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اروپا تودی: سازمان جهانی بهداشت خطر طاعون سیبری را کم می‌داند؛ حملات پهپادی در دریای سیاه
سازمان جهانی بهداشت می‌گوید پس از مرگ یک کارمند آزمایشگاه در سیبری، خطر شیوع طاعون پایین است. گزارش حملات پهپادی به کشتی‌های غرق‌شده در نزدیکی رومانی و بلغارستان و بررسی بزرگ‌ترین بسته تحریم‌های روسیه از ۲۰۲۲ در اتحادیه اروپا.
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سازمان جهانی بهداشت می‌گوید پس از مرگ یک کارمند آزمایشگاه در سیبری، خطر شیوع طاعون پایین است. گزارش حملات پهپادی به کشتی‌های غرق‌شده در نزدیکی رومانی و بلغارستان و بررسی بزرگ‌ترین بسته تحریم‌های روسیه از ۲۰۲۲ در اتحادیه اروپا.
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00:14Good morning, it is Wednesday the 7th of October. I'm Maeve MacMahon and this is Europe Today,
00:21your daily dose of European news and analysis live here on Neuronews.
00:25Coming up, today marks three years since the October 7th Hamas brutal terror attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis
00:33and 251 hostages were also taken by Palestinian militants.
00:38Over 73,000 Palestinians have since lost their life in the Israel war on Hamas.
00:44We'll speak to the Israel ambassador to France.
00:46Meanwhile, German intelligence rocked by major spy scandal.
00:50The former Bay and Day chief, August Hanning, has been arrested on suspicion of treason and espionage,
00:56accused of hoarding thousands of classified files and leaking state secrets.
01:01Prosecutors say it's one of the most explosive security breaches in the country's modern history.
01:07Plus, a twist in Spanish politics.
01:10Spain's Supreme Court has officially lifted the national arrest warrant for exiled Catalan separatist leader,
01:16Carlos Puddemont, clearing the path for his return nearly nine years after fleeing.
01:21The move comes hot on the heels of Pedro Sanchez's snap election announcement for the end of November.
01:27But first, the World Health Organization says the risk of a new plague epidemic is low,
01:33following the sudden death of a lab technician in Siberia.
01:36Hundreds remain under medical observation and European health authorities are on alert.
01:40The Commission and Member States will be holding last-minute talks this morning on the matter.
01:45For more, we're joined now by the well-known Belgian virologist, Marc van Rans.
01:49Good morning, Marc.
01:50Good to have you with us.
01:51So how worried should people be about this plague, if at all?
01:54I mean, Russian secrecy means we don't really know how serious the threat is.
01:57No, we don't know.
01:59But we have to assume that this is either an isolated incident or even a non-incident.
02:05And I'm always surprised when something happens in Russia, it becomes news.
02:09But this happens very frequently in DRC in Congo and in Madagascar.
02:15We have hundreds of cases every year of plague.
02:18And people are always surprised.
02:19They think it's something medieval, something very special.
02:21Of course, here, it's lab-associated.
02:25That makes it a little bit more serious, I guess.
02:28And it brings back memories of COVID.
02:30People are worried it could escape from the lab, right?
02:32We have now people, a population that has been trained in microbiology for a couple of years.
02:36They're more interested in everything that has to do with microbes.
02:40And, of course, they're going to be attuned to these stories and be worried.
02:44So what should the EU be doing this morning?
02:45What would you be advising EU officials as they sit down this morning?
02:48Try to get as much information as they can.
02:51That's what they're doing.
02:51WHO is doing.
02:53The Trump administration is doing this.
02:55Everybody is asking questions to the Russian government.
02:58They're probably not going to answer it truthfully, I guess.
03:02But then, with every day that passes, when no secondary cases appear, and if they would appear, it probably would
03:08be known,
03:10we can be more certain that this is either a non-incident or something very small and under control.
03:16Okay, so that's some relief, I guess, for our viewers this morning.
03:19I think so.
03:19But what about COVID?
03:20COVID seems to be back.
03:21Many people have COVID.
03:22Should we all be going out getting boosters?
03:24Should we be isolating if we get COVID?
03:27During the summer months, there was very little COVID, and I even thought, okay, maybe it's disappearing.
03:33It has not disappeared.
03:35It is back, but it is back under the mild form, milder form of Omicron.
03:40That is the type of SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID that is appearing now everywhere in Europe.
03:48But we have antibodies against it.
03:50This is extremely contagious, which means that all of us have had it probably multiple times.
