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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 André Chassaigne and national rally candidate Sébastien 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-Élysées neighborhood of Paris.
07:21Interior Minister Gérald 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.