea, as well as ferry
03:15 transport.
03:16 In other developments, Russian officials said Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visited a combat
03:22 zone in occupied Ukraine to inspect a command post and meet senior military officers.
03:27 They said he was updated on the situation on the front and thanked commanders and soldiers
03:32 for what they called "successful offensive operations" in Liman in eastern Ukraine.
03:39 Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has been arrested at his home in the eastern
03:45 city of Lahore.
03:47 It's the second time the popular opposition leader has been detained this year.
03:51 Earlier Saturday he was convicted by a court over corruption allegations and handed down
03:56 a three-year prison sentence that could see him barred from politics.
04:01 Khan denies the charges and says he will appeal.
04:04 Since he was removed from power in a no-confidence vote in April 2022, Khan has been slapped
04:09 with more than 150 legal cases.
04:14 Archaeologists in Serbia are rushing to preserve the skeleton of an ancient Roman ship found
04:20 in a large coal quarry that was excavated by miners.
04:23 This is the second time a discovery like this has been made in the area since 2020.
04:28 Previous findings suggest the ship may date back as far as the third or fourth century.
04:33 It was likely a member of a fleet that operated on the river.
04:38 Serving the extensive and well-developed Roman city of Imanesium, which was home to around
04:43 45,000 people.
04:45 We're not out of time.
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