03:55And many of us, they have received vaccines in the past years.
04:01So we're doing okay against Omicron.
04:04So this might be the period of the year, as it is for many other respiratory viruses, that they appear,
04:11and then they will reach a peak and go away again.
04:14But nothing, there is really no evidence at all that this will be 2020 or 2021 revisited.
04:23This is not going to happen.
04:25This will be a mild epidemic at best.
04:28Okay, lots of good news this morning from Mark.
04:29Ron Rance, thank you so much for joining us here in the studio.
04:32But now, moving on today marks three years since the October 7th attacks by Hamas, a day that shocked Israel
04:38and the world.
04:40Meanwhile, the war on Hamas in Gaza continues to produce a human tragedy with thousands dead and no clear path
04:46to peace.
04:46At the parliament in Strasbourg, tensions erupted with one French MEP of Palestinian and Kurdish origin accused of kicking an
04:54Israeli flag to the ground.
04:57Rima Hassan denies throwing the flag and says she actually just removed it from its stand.
05:02Taking to X, she said,
05:03My gesture is part of the denunciation of the ongoing genocide, of violations of international law, and of this incessant
05:11and unbearable double standard.
05:12She said a Russian flag would never be admitted.
05:16After that instant, Israel's ambassador to France, that's Joshua Zarca, told our Europe editor, Maria Tadeo, that the episode reflects
05:22rising anti-Semitism in France.
05:25I cannot understand how a person that aims to be a politician, that aims to represent the public, can be
05:33so violent and disrespectful of the death of thousands of people that has been caused by the same cause that
05:40she's trying to help.
05:43The head of the European parliament is saying this is unacceptable and she takes this extremely serious.
05:48From your part as the Israeli ambassador to France, will you ask for the European parliament to put forward more
05:55sanctions?
05:56Will you ask the French government to take action once the details are clarified?
06:02You know, Mrs. Rima Hassan, the member of parliament that kicked down the flags, is accused of support to terrorism.
06:11She is supposed to appear before court in the next few days.
06:15This is a person that has been extremely active in her anti-Zionism and her anti-Semitism, in the support
06:23of terrorism.
06:23She openly supports Hamas.
06:26She openly supports what Hamas did on October 7th.
06:30This is a terrible person.
06:31Let's be clear.
06:32And I think that she's perceived to be a terrible person by the largest part of the French politics.
06:39So it's not that I need to convince anybody that that's the case.
06:44And she's also supporting openly terrorism in her statements and in the support that she gave to terrorist acts that
06:52took place in Israel in the past.
06:54So she's a terrible person.
06:55Let's let it be clear about that.
06:57I do want to clarify there is an ongoing legal process, but she has denied she supported or expressed an
07:04apology of terrorism.
07:05Of course, that case will continue its path.
07:07But specifically, though, given that this incident took place in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, will you escalate this matter
07:14to French authorities?
07:15Will you ask for this to be investigated as hate, anti-Semitism?
07:20This is an issue that has been dealt with by the European Parliament in our division of Labour, our embassy
07:28to Brussels, to the embassy to the European Union, is the one in charge of following this issue.
07:34And to the best of my understanding, there is a very close dialogue between our embassy and the president of
07:40the European Parliament concerning this issue with the purpose of making sure that something like that will never happen again.
07:47And that Mrs. Rima Hassan faces the charge he just needs to face.
07:52But you say all anti-Semitism is unacceptable.
07:54I have to ask you about the allegations that have appeared in the French press that Jordan Bardella, the right
07:59-hand man of Marine Le Pen, made anti-Semitic comments when he was 17.
08:03Some of these comments include the Jews control all the banks.
08:08Do you see that also as equally worrying?
08:10Of course. Any type of anti-Semitism, any statement, any type of statement, act, anyway, is unacceptable and is comprehensible.
08:20Now, the question is, as you said, these are allegations and we are following very closely.
08:25And we will make or we will react to it once it is clear that these allegations are true or
08:32if not, then we react.
08:34Otherwise, for the time being, we will reserve our response.
08:38We have an issue. There is an issue of anti-Semitism in France.
08:41There is an issue of anti-Semitism in Europe.
08:44Unfortunately, the raise of anti-Semitism has happened significantly after October 7th.
08:50But there is one party who is openly in France, openly anti-Semitic, and that's LFI.
08:57And the leader of that party, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, is copying the mimics of leaders that were active in Europe
09:08in the 30s of the last centuries.
