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00:00Russia intends to supply North Korea with fighter jets in exchange for deploying North

00:07Korean troops to Russia.

00:10In an exclusive Euronews interview, Georgia's foreign minister justifies a police crackdown

00:16on recent pro-EU protests.

00:21France is trying to solve its government and budget crises as the outgoing prime minister

00:25holds his last ministerial meeting.

00:38Russia intends to supply North Korea with fighter jets amid growing military partnership

00:42between the two countries, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command commander Admiral

00:48Samuel Papara.

00:50He said Pyongyang would get that in exchange for North Korea deploying troops to Russia

00:55to support its war against Ukraine.

00:58The Institute for the Study of War says Papara noted that North Korean soldiers remain in

01:03combat zones, likely in reference to the region of Kursk, but are not yet actively fighting.

01:11Analysts from the crowd-sourced monitoring website Deep State Map reported on the 10th

01:15of December that Russian forces had advanced in Sumy, a region near the border village

01:20of Oleksandriya.

01:22Deep State is a mapping project, independent but with close ties to Ukraine's defence ministry,

01:28widely respected and trusted as one of the most reliable sources of accurate information

01:33on territorial changes along the front line.

01:36The map changes showed Russian forces occupying around two square kilometres in Sumy and advancing

01:42in the region of Kursk.

01:45Sumy region authorities, including the head of the military administration Volodymyr Artyukh,

01:49rejected the reports that Russian forces had breached the border, calling it fake and

01:55describing them as disinformation.

01:58The Institute for the Study of War has not observed any evidence of Russian forces operating

02:04in or near Oleksandriya, but it does confirm that Russian forces recently advanced in the

02:10main Ukrainian salient in Kursk region amid continuing fighting in this border area.

02:20Now is the time for these people to enjoy stability and calm, said Syria's interim Prime

02:26Minister Mohammed al-Bashir in an interview, demonstrating the intentions of the new leadership.

02:33However, the situation remains extremely fluid as there are multiple actors that could play

02:39a key role in Syria's future.

02:49On the other hand, he is talking about a long-term transition period until we see elections in Syria.

03:04So, if in the end, as it seems, Darayya Al-Sam will be transformed into a more political

03:11figure, that is, if he himself will be transformed from a military businessman to a political

03:18figure, what will this mean?

03:20If he will seek allies, who will be in charge of this organization, as long as it is political?

03:26And who else will be part of this story?

03:28Will we see a model like Afghanistan?

03:30Who will play the role of the Western powers?

03:32Especially those that have a great influence at the moment, such as Turkey.

03:37There are many issues, but at the moment everything revolves around Jolani.

03:42Israel, which has been attacking targets in Syria for months, stated its intention to

03:48create a, quote, sterile defensive zone inside Syria's southern border.

03:54The great difference between Israel and the US is that Syria will not be the same as it

04:00was in 2011.

04:02For many of the 14 million Syrians forced to flee their homes since the civil war began,

04:17the question is whether they can now return.

04:23Brussels has given Poland the green light to suspend the right to asylum for migrants

04:28entering the country across the border with Belarus.

04:31And points to the weaponization of migrants by Russia as a risk to the EU.

04:37European Commission Vice President Genevieve Koonin believes that on the bloc's eastern

04:42border, the security threat has already moved to the next level, but says cases must be

04:48clearly defined.

04:51They may limit also the exercise of the rights to asylum, but it has to happen in very strict

04:59conditions and in legal limits.

05:02So it means that they have to be truly exceptional, temporary, proportionate and for clearly defined

05:09cases.

05:11The European Commission believes that Belarus and Russia promote the use of violence via

05:16migrants.

05:18However, human rights organizations reiterated the pushbacks are illegal.

05:24Lydia Gall of Human Rights Watch said the pushbacks fly in the face of Poland's duties

05:30under national and EU law.

05:34In 2024, the arrival of migrants across the EU border with Belarus increased by 66 percent

05:41compared to the previous year.

05:43The vast majority of them were on Russian visas.

05:46The European Union issued new sanctions against Russia, particularly targeting the tankers

05:58Russia uses to circumvent Western restrictions on oil trade.

