00:00U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that the U.S. will send an additional 5,000 troops to Poland,
00:07a week after the Pentagon cancelled a planned deployment of 4,000 troops.
00:12In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the decision was based on the election of Karl
00:17Nawrotsky as president, who he endorsed during elections last year.
00:22It was not clear whether the additional troops were part of the previous planned deployment
00:27or a different operation.
00:29The announcement raises more uncertainty as the White House has signaled in recent weeks
00:33that it intends to reduce the overall troop levels in Europe.
00:38Earlier this month, the U.S. also announced it would withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany
00:42after a row between Trump and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the war with Iran.
00:48NATO Chief Marko Ritzel welcomed Trump's decision on Friday to send additional troops to Poland
00:54ahead of a meeting of alliance foreign ministers in Sweden.
01:00Russia says it has delivered nuclear munitions to field storage facilities in Belarus as part
01:07of major nuclear drills.
01:09Authorities on both sides released what they described as, quote,
01:13video evidence, a clip showing military vehicles driving into a forested area at an undisclosed
01:21location and missiles being loaded onto launchers.
01:26The Belarus defense ministry said the video shows the delivery of nuclear munitions to field
01:31storage points in the operational area of a missile unit in the country as part of military exercises.
01:38The three-day nuclear drills which started on Tuesday are taking place across Russia and Belarus at a time
01:46when the Baltic states continue to be rattled by repeated drone incidents.
01:51On Tuesday, Russia's defense ministry announced that the exercises which ran until Thursday
01:57involved 64,000 military personnel and 7,800 pieces of equipment.
02:05Ukraine Security Service said on Thursday that in response to the drills,
02:11Kyiv is stepping up security measures in northern regions to prevent Russian and Belarusian forces
02:17from infiltrating border areas and carrying out, quote,
02:22sabotage and terrorist acts.
02:28A day after Lithuania's capital of Vilnius was under a drone incursion and people were warned to take cover,
02:36Lithuania's defense minister, Robertus Kaunas, told Euronews that Europe must be prepared
02:42for the high probability that more will come.
02:45In the past three weeks, the region has seen at least half a dozen similar incidents.
02:51Kaunas says Lithuania is already increasing its air defense.
02:56We're investing a lot in our air defense capabilities.
03:00New radars are coming.
03:01Part of them are already in Lithuania.
03:04Interceptor drones, air defense experts from Ukraine arriving to Lithuania
03:12to help us enhance our air defense capabilities.
03:16Kaunas says that Lithuania needs to invest 5.3% of its GDP in its national defense,
03:24the highest amount among all NATO countries.
03:27Wednesday's drone incursion, which was a possible Ukrainian drone jammed by Russia,
03:32was the first major alert that sent residents and political leaders in a EU and NATO capital
03:39rushing to shelters since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
03:46Republican lawmakers struggled on Thursday to find the votes needed to dismiss legislation
03:51that would compel U.S. President Donald Trump to end his war in Iran,
03:56delaying planned votes on the matter into June.
03:59Members of the U.S. House of Representatives were set to vote on Trump's use of the 1973
04:03War Powers Resolution.
04:06The War Powers Resolution Act allows presidents to proceed with military action
04:11without requiring congressional approval for 60 days.
04:14After the two-month period, the military campaign is then brought to Congress for an official vote.
04:21Democrats say the vote was pulled after Republicans in the chamber realized it was set to pass.
04:26House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries called Republican lawmakers, quote,
04:31cowards for pulling the vote he says they knew they would lose.
04:35In a statement with other caucus leaders, he accused them of refusing to be held accountable to the American people.
04:42Republicans, however, refute that narrative,
04:44saying the vote was simply postponed to give lawmakers who were absent a chance to cast their say.
04:50Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday,
04:54appeared unfazed as he again reiterated threats to resume the war if Tehran fails to reach a deal with Washington.
05:02A nuclear war in the Middle East.
05:07In France, the investigation into sexual abuse in Parisian after-school programs is gaining momentum.
05:14On Wednesday evening, 16 people who worked at the Saint-Dominique State Nursery School
05:19in the capital's 7th arrondissement had their police custody extended.
05:23The operation was praised by Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire,
05:27who initiated a plan to combat sexual abuse in after-school programs.
