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00:14Good morning, it is Friday the 20th of February.
00:18I'm Maeve McMahan and this is Europe Today.
00:21Your daily dose of European news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:26Coming up after the first ever meeting of Donald Trump's so-called Board of Peace,
00:32the United States has said it will pledge billions.
00:34It also says it will increase its oversight of the United Nations,
00:37make sure the organisation, quote, runs more effectively.
00:41Officials from over 50 countries attended the meeting, 27 as full members,
00:47with many others observing, including representatives from the European Commission.
00:51President Trump described it as one of the most important things he has ever done
00:55and welcomed the fact that nine members pledged billions to help reconstruct the Gaza Strip.
01:01A handful of countries will also be committing troops.
01:03We can start by taking a listen to President Trump.
01:07Certainly in terms of power and in terms of prestige,
01:11there's never been anything close because these are the greatest world leaders.
01:17Almost everybody's accepted and the ones that haven't will be.
01:20Everybody, they're all joining, everybody, most of them very immediately.
01:27A few that we really don't want because they're trouble.
01:31I've seen some great boards, period.
01:33It's peanuts compared to this board.
01:36For more, we can bring in Euronews's correspondent, Maya de la Bomme,
01:40who's been following this story very closely for us this week.
01:43So we see a very celebratory there,
01:45Trump saying that everybody is joining this Board of Peace.
01:49Maya, is that true?
01:50I think it's a little bit out of touch with reality,
01:53because if you look at the number of countries which really join,
01:56it's 50 countries, as you said in your introduction.
02:00And, you know, from these countries,
02:02you only have 27 countries that have officially joined the board.
02:06And if you look at Europe, it's only, as you said,
02:10a handful of countries that are really joining this board.
02:12And the most committed member, as we saw yesterday on social media,
02:19is Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister,
02:21who praised Mr. Trump,
02:23but also said that he was the only real representative of Europe
02:27as also a founding member of the board.
02:30So, you know, it's mainly Hungary.
02:33And if you look at Europe,
02:35they've all distanced themselves from the board.
02:38But you have different levels of commitment, clearly.
02:40You have, you know, France and Spain boycotting the whole board.
02:44And then you have other countries which, you know,
02:47sent diplomats, civil servants to show that still
02:50they want to be part of the conversation.
02:52This is Gaza.
02:53They need to be there.
02:54But in the end, European countries are not represented.
02:58They are not supporting.
02:59There's no massive approval here.
03:01And meanwhile, the European Commission,
03:02as always walking a bit of a tightrope on many topics,
03:05this one included, they did decide to send
03:07their commissioner for the Mediterranean,
03:09Commissioner Suiza.
03:10She posted a photograph of herself
03:12very proudly being there yesterday.
03:13But many people are annoyed about this,
03:15especially the French, Maya.
03:16Yeah, and it's quite unprecedented
03:18because yesterday night, Jean-Noël Barraud,
03:20who is the Foreign Affairs Minister of France,
03:23wrote on X, so publicly said that he was very,
03:27you know, he was against this decision
03:29of sending Suiza to DC.
03:33He thought that the commission has no right to do this.
03:36The commission has no mandate to do this.
03:37And if you look at this tweet,
03:38he says the European Commission should never have attended
03:41the Board of Peace meeting in Washington,
03:43as it had not received the council's mandate to do so.
03:47So this really reflects the French position,
03:49also reflects the Spanish position,
03:51which is to say there's no mandate
03:53because the mandate is validated by 27 European countries,
03:56and the commission cannot play solo,
03:59cannot go there without any mandate.
04:01So it's quite unprecedented because it's one of the big,
04:04you know, member countries in Europe saying,
04:06no, the commission has no right to do so.
04:08So it was big.
04:09It was very big.
04:10And of course, you were reporting on that all week.
04:13And of course, it's a big topic that will dominate
04:14the upcoming Foreign Affairs Council
04:16taking place here in Brussels very soon.
04:18Maida Le Boon, thank you so much for that update.
