00:00Qatar has called for a return to negotiations and says it remains in contact with all parties
00:05as uncertainty surrounds talks between Iran and the United States.
00:09Qatar supports the current condition of the ceasefire and we are aiming to see a continuation of the ceasefire
00:17until there is a diplomatic resolution.
00:19It has not been anyone's benefit to return to hostilities.
00:24That would, again, put more pressure on the international economy
00:26but also put the peoples of the region and all the countries of the region at risk.
00:31There are also mixed signals around talks in Islamabad
00:34with no clear indication of whether negotiations are moving forward.
00:38Qatar says it is in a strong position to weather any disruption
00:41but warns that if tensions in the Strait of Hormuz continue,
00:45the impact could extend far beyond the region.
00:48Our goal has always been for an end to this war that has put all of us at risk here
00:53in the region
00:54and put the international economy and international energy markets in a very dangerous place.
00:59And therefore, for us, the goal has always been to end this war,
01:03get back to the negotiation table.
01:04Qatar says it is pushing to keep the ceasefire in place.
01:07But with tensions still high, much will depend on whether diplomatic efforts can hold in the coming days
01:12and prevent a return to escalation.
01:15Mohamed Al-Ashi, Your News, Doha.
01:21No way's Foreign Minister Espen Bart Eider has pushed back on your news program Europe Today
01:26against criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump
01:29over what he described as zero European support in the conflict with Iran.
01:35Trump has repeatedly criticized NATO allies for not backing Washington.
01:40He raised the issue again during a White House meeting earlier this month
01:44with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutter.
01:47NATO is a defensive alliance. It's not an attack alliance.
01:50However, many NATO countries, including my own Norway,
01:53is now dedicated to work on making sure that the Hormuz Strait is open and remains open,
02:01not as NATO, but as in the context of a broad coalition of interested parties
02:06who are third parties to the conflict, who are not fighting with either side,
02:11but who have a shared interest in protecting the principle of freedom of navigation at sea.
02:18So NATO countries are doing something, but it's not as party to a conflict.
02:23Eider argued that unlike past interventions, such as those in the Balkans during the 1990s,
02:29there had been no prior preparation or consensus within the alliance.
02:34As a result, there is very limited appetite among member states to join the war.
02:38He said that while both the U.S. and Iran may have reasons to end the conflict,
02:44the sides are far apart with negotiations hindered by opposing demands.
02:53As a U.S. delegation heads to Islamabad for a second round of peace talks with Iran,
02:58a fragile temporary ceasefire has kept the Middle East on edge.
03:02In an interview with Euronews, a U.K. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, Edward Hobart,
03:08said that there is a risk of a return to war, while emphasizing the need for a lasting peace with
03:13a clear way forward.
03:14I think the risk is there. The risk is reduced while there isn't fighting and while there is a prospect
03:22of talking.
03:24I don't think it serves anybody for there to be the kind of conflict that we saw previously,
03:33which had the impact that it did here in the UAE and in neighboring countries.
03:38So we will be supporting talks to bring peace.
03:46But it's got to be the right kind of peace.
03:48Living with that threat, without it being contained, without a clear way forward,
03:53would also be a risky thing for all the countries around here.
03:57So that's critical.
03:59And getting the global economy flowing again and business able to operate as it was doing before March this year
04:08is also a really important objective.
04:10The U.K. had distanced itself directly from involvement with the U.S. blockade.
04:17Why did they take that position initially and what could or would change that?
04:21You know, the U.K. ambassador to the U.S., Christian Turner, has told media that the U.K. was
04:27backing the U.S. operations
04:29against Iran right from the offset.
04:32Look, the Prime Minister has been very clear that this wasn't the U.K.'s war.
04:36It wasn't something we wanted to take place.
04:40But particularly in defense of the Gulf countries, we have enabled the U.S. to help support that defense
04:48through the use of British military bases in the U.K. and elsewhere.
04:55In terms of the Straits of Hormuz, what we want is the law of the sea to be followed
05:01and for these international thoroughfares which are critical to the global economy,
05:05not just to the economy here, not just the economy in Europe,
05:08but actually in particular the economy in the Far East to be open and flowing.
05:14So we don't want blockades, we don't want Iran or others causing danger to merchant shipping in this region.
05:24Tehran and Washington have accused each other of breaching the two-week truce
05:28as uncertainty grows over a push to stop the war from resuming.