06:03Oil is a major source of income that is crucial to fund Russia's war in Ukraine.

06:08In 2022, the European Union introduced an oil price cap, which prohibited Western companies

06:14from providing services to Russian tankers that went beyond this limit.

06:20As a way around this, Moscow began using the Shadow Fleet, which are old, uninsured tankers.

06:26The poorly kept tankers have obscure ownership and insurance structures that escape the controls

06:31of G7 partners.

06:35Brussels is worried the poor condition of the ships could spill oil and cause an environmental

06:39catastrophe.

06:41The Shadow Fleet has also been accused of deceptive practices, including transmitting

06:46falsified data, turning off their transporters to become invisible to satellite systems,

06:51and conducting multiple ship-to-ship transfers to conceal the origin of the oil barrels.

07:01German Chancellor Olaf Scholz formally set his country on course for an early election

07:06by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.

07:11The move comes five weeks after his three-party governing coalition collapsed.

07:16I have just applied for a vote in parliament on article 68 of the Basic Law.

07:24I would like to clear the way for the upcoming parliamentary elections.

07:28I will propose to dissolve the parliament on Monday afternoon.

07:34Scholz is expected to lose Monday's vote since his centre-left Social Democrats and their

07:39remaining coalition partner, the Greens, no longer hold a majority.

07:46If the president follows Scholz's proposal, voters will elect a new parliament on February

07:5123rd.

07:52Meanwhile, the Christian Democrats led by Friedrich Merz and their Bavarian sister party

07:57are ahead in the polls.

07:59The far-right Alternative for Germany has also nominated a candidate.

08:06The Georgian government has justified a police crackdown on pro-European protesters with

08:13the action of violent groups among the demonstrators.

08:17The groups were deliberately targeting the police force, Georgia's new minister Mako

08:22Bochorovsvili said.

08:24Speaking to Euronews in an exclusive interview, she questioned the character of the protests.

08:31Everybody has rights to protests, but rights to peaceful protests.

08:36Unfortunately, I have to say that we cannot really call these protests necessarily peaceful

08:43because the violent groups that we are acting with, the fireworks and their targets was

08:50police forces and we have around 200 policemen injured and some of them really received very

08:58serious injuries.

09:01It is very hard to say that it is peaceful protest.

09:05But on the other hand, if there is anything, when we see that police is exceeding its limits

09:13of reaction, of course, there should be reaction from relevant bodies and there is very clear

09:20statement from prime minister that this kind of actions should be investigated.

09:26The protests are directed against a recent decision by Tbilisi to put EU accession talks

09:32on hold.

09:33The process was already in limbo after the ruling Georgian Dream party passed a controversial

09:39foreign influence law that EU critics compared to a similar legislation in Russia.

09:46Georgia's foreign minister rejected the notion that her government was tilting towards Moscow.

09:52Georgian Dream is in power for 12 years now and in this period nobody can find anything

09:59that this government has done in favor of Russia.

10:02But today it is very popular to divide world into white and black and if somebody wants

10:10to make easy negative impression about somebody, it is easier to claim that somebody is pro-Russian

10:17or pro-Putin.

10:20And unfortunately, that is the case.

10:26The full interview with Makaba Churashvili will be available this Friday on our program

10:32The Europe Conversation.

10:37The French government under Prime Minister Michel Barnier had its last meeting of ministers

10:43on Wednesday before his resignation.

10:46Although President Macron promised to appoint Barnier successor by Thursday, his spokesperson

10:52said otherwise.

10:54The President of the Republic did not give any indication on the temporality of his

11:00future choice.

11:01What I can tell you is that the President of the Republic is his role as a guarantor

11:06in institutions and in this context he is obviously looking for a stability solution.

11:12In the meeting, ministers studied a quote special bill set to fix the budgetary choices

11:17of 2024 for 2025.

11:21It is a bill that allows, to put it in simple words, to avoid a shutdown.

11:27It is a bill that allows temporarily the government to continue to perceive taxes and existing

11:32taxes until the vote of the financial law of the year.

11:37The special bill will be examined in the National Assembly and then in the Senate.

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