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00:01Hungary is blocking the EU's 20th sanctions package against Russia and threatening to cut off support for Ukraine in the
00:09process.
00:09The country's foreign minister announced on Sunday that Budapest won't back the measures until Ukraine repairs a damaged section of
00:17the Jerusalem pipeline and restores oil supplies.
00:21Prime Minister Viktor Orban went further, suspending diesel deliveries and opposing a €90 billion EU war loan to Kiev.
00:31Slovakia is piling on too.
00:33Prime Minister Roberto Fico warned he'll cut emergency electricity to Ukraine if oil supplies don't resume by Monday.
00:41His country's supplies make up nearly half of Ukraine's electricity imports.
00:47Kiev is calling it blackmail, accusing both governments of doing Moscow's bidding, while Russian missiles continue to batter Ukrainian energy
00:56infrastructure through one of the coldest winters on record.
01:00Orban, the EU leader closest to the Kremlin, has long blocked sanctions and vetoed aid to Ukraine.
01:11Russia launched 50 missiles and nearly 300 drones in an overnight attack over Ukraine, days ahead of the war's four
01:20-year anniversary.
01:22The country's energy infrastructure, railway facilities and water infrastructure in cities were the main targets, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
01:32Zelensky.
01:3215 people, including four children, have been injured and one man has been killed in a Russian strike on the
01:40Kiev region.
01:41Zelensky said seven regions, including Odessa, Kiravohad, Mykolaiv and Poltava were targeted.
01:49Meanwhile, in Mykolaiv, 16,000 people have been left without electricity in below freezing temperatures after energy infrastructure was damaged
01:59in the strikes.
02:00Regional authorities reported significant damage and large-scale fires were also reported at energy facilities in the southwest region of
02:09Odessa by Ukraine's emergency workers.
02:12Zelensky said that this week alone, Russia launched more than 1,300 drone attacks.
02:23In its latest annual World Report, Human Rights Watch has warned that the global human rights system is in peril.
02:31The report states that the world has experienced a democratic decline over the last 20 years, pointing to countries like
02:38China and Russia.
02:40But the latest warning signs are coming out of the U.S., executive director Philippe Beaulopion told Euronews.
02:47And then there is the nuclear, the Trump administration, which has, you know, experienced a very or triggered a very
02:56rapid decline of democracy in the U.S. at home.
03:00But is also now turning against the entire ecosystem of human rights, the entire architecture of the rules-based world
03:09order that was patiently built over the last few decades since the Second World War.
03:13And on which we as human rights organizations have relied to advance rights, whether it's at the Human Rights Council,
03:22with the International Criminal Court, with treaties, norms that were helping make the world a better place, but are now
03:29under unprecedented threats from the Trump administration.
03:32This threat, Beaulopion says, is reverberating in other parts of the world, including in Europe.
03:39What steps should Europe and European countries in particular be taking to ensure that the defense of human rights and
03:47the human rights system around the world, not just in Europe, but everywhere in the world?
03:50Yeah. We believe it has to come from a coalition of countries, a global coalition of countries of democracies that
03:58are still attached to international law, that are still attached to human rights, to democracy, who can bend together to
04:06protect each other against the U.S., against China, against Russia, by protecting this ecosystem, this rules-based world order
04:15that is preventing, that is keeping superpowers in check.
04:20And the European Union can be playing a key role in fostering this new alliance, a bit along the lines
04:30of what the Prime Minister, Mark Carney, called for in his speech at the World Economic Forum.
04:37The EU has a real responsibility and a real interest in doing that.
04:42Is it still possible to reverse this trend that you're warning about?
04:46Look, if we didn't believe it was possible, we wouldn't be in this line of work.
04:51You know, it's it's a I think we have to be clear eyed about the moment in which we are,
04:56which is a dangerous moment, a moment where we are losing ground, where where the most basic rights are under
05:03attack all over the world, but also in the U.S.
05:06And so we have to recognize that it's a new, dangerous reality, but it should not be a call for
05:12despair.
05:13It should be a call for action.
