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Η Γαλλία αποκαθιστά ζημιές μετά τα χειρότερα επεισόδια των τελευταίων ετών, καθώς βίαιοι ταραξίες κατέλαβαν τις πορείες. Η Ουκρανία πλήττει την Αγία Πετρούπολη με μαζική επίθεση drones και ο αξιωματούχος του ΟΗΕ Τομ Φλέτσερ προειδοποιεί για αυξημένο κίνδυνο θανάτου εργαζομένων βοήθειας
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Η Γαλλία αποκαθιστά ζημιές μετά τα χειρότερα επεισόδια των τελευταίων ετών, καθώς βίαιοι ταραξίες κατέλαβαν τις πορείες. Η Ουκρανία πλήττει την Αγία Πετρούπολη με μαζική επίθεση drones και ο αξιωματούχος του ΟΗΕ Τομ Φλέτσερ προειδοποιεί για αυξημένο κίνδυνο θανάτου εργαζομένων βοήθειας
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00:15Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
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.
01:13For 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 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 spiralled out of control, with 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.
02:05Seeing the streets of our cities ransacked like this is unbearable.
02:08Those who have destroyed property must pay.
02:11Those who have looted must make restitution.
02:13Those who have sought to bring down the Republic will be held accountable.
02:17And just this morning, France's Interior Minister Laurent Nunez has handed in his resignation.
02:21But the French president has refused it for now.
02:24For more on the 10th situation, we can go straight to Paris,
02:26where 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?
02:43Well, 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,
02:57for instance, the destroyed buildings, the burned cars, buildings like this one behind me,
03:04this restaurant that was completely devastated on a Saturday night.
03:08So there is this feeling of desolation, the overturned streets.
03:14Things are quite gruesome throughout Paris since Saturday.
03:21And there are piles of burned bikes everywhere.
03:25So, yes, there is desolation.
03:28And people are stunned by the sights of their city in this neighborhood around the Place de la République, for
03:35instance.
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.
04:09And 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.
05:43From Albania to Portugal, Italy to Spain, thousands have been taking to the streets this weekend, declaring that soaring housing
05:50costs 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.
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 with many thousands of arrests, some
07:35violence and accidents that could have potentially been foreseen.
07:40And 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 Kiev 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 Kiev 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, 1,700 aerial bombs and 66 missiles made.
10:15Now, but that certainly would not please Donald Trump.
10:18And we've heard overnight from him.
10:19He posted on Truth Social and now the post saying that he is willing to put an end to this
10:25war 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 Kiev, Katarina Matanova,
11:01who has a very different view on that because 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 is that Kiev became a true frontline city.
11:16And 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,
11:34kids have to stop studying, go to the shelter.
11:38Doctors stop carrying out medical procedures.
11:42Metro stops.
11:42With 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.
12:11So 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, firsthand 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,
12:50the most reliable supporter of Ukraine, both on the financial side and the military side.
12:56President Kostov was very clear that we are certainly not going to release any sanctions on Russia
13:05until the war stops.
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.
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,
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,
13:50but this support of Europe can also put Europe and Brussels at odds and in trouble
13:56in its relations with the United States.
13:58Well, I would prefer not to comment on that.
14:02I look at it from the perspective of Kiev and living there.
14:07And I certainly support the view that the high representative expressed
14:13because it's the fossil fuel industry that is fueling the war on the Russia side.
14:23And moving on from Gaza to Congo,
14:25South Sudan to Myanmar attacks on humanitarian workers are on the up
14:29as funding for their day job is going down.
14:32And as the EU prepares its long-term kitty from 2028 to 2034,
14:38a fight is unfolding over how development, humanitarian aid
14:41and geopolitical priorities can be financed.
14:44For more, we sat down with the UN Aid Chief, Tom Fletcher,
14:47who passed through Brussels for the EU's first-ever conference
14:50on the protection of aid workers.
14:52And we started by asking how bad their plight was.
14:55Take a look.
14:56Oh, it's been terrible.
14:57I mean, we've lost a thousand colleagues in the last three years.
15:00And so the question being asked at this conference is,
15:03how do we stop people killing aid workers?
15:05We shouldn't have to ask that question.
15:07I mean, the protection, the law is meant to be there to protect us.
15:10We've got our humanitarian neutrality.
15:12We should be able to go and deliver food, medicine, shelter without people killing us.
15:16and yet a thousand dead colleagues in three years.
