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00:12Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:30in one of Spain's deadliest rail disasters.
00:33The accident occurred near Urda in the province of Toledo
00:36on a straight section of track with good visibility.
00:39Early indications point to human error.
00:42The tragedy comes just nine months after another collision
00:45involving two high-speed trains in southern Spain
00:48that killed 46 people in January,
00:51raising serious concerns about rail safety in the country.
00:55Montreal is the host city of what one Brussels official
00:58called one of the most important summits the European Union ever held.
01:03The EU-Canada summit today and tomorrow is set to pave the way
01:06for an ever broader and deeper political partnership.
01:10Leaders are expected to launch an alliance for the future,
01:13a framework for shared prosperity and economic security
01:17underpinned by concrete new initiatives
01:19to strengthen people-to-people ties, deepen economic relations
01:23and reinforce their joint stance on the global stage.
01:27And Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro
01:32fled to Florida yesterday after the U.S. State Department
01:35said it would issue visas to him and his family
01:38following his loss to President Lula da Silva
01:41in Sunday's run-off election.
01:42Bolsonaro, who received tacit support from U.S. President Donald Trump,
01:47is under investigation in Brazil for alleged corruption,
01:51money laundering and tax evasion
01:53and was ordered not to leave the country.
01:56He has denied any wrongdoing.
01:59Welcome to the program.
02:00I'm Stefan Grober.
02:02But first, the horrible train crash that shook Spain yesterday.
02:06Madrid has declared three days of national mourning
02:09after the tragedy that killed more than 68 people
02:12and injured over 100.
02:14Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez,
02:16who is in the midst of an election campaign,
02:18has called for an independent probe
02:20into the circumstances leading to the fatal crash,
02:23the second major collision in just nine months.
02:27Early indications point to human error
02:29as the government faces questions
02:31over its handling of the crisis.
02:33For more on this, let's bring in our correspondent,
02:36Rafael Salido,
02:37who is in front of the hospital of Toledo.
02:40Good morning, Rafael.
02:41So what's the latest?
02:43What can you tell us?
02:46Good morning.
02:48So rescue work, rescue operations
02:51have continued throughout the night
02:53here in the outskirts of Toledo, in Urda,
02:58with canine units and drone teams
03:01expected to join this morning
03:02in the search of hopefully possible victims
03:06that may still be alive.
03:08As for the numbers,
03:09there hasn't been any big changes there.
03:12We're still working with a confirmed number
03:16of 68 people who died
03:18and over 100 people who got injured,
03:2018 of them severely injured.
03:23among them was a former secretary of the government,
03:31Fatima Báñez.
03:32But that's so far all that is new today.
03:37Will this tragedy affect the ongoing election campaign?
03:43Oh, yes.
03:45Surely it's going to have an impact.
03:47As you know, we are holding...
03:49Spain is holding general elections on November the 29th,
03:54so it's one month away.
03:56Yesterday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez came to the place
04:00where the accident took place
04:02and he promised there will be accountability.
04:05However, there's already people calling for the resignation
04:09of the transportation secretary, Oscar Puente,
04:12and parties from the opposition are demanding full accountability.
04:18This may become a huge liability
04:21for Prime Minister Sánchez
04:24just weeks ahead of the election.
04:27So he has made a commitment
04:30to find whomever was responsible,
04:34and he has even talked about the possibility
04:37if the maintenance was the issue,
04:40which would point directly to a responsibility
04:43from the government,
04:44he's willing to renew the whole truck system in Spain,
04:48which would be a humongous task.
04:52All right.
04:52Rafael Salido, live from Toledo.
04:55Thank you very much.
04:57EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
04:59and EU Council President Antonio Costa
05:02have landed in Montreal
05:03to attend the highly anticipated EU-Canada summit
05:06with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
05:08Brussels wants to expand the relation
05:11and make Canada its closest non-European ally.
05:14Joining me now is our political correspondent,
05:16Jorge Liberero, who once lived in Montreal himself.
05:21Jorge, good morning.
05:22This summit couldn't really be understood
05:24without Donald Trump.
05:25Now, how long is the shadow of the US president, really?
05:29The European Union and Canada
05:31are bound by the same trauma, Donald Trump.
05:34Both have been the target of his tariffs,
05:37his demands, his attacks,
05:38and even his threats of annexation.
05:40So they have found comfort in each other.
05:43This has been particularly acute for Canada
05:46because its relation with the United States,
05:48its biggest trading partner,
05:50has absolutely collapsed.
05:51We have seen Prime Minister Mark Carney
05:53traveling around the world,
05:55desperately looking for new partners.
05:57and the European Union with its huge single market
06:00and its democratic values is the perfect option.
