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00:15Υπότιτλοι AUTHORWAVE
00:30Unprecedented violence, the French Prime Minister has called for local and partial curfews.
00:35Sébastien Le Cornou says he is ready to declare a state of emergency if needed.
00:40The Interior Minister also admitted he lost control of the situation
00:44and that authorities from Lyon to Paris were overwhelmed.
00:47Plus, in Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney has held emergency security talks
00:52after protests over the cost of living turned into violent clashes in Milan.
00:57Truck drivers from Barrie to Palermo have been blocking roads and key transport hubs
01:01to protest against rising costs of fertilisers, seeds and fuel.
01:06Meanwhile, heavy storms and torrential downpours have battered parts of eastern Spain,
01:12triggering flash floods and turning streets into rushing rivers.
01:16Multiple regions remain on high alert,
01:18especially given the painful memory of the devastating Dana flood
01:21that struck just two years ago before people have already lost their lives.
01:26And Europeans will have to face at least another year of elevated fuel costs
01:31and higher airfares due to the ongoing unrest in the Middle East.
01:34That's according to the Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary,
01:37who will be live with us here in the studio.
01:39But first, to Paris, where the political blame game continues
01:43over who is responsible for the weekend's unrest.
01:46The Prime Minister has accused the ultra-left movement
01:48of seeking to, quote, orchestrate deep unrest
01:51in the run-up to next year's presidential elections.
01:54For the latest, we can head over now to Paris
01:56and bring in our correspondent, Estelle Nelson-Julien,
01:59who's been covering the student protests since they began,
02:01as well as all the violence over the weekend.
02:03Good morning, Estelle. Great to have you with us.
02:05So after the chaos of the weekend,
02:07what is the situation like this Tuesday morning?
02:12Well, good morning.
02:13It's fair to say that the situation is much calmer on the ground this morning.
02:18Curfews were in place across the country yesterday
02:21and in the immediate vicinity of the area I am standing in,
02:25in the centre of Paris, close to the Place de la République.
02:27In certain areas, such as in Nice, in the south of France,
02:30there was also a curfew strictly restricted to minors, to young people.
02:36So it's fair to say that things are calmer,
02:39but there is still a raw sense on the ground.
02:42As I walked here to where I'm standing,
02:44I walked through shattered glass.
02:46Many shops were still boarded up.
02:47So a lot of businesses are, of course,
02:50still quite literally picking up the pieces.
02:53And what's it been like for you covering these protests
02:55as a journalist on the ground?
02:57Just this weekend, both you and your cameraman
02:59were assaulted and attacked.
03:03Yes, so it's been difficult and violent riots to cover
03:07over the course of the weekend.
03:09So it was outside this supermarket just behind me,
03:11a few steps away from the Place de la République,
03:14where the major protests began on Saturday afternoon.
03:18And as we filmed rioters who were attempting to loot this supermarket
03:23and smash it open with a hammer,
03:24we were encircled by a group of teenagers, young adults,
03:29many of them who were masked and who we could not recognize.
03:32and they proceeded to try and rob our equipment.
03:36They violently assaulted my cameraman,
03:38who was very brave and thankfully was protected
03:40because he was wearing a facial protection,
03:43including a gas mask and eye mask.
03:46But it was a very tense incident
03:47and my cameraman was very brave.
03:51And it's not an isolated incident, Estelle.
03:53We've seen many other journalists from a number of outlets
03:56reporting both intimidation and violence.
04:01Yes, it's been over the course of the student movement.
04:04I have faced a lot of angry students
04:06who've told me that they don't trust the media,
04:08that they don't want journalists reporting on the protests,
04:11that they believe the media hasn't been fair in its coverage
04:14and that it's only shown instances of violence
04:16rather than also talking about student demands.
04:19And then in the case of the rioters,
04:22it was a different, whole new level of violence
04:25that we saw on the ground.
04:26And I must also remind our viewers
04:28that there were calls on social media
04:30from the Yellow Vest movement
04:32to go outside and protest
04:34and cut off the so-called,
04:35what they labelled as propaganda media.
