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Europe Today: Francia, Macron afronta protestas y Putin abre puerta a diálogo de paz en Ucrania
Francia se prepara para otro fin de semana de protestas mientras Macron afronta críticas por su gira por el Golfo. Putin se declara dispuesto a negociar la paz en Ucrania tras reunirse con Steve Witkoff, y Hungría detiene al exgobernador del banco central György Matolcsy por presunto fraude.
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Francia se prepara para otro fin de semana de protestas mientras Macron afronta críticas por su gira por el Golfo. Putin se declara dispuesto a negociar la paz en Ucrania tras reunirse con Steve Witkoff, y Hungría detiene al exgobernador del banco central György Matolcsy por presunto fraude.
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00:30...accused Donald Trump and other world leaders of, quote,
00:33...stupid comments about the riots and unrest in his country.
00:37Speaking from the Gulf, where he's on a whistle-stop tour to find oil,
00:41he criticised his counterparts for spreading misleading information
00:45about the root causes of the violence.
00:48Meanwhile, during face-to-face talks in St. Petersburg,
00:51Trump's Middle East envoy, Steve Woodcoff,
00:54called Vladimir Putin humanitarian and saluted his work.
00:57The Russian president, who's wanted for war crimes,
01:01said the Kremlin is ready to resume peace talks to end the war in Ukraine.
01:05We'll go beyond that headline with our Ukraine correspondent.
01:09And Hungarian prosecutors have detained former central bank governor,
01:14Jóergy Matulski, a close ally of the former prime minister,
01:17Viktor Orban, over suspected economic fraud.
01:20It comes just as the current prime minister, Peter Maillard,
01:24steps up efforts to investigate alleged corruption
01:27during Viktor Orban's 16 years in power.
01:30But first, France is getting ready for yet another weekend of protests
01:34by high school students and the Yellow Vests movement.
01:38The government says they are increasing security and personnel
01:42to try to mitigate further violence.
01:44But the tension has reached such levels in the country
01:47that the police have filed a complaint against the state.
01:50For more on this, we spoke exclusively to the top French police union,
01:54Stanilas Rodin.
01:56It's because we have too many competing orders.
02:02Lack of training.
02:03For teams that were not trained in particular to restore public order,
02:07because very often it wasn't about maintaining order,
02:10it was about restoring public order.
02:13And so, what we say is that from the moment that the vagueness,
02:17from the moment that the contradictory orders,
02:19from the moment when we were deprived in particular of the use of intermediate weapons,
02:24we had a lot of colleagues injured.
02:26And I also recall that there were a lot of teachers and educational personnel
02:31who were injured, and especially high school students.
02:33So, we have in fact endangered the safety, the lives of others.
02:38That is not acceptable for us.
02:40We do it with responsibility.
02:41Why?
02:41To highlight and put on the table all the dysfunctions.
02:45I don't understand why someone would sue us with intent
02:48while we are asking for clarification
02:50and for responsibilities to be fully defined when there are dysfunctions.
02:54Because it is all well and good to say,
02:56there are dysfunctions, we did not measure up to it.
02:58But in fact, what is the situation really?
03:01Have we learned the lessons?
03:02Do the colleagues have the right equipment to maintain law and order?
03:05So you see, in fact, this is to say,
03:07right now we are putting a stop to mistakes,
03:10especially by successive governments,
03:11and that we want to hold the chain responsible,
03:14especially the authority,
03:15and the dysfunctions of this chain of authorities.
03:26Meanwhile, the French President Emmanuel Macron
03:28continues his tour of the Gulf this Thursday
03:31after a surprise visit to Saudi
03:32to secure oil and diesel imports.
03:35Criticized for running away from domestic woes,
03:38Macron told reporters he was just doing his job
03:40to try and ease tensions over fuel prices,
03:42one of the causes of the social unrest.
03:45Let's get more now with our French correspondent,
03:47Maya Nelaboum.
03:48Good morning.
03:49Good morning, Maeve.
03:50Just tell us, what exactly is Emmanuel Macron doing there?
03:52So Emmanuel Macron is on a three-day tour in the Gulf,
03:56as you said, since Monday,
03:58and that trip includes Kuwait,
04:00the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
04:03And as you said, Emmanuel Macron argued
04:05that he was there to secure France's energy supplies
04:09in the face of rising fuel prices.
04:12As you know, this is a global phenomenon.
04:14So he argued that following the Iran war,
04:17he needed to go there also to secure oil and gas supplies.
