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Europe Today: Zelenskyy, E3 leaders agree peace terms as pro-EU party claims victory in Armenia
The leaders of Germany, France, the UK and Ukraine agreed on concrete conditions for peace yesterday, including Europe's participation in direct talks with Vladimir Putin. In Armenia, a pro-EU party has claimed victory in the elections held yesterday.
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The leaders of Germany, France, the UK and Ukraine agreed on concrete conditions for peace yesterday, including Europe's participation in direct talks with Vladimir Putin. In Armenia, a pro-EU party has claimed victory in the elections held yesterday.
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00:14good morning it's monday the 8th of june you're watching euronews and this is europe today welcome
00:22to the program i'm stefan grober coordinating european support for ukraine and increasing
00:28pressure on russia those were the topics of a meeting in london last night bringing together
00:33the leaders of britain france germany and ukrainian president zelensky new news's sasha bakulina will
00:41have the latest for us armenians voted in the parliamentary election scene as a test of the
00:47government's efforts to forge a peace deal after a crushing military defeat by azerbaijan three years
00:53ago the election was closely watched by russia which had tried to intimidate armenia ahead of
00:59the vote we'll go to our correspondent in yarevan peace in the middle east remains elusive iran supreme
01:07leader moitaba khamenei authorized a full-scale resumption of war and a painful and decisive
01:14response to israel's strikes against beirut we'll speak of it we'll speak to a top united nations
01:21official on the situation in lebanon and it's kickoff day minus three millions of football fans around
01:30the world are awaiting the fifa world cup tournament 2026 in north america the biggest ever do you think
01:38you already know all about it well wait for our story but first the three most powerful leaders in
01:46europe met with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky in london last night to talk about the war
01:52situation the meeting with kia starmer emmanuel macon and frederich mertz came just days after
01:58zelensky suggested direct talks with vladimir putin to end the war for the latest i'm joined in our
02:05studio by euronews's ukraine correspondent sasha vakulina good morning sasha morning so what can you tell
02:12us about the meeting this morning indeed the most important thing that it is coming as you said
02:17following this open letter that volodymyr zelensky sent to vladimir putin asking him to have a meeting
02:24for the first time since russia started its full-scale invasion of ukraine uh in 2022 now the leaders of
02:32france germany and the uk did not position themselves as mediator but they did issue a statement and we're
02:38going to take a look at it supporting the idea of the direct talk this says they supported the proposal
02:45for a direct dialogue between ukraine and russia with active u.s and european participation to bring
02:51about ceasefire and support further negotiations now we have to say that this is yet another thing
02:57that russia rejected including the direct talks the ceasefire and the participation of the eu in any
03:03sort of negotiations stefan now while selensky is in the uk um eu enlargement commissioner marta cross
03:09is on her way to kiev yes indeed in this big political momentum for ukraine with the opening of the
03:17first cluster for ukraine's eu accession marta cross is in ukraine where she's going to be meeting with
03:24the government of ukraine and the speaker of ukrainian parliament to press for reforms now when hungarian
03:32veto is finally lifted and this ukraine is about to take the biggest step yet on its eu path the
03:41closer ukraine moves towards the eu the more desperate russia becomes marta cross said and with
03:45that desperation come more threats more missiles and more attacks now eu enlargement commissioner will
03:51also meet with the eu staff where the ukraine's capital have been living through russia's relentless
03:58bombardment specifically over the past couple of weeks when moscow has been using dozens of
04:02ballistic missiles to attack ukraine's capital and other cities all right such a cool now thank you so
04:08much for that update from ukraine to armenia a landlocked country in the south caucasus where
04:16two and a half million people were called upon to elect a new parliament the election was closely
04:21watched by brussels and moscow ahead of the election russia had stepped up economic pressure
04:27on armenia and threatened to cut off its cheap oil and gas not a comfortable situation for the
04:33outgoing pro-western government let's head over to armenia's capital yerevan where our correspondent
04:39jane witherspoon has the latest for us good morning jane good to see you there what can you tell us
04:45this morning
04:51good morning stefan well yes armenian prime minister nikol pashinyan has declared victory in the elections
04:57here uh he celebrated in the early hours with his civil contract party and he called it a historic
05:05victory the win now over 60 percent of the votes have been counted it's not an absolute win but it
05:11is of
05:12course a majority which is all he needed a sound 54 percent of those votes counted clearly armenia is
05:19turning a page and it's rather tumultuous past couple of decades now the georgian prime minister
05:25was the first leader to congratulate mr pashinyan on that win after just a few votes were actually
05:31counted and mr pashinyan's main opposition of course was the russian billionaire the russian armenian
05:37billionaire sambal karapetyan who actually ran under house arrest he'd been accused of trying to overthrow