05:17One battle after another took six top prizes at the British Academy Film Awards on Sunday.
05:25The thriller about a group of revolutionaries starring Leonardo DiCaprio won awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay,
05:34Cinematography, Editing and a Supporting Actor Award for Sean Penn.
05:38Anybody that says movies aren't any good anymore, just can piss right off because it's a great year.
05:46So I want to say thank you.
05:48And I know that there's a bar somewhere.
05:50I think we should all go there.
05:52It's been a long evening, but this is we have so much to celebrate.
05:55We have a line from Nina Simone that we stole in our film.
05:58She says, I know what freedom is.
06:00It's no fear.
06:01So let's keep making making things without fear.
06:04It's a good idea.
06:04See you at the bar.
06:06The Best Leading Actress Award went to Jessie Buckley for her performance in Hamnet as the grieving mother, Agnes Hathaway,
06:14the wife of William Shakespeare.
06:16She made history as the first Irish performer to win a Best Actress Prize at the BAFTAs.
06:24In a surprise win, British actor Robert Aramayo took home the award for Best Actor for his performance in I
06:31Swear, a fact-based British indie drama about a campaigner for people with Tourette syndrome.
06:37He called the victory over major contenders Ethan Hawke, Michael B. Jordan, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Timothee Chalamet.
06:46I absolutely can't believe this.
06:48I can't believe that I'm looking at people like you and I'm in the same category of you.
06:53Never mind that I'm studier.
06:57Wow, oh my word.
06:59Period vampire epic Sinners received three awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Woonmi Mosaku, while table tennis drama Marty Supreme
07:07failed to take any prizes.
07:38That's a cuj
07:41We receive an alert, it can be a simple gesture, it can be a ambiguous gesture, but the worst is
07:47the dissimulation.
07:48It's often the dissimulation or the gestures in the sack, but the one who works the most, it's the dissimulation.
07:56And when there's a dissimulation, everyone goes to the gate, everyone goes to the camera,
08:00and then instead of waiting for the person to finish the volley, we'll see it,
08:04we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it.
08:07But it's very useful, we'll see it a lot.
08:27I prefer to be aware, I think it's normal,
08:30that the store informs not only that it can be filmed, but it can be monitored by an IA.
08:38After, we accept it, we accept it,
08:40it's a security for the proprietor, I imagine.
08:45And if it's limited, the usage is limited, it's not broadcast, etc.,
08:49it's like a camera, after all.
08:51So it doesn't bother me.
08:51And I can see it.
09:08And on the other hand that I see in the next video I have to mention,
09:09I'd like to meet with us,
09:09and that is a no problem.
09:09Thank you and that's what I'm saying.
09:10We'll see you next time!
09:10You're welcome!
09:11You're welcome!
09:13You don't have to be in the last minute!
09:15You're going to be back!
09:21when i sit down to write a book i write it because there is some lie that i want to
09:27expose
09:29again how many fingers my starting point is always a feeling of injustice the very concept
09:36of objective truth is fading out of this world i'm going to sit down what i dare not say aloud
09:43to anyone this prospect frightens me much more than bombs democracy freedom justice have each of
09:53them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another it's about cinema
10:00cinema is about emotion uh and i and it's one of the tools that i use i use everything music
10:07images graphic to make sure that uh you know you are not only in the presence of just thoughts but
10:17also of emotion of thinking of exchanges of a collective community when i started in cinema
10:25even before uh you know it was like you couldn't mix any uh political uh ambition with art you know
10:33art was supposed to be something special something uh pure uh the same thing with entertainment
10:41everything became entertainment even news became entertainment so but i never believed that uh
10:47it's not because it's entertainment that you can't put uh you know more weight uh in in terms of
10:54the content uh and and you will find a form to make it you know cinema in my case and
11:01and i always
11:02believed that for me filmmaking is a political uh i would say um i had always a political intention
11:13uh in making my films militarianism if not fought against could triumph anywhere
11:22do you begin to see them what kind of world we are creating
11:30you
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