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أوروبا اليوم: وزراء الاتحاد الأوروبي يبحثون دعم أوكرانيا وترامب يرفض اتفاق هرمز الإيراني

يجتمع وزراء دفاع الاتحاد الأوروبي في بروكسل لبحث مساعدات أوكرانيا و"أسطول الظل" الروسي مع تصاعد الغارات الصاروخية والمسيرات، وفي سياق آخر يرفض ترامب عرض مضيق هرمز الإيراني ويؤكد أن الولايات المتحدة "تنتصر بشكل هائل"، بينما يختتم البابا ليو الرابع عشر زيارته لفرنسا في مدينة ميتز.

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00:14ترجمة نانسي قنقر
00:30المترجم للغاية المترجم للغاية
01:00المترجم للغاية المترجم للغاية
01:34on the third day of his four-day official visit to that country.
01:39Today the Pope travels to Metz.
01:42Welcome to the program, I'm Stefan Grobe.
01:46As aerial threats continue to breach Europe's skies
01:50and Russia continues its full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
01:53Europe is scrambling for solutions.
01:56Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministers are meeting in the Belgian capital today
01:59to talk about options.
02:01To learn more, we are joined live now by our Defense Correspondent Angela Skugins
02:07from the Council Building, where those Ministers are trickling in.
02:10Good morning, Angela. Good to see you.
02:13So, what's at stake today?
02:16Good morning, Stefan.
02:18So, yes, quite a bit, not just for Europe, but also its ally in the East, Ukraine.
02:23In the run-up to these defense talks, an EU insider told journalists such as myself,
02:28as well as others on condition of anonymity,
02:30that the latest worrying development on the battlefield
02:34is the scale in which Russia is using jet-powered drones and ballistic missiles.
02:39What makes these drones so lethal in particular is their speed.
02:43They can travel at 500 kilometres per hour, making them almost impossible to intercept.
02:49And Russia is producing them at an eye-watering pace.
02:52Now, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of course, continues to bleed across Europe's borders.
02:57We saw this on Friday with a Russian aircraft breaching the skies over Finland.
03:03And we all saw El Mundo, the Spanish daily newspaper, reporting, citing CIA intelligence that Russia could be ready to
03:10launch
03:11some kind of aggression against Europe's southern nations, such as Spain and France, sometime very soon.
03:18So, clearly, a lot at stake for Europe and Ukraine, Stefan.
03:22And what are the solutions on the table, I mean, for Ukraine and for Europe?
03:29Yes, so we're expecting to get an update from Ukraine's Defence Minister, Evgeny Hamra,
03:34who will be joining via video link where he will lay bare what that country needs.
03:39We very much expect this to predominantly be Patriot Interceptor Missiles.
03:44Spain and Greece have been holding tight to theirs.
03:47Lobbying could occur in the corridors of power here today for them to hand over their arsenal.
03:53The Ukrainian President, Vladimir Zelensky, has also stated that there's a €23.5 billion funding shortfall.
03:59He needs that cash to pay for his soldiers so that they continue their fight, as well as the acquisition
04:05of weapons.
04:06We also expect ministers to put meat on the bone to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's pitch
04:12to develop an anti-hybrid warfare playbook.
04:15So those conversations should expect to occur today.
04:19And what is clear from the battlefield in Ukraine, as well as these hybrid threats in Europe,
04:24is that warfare is evolving and Europe needs to come to Ukraine's defences, Stefan.
04:29All right, Angela Skujins from the European Council in Brussels.
04:33Thank you very much for this update.
04:36Ukraine is facing an intensifying wave of Russian aerial attacks,
04:40combining large numbers of drones with new, faster jet-powered models, as well as missiles.
04:45In Kiev, repeated attacks and air raid alerts are stretching through the day and night,
04:51putting growing pressure on Ukraine's air defences and on millions of civilians,
04:56trying to continue their daily lives under almost constant threats from the sky.
05:02Our correspondent, Sasha Vakulina, is in Kiev.
05:04Sasha, you've been speaking both to residents living through these attacks
05:09and to the servicemen trying to defend the capital.
05:12What are they telling you about how the situation is now and how it has changed?