04:21But now, coming up, we'll be joined by Francesca Albanese,
04:24the UN Special Reporter
04:26for the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
04:28She's in the headlines a lot lately.
04:30Recently, she stood accused of calling Israel
04:32the common enemy of humanity at a forum in Qatar.
04:36But as the transcript then of her speech later showed,
04:38she never made that comment.
04:40France is, however, calling for her resignation.
04:43We can take now a listen to the French Foreign Minister,
04:46Jean-Noël Barrault.
04:49Enough with the fake news.
04:50I did not distort or shorten Mrs Albanese's comments.
04:53I simply condemn them because they are reprehensible
04:57and add to a long list of provocations,
04:59such as the justification of the 7th of October,
05:02the worst antisemitic massacre in our history since the Holocaust,
05:06in which 51 of our compatriots lost their lives.
05:09So yes, I said that these repeated provocations
05:12mean that she should have the dignity to resign.
05:17So, Francesca Albanese, thank you so much
05:19for joining us this morning on Europe Today
05:21here on Euronews.
05:23Thank you.
05:24Thank you for having me.
05:25So you were listening there to Jean-Noël Barrault.
05:28How do you respond to the fact that the Foreign Minister of France
05:30is saying that you're not fit for the job?
05:36It's his opinion.
05:38It's the French's diplomacy's opinion.
05:43And I keep on asking them to respond to the content of my reports.
05:49It's already ludicrous that the French Minister of Foreign Affairs
05:58accuses me for something I never said.
06:01And then he's scratching the barrel in order to give his anger a meaning.
06:09And so he says, yeah, she didn't say that, but she's untenable anyway.
06:13But again, let's not make it about me.
06:17I've prepared and submitted to the UN seven reports,
06:22which are damning.
06:23And also for France as a state and for some of French businesses.
06:28This is what his country, his government needs to respond to.
06:32And the fact that they had more scrutiny over something I didn't say,
06:39that over the practices of a state accused of war crimes,
06:44crimes against humanity and genocide, is telling.
06:46But you've discussed the idea of the system.
06:48What do you mean?
06:49What is this system that you're criticizing?
06:51Oh, absolutely.
06:52But this is what I documented in my last report.
06:56And my, so in the economy of genocide, economy of occupation report,
07:01I said Israel would have not been able to displace, replace the Palestinians,
07:06as it did in the occupied Palestinian territory,
07:08hadn't it been for a network of private actors, businesses,
07:13and even universities, research centers, banks, pension funds, etc.
07:18And then in the next report, I documented 62 states,
07:21among whom France,
07:24who have provided political, strategic, military support to Israel,
07:31so as while he was committing crimes against the Palestinians.
07:34And this is the system.
07:35Impunity, the High Commissioner for Human Rights says, kills.
07:39But you've said it's not about you,
07:40but we're reading more about you than about these documents.
07:43And Jean-Noël Barraud, you know,
07:44the foreign minister of a very important country,
07:46has said he's lost the confidence in you.
07:49Do you plan to resign?
07:53No, no, because I have the trust of the Human Rights Council.
07:58I mean, again, the fact that it's about me,
08:01it's not something I can respond to.
08:03It's something that regards France, Italy, Germany,
08:07and the Czech Republic,
08:08who have gone after the French minister,
08:11amplifying the lie.
08:12Again, the reason why they're attacking me
08:15is a distraction in order not to talk about my findings.
08:20It's so convenient, but also so hypocritical.
08:23And meanwhile, we've heard from the likes of Marco Rubio
08:26saying that the UN is obsolete.
08:28What is your view here?
08:30Yeah, this is the thing.
08:32I've been saying that for years,
08:34that behind the assaults, for example, on ANRA,
08:38and then on My Mandate,
08:39and other parts of the human rights system,
08:41there was the beginning of a project,
08:46the dismantlement of the multilateral system,
08:48substituted, we see that now with the Board of Peace,
08:51with something else,
08:52which is more the expression of a new empire
08:56or an empire unveiled than multilateralism.
09:00But again, there is a movement that doesn't want it
09:03and in fact is pushing for a decolonized multilateralism.
