00:00Iran has dismissed a United States peace plan to pause the war in the Middle East
00:05as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries.
00:10Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the impact of the ongoing war in the Middle East
00:15presents a far worse scenario than the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
00:20Hungary will gradually halt gas exports to Ukraine until Kiev resumes all shipments
00:25through the Drusba pipeline, announced Hungarian Prime Minister.
00:32Iran has dismissed a United States peace plan to pause the war in the Middle East
00:36as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries,
00:40including an assault that sparked a huge fire at Kuwait International Airport.
00:46Iranian state television's English-language broadcaster Press TV made the announcement,
00:51which came after Pakistan transmitted the proposal to Iran.
00:56Earlier on Wednesday, Iran mocked U.S. attempts at a ceasefire deal,
01:00insisting that they had not taken part in any negotiations.
01:25The broadcast from Press TV included a counter-proposal from Iran,
01:30a five-point plan that included a halt to killings of its officials,
01:34means to make sure no other war is waged against it,
01:37reparations for the war, the end of hostilities,
01:40and Iran's, quote, exercise of sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.
01:48President Trump has said that those talks to potentially end the war with Iran are continuing
01:53and that the U.S. is in talks with the right people.
01:57He also alluded rather cryptically to a very big present in the way of oil and gas being gifted from
02:05Tehran.
02:05Now, several media agencies are reporting that a 15-point dossier has been handed to the Iranians from the U
02:12.S. via Pakistan.
02:14That said, Iranian officials are still denying that these talks are even taking place.
02:19Yesterday, in Doha in Qatar, there was a Ministry of Foreign Affairs briefing
02:24where officials said they would not be hosting these mediation talks
02:27because they're just too busy defending and protecting their country.
02:31They did add, however, that Iran has been here for millennia.
02:35Countries need to live and work together
02:37and that it's now up to Iran to rebuild that trust across the region.
02:42Here in the UAE, the intensity of our attacks has definitely dropped.
02:47However, we still are hearing military jets flying pretty low overhead.
02:51It feels like every five minutes over the last two evenings.
02:55In the wider region, of course, Lebanon is still being subject to intense bombings.
03:01And in the early hours of this morning at Kuwait airport,
03:04a drone attack there resulted in a major fire.
03:08Jane Witherspoon, Euronews in Dubai.
03:14Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the impact of the ongoing war in the Middle East
03:19presents a far worse scenario than the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
03:24He called the war absurd, illegal and cruel
03:27in an address to Parliament on Wednesday.
03:30It is that we are not in the same scenario as in the illegal war of Iraq.
03:35We are in something much worse.
03:38Much worse.
03:39With a much broader impact potential and much deeper.
03:45We are going to demand that this war will stop.
04:11The Spanish Premier has refused to allow Washington to use his country's military bases against Iran.
04:17Despite U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to sever trade with Spain as a result.
04:23Last week, Sánchez's government approved a sweeping package worth 5 billion euros
04:28aimed at cushioning the economic impact of the war,
04:31which included reductions on taxes on fuel.
04:38Hungary will gradually halt gas exports to Ukraine until Kiev resumes all shipments
04:44through the Druzhba pipeline.
04:46The move was announced on Wednesday by the country's Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán.
05:15Hungary and Ukraine are locked in a dispute over the Soviet-Uriad Druzhba pipeline,
05:20which carries Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia.
05:24The pipeline was damaged in a Russian strike in late January.
05:28Both Hungary and Slovakia accuse Ukraine of using the issue for political gain.
05:34Orbán's government has repeatedly alleged that Kiev is trying to trigger an energy crisis
05:39ahead of Hungary's general election next month.
05:43Ukraine, for his part, has called on Hungary and Slovakia
05:46to decouple from Russian fossil fuels.
05:49According to Ukraine's energy analytics company Expro,
05:53Kiev imported over 2.9 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Hungary in 2025,
05:59accounting for 45% of the nation's total imports.
06:06Libyan authorities have released a video and photographs
06:10showing a tow line attached to the damaged Russian gas tanker Arctic Metagaz,
06:16which has been drifting in the Mediterranean Sea for the past three weeks
06:20following an alleged attack by a maritime drone.
06:23The vessel is part of Russia's so-called Shadow Fleet,
06:27which transports fossil fuels in violation of international sanctions.
