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00:00A Bulgarian man who was found to be the ringleader of a Russian spy circle dubbed the Minions was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
00:10The 47-year-old Orlean Rousseff, who led a group of five other Bulgarians that carried out operations on behalf of Russian intelligence, was the first of the five to be sentenced.
00:21I acknowledge that you were the first to notify a plea of guilty and others then followed. That is deserving of further credit.
00:30I also appreciate that this was a complex case and that your plea considerably simplified, shortened and concentrated the trial which followed.
00:40The result is a sentence in your case of 10 years and 8 months imprisonment.
00:46The group were based in England and targeted reporters, diplomats and Ukrainian troops.
00:52They also discussed kidnapping or killing Kremlin opponents.
01:00European Council President Antonio Kosta said Serbia is fully committed to its EU accession path, despite the President Aleksandr Vucic's trip to Moscow last week.
01:11Kosta met with Vucic in Belgrade and criticized the visit to Russia's Victory Day events, mentioning the need to reaffirm alignment with European foreign and security policy.
01:23A lot of people asked me to come.
01:24A lot of people asked me to don't come, but I decided to come.
01:28Because if we have a problem with Serbia, if we have a problem with the President Vucic, the solution is not don't come, is not don't talk with the President Vucic,
01:38is to come, to have a talk, to explain the different point of views, and to, and now we can reaffirm, and it's very important to hear from him publicly reaffirm,
01:55that is fully committed with the European Union and with the European Union and with the session path.
02:05Vucic has been under significant pressure in Serbia following six months of student-led anti-corruption protests.
02:12He's been criticized for maintaining close relations with Russia and China, while formally saying he wants Serbia to join the EU.
02:19Some of the students are in Brussels to voice their concerns to European Parliament lawmakers, as well as the enlargement commissioner, Marta Kos, and youth commissioner, Glenn Mikalev.
02:29We talked about the situation that has happened in Serbia for six months, about how institutions don't do their job and how the media stop the situation.
02:39They supported us, they supported us, they supported us, and that's it.
02:46It's been a few important topics that I mentioned before.
02:50While the President of the European Council, Antonio Costa, is in Belgrade, discussing the challenges on Serbia's path to the EU with the Serbia's President,
03:00the real challenge for Aleksandar Vucic is here, in Brussels.
03:03Students who run from Serbia to Brussels to draw attention to issues of corruption and the rule of law are meeting with members of the European Parliament, as well as with two commissioners.
03:15Earlier, enlargement commissioner Marta Kos stated that the demands of the Serbian students are essentially the same as what the European Union is asking of Serbia.
03:25Much has been said about Pope Leo XIV and his papacy. While he's widely seen as someone capable of uniting a divided church, he's expected to continue Pope Francis' legacy.
03:42Although some conservatives hope the new Pope will embrace a more traditionalist approach.
03:47His relationship with the United States will also be one to watch, especially given that some factions within the American Catholic Church align with US President Donald Trump's policies.
04:00He's largely unknown, this is the great question. Some bloggers and so forth are reacting with some violence, they're nervous about some of the Pope's political views.
04:10We've seen, for example, tweets of articles that have particular responses to Vice President Vance.
04:17So there's a little bit of some concern from the right side of the political spectrum.
04:22But on the whole, again, we don't really know. This Pope has not said a lot before ascending to the throne of Peter.
04:30And in these first days, we're just getting to get to know him. So any of that judgment, I think, is premature.
04:35It's really too early to tell and we'll see as things go.
04:38Some hardliners have even suggested that the new Pope may end up clashing with Trump on a number of issues.
04:45They argue that he doesn't appear to be supportive enough of the US President's Make America Great Again political agenda.
04:53And I think that's very important because if the Pope were too allied with American politics, it would impinge his mission.
05:02The Pope has to lead the church and that means leading the universal church, the whole of the Catholic Church.
05:06And so if the Pope's main concern were a particular view in American politics, it would harm his mission, his role, which is to be Peter.
05:14Only time will tell whether Pope Leo will be able to foster unity within the church and what direction Catholicism will take moving forward.
05:24In Brussels, Donald Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on American films produced in Europe raised eyebrows.
05:43Trump is pushing for a return to Hollywood productions at a time when more and more US studios are opting to shoot in Europe,
05:52lured by significantly lower production costs.
05:55Trump has also taken aim at EU's audiovisual directive. The law requires streaming platforms to feature a quota of European works and contribute financially to local production in exchange for access to the lucrative EU market.
06:10Culture ministers gathered in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss a review of this text.
06:29While EU countries reject any notion that these rules are retaliatory, some experts warn culture could be the next casualty in an escalating trade war.
06:38There has to be a balance. So the starting point is pre-Trump and if he imposes disadvantages on Europe, Europe needs to restore that balance.
06:53And that means that there would have to be some measures applied to imports from the United States.
07:05Trump's threats could still take a toll on European productions, on the diversity of languages and cultures that shape the EU's audiovisual identity.
07:12If American streaming giants pull their funding, the impact could be severe. But the EU shows no sign of backing down from defending its creative industries.
07:22And I think it is very important for them to hear from us ministers of culture that we will be on their side. We believe that they are an extremely important sector of our culture. And we will defend them. We will defend them. We will defend their jobs. We will defend their creativity. And we will defend our rules.
07:40The shadow of Trump's tariffs will loom over the camp festival even if so far it has not shake the industry to its core.
07:47Thank you very much.
08:24Super fun. I think this is amazing. Because you know, behind the complicated work and the kind of like a graffiti, a tattoo kind of work, you find something very soft.
08:47This is a ceramic cowboy hat that I've made. It's called the Sheriff of Nowhere County. And the thinking behind it all stemmed from a photograph I was given by my mother.
08:59And it's an image of me as a child. I was at a fancy dress party and I was dressed as a cowboy. And it was something I looked at as an image with that sense of perspective looking back as an adult on a childhood experience.
09:10And I kind of remembered the emotions I was going through. I felt so proud to finally be a cowboy. And the cowboys were considered the goodies and the Indians were considered the baddies.
09:22You know, and that in itself is so problematic. But I just remember how desperately I wanted to be the cowboy, you know, but I was made because of my skin tone to be an Indian.
09:32You know, that, that, that kind of, I was made to feel less than human, a baddie, you know, and that, it's difficult to level and understand the complexity of that as a young child.
09:41Often we kind of come to sculpture and art with our art mind of how we interpret art. But what if you kind of take these other kind of experiences and bring them to art?
10:03So yeah, you're feeling like you're looking at cakes or, and your brain responds in that way, which I, I find it quite a different way of looking at art or sculpture.
10:14So I kind of, I like it when people come up and think, oh, it's like a pile of sweets or it's a pile of cakes.
10:33A strategic partner for success to strengthen trade in a volatile world.
10:38That's the message Hong Kong is sending to Qatar and the GCC as it continues its trade mission across the Middle East.
10:45Led by Chief Executive John Lee, the territory is looking to boost its 1.8 billion euro trade volume with Qatar, signing up to 35 memorandums of understanding on Monday.
10:57The deal spans several sectors including construction, technology, aviation, legal and travel.
11:04Hong Kong is dedicated to capitalizing on its connectivity with both mainland China and the world, collaborating and synergizing with economies and enterprises that are eager to pursue high quality development with us.
11:21As the world looks to Asia for steady growth, economic stability and investment opportunities, Hong Kong is looking to seize partnerships to inject fresh momentum to its robust economy.
