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Europe Today: atak na Kijów, szczyt NATO i presja na Rosję
Ukraina obchodzi żałobę po śmiertelnym rosyjskim ataku na Kijów, a sojusznicy z NATO szykują się do szczytu w Ankarze. Irlandia rozważa wstrzymanie eksportu tlenku glinu do Rosji, a UE bada działalność ugrupowania Patriots.
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Ukraina obchodzi żałobę po śmiertelnym rosyjskim ataku na Kijów, a sojusznicy z NATO szykują się do szczytu w Ankarze. Irlandia rozważa wstrzymanie eksportu tlenku glinu do Rosji, a UE bada działalność ugrupowania Patriots.
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00:00Wszystkie prawa zastrzeżone.
00:30following Moscow's deadly assault on Kyiv this week.
00:33EU foreign policy chief Kaya Kalas says the measures will target entities supporting
00:38Russia's military-industrial complex after one of the largest aerial attacks of the war
00:43that killed at least 30 people and injured more than 100.
00:47Meanwhile, in Spain, around 1.2 million undocumented migrants have applied for legal status under
00:53a scheme that would grant them a one-year residence and work permit.
00:56Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said the huge number of applicants reflects how necessary
01:02the scheme is, defying a growing European crackdown on irregular immigration.
01:07And in Brussels, a leaked European Commission document alleges the previous Hungarian government
01:12was running a spy network targeting EU staff between 2012 and 2018.
01:18Hungary's EU Commissioner Oliver Verhegy has come under pressure to step down.
01:23But first, to Ukraine, who's holding a day of mourning today after at least 30 people
01:28were killed and more than 100 injured after a large-scale Russian missile and drone strike
01:33on Ukraine's capital.
01:35As the search and rescue operation continues, President Zelensky has called on allies to
01:41deliver the air defence systems that they'd promised.
01:42For more on the impact on one of Russia's largest aerial assaults in recent months, we're joined
01:48here in the studio by our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakilina.
01:51Sasha, this was a major assault.
01:53The death toll keeps rising.
01:55Will we see more like this in the near future?
01:57Look, the search and rescue operation is still on, Maven, even now, this morning in Kyiv.
02:03Unfortunately, yes, we are probably going to see more of this devastation.
02:07The Kremlin did not hide the intentions yesterday, commenting on the attack, saying that Moscow
02:11intends to continue, it doesn't intend to stop, and wants to increase what they call
02:17pressure to achieve Russia's goals in its war against Ukraine.
02:22Now, to do so, Russia is deliberately using some of the weapons that Ukraine, for Ukraine
02:27is harder to intercept.
02:29These are the jet-powered drones and, of course, the ballistic missiles.
02:32There were 28 ballistic missiles used to attack Kyiv in this devastation, which is, of course,
02:38overwhelming for Ukraine's air defence.
02:40And this is what Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to say.
02:45Russia no longer has any other argument in favour of its war, apart from its ballistic
02:50missiles, this kind of terror.
02:52Putin intends to continue winning against residential buildings to avoid ending this war.
02:57And this can be countered by both sufficient supplies of anti-ballistic systems and by
03:02significantly speeding up efforts to develop our own anti-ballistic systems in Europe.
03:09President Zelenskyy there highlighting how these growing challenges now that are facing
03:13Ukraine's air defence systems, what's next then?
03:15Well, he also said that, for example, to be able to intercept 70 ballistic missiles launched
03:21by Russia, Ukraine would need 140 of interceptors.
03:25This is the double.
03:26Just to give you an example, the US, the producer of the interceptors for Patriot systems,
03:31can only produce up to 65 per month.
03:35So this is not enough.
03:36Also, considering that there is not only Ukraine, but also there were in Iran, which depleted
03:41those stocks.
03:42And this is why, indeed, Kyiv is calling on the partners, and we've heard from Ukraine's
03:45defence minister, who is calling on up to 40 Ukraine partners to speed up to those
03:50deliveries of the promised air defence.
03:52This is something that Ukraine partners already pledged to deliver, but these deliveries are
03:58being delayed.