15:19And the way people are being killed as well is even more vicious, more sophisticated.
15:23It's terrifying.
15:24And remember, you know, these are people who wake up,
15:26they kiss their kids, you know, goodbye in the morning.
15:28They're going out to work.
15:29They're going into danger.
15:30They know the dangers.
15:31And somewhere else there are other people thinking, how do we kill them?
15:34You know, I can't get my head into the mindset of the people who are killing aid workers.
15:39And there's no accountability, never investigations.
15:42And the weapons, as you say, are becoming more and more sophisticated,
15:45including, I was in Kherson just recently in Ukraine.
15:48You know, the drones being used there, the AI drones that become more lethal
15:53as they get to the end of their battery life
15:54because they're programmed to find a target and to kill it.
15:57What role will AI play going forward?
15:59As you say, it's already playing a role in Ukraine, also in the war in Iran we've seen.
16:02In these new weapons right now, in Sudan, in Somalia, South Sudan, Lebanon, Gaza,
16:08so many of the places we're working, people are telling us right now
16:11that they are an atrocities lab, that these weapons are being developed,
16:14that they're, you know, like a lab, they're being experimented on with these new weapons.
16:19And it's becoming terrifying because you're getting these kill zones
16:23in which nothing can survive.
16:26And meanwhile, that's happening on the ground.
16:28And here in Brussels, politically, just last week, we saw the EU summit.
16:31There was lots of squabbles over the EU budget.
16:33There's lots of talk of cutting development aid, overseas aid.
16:37What would that mean for these areas and, of course, fragile and conflicted states?
16:40It would be devastating.
16:41I mean, we've faced enormous cuts already in the last few years.
16:45And as a result, at least a third of the sector has had to be cut.
16:49Now, I then go out to the field and I'm in places where I know that people will die
16:54because of the cuts, because of choices I'm then having to make.
16:57I was in Afghanistan recently where, you know, we've cut the clinics.
17:00And so, therefore, women are cycling much further to give birth.
17:04and, as a result, they're losing their kids because they're dying on the road.
17:07You know, again and again, I'm holding children who I know will probably not survive
17:11because of the cuts I'm being forced to make.
17:13So, we desperately need this to be a budget of solidarity and generosity
17:17for the people in the world who need it most.
17:19And that's one of the reasons I'm here.
17:21And when you hear messages like those coming from France, from Marine Le Pen,
17:24whose party is doing very well in the polls ahead of those elections next year,
17:27she's saying that she'll be cutting funds even to Ukraine.
17:31What does that make you think?
17:32Look, I've been in Ukraine recently.
17:33I've seen how great the needs are.
17:35I was in Kyiv overnight when they had a terrible night.
17:38Ballistic missiles, huge missiles landing all through the night.
17:41I was in Kherson up on the front line.
17:43I drove down what they call the road of death
17:46where so many of these drones are attacking, hitting civilians.
17:50So, those needs there are massive.
17:53And I think, you know, there are many politicians in Europe
17:56who make the case for cutting aid.
17:59But actually, if you're not dealing with these problems at source,
18:01then these problems will come in your direction.
18:03You can't put a tariff on a pandemic.
18:06You can't build a wall large enough to keep out the waves of migration
18:09that the climate crisis and the aid cuts will drive.
18:13So, you know, we'll keep on making the argument
18:15and hope that there are enough people of solidarity and generosity there to see it through.
18:19And just finally, we're coming, well, it's already one year since the ceasefire in Gaza.
18:24Coming into the winter, what does the situation look like there?
18:26It's grim.
18:27And, you know, a year on from the ceasefire, we have managed to get the hunger levels down.
18:32So, about half the number of people who were reporting going to bed hungry a year ago
18:36are saying they're still going to bed hungry.
18:38But that's still almost half the population going to bed hungry.
18:42You know, we're being blocked from bringing in the shelter materials for the winter,
18:45the tents that people need.
18:48We're being blocked from all the work we need to do to clear the rubble in Gaza
18:52under which people's loved ones are still buried
18:55so they can start to rebuild their homes and their lives.
18:58So, some things are improving.
19:00We've got 100,000 kids back into school.
19:02But those kids should never have been out of school.
19:05And now we're facing into a really, really rough winter.
19:11Well, that brings this edition of Europe Today to an end.
19:14And for any longer reads, do visit Euronews.com,
19:17especially on that unfolding story and situation over in France.
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