Latest news bulletin | December 9th, 2025 – Evening
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00:00Lithuania's government has declared a state of emergency over security risks posed by smuggler balloons from Belarus.
00:11US President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips to approved customers in China for a surcharge.
00:21The European Commission launched a probe into Google over its use of online content to power its AI services.
00:31European countries agreed on draft legislation that would introduce return hubs for migrants in a drive to speed up deportations.
00:42Lithuania's government has declared a state of emergency over security risks posed by smuggler balloons from Belarus that have violated its airspace in recent weeks.
00:51The balloons are used to smuggle cigarettes into Lithuania, but officials say they are deliberate acts of disruption orchestrated by Belarus.
01:01Tensions between Vilnius and Minsk have escalated after the balloons forced Lithuania to repeatedly close its main airport in the past weeks, leaving thousands of people stranded.
01:10Authorities also closed the Belarusian border for several weeks in late October due to the balloon threat.
01:19Announcing the state of emergency, the Lithuanian government cited national security interests and the threat to human life, property and the environment from the balloons.
01:28The government has asked Parliament to allow the military to work together with police, border guard and security officials during the state of emergency.
01:36It was not immediately clear how long the state of emergency would last.
01:41Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with Pope Leo XIV in Italy, ahead of meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
01:56At Castel Gandolfo, just outside Rome, Zelensky attended a half-hour audience with the pontiff on Tuesday morning.
02:03The Vatican said the Pope reiterated the quote, need to continue dialogue, in order to achieve a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
02:12During the meeting, the two also discussed prisoners of war and the return of abducted Ukrainian children to their families, the Holy See reported.
02:21Zelensky's trip to Rome follows visits to both London and Brussels, part of a broader push to rally more European support for his country.
02:29Speaking to European leaders, Zelensky reiterated his refusal to yield any territory to Russia.
02:38European officials expressed strong solidarity with Zelensky and backed the idea of pursuing further revisions to the US-authored peace plan.
02:46EU Economic Commissioner Valdis Dombrowski told EU News Morning Show Europe today that he disagreed with many elements in the US National Security Strategy,
03:01a US government document in which the bloc is presented as lacking confidence, pushing for censorship and drowning in illegal migration.
03:11It's clear that European Union is actually providing strength for members of the European Union, especially small countries, because in a current more conflictual power-based world, it's certainly you can seek strength in unity.
03:31His comments came after the US updated its national security strategy last week, suggesting that Europe must revert course or could see the demise of its civilization as a result of poor economic policies and suffocating regulation.
03:47Dombrowski said also that there are points on which the EU can agree with the US.
03:51According to the commissioner, the bloc needs to show more assertiveness when it comes to Russia and support for Ukraine.
04:03US President Donald Trump said he would allow Nvidia to sell H200 chips to approved customers in China for a surcharge.
04:11The tiny chips are used to power a range of electronic devices, from smartphones to medical equipment.
04:17They're also essential to artificial intelligence processing.
04:21The decision opens a major market for Nvidia despite concerns that China could use the advanced semiconductors for military purposes.
04:29A group of Democratic senators that objected the approval also pointed to the fact that DeepSeek, a major Chinese AI company, recently said the lack of access to American-designed chips was the biggest challenge when competing with US-based AI companies.
04:43The H200 is more powerful than the previous generation H20, but slightly less advanced than Nvidia's Blackwell chip.
04:54Back in April, Trump banned the sale of H20s to China due to national security concerns.
04:58The ban came despite the fact that the chip had been designed to comply with Biden-era export curbs.
05:06A few months later, the president reversed the decision after Nvidia agreed to pay 15% of its Chinese revenues to the US government.
05:13The European Commission launched a probe into Google over its use of online content to power its AI services.
05:25The investigation will examine whether Google used web publishers content to provide generative AI services on its search result pages without appropriate compensation and without giving them the option to refuse.
05:37It will also assess whether videos uploaded on YouTube are used to train Google's generative AI models.
05:44According to the tech giant, the complaint could hinder innovation in a market that is more competitive than ever.
