00:00Zelenskyy slammed Europe for its inaction in his Davos address, calling it a lost continent
00:05after holding private talks with Trump on the sidelines prior.
00:10Ursula von der Leyen's commission survived on Thursday a vote of confidence in the European
00:15Parliament in Strasbourg.
00:21Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy slammed Europe in his address to the World Economic
00:26Forum in Davos for their inaction, describing it as a lost continent.
00:31In his scathing critique, Zelenskyy says Europe is stuck in an endless cycle of failing to
00:37defend itself or decisively supporting Ukraine, likening the situation to the US film Groundhog
00:44Day.
00:44What about the ceasefire itself?
00:48Who can help make it happen?
00:50Europe loves to discuss the future, but avoids taking action today, action that defines what
00:59kind of future we will have.
01:01That is the problem.
01:03Why can't President Trump stop tankers from the shadow fleet and seize oil, but Europe doesn't?
01:11Russian oil is being transported right along European shores.
01:16That oil funds the war against Ukraine.
01:20That oil helps destabilize Europe.
01:24So Russian oil must be stopped and confiscated and sold for Europe's benefit.
01:30Why not?
01:32His address followed a private meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss the latest
01:37on the ground and ongoing peace efforts.
01:41The meeting was good.
01:42Look, we have a ways to go.
01:44The meeting with President Putin today, as you know.
01:46The meeting was good with President Zelensky.
01:49We'll see how it turns out.
01:51A lot of people are being killed.
01:53Both leaders did not detail what they spoke about, but said the talks were very good and
01:58productive.
02:00Separately, Trump's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff is holding talks with a Russian delegation
02:05and says he hopes they will yield some progress.
02:08A trilateral meeting involving representatives from Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. is set to
02:14take place in the UAE on Friday.
02:16Several news agencies reported President Zelensky announcing.
02:20Speaking at a breakfast meeting on the future of Ukraine, U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff said President
02:31Donald Trump is considering a terror-free zone for the country.
02:35The breakfast meeting happened on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland,
02:40with panelists including NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and Finnish President Alexander Stub.
02:46The president has talked about a tariff-free zone from Ukraine that I think would be game-changing.
02:52You'll see industry move into that area in a huge way.
02:56Imagine you get to out-compete because you're not paying tariffs and sending goods into the
03:00United States.
03:01Witkoff said he was headed to Moscow later in the day before continuing his travels towards
03:06Abu Dhabi.
03:07Also speaking at the meeting, NATO Chief Mark Rutte praised Trump for his efforts to secure
03:12a peace deal in Ukraine.
03:13And he is pushing with Steve Witkoff, with Jared Kushner, with Marco Rubio endlessly,
03:19of course with help from many Europeans on some power I see here and so many others in
03:23this room, working day in day out to get the Ukraine issue solved, to get the war brought
03:28to an end, a sustainable end where Russia will never ever try to attack again.
03:34Rutte added that the EU plans to free up funds for Ukraine's defense, but said that those
03:39efforts wouldn't bear fruit immediately as Russia continues to launch attacks on Ukraine.
03:47Ursula von der Leyen's Commission survived on Thursday a vote of confidence in the European
03:53Parliament in Strasbourg.
03:54The motion of censor, filed by the far-right Patriots for Europe, was rejected with 390 MEPs
04:01against, 165 in favour, and 10 abstentions.
04:06The vote was focusing on the signing of the Mercosur deal, arguing that the Commission failed
04:12to listen to farmers and citizens and overstepped its competencies in signing the agreement with
04:18Latin American countries.
04:20The motion was discussed on Monday in Strasbourg in an almost empty hemicycle, indicating the
04:26lack of interest in the motion.
04:28This was the fourth vote of confidence held in the Parliament during von der Leyen's second
04:33term as Commission Chief.
04:35The previous ones, in July and October last year, also confirmed the Parliament's support
04:40for von der Leyen.
04:41Today's votes saw even more votes in favour of the Commission than the previous three.
04:46The EU cannot be submitted to the neocolonial behaviour of the United States, Jean-Claude
04:55Juncker, who led the European Commission during the first Trump administration, told Euronews
05:00flagship programme Europe Today.
05:02United States President Donald Trump addressed world leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum
05:08on Wednesday.
05:09While Trump later ruled out the possibility of a military attack on Greenland, he reaffirmed
05:15his interest in being more present in the region.
05:20The European Union cannot be submitted to a kind of colonial, neocolonial behaviour that
05:28the European Union has its own honour and is respecting the US, but is not a slave of the
05:36United States of America.
05:39Juncker urged the EU to be more assertive towards the US, showing it is ready to defend the EU.
