00:00Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States to meet Donald Trump for a three-day summit
00:04to discuss trade, AI and rare earth minerals, which Europe will be watching closely.
00:11Latvia's prime minister has told Jeroenus that his country pushed until the end
00:15to prevent two Russian oligarchs from being removed from a new sanctions list.
00:21Zelensky and Trump said they hoped to end the war in Ukraine before winter
00:25as they met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.
00:30U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a landmark Arctic security deal
00:34with Denmark and Greenland's prime ministers on the sidelines of the 81st UN General Assembly.
00:40Europe will be watching closely as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in the United States for a three-day summit
00:45with Donald Trump.
00:47Decisions on trade, artificial intelligence and rare earths could directly affect European economic interests.
00:53The EU is already negotiating with Beijing to reduce a trade deficit worth around 1 billion euro a day,
00:59with an October deadline for tangible progress.
01:02We are engaged in a dialogue with China to rebalance our trade.
01:06U.S. tariffs on China are also a concern for Europe because they can redirect Chinese exports towards the EU
01:12market.
01:13Rare earths will be another key issue with European industry heavily exposed to Chinese supply.
01:18The summit is Trump and Xi's third in-person meeting in just under a year,
01:22with both sides likely to seek an extension of the trade truths they reached last October.
01:29The discussion and debate is all about Ukraine's recovery.
01:33Latvia's prime minister Andris Kulberg has told Uranus that his country pushed until the end
01:38to prevent two Russian oligarchs from being removed from a new sanctions list.
01:42The renewal of a packet of sanctions on a list of individuals and entities accused of supporting Russia's war on
01:49Ukraine
01:49was finally approved by all EU member states on Tuesday.
01:53Nevertheless, Kulberg's warned the exemptions provided to Alisha Ousmanov and Mikhail Friedman
01:58should be a one-off and never occur again in future talks on new sanctions.
02:03Either it is sports what we've seen, either culture,
02:07and now one-by-one cherry-picking out of sanctions, that is not the way to go.
02:11That is normalizing Russia.
02:14France succeeded in removing Alisha Ousmanov from the sanctions list
02:18as part of a prisoner release with Azerbaijan brokered by Uzbekistan.
02:22Following the EU's move, Azerbaijan's president Ilya Maliev pardoned Martin Ryan,
02:27a Frenchman jailed in his country for espionage charges since 2023.
02:32Another Russian businessman, Mikhail Friedman, was removed after Slovakia and Luxembourg called for his delisting.
02:38This is not a good message, generally not.
02:41But this, I'm worried here about the playbook which it leaves.
02:48I don't think this is a very good example because that gives a message,
02:53oh, hey, we arrest some politicians somewhere and then we can ask for a sanctions package.
02:59You know, this is not a good playbook.
03:02And that's exactly why we freeze, it's 36 months.
03:05Until now, the bloc was renewing the sanctions against entities and individuals accused of supporting Russia's war in Ukraine every
03:12six months.
03:12The three-year extension is meant to offset the political pain of delisting the two Russian businessmen.
03:20U.S. President Donald Trump has signed a new security deal with Denmark and its autonomous territory of Greenland on
03:26Tuesday
03:27on the sidelines of the 81st U.N. General Assembly.
03:30In his address to the UNGA, Trump said Washington will begin constructing military bases on the island nation very soon,
03:38ushering in what he calls a new era of Arctic security.
03:42We will immediately begin the process of developing a large military presence in the appropriate locations.
03:50We will be building two very major military bases.
03:55Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen noted that the deal will significantly boost Western security in the Arctic.
04:02Mr. President, you have been very clear.
04:06You don't want adversaries to come too close.
04:11I fully agree.
04:13And with this deal, they are not.
04:16We are making sure that they will not be allowed to get any control or significant influence in Greenland.
04:24And we are making sure that more allies are present in the Arctic at the same time.
04:30Greenland's premier also touted the landmark deal as mutually beneficial to all.
04:35We are truly pleased with the result that strengthened our shared security and strengthened our bond as close allies.
04:42This agreement is historical.
04:45And it is about taking shared responsibility for a secure America, a secure Greenland, with mutual respect and a peaceful
04:55Arctic.
04:56This is a win-win-win agreement.
05:00U.S., Danish and Greenlandic officials have been negotiating the security framework for months behind the scenes.
05:06Trump first laid his eyes on the territory shortly after his return to the White House
05:11and even suggested Washington could resort to military force to take it over in the case of a deal not
05:16being reached.
05:20U.S. President Donald Trump and new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham met in person for the first time in
05:26New York on Tuesday
05:27with bold leaders striking a cordial tone when facing the media afterwards.
05:32Speaking on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly,
05:35Trump said he thought Burnham would be a great prime minister and described him as a natural business person.
