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00:01Hungary has passed a constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ plus public events despite weeks of protests.
00:11US President Donald Trump claims he's fixed inflation amid market turmoil triggered by his global tariffs.
00:21The EU has announced it secured two-thirds of the funding needed to send 2 million artillery shells to Ukraine.
00:30A new female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos' fiancée launched off into space on Monday.
00:40Hungary's parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ plus communities.
00:50The amendment declares that children's rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersedes any rights other than the right to life, including the right to peaceful assembly.
01:03The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines with 140 votes for and 21 against.
01:12Legal scholars and critics are calling this another step towards authoritarianism.
01:17It was proposed by the ruling Fidesz-KDNP coalition led by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
01:26Hungary's centrist momentum political party MPs and activists attempted to block government MPs from entering parliament to vote, but police intervened.
01:36The amendment upholds a ban on public LGBTQ plus events, including Budapest Pride.
01:43First of all, it was a fundamental principle.
01:44One of the things that made it a sense of purpose is that influence in some local organizations,
01:46the people of B must be believed in the right to protect the right to and the right to the right to the right to the right to this issue.
01:48It's a very important thing that I think it's not that we have a strategy for the ourselves.
01:53I think that it's important that we have to do this with respect to the government.
01:58It's a very important thing that we have to do this.
02:01I think that Hungary has already been through the limit, where we have to move on democracy.
02:07Maybe we have to move on to the other side of the government.
02:11But this is not a good way.
02:18Budapest's mayor, who spoke at the protest, called on people to gather for pride, which
02:25he said will be bigger, freer and prouder than ever before.
02:31US President Donald Trump claims he's fixed inflation, despite the recent market turmoil
02:41triggered by his enactment of global tariffs.
02:44We have to solve problems, and we've already solved inflation. If you look at the numbers,
02:49the numbers are incredible, actually. The stock market's up, and we're not letting other countries
02:56take advantage of this country like they have for the last 40 years.
03:00His remarks follow the release of the latest monthly consumer price report, which shows
03:05a 2.4 per cent inflation rate for March. It also comes after the US President offered
03:11an exemption to Apple and other technology companies, prompting global stock rises after
03:16another tumultuous week.
03:19Trump has since announced he might temporarily exempt the auto industry from tariffs to give
03:24car makers time to adjust their supply chains.
03:28However, many economists remain reluctant to view a single consumer report as evidence of
03:34a broader trend, and continue to fear that Trump's tariffs will raise prices and harm the economy.
03:44China's leader Xi Jinping has arrived in Vietnam for a two-day state visit. He received a high-level
03:49welcome in Hanoi, including a formal ceremony with Vietnam's Communist Party leader, Thao Lam.
03:54The visit kicks off Xi's tour of Southeast Asia amid ongoing trade tensions with the US.
04:01Vietnam is one of the biggest beneficiaries of countries trying to decouple their supply chains
04:06from China, with many businesses choosing to relocate to Vietnam. That's why the US views
04:11Vietnam as a backdoor for Chinese goods. It was hit with 46 per cent tariffs under Trump's
04:17order before the 90-day pause. In an editorial, Xi stressed his commitment to global trade, warning
04:23against tariff wars, referencing recent US moves under President Trump.
04:28There are no winners in a tariff war, Xi wrote. The trip is seen as a chance for Beijing to
04:34shore up alliances and counter American trade barriers. Xi is scheduled to visit Malaysia and
04:41Cambodia next.
04:47The European Union has secured two-thirds of the funding needed to send 2 million artillery
04:54shells to Ukraine, Vice President of the European Commission Kaja Kalas said on Monday.
05:00She urged countries to increase their military support as the United States is pulling back.
05:06Speaking after a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg, Kalas commented on when the shipment
05:12should be delivered to Ukraine.
05:15As soon as possible is the short answer because they need it now. I mean, because these attacks
05:21are going through, there are civilian casualties in great numbers. Really, that's why they need
05:28the ammunition. That's why they also need the air defense.
05:31Around 5 billion euros will be needed to reach the goal by the end of the year. The ammunition
05:38plan is seen as the most realistic part of Kalas' 40 billion euro proposal from March, which
05:45not all EU leaders fully support.
