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00:00As Kyiv announces advances into Belgorod, Russia, Moscow continues its deadly Ukrainian missile and drone strikes.
00:11French President Emmanuel Macron has hosted another round of talks in the hopes of forming government.
00:20As Kyiv announces advances into Belgorod, Russia, Moscow continues its deadly Ukrainian missile and drone strikes.
00:33Residents of Zafarijia, one of the worst hit regions, said houses and buildings were damaged.
00:49Everything is broken inside. We can say that we need to build again.
00:54We didn't discuss anything yesterday. We were kicked out of the house and the door was broken.
01:00We heard, the children were crying, they were waiting for their children.
01:06We want our children to be restored.
01:11Meanwhile, a top Ukrainian army chief says the country's troops now control nearly 1,300 square kilometres
01:19of Russia's Kursk region. One Ukrainian soldier is unsure how long they'll hold the territory for.
01:25Fights are going on non-stop all over the territory.
01:29There are places where the enemy is trying to get to their positions in small groups.
01:35The advance in the first days was very fast and many were left behind.
01:40I don't know about the future. Maybe the Russians will get together and gather some forces.
01:46Moscow's Ministry of Defence released footage allegedly showing armed forces destroying Ukrainian weapon depots.
01:53Moscow says over 6,000 Ukrainian troops were injured or killed in Kursk.
02:00French President Emmanuel Macron is in the throes of once again trying to form government, as our correspondent from Paris explains.
02:10France's political headache is far from being resolved.
02:13French President Emmanuel Macron relaunched a series of marathon discussions on Tuesday
02:18with various different parties in the hopes of forming a new government.
02:23On Tuesday he received the independent and centrist group called Lyot
02:27and on Wednesday he will be receiving the conservative right-wing party that was recently renamed as the Republican Right.
02:34However, the new popular front, the left-wing coalition that won the most seats in the snap parliamentary elections
02:40but came short of an absolute majority, has refused to participate in these talks
02:45after Macron rejected the possibility of any left-wing government claiming
02:51that it could endanger institutional stability as it would not survive a confidence vote in parliament.
02:58But with the upcoming Paralympics opening ceremony on Wednesday night
03:02and Macron's visit to Serbia at the end of the week,
03:05well, naming a prime minister is becoming more and more urgent
03:09and that's because the resigning government under the prime minister Gabriel Attal
03:12has now been handling current affairs for more than 40 days
03:17and it's an unprecedented situation in France since the post-war period.
03:22And the clock is also really ticking because the government needs to present
03:26the crucial nation's budget plan by October 1st
03:30and right now it's looking like France is heading towards a hung parliament
03:34with none of the three main central political blocs looking like they want to form any sort of coalition.
03:40Sofia Katsenkova, reporting from Paris for Euronews.
03:47After a failed Syrian asylum seeker killed three festival goers here in the city of Solingen,
03:53Chancellor Olaf Scholz is saying that questions must be answered
03:57as to why the man hadn't already been deported.
04:00When officials tried to take him from his refugee accommodation
04:03and deport him to Bulgaria last year, he was nowhere to be found.
04:08And now, feeling the pressure from the far right,
04:11it's not just Germany that's talking tough on deportation.
04:14Other governments in Europe are too.
04:17Many governments around the council, which is an institution,
04:22which is a new institution, are obsessed with security,
04:27with the security dimension towards migration.
04:30And more than that, we are all aware in the European Parliament
04:33that there are many governments who see migration as a kind of a threat,
04:37a kind of a menace, a kind of a crisis to EU security or to EU identity.
04:46The Migration and Asylum Pact, finally approved in May after almost four years of negotiations,
04:53already seems to be unsatisfactory for some European states.
04:57They're asking for exemptions and new measures on deportations.
05:01And it's this last point that seems to be a crucial one.
05:04Some member states are aiming at the, of the rules governing return
05:11of rejected asylum seekers to countries of origin or other transit countries.
05:19But also Wunderlein herself, the president of the commission,
05:23has said very explicitly that she aims at finding a novel approach,
05:30at defining a novel approach to returns.