03:59Hopefully, this is something that Kyiv can also raise at the NATO summit in Ankara next week.
04:04Okay.
04:04Sasha Vakilina, thank you so much for that update.
04:07And indeed, moving on.
04:08This latest attack in Ukraine comes on the eve of that very NATO summit taking place in Ankara
04:13next week.
04:15The US President Donald Trump has confirmed he will be attending, despite ongoing divisions
04:19within the alliance, particularly over the US war on Iran.
04:22For the latest, we can now head to the NATO headquarters here in Brussels, where our correspondent
04:27Shona Murray is standing by for us.
04:29Shona, you'll be heading, of course, to Ankara next week.
04:31Ahead of that, just tell us what is on the agenda.
04:36Well, good morning, Maeve.
04:37And I spoke to one NATO diplomat last night, and I asked him about next week, and he said
04:42it's showtime.
04:43It's time for NATO to prove to the United States that those countries are well on their
04:47way to spending 5% of GDP on defence by 2035, as agreed at the last NATO summit.
04:53We know this is a major bone of contention for the United States.
04:57We heard from the US ambassador to NATO during the week, Matthew Whittaker, who used the term
05:01free riders when it comes to some European countries and American military assets.
05:06Also on the agenda, for sure, will be America's long-term commitment to the NATO alliance to
05:12European security architecture.
05:14We know that the United States has pulled a lot of capabilities available to NATO, like
05:18B-52 bombers, F-16s, ex-F-35s.
05:22And in addition, there will be a real push for the defence industry to basically ramp up
05:26production and spend more and build more weapons.
05:29Maeve?
05:29And of course, Shona, President Trump has been expressing his anger now for months with
05:34allies for not helping the US over Iran.
05:36I imagine this topic will also dominate in Ankara.
05:41No doubt about it, Maeve.
05:42We even heard from Donald Trump last night on Truth Social saying that European countries
05:47abandoned the United States when it came to the war in Iran.
05:50He's talking about the fact that some countries like Italy, like Spain, refused access to the
05:55US military to their bases in those countries for the war in Iran.
05:59The UK did so initially, but then it allowed the US there.
06:03Other countries like Germany have always allowed the United States basing rights.
06:07So the picture isn't as clear cut as he said, but he's certainly angry about this.
06:11And I caught up with his former US ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker.
06:19Donald Trump is always raging about something and he's unhappy about European contributions, European defence spending, Iran, whatever it might
06:30be.
06:30But this is not going to be a blow up of a NATO summit.
06:35It's actually going to be quite calm.
06:37First, I think he has a good relationship with Erdogan and he doesn't want to rain on Erdogan's parade.
06:42Second, he is happy about NATO allies spending more on defence.
06:46And I think allies will say something nice about wanting to support security in the Persian Gulf when there's an
06:53opportunity to do so, trying to position themselves as helpful.
06:58And I think they're also going to try to take some positive steps on Ukraine, reaffirming this Pearl mechanism, the
07:07way in which Europe buys armaments from the United States and provides them to Ukraine.
07:12And what of that business of NATO being important for the United States to project its own power globally?
07:19Has that diminished somewhat or is it still important?
07:22Well, so the administration right now likes to say that Europe wasn't there for us.
07:26They weren't helping.
07:27They didn't let us use bases and airspace and things like that.
07:31That's a bit of an exaggeration.
07:34You had to ask and then you could have used them.
07:37And we didn't tell anybody we were going to attack Iran.
07:40And then we complained that no one was attacking with us.
07:43So I think it's a bit much the way that is packaged.
07:47Now, that being said, it has become politically beneficial to some countries in Europe to say they're standing up to
07:54Trump and that they aren't allowing their bases or space to be used to attack Iran.
08:00But that is now that's that's a dynamic that was created by the U.S. surprise attack without consulting with
08:08anybody.
08:09From an industry point of view, because that's really going to be a focus for the first day of the
08:12summit, this industry forum.
08:14What is required of NATO, of NATO countries in terms of the industry stepping up, given the fact that the
08:22United States burned through so many munitions, including Patriot systems and so on?
