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00:00Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has slammed the recent country-wide demonstrations against
00:08a new mine.
00:12Pockets of Europe are sweltering through extreme heat.
00:16Weather forecasters say Italy will sizzle through its hottest weekend of the year, with
00:21French authorities warning of a heatwave sweeping through the country's south.
00:26One meteorologist says human-induced climate change is to blame.
00:45Nurses have been deployed in France's 28 affected regions to check on the vulnerable.
00:56The World Health Organization warns 175,000 Europeans living on the fastest-warming continent
01:18suffer heat-related deaths every year.
01:23Serbia's president has slammed the recent country-wide demonstrations against his approval
01:32of a new mining project, describing the issue as only impacting a minority.
01:37For days, tens of thousands of campaigners flooded Belgrade and other cities to protest
01:43a new lithium mining project spearheaded by Rio Tinto and tapped for the verdant Džadar
01:48Valley.
01:50The stations in Novi Beograd, the halt of the motorway and the work on the Gazelle Bridge
01:59were not a contribution to democracy, but an outcry against democracy as a form of political
02:08regime and the perpetration of violence and the will of the minority and the terror of
02:14the minority.
02:15Serbia's interior minister said 14 individuals were arrested at the recent demonstration,
02:21with prosecutors expected to bring felony charges to others once identified.
02:27It comes as the EU recently inked an agreement with Serbia to supercharge acquiring raw materials
02:33for sustainable technologies from the mineral-rich country.
02:38Over 100 protesters have taken to the popular Balearic Six Beach on the Balearic Islands
02:45of Mallorca to host a protest.
02:48The coastline, visited yearly by tourists, is also a reminder that locals have difficulties
02:54enjoying it.
02:55Demonstrators, part of the Ocupem les Nostros Plages, also known as the Beach Occupy Movement,
03:03demand tourism limits and solutions to problems such as the saturation of public services
03:09or the difficulties of access to housing.
03:12The Balearic government has created a joint committee with the tourist sector and civil
03:17society to put a limit on tourism, by redoubling controls against illegal tourist flats and
03:23fines going up to 80,000 euros.
03:272023 was a record year for the island, with almost 14 million visitors for this year.
03:34That number has already been exceeded by 6 million.
03:40As the 2024 Paris Olympics comes to a close, the legacy of the international four-yearly
03:46multi-sporting event is being felt further than just the French capital and spans innovating
03:52energy policies to recycling sporting infrastructure.
03:56Organisers of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics are mulling whether to only use gas-guzzling
04:02generators for emergencies, according to French media.
04:05The Paris Olympics Organising Committee first spearheaded the move away from generators
04:11powering the events, except in rare circumstances.
04:14The 2024 Paris Olympics is also having an impact on the organisers' and cities' coffers.
04:20Economic forecasting by financial company S&P Global Ratings estimates the 2024 Paris
04:26Olympics is the most budget-friendly Games in two decades.
04:30A glut of appropriate existing sporting infrastructure meant the International Organising Committee
04:36did not need to construct new facilities, according to the report.
04:40If future organising bodies mimicked Paris' legacy, it could guarantee environmental and
04:46financial gold.