06:03So in the run-up of the summit,
06:06the headline-making issue was the associate membership of Canada.
06:12that was eventually shot down by a couple of member states.
06:17What happened?
06:18Look, we need to go back last month.
06:20Ursula von der Leyen delivers her State of the Union speech in Strasbourg.
06:24and all of a sudden,
06:25she introduces this idea of making Canada
06:27the first ever associate member of the European Union
06:31in front of Mark Carney.
06:33Everybody's surprised and everybody's confused.
06:36Member states have a lot of questions
06:37about what this concept means in practice.
06:40And they're also a bit resentful about the fact
06:42that von der Leyen did not consult with them
06:45before making this announcement.
06:46So what happened this week
06:48is that Germany led a push to basically kill the concept.
06:52and any mention of associate membership
06:55has been deleted from the joint declaration.
06:59And now we only see an ever closer association,
07:03which is very different.
07:05But how much of a defeat is this for von der Leyen?
07:08I mean, what's in a name, right?
07:10Yes, I think it's a personal defeat for her
07:12because she was fully invested in this concept.
07:15She believes it's an opportunity
07:18to create a brand new geopolitical concept
07:21to export our appeal and our influence abroad.
07:24And she's convinced that it's the right thing to do.
07:27So this makes me think
07:28that she's not going to give it up just yet.
07:31In fact, yesterday, just as she landed in Montreal,
07:34she once again tweeted about the need,
07:37the ambition of making Canada an associate member.
07:40So for now, let me tell you,
07:42she's determined to make it happen.
07:45All right, Jorge Elibor,
07:46ex-inhabitant of Montreal.
07:48Thank you very much.
07:49But just days before the midterm elections
07:52in the United States,
07:54President Donald Trump is stoking the fire of distrust
07:57in an echo of his ongoing conspiracy theories
08:00about the 2020 election.
08:02He promised with unclear legal authority
08:05to pay $1 million to anyone
08:08who exposes election fraud
08:10that leads to a criminal conviction.
08:12It's a series of tactics
08:14that experts say is less about law enforcement
08:17than about messaging,
08:18pre-spinning likely Republican losses
08:21and driving up public doubts about the results.
08:24Should America be prepared for an avalanche of lawsuits
08:28attacking Democratic victories,
08:30as Trump has promised?
08:31Earlier, I put discretion to Alan Lichtman,
08:34historian and one of the country's best-known political analysts
08:38from American University in Washington.
08:40Here's what he said.
08:42Americans should be very much prepared for Trump,
08:46if, as expected,
08:47his party loses this midterm election,
08:49to try to overturn the results
08:52by any means at his disposal,
08:54including lawsuits and avalanche.
08:57But remember,
08:58he lost every significant lawsuit,
09:01more than 60 of them,
09:02last time after the 2020 election,
09:05including some before judges appointed by Trump himself.
09:10So Trump's approval ratings have hit record lows
09:14and Democratic enthusiasm levels are off the charts.
09:19Do you expect a really big night for Democrats?
09:22Well, it's always perilous to predict midterm elections.
09:25I have a system for presidential elections,
09:28not midterms,
09:29but you're right.
09:30When an approval rating for a president is this low,
09:32historically, they lose about 40 House seats
09:37and six Senate seats.
09:38That's an average, not a prediction.
09:41How much of the current Democratic polling lead
09:44is due to the unpopularity of Trump
09:47and how much to Democratic policies?
09:50I think it's mostly due to the unpopularity of Trump,
09:55the Democratic lead in polling.
09:58Midterm elections are the one chance
10:00voters have to register approval
10:03or disapproval of a sitting president
10:05and his administration.
10:08And the truth is,
10:09for candidates of the president's party,
10:11no matter how hard you try,
10:14you can't run away from the president.
10:17And Democrats,
10:18you know,
10:18I've been criticizing them for years.
10:21They really have not developed,
10:23and they could and should,
10:24a compelling message
10:25for their policies and ideas.
10:29And what would be Trump's political agenda
10:31for his remaining two years in office
10:34following the midterms?
10:36Well, you know,
10:37Trump never really has had a legislative agenda.
10:40He governs, you know,
10:42as an aspiring authoritarian.
10:45He governs by executive order,
10:48essentially bypassing the legislature.
10:51He only had one big legislative victory,
10:53his tax and spending bill.
10:55So I expect he will govern once again
10:59by executive order,
11:00perhaps even more aggressively,
11:02if in fact the House and the Senate
11:05or either one of them turns democratic.
11:07So when I talk to the pundits,
11:10the strategists,
11:11the observers,
11:12they tell me that Trump,
11:15over the last two years of his term,
11:16will be occupied by,
11:19you know,
11:21subpoenas and lawsuits,
11:22et cetera,
11:23and the Iran war.
