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00:00 A British man died and more than two dozen passengers got injured during a severe turbulence

00:07 on a London-Singapore flight on Tuesday.

00:11 The plane took off from Heathrow Airport with 211 passengers on board and had to make an

00:18 emergency landing in Bangkok at 3.45 p.m. local time.

00:24 authorities said the victim might have suffered a heart attack.

00:30 I just know that Mr. English mentioned and then have like heart attack problem.

00:42 So maybe he's have a heart attack on plane or not.

00:47 But after the doctor have to investigate his body.

00:52 Tracking data shows the plane suddenly and sharply pitched down by nearly 2,000 metres

01:00 in around three minutes, staying at an altitude of 9,400 metres before rapidly descending

01:07 and landing in Bangkok in just under half an hour.

01:11 Airports of Thailand group said all injured passengers are being treated at a facility

01:16 inside Suvarna Bhumi Airport.

01:21 Nine defendants are going on trial in Frankfurt, Germany over an alleged far-right attempt

01:34 to forcibly overthrow the government.

01:37 The case shocked the country back in 2022.

01:41 Around 260 witnesses are supposed to attend.

01:45 The large number of defendants, lawyers and media dealing with the case are being held

01:51 in a courthouse built specifically for this trial.

01:56 We don't have a room that would have been suitable for this trial

02:02 given the security precautions and the size of the people.

02:08 The trial has a scale that the High Court has never had before.

02:14 We have a trial with nine defendants, who currently have 25 defendants.

02:20 We also have a large amount of indictment that goes beyond what we know so far.

02:28 Defendants include Eirik XIII, Prince Reuss, whom the group allegedly planned to install

02:36 as Germany's provisional new leader.

02:39 There's also a judge and former lawmaker with the far-right AFD party,

02:44 as well as ex-German military officers.

02:47 Most of them have been charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation.

02:52 The trial, starting on Tuesday, is the second of three major proceedings

02:57 into the so-called "Reichsbürgers",

03:00 people who allegedly don't recognise the Federal Republic of Germany.

03:05 Another trial began in Stuttgart in April,

03:08 while a third one is expected to start in Munich in June.

03:14 The Slovak Parliament reconvened for the first time on Tuesday

03:19 since the shooting of Prime Minister Robert Fico last week.

03:23 In a landmark resolution, MPs unanimously called on all parties

03:28 to respect election results and refrain from spreading hatred against opponents.

03:34 The move follows a public outcry over the attack on the PM,

03:38 which many say stemmed from an atmosphere of toxicity and lies surrounding Slovak politics.

03:45 Prime Minister Fico remains in hospital in a serious but non-life-threatening condition.

03:51 Medical staff said he remains conscious and communicative.

03:56 Meanwhile, investigations into the attack go on.

03:59 A male individual was detained immediately after the incident.

04:04 Following a police search at his apartment,

04:08 a court ordered that the suspect remain behind bars.

04:12 Government officials initially sustained that the shooter was probably a lone wolf.

04:17 However, on Sunday, they said that he might have been helped by someone else.

04:23 The Austrian Chancellor praised Britain as a pioneer in outsourcing migrants to places outside of Europe.

04:33 In Vienna, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer praised the UK's Rwanda scheme

04:38 at a joint news conference with the UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

04:44 Austria and the UK have agreed to work together to change the European legal system

04:49 to allow the deportation of migrants to safe third countries.

04:54 With the partnership with the UK, we can now actually make a change in the process of discussion.

05:03 That's why there is full support for the British way from the Austrian side.

05:09 Business as usual won't solve this problem.

05:12 We have to think creatively.

05:14 We have to pursue new ideas, new solutions and deterrence,

05:18 removals to safe third countries like the UK's pioneering Rwanda scheme.

05:23 Austria is among 15 EU countries calling for more agreements with countries migrants depart from.

05:30 This call followed EU nations endorsing major asylum system reforms.

05:35 Serbia's left-wing Socialist Movement Party has announced it will draft a bill

05:43 aiming to restrict the activities of foreign NGOs operating in the Balkan country.

05:49 The betrayal of our own country and people cannot be highly profitable.

05:55 The draft closely resembles the highly controversial foreign agent law

06:00 which is expected to be implemented in Georgia soon.