09:08And this is what we have to work on.
09:10And what about the UN Security Council?
09:11Do you think it's a little bit obsolete?
09:13Well, I think that there are parts of the UN Security Council
09:18that are obsolete.
09:19One for all is the veto power.
09:21The veto power reflects the world order of the past century.
09:25We need the decolonized multilateralism
09:27where each state has one vote.
09:30And it's not about adding new members who can have a veto.
09:33It's about removing the veto.
09:36Okay, Francesca Albanese, UN Special Reporter there.
09:39Thank you so much for joining us here on Europe Today on Euronews.
09:43But now, moving on.
09:44President Donald Trump has warned Iran
09:47that it must make a deal over its nuclear program
09:49or, quote, really bad things will happen.
09:52Trump says in 10 or 15 days,
09:55the US will take some sort of action.
09:57For the view from Brussels,
09:58we're joined here on set now by Tommy Houtanen,
10:00director of the Wilfrid Martin Centre.
10:02That's a think tank base here in Brussels
10:04affiliated with the centre-right European People's Party.
10:07Tommy, good morning.
10:08Good morning. Pleasure to be here.
10:09Yeah, great to have you with us.
10:11Look, what is the view from Brussels here?
10:13Is another war on the horizon?
10:15You mentioned Trump.
10:16It may be so that even Trump doesn't know
10:18exactly what's going to happen.
10:20My guess and what I'm discussing with Washington
10:22is that there are going to be an action.
10:25There are going to be a war.
10:27It's going to last maybe 24,
10:29or the heat is going to take 24, 48 hours.
10:32What is more unclear is what will happen after.
10:35I think the risk is a little bit there
10:36that in the ground there's huge expectations
10:39that the US is going to stay there.
10:41I don't think so.
10:42And then there's a question,
10:43how is the follow-up?
10:45There will be ground operation.
10:46Israelis are going to be involved
10:48sooner or later.
10:50But what will happen?
10:51That's the question.
10:52And of course, the wider implications then.
10:54Exactly.
10:55I think, you know, in Europe,
10:57we need to understand what the possibilities is.
10:59Because if you look at Iran,
11:00Iran is in the current regime,
11:02is in war with its own people.
11:04It's creating havoc in the region.
11:06But also it's in conflict with Europe,
11:09helping Russia, you know,
11:11children in Kiev are dying
11:12because of the Iranese thrones.
11:14And I think that what you can say
11:17is that there's a massive possibility
11:19for massive change
11:21on how the whole Moscow,
11:23Teheran, Beijing actually is going to work out.
11:27And I think it gives a new opportunities for us
11:29to enhance our power.
11:31So what is the role then
11:32that the European Union can play here?
11:34Well, that's a good question.
11:35First of all, you know,
11:36what will happen if and when there is a hit?
11:39If there is a civil war kind of situation,
11:41unfortunately, the tools are very little.
11:43But on the other hand,
11:45if there is a kind of Syria kind of quick switch
11:48or quick change,
11:50we could assume that the Europeans
11:53will get very quickly involved.
11:56President Metzeler has already very clearly stated
11:58on behalf of the parliament
11:59that we are with the people.
12:01They are already,
12:02Manfred Webb made the initiative
12:04on opening the embassies,
12:06you know, for demonstrators.
12:08That's an indication
12:09that we would be very quickly
12:10involved.
12:12However, I don't think
12:12that there's a strategy
12:13and thinking yet,
12:14but I think there's a political commitment
12:16and understanding
12:17and that that's a moment for us,
12:18for Europe to come in
12:20and really fix the Middle East.
12:21And meanwhile,
12:22you're on the phone,
12:22you said,
12:23close contacts with your contacts in DC.
12:25Yes, yes, indeed.
12:27But of course,
12:28it's all about the president
12:30and what the president finally decides.
12:32Nobody knows for sure
12:34and maybe even
12:35the president himself doesn't know.
12:37Well, whatever the president does decide,
12:38we will report it here
12:39on your news,
12:40Tommy Houten,
12:41and thank you so much
12:41for joining us here this morning
12:43on Europe Today
12:44and for bringing us your analysis there
12:45from the Wilfrid Martin Centre.
