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00:00Russian forces enter Toretsk as battles rage in Toretsk Region, Ukraine.

00:11Hungarian presidency priorities explained by Prime Minister in two-hour-long press conference.

00:20MEPs have held a debate on the crisis facing the European automotive industry.

00:31Preparations are underway in Florida as Category 5 Hurricane Milton closes in on the region.

00:47Russian forces are already in eastern Toretsk.

00:50Ukrainian military command confirmed saying that the fighting is taking place

00:55literally at every building entrance.

00:58The situation near Toretsk has been difficult for months and the clashes on the town's outskirts

01:03were reported back in August.

01:05But over the past month Moscow has intensified its focus and its assaults and Russian forces

01:12have been advancing into Toretsk since late September, wildly using the highly destructive

01:19guided bombs.

01:21With a population of over 30,000 before the full-scale invasion, Toretsk has been largely

01:26destroyed and devastated with most of the buildings shattered.

01:30And only about 1,600 people staying in town after numerous evacuations.

01:35If Russian forces manage to capture the town, it would help Moscow obstruct key Ukrainian

01:40logistics routes connecting the operational rear and the combat zone.

01:45The situation has also gotten increasingly difficult in eastern Ukraine, the primary

01:51target of Russia's invasion since the capture of Vuhlydar, which happened less than a week ago.

01:57Similar to Vuhlydar, Toretsk has been a front-line town for 10 years due to its location close

02:04to Ukraine's territories seized by Russia in 2014.

02:12As Israel's airstrikes and ground troops operations continue in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin

02:17Netanyahu says Israeli forces have taken out the would-be successors of Hezbollah.

02:22Netanyahu also warned the people of Lebanon to rise up against Hezbollah or face a similar

02:28fate like Gaza.

02:29You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that

02:34will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.

02:38At least 1,400 Lebanese people have been killed since the fighting escalated three weeks ago.

02:48According to Viktor Orban, Ukraine cannot win the war and the European Union should

02:53aim for a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow.

02:57The Hungarian Prime Minister is in Strasbourg presenting the priorities of the Hungarian

03:01Council Presidency to the European Parliament.

03:05His press conference was interrupted by a member of a Hungarian opposition party.

03:12He threw fake banknotes on the PM calling him a traitor.

03:19Orban, who is often criticized for being supportive of Russia, told a room packed with reporters

03:24that better communication with President Putin was needed to get a ceasefire.

03:29Quizzed by Euronews, he conceded that in the meantime EU countries could keep up their

03:34military aid to Ukraine on a national basis.

03:39Those who think what we are doing as European Union is good and strategically right, let's

03:45support the Ukrainians.

03:46Don't disagree with that like Hungary, we don't.

03:50That belongs to the national government.

03:53The Hungarian Prime Minister also called for stricter controls to detect migrants at the

03:57borders and hotspots outside the EU.

04:00And he doubled down on the request for his country to be exempt from the new EU migration

04:05policy.

04:09He also still seems ready to send refugees to Brussels to protest against it.

04:14We respect the European law, we respect all the regulations, but if somebody who get an

04:23asylum in Hungary would like to come to Brussels, you know, we are ready to help them.

04:29Hungary's presidency started in July, but their diplomats have been facing boycotts

04:33and isolation in the EU institutions from the start.

04:37Orbán's rapporteur for the situation in Hungary believes Orbán is actively undermining

04:42the common European asylum system.

04:47He uses the rhetoric just, you know, to get more, a stronger position, to blackmail in

04:56order to get EU funding.

04:59It's a lot of rhetorics.

05:02And Orbán's biggest prize for the Hungarian presidency?

05:06To get Romania and Bulgaria fully into the Schengen area, apparently.

05:12MEPs have held a debate on the state of the automotive industry, as car manufacturers

05:20across the continent continue to face factory closures brought on by sluggish sales.

05:28A key focus of the debate was the decline in demand for European electric vehicles,

05:34a trend that's been exacerbated by rising competition from Chinese manufacturers.