04:38And they called for protesters
04:39to stand outside various media outlets in Paris
04:43and demonstrate there.
04:45So there were also many calls on social media
04:49calling for journalists to be held to account,
04:52but in practice, this led to violence on the ground.
04:54Okay, Estelle, Nielsen, Julienne,
04:56they're reporting from Paris.
04:57Thank you so much for your work.
04:59Now, six years of hard work gone in one single night.
05:03That's the reality for Odelia Sitbon,
05:05a pharmacist near Paris' Place de la République.
05:08Last Saturday, rioters smashed through her shop,
05:10looting her stocks and setting it ablaze.
05:13Left with empty shelves, shattered glass,
05:15and financial concerns about how to raise her three kids,
05:18Odelia shared her story with Euronews' Valerie Torgia.
05:23The scale of the damage is immense.
05:25Everything is destroyed. Everything.
05:27I have no stock left. They burned it all.
05:29I don't even understand how someone could set on fire
05:32the building when they are homes above it.
05:34Upstairs is my pharmacy storage area.
05:36Even if they wanted to steal,
05:38the stock was right there.
05:39But instead, they burned everything.
05:42Are we really supposed to believe
05:43this is because the cost of living is so high?
05:46It's because looting is easy.
05:48It's just because they can.
05:50I've been working here for six years.
05:52When I first set up the business,
05:53I was seven months pregnant.
05:55And I came back to work just two weeks after giving birth.
05:58Two weeks!
05:59And for what?
06:00Because I wanted to provide the service.
06:02But they didn't care at all.
06:03They behaved like animals.
06:05They ripped out my water heater.
06:06They tore down my light fixtures.
06:08Is this how you protest the high cost of living?
06:11By tearing down light fixtures?
06:13By smashing up a robot?
06:15Well, a pharmacy robot costs 150,000 bucks.
06:18And in my opinion, it's ruined.
06:20I haven't even been able to check it properly yet
06:22because I can't turn the power back on.
06:24They ripped out all of my electrical wiring,
06:26which cost me 15,000 bucks to replace.
06:28And the police?
06:29No one protected us.
06:30To see your life's work destroyed like this?
06:32There is nothing worse.
06:38And since all that looting and violence,
06:40French retailers now face hundreds of millions of euros in damage.
06:44From small boutiques to luxury shops on the high streets,
06:47all types were targeted by theft and vandalism,
06:49with the Galerie Lafayette group reporting significant consequences
06:52for the vast majority of their shops all across the country.
06:56From the view now from the ground,
06:57we can bring in Patrick Molinès.
06:59He's the vice president of the French Mayor's Association
07:01and also a member of the European Committee of the Regions.
07:04Good morning, sir.
07:05Thank you so much for joining us.
07:07Now, we've seen those devastating pictures from the capital there,
07:10but what's it like for smaller towns
07:12and, of course, Dijon, the capital of your region?
07:16Well, it depends.
07:17On some smaller towns,
07:19I mean, the real rural areas are quite calm, actually.
07:22It's mainly in major cities that the bad things happen
07:26because it's actually coordinated action from extremists
07:31that has nothing to do with normal protesters.
07:33So, let's say, in the countryside,
07:35things are pretty quiet.
07:36But there's a real blame game going on now politically,
07:39and we know it's a tense time in France
07:40with presidential elections coming up next year.
07:43You're from the Radical Party of the left.
07:45We've seen the Prime Minister blaming the so-called left
07:48for this violence.
07:49How do you react to that?
07:51Well, the Radical Left is a centre-left party, I should say.
07:55So the name doesn't tell it all.
07:57So we're a centre-left party.
07:58But that's not the question.
07:59The question is, there is a real difference between protesters
08:03who want just to say, well, what they complain about,
08:08and that's completely legitimate.
08:10But what happened, the destruction,
08:13the town hall attack and everything,
08:15this is most probably the fact of extremists,
08:19extreme right and extreme left.
08:20And I personally believe,
08:22and we will have evidence of that in a very short time, I'm sure,
08:26that there are also foreign interference in this matter.
