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[00:01:44] city workers are taking short positions. Anna
[00:01:47] Stewart, CNN, Savel Roe, London.
[00:02:22] A catastrophic earthquake hit Colombia. The Syrian War Crimes Court
[00:02:26] handed down a historic verdict. Donald Trump is seeking
[00:02:30] damages, and Tehran claims America is backed into a corner. The Washington
[00:02:34] Post reveals how Trump secretly left Turkey after the NATO
[00:02:38] summit. Welcome to
[00:02:39] Global.
[00:02:47] At least 132 people were killed, more than 570
[00:02:51] were injured in the devastating earthquake of magnitude
[00:02:53] 7.4 that struck western Colombia. A state
[00:02:57] of national disaster has been declared in the country, due to... a curfew
[00:03:00] has been imposed in the most vulnerable cities.
[00:03:04] into rubble after the US
[00:03:08] geological survey says a
[00:03:11] 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck
[00:03:14] Colombia. The epicenter was in
[00:03:17] us the good in people. San Jose del Pomar, about 150 miles or 240 km
[00:03:21] west of the capital of Bogata, but tremors were felt in several
[00:03:25] cities, setting off alarms and sending people scrambling. Today
[00:03:29] it's a really scary day and I
[00:03:33] was at the office so I felt a strong
[00:03:37] sound coming from the floor.
[00:03:40] Survivors say they are fortunate to have gotten
[00:03:43] out. This video shows family including the
[00:03:47] family dogs bolting for cover inside an apartment
[00:03:50] bathroom while the building shakes around
[00:03:52] them.
[00:03:55] The mayor of Cali reported at least 30 buildings collapsed when the
[00:03:58] ground shook. Previous president says upwards of
[00:04:02] 60 buildings toppled across the country with more than 100
[00:04:05] killed, dozens injured, over 1500 homes
[00:04:09] damaged and six airports with infrastructure
[00:04:12] damage. The death toll is expected to
[00:04:15] rise. We have a one and three chance that we could
[00:04:19] experience over a thousand fatalities just
[00:04:21] because of the severity of the shaking. Over 8
[00:04:25] million people felt strong shaking. According to
[00:04:29] officials, the...
[00:04:44] Former Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, his brother Maher,
[00:04:47] and cousin Hatef Najib were sentenced to death by the Damascus court
[00:04:51] for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The court found that
[00:04:54] Assad was the main perpetrator of mass murders, torture, chemical
[00:04:58] attacks during the conflict in which about half
[00:05:01] a million people died, while Assad and his brother have been on the run in
[00:05:05] Russia since the fall of the regime in December 2024. Najib heard
[00:05:09] the verdict in the courtroom. This is the first death sentence by the transitional
[00:05:12] authorities against the leaders of the former
[00:05:14] regime.
[00:05:19] The judicial panel unanimously at the end of the trial made the following decision
[00:05:23] on behalf of the Arab people in Syria. The court unanimously
[00:05:26] decides the following: first, the accused in absentia Bashar al-Assad, son
[00:05:29] of Hafez, mother Anise, born
[00:05:32] in 1965, is found guilty of the criminal act of murder with
[00:05:36] premeditation, the criminal act of murder with intent of multiple persons, murder with
[00:05:40] intent of children under 15 years of age, murder with intent accompanied by acts
[00:05:44] of torture and cruelty, and the criminal act of incitement to murder with
[00:05:48] premeditation and murder with intent on multiple occasions, which qualifies
[00:05:52] as a crime against humanity, war crimes, and for the criminal act
[00:05:55] of torture, torture with fatal outcome, as well as the criminal act
[00:05:58] of deprivation of liberty on multiple occasions, which qualifies as a crime against
[00:06:02] humanity, war crimes, committed from
[00:06:04] February 15, 2011 and henceforth, and is therefore
[00:06:08] sentenced to the death penalty. The accused Atef Najib, son of
[00:06:12] Najib, is also found guilty of the criminal act of assault with the aim of causing
[00:06:15] civil war and inter-ethnic conflict, punishable under Article
[00:06:18] 298 of the General Criminal Code, the sentences of
[00:06:22] deprivation of liberty shall be combined and the harshest penalty shall be
[00:06:25] executed, which is the death penalty in accordance with Article
[00:06:29] 204 of the General Criminal Code, with the aggregation of all
[00:06:32] fines and their full execution.
