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00:00Trump announced an immediate energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, but Moscow has not confirmed it.
00:05Zelensky expressed surprise and reported fresh Russian strikes on Ukrainian power plants, causing outages.
00:10North Korea fired several ballistic missiles off its eastern coast and into the Sea of Japan early on Monday
00:16as tensions with its southern neighbor continue to soar.
00:20A new Houthi strike has hit Riyadh's international airport, killing one and wounding 11 on Sunday,
00:25a day after another attack on the same airport, which killed at least 12 people.
00:30U.S. President Donald Trump has announced what he called an immediate energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine,
00:36saying both sides had agreed.
00:38But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared surprised and said that Kiev was still awaiting details.
00:44He said Ukraine supported the ceasefire if Russia also followed it.
00:50Hours later, Zelensky said Russian strikes had hit several Ukrainian power plants,
00:54including sites in Kiev and Kharkiv, causing power cuts.
01:00Russia has not confirmed Trump's announcement.
01:03A ceasefire call came two days after Trump temporarily eased U.S. sanctions on Russian diesel,
01:10a move criticized by Kiev and several European allies.
01:14Zelensky called that decision weak.
01:16Russia supplies a large portion of the diesel fuel throughout the world.
01:20The dispute has also grown more personal after Trump said Ukraine should get a new president.
01:25This is a big problem.
01:27Zelensky responded that Ukrainians should choose their own leader,
01:30but said elections could be organized if Russia agreed to a full 60-day ceasefire.
01:35To our people, to choose one or another leader.
01:39Western allies, including Germany, France, the U.K. and the European Commission,
01:43backed the call for an energy ceasefire.
01:53North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles off its east coast and into the Sea of Japan on Monday,
01:59prompting angry reactions from their southern neighbors in Seoul.
02:03The launches come after weeks of mounting friction over a landmine explosion
02:07along the heavily fortified border that divides both countries.
02:10우리군은 오늘 9시 20분경부터 북한 평양 일대에서 동해상으로 발사된
02:18탄도미사일 수바를 포착하였습니다.
02:22포착된 북한의 미사일은 900km 이상을 비행하였으며
02:28한미정보당국은 발사 초기부터 관련 동향을 추정 및 공유해 왔습니다.
02:34우리군은 국관한 한미연합방위태세 하에
02:48The provocative missile launch has also been viewed by nearby Japan
02:51as a serious breach of international law.
03:23A joint Seoul-UN investigation last week concluded that North Korea had planted the landmines
03:28that exploded in the demilitarized zone over a year ago, which Pyongyang has angrily denied.
03:33The DMZ is one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers, and landmine incidents
03:39have previously heightened tensions between the two countries.
03:43The renewed tensions come as U.S. President Donald Trump suggested he'll meet with North
03:47Korea's leader Kim Jong-un this year to hold talks over the country's nuclear capacity.
03:55A new Houthi strike has hit Riyadh's international airport, killing one person and wounding 11
04:00others on Sunday, just a day after another attack on the same airport, which killed at
04:05least 12 people.
04:07Saudi authorities said a projectile struck King Khalid International Airport and started
04:12a fire.
04:13The victim was a Pakistani resident.
04:16Air defenses also intercepted a missile nearby, while another attack was reported at Damam
04:21Airport in eastern Saudi Arabia.
04:25The Houthis claimed several attacks over the past 24 hours and threatened to keep targeting
04:30the kingdom's transport hubs.
04:33Riyadh airport remains closed, with the suspension of operations extended until Monday evening.
04:40Saturday's attack was the deadliest on Saudi soil in more than a decade, leaving more than
04:45300 people wounded.
04:47The Saudi-led coalition called the attack a fully-fledged war crime and promised a strong
04:52response.
04:54Saudi strikes were later reported in Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen.
04:58Iran has meanwhile offered to help start talks between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.
05:09Raphael Glucksmann has comfortably won the left-wing primary.
05:12The leader of the Place Publique party beat his four rivals, securing 66% of the votes cast
05:19by the roughly 140,000 people who had registered to vote.
05:23Now the official candidate of the social democratic left, he has outlined the main points of his
05:28upcoming campaign, as well as his ultimate goal, to defeat the far right next May.
05:33I will be, in this campaign, the candidate of the social and fiscal justice, of the ecological
05:41revolution and of the democracy, the candidate of the rupture with the macronism, the candidate
05:51of the rupture with the legitimacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon on the left, the candidate who will
05:59not fight.
05:59Our always enemy enemy, the extreme-droite, no, Mme Le Pen will not be in the Elysée in
06:08May 2027.
