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00:00Months after the snap parliamentary elections, French President Emmanuel Macron still hasn't
00:06named the country's future prime minister.
00:11Authorities in Rome begin repair work to secure the Constantine Arch after it was damaged
00:17by a lightning strike.
00:24At least seven people were killed in a Russian missile strike on Lviv on Wednesday.
00:30Three children and a medical worker were among those killed, and 35 others were injured,
00:35according to the western Ukrainian city's mayor, Andriy Sadovyi.
00:40He said multiple houses, two medical institutions and two schools were damaged.
00:47Russia has also attacked several other Ukrainian cities this week, including Kyiv, Kharkiv,
00:52Dnipro and Zaporizhia.
00:58Wednesday's attack comes a day after Russia launched ballistic missiles at a military
01:02academy and nearby hospital in Poltava, killing over 50.
01:08The strike was the deadliest single attack this year.
01:12Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered an investigation and reiterated Kyiv's
01:17demands for help from its allies.
01:26Urtula von der Leyen has voiced exasperation after EU governments undermined her efforts
01:32to strike a gender balance in her team of European commissioners.
01:36In a letter to EU governments, the Commission President had asked for two candidates, one
01:41male and one female, for each of the influential roles.
01:44Only one member state, Bulgaria, heeded that request.
01:48The other countries predominantly nominated men.
01:51I have throughout my whole political life been fighting for women having access to decision
01:58making position and leading position.
02:02And my experience is that if you don't ask for it, you don't get it.
02:09It does not come naturally.
02:13This is why I sent my letter.
02:15Because if I would not have sent this letter, there would not have been a hook also to look
02:20at the diversity topic.
02:23Estonia's Kaia Kalas was nominated to be the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs
02:27by EU leaders back in June.
02:30Of the remaining 25 places up for grabs in von der Leyen's team of commissioners, just
02:35eight women are currently in the running.
02:38Von der Leyen says that without her efforts in pressuring member states to put forth women,
02:43the roster of candidates would have been even more dominated by men.
02:49If I would not have sent this letter, what would have been the fact or the case?
02:55The initial proposals, if you look at the names you all know, besides the High Representative
03:03and me the President, for the 25 member states that then nominate, would have been four women
03:10and 21 men.
03:13So without that letter and without that discussion, this would be the next college.
03:18And therefore, it is absolutely worth it.
03:22Von der Leyen is currently interviewing candidates and is expected to hand out policy portfolios
03:27by mid-September.
03:29The candidates must then undergo questioning by members of the European Parliament and
03:33survive a confirmation vote before they can take up their positions.
03:37Unless the Commission Chief can further rectify the gender imbalance, she could be leading
03:42one of the EU executive's most male-dominated team of commissioners in a decade.
03:53Two months after the second round of the snap parliamentary elections, French President
03:57Emmanuel Macron still hasn't named the country's future Prime Minister.
04:02Currently the Parliament is divided into three blocks, the left-wing coalition, the NFP,
04:07Macron's centrist group, and the far-right National Rally.
04:10And they've made one thing clear, none of them want to form any sort of alliance with
04:15the other parties.
04:16He's in a dilemma and can't find someone that can rally enough votes to carry the assembly,
04:23unifying basically the center.
04:26He can't find someone who can do that.
04:28So I think this is why he's gone through a number of different candidates.
04:32The future Prime Minister will have to survive a no-confidence vote in Parliament.
04:37Multiple names have been circulating, including Bernard Cazeneuve, the former socialist Prime
04:41Minister under President François Hollande, or the conservative right-wing politician
04:46Xavier Bertrand.
04:47Another option, Thierry Baudet, a little-known civil servant and president of the French
04:52Economic, Social and Environmental Council.
04:55Emmanuel Macron has made it his obligation, since he said he would take care of it himself,
05:00to find a Prime Minister who would immediately escape a motion of censure, because if the
05:04one he designated was overthrown, it would be a failure that would be directly impeachable.
05:10And so far, the names that have been mentioned, the names that have been proposed, do not
05:15present this guarantee, not even to gather a majority for, but to not gather a majority
05:21against.
05:22And the equation is very complicated.
05:25Emmanuel Macron can't wait much longer.
05:28One crucial deadline is approaching.
05:30On October 1st, next year's budget plan must be presented to the National Assembly.
05:40Ships of non-governmental organizations rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea do not encourage
05:46departures.
05:47The director of the European Coast Guard and Border Guard, Frontex, tells Euronews.
05:53We have a couple of questions.
05:54Yes, you can.