04:21So it's a trip that he deemed extremely important.
04:25But why now?
04:25Isn't it a bit awkward to go when his country is burning?
04:28The timing is quite awkward.
04:30As you say, it is quite awkward to see a president
04:33leaving the country only days
04:35after protests turned extremely violent.
04:38We have seen the images of looting, of burning cars
04:41last Saturday on October 17th.
04:44And also, it is awkward,
04:46but it also reinforces this narrative
04:48that Emmanuel Macron is prioritizing foreign policy
04:52over domestic problems.
04:55And it shows in a way that he is powerless domestically.
04:58So he needs to make foreign policy more important.
05:02So what impact could this have
05:04on Emmanuel Macron's reputation, Maya?
05:05Yes, I think, you know, people in France will agree with me
05:09that, you know, six months before the presidential election,
05:14it's quite a disastrous end to Macron's tenure.
05:18And there is, I think, in France, consensus,
05:21even among right, the right and, you know, the left,
05:25that Macron has completely lost the control of the situation,
05:30including and especially the security situation.
05:33He did not make real announcement when he spoke out on TV
05:38the day after these protests.
05:40He was expected to say a lot of things.
05:42He didn't.
05:43And I think the most important element in all of this
05:46is that he gives the impression that he's completely disconnected
05:50from a big part of French society that is young people.
05:54And those young people have literally, you know,
05:58voted for him in 2017.
06:00We can even look at the screen right now what he said himself,
06:04his sort of mea culpa.
06:06Let's take a look.
06:08The fact that this generation has concerns about its future
06:12and feels that they've been collectively shaken
06:14by all these events, it's legitimate.
06:16And we need to listen to that.
06:18We need to support them.
06:19We need to try to do our best.
06:20I've tried to do my best these past few years.
06:22Perhaps I've tried to do some things well.
06:24Perhaps there are things that I haven't done well enough.
06:28Yes, I think all in all, we can say that Macron has become
06:31not only just isolated, but extremely unpopular.
06:35OK, Maïda Le Boon, thank you so much for your analysis.
06:38And we did reach out to a number of Macronists for their take,
06:41but they were not available, unfortunately.
06:43But now from France to Italy, Portugal to Greece,
06:46this autumn of discontent is overshadowing,
06:48shadowing the European Parliament's plenary session
06:50this week in Strasbourg.
06:52Some protesters even rallied outside the building itself.
06:55For more, we can head over now to the Parliament
06:57and bring in Jean-Marc Germain, a French socialist MEP.
07:01Good morning, Monsieur Germain.
07:02Thank you so much for being with us.
07:04So, town halls burned down, troops on the ground.
07:07How did it come to this?
07:13Well, I mean, we have, and everybody has to understand
07:17that at the beginning and the root of it is a political protest
07:21for two very different reasons.
07:24One is the situation of students and there is a huge inequality
07:29with regard to the possibility of success with school system in France
07:33and the other with a high price and the cost of living.
07:39So this has to be treated.
07:41And second is the way public order is maintained in France.
07:45There was a change of the way doing it and it doesn't function
07:49and it allows rioters to destroy shops and public buildings.
07:56So these two things have to change.
07:58You have to tackle and to change public order starting with twice more policemen
08:03and also to tackle without delay the social issues.
08:07But this issue of the policemen, the police are furious.
08:10They're suing the state.
08:11This is huge.
08:15Yes, it's huge.
08:17But it was done already.
08:19If you look at the Olympic Games, there was no problems
08:21because there were enough policemen to ensure public order.
08:27And public order starts to allow the protesters to protest peacefully
08:33and also to make sure that shop owner would have no trouble on Sunday.
08:40So really, it's a big failure of the government.
08:44But it has not to happen again on Saturdays.
08:48And any measures have to be taken.
08:52It's key for France to stay credible at international level
08:57and to ensure people that we still live in a country where public order is holding.
09:04And that is the issue here.
09:05You mentioned at the start the inequality.
09:07Is France now the sick man of Europe?
09:13I won't say that because the same problem arises on all the countries.
09:19But now there is a crisis in France.
09:21And for me, the first thing to do is to have an immediate decision.
09:27Because if there are talks and talks and talks that last forever,
09:32we will have again the same situation reproduced.
09:35And should Macron resign, do you think?
09:37I think that we have to abolish this algorithm that makes the impression for young people
09:48that a machine is going to decide their life.
09:54And so let's abolish this Parcoursup algorithm.
09:58Let's rebuild a system for scholarships to decide how they go
10:04and which kind of studies they decide to build their life.