09:10So are you making a comparison also to Nazism and Hitler?
09:13Would you say that this gentleman acts like Hitler did in the 30s?
09:17I've said that publicly in the past already, yes.
09:22Now, moving on to the Black Sea, which has become a battlefield of late, with drone incursions off both Romania
09:29and Bulgaria's coast, resulting in fiery blazes, sunken ships and loss of life.
09:34For more, we can bring in now our defence correspondent, Angela Scudgens.
09:37Good morning, Angela. Just tell us more about the recent instance.
09:40Yes, good morning, Maeve. So the latest incursion that we saw occurred yesterday, roughly 130 kilometres off Bulgaria's coast in
09:48the early hours.
09:49Two commercial vessels were attacked by sea and aerial drones.
09:53One suffered significant damage and sank on the spot.
09:57The other caught fire.
09:58Thankfully, no one was significantly injured and no one died in this incursion.
10:03Now, Bulgaria, of course, is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, as well as the European Union.
10:08The European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen came out with strong words yesterday, stating that Brussels stands in support
10:15with countries on Europe's eastern flank and attacks on civilian shipping are simply unacceptable.
10:22We also heard similar rhetoric coming out of Sofia from Bulgaria's Prime Minister Ruman Radov.
10:27He didn't mince words when he decried this incident that occurred yesterday following an emergency meeting.
10:34Let's take a listen to what he had to say.
10:41This is an absolutely unacceptable attack within Bulgaria's exclusive economic zone.
10:48It is a flagrant violation of international law and maritime norms, further disrupting shipping in the Black Sea, driving insurance
10:58costs even higher, and making navigation increasingly difficult.
11:09The thing is, this is not the first incursion, right?
11:12Certainly not.
11:13And not only is it the first, not the first incursion in the Black Sea, but also along Europe's eastern
11:18flank.
11:19Now, we've got a little map here.
11:20Let's take a look.
11:21There have been three major incursions of late.
11:24Of course, there was this recent incident in Bulgaria.
11:26The day before that, on Monday, we saw an incident off Romania's coast, and on the 20th of August, there
11:33was a similar incident off Romania's coast once again.
11:36But let's take a look at Monday because this was a significant escalation when it comes to alleged hybrid warfare,
11:41if we can even call it that anymore.
11:43A cargo ship carrying Ukrainian grain operated by Turkish authorities caught fire, was attacked by drones and sank.
11:52As a result, two people died in this incursion and scores were injured.
11:57Of course, there was that other incident on the 20th of August in Romania, too, where an explosive-laden drone
12:02was shot down by fighter jets.
12:05Now, this really shows an escalation of behaviour and a pattern, but we also need to look at blame.
12:12So Romania has been quite clear in attributing blame to Moscow, but they've stated that these are merely what happens
12:18as a byproduct of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
12:21The rhetoric has been significantly toned down to what we saw in Berlin with that Leipzig drone incident.
12:27However, Bulgaria hasn't said the same things when it comes to who's to blame.
12:31My understanding is that they're still investigating this drone incursion that occurred on Tuesday.
12:35But I guess the bigger question is, Maeve, how much the European Union as well as NATO can stomach when
12:41it comes to these incidents which have resulted in two people dying as well as what they can do.
12:45We know the European Union is working on an anti-hybrid warfare playbook, but whether these incidents even fall within
12:51the remit of hybrid warfare is yet to be seen and what they can really do to counter these incursions.
12:57It's also my understanding that Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey are working with the machinations of NATO to bolster security in
13:04the Black Sea too.
13:05So civilian vessels can do their jobs and bring grain to Europe as well as the Middle East and Africa.
13:11OK, Angela Scudins, thank you so much for your report there.
13:14And now we can move on as EU ambassadors are close to finalising about 1,650 new additions to the
13:21sanctions list against Russia.
13:22This comes less than a month after Alisher Usmanov, often dubbed one of Putin's favourite billionaires, and Michel Friedman, a
13:30banking magnate, were controversially dropped from the lists after pressure from France and Slovakia.
13:35For more, we can head now to Strasbourg, where the human rights activist Bill Brider joins us this morning.
13:40Good morning, Bill. Thank you so much for joining us.
13:42Has the EU just shown that its sanctions regime can be cracked by political backroom deals, do you think?
13:50Well, I'm, could you repeat the question? I'm sorry, I didn't hear you.
13:54Do you think the EU has just shown that its sanctions regime can be cracked by political backroom deals, the
14:01fact that two countries got their way here?