05:33Another side of the coin for European countries is getting Mediterranean states
05:39to stop migrants setting out for Europe in the first place.
05:42And recently, the European Commission has entered into agreements
05:46with Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt to achieve this.
05:49I think it's very likely that we will see a strong push towards externalisation,
05:55so the outsourcing of responsibilities to third countries in the next cycle.
06:00That being said, first of all, it takes two to tango.
06:05There must be cooperation with third countries on these issues
06:09and very few third countries are willing to cooperate,
06:12because domestically these are seen by most third countries as divisive and unpopular.
06:19Meanwhile, eight states have suspended the free movement rule
06:23that's at the heart of the border-free Schengen area
06:26for much longer than they're legally allowed to.
06:31A second Kyrgyz government, led by Prime Minister Dmitar Glavchev,
06:39has been sworn in in Bulgaria as the country prepares for its seventh election in three years.
06:45President Rumen Radev announced the election will take place on 27th October,
06:50attempting once more to overcome the political impasse
06:54caused by minority governments, failed coalitions and low voter turnout.
06:58When the voter turnout is low,
07:03and there is no guarantee that it will be higher in the next elections,
07:07then the integrity of the vote is at stake.
07:13That's why I was categorical and I continue to insist
07:19that the struggle for a united and controlled vote should be prioritised.
07:25Apart from ensuring fair elections in October,
07:28a top priority for the caretaker cabinet
07:31is the appointment of a new Bulgarian European Commissioner before the deadline on Friday.
07:36The GERB party, which finished first in the June elections,
07:40but has only 68 legislators in the 240-seat National Assembly,
07:45has put forward former Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva.
07:50Other names being considered include the former chairman of the Party of European Socialists,
07:56Sergei Stanishev, and the incumbent Ileana Ivanova,
08:00who is favoured by Ursula von der Leyen and the EU Commission.
08:08The dramatic increase of migrants to Spain's Canary Islands has prompted calls for action.
08:14A letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen,
08:19to invite her to first-hand know the migratory situation in the Canary Islands.
08:24This was the announcement from the Canarian government
08:27in response to a 126% increase in dinghies arriving from Africa.
08:32As of early August, over 22,300 people have been recorded.
08:37The migratory route has intensified in recent months.
08:40The improvement in navigability on a dangerous and lethal route
08:46has led to greater intensification of predictions.
08:50People, mainly of Malian origin, followed by Moroccans, Senegalese, Gambians and Mauritanians.
08:56More than 4,800 people have died this year across the Atlantic,
09:01making it the deadliest migratory route.
09:04A route in the Atlantic where a person dies every 45 minutes.
09:07The ocean swallows the lives of those who try to reach Europe in crossings of up to a week.
09:13They risk their lives for several reasons.
09:32Lala is a lawyer specialised in migration.
09:36She is one of the professionals who assists those who arrive disoriented to the island of Lanzarote.
09:42None of the 40,000 people who survived last year in the Canary Islands
09:47wanted to come the way they came,
09:50they wanted to come by violating the borders and doing it in an irregular way.
09:54But many of those people, when we ask them about visa policies,
09:57they point out that it is impossible, that there is a business behind it.
10:01The situation is further complicated with migrant minors arriving alone.
10:06In order to refer them to other parts of Spain,
10:09they have to have the approval of those territories.
10:11The Canary Islands is assuming more than 6,000 minors arriving alone,
10:16not counting other centres of minors,
10:18because the rest of the autonomous communities are not willing to do it.
10:22This means that the minors are trapped in the Canary Islands.
10:36The Canary Islands cannot continue to support all this pressure alone,
10:39nor the minors.
10:41They have to continue to see how their integration project,
10:44which is the one they have the right to, is cut short.
10:55The visit of President Sánchez to the emitting countries
10:58aims to stop the migratory flow to the Canary Islands.
11:01A migratory flow that leaves this other image,
11:04that of the cemeteries of Cayucos,
11:06a tangible reality that the neighbours of Reinaga see daily.
11:09For Euronews, Efren Hernandez.
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