06:09It remains to be seen whether, in six months, he can build enough momentum to unite his camp,
06:14which is still plagued by divisions, and win support beyond his core voters, as winning
06:18a primary guarantees neither a united left nor a place in the second round of the presidential
06:27election.
06:28Tens of thousands of people march through Brussels and Belgium on Sunday to urge EU leaders for
06:34stronger action to tackle climate change.
06:37The march comes after a summer of record-breaking temperatures and consecutive heatwaves across
06:42Europe.
06:43We have to fight in Parliament, European Parliament and here in Belgium, to make sure that climate
06:47stays on the agenda, because the urgency is not gone.
06:50The heatwaves are not gone, the impact of the climate change on people's daily life
06:54is not gone.
06:55Now it's on them, these politicians, to wake up.
06:58What do we want?
06:59Climate justice!
07:00When do we want it?
07:01Now!
07:02The demonstration comes ahead of a major UN climate summit in Turkey next month.
07:07Last year's outcome was disappointing, but also this year's expectations for a major breakthrough
07:12are low as the United States under Donald Trump steps back from climate efforts, and climate
07:17action is increasingly slipping down the political agenda.
07:21We need to discuss the international agreements on climate change.
07:25We need to make sure that we free up budgets to protect people from the climate impact right
07:30now.
07:31So we need budgets to renovate our homes, to make sure that there are public transports
07:35in every country, to make sure that we can transition away from fossil fuels.
07:38That's the discussion that we should have right now.
07:40I'm very afraid that the discussion will be to tone down on climate ambition, while we
07:45actually need to tone up.
07:46The European Union is expected to make energy security a key argument at next month's COP
07:52summit, arguing that clean energy can ensure more secure and affordable supplies, while reducing
07:58reliance on foreign suppliers.
08:01the bloc heads into the summit after recently having watered down some of its own environmental
08:07policies.
08:08There was an impressive turnout here at the climate march in Brussels, with people of
08:13all ages attending.
08:15Their message is clear they want to see climate action now both on a local as well as a global
08:19scale.
08:20I'm here at the end point of the march at the EU headquarters.
08:24Protesters are urging politicians to put climate action at the top of the political agenda again.
08:29Many here say that the demands have remained unchanged.
08:32However, the urgency to act now is as urgent as ever.
08:36Evelyn Dunn, through your news in Brussels.
08:43Thousands of people gathered in Lisbon and Porto on Saturday to protest rising living costs
08:49and housing prices.
08:50Protesters also took to the streets in other cities, including Avero, Braga and Funchal.
08:57They're marching under the slogan, We Can't Live Like This Anymore, chanting about wages
09:02in the worsening housing crisis.
09:04The authorities can't follow the high cost of living costs that are more and more required
09:09in our country.
09:11The housing has been more and more a problem in Portugal.
09:14It affects the young people.
09:16Some demonstrators say they have taken inspiration from similar housing crisis protests in Spain,
09:22where the 87-year-old Mari Carmen Abascal sparked nationwide protests.
09:27Her plight brought hundreds of thousands onto the street and ultimately brought forward a
09:32general election after mass demonstrations.
09:35Portugal remains one of Europe's least affordable housing markets.
09:40Over the past ten years, Portuguese house prices have risen by almost 240 percent.
09:51A packed house for the opening of the 18th edition of the Festival Lumiere in Lyon, France,
09:57which will honour the Coen brothers later in the week.
09:59On the programme, nearly 450 screenings.
10:03On the red carpet, a rug that really tied the room together, Euronews asked guests a single
10:09question.
10:10What is your earliest cinema memory?
10:12It was a Bruce Lee film.
10:14It was called Fist of Fury, The Chinese Connection.
10:19I was like, I think six years old when I saw it.
10:22And watching that film on Super 8 wheels, that was like taking speed.
10:28Well, Madeleine de Proust, no question, was the first film I ever saw.
10:32I was three years old and it was Mary Poppins.
10:35And it completely entered my physical and mental and creative brain.
10:48I have the great impact in front of Kurosawa.
10:53The first time I saw a film that I would say that this is very amazing is Yojimbo.
10:59I was like 14 years old.
11:02I walked in the theatre alone and I found out that was a very amazing movie.
11:08Among the guests was Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi.
11:12She was there to present Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, the film by Ang Lee that made her famous worldwide,
11:19screened for the first time in its restored 4000K version.
11:25It's the first time I come to Lumiere.
11:31I'm very delighted.
11:34And yesterday I was, I had a city walk and I think I've fallen in love with this city.
11:43Oh, brilliant.
11:43So I hope I have another chance to come back to the festival.
11:47So I hope I have another chance to come back to the festival.
11:49IV-O.
11:49Concrete with my computer and my profile going up to wow-long.

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