00:00U.S. President Donald Trump offered few new details on the war in Iran in his first national
00:07address since the conflict he began in late February. He instead insisted the U.S. is
00:14close to achieving its objectives in the war and said Iran would continue to face a barrage
00:19of attacks. I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military
00:27objectives shortly, very shortly. We are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two
00:33to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the stone ages where they belong. In the
00:40meantime, discussions are ongoing. The President sought to reassure Americans the war was worth
00:46the effort, with the speech coming as he faces plunging approval ratings and growing economic
00:52uncertainty at home and abroad. Trump also did not offer an update on negotiations with Iran
01:00or his April 6th deadline for reopening the Strait of Hormuz. Separately, on Tuesday, Iranian Foreign
01:07Minister Abbas Arachi told media that just because the two sides are in contact, it does not mean
01:14they are negotiating. Oil rose more than four percent and Asian stocks fell after Trump's
01:20comments about the U.S. continuing to hit Iran hard. Soon after Trump's speech, Tehran announced
01:27another barrage of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and U.S. bases in the Gulf, striking
01:34Israeli cities including Tel Aviv and Aliyat, as well as U.S. military facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait.
01:46Four astronauts embarked on a historic voyage towards the Moon on Wednesday, the first lunar
01:51mission in more than 50 years. Tens of thousands gathered near NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida
01:59to watch American astronauts Reed Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, along with Canadian
02:05Jeremy Hansen launch into space. If the plan proceeds as expected, the astronauts will set a record by
02:12venturing farther from Earth than any human before. They won't pause for a stopover or orbit the Moon,
02:20like Apollo 8's first lunar visitors did in 1968, but will zoom past the Moon and continue another 6,400
02:27kilometers beyond, before making a U-turn and tearing straight home to a splashdown in the Pacific.
02:34The mission marks a series of historic accomplishments. It will send the first
02:39person of color, the first woman and the first non-American on a lunar mission.
02:45The voyage should last approximately 10 days in total and aims to pave the way for a Moon landing in
02:512028.
02:54Unlike Apollo, which focused on fast flags and footprints in a breakneck race against the Soviet Union,
03:00Artemis is designed to allow the United States to repeatedly return to the Moon,
03:04with the goal of establishing a permanent base that will offer a platform for further exploration.
03:15The European Commission is laying the technical and legal groundwork to make the first payment to Ukraine
03:20under the €90 billion loan as soon as Hungary lifts its veto, hoping to shield the country's water-battered
03:27budget from painful cuts. The executive unveiled on Wednesday the first of four documents that underpin
03:34the assistance program with the other three expected in the coming days. So once we have all the
03:40all the relevant elements in place, we can draw on the funds that we have in our liquidity pool
03:47and make the first disbursement. So this is really not going to hold up the procedure.
03:51The allocation for 2026 will be €45 billion. The remaining €45 billion will be allocated for 2027,
03:59even if disbursements could continue beyond the cut-off date. But for the time being,
04:05Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is blocking the financial lifeline over an unrelated dispute with
04:11Ukraine regarding the Druzhba pipeline. Kiev says the infrastructure is badly damaged and needs to be
04:18repaired after a Russian drone attack, while Budapest says it is deliberately shut down to influence the
04:25outcome of the elections on April 12th. European prosecutors demanded that Greece lift the
04:37parliamentary immunity of 11 members of parliament suspected of involvement in a scam that siphoned off
04:44millions of euros in EU farm subsidies for years. The case has piled pressure on Greek Prime Minister
04:50Kayakos Mitsotakis, given his famous political influence in Crete, where most of the allegedly fraudulent
04:57subsidies went. The today's announcement of European Evangelion is a serious accomplishment.
05:03We continue to defend the rights of the government in the parliament of the Hellenians,
05:06so that it will be an obligation for every case.
05:11Police in Greece made dozens of arrests in connection with the scandal last year. According to the
05:17Greek authorities, the network defrauded at least 23 million euros since it began operating around
05:232018. The suspects are accused of making subsidy claims for land they did not own and exaggerating
05:30the number of animals on farms.
