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00:00The U.S. military struck three nuclear sites in Iran, directly joining Israel's war aimed at decapitating the country's nuclear program.
00:10The decision to directly involve the U.S. comes after more than a week of strikes by Israel on Iran that have targeted its nuclear enrichment facilities.
00:21There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days.
00:30Remember, there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult of them all by far and perhaps the most lethal.
00:40But if peace does not come quickly, we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill.
00:48Tehran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said the war starts right now following the attacks.
00:55Iran had previously pledged to retaliate if the U.S. joined the Israeli assault.
01:01With its supreme leader, warning strikes would result in irreparable damage to the U.S.
01:08Key Belarus opposition figure Sirat Tishkinovsky forgot how to speak in prison, says Franak Viakorka, Chief of Staff to Opposition Leader Svetlana Tishkinovskaya.
01:25In an exclusive statement to Euronews, Viakorka details the surprise release of Belarus political prisoners on Saturday, also providing key political context elements to the U.S.-brokered deal.
01:38The visit of Trump's envoy Kellogg to Minsk maybe didn't bring any changes for Ukraine's peace talks, but it brought a very concrete result, released political prisoners, including Sergei Tishkinovsky.
01:51What other efforts didn't succeed, American effort did work.
01:57Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko's regime arrested Tishkinovsky as the then Belarusian opposition presidential candidates and Lukashenko's direct opposition.
02:07We have to help Ukraine so much as possible because our fate depends on the fate of Ukraine.
02:12But on the other hand, we should not forget human rights, we should not forget political prisoners.
02:16All those people who suffered for their political position for supporting Ukraine, for fighting for democracy and European Union and the United States have to work together in coordination.
02:27Since last year, Lukashenko has been pardoning small numbers of imprisoned critics in what analysts see as a signal that Minsk is seeking to ease tensions with the West.
02:36Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Andrzej Duda clashed publicly over the outcome of the country's recent presidential election, amid reports of vote-counting irregularities.
02:56Tusk addressed Duda, President-elect Karol Nawrocki and the opposition law and justice party leader on X.
03:03He asked whether they were interested in learning the real vote count and said the honest have nothing to fear.
03:09Duda responded that the ruling camp was unable to accept defeat, saying he wasn't curious about the result because he already knew it.
03:18Nawrocki won just under 51% of the vote in the recent presidential runoff election, according to the final vote count.
03:26However, local media have reported counting errors in several areas, including Krakow.
03:33Officials there admitted to mis-attributing votes cast for a Liberal candidate to Nawrocki.
03:40The Supreme Court last week ordered a review of ballots from 13 electoral commissions.
03:46The European Commission intends to withdraw a proposal aimed at combating so-called greenwashing from the broader European Green Deal legislative framework.
04:02The greenwashing proposal was designed to ensure companies' environmental claims are accurate, substantiated and independently verified.
04:13It's the latest in a series of rollbacks of major Green Deal initiatives, and came as a surprise decision ahead of a final meeting scheduled for Monday, which was expected to give the proposal the green light.
04:25According to parliamentary sources, MEPs still intend to proceed with the TRILOC negotiations on Monday, and some expressed frustration at what they see as a unilateral and premature move.
04:39Beyond the immediate legislative impact, the move raises broader questions about the Commission's authority to retract its own proposals.
