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06:11They reflect shared anxieties about jobs, living costs in the future, and they are becoming violent, at least in some
06:20corners of Europe, which is complicating the ability of the youth to convey their message to political leaders.
06:26However, treating this protest as a teenage revolution or as a pan-European movement might be inaccurate and even misleading
06:35by fooling an image of Europe that is destroying itself, which I don't think is entirely accurate.
06:41You're right in pointing out that these protests are spreading across Europe, but I think their immediate calls differ from
06:50one another, and that's why I don't think we should treat them as one phenomenon.
06:54We are probably talking about different situations, different reasons that spark this protest with some imitation that is occurring among
07:02them, fueled by media coverage.
07:04Well, how can politicians catch hold of the situation? As you've seen in France, the political response has not been
07:09adequate.
07:12Well, by now it is pretty clear that the French protests have not been foreseen or treated with due of
07:19care.
07:19They were largely anticipated, and yet the police and the public authority were not able to handle, to prevent, and
07:27to mitigate disaster.
07:28And there is also evidence suggesting that there has been some abuse of power with many thousands of arrests, some
07:35violence and accidents that could have potentially been foreseen.
07:39And that's why we've been hearing in the past few hours quite strong calls for inquiries in order to find
07:47out exactly what went wrong, and to avoid this to happen in the future, should this protest continue across countries
07:53in Europe.
07:54And have EU heads of state and government been too focused on issues like defence and security, far away from
07:59people's real-life struggles?
08:02Well, there are many instances in which we've been hearing students, the youth, and even trade unions and workers claiming
08:10that there is something broader than the school issue here.
08:13We see that the capacity of most countries to spend for welfare state has been reduced, reduced by this major
08:22rush towards rearmament of Europe, and this is causing concern.
08:26Concerns among different peoples of Europe feel affected, in particular the younger ones, because they know that their future will
08:33be bleak compared to that of their own parents.
08:35We have a lot of polls suggesting that more than half of the youth in Europe believe that their future
08:40won't be as right as that of their parents.
08:43And that, of course, is a very important message, which has been perhaps blurred out, because, of course, it's the
08:48violence and those images that are, of course, dominating the headlines this morning.
08:51Professor Alberto Almano, thank you so much for joining us here.
08:54Now, moving on, Ukraine has reportedly launched a major drone attack on St. Petersburg, striking an oil terminal and targeting
09:01a data centre and a bridge.
09:03The attack comes just one week after President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire, which has failed to halt strikes
09:10on energy infrastructure.
09:11For more, we're joined now here in the studio by our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakilina.
09:16Good morning, Sasha.
09:17Just tell us, what more do we know about this overnight attack and what does it mean for Trump's proposed
09:22energy ceasefire?
09:23Well, reportedly, two of the city's oil facilities have been struck by Ukrainian drones, and one of them indeed is
09:28being St. Petersburg Oil Terminal.
09:30It is important to note that this is indeed one of the largest oil terminals in Russia.
09:36Now, this attack over the weekend seems to put sort of an official end to Donald Trump's unilaterally declared energy
09:43ceasefire,
09:43because Kyiv did pause its strikes on Russia's energy facilities for a couple of days, while Russia did not do
09:50that.
09:50And including this night now, there are ballistic missiles launched at Kyiv and at Ukraine.
09:56And Volodymyr Zelensky said that over just the past week, Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy and oil and gas sectors
10:0376 times,
10:06launching almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,7,000 aerial bombs and 66 missiles made.
10:15Now, but that certainly would not please Donald Trump.
10:18And we've heard overnight from him, he posted on Truth Social, another post saying that he is willing to put
10:24an end to this war in his own way.
10:26He still believes in the energy ceasefire.
10:28And he actually said that Russia, and I'm quoting him here, is doing very little, if anything, to help Iran.
10:34And instead, he said that Russia is helping the world and the United States when it comes to diesel.
10:39And he again blamed Ukraine, said that Ukraine is deliberately using diesel refineries as target,
10:46knowing how much they hurt the world diesel market.
