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Europe Today: Ζελένσκι και ηγέτες Ε3 συμφωνούν σε όρους ειρήνης, φιλοΕΕ κόμμα νικά στην Αρμενία
Ηγέτες Γερμανίας, Γαλλίας, Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και Ουκρανίας συμφωνούν σε όρους ειρήνης με συμμετοχή της Ευρώπης σε συνομιλίες με Πούτιν, ενώ στην Αρμενία φιλοευρωπαϊκό κόμμα κερδίζει τις εκλογές.
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00:00Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:30Those were the topics of a meeting in London last night, bringing together the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and
00:36Ukrainian President Zelensky.
00:39Rio News' Sascha Bakulina will have the latest for us.
00:43Armenians voted in the parliamentary election scene as a test of the government's efforts to forge a peace deal after
00:50a crushing military defeat by Azerbaijan three years ago.
00:53The election was closely watched by Russia, which had tried to intimidate Armenia ahead of the vote.
01:00We'll go to our correspondent in Yerevan.
01:03Peace in the Middle East remains elusive.
01:06Iran's Supreme Leader Moitabah Khamenei authorized a full-scale resumption of war and a painful and decisive response to Israel's
01:16strikes against Beirut.
01:17We'll speak to a top United Nations official on the situation in Lebanon.
01:24And it's kick-off day minus three.
01:28Millions of football fans around the world are awaiting the FIFA World Cup Tournament 2026 in North America, the biggest
01:37ever.
01:37Do you think you already know all about it?
01:40Well, wait for our story.
01:43But first, the three most powerful leaders in Europe met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London last night to
01:51talk about the war situation.
01:53The meeting with Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz came just days after Zelensky suggested direct talks with Vladimir
02:01Putin to end the war.
02:03For the latest, I'm joined in our studio by Euronews' Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakulina.
02:09Good morning, Sasha.
02:10Morning.
02:11So, what can you tell us about the meeting this morning?
02:14Indeed, the most important thing that it is coming, as you said, following this open letter that Volodymyr Zelensky sent
02:20to Vladimir Putin,
02:22asking him to have a meeting for the first time since Russia started its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in
02:292022.
02:30Now, the leaders of France, Germany and the UK did not position themselves as mediator,
02:36but they did issue a statement, and we're going to take a look at it, supporting the idea of the
02:41direct talk.
02:42This says they supported the proposal for a direct dialogue between Ukraine and Russia with active US and European participation
02:50to bring about ceasefire and support further negotiations.
02:54Now, we have to say that this is yet another thing that Russia rejected, including the direct talk, the ceasefire
03:00and the participation of the EU in any sort of negotiations, Stefan.
03:04Now, while Zelensky is in the UK, EU Enlatchment Commissioner Marta Koss is on her way to Kiev.
03:11Yes, indeed, in this big political momentum for Ukraine, with the opening of the first cluster for Ukraine's EU accession.
03:20Marta Koss is in Ukraine, where she's going to be meeting with the government of Ukraine and the Speaker of
03:26Ukrainian Parliament to press for reforms.
03:30Now, when Hungarian veto is finally lifted and this Ukraine is about to take the biggest step yet on its
03:40EU path.
03:41The closer Ukraine moves towards the EU, the more desperate Russia becomes, Marta Koss said, and with that desperation come
03:46more threats, more missiles and more attacks.
03:50Now, EU Enlatchment Commissioner will also meet with the EU staff, where then Ukraine's capital have been living through Russia's
03:57relentless bombardment,
03:59specifically over the past couple of weeks when Moscow has been using dozens of ballistic missiles to attack Ukraine's capital
04:05and other cities.
04:06All right, Sasha Vakulina, thank you so much for that update.
04:10From Ukraine to Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus, where two and a half million people were called
04:18upon to elect a new parliament.
04:20The election was closely watched by Brussels and Moscow.
04:24Ahead of the election, Russia had stepped up economic pressure on Armenia and threatened to cut off its cheap oil
04:30and gas.
04:31Not a comfortable situation for the outgoing pro-Western government.
04:36Let's head over to Armenia's capital, Yerevan, where our correspondent Jane Witherspoon has the latest for us.
04:42Good morning, Jane. Good to see you there. What can you tell us this morning?
04:51Good morning, Stefan. Well, yes, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has declared victory in the elections here.
04:58He celebrated in the early hours with his civil contract party, and he called the historic victory the win.
05:06Now, over 60 percent of the votes have been counted.
05:10It's not an absolute win, but it is, of course, a majority, which is all he needed.
05:14A sound 54 percent of those votes counted.
05:18Clearly, Armenia is turning a page, and it's rather tumultuous past couple of decades.
05:24Now, the Georgian Prime Minister was the first leader to congratulate Mr. Pashinyan on that win,
05:30after just a few votes were actually counted.
05:32And Mr. Pashinyan's main opposition, of course, was the Russian billionaire, the Russian-Armenian billionaire,
05:38Samvel Karapetyan, who actually ran under house arrest.
05:42He'd been accused of trying to overthrow the government here.