08:29Definitely on social media,
08:32Russian interference is quite certain,
08:35and maybe not only Russian,
08:37and maybe also physically.
08:40I mean, some of the attacks were planned.
08:43You don't come into the city
08:45and destroy, dismantle some physical equipment without training.
08:52It's not the fact of just people getting angry.
08:55That is not true.
08:56That is not possible.
08:56But these images, of course, of the violence, the vandalism,
08:59they've overshadowed the whole story here,
09:01which began really with young people protesting over school conditions
09:05and struggling with their day-to-day issues.
09:07What are the core structural problems facing France today,
09:10and how can they be addressed?
09:13Well, there are problems all the time.
09:15I mean, we're all in an implementing situation.
09:19I mean, everyone wants to have a better life tomorrow.
09:21One of the problems nowadays is that looking at the future on a bright way
09:26is getting harder and harder.
09:27So some student protests about the system that classifies them to go to university.
09:32Some complain about how their lycée, their schools,
09:36or their university are in good or not so good shape.
09:42But overall, it's a normal protest at the beginning.
09:45But of course, six months before the presidential election,
09:50some people have interest to make things get harder and harder.
09:54So from a normal and legitimate protestation,
09:57we're getting to something that is completely different.
10:00And again, I insist, and the committee of the region
10:03and the president gave our support to the French mayor and the French citizen.
10:07But there is something at European level we have to see.
10:10This does not happen without foreign interference.
10:14That is certain.
10:15Okay.
10:16Patrick Moulinos, thank you so much for joining us this morning.
10:19Now, Beyond France, people have also been taking to the streets of Spain,
10:22Portugal and Italy to protest over the cost of living crisis
10:25and rising fuel prices.
10:27Unions want lower prices, higher pensions,
10:29and more money in their pockets.
10:31For the view from industry here,
10:32I'm joined now by Michael O'Leary,
10:34CEO of Europe's largest and most profitable airline group at Ryanair.
10:38Good morning, Michael O'Leary.
10:39Morning, Maeve. Great pleasure to be here.
10:40Lovely to have you.
10:40Look, when you see the wave of protests and industrial strikes all across Europe
10:45as the CEO of such a successful company,
10:47do you relate to these concerns?
10:49I do.
10:50I mean, you know, we live in Europe
10:53where, you know, we have fundamentally failed to be competitive.
10:56You know, the Draghi report is two years old.
10:58It is sat on the shelf gathering dust.
11:00Ursula von der Leyen talks about competitiveness
11:03and does absolutely nothing about it.
11:05You look at our sector in air transport,
11:06which has been one of the great successes of the European Union.
11:09The deregulation and liberalisation of air travel
11:11brought about the growth of low-fair airlines like Ryanair.
11:14You can now fly across the continent for €50.
11:16It is one of the very few industries where we out-compete the Americans.
11:20They're ahead of us in AI.
11:21They're ahead of us in IT.
11:22When it comes to air travel,
11:24we're much cheaper in Europe than they are in the US.
11:26And yet, what are we doing?
11:27We're raising environmental taxes on air travel,
11:30which results in higher fares.
11:31You have that ship of fools in the European Parliament
11:34redesigning more regulations
11:36designed to increase the cost of air travel
11:38when consumers want lower fares.
11:40We keep growing every year
11:42because consumers want what we deliver,
11:43which is really low-fare, affordable air travel.
11:45And yet, our politicians and our regulators here in Europe
11:49add complexity, add regulation,
11:51and add cost to consumers' lives.
11:53And these wave of protests, as you can see,
11:55consumers are feeling the pinch.
11:57They want more money in their pocket.
11:58Is this really just a taste of what is to come?
12:00Because, as you say,
12:01we're not very competitive here in Europe.
12:03We're an ageing continent.
12:05Well, that doesn't mean we can't be more competitive yet.
12:07You have the AI bringing about
12:09a huge, large growth in efficiency.
12:13We can be more competitive.
12:14I mean, I'm here in Brussels today.