10:08And second is to tackle the issue of cost of life, starting with price of energy.
10:15It's an urgent measure that we need.
10:17And a final question, just a brief answer.
10:20Should Emmanuel Macron resign?
10:25No, I mean, there are elections in six months from now.
10:29So it's elections that have to solve this issue.
10:32The candidates are going to make some proposals.
10:35And then the people of France is going to decide its future.
10:40But still, there will be protests.
10:42And we have also and we cannot wait for the next election.
10:46So the government, starting with the presidential front, has to tackle his issue.
10:52It's also the condition for peaceful and a good election process.
10:58An election that we very closely watched from Brussels, of course, and beyond.
11:01Jean-Marc Germain, thank you so much for joining us this morning.
11:05Now, moving on.
11:06Russian missiles hit Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, overnight,
11:09injuring six people and forcing residents into shelters.
11:12This attack comes just as the Kremlin, says Vladimir Putin,
11:15is ready to resume trilateral peace talks with Ukraine and the US as early as mid-November,
11:20following, of course, his meeting with the US Special Invoice Steve Woodcoff in St. Petersburg.
11:24For analysis, we're now joined here on SESH by our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakalina.
11:29Can you tell us what actually emerged from this meeting with Putin?
11:32And are we any closer to a new round of peace negotiations?
11:35Well, I think the top line of those talks in St. Petersburg is Moscow indicating that they are,
11:40quote, ready in principle to restore the trilateral format with Ukraine and the United States.
11:46It has been frozen for a while.
11:47But Moscow insisted on this in principle, maybe.
11:50And we have been here before.
11:51We've heard those indications earlier.
11:54The other top line would be the possible meeting in Abu Dhabi with this format restored.
12:00It might take place around the 10th of November.
12:02This, of course, will be just after the mid-term elections in the United States.
12:06And this might not be too much because, as we said, we have been here before.
12:10But even for this, it was a really hard work and lots of effort it took from US Envoy Steve
12:15Whitcoff to make sure that Russia, at least in principle, agrees.
12:19Let's take a listen to what he had to say to Vladimir Putin.
12:22You talk so much about my president, President Trump, being the humanitarian.
12:28You are a humanitarian also, sir.
12:31And I salute that.
12:33I commend you.
12:33And I thank you again.
12:35Ukraine's foreign minister, Andriy Sibiha, this morning posted on X saying,
12:39overnight key residents heard what the Russian humanism truly sounds like, referring to those
12:44waves of ballistic missiles Russia launched at Ukraine, killing at least one person, injuring
12:48at least four children in those attacks, made in a clear indication of Moscow's intentions.
12:54And at the same time, the Kremlin spoke very openly about it, saying that all the proposals
12:58that Steve Whitcoff brought from Oslo, from the European leaders and Volodymyr Zelenskyy,
13:01they are of very little, if any, interest to Moscow because they don't see anything new
13:05or interesting for them there.
13:07And Sasha, what about Zelenskyy?
13:08He has expressed willingness that he could accept a ceasefire along the current frontlines.
13:12Is Kiev showing a little bit of willingness here to compromise?
13:15Kiev has been showing this willingness to compromise ever since Donald Trump's second
13:19term, to be honest.
13:20Now, what Kiev is saying and has been saying for a long time now is let's freeze the situation
13:26at the current frontlines, at the current contact line with the territory that Russia occupies,
13:31and then we take it from there.
13:32And then we go into further negotiations.
13:34Then we discuss the terms.
13:36And Volodymyr Zelenskyy had to clarify it once again yesterday evening when he sent a voice
13:41message to the reporters in the presidential WhatsApp chat saying, we will support the proposal
13:46for a ceasefire, an end to the war, an energy ceasefire, indeed any ceasefire, in any case
13:52as well as humanitarian initiatives, the return of prisoners of war and diplomacy.
13:57We will see how it goes this time.
14:00So he insisted that Kiev is indeed ready.
14:03And of course, what is very important for Ukraine and for Volodymyr Zelenskyy is to prove to the
14:08American President Donald Trump that it is not Kiev that is being an obstacle to the peace
14:12and it is Moscow.
14:12And Kiev is indeed ready to compromise, unlike the Kremlin.
14:17OK, Sasha, Vakilina, thank you so much for your analysis there.
14:20And now actually for reactions from the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
14:23On these very developments, we can head back to Strasbourg and bring in the Finnish centre-right
14:28EPP, MEP, Peke Toveri, who's also a former Armour General.
