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00:00 In the face of persistently high inflation, the European Central Bank has hiked interest rates to 4.5%, the highest in two decades.
00:09 Libyans plead for help from the international community after the deadly and devastating floods.
00:16 Aftershocks are felt in a village near the Moroccan city of Marrakech, nearly one week gone after an earthquake rocked the country.
00:27 China tells the European Commission a probe into electric vehicles could damage business relations and increase prices for customers.
00:38 The ECB raises interest rates again by a quarter of a point to 4.5%, the highest in two decades.
00:50 The measure in the midst of economic stagnation should curb inflation in the Euro area.
00:57 In addition, the ECB has lowered its growth forecasts in the Eurozone for the years 2023 to 2025.
01:04 Inflation continues to decline, but is still expected to remain too high for too long.
01:11 We are determined to ensure that inflation returns to our 2% medium-term target in a timely manner.
01:20 In order to reinforce progress towards our target, the governing council today decided to raise the three key ECB interest rates by 25 basis points.
01:31 This is the tenth consecutive increase in the cost of borrowing, despite signs of wear and tear in the economy.
01:37 The European Commission predicts average Eurozone GDP growth of 0.8% this year, with forecasts ranging from 2.2% for Spain to -0.4% for Germany.
01:49 The predicts inflation won't fall to 2.1% until 2025, with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen identifying persistent high inflation as a great economic challenge for the bloc.
02:01 Search teams comb streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea to look for bodies in the coastal Libyan city of Derna.
02:14 Last weekend's storm caused the collapse of two dams, unleashing a massive flash flood that has killed over 5,000 people.
02:21 Residents who have survived are overwhelmed by the enormity of the disaster.
02:25 Bodies, they say, are everywhere, inside houses, in streets, at sea.
02:30 Many are pleading for international help.
02:33 This city is completely destroyed.
02:38 There are people in the sea, and there are people who are buried in the ground.
02:44 And we are still saying, "Oh God, help us, come to us."
02:48 There is no need to say, "But you are right."
02:51 International help is on the way.
02:54 Jordan has already dispatched a military cargo plane loaded with relief aid.
02:58 They are just one of several foreign governments offering help.
03:02 France and Italy are leading the European effort, and Turkey is sending equipment.
03:08 The storm hit other areas in eastern Libya too, including the towns of Beda and Susa,
03:14 where a vital medical centre was flooded and hundreds of families were displaced.
03:19 The United Nations has pledged $10 million to help support Libya's traumatised survivors.
03:26 Rescue workers, villagers and journalists run at the moment an aftershock is felt in the village
03:31 near the epicentre of the earthquake that struck Morocco last Friday.
03:36 Search teams are still scouring the rubble in hope of finding survivors.
03:42 The earthquake was not the only one that has affected the town.
03:46 The city has been hit by a massive earthquake,
03:51 and search teams are still scouring the rubble in hope of finding survivors.
03:55 Morocco is well past the 72-hour window when rescues are considered most likely,
04:01 but people can still be saved well beyond that period.
04:04 Many of those who have escaped the destruction of their homes stay nearby in makeshift camps.
04:11 To some they are the fortunate ones.
04:17 But local and remote communities say they are still waiting for promised aid vehicles
04:21 to arrive with desperately needed food and tents.
04:24 At the moment, the Moroccan people are more visible than the institutions,
04:31 but they are working too.
04:33 The Moroccan authorities are galvanising efforts and dropping supplies from the air
04:37 to remote communities until lorries can reach them.
04:40 The aid, which includes tents, is intended to be only temporary.
04:45 Soon the rainy season will start,
04:47 and makeshift shelters will be totally insufficient once the weather turns.
04:51 China has warned that the EU Commission's launch of an anti-subsidy probe
05:02 into Chinese electric vehicles could harm bilateral trade
05:06 and raise prices for European consumers.
05:09 The investigation was announced by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
05:14 at the European Parliament's meeting on Wednesday.
05:16 China responded by urging the Commission not to resort to what it called
05:21 "unilateral trade tools" to block China's electric vehicles in the EU and raise their costs.
05:26 Chinese investment in Europe was among the issues discussed
05:30 in a meeting between von der Leyen and China's Prime Minister at the recent G20 summit.
05:35 Brussels is trying to steer a difficult course of boosting trade with China
05:40 without undermining European producers.
05:43 It accuses Beijing of swamping European markets with unfairly subsidised electric vehicles
05:49 to the detriment of domestic carmakers.
05:52 China denies the claim.
05:54 The European Parliament says Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko
06:02 is complicit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in committing war crimes in Ukraine.