[00:06:40] The American president has toughened his rhetoric towards Tehran,
[00:06:43] demanding that Iran pay compensation for those killed in wars, attacks and
[00:06:47] protests. The demand came as a response to Tehran's conditions for reopening
[00:06:51] Hormuz, in which Iran demands the lifting of the American naval
[00:06:55] blockade and sanctions. Due to the new escalation of relations and the reduced
[00:06:59] number of ships in the Strait, oil prices jumped by
[00:07:01] 5%. And while Trump claims that Washington controls this key
[00:07:05] waterway, Tehran says that the US is forced to
[00:07:09] negotiate.
[00:07:15] No one thought that Iran could resist America in this way, with
[00:07:18] the support of the Israeli regime and many other countries,
[00:07:21] including all Western countries and some others that we all know, and that
[00:07:25] they would not bow their heads, but that they would eventually force the enemy to
[00:07:28] seek negotiations. The American president wrote two words at the beginning of the war:
[00:07:32] "Unconditional surrender," that's what they asked
[00:07:35] of us, and that same enemy after about 20 days begged for
[00:07:39] negotiations. In diplomacy, the Iranian nation... has shown that
[00:07:43] it knows very well how to defend its rights. I heard this from various
[00:07:47] officials, exactly these words: you won the war, in
[00:07:50] diplomacy.
[00:07:58] Due to Iran's assassination threat, Donald Trump was secretly transferred from
[00:08:02] Turkey to Great Britain by a small military plane, as reported by
[00:08:05] the Washington Post, to throw off the trail, the president boarded
[00:08:09] Air Force One in front of the cameras, which served as a decoy, and then
[00:08:13] was transported by food truck to another aircraft.
[00:08:17] We do start with breaking news tonight and some stunning new reporting on an
[00:08:20] elaborate ruse to conceal the secret plane that President Trump used
[00:08:24] to fly out of Turkey last month. The Washington Post
[00:08:28] reports this tonight, saying quote, an Iranian assassination threat
[00:08:31] against President Trump prompted an extraordinary operation in
[00:08:35] which he flew secretly from Turkey on an alternate
[00:08:39] military aircraft while the White House said he was a for
[00:08:42] Air Force 1. If you look back at the video from
[00:08:46] that day now, you can see how this clandestine mission played
[00:08:49] out. President Trump was seen boarding Air Force 1 at
[00:08:53] 8:24 p.m. local time on July 8th,
[00:08:56] but actually, according to the post, and you can see here, Trump
[00:09:00] and several of his aids were secretly shuttled minutes later onto
[00:09:04] this airport catering truck, which was elevated and
[00:09:07] positioned a door out of the view of the
[00:09:10] cameras. now the post report, that the president was on that
[00:09:13] catering truck when it pulled away from Air Force 1 at 8:30
[00:09:17] p.m. secretly bringing him to a smaller plane and Air
[00:09:21] Force C32A,
[00:09:23] making the air force one that everyone thought he was on,
[00:09:26] decoy, that still had the reporters who thought the president had boarded
[00:09:30] that plane, and who you see boarding right here on the right, and some white
[00:09:33] house staff aboard. The Washington Post reports and I
[00:09:37] quote, the maneuver meant that the president's actual location was
[00:09:41] concealed from the... American public and many senior US
[00:09:44] officials for hours. Air Force
[00:09:47] One then landed in the UK hours later. Now, it's
[00:09:51] still not clear as the post notes tonight, how the president was
[00:09:54] transported from that other secret plane back onto Air
[00:09:58] Force One, after it landed. You see here, the
[00:10:01] reporters captured the president getting off the plane that they
[00:10:04] thought he had just flown on with them to the UK, and he's seen
[00:10:08] coming down the stairs just before 11 p.m. After greeting
[00:10:12] America. service members on the tarmac Trump got on the new Air Force
[00:10:16] One jet, that's the one that was given to the president by the Qatari
