00:00The European Union and Ukraine have signed a deal to jointly boost the production of drones
00:05as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made her second visit to Kiev this year.
00:11The new framework is meant to combine the EU's industrial base with Ukraine's extensive expertise
00:16in drones gained across more than four years of fighting against Russian troops.
00:21Drones have become an integral part of modern warfare, which has allowed Kiev to overcome
00:25its manpower disadvantage and launch long-range strikes deep inside Russian territory.
00:31Zelensky says his country currently produces 10 million drones a year,
00:35a figure he has ambitiously set out to double.
00:38Funding for the initiative will come from two EU sources,
00:41the 90 billion euro support loan to Ukraine and the roughly 10 billion still available in the safe defense program.
00:49This deal will bring together Ukrainian ingenuity and Europe's industrial scale.
00:57And with this deal, our message is clear.
01:02Now is the time to invest in Ukraine, because this means to invest in Europe
01:09and to invest in our common security and our common future.
01:15In her speech announcing the deal, she detailed that Europe can gain from Ukraine's battleground-tested expertise,
01:21emphasizing that such a partnership is indispensable to both.
01:25The deal also features plans to further boost cooperation between the EU and Ukraine,
01:30with the Allies penciling plans to explore the production of ballistic and anti-ballistic missiles in the future.
01:41With wars raging across the globe, conflict is the main driver of global food insecurity.
01:47While the ripple effects can be felt across the globe,
01:50Executive Director of the World Food Programme, Karol Skau, told Euronews
01:54it is those on the front line that really bear the brunt.
01:57In Ukraine, Skau explains how the combat zone has expanded from 15 kilometers from the active front line
02:03to roughly 50 kilometers, leaving many in need of shelter, food and resources.
02:09We deliver to almost 700,000 people who are stuck on that front line every month.
02:14And so where there are no markets, it's food, it's packages with food.
02:18Where there are some functioning markets, it's cash.
02:21But we're also supporting the children that are in these bunker schools on the front lines with school meals.
02:26It's a way of ensuring that they have at least one nutritious meal a day.
02:30Skau also told Europe Today that the Iran war has disrupted the agency's humanitarian operations worldwide,
02:36threatening supply chains and driving up costs.
02:40The most immediate humanitarian impact has been, of course, in Lebanon,
02:43with hundreds of thousands of displaced people there.
02:46But at the second level, it has hit our humanitarian operations across the globe.
02:52After aid cuts put some of its operations at risk,
02:55the World Food Programme received an $800 million grant from the United States last month.
03:00The funding will help the agency provide food aid and support
03:04in some of the world's most vulnerable regions.
03:12The European Commission has handed out to the United States a list of EU products
03:17it wants to see exempted from the 15% tariffs imposed under the Turnberry trade deal last year.
03:24The list seen by Euronews includes hundreds of products such as Roquefort cheese,
03:29olive oil, wines, spirits and beer, pasta, medical devices, electrical equipment and machinery.
03:35We really want to look at as many areas as possible where we can reduce or eliminate tariffs
03:43for the benefit of both sides, for the benefit of exporters, for the benefit of consumers
03:47and generally to ensure that we strengthen the EU-U.S. trade and investment relationship.
03:54The list covers around €150 billion worth of EU exports.
03:59The products concerned are either economically meaningful for the EU
04:03or have a limited domestic availability in the U.S., an EU trade official said.
04:08In July 2025, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and U.S. President Donald Trump
04:15clinched a deal in Turnberry, Scotland after weeks of trade disputes.
04:19Europeans would pay 15% U.S. tariffs on EU exports while removing their own tariffs on U.S. industrial
04:26goods.
04:26The European Commission hopes to secure cavouts and to discuss steel and aluminium which are still subject to 15%
04:34U.S. tariffs.
04:42Ambassadors of EU countries agreed on Wednesday to extend the temporary protection status granted to Ukrainians
04:48fleeing the war until March 2028.
04:51However, men aged 23 to 60 are excluded from the scheme.
04:57From March 2027, temporary protection will be granted only to those who have fulfilled their military obligations in Ukraine,
05:05a move aimed at strengthening Kiev's armed forces in response to requests from the Ukrainian government.
05:12Ukraine's martial law prevents most men aged 23 and over from leaving the country as they are subject to military
05:20service obligations.