06:32The Libyan Coast Guard reported that the tanker carrying liquefied natural gas
06:37is being towed to a safe zone near the city of Zurara on Libya's western coast.
06:43Russian authorities claim that the Arctic Metagaz was damaged
06:47by Ukrainian maritime drones near Maltese waters.
06:51All crew members were rescued, and Ukraine has not yet commented on the situation.
06:57According to the World Wildlife Fund,
06:59the Russian tanker was carried toward the Libyan coast by winds and currents.
07:05The environmental organization warns of serious environmental risks
07:09to one of the most vulnerable and biodiverse marine areas in the Mediterranean Sea.
07:19Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's Social Democrats finished first in Denmark's general elections,
07:25but lost ground compared with the last election in 2022,
07:29as did her two partners in the outgoing government.
07:32Official results showed neither left-leaning nor right-leaning blocs won a majority in parliament.
07:38The left bloc was credited with 84 seats in the 179-seat parliament,
07:43and the right with 77, while 90 are needed for a majority.
07:48The centrist moderate party, headed by Foreign Minister Lars Loko Rasmussen,
07:52became kingmaker with 14 seats,
07:55and thorny negotiations are expected in the coming weeks to build a coalition government.
08:00Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat who has been in office since 2019,
08:05was widely seen as the favorite in opinion polls running up to the election,
08:09after standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump over Greenland.
08:13She told supporters that she's ready to stay on as Prime Minister.
08:21European Central Bank chief Christine Lagarde said that the ECB has several options
08:27for dealing with the Middle East war energy crisis on Wednesday.
08:31Lagarde insisted the ECB was well positioned to deal with the turmoil,
08:36with inflation currently close to its 2% target and the eurozone economy on a sound footing.
08:45We have a strategy that is built for a world of higher uncertainty,
08:49with risks and scenarios at its core.
08:52We have a graduated set of options for responding,
08:55and we are starting from a better place should we need to act.
08:59And we will not act before we have sufficient information
09:03on the size and persistence of the shock and its propagation.
09:09At its most recent meeting last week,
09:12the ECB kept interest rates on hold as expected,
09:16while warning of higher inflation and lower growth due to the war.
09:20But analysts now expect the central bank to raise interest rates
09:24as early as next month to curb a likely rise in consumer prices.
09:29Higher global oil and gas costs have led to immediate petrol price hikes in the eurozone,
09:35and brought back memories of the energy shock
09:37that followed Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
09:46Found in the famous wines of Champagne and the Côte d'Or,
09:50Pinot Noir is an iconic grape variety of punch vineyards,
09:53and has likely been around longer than we thought.
09:56A study mapping the genome of grape seeds found at various archaeological sites
10:01traced this fruit in the same genetic form to a trash bean dating from the 15th century.
10:07It means that the 15th century is a famous insect for the end of the 100th century,
10:13for example, it is the one who saw the end of Jeanne d'Arc.
10:17And so, we can imagine that Jeanne d'Arc was able to grow the same fruits of the vine
10:23that what we produce today.
10:25While it was indeed consumed, scientists do not know whether the inhabitants of Valenciennes
10:31in the 15th century consumed it as juice, wine, or table grapes.
10:36Beyond the consumption habits of the French in the Middle Ages,
10:39the sequencing results primarily illustrate the use of agricultural methods
10:44identical to those of today.
10:46The reason Pinot Noir's DNA hasn't changed is that for 600 years,
10:51winemakers have propagated their wines through cuttings
10:54to preserve the variety's signature characteristics.
10:58On fait une grosse étude aussi en ce moment sur rechercher ces vieux cépages
11:02parce qu'en fait ça nous apporte, on va dire, énormément de choses sur le climat qui change,
11:09des cépages qui vont être aussi plus résistants.
11:11Et donc pour nous, on va dire que c'est quelque chose qu'on regarde énormément
11:14et sur lequel on travaille pour essayer de recréer toujours cette dynamique
11:19avec des cépages assez ancestraux.
11:21According to the study, evidence of various propagation techniques,
11:26such as cuttings, has been found in French grapes dating back to the Iron Age
11:31over 2,500 years ago, and evidence of the exchange of French grapes cutting
11:37has been found from Spain to the Middle East during the Roman period.
11:44– Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
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