05:36The bodies of 19 migrants were recovered from a boat off the coast of Lampedusa on Wednesday
05:42by the Italian Coast Guard, the island's Meyer confirmed. Meyer Filippo Manino said seven other
05:48migrants, including two children, were being treated for hypothermia and intoxication from hydrocarbon fumes.
05:56The rescue operations occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, 135 kilometers off the Italian island,
06:03inside Libya's search and rescue zone. Lampedusa is a key landing point for migrants crossing the
06:09Mediterranean Sea from North Africa, with many dying trying the dangerous drone. So far this year,
06:16624 migrants have died or gone missing in the central Mediterranean, according to the UN's
06:22International Organization for Migration. Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX has filed
06:32preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the public, according to multiple reports. The initial public
06:38offering would likely rank as the biggest ever and could make Musk the world's first trillionaire.
06:44Exactly how much the SpaceX IPO plans to raise has not been disclosed, but the figure is reportedly as
06:51much as $75 billion. The offering, coming possibly in June, could value all the shares of SpaceX at $1.5
07:00trillion, nearly double what the company was valued in December when some minority owners sold their
07:06stakes, according to research firm PitchBook. Musk owns 42 percent of SpaceX now, according to PitchBook,
07:14though that figure will change with the IPO when new owners are issued shares. He's likely to pierce
07:20the trillion-dollar mark because he's already close. Forbes magazine estimates Musk's net worth at roughly $823
07:27billion. The EU's energy commissioner has warned that soaring oil and gas prices in Europe resulting from the Iran war
07:38will not
07:39return to normal anytime soon, even if peace is declared tomorrow. According to Commissioner Dan Joggensen,
07:46although there are no immediate shortages of oil and gas supplies across the 27-member bloc, there is pressure on
07:52diesel and
07:53jet fuel supplies, as well as increasing constraints in global gas markets, which are driving up electricity prices.
08:01Nobody knows how long the crisis will be, but I think it's very important to underline
08:09that it will not be short. Because even if there was a peace tomorrow, there would still be consequences.
08:18Because energy infrastructure in the region has been ruined by the war, and continuously is being ruined by the war.
08:30So, obviously we all hope for a peace as soon as possible, but what I find extremely important
08:41is to state as clearly as I can, that even if that peace is here tomorrow, still we will not
08:49go back
08:50to normal in a foreseeable future." Joggensen rejected the possibility of the EU going back on its ban on
08:57Russian gas purchases. Reliance on Russian gas was 45% before the war on Ukraine began in 2022, and is
09:05now at around 10%.
09:07He said that, quote, it would be totally unacceptable for the EU to continue buying energy that would,
09:14quote, indirectly help finance the terrible war that the Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging in Ukraine.
09:26A new captivating production of Anna Bolena by Gaetano Donichetti was presented by the Greek National Opera,
09:32directed by Themeleis Glynacci's and conducted by Zach Lacombe. The famous work of romantic Belcanto
09:38focuses on the final days of the Tudor Queen Anne Boleyn, the second of Henry VIII's Six Wives.
09:44The opera premiered in 1830 at the Carcano Theater in Milan. The current staging highlights the historical
09:49context and political dimension of the characters, as well as the violence and arbitrariness of power.
09:55What we have mentioned is to be able to do so much, as I am and I, as well as
10:03I, as well as I, as well as I, as the volunteers and the partners
10:05from a rapid practice of Belcanto, which according to my opinion is a very small and sensitive practice of the
10:12film.
10:13And for me, the way of the transfiguration, as a paradox and as a paradox of the story, is the
10:16story.
10:36The leading role is performed by Maria Kosovitsa, who takes on a particularly demanding part.
10:47It's a very important role.
10:54The role of Anna Bolena is a very important role.
11:01And of course, there are six papers such as the Scalas and other literary writers, who wrote the role,
11:09which for me resulted in empathy,
11:13but they helped me understand that, for the truth of the role,
11:17I have to put my own life into it,
11:19so that I am not trying to make an answer to this role.
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