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00:01U.S. President Donald Trump departed Beijing on Friday as critical talks with his Chinese
00:07counterpart Xi Jinping concluded after a two-day visit. Both leaders claim progress was made in
00:14stabilizing relations between the two countries, but critical differences appear to still remain,
00:19especially on the topic of Taiwan.
00:44Trump said progress was also made regarding trade, claiming fantastic trade deals were made
00:50but without providing further details. The two also spoke about the Iran war with Xi, saying
00:55that he wanted to help negotiate an end to the conflict and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
01:01We did discuss Iran. We feel very similar to Iran. We want that to end. We don't want them to
01:08have a
01:09nuclear weapon. We want the straits open.
01:12Very little information was provided on what trade agreements were struck during the summit,
01:17though Trump said in an interview with U.S. media that China agreed to purchase 200 Boeing jets.
01:23And finally, on Taiwan, Xi warned Trump that missteps in handling the issue could lead to conflict with the U
01:29.S.
01:32The United States has canceled the deployment of 4,000 troops to Poland, following a growing diplomatic rift between Washington
01:39and Berlin.
01:40The Pentagon previously announced a drawdown of 5,000 soldiers from Germany after German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized the U
01:48.S.-led war in Iran.
01:49In an abrupt move confirmed by Euronews, Washington has now scraped a highly advanced rotational force that was already scheduled
01:57to replace units in Poland.
01:59The decision caused disappointment in Warsaw, where officials previously hoped to host the repositioned American forces to secure the eastern
02:07flank against Russia.
02:08Polish President Karol Naroczki stated on Wednesday that his country was ready to receive the troops,
02:14but Polish Deputy Prime Minister Wlatslaw Kozniak-Kamsis sought to downplay the cancellation on Thursday morning.
02:22NATO Secretary-General Mark Root also sidestepped the issue during a press conference in Bucharest,
02:28while alliance officials insisted the move would not affect core deterrence and defense plans.
02:3736 countries have signed up to a special tribunal to prosecute Russian President Vladimir Putin for the crime of aggression
02:46against Ukraine
02:47during the annual meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Council of Europe in Moldova.
02:54Ukraine's Foreign Minister Andrei Sibiha hailed the decision and referred to the Nuremberg trials of surviving Nazi leaders in comparison.
03:04He added that Putin will be remembered in history as a criminal.
03:08The tribunal will work alongside a damage register collecting claims from victims of Russia's aggression
03:15and a claims commission that will assess those claims and decide compensation.
03:20The initiative was launched because the International Criminal Court can only prosecute the crime of aggression if the country involved
03:29is a member.
03:30Unlike war crimes or genocide, the crime of aggression targets top leaders, not individual soldiers.
03:37Responsibility lies with those who control the state.
03:42But as long as they remain in office, Putin and other top leaders cannot be tried in their absence.
03:52The death toll of Russia's large-scale drone and missile attack over the last two days, one of the largest
03:58in the past four years, has risen to 24 people.
04:02Ukrainian authorities said the strikes primarily targeted Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, and began as a rare daytime attack on Wednesday,
04:10which continued into Thursday, also leaving 47 people injured.
04:15The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 675 attack drones and 56 missiles, adding its air defense units at
04:26down 652 of the drones and 41 missiles.
04:31Several EU leaders condemned the attack, lamenting Russia's undermining of any efforts to end the war.
04:38Russian authorities, meanwhile, said that Ukrainian strikes on the city of Rezan killed three people and wounded 12 others.
04:52Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has come to the defense of Barcelona star Lamin Yemal, saying he had made Spain,
04:59quote,
05:00proud for waving a Palestinian flag at a victory parade.
05:04The 18-year-old forward drew attention for brandishing a Palestinian flag during an open-top bus parade through Barcelona
05:13on Monday as the Catalan giants celebrated their second straight La Liga title.
