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00:00The EU foreign policy chief says UNIFIL has the strong support of the bloc after meeting

00:06the mission's commander in Beirut.

00:12Protesters in Tbilisi accused the government of election fraud at a rally ahead of the

00:15first session of the newly elected parliament.

00:21The opposition Law and Justice Party chooses historian Karel Navrotsky as its candidate

00:26for next year's presidential election.

00:31Like many before it, the 29th edition of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change

00:36needed extra time for an overall agreement to be reached.

00:40In the early hours of Sunday, exhausted delegates in Baku finally found a compromise on the

00:45most crucial issue of COP29, a new climate financing regime.

00:50The UN Climate Change Executive Secretary called it an insurance policy for humanity.

00:57Like any insurance policy, it only works if premiums are paid in full and on time.

01:06Promises must be kept to protect billions of lives.

01:13The sum agreed on to be guaranteed by the developed nations is at $300 billion annually

01:18much lower than developing nations had been asking for, with many delegates making their

01:23frustrations clear.

01:25However, as others pointed out, the compromise was accepted regardless, as there is now an

01:30expectation that this sum will serve as the foundation to reaching the goal experts say

01:35is needed, $1.3 trillion annually.

01:38It was very important for the African group to have that number, $300 billion by 2035,

01:46as a floor and not a ceiling, and we've been able very late in the negotiation to have

01:52the term at least to ensure that this can only be a starting base, a minimum, due to

01:59the vast needs of developing countries.

02:05Voluntary contributions by rich nations not included in the group of developed nations

02:10in the convention, like China and South Korea, are supposed to help reach that ceiling, as

02:15well as multilateral development banks, investments by the private sector and revenue from taxes

02:20in the carbon markets.

02:22As did most delegates, the European Commissioner for Climate Action stressed that an agreement

02:27being reached in difficult geopolitical times was particularly significant.

02:31But he also pointed to an issue close to the EU's heart where at least some progress also

02:37had been made.

02:38Ladies and gentlemen, another topic that was on our minds this week is reducing emissions.

02:44It was not the focus of this COP, but we wanted more, because the world needs more

02:50of it.

02:52And even though the UAE consensus was attacked, we did move forward, even though it was just

02:59a bit.

03:01We did manage to safeguard Dubai and take some steps forward.

03:04It is less than what we have liked, but it is better than we feared.

03:11Next year's UN climate conference will be hosted by the Brazilian city of Belém, where,

03:16among other issues, mitigation in general and the Amazon rainforest in particular will

03:22take centre stage.

03:29The EU foreign policy chief has said UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon have the strong

03:34support of the bloc after meeting their commander in Beirut.

03:38Yossef Barel held talks with UNIFIL's head of mission and force commander Lieutenant

03:42General Eroldo Lazzaro during his visit to the Lebanese capital on Sunday.

03:48That meeting comes days after four Italian soldiers were injured after two rockets exploded

03:53at a UNIFIL base in Sharma, apparently fired by Hezbollah.

03:57Barel said that attacks on UNIFIL personnel are completely unacceptable and said the peacekeepers

04:02play a key role in an increasingly challenging environment.

04:06Meanwhile, Israel continued airstrikes on Beirut into Sunday night after Hezbollah fired

04:11around 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel.

04:16At least seven people were wounded in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages

04:20on Israel in months.

04:22Sunday's attacks in northern and central Israel came in response to deadly Israeli strikes

04:27in central Beirut on Saturday.

04:29Meanwhile, Lebanon's military says an Israeli strike on an army center in the southwest

04:34killed one soldier and wounded 18 others.

04:37Israel's military expressed regret and said its operations are directed solely against

04:42Hezbollah militants.

04:50Hundreds of Lebanese protesters gathered in Paris on Sunday.

04:54Their main demand, an immediate ceasefire.

04:57Since clashes between Israel and Hezbollah began a year ago, more than 2,000 people have

05:01been killed.

05:03Thousands of Franco-Lebanese nationals that are watching the conflict from afar say they

05:07are filled with anger and guilt.

05:09They are more than 4,000 kilometers away from Lebanon, but the conflict hits close to home.

05:15Over these past few weeks, Israeli forces have carried out heavy airstrikes targeting

05:19the capital Beirut and southern Lebanon.

