00:00the french president believes that the u.s president's comments about his marriage
00:04are neither elegant nor up to standard
00:10sweden announced a new defense package worth almost 800 million euros to boost
00:15the scandinavian country's aerial defenses in the face of threats
00:20russia fired more drones at ukraine in march than in any month since it launched its 2022 invasion
00:30elon musk space exploration company spacex has reportedly filed for an initial public offering
00:36putting musk on the path to becoming a trillionaire
00:41el presidente de eeuu donald trump ofreció pocos detalles nuevos sobre la guerra en irán en su
00:47primer discurso a la nación desde que el conflicto comenzará a finales de febrero en su lugar insistió
00:52en que eeuu está cerca de alcanzar sus objetivos en la guerra y afirmó que irán seguirá enfrentándose
00:57a una avalancha de ataques
01:01i can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of america's military objectives shortly very shortly
01:09we are going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks we are going to bring
01:16them back to the stone ages where they belong in the meantime discussions are ongoing
01:22el presidente trató de tranquilizar a los estadounidenses asegurándoles que la guerra merecía la pena en un discurso pronunciado en
01:29un momento en que se enfrenta a una caída en picado de su índice de popularidad y a una creciente
01:34incertidumbre económica tanto en el país como en el extranjero
01:37trump tampoco ofreció información actualizada sobre las negociaciones con irán ni sobre su plazo del 6 de abril para la
01:44reapertura del estrecho de ormuz
01:45por otra parte el martes el ministro de asuntos exteriores iraní abbas arachí declaró a los medios de comunicación que
01:51el hecho de que ambas partes estén en contacto no significa que estén negociando
01:55el petróleo subió más de un 4% y las bolsas asiáticas cayeron tras los comentarios de trump sobre que
02:00eeuu seguirá golpeando duramente a irán
02:03poco después del discurso de trump teherán anunció otra oleada de ataques con misiles y drones contra israel y las
02:09bases estadounidenses en el golfo que alcanzaron ciudades israelíes como tel aviv y eilat así como instalaciones
02:15militares estadounidenses en barraín y kuwait
02:24the french president emmanuel macron was not amused by donald trump's comments about his marriage
02:30during a private lunch on wednesday the u.s. president remarked about the french president that his wife treats him
02:37extremely badly and that he was still recovering from the right to the jaw
02:41the white house had shared the video before taking it down the u.s. president was referring to a may
02:482025
02:48news video that appeared to show brigitte macron shoving the french president's face on a trip to vietnam
02:54les propos que j'ai pu entendre que él vous fait référence ne son ni élégant ni a la hauteur
03:01voilà donc je vais pas y répondre ça mérite pas de réponse
03:04emmanuel macron said also that u.s. president was undermining nato by creating daily doubt about his commitment to the
03:11north
03:11atlantic alliance in a newspaper interview on wednesday trump said that he's considering pulling his country out of
03:18nato slamming the defense alliance as a paper tiger trump has repeatedly railed against western partners for
03:25not responding to his call to assemble a naval force to help reopen the crucial strait of almost
03:37sweden announced on thursday that it was investing approximately 800 million euros in a new defense package to bolster the
03:44country's aerial defenses the package includes new radars anti-aircraft weapons as well as electronic warfare
03:52platforms the investment makes up more than half of money allocated to the country's defense capabilities
03:58announced in january this year stockholm says it has signed deals with swedish manufacturer sob as well
04:06as bae systems bofers a swedish subsidiary of the uk's bae systems weapons firm defense minister pal johnson
04:15says the package is important to address threats facing europe following russia's invasion of ukraine
04:20in february 2022 deliveries are slated to begin in 2027 which johnson noted was quote relatively fast
04:29given the ever-growing demand for weapons across the continent
04:37russia fired more drones at ukraine in march than in any other month since it launched its 2022 invasion
04:45according to daily data published by ukraine's air force russia fired at least 6 462 long-range drones
04:54into ukraine last month this is up nearly 28 percent over february and the second straight monthly increase
05:02russia launched 138 missiles in the same period a decrease of around 52 percent compared with the previous month the
05:11data showed
05:12of the missiles and drones the ukrainian air force said it had downed nearly 90 percent of them the highest
05:19interception rate since february 2025 according to the data russia has ramped up its drone production to an
05:27industrial scale over the course of its war meanwhile ukraine has sought to scale up its air defenses in
