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00:02:25everyone. Here we are, ladies and gentlemen, 2 minutes past
00:02:286, together with Athena. and Nikos Andritsos, good morning,
00:02:32welcome again today to the morning news,
00:02:36morning news and we will be together until
00:02:3910:10. Today is a great day, it's the Savior's Day, we say happy
00:02:43many years, happy many years to all, great celebration,
00:02:46okay, we have many Saviors. First of all,
00:02:50Sotiris Gkatziotis, up on the control, happy
00:02:53many years, orchestra man, Sotiris Gkatziotis,
00:02:57happy many years, happy many years to all ladies and gentlemen. The
00:03:07other one is celebrating, and the sweets are coming, and the wishes are coming, and
00:03:10everything is coming. We also have treats here on the table, our Sotiris
00:03:14has taken care of us for yet another time and
00:03:17on his name day, always always.
00:03:21So here we are, it's Thursday, August 6th, we will
00:03:25have all the current events, of course, as we do
00:03:28every day, but also other reports, connections,
00:03:32guests, everything to keep
00:03:35you informed, but above all, to also be in a good mood, or
00:03:38to start your day nicely, without a good mood, nothing
00:03:42happens, that is, even the simplest thing, nothing,
00:03:46you can't achieve it, you need to be in a good mood, good intention, like that, a little
00:03:49optimism and everything will be
00:03:53fine, and everything will be fine, calmly and nicely. So ladies and gentlemen,
00:03:57if you want to write us a message, to say good morning, to
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00:04:10you can find Athena, Athena eva
00:04:14Papakosta, in one word, in one word, okay, I didn't
00:04:17make it easy, the truth is that Athena is written with an 'i',
00:04:21I also put 'eva', it's also my name, my surname, which you wouldn't
00:04:25call it, okay, neither short nor long, but okay, now Nikos Andritsos
00:04:28can be found on... instagram@andritsos as
00:04:32well as on facebook Nikos Andritsos. We also have our show's
00:04:35email proimerosi@sky.gr.
00:04:38Exactly for whatever you want to tell us, also suggestions for
00:04:42reports, or anything, a
00:04:45comment,
00:04:47just to say these things too. So let's go now to
00:04:51see the headlines of the news, ladies and gentlemen, how it's shaping up,
00:04:55how we're starting this morning, it's 4 minutes past 6,
00:04:59starting with the procedures, Athena, which have to
00:05:02do with the autopsy, which
00:05:05the autopsies, rather, continue in Western
00:05:09Attica. In fact, yesterday at the Vilia town hall, Mr.
00:05:12Katsafados was present. Exactly, and in less than a month, the
00:05:15victims of the fire in Vilia and Western Attica will
00:05:19have received the first aid money. This was emphasized
00:05:23by the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and Civil
00:05:26Protection, Mr. Kostas Katsafados, after a
00:05:29working meeting held at the Vilia Town Hall.
00:05:32He added that this Monday, the submission of
00:05:36files for the construction of damaged houses will begin.
00:05:39You also see in our title that there are 40 red
00:05:43houses in Porto Germeno, estimates for 100 in total,
00:05:46with the inventory sheet that the fire-affected will have received from the control teams. At this
00:05:50point, let's say that regarding Porto Germeno, all the
00:05:53procedures for recording the damages caused by this
00:05:56devastating fire started yesterday.
00:06:00Exactly, and today also, we keep this in mind, at the Ministry of
00:06:04Environment there will be a presentation of the extent,
00:06:07essentially an assessment of the environmental damage suffered by
00:06:11the western at the same time, a
00:06:14precise timeline will be presented, as they say from the ministry, for the
00:06:18environmental restoration, because, you know, the issue
00:06:22is on the one hand you have this disaster, the affected people must be relieved,
00:06:25you count your wounds in general, but beyond that, autumn comes,
00:06:29winter comes, the rains will come, we can't go
00:06:32from fires to floods. Exactly, so we must be careful.
00:06:36Exactly, and all these
00:06:39precautions must be taken, the necessary works must be done. Many
00:06:43works will have to be done in this specific area so that we don't
00:06:47get flooded afterwards. Exactly. Now, the next
00:06:50big news of today
00:06:53is the electrical interconnection of Greece-Cyprus.
