00:00The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Navi Pillai for her efforts to promote peace and international law.
00:09The Norwegian Nobel Committee said her work had helped strengthen the global legal order
00:13and efforts to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
00:18Born under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillai became a lawyer and defendant Nelson Mandela and others who fought apartheid.
00:25She later served as a judge in South Africa at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal
00:32Court.
00:33Pillai also served as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
00:37and later chaired a UN Commission on the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
00:43The Nobel Committee highlighted her role at the Rwanda Tribunal where rape and sexual violence
00:47were found to be capable of constituting crimes against humanity and genocide.
00:51The Committee said her career showed why international law remains important for resolving conflicts without violence.
00:58In the words of the Committee, peace requires justice.
01:02On her ex-post, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen congratulated Pillai,
01:07praising her lifelong commitment to justice, peace and human dignity
01:10and saying her courage and defense of the rule of law remain a guide in a world that needs justice
01:15more than ever.
01:17Today is also serving as an ad hoc judge at the International Court of Justice in the Gambia v. Myanmar,
01:23is president of the International Commission Against the Death Penalty,
01:27sits on the Information and Democracy Commission
01:29and was the first non-white woman judge on South Africa's high court
01:33and the first South African to earn a doctorate in law from Harvard.
01:36All this happened in the Rwandan genocide.
01:43France's student-led protests started out in the suburbs of Paris before rapidly escalating into a nationwide movement.
01:50It gained momentum after videos of tracking students spread across social media.
01:55Beyond its organizational role, social media has enabled students to document protests firsthand from the ground,
02:02as Olivier Herschard, lecturer in Information Sciences and Communication at the University of Nantes, told Euronews.
02:10Police investigations are now open and social media images can be used as evidence, he said.
02:16Herschard also stressed the role social media has played in fostering a sense of connection and common identity among protesters.
02:23Social media is also a way of building a sense of group identity and expressing one's social connections,
02:30including an emerging form of political awareness, he said.
02:34Another mass day of protests is expected to take place across the country on Tuesday,
02:39branded as Act V of the movement, backed by France's major trade unions.
02:44Meanwhile, a separate mass demonstration against the cost of living crisis and rising fuel prices is planned four days later.
02:56At least 36 people have been killed and dozens more injured across Ukraine following a wave of Russian strikes since
03:05Thursday.
03:05On Friday, authorities in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia reported one person was killed by a Russian airstrike,
03:13while Kramatorsk and Belenki in the Donetsk region bore the brunt with at least 35 local residents killed on Thursday.
03:23More than 24 civilians were injured in the Russian airstrikes in Kramatorsk,
03:28prompting public transport to be suspended in the area.
03:32Authorities say the casualties were aboard two passenger buses at a public transport stop when the strike hit.
03:41Video released by Ukrainian police showed various bodies on the streets in Kramatorsk after the Russian strikes.
03:49Meanwhile, officials in Russia's Belgorod region said four people were killed from drone strikes.
03:55Russia and Ukraine are locked in a long-range aerial war,
04:00while their armies remain largely deadlocked on the front line more than four and a half years since Moscow's full
04:07-scale invasion.
04:12The European Union paid an estimated almost 7.9 billion euros for Russian Arctic liquefied natural gas in the first
04:19nine months of this year,
04:21despite efforts to end its reliance on Moscow.
04:24Campaign group UrgeVault, using data from market intelligence firm Kaepeler,
04:28said EU ports received a record over 12 million tons of LNG from Russia's Yamal project between January and September.
04:36That was up to 9.5% compared with the same period last year.
04:41Europe also received 85% of all recorded Yamal deliveries during the period.
04:47The figures come despite restrictions already introduced by Brussels.
04:52A ban covering existing short-term Russian LNG contracts took effect in April,
04:56but September deliveries were still slightly higher than a year earlier.
05:01The EU's full ban on Russian LNG under eligible existing long-term contracts is due to take effect on January
05:071, 2027.
05:10UrgeVault is calling on the EU to tighten restrictions before then,
05:13particularly on the specialized tankers used to transport Arctic LNG.
05:26French EU lawmaker Rima Hassan has denied throwing to the floor the EU flag at the 7th of October commemoration,
05:34stressing she has asked for the CCTV footages to be made available to the press.
05:39Sur ces images, c'est très clair. On me voit de manière assez délicate décrocher le drapeau israélien du support
05:47sur lequel il se trouvait.
05:48Et quelques secondes après, vous avez le support qui bascule en raison d'un déséquilibre.
05:53Et donc c'est comme ça que le drapeau européen finit par tomber.
05:58Mais aucun des drapeaux n'a été ni piétiné, ni jeté, ni dégradé.