05:22In Kiev right now, drone attacks and air raid alerts are literally non-stop.
05:28On Sunday only, Russia hit two kindergartens, two schools,
05:31a residential building, car repair shop and communication facilities.
05:36And this pace, this relentless pace of the attacks,
05:40is exhausting not only Ukraine's air defence, but also the people who live here.
05:44They still have to go to work, children still have to go to school
05:48and the families still have to carry on.
05:50And that means living the people with impossible calculation
05:54when to seek shelter or when to simply carry on.
05:58Some Kiev residents I talked to here said that when the most immediate danger comes,
06:04they practically have no time to seek shelter.
06:09I always turn up the volume on my phone so I can tell exactly what sort of alarm is going
06:14on.
06:15If I see its missiles, then we have two seconds to get out in the corridor.
06:18We can't make it down to the shelter.
06:20We don't have that time.
06:21Because within two seconds, we are out in the corridor or the bathroom.
06:25And the loud, powerful explosions have already started.
06:27So there is not even a chance or any sense that you will survive.
06:31You just hope that you will actually make it today alive.
06:50Some people can't go to work.
06:55Some people can't even get their children to school.
06:57You are sitting at work, the air raid siren goes off, and your child is still there.
07:01My child says to me,
07:02Mom, it feels like I've been living through war my whole life.
07:05That's what he says.
07:06He was born in Lugansk.
07:07And to this day, that's how he lives.
07:14There is very little expectation that this pressure will ease.
07:18The air defense servicemen I talked to here in Kyiv called the situation, quote, catastrophic.
07:25And they say it is going to get only worse in October and November.
07:30Russia is increasing the pace and the complexity of its missile and drone attacks,
07:35including these jet-powered drones.
07:38While Ukraine remains critically short of air defense to be able to stop these attacks.
07:44Sasha Vakulina, they are reporting from Kyiv.
07:47Thank you very much.
07:48One of Ukraine's strongest backers among EU personalities was and is the former Lithuanian
07:54foreign minister, Gabrielius Lantzbergis.
07:57Angela Skudjins caught up with him to get his take on the current situation.
08:02Lithuania is part of NATO.
08:04So, you know, the reason why we are in the alliance is that we expect these sort of situations
08:11that we're currently seeing, so-called hybrid events and, you know, the potential escalation
08:16to be mitigated by the allies.
08:19There's only so much that we can do.
08:21And Lithuania is, you know, is doing our part by increasing the financing.
08:25And the debate is ongoing whether, you know, Lithuania should return to universal conscription,
08:31and kind of, you know, boosting our own ability to defend the country.
08:35But when it comes to, you know, when it comes to Russian escalation, we really, really need,
08:39you know, NATO's response.
08:41And let's just talk about the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Monday in the Belgian capital.
08:45We're expecting to get an update from Ukraine's minister for defense.
08:50We're expecting him to call on allies to step up when it comes to air defense support in particular.
08:55We also know that the EU Foreign High Representative, Kaya Kallis, she's really been pressing Greece and Spain
09:03to hand over their Patriot interceptor missiles.
09:06Why do you think that that lobbying hasn't been successful?
09:10Well, there are very deep and diverging points of view as to what is the main security issue
09:18for the, you know, northern part of Europe and southern part of Europe, with exceptions, clearly.
09:24But, I mean, you know, for example, for, you know, we know how Greece operates and how they see their
09:30threats
09:30and what they are defending their islands from.
09:33It's not Russia.
09:34It's, you know, it's basically their neighbor.
09:37Spain has, you know, an entirely different mentality as well as to how they see their threats.
09:42And it's something, in some cases, very difficult for, you know, northern and eastern part of Europe to understand that,
09:49right?
09:49Well, we are facing what we think is an existential threat, right?
09:53We have drones flying over our heads, you know, and then, you know, and then people preparing for that, you
09:59know,
09:59who knows, invasion or, you know, increased escalating hybrid attacks.
10:05And, you know, and how do you convince them if this is not enough?
10:08We've also seen reporting coming out recently regarding a potential Russian threat regarding those Mediterranean countries.