05:33U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he expects the U.S. to be bombing Iran again soon
05:38if no progress is made in the second round of negotiations.
05:45Sweden's military intelligence said late Monday that Russia is manipulating financial data
05:51to hide the real state of its economy amid its ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
05:57According to a statement from Sweden's military intelligence and security service, MUST,
06:02must, even though official figures showed falling GDP and weak industrial production,
06:08Russia was likely plagued by higher inflation and a larger budget deficit than it was communicating.
06:17The intelligence service said despite the recent period of high oil prices,
06:21which has provided Russia with increased revenues,
06:25it would take a price of over $100 per barrel for an entire year to remedy the Russian budget deficit.
06:32The intelligence service said the real inflation rate in Russia is closer to the key interest rate of 15%
06:39than to the Russian central bank's official estimate of 5.86%.
06:44The head of the Swedish intelligence agency said Russia is now living in debt
06:49and Stockholm has recorded financial indications that could point to an impending banking crisis.
06:56At a recent government meeting on economic issues, Russian President Vladimir Putin downplayed the statistics,
07:03stating they represented, quote, generally expected trends.
07:12NATO intercepted Russian strategic bombers and fighter jets that flew over the Baltic Sea on Monday.
07:18French Rafale fighters were deployed from a Lithuanian airbase where they are stationed as part of a long NATO effort
07:26in place
07:27since the three Baltic countries, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, joined the alliance in 2004.
07:33There's a lot of traffic from the Russian and there are plenty of times in which, on purpose or not,
07:41they are not really respecting the ICAO, the International Civil Aviation Organization rules,
07:47regarding flight plans and behavior.
07:50So obviously we are forced to take off and just make sure that they are who they say they are
07:56and their intention is peaceful and just transitioning back to their home airfields.
08:03The Lithuanian defense minister stated that last week NATO aircraft had scrambled on four occasions
08:09to intercept Russian aircraft that had failed to comply with flight regulations
08:14by switching off their transponders and flying without a flight plan.
08:19Even before the war in Ukraine, NATO was intercepting Russian planes around 300 times each year,
08:26mostly over waters around northern Europe.
08:29The Russian defense ministry declared that the long-range bomb bus flight was scheduled
08:34and occurred in airspace over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea.
08:43The European Union is growing optimistic about the imminent lifting of Hungary's contentious veto
08:49on a 90 billion euro loan for Ukraine, ending a political dispute that has severely undermined
08:55the bloc's collective decision-making.
08:57EU Foreign Chief Kaya Kala signaled the sentiment as EU foreign ministers met in Luxembourg on Tuesday.
09:04We have a full day ahead.
09:06So first we discuss, of course, the war in Ukraine.
09:10And we expect some positive decisions tomorrow on the 90 billion loan.
09:15Ukraine really needs this loan.
09:18And it's also a sign that Russia cannot outlast Ukraine.
09:22This is extremely important at this moment.
09:26Outgoing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has indicated he will remove his veto
09:31as soon as Russian oil flows resume through the Drushba pipeline,
09:35which is at the core of the controversy.
09:37He recently cited indications from Brussels that flows would return soon.
09:43EU officials said on Monday they would seek to get the final green light to release the loan
09:47during a meeting of EU diplomats in Brussels on Wednesday.
09:52EU Economy Commissioner Valdis Dombrowskis said Brussels expected to start releasing the loan
09:57in May or early June, even if it needed to wait for the incoming Hungarian government.
10:08The European Court of Justice has ruled that Hungary's amended child protection law violates EU law
10:15and discriminates against gay and transgender people.
10:18The court said the legislation stigmatizes and marginalizes non-cisgender people,
10:24including transgender people,
10:26and noted that the law's title links them with people convicted of pedophilia.
10:31According to the court, this association increases stigma and may encourage hostile behavior.
10:39It said the amendments seriously interfere with key rights,
10:43including protection from discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation,
10:48respect for private and family life, and freedom of expression and information.
10:53Hungary amended its child protection law in 2021,
10:57saying the changes were needed to protect minors from sexual abuse.
11:02The law banned the depiction or promotion of homosexuality and gender reassignment.
11:08As a result, Hungarian media outlets and publishers were required to remove TV series,
11:14films and books that portrayed homosexuality.
11:17It is the first time the court has found that an EU member state breached the fundamental values set out
11:24in the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.
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