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01:49Now, this comes, obviously, after recent attacks on U.S. embassies and consulates across the region in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
01:55and the UAE.
01:56Also, the Qatar News Agency announced that Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdurrahman bin Jassim al-Shani received a
02:03phone call from Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araqqi, just yesterday.
02:07And now, this is significant because this is the first time the two leaders have spoken since the start of
02:12this war.
02:13Now, during that call, Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed categorically rejected Iran's claims that it was not attacking Qatar and
02:21just U.S. interests alone.
02:22Sheikh Mohammed reportedly pointed to recent strike attempts at Doha's airport, as well as the two LNG production facilities, and
02:32called for an immediate halt to the attacks.
02:35So, while this doesn't sound like the leaders had a lot of agreement, they didn't see eye to eye on
02:41a lot, it's significant that they're having this conversation at all.
02:44Just 24 hours previously, Qatar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said there were no open lines of communication between the two
02:50countries.
02:51And Adele, what about travelers stranded in the airports there?
02:54What is the latest on that front?
02:56That's a very complicated situation as well.
02:59Some flights are operating in the U.S. State Department since 17,500 Americans have now returned back to U
03:04.S. soil.
03:05have left the Middle East.
03:06In fact, nearly half of them, 8,500, touched down just on Tuesday alone.
03:12Now, both Qatar and the UA have said they will cover hotel and food costs for all stranded passengers.
03:17But here in Qatar, the airspace remains closed.
03:19And there are 8,000 stranded passengers here.
03:22I spoke to one, a reality TV star who says that he was returning home from India to a touchdown
03:30in Doha and then going back to Texas when the plane was diverted and you turned back to Doha.
03:36It was at this moment that Oliver Sims noticed something was wrong and started to feel scared.
03:40Let's hear from him himself.
03:43I would say that this is definitely a scary situation because, you know, being here right now, I'm very concerned
03:50still.
03:51What, like, should I leave the country?
03:53Should I go to Saudi Arabia and fly out of there?
03:56Should I go to Oman and fly out of there?
03:57But, you know, a lot of Qatari citizens have told me they were like, you know what, just stay put.
04:03It's fine because Doha and Qatar are pretty safe, which I do believe as well.
04:08But it is just nice and reassuring having a local say that.
04:13Reality TV star Oliver Sims there speaking to our correspondent Adele Khalim.
04:17Now, European governments are getting worried about the impact the Middle East crisis is having on them.
04:22Energy, gas, food prices have all spiked and capitals are also jittery about citizens stranded in the region.
04:28For the view from Belgium, Euronews' Lauren Walker spoke exclusively to Belgium's Defence Minister Theo Franken.
04:34Minister, thank you for joining us.
04:36Firstly, what is your reaction to this war?
04:39And in your eyes, is it legal?
04:42It's a big discussion, of course.
04:44And I think that when you see international law and the interpretation of the last few decades, that it can
04:51be problematic.
04:52But it's a righteous cause to try to decapitate the Ayatollah regime.
04:59That's something totally, it's rightful.
05:01So I think that there's a lot of discussion about it.
05:05I fully understand this.
05:08But I cannot support the Ayatollah regime, not for a second.
05:12It is the most cruel regime of the world.
05:16And they're supporting Hamas, they're supporting and financing Hezbollah and Houthi and all those terrorist actors in the Middle East,
05:24but also in Europe, also here in Brussels, also in Belgium.
05:28So I think that this may be problematic concerning international law, but I think that it can be defended as
05:40well,
05:40that they try to take out all those dictators and mullahs and Ayatollahs.
05:46So you think the means justify the end here?
05:50For me, I think it is.
05:51Yeah, I think that also the same thing has been said by our Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday in the
05:56Parliament.
05:57So yes, we're totally on the same line.
05:59And yesterday you said that Belgium is preparing to provide military support should this be requested in the region.
06:06What could this support look like?
06:08And if Belgium does provide support, does this mean Belgium is at war as well?
06:14No, so it will be defensive actions.
06:17So for example, a country like Jordan asking for aid, then we can help them to protect their territory.
06:27It's not to start a war or to continue or to participate with Israel and the United States.
06:35It's more to help people and countries in the Middle East.
06:40And obviously, as we've just said, Belgium is providing support.