12:48But now,
12:49moving on,
12:49Christine Lagarde
12:50is expected to leave
12:52the European Central Bank
12:53in Frankfurt
12:54before her eight-year term
12:56as president expires
12:57in October 2027.
12:59Europe's top central banker,
13:00who joined the bank
13:01back in 2019
13:02from the International Monetary Fund,
13:04wants to exit
13:05before the French
13:06presidential election
13:07in April next year.
13:09For more
13:09on what this all could mean,
13:11our Ida Sanchez
13:12takes a look.
13:13Big changes are coming
13:15for the European Central Bank.
13:17After months of speculation,
13:19rumours that Christine Lagarde,
13:21the head of the ECB,
13:22will step down
13:23are coming true.
13:28Europe's top bank
13:29in Frankfurt
13:30said that the decision
13:31had yet to be made.
13:33But why would Christine Lagarde
13:35want to leave early?
13:43Reports suggest that
13:44a possible goodbye
13:45would leave room
13:46to French President
13:47Emmanuel Macron
13:48and German Chancellor
13:49Friedrich Merz
13:50to choose a successor
13:52before the French
13:53presidential elections.
13:55This would give them time
13:56to oversee
13:57the appointment
13:58of her successor,
14:00giving the current leadership
14:01of Europe's top two economies
14:03the chance to shape
14:05the future
14:05of the European monetary policy.
14:08Who would want
14:09to take her position?
14:11Spain might be
14:12one of the countries
14:13ready to step in.
14:15Spain wants to play
14:16a leading role
14:16in the new council
14:17once the remaining positions
14:19are renewed.
14:20We are prepared
14:21should this situation
14:22or decision
14:23come earlier.
14:25And they are not
14:26the only one
14:27as Klaasnot,
14:28the former Dutch
14:29central bank chief
14:30might also be interested.
14:38Ida Sanchez reporting there
14:39and for more of course
14:40on what that could mean
14:41for the future
14:42of the EU institutions
14:43and who will run them
14:44do take a look
14:45at our reporting
14:46on Euronews.com.
14:47But for now,
14:48a story that everybody
14:49is talking about.
14:51Andrew Mountbatten Windsor,
14:52the former British prince
14:54and brother of King Charles
14:55has been photographed
14:56on his way home
14:58after spending
14:58some 12 hours
15:00being questioned
15:01by police
15:01in Norfolk yesterday.
15:02Andrew was arrested
15:03on suspicion
15:04of misconduct
15:05in public office.
15:07For more on this
15:08major scandal
15:09facing the royal family
15:10we can bring in
15:11our culture editor,
15:12our very own Toks Salico.
15:13Good morning Toks.
15:14Great to have you
15:15with us here this morning.
15:16Look, this is a huge
15:17it's a huge scandal Toks.
15:19Just bring us up
15:20to speed on the latest.
15:21It is a huge scandal
15:23as you rightly said Maeve.
15:24It's sent shockwaves
15:26across the UK
15:27which let's face it
15:28is used to hearing
15:30about scandals
15:31from the royal family
15:32but also anything
15:33that happens there
15:34sends a shockwaves
15:35across the rest
15:36of the world.
15:37The latest is
15:38as you said
15:38that Prince Andrew
15:39was released
15:40late last night.
15:42It was roughly
15:42around 12 hours
15:44after his arrest.