05:46Now, Mr. Pashinyan, this has been a real test for him, these elections.
05:49Obviously, Armenia has been coming under strong economic pressure from Moscow.
05:54And, of course, there was his election pledge to also deepen ties with the West.
05:59It will be really interesting to see how Russia responds to this win.
06:04I 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.
06:15First, despite the geopolitical context, the real issue here is on sustaining the momentum of the government's policies
06:24in terms of normalizing relations with neighbors and diplomatic engagement with Azerbaijan and Turkey.
06:32The second real importance of this election is it is Armenia's third back-to-back genuinely free and fair election,
06:41which is an underestimated element of the need to strengthen and consolidate democracy in this region.
06:49What is expected is a recently re-elected prime minister of Armenia going first to Moscow
06:57to reassure Russia that Armenia remains committed to the Eurasian Economic Union.
07:04Russia, in turn, will ease restrictions on Armenian imports and exports.
07:10Yet Russia, over the longer term, does rely on economics and trade as structural leverage over Armenia.
07:18Nevertheless, this isn't about the EU versus Russia.
07:22This is the Armenian government's delicate balancing act.
07:27Jane Witherspoon in Iran, thank you very much for that report.
07:31Now, in Albania, the political unrest continues.
07:36Yesterday saw national protests for the seventh day in a row as Albanians demanded the cancellation
07:42of a luxury real estate project linked to Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.
07:47Protesters are accusing the government of selling out a protective wildlife area to the Kushner-Trump clan.
07:54Prime Minister Edy Rama defended himself in an interview with Euronews' EU editor Maria Tadeo
08:00on the sidelines of the EU Western Balkans summit last Friday.
08:04Here's what he had to say.
08:06Take a listen.
08:07Albania is in a hybrid war.
08:10There are a lot of images that have been spread in the social media of projects that are not related
08:20to the project of dying flamingos, of depressed turtles, and of all this.
08:28It doesn't exist.
08:29So we have to talk about reality.
08:31When the project will be presented, of course, we'll show it and we'll show it proudly.
08:36And I'm sure it will be a project that will change a lot in how Europe understands environments in general.
08:45because this is the aim.
08:47It's not the aim to take a piece of land and do speculation.
08:50The aim is to build the most exclusive and the most environmentally precious destination.
09:02Some people take issue of the exclusive too.
09:05Why?
09:06Because it becomes an elite on land that belongs to the Albanian people.
09:10The land belongs to the investors.
09:13They have bought it from the privates.
09:15And that's part of the issue.
09:18Number one.
09:19Number two, we are not anymore in the bunker of Ember Hoxha isolated from the world.
09:25We are part of the world.
09:26Number three, exactly because these investments come, countries change.
09:31But there is no chance that the progress in Albania and the projects in Albania will be defined by street
09:36protests.
09:36This will never happen, not under my watch.
09:43Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama there speaking to our EU editor Maria Taddeo.
09:49When the Pope makes a trip to a very Catholic country, it's barely newsworthy.
09:55But the week-long papal visit to Spain is quite a challenge.
09:59Pope Liu visits a deeply polarized country where conservatives are turning on the church.
10:04The reason? The American-born pontiff wants to showcase the Catholic Church as an advocate for migrants and asylum seekers.
10:13For more on this, let's cross over to Madrid now, where our correspondent Maria Munoz Murillo has all the details
10:20for us.
10:21Good morning, Maria.
10:22On that polarization of the country, did the Pope make any comments?
10:28Good morning from the Almudena Cathedral, where the Pope is going to hold a prayer this same afternoon.
10:34Yes, he did.
10:35First thing he did this Saturday when he arrived was to have a meeting with the king, the queen, Pedro
10:40Sánchez, and leader of the opposition, Alberto Núñez Fijo.
10:43And he mentioned the polarization in politics, and he also mentioned his aim to reconciliation.
10:51He thanked Spain for the diplomatic position the country took in the armed situations we have around the world right
10:59now.
10:59And he also thanked the country for the effort 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.
11:23It was Benedict Pope Francis. He had plans to visit Spain, especially the Canary Islands, where there is a huge
11:30immigration crisis.
11:32Actually, Pope Leo is going to the Canary Islands. This is seen as a tribute to the late Pope.
11:38And people are happy. The city of Madrid is crowded. We were yesterday in the mass that was celebrated in
11:46Cibeles, and there were around 1.2 million people, a lot of young people.
11:51And they were singing, they were laughing, and they were loving having the Pope here.
11:56All right, Maria Munoz, Moriou, thank you so much for that update.
12:01Now, regarding the Iran war, Pope Leo has repeated appeals for peace and dialogue.
12:07For now, in vain. Indeed, peace prospects are not looking good.
12:12The situation remains tense, especially in Lebanon.
12:15Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah keep attacking each other.
12:19And over the weekend, Iran has issued an evacuation warning to all residents in northern Israel to immediately leave.
12:27To discuss the situation further, let's bring in Hervé Lecoq now.
12:31He is the deputy head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, UNIFIL.
12:37Good morning, sir. Thanks for coming on the show.
