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Europe Today : deuxième catastrophe de train à grande vitesse en neuf mois endeuille l'Espagne
Au moins 68 morts dans une collision de trains à grande vitesse au sud de Madrid, deuxième accident ferroviaire mortel en Espagne cette année. À Montréal, l'UE et Mark Carney lancent une "Alliance pour l'avenir" et évoquent midterms US, défense de l'Ukraine et hausse des prix du pétrole.
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Au moins 68 morts dans une collision de trains à grande vitesse au sud de Madrid, deuxième accident ferroviaire mortel en Espagne cette année. À Montréal, l'UE et Mark Carney lancent une "Alliance pour l'avenir" et évoquent midterms US, défense de l'Ukraine et hausse des prix du pétrole.
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00:00Sous-titrage Société Radio-Canada
00:30in one of Spain's deadliest rail disasters.
00:33The accident occurred near Urda in the province of Toledo
00:36on a straight section of track with good visibility.
00:39Early indications point to human error.
00:42The tragedy comes just nine months after another collision
00:45involving two high-speed trains in southern Spain
00:48that killed 46 people in January,
00:51raising serious concerns about rail safety in the country.
00:55Montreal is the host city of what one Brussels official
00:58called one of the most important summits the European Union ever held.
01:03The EU-Canada summit today and tomorrow is set to pave the way
01:06for an ever broader and deeper political partnership.
01:10Leaders are expected to launch an alliance for the future,
01:13a framework for shared prosperity and economic security
01:17underpinned by concrete new initiatives
01:19to strengthen people-to-people ties,
01:22deepen economic relations,
01:23and reinforce their joint stance on the global stage.
01:28And Brazil's defeated presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro
01:32fled to Florida yesterday
01:33after the U.S. State Department said
01:36it would issue visas to him and his family
01:38following his loss to President Lula da Silva
01:41in Sunday's run-off election.
01:43Bolsonaro, who received tacit support
01:45from U.S. President Donald Trump,
01:47is under investigation in Brazil
01:49for alleged corruption,
01:51money laundering, and tax evasion,
01:53and was ordered not to leave the country.
01:56He has denied any wrongdoing.
01:58Welcome to the program.
02:00I am Stefan Grober.
02:02But first, the horrible train crash
02:04that shook Spain yesterday.
02:06Madrid has declared three days of national mourning
02:09after the tragedy that killed more than 68 people
02:12and injured over 100.
02:13Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez,
02:16who is in the midst of an election campaign,
02:18has called for an independent probe
02:20into the circumstances leading to the fatal crash,
02:23the second major collision in just nine months.
02:27Early indications point to human error
02:29as the government faces questions
02:31over its handling of the crisis.
02:33For more on this,
02:34let's bring in our correspondent Rafael Salido,
02:37who is in front of the hospital of Toledo.
02:40Good morning, Rafael.
02:41So what's the latest?
02:42What can you tell us?
02:46Good morning.
02:48So rescue work, rescue operations,
02:51have continued throughout the night
02:53here in the outskirts of Toledo, in Urda,
02:58with canine units and drone teams
03:01expected to join this morning
03:02in the search of hopefully possible victims
03:06that may still be alive.
03:08As for the numbers,
03:09there hasn't been any big changes there.
03:11We're still working with a confirmed number
03:16of 68 people who died
03:18and over 100 people who got injured,
03:2018 of them severely injured.
03:23Among them was a former
03:26Labour, no,
03:28a former secretary of the government,
03:31Fatima Báñez.
03:32But that's so far all that is new today.
03:37Will this tragedy affect the ongoing election campaign?
03:43Oh, yes.
03:45Surely it's going to have an impact.
03:47As you know, we are holding...
03:49Spain is holding general elections on November the 29th,
03:54so it's one month away.
03:56Yesterday, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
03:59came to the place where the accident took place
04:02and he promised there will be accountability.
04:05However, there's already people calling for the resignation
04:09of the transportation secretary, Oscar Puente,
04:12and parties from the opposition are demanding full accountability.
04:18This may become a huge liability for Prime Minister Sánchez
04:24just weeks ahead of the election.
