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00:00 Cities in eastern Ukraine, including Kharkiv and Mikulayev, have been targeted in multiple

00:07 Russian drone attacks.

00:10 French police have arrested people involved in farmers' protests across the country

00:15 for the first time. 18 demonstrators were reportedly detained near Paris.

00:20 The European Union is stepping up pressure on Hungary ahead of the High Stakes Summit

00:24 on Thursday to agree on four years' worth of 50 billion euros of aid to Ukraine.

00:33 Cities in eastern Ukraine have been targeted in multiple Russian drone attacks.

00:38 In Kharkiv, several people were reported to have been injured when one of six Iranian-made

00:43 drones exploded near a residential area. The blast damaged residential buildings over a

00:48 wide area and left a deep crater in a road.

00:51 The city has been targeted in air attacks many times since Russia's invasion almost

00:56 two years ago.

00:57 "The glass in the window saved us. We were able to get out of the window. It would have

01:06 completely blown us away. The drone was always heard when it was flying, but this time it

01:13 wasn't."

01:15 In Mikulayev, a man was injured after an attack on a storage warehouse. Ukraine also claims

01:21 to have damaged an oil refinery near St. Petersburg in Russia.

01:25 Kiev has stepped up strikes on Russian infrastructure in recent weeks.

01:33 Around 75,000 ethnic Hungarians reside in the Ukrainian region of Transcarpathia.

01:39 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long alleged that Ukraine's government is

01:43 infringing upon their rights.

01:45 In December, Kiev amended its education and language laws to comply with the EU's membership

01:51 requirements, restoring many of the minority rights demanded by Budapest, much to the relief

01:56 of the region's Hungarian community.

01:58 "European integration was the catalyst that helped the whole process. It is possible that

02:08 the summit of the EU on December 8 was the point that raised the question of Ukrainian-Hungarian

02:14 relations."

02:15 But Hungary is not fully satisfied with the reforms, a potential sticking point as EU

02:21 leaders meet on Thursday to try to convince Orban to lift his veto on a 50 billion euro

02:27 aid package for Ukraine.

02:28 "We have just said what points we see the guarantee of getting back to 2015 conditions.

02:36 We hope that the work of the Intergovernmental Committee will succeed in crowning it."

02:44 Hungary has made 11 specific requests to Ukraine. They include restoring the status of the national

02:50 school, allowing a high school diploma to be taken in Hungarian and enabling the use

02:56 of the Hungarian language in public life.

03:04 The European Union has stepped up pressure on Hungary ahead of the High Stakes Summit

03:09 on Thursday to agree on four years worth of 50 billion euros of aid to Ukraine.

03:14 In the last European Council meeting in December, Hungary vetoed the initiative. Now, many member

03:20 states have lost patience with Viktor Orban systematically misusing his veto power. Now,

03:26 they are ready to act.

03:28 "We have never seen such an isolation for a new member state against other new member

03:36 states and it really seems to be a test for the European Union on how much it can handle

03:44 its internal disagreements."

03:47 Now, EU institutions and member states are trying desperately to find solutions. Possible

03:54 alternatives could be financing KIV outside of the EU's budget with the remaining 26 countries.

04:01 Other countries are demanding that the EU strips Hungary of its voting rights by stepping

04:05 up the so-called Article 7 process, a sanctions regime already in place against Budapest because

04:11 of democratic backsliding.

04:15 "We shall see whether the leaders will have enough patience to negotiate with Viktor Orban

04:23 or whether they will undertake this new way by using of Article 7, but it's just a speculation."

04:31 Hungary earlier signaled it would be open to an agreement if the EU would allow an annual

04:36 check-up on the Ukraine package. This was rejected by other countries. Budapest also

04:42 demanded more of the EU funds for Hungary be unfrozen. The funds in total make up 20

04:48 billion euros.

04:50 "Orban still has a kind of transactional logic, which means that if he receives good

04:57 offers it means that he can abandon his vetoism and obstructivist approach in the decision-making

05:07 process, but I don't think it can solve the long-term problem. And the long-term problem

05:12 seems to be that the legal system and political system of Hungary seems to be unfit to the

05:23 institutional structures and the values of the European Union."

05:27 Ukraine desperately needs EU aid to continue its defense against Russia's aggression. It

05:32 is also dealing with the fact US aid for Kiev is also currently being blocked by Congress.

05:43 In an unprecedented move, French police have arrested people involved in ongoing farmers

05:48 protests across the country. 18 demonstrators were reportedly detained as they tried to

05:54 blockade a major food distribution hub near Paris. Workers in the agriculture sector are

05:59 seeking higher wages, help with rising costs and less regulation. The government sought

06:05 to address their concerns with a number of concessions, but it failed to bring an end

06:09 to the rallies. The authorities say they are deploying 15,000 police officers, mostly in

06:14 the Paris region, to stop any effort by protesters to enter the capital.

06:22 There were similar protests elsewhere, as seen here in Italy. Farmers have taken to

06:27 the streets in several countries across the EU in pursuit of similar aims. Governments

06:33 are trying to address their issues ahead of European elections in June.

06:40 Two years after walking out of the stormed Parliament in Belfast, the pro-British DUP

06:45 have decided to return. At issue for the past two years has been the notional trade border

06:50 in the Irish Sea as part of the Brexit Windsor framework. The DUP say it isolated Northern

06:56 Ireland from GB, but now say two years on they have persuaded the British government

07:01 and the EU to drop the notional border. However, the real story arising from the change of

07:06 heart from the DUP is that the pro-British party has agreed to enter a Parliament where

07:11 Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O'Neill will become the first ever Irish nationalist

07:16 to head up the Northern Ireland regional government.

07:31 The elevation of Catholic Michelle O'Neill to the role of First Minister gives Irish

07:36 nationalism in Northern Ireland the dominant political position. On the streets of Belfast,

07:41 the proposed resumption of the Parliament has been welcomed.

08:03 However some British Unionists say Michelle O'Neill and Sinn Fein are being rewarded for

08:08 bombing their way to the negotiating table.

08:36 The future of the Stormont Parliament here in Belfast now falls on Brussels and London

08:40 to make the appropriate amendments to the Windsor Framework document. With Sinn Fein

08:44 set to occupy the First Minister seat for the very first time in its history, expect

08:49 calls to grow louder for a unification of Ireland referendum in the coming years.

08:54 This is Ken Murray for Euronews, Belfast, Northern Ireland.

09:02 The French Parliament has overwhelmingly approved the inclusion of the right to abortion in

09:07 the French Constitution with 493 votes for and 30 against. The constitutional reform

09:13 promised by President Macron after a rollback of abortion rights in the US was backed by

09:18 the centrist coalition and left-wing groups. The text now heads to the Senate where it

09:23 could face opposition. Although France's major political parties support the right

09:28 to abortion, some centre-right Senate members oppose enshrining it in the constitution.

09:37 Fans of Taylor Swift and other top artists may soon not be able to access their songs

09:42 on TikTok because of a dispute between Universal Music Group and the social media platform.

09:48 UMG has accused TikTok of trying to bully it into accepting what it says is a bad deal

09:54 on music rights fees. The current deal was set to expire within 24 hours of the online

10:00 statement and the music publisher said it would withdraw all its songs unless it receives

10:06 an improved offer.

10:12 Meet Sándor Kerecki, the Hungarian photographer who takes you back to the streets of Budapest

10:18 in the 1970s. Given a camera by his father at the age of 16, he spent the next 10 years

10:25 wandering the streets of the city where he captured everyday moments.

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