00:01The French, German and British leaders will meet their Ukrainian counterpart in London on Sunday.
00:07French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer
00:13will discuss with Zelensky the way forwards at a time when Russia, in a state of military, economic and strategic
00:20failure,
00:21is persisting unsuccessfully with a deadly war, the Élysée Palace said.
00:26On Friday, Macron welcomed the letter from Volodymyr Zelensky to Vladimir Putin aimed at achieving peace.
00:33Donc je pense que c'est une bonne initiative et c'est une bonne chose qu'il y ait des
00:37discussions qu'il puisse reprendre.
00:39Maintenant, mon souhait c'est plutôt de regarder l'avenir et de dire comment on arrive à réorganiser un dialogue
00:45pour construire le cesse-le-feu et la paix. Je pense que c'est l'intérêt de l'Ukraine et
00:50de la Russie.
00:50Speaking at an EU-Western Balkans summit in Montenegro, Macron also said that the next meeting of Coalition of the
00:58Willing Members
00:58will take place in Paris on the 13th and 14th of July.
01:03Latest Russian strikes in Ukraine killed at least seven people.
01:07An attack on an agri-food site near Kiev claimed four lines.
01:15A Ukrainian C-drone exploded in Romania's port of Constanta on Friday,
01:20with Ukrainian and Romanian officials saying it had veered off course due to Russian electronic interference.
01:26Romanian president Nikus Ordan said information from Ukraine was received ahead of time,
01:31allowing officials to take precautionary measures.
01:43NATO said it was monitoring the situation after Romania informed it of the incident.
01:49We have already ordered inside SAFE a lot of equipments,
01:53and what we ask to our partners inside NATO,
01:57we ask that they supply us some of the equipments during this one, one and a half year time.
02:04The maritime incident occurred a week after a Russian aerial drone that was part of an attack on Ukraine
02:10went astray and struck an apartment building in Romania's city of Galati.
02:15Romania's department head for emergency situations said helicopters were deployed to search for more drones
02:21and that the authorities issued text message alerts to residents.
02:25Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed solidarity with Romania in a post on X,
02:31calling the incident a direct consequence of Russia's war against Ukraine.
02:41Slovenia's parliament has approved its new right-leaning government under Prime Minister Janis Jansa,
02:46which has pledged tax cuts, targeted spending and an anti-corruption drive.
02:51The vote came after parliamentary elections held in March that produced no clear winner.
02:57Former Liberal Prime Minister Robert Golub's freedom movement won most votes,
03:01but he was unable to muster a parliamentary majority.
03:05Jansa and his populist Slovenian Democratic Party formed a coalition government
03:09with other right-leaning groups in parliament.
03:12The new government also has the backing of a non-establishment truth party
03:16that first emerged as an anti-vaccination movement during the COVID-19 pandemic.
03:21It is Jansa's fourth term in office.
03:24The political veteran is an admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump
03:28and was a close ally of former populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban,
03:32who was defeated in a landslide election in April.
03:40Researchers on a Greenpeace expedition are exploring the Arctic deep sea,
03:45one of the least known wildernesses on Earth.
03:47More specifically, they are exploring the so-called banana hole
03:51to search for undiscovered species and ancient ecosystems.
03:55The banana hole is a remote and mysterious area of the Arctic high seas
03:59that lies in international waters located between Norway and Greenland.
04:04Greenpeace says it is home to seamounts or underwater mountains,
04:08as well as volcanic hot springs,
04:10which it says acts as a living library of our planet's history.
04:15However, despite of its importance,
04:18the environmental organization says the banana hole is under threat of deep-sea mining.
04:23The Greenpeace vessel departed earlier this month for a month-long expedition
04:27to raise awareness on the danger of deep-sea mining.
04:30They are now live-streaming from depths down to 3,000 meters until the 30th of May,
04:36and the expedition is expected to last until early June.
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