04:27So he has made a commitment to find whomever was responsible
04:33and he has even talked about the possibility
04:37if the maintenance was the issue,
04:40which would point directly to a responsibility from the government,
04:44he's willing to renew the whole truck system in Spain,
04:48which would be a humongous task.
04:52All right.
04:52Rafael Salido, live from Toledo.
04:55Thank you very much.
04:57EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
04:59and EU Council President Antonio Costa
05:02have landed in Montreal to attend
05:04the highly anticipated EU-Canada summit
05:06with Prime Minister Mark Carney.
05:08Brussels wants to expand the relation
05:11and make Canada its closest non-European ally.
05:14Joining me now is our political correspondent,
05:16Jorge Liborero, who once lived in Montreal himself.
05:21Jorge, good morning.
05:22This summit couldn't really be understood without Donald Trump.
05:26Now, how long is the shadow of the US president really?
05:29The European Union and Canada are bound by the same trauma, Donald Trump.
05:34Both have been the target of his tariffs, his demands, his attacks,
05:38and even his threats of annexation.
05:40So they have found comfort in each other.
05:43This has been particularly acute for Canada
05:46because its relation with the United States,
05:48its biggest trading partner, has absolutely collapsed.
05:51We have seen Prime Minister Mark Carney travelling around the world,
05:55desperately looking for new partners.
05:57And the European Union, with its huge single market
06:00and its democratic values, is the perfect option.
06:03So in the run-up of the summit,
06:06the headline-making issue was the associate membership of Canada.
06:12That was eventually shot down by a couple of member states.
06:17What happened?
06:18Look, we need to go back last month.
06:20Ursula von der Leyen delivers her State of the Union speech in Strasbourg.
06:24And all of a sudden, she introduces this idea of making Canada
06:27the first ever associate member of the European Union
06:31in front of Mark Carney.
06:33Everybody's surprised and everybody's confused.
06:36Member states have a lot of questions
06:37about what this concept means in practice.
06:40And they are also a bit resentful about the fact
06:42that von der Leyen did not consult with them
06:45before making this announcement.
06:46So what happened this week is that Germany led a push
06:50to basically kill the concept.
06:52And any mention of associate membership
06:55has been deleted from the joint declaration.
06:59And now we only see an ever-closer association,
07:03which is very different.
07:05But how much of a defeat is this for Fondo?
07:08I mean, what's in a name, right?
07:10Yes, I think it's a personal defeat for her
07:12because she was fully invested in this concept.
07:15She believes it's an opportunity to create
07:18a brand new geopolitical concept
07:21to export our appeal and our influence abroad.
07:24And she's convinced that it's the right thing to do.
07:27So this makes me think that she's not going to give it up just yet.
07:31In fact, yesterday, just as she landed in Montreal,
07:34she once again tweeted about the need,
07:37the ambition of making Canada an associate member.
07:40So for now, let me tell you, she's determined to make it happen.
07:44All right, Jorge Edeboer, ex-inhabitant of Montreal.
07:48Thank you very much.
07:50But just days before the midterm elections in the United States,
07:54President Donald Trump is stoking the fire of distrust
07:57in an echo of his ongoing conspiracy theories
08:00about the 2020 election.
08:02He promised, with unclear legal authority,
08:05to pay $1 million to anyone who exposes election fraud
08:10that leads to a criminal conviction.
08:11It's a series of tactics that experts say
08:15is less about law enforcement than about messaging,
08:18pre-spinning likely Republican losses
08:21and driving up public doubts about the results.
08:24Should America be prepared for an avalanche of lawsuits
08:28attacking Democratic victories, as Trump has promised?
08:31Earlier, I put discretion to Alan Lichtman,
08:34historian and one of the country's best-known political analysts
08:38from American University in Washington.
08:40Here's what he said.
08:41Americans should be very much prepared for Trump,
08:46if, as expected, his party loses this midterm election,
08:49to try to overturn the results by any means at his disposal,
08:54including lawsuits and avalanche.
08:57But remember, he lost every significant lawsuit,
09:01more than 60 of them, last time after the 2020 election,
09:05including some before judges appointed by Trump himself.
09:09So Trump's approval ratings have hit record lows,
09:15and Democratic enthusiasm levels are off the charts.
09:19Do you expect a really big night for Democrats?
