00:00Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union's first associate member in a
00:07speech to the European Parliament.
00:11Sweden's bloc of centre-left parties has won a narrow parliamentary majority in the tightly contested general election.
00:20Hundreds of people gathered in Kosovo's capital to protest against the sentencing of former President Hashim Fatshi.
00:31Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embraced the prospect of his country becoming the European Union's first associate member after he
00:39spoke before the European Parliament on Thursday.
00:42Carney hailed the bond between Europe and Canada, but the increasingly souring relationship with the U.S. also hung over
00:49the address.
00:50We are not fair-weather allies. We do not pursue zero-sum deals.
01:00Our commitment to the rule of law and our unyielding defence of human dignity, individual freedom, and democracy share the
01:10same deep roots, the same unwavering dedication.
01:15We hold common values for which we have always fought and in whose defence we must always remain vigilant.
01:25Trump's tariffs, demands for economic concessions and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st state have pushed Ottawa to reduce
01:32its dependence on its neighbour
01:34and seek a far deeper economic, security and political relationship with Europe.
01:39At the same time, Carney also seems to trace a line for any potential relinquishment of sovereignty from Canada's side.
01:46I'm not proposing a third bloc in order to become a great power rival, only with better manners.
02:01We do not seek power to dominate others.
02:06On the contrary, we are pursuing resilience so no one, no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty,
02:16threaten our territorial integrity,
02:17or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law.
02:22Carney will host EU leaders for a summit in Montreal on October 29-30,
02:28when the two sides are expected to discuss the proposed new relationship in more detail.
02:35US President Donald Trump has threatened to cut trade with the European Union or impose more tariffs
02:41after the bloc proposed to make Canada, which is embroiled in a trade war with Washington, its first ever associate
02:47member.
02:49Speaking to reporters after disembarking Air Force One, Trump was ambiguous in his remarks,
02:55hinging his next move on whether the EU's inclusion of Canada is deemed by him an act of good
03:00or bad faith.
03:01If they do that, if I think it's an all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or
03:07stop trading with Europe on many things.
03:10So, if they do that, if Europe does that, with a bad intention, if it's a good intention, that's fine.
03:17If it's a bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on the move.
03:20The move was proposed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during her State of the Union address
03:26before the European Parliament on Wednesday, with Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney notably in attendance.
03:33This is not a partnership against anyone else, but for our common strength.
03:41In short, we want to bring the relationship with Canada to the highest level possible.
03:49And dear Mark, I said we must urgently reimagine our partnerships.
03:54So, I would like to work with you on opening the door for Canada to being the first associate member
04:04of the European Union.
04:06The European Executive Chief said the EU plans to boost its alliance with Canada to enhance collaboration across the board
04:13to, quote, create common prosperity and economic security.
04:17The alliance will expand to include manufacturing, tech and energy projects, and defense integration to boost Arctic security.
04:31Australia and New Zealand could follow Canada into associate membership with the EU.
04:36The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Mezzola, told your news in an interview ahead of Canada's Prime Minister addressed
04:43to the European Parliament.
04:45We want to deepen our relationship.
04:47We're doing it in terms of trade.
04:48We're doing it in terms of compensation on what we do with social media, with children, with critical raw materials,
04:54alliances that can be forged.
04:56And I think in the global sort of, in the big picture, and that's, I think, what we cannot let
05:01go in this time of such uncertainty,
05:03is that friends matter.
05:05And if we can do more things with our friends, then let's do that.
05:08The European Commission invited Wednesday Canada to become the EU's first associate member to deepen cooperation amid the ongoing trade
05:18war between Washington and Ottawa.
05:19Metzola also responded to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump that he would impose fresh tariffs on the EU
05:26if the Canadian bid for associate membership turns hostile.
05:30We have different trade relationships with different countries.
05:33We have a trade relationship and an agreement with the United States, and we will intensify our trade.
05:39Associate membership is an entirely new status, and it isn't clear what it would entail.
05:45But talks are underway for Canada to join the Erasmus Plus Students' Exchange Programme and the EU's Horizon Research and
05:52Innovation Scheme.
05:59Sweden's Conservative Prime Minister, Ulf Kristersson, announced his resignation on Thursday after the left-wing opposition won a slim majority
06:06in parliament in the country's general election.
