00:00For the last four years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
00:03it's consistently targeted critical civilian infrastructure,
00:06including hospitals, schools, kindergartens, apartments and power plants,
00:10often in densely populated areas.
00:12By the start of winter, nearly half of the country's power grid was out of commission
00:16and 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity.
00:19Titiana Pavlyuk lives with her husband and her young daughter.
00:22She barely ever sleeps because of the constant wave of ballistic and drone attacks day and night.
00:28Life here in Kiev is not easy at all.
00:33We are struggling every day with electricity cuts, with no heating.
00:39During the day we have drone attacks, at night we have missile attacks.
00:44Today night we had this attack.
00:46I didn't sleep, not at all.
00:49I slept for two, three hours, but in the morning I need to wake up,
00:53I need to prepare breakfast for my daughter.
00:56Mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko says Ukrainians are freezing still
00:59because attacks have cut out electricity and heating.
01:03This winter is one of the most difficult winter in the last four years for many reasons.
01:09First of all, we have massive attack from Russian Federation,
01:12chemicalized drone, ballistic missile, cruise missiles, attack our critical infrastructure.
01:18This power plant is now no longer functional
01:20after several ballistic and drone missile attacks since August.
01:23On January 9th, the final attack meant that it could no longer operate,
01:28meaning that 300,000 people in Kiev were plunged into darkness
01:31and left without heat or energy with minus 23 degrees.
01:35As you can hear, the air raid sirens mean that we have to relocate to a shelter,
01:40proving that people in Kiev will never be safe until this war is over.
01:44EU Commissioner for Crisis Management, Hadiy Al-Abib,
01:47delivered 1,000 emergency generators for use across the whole country
01:51as a short-term measure to keep hospitals, schools and shelters functioning.
01:56One such hospital in Kiev she visited was forced to conduct surgery with a torchlight
02:01as Russian attacks meant electricity was cut.
02:04The commissioner also visited Kiev residents in the hospital
02:06who had been badly injured by Russian attacks in family homes.
02:10It's very difficult to speak after what we just saw.
02:17Wounded soldiers, but also patients in very severe conditions because of this war.
02:24It's women.
02:24It's, you know, innocent people who were just living their everyday life.
02:30We just met a woman who has been targeted in her apartment.
02:34She lived in the fifth floor and a drone was entering through the windows.
02:41Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced Russia's Vladimir Putin
02:44as a slave to war in a speech to the Munich Security Conference.
02:48He said Russia had damaged every power plant in the country,
02:51saying Ukraine was doing everything to end the war,
02:53but so far there's no sign the Kremlin has any intention on stopping.
02:58Shona Murray, Euronews, Kiev.
03:04Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araqchi, arrived in Geneva
03:08ahead of a second round of negotiations between his country and the United States.
03:13Tehran says indirect Iran-U.S. nuclear talks mediated by Oman
03:17will also be held on Tuesday.
03:19Washington is expected to seek to expand the context of the meeting
03:23to include Iran's ballistic missiles and its vast network of proxies in the region.
03:29Tehran and Washington restarted negotiations this month after previous talks collapsed
03:34when Israel and Iran were embroiled in a 12-day conflict in June.
03:39U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday
03:42that he was hopeful the Oman talks would lead to a deal.
03:46Uncertainty surrounds the fate of Iran's stockpile of more than 400 kilograms of 60 percent
03:52enriched uranium that was last seen by nuclear watchdog inspectors in June.
03:57A small technical step from the 90 percent enrichment threshold needed for weapons grade.
04:03The EU will send the commissioner for the Mediterranean, Dubravka Shuitza,
04:08to represent the EU at the first meeting of Trump's Board of Peace in Washington on Thursday.
04:13The European Commission has said Shuitza will only participate in a specific part of the meeting
04:18dedicated to Gaza and is not joining as an official sitting member of the Board.
04:24Italy, Romania, Greece and Cyprus have all accepted invitations by the Trump administration
04:29to participate as observers.
04:31Only two EU member states, Hungary and Bulgaria, have accepted invitations to sit as members.
04:37An EU official said that the bloc wants to play a role in the reconstruction of Gaza
04:42despite numerous concerns over the Board's executive setup,
04:47which was initially conceived as a vehicle to rebuild the territory,
04:51but now says its mandate is global peace.
04:53The inclusion of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Board
04:57also makes membership politically untenable for most EU countries.
05:05French government officials have blamed what they refer to as the ultra-left
05:10for the death of a far-right activist in Lyon
05:12after he was attacked on the sidelines of a conference by hard-left France and board MEP Rima Hassan.
05:18The 23-year-old activist, identified as Quentin de Ranque,
05:22died in hospital from a traumatic brain injury on Saturday evening.
05:27Supporters said he was providing security at a protest against Hassan's appearance
05:31at the Sciences Po University when he was assaulted by rival activists.
05:35The rank was taken into care by emergency services in serious conditions
05:39after being attacked by at least six individuals,
05:43Lyon Public Prosecutor told a press conference on Monday.