10:16The source here is allegedly from Lithuania, someone close to the government.
10:21From my point of view, it is not too surprising.
10:24Russia has been known to use a shadow fleet against, to launch drones against Germany, against the United Kingdom.
10:32So, theoretically, why wouldn't they be able to do the same thing with southern European countries, right?
10:39We also know that Ukraine, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has stated publicly that there is a 20 billion euro
10:49shortfall currently.
10:50He's asking allies to step in and fill the gap.
10:53But we also know the European Commission has been exerting quite a bit of pressure on the radar to implement
10:58reforms to access more cash.
11:01What do you make of this saga?
11:03Both points of view are right.
11:05So, on one hand, clearly, Ukrainian radar has to do their homework.
11:09There is no way around it.
11:11They made the promise and they didn't deliver on it.
11:13But on the other hand, what President Zelenskyy is saying is also true.
11:17So, they have this military budget that has been constrained in a way because they are very actively operating in
11:26Russian airspace by attacking logistics centers, oil refiners and stuff like that.
11:31It's very expensive, you know, to perform these operations.
11:35And they might be lacking funds even by the end of this year.
11:39So, the question to European Union might fall to, you know, that might become a strategic question.
11:45We can argue that they need to do reforms and they will do that maybe slowly, slower than we would
11:51like to.
11:51But then the question is, so, do we allow Ukraine to just stop defending themselves if they lack the money?
11:59And I believe that that will be the most important question of the next year, even.
12:08Former Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Lansbergis.
12:11In the U.S.-Iran war, military operations seem to have paused for now, but not the war of words.
12:18The U.S. military said it maintains control of all of its drone assets,
12:23calling Iran's claim that it captured an advanced U.S. underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz clearly desperate.
12:30Meanwhile, a top Iranian general warned Gulf neighbors that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until U.S. economic
12:37warfare ends.
12:38So, where does that leave the world with its quest for peace?
12:43Joining me now from Doha is our correspondent, Adel Halim, who has been following this conflict like nobody else.
12:49Good morning, Adel.
12:52Good morning, Stefan.
12:53So, there has been a lot of diplomatic activity around Iran over the past few days.
13:00Where do things stand now?
13:04Well, diplomacy isn't dead, but the two sides are still very far apart.
13:08U.S. President Donald Trump has rejected Iran's proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz,
13:12and the market reacted immediately.
13:15Oil prices this morning jumped to $106 a barrel of rent crude,
13:21and Iran wanted the U.S. naval blockade lifted, sanctions removed, and frozen assets released.
13:26It also wanted to include Lebanon as part of the ceasefire deal.
13:29Trump says that's not a deal he's prepared to make.
13:31Iran says it won't back down from those conditions either,
13:34but importantly, neither side is walking away from talks altogether.
13:38Trump says he expects negotiations to continue this week,
13:40and Iran says it's still waiting for Washington's formal response through mediators,
13:44which include Qatar.
13:45So, the deal has been rejected, but the diplomatic track is still open.
13:49Stefan?
13:50So, again, does diplomacy still have a chance here,
13:54or are we heading back towards escalation?
13:59Well, both options are still possible right now.
14:02Iran's foreign minister says the country is prepared for war,
14:05but he also said Iran is ready for diplomacy.
14:07But the problem is the tensions are growing well beyond Iran.
14:12Saudi Arabia is now facing near-daily attacks from the Houthis.
14:15There's fierce fighting that we're seeing in Yemen,
14:17where the Houthis now control the country's strategic Red Sea coast.
14:20And we're seeing security concerns further afield as well.
14:23In Britain, five men were arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act on RAF Fairford.
14:29That's a British base where U.S. bombers were taking off in the war against Iran.
14:37Authorities are investing a possible Iran connection,
14:39but so far nothing has been established.
14:41So, there is still a diplomatic track,
14:43but this conflict is already spreading well beyond the Hormuz.
14:47And the longer it continues, the bigger the risk for further escalation.
14:50Stefan?
14:51All right.
14:52Adel Halim from Doha for us.
14:54Thank you very much.
14:56And now let's go back to the EU Council building,
14:59where Angela Skujins is still on standby for us.