00:06:56The Prime Minister characterized the agreement for the
00:07:00entry of the French company Meridiam as
00:07:03a majority shareholder in the company Great C interconnector, which
00:07:07will undertake the development of this project of electrical
00:07:10interconnection between Greece and Cyprus. This agreement
00:07:14was signed yesterday at Maximos Mansion in the presence of the Prime Minister. Exactly, who
00:07:18stressed, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, that the entry of Meridiam constitutes
00:07:22a strong vote of confidence in the energy sector of Greece on the one
00:07:25hand, but also in the technical capabilities of ADMIE,
00:07:29as the Prime Minister also underlined the strategic value
00:07:32of this interconnection project, saying characteristically, we unite
00:07:36forces in a European project of common interest, said Kyriakos
00:07:39Mitsotakis, but we also had a reaction from PASOK regarding yesterday's
00:07:43signing, yes and essentially Harilaou
00:07:46Trikoupi is asking the government to submit
00:07:50a binding timetable for the implementation of the
00:07:53project, which, as it explains, is crucial both from an energy
00:07:57perspective, and especially from a geopolitical one. Harilaou
00:08:00Trikoupi also recalls the project's timeline, that it is part of the
00:08:04energy planning devised by PASOK after
00:08:072009, specifically the Papandreou government, while in
00:08:102014, with a proposal from the then Minister Giannis Maniatis,
00:08:14it was included in the national strategic
00:08:17investments. We will have guests later, of course, and extensive
00:08:20discussion about this specific
00:08:24development to see exactly what the importance
00:08:27of this project is and why we should give
00:08:31it special attention, separating it in
00:08:34the news. Now also standing out in the
00:08:37news, ladies and gentlemen, is everything
00:08:40that happened yesterday in Germany.
00:08:47It wasn't exactly and indeed the German Minister of Interior
00:08:51spoke of a hybrid attack scenario for this
00:08:54incident involving the detection of a drone with an explosive device at
00:08:58Leipzig airport, which, as we can understand,
00:09:01caused an alarm for the German authorities yesterday.
00:09:05Now, in a press conference he held, he spoke of a new
00:09:08level of threat, we keep that in mind,
00:09:11as he explained. he does not rule out the involvement of hostile
00:09:14forces in the case. Exactly. And while we had this incident
00:09:18in Leipzig, which had certainly raised an alarm for the German
00:09:22authorities, a second incident occurred, this
00:09:25time involving a cargo plane
00:09:28which was unable to land and collided in mid-air with
00:09:32an unknown object, as they say,
00:09:35at an altitude of a few hundred meters from the ground, about 500 meters from the
00:09:39ground, so you can imagine the difficulty, that is, it was in the process
00:09:43of landing, essentially, not even approaching, it was
00:09:46in the landing stage, the specific aircraft, it suffered
00:09:50minor damages. Let's mention, because we saw the shot a
00:09:54while ago, Athena, why Leipzig is important,
00:09:57because Antonov
00:10:00Airlines fleet aircraft are stationed
00:10:03there, and we are talking about transport aircraft that
00:10:07belong to Ukraine, so we also understand the sensitivity of the
00:10:11matter and the fact that it is a matter that they are investigating,
00:10:14although in such cases
00:10:17there may be suspicions about who could have done it, but there is
00:10:21no evidence, of course, and now because we will discuss this topic.
00:10:25apart from the head of the international news department of Sky, Hrisa Tsihli,
00:10:29we will also have Dimitra Keranoudi, head of the Greek service
00:10:32of Deutsche Welle, so that they can explain to us why the incidents in
00:10:35question have special significance and what they mean for the next
00:10:39day, and there are many incidents, we will see all these anyway in a little while,
00:10:43ladies and gentlemen. Now, let's go to the Middle East.
00:10:47Here now, Athena, we don't know what's happening from day to day because they say from hour to
00:10:51hour the Oman-Tehran agreement for Hormuz is coming.
