00:00The European Parliament has voted to refer the EU Mercosur Trade Agreement to the EU
00:05Court of Justice, a move which could significantly delay or even derail the deal.
00:10The U.S. is seeking immediate negotiations to acquire Greenland, where Washington plans
00:14to build a Golden Dome to protect it from potential enemies, Trump said in Davos.
00:21U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he would not impose tariffs on 80 European
00:25nations, citing progress and talks on Greenland.
00:30Europol says it busted a major synthetic drug ring working across Europe, as its forces
00:35dismantled industrial-scale labs, seized chemicals and made arrests.
00:41The European Parliament has voted to refer the EU Mercosur Trade Agreement to the EU Court
00:46of Justice on Wednesday.
00:48The move significantly delays the deal and could even potentially derail its final approval.
00:53The vote, as expected, was tight, with 334 MEPs voting in favor of the referral, 324 against,
01:02and 11 abstaining from the vote.
01:04The European Commission could still provisionally apply the deal, provided the move was endorsed
01:09by Member States.
01:11It would be the first time if the Commission decides to apply for a provisional application
01:19of this agreement, knowing that it comes just a few hours after the vote against an application
01:28short-term of the Mercosur Agreement by the Parliament.
01:32That would be very difficult to accept from the Parliament's perspective that the Commission
01:38does such a move.
01:40They have the right to do so, but politically speaking, that would be difficult to accept.
01:46The EU Mercosur Agreement was signed on the 17th of January and is set to create a free
01:51trade area of over 700 million people.
01:55It's controversial across Europe and several countries like France and Poland have steadfastly
01:59opposed it.
02:01The agreement's advocates consider it a major opportunity for European industries and a
02:05way to bolster the bloc's geostrategic position, especially at a time of constant clashes with
02:10their biggest and formerly most reliable partner, the United States.
02:15The referral to the top EU court suspends the approval procedure in the European Parliament,
02:20which was set for a final vote in the coming months.
02:23A court ruling could take more than a year to be issued, and in the interim, the deal's
02:28approval will be frozen.
02:34U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he would not impose tariffs on eight European
02:38nations scheduled to take effect on the 1st of February, citing progress in talks with
02:43NATO Secretary-General Mark Rydde on Greenland in Davos.
02:48Trump said the two leaders reached the framework of a future deal with respect to the Danish
02:52territory, adding that the potential agreement would benefit the U.S. and all NATO members.
02:57The deal is going to be put out pretty soon.
03:00We will see.
03:01It's right now a little bit in progress, but pretty far along.
03:05It gets us everything we need it to get.
03:09Trump offered few details on the contents of the deal and did not specify how it would affect
03:14his ambition to eventually acquire Greenland.
03:18President's ambition is intact.
03:20It is of course isolated positive, that there is said that we are not going to use military
03:27power.
03:28That of course you should take off.
03:30But it doesn't get the answer to that.
03:32It becomes very clear, that it is better to live than to live, and that Denmark doesn't
03:40want to pass on Greenland.
03:42So the challenge is still to think about territorial integrity that doesn't match with the institutions
03:53we have.
03:54Trump's Greenland campaign has opened the deepest rift between Washington and its European
03:58allies in decades.
04:03Arriving in Davos by helicopter on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump entered a tense atmosphere
04:09as European and allied leaders pushed back against his demands for control of Greenland,
04:14which he says is vital to U.S. and global security.
04:22We never asked for anything, and we never got anything.
04:27We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength and force where we
04:33would be, frankly, unstoppable.
04:36But I won't do that, okay?
04:40Now everyone's saying, oh, good.
04:43That's probably the biggest statement I made, because people thought I would use force.
04:47I don't have to use force.
04:48I don't want to use force.
04:49I won't use force.
04:52All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland, where we already had
04:57it.
04:58Mentioning World War II, Trump criticized Denmark for what he called ingratitude, noting
05:03that the U.S. had defended Greenland and then returned it.
05:07Trump said he now has plans to build a Golden Dome defense system to protect against potential
05:12enemies.
05:13And that's the reason I'm seeking immediate negotiations to once again discuss the acquisition
05:19of Greenland by the United States, just as we have acquired many other territories throughout
05:25our history, as many of the European nations have.
05:28Trump said no nation is better positioned to defend Greenland than the United States.
05:33Even as he now emphasized Washington would not use force for this acquisition, Trump nevertheless
05:39also warned Denmark that they would remember a refusal.