05:42Burnham thanked the president and said the pair had established a good connection.
05:47He said their talks covered Ukraine, the Falkland Islands and trade,
05:51while immigration was also raised during questions from reporters.
05:55Burnham said Britain was continuing efforts to tackle migrant boats crossing from continental Europe.
06:01Trump ended the news conference by saying relations with Britain were improved under Burnham.
06:07But he criticized the U.K.'s decision under former Prime Minister Keir Starmer to hand over authority of the Chagos
06:12Islands to Mauritius as terrible.
06:15Burnham took office in late July following Starmer's resignation.
06:19And despair.
06:24Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that Kyiv and Washington want to see the war in Ukraine end before winter,
06:31following what he described as a positive meeting with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump.
06:37Well, I think they're going to make a deal, and I don't want to say what the deal is.
06:40We talk about it a lot, including with President Putin.
06:44And I think something's going to happen.
06:46But certainly they are very good fighters.
06:49Really, they can be proud of themselves.
06:52Regardless, we'll see what happens.
06:53But very, very capable people.
06:56Zelensky said he hopes that the U.S. can get Russia to come to the negotiating table,
07:00even as attacks from both sides keep escalating.
07:03I don't know the position of Russia.
07:07So God bless that the American side will find a way how to bring them to any kind of negotiations.
07:17Any kind.
07:18I'm underlining it several times today.
07:22Any kind of negotiations from the Russian side will give a signal that they are ready to move,
07:30because I'm not sure that they are ready to move.
07:34Zelensky reiterated that Ukraine was willing to halt strikes on Russia's energy industry
07:39if Moscow agreed to do the same.
07:42Trump said he'd be willing to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin again,
07:46although he didn't commit to where or when.
07:53The European Commission will not extend its November 1 deadline for phasing out Chinese-made power
07:59inverters from EU-funded energy projects, despite calls from investors and the renewable energy
08:05industry for more time.
08:06From November 1, projects connected or due to be connected to the EU electricity grid
08:12will have to exclude high-risk suppliers or progressively switch to inverters from suppliers
08:18not deemed high-risk.
08:20The move was driven by cybersecurity concerns, particularly the risk that manufacturers could
08:26remotely access and manipulate inverters, potentially destabilizing electricity grids and triggering
08:31blackouts.
08:33But stakeholders argue that the Commission's timetable is unrealistic and could create
08:38significant financial and practical problems for renewable energy projects at a time when
08:43energy costs are soaring across the EU.
08:46The Commission, for its part, says that a viable alternative supply of non-Chinese inverters already exists,
08:53and that the price of guaranteeing the security of Europe's energy infrastructure is a modest
08:58one to pay.
09:05This swimming pool in the UK is warmed up by using the heat generated by computers.
09:11It's a win-win.
09:12The swimming pool is heated at a lower cost, while the data center uses the pool to cool its computers.
09:19Capturing and reusing waste heat could be the next breakthrough in Europe's energy
09:23security and competitiveness, helping sever its reliance on gas.
09:27Two-thirds of global energy was wasted as heat in 2024, a new report from Danish engineering
09:33firm Danfoss found.
09:34As energy demand continues to increase, this is expected to hit 55 percent by 2030.
09:41Waste heat is the excess warmth given off by everyday processes,
09:45such as a supermarket running its refrigerators.
09:49Instead of letting this escape into the air, which risks contributing to the urban heat island effect,
09:55it can be captured.
09:57Experts are now describing waste heat from facilities such as supermarkets,
10:01factories, wastewater treatment plants and data centers as the world's largest untapped energy source.
10:14Brussels is shielding its car makers when it should be helping them change,
10:18argues Bruegel, an independent research institute.
10:22The EU's recent measures from tariffs on Chinese vehicles to proposals for local content requirements
10:29and a softer 2035 ban on new combustion engines are setting the industry on the wrong course
10:35and could push up the cost of an electric car, the think tank argues.
10:40For instance, requiring battery cells to be made in the EU would raise their price
10:45from 50 euros to 85 euros per kilowatt hour, adding roughly 2,100 euros to a typical electric car.
10:53A low carbon steel requirement would add a further 200 euros.
10:57The European car industry has been hit from several directions at once.
11:01EU car production has fallen by 19% since 2019, while European bought 2.2 million fewer new cars last
11:10year than in 2019.
11:13However, the sector still employs 14 million people across its value chain, 6% of all EU jobs.
11:20The think tank recommends equalizing tariffs between the two vehicle types
11:24and pursuing a time-limited deal with Beijing, setting export quotas for both.
11:30The goal should not be to prevent competition with the Chinese,
11:33but provide European producers with the time to catch up.
11:37The report concludes.
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