00:00U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in Hungary in a show of support towards Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor
00:07Orban ahead of this weekend's elections.
00:10Cécile Coller and Jacques Paris, a French couple detained in Iran since May 2022, are finally free.
00:21Again, man was killed and two others were wounded in a shootout with police outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
00:30A Russian drone strike on a bus stop in central Ukraine killed three people and injured a dozen more.
00:40The Greek Parliament recommends lifting the immunity of 11 lawmakers whose names appear in a farm subsidy scandal.
00:53U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance urged Hungarians to back Prime Minister Viktor Orban in upcoming elections.
01:02Dubbing the populist leader a defender of Western civilization during a joint press conference with the Hungarian Prime Minister,
01:10J.D. Vance accused the European Union of interfering in Hungary's election campaign and imposing censorship.
01:18While opposition leader Peter McGuire warned against foreign involvement in the vote,
01:23urging all countries to respect Hungary's sovereignty.
01:30What has happened in the midst of this election campaign is one of the worst examples of foreign election interference
01:40that I've ever seen or ever even read about.
01:43The bureaucrats in Brussels have tried to destroy the economy of Hungary.
01:48They have tried to make Hungary less energy independent.
01:53They have tried to drive up costs for Hungarian consumers.
01:56And they've done it all because they hate this guy.
01:59Vance did not address the numerous recent reports that Russian secret services are meddling in Hungary's election to tip it
02:06in Orban's favor.
02:08The Hungarian government has repeatedly claimed that Kiev and Brussels are trying to oust Orban.
02:37Vance will remain in Budapest until Wednesday.
02:41According to a poll published last week by the 21 Research Institute, the opposition Cesar Party leads among decided voters
02:50with 56%.
02:5120 years ago, he won't be a large American leader in Hungary.
02:55J.D. Vance has been told that he won't be able to campaign with Orbán Viktor.
03:00He has been told that he won't be able to campaign with the Hungarian minister in Europe,
03:04which is the only one in Europe, which is the continent of the country and is the only one in
03:10the world in Hungary.
03:11Sipos Egyi Zoltán, Euronews, Budapest.
03:21People detained in Iran since May 2022 are finally free after three and a half years of captivity following espionage
03:30charges that they have always denied.
03:32In a message on ex-French President Emmanuel Macron announced their release and added that they were already on their
03:40way to France.
03:41He praised the assistance of Omani authorities, which he said had worked to secure their release.
03:48The 41-year-old literature professor and her 72-year-old retired teacher partner were sentenced last October to 20
03:57and 17 years in prison,
03:59respectively for espionage, including for Israel.
04:03They were released in early November but were forbidden from leaving Iranian territory.
04:14A gunman was killed and two others were wounded in a shootout Tuesday with police outside the Israeli consulate in
04:21Istanbul.
04:22Two officers were likely injured, the Istanbul governor said.
04:26Authorities have identified the assailants.
04:29It remains unclear whether the incident was a planned attack on the consulate.
04:33The Israeli consulate was not operational, according to authorities.
04:39Hello from Istanbul.
04:40Today, the Israeli consulate general in the megacity of 20 million people has been targeted in an attack by suspected
04:48ISIS militants.
04:50Turkish authorities have said that one of the three suspects had certain ties to the extremist organization
04:59and one had a drug record in his background, drug use background.
05:05Other than that, Turkish police have already, and Turkish Ministry of Interior has already started an investigation
05:13and they say that the efforts to conclude it are still ongoing.
05:21Meanwhile, two of the suspects have been killed in their standoff with the Turkish police.
05:27That's Emre Basharan for UNO News in Istanbul.
05:34Three people were killed and a dozen more were wounded after a Russian drone targeted a bus stop in the
05:40Ukrainian front-line city of Nikopol on Tuesday.
05:43This video shows the police and emergency crew working at the scene of the Russian strike.
05:49The drone targeted a moving bus as it was pulling into the stop to pick up additional passengers,
05:55the regional military administration head said on Telegram.
05:59Meanwhile, a Russian shelling on the southern Ukrainian town of Kherson killed at least three residents
06:05and wounded at least seven others, according to a regional official.
06:09Moscow is increasingly launching daytime strikes, targeting everything from civilian areas to energy and other critical infrastructure.