05:52At least nine people have been injured in Russian overnight strikes on Ukraine's port city of Odessa,
05:58according to the country's state emergency service. The attacks also started fires and damaged homes,
06:05businesses and medical facilities. Ukraine's Air Force reported on their Telegram channel that Russia
06:11launched 62 drones affecting the regions of Odessa, Donetsk and Kharkiv. 40 were shot down while 11 went off radar,
06:20they reported. On Sunday, at least 34 people were killed and 117 injured, including 15 children,
06:28according to Ukrainian authorities, in a massive attack on the center of the northeastern town of Sumy,
06:35around 40 kilometers from Russia. Two ballistic missiles hit on Sunday morning as people were on their way
06:41to church services for Palm Sunday. Ukrainian authorities said that the rockets were packed with cluster munitions.
06:49The death of Mario Vargas Llosa is a significant loss for world literature. In Spain, the Prime Minister
07:00expressed deep sorrow, calling him a true master of words. The royal family also extended their condolences
07:07to his family through a message on social media.
07:10Pues me ha impactado, fíjate. Me ha impactado, porque a mí me encanta Mario Vargas Llosa, me chifla.
07:15Ha habido obras de él que me han puesto malísima, como la fiesta del chivo, que me pareció tremenda,
07:21pero luego es un tío que la tía Julia y el escribidor, por ejemplo, es una maravilla.
07:26Tiene obras muy representativas de la literatura española, pero sobre todo a mí me gustaba él personalmente.
07:34Muy grande, muy grande, a lengua hispanoamericana, a lengua castellana, vamos.
07:38Sus novelas, todas ellas, los artículos que escribía, la piedra de toque que escribía, por ejemplo,
07:43en El País, que era maravillosa. Pues novelas desde Conversaciones en la Catedral,
07:48La Casa Verde, etc. Soy un gran fan de él y estoy muy triste por su muerte.
07:52Mario Vargas Llosa's work is also influenced by European books.
07:56Living in cities like Paris and London shaped the writer's life.
08:00Also, his later years in Spain.
08:03Darío Villanueva, former head of the Royal Spanish Academy, told EuroNews
08:07that his work is the best Spanish literature of the last century.
08:11In Madrid, Roberto Macedonio, EuroNews.
08:14Ecuador's president Daniel Novoa has won re-election by a clear margin.
08:24Results from Sunday's vote give the conservative leader around 56%.
08:29His opponent, Luisa González, alleges fraud and demands a recount.
08:35Novoa, known for tough anti-crime policies, now gets a full four-year term.
08:41Electoral authorities reported voter participation of more than 80%.
08:46Soaring crime was the key issue for voters.
08:50An all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Jeff Bezos' fiancée, Lorraine Sanchez,
09:01launched off into space on Monday, before coming quickly back down to Earth on the same day.
09:07It was the latest wave of Bezos' space tourism in which the women travelled in Blue Origin's capsule.
09:14The New Shepard rocket, which blasted off from West Texas, could be seen being cheered on by Khloe and Kris Kardashian.
09:22Even after the latest launch, women represent barely 15% of the more than 700 people who have travelled into space.
09:31Also part of the 10-minute fully automated flights were film producer Kiryan Flynn, former NASA engineer Aisha Bowie,
09:40Amanda Nguyen, a space scientist, and Gayle King, an American news anchor.
09:45Bezos started space tourist flights in 2021.
10:01What if the blows to women's rights in Europe also had an economic origin?
10:06According to an analysis by the European Policy Centre, the difficulties encountered in particular by young European men
10:13could explain, in part, the radicalisation of anti-feminist discourse.
10:19There's an economic element here.
10:21And what we know is that young men have declined in terms of income, wealth, purchasing power, access to housing,
10:28and especially education, and they have been falling behind young women in this regard.
10:33The least qualified young men are the most affected by job losses caused by technological developments.
10:39While men still earn more than women in the EU, for the first time this trend has been reversed among young people under 25 in Finland, Malta, Greece, France, and Belgium.
10:50According to Xavier Carbonell, in this context, the far right has been able to attract some of these young male voters, creating a new, more gender-based divide.
11:00This happens mostly among young population. Among other population, women that are 35 or 55 vote more or less equally to the far right than men.
11:10So the real scary thing is that this increasing division between young people, women going more to the left and men going to the right.
11:21To protect women's rights, the analyst suggests combating anti-feminist rhetoric.
11:26But he also calls on political leaders to find economic solutions in terms of employment, housing, and income to bring more perspective to the whole of Europe's youth.
