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Europe Today: Francia fa i conti con le violenze, Ucraina colpisce San Pietroburgo e Leningrado
La Francia fa i conti con i peggiori disordini da anni, dopo che gruppi violenti hanno dirottato i cortei. In "Europe Today": l’Ucraina colpisce San Pietroburgo con un ampio attacco di droni e il capo umanitario ONU Tom Fletcher avverte che sempre più operatori rischiano la vita.
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La Francia fa i conti con i peggiori disordini da anni, dopo che gruppi violenti hanno dirottato i cortei. In "Europe Today": l’Ucraina colpisce San Pietroburgo con un ampio attacco di droni e il capo umanitario ONU Tom Fletcher avverte che sempre più operatori rischiano la vita.
ALTRE INFORMAZIONI : http://it.euronews.com/2026/10/19/europe-today-francia-fa-i-conti-con-la-violenza-ucraina-colpisce-san-pietroburgo-e-leningr
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00:15Buongiorno, è Monday 19th October, I'm Maeve McMahan and this is Europe Today.
00:21Your morning update of European news and analysis live here on Euronews.
00:26Coming up from Lyon to Paris, Marseille to Rennes, France is still cleaning up scenes of devastation following the worst
00:34nationwide protests in years.
00:37Buildings were attacked, shops set ablaze and more than 2,400 people arrested.
00:42Our very own Euronews correspondent Estelle Nielsen-Julian and her cameraman were also assaulted and attacked and will be crossing
00:49to Paris for the latest.
00:51Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have struck an oil terminal, a data centre and a bridge in St. Petersburg in a large
00:58-scale drone attack over the weekend.
01:00It comes as the European Union officially advances new negotiation clusters to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union,
01:07alongside the creation of a joint task force to tackle corruption and rule of law reforms.
01:12For the View from Kyiv, we sit down exclusively with the EU ambassador to Brussels, Katerina Mathernova.
01:19Plus, 1,000 aid workers killed in three years.
01:23And now new warnings that modern conflict zones are turning into AI atrocity labs.
01:28We speak to UNA chief Tom Fletcher, who warns that with so many cuts to overseas aids in his sector,
01:34more people will die.
01:36But first, to Paris, where student-led demonstrations over the cost of living and school conditions that began weeks ago
01:42have spiraled out of control,
01:44with violent groups hijacking the marches this weekend.
01:47The mayor of Paris said whole streets have been devastated, cars burnt out and shopfronts destroyed.
01:53In the address to the nation last night, the French president Emmanuel Macron pledged to catch all those responsible for
02:00the chaos.
02:02Tonight, we all feel anger and shame. Seeing the streets of our cities ransacked like this is unbearable.
02:08Those who have destroyed property must pay. Those who have looted must make restitution.
02:13Those who have sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable.
02:16And just this morning, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has handed in his resignation, but the French president has refused
02:23it for now.
02:23For more on the 10th situation, we can go straight to Paris, where Euronews international correspondent Valérie Gaurier is standing
02:30by for us.
02:30Good morning, Valérie.
02:32Now, our viewers know you as often reporting from war zones for Euronews.
02:36How does this destruction compare and what could the final cost be?
02:43Well, if we compare to wars, we have to keep things into proportions.
02:48But it's true that some of the scenes I've seen over the weekend are reminiscent of things I've seen in
02:57Ukraine, for instance.
02:58The destroyed buildings, the burned cars, buildings like this one behind me, this restaurant that was completely devastated on a
03:07Saturday night.
03:08So there is this feeling of desolation, the overturned streets and things are quite gruesome throughout Paris since Saturday and
03:21piles of burned bikes everywhere.
03:25So, yes, there is desolation and people are stunned by the sights of their city in this neighborhood around the
03:34Place de la République, for instance.
03:35And now the situation is still tense.
03:39As you know, the looting went on last night.
03:42I came back to the Place de la République early afternoon and was surprised to see the amount of police
03:48that was deployed there.
03:50And they were confronted and confronting groups of youth who had gathered on the square again.
03:57And it's, you know, continued with pursuits and the tear gas grenades being thrown, more arrests.
04:06So tension is still running high.
04:08And President Macron spoke to the nation last night, Valerie.
04:12Has the government regained control of the situation at all?
04:16Well, the government is far from having regained control of the situation.
04:20We'll see what happens today.
04:22But the president was very focused on being firm towards those who perpetrated the looting and the destruction in France
04:36over the weekend.
