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00:00Europe must keep up the pressure on Russia, says the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
00:10Trump says all Afghans who arrived in the U.S. under the Biden administration will be re-examined after two National Guardsmen were shot near the White House.
00:21Firefighting and rescue missions continued into Thursday after a fire at a Hong Kong apartment complex killed at least 55 people.
00:30U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker has suggested that Germany should eventually take over the alliance's top military role, signaling a potential shift in American leadership.
00:41Europe must keep the pressure on Russia. The tone used on Wednesday by the president of the European Commission was determined.
00:50Speaking before the European Parliament, Ursula von der Leyen emphasized that Moscow's objective has not changed since the start of the invasion of Ukraine.
00:59Russia's playbook has not changed. From the start, Russia has always believed that they can outlast Ukraine, Europe and all of its allies.
01:10And it is why every time there is serious progress towards negotiations that can bring about a real peace, the violence escalates.
01:22We have seen this before. This is a pattern.
01:25And the noises from the Kremlin in the last few days say a lot about its real intentions.
01:32Europe has been working for several days to rebalance the 28-point peace plan initially proposed by the United States without consulting its allies.
01:41But the European effort has confirmed one essential idea.
01:45One principle has been accepted. Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine. Nothing about Europe without Europe. Nothing about NATO without NATO.
01:57To provide financial support to Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen reminded the House that he had proposed three options and made no secret of her preference for the reparation loan,
02:07which involves using frozen Russian assets valued at 210 billion euros in the EU.
02:13Two U.S. National Guard troops were shot and critically injured in Washington, D.C. late on Wednesday, roughly two blocks from the White House, in what officials say was a targeted attack.
02:29The soldiers were deployed by U.S. President Donald Trump as he mobilized Guard troops from the state of West Virginia.
02:37Authorities have apprehended a 29-year-old Afghan national who arrived to the U.S. in September 2021 under former President Joe Biden.
02:46In fiery remarks, Trump said all Afghans who entered the country under the Biden administration will be re-examined and potentially removed,
02:55with the same applying to foreigners whom he said do not belong in the U.S.
03:00We're not going to put up with these kind of assaults on law and order by people who shouldn't even be in our country.
03:07We must now re-examine every single alien who has entered our country from Afghanistan under Biden.
03:15And we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.
03:25If they can't love our country, we don't want them.
03:28America will never bend and never yield in the face of terror.
03:33Trump announced that he had ordered Defense Secretary Pete Hexat to deploy an additional 500 National Guardsmen to Washington to bolster security.
03:43There are currently around 2,200 National Guard troops deployed to the U.S. Capitol from several states.
03:49Trump has vowed to further crackdown on immigration following this incident, which he described as, quote,
03:56the single greatest national security threat.
03:58Firefighters are battling one of Hong Kong's deadliest modern blazes for a second day on Thursday,
04:10fighting to control the fire that blackened several high-rise towers and killed at least 55 people.
04:16The fire that started on Wednesday afternoon had spread across seven of the complex's eight buildings.
04:24The city's fire services said that the blazes in four of the towers were under control by Thursday morning.
04:31700 people were evacuated from the buildings, but hundreds remained missing on Thursday morning
04:37as firefighters continued rescue efforts.
04:39Did you continue to leave to the house?
04:41There was one of the first time I called him to leave, so he was going to leave.
04:45But the stairs are all in the rain, so he can't leave, so he can't see, so he's going to leave.
04:50I was not in the house, I was able to send a home to my house, so I was able to go to the house.
04:55And then I was able to hear the居民 say that he didn't hear the alarm.
04:59Authorities suspected some materials on the exterior walls of the high-rise buildings
05:05did not meet fire-resistant standards, allowing the unusually fast spread of the fire.
05:11Three men, the directors and an engineering consultant of a construction company,
05:15were arrested in connection with the fires and are being investigated for manslaughter.
05:22U.S. Ambassador to NATO Matthew Withaker has suggested that Germany should eventually take over
05:27the alliance's top military role, signalling a potential shift in American leadership.
05:32Withaker said he looks forward to the day Germany says it's ready to take over
05:36the supreme-allied commander position, known as SACUR.