05:44the government here now mr pashinyan this has been a real test for him these elections obviously armenia
05:50has been coming under strong economic pressure from moscow and of course there was his election pledge
05:56to also deepen ties with the west it will be really interesting to see how russia responds to this win
06:04uh i have caught up a little earlier with political commentator richard giragosian to find out his views
06:10these are pivotal parliamentary elections in armenia for two main reasons first despite the
06:17geopolitical context the real issue here is on sustaining the momentum of the government's policies
06:25in terms of normalizing relations with neighbors and diplomatic engagement with
06:30azerbaijan and turkey the second real importance of this election is it is armenia's third back-to-back
06:39genuinely free and fair election which is an underestimated element of the need to strengthen
06:46and consolidate democracy in this region what is expected is a recently re-elected prime minister of
06:55armenia going first to moscow to reassure russia that armenia remains committed to the eurasian economic
07:03union russia in turn will ease restrictions on armenian imports and exports yet russia over the longer
07:12term does rely on economics and trade as structural leverage over armenia nevertheless this isn't about
07:21the eu versus russia this is the armenian government's delicate balancing act jane with a spoon in iran
07:29thank you very much for that report now in albania the political unrest continues yesterday saw national
07:37protests for the seventh day in a row as albanians demanded the cancellation of a luxury real estate
07:44project linked to donald trump's son-in-law jared kushner protesters are accusing the government of
07:49selling out a protective wildlife area to the kushner trump clan prime minister edi rama defended himself
07:56in an interview with euronews's eu editor maria tadeo on the sidelines of the eu western balkan summit
08:03last friday here's what he had to say take a listen albania is in a hybrid war there are a
08:10lot of
08:11images that have been that have been spread in the social media of of projects that are not
08:19related to the project of dying flamingos of depressed turtles and of all this it doesn't exist so we have
08:30to talk about reality when the project will be presented of course we'll show it and we'll show it
08:35proudly and i'm sure it will be a project that will will change a lot in how europe understands uh
08:42understands uh environments in general because this is the aim it's not the aim to take a piece of
08:49land to do speculation the aim is to to build uh the most exclusive and the most environmentally
09:00uh precious uh destinations uh destination why because it becomes an elite on land that belongs to
09:09the albania people the land the land belongs to the investors they have bought it from the privates
09:15and that's that's part number one number one number two we are not anymore uh in the bunker of amber
09:23hoja isolated from the world we are part of the world number three exactly because this is investments
09:29come countries change but there is no chance that the progress in albania and the projects in albania
09:35will be defined by street protest this is this will never happen in not under my watch
09:43albanian prime minister edi rama they are speaking to our eu editor maria taddeo when the pope makes
09:50the trip to a very catholic country it's barely newsworthy but the week-long papal visit to spain is
09:58quite a challenge pope leo visits a deeply polarized country where conservatives are turning on the
10:04church the reason the american-born pontiff wants to showcase the catholic church as an advocate
10:10for migrants and asylum seekers for more on this let's cross over to madrid now where our correspondent
10:16maria munoz murillo has all the details for us good morning maria on that polarization of the country
10:24did the pope make any comments good morning from the almudena cathedral where the pope is going to
10:32hold a prayer this same afternoon yes he did first thing he did this saturday when he arrived was to
10:38have a meeting with the king the queen pedro sánchez and leader of the opposition alberto nuñez
10:43and he mentioned the polarization in politics and he also mentioned his aim to reconciliation
10:50he thanked spain for the diplomatic position the country took in the armed situations we have around
10:58the world right now and he also thanked the country for the efforts to to gather the peace around
11:07tell us about the atmosphere do the spanish love the pope or was the reception lukewarm
11:14i would say spaniards are thrilled with this visit after all it's been 15 years since we have a pope
11:22here in spain it was benedict pope francis he had plans to visit spain especially the canary islands
11:29where there is a huge immigration crisis actually pope leo is going to the canary islands this is
11:35seen as a tribute to the late pope and people are happy the city madrid is crowded we were just
11:43in the mass that was celebrated in cibeles and there were around 1.2 million people a lot of
11:50young people and they were singing they were laughing and they were loving having the pope here
11:56all right maria munoz more you thank you so much for that update now regarding the iran war pope leo
12:04has
12:04repeated appeals for peace and dialogue for now in vain indeed peace prospects are not looking good the
12:12situation remains tense especially in lebanon israel and the pro-iranian hezbollah keep attacking each
12:19other and over the weekend iran has issued an evacuation warning to all residents in northern
12:25israel to immediately leave to discuss the situation further let's bring in harvey lecoq now he is the
12:32deputy head of the united nations peacekeeping mission in lebanon unifil good morning sir thanks for