15:02And she has a guest.
15:03Angela, over to you.
15:06Yes, good morning, Stefan.
15:08I'm back here in the European Council building
15:10with Poland's Deputy Minister for Defence, Paweł Zalewski.
15:14Now, Minister, thank you so much for joining us on the show.
15:17With a pleasure.
15:18On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly last week,
15:22Poland's President Karol Nawrowski met with the CEO of Palantir.
15:27What do you make of this?
15:28Should Poland get into bed with such a controversial tech company?
15:32I'm not surprised with that.
15:33Palantir supplies NATO, NATO's countries,
15:37with very important IT products.
15:40So I'm interested in the products, not in the ideology.
15:47What don't you like about the ideology?
15:49Sorry?
15:49What don't you like about the ideology?
15:52I'm not interested in the ideology because, you know,
15:55we have very concrete problems to solve.
15:59And Palantir supports first NATO, then our allies.
16:07with the products.
16:08I wouldn't like to say that we have decided to choose concrete elements.
16:19But, as I mentioned, when we are talking about technology firms,
16:24what we are interested in is what they can offer to us to defend our country,
16:30not in ideology, standing behind the leaders of these firms.
16:35Absolutely.
16:36And on to another tech topic with defence.
16:40Ukraine's former defence minister, Mikhail Fedorov,
16:42posted a video on X in which he showed the future of warfare in Ukraine,
16:47one in which is littered with robots.
16:49Is this a future that you see for Poland as well?
16:52Definitely the future of the warfare is in autonomous systems and AI as a command support.
17:04So definitely these robot solutions are important.
17:11We are cooperating with Ukrainians.
17:14They have a lot of very interesting technologies, not only drone technologies.
17:20so I believe that they have a lot to offer to their partners.
17:27Absolutely.
17:28And I expect that this conversation to develop today.
17:30Thank you so much for joining us, Minister.
17:32Thank you very much.
17:33Thank you.
17:34All right, Angela Eskujins, our correspondent at the European Council Building,
17:37thank you for covering today's minister's meeting for us.
17:40And now to the story about the American in Paris.
17:44Yet it wasn't only the French capital that gave Pope Leo a welcome fit for a rock star.
17:50From the Champs-Élysées to packed gatherings of the faithful along the way,
17:55extraordinary crowds turned out to see the American pontiff with French roots,
18:00cheering, chanting, and reaching out for a glimpse of him.
18:04For Pope Leo, this was a powerful display of the enthusiasm and expectations surrounding a new era for the Catholic
18:11Church.
18:12And in France, he found a country where faith, tradition, and secularism continue to collide,
18:18but where thousands were eager to listen to his message.
18:21One who heard the Pope was our correspondent Estelle Nielsen-Julien,
18:26who is on her way to Metz for Leo's final appearance in France.
18:29And before, she sent us this.
18:32Well, the Pope's visit to France has certainly been absolutely historic,
18:37and we witnessed many stunning scenes which will undoubtedly enter the archives of the country this weekend.
18:43In particular, the Pope's open-air mass, which was attended by 800,000 people,
18:48which he delivered on the Place de la Conquered.
18:50We saw some striking images of him blessing babies and children,
18:54with one image in particular of him blessing a young, a disabled girl named Marie Larrance emerging
19:01as she was lifted up by the crowds to him.
19:05On the streets of Paris, I spoke to many faithfuls,
19:08some of whom were moved to tears as they told me what it meant to them to see the Pope
19:13on French soil.
19:14I also met with families, and parents told me that for them,
19:17it was very important to live this moment with their children.
19:21Overall, there has been a sense of unity in France,
19:24which of course is a secular country, but has deep Catholic roots.
19:29On Sunday, the Pope was in the world-renowned Catholic pilgrimage site of Lourdes,
19:34where he delivered a Sunday mass attended by 200,000 people,
19:38and he also met with survivors of sexual abuse within the church.
19:42As for Monday, he is set to address European leaders
19:47and deliver a speech focused on the importance of European peace
19:51in the north-eastern French town of Metz.
19:56And that's it for today.
19:58See you tomorrow.
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