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00:00The conclave has not yet made a decision. We saw black smoke coming out of the chimney on the roof of the Sistine Chapel.
00:08We know that it means that a new pope has not yet been chosen, but that also means that cardinals will continue voting.
00:18Starting Thursday, they will hold full ballots a day, two in the morning, two in the evening,
00:22until they reach a two-thirds majority agreement on who to elect.
00:29A few likely candidates have been mentioned in the past few hours, including the Italian Cardinal Parolin,
00:36who's seen as someone who's able to unite a very divided electorate,
00:41but also Cardinal Tagle of the Philippines, who's been dubbed the Asian Francis.
00:46But regardless of that, we know that the next pope should be mainly a pastor,
00:51someone who's able to bring people together.
00:54This is something that Cardinal Rey, who held a mass before the first vote, also mentioned.
01:02He said, quote, that the next pope should awaken awareness.
01:07How long will it take? Well, it's hard to say.
01:10This is the most international conclave of all times.
01:14We know that the overall number of cardinals has increased,
01:17increased, and that could make the whole voting process much slower.
01:24The atmosphere here is charged with anticipation.
01:28Some 1.4 billion Catholics, including the faithful who have gathered here
01:34from all corners of the world, simply cannot wait for the white smoke
01:39and to find out who their next leader will be.
01:43George Orlandi for Euronews and the Vatican.
01:51After demonstrating against the government for six months,
01:55the student movement in Serbia is now demanding early parliamentary elections.
02:00The pressure over the deadly awning collapse at a train station in Novi Sad
02:04already caused a series of arrests.
02:08Students now say that the voice of youth is not just noise,
02:12but a force that can initiate changes.
02:14Serbian opposition says that in the last few months,
02:32the ruling coalition has lost its legitimacy to lead the country.
02:37The green-left front says that it can provide support to students
02:41because they have the same goal,
02:44the revival of institutions and the democratization of society.
02:49I think that the overall demands for the foreign parliamentary elections
02:54and the demands for the progressive government are the same.
02:58I think that the goal is to first to vote SNS,
03:01and then, after that, with a clear majority,
03:05we will go to a better society and to a better election conditions.
03:09SPS Party MP Ugleše Marković, who is part of the ruling coalition,
03:18said the current parliamentary majority is stable.
03:23He believes the way to improve society is not through the polling stations,
03:27but through political dialogue.
03:29The vast majority of liberal opposition parties in Serbia
03:50supported the call of student protesters for SNAP elections.
03:54But whether or not they will happen is yet to be seen.
04:00Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Wednesday
04:03for a four-day visit ahead of Friday's Second World War Victory Day events.
04:08President Vladimir Putin called Xi Jinping his main guest
04:10with talks planned on trade, energy, BRICS and their strategic partnership.
04:14Brazil's President Luis Ignacio Lula de Silva also arrived in Moscow on Wednesday,
04:20his first official visit since Russia's full-blown invasion of Ukraine.
04:25On the same day, Putin also welcomed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
04:30The pair signed bilateral agreements which included cooperation on arms control
04:35and strengthening the global nuclear non-proliferation regime,
04:39according to state-owned Russian news agency TASS.
04:41Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel is also on the guest list.
04:50Meanwhile, Serbian President Aleksandr Vucic faced travel disruption en route to the parade,
04:56with Baltic states reportedly denying airspace access.
05:01On Wednesday, Vucic's plane landed unplanned in Baku
05:05due to Russian airspace restrictions near Moscow, possibly over drone concerns.
05:09His plane later received clearance and continued to Moscow from Baku.
05:17Slovak Prime Minister Robert Ficot reportedly experienced similar airspace difficulties.
05:22They may be small and seemingly harmless, but emojis can carry more weight than you might guess,
05:35sometimes acting like digital social hand grenades.
05:39While some might see an emoji as friendly or funny,
05:44another might find it confusing or even offensive.
05:46To explore this further, passers-by in Reykjavík were asked to interpret a selection of emojis.
05:56Some found certain emojis joyful, while others thought it expressed sadness.
06:01What do you think about this?
06:02What's the name of the story?
06:04What's the story about this?
06:08What's the story about this one?
06:09Eða þreyttur eða eitthvað svoleiðis?
06:12Ég myndi þess að skjóta og þetta væri fallin frá.
06:16Nei já, þetta er, þannig nota ég mjög mikið, þetta er oft þú veist,
06:21þetta er mjög þú veist, þetta er eins og hlátukallin nema bara hann er döður.
06:27Þetta kefur svolítið í skeinu og hafur dáið og hlátur í hann.
06:31Þessi er svolítið leiður.
06:35Fyndið.
06:36En þessi?
06:37Þetta er eitthvað sem er umurlögt eða döðið.
