00:03Hungary and Slovakia have announced they are suspending diesel exports to Ukraine amid growing tensions over oil deliveries.
00:11They said they need to secure their energy supplies to replace imports of Russian oil through the damaged Druzhba pipeline.
00:18Oil transfers from Russia to Hungary and Slovakia via the Druzhba pipeline were halted on the 27th of January.
00:24The Hungarian Foreign Minister stressed Budapest plays a major role in Ukraine's energy supply.
00:44He added that Hungary will not resume diesel deliveries to Ukraine until crude oil deliveries via the pipeline resume.
00:53The pipeline carrying them was damaged by a Russian airstrike in Ukrainian territory, according to media reports.
01:00Hungary and Slovakia also called on the European Commission to enable the transport of Russian crude oil.
01:06The Commission said on Tuesday that Hungary's and Slovakia's energy security was not at risk, citing sufficient reserves in both
01:14countries.
01:19Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of misconduct in public office during his time as UK Trade
01:27Envoy, police said.
01:29A statement released on Thursday morning did not name the former British royal but said searches are being carried out
01:36at addresses in Berkshire and Norfolk, while a man in his 60s remains in police custody.
01:42Unmarked police cars were seen earlier on Thursday morning at Sandringham, where he has been living since leaving his home
01:48in Windsor.
01:49New revelations last week appeared to show Mountbatten-Windsor sent convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein potentially confidential documents during his
01:58time as UK Trade Envoy.
02:03The Trump administration has helped Europeans stop hitting the snooze button and wake up, U.S. Ambassador to the EU
02:11Andrew Posner told Euronews.
02:13He held U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's call for greater alignment between the two in his speech at
02:19the Munich Security Conference as positive for the transatlantic alliance.
02:24Posner also praised European progress in aligning its approach to migration policy with the U.S., pointing to what he
02:31thinks is one of Europe's key issues, the impact of mass migration.
02:35There's a difference between managed migration and mass migration, and I think what we've seen over the past decade is
02:40just flows of people coming onto the continent, and the reaction has not been positive.
02:47When propped with numbers showing that migrants' arrivals in the EU have in fact declined compared with previous years, Posner
02:55argued that Rubio was, quote, talking about the impact of the past mass migration and the civilizational challenge that poses.
03:06Ukraine and Russia wrapped up the second day of the U.S. brokered talks in Geneva after just under two
03:12hours of talks on Wednesday.
03:14Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that the negotiations included two tracks, military and political.
03:22All three sides were constructive on the military track, he said.
03:26But the political track is more complex, Zelensky admitted.
03:30He said this aspect includes issues related to Ukraine's territories temporarily occupied by Russia.
03:37Russian chief negotiator Vladimir Medinsky called the talks difficult but practical.
03:43Russia occupied territories of Ukraine remain the biggest sticking point in negotiations.
03:49Kyiv maintains that freezing current positions offers the most realistic foundation for a ceasefire at this stage.
03:56But Moscow is demanding that Ukrainian forces withdraw from the Donbass as a precondition for any agreement.
04:03This demand includes parts of Ukraine's Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which Russia never controlled and still cannot occupy despite 12
04:12years of attempts.
04:13Kyiv has repeatedly rejected this request.
04:22France recorded 35 consecutive days of rain, a record since 1959.
04:29Villages were flooded, roads and railways were cut, and several towns set up emergency plans.
04:35Meteo France maintains a red alert for flooding in four departments in the southwest of France.
04:41The soaked ground could no longer absorb the rain by the time storm Pedro arrived.
04:46Although it has been described as a non-exceptional winter storm,
04:49it has prompted Meteo France to take a cautious approach following the recent passage of two storms across the country.
04:56In addition to the four departments on red alert, around 20 others along the Atlantic coast are under orange alert
05:03for wind, waves and storm surge flooding.
05:05In the southwestern city of Bordeaux, the level of the Garonne River is not falling and the mayor has activated
05:11a local flood protection plan.
05:13The high tidal coefficients have led to fears of flooding in two districts of the city.
05:23The European Central Bank has denied reports that its president Christine Lagarde would resign before the end of her term.
05:30Reports on Wednesday indicated Christine Lagarde could vacate her Frankfurt seat before the French elections in April 2027,
05:38a month before her mandate expires in October 2027.
