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00:00Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says it will raise the issue of energy prices
00:06in the Balkans with the European Commission.
00:11Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez arrives in China on a trip aimed at strengthening
00:17their commercial relationship.
00:23At least 50 people have died in northern Vietnam due to a days-long extreme weather event
00:29triggered by a powerful typhoon, state media reports.
00:34Typhoon Yagi is one of the worst typhoons to hit Vietnam in decades.
00:38It made landfall on Saturday with rains and 149 km per hour winds.
00:44The typhoon, now weakened to a depression, triggered flooding and landslides across the
00:50Southeast Asian country, sweeping away infrastructure, housing and trees.
00:59Pope Francis has arrived in Timor-Leste, the third stop on his trip through Southeast
01:04Asia and Oceania.
01:06His visit comes on the heels of the 25th anniversary of the UN-backed referendum that paved the
01:11way for Timor-Leste's independence from Indonesia.
01:15Some 98% of the country's 1.3 million people are Catholic, making it the most Catholic
01:21country in the world outside the Vatican.
01:26Pope Francis will celebrate a mass on Tuesday, with some 700,000 people expected to attend.
01:36A massive distortion in the electricity market between the Southeast and West of Europe means
01:42energy prices are significantly more expensive in the Balkans.
01:46This was stressed by the Greek Prime Minister during a press conference, who said he would
01:51be raising the issue with the European Commission.
02:21Mitsotakis admitted that the single energy market has not worked in recent months, and
02:43that these distortions did not exist until last May.
02:47He also explained how Greece is currently exporting energy to Ukraine, while they historically
02:53imported it.
03:01The Greek Prime Minister stressed that in the short term, what his government has done
03:05and will continue to do so, is impose taxes and fees on producers, making what he described
03:11as sky-high profits.
03:13He noted that while the electricity producers are not doing anything illegal, they are exploiting
03:19a distortion in the system, and set out plans to return these profits to the consumers.
03:28Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has arrived in Beijing, the first stop of a trip to China
03:33which aims to strengthen the commercial relationship.
03:37Sanchez will be received by China's President Xi Jinping, and will hold talks with the country's
03:42Prime Minister Li Qiang.
03:44He'll fly to Shanghai on Monday evening, where he'll open the Spain-China business meeting
03:48on Tuesday.
03:51Sanchez's trip to China comes at a tricky time for relations between the European Union
03:55and the world's second-largest economy.
03:58The EU imposed provisional tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles in July.
04:03The European Commission said that Chinese firms unfairly benefit from government subsidies,
04:08allowing them to keep their prices artificially low.
04:12That prompted Beijing to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization.
04:17And China's Commerce Ministry said it had launched an anti-dumping investigation into
04:21imports of pork products from the EU.
04:25Spain is Europe's largest pork exporter, and in 2023 supplied China with around 22% of
04:31its imported pork, trade that's worth 1.2 billion euros.
04:42British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has met his Irish counterpart Simon Harris in Dublin
04:47in a visit described as a reset.
04:49Starmer's trip is the first by a British leader to Ireland in five years, and is a further
04:54sign that the two wish to deepen relations on economic and security matters.
05:00It's a pleasure to be here, to have this opportunity which we will take to renew the friendship
05:05between our countries. That reset I think can be meaningful.
05:11Starmer and Harris participated in a business roundtable to explore how renewed relations
05:16could benefit trade.
05:18The economic relationship is worth around 120 billion euros and supports thousands of
05:23jobs on both sides of the Irish Sea.
05:27Relations between the two countries have been strained since the UK voted in 2016 to withdraw
05:32from the European Union. That's affected political and trade structures of Northern Ireland,
05:37which is part of the UK.
05:43Residents in Maramures in northern Romania have been surveying the damage after a massive
05:48fire in the area was extinguished.
05:51Six warehouses have been reduced to ashes and entire orchards have been destroyed in
05:56the blaze that broke out on Saturday.
05:59Locals said the fire started suddenly and quickly intensified before spreading to houses.
06:13The Ministry of Internal Affairs said on Saturday that 90 people had been evacuated from the
06:18area.
06:20People said they had tried to tackle the fire themselves to protect their homes until firefighters
06:25were able to reach the scene and put it out.
06:41More than 250 firefighters from Maramures and neighboring counties were mobilized to
06:47extinguish the fire.
06:48The General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations believed the fire started on an area of dry
06:54vegetation and quickly got out of control.
06:57But authorities don't yet know how it started and have opened an investigation to determine
07:02the cause.
07:06Abdelmajid Tabun has been re-elected as president of Algeria.
07:11Preliminary results from the weekend show the incumbent leader considered the military's
07:16candidate won by a landslide.
07:18The 78-year-old garnered 94.7% of votes, despite questions over voting irregularities.
07:26This will be Tabun's second term as Algerian president, with his appointment unsurprising
07:31to many of Africa's largest country by mass.
07:34The first election that swept the leader to power was marred by boycotts and protests.
07:42Hundreds were evacuated after significant flooding at the famous Lord's Shrine in southern
07:47France.
07:48Local officials said that the evacuated included pilgrims and residents from nearby hotels
07:53and campsites.
07:55After heavy rainfall, a nearby river overflowed, causing water levels to rise about one meter
08:00deep in front of a grotto believed by some to be the place where the Virgin Mary appeared
08:05in 1858.
08:08Staff, volunteers and emergency services worked together to clear the floodwater and reopen
08:13the sanctuary.
08:15As the Paralympic Games come to an end, Paris is hoping to leave its mark on how disability
08:32is viewed and taken into consideration.
08:35These Paralympics set a multiple amount of records.
08:40The first one is that the highest number of delegations participated compared to previous
08:45editions, 169 to be exact.
08:48And then the second record that was set is that these were the Paralympics that were
08:53the most covered by international media, 165 TV channels followed the event.
08:59And around 2.4 million tickets out of 2.5 were sold.
09:04As a reminder, the highest record of tickets for the Paralympic Games ever sold was in
09:10London in 2012.
09:12What remains to be seen is whether there will be a lasting legacy when it comes to
09:17accessibility and social inclusion for people with disabilities.
09:21At the end of August, the president of the region, Valéry Pécresse, called for a massive
09:25renovation to fix the capital's centuries-old public transport system that is almost impossible
09:33for people with disabilities to even access, a project that could take up to 20 years and
09:38cost 15 billion euros.
09:41And the feasibility of it has not even been discussed.
09:49Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has won the golden line for the best film at the 81st
09:54Venice Film Festival for his movie, The Room Next Door.
09:57He received an almost 20-minute ovation when he collected his award for his first English
10:03language film.
10:04It stars Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton and tells the story of two friends who rekindle
10:09their friendship only to discover that one has terminal cervical cancer.
10:14Almodovar, who dedicated the prize to his two stars, has previously called for greater
10:19access to euthanasia.
10:32The other big winners were Nicole Kidman, who walked off with the Volpi Cup for Best
10:36Actress for her role in Baby Girl.
10:39And Vincent Landon won the Best Actor prize for The Quiet Son.