[00:10:19] government and then he flew back to Washington. Now the plane that
[00:10:23] he's getting on here is not to be confused with the old air force 1
[00:10:27] decoy or the military plane that he flew on
[00:10:29] secretly, but it was when the president got back on this plane
[00:10:33] to fly home to the US that he was asked by reporters why they
[00:10:37] had been told to lower their window shades on that first flight
[00:10:41] which is extremely unusual and not typically something that happens for the press
[00:10:45] that sits on the right side of the plane, which is where that airport
[00:10:48] catering truck was now that you look back at that other video, but given
[00:10:52] what we know now, given the pictures that you can't see now, it makes what the
[00:10:56] president told reporters in that gaggle afterward, all the more
[00:11:00] noteworthy. You're saying there wasn't a security
[00:11:04] concern? No, no. Do you know why they had us close our
[00:11:07] window blinds? That was not usually. Well, yeah,
[00:11:11] because, uh, you're
[00:11:14] probably in a dangerous sleep because of the sleaze bags that
[00:11:18] we have to think that Iran was possibly
[00:11:21] thinking, I mean, if they ask you to close your windows, probably they felt the way they did.
[00:11:25] Asked me to close mine, but if they did, I would have done it. Were you aware of any credible threat
[00:11:29] by Iran against your first one? Well, I have a threat all the time. I'm number one on their
[00:11:33] list before you, but if I go, you go,
[00:11:36] right? But was there specifics perhaps someday you want to change
[00:11:40] professions?
[00:11:43] If I go, you go, though the president
[00:11:46] wasn't actually on the same plane as the reporters who were asking him that
[00:11:50] question, and when they asked him about why they had to lower their own shades,
[00:11:54] the president said he wasn't told to lower his. Well, he was on a
[00:11:58] secret plane, he was not on the same plane that those reporters
[00:12:02] and some White House staffers were flying
[00:12:04] on.
[00:12:11] That would be all for this edition of Global, as always, the latest
[00:12:14] world news can be found on our social networks and our
[00:12:18] web portals. Goodbye until
[00:12:20] tomorrow.
[00:13:18] The happiness we seek eludes us, the happiness we
[00:13:21] give returns to us, as for
[00:13:25] the steps as an organization, we actually arose very
[00:13:28] spontaneously, a few months ago when the
[00:13:32] epidemic was spreading through Serbia and when the hospitals
[00:13:35] in Sandžak really ran out
[00:13:39] of materials, equipment, hygiene
[00:13:42] products, that is, everything that was necessary, our friends
[00:13:46] activists from Sandžak contacted us, people from
[00:13:49] hospitals contacted us, we then launched the first action,
[00:13:52] thanks to the support of the then fund. B92,
[00:13:56] our friends, activists from the recently founded Belgrade,
[00:13:59] we managed to collect the first contingent of aid
[00:14:02] after that we said, well, since this is going
[00:14:06] as it should, so more than 30,000 euros were collected then,
[00:14:10] let's work on supporting all those who
[00:14:13] need that support during the epidemic, the school year
[00:14:17] has started, just before the very beginning of the school
[00:14:20] year, the ministry announced that the recommendations
[00:14:23] of our crisis staff... international
[00:14:26] organizations that deal with suppressing the pandemic
[00:14:30] and students wear masks, the decision
[00:14:33] was made to deal with that issue, we quickly
[00:14:37] realized, of course, that not all parents would be able to continuously
[00:14:41] buy masks, and this is the first action that actually
[00:14:44] collects masks for boys and girls whose
[00:14:48] families are numerous, a little poorer than others
[00:14:52] for whom a mask is welcome as part of our... campaign
[00:14:55] "Support Students, Support Schools," where our goal is to collect
[00:14:59] funds for the purchase of masks, reusable masks for children
