00:01The blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea export routes is becoming critical with potentially
00:07far-reaching implications for global food prices. Ukraine's Minister for Agrarian Policy and Food,
00:13Taras Vizotsky, has told your news program Europe Today.
00:17On average, the grain prices have increased by 25 percent and the FAO, Global Food Index,
00:25proves this information. And this is a lot. 25 percent, it means if you multiply it for the overall
00:35grain and food consumption out of grain within a year, it could be even up to 60 billion US dollars
00:42additional costs of all of the communist consumers' roles. Especially, it's very critical for import
00:50countries, like lots of in Africa, Southeast Asia, which really depend on the import of food.
00:57Vizotsky said that Ukraine is working with its European allies on new solidarity lanes,
01:03alternative routes through the Danube river, through railway connections. According to the
01:08minister, around 40 to 45 percent of export is currently done through these EU solidarity lanes.
01:21Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama acted as his country's ambassador at the Euronews Travel and
01:26Tourism Summit on Tuesday. Speaking at the event, Rama praised the development of tourism infrastructure
01:33in Albania. He said the country's approach helped attract nearly 12 million foreign tourists last year
01:39and was quick to point out that Albania did not enjoy the same immediate success as some of its Balkan
01:45neighbors. When Croatia was a destination for many Europeans, we were the most isolated country in
01:55Europe, North Korea of Europe. Despite the surge in Albania's popularity as a tourism destination,
02:03Rama also acknowledged that the development of tourism must be managed. One of the downsides of this is that
02:10by having tourism that is developed based on the middle low income tourists, we risk to have a country under
02:23big stress on its infrastructure, on its nature, on its services, and we risk to not get back what we
02:34can. While
02:35investing on a tourism of high income, the high-end tourism, we lower the stress on the country and we
02:46get
02:46more from them.
02:48Rama also commented on the controversial 1.4 billion euros project linked to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law,
02:55the proposed project is to be developed on the inhabited island of Sazan and its adjacent shoreline,
03:01which sits within a protected area around the northern lagoon. The announcement of the project sparked numerous
03:08protests in the country in recent months.
03:11If the construction will go ahead or not, this will be decided not in the streets, but in the science.
03:21So if we have an
03:24environmental impact assessment that tells us where we are right and where we could be wrong,
03:34we will adjust what could be wrong and we will go for the right. If it will say to us
03:40no way to touch here,
03:42we will not touch. But it's science that should decide. It's not the street and the ideology.
03:53After being evicted last week, an 87-year-old woman in Madrid, Maria del Carmen Abascal, known as Marie
04:00Carmen, will now be able to return to her home in the Spanish capital, where she lived for more than
04:0770 years. The case triggered protests that quickly spread beyond Madrid. On Monday, Marie Carmen's
04:15representatives and the housing company that owns the property reached an agreement allowing her to
04:21return home. Her supporters, though, have continued to protest, staging further demonstrations on the
04:28streets of the streets of Madrid.
04:31It's not worth it to have generated all this mobilisation, all this collective feeling, this
04:38grief that we have, so that we can get out of something that doesn't fit with what we need. So,
04:44I think we'll
04:45continue until we consider it that way.
04:48The Tenants' Union has said they will continue because their demands go beyond the case of Marie Carmen.
04:54The organisation is calling for indefinite rental contracts and greater security for tenants.
05:01Marie Carmen herself has supported the protests from hospital. She urged them to continue fighting
05:07and defending their rights.
05:15Swarms of military drones in the Estonian sky. Here it's only a demonstration. But in Ukraine,
05:22these devices are making a real difference. Euronews was invited to see Estonia's latest
05:27defense innovations. Kratworks showed how a single operator can now control multiple drones at the
05:33same time. It's pretty hard to shoot it down. They are top-folding and if you can shoot it,
05:40it will explode anyways above your head. This is our innovative thinking, how we can multiply Estonian soldiers,
05:50so one Estonian soldier can be more effective against an enemy who has overwhelming numbers.
06:00Estonia's defense industry is almost entirely private. Many of the companies supply military
06:06technology to Ukraine and improve their products based on real battlefield feedback. That helped
06:13three of systems upgrade its surveillance and intelligence gathering drones. They are now more
06:19reliable in poor weather, easier to use under stress, and more resilient to jamming.
06:25If you lose the GPS, what will the aircraft do? Like previously, it mostly crashed somewhere. Nowadays,
06:32our product is that safe that it comes home, you can take it over and land safely. So that was
06:38a key
06:38feature that came from Ukraine. That experience has pushed Estonia's defense sector towards flexible,
06:44lightweight and affordable solutions. One example is this pneumatic drone catapult, wildly used in Ukraine.
06:51Through a pulley system, the movement is amplified, so within this distance, the carriage is moved from
06:58one edge of the rail all the way to the other end of the rail.
07:08The catapult can be set up in minutes and needs only diesel fuel to launch drones.
07:14Another priority is shifting the supply chain to Europe, reducing dependence on Chinese drone components.
07:21Companies such as Electric Wings Group focus on domestic development, assembly and testing.
07:27This would be crucial if drone production had to be scaled up urgently.
07:33The frames, the propellers and the motors are made in Estonia. Also, the batteries are
07:37assembled in Estonia as well. So I kind of like to say that this is kind of a domestically produced
07:44drone. We can produce about 10,000 pieces per year right now. Also, we can scale up the capacity from
07:51there as well.
07:53Estonia wants to become a global hub for testing and building drones.
07:59The government aims to triple defense industry revenue to 1 billion euro by 2030.
08:07Estonia's defense industry is learning from Russia's continuing invasion in Ukraine and other
08:12conflicts around the globe. The lesson is simple. Today's wars are in many ways drone wars.
08:19And whoever has a technology that is smarter, tougher and cheaper can gain the edge,
08:26even against a far stronger enemy. Denis Loktsie, Euronews, Estonia.
08:36Are you now ready to invest in your time?
09:01The first time is set to be brought to the date of the year.
09:12This is the highest value collection that Christie's London has ever sold because of the sheer volume of masterpieces by
09:20some of the biggest names of 20th and 21st century art.
09:59As often happens with collections,
10:01it evolved but with Peter it just evolved in such a rapid and bold way that he's amassed a collection
10:11that covers every corner of the globe and encompasses over 150 years of art history, the finest names.
10:41Online voting has begun for Fat Bear Week.
10:44The annual contest that pits the giant bears of Katamai National Park and Preserve against each other for the title
10:51of the most oversized bear.
10:54Last year's 544 kilo winner, Chunk, known officially as Bear 32, is hungry to retain his victory.
11:03This year, I think it's pretty tough to predict.
11:07I mean, there's a few bears that are larger than others, but it's not necessarily about body mass alone.
11:15We want people to consider the bears' stories as well because getting fat means different for a big adult male
11:21who's maybe trying to dominate access to the best fishing spots at Brooks Falls.
11:26The contest celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula
11:34extending towards the Aleutian Islands.
11:37Fat Bear Week was started in 2014 as an interactive way to inform the public about brown bears, the coastal
11:45cousins of grizzlies.
