00:01Israel launched multiple airstrikes on Lebanon, claiming the two-week Iran ceasefire does not apply to the country.
00:10European leaders have welcomed the two-week ceasefire between the US and Iran, brokered by Pakistan, but insist that a
00:17long-lasting solution must be found.
00:20Greece has announced a new social media ban for children under the age of 15, coming into effect on the
00:271st of January, 2027.
00:32An Israeli strike over the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, launched without warning, has killed at least eight people and
00:40injured 22 others during the night, Lebanon's health ministry said.
00:44Multiple Israeli airstrikes also hit the Lebanese capital of Beirut on Wednesday, after the United States and Iran announced a
00:52two-week ceasefire.
00:54Israel's military claimed it launched the largest coordinated strike of the war, targeting more than 100 Hezbollah targets within 10
01:01minutes.
01:02Israel earlier said it backed the US around ceasefire, but that the deal did not extend to Lebanon, although mediator
01:10Pakistan said it does.
01:12Displaced Lebanese families expressed confusion on Wednesday.
01:43Israeli airstrikes
01:45airstrikes have killed more than 1,500 people in Lebanon since the beginning of the war between Israel and the
01:51Hezbollah.
01:56European leaders have hailed the initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran, though key issues affecting their own
02:05interests remain.
02:07European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan would bring much-needed de
02:16-escalation to the Middle East,
02:17while an EU Commission spokesperson said the EU is pushing for a lasting peace.
02:24It is crucial that negotiations for an enduring solution to this conflict continue, and we as EU, we will continue
02:31to coordinate with our partners, and we stand ready to support the efforts of diplomacy.
02:38Meanwhile, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, one of Europe's staunchest critiques of the US-Israeli strikes, said the government of
02:47Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.
02:53The ceasefire deal was reached at the 11th hour on Tuesday evening, hours before Trump threatened Iran, saying a whole
03:02civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again, remarks that went unchallenged by most European leaders.
03:10On Monday, Trump also stated that he is not at all concerned about committing war crimes.
03:20The announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, accompanied by the reopening of the Strait
03:27of Ormuz, has raised hopes of a fall in fuel prices in France.
03:32French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Wednesday that fuel prices would now have to fall.
04:06But this optimism is not shared across Europe.
04:09Germany, the continent's leading economic power, is taking a much more cautious stance.
04:15Berlin believes it will take time before prices start to fall.
04:39The same analysis is true in certain industrial sectors.
04:43The International Air Transport Association believes that it will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalize because
04:52of the disruption to the refining capacity in the Middle East.
04:55The problem is not the crude, but ensuring that the refined product is available.
05:07President Emmanuel Macron welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris on Wednesday after spending almost four years detained in
05:16Iran on espionage charges with a French leader hailing the end of a terrible ordeal.
05:21President Emmanuel Macron.
05:36and all the services that were mobilized, all the people that were mobilized up to the end
05:41to make us out of the hell of the city, where we have lived the everyday horror, where we have
05:47lived the permanent arbitrage.
05:50Cécile Colleur and Jacques Paris had been under house arrest at the French Embassy in Tehran
05:56ever since being freed after three years in prison in November,
05:59with their fate even more uncertain after U.S.-Israelis strikes on Iran started in february.
06:05They were arrested in May 2022 at the end of a trip to Iran that their families say was for
06:12tourism.
06:13At the end of a closed-door trial, an Iranian court in October sentenced them to jail on espionage charges
06:20their families say were fabricated.
06:23The pair were among a number of European caught up in what activists and some Western governments
06:29described as a deliberate strategy of hostage-taking by Iran to extract concessions from the West.
06:40Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced via TikTok a ban on access to social media
06:47for children under the age of 15 in Greece.
06:49In a video, Mitsotakis said that restrictions will come into effect on January 1, 2027.
07:14Euronews asked the public what they think about the government's decision.
07:22Euronews
07:23I think it's a little bit complicated to have a process on social media,
07:26as is now the smaller than the 15.
07:30I think it's good for them to be safe.
07:33I think they don't can be able to protect themselves from the ongoing exhibition on social media,
07:40if the parents encourage the kids as they need to do it.
07:44We need to see that. But I think it's very clear that it's a very good decision.
07:48I think there are very many arguments.
07:52Of course, every person knows what they need to say to them, so they need to be informed in general,
08:01so that they don't want to be in the community and don't want to deal with them.
08:07But they are in agreement.
08:08The European Union has been looking for a lot of attention to the government,
08:15as they say, regarding the safety of the government.
08:18It also plays a very important role in preventing the consequences of the crimes.
08:23From Athenaya to Euronews, Giorgio Zimitropoulos.
08:59This is a show about what happened with us and our country for the last 10 years.
09:11This is an action. This is the key events in modern history of our country, such as the annexation of
09:20Crimea, the murder of Alexei Navalny, the protests, the meetings from 2014 to 2020.
09:31Says Maria as she puts on an electronic ankle monitor, which Russian police use to track individuals under house arrest.
09:38She fled abroad with it in 2022, and now it serves as a prop in the group's concerts.
09:43Last September, the members of Pussy Riot were sentenced in absentia to prison terms ranging from 8 to 13 years
09:50under a law regarding the dissemination of fake news about the Russian military,
09:55which is how the authorities label any report on the actual situation in the war, as well as the very
10:01word, war, when applied to Ukraine.
10:03And in December 2025, the group was designated an extremist organization.
10:09According to the activists, their loved ones in Russia are in effect being held hostage by the authorities.
10:34From arrests at anti-war protests and police violence to attacks on residential buildings in Ukrainian cities, Navalny in court
10:42the day before his death,
10:44and journalist Lavina's self-immolation outside the Ministry of Internal Affairs building,
10:48footage on a screen mounted on stage, immerses the audience in the grim reality of Russia.
11:19According to the participants, the war in Ukraine has been overshadowed in the media as of late
11:25by other conflicts in the Middle East, and Europe underestimates the power of Russian propaganda.
11:30After France, riot days will be shown in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the UK.
11:37Pussy Riot, with a different lineup, will perform at the Venice Biennale in May
11:42with a protest statement against Russia's presence at the event.
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