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00:00Estonia has warned that Russia is willing to protect its Shadow Fleet with military force.
00:07They said a Russian fighter jet breached NATO airspace
00:12when it came to check on a suspected Shadow Fleet vessel that the Navy had intercepted.
00:17Our forces went to guide the Shadow Fleet vessel to our territorial waters to inspect
00:28because there was no insurance, there was no flag, the typical Russian Shadow Fleet vessel.
00:34But what is different, and it is important, that the Russian Federation send fighter jets to check the situation.
00:48Moscow started using the vessels in an effort to dodge international sanctions on its oil export.
00:55Europe has been targeting the ships by issuing sanctions against Russia,
01:00as they fear the vessels are capable of oil spills resulting in environmental catastrophes.
01:10As Ukraine and Russia meet in Istanbul for the first direct talks since March 2022,
01:16the absence of Vladimir Putin and his foreign minister Sergey Lavrov sends a clear message
01:22that Moscow is set to continue its strategy on Ukraine and the temporary occupied territories,
01:27especially given that Russian delegation is led by Vladimir Medinsky,
01:31one of the key ideologists of Russia's full-scale invasion and its 2014 annexation of Crimea,
01:37says Ukraine's president permanent representative in Crimea.
01:41It is a造成
01:50It is a development of political policies, which the Russian Federation has already experienced over the decades.
01:53It is a temporaryOK during the past and the time.
01:55It is not only for the time in Crimea, but also for the next Krafa is effective.
01:59The position of this occupation, if it is like a constitution of Allah,
02:00it is more interesting.
02:05It certainly sounds, and there is a certain position of the Russian Federation that even translates in this way.
02:11While putting pressure on Ukraine to accept territorial concessions,
02:15Donald Trump said a few weeks ago that, quote,
02:18Crimea went to the Russians in 2014 and it will remain with Russia.
02:22Although surprising, these statements do not have much significance,
02:25Olga Kurishko said.
02:27Any statement, your, my, other people, they don't change the international law.
02:34There are many documents, which were taken as on the territory of the European Union,
02:39as well as on the territory of the United States,
02:44they were talking about alternative support of Ukraine,
02:49about territorial concessions,
02:51and about the fact that Crimea and America never recognize the time of occupation of the Krim or the Russian region.
03:00The message was once again repeated by Volodymyr Zelensky in Turkey
03:05right before sending his delegation for the talks with the Russian side.
03:10A draft law to punish organizations that accept foreign funding if they, for example, influence democratic debate
03:23or portray the rule of law in Hungary in a negative light was proposed by a lawmaker
03:27in Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's ruling Fidesz party.
03:31Bárkire ráhúzható ez a korlátozás, bárki célpontá válhat,
03:37mert gyakorlatilag ma Magyarországon a független sajtó és a civil szervezetek jelentős része
03:46az részesül valamiféle külföldi támogatásban,
03:50ha máshogy nem, akkor részt vesz például uniós pályázatokban,
03:55tehát onnantól kezdve pedig ennek a törvénynek a hatája alá kerülhet.
04:00Under the draft, even a micro-donation from a dual national
04:05or an EU grant can be considered foreign funding.
04:08And with the threat of debilitating fines and a ban on domestic donor funding,
04:13ultimately ordinary Hungarian citizens will suffer, according to a spokesperson for the NGO, Ah Heng.
04:20According to the draft, the Office for the Protection of Sovereignty created last year
04:33will decide on the offending organizations. The body responsible for implementing the so-called transparency bill
04:40does not itself even operate from the address of its official registration.
04:58Természetesen kértünk reakciót a Fidesztől is, de nem kaptunk választ.
05:02Az érintett civil szervezetek szerint olyan tágak lesznek a jogszabályi keretek,
05:06hogy teljesen az alkalmazó hatóságon múlik, hogy melyik szervezetet akarja megbüntetni és melyiket nem.
05:12A civil szervezetek átláthatóságáról egy olyan hivatal fog majd dönteni,
05:16amit a hátam mögött látható irodaházban székel, de még egy táblája sincs.
05:22Tanács Gábor, Euronews, Budapest.
05:27French Prime Minister François Béroux
05:29faced one of his most politically sensitive moments yet on a Wednesday evening,
05:34testifying under oath before a parliamentary committee,
05:39examining what he knew or didn't know about decades of abuse
05:43at a Catholic school in southwestern France.
05:46The committee is investigating Béroux's potential knowledge
05:51of allegations at the Notre-Dame de Betaham School
05:54where 200 complaints of sexual and physical abuse
05:59have been filed since February last year.
