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00:00Extreme weather events will become much more intense and frequent as temperatures continue

00:04to rise.

00:06Is Europe on the right track to tackle climate change?

00:11After severed fiber-optic undersea cable was discovered between Germany and Finland, politicians

00:16are saying the damage was deliberate.

00:19Welcome the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, joining us live.

00:26A long ovation for a visibly touched Volodymyr Zelensky.

00:32This is how the European Parliament commemorated 1,000 days of war in Ukraine.

00:37And in his speech, Zelensky targeted the enemy once again.

00:53The president of the European Parliament, Roberto Mezzolla, has insisted on her support

00:57for Ukraine before elect president of the United States, Donald Trump, swears into office

01:00after which everything can change.

01:14EU buildings in Brussels had projections of the Ukrainian flag as a symbol of solidarity

01:17on Monday.

01:18Zelensky has called on the EU to push harder before conditions for his country worsen.

01:25The five largest countries of the EU have backed a proposal to issue joint defense bonds

01:30to bolster the bloc's defense industry.

01:33Poland's foreign minister, Radek Sidorski, said on Tuesday this will help Europe firmly

01:38counteract Russia's imperial ambitions.

01:41Is Europe on the right track to tackle climate change?

02:07Extreme weather events, like the deadly floods in Spain, will become much more intense and

02:11frequent as atmosphere and sea temperatures continue to rise.

02:16The general director of the Spanish Office for Climate Change says the EU is working

02:20on mitigating climate change, which involves reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

02:26We need to work on the path that we have already set because we have been working in mitigation.

02:33We are the most ambitious group in policies to tackle mitigation, that is the first and

02:39the starting point to avoid the impacts and to avoid these floods and these tremendous

02:45drafts.

02:46Besides mitigation, the EU is also working on adaptation to climate change.

02:50Aparicio stressed the need to find a new framework to be better prepared to these intense events.

02:56The new commission has a very good opportunity and the president of the commission announced

03:01a European plan for adaptation, in which all the countries need to bring to the table

03:08the different specificities of each region because adaptation is very local and the impacts

03:13are also very, very local.

03:15Risk perception, improving capacity and education of administrations and citizens are very important

03:21elements in the fight with climate change.

03:23Experts believe we need to enhance our understanding of climate change and of its social and economic

03:28consequences.

03:32Following the French farmers' protest against the agreement between the EU and Mercosur,

03:37alarm bells are ringing in Spain as well.

03:40As the Spanish government supports the deal, the agricultural sector aims to bring its

03:44opposition to the agreement to the attention of politicians.

03:47We totally reject the position of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Spanish government

03:53when it comes to the impacts it has on livestock and agriculture in the Spanish state.

04:00Very negative impacts that will drive more industrial agriculture models, which also

04:07clash and have a total and absolute contradiction with the objectives of the Green Pact and

04:13the farm-to-table strategy.

04:15Farmers want the Spanish government to acknowledge their demands.

04:19The Ministry of Agriculture has never convened a specific meeting with the agricultural sector

04:26to talk about Mercosur.

04:28Following the Spanish farmers' many criticisms of the agreement between the EU and Mercosur,

04:33the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, defends it.

04:36He assures that there is a lot of mythology, as he has described it, in the opinions contrary

04:41to the agreement and which do not fit into reality.

04:43In addition, he leaves the following question in the air.

04:46Listen.

04:47I think there is a certain mythology around Mercosur that I don't think fits into the

04:55reality of the Mercosur agreement or the moment in which we are living.

05:00Is the EU interested in closing on itself or is it interested in expanding the network

05:09of our trade agreements with third countries to maintain our economic and commercial influence?

05:17Farmers are responding.

05:18They have a message for the Minister of Agriculture.

05:22The Minister is the Minister and the farmers are the ones who are suffering these consequences.

05:27If the Minister were a farmer or the farmers were ministers,

05:31I can imagine that they would be with their French and German counterparts

05:35against this trade agreement that is going to be signed.

05:38They are demanding that we comply with some things that are becoming more and more difficult,

05:41that our products are becoming more and more scarce,

05:43and that they are leading to the abandonment of both agriculture and European livestock.

05:47On the contrary, in these countries where these raw materials are expected to be brought,

05:51all these rules that do not exist make it easier to produce and manage.