09:22Well, it's always perilous to predict midterm elections.
09:25I have a system for presidential elections, not midterms.
09:29But you're right.
09:30When an approval rating for a president is this low,
09:33historically, they lose about 40 House seats and six Senate seats.
09:38That's an average, not a prediction.
09:41How much of the current Democratic polling lead is due to the unpopularity of Trump,
09:47and how much to Democratic policies?
09:50I think it's mostly due to the unpopularity of Trump, the Democratic lead in polling.
09:58Midterm elections are the one chance voters have to register approval or disapproval
10:04of a sitting president and his administration.
10:08And the truth is, for candidates of the president's party,
10:12no matter how hard you try, you can't run away from the president.
10:16And Democrats, you know, I've been criticizing them for years.
10:21They really have not developed, and they could and should,
10:24a compelling message for their policies and ideas.
10:29And what would be Trump's political agenda for his remaining two years in office
10:34following the midterms?
10:36Well, you know, Trump never really has had a legislative agenda.
10:40He governs, you know, as an aspiring authoritarian.
10:44He governs by executive order, essentially bypassing the legislature.
10:51He only had one big legislative victory, his tax and spending bill.
10:55So I expect he will govern once again by executive order, perhaps even more aggressively,
11:02if, in fact, the House and the Senate or either one of them turns Democratic.
11:07So when I talk to the pundits, the strategists, the observers, they tell me that Trump,
11:15over the last two years of his term, will be occupied by, you know, subpoenas and lawsuits,
11:22et cetera, and the Iran war.
11:24Do you share that?
11:25No question, Democrats will investigate, investigate, investigate the Iran war,
11:32the corruption, the grifting, the revenge tours.
11:35But none of that is going to stop Trump because he doesn't care.
11:40You can't shame Donald Trump.
11:43You can try impeaching him.
11:44That hasn't worked before in the Senate.
11:46He's been acquitted.
11:47It won't work again.
11:51U.S. historian Alan Lichtman from American University in Washington.
11:56Ukrainian President Zelensky says his country is still waiting for the Pentagon to sign off
12:01on defense patriot interceptors while Russia continues to pound Kiev with ballistic missiles.
12:07Ukraine receives patriot systems from a special mechanism at NATO where allies purchase U.S.-made
12:13weapons to transfer to Ukraine for the war.
12:15But lately, confusion reigns as to what exactly is happening.
12:19And more importantly, when will Ukraine receive the patriots?
12:23Let's make sense of all this with our NATO correspondent, Shona Murray, here on the set.
12:27Good morning, Shona.
12:29So I guess the basic question is, why is Ukraine so reliant on these patriots?
12:34Well, quite frankly, because the PAC-3 patriot system is the most advanced technology to intercept
12:38the Russian ballistic missiles that are raining down on Kiev.
12:42Europeans don't have anything comparable.
12:43But these are very complex systems.
12:46They cost about $4 million for one of the missiles.
12:50They can cost a billion dollars just for the whole system itself.
12:55And the problem is there's a global shortage because the United States has burned through
12:58its stockpiles because of the war in Iran.
13:01And why is Washington delaying them?
13:03Well, that is the key question.
13:04Nobody knows exactly why this is happening.
13:06Some people believe that maybe it's about resuming the war in Iran.
13:09The United States needs its stockpiles.
13:11But others are saying that perhaps that the United States is trying to pressurize President
13:15Zelensky, as we know, into stopping attacking Russian diesel refineries ahead of the U.S.
13:21midterms, where we know the United States President Donald Trump is not doing so well in the polls.
13:25So I caught up with former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Kurt Volker, who believes that this may be the
13:30case.
13:31President Trump is seeing what everyone is seeing, that it's going to go very, very badly for the
13:36Republicans, certainly losing the House of Representatives, probably also losing the Senate
13:41at this stage is the way it looks, although you never know.
13:45And he wants to be seen to be doing something about the issues that are making voters unhappy.
13:53One of them is the price of diesel.
13:56And that particularly affects farmers, mid-state, red-state voters in the Midwest and the United States.
14:02So he wants to be seen to be doing something about that.
14:04So he thought it would be a great story for him to be able to say,
14:08I've got Vladimir Putin giving us diesel, and I've got Zelensky to stop attacking the refineries.