15:45No charges
15:46have been made
15:47regarding that
15:49the suspicion
15:50of misconduct
15:51in public office
15:53and the raid
15:54that took place
15:55at his Berkshire home
15:57is still continuing
15:5924 hours after
16:01that's at the Royal Lodge
16:03on the Windsor estate
16:04of course
16:05but it's not
16:07the search
16:08which was taking place
16:09at his current home
16:11hopefully viewers
16:12can stay with me
16:14at the Sandringham estate
16:15in Norfolk
16:16where he was arrested
16:17that search is ended
16:19but we don't know
16:21what's going to
16:22come from those searches
16:23of course
16:23we do know
16:24that police
16:24have been looking
16:25for papers
16:26in relation
16:27to his former role
16:28as the UK
16:29trade envoy
16:31of a role
16:31that he had
16:32for roughly
16:32around five or six years
16:34and we should
16:35make it clear
16:35of course
16:36that Andrew
16:37Mountbatten-Windsor
16:38has consistently
16:39denied any
16:40wrongdoing
16:41in relation
16:41to Geoffrey Epstein
16:42the disgraced
16:43financier
16:44and convicted
16:45sex offender
16:46what we also
16:47understand now
16:48is that the king
16:49neither the king
16:51nor Buckingham Palace
16:52had any knowledge
16:53of the arrest
16:54before the raid
16:55however the Home Secretary
16:57was informed
16:59by the National
17:00Police Chiefs Council
17:01which has issued
17:03a statement
17:03as well this morning
17:04saying that
17:06it was in line
17:06with routine practice
17:08it alerted
17:09its operational
17:10colleagues
17:11no word yet
17:12from number 10
17:13though some might say
17:14perhaps surprisingly
17:15but unsurprisingly
17:17Donald Trump
17:18has had a few words
17:19to say
17:19he's described it
17:20as a very sad thing
17:21adding that
17:22it's a shame
17:23as US lawmakers
17:25and survivors
17:26in the US
17:28of course
17:28are still calling
17:29for justice
17:30and interesting
17:31Toks you mentioned
17:31it took the royal family
17:32by surprise there
17:33I mean what does
17:34this all mean
17:35for the monarchy
17:36who are much loved
17:36in the UK
17:38they are still much loved
17:40despite their crisis
17:42I mean often
17:42in these situations
17:43we talk about
17:44you know
17:44what must the mood music
17:46be like
17:47and I would imagine
17:48perhaps in Buckingham Palace
17:49there might be
17:50a mix between
17:51sort of you know
17:52embarrassment
17:52by madness
17:53or he ain't heavy
17:55he's my brother
17:55we read
17:56of course
17:57some of you
17:58would have seen
17:58the statement
17:59from King Charles
18:00yesterday
18:01making it clear
18:02that no one
18:03is above the law
18:05he called for
18:06the law
18:07and the investigation
18:08to be carried out
18:09interestingly
18:10though
18:11as I mentioned
18:12there's been no
18:12real statement
18:13from number 10
18:14but Sir Keir Starmer
18:16did appear on television
18:17yesterday
18:18roughly around
18:19the same time
18:20as Andrew Mountbatten
18:23was being arrested
18:24but he was
18:25it wasn't reported
18:26at that time
18:27and he also
18:28made it clear
18:29that in the
18:30eventual possibility
18:31of action
18:32being taken
18:33against Andrew
18:35that no one
18:36would be
18:37against above the law
18:38but make no mistake
18:40even though charges
18:42haven't been
18:43issued yet
18:44this is
18:45an enormous
18:46crisis
18:46for the royal family
18:48and as well
18:49for the monarchy
18:50I don't think
18:51there's been
18:52actually
18:52an arrest
18:54in the royal family
18:54they've had
18:55some good behaviour
18:56for nigh on
18:57about 500 or 600 years
18:59now
18:59I think the last one
18:59was in 1605
19:01Princess Anne
19:02was perhaps
19:03the last
19:04royal member
19:05to actually
19:06have been charged
19:07when she
19:08had a conviction
19:09for her dog
19:10biting somebody
19:12but
19:13seeing as he's
19:14eighth in line
19:15to the throne
19:16it could be a crisis
19:18Thank you so much
19:19for that live update
19:20there on a story
19:21that is extremely
19:22embarrassing
19:23of course
19:23for the royal family
19:25but that does
19:26bring this edition
19:27of Europe Today
19:28to an end
19:28thank you so much
19:29for your company
19:29as always
19:30more news and analysis
19:31you know where to go
19:32it's Euronews.com
19:33take care
19:34and see you very soon
19:34here on Euronews
19:36next week
20:00and see you next time
20:02and see you next time
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