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00:00Carlos Alcaraz will face Novak Djokovic in the singles tennis final on Sunday while Argentina
00:06was jeered in the football quarterfinal against France.
00:15Russian dissidents who were released in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the
00:19Cold War held a press conference in Bonn, Germany.
00:24They pledged to return one day, hoping for a different Russia and promising to continue
00:29their activism.
00:59Russia freed 15 people in last week's exchange, most of whom had been jailed on charges widely
01:09seen as politically motivated.
01:13Hundreds of Berlin trains were cancelled amid a suspected sabotage attack causing a cable
01:19fire on a railroad line.
01:23Deutsche Bahn said train services are expected to be restricted until next week, especially
01:29in Berlin.
01:31The railroad company say a technical cause for the cable fire has been ruled out.
01:38The Berlin state official of criminal investigation has now taken over the case, according to
01:44German police.
01:49The men's tennis singles final is set.
01:53Spain's Carlos Alcaraz will face Serbia's Novak Djokovic on Sunday.
01:59In men's football, France knocked out Argentina in a heated rematch of the 2022 World Cup
02:06final with the Argentinians jeered by the crowd.
02:11The neutral team won their first gold medal as Belarusian athlete Ivan Liftinovich defended
02:18his Olympic title in men's trampoline.
02:21In swimming, Leon Marchand completed a dominating run by claiming his fourth gold, this time
02:29in the 200-metre individual medley.
02:48Two people were killed during protests in Bangladesh as crowds attempted to keep pressure
02:53on the government following the deaths of 200 people last month.
02:58Those 200 had died in violent demonstrations following weeks of rallies over controversial
03:03reforms in the job quota system.
03:06Over 2,000 protesters gathered in parts of the capital chanting justice for the victims
03:11as police officers circled around them.
03:14Protesters had started peacefully against the system allocating government jobs but
03:18morphed into a challenge against the Bangladeshi Prime Minister.
03:24The European Commission is concerned Russian and Belarusian spies could infiltrate the
03:30Schengen zone through new visas handed out by Hungary.
03:34EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ilve Johansson wrote to Hungarian Interior Minister Sándor
03:40Pinter asking for clarification on how the new national card scheme will not be used
03:45to circumvent EU restrictions.
03:47According to the Hungarian government, the two-year visa can be given out to foreign
03:51workers now including Belarusian and Russian nationals.
03:55An expert told Euronews 500 Russian intelligence agents have been expelled from the EU since
04:02the war in Ukraine began in 2022 and Russia could need to replace them.
04:07Russia has much fewer, so to speak, traditional spies in Europe than it had before the Great
04:13Plague War.
04:14So Russia is forced to abandon spying in other ways, increasingly abandoning it in other
04:20ways.
04:21So it is not the job of spies disguised as diplomats, but in all kinds of other coverage,
04:27sometimes even the coverage of guest workers.
04:33Johansson said she sent Budapest questions about the program and if she does not get
04:38answers by August 19, Brussels will respond with consequences.