00:00U.S. President Donald Trump bid farewell to Elon Musk in the Oval Office.
00:07Musk is leaving his position spearheading the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE,
00:13and is rededicating himself to his businesses.
00:18The U.S. President credited Musk with a colossal change in the old ways of doing business in Washington,
00:24and said some of his staff would remain in the administration.
00:29Musk left a searing mark on the U.S. federal bureaucracy, including thousands of employees who were fired or pushed out.
00:38Some government functions were eviscerated, including the U.S. Agency for International Development,
00:44which had provided a lifeline for impoverished people around the world.
00:49Boston University researchers estimate that hundreds of thousands of people have already died because of the cuts.
00:59At least 11 people, including two children, have been injured in Ukraine after a wave of missile and drone strikes hit the city of Kharkiv and the nearby region, officials said on Friday.
01:14It occurred a major fire at a municipal transport enterprise, which extended to surrounding residential buildings.
01:23Also overnight, a series of Russian drone attacks on the Odessa region destroyed the branch of Ukraine's main postal operator.
01:31No injuries were reported in the attack, which triggered a fire covering over 300 square metres and damaged a number of lorries within the facility.
01:40Ukraine says it repelled a total of 173 Russian attacks over multiple fronts in Russia's Khurskoblast region.
01:49The fiercest fighting was in Pokrovsk, where Ukrainian forces halted 66 assaults.
01:56Evacuations of both residents and animals continue following the collapse of the Birch Glacier in Switzerland's southern Lurchenthal Valley.
02:11Homes have been flooded and debris scattered around the village of Blattin, 90% of which has reportedly been destroyed.
02:23Focus has now shifted to the safety of those living near the Lonza River, which the regional government warns could flood as a result of dammed water flows caused by debris.
02:35I didn't sleep too much this night. We were waiting for something to arrive. We need to leave.
02:42Authorities had evacuated around 300 people as well as livestock from Blattin village as a precaution earlier this month.
02:51But one man remains missing following the incident.
02:55Tajikistan is home to nearly 14,000 glaciers, but more than 1,000 have already disappeared.
03:08The country has the largest number of glaciers in Central Asia and sits at the epicentre of regional glacier melt.
03:14As the impact grows, Tajikistan is leading the call for action and bringing the issue to the global stage.
03:20On the sidelines of the first high-level international conference on glaciers preservation in Dushanbe,
03:26President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon proposed launching a major study of the country's glaciers and creating a regional research lab.
03:33He also suggested focusing research efforts on the Vanciakh Glacier, formerly known as Fechenko.
03:39It is the world's largest continental glacier and has already retreated by more than one kilometer over the past 80 years.
03:46From our audience to the big city of Tajikistan,
03:56in the εν ます to the country,
04:01The high-level international conference on glaciers preservation has gathered over 2,000 people from more than 80 countries.
04:26Among the high-profile guests were UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohamed, Iran's first Vice President Mohammad Reza Arif, Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif and other international leaders.
04:38The event marks an important step toward putting the UN's 2025 International Year of Glacier Preservation into action.
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