08:28Well, this is a great question, because it starts with the money.
08:32You've got to be spending enough money on defense to have the capability that you need.
08:37But then, as Secretary Rutte has said in his Oval Office meeting, the trick is converting money into capability.
08:44You can spend money on a lot of things and it doesn't necessarily produce defense capability.
08:49So getting a real defense capability that you need is not so straightforward.
08:53And then finally, we have to learn some lessons from Ukraine.
08:56Ukraine has developed high tech, low cost systems that are very effective and can overwhelm high tech, high cost systems.
09:08For example, if you spend a Patriot missile costs a million dollars to shoot down a drone that costs $30
09:16,000.
09:17That's an unsustainable position to be in.
09:22Meanwhile, in Ireland, which has just taken over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union, one question
09:29is looming large this week.
09:30Should it stop exporting Alamina to Russia?
09:33Under pressure from Kiev, Dublin is investigating whether the material could be supporting Russia's war effort, while, of course, weighing
09:39the impact on local jobs.
09:41Our Jorge Librarero sent us this update from Cork.
09:45To sanction or not to sanction, that is the dilemma that Ireland faces when it comes to alumina, the white
09:51powder that it sells every month to Russia.
09:54We must remember that alumina is the raw material that it's used to manufacture aluminum, a lightweight metal that it's
10:01commonly found on the battlefield in Ukraine.
10:03Now, President Zelensky has made it clear.
10:06He wants this alumina expose to stop immediately.
10:10But the government of Ireland is trading carefully, balancing the pros and cons of such a decision.
10:15On the one hand, Dublin doesn't want any Irish material to end up propping up Russia's war machine.
10:22But on the other hand, Dublin is concerned about the potential disruption for local jobs, for the environment and for
10:29Europe's broader supply chain.
10:31The government has already launched an investigation to determine the final destination of these alumina exports.
10:38Taoiseach Michal Martin told us here in Cork that these findings will be shared with the European Commission to develop
10:44a joint approach that could tackle what he called the core issue.
10:49Now, I must say that the European Commission, the whole college, is here today in Cork to mark the start
10:54of the Irish presidency of the EU Council,
10:57a presidency that has been partially overshadowed by the damaging scandal of Illumina.
11:08And now for the view from the UN on bringing an end to the war in Ukraine and other conflicts
11:14across the world.
11:15Our correspondent, Angela Scugin, spoke with the former Belgian Prime Minister, Alexander de Croix, who's now with the UN Development
11:21Programme.
11:23Stopping the war would, from our perspective, be the thing we look forward to.
11:29Of course, what is a just way of stopping the war?
11:33That is a political discussion.
11:35UNDP is not involved in that.
11:38But of course, war is development in reverse.
11:42And the human misery and the level of destruction in Ukraine is something which we deplore.
11:51And the huge human cost, every month, 40,000 people are dying.
11:56And on the Russian and on the Ukrainian side.
11:59The earlier it stops, the earlier we can bring human progress again.
12:05But the political process is obviously one which we are a spectator in.
12:10Absolutely.
12:11And shifting to another conflict now in the Middle East, the United Nations released a report this month stating that
12:18Israel is deliberately targeting Palestinian children in what they described as a genocide.
12:24You were in Gaza in February this year.
12:26Does this chime with what you saw on the ground?
12:28The circumstances on the ground are dramatic.
12:32And I have not seen many worse places in the world than Gaza today.
12:40More than 80% of people lost their homes, live in constructions that one would not even call tents.
12:49The level of poverty is gigantic.
12:52And they're being squeezed together in a surface that is less than 50% of what Gaza used to be.
12:59And it was already a very, very densely populated part of the world.
13:04The European Commission wants to prioritise competitiveness and defence as part of this pitch.
13:09But does that mean that funding for aid will go under the hammer?
13:14Is there a clear winner and loser?
13:17I think what the current proposal or what the Commission has come forward with is that it understands that the
13:24prosperity, the security and the stability of the European inhabitants is secured by what is being done within the European
13:33borders, but also what is being done outside the European borders.