05:22This is the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a village in the southern Beqa Valley.

05:27As a result, Mayad Sleiman's family home, shown in this video, is no longer habitable.

05:32The Franco-Lebanese doctor says he feels extreme guilt to be living in France.

05:37Many say their daily lives are governed by social media notifications, trying to find

06:03out if their loved ones are safe from the latest bombing.

06:07Despite the conflict, many Franco-Lebanese nationals we spoke to don't want to move back

06:32to France.

06:33That's the case of this researcher who was going back to Beirut at the end of the month.

07:03On Sunday, the EU's top diplomat called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah

07:14to reach a ceasefire.

07:22A little-known far-right populist has taken the lead in Romania's presidential election,

07:27a surprise outcome that's rocked the country's political landscape.

07:32Independent candidate Kalin Georgescu is leading the polls with around 22 percent of

07:36the vote.

07:37Analysts say, since he lacked a clear agenda, support for him appeared to be a protest vote

07:42against the establishment.

07:45Polling second is Prime Minister Marcel Ceaulacu of the Social Democratic Party at 20 percent.

07:50He was widely expected to lead the first-round vote.

07:54Ceaulacu said before polls opened that one of his biggest goals was to convince Romanians

07:58that it's worth staying in Romania.

08:01Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union Party was polling third with 18 percent.

08:07Casting her ballot, she also spoke about Romania's massive diaspora spread throughout Europe

08:12and said her priority was to make sure state institutions worked properly.

08:17George Simeon, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, took

08:2114.1 percent of the vote.

08:24Pollsters expected him to face Ceaulacu in December's runoff.

08:28Simeon campaigned for reunification with Moldova, which this year renewed a five-year ban on

08:33him entering the country.

08:36Thirteen candidates ran for the presidency in the European Union and NATO member country.

08:41The president serves a five-year term and has significant decision-making powers in

08:46areas such as national security and foreign policy.

08:49The second round of the presidential vote will be held on the 8th of December, a week

08:53after parliamentary elections.

08:59Thousands of people have staged a protest outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi

09:06ahead of the first session of the newly elected parliament on Monday.

09:10Protesters vowed to spend the night outside parliament, accusing the ruling Georgian Dream

09:15Party of rigging the results of October's elections.

09:19Members of opposition parties have also announced their refusal to participate in parliamentary

09:24activities.

09:26Protests will be going all night and tomorrow they have to hear our voices that these elections

09:32have been rigged and they don't have legitimacy of Georgian people and they don't have legitimacy

09:37of international community.

09:40The round-the-clock protests follow elections on the 26th of October that kept the governing

09:44pro-Russian Georgian Dream Party in power.

09:47Opponents say the vote was rigged and suspect neighboring Russia of election interference.

09:53The Central Election Commission said Georgian Dream won with about 54 percent of the vote

09:58and party leaders have rejected claims of fraud at the polls.

10:02European observers said the election took place in a divisive atmosphere marked by instances

10:07of bribery, double voting and physical violence.

10:11Pro-European President Salome Zubishvili said earlier this month that she would appeal the

10:15election result to the Constitutional Court.

10:18The EU suspended Georgia's membership application process indefinitely in June after the country's

10:24parliament passed a controversial foreign interference law.

10:28The party has also pushed through laws similar to those used by the Kremlin to crack down

10:32on freedom of speech and LGBTQ plus rights.

10:42Poland's opposition Law and Justice Party has chosen historian Karol Nowroczki as its

10:47candidate for next year's presidential election.

10:50Forty-one-year-old Nowroczki has led the Institute of National Remembrance since 2021, a state

10:56body that houses archives and researches the crimes of World War II and the communist era.

11:02I'm ready to become your president, I'm ready because I've been with you all my life, he

11:07told supporters at a rally in Krakow.

11:09The party bypassed seasoned politicians including former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to

11:15tap the lesser-known Nowroczki to run for the highest office.

11:19The announcement came a day after the governing party, the Civic Coalition of Prime Minister

11:23Donald Tusk, announced that it was fielding progressive Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski

11:28as its candidate.

11:29The constitutional calendar dictates that the first round of the presidential election

11:34be held on a Sunday in May next year, though the date hasn't been set yet.

11:38If no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote in the first round, a run-off

11:43will be held two weeks later.

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