00:00Six EU countries are intensifying calls for a block-wide windfall tax on oil companies
00:05as profit surge amid the war in the Middle East.
00:10Wildfires across Europe are exposing a potentially deadly threat beneath the landscape.
00:15Unexploded bombs and mines led from World Wars 1 and 2.
00:20Six EU countries are intensifying calls for a block-wide windfall tax on oil companies
00:25as profit surge amid the war in the Middle East.
00:30Finance ministers from Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland and Portugal, along with Spain's economy
00:36minister, urged Ireland to put the issue on the agenda for next month's meeting of EU
00:41finance chiefs in Dublin.
00:44The ministers called for an EU-wide framework to tax windfall profits, drawing on the temporary
00:49Levi introduced in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
00:53Beyond the proposal, Germany's finance minister, Lars Klingbeil, said that excessive crisis
00:59profits should be returned to consumers.
01:02Energy companies have posted major earnings as the war disrupted shipping through the Strait
01:07of Hormuz.
01:08However, the EU has not yet signaled plans for a new Levi.
01:12The latter remains a preliminary draft while political divisions persist within member states,
01:17including Germany.
01:22Germany's foreign minister has sharply criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for stepping
01:28up his brutal war of aggression in Ukraine, pledging more aid for Kyiv.
01:33Joanne Waderful's comments during a visit to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Saturday came
01:39after a series of Russian bombings that have killed nearly 30 people in Ukraine since Friday.
01:44Putin has increased the intensity of his war, even further increase.
01:48He terrorizes gezielt Zivilists and Zivilists, greets civil infrastructure with rockets and
01:56drones.
01:57The Ukrainians and Ukrainians feel this also here in Kyiv every day and every night.
02:05The July was the deadest month for Zivilists and Zivilists since over four years.
02:12Moscow's forces are currently exploiting Ukraine's chronic shortage of US-made Patriot air defense
02:19interceptors.
02:20On Saturday, Zelensky said he discussed the creation of a European anti-ballistic system
02:26with former US Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg.
02:29Meanwhile, local authorities say Russian strikes on Ukraine killed at least seven people early Saturday.
02:38Wildfires across Europe are exposing a potentially deadly threat beneath the landscape, unexploded
02:44bombs and mines left from World Wars I and II.
02:48Some weapons have exploded in intense heat, with blasts reported in France, Belgium, Germany
02:54and the Netherlands.
02:55In Belgium, fires have spread across former battlefields, including the High Fence, where
03:00emergency services have been adapting to the risk of buried munitions.
03:05Beyond the immediate threat to firefighters, Belgium's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service
03:10responds to more than 3,000 calls every year and disposes of up to 250 tons of wartime munitions.
03:18Climate change is increasing the risk, researchers say, as extreme heat and drought can trigger explosives
03:23or expose weapons hidden underground.
03:27Drought has also revealed weapons in rivers and lakes.
03:30In Slovakia, falling water exposed two naval mines, while bombs emerged from receding waters
03:36in Hungary and Germany.
03:43Burials continue in set-up for migrants who died during a mass crossing from Morocco three
03:48weeks ago.
03:48A total of 18 migrants were buried on Friday at the Muslim cemetery of Sidi Mbarek, according
03:54to Spanish media reports.
03:56Spanish authorities recorded 82 deaths on their side of the border.
04:01Beyond Friday's burials, more migrants were expected to be buried over the weekend in the
04:06coming days at a rate of around 10 per day.
04:09The migrants were buried according to Muslim rites, with bodies placed facing Mecca and covered
04:14with soil.
04:16Spanish and Moroccan authorities have used fingerprints and DNA samples to identify victims.
04:21However, reports differ on the number of identified victims since relatives have struggled to
04:26cross into Sota to provide samples.
04:29None of the victims has so far been transferred to Morocco, which has refused to accept them.
04:35the remains.
04:36Each grey was marked with a number in case relatives eventually claimed the remains.
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