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Europe Today: la France chiffre le coût des violences, l'Ukraine frappe Saint-Pétersbourg, Léningrad
France se relève des pires violences depuis des années, des groupes violents ayant détourné les marches ; Kyiv frappe Saint-Pétersbourg par drones et Tom Fletcher (ONU) avertit que plus d'humanitaires risquent de mourir.
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France se relève des pires violences depuis des années, des groupes violents ayant détourné les marches ; Kyiv frappe Saint-Pétersbourg par drones et Tom Fletcher (ONU) avertit que plus d'humanitaires risquent de mourir.
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00:30France is still cleaning up scenes of devastation following the worst nationwide protests in years
00:37Buildings were attacked, shops set ablaze and more than 2,400 people arrested
00:42Our very own Euronews correspondent Estelle Nelson-Julian and her cameraman were also assaulted and attacked
00:49We'll be crossing to Paris for the latest
00:51Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have struck an oil terminal, a data centre and a bridge in St. Petersburg
00:57in a large-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
01:18Plus, 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 UN aid chief Tom Fletcher
01:30who warns that with so many cuts to overseas aids in his sector, more people will die
01:36But first, to Paris, where student-led demonstrations over the cost of living
01:40and school conditions that began weeks ago have spiralled 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
01:56pledged to catch all those responsible for the chaos
02:02Tonight, we all feel anger and shame
02:04Seeing the streets of our cities ransacked like this is unbearable
02:08Those who have destroyed property must pay
02:10Those 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
02:21but the French president has refused it for now
02:23For more on the 10th situation, we can go straight to Paris
02:26Yes, where Euronews international correspondent Valérie Gaurier is standing by 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?
02:42Well, 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
02:57For instance, the destroyed buildings, the burned cars
03:02Buildings like this one behind me, this restaurant that was completely devastated on a Saturday night
03:08So there is this feeling of desolation
03:12The overturned streets and things are quite gruesome throughout Paris
03:18Since Saturday
03:20And piles of burned bikes everywhere
03:24So, yes, there is desolation
03:28And people are stunned by the sights of their city in this neighbourhood
03:33Around the Place de la République, for instance
03:35And now the situation is still tense
03:38As you know, the looting went on last night
03:42I came back to the Place de la République early afternoon
03:45And was surprised to see the amount of police that was deployed there
03:49And 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 tear gas grenades being thrown
04:05More arrests
04:06So tension is still running high
04:08And President Macron spoke to the nation last night, Valerie
04:11Has 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
04:33And the destruction in France over 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
04:50As concerns the cost of life, the high cost of life
04:56Or 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
05:16And 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
05:29Which is getting quite impatient
05:32Okay, Valerie Gourier, thank you so much for that live update there from Paris
05:37And beyond France, the cost of living and housing crisis
05:40Has been sparking unrest all across the continent
05:43From Albania to Portugal, Italy to Spain
05:46Thousands have been taking to the streets this weekend
05:48Declaring 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, thank you so much for joining us
06:01Just did you see these protests coming first
06:03And how long do you think they could last?
06:07I would say Europe's youth protests are not one movement at the moment
06:11They reflect shared anxieties about job, living costs in the future
06:16And they are becoming violent, at least in some corners of Europe
06:21Which is complicating the ability of the youth to convey their message to political leaders
06:26However, treating these protests as a teenage revolution
06:31Or as a pan-European movement might be inaccurate
06:33And even misleading by fooling an image of Europe that is destroying itself
06:38Which I don't think is entirely accurate
06:41You're right in pointing out that these protests are spreading across Europe
06:46But I think their immediate calls differ from one 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
06:59With some imitation that is occurring among them, 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
07:19They were largely anticipated
07:22And yet the police and the public authority were not able to handle, to prevent and to mitigate disaster
07:28And there is also evidence suggesting that there has been some abuse of power
07:32With many thousands of arrests, some violence 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
07:46In order to find out exactly what went wrong and to avoid this to happen in the future
07:51Should this protest continue across countries in Europe
07:54And have EU heads of state and government been too focused on issues like defence and security
07:58Far away from people's real-life struggles?
08:02Well, there are many instances in which we've been hearing students, the youth
08:07And even trade unions and workers claiming that 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
08:20Reduced by this major rush towards rearmament of Europe
08:24And this is causing concern
08:26Concerns among different peoples of Europe who feel affected
08:29In particular the younger ones
08:31Because they 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
08:39Believe that their future won't be as right as that of their parents
08:43And that, of course, is a very important message
08:45Which has been perhaps blurred out
08:47Because, of course, it's the violence and those images
08:49That are, of course, dominating the headlines this morning
08:51Professor Alberto Almano, thank you so much for joining us here
08:54Now, moving on
08:55Ukraine has reportedly launched a major drone attack on St. Petersburg
08:59Striking an oil terminal and targeting a data centre and a bridge
09:03The attack comes just one week
09:05After President Donald Trump announced an energy ceasefire
09:08Which has failed to halt strikes on energy infrastructure
09:11For more, we're joined now here in the studio
09:13By our Ukraine correspondent, Sasha Vakilina
09:16Good morning, Sasha
09:17Just tell us, what more do we know about this overnight attack
09:20And what does it mean for Trump's proposed energy ceasefire?
