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00:00Spain has announced three days of mourning following a train collision in Adamus, in which at least 40 people have died.
00:10All diplomatic solutions must be used to avoid a trade war with the US, but limits must also be set, warned MEP Brando Benefei on Euronews.
00:21US President Donald Trump links the dispute with Europe over Greenland to not getting the Nobel Peace Prize.
00:31China's birth rate plunged to its lowest level on record last year, leading to a shrinking population for a fourth straight year.
00:40Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez vows to uncover the truth after 40 people were killed in a train collision, while also announcing three days of national mourning.
00:53One day after Sunday's tragic accident, Sánchez, accompanied by the Minister of Transport, Oscar Puente, paid a visit to the site of the crash in Adamus, Córdoba.
01:05Meanwhile, the regional president of Andalusia explained the difficulties rescuers were facing.
01:12The difficulty is that the heavy equipment that we were expecting has difficult encaixes to be able to work and be able to work those vehicles so that they can work those vehicles.
01:21In an animation, we can see how the back of one of the trains on a straight stretch of the track, which had been released on the road.
01:51Transport Minister Puente has been renovated in May 2025, derailed and collided with another oncoming train.
01:59Transport Minister Puente has described the incident as tremendously strange.
02:05As the death toll could rise, 48 people, including five children, remain in hospital, according to officials.
02:18All diplomatic solutions must be used to avoid a trade war, but limits must also be set.
02:24This is the warning issued by MEP Brondo-Benifei in an interview on Euronews show Europe Today.
02:31U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Saturday to impose new tariffs on eight European countries that don't support his plans to annex Greenland.
02:39After an emergency ambassador's meeting in Brussels on Sunday, several sources told Euronews that member states are prioritizing diplomacy and dialogue with Washington.
02:51But the Italian MEP insisted there should be a clear deadline.
02:54Well, I think that any tentative to still have a diplomatic solution must be used until the very end.
03:03But there must be an end.
03:05The problem of Europe is that this end of the tentative to find a diplomatic solution sometimes seems to never end.
03:13And this is profited by, in this case, the U.S. who think we are not credible, we are not serious about the possible consequences.
03:23So I think we need to be clear that there would be very bad consequences for the U.S. economy if Trump administration goes in that direction.
03:33One of those measures could be the anti-coercion instrument, a tool adopted in 2023 that has so far never been used.
03:41This would allow the bloc to punish unfriendly countries for economic blackmail.
03:47However, Benifay said he expects U.S. counterparts to intervene to work with the EU as allies.
03:55U.S. President Donald Trump told Norway's prime minister he no longer needed to think purely of peace after failing to win the Nobel Peace Prize in a message published on Monday.
04:07The authenticity of the message was confirmed by an unnamed diplomat in several media reports on Monday.
04:36The U.S. President has long coveted the annual peace prize decided by the Norwegian Nobel Committee and not the government.
04:45Last week, Venezuela's opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, gifted her Nobel Peace Prize medal to Trump at the White House.
04:54Ahead of Machado's visit to Washington, the Norwegian Nobel Institute organizers of the prize said in a statement that a peace prize cannot be withdrawn, transferred or shared once it has been announced.
05:08Trump has often boasted about ending eight wars, styling himself as the president of peace and therefore deserving of the Nobel honor, but those claims have been largely exaggerated.
05:20Russian President Vladimir Putin has been invited to join U.S. President Trump's Gaza Board of Peace, the Kremlin announced on Monday.
05:35At least 60 countries have been invited to join the board by the White House for a price of $1 billion each, intended to help Gaza's rebuild.
05:46While some world leaders have accepted, many say they need to understand what membership entails.
05:52Yes, indeed, President Putin has also received the invitation from the diplomatic channel to join U.S. President of the World Committee.
06:03At the moment, we're looking at all the details of this proposal, in particular, we hope to contact with the U.S. President of the U.S. President of the U.S. President of the United States.
06:11In this stage, we can confirm the receipt of the invitation. The President is in close contact with the U.S. leaders on all geopolitical matters and discussions will continue on this topic.
06:32Meanwhile, the new committee has been objected to by Israel, which says it goes against Israeli policy.
06:39The official list of participants is expected to be announced by the U.S. in the coming days.
06:58On Friday, Trump announced the first appointments to the board, including himself as chair, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
07:09Portugal's far-right presidential candidate André Ventura placed second in the country's presidential election on Sunday, securing a place in a run-off next month against center-left Socialist Party candidate Antonio José Segura.
07:27Ventura's strong showing was another milestone in Europe's shift to the far-right as populist parties have gained a hold-on or edge closer to levels of power in recent years.
07:41With almost all votes counted, Segura secured around 31% of the voting share, while André Ventura, leader of the Chega Party, captured 24%.
07:52The two will face off in the second-round ballot between the two top candidates on 8th February.
07:59It was the best result for a Socialist candidate since 2001.
08:03Nine other candidates ran in what was the most hotly contested presidential election ever in Portugal, but none came close to the 50% required for a first-round victory.
08:16The winner will replace President Marcelo Rebello de Souza, who has served the maximum limit of two-year-five terms.
08:24China's birth rate plunged to its lowest level on record last year, official data showed on Monday, leading to a shrinking population for a fourth straight year despite efforts to curb the decline.
08:41The total population in 2025 stood at around 1.4 billion, 3 million less than the previous year.
08:48The country is threatened with a demographic crisis after its birth rate halved over the past decade, despite the end of the restrictive one-child policy.
08:59Marriage rates are also at a record low, with many young Chinese couples put off from having babies by high child-rearing costs and career concerns.
09:09Authorities have attempted to address the issue with a raft of measures, such as child care subsidies, free public kindergartens and increased taxes on contraception.
09:18Young people in China have largely shrugged off these measures, saying they are not enough to address the problem.
09:29Sentimental Value
09:30A drama about an aging filmmaker and his estranged actor daughter was the talk of the night at this year's European Film Awards.
09:38It was closely followed by Surat, an existential road trip which tells the story of a father willing to venture into the Moroccan desert to find his daughter.
09:50The award for best European documentary went to Igor Besinovich's Film O Morte, in which the Croatian filmmaker asked his local town to reenact their 16-month occupation at the hands of the dandy proto-fascist Gabriel Danuzio in 1919.
10:13And the 90th is 555.
10:15Joaquin Trier's sentimental value has swept the board here in Berlin for the European Film Awards, winning the coveted Best European Film and several other prizes, including Acting Awards, Best Director and Best Screenplay.
10:29The film now cements itself as the Europe's frontrunner for the Oscars come March.
10:35Elsewhere, Olivia Lachis Sirat has won several awards, and the main surprise of the evening is Jafar Panahi's Palmya Dorr winner It Was Just An Accident, going home empty-handed.
10:46The Iranian filmmaker did take to the stage to open the ceremony tonight in Berlin, delivering a politically charged speech in which he denounces the atrocities committed in Iran.
10:56He said, silence in times of darkness is not neutrality, silence is participation in darkness.
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