[00:15:03] from socially vulnerable families, according to some estimates, there are about
[00:15:07] 70,000
[00:15:09] such children in Serbia, so the Ministry
[00:15:12] of Education has prescribed the obligation of wearing masks in schools, on the
[00:15:16] other hand, funds have not been provided
[00:15:19] for these masks, and we have a quite
[00:15:23] large number of children who practically fall out of that
[00:15:26] system, this is the second action we
[00:15:29] are doing to promote donation as an idea,
[00:15:33] Marko Somborac helps us, who draws people on the streets
[00:15:36] of cities, smaller and larger, hopefully, of Serbia,
[00:15:40] they donate funds, we buy
[00:15:43] masks for boys and girls
[00:15:46] disinfectant for schools, and that's how it
[00:15:50] grows, meaning we have already managed to provide 1600
[00:15:53] reusable masks, on Monday, those
[00:15:57] masks go to seven elementary schools in the municipality
[00:16:00] of Prijepolje, to one school in Novi Sad, Jože
[00:16:03] Fatila, with the masks we also have
[00:16:06] a coloring book which was inspired by Corona
[00:16:10] and made by Marko Somborac, we also
[00:16:14] send that to children in lower elementary school grades, as well as
[00:16:17] a class schedule which Marko Somborac also
[00:16:20] made, so we tried, I would say, in addition to that, we have
[00:16:24] a didactic material which is
[00:16:27] interesting, when they asked me, when they
[00:16:30] told me what it was about, that we needed to raise funds
[00:16:34] for uh for families and
[00:16:37] schools that have difficulty in obtaining
[00:16:40] masks and, well, disinfectant funds,
[00:16:43] it seemed obvious
[00:16:46] to me to agree, and
[00:16:49] I always suggest that when there's an
[00:16:53] action, I can participate by drawing passers-by
[00:16:57] and they donate,
[00:16:59] so it's obvious to me to
[00:17:03] accept it, I don't know how to answer why, because
[00:17:06] that's how it should be. "On a personal level, it actually
[00:17:09] brings a special kind of satisfaction, I would say,
[00:17:13] when unknown people
[00:17:16] you don't know,
[00:17:19] you don't know you helped them, contact you with a nice message,
[00:17:23] so that's, I would say, on a personal level, it might
[00:17:26] be that, I would say, but that is still
[00:17:29] a secondary motive, the primary motive is actually to
[00:17:33] make our society as a whole, to try to make it better
[00:17:37] together." That's what I would
[00:17:39] say, what our, I would say,
[00:17:42] principled and practical aspirations are, there are many people
[00:17:46] who need help, whoever can
[00:17:49] give time or some of their
[00:17:52] resources, is welcome,
[00:17:55] so problems like that cannot
[00:17:59] be solved differently without solidarity, so
[00:18:02] that's why it's important, it brings
[00:18:05] the satisfaction of giving, I... "I completely follow,
[00:18:09] I follow the maxim that whoever gives
[00:18:13] gains, that is, thanks should be given by the one who
[00:18:16] gives, that's how I conduct myself in everyday life and
[00:18:20] I often join such actions, whether they are organized by
[00:18:23] my friends or complete strangers, so
[00:18:27] I often donate as much as I can, I often
[00:18:30] help with my unpaid work, that
[00:18:33] is also something we can give, which is not
[00:18:36] material." But it is important because a lot of work is needed to
[00:18:40] successfully carry out
[00:18:41] an action.
[00:18:45] Good deeds must not go unnoticed.
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[00:19:40] 'moving mountains at the push of a
[00:19:42] button.
[00:19:46] It might sound like science fiction, but in the Swiss Alps, it may
[00:19:50] soon become reality. In the
[00:19:52] Gotthard Massif, researchers at the University of Zurich
[00:19:56] hope to trigger a small earthquake. If it
[00:19:59] works, it could reveal more about how earthquakes
[00:20:02] start, and whether they can be
[00:20:04] predicted.
[00:20:08] All this and more groundbreaking stories on DW's Science
[00:20:12] Show. Welcome to Tomorrow
[00:20:14] Today.
