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00:00As Spain and Portugal slowly returned to normal following nationwide blackouts,
00:07the cause of the disruption remained a mystery on Tuesday.
00:11Portugal's Prime Minister Luís Montenegro has called for an EU inquiry,
00:15while his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez said reforms will be made to ensure it does not happen again.
00:22It is, therefore, also important that, face to a less positive expectation,
00:29which was still outlined in our dependence, namely with Spain,
00:36we know that the problem that was caused
00:39does not have to do with the lack of production and distribution in Portugal.
00:46It has to do with exactly this connection.
00:49Spain's private operator, Red Electrica, has ruled out a cyber attack,
00:53but Sánchez said his government will also still conduct an independent analysis.
00:58And they are already examining the electronic records of the electric network
01:02and also private operators, to not discard any hypothesis.
01:07I say this because the electric network has made us know
01:12that it will discard on the transport network any cyber attack.
01:16We value this aspect positively,
01:19but in all cases, the responsibility of the government of Spain is to do an independent analysis.
01:25By Tuesday morning, Red Electrica said 99% of energy demand in Spain was restored,
01:31and Portuguese grid operator, REN, said all its power substations were back online.
01:35A blackout in the Iberian Peninsula brought much of Spain and Portugal to a standstill.
01:48Millions were affected across major cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Lisbon and Porto.
01:54In Spain, many say the outage caught them by surprise.
01:57Well, we were in the change of turn, I went and I went and entered,
02:01and the light came out, the door closed, the door closed, the door closed,
02:03the door closed, the door closed, the door closed,
02:04we can't dispense the medicines and some products for the pharmacy that we are trying to sell.
02:08But…
02:09And what cost is that? Can it have a lot of cost for the pharmacy?
02:12Personal, products, all the door closed, the door closed, the door closed.
02:16Train stations and telecommunications services experienced major disruptions.
02:25Bank cards were rendered useless, leaving many unable to purchase items like food and water.
02:30And products were quickly running out as consumers resorted to panic purchasing
02:35in preparation for a potentially lengthy blackout.
02:38There are little water, little water, little water, little food.
02:41No hay pan.
02:42No hay pan y muy pocas cosas, la verdad.
02:46Si podéis pillar lo que puedan, porque se está quedando todo vacío por ahora.
02:51Pues ahora mismo en España lo que se vive es una gran incertidumbre ante este gran apagón.
02:56Se han fundido los plomos, de forma sencilla, por así decirlo, por una circunstancia excepcional.
03:03Como se puede ver en la calle, suministros de gasolina paralizados.
03:08Lavanderías también paralizadas.
03:10Los semáforos no funcionan.
03:13Y la mayoría de personas se está intentando hacer acopio de comida.
03:17Y los supermercados se están viendo desabastecidos porque no se sabe qué es lo que va a ocurrir de aquí a unas horas.
03:24Juan Carlos de Santos, desde Madrid, para Euronews.
03:28This Tuesday marks exactly six months since the Dana floods occurred,
03:35impacting a number of villages in the outskirts of Valencia, like Aldaia, where I'm standing now.
03:41227 people lost their lives during those floods and thousands of businesses and homes were destroyed.
03:48Today here, the feeling is one of hope as some businesses have managed to reopen,
03:54but also of emotional exhaustion and anxiety and fear that the Dana could one day occur again.
04:00We had the opportunity to speak to Eva Lexcano, an entrepreneur and young mother here in the town.
04:05In the town.
04:06Ha sido duro.
04:07No te voy a engañar.
04:08Han sido meses muy duros.
04:09Ahora es verdad que también se nos está acumulando el cansancio ya de estos seis meses
04:13porque nosotros aparte de mi negocio perdimos nuestra casa y la casa todavía estamos con las reformas y demás.
04:20Pero bueno, en cuanto al estudio, contentísima, la verdad, porque la respuesta de la gente de la vuelta de la Dana ha sido brutal.
04:28Todo el mundo ha venido con muchas ganas, con muchas ganas de normalidad sobre todo,
04:31porque después de ver a un pueblo devastado estas cosas al final es lo que te pide el cuerpo, ¿no?
04:36Volver a la normalidad, hacer las cosas que siempre hacemos, no pedimos más.
04:39A partir de la Dana y de la pandemia en general y de todo, ya nos hemos puesto un escudo porque lo viví un poco desde la tranquilidad.
04:51Dije, bueno, ¿ya qué más puede pasar después de todo esto?
04:54Y bueno, menos mal que finalmente fueron unas horas solo y no sé, yo ya pensaba que hoy podríamos seguir con el apago
05:00y entonces ya mi cabeza, ¿qué hago con el negocio o tal?
