00:00U.S. President Donald Trump delivered the longest ever State of the Union speech as he defended his administration's increasingly
00:07unpopular policies.
00:10Millions of people across Europe commemorate the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, expressing their solidarity with Kyiv.
00:21The British government will release confidential papers related to the former Prince Andrew's appointment as trade envoy.
00:30The killing of drug lord El Mencho sparked violence in parts of Mexico this week.
00:35The unrest caused travel disruption in popular tourist destinations.
00:40U.S. President Donald Trump delivered the longest ever State of the Union speech on Tuesday as he defended his
00:47administration's increasingly unpopular policies.
00:50Underwater in opinion polls, Trump fears his Republican Party will lose control over Congress in the November midterm elections.
00:57He championed his immigration crackdowns and his push to preserve widespread tariffs that the Supreme Court's just struck down.
01:06Very unfortunate ruling.
01:10But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made.
01:19Right, Scott?
01:19Knowing that the legal power that I as president have to make a new deal could be far worse for
01:27them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme
01:35Court's unfortunate involvement.
01:38Trump also attacked his political opponents in the Democratic Party, who sometimes heckled him during the speech.
01:45Speaking on foreign policy, he praised the raid that ousted President Maduro in Venezuela and recounted U.S. airstrikes on
01:52Iran's nuclear capabilities and ongoing talks.
02:08Trump tried at points to appeal to bipartisan patriotic sentiments, introducing a series of surprise guests that included U.S.
02:16military heroes, a former political prisoner released in Venezuela, and the Olympic gold medal winning U.S. men's hockey team.
02:25Millions across countries in Europe on Tuesday commemorated the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
02:33In Paris, the Eiffel Tower was illuminated in blue and yellow, the colors of the Ukrainian flag.
02:39Thousands, including the mayor of Paris and Ukraine's ambassadors, participated at the commemoration.
03:08In Poland, protesters expressed solidarity with Ukraine in the Polish capital, Warsaw.
03:14At Warsaw's Castle Square, many waved Ukrainian flags, holding up signs, some of which read,
03:21Fight for Freedom, and Putin Always Lies, Support Ukraine.
03:26In Serbia, anti-war activists gathered in Belgrade on Tuesday to mark the four years since the start of Russia's
03:33war against Ukraine.
03:34While in London, thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square for a rally in support of Ukraine.
03:42Russia's war against Ukraine is Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.
03:47Moscow had hopes to take Kyiv in days when it launched its invasion on 24 February 2022.
03:55Four years later, with hundreds of thousands dead, millions forced to flee their homes, and much of eastern Ukraine destroyed,
04:02Moscow has not achieved all it wanted in the conflict.
04:11Over the past four years, Russia forcefully deported at least 20,000 Ukrainian children.
04:17Kyiv managed to bring back 2,000 of them.
04:21Among them is Vlad Buryak.
04:23He was 16 when Russian forces abducted him at the checkpoint as he tried to evacuate from occupied Melitopol to
04:29Zaporyzhye.
04:29Vlad was taken first to the filtration camp and then to a Russian prison.
04:33He spent 90 days in captivity.
04:38One of my job was cleaning torture room.
04:43After torturing, in this special room was lots of blood, lots of medicine bandages and everything.
04:54And after torturing, I most of the time cleaned a torturing room.
05:01After blood, just mop the floor, take off some rubbish from this room.
05:05Lots of Russian soldiers and lots of Russian special forces who torture people.
05:11They say that Ukraine not already exists.
05:16Yale's humanitarian research lab placed the number of deported Ukrainian children closer to 35,000.
05:23Moscow claimed that the number could be as high as 700,000.
05:27The actions of the Russian Federation towards Ukrainian children are not isolated incidents or humanitarian decisions gone wrong.
05:36They are part of a deliberate strategy, a state policy of demographic engineering and identity erasure.
05:42This is the arc of Russia's design.
05:44Isolate, reprogram, deploy.
05:48If we speak about the scale, the true numbers are only known to Russia.
05:55According to Ukrainian officials, over one and a half million Ukrainian children currently remain under Russian occupation.
06:08The killing of drug cartel boss El Mencho sparked violence in parts of Mexico this week.
