00:00EU leaders are reflecting on a week of crisis which ended with the hard reality that transatlantic
00:09relations are now shattered. Heads of state and government met for an emergency summit in Brussels
00:13initially planned as a format for the EU to decide how best to proceed following Trump's
00:19announcement he was imposing tariffs on seven EU countries and the UK. The 11th hour back down on
00:25the tariffs meant the agenda shifted to other matters such as plans to better integrate Ukraine
00:30into the EU and Trump's so-called Gaza peace board but the Trump administration's hostility to
00:36America's allies loomed large over the meeting and Europe agrees it needs to accelerate its
00:42independence away from the US. We know that we have to work more and more for an independent Europe
00:49this is not something which happened overnight this is hard work and the main ingredients
00:56the main topics to work on for an independent Europe is economic power and the security
01:04infrastructure that is necessary. EU leaders also discussed the recently signed Mercosur trade deal
01:11earlier this week the European Parliament voted to test the legality of the deal by sending it to the
01:16European Court of Justice which will delay its official rollout. But leaders agree on provisionally
01:22implementing the deal while they await a judgment from the EU's top court. All they need is the
01:27countries of Latin America now to be ready. A decision would only be needed at a stage when one
01:36country of Mercosur or more countries of Mercosur have completed their procedures are basically ready.
01:44So in short we will be ready when they are ready. The decision by US President Donald Trump to back
01:51town on imposing tariffs in relation to forcing Denmark to give up Greenland is indeed a welcome
01:56one. But it doesn't now shake the reality that one of the most important effective and reliable global
02:02partnerships in the world is essentially no more. All trust is eroded. We'll see what happens next.
02:07Shona Murray, Euronews, Brussels.
02:14U.S. negotiators led by Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow for
02:21marathon overnight talks on ending Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine that lasted well
02:27into Friday morning. Kremlin diplomatic advisor Yuri Ushakov told reporters their discussions had been
02:33useful as the Kremlin insisted that the territorial issue needs to be resolved to reach a peace deal.
02:39Meanwhile, U.S. President Donald Trump said that both Putin and Ukrainian President
03:09Volodymyr Zelensky want to reach a deal. Trump had met with Zelensky earlier on the sidelines of the
03:15World Economic Forum in Davos.
03:17And he'll make concessions. Everybody's making concessions to get it done.
03:23Europe is going to be a part of it. It's going to be a part of it. It's more for Europe than for me.
03:28I mean, I'm doing this more for Europe than for me. I'm doing it to save lives, number one. I'm doing
03:33it secondarily for Europe. I'm not doing it so much for the U.S. It doesn't affect us very much.
03:39The Kremlin confirmed that trilateral meetings involving the U.S., Ukraine and Russia are due
03:44to begin Friday in the United Arab Emirates.
03:50Moscow launched 101 drones over Ukraine in overnight attacks, killing at least five,
03:56as Kyiv targeted Russia's energy infrastructure. Ukraine's armed forces say they shot down 76 of the
04:04drones while 12 hit locations. Four people were killed, including a five-year-old boy,
04:12and five were injured in a Russian drone attack on the village of Cherkasky in the Donetsk region.
04:18More strikes were recorded on the settlement of Komishuvakha in the Zaporytja region, where one elderly man was killed and 10 people were injured.
04:38According to local officials. Russian drone strikes on the city of Griviri caused a power outage that trapped workers in two mines,
04:44some at 1,135 meters below ground. After a six-hour-long rescue operation, the miners were brought above ground.
04:54According to Ukraine's state emergency service on Friday. Meanwhile, a fuel depot in Russia's city of Penza was reportedly on fire after debris from a Ukrainian drone ignited it.
05:20The Russian Defense Ministry released a video on Friday described as showing two long-range 222 M3 bombers
05:33performing a planned flight in the airspace over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea. Russian authorities said the escort was provided by crews of Su-35 and Su-30 fighters aircraft of the Aerospace Forces.