05:41He acknowledged this is a long-term aspirational goal, but emphasized that Washington wants
05:46European military capabilities to equal those of the U.S.
05:50Traditionally, the SACUR role has always been held by a U.S. general commanding both NATO forces
05:56and American troops in Europe. However, a German expert told Euronews that a European commander
06:02would no longer have authority over U.S. troops, complicating the dual-headed nature of the role.
06:08Withaker's comment comes amid fears of a U.S. retreat from European security,
06:13highlighted by a proposed peace plan for Ukraine that is seen as yet another sign of Washington
06:18stepping back from its leadership role in NATO.
06:26Over 18,700 Russians, Moldovans and Ukrainians have been granted fictitious residences in Romania,
06:34according to the prosecutor's office. Among them are Russians suspected of having been army officers
06:41or of having business connections to the Kremlin.
06:57In the most serious case, fictitious residences in the names of 10,000 citizens from Russia, Ukraine,
07:04and Moldova were discovered in a city in Romania's northeast last November.
07:10To obtain a Romanian identity document of foreigner needs, a citizenship certificate
07:15issued by the National Citizenship Authority and a birth certificate translated into Romanian,
07:20or a marriage certificate. Procedures for the latter were also carried out in Bucharest.
07:25Foreign citizens often never even arrived in Romania, according to sources involved in the investigation.
07:40They received their identity cards through intermediaries.
07:43Several officials and even former employees of the Ministry of the Interior are under investigation
07:49or have been brought to trial for allowing citizens of Russia, Ukraine, and Moldova
07:53to obtain Romanian identity documents that gave them access to the Schengen area.
08:01EU migration policies are failing to protect children and are worsening the harm they face
08:06along routes from Sudan to Europe, according to a report published on Wednesday by the NGO Save the Children.
08:13The report forecast on routes between Sudan and Egypt, Libya and Greece, as well as on the Balkans routes.
08:19The organization reported that all minors interviewed in Libya experienced severe violence, sexual exploitation, extortion, and long-term detention.
08:27In Greece, children reported that they were forced to sail boats in Libya to then being prosecuted as traffickers by Greek authorities.
08:34Similar situations were found in the Western Balkans, where one in five refugees and migrants hurt by the organization
08:41experienced violent illegal push-backs by border police.
08:45The NGO said the EU's increase in border management and anti-smuggling support for third countries,
08:50while shutting humanitarian budgets increases these risks for children.
08:54France's top court has rejected former French President Nicolas Sarkozy's last appeal in the Bigmalian case,
09:13making a final ruling on his sentence for the illegal financing of his failed 2012 presidential campaign.
09:21But even though a six-month prison sentence has been confirmed, the former president is unlikely to go back to jail.
09:29Instead, it's more likely that he will serve the sentence under some sort of partial house arrest or with an electronic bracelet,
09:37and that will be up to the judge to decide in the coming weeks.
09:42But this ruling adds to Sarkozy's long list of legal battles.
09:47In September, he was found guilty of criminal conspiracy for allowing his campaign managers
09:52to seek illegal funding from the late Libyan dictator Gaddafi for his 2007 presidential campaign.
10:01This marked the first time in French modern history that a former head of state actually went to prison.
10:08But after three weeks, he was released and is now preparing to appeal this case next year.
10:15But this is not the first time that the top court has rejected Sarkozy's last appeal.
10:21In a separate case in December last year, the court made his conviction final for trying to bribe a judge in exchange for information.
10:29Subsequently, Sarkozy had to wear an electronic bracelet from February to May of this year.
10:37And for now, his legal battles show no signs of slowing down, keeping the former president firmly in the spotlight.
10:49A Turkish-German family of four who died while on holiday in Istanbul were likely killed from phosphine gas from a pesticide.
10:57According to a preliminary autopsy report, it had been used to treat a bug infestation in their hotel and was found in various parts of the hotel room.
11:09The Sarkozy family went to hospital on the 12th of November with vomiting and nausea and were discharged after receiving treatment.
11:17But the next day, they fell ill again and their condition was treated as an emergency.
11:22The children aged six and three died that day, while the mother died on November 14th and their father died on the 17th.
11:31Two other tourists also staying at the hotel were hospitalized and the hotel has been closed.
11:37Two other tourists boil.
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