11:24Do you share that?
11:25No question.
11:27Democrats will investigate,
11:29investigate,
11:30investigate the Iran war,
11:32the corruption,
11:33the grifting,
11:34the revenge tours.
11:35But none of that is going to stop Trump
11:38because he doesn't care.
11:40You can't shame Donald Trump.
11:43You can try impeaching him.
11:44That hasn't worked before in the Senate.
11:46He's been acquitted.
11:47It won't work again.
11:51U.S. historian Alan Lichtman
11:53from American University in Washington.
11:56Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says
11:58his country is still waiting for the Pentagon
12:00to sign off on defense patriot interceptors
12:03while Russia continues to pound Kiev
12:05with ballistic missiles.
12:07Ukraine receives patriot systems
12:09from a special mechanism at NATO
12:11where allies purchase U.S.-made weapons
12:13to transfer to Ukraine for the war.
12:15But lately confusion reigns
12:17as to what exactly is happening
12:19and more importantly,
12:20when will Ukraine receive the patriots?
12:23Let's make sense of all this
12:24with our NATO correspondent,
12:25Shona Murray,
12:26here on the set.
12:27Good morning, Shona.
12:29So I guess the basic question is
12:31why is Ukraine so reliant
12:32on these patriots?
12:34Well, quite frankly,
12:35because the PAC-3 patriot system
12:36is the most advanced technology
12:38to intercept the Russian ballistic missiles
12:40that are raining down on Kiev.
12:42The Europeans don't have anything comparable.
12:43But these are very complex systems.
12:46They cost about $4 million
12:48for one of the missiles.
12:50They can cost a billion dollars
12:53just for the whole system itself.
12:54And the problem is there's a global shortage
12:56because the United States
12:57has burned through its stockpiles
12:59because of the war in Iran.
13:01And why is Washington delaying them?
13:03Well, that is the key question.
13:04Nobody knows exactly
13:05why this is happening.
13:06Some people believe
13:07that maybe it's about
13:08resuming the war in the Iran.
13:09The United States needs its stockpiles.
13:11But others are saying
13:12that perhaps that the United States
13:14is trying to pressurize
13:15President Zelensky, as we know,
13:16into stopping attacking
13:18Russian diesel refineries,
13:20head of the U.S. midterms,
13:22where we know the United States
13:23President Donald Trump
13:24is not doing so well in the polls.
13:25So I caught up with
13:26former U.S. Ambassador to NATO
13:28Kurt Volker,
13:28who believes that this may be the case.
13:31President Trump is seeing
13:33what everyone is seeing,
13:34that it's going to go very,
13:35very badly for the Republicans,
13:37certainly losing
13:38the House of Representatives,
13:40probably also losing the Senate
13:41at this stage is the way it looks,
13:43although you never know.
13:45And he wants to be seen
13:48to be doing something
13:49about the issues
13:50that are making voters unhappy.
13:53One of them is the price of diesel.
13:56and that particularly affects
13:58farmers, mid-state,
13:59red-state voters
14:00in the Midwest
14:01and the United States.
14:02So he wants to be seen
14:03to be doing something about that.
14:04So he thought it would be
14:05a great story
14:06for him to be able to say,
14:08I've got Vladimir Putin
14:09giving us diesel
14:10and I've got Zelensky
14:12to stop attacking the refineries.
14:14So I'm fighting for you.
14:16I'm on your side.
14:17The problem with that
14:18is it is an insignificant
14:20amount of diesel.
14:22It won't do anything
14:23to U.S. or global prices.
14:28All right, Shona Murray,
14:29thanks for breaking it
14:30all down for us.
14:31And now to the energy crisis.
14:33The European Commission
14:34is treating the loss
14:35of refining capacity
14:37as a vulnerability
14:38that Europe can no longer
14:40afford to ignore.
14:41Energy Commissioner
14:42Dan Jorgensen warned
14:43that the prolonged war
14:44in the Middle East
14:45should serve as a wake-up call.
14:47The EU should ensure
14:49that there is an adequate
14:50refining capacity at home,
14:52he said.
14:53This warning came
14:54as the prices
14:55for crude oil
14:56and diesel rose
14:57across the board yesterday.
14:58Markets reacted to reports
15:00that the U.S.
15:01is preparing
15:01to renew strikes
15:02against Iran
15:03after the midterm elections.
15:05To discuss
15:06the latest developments,
15:07I'm now joined
15:08by Osama Rizvi,
15:09global markets
15:10and product strategist
15:11at Primary Vision
15:12in Lahore.
15:13Good morning to you.
15:15Good morning to you
15:16as well, Stefan.
15:17I'm in UAE
15:18at the moment right now.