13:39Having a stable neighbourhood where there is economic growth, where there is democracy, where there is no war, has a
13:49direct impact on the lives of Europeans and has also a direct impact on the economic growth that can happen.
13:57And so that is our main element is development is part of your security agenda and development is also part
14:07of your economic agenda.
14:09And these are two sides of the same coin.
14:12But how do you muster support for this?
14:15Because obviously Russia's invasion of Ukraine is raging into its fifth year.
14:20Obviously tensions in the Middle East show no signs of abating.
14:23How do you fight fatigue when it comes to showing support to these countries and these communities that are being
14:30significantly impacted by conflict?
14:33Well, you know, we see more military spending and we totally understand that in the current circumstances.
14:41But if you want that military spending to be as effective as possible, you will also have to invest in
14:47preventing that a conflict arises.
14:51Alexander de Crowe there speaking to our Angela Scudgens on the sidelines of the EU budget conference.
14:57But now moving on, investigators from the EU's public prosecutor's office have launched a major probe into the alleged misuse
15:04of EU funds by the far right political group, the Patriots.
15:07Our Jakob Janis explains what exactly they're accused of.
15:12The dark times are ahead as the EU is coming for the Patriots.
15:16But this time it is not about political debate.
15:19It is about balance sheet.
15:21This week the European Public Prosecutor's Office has launched a fresh wave of raids across France, Spain, Italy and Belgium.
15:28And they are digging into the 4.3 million euros of the EU funds allegedly misused by the European Parliament's
15:35Identity and Democracy Group between 2019 and 2024.
15:39What is going on here?
15:42The prosecutors are scrutinizing whether the party breached public tender rules when awarding public contracts and issued irregular donations using
15:51taxpayer funds.
15:52But that political group is actually dead.
15:55It has been rebranded into the new Patriots for Europe coalition, led by the rising star Jordan Bardella.
16:01And they are not a small fry as they are currently the third largest force in the European Parliament.
16:06So the name on the office door has changed, but the paper trail remains.
16:10And the European prosecutors are conducting searches at the offices and homes of communication providers tied to that old group.
16:18Last year, when the investigation was announced, Bardella claimed it was a new harassment operation by the European Parliament.
16:25But here is the thing, the timing for the national rally, so Bardella's party, could not be more brutal.
16:31Next week, Marine Le Pen discovers if a Paris court will uphold a five-year ban from public office on
16:38allegations of embezzling public funds.
16:41And if she is out, Bardella is the designated successor.
16:44So one question remains, will the national rally maintain its political momentum?
16:49After all, the party relies on its image as the voice of the people against the distant Brussels elite.
16:55So let's hope that the very Brussels money was not used cynically to fuel their political machine all along.
17:02Because that would be a bummer, wouldn't it be?
17:09Jakob Iannis there for us.
17:11And now it's time for our World Cup segment.
17:18Well, drama and triumph in two European encounters.
17:22Portugal, with their superstar Ronaldo, bet Croatia in a pretty tight match 2-1.
17:27Spain won 3-0 against Austria.
17:30And both Iberian teams will be facing each other now in the biggest clash of the round of 16 on
17:36Monday.
17:37Switzerland also progressed to the round of 16 with a 2-0 win over Algeria this morning.
17:42And coming up, there are three more matches in this round of 32.
17:46Australia against Egypt this evening.
17:48And Lionel Messi's Argentina against the surprise team of Cape Verde at midnight.
17:52And then Colombia against Ghana in the very early hours of Sunday morning.
17:56So just at this stage to recap, Austria, Bosnia, Croatia, Germany, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden are all out.
18:03And Belgium, England, France, Portugal, Spain and Switzerland made it to the round of 16.
18:09Enjoy the games.
18:10And if you're not a football fan, you may be more interested in Taylor Swift's wedding.
18:15Which, given her huge fan base here in Europe, is sure to garner a lot of attention as well.
18:21Whatever your preference, you can visit yournews.com for all the latest news.
18:25But that does bring this edition of Europe Today to an end.
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