05:40Car sales in the EU are below the pre-COVID level, while China has become the largest

05:46market.

05:47Also, in the third market, the demand has shifted towards zero-emission vehicles.

05:53We have set a clear framework for transition to zero-emission vehicles with a 100% zero-emission

05:58cars target by 2035.

06:01But critics say the EU's 2035 target is impossible to meet, arguing there is not enough funding

06:08or infrastructure.

06:28A resolution on the issue will be put to a vote in a future session.

06:41At the gates of the University of Seville in the south of Spain, a group of students

06:46begin to gather.

06:48It is one of the welcome events for Erasmus students who are about to begin classes.

06:52For many of them, the new course does not begin in classes, instead it begins with

07:05a tour to get to know the city.

07:16According to the Erasmus Student Network, Spain has been the country where the most

07:21Erasmus students with about 150,000 this year alone.

07:26Madrid is the main destination with nearly 10,000 students, followed by Barcelona, Valencia

07:32and Seville, chosen this year as one of the destinations best valued by the students.

07:38Other best valued cities include Porto, Istanbul and Sofia.

07:43It is a city with which we really anchor the Spanish culture very well and it is also

07:50relatively cheap for what an Erasmus can afford.

07:53The cuts in the financing of Erasmus projects could have a repercussion that goes far beyond

07:58the university environment, especially in the local economies of cities like Seville

08:03that see every year how the number of Erasmus students increases.

08:07Thanks to the Erasmus programme, the University of Seville received nearly €7 million of

08:12investments this year.

08:14An additional €10 million could be injected into the economy from the use of services

08:20in the city catering to over 2,300 students.

08:24I live in a student residence and I pay €700 a month.

08:31And the food for me is about €100 a month.

08:37A lot of foreign students come and of course they consume too much.

08:41Thanks to them, thanks to the university, we have a lot of clients here and the business

08:46is doing very well thanks to what they consume and what they spend.

08:50MEPs on the EU Parliament Budget Committee have opposed the proposal to cut about €295

08:56million from the Erasmus programme.

08:59Our association has a clear position on this and obviously we believe that the Erasmus

09:04scholarship and the possibility of international mobility is available to everyone, whether

09:08they are from the social class or not.

09:10Most of the students who travel for the programme are the French, followed by Germans and, in

09:16the third place, the Spanish.

09:18This year has seen almost 400,000 fewer participants in the Erasmus programme compared to last

09:25year, the first time that the numbers have started to fall after the pandemic.

09:35French truck drivers are blocking a main motorway in Alsace in protest against the potential

09:41introduction of a heavy goods vehicles tax from 2027.

09:46The new tax, which comes at a cost of 15 cents per kilometre, aims to reduce transit traffic

09:52on the A35 motorway, which sees up to 10,000 trucks pass along it each day.

09:59Many of these lorries use the Alsace motorway to avoid paying the high eco-taxes already

10:04in place on German motorways.

10:08Those working in the transit industry say the addition of this new tax would threaten

10:13the survival of some businesses.

10:29Local councillors are set to vote on the proposal on the 21st of October.

10:35Florida is preparing for what could be one of the most destructive storms on record as

10:43Category 5 Hurricane Milton is forecast to hit the areas of Tampa and St Petersburg.

10:50Milton brushed the shore of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early on Tuesday, knocking down

10:56power lines, light poles and trees before making its way towards the Florida coast.

11:04Police have ordered evacuations in Largo, while residents in Venice stock up on sandbags

11:09to protect their homes.

11:12President Biden has postponed his planned trips to Germany and Angola and has urged

11:17people to follow local safety instructions.

11:20If you're under evacuation orders you should evacuate now, now, now, you should have already

11:26evacuated. It's a matter of life and death and that's not hyperbole, it's a matter of

11:30life and death.

11:32The storm comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the region and

11:38clean-up efforts continue to clear debris before it can be swept up and hurled by Milton's

11:43powerful storm surges.

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