05:45U.S. President Donald Trump has announced he would not impose tariffs on eight European
05:55nations scheduled to take effect on the 1st of February, citing progress in talks with
06:00NATO Secretary-General Mark Reza on Greenland in Davos.
06:03Trump said the two leaders reached the framework of a future deal with respect to the Danish
06:09territory, adding that the potential agreement would benefit the US and all NATO members.
06:14The deal is going to be put out pretty soon.
06:18We will see.
06:19It's right now a little bit in progress, but pretty far along.
06:23It gets us everything we need it to get.
06:24Trump offered few details on the contents of the deal and did not specify how it would
06:30affect his ambition to eventually acquire Greenland.
06:33It is, that the president's ambition is intact.
06:37It is of course isolated positive, that there is said that we will not use military power.
06:45That of course you should take down, but it will not be the case to go away.
06:49Trump's Greenland campaign has opened the deepest rift between Washington and its European allies
07:15in decades.
07:16After US President Donald Trump delivered his highly anticipated speech at the World Economic
07:26Forum in Davos, Euronews spoke to attendees about his comments on Greenland.
07:31Here's what some of them had to say.
07:33We heard firsthand everything that the president believes and it was useful to be here to understand
07:38it completely.
07:40So no threat of force for Greenland.
07:44This was a good message.
07:44Well, I think the only way to solve this situation is to talk to each other.
07:50There is no other way.
07:51I think the transatlantic partnership is important, was historically important, and we should do
07:56everything that it remains important.
07:58Well, I'm sure there is no other way than talks.
08:02That was very clear today.
08:03I think that a lot of it was just, you know, a little bit of a sideshow to make up for the
08:11fact that he withdrew his threat to take military action.
08:16Only time will tell.
08:17Only time will tell.
08:18U.S. President Donald Trump put pen to paper on his recently unveiled Board of Peace at
08:27the World Economic Forum in Davos.
08:29In a ceremony, accompanied by a slew of world leaders, Trump signed an agreement, part of
08:35his 20-point peace plan for Gaza, which would oversee the ceasefire he brokered in October.
08:4035 countries have so far committed, including Russia, while other U.S. allies, mainly European,
08:48have declined for the time being, fearing its vague role challenges the authority and jurisdiction
08:53of the United Nations, which Trump has been vocally critical of.
08:57U.S. President Donald Trump signed the charter to formally launch his Board of Peace initiative
09:05in Davos on Thursday at this stage, which you can see here right behind me, with some people
09:10still being there.
09:12Now, the project originated in his 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan, but ever since it grew
09:19bigger.
09:20Approximately 35 nations had committed to joining, while 60 received invitations.
09:26Now, the president also suggested that the Board of Peace could eventually assume the
09:31U.N. functions.
09:33Now, the U.N. Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, cancelled his trip to Davos a few days ago.
09:39Sasha Vakulina, Euronews, Davos.
09:45It is a record in Oscar history.
09:48Ryan Coogler's vampire epic Sinners led all films with 16 nominations to the 98th Academy Awards
09:56on Thursday.
09:57It broke the 14-nomination mark set by All About Eve, Titanic and La La Land.
10:03Paul Thomas Anderson's revolutionary saga One Battle After Another trailed in second with
10:0913 nominations of its own.
10:12For Best Actor, the nominees are Timothy Chalamet for Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle
10:17After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan for Sinners, and Wagner Moura for The
10:23Secret Agent.
10:24For Best Actress, the nominees are Jesse Buckley for Hamnet, Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs,
10:30Hide KQ, Kate Hudson for SongSung Blue, Renate Reinsver for Sentimental Value, and Emma Stone
10:35for Bugonia.
10:36The 98th Academy Awards will take place on the 15th of March in Los Angeles.
10:41The Museum of Resistance, or Museum of Jihad, is once again open in Herat, Afghanistan, but
10:52with changes made by the Taliban.
10:55The museum is dedicated to the Mujahideen who resisted the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
11:01in the 1980s.
11:03It was in Herat in March 1979 that a rally against the pro-Soviet leadership of Afghanistan
11:10took place, which is considered the beginning of organized resistance.
11:15The museum was built in 2010 and quickly became a city landmark.
11:20Under Taliban rule, the exhibition was preserved, but the exhibits were altered in accordance
11:26with the ban on depicting living beings.
11:28The faces of all figures have been removed, not only of people, but also of animals.
11:34The Hall of Fame, which contained portraits of several dozen Mujahideen leaders, disappeared
11:40completely.
11:41In addition, with rare exceptions, women are no longer allowed in the museum.
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