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Europe Today: Francia calcula el coste de la violencia y Ucrania golpea San Petersburgo y Leningrado
Francia intenta recuperar la normalidad tras los peores disturbios en años, después de que grupos violentos tomaran las calles en las protestas. Además, Ucrania golpea San Petersburgo con un gran ataque de drones.
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Francia intenta recuperar la normalidad tras los peores disturbios en años, después de que grupos violentos tomaran las calles en las protestas. Además, Ucrania golpea San Petersburgo con un gran ataque de drones.
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00:14Good morning, it is Monday the 19th of 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
00:33following the worst nationwide protests in years. Buildings were attacked, shops set ablaze
00:40and more than 2,400 people arrested. Our very own Euronews correspondent Estelle Nelson-Julien
00:46and her cameraman were also assaulted and attacked. We'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. It comes as the European Union officially advances
01:03new negotiation clusters to bring Ukraine closer to the European Union alongside the creation
01:08of a joint task force to tackle corruption and rule of law reforms. For The View from Kyiv,
01:14we sit down exclusively with the EU ambassador to Brussels, Katerina Mathernova. Plus, 1,000 aid workers
01:21killed in three years. And now new warnings that modern conflict zones are turning into AI atrocity labs.
01:28We speak to UN aid chief Tom Fletcher, who warns that with so many cuts to overseas aids in his
01:34sector,
01:34more people will die. But 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, with violent groups
01:45hijacking the marches this weekend. The mayor of Paris said whole streets have been devastated,
01:50cars burnt out and shop fronts destroyed. In the address to the nation last night,
01:55the French President Emmanuel Macron pledged to cut all those responsible for the 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,
02:21but the French President has refused it for now. For more on the 10th situation,
02:25we can go straight to Paris, where Euronews International Correspondent
02:28Valérie Gaurier is standing by for us. Good 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. But it's true that some of the
02:51scenes I've seen over the weekend
02:53are reminiscent of things I've seen in Ukraine. For instance, the destroyed buildings, the burned cars, buildings like this one
03:03behind me,
03:04this restaurant that was completely devastated on a Saturday night. So there is this feeling of desolation, the overturned streets
03:14and things.
03:15Things are quite gruesome throughout Paris since Saturday and piles of burned bikes everywhere.
03:24So, yes, there is desolation and people are stunned by the sight of their city in this neighbourhood around the
03:34Place de la République, for instance.
03:36And now the situation is still tense. As you know, the looting went on last night. I came back to
03:43the Place de la République early afternoon.
03:45I was surprised to see the amount of police that was deployed there. And they were confronted and confronting groups
03:54of youth who had gathered on the square again.
03:57And it's, you know, continued with pursuits and tear gas, grenades being thrown, more arrests. So tension is still running
04:08high.
04:08And President Macron spoke to the nation last night, Valerie. Has the government regained control of the situation at all?
04:16Well, the government is far from having regained control of the situation. We'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, criticised for not saying anything about the solutions. He would bring the answers he
04:48would give to the demonstrators as concerns, as concerns the cost of life, the high cost of life or the
04:57issues in education and health.
04:59So people are still waiting for those answers. He was also blamed for not saying a word about the young
05:07people who were wounded during the protests.
05:10There is a crisis cell that is being organised and it starts its meeting this morning. It will continue for
05:20several days.
05:21So the solutions are yet to be, you know, discussed and revealed to the wider public, which is getting quite
05:31impatient.
05:32OK, Valerie Gaurier, 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. He's a professor in EU law at HEC Paris.
05:59Good morning, Alberto. Thank you so much for joining us. Just did you see these protests coming first and how
06:04long 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 cause differ from
06:50one another.
06:50And that's why I don't think we should treat them as one phenomenon. We are probably talking about different situations,
06:57different reasons that spark this protest with some imitation that is occurring among them, fueled by media coverage.
07:04Well, how can politicians catch hold of the situation? As you've seen in France, the political response has not been
07:09adequate.
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 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. Just tell us, what more do we know about this overnight attack and what does it mean
09:21for Trump's proposed energy 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 Zelenskyy 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, 1,700 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 and now the post saying that he is willing
10:23to put an end to this war in his own way.
10:26He still believes in the energy ceasefire. And he actually said that Russia, and I'm quoting him here, is doing
10:31very 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, knowing how much they hurt
10:47the world diesel market.
10:49He also blamed, once again, Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying, quote, he does not care and he does not want to end
10:54this war Donald Trump said.
10:56Now, I spoke also exclusively to the EU's ambassador to Kyiv, Katerina Matanova, who has a very different view on
11:02that,
11:02because she actually lives in Kyiv and 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, but the daytime attacks that started
11:26on the 27th of August are relentless.
11:29And they people can't really imagine when they're outside that when you have an alert, kids have to stop studying,
11:37go to the shelter.
11:38Doctors stop carrying out medical procedures. Metro stops.
11:43With the intensified attacks by Russia since the end of August, Moscow has been using more and more as well
11:48of jet powered drones, which 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, the war crimes are happening on a daily basis.
12:20There is also diplomatic escalation happening these days between the United States and Ukraine, which is one of the important
12:27topics regarding how much more Europe can step in to help with your experience, firsthand experience of living through all
12:35of that in Kyiv.
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, both on
12:53the financial side and the military side.
12:55President Koshtar 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 the
13:18for 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 also comes to supporting
13:35Ukraine when it comes to Ukraine's right to strike Russia's oil facilities, refineries to target Russia's money making machine, the
13:43one 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. I look at it from the perspective of Kyiv and living
14:09there.
14:10And 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 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.
14:46For 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.
15:03And so the question being asked 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 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 said, becoming more and more sophisticated, including I was in Kherson just recently in Ukraine.
15:50You know, the drones being used there, the A.I. drones that become more lethal as they get to the
15:56end of their battery life because they're programmed to find a target and to kill it.
15:59What role will A.I. play going forward? As you say, it's already playing a role in Ukraine, also in
16:04the war 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. And it's been becoming terrifying because you're getting these kill zones in
16:26which nothing can survive.
16:29And meanwhile, that's happening on the ground. And here in Brussels, politically, just last week, we saw the EU summit.
16:34There was lots of squabbles over the EU budget. There's lots of talk of cutting development aid, overseas aid.
16:39What would that mean for these areas and, of course, fragile and conflated states?
16:42It would be devastating. I 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 and so therefore women are cycling much further
17:05to get 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. What does that make you think?
17:34Look, I've been in Ukraine recently. I've seen how great the needs are.
17:38I was in Kyiv overnight when they had a terrible night. Ballistic missiles, huge missiles landing all through the night.
17:43I was in Kherson up on the front line. I drove down what they call the road of death, where
17:49so many of these drones are attacking, hitting civilians.
17:52So those needs there are massive. And I think, you know, there are many politicians in Europe who make the
18:00case 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 on a pandemic. You can't build a wall large enough to keep out
18:11the waves of migration that the climate crisis and the aid 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. Well, it's already one year since the ceasefire in Gaza coming into the winter.
18:27What does the situation look like there?
18:29It's grim. And, 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 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. We've got 100000 kids back into school, but those kids should never have been out
19:06of 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 for any longer reads.
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