12:16You know, unfortunately,
12:17I'm announcing Reiner's winter schedule.
12:19This winter, we're cutting a million seats out of Belgium.
12:21We're reducing our capacity in Zaventam and Charlewell.
12:25We're going to reduce by 20 routes this winter.
12:27Why?
12:27Because the Deweyver government
12:30has increased air travel from €2 per ticket
12:32to €7 per ticket.
12:34And as the Belgians increase air taxes on air travel,
12:38the Slovakians, the Swedes, the Italians,
12:40the Hungarians have abolished air travel.
12:42We're moving aircraft to those countries
12:44who are competitive.
12:45Belgium is not competitive.
12:47France is not competitive.
12:48Germany is hopelessly uncompetitive.
12:50And yet the way forward is to reduce
12:52the tax burden on our citizens
12:54and do that by driving down the tax on air travel.
12:56So what's your message to France and Belgium?
12:58Get more efficient.
12:59Stop raising taxes.
13:01Consumers around Europe, citizens around Europe
13:03want lower taxes,
13:04particularly on things like air travel,
13:05so they can travel affordably,
13:07meet friends and family across Europe.
13:10And we have a scandal in Europe.
13:12We tax, we apply environmental taxes
13:14only to intra-EU flights.
13:16We don't tax the Americans.
13:17We don't tax the Asians.
13:18We don't tax the Chinese.
13:20They can, despite the fact
13:21that their flights account
13:22for more than 53% of Europe's CO2 emissions,
13:25we exempt them.
13:26You know, nobody would design
13:27a stupid system like this
13:29other than the European Parliament
13:30and Ursula von der Leyen.
13:31If you're serious about competitiveness,
13:33tax the Americans when they land here in Europe.
13:35We should have a fair and reasonable
13:36environmental tax on all flights landing.
13:38But they're afraid to go there, right?
13:39They don't want to go there.
13:40Of course they're afraid to go there.
13:41Sure, Ursula von der Leyen's afraid
13:42to do anything except talk.
13:44You know, she's useless.
13:45We have, Europe has a roadmap
13:48for being more competitive.
13:49It's called the Draghi Report.
13:51Two years later,
13:52not one of its recommendations
13:53has been implemented.
13:54And Ursula von der Leyen hides
13:56in the Berlimont
13:57doing nothing except giving speeches.
13:59If the Draghi Report was implemented,
14:00how could Europe look?
14:01We would be a dramatically
14:02more efficient society.
14:05I mean, if you look at air travel,
14:06they said, look,
14:07we should reduce the environmental tax burden
14:09on air travel,
14:10which is absolutely sensible.
14:12And we should reform ATC in Europe.
14:15ATC in Europe accounts
14:16for more than 90% of flight delays.
14:18And yet the airlines
14:20have to provide compensation
14:21and right-to-care expenses
14:22for passengers
14:23because of those delays.
14:24But we're not allowed
14:25to recover those costs
14:26from the people who cause
14:27over 90% of the delays,
14:29which is air traffic control.
14:30Why has there been no reform
14:31of air traffic control
14:32for 20 years in Europe?
14:33Because we have useless politicians
14:35like von der Leyen
14:36talking about being competitive,
14:38but doing nothing about it.
14:40And meanwhile,
14:40the reality for consumers,
14:42for those who like to catch a plane,
14:43airfares are going up
14:44and they'll keep going up.
14:46Well, I mean,
14:46they won't necessarily keep,
14:47they're going to go significantly up
14:49in the next 12 months
14:49for two reasons.
14:50One, because of the higher cost of fuel.
14:52We're hedged in Reiner this year
14:54at about $67 a barrel.
14:55Next year,
14:56our oil price will double.
14:57And the second reason
14:58airfares are going up
14:59is because of increases in ETS,
15:01environmental taxation,
15:02on only intra-European flights
15:04while we exempt
15:05all the American flights,
15:06the Asian flights.
15:07But that's a reality
15:08you can't just ignore either.
15:09Of course,
15:09it's not a reality.
