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Kanclerz Niemiec Friedrich Merz znów pod presją po klęsce CDU w wyborach landowych i rekordowym ataku dronów Ukrainy na Moskwę. W „Europe Today” także rosnące napięcia Iran–USA i plan Meloni zakazu burki.
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00:15Czarny
00:15Czarny
00:16To mód27, 22.
00:18Studi seguro Wiede
00:20i oczywę today
00:22Coming up
00:24Following Russian strikes on Kiev
00:25Ukrainian forces started their larger scale attack on Moscow
00:29since the beginning of the war.
00:31More than 1,000 drones were launched,
00:33killing at least two people
00:34and damaging a major oil refinery,
00:37according to the mayor of Moscow.
00:38The attacks came as Russians headed to the polls
00:41for the first parliamentary elections since 2022.
00:44A vote that President Vladimir Putin's
00:47United Russia Party is widely expected to win.
00:51The far right in Germany continues its political rise.
00:54In crucial state elections in East Germany,
00:57the AfD party scored big gains,
01:00but not enough to seize power.
01:02The Christian Democrats of Friedrich Merz
01:04suffered heavy losses,
01:05which will only increase the political pressure
01:07on the Chancellor.
01:08In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,
01:10the AfD came in first,
01:12closely followed by the Social Democrats
01:14and the CDU missing the 5% hurdle.
01:18The city-state of Berlin saw a win by the left,
01:21with the AfD ending up third.
01:23We'll go live to the German capital.
01:25Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
01:28has announced that the government
01:29is preparing a bill that would ban
01:31burqas and kneecaps in school
01:33and limit the number of foreign pupils
01:35in each class.
01:36Italy hats to the polls next year,
01:39with competition intensifying
01:40to the right of Meloni's party.
01:42Several European countries,
01:44including France and Belgium,
01:46already ban face coverings in public places.
01:48And, as tensions are escalating in the Middle East,
01:52Iran has threatened Washington
01:54and its allies in the region
01:56with renewed strikes,
01:57should the U.S. resume action against Tehran.
02:00The warning followed reports
02:02the White House was preparing
02:03fresh attacks on Iran.
02:05Meanwhile, U.S. embassies
02:07across the Middle East issued security alerts,
02:10and President Trump cut short a visit
02:11to Camp David without explanation.
02:13We'll speak with our correspondent in Doha.
02:17Welcome to the program.
02:18I'm Stefan Grobe.
02:20The war in Ukraine shows no sign of abating.
02:24Over the weekend,
02:25Ukrainian forces launched massive drone strikes
02:28against Moscow and its region
02:29and also claimed territorial gains
02:32in a key area of Donetsk.
02:34This came after weeks of relentless Russian attacks
02:37on targets in Ukraine.
02:39Let's bring in Federico Borsari now,
02:41a fellow with the Transatlantic Defense
02:43and Security Programme
02:44at the Center for European Policy Analysis,
02:47who joins us from Paris.
02:49Good morning and thanks for coming on.
02:52Thanks for having me.
02:54Good morning.
02:54So, Ukraine is hitting Moscow,
02:57attacking another refinery
02:58on the day of Russia's parliamentary election.
03:01How is Putin going to react?
03:03Should we expect another Russian offensive?
03:08I think we definitely should expect
03:10the Russian further attacks in Ukraine.
03:13This has been ongoing for more than four years now,
03:17so I don't see any sign that Russia will try to negotiate
03:23or will try to diminish its pressure on Ukraine.
03:27We should expect more missile and drone attacks
03:31against Ukrainian critical infrastructure,
03:33against Ukrainian cities and villages,
03:37and also we are, you know, approaching the winter,
03:40so there will be definitely an attempt by Russia
03:44to destroy and damage even more the power grid
03:50and the critical infrastructure of Ukraine
03:52in order to try to ban the population
03:54and diminish, you know, the willingness of Ukrainians
03:58to continue to resist.
03:59And what about Russian hybrid attacks on Western Europe?
04:03Will the situation deteriorate here too?
04:06We just had stark warnings from France,
04:08from President Macron, and even from Marine Le Pen.
04:13Yes, I think the trend is that Russia is trying
04:18to increase the pressure also on European capitals
04:21and European allies is trying to, you know,
04:26increase also the hybrid attacks.
04:30And in this sense, I think the trend is clear.
04:33There is an increase in, you know, subversion,
04:38sabotage operations, hybrid attacks,
04:42and cyber attacks as well.