14:06Absolutely. And I think that this is a shameful decision to let these two guys off the sanctions list.
14:13And I think it's actually a dangerous decision, particularly in the case of Alisher Usmanov.
14:20Here you have a situation where he was effectively taken off the sanctions list because he was, because a hostage
14:28was swapped for him from Azerbaijan.
14:31And so what does this say to other Russian oligarchs who continue to be on the sanctions list?
14:36They could encourage other countries to take hostages to put into this type of negotiation.
14:42The fact that these types of backroom deals, these dirty, dirty deals are possible really puts a very dark cloud
14:51over the whole sanctions program.
14:53That's the thing, Bill. Do you fear a precedent now is set after this saga?
15:01A very bad precedent has been set.
15:03So imagine that you're one of these other thousands of oligarchs sitting in Russia.
15:08And I should point out that all these oligarchs, these sanctions hang over their head.
15:14It's the worst thing that could happen to them.
15:16Every single one of them is scheming and trying to come up with ways of getting off the sanctions list.
15:20They've now seen these two different things.
15:23One very nasty legal fight against the Luxembourg authorities.
15:27And the second is this whole hostage negotiation with the Azeris.
15:32And these other oligarchs are going to be saying, OK, this is a precedent.
15:36This is something we can do.
15:38The Europeans will blink.
15:40And therefore, we're going to try to use these same things to get off the sanctions list.
15:45Now, there is one saving grace in the whole situation, which is that the current sanctions list has now been
15:51renewed for three years,
15:53which means that there is a bit of time, three years of time, before we come up with another one
15:59of these moments of weakness.
16:01But it really is a terrible thing at the same time that we have Russia bombing civilians on a daily
16:09basis in Kiev and other cities around Ukraine.
16:11Well, that's the thing.
16:12And you know Russia well.
16:13You know how Putin ticks.
16:14Do you think he's feeling any pressure from his inner circle?
16:21Putin doesn't feel pressure from anything at the moment.
16:24The only way that this war will stop is not because people inside Russia are going to put pressure on
16:31him.
16:32There's no politics.
16:32There's no civil society.
16:34The way that this war will stop is if Ukraine inflicts enough economic damage on Russia that they cannot afford
16:41to continue this war.
16:43And the only way that's possible is if the West continues to support Ukraine militarily and if the West were
16:50to get tough on Russia as far as oil sanctions.
16:53We haven't done that yet and we give Ukraine enough to fend off Russia to some extent, but not to
17:02the extent necessary to get Putin to back down.
17:04So would you argue, Bill, the sanctions, the sanctions are just not working because, as you say, the war is
17:09still very much ongoing, Ukraine facing its fifth winter of war, and it's actually worse than ever.
17:17Well, I'm not saying the sanctions aren't working.
17:19I'm saying sanctions are certainly putting pressure on Putin.
17:22But Putin is ready to starve his whole country completely in order to keep the war going.
17:29If the war were to stop, Putin would effectively lose power.
17:33And if he loses power, he would lose his life.
17:36And so he's ready to make unbelievable sacrifices.
17:39But at the same time, the sanctions are working in the sense that it's grinding Russia down, is causing Russia
17:44economic damage.
17:45We're seeing the refining capacity of Russia decline by somewhere between 20 and 40 percent.
17:52We're seeing inflation going up.
17:55We're seeing all sorts of stuff.
17:56But at the end of the day, sanctions aren't stopping the war because Putin is ready to suck up his
18:03gut and deal with the pressure.
18:06And so what I'm saying is that there should be more sanctions, not less sanctions, in order to try to
18:12put Putin in a position where he just can't physically afford to carry on the war.
18:18And just finally, Bill, you find yourself in Strasbourg at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this morning.
18:23You've been meeting with the likes of Kaya Callas.
18:24Is your message getting through to them?
18:30Well, I'm speaking to I should say I'm pushing on an open door at the European Parliament and and certainly
18:37with with the officials of the European Commission.
18:39I think everybody here believes that that Ukraine should be supported, that Russia is the villain and we need to
18:46do more.
18:46It's it's obviously complicated because we also have these situations like what we just started this conversation with, with France
18:55putting pressure on the European Union to take Usmanov off the sanctions list because of backroom deals.
19:02But but at the end of the day, there's a lot of people here.
19:04Most people here, almost everybody here supports Ukraine, which is certainly hardening.
19:10OK, Bill Brighter speaking just there from the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
19:13Thank you so much for joining us.
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