06:18Last week, a barrage of almost 500 missiles and drones targeted the Kiev region, killing one person.
06:25Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiya accused the Kremlin of deliberately targeting civilians.
06:31The attacks came after Moscow ignored a Ukrainian Easter holiday ceasefire proposal, claiming they never received such a request.
06:44The Greek Parliament's Ethics Committee unanimously recommended lifting the immunity of 11 lawmakers
06:52whose names appear in a case file submitted by the European prosecutor
06:56as part of its investigation into a farm subsidy scandal.
07:01The lawmakers are from the ruling New Democracy Party, and all 11 had requested the lifting of their immunity.
07:09Nine of the 11 MPs provided explanations by submitting a written statement,
07:15while only Notis Mitarrakis and Kostas Tsiaras turned up in Parliament.
07:20Tsiaras and Mitarrakis issued a statement saying that the case must be resolved as soon as possible.
07:27The final decision is expected to take place after the 19th of April.
07:32The investigation looks into whether beneficiaries of agriculture subsidies had made forced claims,
07:38with some making claims for land they did not own and exaggerating the number of animals on farms.
07:48The former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, took the stand on Tuesday at the Paris Court regarding the allegations of Libyan
07:55funding of his 2007 presidential campaign.
07:59Sarkozy is being prosecuted in this political and financial case, which began in 2011,
08:04in which the court suspects a corruption pact with Muammar Gaddafi's regime to support his successful campaign.
08:12He has contested these allegations from the outset, telling that not a single cent of Libyan money was involved in
08:19his campaign.
08:20Having been sentenced in September 2025 at first instance to five years in prison,
08:26and having spent three weeks in prison in late October and early November, Nicolas Sarkozy is now fighting for his
08:32rehabilitation.
08:34As in the first trial, Sarkozy is appearing alongside around ten co-defendants,
08:39whom the court suspects of having set up secret financial channels using international intermediaries and diplomatic connections.
08:47Nicolas Sarkozy will be heard again on Wednesday and on Monday.
08:50This appeal trial is expected to last until June the 3rd.
08:58A high-speed train in France collided with a heavy goods vehicle on Tuesday morning,
09:03killing the train driver and injuring a dozen people.
09:07The accident occurred at 7 a.m. at a level crossing between Béthune and Lens in the Pâtes-Calais region
09:14in France.
09:16The truck was carrying military equipment.
09:19246 passengers were on board the train that was traveling from Dunkerque to Paris.
09:24Two people are in critical condition, but their lives were not in danger, while 13 people were in a serious
09:31condition.
09:33Authorities have said they are investigating the circumstances of the crash.
09:37The railway line will now be closed for at least a week.
09:42The driver of the military truck, a civilian, has been taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter by willful endangerment
09:50of the lives of others
09:51and causing bodily harm by a delivery driver through a willful endangerment.
10:01Beneath the hustle and bustle of Paris' boulevards lies an empire of silence.
10:05Twenty meters underground, the catacombs are not just a labyrinth of stone, but the guardian of a staggering legacy.
10:12Since the 18th century, the sanctuary has housed the remains of millions of Parisians.
10:17From the anonymous victims of the revolution to the great figures of history, the very soul of the capital rests
10:25here, frozen in limestone.
10:26It is about the inhabitants who died in Paris between the 10th and the 18th century.
10:33So even if we don't know how exactly there are the inhabitants, there are millions.
10:36And we have the charge of preserving this place.
10:41And to preserve this place, it was urgent to do some work of improving the technical installations,
10:47the ventilation, the light, the electricity.
10:51Faced with the ravages of time and humidity, certain sections of femurs and skulls have undergone meticulous restoration
10:58to bring back the full impact of the site's macabre architecture.
11:02On a dû faire tous les travaux en cinq mois seulement, avec des conditions d'accès, d'évacuation très spécifiques.
11:11On avait des maçons, des électriciens.
11:13Tout ce petit monde travaillait en souterrain, ensemble, avec des cadences très particulières
11:21durant les cinq mois de chantier.
11:23The result of a colossal effort, this marks a true renaissance for the catacombs.
11:28Between sublime scenography and immersive sound, every detail has been reimagined to offer the 2,000 daily visitors
11:35an unprecedented sensory journey into the heart of this sanctuary unique in the world.
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