00:01The European Commission has concluded that Ukraine's financial and military needs for
00:07this year are fully met, one month after Kiev flagged a nearly 24 billion euros shortfall
00:13in its Ministry of Defence that called Brussels of guard. In a vaguely worded statement released
00:18on Thursday, the Commission said that it had coordinated through joint efforts to cover
00:23Ukraine's budget and defence needs for 2026. In late August, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
00:30called on allies to fill the gap, warning essential weapons deliveries were at risk.
00:36Since then, the Commission has been engaged in technical talks with the Ukrainian government
00:41to pin down the exact scope of the financing hall. Brussels died up the pressure on Kiev to advance
00:48the reforms necessary to unlock the support loan in the Ukraine facility, a prior assistance
00:54envelope. In response, Zelensky praised the good results of the bilateral consultations about
01:00the 2026 and 2027 needs.
01:07The Danish armed forces have admitted to have made errors in their initial report on suspected
01:13drones of unknown origins that flew over the country just before an EU summit in Copenhagen
01:19in October 2025. In the revised report released on Thursday, the military stated that their
01:26account might have been mistaken, saying that soldiers may have fired into the air while a civilian
01:31aircraft passed by. But their assessment was still that the soldiers had fired upon what was
01:38believed to have been a drone, based, among other things, on its flight pattern.
01:43During the incident in 2025, drones had been sighted, both above civilian and military airbases,
01:51causing heightened security measures, temporary airport shutdowns, and a private drone ban.
01:57The sights affected included Skrystrop Air Base, where Ukrainian pilots had trained on F-16 fighter jets.
02:05Denmark has since worked on enhancing the country's anti-drone and drone detection capacities.
02:17British police arrested a dual UK-Iranian national on Thursday on suspicion of plotting a terror attack
02:23following a security incident at a military airbase in England that authorities have linked to Tehran.
02:29The 25-year-old man was arrested in central London on Thursday,
02:33and police have searched two properties in the capital, officials from counterterrorism police
02:38units revealed in a statement. It comes after Prime Minister Andy Burnham detailed on Thursday
02:43that there were strong indications of an Iranian involvement in the plot.
02:48Five men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, were arrested in the early hours of
02:54Sunday on suspicion of terrorism close to the RAF Fairford Air Base,
02:58which has been used by U.S. bombers to strike Iran. The suspects have since been released on bail,
03:04pending investigations and searches of the three vehicles linked to them, originally believed to
03:09harbor explosives. Police said after search operations, which forced the evacuations of
03:15dozens of homes in the area, that only a quantity of petrol was found, but no explosives.
03:22Student protests across France have intensified with blockades, fires and clashes with police
03:27spreading to an increasing number of cities. High school students are demanding more teachers,
03:32smaller classes and better facilities. After college students joined the so-called blockade
03:37movement this Thursday, blocking access to around 30 campuses, Prime Minister Sebastien Lacourne convened
03:43at Crisis Task Force. In Lille, demonstrators overturned bins through projectiles and damaged street furniture
03:49before police charged the crowd and fired tear gas. Hundreds of protesters have already been detained,
03:55most of them minors, while several students and school officials have been injured. French
03:59intelligence agencies believe this is the result of a maneuver organized by far-left France
04:03AMBAL party LFI and its proxies. For this high school student, despite her fear, the movement must continue.
04:10The police makes us fear, but at the end of a moment, we can't let ourselves walk and we can't
04:16let it happen.
04:18It's been a week that it starts and I think it won't stop, honestly.
04:22Clashes were also reported in Paris and several surrounding communes. Three investigations have
04:27been open following injuries sustained during roadblocks. In Tours, a high school student who
04:31suffered a head injury on Wednesday was hospitalized. In Nantes, the protests took a dramatic turn as a fire
04:36broke out in the lobby of Nelson Mandela High School. No injuries were reported. The government
04:41and far-right politician Marine Le Pen have accused the LFI of encouraging the protests.
04:49French media outlet Mediapart has published new material in the case of the anti-Semitic messages
04:54attributed to Jordan Bardella. The allegations against Bardella come just seven months ahead of
05:00France's presidential elections, where voters will choose a replacement for outgoing term-limited
05:05President Emmanuel Macron, with far-right candidate Marine Le Pen leading opinion polls.
05:1131-year-old Jordan Bardella has strongly denied writing the messages and on Thursday said he would
05:16file a lawsuit against Mediapart for defamation, as well as quote, forgery and use of forgeries.