04:37But he was also, you know, criticized for not saying anything about the solutions.
04:44He would bring the answers he would give to the demonstrators as concerns, as concerns the cost of life, the
04:55high cost of life, or the issues in education, in health.
04:59So people are still waiting for those answers.
05:03He was also blamed for not saying a word about the young people who were wounded during the protests.
05:10There is a crisis cell that is being organized and it starts its meeting this morning.
05:19It will continue for several days.
05:21So the solutions are yet to be, you know, discussed and revealed to the wider public, which is getting quite
05:31impatient.
05:33OK, Valerie Gourier, thank you so much for that live update there from Paris and beyond France.
05:38The cost of living and housing crisis has been sparking unrest all across the continent, from Albania to Portugal, Italy
05:45to Spain.
05:46Thousands have been taking to the streets this weekend, declaring that soaring housing costs and inflation have left them suffocating.
05:53For more, we can bring in Professor Alberto Alamano.
05:56He's a professor in EU law at HEC Paris.
05:58Good morning, Alberto.
05:59Thank you so much for joining us.
06:01Just did you see these protests coming first and how long do you think they could last?
06:07I would say Europe's youth protests are not one movement at the moment.
06:12They reflect shared anxieties about job, living costs in the future.
06:16And they are becoming violent, at least in some corners of Europe, which is complicating the ability of the youth
06:23to convey their message to political leaders.
06:26However, treating these protests as a teenage revolution or as a pan-European movement might be inaccurate and even misleading
06:35by fooling an image of Europe that is destroying itself, which I don't think is entirely accurate.
06:41You're right in pointing out that these protests are spreading across Europe, but I think their immediate calls differ from
06:50one another.
06:50And that's why I don't think we should treat them as one phenomenon.
06:54We are probably talking about different situations, different reasons that spark this protest with some imitation that is occurring among
07:02them, fueled by media coverage.
07:04Well, how can politicians catch hold of the situation?
07:07As you've seen in France, the political response has not been adequate.
07:12Well, by now it is pretty clear that the French protests have not been foreseen or treated with due of
07:19care.
07:20They were largely anticipated, and yet the police and the public authority were not able to handle, to prevent and
07:26to mitigate disaster.
07:28And there is also evidence suggesting that there has been some abuse of power with many thousands of arrests, some
07:35violence and accidents that could have potentially been foreseen.
07:39And that's why we've been hearing in the past few hours quite strong calls for inquiries in order to find
07:47out exactly what went wrong and to avoid this to happen in the future, should this protest continue across countries
07:53in Europe.
07:54And have EU heads of state and government been too focused on issues like defence and security, far away from
07:59people's real-life struggles?
08:02Well, there are many instances in which we've been hearing students, the youth and even trade unions and workers claiming
08:10that there is something broader than the school issue here.
08:13We see that the capacity of most countries to spend for welfare state has been reduced, reduced by this major
08:22rush towards rearmament of Europe.
08:24And this is causing concern, concerns among different peoples of Europe who feel affected, in particular the younger ones, because
08:31they know that their future will be bleak compared to that of their own parents.
08:35We have a lot of polls suggesting that more than half of the youth in Europe believe that their future
08:40won't be as right as that of their parents.
08:43And that, of course, is a very important message, which has been perhaps blurred out because, of course, it's the
08:48violence and those images that are, of course, dominating the headlines this morning.
08:51Professor Alberto Almano, thank you so much for joining us here.
08:54Now, moving on, Ukraine has reportedly launched a major drone attack on St. Petersburg, striking an oil terminal and targeting
09:01a data centre and a bridge.
09:03The attack comes just one week after President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire, which has failed to halt strikes
09:10on energy infrastructure.
09:11For more, we're joined now here in the studio by our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakilina.
09:16Good morning, Sasha.
09:17Just tell us, what more do we know about this overnight attack and what does it mean for Trump's proposed
09:22energy ceasefire?
09:23Well, reportedly, two of the city's oil facilities have been struck by Ukrainian drones, and one of them indeed is
09:28being St. Petersburg Oil Terminal.
09:30It is important to note that this is indeed one of the largest oil terminals in Russia.
09:36Now, this attack over the weekend seems to put sort of an official end to Donald Trump's unilaterally declared energy
09:43ceasefire,
09:43because Kyiv did pause its strikes on Russia's energy facilities for a couple of days, while Russia did not do
09:50that.
09:50And including this night now, there are ballistic missiles launched at Kyiv and at Ukraine.