05:47The flight duration was about five hours, they claimed. At certain stages of the route, long-range bombers were accompanied by fighter jets from foreign countries, the Russian Minister of Defense added.
05:58According to the Defense Ministry, all flights of aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.
06:07U.S. President Donald Trump says he is still watching Iran, just in case it wants to take action against the country over its crackdown on protesters.
06:21A Navy official confirmed that an aircraft carrier and three accompanying destroyers left the South China Sea and began heading west earlier this week.
06:34U.S. President Donald Trump also repeated the claim that he personally stopped the execution of over 800 people.
07:04A claim that Iran's top prosecutor denies and calls completely false.
07:10Meanwhile, on Friday, the Human Rights Activists News Agency released a new number of 5,002 people killed and 26,800 arrested during the nationwide protests, making it the worst in decades.
07:26On Wednesday, Tehran said 3,117 people had been killed.
07:33However, in the past, Iran has undercounted or not reported fatalities from unrest.
07:38MPs in the French National Assembly rejected two no-confidence votes on Friday that could have brought down the government.
07:51It comes after Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu used a constitutional tool to push through the first part of a finance bill without a vote by lawmakers.
08:00Opposition parties chose to counter-attack by tabling two separate motions of no-confidence.
08:06Lecornu insisted that using Article 49.3 of the Constitution must only be used in exceptional circumstances.
08:14Je n'ai pas engagé la responsabilité du gouvernement pour contourner les institutions de la Vème République.
08:20Je l'ai au contraire fait pour les protéger.
08:23Mais aucune institution, aussi solide soit-elle, ne peut fonctionner durablement si celles et ceux qui l'incarnent renoncent à leur propre responsabilité.
08:33Les recours à l'article 49 à l'année 3 ne pourront plus être utilisés demain comme avant.
08:38Ils ne pourront plus être un réflexe.
08:40The motion of no-confidence, coming from the France Unbound Party and supported by its environmentalist and communist partners, received only 269 votes.
08:52The second one, brought by the far-right National Rally and its ally, the UD Air Group, received 142 votes.
09:00Both needed 288 votes to pass.
09:03In an interview with Euronews, a lawyer for the two alleged victims of Julio Iglesias says the reported acts are not isolated and point to a clear pattern of behaviour.
09:21Rebeca and Laura want this situation to come back, they are looking for guarantees of non-repetition and, of course, reparation for them.
09:32We want to give a message that the society needs to listen and support the survivors of sexual violence.
09:40I think that the message that we want to give is that.
09:43The complaint includes alleged abuse, work and conditions, harassment, sexual assaults and possible human trafficking offenses.
09:53We have gathered a series quite extensive of indices of different individuals, as you said, and once we have gathered it, we have put it in knowledge of the legislature.
10:05We have been contacted by ex-trabajadores of Julio Iglesias who claim to have worked with him,
10:13although we are not able to reveal exactly what the content of those conversations, basically for security of those people,
10:21because they have deposited in us their trust, but how it is going all.
10:27It is not discourable to receive contacts from other possible testimonies or people who have suffered, lamentablement, situations similar.
10:35It is nothing discourable.
10:36The two alleged victims have chosen to remain anonymous for fear of possible reprisals.
10:46Julio Iglesias, for his part, denies the accusations.
10:49Well, yes, it is true that the denunciation has a known position of influence and power and with a considerable capacity to emprender represalias and intimidate them.
11:02So, when we first get in contact with Rebecca and Laura, yes, we manifest their fear for their integrity, for their privacy, for their private life,
11:11for their security and emotional stability, if it is revealed to their identity.
11:14This is not done with the fact that they want to raise their voice to seek justice and seek reparation for the damage they have suffered.
11:22So, for that is why we have requested the anonymity, for that we have to divulge their personal information.
11:26And, well, as we were saying before, it is not descartable types of actions that seek in the future intimidate them or represaliate them of any way.
11:35So, thank you.
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