04:43On the other hand, I don't see signs
04:46of a potential conventional attack by Russia,
04:49also because, you know,
04:52it needs significant preparation for that.
04:55But I think many leaders across Europe
04:59and many intelligence services are converging
05:02on the fact that Russia is trying
05:05to increase the pressure
05:06and to see if there are ways
05:11to, you know, weaken European willingness
05:16to support Ukraine.
05:17All right, Federico Borsari
05:19from the Center for European Policy Analysis.
05:22Thank you very much for your insights.
05:25And out to Germany,
05:26where the latest political trend continues.
05:28In two more regional elections,
05:30the far-right AfD party made significant gains,
05:33though it did not come anywhere near gaining power.
05:36The parties represented in the federal government,
05:39Christian Democrats and Social Democrats,
05:41are facing difficult times,
05:43even more difficult than before.
05:45Let's head straight to Berlin,
05:47where our correspondent Laura Fleischmann
05:49has the latest for us.
05:51Good morning, Laura.
05:52So what are the key takeaways
05:53from yesterday's elections
05:55in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania?
06:01Good morning, Stefan.
06:03And, well, the results are very different,
06:04but they do share one common thread.
06:06And that is that the parties
06:08of the federal government here in Germany,
06:10the Conservative, CDU,
06:11and the Social Democrats,
06:12the SPD, are losing ground.
06:14And at the same time,
06:15the parties at both ends
06:16of the political spectrum
06:17are gaining support.
06:19Here in Berlin,
06:20the left party won the election
06:21at around a quarter of the vote,
06:23with the CDU in second place
06:24at around 19 percent.
06:26And the SPD has been reduced
06:27to around 12 percent,
06:28which is a historic loss
06:29for them in the capital.
06:30The AFD had also
06:32some significant gains
06:33here in Berlin.
06:34And looking at Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania,
06:36it has been a very tight race
06:38between the far-right AFD
06:39and the SPD
06:40until the very last second.
06:42Now the AFD came out on top,
06:44but they will likely not be able
06:46to form a government
06:47since they are lacking
06:48a coalition partner.
06:50Far behind are all the other parties,
06:52among them the CDU,
06:53which will no longer be part
06:54of the state parliament,
06:55since it didn't manage
06:56to take the 5 percent threshold.
06:59That is quite remarkable.
07:01I mean, Chancellor Mertz
07:02is in trouble.
07:03Just how big is this trouble?
07:08This was, of course,
07:09a devastating result for him
07:10and his party.
07:11He called it a disaster
07:12before he even knew
07:13that his party will no longer
07:15be part of the state parliament.
07:17Nevertheless, he wants to keep going
07:18and wants to push down
07:20on his reform cause even harder,
07:21even though it is responsible
07:22for a lack of support from voters.
07:24There's been quite a lot of tension
07:26within the CDU
07:27with some party members
07:28calling for him to step down
07:30or for him to be swapped out
07:31for another chancellor.
07:32But as I said,
07:33he wants to keep going.
07:34And there's now a lot of pressure
07:35within his coalition partner,
07:37the SPD, as well.
07:38All right, Laura Fleischmann,
07:40with the latest.
07:41Thank you very much.
07:42And we're staying in Germany.
07:44What do these election results mean
07:46for the country and for Europe?
07:48To find out,
07:49we're now joined by Sabrina Repp,
07:51a member of the European Parliament
07:52for the Social Democrats,
07:53who hails from Mecklenburg,
07:55Western Pomerania.
07:56Good morning.
07:57Great to have you here.
07:59Good morning.
08:00Thank you very much for the invitation.
08:02So we're seeing the same trend
08:04that we saw in Saxony-Anhalt two weeks ago.
08:06The AfD scores big gains
08:08and the parties of the federal government
08:10are being marginalized.
08:12How much pressure
08:13can Friedrich Merz's coalition sustain?
08:16At what point is its collapse inevitable?
08:20Yeah, so there is lots of pressure
08:22to the coalition in Berlin.
08:23And what we saw is,
08:25when you are looking to the results
08:26since the European Parliament,
08:28since the elections
08:29of the European Parliament,
08:30there you can see,
08:31especially in the eastern port of Germany,
08:34a really much increase
08:36of the results of the AfD,
08:38over 30%.
08:39So it is not that something is,
08:42it is not that it is new.
08:44So we see it since the elections
08:46of the European Parliament.
08:48But now we see that
08:49lots of people lost their trust
08:53in the federal government.
08:55And these are the results also
08:57for the state parliament elections.
09:00Would the Social Democrats support
09:02the Christian Democrats
09:04replacing Merz by somebody else?
