00:00The European Parliament awarded the International Criminal Court the Sakharov Prize,
00:05signaling opposition to U.S. sanctions threatening the court.
00:10A police union is launching a liability claim against the French state
00:14for creating the conditions leading to the recent wave of violence.
00:21Seven people were killed in overnight Russian attacks on Ukraine
00:24while the Kremlin accuses Kyiv of firing hundreds of drones across the border.
00:31The European Parliament on Thursday awarded the International Criminal Court, the ICC,
00:38the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought,
00:40signaling opposition to U.S. sanctions threatening the court's work.
00:45The annual prize recognizes individuals and organizations
00:48defending human rights and fundamental freedoms.
00:53The European Union is built on respect for multilateralism and international institutions
00:59and this prize recognizes the important work of the court in upholding international law and justice.
01:09U.S. President Donald Trump's administration announced sanctions against the ICC on October the 9th,
01:15following repeated criticism of its arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
01:21and its investigation into the conduct of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
01:25The Parliament's political group leaders choose the ICC over two other shortlisted candidates,
01:31Tanzanian lawyer Tundu Lissou, who faces political persecution,
01:35and Iranian sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi,
01:39nominated on behalf of those persecuted by Iran's authorities.
01:43Last week, MEPs from across the political spectrum urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
01:50to protect the Netherlands-based court from U.S. sanctions.
02:00Italy and Spain have agreed to end border checks, which were temporarily introduced in August.
02:05The decision followed a phone call between the interior ministers of both countries.
02:10Last week, Prime Ministers Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sanchez had already signaled their intention to end the checks.
02:16In August, Italy temporarily reintroduced border checks with Spain,
02:21suspending Schengen rules and screening travellers at ports and airports.
02:26The checks were announced immediately after the massive border breach at Ceuta,
02:30a Spanish autonomous city located on the North African coast.
02:35The Italian Interior Ministry said the targeted checks focused mainly on non-EU nationals
02:40to strengthen border security and prevent potential terrorist threats.
02:45Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Alvarez denounced the decision
02:49and Spain introduced reciprocal checks on travellers arriving from Italy.
02:54In identical statements, the two governments have now said the decision followed a careful assessment of the situation
03:01and that the current suspensions would not be extended.
03:10A police union is launching a liability claim against the French state
03:15for creating the conditions leading to the recent wave of violence,
03:19citing competing orders and the lack of training for teams.
03:47The representative from the French National Police Union Alliance
03:51criticizes.
03:52What he called a 20-year lack of political courage from successive French governments
03:57and security policy, contributing to the security failures witnessed last weekend.
04:03On met un coup d'arrêt aux errements, notamment des gouvernements successifs,
04:09et que nous on veut mettre en responsabilité la chaîne, notamment de l'autorité,
04:13et les dysfonctionnements de cette chaîne de l'autorité.
04:16Student demonstrations for better conditions have been overshadowed by violence and looting last weekend.
04:22As a result, the government has enforced temporary curfews in several cities this week.
04:28Demonstrations are planned for this upcoming weekend,
04:30and trade unions called for a general strike on 5th November.
04:38Seven people were killed across Ukraine in fresh Russian attacks overnight into Thursday,
04:43just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff
04:47held talks with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
04:51Speaking after the meeting, Trump, in a bid to strike an optimistic tone,
04:56said that this is the closest negotiators have gotten to ending the war.
04:59The Russian barrage targeted many cities, including Sumy and Kharkiv in the northeast,
05:05Zaporizhia in the southeast, and Donetsk in the eastern industrial Donbass region.
05:10Officials in Kyiv also noted that the capital had come under shelling in the early hours of Thursday,
05:16where 15 people were injured in attacks on residential areas and civil infrastructure.
05:21Russia said two people were injured in Moscow,
05:24which was the target of what officials described as a huge barrage.
05:28Local officials said over 630 drones were fired into Russia,
05:32with some 163 bound for the capital.
05:39Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said,
05:42halting the fighting along the current front line is the most realistic route to ending the war with Russia,
05:49opening the way to ceasefire talks.
05:51Zelenskyy was speaking with U.S. broadcaster Fox News on Wednesday,
05:56saying, quote,
05:56Right now we have to freeze and I think this is the real way to end this war.
06:02Zelenskyy added Ukraine was willing to negotiate in any format,
06:06but insisted that Kyiv must be directly involved.