[00:20:21] The big moment is just days away. Researchers at
[00:20:24] ETH Zurich University are hoping to do something that's never been
[00:20:28] done in quite this way before, deliberately triggering a small
[00:20:32] earthquake.
[00:20:34] But first, there's still plenty of work to do.
[00:20:39] A narrow road leads two and a half kilometers deep into the Gotthard
[00:20:43] Massif. The Badretto tunnel underneath the mountain
[00:20:46] range is more than 50 years old and no longer in
[00:20:50] use. And now it's a perfect natural laboratory. Here the
[00:20:54] team hopes to make ancient fault deep inside the rock slip ever so
[00:20:58] slightly. We're here because of this fault
[00:21:02] zone. You can see the boundary here clearly, a thin
[00:21:05] line. In the middle, there's this very brittle
[00:21:08] material called fault gouge.
[00:21:12] That's evidence that the rock has slipped along this fault line
[00:21:14] before. This is where we're hoping to trigger a magnitude
[00:21:18] one earthquake.
[00:21:50] The underlying physics better, perhaps one day we'll be able to make better
[00:21:53] forecasts.
[00:21:56] Men Andren Maya and his 70 member team have been planning and
[00:21:59] building this experiment for 5 years. They've installed
[00:22:03] more than 200 sensors inside the mountain, hoping to capture
[00:22:07] every moment of the earthquake as it
[00:22:08] unfolds.
[00:22:12] Here's how they plan to trigger it. The fault has
[00:22:15] slipped naturally before, producing tiny
[00:22:17] earthquakes.
[00:22:23] To reach it, the team has excavated new tunnel branching
[00:22:26] off from the Bagetta lab.
[00:22:30] From here, they'll pump water through three bore holes directly
[00:22:34] into the fault.
[00:22:37] As water pressure increases, the rock begins to shift. The
[00:22:41] existing stresses in the rock are released, triggering micro
[00:22:45] earthquake.
[00:22:48] Using six high pressure pumps, they'll inject around
[00:22:51] 2 cubic meters of water into the bore holes to bring the
[00:22:55] fault to the point where it slips.
[00:22:59] The pump system operates at pressures approaching 200 bar,
[00:23:03] a demanding test for the equipment and a potential
[00:23:06] hazard for anyone inside the
[00:23:07] tunnel.
[00:23:10] These are the anchoring systems. They're
[00:23:13] secured with chains and anchor pins in case the pressure becomes too
[00:23:17] high and part of the pipe work comes loose.
[00:24:20] Everything looks good and we're ready to
[00:24:21] go. The researchers are
[00:24:25] optimistic, the pumps are ready and the safety systems are in
[00:24:29] place.
[00:24:32] So this button is to manually stop the
[00:24:35] pump. So we can press this button. Once we have it pressed
[00:24:38] for about 8 seconds, the pumps in the tunnel will stop
[00:24:41] automatically. And this is a safety procedure that will allow
[00:24:44] to have a bit more control. The
[00:24:47] last members of the team have just left the
[00:24:51] steam to, and that's pressure up by one
[00:24:54] megapascal. Here we
[00:24:56] go.
[00:25:02] The pumps are starting up, forcing water deep into the bore
[00:25:05] holes.
[00:25:09] The data stream to Zurich is running smoothly. Just in
[00:25:13] case. Now comes the waiting
[00:25:16] game, watching the instruments and waiting for the...
[00:25:30] to slip. Pressure inside the fault continues to rise, approaching 100 bar. Then suddenly a flood of new data
[00:25:33] appears. Deep inside the mountain, something has
[00:25:36] begun to
[00:25:37] move.
[00:25:41] We've already detected and located more than a thousand quakes since we started
[00:25:45] the simulation. They're almost certainly induced by us given
[00:25:48] their number and size.
[00:26:32] But the thousands of microquakes are already providing valuable
[00:26:36] clues about how earthquakes
[00:26:38] begin.
[00:26:40] Soon they'll try again, hoping to make one tiny part of the
[00:26:43] Gotthard Massif slip, just enough to trigger the mini
[00:26:47] earthquake they've been waiting
[00:26:48] for.