06:40Even the classic smiley face isn't always a safe territory.
06:46The degree of a smile and the shape of the emoji's mouth can send subtly different signals.
06:52The exercise showed that in the world of digital communication,
06:56meaning isn't fixed and that even the simplest symbols can speak volumes.
07:01Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya
07:09have been given a choice of paying a fine of around 6,700 euros
07:14or served 12 months in prison.
07:17Nineteen-year-old Lornoi David and Seppe Lodevegs
07:20were charged with violating wildlife conservation laws.
07:24Their lawyer described the sentencing as fair
07:27and said her clients would not appeal.
07:30Being young, it's a story they'll keep telling even their other generations.
07:35And when they come to Kenya, when other kids come to Kenya,
07:38they'll have reference to this.
07:40So it's good jurisprudence, it's good precedent.
07:43Authorities said the ants were destined for European and Asian markets
07:48in an emerging trend of trafficking lesser-known wildlife species.
07:53The ants are bought by people who keep them as pets
07:56and observe them in their colonies.
07:58Several websites in Europe have listed different species of ants
08:01for sale at varied prices.
08:13Another one is the main place in the world.
08:16An empty house of corporations.
08:18C'est un grand bâtiment en forme de caprice des dieux.
08:21Vu du dessus ?
08:21Ah oui, je viens d'à même le sol là.
08:23Pour qu'il y ait une histoire, il faut qu'il y ait du conflit.
08:38Des gens veulent la même chose, ils se battent.
08:40However, Europe, for historical reasons, is built at the end of the conflict.
08:46The European institutions have been created to make a compromise,
08:49which is a weakness of the European Union,
08:52that is, its complexity, several institutions,
08:55many political parties, different nationalities,
09:00everything is made in 24 languages, on a long tone.
09:03This complexity, which is a weakness of the European Union,
09:07when we want to make it understand,
09:08all of a sudden, it will become a force,
09:11because the complexity is always a good vector of comedy.
09:15The Act 45, naturellement, the Act 13,
09:18is not initially held on the paragraph 13.
09:20Oui, oui.
09:29Noé Debré, he had this feeling that there was a story to raconter.
09:33I, who has been working for the European Union,
09:36I know the sides of the European countries,
09:39that is, the coups-bats, the tractations,
09:42the conflicts there can be between deputies, between Etats-members.
09:45And so, our job as a scenarist,
09:47it was to make up to the surface the conflict that the public never sees,
09:53but which is well in the European institutions,
09:55and to make a matter of fiction.
09:57Noé, me and my co-auteurs are very influenced by this vein of American and English fiction.
10:11In the Anglo-Saxon world, it's much more accepted that we can laugh in a human way,
10:17not just through the farce, but that we can laugh from politics.
10:21New friends, so happy. What a day, huh?
10:23Could you give me back my dear?
10:25Just?
10:27I'm not trying to kill my mother, that's it.
10:29I've come with special instructions from Ingeborg for the presentation.
10:31What are you doing?
10:33I'm just giving the special instructions for Icon.
10:35Ingeborg, see to get what she wants.
10:37It's very, very hard to make it laugh at the time of Trump.
10:43First of all, because he's more burlesque than we could imagine.
10:47And I'm just giving the special instructions for Icon.
10:49Ingeborg, see to get what she wants.
10:51It's very hard to make it laugh at the time of Trump.
10:56First of all, because he's more burlesque than what we can imagine.
10:59And I feel like in series and in politics, there are cycles.
11:02When the reality is too absurd,
11:05all of a sudden, we want to take a look at series that speak serious.
11:09And when the reality is too serious,
11:11we want to look at fiction something more burlesque and light.
11:15I feel like in Parliament,
11:17we're more on the side of the comedy than of the satire,
11:20because we have a lot of tenderness for our characters.
11:23There are few characters that we don't really save.
11:25Of course, we don't try to censor the European Union,
11:27because otherwise, people would not be interested in that.
11:29But we don't try to make a critique.
11:31We try to laugh with the European Union,
11:34not to laugh with them, but to laugh with them.
11:37I'll see you later.
11:39That's the most wonderful day.
11:40It's not really great for him.
11:41It's just the usable and upbeat.
11:42That's myqiue.
11:43I'll see you later.
11:44But if we have a look at all of the scenes,
11:46it's a big deal.
11:47It can be a хотел.
11:48I'll see you later later.
11:50It's a little bit.
11:51It's a big deal.
11:52It's just a bit.
11:53It's a big deal.
11:54Here's thefold.
11:55It's a big deal.
11:56That's why...
11:57It's a big deal.
11:58It's a big deal.
11:59It's a big deal.
12:00It's a big deal.
12:01It's a big deal.
12:02I can't even for some of the people
12:03I can give a little bit.