06:10His comments came as U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg.
06:18Meanwhile, Russia on Wednesday agreed to resume three-way negotiations next month
06:23with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending its war in Ukraine.
06:27According to a top Kremlin aide, Putin agreed, quote,
06:32in principle to restart the talks after 10 November,
06:36potentially setting up the first such talks since February,
06:39when the three-way talks were paused.
06:41The U.S.-led talks, which at the time had gone on for more than a year,
06:46did not lead to a major breakthrough.
06:537.6 tonnes of cocaine have been seized by Colombian police
06:58at the port of Cartagena,
07:01in what's believed to be the city's biggest cocaine bust in a decade.
07:06Authorities say the shipment was bound for the Netherlands
07:09and that drugs had been hidden inside powdered pennella
07:12and unrefined cane sugar.
07:14The operation was carried out by Colombia's anti-narcotics police
07:19in coordination with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
07:24Colombia's president, Abelardo de la Esprea,
07:27said security forces had now seized 130 tonnes of cocaine
07:32during his government's first 75 days.
07:35Separately, over in the Netherlands,
07:38prosecutors confirmed that two Dutch nationals
07:40had been arrested in Colombia at their request.
07:43However, neither Colombian nor Dutch authorities
07:46have officially linked those arrests to this drugs bust.
07:57Tesla reported lower third-quarter profits on Wednesday
08:00as Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker
08:02ramped up spending on artificial intelligence,
08:05robotics, and autonomous transport.
08:07The automotive giant reported third-quarter net income
08:11attributable to shareholders of $787 million,
08:15or 22 cents per share,
08:17down 43% from the same period last year.
08:21Besides marginally lower car sales,
08:23Tesla saw a drop in revenues from regulatory credits,
08:27energy generation, and storage.
08:29Revenue was essentially flat at $28 billion,
08:33falling slightly short of the company-compiled average analyst forecast
08:36of $28.3 billion,
08:38but the firm reported higher free cash flow reserves
08:41compared to previous periods.
08:43Besides robo-taxis and AI,
08:46Tesla's investing heavily in Musk's Optimus humanoid robots,
08:50as well as developing TerraFab,
08:51a chip manufacturing project in Austin, Texas,
08:54in collaboration with Musk's other company, SpaceX.
08:58Questions about the firm's future loomed large
09:01as speculations over a potential merger
09:03with the aerospace manufacturer arose.
09:06The two companies have a combined stock market value
09:09of about $3.5 trillion,
09:11and Musk, who's CEO of both,
09:14said an independent committee was formed to explore the merger.
09:17The world's richest man added that both companies
09:20could gain from working together on AI software,
09:23chip design, robotics, and satellite infrastructure,
09:26but noted that there was no guarantee of a deal.
09:31At the world's tallest distillery,
09:33the founders are betting on a new whiskey.
09:37They opened the nine-storey Port of Leith distillery in 2023
09:41to produce single malt.
09:51Production starts at the top
09:53and moves down through the building,
09:54with liquid flowing through pipes between stages.
10:00We're in Leith, which, in the 19th century,
10:03was the heart of the Scotch whiskey industry.
10:05If you think about Scotch whiskey as a 500-year project
10:08of creating the world's most premium, best-tasting beverage,
10:12then the 19th century was the time
10:14when it really, really rocketed,
10:16and Leith, as a region, as a port,
10:19as a set of people, really supercharged that.
10:24The team tests every batch using instruments
10:27as well as their own noses and pallets.
10:31Spirit that doesn't make the grade is rejected.
10:37The bit of lamb's about the size of a tennis court,
10:39and whiskey does require some quite large bits of equipment.
10:42So the only thing we could do was build up.
10:45So we've built what is the world's tallest distillery,
10:4742 metres high.
10:50And with Scotch exports falling,
10:52bringing their whiskey to market will be another challenge.
10:59I'm quite nervous, I definitely think,
11:02because, you know, it's a big test for the company,
11:05for the whiskey itself,
11:06and for us as a team, as a whiskey-making team.
11:09So definitely nervous,
11:10but I do think more than nervous is the excitement,
11:13which, you know, kind of subsides that nervousness.
11:16Port of Leap says between 30,000 and 40,000 people
11:20come through its doors each year.
11:23The first release is planned for 2027,
11:26when the whiskey will be three to four years old.
11:29Some stock will mature for releases over the next decade.
