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00:00Thousands gather across Slovakia to protest against what they call the pro-Russian policies

00:06of Prime Minister Robert Fico.

00:11International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi warns attacks around the Zaporizhia

00:16nuclear power plant have increased.

00:21Thousands of students block traffic in Athens in protest against what they say delays to

00:26the probe into the Tembi rail crash.

00:32Thousands of people have gathered across Slovakia to protest against what they say the pro-Russian

00:37policies of Prime Minister Robert Fico.

00:40The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico's recent trip to Moscow to meet Vladimir

00:45Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

00:52Fico's recent remarks that Slovakia's foreign policy could involve leaving the European

00:56Union and NATO has contributed to the unrest.

00:59The latest rallies took place in 41 locations in Slovakia, up from 28 two weeks ago.

01:06Fico is a divisive figure in Slovakia and has escalated tensions by accusing protest

01:11organizers of working with foreigners to engineer a coup.

01:15Fico's views on Russia have largely differed from the European mainstream.

01:20He ended Slovakia's military aid for Ukraine, criticized European Union sanctions on Russia

01:25and vowed to block Ukraine from joining NATO.

01:35The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has said attacks around the Zaporizhia

01:39nuclear power plant have increased.

01:43Rafael Grossi made the remarks in Moscow after talks with the chief of Russia's state-owned

01:47nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom.

01:50Grossi is in Moscow to discuss security at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.

01:57Russian forces took control of Zaporizhia in the early weeks following the 2022 invasion

02:02of Ukraine.

02:04In a statement, Rosatom said Ukraine was constantly shelling Enehodar, the closest town to the

02:09plant.

02:11But Grossi said it wasn't possible to determine which side was responsible for the strikes.

02:18Rosatom also emphasized the increasing risks for nuclear security at the Kursk nuclear

02:23power plant.

02:25Ukrainian troops launched an incursion into Kursk in August last year, it says, to prevent

02:29Russian forces from launching strikes into Ukraine.

02:38Thousands of students and teachers have taken to the streets of Athens to demand justice

02:43for the 57 victims of the Tembi rail crash.

02:48The streets were also filled with placards made to look like tickets reading,

02:52Athens to Thessaloniki with no return.

03:07In a post on social media, the parents of the victims expressed their gratitude to the

03:11new generation.

03:40Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of

03:45Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity grid

03:50connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus and lean in more with their EU allies.

03:57The severing of electricity ties to oil and gas rich Russia is steeped in geopolitical

04:02and symbolic significance.

04:06This is the last remaining element of our reliance or dependence on the Russian energy

04:13system or Belarusian energy system.

04:15Stopped to buy any kind of energy resources from Russia and it was our response to the

04:24war in Ukraine which broke out in February 2022.

04:29EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and other dignitaries are expected for a ceremony on Sunday as a

04:35specially made nine meter tall clock in downtown Vilnius counts down the final seconds of the

04:41Baltic states electricity ties to Russia.

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