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00:00Europe's leaders remain divided on the prospect of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

00:06in the event of a peace deal with Russia.

00:21Pope Francis is to remain in hospital while doctors tackle what they've called a complex

00:27clinical picture.

00:36Europe's leaders remain divided on the prospect of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

00:40in the event of a peace deal with Russia. Some of them met for emergency talks in Paris

00:46after seemingly being excluded from the negotiations between the US, Russia and Ukraine.

00:53UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he's ready to consider sending British troops.

00:58I'm prepared to consider committing British forces on the ground alongside others if there

01:05is a lasting peace agreement. But there must be a US backstop because a US security guarantee

01:15is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again.

01:22German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said it is premature to consider the idea without Kiev's involvement.

01:28I'm even a little irritated by these debates. I want to say this very openly.

01:33Here, the heads of Ukraine are talking about the results of peace talks that did not take place

01:40and in which Ukraine did not say yes and did not sit at the table.

01:44They are talking about possible variants of results.

01:47This is highly inappropriate. We do not know what the result will be.

01:55Other leaders, including Dutch Prime Minister Dix Hof, have not excluded the idea but not

02:00committed either. Shortly before the meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with

02:05US President Donald Trump, but Macron's office would not disclose the details about the discussion.

02:13The United Arab Emirates are going to Ukraine.

02:20Ukraine is going to Ukraine.

02:32Ukraine is not going to take Ukraine. Ukraine did not know about it.

02:37Ukraine is considering any talks about Ukraine or without Ukraine that have no result.

02:47We cannot give any things or any agreements without a sign of an offensive, a non-provocative war.

02:59Unfortunately, the Ukrainian society is tired.

03:04We do not have the readiness to deal with the situation as it was before.

03:09Without the help of the United States, if it is not covered by Europe, we will not cope.

03:17I am surprised that the Americans elected such a president.

03:21I am very surprised.

03:26It is their will, so to say.

03:34Thank you very much, Mr. President.

03:36I wish you good luck also in Ukraine in this closest time.

03:40Thank you, thank you, Mr. President, for reading. Thank you, colleagues.

03:43Thank you so much.

03:44Great.

03:54Will Europe have a say in the Ukraine peace process?

03:58As US President Donald Trump seems to be going it alone in negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin,

04:05Europe is trying to make itself heard.

04:08Trump has shown that he is not very willing to share the negotiations with anyone.

04:14He is rather willing to give things away to Putin.

04:18I think Europe just has to act on its own now.

04:22We have to be clear that our commitment is not going to change.

04:27And we really have to deliver now.

04:29We have to make sure there is the money, there is the support, there is the military, which is now needed.

04:38US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Ukraine should give up the territories occupied by Moscow

04:44and abandon its ambitions to join NATO.

04:49Europe has repeatedly said that no decision should be made about Ukraine without Ukraine.

04:55The US has asked European capitals to clarify what security guarantees they can provide for Ukraine.

05:04Europe has to do much more now.

05:07Because the US is not willing to underpin any kind of ceasefire.

05:13Trump, unfortunately, is giving away a lot to Putin.

05:18That means Europe has to give the support to Ukraine.

05:22It has to give the security guarantees.

05:24It has to put the troops there to make sure that Putin does not cross that line.

05:30An unstable ceasefire would not guarantee lasting peace in Ukraine or Europe.

05:35Therefore, Europe must map out the architecture of its future security,

05:39says European Council President Antonio Costa.

05:43We have to have a ceasefire,

05:48which, yes, does stop the military action for the moment,

05:52but also has the guarantees to make sure that it can last,

05:56to make sure that we are not back in this situation in a few years' time,

06:02or even worse, with an invasion of the Baltic states, of Finland, of the rest of Europe.

06:10European leaders met in Paris on Monday to thrash out which defence strategy to adopt.

06:22Pope Francis is to remain in hospital

06:25while doctors tackle clinical complications surrounding his respiratory tract infection,

06:30the Vatican has said.