05:31Aged 18 to 68, the suspects are being questioned regarding acts ranging from a rape
05:37to behavior described as excessive or violent.
05:41Since the beginning of 2026, 78 municipal employees have been suspended,
05:46including 31 for suspected sexual violence.
05:49The case took on new significance following revelations published on Monday by local newspaper Le Parisien.
05:56It reported that a staff member indicted in 2025 for sexual abuse of three minors at a Parisian school
06:03had already been taken into custody in 2024 for similar incidents reported at a neighboring facility.
06:10Emmanuel Grégoire is now promising to impose sanctions,
06:13tighten up recruitment procedures and improve the traceability of staff.
06:20A small green piece of paper.
06:23Whoever received it was told to report to a gymnasium to clarify their residency status.
06:28But what followed changed the lives of thousands of people forever.
06:32On the 14th of May, 1941, in Paris, on orders from the SS and the Gestapo,
06:39the French police arrested around 3,800 Jewish men and later deported them to camps.
06:44Today, an exhibition at the French Embassy in Berlin commemorates this first major roundup of Jews in occupied France
06:52and for the first time, showed the faces of the victims.
06:55They all have a sense and, above all, they are our memory, our memory and perhaps our future.
07:04This is an irrevocable proof of what happened.
07:08I was six years old, I saw my father for the last time and I am very happy to be
07:15at a certain age and be able to talk about what happened.
07:20Ninety-eight photographs.
07:22For decades, they were considered lost, but in 2020, they were rediscovered.
07:27The man behind the camera, Harry Kroner, a Berlin photographer, who through his father is himself of Jewish descent.
07:35Ironically, he was assigned by a member of the SS and the head of the Gestapo's Jewish Affairs Unit to
07:41document the raid.
07:42But Kroner did not photograph the men as an anonymous mass, but as human beings with faces and dignity.
08:14The project aims to connect and strengthen European remembrance efforts.
08:19Lillianne Reisfeld regularly speaks with students about her story.
08:23This gives the 91-year-old hope for a peaceful future for coming generations.
08:2880 years later, I remember the dress that I wore, a little girl, when I accompanied my father and my
08:38mother to the police.
08:40And it was strange because for years, I had never thought about this dress.
09:00The exhibition, titled Faces of Memory, is on display at the French Embassy in Berlin until the 9th of July.
09:11For the first time, Athens is hosting a major exhibition dedicated to the extraordinary artist and performer Tilda Swindon,
09:18whose unforgettable screen presence has captivated audiences for decades.
09:22In the exhibition ongoing, Swindon brings together costumes, personal objects, photographs and film excerpts linked to the creative collaboration and
09:29friendships.
09:30She has developed over the past 40 years with 8 influential figures from cinema and fashion.
09:37What seems to happen is, you're a young, emerging artist, you've had your first album, your first collection, your first
09:43film, your first book.
09:45You got there out of a web, a web of friendship, a web of your family, a web of your
09:50university, your art school, your college, whatever.
09:53And then you're encouraged, sometimes subtly, sometimes not so subtly, by the record label or the gallerist or the film
10:03studio, to just go solo, to just separate yourself.
10:08You're now, it's important for you to brand yourself as a commodity.
10:13And so, I thought, ha, my show at I.
10:19This is what I could maybe offer as some way of being useful.
10:24A portrait of a different way of working, which happens to be accurate to my story.
10:30The exhibition is a collaboration between Onasi Stegi and I. Film Museum, where it was first presented.
10:38The acclaimed actress shares with visitors the defining moments and collaborations that have shaped her artistic journey,
10:43from her early work with Derek Jarman to her more recent projects with Perder Almodovar.
10:49Derek Jarman always used to say, prepare to go to the set as if you're going to a party.
10:56And that was really how it was.
10:58And as we all know, a good party is a party, you don't, you know, you don't want the host
11:04to be completely responsible for the energy in the room.
11:09You don't want a bunch of guests who stand around waiting for the host to tell them how to have
11:14a good time.
11:15A good party is shared, the energy is shared with everybody.
11:20Somebody puts on the music, somebody pours the drinks, somebody brings the food.
11:24The Swinton ongoing runs until June 28th and is accompanied by a summer rooftop film screening programme at Onasi's Ready
11:31Cultural Centre.
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