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04:20much from the european institution is there is real momentum now is the time to push forward
04:24and move forward there is now an imperative to bring these countries closer to the union they
04:30cannot stay stuck in limbo but as i mentioned this is a complex scenario and this region is
04:35very diverse in its aspirations but also the many challenges indeed maria and just while you're
04:41there there have been some developments overnight peter mayar the hungarian prime minister
04:45announcing a deal on minorities between hungary and ukraine is budapest about to lift its veto
04:53well a major news uh overnight as you say because the hungarian prime minister peter
04:58has announced what he claims to be is a comprehensive deal between the ukrainians and
05:04the hungarians when it comes to the linguistical rights he's talking about the educational rights
05:10the political and cultural rights of the hungarian minority in ukraine he says that
05:15because ukraine has now agreed to implement some of these changes legally hungary will be in a
05:20position to lift uh its veto now going on for more than three years for formal negotiations
05:26for ukraine to join the bloc to finally begin this is a politically charged issue for both
05:32hungary and ukraine for the hungarians we should note for our european viewers this is seen as a matter
05:38of protecting hungarians in ukraine for the hungarian prime minister was very much about a domestic
05:44message that he is defending the rights of the ethnic hungarians in ukraine and that was very much
05:50what peter madger put out uh in a social media post yesterday saying claiming that he has accomplished
05:55now more in three weeks than victor orban ever did in 10 years that referring to this deal with the
06:02ukrainians but also the package that was agreed with the european institutions last week unblocking
06:07more than 60 billion euros in funding for the country this also matters because it will have a
06:13knock-on effect on moldova moldova got stuck in this limbo between hungary and ukraine they will
06:18now push through two and european sources telling euronews last night that this is a win-win for
06:24everyone it will be a win for hungary it will be a win for ukraine they speak of not just
06:29concessions
06:29on behalf of the ukrainians and they also say that this would point to a return of unanimity of 27
06:35and
06:35the drop of constant vetoes by hungary the summit that will be taking place in mid-june is now being
06:42perceived and portrayed as a celebration of what european sources told us will reflect of a new
06:47european unity and just briefly maria if i may how has ukraine reacted well look uh maive that is a
06:55fundamental question because at this hour at this point we do not know what is in this deal we have
07:00not heard from the ukrainian president himself volodymyr selensky but we did hear just this morning
07:06over the past 30 minutes from the ukrainian foreign minister who is speaking of gratitude gratitude when it
07:12comes to the european union but also signaling a new chapter in relations when it comes to hungary
07:17the prime minister of ukraine also saying that this puts the country now one step closer to joining the
07:24european union but we should make one thing very clear and this is extremely important of course
07:28for our viewers in euronews uh this morning this does not signal and does not mean that ukraine will
07:32join overnight or that the path to membership will be easy in fact it will be very difficult certainly in
07:38the context of the war with russia and this potential peace settlement that may come up but
07:43also because the hungarians are indicating they will lift this veto and that is significant but
07:48bitter manager also took a hard line yesterday saying that he does not believe and does not support
07:53an accelerated membership and fast track for ukraine we know that is a position that many of the big
07:59member states also share but he also indicated even in the case even if ukraine manages to complete
08:04this very difficult at times torturous path towards reform he will put this matter to a referendum
08:10before the hungarian people okay maria today we're putting it all in context for us there live
08:14from mc negro thank you so much for joining us and we'll be back again tomorrow with maria with her
08:19exclusive interview with the eu council president antonio kosta but ukraine staying in ukraine russia
08:25has fired a massive drone and missile attack towards the country killing 22 people this wednesday it
08:31comes in response to ukraine targeting the city of saint petersburg as president putin was hosting his
08:35annual economic forum a bit like the russian davos ukrainian drones also struck energy and military
08:41sites in the russian port city this all as the nato secretary general mark ruther was making his
08:46surprise trip to kiev for more on all this i'm joined here on set by our ukraine correspondent that is
08:52of course sasha akalina good morning sasha just tell us what was the purpose of mark ruther's surprise
08:57first and foremost to discuss the insufficient supplies of anti-ballistic uh air defense for
09:03ukraine now russia knows very well that this indeed is one of those very rare gaps in ukraine's air
09:10defense because this is where ukraine of course relies on the u.s vladimir zelensky said that russia
09:14has the capacity to produce 120 ballistic missiles per month now just to compare the u.s producers have the
09:22capacity to to make 60 65 uh pack 3 missiles for patriot systems this is just half of what russia
09:29can actually produce and launch at ukraine and this of course causes a very long waiting time for
09:36anybody applying for those missiles let's take a listen to what volodymar zelensky had to say
09:44the waiting list for pack 2 pack 3 and certainly for the patriot systems is measured in years
09:51and so to be honest we wouldn't be able to receive this new delivery until around 2030 that didn't
09:59sit well with me and it didn't sit well with our team we discussed what alternatives we could find
10:05this involves an agreement with certain countries to swap places in the queue where one country could
10:11give us its spot and we could take that spot and receive the systems earlier
10:20giving kiev's response also kiev's development of homemade weapons zelensky also confirmed that
10:25kiev is once again asking the u.s to provide ukraine with the license to produce those anti-ballistic
10:32defense missiles and sasha mark with his visit came yesterday just as ukrainian forces were
10:37striking the oil refinery in saint petersburg just as delegates were arriving for vladimir putin's
10:42economic forum yeah indeed that was a clear demonstration also of ukraine's long-range
10:47striking capabilities because that oil terminal is over a thousand kilometers away from ukraine's
10:53border and ukraine specifically said that vladimir zelensky insisted that this strike is justified also
10:58because kiev is targeting military and energy specifically oil facilities but also this proves