05:22Mediapart in response published screenshots of the conversations involving the anti-Semitic
05:27messages Bardella is said to have sent to other Facebook users. He added that personal details
05:33shared in the conversations, including reference to his Italian-born mother, an interview he gave
05:38to the Le Parisien outlet in 2013 and failing the entrance exam to the prestigious Sciences Po University,
05:44were all key factors in authenticating his identity. The far-right national rally leader,
05:50who will likely become Prime Minister if Le Pen wins the presidential race,
05:53said the evidence is merely engineered and manipulated screenshots. Marine Le Pen voiced her total
06:00confidence in Bardella, who has helped the national rally make inroads with younger voters
06:05and announced what she called a total war against their party.
06:12The average price of diesel across the European Union has hit a record 2 euros 24 cents per liter,
06:18up from 1 euro 59 cents before the war in the Middle East. 12 EU countries recorded new all-time
06:26highs,
06:27including Belgium, Italy, Romania and Poland. Diesel rose above 2 euros 50 cents per liter in Denmark,
06:34Finland and the Netherlands, while Germany reached 2 euros 44 cents. Belgium also hit a record with diesel
06:41averaging 2 euros 43 cents per liter. Across the block, prices increased due to taxes,
06:48prices which account for around 40 percent of the price paid at the pump. Prices have been driven
06:54higher by disruptions to energy supplies, including the effective closure of Strait of Hormuz,
06:59a healthy blockade of Saudi exports in the Red Sea and Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries.
07:05High European refining margins have also added pressure, particularly for diesel.
07:15oil prices have rebounded above 100 dollars a barrel as investors weighed recovering Gulf crude shipments
07:21against the lack of an agreement to end the war with Iran. Brent crude was up 2.6 percent at
07:27just
07:28above 100 dollars, while US benchmark West Texas Intermediate rose by the same amount to around 92 dollars
07:34and 80 cents. Gulf crude exports have recovered to near pre-war levels, while Saudi Arabia has partially
07:41restored its east-west pipeline, which bypassed the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said it had received a US
07:48response to its offer to reopen the strait in exchange for lifting the blockade on Iranian ports,
07:53releasing frozen assets and easing oil sanctions. President Masoud Pezeshkan said Tehran would work
08:00to reach an agreement, but Donald Trump said we blow them up or make a deal, adding that the war
08:05would
08:05end very soon. Shipping risks remain high, with three vessels struck in the strait on Tuesday.
08:14European stocks, meanwhile, opened lower as investors weighed higher inflation driven by the energy shock.
08:24The world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, is under scrutiny from EU Watchdogs for continuing
08:31to serve clients in the block, month after it was told to wind down its European business, according to
08:37the Financial Times. Unlicensed companies were expected to take immediate steps to wind down their EU
08:43operations from the 1st of July, and to serve customers only to help them transfer or sell their
08:48crypto holdings. Binance failed to secure a new crypto license this past summer. The EU's markets
08:54watchdogs and national regulators in countries including France, Germany and Greece are now examining
08:59how Binance uses reverse solicitation. The FT reported the legal exemption allows companies based
09:06outside the EU to serve customers in the block as long as those customers seek out the service entirely
09:12and the oil initiative. Responding to a question from Euronews, Binance insisted that it complies with
09:18the laws in the countries in which it operates. AI agents attempted to hack US and Canadian government
09:28websites, according to non-profit research lab Transluse, which claims to have evidence that
09:33Google and OpenAI's agents were responsible. Researchers documented incidents targeting the US
09:39Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada while agents were searching for publicly
09:44available information. In the US case, agents made more than 200,000 requests and attempted to
09:51test a database vulnerability. In Canada, 13 of 899 requests contained payloads designed to test the
09:59website's security. None of the attempts succeeded in accessing information that was not already publicly
10:05available. Transluse said the incidents appeared to form part of a broader pattern in which AI agents use
10:11aggressive or gray area techniques to retrieve information. Evidence suggested Google-linked agents were
10:18involved in the US incident while Transluse said it could not confidently attribute the Canadian attempts
10:24to OpenAI. Canada's Cyber Security Agency said there was no indication government systems had been compromised.
10:35The world's richest man, Elon Musk, is returning to an official role advising Donald Trump's government
10:40co-leading a Pentagon study on the future of warfare. Defense Secretary Pete Hexed announced the study which
10:46has been named Project Meridian during a speech at the Quantico military base. The owner of Tesla and SpaceX,
10:53Musk will lead the project alongside Unreal Industries co-founder Palmer Luckey and former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
11:01Hexed said the initiative would bring together innovators, senior leaders and technologists to
11:07identify future military capabilities. His findings are due within 120 days. Musk previously headed the
11:14Department of Government Efficiency, overseeing sweeping federal job cuts before leaving in May 2025.
11:21His companies already have major ties to the Pentagon, including SpaceX satellite work and a military
11:27agreement involving his artificial intelligence company, XAI. We're getting into daytime here.
11:32Musk and Trump later fell out over government spending legislation, but have since reconciled.
