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00:00Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobak-Hidze sits down with Euronews ahead of the country's

00:06parliamentary elections.

00:13Beirut faced a night of intense explosions as some 17 Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanon's

00:19capital overnight. At least one person was killed and several injured in a strike on

00:24a residential building in the city's southern suburb of Dahiye.

00:28In southern Lebanon, three soldiers of the Lebanese army were killed in an Israeli strike

00:33on its troops. Since the end of September, a total of 13 Lebanese soldiers have been

00:37killed. The Lebanese army is not fighting the Israelis in their conflict with Hezbollah,

00:43but providing support services for the civilian population.

00:47Israel has also expanded its military campaign to the ancient city of Tyre after issuing

00:52evacuation orders. The evacuation area covered a densely populated stretch between two UNESCO

00:58World Heritage sites.

01:01Meanwhile, the World Health Organization postponed its last round of polio vaccinations in northern

01:07Gaza because of intense bombardment.

01:12Israel's ongoing siege of the area has displaced more than 60,000 Palestinians to central Gaza.

01:20$1 billion in pledges were raised at the international aid conference for Lebanon held in Paris.

01:32France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrault announced the conference raised $800 million

01:37in humanitarian aid and $200 million in military support for the Lebanese army.

01:43President Emmanuel Macron said massive aid is needed to support the country and pledged

01:48France would provide a 100 million euro package.

01:52What is needed is simply to shelter families, feed children, treat the wounded, continue

01:57to ensure the education of the students. We must find solutions as soon as possible.

02:02At all costs, we must prevent the movement of people from the south to Beirut and other

02:07regions of Lebanon from creating new divisions among the Lebanese.

02:12The war must end as soon as possible. We must put an end to the fire in Lebanon.

02:17The conference, which gathered over 70 nations, raised double of the original appeal of $426

02:24million set by the United Nations.

02:27Italy this week announced new aid of 10 million euros and Germany on Wednesday pledged an

02:32additional 60 million euros.

02:40BRICS leaders posed for a group photo ahead of the closing plenary session of the summit

02:45hosted by Vladimir Putin in the Russian city of Kazan.

02:48The three-day conference was attended by 36 countries as well as UN Secretary-General

02:53Antonio Guterres. It covered the deepening of financial cooperation, including the development

02:59of alternatives to Western-dominated payment systems, as well as settling regional conflicts

03:04and moving to expand the group's members.

03:06Speaking at Thursday's plenary session, Putin spoke of a shared vision of new democratic

03:11global order, while also blaming Western sanctions for undermining regional stability,

03:16including in Ukraine.

03:19One of the examples of this is Ukraine, which is used to create critical threats to

03:26the security of Russia, ignoring at the same time our vital interests, just concerns and

03:33infringements of the rights of Russian-speaking people.

03:37Putin also proposed to reform the UN, expanding the representation of the countries of Asia,

03:47Africa and Latin America.

03:55Poland's President Andrzej Duda arrived at South Korea's presidential office on Thursday

04:00for a summit with President Yun Suk-yol. Their meeting takes place in a special context as

04:06North Korea has sent troops to Russia as it wages war in Ukraine.

04:11Polish and South Korean top security officials already met on Wednesday and agreed to expand

04:16their nation's defense cooperation in response.

04:19South Korea recently signed a deal to purchase so-called suicide drones from Poland to

04:24counter North Korea's rising threats.

04:26Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and Edmundo González, a candidate

04:32in July's presidential elections, have been awarded the European Parliament's annual

04:37Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

04:40The European Parliament has highlighted their courageous struggle to restore freedom

04:45and democracy in Venezuela.

04:47It is my privilege to announce that the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought

04:54has been awarded to María Corina Machado, leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.

05:01María Corina Machado, leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.

05:27Leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutía,

05:34representing all Venezuelans.

05:37The European Parliament recognized Edmundo González as the elected president of Venezuela

05:41in a non-binding resolution in September.

05:44The award will be presented on 18th December.

