00:00U.S. President Donald Trump has repeated his complaints about NATO not being there in the
00:05Iran war after a closed-door meeting with the alliance's chief, Mark Rutter.
00:10U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to leave NATO have created the worst crisis
00:15the alliance has ever faced, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO said.
00:20European leaders have welcomed the two-week ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran
00:25brokered by Pakistan, but insist that a long-lasting solution must be found.
00:30Greece has announced a new social media ban for children under the age of 15
00:35coming into effect on the 1st of January, 2027.
00:39An overnight closed-door meeting between NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter and U.S. President
00:46Donald Trump in Washington has failed to ease pressure on the transatlantic alliance after
00:51several NATO countries resisted Trump's calls to help reopen the Strait of Amos.
00:57Trump, in a social media post after the meeting, repeated his claim that the alliance was not
01:03there when the U.S. needed them.
01:05Earlier, the White House Press Secretary, Caroline Levitt, set the tone for the meeting, saying NATO failed.
01:11I have a direct quote from the President of the United States on NATO, and I will share it with
01:15all of you.
01:16They were tested and they failed. And I would add it's quite sad that NATO turned their backs on the
01:21American people
01:22over the course of the last six weeks when it's the American people who have been defunding their defense.
01:26After speaking with Trump for more than two hours, NATO Chief Mark Rutter told U.S. media that Trump
01:33was, quote, clearly disappointed with many NATO allies. Rutter, however, said that even if some
01:39allies had failed to meet their commitments in the Iran operation, the large majority of Europeans
01:45had been helpful. In recent weeks, Trump has threatened to withdraw from the 32-member alliance
01:51over their refusal to join the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, especially after Tehran blocked
01:57the Strait of Hormuz, leading to a rise in global oil prices.
02:07U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to leave NATO, as well as confrontations with America's
02:13European allies over their refusal to join the Iran war, have created the worst crisis NATO has ever faced
02:20from a U.S. ambassador to NATO. Ivo Dalder told Euronews to continue their protests.
02:26What happened over the last six weeks has been extraordinarily damaging to NATO, coming on top
02:33of the extraordinarily damaging episode of our agreements. And I think the three months that
02:39have just passed, we will look back at it as the worst crisis that NATO has had in 77 years.
02:47Dalder said Trump's statement suggesting the U.S. might not defend NATO allies against a future
02:53Russian military aggression have destabilized the alliance. He added that the six-week war against
03:00Iran has depleted U.S. military resources. We see a divide at NATO, which has been the goal of first
03:06the Soviet Union and then Russia for the better part of 80 years. A NATO that is truly at loggerheads,
03:13NATO, in which the President of the United States says, I'm not going to defend you, don't count on me,
03:18as he put it, or bye-bye, as he said on his press conference on Monday. It's a good time
03:26to test
03:26NATO if you are sitting in Moscow. Meanwhile, NATO Secretary General Mark Reuter is in Washington,
03:33D.C. to try to ease the tensions between the U.S. and its European allies.
03:43European leaders have hailed the initial ceasefire agreement between the United States and Iran,
03:49though key issues affecting their own interests remain. European Commission President Ursula von der
03:57Lyon said the two-week ceasefire brokered by Pakistan would bring much-needed de-escalation
04:03to the Middle East, while an EU Commission spokesperson said the EU is pushing for a lasting peace.
04:11It is crucial that negotiations for an enduring solution to this conflict continue, and we as EU,
04:17we will continue to coordinate with our partners, and we stand ready to support the efforts of diplomacy.
04:25Meanwhile, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, one of Europe's staunchest critiques of the U.S.-Israeli
04:32strikes, said the government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because
04:38they show up with a bucket. The ceasefire deal was reached at the 11th hour on Tuesday evening,
04:45hours before Trump threatened Iran, saying a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought
04:52back again. Remarks that went unchallenged by most European leaders. On Monday, Trump also stated
04:59that he is not at all concerned about committing war crimes.
05:07The announcement of a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, accompanied by the
05:13reopening of the Strait of Olmos, has raised hopes of a fall in fuel prices in France.
05:19French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Wednesday that fuel prices would now have to fall.
05:26When the crisis started, the prices have increased very quickly at the pump, while the
05:33citernes had not been bought and filled before the beginning of the war. So, as much as the government
05:38can understand that there are three or four days of delay between the beginning of the ceasefire
05:44of the storm, it is clear that the effects should be seen at the pump, at the end of the
05:51weekend,
05:51the beginning of the week.