11:06big progress this is something that was recognized by the secretary general of nato let's take a listen
11:12ukraine is now so successful that putin is only able to organize a 9th of may parade with an official
11:19presidential decree by this president so this is basically how far you got and i think for two
11:26hours you allowed him to do it and and then ended in one hour 55 minutes so he didn't take
11:31a risk
11:32mark luther there speaking from kiev and before that of course our sasha vakelina thank you so much for
11:36that update but now moving on after another round of negotiations israel and lebanon have agreed to
11:42implement a ceasefire contingent on a cessation of hezbollah fire and the removal of hezbollah
11:49operatives from southern lebanon it comes as iran's foreign minister abbas arachi says the u.s
11:55israel war with iran will only end when it also ends in lebanon for the view from beirut we're joined
12:01now by gasan salami a huge academic and political figure in lebanon currently serving as the minister
12:06of culture good morning minister thank you so much for joining us here this morning so first question
12:11the obvious one what is your reaction to this agreement is it a genuine breakthrough or just
12:16another temporary pause in the fighting we hope it's genuine we had the ceasefire already on april the
12:2416th that was not implemented so now the proof of the genuine nature of this new agreement is in its
12:33implementation and therefore the the agreement is still fresh a few hours old so it's probably too
12:42early to decide how serious it is but we say we certainly take it seriously and that's the problem
12:48the previous ceasefire did not work with many calling it just an armed truce it was not even a
12:55truce i mean uh hundreds of people have been killed during the six weeks uh the six past weeks after
13:03the
13:03announcement of the latest uh or penultimate uh ceasefire agreement this new one has a direct
13:12commitment by the mediator that is the united states and it has a number of points that need to be
13:20implemented on the ground we need also to have the two governments uh implementing it each on his side
13:28we are trying we will be trying to implement our side of the agreement and we hope that on the
13:35other
13:35side where we hear uh some ministers in the israeli cabinet already refusing the agreement
13:42which is not uh very uh helpful and we need also to have a common interpretation of the various
13:52paragraphs in the agreement and i hope that some of the sort of far-fetched interpretations i heard
14:00this morning from the israeli prime minister and the minister of defense uh are only for public
14:07consumption not their real position and of course and there's tension isn't there between uh president
14:13trump and benjamin netanyahu and then lebanon you're stuck right in the middle we are we are but
14:20without american pressure we we are not expecting the israeli government to move forward uh towards such
14:29agreement so uh it is uh under american sustained pressure that we can expect uh a real implementation
14:38this time and will hezbollah comply with the terms do you think they have been silent so far but we
14:45expect them to express their position during the day uh because uh it's true that the agreement
14:53calls for ceasefire on both sides and for the withdrawal of hezbollah fighters from south of
15:00the litana we are expecting their reaction during the day and just describe the damage done so far by
15:07israel the last time we spoke here on europe today you described it as an incursion
15:13that's how they put it but this incursion has been bloody uh and as minister of culture i should say
15:21that it uh also destroyed uh 60 villages entirely flattened out and a number of uh very important uh
15:32heritage uh positions have been also hit including the chateau de Beaufort to which lebanese are very
15:41attached uh not to mention uh the uh chama position which is a very important religious uh
15:50uh position in south in south lebanon so we hope that this time implementation will be serious
15:58we are going to uh implement the government side of the agreement we hope that we have a clear answer
16:09from hezbollah during the day and we hope that the israelis don't don't over interpret what's in it
16:16in a way that becomes unacceptable for us okay minister gasan salami thank you so much for joining
16:23us here this morning on europe today live on euro news but now moving on berlin is licking its wounds
16:29after failing to secure a rotating spot on the un security council for more on this big blow for
16:36berlin we're joined by our very own stefan krobe who despite his german accent or his american accent
16:40excuse me is actually german you've got a wonderfully um fluent english accent stefan just tell us you
16:46know you are german as i said how are germans reacting well i i have to admit maiv uh for
16:51germany
16:52at this one hurts right um germany failing to win a seat on the security council is not just a
16:58um diplomatic an obscure diplomatic blow uh for germans it feels like something bigger it's a reality check
17:06for years germans have told themselves that the country is one of the world's indispensable nations
17:13uh it's europe's economic engine it's a champion of international cooperation a country others look to
17:20for leadership yet when the votes were counted at the un the world looked elsewhere and perhaps
17:27germans shouldn't be surprised for too long germany assumed that its economic power would automatically
17:32translate into um political influence germans believe that because they paid the bills because
17:40they supported international institutions and because they praised multilateralism other countries
17:45would naturally back them um yet clearly many do not uh so the uncomfortable truth is that germany's
17:53international standing in the world may not be what germans think it is of course um germany remains a
18:00powerful country one vote at the un will not change that but symbols matter in diplomacy and this symbol
18:07maiv was painful it was painful and also for friedrich merz no the chancellor well look for
18:13friedrich merz the vote was absolutely embarrassing merz has made rebuilding germany's international
18:19standing a central theme of his chancellorship after years of criticism that germany is hesitant
18:26inward looking um he has presented himself as a leader willing to put germany at the center of world
18:34affairs now losing such an important international vote is exactly that kind of um uh setback opponents
18:42can point to as evidence that his strategy is not delivering any results so um this failure at the un
18:49only further weakens his domestic position in berlin and uh which is already fragile and might fuel
18:57attempts within his own christian democratic party maiv to get rid of him okay stefan krobe thank you so
19:04much for that update there and thank you so much for tuning us into us this morning on europe today
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