06:32The Pope, who is 88 years old, was initially hospitalised for bronchitis

06:38but, according to spokesman Matteo Bruni,

06:41is now battling a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection

06:45which requires adjustments to his medication.

06:50Outside the hospital, religious well-wishers have been praying for his recovery.

07:09Francis has faced several health challenges throughout his life,

07:16including undergoing the removal of part of one of his lungs at the age of 21.

07:21In March 2023, he spent three nights at the same hospital receiving treatment for bronchitis.

07:28His continued hospitalisation has already forced the cancellation of some events

07:34connected to the Vatican's Holy Year

07:36and raised uncertainty about others.

07:43Homeless people in Belgium are being forced to draw lots for spaces in night shelters

07:48amid a critical shortage of available beds.

07:52At a refuge in Verviers, additional beds have been provided under the city's extreme cold plan,

07:59but they remain insufficient to accommodate the growing number of homeless on the streets.

08:06If someone is struggling to find a place, he doesn't have enough space.

08:11Seven places, seven places, and we are at least 15 a day.

08:15In December, 45 people were turned away from the shelter

08:19and in January, the figure rose to more than 60.

08:23We have to close the door and tell someone,

08:26it's minus three, but here's a sleeping bag, you can go outside.

08:29It's just unbearable.

08:31The homelessness crisis in the Belgian capital Brussels is well documented,

08:36but national statistics often overlook rough sleepers in smaller towns.

08:41According to the King Baudouin Foundation,

08:43roughly one in six people who sleep on the streets

08:46reside in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.

08:54As Germany is going for an early election in a few days,

08:57Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his main challengers went on TV

09:00for a live debate with the opposition leaders.

09:03The Greens candidate Robert Habeck, CDU's leader Friedrich Merz,

09:07and Alice Weidel of the far-right Alternative for Germany

09:11all shared their views on a wide range of topics.

09:16Ukraine must be a democratic, sovereign nation,

09:20which is not decided by the people.

09:23We as Europeans will not allow that.

09:25That's why I'm going to Paris tomorrow

09:27and will meet with many friends there,

09:29so we can discuss exactly that.

09:31Germany has Ukraine, yes.

09:33And with the promise that these meetings of the last days and weeks

09:36will take place in Paris,

09:38that Emmanuel Macron has taken over the office of trade,

09:41and that the German Chancellor will be a guest there for hours,

09:44is not the role I envision for Germany in such a debate.

09:51I don't think the Germans are interested in what the Americans

09:54will decide.

09:55I think the people in Germany will make their own decisions.

09:58We are not hearing of election recommendations

10:01from dubious vice-presidents.

10:03That's not what worries me in the first place.

10:05That's not part of it.

10:06That's a style break.

10:07But it's not about style questions.

10:09What happened in the last few weeks

10:11and with the Munich Security Conference,

10:13you can't take that seriously enough,

10:15because the Trump administration

10:17launched a frontal attack on the values community of the West.

10:24First of all, I welcome the fact that J.D. Vance,

10:28the vice-president of the United States,

10:30has expressed himself so clearly.

10:32He has committed himself to freedom of expression,

10:35and he has committed himself

10:37not to build firewalls

10:39to exclude millions of voters from the front line.

10:41We have to talk to each other.

10:43He made that clear.

10:44And he also made it clear,

10:46just like Donald Trump,

10:48that finally a ceasefire in Ukraine will be negotiated

10:52and that peace will be established.

10:54That's what the AfD has demanded for almost three years.

11:22He was making a speech at the groundbreaking event.

11:24This time the footage included his voice, which is rare.

11:30He spoke to a crowd of construction workers

11:32and then twisted the switch to ignite explosions.

11:37The project is in the suburbs of the capital Pyongyang,

11:40called the Hwasong district.

11:42It's a part of a push to build 50,000 new apartments

11:44within five years.

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