00:10:54We are all hoping for prices to drop
00:10:57in the markets and at the pumps, for this whole
00:11:01fairy tale with all this war to end, because, okay, this situation can't
00:11:04continue anymore, and in fact, new fuel for these
00:11:08scenarios that we are close to an agreement
00:11:11was provided yesterday by Israeli media outlets which
00:11:14reported that the agreement may be signed even during
00:11:18the night that just passed, and
00:11:21in any case, we have nothing so far, we have nothing.
00:11:25We have nothing expected according to all that was reported
00:11:28about the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with
00:11:31the possibility of extension, as well as the renewal of the ceasefire between
00:11:35the United States and Iran. And at the same time,
00:11:39of course, with everything that is happening at the level of
00:11:41negotiations, the reality on the ground is
00:11:44what we have seen in recent days because we are talking about
00:11:48yet another incident with explosions, a ship
00:11:529 nautical miles southeast of.
00:11:56this is in Oman and the British agency that
00:11:59monitors these developments confirmed that both the
00:12:02crew and the ship remain safe, but we also had statements from Trump from
00:12:06Las Vegas, yes, where once again we heard the American president say
00:12:09that I would prefer to make an agreement with Iran. Moreover, many
00:12:13US government officials explain again and again that the
00:12:17American president always has on the table the option of
00:12:20diplomacy for Donald Trump to continue
00:12:23telling us that I don't want people to be killed,
00:12:27so many, I don't know how many times we have counted
00:12:30how close we are to this agreement, already since last
00:12:34April, I personally have lost count, yes, yes, yes, yes, it's approaching,
00:12:37it's approaching, you know, it reminds me of those days of 2015, the
00:12:41summer when we here in Greece were also waiting to have some agreement
00:12:45and it was coming day by day, you remember those troubled
00:12:48times, but let's see, hopefully we will reach an
00:12:51agreement, these things having been given, these things having been said.
00:13:10Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. High temperatures
00:13:13are recorded in Central and Eastern Europe for
00:13:17today, Thursday. In our country, clear weather
00:13:20prevails, however, local cloudiness develops in the mountains with
00:13:24a possibility of light rain in the afternoon. Winds
00:13:27persist in the Aegean, strong 6 to 7 Beaufort and locally in the
00:13:31Cyclades up to 8 Beaufort, while in the Ionian, northwest
00:13:35winds up to 4 Beaufort blow. The temperature remains
00:13:38at 35 to 37° and locally
00:13:4138 in the mainland areas, while in the islands
00:13:44it ranges from 30 to 35°. As for
00:13:47Attica, sunshine prevails. The temperature
00:13:50ranges from 25 to 33 to 35°.
00:13:55While northerly winds blow up to 6 Beaufort. Gusts
00:13:59in the east and north of the prefecture will reach 7 to 8
00:14:02Beaufort. In Thessaloniki, the weather is clear with local
00:14:06cloudiness, however, after noon there is a possibility of light
00:14:09rain mainly in Halkidiki. The mercury ranges from
00:14:1224 to 32 to 33° and southerly winds
00:14:16in the Thermaic Gulf up to 5 Beaufort. On Friday,
00:14:19generally clear skies prevail. However, with a slight instability in
00:14:23Macedonia, the central mountains and the Peloponnese after
00:14:26noon. The winds persist as northerly in the Aegean
00:14:306 to 7 Beaufort and the mercury
00:14:33remains at 36 to 37° and locally
00:14:3738 in the mainland and up to 35-36°
00:14:40in Crete and the Dodecanese. On
00:14:43Saturday, the weather is generally clear with transient
00:14:46showers after noon in the north, west and
00:14:50Peloponnese. The meltemi remains strengthened, resulting
00:14:53in the temperature reaching 36 to 38° in the
00:14:57mainland areas and 34 to 36° in the
00:15:01islands. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the weather forecast for the
00:15:05coming days. Have a good
00:15:06day.
00:15:16So we also saw the weather.
00:15:19Keep in mind, we don't forget because the conditions are dangerous
00:15:22today.
