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00:00Russia launches another attack on Ukrainian energy facilities, damaging infrastructure and injuring at least two.
00:11Poland and Switzerland have been battered by hurricane winds, landslides and heavy rains.
00:18On the same day that Russian authorities released footage showing aviation missiles striking unspecified Ukrainian army positions,
00:34the Kremlin launched another attack on Ukrainian energy facilities in the country's southeast and west.
00:42Two energy workers were injured and energy infrastructure significantly damaged in the attacks that targeted Ukraine's Zaporizhia and Lviv regions.
00:52Ukrainian air defences intercepted 12 of the 16 missiles and all 13 drones launched by Russia, the air force said.
01:01Ukraine is struggling to cope with a new wave of rolling blackouts after relentless Russian attacks took out half the country's power generation capacity.
01:11Moscow's overnight attack follows Ukrainian military striking three oil refineries in southern Russia.
01:19Poland and Switzerland have been lashed by heavy rains and hurricane winds, according to local authorities.
01:32The search continues for three missing people after thunderstorms caused a landslide in the southwest Swiss region of Valais.
01:41One woman was found alive under rubble in the east alpine valley of Graubüden, while the tourist destination of Zermatt remains inaccessible.
01:50Swiss President Viola Amherd said she was shocked by the scale of the damage caused by the severe weather.
01:59Meanwhile in Poland, thunderstorms and hailstorms have battered the country's southeast.
02:05The Institute of Meteorology and Water Management issued the highest weather alert for Malopolsky, while the state fire services said it received over 900 damage reports.
02:17Local officials warned of hurricane winds.
02:24Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused the leader of the European Parliament ruling majority of being anti-Hungarian.
02:32Orban on Friday described Manfred Weber, a German politician and leader of the European People's Party, EPP, as hungarophobic.
03:03The accusations come after the EPP recently opened its arms to Orban's political opponent, Peter Meyer's Tizza party.
03:12Orban's Fidesz party quit the EPP group in the European Parliament in 2021 following a vote that paved the way for it to be suspended or excluded from the group.
03:32Fidesz's vote to be the president of the EPP was decisive.
03:38Of course, von der Leyen is also in trouble, but as I said, he is a traitor compared to Weber, who suffers from homophobia, or hungarophobia.
03:48Hungary's centrist Tizza party, led by Meyer, won seven of Hungary's 21 seats at the last EU elections.
03:55A record 50% of voters took part in the polls in Hungary.
04:03UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is incredibly angry about allegations that conservative candidates placed bets on the date of the general election,
04:13and says anyone involved in using inside information to bet should be expelled from the party.
04:19Those facing investigation include a Tory candidate, an aide and one of the Prime Minister's police bodyguards.
04:26Sunak made his statement during a debate on BBC's Question Time, which saw the leaders of the country's four largest political parties take questions from a live studio audience.