10:49He also blamed, once again, Volodymyr Zelensky, saying, quote,
10:52he does not care and he does not want to end this war, Donald Trump said.
10:56Now, I spoke also exclusively to the EU's ambassador to Kyiv, Katrina Matanova,
11:01who has a very different view on that, because she actually lives in Kyiv
11:04and lives through every single Russian attack in Ukraine's capital.
11:09What happened since the end of August of this year is that Kyiv became a true frontline city.
11:17And this is not only the nighttime attacks that we are almost used to,
11:23but the daytime attacks that started on the 27th of August are relentless.
11:29And people can't really imagine when they're outside that when you have an alert,
11:34kids have to stop studying, go to the shelter.
11:38Doctors stop carrying out medical procedures.
11:42Metro stops.
11:43With the intensified attacks by Russia since the end of August,
11:46Moscow has been using more and more as well of jet-powered drones,
11:50which are much harder to intercept.
11:52And very often, the targets have nothing to do with the military.
11:55I think this is quite a specialty of Russia, is the attacks on civilian targets.
12:02And let's remind ourselves that attacking civilian targets is a war crime.
12:09It goes against the laws of war.
12:12So apart from aggressing peaceful country in the first place,
12:17the war crimes are happening on a daily basis.
12:20There is also diplomatic escalation happening these days between the United States and Ukraine,
12:25which is one of the important topics regarding how much more Europe can step in
12:30to help with your experience, first-hand experience of living through all of that in Kyiv.
12:36What do you communicate with your colleagues, diplomats and the European leaders here in Brussels?
12:43Europe has been and is proving itself to be really the steadfast,
12:50the most reliable supporter of Ukraine, both on the financial side and the military side.
12:55President Kostovsky was very clear that we are certainly not going to release any sanctions on Russia until the war
13:06stops.
13:07And also, you know, right now, the European Union is carrying about three quarters of the financial support for Ukraine.
13:19And I think there is determination to continue, but we also will be talking to our like-minded partners to
13:26step up their effort as well.
13:28One of the aspects of Europe's bigger support and more of the European Union stepping in
13:34also comes to supporting Ukraine when it comes to Ukraine's right to strike Russia's oil facilities,
13:40refineries to target Russia's money-making machine, the one that is financing the war.
13:45We have heard from Kayakalas, who told Euronews that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries, on Russian.
13:50But this support of Europe can also put Europe and Brussels at odds and in trouble in its relations with
13:57the United States.
13:59Well, I would prefer not to comment on that.
14:02I look at it from the perspective of Kyiv and living there.
14:07And I certainly support the view that the high representative expressed because it's the fossil fuel industry that is fueling
14:18the war on the Russia side.
14:23And moving on from Gaza to Congo, South Sudan to Myanmar, attacks on humanitarian workers are on the up as
14:29funding for their day job is going down.
14:32And as the EU prepares its long-term kitty from 2028 to 2034, a fight is unfolding over how development,
14:40humanitarian aid and geopolitical priorities can be financed.
14:44For more, we sat down with the UN aid chief, Tom Fletcher, who passed through Brussels for the EU's first
14:49ever conference on the protection of aid workers.
14:52And we started by asking how bad their plight was. Take a look.
14:56Oh, it's been terrible. I mean, we've lost a thousand colleagues in the last three years.
15:00And so the question being asked at this conference is how do we stop people killing aid workers?
15:05We shouldn't have to ask that question. I mean, the protection, the law is meant to be there to protect
15:09us.
15:10We've got our humanitarian neutrality. We should be able to go and deliver food, medicine, shelter without people killing us.
15:16And yet a thousand dead colleagues in three years.
15:19And the way people are being killed as well is even more vicious, more sophisticated.
15:23It's terrifying. And remember, you know, these are people who wake up, they kiss their kids, you know, goodbye in
15:27the morning.
15:28They're going out to work. They're going into danger. They know the dangers.
15:31And somewhere else there are other people thinking, how do we kill them?
