00:00France's navy has intercepted an oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea sailing from Russia,
00:06which it suspects to be part of the Kremlin's sanctioned shadow fleet.
00:10Ursula von der Leyen's commission survived on Thursday,
00:13a vote of confidence in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
00:21Cleanup efforts are underway after Greece was struck by a heavy storm,
00:26which caused severe flooding in parts of Athens.
00:30France's navy intercepted a Russian oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea on Thursday
00:36in a mission targeting the Kremlin's sanctioned shadow fleet.
00:40Maritime authorities say the vessel, named the Grinch, is suspected of operating with a false flag.
00:46The French navy said in a statement that they're escorting the ship to port
00:49to conduct more checks and conclusively identify the vessel.
00:53French President Emmanuel Macron, in a post on X, said his country is, quote,
00:58determined to uphold international law and to effectively ensure the enforcement of sanctions.
01:04The move comes just hours after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Europe
01:09for its inaction in his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos.
01:13The Ukrainian leader namely used the U.S. seizing of Russian tankers as an example Europe should follow,
01:19to further cripple Russia economically and end the war.
01:23Macron said the seizure was important as the vessel, suspected of belonging in the shadow fleet,
01:29quote, contributes to financing the war of aggression against Ukraine.
01:34The mission was conducted in tandem with the UK, which gathered and shared intelligence with Paris
01:39to facilitate the ship's interception.
01:41French military officials say the ship was flying a Comoros Islands flag and its crew is Indian.
01:51The EU cannot be submitted to the neocolonial behavior of the United States.
01:56Jean-Claude Juncker, who led the European Commission during the first Trump administration,
02:01told Euronews flagship program Europe Today.
02:03United States President Donald Trump addressed world leaders at the Davos World Economic Forum on Wednesday.
02:10While Trump later ruled out the possibility of a military attack on Greenland,
02:15he reaffirmed his interest in being more present in the region.
02:21The European Union cannot be submitted to a kind of colonial, neocolonial
02:27behavior that the European Union has its own honor and is respecting the US, but is not the slave of the United States of America.
02:40Juncker urged the EU to be more assertive towards the US, showing it is ready to defend European interests.
02:50A few hours after his speech in Davos,
02:53US President Donald Trump announced that he was abandoning plans to impose tariffs on eight
02:59European countries next month. This U-turn comes as a relief to the European Union.
03:05But for the Vice President of the European Commission,
03:08the recent tensions with Washington mark a geopolitical turning point.
03:13We are entering a new world, and I think that these are true partners, because they remain
03:17economic partners, geopolitical partners, but they are concurrent partners today.
03:24They are concurrent on markets, because President Trump lives like that,
03:28so we have to take into consideration it. And also concurrent on geopolitical side.
03:34And so we have to take this dynamic and this context as it is.
03:39Donald Trump suspends his tariffs as he mentions a future agreement with NATO regarding Greenland,
03:46and any military threat now seems to have been ruled out. According to Sejourner,
03:51the Europeans were able to stand together because the risk affected the fundamental values of the Union.
03:58For several days, European leaders had been talking about a united and firm response.
04:22Ursula von der Leyen's Commission survived on Thursday a vote of confidence in the European
04:32Parliament in Strasbourg. The motion of censor, filed by the far-right Patriots for Europe,
04:38was rejected with 390 MEPs against, 165 in favour, and 10 abstentions. The vote was focusing on the
04:48signing of the Mercosur deal, arguing that the Commission failed to listen to farmers and citizens,
04:54and overstepped its competencies in signing the agreement with Latin American countries.
05:00The motion was discussed on Monday in Strasbourg in an almost empty hemicycle, indicating the lack of
05:06interest in the motion. This was the fourth vote of confidence held in the Parliament during von der Leyen's
05:12second term as Commission Chief. The previous ones, in July and October last year, also confirmed
05:18the Parliament's support for von der Leyen. Today's votes saw even more votes in favour of the Commission
05:24than the previous three.