12:40Good morning, Stefan. Thanks for having me.
12:43So I got to ask you this first. UNIFIL has been in southern Lebanon for nearly five decades.
12:49Yet the area has repeatedly become a battlefield.
12:52If your mission's core purpose is to help maintain stability, how do you respond to critics who say UNIFIL has
13:00failed?
13:03Well, it's very important to understand what the mandate of UNIFIL was.
13:08It was established in 1978 to monitor the situation at that time.
13:16The situation has drastically changed as UNIFIL has changed.
13:20The main change was 2006 during the Israel-Lebanon war, after which the Security Council decided to actually to really
13:29strengthen UNIFIL,
13:30but to keep a mandate of observing, supporting the parties, implement the resolution that the Security Council itself had adopted.
13:42The implementation of the resolution, disarmament from Hezbollah, withdrawal of Israel from the Lebanese territory,
13:50strengthening of the state authority of Lebanon and respect for territorial integrity, was the responsibility of the parties.
14:01UNIFIL was there to support that process.
14:03So, 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 influence
14:17on the ground?
14:19Well, 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.
14:26Right now, it's the U.S. that lead the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon.
14:33And we are here to support that as soon as an agreement will be found.
14:38There was already a cessation of facilities agreement found in November 24.
14:44We have supported this, in particular the redeployment of the Lebanese armed forces to the south,
14:51verifying that Hezbollah advocated the south,
14:54and helping the Lebanese armed forces to clear the south of weapons that were not under the control of the
15:02state.
15:02So, we are here to support a process.
15:05But when the process fails, then it is not for UNIFIL to substitute itself to the parties
15:12and force an agreement that the parties have to implement.
15:19And finally, give us your sense of serious peace prospects.
15:24Are Israel and Hezbollah ready to stop their attacks?
15:29I think it's very difficult to see now a change within a few weeks.
15:36There is always the chance that the political process,
15:41the political will of the parties will change things on the ground.
15:44I think we see this under the U.S. negotiations that are currently ongoing in Washington.
15:52But it's a very complicated process.
15:55It's been going on, as you pointed out, for many decades.
16:00It's entangled with the regional situation that you pointed out,
16:04that has, again, yesterday demonstrated that the solution is not there.
16:10It is linked with a long history, internal difficulties within Lebanon,
16:17between the government, state authority, and an armed group Hezbollah that does not abide by it.
16:25So, it's a very complicated process.
16:27At the same time, the components of a settlement are known.
16:32They have been sent out by the Security Council in 2006.
16:37And the only way to move forward is to apply that resolution 1701 from the Security Council.
16:45All right.
16:45To go for peace.
16:47All right.
16:48Hervé Lecoq, Deputy Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in Lebanon.
16:51Thank you for your time this morning.
16:53Appreciate it.
16:55And now, to the global event that millions on every continent are waiting for.
17:01You're not sure what I mean?
17:03Then listen to our Jacob Janas.
17:08The largest World Cup in history will kick off this first day across US, Canada, and Mexico.
17:13With 48 teams playing 104 matches, fans are bracing for a five-week marathon.
17:19And yes, your reporter is excited to watch the games,
17:22even though my own team failed to qualify and saved me the inevitable heartbreak.
17:27But I tell you one thing.
17:28If you look past the grass, the game is also being played by corporate accountants.
17:33And yes, I know, it might not sound sexy,
17:35but I've got some really interesting numbers for you to check out.
17:38You know, just in case your team did not qualify either.
17:42So, FIFA proudly projects a $30 billion cash injection for the host nations.
17:47Yet, analysts who want the impact will be practically invisible.
17:51And for an economic giant like the US, it's a drop in the ocean,
17:54with most hotels reporting bookings way below forecasts.
17:58Huh, and the real winner here is Mexico.
18:01Because its economy relies so heavily on tourism,
18:03the money carries far more weight,
18:05potentially boosting its GDP by up to 0.5%,
18:08with cities like Guadalajara, Monterrey, and Mexico City filling it the most.
18:14And spanning 16 cities across a massive continent with no high-speed rail networks,
18:18fans and teams must rely almost entirely on planes.
18:21And this flying circus means transport alone is estimated to generate over 7 million tons of CO2.
18:28And total emissions could hit 15 million tons,
18:31making it the most polluting tournament in sports history.
18:35Finally, FIFA has adopted American-style dynamic pricing,
18:39letting ticket costs fluctuate based on real-time demand.
18:43So, group stage tickets have climbed to $700,
18:47while premium seats for the final top $10,000.
18:51So, you see, overpriced tickets and hotels,
18:54expensive flights and record-breaking emissions sounds like fun.
18:58But let's be honest, if your team wins, you won't remember any of that.
19:03And if you decide to save your money and still follow the games,
19:06remember that Euronews is here to give you live updates.
19:09And the best part?
19:10It's completely free.
19:12All right, so who are you going to support this time?
19:19Jacob, Yana's there for us.
19:21Thank you very much.
19:22And thank you for joining us this morning on Europe Today.
19:26If you want to continue the conversation,
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