15:34You know, I can't get my head into the mindset of the people who are killing aid workers.
15:39And there's no accountability, never investigations.
15:42And the weapons, as you say, becoming more and more sophisticated, including, I was in Kherson just recently in Ukraine.
15:48You know, the drones being used there, the AI drones that become more lethal as they get to the end
15:54of their battery life
15:54because they're programmed to find a target and to kill it.
15:57What role will AI play going forward?
15:59As you say, it's already playing a role in Ukraine, also in the war in Iran we've seen.
16:02In these new weapons right now, in Sudan, in Somalia, South Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, so many of the places we're
16:09working,
16:09people are telling us right now that they are an atrocities lab, that these weapons are being developed,
16:15that they're, you know, like a lab.
16:16They're being experimented on with these new weapons.
16:18And it's becoming terrifying because you're getting these kill zones in which nothing can survive.
16:26And meanwhile, that's happening on the ground.
16:28And here in Brussels, politically, just last week we saw the EU summit.
16:31There was lots of squabbles over the EU budget.
16:33There's lots of talk of cutting development aid, overseas aid.
16:37What would that mean for these areas?
16:38And, of course, fragile and conflicted states.
16:40It would be devastating.
16:41I mean, we faced enormous cuts already in the last few years.
16:45And as a result, at least a third of the sector has had to be cut.
16:49Now, I then go out to the field, and I'm in places where I know that people will die because
16:54of the cuts,
16:55because of choices I'm then having to make.
16:57I was in Afghanistan recently where, you know, we've cut the clinics,
17:00and so therefore women are cycling much further to give birth,
17:04and as a result they're losing their kids because they're dying on the road.
17:07You know, again and again I'm holding children who I know will probably not survive
17:11because of the cuts I'm being forced to make.
17:13So we desperately need this to be a budget of solidarity and generosity
17:16for the people in the world who need it most.
17:19And that's one of the reasons I'm here.
17:21And when you hear messages like those coming from France, from Marine Le Pen,
17:24whose party is doing very well in the polls ahead of those elections next year,
17:27she's saying that she'll be cutting funds even to Ukraine.
17:31What does that make you think?
17:32Look, I've been in Ukraine recently.
17:33I've seen how great the needs are.
17:35I was in Kyiv overnight when they had a terrible night.
17:38Ballistic missiles, huge missiles landing all through the night.
17:41I was in Hassan up on the front line.
17:43I drove down what they call the road of death,
17:46where so many of these drones are attacking, hitting civilians.
17:50So those needs there are massive.
17:53And I think, you know, there are many politicians in Europe
17:56who make the case for cutting aid.
17:59But actually, if you're not dealing with these problems at source,
18:01then these problems will come in your direction.
18:03You can't put a tariff on a pandemic.
18:06You can't build a wall large enough to keep out the waves of migration
18:09that the climate crisis and the aid cuts will drive.
18:13So, you know, we'll keep on making the argument
18:15and hope that there are enough people of solidarity and generosity there to see it through.
18:20And just finally, we're coming, well, it's already one year since the ceasefire in Gaza.
18:24Coming into the winter, what does the situation look like there?
18:26It's grim.
18:27And, you know, a year on from the ceasefire, we have managed to get the hunger levels down.
18:32So about half the number of people who were reporting going to bed hungry a year ago
18:36are saying they're still going to bed hungry.
18:38But that's still almost half the population going to bed hungry.
18:42You know, we're being blocked from bringing in the shelter materials for the winter,
18:45the tents that people need.
18:48We're being blocked from all the work we need to do to clear the rubble in Gaza
18:52under which people's loved ones are still buried.
18:55So they can start to rebuild their homes and their lives.
18:58So some things are improving.
19:00We've got 100,000 kids back into school.
19:02But those kids should never have been out of school.
19:05And now we're facing into a really, really rough winter.
19:11Well, that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:14For any longer reads, do visit euronews.com,
19:17especially on that unfolding story and situation over in France.
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