05:35response deploying cheap interceptor drones to destroy their russian counterparts
05:43the traditional model of aid and dependency in europe africa relations is giving way to a more
05:49strategic and partnership driven approach this comes amid the current geopolitical tensions
05:55and as the european union seeks what it calls a court mutual partnership built on defense cooperation
06:02skills development and expanded energy ties for african leaders this creates an opportunity both
06:09internally and externally as former malawian president lazarus chaquera tells euronews as you grow
06:17what was fit for purpose yesterday may not be fit for purpose today and so there is need for constant
06:25development uh conversation taking place as to see how best do we proceed for a situation that
06:37becomes a win-win situation there are several levels of this kind of partnership for example europe
06:45trades amongst themselves more so way by far more than africa trades amongst themselves
06:54and we are saying economic integration on the continent should be pushed as much as we have bilateral
07:04agreements with nations outside that continent and so whether you're talking about the free trade
07:12on the continent we need to find ways of facilitating the the implementation faster implementation of such
07:21last month eu foreign policy chief kaya callas visited the west african states of nigeria and ghana where
07:28she signed the first ever eu ghana security and defense partnership on counter-terrorism and maritime
07:34security in the gulf of guinea amid rising competition from the u.s china and russia policymakers say it was
07:42a
07:42matter of time before europe change its approach je pense que nous devons aujourd'hui réviser notre
07:50politique avec les pays africains sortir de cette politique d'aide au développement qui est dépassée qui est
08:00usé qui ne tire pas les conséquences de réalité concrète et nous devons clairement du côté européen
08:10assumer que nous avons des intérêts en afrique parce que le développement et la prospérité sur le continent
08:18africain déterminent le développement et la prospérité en europe for decades europe has been a key partner
08:25to africa providing aid development support and shaping governance frameworks for some critics a new
08:32approach must now also look beyond economic interests and my current let's say understanding
08:39people are still living in the past they are not seeing the future is about the local anchorage
08:47uh and the capacity to facilitate the bridge between africa and europe and it's not only about
08:54investments about about imagining the right products and services but simply um facilitating the
09:03intercultural exchange as african countries expand their options a major shift is emerging from aid to
09:10investment from dependency to negotiation the debate is not whether europe remains a partner for africa
09:17but what kind of partner it wants to be jerry fisher bambi for euronews
09:25the european commission is laying the technical and legal groundwork to make the first payment to ukraine
09:31under the 90 billion euros loan as soon as hungary lifts its veto hoping to share the country's
09:37water-battered budget from painful cuts the executive unveiled on wednesday the first of four documents
09:43that underpin the assistance program with the other three expected in the coming days so once we have
09:49all the um all the relevant elements in in place we can uh draw on the funds that we have
09:56in our
09:56liquidity pool and make the first disbursement so this is really not going to hold up the procedure
10:01the allocation for 2026 will be 45 billion euros the remaining 45 billion euros will be allocated for
10:082027 even if disbursements could continue beyond the cut of date but for the time being hungarian prime
10:16minister victor orban is blocking the financial lifeline over an unrelated dispute with ukraine
10:22regarding the drushba pipeline kiev says the infrastructure is badly damaged and needs to be
10:28repaired after a russian drone attack while budapest says it is deliberately shut down to influence the
10:35outcome of the elections on april the 12th
10:42elon musk's space exploration company spacex has filed preliminary paperwork to sell shares to the
10:48public according to multiple reports the initial public offering would likely rank as the biggest
10:54ever and could make musk the world's first trillionaire exactly how much the spacex ipo plans to raise
11:01has not been disclosed but the figure is reportedly as much as 75 billion dollars the offering coming
11:09possibly in june it could value all the shares of spacex at 1.5 trillion dollars nearly double what
11:16the company was valued in december when some minority owners sold their stakes according to research firm
11:21pitchbook that spacex was created musk owns 42 of spacex now according to pitchbook though that figure
11:28will change with the ipo when new owners are issued shares he's likely to pierce the trillion-dollar
11:34mark because he's already close forbes magazine estimates musk's net worth at roughly 823 billion
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