06:03 Serbian voters will head to the ballot box on June 2

06:07 to participate in a rerun of last year's federal election.

06:11 The proposed anti-foreign NGO law could bring more votes to the Serbian Socialist Movement.

06:17 I truly believe that the threat to the interests of the Republic of Serbia

06:21 is if there are non-governmental organisations that are being financed from abroad

06:27 and work here to promote Kosovo as an independent state,

06:33 to promote the existence of genocide in Srebrenica,

06:38 to destroy the Republic of Serbia.

06:42 NGOs such as the Youth Initiative for Human Rights are concerned

06:47 the bill will impact their and Serbian society's future.

06:51 I see these announcements as a means of intimidating the pre-segregation society

06:56 and independent media,

06:58 that is, the media that critically question the behaviour of the government,

07:03 and on the other hand, organisations that try to reform the society

07:09 by proposing certain policies.

07:12 Through these announcements we see a kind of voluntary ban

07:16 on the use of certain democratic principles.

07:19 The law could hang Serbia's EU member state candidacy in the balance.

07:25 Spain's Popular Party presented its policy platform for the upcoming EU elections

07:38 and are using it to critique Federal Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government.

07:43 We have led in Europe the defence of the rule of law

07:47 and the permanent denunciation of the infamous amnesty of Sánchez and Puigdemont.

07:51 The opposition is targeting democracy, economy, social policies and geopolitical leadership

07:57 and will attempt to garner younger voters' support.

08:00 We are working on a proposal to exempt them from paying taxes

08:04 during the first years of their professional careers.

08:07 Party leader Fuego promised to make this one of the electoral campaign's central points

08:13 but noted the challenges.

08:15 Sometimes I have the impression that a document like this

08:18 is relegated to the dispute, to the political game, to the smoke, to the noise.

08:23 It comes after far-right party Vox drew thousands of attendees at a rally in the capital,

08:28 attended by Argentinian President Javier Millet.

08:31 A row between the countries sparked by comments made by Millet

08:35 threatened to overshadow the start of Spain's EU election campaign.

08:39 I think it's a shame that the interests of 48 million Spaniards and 46 million Argentinians

08:45 are being kidnapped by a way of doing politics.

08:48 The party leader advocated for calm amid barbs traded between the leaders' governments.

08:54 Support for the popular party at the ballot box in June.

09:00 Despite the words of Alberto Núñez and Joaquín in the presentation of the PP's electoral program,

09:05 the diplomatic crisis between Spain and Argentina

09:07 places the story where its political adversaries want it to.

09:10 On the one hand, Vox's demonstration of force at its weekend rally

09:14 reveals that it does not give up disputing the PP's anti-Sanchismo flag.

09:19 And Sánchez, on the other hand, considers the PSOE as the wall

09:22 against what he calls the "ultra-right-wing international".

09:25 Because beyond the political programs,

09:27 the electoral campaigns always mark the times.

09:30 Everyone knows how it starts, but no one knows how it ends.

09:33 In Madrid, Jaime Velázquez, Euronews.

09:36 I am in Hungary, in Debrecen in particular,

09:45 the second city in the country and one of the bastions of the faithfulness of the party of Prime Minister Víctor Orban.

09:50 Behind me you have several thousand people gathered, not in support of the government,

09:53 but on the call of a man, Peter Magyar, who embodies a new opposition

09:57 and who presents his list to the European elections in June 2024.

10:00 His popularity is climbing the ranks and the hopes of a change in Hungarian society accompany him.

10:04 So for Witness, we will try to understand what are the challenges of these elections,

10:07 but above all, what future is drawn for Hungarians.

10:18 If someone is sick and cannot afford medical treatment, and cannot afford medical treatment...

10:23 ...then he is a traitor.

10:25 We are the most corrupt country, so it's too much for the Hungarian people.

10:37 It's too much together, economically, politically, legally, ethically, it's too much.

10:42 It will be challenging for him, you know, just to keep his success alive.

11:04 And what we know for sure is that Fidesz will do anything to discredit him.

11:12 I think that he needs a chance, and I think he has a chance, because he is new,

11:17 and he has come from the system that he is trying to take down.

11:21 I don't have a belief that if he would be Hungary's Prime Minister, everything would change,

11:28 that everything would be automatically better.

11:32 I think changing the current system that has been governing here for the past 14 years would be a step.

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