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00:00Donald Trump accepts the Republican presidential nomination on the final day of the party's national convention.
00:11With 401 votes in her favor, Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as president of the European Commission for a second term.
00:19Donald Trump has accepted the Republican presidential nomination on the final day of the party's national convention.
00:27Trump said he was running for all of America because there's no victory in winning for half of America.
00:34The 78-year-old former president also described how he survived an assassination attempt five days ago because he had gorgeous hair.
00:42The 78-year-old former president also described how he survived an assassination attempt five days ago because he had God on his side.
00:50Trump will face Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential election on November 5.
00:56This is the moment Yael Brune-Pivet, Macron's ally, was re-elected as president of the National Assembly with 220 votes against 207 for her communist rival AndrΓ© Chassaigne and national rally candidate SΓ©bastien Chenu, who came third with 141 votes.
01:23Brune-Pivet, part of Macron's Renaissance party, had already taken the lead during the second round of votes with 210 against Chassaigne, who had 207.
01:36The communist denounced a vote that had been stolen by an unholy alliance between Macron and the right.
01:43Politicians from each camp were hoping to influence the future prime ministerial nomination.
01:49The election of Yael Brune-Pivet from Macron's centrist alliance is seen as a slap in the face, especially for the left-wing coalition, the New Popular Front, the NFP, that won the most seats in France's legislative elections.
02:02This now could mean that French President Emmanuel Macron could use this election as an excuse not to nominate a prime minister from the left, claiming that it does not represent the vote of the 577 French MPs in the National Assembly.
02:16Sofia Katsenkova, reporting from Paris for Euronews.
02:24Ursula von der Leyen has been re-elected as President of the European Commission for a second term.
02:31She received a strong support in a make-or-break vote in the European Parliament.
02:37Votes in favour, 401.
02:47The German EPP candidate got a better result than the one she got the first time she was elected in 2019.
02:57A bigger majority gives her a stronger mandate than she had on the previous occasion.
03:02This was reflected in the congratulations she got from the socialists, the liberals and the Greens.
03:09But her victory had not been certain as she had to negotiate with members on the right and the left.
03:15Something that could be seen in the promises she made during her speech.
03:19As defence, competitiveness and housing were on the list.
03:23Despite the vote being secret, most of the European Parliament groups made clear their intentions.
03:29The centrist groups including EPP, SND, Greens and Renew Europe voted in favour, despite some individual dissenters.
03:37While the extremes, both the left and the far right, overwhelmingly voted against.
03:45With the Israel-Hamas war in its 10th month and hospitals in Gaza at breaking point,
03:55EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made her most emotional reference yet in her pitch this week for another five years as President.
04:03The war began last October when Hamas killed over 1,200 people, mostly Israelis, in southern Israel.
04:11I want to be very clear. The bloodshed in Gaza must stop now.
04:25Too many children, women and civilians have lost their lives as a result of Israel's response to Hamas' brutal terror.
04:36The people of Gaza cannot bear any more and humanity cannot bear any more.
04:42As President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen was often criticised for her pro-Israeli stance.
04:49EU staffers in Brussels often go on walkouts to express their disappointment.
04:54And here in Strasbourg, four Irish MEPs from the centrist Renew Europe group decided to go against their party line this week and vote against her re-election.
05:04I read her political guidelines, I've listened to her contributions to our group meetings,
05:10but unfortunately I haven't heard enough to make me think that there is a change of policy, particularly on Gaza.
05:16We heard nothing about the trade agreement, we heard nothing about sanctions, we heard nothing about secular violence,
05:23we've heard nothing about the International Court of Justice or the application for an arrest warrant in the International Criminal Court.
05:28So unfortunately all of these issues were skirted over, we made some efforts to get some answers, but they weren't forthcoming.
05:35Barry Andrews has received thousands of letters from voters on this issue.
05:40They want an arrest warrant for the Israeli Prime Minister in the International Criminal Court.
05:45But the European Union remains deeply divided on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which might explain the weak response.
05:52Maeve McMahon, Euronews, Strasbourg.
05:59Newly elected UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed 45 European leaders to a summit in England aimed at repairing relations.
06:09The meeting fired a starting gun on bolstering links between Britain and the continent, with a particular focus on supporting Ukraine, Starmer said.
06:18We want to work with all of you to reset relationships, rediscover our common interests,
06:26and renew the bonds of trust and friendship that brighten the fabric of European life.
06:33And the task is urgent because our security is on the line.
06:37Every day Ukraine fights to protect not just the Ukrainian people, but the European people.
06:44Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a key guest at the European Political Community Summit,
06:51and later wrote on social media that Russia's invasion of Ukraine could not continue while foreign leaders stood united.
06:58Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told reporters on his way out that victory for either party would not be found on the battlefield, but at the negotiation table.
07:14A police officer has been wounded in a knife attack in the Champs-Γ‰lysΓ©es neighborhood of Paris.
07:21Interior Minister GΓ©rald Darmanin said on X that the assailant had been immediately neutralized.
07:29An anonymous official confirmed that the attacker is still alive.
07:34The attack comes with the French capital already on high security alert just days before the July 26 opening of the Summer Olympics.
07:47A sweltering heatwave is devastating Europe, sending temperatures in the southern parts of the continent soaring beyond 40 degrees Celsius.
07:58In Romania, the heatwave is so extreme there have even been power cuts.
08:04Houses have been turned into saunas as an increase in energy consumption leads to interruptions in the electricity supply.
08:12Greek archaeological sites, including the Acropolis, had to be closed due to the high temperatures gripping the nation.
08:19It marked the 11th consecutive day of extreme heat in some regions of the country.
08:26In Kosovo's capital city, a fire engine with running water had to be parked on a boulevard so that people could refresh themselves.
08:36In Italy, animals at a Roman zoo were given frozen treats to help them cool off as the city sizzled in the scorching heat.
08:46Zookeepers distributed iced fruit and vegetables to the herbivores of the zoo and frozen meat or fish to tigers, seals and brown bears.
08:56A year and a half after its liberation from Russia, residents are slowly returning to Kamianka, a village in the Kharkiv region in Ukraine.
09:09More than a thousand people lived in this village near Izium before it fell under occupation in 2022.
09:16The head of the village council, Evgeny Panasenko, says that despite having no electricity, 39 families have returned after most of them fled due to the war.
09:26These roofs mean that there are people here and they want to come back. There are owners here and they are not far away.
09:34If their houses were intact and there was electricity and communication, they would come back and live here.
09:42Oleksandr Hordienko and his wife, Zuza, returned to Kamianka in February last year.
09:49It took them one year and a half to rebuild their house.
10:04Panasenko says that the biggest obstacle is the minefield, which needs to be cleared by combat engineers.
10:12Once the mines under the power lines are removed, engineers can repair the infrastructure and the village will have power for the first time in two years.
10:22Meanwhile, in Ukraine's southeast, a local church community celebrates its first feast after the reconstruction of the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Zuparije.
10:35A Russian missile strike damaged the building in August last year.
10:40The parishioners are now raising funds to repair the bell tower, which was damaged by the blast.
10:49Police in France have opened a criminal investigation following a suspected deadly arson attack in Nice.
10:56The apartment building blaze killed seven people in the southern French city.
11:01The dead include three children, aged 5, 7 and 10, and a 17-year-old teenager who tried to escape by jumping from a window.
11:20According to firefighters, three people were rescued using ladders and 33 people were evacuated from the building.
11:30Authorities in the Moulin district Nice said everyone had been affected by the tragedy.
11:38The region's prefect said they were determined to provide help and assistance to the survivors.

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