05:41The European Central Bank asserted that no decision has been made and that the president is focused on her mission
05:48in a response to Euronews.
05:50Lagarde would allow outgoing French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz to oversee the appointment of her successor.
05:58With Macron constitutionally barred from running for a third term, fears are mounting in Brussels and Paris
06:03regarding the rise of the far-right party's national rally and the alternative for Germany.
06:08Class note, the former Dutch Central Bank chief and Pablo Hernandez de Kos, the former governor of the Bank of
06:13Spain,
06:14are the most probable successor to Christine Lagarde according to a Financial Times poll.
06:22Romania's highest court has ruled a law reforming pensions for judges and prosecutors is constitutional,
06:28with the bill now set to be signed into law by the president.
06:31The new legislation raises the retirement age from 50 to 65 and limits pensions to no more than 70%
06:38of the salary they receive in the final month of services.
06:41No more than 50, 51 or 52 years old.
06:51In March, we will come with a law that will continue the corrections.
06:55This reform will open the path for other reforms that will cut from privileges.
07:10The adoption of the draft law is necessary to access the EU funding through its recovery and resilience funds, which
07:17amounts to 231 million euros.
07:28After five postponements, the Romanian constitutional court sent the law that changes magistrate pensions to promulgation.
07:36In practice, the payments will be capped to 70% of the last net salary.
07:41At the moment, a retired judge or prosecutor can get more than 4,000 euros, while the average pension in
07:47Romania is about 500 euros.
07:50At the same time, Romania is trying to unlock now 231 million euros that are tied to this reform.
07:57Ruth Novakovic for Euronews.
08:02The European Commissioner for Sport has condemned the participation of Russian and Belarusian athletes in the Milan-Kotina Paralympic Games
08:10under their national flags.
08:12Glenn Mikhelev has announced a boycott of the opening ceremony for that reason.
08:17While Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine continues, I cannot support the reinstatement of national symbols, flags, anthems and uniforms
08:25that are inseparable from that conflict he wrote on X.
08:30Russians and Belarusians have been prohibited from competing under their flags in the Olympics and Paralympics since Russia's full-scale
08:38invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
08:40They are, however, allowed to participate as individual neutral athletes, a category that allows people who have qualified for the
08:50Games to join the competition under certain conditions,
08:53such as not actively supporting the invasion and not being contracted to the Russian or Belarusian military or national security
09:01agencies.
09:02These conditions were applied in Paris 2024 and are also the rules for the current Milan-Kotina Olympics, with 13
09:11Russian and 7 Belarusian athletes participating in the competition.
09:26The Ukrainian embassy in Berlin falls silent as the trailer for the documentary film Traces plays.
09:33The film tells the story of six women who survived Russian captivity.
09:37They report on torture and sexual violence.
09:40The protagonists are also present at the event in Berlin.
09:44One of them is Irina.
09:46She talks about imprisonment, abuse, and trying to preserve her dignity.
09:50I have collected these forces for many years.
09:54I have been talking about five years after this.
10:01It was not easy.
10:05The film does not show explicit depictions of violence.
10:09Instead, the women return to places from their past, to houses that are partly destroyed, to walls with bullet holes,
10:16to devastated gardens.
10:18There they tell their stories.
10:20Director Alisa Kovalenko deliberately chose this form.
10:23And when I was in Kherson Ridge, it was after the occupation, and I also saw the traces of this
10:31war, traces of Russian aggression everywhere.
10:34It was like minefields, burning fields, like destroyed houses, but also wounded people.
10:42But there are some wounds that we can see visible and invisible.
10:47And I started to think about how we can build this actually coexistence of these visual traces and invisible traces.
10:58On the sidelines of the Berlinale, several civil society representatives at the embassy are supporting the women's initiative called SEMA,
11:06which fights against sexual violence as a weapon of war and supports those affected.
11:12The Ukrainians today can be a good example of how society works, how democracy is protected,
11:25and what are the European values that are based on our consciousness in Europe, what they actually mean.
11:35Despite the gravity of the reports, there is also a sense of solidarity.
11:39The women see their voices as a sword against the violent acts of Russian soldiers.
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