05:50An investigation into the disappearance of more than 50,000 child migrants has won the

05:56European Parliament's 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.

06:02Lost in Europe, a project led by Dutch journalist Heysha Van Haren revealed that since 2021,

06:09on average nearly 47 migrant children arriving in Europe have gone missing per day.

06:16The research uncovered significant inconsistencies in documentation and reporting across 31 countries

06:23including Austria, Germany and Italy, raising concerns that the actual number of missing

06:28children may be higher.

06:31They say this is just a tip of the iceberg that there were 51,433 children missing.

06:42The last time that we did this investigation, there were only 18,000 children missing back

06:49in 2021, so the number did increase.

06:53We don't know what happens if we do the investigation again in three years.

06:57The investigation found that many of these children fall victim to human trafficking

07:02or get caught up in people smuggling gangs.

07:06Many children are also caught at the borders and they end up in prison for people smuggling

07:12whilst they were smuggled themselves.

07:15So the EU war against people smuggling works out the other way for minor children.

07:23A lot of minor children are in adult detention because of that.

07:29The Lost in Europe team received their award at a ceremony in Strasbourg.

07:39Armed security remained at the scene of the aerospace complex in Ankara that was attacked

07:44on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding more than 20 others.

07:48Turkey's interior minister and defence minister blamed the attack on Kurdish PKK militants,

07:54which Turkey and its western allies consider a terrorist group.

07:58Following the attack, Turkey's air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria

08:03in an apparent retaliation.

08:05The defence ministry said more than 30 targets were destroyed in the aerial offensive,

08:10without providing details on the locations that were hit.

08:13It said precautions were taken to prevent harm to civilians,

08:16although the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces say 12 civilians were killed.

08:21The attacks continued for a second day on Thursday.

08:24There was no immediate statement from the PKK on the attack in Ankara or the Kurdish airstrikes.

08:30Turkey's President Recep Erdogan condemned the attack during a meeting

08:34with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a BRICS meeting in Russia.

08:39On the 26th of October, Georgia will hold parliamentary elections,

08:44marking a pivotal moment as the country's first under a fully proportional system.

08:51The stakes are high, with the outcome potentially shaping the nation's future integration

08:57within the EU and its movement away from Russian influence.

09:01In an interview with Euronews, Georgia's Prime Minister,

09:05In an interview with Euronews,

09:07Georgia's Prime Minister, Irakli Kovac Hidze,

09:10said the nation's orthodox values make it an ideal partner to Europe.

09:14To be part of the European family is a kind of historic choice for Georgia and for Georgians.

09:21We know that we are a Christian nation

09:25and Europe was always associated with Christianity

09:29and was defending and protecting Christianity for Georgia.

09:33So that's why Europe was always a natural choice for Georgia and for Georgians.

09:39Georgia was granted EU candidate status last year,

09:43but controversial legislation introduced by the government since then

09:47has put the country's accession talks at risk.

09:52Of particular concern is the Foreign Agents Bill,

09:56which critics say is based on a similar law in Russia aimed at stifling political dissent.

10:02But Georgia's Prime Minister says Russian influence is non-existent.

10:07You can say that Russia is not influential in Georgia.

10:13There are no political parties where they would enjoy their influence.

10:18There is no influential media channels with their influence.

10:24So that's why the Russian side cannot influence the elections in Georgia essentially.

10:32The campaign environment heading into the elections has been heavily polarised

10:36and with opinion polls continuing to produce contradictory results,

10:40Georgia's future remains unclear.

10:43Today, we provide services to people who are deprived of their mobility

10:47or for whom it is very difficult to move around.

10:56We guarantee all this with a technology that is the most advanced in the world.

11:02It is a technology that allows us to provide services to people

11:06We guarantee all this with a technology that is in line with the European vision

11:12of what an automated vehicle should be.

11:16Namely, a vehicle that has learned its route before operating it.

11:20And finally, when it is in operation and without a driver on board,

11:24it only compares what it has learned with what it sees.

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