05:30A heavy storm hit Greece on Wednesday, bringing strong winds and heavy rainfall, which caused severe
05:36flooding in parts of Athens. In the Glyphara district of the Greek capital, many roads were
05:42covered in mud and debris. As the water gradually pulled away, many cars became stuck in gravel.
06:00Municipal workers and residents came together to help clear the streets,
06:04while emergency crews used bulldozers to remove rocks and other debris.
06:30The storm claimed the lives of two people.
06:32A Coast Guard officer died after being struck by a wave while urging fishermen to leave the harbour.
06:38Hours later, a woman was killed in an Athens suburb due to floods.
06:46It is a record in Oscar history. Ryan Coogler's vampire epic Sinners led all films with 16 nominations to
06:55the 98th Academy Awards on Thursday. It broke the 14 nomination mark set by All About Eve,
07:02Titanic and La La Land. Paul Thomas Anderson's revolutionary saga One Battle After Another
07:08trailed in second with 13 nominations of its own. For Best Actor, the nominees are Timothy Chalamet for
07:15Marty Supreme, Leonardo DiCaprio for One Battle After Another, Ethan Hawke for Blue Moon, Michael B. Jordan
07:21for Sinners and Wagner Moura for The Secret Agents. For Best Actress, the nominees are Jesse Buckley for Hamnet,
07:27Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs, Hide KQ, Kate Hudson for SongSung Blue, Renate Reinsver for Sentimental Value and Emma Stone for Bugonia.
07:35Emma Stone for Bugonia. The 98th Academy Awards will take place on the 15th of March in Los Angeles.
07:45It's one of the latest additions to the Colosseum archaeological park in Rome. Thanks to EU post-pandemic
07:51recovery funds, it has recently been made accessible to the public. The so-called Passaggio di Comodo,
07:57an underground corridor once linked the area reserved for emperors inside the Colosseum to the outside of the arena. EU
08:05funding proved crucial in completing the restoration and making the site accessible, including for visitors with reduced mobility.
08:12L'integrazione dei fondi ordinari del parco archeologico del Colosseo destinati al restauro e alla riapertura
08:20di tutto il corridoio del passaggio di Comodo hanno avuto un combinato felicissimo con fondi PNRR per 160.000 euro
08:29che ha consentito l'assuperamento delle barriere architettoniche con quella realizzazione e progettazione
08:35prima ovviamente di questa scala che a noi piace chiamare magica che diventa una piattaforma
08:41che consente di scendere anche a questo piano inferiore.
08:46Built after the construction of the amphitheater and discovered in the 19th century,
08:51this secret passage once offered the emperor privacy and discretion.
08:55A complex restoration carried out in an underground environment that brought back to life precious artefacts.
09:01And where the original vaults are missing, a special lightning system has been used instead.
09:07But the passage doesn't end here, a second phase of works is already planned.
09:14Il nuovo intervento di restauro ci consentirà di recuperare altri frammenti molto importanti di stucchi e diafreschi
09:22che si sono conservati sicuramente anche nelle loro decorazioni.
09:26Il parco archeologico del Colosseo è il luogo più visitato non soltanto dai turisti ma anche dagli italiani
09:34e i piani per i prossimi anni sono davvero ambiziosi.
09:37L'idea è quella di dare nuova vita a questo luogo rendendolo accessibile al pubblico
09:44ma soprattutto organizzare qui numerosi eventi, davvero un luogo chiave della vita culturale della capitale.
09:53Giorgia Orlandi, Euronews, Roma.
09:56Giorgia Orlandi, Euronews, Roma.
10:00At this point in time up, it is now officially the oldest known cave art in the world, which
10:26is really cool.
10:48This is a really exciting finding to find hands this old, but as you said, that timing
10:54is either really early humans were in that cave making hands or potentially Denisovans
11:01were making hands before the humans got there.
11:12One of the things that's really cool about this article is it's really clearly flagging
11:16that that region is vastly understudied and there is probably much more ancient art waiting
11:22to be found there.
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