05:43Trump also used his World Economic Forum speech to criticize Europe's energy policies and NATO
05:49contributions.
05:54European police said on Wednesday that they had busted a major synthetic drug ring working
05:58across several countries in what they described as the largest ever operation of its kind.
06:04The mission, according to Europol, struck a massive blow to organized crime, with authorities
06:09dismantling 24 industrial-scale labs.
06:12Officers also seized around 1,000 tons of chemicals used to make street drugs such as MDMA,
06:19amphetamines, and meth.
06:21The year-long operation involved police from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, the
06:26Netherlands, Poland, and Spain.
06:29More than 85 arrests were made, including the two suspected ringleaders, both from Poland,
06:34according to Andy Krog, the head of the European Serious Organized Crime Center at Europol.
06:40Suspicions were raised back in 2024 when Polish police noticed a network importing vast quantities
06:46of legal chemicals from China and India.
06:49Investigations revealed that those chemicals were being repackaged, mislabeled, and redistributed
06:54to labs across Europe that manufacture the synthetic drugs.
06:57A Barcelona commuter train crashed on Tuesday after a retaining wall fell onto the tracks, killing
07:07at least one person and injuring 37 others.
07:10Pieces of a retaining wall fell onto the tracks, causing the train to collide with the huge concrete
07:16blocks and derail.
07:18The emergency services said that of the 37 people injured in the crash, five were seriously
07:24injured, while six were in less serious condition.
07:27One of these people had five deaths, and one of them was with a physical attack that we call
07:33important.
07:34From here we had to do mislabeled actions, and we had to do mislabeled actions, and we
07:38had to do mislabeled actions, but at the end of the time we had to liberate them.
07:42Twenty ambulances and 38 fire department units were called up to the scene of the accident.
07:48The accident comes just two days after the train collision near the city of Codoba in Adamus
07:54that claimed 42 lives.
07:56Spain's railway operator, Adif, said the containment wall likely collapsed due to heavy rainfall that
08:03swept across the country's northeast this week.
08:06At a time when Iran has violently suppressed vast protests in the country, Ayatollah Ali
08:16Khamenei's nephew tells Euronews that his uncle will resist until the last drop of blood.
08:21Now an ENT doctor in northern France, Mahmoud Mourad Kani is a long-standing opponent of the
08:26Iranian regime.
08:27He fled Iran at the age of 22 via Iraq and arrived in France in 1986, seven years after the 1979
08:35Islamic Revolution.
08:36He says he hopes his uncle will one day be arrested and put on trial.
08:40I don't think he's on the point of departure, I don't think he's abandoning.
08:46Ali Khamenei is part of dictators like Ceausescu and they will stay until the last minute.
08:52They will believe in their truth and their words and they will not accept anything else.
08:59They will resist until the last drop of blood.
09:02Khamenei said on Saturday that the protests had left several thousand people dead and blamed
09:07the United States.
09:09The death toll from the protests has reached at least 4,519 people, the US-based human rights
09:16activists.
09:17The news agency said.
09:18The number of victims is much more important and probably the regime has really felt a
09:24danger this time and wanted to be more violent to calm the population.
09:31But the Iranian people, in general, the Iranians, in their majority, have never accepted this
09:37regime and will not accept it and I think the movements will not stop just by the repression.
09:44Mourad Khamenei believes that the regime will collapse of its own accord on the death of
09:50the Supreme Leader because of internal rivalries.
09:53He prefers this scenario to outside intervention which he believes could lead to anarchy and
09:58terrorism.
09:58In regular contact with his home country, Mourad Khamenei thinks some demonstrators feel
10:04betrayed by US President Donald Trump who initially supported them.
10:08For the time being, while some observers claim that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wants to appoint
10:34his son Moshtaba as his successor, Mahmoud Mourad Khamenei believes that the Iranian Supreme
10:40Leader has not prepared his succession and is not yet thinking about his death.
10:49A Japanese court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami to life imprisonment on Wednesday for assassinating
10:54former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
10:58Yamagami admitted to killing Abe during an election speech in Nara in July 2022.
11:04The 45-year-old targeted Abe over his links to the Unification Church, which he blamed
11:10for ruining his family.
11:13Prosecutors sold life while defense lawyers requested no more than 20 years.
11:19The assassination shocked Japan and exposed ties between the ruling party and the church.
11:25It led to the church losing its tax-exempt status and prompted tighter police protection
11:30for politicians.
11:31Abe, Japan's longest-serving post-war leader, died instantly from gunshot wounds.
11:37The
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