05:18Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz lashed out at the Spanish star on Thursday, accusing him of court inciting hatred towards
05:27Israel and towards Jews.
05:29In a statement on social media platform X, Katz added that a great and respected club like Barcelona should distance
05:36itself from the gesture and make it clear that there is no place for incitement or for support of terrorism.
05:44Sanchez, an outspoken critic of Israel, who's called its devastating two-year war against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza
05:52a genocide, hit back in defense of Yamal.
05:55Relations between Spain and Israel have plummeted since the start of the Gaza war, spacked by the Hamas-led attack
06:01on Israel on 7 October 2023.
06:07Latvia's center-right Prime Minister Evika Selina announced on Thursday she will resign from the top job following controversy over
06:15her coalition and a drone incident.
06:18Selina's resignation means a de facto collapse of the governing tripetite coalition, which has been under strain for months.
06:26Redzot spēcīgi profesionāli kandidāti aizsardzības ministra amatam, politiskie tukšrunātāji izvēlējās nevis risinājumu, bet krīzi, paldības krīzi.
06:37Tāpēc es paziņoju, ka atkāpjos no ministra prezidenta samata.
06:42Tas nav vieglas lēmums, bet tas ir godīgs lēmums šajā situācijā.
06:47Šobrīd cilvēkiem vairākā jau kādi ir vajadzīgi drošības sajūt – nevis partija ķīviņi, nevis amatu dalīšana vai politiska pozicionēšanās.
06:57Her resignation came after Latvijas defense minister Andrīz Prūds from the Progressive Party was forced to resign last week
07:05over the government's handling of multiple incidents involving straight drones crossing into Latvijan territory.
07:16Hundreds of road surfaces in Western Hungary may be contaminated with asbestos.
07:21One of these areas is currently under construction in the city of Sombatē.
07:35Tamás Wiesberg, a geologist, says that on its own it is just a piece of rock,
07:40but it's its form that matters.
08:05The environment minister Lázs Lugasdos visited the area mainly inhabited by families.
08:12Three megye erintett, and we don't know where the austral banks were coming from,
08:19which have already been closed, and one of the fifth is working on it, and they will bring it back.
08:26I think we have to forgive this for a couple of reasons, and we will decide the government to do
08:34this very quickly.
08:35According to the geologist, the contamination may have happened due to a lack of knowledge and a legal gap.
08:41As there are currently no preventative EU measures.
09:14300 helyszínen mutattak ki szennyezést, három megyét egészen biztosan érint.
09:18Nem csak Szombathelyen, de Kőszegen és Sopronban is szép számmal borítottak be felületeket,
09:23a természetben előforduló asbestet tartalmazó kőzúzalékkal,
09:27például itt ennél a Kőszeg melletti horgásztónál is a parkolót.
09:30Kónyarita, Euronews, Lukács Háza.
09:37Scholars have made an extraordinary discovery in Pompeii.
09:41At the archaeological site in Campania,
09:44the identity of one of the victims of the powerful eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD has now been
09:52revealed.
09:52The man was a doctor caught off guard by the pyroclastic flow
09:57and identified through the medical instruments he carried.
10:01The breakthrough comes from new studies of a small case hidden inside the plaster of a human cast
10:07discovered during the excavations in 1961, which contained small metal surgical tools.
10:15One of the victims, a cálco, was found a object that was barely understood.
10:22We made an attack, so we realized that it was probably a doctor.
10:28A doctor who brought with us a small ardesia glass,
10:32of the chirurgic instruments, the pistoli,
10:35all over a organic material material container,
10:40which we see here in the cálco.
10:43The use of advanced technologies, including AI-assisted scans and 3D reconstructions,
10:50has made it possible to analyze the contents of the cast without compromising its integrity.
11:17The research is the result of interdisciplinary work that,
11:22thanks to cooperation of archaeologists, conservators and dozens of experts,
11:27has revealed not only an object, but the story of a life cut short.
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