09:56And Volodymyr Zelensky said that over just the past week, Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy and oil and gas sectors
10:0376 times,
10:06launching almost 2,700 attack drones, 1,7,000 aerial bombs and 66 missiles made.
10:15Now, but that certainly would not please Donald Trump.
10:18And we've heard overnight from him, he posted on Truth Social, another post saying that he is willing to put
10:24an end to this war in his own way.
10:26He still believes in the energy ceasefire.
10:28And he actually said that Russia, and I'm quoting him here, is doing very little, if anything, to help Iran.
10:34And instead, he said that Russia is helping the world and the United States when it comes to diesel.
10:39And he again blamed Ukraine, said that Ukraine is deliberately using diesel refineries as target,
10:46knowing how much they hurt the world diesel market.
10:49He also blamed, once again, Volodymyr Zelensky, saying, quote,
10:52he does not care and he does not want to end this war, Donald Trump said.
10:56Now, I spoke also exclusively to the EU's ambassador to Kyiv, Katrina Matanova,
11:01who has a very different view on that, because she actually lives in Kyiv
11:04and lives through every single Russian attack in Ukraine's capital.
11:09What happened since the end of August of this year is that Kyiv became a true frontline city.
11:17And this is not only the nighttime attacks that we are almost used to,
11:23but the daytime attacks that started on the 27th of August are relentless.
11:29And people can't really imagine when they're outside that when you have an alert,
11:35kids have to stop studying, go to the shelter.
11:38Doctors stop carrying out medical procedures.
11:42Metro stops.
11:43With the intensified attacks by Russia since the end of August,
11:46Moscow has been using more and more as well of jet-powered drones,
11:50which are much harder to intercept.
11:52And very often, the targets have nothing to do with the military.
11:55I think this is quite a specialty of Russia, is the attacks on civilian targets.
12:02And let's remind ourselves that attacking civilian targets is a war crime.
12:09It goes against the laws of war.
12:12So apart from aggressing peaceful country in the first place,
12:17the war crimes are happening on a daily basis.
12:20There is also diplomatic escalation happening these days between the United States and Ukraine,
12:25which is one of the important topics regarding how much more Europe can step in
12:30to help with your experience, first-hand experience of living through all of that in Kyiv.
12:36What do you communicate with your colleagues, diplomats and the European leaders here in Brussels?
12:43Europe has been and is proving itself to be really the steadfast,
12:50the most reliable supporter of Ukraine, both on the financial side and the military side.
12:55President Kostovsky was very clear that we are certainly not going to release any sanctions on Russia until the war
13:06stops.
13:08And also, you know, right now, the European Union is carrying about three quarters of the financial support for Ukraine.
13:19And I think there is determination to continue, but we also will be talking to our like-minded partners to
13:26step up their effort as well.
13:28One of the aspects of Europe's bigger support and more of the European Union stepping in
13:34also comes to supporting Ukraine when it comes to Ukraine's right to strike Russia's oil facilities,
13:40refineries to target Russia's money-making machine, the one that is financing the war.
13:45We have heard from Kaya Kalas, who told Euronews that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries constitute legitimate self-defense.
13:52But this support of Europe can also put Europe and Brussels at odds and in trouble in its relations with
14:00the United States.
14:01Well, I would prefer not to comment on that.
14:04I look at it from the perspective of Kyiv and living there.
14:09And I certainly support the view that the high representative expressed because it's the fossil fuel industry that is fueling
14:20the war on the Russia side.
14:25And moving on from Gaza to Congo, South Sudan to Myanmar, attacks on humanitarian workers are on the up as
14:32funding for their day job is going down.
14:34And as the EU prepares its long-term kitty from 2028 to 2034, a fight is unfolding over how development,
14:43humanitarian aid and geopolitical priorities can be financed.
14:47For more, we sat down with the UN aid chief, Tom Fletcher, who passed through Brussels for the EU's first
14:52ever conference on the protection of aid workers.
14:55And we started by asking how bad their plight was. Take a look.
14:59Oh, it's been terrible. I mean, we've lost a thousand colleagues in the last three years.
15:02And so the question being asked at this conference is how do we stop people killing aid workers?
15:08We shouldn't have to ask that question. I mean, the protection, the law is meant to be there to protect
15:12us.
15:12We've got our humanitarian neutrality. We should be able to go and deliver food, medicine, shelter without people killing us.
15:19And yet a thousand dead colleagues in three years.
