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00:00A fourth consecutive night of protests across Georgia against the government's decision

00:06to suspend European Union accession talks.

00:10Russia says it's captured two towns in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine as it continues

00:16to capture more territory.

00:25Romania's future parliament and government will continue the country's strong pro-EU,

00:29pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine national strategy.

00:33The leftist Social Democratic Party has won almost 23 percent of the vote and have an

00:38almost 5 percent advantage over their closest contenders.

00:43And while they've topped the polls for a second consecutive election, far-right populists

00:47have made considerable gains.

00:50The Alliance for the Unity of Romanians won the second most votes, sitting at just over

00:5518 percent.

00:57But the scores of the pro-EU camp show that the future parliamentary majority and government

01:03will continue Romania's pro-West course as NATO's eastern flank main country.

01:10But the rise of the ultra-nationalist parties is a sobering reality for Romania's political

01:17scene.

01:18The strong turnout in voting is the result of the shock result of the first round of

01:23the presidential election.

01:25Monday morning we will find out the official results.

01:30Vitalie Cogiocari, Euronews Romania.

01:36A fourth consecutive night of protests is underway across Georgia against the government's

01:41decision to suspend European Union accession talks.

01:45Officials say at least 44 people have been hospitalized in increasingly violent clashes

01:50between police and protesters.

01:53Prime Minister Irakli Kobahidze has warned that everyone in the country has to obey the

01:57law.

01:58I would like to thank everyone for their support and for their support of the law.

02:02I would like to say that the law is the foundation of all democracy.

02:09The unrest began four days ago when the government, headed by the populist Georgian Dream Party,

02:24announced it was suspending EU accession talks until at least 2028.

02:29That was in response to a European Parliament resolution which criticized the 26th of October

02:34parliamentary elections which saw the Georgian Dream re-elected as neither free nor fair.

02:39The EU granted Georgia candidate status in December 2023 but put that process on hold

02:45earlier this year after the passage of a controversial foreign influence law, widely seen as a blow

02:51to democratic freedoms.

02:53Meanwhile Kobahidze has said President Salome Zubishvili must vacate her post when her mandate

02:59ends later this month.

03:00The pro-EU head of state has vowed to stay on to support the protesters and says the

03:05illegitimate government has no authority to select her successor.

03:09The elections that led to this parliament and then to the government are not legitimate,

03:18they are not recognized by anyone, they have not been recognized by the Georgian population

03:24in the first place, they have not been recognized by the political forces in the country.

03:30Zubishvili also said Russia had carried out what she called an electoral war on Georgia

03:35and had done the same in recent elections in Romania and Moldova.

03:43Russia says it's captured two towns in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, just as

03:48President Vladimir Putin approved plans to raise military spending to its highest level

03:53yet, a third of the national budget.

03:56According to the Ministry of Defence, its servicemen also hit the infrastructure of

03:59Ukrainian airfields, drone assembly shops and warehouses.

04:05Ukraine's air force confirmed the attacks, saying Russia launched 78 drones overnight

04:09from the cities of Kursk, Orel and Bryansk.

04:12The air force also said it jammed about 32 of the drones, whilst regional authorities

04:17said at least 11 civilians were killed from the Russian strikes.

04:21Meanwhile, authorities in the Kherson region say three people were killed in a Russian

04:26strike there.

04:27It's one of four regions that Moscow illegally annexed in September 2022, but hasn't been

04:33able to completely re-occupy.

04:35A Ukrainian counter-offensive recaptured western areas of the Kherson region, including the

04:41regional capital, also called Kherson, nine months later.

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