14:32So good morning.
14:32We're thrilled to have you with us here on the show.
14:35Do you have any trust in Vladimir Putin's latest offer to talk?
14:39As you saw last night, Kiev was bombed again.
14:53Good morning.
14:54Can you hear us here in the studio?
14:56It's Maeve here in the studio in Brussels.
15:04So we're still joined here by Sasha as we try and connect properly with the Strasbourg line there.
15:08It really seems, Sasha, that Kiev is now a frontline city in this war.
15:13Absolutely, because Russia not only intensified the ballistic missiles attacks, knowing that
15:17Ukraine does not have enough of those ballistic missiles interceptors, but also using the jet
15:22power drones.
15:23It's actually very interesting regarding the interceptors for the ballistic missiles.
15:26Now, it's been confirmed recently that, you know, there are certain orders for the interceptors
15:32for Patriots, so PAC-2 and PAC-3, that have been already paid for by the European partners
15:37to the United States, and those deliveries are now delayed still.
15:40So that means that, you know, Kiev just does not have enough to intercept those missiles coming
15:46in from Russia, and Moscow is very, very well aware of that, Maeve.
15:49And this, of course, makes the situation more complicating with the winter coming, with Russia
15:54specifically targeting the energy infrastructure, trying to cause another situation where, with
15:59the power outages, even already after this night now, after all the attacks overnight with
16:03the ballistic missiles, there are power outages, mobile network, Wi-Fi outages reported across
16:09Kiev.
16:10So it has already started, and this is not the coldest period yet.
16:13And that's why, of course, we're trying to cross there to Parliament, because this is
16:16a big topic under discussion this week.
16:18What has the reaction been this week by various politicians here in Europe regarding this move
16:23from Vladimir Putin?
16:24Does anyone really take it seriously?
16:25The Europeans are really between sort of a rock and a hard place, because it's rather
16:30complicating.
16:30They are trying to navigate this issue.
16:32They're trying to continue their support for Ukraine, while also trying to rebuild this
16:39relations and this diplomatic line with the United States, while the United States is not really
16:43welcoming the Europeans much at this negotiating table, nor are the Russians, to be honest,
16:48because this is not something that they want to see.
16:49Moscow never accepted the Europeans at the table.
16:52There was a little bit of an indication, actually, after the St. Petersburg talks that the president
16:56of Finland, Alexander Stoop, might come up as the negotiator, although Kremlin advisor,
17:02Ushakov, said that, you know, they will have to look at it.
17:05And if I quote, the comment would be, if he's not too European in what he has to say.
17:09Well, this indeed is the talk of the time this Thursday morning.
17:11Who should now speak to Vladimir Putin on behalf of the European Union?
17:14We've been here before with this debate, but is there any clarity here?
17:17Not yet.
17:18Well, with this tiny indication coming from Moscow regarding Alexander Stoop, it does seem
17:22like they said what they had to say about possible preference.
17:25But again, you know, commenting on the president of Finland, on a very European and pro-European
17:31president of Finland, Alexander Stoop, the Kremlin said that they would be willing to consider
17:37his candidacy if he does not sound and if he does not bring too much of the European
17:42point of view at the table, which, of course, is going to be the case.
17:45If Stoop were to be the envoy to negotiate on behalf of Europe or the European Union, he
17:50will certainly bring a very European point of view at that negotiating table.
17:54Indeed, Sasha, thanks for that.
17:55Let's head back over to Strasbourg.
17:57I believe we now can connect to Mr Toveri.
17:59Good morning, sir.
18:00Just tell us, do you have any trust in Vladimir Putin's latest offer to talk?
18:15We're having serious technical problems there crossing to Strasbourg, so deep apologies for
18:19that.
18:19We're still joined here by Sasha.
18:20Just one perhaps brief question just on the battlefield.
18:24It's not a pretty place right now, just very briefly.
18:26No, it's not.
18:27But also the winter is coming, that means that the conditions are going to change.
18:30That means that there are going to be more offensive operations from both sides because
18:33the ground is going to freeze, going to make it a little bit easier for both sides.
18:36That means that Russians are going to try to go on a more offensive and the Ukrainians
18:40are going to try to go more on the defense or possibly also on the counter-offensive because
18:44there has been a counter-offensive happening now specifically in eastern Ukraine with dozens
18:50of settlements and towns being liberated over the past couple of weeks.
18:53Okay, Sasha, thank you so much for that.
18:55And thank you so much for watching.
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