00:00A judicial investigation is underway into the deadly shipwreck of the coast of Chios,
00:05which claimed the lives of 15 migrants.
00:09Greek police arrested a 31-year-old Moroccan national
00:12who was identified by Afghan passengers on the boat as one of the smugglers.
00:17The arrested man is being treated under guard
00:20and will be brought before the investigating magistrate
00:23on charges of facilitating illegal entry, disobedience and causing a shipwreck.
00:30Meanwhile, a large-scale search-and-rescue operation to locate any missing persons
00:34has been completed, with Coast Guard vessels and helicopters participating.
00:38The search results were negative.
00:41According to the Coast Guard's official announcement,
00:43the speedboat carrying the migrants was found traveling without lights.
00:47The operator failed to comply with the lights and sound signals,
00:51accelerated and collided with a patrol boat,
00:54resulting in the speedboat capsizing and sinking.
00:57The European Commission state that it's closely monitoring the incident
01:01and is in constant communication with the Greek authorities.
01:06Every life lost at sea is a tragedy.
01:09At the hand of smugglers, too many people risk their lives and lose their lives.
01:15And this is exactly what we're working on to prevent.
01:18And this is also why our work with partner countries is so important.
01:21A total of 22 injured people are being treated at the hospital in Trios,
01:27including 10 children.
01:29Two pregnant women are being treated and are out of danger,
01:32but they lost their babies.
01:34The Council of Europe's Secretary-General Alain Berset told Euronews
01:45that he understands the concerns behind calls
01:47to constrain the European Convention on Human Rights over Migration.
01:52However, he said the method they used was wrong.
01:56Last year, nine European countries published a joint letter
01:59calling for a reinterpretation of human rights laws
02:03to facilitate migrant deportations.
02:06Berset reiterated his criticism of their approach.
02:09It is clear that migration is an issue and a concern
02:12in the majority of the member states.
02:14And if it is a concern, it is logic, only logic,
02:17that we are able to have some platforms
02:19where it is possible to address this at the political level.
02:22But I was clear with this intervention, this letter,
02:25the way they choose to act is wrong.
02:28It is not possible and not good to start making political pressure on the court.
02:32What would you say if, well, when a tribunal in a country is taking a decision,
02:39if it is not in the sense what the governor was expecting,
02:42that the government will make a pressure,
02:44please change your decision.
02:46When asked whether reviewing the convention could be a slippery slope,
02:50Berset warned that it could embolden other governments to roll back human rights.
02:56He stressed that caution should prevail as talks continue at a political level.
03:01What will happen now with migration,
03:03it would be possible for other countries to make the same,
03:07to choose the same way, maybe to put in discussion all the rights.
03:12You know, I also told this to some of the exponents,
03:14they wanted to have migration discussed.
03:16And I was just telling them,
03:17OK, at the political level, but we must be really careful
03:21because we have maybe all the countries ready to open the same kind of discussion on the rights.
03:26And maybe then we won't agree about this.
03:29Berset convened an informal ministerial conference on the matter in December
03:33and a political declaration is expected in May 2026.
03:38However, Berset said there is not yet a consensus on what, if any, changes should be made.
03:44Spain and Portugal were again hit with severe weather brought by Storm Leonardo,
03:54which battered the Iberian Peninsula on Wednesday,
03:57causing floods and forcing thousands of evacuations.
04:00In Portugal, a man in his 60s was killed after being swept away by the current
04:05while attempting to drive across a flooded area.
04:08In Spain's Andalusia, 3,500 people were evacuated,
04:13as hundreds of soldiers were deployed to assist with rescue services.
04:18Schools were closed and trains were cancelled across the region.
04:21The storm brought added difficulties for Portugal,
04:25already reeling from last week's Storm Cristin,
04:28which killed at least five people and injured hundreds.
04:31Emergency services were still dealing with power outages,
04:35falling trees and landslides when Storm Leonardo hit the peninsula,
04:39the Civil Protection Authority reported.
04:42The service had deployed more than 11,000 people,
04:45and around 200 residents were evacuated in central Portugal on Wednesday.
