Greece battling wildfires near Athens
The World
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4.6 • 943 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Greece is on fire. About half of the country is on red alert, after dozens of fires broke out — including several close to the capital, Athens. A prolonged drought and soaring summer temperatures are making it hard for authorities to contain the blazes. Also, Russian leader Vladimir Putin is threatening to restart production of intermediate range nuclear weapons. This is in response to plans by the US to position long-range missiles in Germany. And, we have a wrap-up on the Olympics in Paris, where the closing ceremony and final events took place on Sunday.
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| 0:00.0 | Wildfires in Greece are raging across the country and they've reached the outskirts of the capital Athens. |
| 0:10.0 | This is an exceptionally dangerous fire because it's mere of course the inhabited |
| 0:16.7 | areas. |
| 0:17.7 | I'm Marko Werman why those fires in Greece are proving difficult to contain. |
| 0:22.1 | Also today, arms control agreements between Washington and |
| 0:24.6 | Moscow are falling apart. Russia decided that arms control generally speaking |
| 0:29.3 | is not as important as pursuing its war in Ukraine. |
| 0:33.0 | And the tiny tech company whose online messaging app has massive global reach and influence. |
| 0:38.0 | I think it's completely unprecedented, right? |
| 0:42.0 | I mean, they're approaching 1 billion users. |
| 0:45.0 | And some of them have been using telegram to try to fuel political violence in the UK. |
| 0:50.0 | Plus, who got medals in Paris and who almost did all that and more today here on the world |
| 0:58.3 | This is the world. I'm Marco Wirmen. Thank you for joining us. We begin this Monday in Greece where dozens of fires are |
| 1:04.8 | burning across the country, including some very close to the capital Athens. |
| 1:09.7 | This is from an online video posted by the British news site The Times. |
| 1:17.0 | It shows two firefighters hitting a wildfire with a water hose, |
| 1:21.0 | but the wind kicks up and they're forced to retreat as flames spread. |
| 1:25.3 | Nearly half of Greece is on alert and thousands of residents have been evacuated from |
| 1:29.5 | their homes. |
| 1:30.9 | Daphne Toldis was on her way to the fire lines about 12 miles outside of Athens when we spoke earlier today. |
| 1:37.0 | This fire started on Sunday and I've been seeing the smoke all around the sky. |
| 1:42.0 | You can even smell it of course. So where I am I can't see the |
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