12:38coming on the show good morning stefan thanks for having me so i gotta ask you this first unifil has
12:46been in southern lebanon for nearly five decades yet the area has repeatedly become a battlefield
12:53if your mission's core purpose is to help maintain stability how do you respond to critics who say unifil has
13:00failed well uh it's very important to understand what the mandate of unifil was um it was established in uh
13:11in uh in 78 to monitor the situation at that time the situation has drastically changed as unifil has changed
13:20uh the main change was 2006 during the israel israel lebanon war after which the security council decided to
13:28actually to really strengthen unifil but to keep it uh to keep a mandate of observing supporting the
13:36parties implement the resolution that the security council itself had adopted uh the resolution the
13:43implementation of the resolution disarmament from uh from hezbollah withdrawal of israel from
13:49the libanese territory strengthening of the state authority of lebanon and respect for
13:55territorial integrity was the responsibility of the party of the parties unifil was there to support
14:02that process so both israel and hezbollah have accused unifil at various times of not doing enough
14:09now when both sides are unhappy does that prove your neutrality or does it suggest the mission lacks real
14:16influence on the ground well i think we are here to support the political process most and for all
14:23and unifil is not in charge of that political process right now it's the us that uh that lead the
14:29delegate the negotiations between israel and uh and lebanon and we are here to support that uh as as soon
14:36as
14:37an agreement will be found there was already a cessation of facilities agreement found in november
14:42november 24 uh we have supported this in particular the redeployment of the lebanese armed forces to the south
14:49uh verifying that hezbollah advocated the south uh and helping the the lebanese armed forces to clear the
14:58south of uh weapons that were not under the control of the state so we are here to support a
15:04process but
15:05when the support fail when the process fails then it is not for unifil to to substitute itself to the
15:12parties and enforce uh an agreement that uh that the parties have to implement and and and finally
15:20give us your sense of serious peace prospects are israel and hezbollah ready to stop their attacks
15:29i think it's very difficult to uh to see now um a change within a few weeks there is always
15:37uh the
15:39the chance that the political process the political will of the parties will change things on the
15:44ground i think we see the these under the uh the us negotiation uh that are currently ongoing in
15:51in washington but it's a very complicated process uh it's been going on as you pointed out for many
15:58decades uh it's uh entangled with the regional situation that you pointed out that has again yesterday
16:05uh demonstrated that uh that the solution is not there uh it is linked with a long history
16:14internal uh difficulties within lebanon between the government state authority and an armed group
16:21hezbollah that does not uh abide by it so it's a very complicated process at the same time
16:28the component of settlement are known uh they have been set out by the security council in
16:342006 and the only way to to move forward is to apply that resolution 1701 from the secret council
16:44all right to go for peace all right every lecock deputy head of the united nations peacekeeping mission
16:51in lebanon thank you for your time this morning appreciate it and now to the global event that
16:57millions on every continent are waiting for you're not sure what i mean then listen to our jacob janice
17:08the largest world cup in history will kick off this first day across us canada and mexico
17:12with 48 teams playing 104 matches fans are bracing for a five-week marathon and yes your reporter is
17:20excited to watch the games even though my own team failed to qualify and save me the inevitable
17:26heartbreak but i tell you one thing if you look past the grass the game is also being played by
17:31corporate accountants and yes i know it might not sound sexy but i've got some really interesting
17:36numbers for you to check out you know just in case your team did not qualify either
17:42so fifa proudly projects a 30 billion dollar cash injection for the house nations yet analysts who want
17:49the impact will be practically invisible and for an economic giant like the us it's a drop in the ocean
17:54with most hotels reporting bookings way below forecasts huh and the real winner here is mexico
18:00because its economy relies so heavily on tourism the money carries far more weight potentially boosting
18:06its gdp by up to half a percent with cities like guadalajara monterey and mexico city filling
18:13it the most and spanning 16 cities across a massive continent with no high-speed rail networks fans and
18:19teams must rely almost entirely on planes and this flying circus means transport alone is estimated to
18:25generate over 7 million tons of co2 and total emissions could hit 15 million tons making it the
18:32most polluting tournament in sports history finally fifa has adopted american-style dynamic pricing letting
18:39ticket costs fluctuate based on real-time demand so group stage tickets have climbed to 700 dollars while
18:48premium seats for the final top 10 000 so you see overpriced tickets and hotels expensive flights
18:55and record-breaking emissions sounds like fun but let's be honest if your team wins you won't remember
19:01any of that and if you decide to save your money and still follow the games remember that euronews is
19:07here to give you live updates and the best part it's completely free all right so who are you going
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