06:09The complete vote count showed that the four left-wing parties hold a three-seat majority in the 349-seat
06:16parliament.
06:17Magdalena Andersson, leader of the Social Democrats, said discussions towards forming a government
06:23has already begun, adding that she hopes to regain the prime minister's job, which she lost in 2022.
06:30So it's up to all the political forces to put the party tactics on the side and set the best
06:37of the Sweden and the Swedish people, especially the best of the Sweden.
06:40I want to make sure that our country will come together again.
06:44And to all of you who have chosen to vote for another party than mine, I want to say that
06:49you have my full respect.
06:52I will work hard to earn your trust, that you will feel that I am your Prime Minister, and that
07:01I am on your side.
07:03The opposition's small lead was initially uncertain, but was confirmed after early votes that didn't arrive at polling stations by
07:10election day,
07:11including overseas ballots, were counted.
07:14Andersson now faces the task of overcoming differences in the center-left bloc.
07:18She will in particular need to reconcile differences between the socialist left party and the liberal center party.
07:27Hundreds of protesters gathered in the capital Pristina on Wednesday to express their dissatisfaction with the verdict
07:33against former President Hashim Tatsy by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague.
07:38The internationally-backed Kosovo Court's verdict found Tatsy and three other former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders
07:45guilty of illegal arrests, torture, murder, and cruel treatment during the 1998 War for Independence from Serbia
07:52and sentenced them to 25 years in prison.
07:55Among many Kosovo Albanians, Tatsy and his co-defendants are still widely hailed as heroes of the independence movement
08:02and their simmering anger threaten to escalate into full-fledged riots.
08:07In Pristina, a crowd of young men marched towards the headquarters of the European Union's rule-of-law mission in
08:13Kosovo,
08:14waving KLA flags and chanting the guerrilla group's name.
08:18Some scuffled with riot police and threw stones at the building,
08:21and a small group remained in front of the building until Wednesday night,
08:25blocking traffic and defying police orders to clear the road and disperse.
08:29They eventually left, with many of them making their way to the airport to welcome back the children of Tatsy
08:35and another co-defendant, Kadri Veseli, who were attending the verdict.
08:40In The Hague, angry demonstrators near the court briefly clashed with police,
08:45with some climbing onto a police van as officers held them back from the court building.
08:53For the second year in a row, the United States has denied visas to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
09:00and other high-level Palestinian delegates to attend the UN General Assembly in New York.
09:05The U.S. State Department said the Palestinian Authority had failed to commit to seek peace with Israel.
09:11It cited legal action against Israel at international courts
09:15and the payment of stipends to families of Palestinian prisoners in Israel.
09:20The Palestinian Authority criticized the decision, calling it an unjustified measure
09:25that runs counter to efforts to rebuild trust, develop Palestinian-U.S. relations,
09:30and create the necessary political climate for implementing the two-state solution
09:34and achieving peace and stability.
09:37Despite the ban, Palestinian representation at next week's summit will not disappear entirely.
09:43The Palestinians will still be represented by diplomats already accredited to the United Nations,
09:48and Abbas is expected to appear by video, which he also did last year.
09:53The renewed visa denial comes at a politically sensitive moment,
09:57as a number of key members are expected to recognize a Palestinian state at this year's General Assembly.
10:08Climate change played a significant role in last month's deadly Himalayan disaster in Nepal,
10:14thinning glaciers and thawing mountain permafrost in ways that likely destabilized the slope before it collapsed,
10:22a report released Thursday by the World Weather Attribution Group says.
10:26The collapse near Nepal's border on China on 26 August triggered a torrent of water, ice,
10:35builders, and sediments that swept through communities along the Trishuli River corridor,
10:40killing more than 1,300 people and leaving over 5,000 missing.
10:46Their analysis did not determine whether the collapse would have happened without climate change.
10:52However, researchers concluded that warming intensified several processes that made the slope less stable over decades.
11:00According to the report, warming had pushed the altitude at which ground remains consistently frozen upward by roughly 100 meters
11:09per decade.
11:10The report found glaciers in the region have been losing mass for decades at a rate equivalent
11:16to more than half a meter of thinning each year.
11:19The Langtang Lerong Glacier, located in the region where the disaster occurred last month,
11:26has retreated about a half a kilometer since the 1990s, exposing rock once covered by ice.
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