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00:00The European Parliament will kick off the hearings of the commissioners-designate on

00:06Monday.

00:07During this type of interview, commissioners answer both written and oral questions from

00:13MEPs to demonstrate their expertise, commitment to Europe and integrity.

00:18Over the next weeks, every commissioner-designate will go through a hearing, that is three hours

00:32where the commissioner-designate will have 15 minutes to expose their program for the

00:37commission, then they will have questions from the different committees and he can answer

00:41the questions and there will be a debate on these issues.

00:44Then there will be an evaluation by the chairs of the committees and the presidents of the

00:48different groups and they will decide if they accept or reject the commissioner.

00:54If a commissioner-designate is rejected, their role may be adapted or another name from the

01:00same country must be proposed and the procedure must start over.

01:04In 2019, the Hungarian conservative László Troskányi and the Romanian socialist Rovanna

01:10Plum were rejected.

01:12The MEPs also rejected the candidacy of French Sylvie Goulart because of doubts about her

01:18integrity and independence.

01:20This time, it is the Patriots for Europe and European conservative and reformist candidates

01:25who are most at risk.

01:27There is the Italian candidate Raffaele Fito that has been criticized, you know, I don't

01:33think so much to be honest for, you know, his persona, but for his party because he

01:39comes from the far-right party of Miloni in Italy.

01:44Another candidate that had been discussed a lot as, you know, maybe facing troubles

01:49also for political reasons is the Hungarian commissioner that is actually right now already

01:55the commissioner and that wants to stay on for a second term, Olivia Vahely.

02:00The hearing of the commissioner-designate is a deeply political process.

02:05According to the researcher, political groups are not hesitant to retaliate against one

02:10another.

02:11It might also be that everybody is a bit more mild towards each other because they want

02:17to prevent the tit-for-tat and so they kind of carefully, you know, avoid too tough questioning

02:23to not, you know, to not endanger their own candidates by being too tough on the candidates

02:29of the other parties.

02:31Roussac also anticipates that the toughest questions will come from the Greens and the

02:36left as they have no candidates and therefore have nothing to lose.

02:47Moldova's pro-Western president Maja Sandu has won a second term in a pivotal presidential

02:52run-off on Sunday.

02:54Sandu took more than 55% of the vote in an election overshadowed by claims of interference.

03:01Moldova was under an unprecedented attack for the history of the whole of Europe.

03:06Dirty money, illegal voting, involvement in the electoral processes of hostile forces

03:14from outside the country and of criminal groups, lies, the inducing of hatred and fear in our society.

03:23Our people have united and the freedom and the citizens have won.

03:29Sandu's challenger was the Russia-friendly former Prosecutor General Alexander Stoyanoglou

03:34who finished well behind her with just under 45%.

03:38Moldovan police said on Sunday they had reasonable evidence of organized transportation of voters

03:44illegal under the country's electoral code to polling stations.

03:49And the foreign ministry said polling stations in Germany and the UK had been targeted by

03:53false bomb threats intended to stop the voting process.

03:57In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moldova applied to join the European Union.

04:04It was granted candidate status in June of that year and in summer this year, Brussels

04:08agreed to start membership negotiations.

04:11The shift to the West annoyed Moscow, but it denies meddling in the election.

04:214,000 additional soldiers from Madrid and other parts of Spain arrived to support rescue

04:26teams in their search for missing people as they drained water and mud from underground

04:31parking garages across Valencia.

04:33It seems that someone saw people enter but didn't see them leave.

04:36So, at this moment, we don't know.

04:38And until we get down and can check, we won't know for sure.

04:41The fact is that the water entered with so much violence that it dragged everything,

04:46dragged everything to the bottom.

04:48214 bodies have so far been recovered, mostly in the eastern Valencia region as tsunami-like

04:55floods swept across the region last week.

04:58A wave of volunteers took to the streets and joined the clean-up efforts.

05:03But with more heavy rain expected to hit the region, a warning was sent out requesting

05:08people to stay at home and off the roads.

05:13The government is under scrutiny for the delayed response, warning people about the severity

05:17of the floods.

05:18With no time to react, many were already on the road, working or in underground garages

05:23when the flash floods hit.

