Monday 3rd August 2026. Spain Ceuta crossings. DRC Ebola spread. Russia restaurant explosion. Hungary plant shutdown. FIFA reversal...

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0:51 description or go to send seven dot supercast dot com. Thank you, good morning. This is send seven World World News in seven minutes. I'm Stephen Devinchenzi. Today is Monday, the third of August twenty twenty six, starting in Africa. Today, in Spain, over sixty thousand migrants illegally crossed into the city of Celta, which is surrounded by Morocco. Between Thursday and Friday. According to local officials, this is equivalent to around seventy percent of the population of Selta, where around eighty five thousand people live. The Spanish government has said that most of these people have voluntarily gone back to Morocco.

1:44 Since then, sixty seven people are reported to have died while trying to enter Spain, mostly by drowning as they attempted to swim around the border fence in the sea. Italy's Prime Minister Georgia Meloney said that Spain should be suspended from Schengen, the European Union's free movement area, and France said that it was increasing checks on its border with Spain. However, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pointed out that Celta is not part of the Schengen area and said that onward travel from celt to mainland Europe had been prevented. Sanchez blamed human trafficking groups for the mass crossings and said that they had spread misinformation about people being able to stay in the European Union if they

2:35 arrive in celt In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the current Ibola outbreak is the fastest growing outbreak in the history of ibola. According to data from health officials, over three thousand, three hundred cases have now been confirmed, with almost one thousand, five hundred deaths, giving an estimated fatality rate of around forty five percent. A vaccine for this strain of ibola is not yet available, and trials of a vaccine are expected to last for four months Europe.

3:14 In Russia, there was an explosion at a restaurant in Moscow which killed three people and injured many others. Police have said that a woman who was killed in the blast brought a homemade bomb into the restaurant. There have been some reports that Russian military officials were at the restaurant, however this is difficult to verify. Ukraine has continued to target the warehouses of wild Berries, which has been described as Russia's Amazon. This weekend, Ukraine also hit a warehouse of Russia's second largest e commerce company, Ozon in the Tatistan region and three oil refineries in Ukraine, Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least fifty the in civilians this weekend in many parts of the country. President Vladimir

4:04 Zelenski said that a lack of air defense such as the US Patriot missiles is causing more casualties as Ukraine is not able to shoot down Russian missiles. This weekend, US President Donald Trump appeared to reverse a statement that he made last month in which he said that the US was giving Ukraine a license and the technology to build their own patriot missiles. This was Trump speaking next to Zelensky in a NATO meeting in Tokya three weeks ago.

4:37 We're going to give a license to you to make patriots. That's pretty cool. Right this way, you can't complain that we're not giving them enough. Make them yourself.

4:46 This weekend, speaking to journalists at the White House, Trump said that it had not been decided whether Ukraine would be given the ability to make their own patriot air defense systems and missiles.

4:58 You have to be very judicious, but you have to be very careful. Now we have not agree to there. We're talking about it. But it's a hard thing to give away that kind of technology. And I don't think this would ever happen. But you know, those people that you give that technology, they can some day turn on you.

5:18 You know that is possible.

5:20 Hungary's only nuclear power plant is preparing to shut down because the low water level in the Danube River is affecting its ability to cool properly. The Pax Nuclear plant produces half of Hungary's electricity, and since it was opened in nineteen eighty two, this is the first time that it has ever had to shut down because of a lack of water in the Danube. FIFA, the world's football governing body, has abandoned a controversial plan to partially privatize itself and its football tournaments after UEFA, the European football governing body, and many other football associations around the world rejected the idea. There have been many calls for President Jianni Infantino to resign Asia. In Nepal, a curfew has

6:15 been imposed in the Sidaha district because of sectarian violence. Reuters has reported that violence started between Hindus and Muslims during overlapping festivals. In Palestine, doctors at the Al Aksa Martyr's Hospital in Gaza say that an Israeli air strike hit a warehouse containing medical supplies. Health officials also said that two Palestinians were killed in Gaza City in an air strike. Israel's military said that it had targeted Hamas militants.

6:51 Americas In Peru, former president Jante Umala has been released from prison after the Constitutional Court overturned his conviction. Umala was president from twenty eleven to twenty sixteen, but last year he and his wife were found guilty of money laundering for receiving illegal campaign finance from a Brazilian construction company during his successful presidential campaign in twenty eleven. The Constitutional Court said yesterday that receiving campaign finance was not money laundering. Also in Peru, a small tourist aeroplane has crashed, killing thirteen people, including seven Italians, two Germans and two Spanish people. The plane was being used to see the NASCAR lines, giant pictures created by people around two thousand

7:44 years ago that are only visible from the air. In the United States, the e commerce company eBay and three of its former executives have agreed to pay fifty six million dollars in damages to a couple who were harassed by former employees of eBay around twenty nineteen. Seven. Former employees of eBay have admitted to harassing Ina and David Steiner because the Steiners wrote critical articles about eBay on a website about online trading. The eBay employees sent packages to the Steiners, including with live cockroaches, maggarts, and a pig fetus, and the Steiners also received threatening letters, phone calls and messages. And in space, a rocket is going to accidentally hit the Moon on Wednesday. The SpaceX rocket

8:42 launched two lunar landers last year, and this will be only the second time that a used rocket will accidentally hit the Moon, after a Chinese rocket did the same in twenty twenty two. Some scientists and stargazers are expected to try to watch the moment of impact on Wednesday. That's your world news. In seven minutes on Wednesday, you will be with Juliette Martin. Have a great day.