06:08 In a resolution adopted by lawmakers,
06:12 the International Criminal Court is being urged to issue a warrant for his arrest.
06:16 Lukashenko, it claims, has enabled Russia's unjustified war of aggression
06:21 and therefore carries direct responsibility for the destruction and damage caused to Ukraine.
06:28 In a separate charge, it also accuses Belarus of playing a role in the forcible deportation
06:33 of Ukrainian children from territories temporarily occupied by Russian troops.
06:39 It named Russia's Children's Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova,
06:42 already wanted by the ICC for the illegal transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
06:47 As a consequence, MEPs want the application of mirror sanctions against Belarus,
06:53 similar to those applied by the EU against Russia.
06:56 The European ban on Ukrainian grain entering the Polish market ends on September 15th
07:08 with Belarus strongly opposing plans to lift the restrictions.
07:11 They face losses in the face of cheaper Ukrainian grain and a lack of government support.
07:17 Today, there is a fight whether the Ukrainian grain embargo will be lifted on September 15th.
07:26 The European Commission and our government can say whatever they want.
07:31 We know that Ukrainian grain is still being imported, both for technical purposes and...
07:36 The difference in the ton of wheat is up to 200-300 zlotys per ton.
07:40 There is simply too much Ukrainian grain left in Poland.
07:44 Our situation is financially bad.
07:46 But the ruling party says it won't allow Ukrainian grain to enter the Polish market
07:52 till the end of the year, even if it means standing against Brussels.
07:56 Fortunately, this is not a problem for Polish farmers.
07:59 This is a problem in the relations between the Polish state and the European Commission.
08:03 Polish farmers are not in danger, because if the EU does not introduce this ban,
08:12 the Polish state will.
08:14 Poland currently transports Ukrainian grain, but farmers say the capacity of the ports
08:20 isn't sufficient to adequately and timely export Polish and Ukrainian grain.
08:24 And the grain is backlogged and waiting to be loaded onto ships.
08:28 Officials disagree.
08:30 We started preparing and improving our infrastructure.
08:35 We prepared additional parking spaces for cars.
08:40 Operators say they still have a supply of capacity.
08:43 This is a total of 300,000 tons per month.
08:47 After difficult years, farmers no longer believe promises fearing they will stop immediately
08:53 after the elections in Poland on October 15th this year.
08:56 What the ruling party says before the elections is what we, as farmers, consider a miracle year.
09:02 Miracles that they can promise us everything and pay us for everything.
09:07 We don't want that. We simply don't want centralization and manipulation, both price and food.
09:13 The owner of the grain behind me doesn't know for how much and when he will sell it,
09:18 and yet he already needs to invest in the production for the next year.
09:22 Unfortunately, even another three months' ban is not a long-term solution
09:27 to the problems of both Polish and Ukrainian farmers.
09:30 Modena Hodownik for Euronews from Solnica.
09:36 Scores of migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa waiting to be transferred to Sicily.
09:41 NGOs here say their already stretched resources are at breaking point
09:45 after more than 6,000 people landed on Lampedusa in small boats in the space of just 24 hours earlier this week.
09:53 This reception center was built to house fewer than 400 people,
09:57 but authorities say it's now accommodating more than 10 times that number.
10:03 According to officials, some 2,000 people have already been ferried to other Italian port cities,
10:08 and transfers will continue, as charities struggle to cope.
10:12 Some residents on the island have volunteered to help.
10:15 While humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders,
10:18 are doing what they can to rescue migrants at sea,
10:21 four Tunisian nationals lost their lives on Wednesday while trying to cross the Mediterranean.
10:28 So far this year, more than 15,000 migrants have reached Italy by sea looking for a better life in Europe.
10:33 Female footballers in Spain's top tier have ended their strike after disputes over pay conditions were resolved.
10:42 The strike halted La Liga EPS' first round of matches last weekend.
10:47 The players' union, Futpro, detailed that the new wage agreements mean players are guaranteed
10:52 a minimum salary of 21,000 euros for the 2023-24 season.
10:58 The players' strike coincided with the scandal of former president Luiz Rubiales
11:02 forcing a kiss on player Jenny Hermosa after La Roja's World Cup triumph.
11:07 Brazil's High Court has opened the first trials over the 8th of January riots in Brasilia
11:16 by supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro.
11:21 The four accused had been demanding the overthrow of Bolsonaro's successor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
11:27 Brazil's Congress and Supreme Court were ransacked that day by thousands of Bolsonaro supporters.
11:33 The riots deeply shook the nation and drew inevitable comparisons
11:37 to the invasion of the US capital on January 6, 2021 by supporters of then-president Donald Trump.
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