05:31A crowd of angry residents threw mud at King Felipe and Queen Letizia, as well as government

05:36officials who were visiting the city of Paiporta on the outskirts of Valencia, one of the most

05:41heavily impacted areas by last week's deadly floods.

05:46Security officials were quick to open umbrellas to offer protection from the flying mud, while

05:51in the background people were screaming insults.

05:55The devastating floods, which killed at least 214 people, claimed the lives of at least

06:0060 people in Paiporta.

06:03Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was the first to leave the scene, with Valencian President

06:08Carlos Mazón following shortly after.

06:12The King and the Queen stayed behind and the monarch was determined to hear out what people

06:16had to say, and after approximately half an hour of tension, they were escorted away

06:21by police officers.

06:23The pair were expected to travel to Chiva next, another heavily impacted town near the

06:27city of Valencia, but this trip was allegedly postponed.

06:36Protesters in Belgrade have demanded the arrest of officials just days after a concrete canopy

06:41collapsed at a railway station, killing 14 people and injuring three.

06:46Police formed a cordon outside the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure as several

06:50thousand people called for ranking government ministers, including the prime minister, to

06:54step down.

07:05The concrete canopy that ran along the front of the railway station in the northern city

07:09of Novi Sad collapsed suddenly on Friday.

07:12Fourteen people were killed, including a six-year-old girl.

07:16The three injured, who were between 18 and 24 years old, all had to have limbs amputated.

07:22The train station has been renovated twice in recent years, and critics of Serbia's government

07:26attributed the disaster to rampant corruption, lack of transparency and sloppy renovations.

07:33Serbia's government has promised a thorough investigation, with prosecutors saying they've

07:37already questioned more than two dozen people.

07:40But critics believe that justice is unlikely to be served with the government in control

07:44of the judicial system and the police.

07:51It's been a busy Sunday for the two main contenders in the US presidential race, with less than

07:5624 hours to go until polling day on Tuesday.

07:59Both Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump held campaign events in key swing

08:04states, battleground areas widely expected to decide the outcome of the election.

08:09In Michigan, Harris vowed to turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and

08:14division.

08:15She described Tuesday as one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime and expressed confidence

08:21that she would win the race for the White House.

08:35We are not going back, because ours is a fight for the future.

08:41Trump, meanwhile, spoke confidently of an election victory at his rally in North Carolina.

08:46We have a big, a beautiful lead.

08:49All we have to do, Mike, all we have to do is go out on Tuesday and vote, vote, vote.

08:58Poll trackers, however, suggest that Trump and Harris remain neck and neck in North Carolina

09:02as well as in six other swing states.

09:05At a rally earlier in the day in Pennsylvania, Trump resorted to familiar unsubstantiated

09:10claims of vote rigging, claiming that fraud was already underway in the state.

09:15With less than 24 hours to go until election day, the race remains tight.

09:19But over the past few days, the mood has been shifting in favor of Kamala Harris.

09:24And here's why.

09:25Late deciders seem to be breaking in her favor, and a stunning poll from Iowa, with her in

09:30the lead, seems to be suggesting that she's a stronger force in the Midwest than expected.

09:36The main reason for the late mood swing, though, is her Republican opponent.

09:41Donald Trump's rhetoric has become increasingly erratic and violent, going after his political

09:46opponents with a vulgarity that is noticeable even by his standards.

09:51For the Harris campaign, that's a gift that keeps on giving, an advent calendar of insults

09:56of women in particular.

09:58And you can feel that voters are noticing, at last.

10:02With one more day of campaigning to go, we might be in for a surprise outcome.

10:08Stefan Grobe, Euronews, Washington.

10:15With the US presidential election just a day away, polls show a tight race between Donald

10:20Trump and Kamala Harris.

10:22Euronews Persians spoke with Iranians in Tehran to find out which candidate they hope will

10:27enter the White House.

10:57Iranians speak with Iranians in Tehran to find out which candidate will enter the White

11:03House.

11:27While these concerns are specific to Iran, they also resonate with international and

11:39European perspectives.

11:42And given reports of a very tight race, it could take days before the final result is

11:47announced.

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