05:03Pero bueno, al final ha sido algo cortito, así que genial.
05:09A 12-year-old girl was killed and a 6-year-old girl was injured in a Russian strike
05:16on Ukraineís Dnipropetrovsk region early on Tuesday, according to regional authorities.
05:22Both children became trapped under the rubble of a house that was destroyed, rescuers said.
05:27Moscow is intensifying its attacks across Ukraine,
05:31even as it announced a 72-hour ceasefire next week to mark its victory day in World War II.
05:37Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the proposal a manipulation and urged for a longer one.
05:44Now, now, here, called up, next couple of years of a manipulatory of aWS.
05:49Why? Why do you want to wait until 8-year-old ?
05:51And only then stop holding fire,
05:54to ensure the woens of Putin's quietness in the war,
05:59we like to promote life of a lot of people,
06:01instead of whatever them believe that the world believes in that no reason to wait for 8-year-old
06:08until now russian president vladimir putin has refused to accept a complete unconditional cease
06:20fire linking it to a halt in western arms supplies to ukraine and kiev's mobilization effort
06:29and who's the prime minister's liberal party has won canada's federal election setting the stage
06:35for mark carney to form a government canadian public broadcaster cbc reports that carney's liberal
06:42party is projected to secure 161 out of the 343 parliamentary seats the vote marks a stunning
06:51defeat for canada's conservatives who under the leadership of pierre polyev were expected to be
06:57returned to power after nearly a decade however a diplomatic and trade crisis caused by the second
07:04u.s presidency of donald trump undercut their appeal direct action volyev conceded defeat on tuesday
07:11night while prime minister carney claimed victory and thanked party leaders carney told supporters
07:18canada was now over the shock of american betrayal and vowed his government would work for all
07:24european council president antonio costa is on a three-day visit to bulgaria where he toured the arsenal
07:38factory a bulgarian firearms and ammunition manufacturer he said bulgaria could have a key
07:44role in supplying european defense capabilities adding that investment in defense would also drive
07:50competitiveness arsenal factory it's a very good example of the link between defense
07:57and competitiveness and in particular our organic defense industry with its unique historical and
08:04regional know-how is contributing to europe's support for ukraine koshta stressed that the security
08:12of europe and ukraine cannot be separated calling for all european member states to increase their defense
08:18capacities he also mentioned how his visit comes at a significant time for bulgaria as it has joined
08:24the schengen area and prepares to join the eurozone amazon has launched its first batch of internet
08:33broadcasting satellites kicking off its long delayed deployment of an internet from space network
08:4027 satellites are now in orbit at an altitude of nearly 630 kilometers above the earth's surface monday's
08:48launch from the atlas 5 rocket which took off from florida follows that of two experimental satellites
08:54launched two years ago as part of project kuiper a 10 billion dollars effort unveiled in 2019 competing
09:02with rival elon musk starlink jeff bezos's team claims that the satellites they're launching are now much
09:08more advanced than the first two the company aims to put more than 3200 of these satellites into orbit
09:15max spacex has already launched more than 8 000 starlinks since 2019 meanwhile a growing number
09:24of astronomers are warning that the large number of satellites is hampering their work and could pose
09:30an accident risk
09:35russian firefighting air tankers dropped more than a hundred tons of water at iran's largest container
09:42port after a massive explosion last saturday killed over 70 people according to the russian ministry
09:49of emergency situations two russian air tankers dropped more than 130 tons of water earlier iranian
09:56officials announced that the fire had been extinguished some of those killed in the blast reportedly
10:03included truck drivers port workers and a newlywed couple around 1 000 others were left injured
10:10reports suggested the blast occurred as the port took in a chemical component needed for solid fuel for
10:18ballistic missiles something that iranian authorities have denied iran's interior ministry on monday blamed
10:25non-compliance with safety precautions and negligence as having caused the explosion
10:30at least nine people were left dead in a damascus suburb after clashes broke out between pro-government
10:43fighters and local druz gunmen according to the uk-based syrian observatory for human rights
10:51the fighting was sparked by an audio clip circulated on social media of a man attacking islam's prophet
10:57mohammed the audio was attributed to a druz cleric who later denied being involved
11:05the clip angered many sunni muslims and led to the fighting in the predominantly druz suburb of jaramana
11:12syria's interior ministry said it was investigating the incident and urged people to not act in a way that
11:18undermines security it was the latest episode of sectarian violence in syria which has seen several
11:25clashes involving minority groups since the fall of president bashar al-assad the new leadership has
11:31attempted to unite fragmented armed groups under one authority but druz fighters have resisted this
11:37saying damascus failed to guarantee their protection from hostile militants