05:56It is also unacceptable that Europe, which is created to protect member countries,

06:00is allowing us to work at a disadvantage with a disloyal competition with third countries.

06:06Spanish farmers are coordinating amongst themselves and do not rule out holding protests.

06:11Damage done to two underwater data transmission cables running between Germany and Finland was deliberate,

06:18according to the German defence minister.

06:22His comments come after the two countries announced

06:25they discovered a severed fibre optic undersea cable

06:28and that an investigation was underway.

06:33I don't like to believe in versions that anchor the cables

06:38and that they caused damage by accident.

06:41So we have to find out, without knowing who it came from,

06:45that it is a hybrid operation.

06:48And we have to assume, without knowing it,

06:52that it is sabotage.

06:56The incident is not the first to involve damage to underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

07:01The incident is not the first to involve damage to underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

07:08Over the weekend, a different cable between Lithuania and Sweden reportedly lost service.

07:14Countries involved in both incidents said Russia,

07:17often considered responsible for acts of hybrid warfare,

07:20could be at least partially to blame.

07:24Giselle Pellicot, who was subjected to mass rape by her husband

07:30and dozens of other men for over a decade,

07:33said that macho patriarchal society should change its attitude on rape.

07:39She gave her closing statement to court on Tuesday

07:42in one of France's biggest criminal trials in recent history.

07:46Pellicot called it a trial of cowardice,

07:49referring to the men who claimed they didn't realize it was rape.

07:54The abuse was discovered in 2020,

07:56after police stumbled upon videos and pictures her husband had recorded of it.

08:02The trial could have been held behind closed doors,

08:04but Pellicot requested for it to be held in public,

08:07saying she hoped it would help other women speak up.

08:11The case shocked the country and triggered nationwide protests in her support.

08:16A verdict is expected to be delivered by the end of December.

08:31Moldova is deeply polarized among pro-EU and pro-Russian public opinions.

08:36A referendum on the accession of the country to the EU

08:39displayed that only a tiny majority of the Moldovan people wants to join the bloc.

08:46The Moldovan foreign minister Mihai Popsoy was in Brussels

08:49to affirm his government's will to catch up on the EU integration

08:53against all geopolitical odds.

09:02Many Moldovans would have liked to be in the same position as our brothers in Romania

09:06or like our good friends from the Baltic countries.

09:10Russian propaganda is very instrumental in feeding this narrative

09:15that you are never going to be in Europe, that you are second class.

09:19But we need to work hard to combat that narrative,

09:22to show that we are already a candidate country,

09:24that we are already advancing on our European path.

09:27The war in Ukraine has also put Moldova under the spotlights of the international stage.

09:33The country played an essential strategic role of logistic hub and rearguard.

09:38Due to its pending problems with Russia in its breakaway region of Transnistria,

09:42Moldova considers that a simple ceasefire wouldn't be the solution for Ukraine.

09:48Nobody, in line with international law,

09:51can recognize what Russia claims to be its territory now,

09:56because it's not, it's Ukraine's territory.

09:59And we will look at how the things will develop,

10:05but we also are encouraged by the support that we get from our friends in Kiev,

10:09and whenever the discussion will come,

10:11we also hope that the Transnistrian issue will be part of the solution.

10:15There are Russian troops and munitions in Moldova that need to leave,

10:18and in the context of this settlement, that should also be on the agenda.

10:23The Transnistrian question has been representing a crucial political burden for Moldova's development.

10:29The over 30 years old ceasefire between the pro-Russian breakaway region

10:34and the legitimate Republic of Moldova

10:36has by far proved only useful to the interests of Moscow.

10:43I'm afraid we are not in a position to impose outcomes or suggest outcomes.

10:48We have our own frozen conflict for 30 years,

10:51and we would certainly not recommend it to anyone.

10:5330 years and 22 Grand Slams later,

10:56the moment has finally arrived for tennis legend Rafael Nadal to leave the court.

11:01After being knocked out of the Davis Cup on Tuesday,

11:04the Spaniard said a special goodbye to fans in Malaga.

11:08It has been 20 years of professional career,

11:13in which you have always taken me flying,

11:19in the good moments you helped me win the next point,

11:24and in the bad moments, without a doubt, you pushed me to keep fighting.

11:34Tennis opponents and friends from around the world prepared a video for the tennis star,

11:39thanking him for everything and wishing him the best of luck in his retirement.

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