06:13The unrest caused travel disruption in popular tourist destinations such as the resort city of Puerto Vallarta.
06:21Many tourists were told to stay indoors while flights to and from the airport were cancelled or rescheduled.
06:27It started about quarter past eight in the morning.
06:30A series of explosions.
06:33At first I wasn't quite sure what was going on.
06:35And then the next thing, burning cars, burning...
06:40And that went on, that went on until early afternoon.
06:44Actually, I was in my room watching period three of the hockey game and then it went out because all
06:49the TVs went out, right?
06:50And so we went out to the pool and I was trying to get on my phone and that's when
06:54we all heard the explosion.
06:55We did not know what it was.
06:57Flight schedules and activity in popular vacation spots have since largely returned back to normal.
07:03And on Wednesday, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico stopped urging its citizens to shelter in place.
07:13Telegram founder Pavel Durov is being investigated as part of a criminal case on suspicion of aiding terrorist activities,
07:20according to two Russian outlets who did not cite a source.
07:23Both articles, which mention Durov's criminal case, are written in an identical tone and use similar expressions.
07:32In particular, they state that as a result of terrorist attacks carried out using the Telegram messaging app,
07:38journalists Daria Dugina and Vladlin Tatarsky,
07:42along with nine high-ranking Russian military personnel, were killed, while four others were wounded.
07:47The articles also state that since 2022, the Russian Security Service has prevented 475 terrorist attacks
07:55against the military, government officials and infrastructure facilities,
08:00all of which were claimed to have been planned using Telegram.
08:07The British government will release confidential papers related to the former Prince Andrew's appointment as trade envoy
08:14after pressure from lawmakers in a scathing parliamentary debate.
08:19Lawmakers called for greater accountability from the royal family
08:22and said the king's brother had put his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ahead of his duty to the country.
08:28Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested on charges related to allegations
08:33that he shared government reports with Epstein while he was trade envoy.
08:37Frankly, it is the least we owe the victims of the horrific abuse that was perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein and
08:43others.
08:43The abuse that was enabled, aided and abetted by a very extensive group of arrogant,
08:51entitled and often very wealthy individuals in this country and elsewhere.
08:55It's not just the people who participated in the abuse.
08:59It's the many, many more who turned a blind eye out of greed, familiarity or deference.
09:06To my mind, they too were complicit, just as complicit.
09:10While the government agreed to release the files,
09:13it said the publication of some documents may be delayed until police finish their investigation.
09:22A dead endangered sperm whale washed ashore on a beach in southern Israel on Tuesday.
09:28The Israel Nature and Parks Authority said in a statement that an autopsy on the whale's body
09:33would be carried out to, quote,
09:35clarify the circumstances of death.
09:37Sperm whales are the biggest species of whale with teeth
09:40and can grow to 18 meters in length.
09:43They're classified as an endangered species and are federally protected.
09:48They were nearly decimated by the whaling industry in the 19th and 20th centuries
09:53because of the prized waxy substance found in their heads,
09:57spermaceti, which was used in oil lamps, lubricants, and candles.
10:05French President Emmanuel Macron accepted the resignation of Laurence Descartes
10:10from her post as director of the Louvre Museum following months of controversy.
10:15Descartes came under harsh criticism after the iconic museum suffered a stunning,
10:20embarrassing and daring daylight robbery back in October.
10:24Thieves stole jewels displayed in the museum worth an estimated 88 million euros
10:29in a heist that lasted barely eight minutes, highlighting serious security lapses and shocking the world.
10:36Following the heist, the car was again in hot water after the museum announced
10:41it had suffered a serious water damage in November.
10:44The Louvre said that 300 to 400 books and documents were damaged in the Egyptian department's library.
10:49A subsequent leak in February also damaged a 19th century ceiling painting,
10:55adding to the former museum chief's growing list of failures in a short time span.
11:00In February, the museum was once again caught in the headlines
11:04after it was revealed that it had been the victim of a decade-long fraud scheme,
11:08amounting to almost 12 million euros in losses.
11:12Still, Macron thanked her for her service and in an announcement via the Élysée Palace,
11:18hailed her resignation as an act of responsibility.
11:21He said the world's largest museum needs appeasement and new leadership
11:25to carry out major security and modernization projects.
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