06:02Béroux swore that he knew nothing about the violence
06:06and even denounced the political instrumentalization of the affair.
06:11He also claimed to have learned of the allegations through the press
06:16and denied ever having any sort of insider information.
06:20Despite it being a very personal issue for the Prime Minister,
06:24this Catholic school is the same school where his wife once taught
06:28and that his children also attended years ago.
06:32The political bombshell dropped earlier this year
06:36after media reports suggested that Béroux may have known about the abuse
06:41as early as the 1990s and tried to cover it up
06:44back when he was the French Minister of Education.
06:48Another major turning point of the scandal,
06:51last month his own daughter came out
06:54and said that she was beaten by a priest from that same school
06:59when she was 14 years old.
07:01She said that she never told her father about the abuse.
07:05And while Béroux may have survived multiple no-confidence votes
07:10and a fractured Parliament since his appointment last December,
07:15the Notre-Dame de Betaham affair may prove to be harder to outrun.
07:20This is a legal and political thunderclap.
07:31The General Court of the European Union has condemned
07:34the European Commission's lack of transparency in the negotiations
07:37on vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
07:40The judges annulled the Commission's refusal to disclose the text messages
07:44exchanged between its president and the head of Pfizer.
07:47These text messages between Ursula von der Leyen and the pharmaceutical giant
07:52took place during negotiations on the purchase of almost 2 billion doses.
07:56The Commission maintains that it does not hold these text messages
08:00and that their content was insubstantial.
08:03Another convincing line of defence.
08:05For the moment it's still unclear why they thought that this message did not include important information.
08:14So this needs to be clarified.
08:16And also in a way we can see that in general there is still a lot of secrecy around this.
08:22We still don't know.
08:23It's still unclear if these messages were deleted.
08:26If, as the courts say, were deleted on purpose automatically.
08:29What happened there?
08:30So in our opinion since the beginning text messages should be included.
08:34The court criticised the Commission for failing to provide credible evidence
08:38to explain why it was unable to provide these text messages
08:41at the request of a journalist from the New York Times.
08:44In addition, the judges considered that the institution was unable to clearly specify
08:49whether or not these text messages had been deleted.
08:52The Commission remains unclear on this issue.
08:54I didn't say that any messages were deleted.
08:57What I did say were that as in any access to documents request,
09:02what we first do is to check are there any registered documents
09:06that fall within the scope of the request.
09:08We did that, didn't find any.
09:10The Commission considers that the judgement does not call into question
09:13the procedures for registering documents, but rather a lack of explanation.
09:17It interprets the court decision as an indication that it will have to justify itself better in the future.
09:24Polish duo Swara and Nichos are bringing a new beat to traditional Slavic music.
09:30Using white singing, a traditional vocal technique from the Podlasia region in eastern Poland,
09:35they aim to show that tradition does not have to be left in the past
09:38and that it can evolve into the modern day.
09:41We recorded the music on the beautiful Podlaskian Lounge.
09:45I remember on the west of the sun.
09:47And then we liked it so much, that we continued to explore this topic.
09:51So, the music from the whole world, which Swara explore here,
09:56and the podlaskian songs.
09:58So, the local culture of the podlaskies.
10:00When I was a very small girl,
10:05I had an incredible music song for a long time,
10:08by the way,
10:09I played that with songs from the shadow,
10:10and that was a deeply varied music for the song.
10:13I did this,
10:15and I always loved this song.
10:17It's a beautiful tradition.
10:18And culture.
10:19I love you, I love you.
10:25The tradition of singing is very strong and very strong.
10:30It's a great song.
10:32It's very melodic and very plastic.
10:35I feel that I can distance myself,
10:38singing not in the first language,
10:41but in the first language,
10:43which I've learned from years.
10:45All of us, I think,
10:47they speak in such a way.
10:49In the home, in the city, in Bielsku,
10:51it's not so much,
10:52but on the street,
10:53all the girls say,
10:54and where is she?
10:56And where is she?
10:57And where is she?
10:58Exactly.
10:59It's been used to it
11:00and it's still used to be used.
11:04As it turns out,
11:05they love to dance to bass.
11:07And people who are already in the years,
11:09but also,
11:10they bring their children
11:12and they hate them.
11:14Suara and Nichos reach for the musical roots of the past
11:17and give them a contemporary form.
11:19They reflect the very borderlands they come from,
11:21geographical, cultural, and generational.
11:24And generational.