05:22Despite this, some Ukrainian men of draft age have crossed the country's borders illegally
05:27and obtained temporary protection in EU countries in recent years.
05:32Frontex data show that almost 1,000 people illegally crossed Ukraine's border into the EU this year
05:38and more than 10,000 did so in 2025.
05:41Adult men account for 26.6% of Ukrainian refugees in Europe.
05:47People who are already benefiting from temporary protection in the EU will not be affected by the change in the
05:54rules.
05:54Established after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022,
05:58the scheme has allowed Ukrainians to live in EU countries without having to apply for asylum.
06:11The British government announced plans for a voluntary overnight social media curfew for 16- and 17-year-olds on
06:19Wednesday
06:19in its latest effort to reduce online harm among young people.
06:23It's said that features that can keep users scrolling for longer,
06:27such as video that automatically play one after another,
06:31will also be switched off by default for older teenagers.
06:35The ban will apply to platforms including Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X,
06:41but not messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal.
06:45The measures are among the final initiatives of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government
06:50and will require legislation before they take effect.
06:53The proposals are widely expected to be carried forward by his likely successor, Andy Bernheim.
07:00Critics questioned the effectiveness of the measures,
07:03arguing that teenagers would simply switch off the default settings.
07:07UK Online Safety Minister dismissed the suggestion, saying it was a disservice to teenagers.
07:13The NSPCC, the UK's leading children's charity, said the proposals will go some way to improving the experiences
07:21of young people on social media, but that there will not be enough on their own.
07:34Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps claim they have launched missiles and drone strikes at US targets in Bahrain and Kuwait.
07:41Authorities in Jordan also said it shot down three incoming Iranian missiles
07:46and the Kuwaiti army reported that Iranian hostile drone assaults were being repelled by its air defences.
07:54Tehran's attacks come as US forces carried out strikes against Iran for a fourth day in a row, lasting seven
08:00hours.
08:01The US also reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports early Wednesday
08:05over Tehran's attacks on vessels attempting to cross the Strait of Hamas,
08:10According to local media, the Iran's Revolutionary Guards said its attacks were reaction to American military actions
08:17and attempts to control the Strait of Hamas.
08:20Meanwhile, earlier, US President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran's power plants
08:26if Tehran does not make a deal.
08:28Next week comes the power plants, next week comes the bridges.
08:34We're going to knock out all their power plants, we're going to knock out all their bridges,
08:37unless they get to the table and negotiate.
08:42The fragile ceasefire signed on the 17th of June has collapsed,
08:46with parties focusing on the control of the Strait of Hamas.
08:50Trump said US strikes on Iran would continue until he declared it's enough.
09:00US President Donald Trump said Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE,
09:05should continue traffic stops.
09:07It comes just one day after the Homeland Security Department said they would be halting them.
09:13ICE had been instructed to suspend the traffic stops to detain immigrants
09:16after two fatal shootings by ICE agents.
09:19On Monday morning, one agent fatally shot a motorist in Bidford and Maine.
09:23The 26-year-old Colombian had permission to work in the US.
09:28The Department of Homeland Security said that its officers had been monitoring the home of a person
09:33with a final deportation order, and that when they tried to stop the vehicle leaving the address,
09:37the driver attempted to flee.
09:39One witness said he heard the victim say he tried to stop.
09:44The fatal episode followed another deadly ICE shooting one week prior,
09:48when plainclothes agents in unmarked vehicles pursued and killed a 52-year-old Mexican man.
09:54At least 10 people have been killed during immigration operations
09:58since the start of the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign,
10:01four of them during vehicle stops.
10:11China's economy slowed sharply to 4.3% year-on-year growth in the April-June quarter,
10:17the government said Wednesday, making it the weakest pace in over three years.
10:22The official data fell short of forecasts
10:25and was below the economy's 5% growth pace in the previous quarter,
10:29despite a surge in exports driven in part by the AI boom
10:33and demand for Chinese electric vehicles.
11:04Despite the broader economy,
11:06economic slowdown due to the war in Iran,
11:08consumer spending remained resilient
11:11and industrial production exceeded expectations.
11:14Some economists say China's economic slowdown
11:17is due to its increasing unbalance
11:19as public and private investments
11:22pour into technologies such as AI and computer chips,
11:25while manufacturing and job-creating service industries languish.
11:29It creates worries over whether AI and robotics businesses
11:33will create enough jobs to sustain growth in the longer term.
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