05:55You've never heard me saying that it's a pull factor, so that's what my opinion is.
06:00So your opinion is that they are not a pull factor?
06:03I never said, and it's not my opinion that it's a pull factor.
06:07Leighton's position is in stark contrast to that of a confidential agency document on
06:12migration routes from Libya to Europe, never made public, but reported in the press in
06:17November 2022.
06:20It has been cited repeatedly by the Italian government in its attempts to criticize the
06:24activities of NGOs.
06:27Leighton's director of Frontex since 2023 updated the European Parliament on the agency's
06:32activities on Wednesday.
06:34Several MEPs who spoke at the hearing noted that he seems to devote more attention to
06:38respecting the fundamental rights of migrants than his predecessor.
06:42First, you save lives at land and at sea, but it depends also on the resources, what
06:48you can do.
06:49We promise always, again, all these officers took the oath somewhere in their career and
06:54they promised to serve and protect, so we do.
06:56That's always number one.
06:58In the first seven months of 2024, irregular crossings of European borders decreased by
07:0436 percent, mainly due to a decline in traffic on the Balkan and Central Mediterranean routes.
07:10On the other hand, landings on the Canary Islands more than doubled and entries from
07:14Belarus to the Baltic countries almost tripled.
07:20I'm not going to lie to you.
07:22Failures by the UK government and other factors led to the disastrous London Grenfell Tower
07:28fire that killed 72 people in 2017, a report has found.
07:33A years-long public inquiry into the blaze concluded a mix of dishonest companies, incompetent
07:39regulators and complacent governments meant the 25-storey building was a death trap.
07:44UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologised on behalf of the British state, saying the
07:49tragedy quote, should never have happened.
07:55Authorities in Italy have started work to secure Rome's Constantine Arch after a lightning
08:01strike broke fragments from the ancient structure.
08:04The lightning storm felled trees and flooded streets in the Italian capital on Tuesday
08:09before damaging the honorary arch.
08:12It's kind of surreal, I mean it's, it's really surreal that we found pieces from this exhibit.
08:20Is it worrying that such a monument like this could be damaged by lightning?
08:24Oh, well yes, it is, it's worrying.
08:28We don't want anything to be damaged that's historical.
08:31Tourists visiting the site on Wednesday found some stray fragments that they turned over
08:36to park workers out of concern they might have fallen from the arch.
08:42This is very beautiful because it was found by my American clients.
08:45So they were very sensitive about Roman antiquity.
08:48They saw these pieces and asked if they could be part of the arch and we brought them to the workers.
08:55Standing about 25 metres in height, Rome's Constantine Arch was erected in 315 A.D.
09:03In the Danube Delta, just across the border from Ukraine, lies the small Romanian village
09:09of Chilia Veche.
09:10Its colourful buildings are striking, but there's more to it than meets the eye.
09:15Nearly 400 years ago, ethnic Russian Lipovans migrated to the region,
09:20following a split from the Russian church.
09:23Their cultural influence remains to this day, including in the architecture.
09:2821-year-old Michael Popetscu is restoring an old Lipovan house.
09:33Euronews Romania correspondent Alida Macanu visited the site.
09:39Congratulations, first of all, because your initiative is worthy of admiration.
09:43We are at the end of the world.
09:44Even if the road is not a welcoming one, we try to make at least the houses in Chilia Veche
09:49as welcoming as possible.
09:51For this reason, I had an ambition not to adapt to the material conditions of our times
10:01and I didn't want to bring concrete, iron, I didn't want to bring all these modern materials
10:08and I wanted to keep a tradition.
10:14I learned to work with organic materials, with soil, with stuff.
10:19This is also a double door that someone from Chilia,
10:24and it's very important what I'm telling you now,
10:26wanted to throw in the trash,
10:28wanting to replace it with a thermopane door.
10:33I paid a price for this extraordinarily beautiful door,
10:41because this door was going to be put on fire and cut.
10:48On the construction site, Nicolay, a craftsman and specialist in sustainable house structures,
10:54is working on something special.
10:56Let's see.
10:57Here is the art.
10:59Here, here.
11:01Look like this.
11:04From this pile of horse, which we pass on this site, you see,
11:10look like this.
11:12It's something...
11:14But we are used to it, like in the country.
11:16It doesn't matter.
11:18And to put it with yellow soil.
11:22And to put it with yellow soil.
11:24And to put it with yellow soil.
11:30Locals aim to preserve Lipovin history through sustainable practices.
11:37One day, they hope to also welcome tourists.