14:14So I'm fighting for you.
14:16I'm on your side.
14:16And the problem with that is it is an insignificant amount of diesel.
14:22It won't do anything to U.S. or global prices.
14:28All right, Sean and Mari, thanks for breaking it all down for us.
14:31And now to the energy crisis.
14:33The European Commission is treating the loss of refining capacity as a vulnerability that Europe can no longer afford to
14:40ignore.
14:41Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen warned that the prolonged war in the Middle East should serve as a wake-up call.
14:47The EU should ensure that there is an adequate refining capacity at home, he said.
14:53This morning came as the prices for crude oil and diesel rose across the board yesterday.
14:58Markets reacted to reports that the U.S. is preparing to renew strikes against Iran after the midterm elections.
15:05To discuss the latest developments, I'm now joined by Osama Rizvi, Global Markets and Product Strategist at Primary Vision in
15:13Lahore.
15:13Good morning to you.
15:15Good morning to you as well, Stefan.
15:17I'm in UAE at the moment right now.
15:19Wonderful.
15:20So, oil, diesel and gas prices are all up again.
15:24Are we witnessing another temporary market panic or the beginning of a much bigger energy crisis?
15:31Well, it has never been temporary since the start of the war, actually.
15:35Whatever you see right now is a long extension or rather something that has become a structural feature characteristic of
15:42the market.
15:43Whether the war restarts or not, whether there is an escalation or not, it is going to take some months
15:49for the supplies to restore
15:51and hence for the refiners to get what they want and hence for the prices to come down and consumers
15:56to feel okay.
15:57So, this is a structural baked-in factor, unfortunately, and we'll have to suffer from it from the next 7
16:02to 12 months minimum.
16:04Why are especially diesel prices rising so sharply?
16:07Is there something fundamentally wrong with the global market for refined fuels?
16:13Well, diesel, above all the fuels, is really central to the global economy.
16:19Up-country movement, down-country movement, agriculture, farmers, all of them, food transportation, they use diesel as a feedstock, right?
16:28So, diesel has low stocks already globally.
16:32Then, we discussed it last time as well, lots of refineries are closing down.
16:361.5 million barrels of refined products going down as well.
16:40In Europe, 10 to 15 percent of refinery capacity has been disrupted in the previous few years.
16:45So, all of that had culminated into what is called a diesel crisis.
16:50And many analysts are, I'm also on the verge of declaring this, this war is actually a diesel war.
16:55It's becoming a diesel war and that is going to choke the global economy if it gets worse.
17:02And Europe seems particularly exposed to the diesel crunch and the comments of Commissioner Juergens and its testament to that.
17:11Why is the continent still so vulnerable to disruptions in global fuel surprise?
17:19Well, interestingly, and, you know, Europe has had some issues with the policymaking, policy direction, actually, according to myself.
17:28The shift or move for renewables, at times we saw that triumphed the realities of the energy security.
17:36And hence, what we are seeing right now is that there is a crisis of refining.
17:40There is a crisis of diesel production plus diesel reserves.
17:44Moving forward, I think it will really benefit not only Europe, but also the world.
17:48And this is happening east of Suez, actually, that there needs to be a refining, you know, revolution in the
17:55world.
17:55More refineries spread across the world so that they don't become vulnerable to such geopolitical crisis.
18:03And, Osama, if tensions in the Middle East ease tomorrow, how quickly would oil and diesel prices actually fall?
18:11I don't think it is going to be very quickly.
18:14The crude oil prices, yes, they can fall.
18:16We have seen some restoration of both the flows through Hormuz and the production facilities in the Gulf.
18:22So that is one thing.
18:23However, that reaching to the refineries will still involve a lot of a high transportation cost.
18:29Three dollars of transportation cost before the war.
18:33Now it costs around twenty dollars to transport the same boat.
18:36So it is going to take three to five months for this to die down and the dust to settle
18:42down.
18:43So well into next year then?
18:45Definitely.
18:47All right.
18:48Osama Rizvi, as always, thank you for your analysis.
18:51And that's all for today.
18:53Thank you for watching.
18:54I'm Stefan Grobe and I see you tomorrow.
19:00We'll see you tomorrow.
19:00Thank you.
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