09:07So this is something we need to discuss
09:10because there is lots of pressure,
09:12but we need to really look,
09:13these are now our results
09:15for the local elections.
09:19And here it is the most important thing
09:20that we now stabilised the situation
09:23and that we can have a good coalition
09:26in the different federal,
09:29in the different state parliaments.
09:31And for that,
09:32we need to see how we can end up
09:35in this special situation.
09:37And then we can see
09:38what is going on in Berlin.
09:40But there is lots of pressure
09:41and something that was really new
09:42is that Friedrich Merz gave an interview
09:45directly after they represent
09:48the results of the elections.
09:51And there you can see
09:51there is lots of pressure.
09:53All right, Sabrina Repp,
09:54Social Democratic Member
09:55of the European Parliament.
09:56Thank you for sharing
09:57your thoughts with us.
09:59In the Persian Gulf,
10:01the situation remains murky,
10:03despite the escalating rhetoric
10:05on both sides.
10:06Is there really no perspective
10:08for a peaceful solution?
10:09The Iranian president
10:11and foreign minister
10:12were given visas
10:13by the U.S. government
10:14to attend the U.N. General Assembly
10:16in New York this week.
10:18That could be a positive signal.
10:20Could be.
10:21For more on this,
10:22I'm now joined by our correspondent,
10:24Adel Halim, in Doha.
10:25Good morning.
10:28Good morning, Stefan.
10:30So, Adil,
10:31President Trump addresses
10:32the U.N. General Assembly
10:33on Tuesday.
10:34What will the Gulf countries
10:36be listening for?
10:40Stefan, the big question is
10:41what does President Trump
10:42say about Iran?
10:43Does he see a way out
10:44of this war through diplomacy
10:45or is more military action
10:47still on the table?
10:48Because right now,
10:49we're hearing both.
10:50Trump has again threatened Iran
10:51with more military action
10:53if there's no deal,
10:54but he's also said
10:54he's willing to meet
10:55Iranian President
10:56Masoud Pazeshkian in New York.
10:58And diplomatic channels
10:59are still open.
11:00Iran says it sent Washington
11:02its conditions
11:03for ending the war
11:03through Qatar.
11:04Those include
11:05ending the fighting,
11:06releasing frozen Iranian assets
11:08and ending the U.S. naval blockade.
11:10And Tehran says
11:11the Strait of Hormuz
11:11will remain closed
11:12until those conditions are met.
11:14Iranian Foreign Minister
11:15Abbas Arakji
11:16is on his way to New York
11:18with a stop here in Doha
11:19for talks on the latest developments.
11:21So there is a lot
11:22happening behind the scenes.
11:23Both sides are talking
11:24about diplomacy,
11:25but both sides are also saying
11:26the situation could get
11:27potentially worse.
11:28And Gulf countries
11:29will be listening tomorrow
11:30to see any indication
11:31on which direction
11:32U.S. President Donald Trump
11:33wants to go.
11:34And Donald Trump
11:36is also expected
11:37to meet Gulf leaders
11:38in New York.
11:39What will they want
11:40from that meeting?
11:43Well, I think the first thing
11:44is clarity.
11:45What is Washington's endgame?
11:46And what happens to security
11:47in the region
11:48when this war eventually ends?
11:50Because the situation
11:51became much more serious
11:52over the weekend.
11:53Saudi Arabia says
11:54it intercepted
11:55a Houthi ballistic missile
11:56targeting Riyadh
11:57on Saturday
11:58and flames and thick smoke
11:59were seen
12:00near the city's
12:02main international airport.
12:03The Houthis are warning
12:04that their attacks
12:05on Saudi Arabia
12:06will continue.
12:07So the stakes
12:07are very high here.
12:09Qatar's Prime Minister
12:09described the fallout
12:11from the war on Sunday
12:12as a, quote,
12:13earthquake,
12:14saying it had challenged
12:15assumptions on security
12:16and stability.
12:17So the question
12:17for Gulf leaders
12:18is simple.
12:19Does Trump have a path
12:20out of this war
12:21or is the region
12:22heading for more escalation?
12:23And either way,
12:25what comes next?
12:26All right.
12:27Thank you very much,
12:28Adel Halim,
12:29in Doha.
12:30And now to a different
12:31sort of conflict.
12:32In the city of Brussels,
12:34shootings related
12:35to drug trafficking
12:36have become routine
12:37over the past couple of years.
12:39There were over 100
12:41in 2025 alone
12:42and more than 65 shootings
12:44so far already this year.
