00:00Restrictions on Starlink have not been fully lifted along Ukraine's front lines, Ukrainian defense officials said.
00:10One person was killed and four others were seriously injured when gunshots were fired from a vehicle in a Parisian
00:17suburb on Friday.
00:20Albania's parliament erupted in disorder on Thursday as opposition lawmakers,
00:24coupled with ruling majority members of a student protest that have rocked the country for 10 days.
00:32Restrictions on Starlink and its military-grade version, Starship, have not been fully lifted along Ukraine's front lines,
00:39Ukrainian defense officials said on Friday, despite U.S. President Donald Trump's claim that Elon Musk had removed them.
00:47Officials monitoring the systems said they continued to record instances of terminals losing connectivity
00:54when traveling at speeds of 161 kilometers per hour.
00:59According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Trump called Musk on October 21st
01:05to request that he lift the restrictions on Starship.
01:09Following the call, American and Ukrainian officials reported improvements in connectivity,
01:14although some cautioned that fully functionality had not been restored.
01:20Responsibility for the decision remains publicly disputed.
01:24Ukraine is meanwhile seeking to develop its own satellite communications capabilities
01:29in a move that could eventually reduce its reliance on SpaceX.
01:38One person was killed and four others were seriously injured
01:42when gunshots were fired from a vehicle in a Parisian suburb on Friday,
01:46according to French authorities.
01:49France's National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office took charge of the case
01:53and said it would investigate whether the shooting was racially motivated.
01:57Police added that a suspect has been arrested and taken into their custody.
02:02France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said the shootings happened
02:06at three separate locations in the towns of Trapp and La Verrière near Paris.
02:11He said the suspect fired, quote,
02:13what appears to have been a military-grade weapon, or at least an automatic weapon.
02:18Police said all those who were injured have been transferred to hospital for treatment.
02:27After four weeks of protests, French high schoolers and students are set to demonstrate again on Saturday
02:33to demand better school conditions and cost-of-living relief.
02:37Although the police has authorised a march in Paris,
02:40authorities have banned some demonstrations and announced partial curfews in several cities.
02:45Well, we are taking on the streets again because we didn't have any answer from the government.
02:51We had the president that gave a speech in the beginning of the week.
02:57He spoke about the riots, he spoke about the police officers,
03:01and he didn't have a word for everyone that was out on the streets for four weeks now.
03:07And we haven't been received by the prime minister as he promised.
03:11Other hills plaguing French students include classes not adapted to climate change,
03:17a lack of teachers and of medical staff, and an increasing rate of student poverty.
03:21Students also reject Parcoursup, the platform managing high school graduates' application to universities.
03:27When you finish high school, you have to go to Parcoursup.
03:33And in this platform, we tell you you can't go to university
03:38because we don't have any space for you and you're not going to us, which is really violent.
03:44She added students will go out in the streets regardless of the result of the French presidential elections in May
03:50to ensure politicians keep their promises and protest against their programs and values otherwise.
03:59Lawmakers in Albania's parliament clashed on Thursday as opposition members of parliament
04:05attempted to disrupt the session while the assembly continued voting on legislation.
04:10The clashes broke out after parliamentary leadership rejected opposition demands to debate
04:1510 days of student demonstrations that have gripped the capital, Tirana.
04:19Opposition MPs held up photographs of students injured by police during previous protests
04:25and blocked the parliamentary podium while the assembly pressed ahead with voting on legislation amid the chaos.
04:33For nearly two weeks now, demonstrators have clashed repeatedly with police in the city centre
04:38hurling rocks, flares, firebombs and fireworks.
04:42Officers have responded with batons, water cannons and tear gas.
04:46High school and university students are demanding lower tuition fees,
04:50greater state investment in education and an end to corruption in the education system.
04:56The protest also comes as governments across Europe are facing street pressure over rising field costs,
05:02deteriorating public services, underfunded schools and a deepening housing crisis.
05:13After two years of protests in Serbia, students are running on their own list in this weekend's snap parliamentary elections
05:20with the aim of putting an end to 14 years of Aleksandr Vucic.
05:24In these past two years, we've seen the biggest, the largest protests in Serbia since, like, in this century.
05:31Of course, whether they will manage to topple Vucic or not, we will not know until next week when we
05:37have the results.
05:38But what is true is that it's the first time in 14 years that an alternative to Vucic has real
05:46options.
05:48For now, all opinion polls predict a very tight result.