05:51The decision comes days after the EU imposed a fine on Elon Musk's Social Network X for breaching its landmark Digital Services Act, further escalating transatlantic tensions.
06:03Since Trump returned to office in 2025, the EU and the US have been clashing over the bloc's enforcement of digital rules.
06:12Trump's administration accuses the EU of solely targeting US companies.
06:17However, the bloc says its legislation is non-discriminatory.
06:20European countries agreed on draft legislation on Monday that would introduce return hubs for migrants in a drive to speed up deportations.
06:33Under the proposal, member states could return asylum seekers to unrelated third countries outside the EU through bilateral agreements.
06:40The hubs can be a place of transit, a step before the individual is returned to their own country of order, or become a permanent location for those with no right to stay in the EU, provided they can ask for asylum in that country.
06:54We now have the legal framework so that the member states can make reception centers and other that sort of solutions with third countries that is extremely important in order for us to change the fundamental disabilities of the current asylum system.
07:12The ways we've been talking about for many years that it's malfunctioning and that we help the wrong people and we don't help the people actually in need and we can't control migration to Europe.
07:25That is an important step forward that we just have taken.
07:28Countries also agreed on the so-called migration solidarity pool for 2006.
07:36The EU's Asylum and Migration Management Regulation recommends that at least 30,000 people need to be relocated across the EU from countries under migrant pressure.
07:46But the bloc's Home Affairs ministers considered the needs to consist of just 21,000 people.
07:51Four countries, Czechia, Croatia, Austria, and Poland were granted a total exemption from contributions to relocations and financial contributions to the solidarity on migration.
08:06Civil society organizations have criticized the introduction of intern hubs as an inhumane practice that will increase abuses and overall human rights violations to war.
08:15The Greek firefighters traded their uniforms for festive red hats, bringing Christmas spirit to the children's hospital Agia Sophia in Athens, Greece.
08:28One firefighter dressed as Santa Claus was lowered from a crane, gliding down the building to deliver gifts to young cancer patients who are spending the holidays in Kiev.
08:38The parents and children watched from balconies and windows as the fire crews scaled the hospital's exterior, turning the facade into an unexpected stage of light, movement, and cheer.
08:49Every time when the hospital's home comes to us, it gives the money to the children with a very different way.
08:55We are fighting the strength of the children, because the children are the fighters of life, so we take the example of the children.
09:02And it's the only thing we can do.
09:04As Santa descended floor by floor, firefighters on the ground handed out presents, ringing bells and waving to the children, watching from the balconies.
09:13It is the only thing we can do in this way to give the children.
09:22The visit is part of an annual initiative by the Hellenic Fire Service which organizes similar actions in children's hospitals across Athens during the holiday season.
09:32European Council President Antonio Costa rejected any attempt at political interference in response to a controversial U.S. government document published last week criticizing Europe.
09:45The document released by the Trump administration called on Europe to change course and tighten immigration or face what they called civilizational erasure.
09:56It also noted that it will support, quote, like-minded patriotic parties across the continent to cultivate resistance.
10:03So, we have a difference in our vision of the world.
10:08But it goes beyond that.
10:10It's true that this strategy continues to talk about Europe as an ally.
10:18It's good.
10:19It's good.
10:20It's good.
10:21But if we are allies, we must act as an ally.
10:24And these allies don't threaten the interference in the political choice of these allies.
10:36We respect them.
10:38We respect the sovereignty of each other.
10:41And the other.
10:42Surement, several European countries don't share the same views that the Americans on the different issues.
10:50And it's natural that they don't share the same views that they have.
10:54What we can't accept is this threat of interference in the political life of Europe.
11:03The United States can't replace European citizens to choose the good and the bad parties.
11:12The United States can't replace Europe with the view we have of the freedom of expression.
11:20The 33-page document also argued that a combination of ill-designed economic policies, excessive regulation and illegal migration could lead to Europe's demise as a civilization.
11:32Washington says its goal is to help Europe change its current trajectory, as sentiment European lawmakers have slammed is unacceptable.
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