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Latest news bulletin | November 24th β Midday
euronews (in English)
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24/11/2024
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Voting is underway in what's widely expected to be the first round of Romania's presidential election.
00:12
It's past 3 a.m. and a new climate finance deal has just landed here in Baku.
00:18
After hours of negotiations, countries have reached a compromise on the key sticking point,
00:23
the so-called New Collective Quantified Goal, the very core issue of this summit.
00:28
They've now agreed to provide $300 billion in annual climate finance by 2035.
00:34
Earlier on Saturday, negotiators from the Least Developed Countries Group
00:39
and the Alliance of Small Island States walked out of the meeting room
00:43
as discussions between developed and developing nations over the latest draft text intensified.
00:50
The debit over raising the $250 billion proposal made on Friday further deepened the divide between countries.
00:57
The G77 plus China group, representing over 130 developing nations,
01:02
demanded at least $500 billion annually by 2035,
01:07
calling for more transparency about the structure and form of these funds.
01:12
Many admitted it has not been an easy journey,
01:15
and while the EU welcomed the outcome with a commissioner for climate stating in the plenary
01:19
that the $1.3 trillion objective can still be achieved, India voiced its disappointment.
01:26
Governments have also reached agreements on carbon markets and found a compromise on adaptation.
01:32
Even though the new climate finance deal doesn't fully meet the request from poor countries,
01:38
it has opened a new chapter in the climate talks
01:41
and most importantly saved COP29 from the brink of collapse.
01:46
Giorgia Orlandi for Euronews, COP29 in Baku.
01:51
Voting is underway across Romania in what's widely expected to be the first round presidential election.
02:00
Thirteen candidates are vying for the presidency
02:03
and the vote is likely to go to a second round in early December.
02:07
Leading in the polls is Prime Minister Marcel CeauΘescu,
02:11
who is backed by the Social Democratic Party.
02:15
He's currently polling at around 24% and represents the conservative nationalist side of the party.
02:22
But far-right nationalist George Simeon is also in with a chance of winning, currently polling at 15%.
02:29
The anti-European nationalist recently praised Donald Trump and denied allegations that he's a Russian spy.
02:36
The second round is scheduled for the 8th of December.
02:40
That's a week after parliamentary elections on the 1st,
02:43
meaning Romania's whole political landscape could look very different before the end of the year.
02:53
Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona to demand a 50% drop in rents
02:59
and to call for a housing strike if the situation does not improve.
03:04
Authorities reported 22,000 attendees, whilst organizers claimed it was 126,000.
03:10
The protest, organized by the tenants' union, carried the slogan
03:15
It's over in Catalan.
03:17
The main demands include promoting indefinite contracts
03:21
to put an end to blackmail and insecurity at the end of each contract,
03:25
to recover housing for residential use and to prohibit speculative buy-in.
03:30
A Bank of Spain report indicates that nearly 40% of Spanish renters
03:35
spend an average of 40% of their income on rent and utilities,
03:39
compared to the EU average of 23%.
03:42
The rally in Barcelona comes just over a month after thousands marched the streets of Madrid.
03:49
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said 321 port facilities
03:55
have been damaged in Russian strikes since last July.
03:59
That's raised concerns about how effectively Ukraine can ship its grain.
04:04
Zelensky said Ukrainian exports provide food for 400 million people in 100 countries.
04:10
He was speaking at the third Grain from Ukraine summit in Kyiv.
04:15
Ukraine is a major global supplier of grain and before the Russian invasion
04:19
exported 6 million tons of grain every month from its Black Sea ports.
04:23
When Russia invaded in 2022, it blockaded those ports and grain exports collapsed.
04:29
But in July 2022, shipments resumed under the Black Sea Grain Initiative,
04:34
a deal mediated by the United Nations and Turkey.
04:37
Russia exited the deal a year later, claiming provisions covering
04:41
its own exports of grain and fertilizer weren't being honored.
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