09:23Well, reportedly, two of the city's oil facilities have been struck by Ukrainian drones
09:27And one of them, indeed, is being St. Petersburg oil terminal
09:30It is important to note that this is, indeed, one of the largest oil terminals in Russia
09:35Now, this attack over the weekend seems to put sort of an official end to Donald Trump's unilaterally declared energy
09:43ceasefire
09:43Because Kiev did pause its strikes on Russia's energy facilities for a couple of days
09:48But Russia did not do that
09:50And including this night now, there are ballistic missiles launched at Kiev
09:55And at Ukraine
09:56And Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that over just the past week
09:59Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy and oil and gas sectors
10:0376 times
10:06Launching almost 2,700 attack drones
10:101,700 aerial bombs and 66 missiles
10:15Now, but that certainly would not please Donald Trump
10:18And we've heard overnight from him
10:19He posted on Truth Social
10:21And now the post saying that he is willing to put an 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
10:38And 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 Zelenskyy
10:51Saying, quote, he 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 Kiev, Katerina Matanova
11:01Who has a very different view on that
11:02Because she actually lives in Kiev
11:04And lives through every single Russian attack in Ukraine's capital
11:09What happened since the end of August of this year
11:12Is that Kiev became a true front-line city
11:17And this is not only the night-time 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
11:34Kids have to stop studying, go to the shelter
11:38Doctors stop carrying out medical procedures
11:41Metro 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
11:51And very often the targets have nothing to do with the military
11:55I think this is quite a specialty of Russia
11:59Is 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
12:11So apart from aggressing peaceful country in the first place
12:16The war crimes are happening on a daily basis
12:20There's 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 Kiev
12:36What do you communicate with your colleagues, diplomats and the European leaders here in Brussels?
12:42Europe has been and is proving itself to be really the steadfast, the most reliable supporter of Ukraine
12:52Both on the financial side and the military side
12:55President Kostov was very clear that we are certainly not going to release any sanctions on Russia until the war
13:06stops
13:07And 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
13:22But we also will be talking to our like-minded partners to step 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, refineries
13:41To target Russia's money-making machine, the one that is financing the war
13:45We have heard from Kayakalas 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
14:15Because it's the fossil fuel industry that is fueling the war on the Russia side
14:25And moving on from Gaza to Congo, South Sudan to Myanmar
14:29Attacks on humanitarian workers are on the up as funding for their day job is going down
14:34And as the EU prepares its long-term kitty from 2028 to 2034
14:40A fight is unfolding over how development, humanitarian aid and geopolitical priorities can be financed
14:46For more, we sat down with the UN Aid Chief, Tom Fletcher
14:50Who passed through Brussels for the EU's first-ever conference on the protection of aid workers
14:54And we started by asking how bad their plight was
14:57Take a look
14:58Oh, it's been terrible
14:59I mean, we've lost a thousand colleagues in the last three years
15:02And so the question being asked at this conference is
15:05How do we stop people killing aid workers?
15:08We shouldn't have to ask that question
15:09I mean, the protection, the law is meant to be there to protect us
15:12We've got our humanitarian neutrality
15:14We should be able to go and deliver food, medicine, shelter without people killing us
15:18And 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
15:26And remember, you know, these are people who wake up
15:28They kiss their kids, you know, goodbye in the morning
15:30They're going out to work, they're going into danger
15:32They 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
15:43Never investigations
15:44And the weapons, as you say, are becoming more and more sophisticated
15:48Including, I was in Kherson just recently in Ukraine
15:50You know, the drones being used there
15:52The AI drones that become more lethal as they get to the end of their battery life
15:57Because they're programmed to find a target and to kill it
15:59What role will AI play going forward?
16:01As you say, it's already playing a role in Ukraine
16:03Also in the war in Iran we've seen
16:05In these new weapons right now
16:06In Sudan, in Somalia, South Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza
16:10So many of the places we're working
16:12People are telling us right now that they are an atrocities lab
16:15That these weapons are being developed
16:16That they're, you know, like a lab
16:18They're being experimented on with these new weapons
16:21And it's becoming terrifying
16:23Because you're getting these kill zones
16:25In which nothing can survive
16:28And meanwhile, that's happening on the ground
16:30And here in Brussels politically
16:31Just last week we saw the EU summit
16:33There 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 conflated states
16:42It would be devastating
16:43I mean, we've 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
16:53And I'm in places where I know that people will die
16:56Because of the cuts
16:57Because of choices I'm then having to make
16:59I was in Afghanistan recently
17:01Where, you know, we've cut the clinics
17:02And so therefore, women are cycling much further to give birth
17:06And as a result, they're losing their kids
17:08Because they're dying on the road
17:09You know, again and again, I'm holding children
17:12Who I know will probably not survive
17:13Because of the cuts I'm being forced to make
17:15So we desperately need this to be a budget of solidarity and generosity
17:19For the people in the world who need it most
17:21And that's one of the reasons I'm here
17:23And when you hear messages like those coming from France
17:25From Marine Le Pen
17:26Whose party is doing very well in the polls
17:27Ahead of those elections next year
17:29She'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
17:37I was in Kyiv overnight when they had a terrible night
17:40Ballistic missiles, huge missiles landing all through the night
17:43I was in Hassan up on the front line
17:45I drove down what they call the road of death
17:48Where 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
17:58Who make the case for cutting aid
18:01But actually, if you're not dealing with these problems at source
18:04Then 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
18:12That the climate crisis and the aid cuts will drive
18:15So, you know, we'll keep on making the argument
18:17And hope that there are enough people of solidarity and generosity there 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
18:32We 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
18:38Are saying they're still 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
18:47The tents that people need
18:50We're being blocked from all the work we need to do to clear the rubble in Gaza
18:54Under which people's loved ones are still buried
18:58So 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
19:04But 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
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