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00:00World leaders touched down in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the G20 summit, where member states

00:05are set to discuss economic cooperation and policies.

00:10COP 29 in Baku enters its final phase, aiming to agree on a new climate financing regime

00:17as the current one expires next year.

00:20Volodymyr Zelensky says the missiles will speak for themselves after the US greenlights

00:26their use to strike targets deeper inside Russia.

00:31Slovakians rally against the populist government of Prime Minister Robert Fico on the anniversary

00:36of the fall of communism.

00:45World leaders touched down in Rio de Janeiro ahead of the G20 summit, where member states

00:52are set to discuss economic cooperation and policies.

00:56They were met by Brazil's President Lula da Silva, who will hold bilateral meetings

01:01with many leading nations attending the summit.

01:05The group of 20 includes members of the G7, as well as countries of emerging economies

01:10who are expected to adopt a joint declaration at the end of the summit.

01:16The G20 leaders must lead, and G20 countries, by definition, have tremendous economic clout

01:25and they yield massive diplomatic leverage.

01:28They must use it to tackle key global problems.

01:32The Brazilian presidency laid out three priorities that need to be discussed – the fight against

01:37hunger, the transition to renewable energy, and the reform of international institutions.

01:44But this year's forum is expected to be overshadowed by two major wars between Ukraine and Russia

01:49and in the Middle East, as well as Donald Trump's recent US election victory.

02:00With the first week over and ministers arriving on Monday, COP29 in Baku enters its final

02:06phase.

02:07Dubbed the Finance Cop, it aims to agree on a new climate financing regime, as the current

02:14one expires next year.

02:16Now the new collective quantified goal aims for trillions, according to the UN's trade

02:22and development organisation.

02:26We made this study and we ran a model to try to establish a bracket for the new goal and

02:33we came out with this document that says that the goal should start from 1.1 trillion for

02:42next year.

02:43And it is more or less in the range of what has been discussed by other studies or proposed

02:51by other studies too.

02:53But experts say this will be a challenge to achieve.

02:59No I think that these are difficult discussions, let's not try to overshadow the difficulties

03:06that we are confronting.

03:08And obviously it's not only about the quantum, it's also about the responsibilities within

03:14the quantum, what will come from where and for what.

03:21Governments are negotiating the new agreement, but the private sector will play a key role

03:26in its implementation.

03:28Multilateral development banks like the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development play

03:33a key role between countries and companies.

03:38EU Vice-President Odile Renaud-Bassot told Euronews that alongside the financial goal,

03:43ambitious policies from countries at COP29 are crucial.

03:48Having a goal is not the only solution per se, so it's mean, but what is also very important

03:57is the commitments taken by all countries around the world about national determined

04:01contribution, how they will, what kind of objectives they set for themselves in terms

04:06of level of renewable, getting out of coal, getting out of gas and so forth.

04:10So the national objective each country sets for himself is very important also, because

04:17having money, if you don't have projects, will not deliver anything.

04:21The Secretary General of the International Chamber of Commerce emphasised the need for

04:25ambitious targets.

04:28We expect governments to lead on this, we expect governments to actually be seized with

04:33the same level of engagement and intensity as when the global financial crisis hit, and

04:38we expect action.

04:40At the end of this week, ministers face a critical moment.

04:44Will they agree on the new financing goal and announce ambitious policies and projects

04:50for their countries?

04:56Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken after a decision came from Washington giving permission for

05:01Ukraine to use U.S. missiles to strike targets deeper inside Russia.

05:06But despite Zelensky pleading for such permission for weeks, his response in his nightly video

05:11address was notably muted.

05:13Today, many in the media are saying that we have received permission for such actions,

05:20but strikes are not delivered in words, such things are not announced, the missiles will

05:28speak for themselves.

05:31The decision marks a major U.S. policy shift during Joe Biden's final weeks in the White

05:36House.

05:37Biden had been reluctant to grant Kiev permission to use U.S. weapons for anything other than

05:41defensive purposes.