06:44Do you think the EU as a whole should also be doing more to support allies in the region?
06:50Yeah, of course.
06:51But like military decisions, it is the sovereignty of every and each country.
06:55So that's not easy.
06:56I think that Europe needs to really to be very clear on the support for Cyprus.
07:02But on the Middle East, it's more like bilateral.
07:05And lastly, Belgium recently seized a suspected Russian Shadow Fleet tanker.
07:11What will happen with this tanker now?
07:14And does this signify a ramping up of the targeting of Moscow's fleet of vessels?
07:19Yes, we need to really increase pressure on the Putin regime to really get peace negotiations who are true and
07:29who are well-meant.
07:31And we don't have that for the moment.
07:34And I think that the only way we can increase pressure is to work on their income, to work on
07:41their oil and gas revenues.
07:43And that means that we need to also tackle on the logistic lines.
07:46And that means that we need to tackle the Shadow Fleet.
07:48So, yes, we will continue on that pathway.
07:52And do you think that now this conflict in the Middle East, that it threatens taking the attention away from
07:58what is happening in Russia and Ukraine,
08:00which was obviously until about two or three weeks ago the main topic on the EU agenda?
08:06No, I think that the east part of our continent keeps on being number one priority.
08:12Thank you, Minister.
08:17Euro News' Lauren Walker there speaking to the Belgian Minister for Defence, Theo Franken.
08:21And now, the Spanish government has doubled down on President Donald Trump's threat to cut trade-off with Spain.
08:28Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez insists his country will not be complicit in the conflict in the Middle East,
08:33saying it was like playing, quote, Russian roulette with the destiny of millions.
08:38Our Jacobianas takes a closer look at this diplomatic dispute.
08:43It all started with a geopolitical earthquake.
08:47Following the US and Israeli strikes on Iran, Israel's foreign minister called out Europe's deep divisions.
08:54The Spanish government, which is standing with all the tyrants of the world, like it stood with Venezuela,
09:01they are standing now with Iran.
09:03And Madrid fired back.
09:05Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared a firm no to war
09:09and blocked the US from using Spanish soil for its Iran operations.
09:14And in response, Donald Trump threatened to cut off all trade with Spain.
09:19So let's break down what is at stake.
09:22First, the military footprint.
09:25Spain vetoed US access to its Rota and Morón military bases.
09:29And these two strategically vital hubs for Washington in Europe sit near the Strait of Gibraltar,
09:35acting as a primary gateway for projecting American power into the Middle East.
09:41And without them, US logistics gets significantly more complicated.
09:46And second, there is the economic fallout.
09:49Because as one of Spain's largest non-EU trading partners,
09:54the US accounts for tens of billions of euros in annual trade.
09:58And if Washington pulls the plug, it could devastate Spanish exporters,
10:03hitting everything from heavy machinery and pharmaceuticals to wine and olive oil.
10:09However, Madrid insists it is standing on the side of international law.
10:13And pointing to the Iraq war that took place around 20 years ago,
10:18Sánchez warned against repeating the same mistakes of the past.
10:21And he argued that Spain, backing US military action back then,
10:26only unleashed massive insecurity across Europe.
10:29But with Washington using trade as a weapon against yet another NATO ally,
10:35only one question remains.
10:37Who will blink first this time?
10:43And to hear how Spaniards feel about the stance of their prime minister,
10:47Euronews Madrid correspondents David Artiles and Isidro Montero
10:50took to the streets of the Spanish capital to ask them.
10:55I think military bases can't be used to whatever Trump feels like.
10:58So Sánchez took that decision.
11:01It's true that we hope it doesn't have consequences
11:04because it is how Trump operates.
11:06But I think the decision Sánchez has made is very good.
11:13Trump is illegal in his actions and in his very being.
11:17What he does is illegal.
11:19He is a pseudo-dictator, an undesirable character for me.
11:26Of course, Sánchez's response has been that he doesn't want war.
11:29And that's normal.
11:30We don't want war.
11:32We want them to stop now.
11:34Sánchez has done the right thing.
11:35Because the more they avoid this, the better.
11:38And for more on this, we're joined here on set by Euronews' EU editor,
11:42Maria Tadeo, who covered Spanish politics for years.
11:44Maria, what does this fight mean now for the U.S. government?
11:47Who's going to blink first?