00:15:25Category 4 is forecast for today, Thursday, in Attica,
00:15:28Boeotia and Evia, according to the General Secretariat
00:15:32for Civil Protection. But we also see many areas of mainland and
00:15:35island Greece, which in yellow, this means that
00:15:39they are at risk, at high risk of fire category
00:15:43three. So a lot of care is needed, we say it again and
00:15:46again, because we have outbreaks of fires, we have arrests
00:15:50being made and every time the same issue comes up again, that
00:15:53someone went and did work with a grinder, I don't know what,
00:15:57lit a barbecue with such dangerous conditions and
00:16:01we must avoid all these, eh, okay, that is, this must finally
00:16:04become an established fact. Exactly. So, let's slowly get out of the
00:16:08studio, let's go to our connections, we already see
00:16:12Vivi here in Athens, as well as
00:16:16Dimitris Hatzikortsou from the very beautiful Thessaloniki,
00:16:19good morning to both of you, good morning,
00:16:23good morning, how are you, good morning, kids, it's a heavy morning
00:16:27today, are you well? Well, you laughed,
00:18:05you're right, let's go to the reports anyway.
00:18:10It's your turn too, wait, wait, so, let's go to the reports. For Dimitris
00:18:14later, now, of course, we will also talk about Dimitris, of course. So, let's
00:18:17go to the reports. The autopsies have started, yesterday
00:18:21we had some statements from Mr. Katsafados, which in no
00:18:24case go unnoticed, the government at this moment
00:18:28is aiming for all these procedures to be express
00:18:31procedures, we are talking about the compensation of the affected. Tell us a few
00:18:35words. We were there yesterday,
00:18:39Athena and Nikos, at Porto Germeno. We were there from
00:18:42early in the morning, and indeed there were also teams from the General Directorate for the
00:18:45Restoration of Natural Disaster Impacts, which
00:18:49were carrying out autopsies and recording the damages to the
00:18:52houses. Let me tell you that as of yesterday, 37 houses
00:18:56were deemed red, while 29
00:18:58were yellow. The autopsies will continue in the coming days. Their goal is to
00:19:02have them finished by Friday. And after
00:19:06a meeting that took place yesterday afternoon at the Vilia town hall
00:19:09under the Deputy Minister of Climate Crisis and
00:19:12Civil Protection, Mr. Katsafados, and also the
00:19:16Mayor of Megara and the Mayor of Mandra,
00:19:19it was decided that from Monday the affected will be able
00:19:23to submit their applications to the town hall, to
00:19:26submit the file with the necessary
00:19:29documents, so that they can be supported, to receive their
00:19:33compensation, one of the measures that they announced and some of the measures that
00:19:36he announced.
00:19:42at this point, sorry to interrupt you at this point, let's watch a
00:19:45characteristic excerpt from Mr. Katsafados' statements: "From
00:19:49Monday, citizens, with the autopsy report they will have received from
00:19:53our service, the E1, the E9 and a family
00:19:56status certificate, will submit their application,
00:20:00so that the documents they are sending can be processed, and in
00:20:0310 days from the time the complete report arrives at the...
00:20:12Within 10 days, the Deputy Minister said, express
00:20:15procedures, we hope that these timelines will be kept,
00:20:18hopefully. It's a big and very important challenge because, as
00:20:22you said earlier, yesterday you were in Porto Germeno, you spoke with
00:20:25people who returned and saw the fruits of a lifetime
00:20:29no longer there. In fact, with tears in their
00:20:33eyes, they told you that "I struggled for this house for 45 years."