05:43He feared doing so would be a major escalation that could draw the U.S. and other NATO members

05:48into direct conflict with Russia.

05:51The weapons are expected to be used in response to North Korea's decision to send as many

05:55as 12,000 troops to Russia.

05:58American and South Korean intelligence officials say North Korea has also provided Russia with

06:03significant amounts of munitions.

06:05President-elect Donald Trump has signaled that he could push Ukraine to agree to surrender

06:10some land seized by Russia to bring about an end to the conflict.

06:14Trump, who takes office in January, repeatedly criticized the amount of military aid Washington

06:19sent to Kiev and said he could end the war within a day.

06:27A flag for each fallen soldier.

06:30This makeshift memorial in Ukraine's capital, Kiev, marks 1,000 days since Russia's full-scale

06:36invasion.

06:38Many fighters were civilians who, when called upon, left their ordinary lives behind to

06:43fight for their country.

07:08The shrine was created by relatives of the fallen soldiers, driven by a deep need to

07:20honor them in the absence of an official government memorial.

07:25Sources show the first flags appeared on the lawn on the Independence Square in May of

07:30the war's first year.

07:32According to Western estimates, some 80,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died in battle so

07:37far.

07:43Thousands of protesters have gathered in Bratislava to oppose the policies of Populist Prime Minister

07:48Robert Fico.

07:50The rally coincided with the 35th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that

07:55brought an end to communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia.

07:59The protest united opposition parties who all say Fico is a threat to democracy.

08:26Fico came to power last year and his government has pushed through a plan to overhaul public

08:31broadcasting, a move critics say would give the government full control of public television

08:35and radio.

08:37Moves to amend a penal code and eliminate a special anti-graft prosecutor has led opponents

08:42to worry that he's leading Slovakia down a more autocratic path.

08:47Fico ended his country's military aid for Ukraine, opposes EU sanctions on Russia and

08:52says he'll block Ukraine's bid to join NATO.

08:56The Velvet Revolution took place from the 17th to the 28th of November 1989, one of

09:01several anti-communism movements in Eastern Europe at the end of the 80s.

09:06Demonstrations and strikes against the one-party government of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia

09:11included people from across the civilian spectrum.

09:14The result was the end of 41 years of one-party rule in the country, the dismantling of the

09:19centrally planned economy and the transition to a parliamentary democracy.

09:27Russia's exiled anti-war opposition has so far largely failed to speak with one voice

09:32and present a clear plan of action.

09:34But it was a different scene on Sunday in central Berlin.

09:38Prominent Russian opposition figures led a march of at least a thousand people against

09:43the war in Ukraine and calling for democracy in the motherland.

09:47Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of Alexei Navalny, as well as Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Karamurza

09:53were among the protesters.

09:56Their demands were highly optimistic, but clear.

10:00Immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, trial of Vladimir Putin as a war

10:04criminal and the release of all political prisoners in Russia.

10:09The unification of the opposition finally happened as a result of a landmark east-west

10:13prisoner swap in August that freed key dissidents and helped to reinvigorate a movement that

10:19was fractured by the death in prison of Navalny.

10:28Pope Francis has called for a probe into whether Israel's attacks in Gaza amount to genocide,

10:34according to excerpts from an upcoming book being released on Tuesday and based on interviews

10:39with the Pope.

10:40This is his first open call for such investigations.

10:44Israel has continuously denied any accusation of genocide.

10:48On Sunday, the Pope also addressed St. Peter's Square on the World Day of the Poor.

11:04In northern Gaza, a strike on a residential building in Beit Elaya killed at least 72

11:10people and wounded dozens, according to Palestinian health officials.

11:15Strikes also killed 10 in the Nuzirat and Burej refugee camps and two on Gaza's main

11:20highway, according to Al-Aqsa Martyr Hospital.

11:24The latest killings has brought the Palestinian death toll to over 43,800 Palestinians, according

11:31to health officials, over half being women and children.

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