11:47Well, Pedro Sánchez is certainly not going to blink at this point because, yes, this is a story with many
11:54ramifications.
11:54The politics, but also the security aspect of it.
11:58Both, of course, are NATO countries.
11:59There's the intelligence share.
12:01And then, of course, the business ties between Spain and the U.S.
12:04But at this stage, and yesterday, I reported extensively on Euronews about this.
12:09I was on the phone really trying to get a sense of the thinking of the Spanish president and the
12:14Spanish prime minister at this stage.
12:15And the idea is that he has a strategy that is twofold.
12:18One, he believes and detects that a big part of the Spanish population is against this war and does not
12:25want a war.
12:27He also detects that President Trump is someone who's incredibly polarizing for Spanish voters.
12:31So he needs to activate his own base back in Spain.
12:34And that means progressive voters.
12:36It means, of course, militant voters.
12:39It means, of course, left-leaning voters.
12:41So he wants to really mobilize his core, of course, as an election in Spain in 2027.
12:46And then the other part of this is that they really want to replicate this sort of Dominique de Villepin
12:51moment.
12:52Of course, if we go back to 2003, remember, that was a U.S. intervention in Iran or Iraq, I
12:58should note.
12:58At the time, Dominique de Villepin said that the war would lead to disastrous consequences.
13:03The Spanish prime minister is essentially replicating now that speech,
13:06believing that it can also propel his international image.
13:10And just finally, the Spanish government is preparing to put together,
13:14according to sources that spoke to Euronews, a big gathering of progressive voices in Barcelona in April.
13:19That was confirmed yesterday by the Brazilian president, who says he will attend.
13:23And we can read more about that, of course, on Euronews.com.
13:25But were you just on another register?
13:27Yesterday, you were in Luxembourg at the European Investment Bank talks.
13:30And you had the opportunity to speak to an actor that we all know and love.
13:33Indeed.
13:34So Nikolai Kosterwald, of course, he's part of this group of Scandinavian actors
13:38that have really managed to be successful in Hollywood.
13:40Of course, we all remember him as Jamie Lannister in Game of Thrones.
13:44But he also is an ambassador for the United Nations, the development program of the UN, too.
13:49And I was struck, really, A, by how willingly open he is to talk about politics,
13:54but, two, how much he defended the UN, obviously, in the context of a very contentious board of peace
14:00led by President Trump.
14:01Let's take a look.
14:03Nikolai Kosterwald, thank you so much for joining us.
14:05Of course, you've had a very successful television and film career.
14:09You don't need an introduction.
14:10But there's another side of you, which is the many years that you've dedicated to humanitarian causes
14:15and also climate.
14:17And the obvious question, certainly to me, is why?
14:21Well, because I think it's important, because it's something that's always...
14:25I've had an interest in this.
14:27I think it affects all of us.
14:28And that's why when I was asked by the UNDP if I wanted to be a goodwill ambassador in 2016,
14:34I instantly said, yes, because I believe in the UN.
14:37I believe in the international, you know, coming together.
14:41But the thing is, I wasn't quite sure about the DP.
14:44And the United Nations Development Programme is the biggest aid agency in the world.
14:49And I didn't know enough about them.
14:51So I had to also educate myself.
14:52I'm happy you mentioned you said, yes, immediately.
14:54You've been doing this work for now almost 10 years.
14:56Yes.
14:56But you said, I believe in the work that the UN does.
14:59Yes.
15:00Why?
15:01And there's a political reality behind this.
15:02I don't want to get too quick into the politics.
15:04But you know for a year now, the Trump administration has been very vocal, saying,
15:08we consider that this is basically now a woke club.
15:11The Secretary General is not doing a good job.
15:12I don't understand how you can call it a woke club.
15:14It was built in the ruins of the Second World War.
15:17And the whole idea behind it, look at the charter of the UN.
15:20It's about, let's come together.
15:22Let's not fight.
15:24Let's talk it out.
15:25Let's use diplomacy.
15:26And, of course, is the UN perfect?
15:29No.
15:29Does it need reform?
15:31Absolutely.
15:31Is it a good idea to have a security council with five members that are just stuck there
15:36and can always veto?
15:37No.
15:38It's a terrible idea.
15:39But the alternative, where we just go out and all try to fight for ourselves,
15:44we've done that before, before the UN.