06:05Although she supports the commemoration of the victims of the 7th of October attack,
06:10she said she opposes inviting Israeli authorities to the European Parliament.
06:15C'est le rôle de chaque député de pouvoir s'en saisir au vu du contexte,
06:19c'est-à-dire des crimes qui sont commis par Israël, à Gaza, le génocide et en Cisjordanie, le nettoyage
06:24ethnique.
06:25The French MEP of Palestinian origin has denounced what she called double standards,
06:30with the EU adopting 21 packages of sanctions against Russia, but none against the Israeli state.
06:36The EU has adopted sanctions against some Israeli settler organizations
06:40for supporting violence and violations of Palestinian human rights in the West Bank,
06:45but Hassan denounced, quote, a state policy
06:47and called the EU to sanction the Israeli state for the situation in Gaza and in the West Bank.
06:58Hungary's National Weather Service says the country has experienced its most severe drought
07:02in 126 years in 2026.
07:05The Central European nation also recorded its driest summer since 1901 this year,
07:10which registered as its second hottest since weather recording started.
07:14Following a winter that saw lower rainfall than usual,
07:18Hungary was hit by a heat wave in June,
07:20followed by further hot spells in July and August.
07:23The unusually dry conditions also led to record low water levels on the Danube River.
07:28According to the weather agency Hungaromet,
07:31average rainfall across the country amounted to just 74.1 millimeters,
07:3636 percent of the 1991 to 2020 mean data.
07:40The seasonal mean temperature was 23.4 degrees Celsius on average across the country,
07:45more than 2.5 degrees higher than the long-term norm of 20.8.
07:50Whilst January saw cold and wet weather,
07:53the following months were marked by severe lack of rainfall and higher than normal temperatures,
07:58with rainfall in April only registering 10 percent of its usual amount compared to previous years.
08:07Workers at all former ILVA sites in Italy are set to go on strike on October the 12th.
08:13Unions have announced following Thursday's meeting with the government.
08:17Meanwhile, production at the hot end of the Tarento steelworks was suspended on Friday.
08:22More than 2,000 workers in Italy remain at risk of losing their jobs.
08:29Acciaierie d'Italia has announced that it is the first step in a plan to shut down operations at plants
08:34in Tarento,
08:35Genoa and Novi Ligure by November the 15th.
08:38On Friday, all production at the hot end of the Tarento steelworks was suspended in compliance with a ruling by
08:45the Milan Court of Appeal.
08:47The company has 10,000 employees across the country, 8,000 of whom are based at the Tarento site.
08:54The shutdown will remain in place until the Court of Cassation rules on the appeals lodged by ILVA and Acciaierie
09:01d'Italia on October the 20th.
09:02The permanent shutdown of the hot end would leave no possibility of a subsequent restart, marking the definitive end to
09:10production.
09:18Russian clubs have returned to European team competitions, with the comeback taking place in Greece on Thursday evening.
09:24The Russian water polo club, Sintez Kazan, competed in the men's Euro Cup qualifiers in Athens,
09:30marking a significant step in the return of Russian teams to European club competitions,
09:35following Moscow's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
09:39According to information obtained by Euronews, the team's participation was preceded by extensive diplomatic discussions.
09:45At the Serafeo Aquatic Centre in Athens, where the qualifying tournament is being held, no Russian flags were displayed.
09:52The tournament's promotional poster made no reference to the countries represented by the participating clubs.
09:58Kazan's players also wore no Russian national symbols on their swimsuits, water polo caps or team clothing.
10:04The Russian national anthem was not played, nor were the national anthems of any other countries.
10:11However, Russia was announced over the venue's public address system,
10:14marking a symbolic moment in the country's gradual return to European sporting competitions after more than four years.
10:22Gradually, many international sports federations are easing or have already lifted the sanctions imposed on Russian athletes and teams,
10:29following guidance issued by the International Olympic Committee over the summer.
10:32Well, yes, it was a long-term tournament, long we haven't participated in European arena.
10:41It also added a lot of responsibility for the fact that we were the first, who выступают in the international
10:51arena.
10:51Unfortunately, we were the first, who participated in the international arena.
10:54The game was not simple, but we still have time for the course of the tournament.
10:59I think we will be able to achieve the victory in the next match.
11:02The next games for the Cintez Gazan, which is the first russical team that is competing for European playoffs,
11:09of any kind of athlete after five years, are programed for the Sabbat-Cyrgyz.
11:14After the Partizan-Veligradio, you will be able to recognize the Duisburg of Germany,
11:19the Sambon from Italy and the Nico Despotty of the Tournois of Apollorna-Smyrny.
11:24From the Seraphio-Kollinby of the Daynais, for the EuroNews, the Giardis Giamgiani.