05:46Certain far-right figures, including Marion Maréchal, Marine Le Pen et Éric Zemmour,
05:50accused the far-left over the incidents.
05:53L'extrême-gauche française, et en particulier LFI, a du sang sur les mains.
05:57Et je pèse mes mots, puisque de fait,
05:59l'état-major de LFI depuis des semaines et des mois,
06:02défend systématiquement, publiquement, la jeune garde.
06:05Donc je veux leur dire que nous ne sommes pas dupes de leur pseudo-message de compassion
06:08et que nous espérons bien que justice sera rendue.
06:11Friends on board, led by Rima Hassan and Raphaël Arnaud,
06:14quickly condemned the attack and insisted that the whole truth must be brought to light.
06:18Despite the fact that the justice system has not revealed the identity of the attackers,
06:24the party has been accused by members of Les Républicains,
06:27the national rally and the government, Jean-Luc Mélenchon has denounced the accusations as basis.
06:31Tout s'est passé ailleurs qu'à l'endroit où se trouvaient Rima et le service d'ordre des Insoumis.
06:38Tout a été truqué, arrangé, pour faire croire à une sorte d'expédition du service d'ordre Insoumis
06:47pour traquer un pauvre malheureux.
06:49La mort n'a rien à faire dans nos pratiques et dans nos rangs.
06:52J'ai dit des dizaines de fois que nous étions hostiles et opposés à la violence.
06:58Nous savons ce qu'est la douleur d'un parent qui perd un enfant
07:01et nous y compatissons, quelle que soit l'opinion de ce parent et quelle que soit l'opinion de cet
07:06enfant.
07:07A criminal investigation has been opened by authorities for voluntary homicide
07:12in addition to aggravated violence and criminal conspiracy to commit a crime.
07:19In the southeastern corner of Europe, a region that for decades remained outside the frame
07:24is now at the center of European energy security.
07:28Following the energy blockades in Russia, the European natural gas map is being redrawn
07:33and TRACE is taking on a key role.
07:36Two liquefied natural gas terminals are already operating in Greece.
07:42One of them, the floating FSRU in Alexandropolis, already supplies energy to Greece and Europe.
07:49At the same time, there are plans to build a second terminal
07:52with the aim of increasing LNG imports, mainly from the US,
07:56which will be channeled to Central and Eastern Europe
07:58to meet increased demand and compensate for losses from the ban on Russian energy.
08:03However, the implementation of this infrastructure
08:06is stumbling over tough political bargaining in Brussels.
08:10The European Commission has decided not to finance new natural gas infrastructure,
08:15citing the goals of the green transition.
08:18On the other hand, governments and energy groups in European countries
08:22are pushing for a change of course.
08:26Pressure on Brussels is mounting, not only from within the Union,
08:29but also from the United States,
08:31with representatives of the European Energy Commission
08:34attending a crucial meeting in Washington at the end of February.
08:38The Commission's decision is expected in 2026,
08:41as alternative networks must be ready before energy gaps are created.
08:51Portugal has topped the EU leaderboard for renewable electricity
08:55with a record 80.7% of its power coming from green sources in January.
09:01Surges in hydropower and wind led the charge,
09:04marking the country's best performance since a massive blackout
09:07triggered chaos across the Iberian Peninsula in 2025.
09:12While Norway leads Europe overall with over 96%,
09:16Portugal's recent performance has pushed it ahead of Denmark into second place.
09:21The shift is delivering significant financial benefits
09:25with the Portuguese Association for Renewable Energies
09:27estimating savings of 703 million euros compared to natural gas.
09:33Despite previous claims that green energy caused the 2025 blackout,
09:37official probes blame technical errors and poor grid planning
09:40rather than renewables.
09:44Experts now warn that while green power production is booming,
09:47Europe must invest nearly 584 billion euros
09:50to modernize its ageing grid infrastructure by 2030.
09:57For more than a thousand years,
09:59dogs have pulled sleds across the Arctic
10:02for Inuit, sail hunters and fishermen,
10:05but now they are being pulled over earth and rock.
10:09Greenlandic dog sled champion Georgian Christensen
10:12from the town of Ilulisat, around 300 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle,
10:19said it's the first time he can remember
10:21when there has been no snow or ice in the bay in January.
10:27Greenlandic dog sled champion Georgian Christensen
10:28The dog sled is very, very bad.
10:31Because we lost our road or big road.
10:43Because when there comes the sea of ice,
10:47and we feel it's open to the whole coast.
10:57In the 1980s, winter temperatures in Elulisat regularly hovered around minus 25 degrees Celsius,
11:06but nowadays sometimes it can be as warm as 10 degrees, Kristensen said.
11:10The Inuit Circumpolar Council said Greenland's government had to financially support many families
11:17after sea ice failed to freeze sufficiently for hunting.
11:21The melting ice could reveal untapped deposits of critical minerals,
11:26which is why many Greenlanders believe that's why US President Donald Trump turned their island into a geopolitical hotspot.
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