12:46Just a few weeks ago,
12:47one particular neighborhood
12:48saw three shootings
12:50in as many days.
12:52Many are already comparing
12:53Brussels to scenes
12:54from major U.S. cities.
12:57Really?
12:58Is Brussels starting
12:59to resemble Detroit
13:00or Chicago more and more?
13:02Now, who better
13:03to address this question
13:04than the U.S. ambassador
13:06to Belgium
13:07who joins me now
13:08on the set?
13:09Welcome, Bill White.
13:11Hey, Stefan.
13:11How are you?
13:12Nice to see you.
13:13I'm very good.
13:14Thank you so much.
13:15So is Brussels
13:17looking more and more
13:18like Chicago?
13:19Do you still feel safe here?
13:21Oh, yeah.
13:22Well, I feel safe.
13:23It's not fair to ask me
13:25if I feel safe
13:26because I am very grateful
13:28to the Belgian federal police
13:30who are here
13:32in the studio with me.
13:33They're wonderful men
13:34and women
13:35who are serving their country.
13:37They are also very frustrated
13:39with the crime here.
13:41There are certain policies,
13:43of course,
13:43that we all know
13:44as there were
13:45in major U.S. cities
13:47until President Trump
13:49came to town
13:50in Washington, D.C.,
13:52where criminals
13:53really are not being
13:54properly prosecuted
13:55or put in jail.
13:57I actually went
13:58to visit the jail here.
14:00They renovated
14:01the beautiful
14:02Palais de Justice
14:03and I went
14:04with my husband
14:05to visit
14:05and we talked
14:06with the police officers.
14:07I actually went
14:08into the jail
14:10to see it's full.
14:11We have many,
14:13many, many
14:15illegal aliens
14:16in the jails here,
14:18but some good news,
14:19the Minister of Migration
14:20in the various countries
14:22from where these people
14:23have come from,
14:25are moving quickly
14:27to extradite them
14:28back to their home country.
14:30That's a good thing
14:30because there'll be
14:31more room in the jails
14:32then to put the real criminals
14:34who keep getting let out.
14:37We have a prosecutor
14:37here in Brussels
14:39who is the King's prosecutor
14:40and he's doing
14:41a fantastic job
14:43trying to clean this up
14:44once and for all.
14:45What would be
14:46your number one recommendation
14:48to the Belgian authorities
14:49to fight drug crime?
14:51Yeah, I think they keep
14:52doing what they're doing.
14:53Minister Canton
14:54and the Minister of Defense,
14:56that's the Belgian
14:57Federal Police,
14:58that's the military.
15:00They're on the streets
15:01in front of the synagogues
15:02and at the train station.
15:04I went there the other day
15:05and they're doing a great job.
15:06The crime there
15:06is coming down.
15:09You have a new
15:10minister president
15:11in Brussels,
15:13Boris Deliais.
15:14They are focused on this.
15:16They know it hurts business,
15:17it hurts tourism,
15:18it hurts, of course,
15:21their own citizens
15:22first and foremost.
15:23I know you love Belgium.
15:25You love the Belgians.
15:26I do, yeah.
15:27I'm going to ask you
15:29this question
15:30about that survey
15:31that came out
15:32during the summer
15:32that now more than
15:33half of Belgians
15:34believe that the U.S.
15:36is a bigger threat
15:37to global security
15:38than China.
15:40Why do you think that is?
15:41I don't know.
15:42I think it's because
15:43of fake news.
15:44The news here in Belgium
15:47is very negative
15:48on President Trump.
15:49It really disappoints me.
15:51I had a nice talk
15:52with the man
15:54who owns most
15:55of the stations here
15:56and I said
15:57the last time
15:58I did a survey
15:58it was 90%
16:00of the media
16:01on President Trump
16:02is negative.
16:03I will tell you
16:04one thing.
16:05In the United States
16:06our GDP
16:07is going
16:08through the roof.
16:09It's 4.3%
16:11and rising.
16:11in Europe
16:12it's fairly stagnant.
16:15The economy
16:16is surging.
16:18Unemployment
16:19is way down.
16:20We have $19 trillion
16:21in new investment
16:22with President Trump
16:24encouraging NATO
16:26to come to the 5%.
16:27You'll have
16:28$1 trillion
16:29now.
16:30$1 trillion.
16:31It's the Trump trillion
16:32that you'll be able
16:33to spend
16:34in Europe
16:35that will be
16:35millions of jobs
16:36over the next
16:3710 years
16:38that those funds
16:40will be spent
16:40to build
16:42a stronger
16:42defense
16:42for NATO
16:43and for Europe.