00:20:36Some told you that they gave their
00:20:40whole lives to build a house and now
00:20:43they have nowhere to
00:20:45live. And what they told us, Athena and Nikos, yesterday is that, yes, they may have heard the
00:20:49measures, but most were reserved because they wanted to see how
00:20:53much this would apply, how quickly the procedures would move and how
00:20:56quickly the compensations would be
00:20:59submitted. That's what they told us. Also, the
00:21:03images were heartbreaking. Specifically, I will keep one
00:21:06testimony from a gentleman yesterday, who told me, "I want the
00:21:10bulldozer to demolish it, because I can't see it like
00:21:13this." I poured a lot of sweat into building
00:21:16this house for 35 years, up
00:21:19until recently I was trying to
00:21:23put it in order, and within a few hours it turned to
00:21:25ashes. Their words were truly
00:21:28shocking. They were all in
00:21:31despair and waiting for the teams to go and
00:21:35record the damages,
00:21:38what damages? Some completely destroyed. When you have
00:21:41a house built with so much effort and generally we all know what it's like,
00:21:45that is, in a house, you do some work. Here some work
00:21:49there, you'll start, so to speak,
00:21:53painting the railings, doing this, doing that, taking care of it,
00:21:56and the money you've managed to save
00:21:59to build a house to leave to your
00:22:02children, when you've dedicated your whole life
00:22:05working to manage to have something and
00:22:09you see inside, in fact one told you that within
00:22:1230 minutes everything turned to ashes and
00:22:15in fact they also added very quickly of course and they added
00:22:19that the... Porto Germeno, that paradise no longer exists,
00:22:22yes, yes, yes, from the boundless green it turned to boundless
00:22:26black and that was truly a very difficult situation for a
00:22:30lady, yes, a lady said, and this is what they specifically
00:22:33told us, Nikos and Athena, yesterday, a lady told us that even
00:22:36if I rebuild it from scratch, I used to come here for the greenery, now what will I
00:22:40see, it's a black landscape, yes, and it's an
00:22:44issue, Vivi, which we will discuss, Nikos, later with the help
00:22:47of a psychologist to see what these people are experiencing, because
00:22:51they need exactly this trauma that remains and
00:22:55we will have to see how we can help, but also what society itself can
00:22:58do for something like this, exactly, exactly. Let's now
00:23:02see, or rather, re-watch these
00:23:05images that we broadcast that morning. He was with the
00:23:08cameraman, Vasilis Vafidis, the
00:23:11Mary Toumba was on the field at that time, we were covering
00:23:15the fires
00:23:18where at that point. Vasilis Vafidis sees
00:23:21horses galloping, a moment
00:23:25that truly went around the world, the world, and now
00:23:28we see our relevant images, we are talking about two, exactly, we are talking about
00:23:32two adult horses and a smaller one, running in terror to
00:23:35escape the fires, in fact in the background explosions are heard, it is a
00:23:39news item that was recorded by Mary Toumba, the Sky journalist,
00:23:42as well as the cinematographer Vasilis Vafidis and as you said, Nikos, very
00:23:46correctly, these images went around the world with enormous
00:23:51Reuters news agency covering the story and now
00:23:54VV we have a new touching video
00:23:57about these horses that are safe, but I would
00:24:01like you to tell us more about what we will see
00:24:04now.
00:24:06Some firefighters who were there and remained on alert
00:24:10spotted these specific horses, which fortunately are well and
00:24:14safe as you saw them, but they were exhausted and
00:24:17immediately, even though they did not have much water. they
00:24:20offered them water to drink, it is a very touching
00:24:24image and it is a very positive development that the two large
00:24:27horses and the small one were
00:24:31found safe and returned to their natural environment. It is a very
00:24:34shocking image that, as you said, Vasilis Vafidis with Mary
00:24:38Toumba had recorded as they ran to save themselves from the fiery
00:24:41inferno, but
00:24:44now we see them drinking water from the firefighter's
00:24:48hand, truly. Exactly, in fact,
00:24:51so, it's Dimitris' turn, very TV,
00:24:55let's go to Thessaloniki to see
00:24:58news from Macedonia, from
00:25:01you Dimitris Vrachis of the morning news, every summer one might
00:25:04say, and you too this year found yourself covering the
00:25:08fires in those big fires in Oreokastro and you also deserve
00:25:11congratulations. Pilownas here in
00:25:42start with, let's start with the cases of fraud, shouting permission, shouting
00:25:45permission, Dimitris, shouting, asking for permission, yes,
00:25:49I... I feel him, I understand him, a little patience buddy, the time will come
00:26:03have no end, this time with another pretext, in
00:26:0615 days, six such cases, six
00:26:09victims of fraud, elderly men and women in
00:26:12the areas of Pieria and Florina, in fact, the
00:26:16perpetrators in these cases this time
00:26:19pretended to be doctors and the
00:26:22alleged children of the victims to
00:26:25convince the victims that something had happened, some accident and the relative
00:26:29needed immediate surgery of the. for this reason
00:26:33they would need to pay large sums of money. For these
00:26:37cases they managed to extract an amount of over
00:26:39€100,000 gold pounds and
00:26:43jewelry of great value. I should tell you that one
00:26:46of the perpetrators of the fire has been arrested.