05:52Whether the student list can topple Vucic will become clear next week,
05:55but polls currently point to a very tight result and very high participation, Lopez said.
06:01They have issued an 11 points programme, which is based on restoring democratic institutions.
06:09So they talk about public procurement and also the judiciary, independence of the police.
06:14And then on the other hand, they also address issues that are important for the entirety of the...
06:18that can appeal to the general population, such as housing, access to health, access to education,
06:24better labour conditions.
06:27Serbia, a new candidate country, has seen its path towards EU membership, stalled since 2021.
06:34Since then, there has been no progress and even backsliding on fundamental issues, Lopez Domenic said.
06:42A second wave of storms on Friday struck southeast Queensland, bringing more record rainfall
06:48and extending what is already one of eastern Australia's most damaged October flood events in decades.
06:55At least eight weather stations recorded more than 300 millimetres of rain between Wednesday and Friday morning,
07:02with more than three times the volume originally forecast.
07:06The flooding, which began on Thursday as swamped roads, cut power supplies and forced 14 schools to close,
07:13prompting hundreds of emergency calls across the region.
07:16A television reporter dived into rising floodwaters in Morrifield to save a driver trapped in a sinking car.
07:24Water was already at chin level inside the car when the reporter and his colleague climbed onto the back
07:31and pulled the driver to safety through a door.
07:34Authorities have urged residents in two towns to prepare to evacuate.
07:39Parts of New South Wales are now also in the path of the storm system,
07:43with further rain expected into the weekend and another peak forecast for Monday.
07:54Sixteen people were killed and dozens more were wounded after a powerful magnitude 7 earthquake struck China's Tibet region,
08:01collapsing hundreds of homes.
08:03The quake struck around 10.30pm local time on Thursday,
08:07with an epicenter near Naku, some 300 kilometres northeast of the region's capital, Lahasa,
08:13according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
08:16Naku's media office surveyed the damage and revealed that preliminary findings
08:20has the destruction at 339 homes and 20 livestock sheds.
08:24Their initial investigation also said there were several reports of civilians being buried underneath rubble
08:30and that search and rescue operations were underway.
08:33Chinese President Xi Jinping has called for all-out efforts in rescue and medical relief operations.
08:39More than 1,600 first responders have been deployed to the scene of the quake to assist in the rescues,
08:45as well as 3,000 tents, 1,000 prefabricated housing units, and critical supplies.
08:51Experts say the quake is the hardest to hit the region in five years.
08:59Gimarinens, the current European green capital, is the second Portuguese city to receive the title, after Lisbon.
09:05Behind this accolade lies more than a decade of work on green corridors,
09:09the restoration of watercourses, and waste reduction.
09:12Known as the cradle of the nation,
09:14the city's historic centre has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2001.
09:19It is in this 1,000-year-old centre, built of stone and now facing summers of 40 degrees,
09:23that the city is trying to keep conditions livable across a municipality spanning 241 square kilometres
09:30and home to around 166,000 people.
09:33For Carlos Ribeiro, president of the Landscape Laboratory,
09:37redesigning cities is now a matter of public health.
09:40We have an increase of diseases and death related to heat waves,
09:47so we need to transform these cities.
09:49We need to design cities with better quality of life.
09:53And these cities are cities with great connectivity between green areas,
09:59but most important, cities where people use these green areas, the parks.
10:05The city is developing a green infrastructure strategy, based on a radial model,
10:10a network of corridors running outwards from the centre,
10:14to connect parks, watercourses, farmland and forests.
10:17The aims include increasing green cover, promoting biodiversity and reducing urban heat islands.
10:24Water is essential to this purpose.
10:27The rivers are used for recreation as well as cooling.
10:31There are now low-impact pedestrian paths along the banks.
10:35In summer, the temperature in Gimarrines can easily reach 40 degrees Celsius.
10:40So, we know that we have climate changes and we need to act for.
10:46And this is why, in the last years, we are preparing the city for the climate changes
10:53and trying to improve connectivity, to improve, to enhance the green areas and to reduce the temperature.
11:00We were able to reduce the temperature by 2 degrees.
11:04So, we know that we need to create more green parks, more green areas,
11:11and then that we need to improve this kind of solutions.
11:16A study by the Landscape Laboratory and the University of Minho,
11:20in collaboration with American universities,
11:23shows that land surface temperatures fell by up to 2.49 degrees Celsius
11:28in areas where green roofs and urban gardens were introduced.
11:32However, the authors warn that stronger environmental policies
11:36will be needed to maintain the progress made so far.