15:21And the way people are being killed as well is even more vicious, more sophisticated.
15:25It's terrifying. And remember, you know, these are people who wake up, they kiss their kids, you know, goodbye in
15:30the morning.
15:30They're going out to work. They're going into danger. They know the dangers.
15:33And somewhere else there are other people thinking, how do we kill them?
15:36You know, I can't get my head into the mindset of the people who are killing aid workers.
15:42And there's no accountability, never investigations.
15:44And the weapons, as you say, are becoming more and more sophisticated, including, I was in Kherson just recently in
15:50Ukraine.
15:50You know, the drones being used there, the AI drones that become more lethal as they get to the end
15:56of their battery life because they're programmed to find a target and to kill it.
15:59What role will AI play going forward? As you say, it's already playing a role in Ukraine, also in the
16:04war in Iran we've seen.
16:05In these new weapons right now, in Sudan, in Somalia, South Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza, so many of the places we're
16:11working, people are telling us right now that they are an atrocities lab, that these weapons are being developed, that
16:17they're, you know, like a lab.
16:19They're being experimented on with these new weapons.
16:21And it's been becoming terrifying because you're getting these kill zones in which nothing can survive.
16:29And meanwhile, that's happening on the ground.
16:30And here in Brussels, politically, just last week, we saw the EU summit.
16:34There was lots of squabbles over the EU budget.
16:36There's lots of talk of cutting development aid, overseas aid.
16:39What would that mean for these areas?
16:40And, of course, fragile and conflicted states.
16:42It would be devastating.
16:44I mean, we faced enormous cuts already in the last few years.
16:48And as a result, at least a third of the sector has had to be cut.
16:51Now, I then go out to the field and I'm in places where I know that people will die because
16:57of the cuts, because of choices I'm then having to make.
16:59I was in Afghanistan recently where, you know, we've cut the clinics.
17:03And so, therefore, women are cycling much further to give birth.
17:06And as a result, they're losing their kids because they're dying on the road.
17:10You know, again and again, I'm holding children who I know will probably not survive because of the cuts I'm
17:14being forced to make.
17:15So we desperately need this to be a budget of solidarity and generosity for the people in the world who
17:20need it most.
17:21And that's one of the reasons I'm here.
17:23And when you hear messages like those coming from France, from Marine Le Pen, whose party is doing very well
17:27in the polls ahead of those elections next year,
17:30she's saying that she'll be cutting funds even to Ukraine.
17:33What does that make you think?
17:35I've been in Ukraine recently.
17:36I've seen how great the needs are.
17:38I was in Kiev overnight when they had a terrible night.
17:41Ballistic missiles, huge missiles landing all through the night.
17:43I was in Hassan up on the front line.
17:46I drove down what they call the road of death, where so many of these drones are attacking, hitting civilians.
17:52So those needs there are massive.
17:55And I think, you know, there are many politicians in Europe who make the case for cutting aid.
18:01But actually, if you're not dealing with these problems at source, then these problems will come in your direction.
18:05You can't put a tariff on a pandemic.
18:08You can't build a wall large enough to keep out the waves of migration that the climate crisis and the
18:13aid cuts will drive.
18:15So, you know, we'll keep on making the argument and hope that there are enough people of solidarity and generosity
18:20there to see it through.
18:22And just finally, we're coming.
18:23Well, it's already one year since the ceasefire in Gaza.
18:26Coming into the winter, what does the situation look like there?
18:29It's grim.
18:29And, you know, a year on from the ceasefire, we have managed to get the hunger levels down.
18:34So about half the number of people who were reporting going to bed hungry a year ago are saying they're
18:39still going to bed hungry.
18:40But that's still almost half the population going to bed hungry.
18:44You know, we're being blocked from bringing in the shelter materials for the winter, the tents that people need.
18:50We're being blocked from all the work we need to do to clear the rubble in Gaza, under which people's
18:56loved ones are still buried so they can start to rebuild their homes and their lives.
19:00So some things are improving.
19:02We've got 100,000 kids back into school, but those kids should never have been out of school.
19:07And now we're facing into a really, really rough winter.
19:13Well, that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:17For any longer reads, do visit Euronews.com, especially on that unfolding story and situation over in France.
19:23Any comments or messages for us, you can always reach us, europetoday at Euronews.com.
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19:29But for now, take care.
19:30Thank you so much for tuning in, as always, and stay with us here on Euronews.
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19:44Good morning.