00:00Polish President Karol Nawrocki cut short his flight to Senegal on Friday, saying he needed
00:04to be in Poland amid a dispute over the Constitutional Tribunal.
00:09Law and Justice Party supporters protested the suspension of its president, Bogdan Sviyeczkowski.
00:15Responding to incidents during the demonstration outside the tribunal, riot police were deployed
00:19on the grounds of the tribunal but had not entered the building.
00:25The suspension was announced by Judge Anna Korvin-Pietrovska.
00:30Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek has asked for immunity to be lifted for Sviyeczkowski and
00:35his deputy Bartolomeusz Sokanski.
00:38The tribunal's official ex-account called the move a coup d'etat and said Korvin-Pietrovska
00:43was not one of its judges.
00:45The dispute centers on judges appointed under PIS, which governed from 2015 to 2023.
00:52The EU accused the court of being too close to that government.
00:56Prime Minister Donald Tusk pledged to resolve the dispute after his 2023 election victory,
01:02but Nawrocki has blocked his court appointments.
01:14At a bilateral summit in Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada and the European Union
01:22will aim to conclude negotiations on a new form of closer partnership by June next year.
01:28Carney has described it as an associate membership, a status that currently does not exist in EU treaties.
01:36The idea is to bring Canada and the EU closer on policy, programs and governance,
01:43although the details still need to be worked out.
01:46Germany has strongly opposed the term associate member,
01:49and the summit's final declaration instead referred to an even closer association.
01:55The European Commission and Canadian government will hold further talks in the spring.
02:01Carney is then expected to attend an EU leaders' summit in June,
02:05when he hopes the negotiations can be concluded.
02:14Another general strike in street demonstrations took place on Friday across dozens of cities in Italy.
02:21The call to action was made by trade union USB against rising cost of living and rearmament in Europe.
02:45People of all ages gather to protest, including both workers and students.
02:50Also port workers from across 20 countries join the action to protest against the transport of weapons.
02:58Italian authorities stepped up security measures to prevent a repeat of the unrest seen in Milan over the previous weekend,
03:05when rioters looted shops and set fire to property.
03:12Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume,
03:17has announced that a major hack affected assets worth an estimated 5.5 billion euros,
03:22around half of which was frozen to prevent a massive theft.
03:27The company posted contradictory announcements on social media,
03:30saying that user funds are safe, while also promising to cover all losses.
03:36Deposits and withdrawals were temporarily suspended,
03:39while Binance carries out security checks and works with law enforcement.
03:43An initial investigation suggests a compromised laptop belonging to a development engineer may
03:48have allowed an attacker to access an internal system and make unauthorized withdrawals.
03:54Binance says there is no evidence that private keys were leaked.
03:58The estimated impact would be more than four times the value involved
04:02the previous record crypto hack 1.3 billion euros taken from Bybit in February last year.
04:08Other crypto companies have also frozen funds linked to the incident.
04:12Tether says it has frozen about 1.4 billion,
04:16while Circle says it has frozen more than 696 million euros.
04:21Bitcoin and Ethereum fell sharply after news of the attack before recovering slightly.
04:27Binance's own BNB token fell by nearly 10% after the news broke.
04:32Binance's own BNB token fell by nearly 10% after the news broke.
04:33Binance's own BNB token fell by nearly 10% after the news broke.
04:35Binance's own BNB token fell by nearly 10% after the news broke.
04:36Binance's own BNB token fell by nearly 10% after the news broke.
04:36Binance's own BNB token fell by nearly 10% after the news broke.