15:47It's not a good idea.
15:48And I think we have to insist on communication.
15:51So you feel very strongly about this.
15:52That's what I'm picking up from you.
15:54You're going deeply into it.
15:56You don't believe in the UN?
15:57But the question may be bad.
15:59No, no, no, no.
15:59I can ask you a question.
16:00Just before we start, you asked me something, which I thought was really interesting.
16:03I think that could be it.
16:04Go ahead.
16:05Because you said at the Berlinale, there was artists being asked these questions.
16:08And some of them struggle to answer.
16:09And you're like, how can they not answer this?
16:13But you do this for a living.
16:15And you don't want to answer this.
16:17You don't believe in the UN?
16:18In a way, I have to stay impartial.
16:19But I can say there is a big debate about the UN.
16:22There's a board of peace now that has come up.
16:24It seems the world is split as to what is the functionality.
16:27But in your experience...
16:28Do you think that he's been...
16:31What do you call that thing when people make fun on the Internet?
16:34When they're trolling?
16:35Do you think the choice of words to call it the board of peace, do you think that's trolling?
16:41Just hear it out loud.
16:42Board of peace.
16:43We're done with peace.
16:44We just want to get rich quick.
16:47Is that it?
16:48So is a world now where you look at it, it is about money now?
16:52Well, I guess if you're cynical, you say it's always been about money somehow, right?
16:57The power grab.
16:58But that's also why we say let's get together.
17:00We have to find a way where it's not just the strongest and the biggest that control the world,
17:05where we actually all have a seat at the table.
17:08And that's why the UN is important.
17:09And in your experience, would you go, it's been a force for good in specific cases that you've seen yourself,
17:15that you can go back and say, I saw a difference specifically with my own eyes in multiple occasions.
17:21Yes, of course.
17:22If you look at recent history, like the Paris Agreement, the Paris Agreement,
17:25the whole world coming together to say, listen, we have to deal with climate change.
17:29We have to do something about this.
17:30Now, yes, the U.S. have left and have rejoined and then they left again.
17:34But the whole world is moving in this direction and standing up.
17:38And I think that is very positive.
17:39In 2019, there was a big green wave.
17:42Every politician was jumping off.
17:46It sort of has disappeared.
17:47Nobody talks about a green planet.
17:49It's a green industry.
17:49Why do you think that is?
17:50I can ask you that without you being.
17:51There's been huge social pushback, of course.
17:53Yes.
17:53Connected to what people perceive as a sort of a very expensive energy.
17:57The world has changed because of the war in Ukraine.
18:00But I just think if you speak to young people today, I think a lot of young people are very
18:04concerned about.
18:05But for some reason, it stopped being discussed in news outlets more or less.
18:11And the media also lost interest.
18:13Well, I think there is a lot of financial incentives involved with this.
18:18I think when the U.S. go out as aggressive as they have and say, listen, you cannot use the
18:23word climate change anymore in any official documents in the U.S.
18:26If you have these SDGs in your companies, we will not do business with you.
18:31Yeah, that is going to have huge effects on also the media companies.
18:35And we've seen that in the U.S., but also in Europe.
18:37And then now it's a final question, of course.
18:39You travel the world.
18:40And when you look at Europe, how do you see Europe evolving?
18:43And it was a very difficult question, but I've got to ask you.
18:45Listen, it's funny this thing because we're talking about it.
18:50I think that discussion is very important.
18:52I think that it's a beautiful thing.
18:54And Europe is so many countries.
18:57It's not like we can't just go like they do in the U.S.
19:00where one guy says, well, this is how we're going to do it.
19:02Now we're going to do this.
19:03No, we have to talk it out.
19:04We have to discuss.
19:05Then we find a way.
19:07But I think that that is a quality.
19:10That is the insisting on democracy, insisting on discussion.
19:14And I think that if you look at the numbers of people living in the EU, in Europe, if you
19:19look at the economics, we are incredibly powerful.
19:26Well, that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:29Tune in again tomorrow.
19:30We'll have a very special focus on Women's Day with the EU Commissioner for Women's Rights, Hadjah Labib, right here
19:35in the studio.
19:36Take care and see you soon on Euronews.
19:55And I'll see you soon on Euronews.
20:01Thank you.
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