00:01MPs in the French National Assembly rejected two no-confidence votes on Friday that could have brought down the government.
00:09It 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.
00:19Opposition parties chose to counter-attack by tabling two separate motions of no-confidence.
00:25Lecornu insisted that using Article 49.3 of the Constitution must only be used in exceptional circumstances.
00:33Je n'ai pas engagé la responsabilité du gouvernement pour contourner les institutions de la Ve République.
00:38Je l'ai au contraire fait pour les protéger.
00:41Mais aucune institution, aussi solide soit-elle, ne peut fonctionner durablement
00:46si celles et ceux qui l'incarnent renoncent à leur propre responsabilité.
00:51Les recours à l'article 49.3 ne pourront plus être utilisés demain comme avant.
00:56Ils ne pourront plus être un réflexe.
00:59The motion of no-confidence coming from the France Unbound Party
01:03and supported by its environmentalist and communist partners received only 269 votes.
01:10The second one, brought by the far-right National Rally and its ally, the UD Air Group, received 142 votes.
01:18Both needed 288 votes to pass.
01:22Moscow launched 101 drones over Ukraine in overnight attacks,
01:31killing at least five as Kyiv targeted Russia's energy infrastructure.
01:36Ukraine's armed forces say they shot down 76 of the drones while 12 hit locations.
01:43Four people were killed, including a five-year-old boy,
01:48and five were injured in a Russian drone attack on the village of Cherkasky in the Donetsk region.
01:55More strikes were recorded on the settlement of Wachah in the Rzaporizja region where one elderly man was killed and 10 people were injured,
02:10Then they sent them immediately to the car and sent them immediately to the car.
02:15More strikes were recorded on the settlement of Komishuvacha in the Zaporizhia region,
02:20where one elderly man was killed and 10 people were injured, according to local officials.
02:27Russian drone strikes on the city of Griviri caused a power outage that trapped workers in two mines,
02:34some at 1,135 meters below ground.
02:38After a six-hour-long rescue operation, the miners were brought above ground,
02:44according to Ukraine's state emergency service on Friday.
02:48Meanwhile, a fuel depot in Russia's city of Penza was reportedly on fire
02:54after debris from a Ukrainian drone ignited it.
03:01The Russian Defense Ministry released a video on Friday
03:05described as showing two long-range .222 M3 bombers
03:09performing a planned flight in the airspace over neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
03:14Russian authorities said the escort was provided by crews of Su-35
03:18and Su-30 fighters' aircraft of the Aerospace Forces.
03:23The flight duration was about five hours, they claimed.
03:25At certain stages of the route, long-range bombers were accompanied by fighter jets from foreign countries,
03:31the Russian Minister of Defense added.
03:33According to the Defense Ministry, all flights of aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces
03:38are carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace.
03:43This year's World Economic Forum in Davos took place in a particularly tense climate.
03:54Europe and the United States displayed their disagreements on Greenland in speech after speech,
03:59raising fears of a trade war between the historic partners.
04:03Although Washington ultimately backtracked, the scars run deep and the economic risks remain.
04:08It has been the most significant shift that we have seen in many years in terms of what's happening with the world order.
04:15Now, it still remains the case that 80% of global trade is conducted by the rules of the World Trade Organization,
04:23so it's not completely chaotic, but we are at a precipice.
04:27Faced with geopolitical risks, the Harvard professor believes that the European response must involve strengthening the single market.
04:36She believes that undertaking reforms across all 27 member states, ensuring that they are capable of coming together,
04:43would send a message to the international community.
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