Latest news bulletin | August 7th – Evening
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00:00Italy's foreign minister said they are ready for any event concerning a de-escalation of
00:07the Middle East crisis.
00:11Two Russian secret agents speak to Russian state television following their release as
00:15part of the largest prisoner swap since the Cold War.
00:22The US surged to the top of the medal table in a crunch day for athletics disciplines.
00:31British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that UK protesters will fill the full force of
00:37the law following what he called widespread disorder during a high-level government meeting.
00:44400 arrests and 100 charges have already been made.
00:48That should send a very powerful message to anybody involved, either directly or online,
01:01that you are likely to be dealt with within a week and that nobody, but nobody, should
01:07be involving themselves in this disorder.
01:09Prior to this meeting, Elon Musk had posted on his social media platform X that civil
01:15war is inevitable in the UK, highlighting complaints by other X users that the British
01:22criminal justice system treats Muslims more leniently than far-right activists.
01:28Although Starmer avoided commenting directly on this, he said his focus was on ensuring
01:34that all communities are safe.
01:36In Southport, mourners gathered at St. Patrick's Church in remembrance of Alice Dalsilva Aguiar,
01:42a nine-year-old girl who was killed in last week's knife attack.
01:47Families and friends paid a tribute to the little girl with a send-off of white balloons.
01:52The riots were sparked by the spread of misinformation about the identity of the suspect.
02:02Two activists from the animal rights organization PIRA interrupted the Pope audience, a weekly
02:07assembly held by Pope Francis.
02:10The duo were wearing T-shirts reading Stop Blessing Corridas and holding banners saying
02:14that bullfighting is a sin.
02:17PIRA has been urging the Pope to cut the Catholic Church's ties with Spanish-style bullfighting
02:22and to condemn the sport.
02:25The Pope did not comment immediately after the disruption, and the audience continued
02:30as usual after the protesters were silently escorted out of the hall.
02:36In his address to the public, Pope Francis called for peace in the Middle East and urged
02:40for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
03:00He also prayed for peace in other countries afflicted by war, including Ukraine, Myanmar
03:12and Sudan.
03:20Despite the ongoing war with Russia, the Nemo Dolphinarium in Odessa regularly fills up
03:26with visitors.
03:30Children and adults from all over Ukraine come to watch the performance.
03:38According to their trainers, just as dolphins perceive visitors, they can also detect the
03:43manifestations of war in their surroundings.
03:57The wartime environment can affect the attraction, with constant power cuts affecting the temperature
04:05of the pool and some trainers having gone off to fight at the front.
04:10In addition, the dolphins need a very varied diet of up to 13 types of fish a day.
04:17Alerts are frequent, so only a fraction of the performances make it to the end.
04:22In case of necessary evacuation of the animals, the Dolphinarium staff has prepared a precise
04:28procedure.
04:39Until the last moment, some of these dolphins remained in Kharkiv, but with the regularly
04:44experiencing missile strikes, were then moved here.
04:54The Austrian branch of the Climate Action Group Last Generation announced that they
04:57are disbanding and ending their protests.
05:01Activists say that they aren't seeing any prospect for success and that the government
05:05is not responding to their requests.
05:24Last Generation had several tactics, but mostly relied on disruptive forms of action.
05:29One of the group's infamous acts includes blocking traffic by gluing themselves to busy
05:33roads and airport tarmacs.
05:37Communication experts say that this form of disruption does catch the public's attention,
05:42but is often short-lived and does not result in political change.
06:04Activists of the group claim that this does not mean the resistance is over, but instead
06:09that it is time for new and different campaigns to form.
06:16Hamas says it has chosen Yahya Sinwar, its top official in Gaza, as its new political
06:22leader.
06:24The move follows previous leader Ismail Haniyeh's assassination in Tehran on the 31st of July,
06:30the Palestinian group said on Tuesday.
06:3361-year-old Sinwar is seen by Israel as the mastermind behind the October 7th attack,
06:40in which more than 1,100 people were killed and over 200 taken captive.
06:45He has been in deep hiding since then.
06:50Reacting to the appointment, Israel military spokesman Daniel Hagari told Saudi television
06:55that Sinwar's place is next to Hamas commanders Israel already claims to have killed.
07:02Yahya Sinwar is an arch-terrorist responsible for one of the most horrible terror acts in
07:08history, Hagari said, referring to the 7th of October attack on Israel.
07:21On a typical weekday, this Greek restaurant just a couple of hundred metres away from
07:25the Eiffel Tower usually sees a massive queue winding down the street.
07:30More than 15 million visitors were expected in the French capital during these Paris Olympics,
07:35but the promised boon hasn't happened according to this restaurant owner.
07:41We've been preparing for a year to welcome these tourists we've been waiting for for a year.
07:46We recruit, we refuse vacations, etc. to the staff.
07:50And in fact, we realized that in June, July, we had a sharp drop in attendance,
07:55going from minus 30 to minus 60 percent on some days.
07:58But we will say that since the beginning of the tests, we still have a slight increase
08:03compared to previous seasons, which still allows to smoothen this activity a little bit.
08:09Close to some of the major competition sites, restrictions ahead of the games have limited
08:14movement in this area, making it difficult for tourists to access and pushing many residents
08:19to flee the capital.
08:21This classic French restaurant a couple of streets away had to remove its terrace due
08:26to security measures, losing approximately 62 percent of its seating capacity.
08:32It discourages a lot of people and it's a loss of attendance.
08:38It's also a bit random, it's very arbitrary.
08:43We don't know how the zones were defined.
08:45The difference of terrace is played on a sidewalk.
08:48In fact, they still own it, we don't have it anymore.
08:50In order to make up for the losses, the restaurant raised its prices by more than 30 percent.
08:56But not everyone is complaining.
08:58This restaurant owner in the same area claims that they have been full since the start of the games.
09:04On the period since the opening of the games, compared to the same period, there is a small increase
09:12of maybe 20 percent, maybe 30 on some days.
09:18After that, it's really on the GEO period.
09:21Previously, in June and July, there was a decrease of 30-40 percent compared to the previous year.
09:28But for us, the period of the games is rather positive.
09:34According to an initial estimate from Choose Paris, the capital tourism agency,
09:39the city has seen a 20 percent increase in visitors at the end of July compared to the previous year.
09:46Sofia Katsenkova reporting from Paris for Euronews.
09:53A crunch day in athletics with several medals awarded.
09:58The US scooped two golds by winning the men's 1500 meters and the women's 200 meters to take the top of the medal table.
10:11Ecstasy for Greece too, as Miltiadis Tentoglou won the men's long jump to earn the country's first gold medal of Paris 2024.
10:24But the joy of the Greek delegation was sullied by news of an athlete suspended over a positive doping test.
10:32His name wasn't made public.
10:35In other athletics news, Rana Raider, the coach of Olympic champions Andre de Grasse and Marcel Jacobs,
10:43was banned from the Olympics over sexual misconduct allegations.
10:50China and the US stayed top of the medal table,
10:54while the Netherlands strengthened their position in the top ten by defending their Olympic title in the men's team sprint.
11:03In wrestling, Cuba's Mihai Lopez made history by becoming the first Olympian ever to win gold in an event in five straight games,
11:14the perfect send-off before his retirement at 41 years old.
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