15:10The reality is
15:11if you want to fly to Europe,
15:13if you want to land
15:13and take off in Europe,
15:14the Americans,
15:14the Asians,
15:15the Chinese
15:15should pay their fair share.
15:17We shouldn't be exempting them
15:19who create the greatest
15:20amount of emissions
15:21while we only tax
15:22the poor dumb European citizens
15:24travelling around
15:25visiting friends and family.
15:26And are you planning
15:27a surcharge for the fuel?
15:28No, no.
15:29We will.
15:29Down Reiner,
15:30we guarantee no fuel surcharges.
15:31But there is no doubt
15:32that airfares are going to rise
15:33significantly in 2027
15:35because of much higher oil prices.
15:37Okay.
15:37Michael O'Leary,
15:38CEO of Reiner.
15:39Thank you so much
15:39for coming into this year
15:40on Euronews.
15:41Now, moving on to Ukraine,
15:44where two children
15:44were among the victims
15:45of a Russian drone strike
15:47on a park
15:47in the Kharkiv region yesterday.
15:49It comes as Vladimir Putin
15:51has reportedly proposed
15:53a three-way summit
15:54with Donald Trump
15:55and China's Xi Jinping
15:56next month
15:57to discuss ending
15:58the war in Ukraine,
16:00potentially without Kiev
16:01at the table.
16:02For more on what exactly
16:03is behind this announcement,
16:05I'm joined this morning
16:05by our Ukraine correspondent,
16:07Sasha Vakilina.
16:08Good morning.
16:09So what do we know
16:09about this proposed summit
16:11and how has Ukraine
16:12been responding?
16:12Well, the Kremlin confirmed
16:13that Putin would like
16:14to have this trilateral summit
16:16with Donald Trump
16:18and China's President Xi.
16:19But there's been no reaction
16:21yet from Washington
16:21except the fact that,
16:22of course,
16:22the United States
16:23and the Trump administration
16:24has been putting more pressure
16:25on Ukraine
16:26and on Kiev
16:26over the past week or so
16:28regarding making concessions.
16:30And it also concerns
16:31the possible
16:32and reported limitations
16:33when it comes to
16:34the deliveries
16:34of Patriot ballistic missiles
16:37interceptors
16:38that Ukraine really,
16:39really needs
16:39with Russia launching
16:40at times 39 ballistic missiles
16:43at Kiev just overnight
16:44and also with the reported cuts
16:47regarding the Starlink connection.
16:49Now, Ukraine's foreign minister,
16:50Andrei Sebiha,
16:51was very careful speaking
16:52about this possible
16:53trilateral summit
16:54when he said
16:54a trilateral meeting
16:55between the leaders of Ukraine,
16:57the US and Russia
16:58could help end the war sooner.
16:59A trilateral meeting
17:00between the leaders
17:01of Russia, China and the US
17:03would do only the opposite,
17:04encourage Putin
17:05to continue this war.
17:06And meanwhile,
17:07of course, Sasha,
17:07we've seen President Trump
17:08defending his approach
17:09to Moscow,
17:10arguing that Russia
17:11is doing very little
17:12to help Iran.
17:13But what exactly
17:14is Moscow saying?
17:15Well, Moscow did speak
17:17as well just hours,
17:18in fact,
17:18after Donald Trump's statement
17:19about the fact
17:20that Russia is not helping Iran.
17:22Russia's foreign minister,
17:24Sergei Lavrov,
17:24said that Russia
17:25is supporting Iran.
17:26In fact,
17:26he actually compared
17:28Russia's war
17:29against Ukraine
17:30with Iran's fight,
17:32saying both
17:32have, quote,
17:33just cause.
17:35And Lavrov also said
17:36that Russia intends
17:37to continue its support
17:38to Iran,
17:40despite the fact
17:40that Donald Trump
17:41said no,
17:41and that Russia
17:42is actually helping
17:43to normalise
17:44and to balance
17:45the diesel world market.
17:47Moscow says
17:47it's going to help Iran more.
17:49OK, Sasha,
17:50Vekalina,
17:50thank you so much for that.
17:51And of course,
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