04:49Israeli strikes pounded Gaza on Wednesday,
04:57killing at least 24 people in one of the deadliest days for Palestinians
05:01since a ceasefire took effect in October.
05:05Health officials said three children were killed in the latest strikes,
05:09including two babies and an 11-year-old girl.
05:12An on-duty paramedic and several women were also killed, they added.
05:16Israel said its strikes, which hit multiple tent camps across Gaza,
05:21were a response to militant gunfire and killed three militant leaders.
05:25While the ceasefire attempted to halt the ongoing war,
05:29it has been repeatedly disrupted by deadly Israeli strikes.
05:33At least 556 Palestinians, half of whom were women and children,
05:38have been killed by Israel since the ceasefire took effect.
05:41Israel's military says four of its soldiers have been killed by militant gunfire.
05:48Meanwhile, parts of the ceasefire are moving forward.
05:51On Monday, Israel opened the Rafah border crossing to Palestinians in the south of Gaza,
05:56although passage has been minimal.
05:59Other key elements of the ceasefire appear to have stalled,
06:02including the deployment of an international security force,
06:06the disarmament of Hamas and the reconstruction of Gaza.
06:09The last remaining bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Russia limiting strategic nuclear arms
06:18expires on Thursday, leaving the two countries with no control over their nuclear arsenals.
06:25The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or New START,
06:28was signed in 2010 between then-President Barack Obama
06:32and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev.
06:34Under the deal, the two countries agreed to drastically reduce their nuclear force to 1,550 warheads
06:42and no more than 700 missiles and bombers to be maintained for combat use.
06:48In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled his readiness to extend the agreement
06:53to avoid provoking another arms race.
06:56U.S. President Donald Trump shortly after returning to the Oval Office
07:25expressed initial intent on extending the agreement.
07:29I'm going to have that conference primarily with China and Russia
07:31because those are the two that really are out there.
07:34And we're going to have them spend a lot less money,
07:38and we're going to spend a lot less money.
07:39And I know they're going to do it.
07:41They agreed to it.
07:43We were talking about denuking, denuclearize, denuking.
07:47And President Putin and I agreed that we were going to do it in a very big way.
07:52He has since endorsed a more carefree approach in an interview in January,
07:58brushing off its imminent expiry, saying, quote,
08:01if it expires, it expires, we'll sign a better agreement.
08:05Trump has recently also argued for China to be included in any new deal,
08:09seeing as it has the third most weapons after Russia and the U.S.
08:13Russia has also called for France and the U.K. to be up for negotiation,
08:18a suggestion that was rejected by London and Paris,
08:21especially since Russia launched its war on Ukraine.
08:24AfD in that matter.
08:25So we'll be right back.
08:36Bye.
08:36Bye.
08:44Bye.
08:48Bye.
08:48I
09:16guess people will enjoy the performance as we will all do because you know art is something very special
09:30it can be mysterious it can be inspirative the work that matt has done
09:39is a very unique piece of art he combines human movement
09:44with all the hidden information behind architecture and universe as he called it the hidden order
09:54information and from a storytelling perspective for me it was hard to follow the path matt was drawing
10:03and at the end of the preview i realized there's nothing to understand but to enjoy humans are
10:13meant to create and enjoy art but not necessarily to understand it
10:32and we get a lot of ad questions about people wanting to see the projection mapping throughout the year
10:37so that's also one of the reasons why we wanted to create a space inside the house that could host
10:42a contemporary art so we could extend the time that this projection is happening and also bring
10:49the dialogue across the interior and exterior of the city
10:55so we try and really document all of the projects and create and share that on our social media we have a
11:01huge social media community and that's quite engaged even we get a lot of messages from argentina that's kind
11:07of the biggest audience we have online which is a kind of weird considering that it's so far away
11:13yet the engagement with gaudi is still there and and also we're hoping that with contemporary we can
11:19later down the road take it outside of the of the house and and show gaudi's work in a way that can reach
11:26many millions more outside
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