15:19Wonderful.
15:19so oil, diesel
15:21and gas prices
15:23are all up again.
15:24Are we witnessing
15:25another temporary
15:26market panic
15:27or the beginning
15:28of a much bigger
15:29energy crisis?
15:31Well, it has never been
15:32temporary
15:34since the start
15:34of the war actually.
15:35Whatever you see right now
15:36is a long extension
15:38or rather something
15:40that has become
15:40a structural feature
15:42characteristic
15:42of the market.
15:43Whether the war
15:44restarts or not,
15:45whether there is
15:45an escalation or not,
15:46it is going to take
15:48some months
15:49for the supplies
15:50to restore
15:51and hence
15:52for the refiners
15:53to get what they want
15:54and hence
15:54for the prices
15:55to come down
15:55and consumers
15:56to feel okay.
15:57So this is a structural
15:58baked-in factor
15:59unfortunately
15:59and we'll have to
16:00suffer from it
16:00from the next
16:017-12 months
16:03minimum.
16:04Why are especially
16:05diesel prices
16:06rising so sharply?
16:07Is there something
16:07fundamentally wrong
16:09with the global market
16:10for refined fuels?
16:13Well,
16:13diesel
16:14above all the fuels
16:17is really central
16:18to the global economy.
16:20Upcountry movement,
16:21downcountry movement,
16:22agriculture,
16:23farmers,
16:24all of them,
16:24food transportation,
16:26they use diesel
16:26as a feedstock, right?
16:28So diesel
16:28has low stocks
16:30already globally.
16:32Then we discussed
16:33it last time as well.
16:34Lots of refineries
16:35are closing down.
16:361.5 million barrels
16:37of refined products
16:39going down as well.
16:40In Europe,
16:4110-15% of refinery
16:42capacity has been
16:44disrupted in the
16:44previous few years.
16:45So all of that
16:46had culminated
16:48into what is called
16:49a diesel crisis
16:50and many analysts
16:51are,
16:51I'm also on the verge
16:52of declaring this,
16:53this war is actually
16:54a diesel war,
16:55it's becoming a diesel war
16:56and that is going
16:57to choke the global
16:58economy if it gets worse.
17:02And Europe
17:03seems particularly
17:04exposed to the
17:05diesel crunch
17:06and the comments
17:07of Commissioner
17:09Juergens
17:10and its testament
17:11to that.
17:11why is the continent
17:13still so vulnerable
17:14to disruptions
17:16in global fuel
17:17surprise?
17:18Well,
17:19interestingly,
17:20and,
17:21you know,
17:21Europe
17:22has,
17:23have had some
17:24issues with the
17:24policy making,
17:25policy direction
17:26actually,
17:26according to myself.
17:28The shift
17:29or move
17:30for renewables
17:31at times
17:32we saw that
17:33triumphed
17:33the realities
17:35of the energy security
17:36and hence
17:37what we are seeing
17:37right now
17:38is that
17:38there is a crisis
17:39of refining,
17:40there is a crisis
17:41of diesel
17:41production
17:42plus diesel
17:43reserves.
17:44Moving forward,
17:45I think it will
17:46really benefit
17:47not only Europe
17:48but also the world
17:48and this is happening
17:49east of Suez actually
17:51that there needs
17:52to be a refining
17:54revolution in the world.
17:55More refineries
17:57spread across the world
17:58so that they don't
17:59become vulnerable
17:59to such
18:00geopolitical crisis.
18:03and Osama,
18:04if tensions
18:05in the Middle East
18:06ease tomorrow,
18:07how quickly
18:08would oil
18:09and diesel prices
18:09actually fall?
18:11I don't think
18:12it is going to be
18:13very quickly.
18:14The crude oil prices,
18:15yes,
18:15they can fall.
18:16We have seen
18:16some restoration
18:17of both
18:18the flows
18:19through Hormuz
18:20and the production
18:21facilities in the Gulf
18:22so that is one thing.
18:23However,
18:24that reaching
18:24to the refineries
18:25will still involve
18:26a lot of
18:27high transportation cost.
18:29Three dollars
18:30of transportation cost
18:32before the world.
18:33Now it costs
18:34around $20
18:34to transport
18:35the same oil.
18:36So it is going
18:36to take
18:37three to five months
18:39for this to
18:40die down
18:41and the dust
18:42to settle down.
18:43So well into
18:44next year then?
18:45Definitely.
18:47All right.
18:48Osama Rizvi,
18:49as always,
18:49thank you for your
18:50analysis.
18:51And that's all
18:52for today.
18:53Thank you for watching.
18:54I'm Stefan Grobe
18:55and I see you tomorrow.
19:16and I see you tomorrow.
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