00:01Sweden's center-left coalition bloc led by the Social Democrats' Magdalena Andersson are projected to win a majority in Sunday's
00:07parliamentary election, according to early exit polls.
00:11The polls from Swedish public broadcaster SVT and TV4 are predicting the four-party group to secure slightly over 50
00:18% of the votes,
00:19paving the way for Andersson to return to the office she vacated in late 2022, pending coalition talks.
00:26In 2022, Andersson's coalition was also projected to win an early exit polls,
00:32however, preliminary results by the Swedish Election Commission did not confirm those predictions.
00:37Incumbent Ulf Kristersson is seeking a second four-year term at the critical vote,
00:41which has been centered around concerns over rising crime and immigration.
00:45He is allied with three other center-right parties, as well as the Sweden Democrats,
00:50an anti-immigration party that has far-right roots, but has moved towards the political mainstream.
00:56First preliminary results in Sweden are expected to trickle in from 9 p.m. Central European time from the Election
01:02Authority.
01:05Russian strikes killed at least 11 civilians and wounded dozens across Ukraine on Saturday,
01:12local officials said, with casualties reported in Zaporizhia, Dnipropetrovsk, Kiev and Krivirich, among other areas.
01:21Many of the locations hit were residential.
01:25In Odessa, at least 35 people, including children, were wounded in what regional officials described as a massive attack.
01:32A residential high-rise was among the buildings hit, with its upper floors completely destroyed.
01:39Meanwhile, Ukraine's defense forces said they had struck a plant in Russia's Samara region
01:44that produces rubber used in rocket fuel.
01:47Against the backdrop of escalating violence, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Deutsche Welle,
01:54released Saturday, that he would be willing to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin at a G20 summit in December.
02:02Putin, however, struck a more confrontational tone while speaking to reporters on Friday
02:07on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in India.
02:09He warned that any decision by European governments to deploy troops to Ukraine would amount to a war with Russia.
02:20Well, day two of U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland very much underway with a heavy focus on
02:25golf.
02:26He is down in his golf club in County Clare, where he's watching the Irish Open golf tournament.
02:31He'll present the winner with the trophy later on this evening.
02:34He'll be accompanied also by Irish Prime Minister Taoiseach Milhor Martin.
02:38Even yesterday, he had a whole day of events, in particular at the U.S. Ambassadors Residence, which is just
02:43behind me,
02:43where he gave a wide-ranging speech, but very much pressed home on his desire to see the unification of
02:49Ireland,
02:50Northern Ireland, with the Irish state.
02:51This is something that was largely put to bed in 1998 with the Good Friday Agreement.
02:56But Irish government sources have said that this is something that Donald Trump frequently brings up with the Irish government.
03:00And he's the one who introduced this conversation.
03:03He believes that it's a merger that he thinks will be much more logical.
03:07Of course, the U.K. government does not agree.
03:10And we know that the Irish Taoiseach will speak to Andy Burnham, the U.K. Prime Minister, later in this
03:15week.
03:15Donald Trump also updated the government in relation to talks between the Ukrainians and the Russians
03:20and the peace efforts there, saying that there is some progress.
03:24He also said he hoped that the war in Iran would end soon.
03:27He spoke to press about that.
03:28And the Irish government did also respond to him in relation to his comments about immigration,
03:34where he said that immigration, or too much immigration, was killing Europe.
03:37The Irish government said that immigration is down in Ireland.
03:40And also he said that he would return here potentially next year.
03:45Shona Murray, Euronews, Dublin.
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