16:45If I may
16:47I mean
16:47President Trump
16:48doesn't always
16:49make it easy
16:50for Europeans
16:51to like
16:52the US.
16:53I mean
16:53there are
16:54his attacks
16:54on European
16:55leaders
16:55the tariffs
16:56there's
16:58the anti-European
17:00rhetoric
17:01in general
17:01there's NATO
17:02there's Greenland
17:02all these things.
17:04Does that
17:05make your life
17:06more difficult
17:06here representing
17:07the US?
17:08No not at all.
17:08in fact
17:09you mentioned
17:10Greenland
17:12it's been resolved
17:13so everybody
17:14here who was
17:15worrying
17:16and calling me
17:17and coming to see me
17:18I told everybody
17:19to relax
17:19take a deep breath
17:20it will all be fine
17:22and yesterday
17:23it was announced
17:24that it's all fine.
17:26President Trump
17:27was looking
17:27to secure
17:28the strategic
17:29importance of
17:30Greenland
17:30to the safety
17:31and security
17:32of the United States
17:32if the United States
17:33is not safe
17:34it certainly
17:35cannot help Europe
17:36if Europe
17:37is attacked
17:37because
17:38if America
17:39is not
17:40safer
17:41stronger
17:41more prosperous
17:42it cannot help
17:43anybody
17:44or be a good
17:44partner
17:45so I think
17:46the criticism
17:46is really
17:47unfair
17:48I hate it
17:49I will tell you
17:49that
17:50I wish people
17:51knew President
17:52Trump the way
17:52I do
17:53I've known him
17:53for 32 years
17:54he's a fantastic
17:56human being
17:57he's a great
17:57father
17:58he's a great
17:58grandfather
17:59and he's a
17:59great friend
18:00and he's a
18:00great president
18:01I would say
18:02he's the best
18:02president the United
18:03States has ever
18:04had
18:05with the EU
18:06USA trade
18:07deal being
18:08signed
18:09you will see
18:10hundreds of
18:10billions of
18:11dollars moving
18:11forward
18:12so we're
18:13across the
18:13street from
18:13the EU
18:14they signed
18:15a historic
18:15trade deal
18:16I'm talking
18:17about 50
18:18billion of
18:18LNG
18:19coming into
18:19Belgium
18:20I'm working
18:21on 10
18:21billion of
18:22US financing
18:23for nuclear
18:24power plants
18:25I'm also
18:25talking about
18:26getting global
18:27entry for
18:28Belgium
18:28so they don't
18:29have to wait
18:29on any lines
18:30when they go
18:31to the United
18:31States
18:32and on
18:32October 2nd
18:33I will
18:34announce this
18:35with you
18:35first
18:35we have
18:36three World
18:37War II
18:37veterans
18:38101
18:40102
18:40and 103
18:42coming to
18:43visit the
18:44Henry Chappelle
18:44cemetery
18:46where one of
18:47the men
18:47is visiting
18:48his brother-in-law
18:49who's buried
18:50there for the
18:50first time
18:51I love your
18:52enthusiasm
18:53ambassador
18:53but I gotta
18:54ask you this
18:55what good
18:56does it do
18:57attacking
18:58America's
18:58closest allies
19:00almost constantly
19:01and not
19:02for example
19:03Vladimir Putin
19:04oh that's
19:05not that's
19:06not fair
19:06at all
19:06President Trump
19:07is not
19:07attacking
19:08its closest
19:09allies
19:10he is
19:11in a
19:12long-standing
19:13I would say
19:14it's like
19:14a marriage
19:14it's a long
19:15standing
19:15I'm married
19:1626 years
19:16we do
19:18have arguments
19:19this is normal
19:20in loving
19:21relationships
19:22sometimes you
19:23have to do
19:23a little
19:23tough love
19:24and tough
19:25love
19:25is actually
19:26very effective
19:27I understand
19:28where this is
19:28going
19:29I think
19:29he's doing
19:29a great
19:30job
19:30all right
19:31thank you
19:31so much
19:31thank you
19:33so much
19:34for coming
19:34all the best
19:35and that
19:35does it
19:36for us
19:36today
19:36stay tuned
19:37for more
19:38news
19:38throughout
19:39the day
19:39here on
19:40Euronews
19:41thanks for
19:41watching
19:42I'm Stefan
19:42Grobe
19:43see you
19:43tomorrow
19:44you
19:54you
19:55you
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