00:26:49The investigation, of course, continues for the rest. In the possession of this particular
00:26:53man, a small sum of money was found, and
00:26:57two vehicles were confiscated which were used for these fraud cases and
00:27:00as I said, the investigation continues for him.
00:27:03We don't need to say it again, but okay, let people know one
00:27:07more time, it's good to hear that no accountant will
00:27:11ever ask you to take out your money, no doctor will call you to ask
00:27:14for money to operate on your child over the phone,
00:27:18no employee of the DEI will come to your house and check the money and
00:27:22jewelry that you will take out, you
00:27:25say, just as you will never receive any
00:27:28inheritance with an email from this
00:27:31lawyer, I don't know from... where to tell you that an uncle in
00:27:34Australia names we have
00:27:38seen it in movies it would be nice it would be nice now if someone called me and
00:27:41told me wow you have and it should be true though and
00:27:45a prince yes why not Angelos why
00:27:48why yes I would travel the world and give you
00:27:51beautiful pictures for you who would be here the
00:27:55point is you know what the issue is we laugh at this with emails
00:27:58with inheritances but unfortunately there are victims
00:28:09they make you doubt, that is, they put you in the phase
00:28:12you say when this comes you say the next
00:28:16stage is to fall for it let's go to Serres to
00:28:20tell us what's new about this heinous
00:28:23murder of a 68-year-old Dimitris this
00:28:27heinous murder of the 68-year-old for which the
00:28:30police investigations are still ongoing.
00:28:33as no evidence, no fingerprint has been found inside the area
00:28:37inside the house where the 68-year-old
00:28:40lived alone, the area was cordoned off, as soon as
00:28:44the authorities arrived at the scene,
00:28:46they are searching for evidence, up to this moment no suspect has been
00:28:50brought in, while the blunt
00:28:53instrument which caused the death of the 68-year-old has not been found, as it appears
00:28:57that he was injured in the abdominal area and internal
00:29:01bleeding occurred which... resulted in his death,
00:29:05we are also very seriously considering what exactly happened two days
00:29:08before the authorities, as according to his son there was a break-in
00:29:12at the house, which is why the authorities when they arrived at the scene on Saturday
00:29:16morning and found the 68-year-old, they also found
00:29:19the house in disarray, so they are investigating whether, how
00:29:23exactly this break-in happened and if the perpetrators of this
00:29:26case exist, Dimitris, thank you very much, we will
00:29:30meet later anyway thank you. very much for now
00:29:33now let's go Athena to focus on the
00:29:37autopsies yesterday in Porto Germeno and basically
00:29:41we are talking about ashes, debris and people
00:29:44who are basically trying to get back on their feet
00:29:48and basically face the next day, the
00:29:51testimonies are shocking, in this one moment to the next everything turned to ashes, it is worth
00:29:55listening to them, their voice is their strength at this moment,
00:29:59the report has been done, the video has been with...
00:30:13it is the moment when the fire enters the first houses in Porto Germeno and burns
00:30:17everything in its path
00:30:18A video from the top of Kithaironas
00:30:22records minute by minute the
00:30:25evolution of the destructive fire that broke out in Viotia and moved
00:30:29towards Porto Germeno.
00:30:36According to the map published by WWF, out of the 130,000
00:30:40stremmas that burned in four days in Attica and Viotia,
00:30:43almost 28,000 burned for the second time in the last
00:30:4720 years. This is the area marked on the map in yellow.
00:30:51The consequences
00:30:53are heartbreaking.
00:30:5545 to fix it. They burned it down in one night.