05:53But this optimism is not shared across Europe. Germany, the continent's leading economic power,
05:59is taking a much more cautious stance. Berlin believes it will take time before prices start to fall.
06:26The same analysis is true in certain industrial sectors. The International Air Transport Association
06:33believes that it will take months for jet fuel supplies and prices to normalize because of the
06:39disruption to the refining capacity in the Middle East. The problem is not the crude, but ensuring
06:45that the refined product is available.
06:54President Emmanuel Macron welcomed two French nationals who returned to Paris on Wednesday,
06:59after spending almost four years detained in Iran on espionage charges, with the French leader
07:06hailing the end of a terrible ordeal.
07:08I want to first tell you how we are encouraged to see our relatives, how it was a great pleasure
07:14to
07:14take them in our arms. I also want to express my recognition in terms of the State services.
07:19So, of course, the President of the Republic, of course, the Foreign Affairs Minister,
07:23the Foreign Affairs Minister, and all the services that were mobilized, all the people that were mobilized
07:28until the end of the end, to make us out of the hell of the cities, where we have lived
07:32the everyday horror, where we have lived the permanent arbitration.
07:37Cécile Colleur and Jacques Paris had been under a house arrest at the French Embassy in Tehran,
07:43ever since being freed after three years in prison in November, with their fate even more uncertain
07:48after US-Israeli strikes on Iran started in February. They were arrested in May 2022,
07:55at the end of a trip to Iran that their families say was for tourism.
08:00At the end of a closed-door trial, an Iranian court in October sentenced them to jail
08:06on espionage charges their families say were fabricated. The pair were among a number of European
08:13caught up in what activists and some Western governments describe as a deliberate strategy
08:18of hostage-taking by Iran to extract concessions from the West.
08:26Their mission? Struggle, protest and resistance. Their tools? Provocation, performance art and punk rock.
08:34The infamous Russian art-punk-provo combo Pussy Riot have embarked on a European tour.
08:39The tour kicked off in Paris on the 2nd of April. Next, the Russian group, famous for their rock prayer
08:46at Christ the Savior Cathedral, for which the members received actual prison sentences in 2012,
08:52performed in central France. They were hosted by the city of Tours at the iconic local venue Bateau Yves.
08:58Riot Days is a performance based on the books by activist and artist Maria Alyokina.
09:03This is what happened with us, with our country, for the last 10 years. This is an action Pussy Riot,
09:12this is the key events in modern history of our country, such as the annexation of Krim, the murder of
09:20Alexei Navalny,
09:22the protests, the meetings from 2014 to 2022.
09:2822nd of the year, says Maria as she puts on an electronic ankle monitor, which Russian police
09:34used to track individuals under house arrest. She fled abroad with it in 2022, and now it serves
09:40as a prop in the group's concerts. Last September, the members of Pussy Riot were sentenced in absentia
09:46to prison terms ranging from 8 to 13 years under a law regarding the dissemination of fake news about
09:52the Russian military, which is how the authorities label any report on the actual situation in the war,
09:58as well as the very word, war, when applied to Ukraine. And in December 2025, the group was designated
10:06an extremist organization. According to the activist, their loved ones in Russia are in effect being held
10:12hostage by the authorities.
10:33From arrests at anti-war protests and police violence to attacks on residential buildings in Ukrainian cities,
10:40Navalny in court the day before his death, and journalist Lavina's self-immolation outside the
10:45Ministry of Internal Affairs building, footage on a screen mounted on stage immerses the audience
10:51in the grim reality of Russia.
10:53The last five year of the war, people die. They are alive, real people. And I think it's important to
11:00remind you about it, to tell you about it, to show the dangers of the war in the same time.
11:04It's important to
11:05remind you about what Russia is in what situation is, and what is happening with it. I think that in
11:10Europe there are people who believe that with Russia we can somehow get together,
11:16somehow build some bridges.
11:18According to the participants, the war in Ukraine has been overshadowed in the media as of late by
11:23other conflicts in the Middle East, and Europe underestimates the power of Russian propaganda.
11:29After France, riot days will be shown in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden and the UK.
11:36Pussy Riot, with a different lineup, will perform at the Venice Biennale in May,
11:41with a protest statement against Russia's presence at the event.
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