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00:00 A British man died and more than two dozen passengers got injured during a severe turbulence
00:07 on a London-Singapore flight on Tuesday.
00:11 The plane took off from Heathrow Airport with 211 passengers on board and had to make an
00:18 emergency landing in Bangkok at 3.45 p.m. local time.
00:24 authorities said the victim might have suffered a heart attack.
00:30 I just know that Mr. English mentioned and then have like heart attack problem.
00:42 So maybe he's have a heart attack on plane or not.
00:47 But after the doctor have to investigate his body.
00:52 Tracking data shows the plane suddenly and sharply pitched down by nearly 2,000 metres
01:00 in around three minutes, staying at an altitude of 9,400 metres before rapidly descending
01:07 and landing in Bangkok in just under half an hour.
01:11 Airports of Thailand group said all injured passengers are being treated at a facility
01:16 inside Suvarna Bhumi Airport.
01:21 Nine defendants are going on trial in Frankfurt, Germany over an alleged far-right attempt
01:34 to forcibly overthrow the government.
01:37 The case shocked the country back in 2022.
01:41 Around 260 witnesses are supposed to attend.
01:45 The large number of defendants, lawyers and media dealing with the case are being held
01:51 in a courthouse built specifically for this trial.
01:56 We don't have a room that would have been suitable for this trial
02:02 given the security precautions and the size of the people.
02:08 The trial has a scale that the High Court has never had before.
02:14 We have a trial with nine defendants, who currently have 25 defendants.
02:20 We also have a large amount of indictment that goes beyond what we know so far.
02:28 Defendants include Eirik XIII, Prince Reuss, whom the group allegedly planned to install
02:36 as Germany's provisional new leader.
02:39 There's also a judge and former lawmaker with the far-right AFD party,
02:44 as well as ex-German military officers.
02:47 Most of them have been charged with belonging to a terrorist organisation.
02:52 The trial, starting on Tuesday, is the second of three major proceedings
02:57 into the so-called "Reichsbürgers",
03:00 people who allegedly don't recognise the Federal Republic of Germany.
03:05 Another trial began in Stuttgart in April,
03:08 while a third one is expected to start in Munich in June.
03:14 The Slovak Parliament reconvened for the first time on Tuesday
03:19 since the shooting of Prime Minister Robert Fico last week.
03:23 In a landmark resolution, MPs unanimously called on all parties
03:28 to respect election results and refrain from spreading hatred against opponents.
03:34 The move follows a public outcry over the attack on the PM,
03:38 which many say stemmed from an atmosphere of toxicity and lies surrounding Slovak politics.
03:45 Prime Minister Fico remains in hospital in a serious but non-life-threatening condition.
03:51 Medical staff said he remains conscious and communicative.
03:56 Meanwhile, investigations into the attack go on.
03:59 A male individual was detained immediately after the incident.
04:04 Following a police search at his apartment,
04:08 a court ordered that the suspect remain behind bars.
04:12 Government officials initially sustained that the shooter was probably a lone wolf.
04:17 However, on Sunday, they said that he might have been helped by someone else.
04:23 The Austrian Chancellor praised Britain as a pioneer in outsourcing migrants to places outside of Europe.
04:33 In Vienna, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer praised the UK's Rwanda scheme
04:38 at a joint news conference with the UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
04:44 Austria and the UK have agreed to work together to change the European legal system
04:49 to allow the deportation of migrants to safe third countries.
04:54 With the partnership with the UK, we can now actually make a change in the process of discussion.
05:03 That's why there is full support for the British way from the Austrian side.
05:09 Business as usual won't solve this problem.
05:12 We have to think creatively.
05:14 We have to pursue new ideas, new solutions and deterrence,
05:18 removals to safe third countries like the UK's pioneering Rwanda scheme.
05:23 Austria is among 15 EU countries calling for more agreements with countries migrants depart from.
05:30 This call followed EU nations endorsing major asylum system reforms.
05:35 Serbia's left-wing Socialist Movement Party has announced it will draft a bill
05:43 aiming to restrict the activities of foreign NGOs operating in the Balkan country.
05:49 The betrayal of our own country and people cannot be highly profitable.
05:55 The draft closely resembles the highly controversial foreign agent law
06:00 which is expected to be implemented in Georgia soon.
06:03 Serbian voters will head to the ballot box on June 2
06:07 to participate in a rerun of last year's federal election.
06:11 The proposed anti-foreign NGO law could bring more votes to the Serbian Socialist Movement.
06:17 I truly believe that the threat to the interests of the Republic of Serbia
06:21 is if there are non-governmental organisations that are being financed from abroad
06:27 and work here to promote Kosovo as an independent state,
06:33 to promote the existence of genocide in Srebrenica,
06:38 to destroy the Republic of Serbia.
06:42 NGOs such as the Youth Initiative for Human Rights are concerned
06:47 the bill will impact their and Serbian society's future.
06:51 I see these announcements as a means of intimidating the pre-segregation society
06:56 and independent media,
06:58 that is, the media that critically question the behaviour of the government,
07:03 and on the other hand, organisations that try to reform the society
07:09 by proposing certain policies.
07:12 Through these announcements we see a kind of voluntary ban
07:16 on the use of certain democratic principles.
07:19 The law could hang Serbia's EU member state candidacy in the balance.
07:25 Spain's Popular Party presented its policy platform for the upcoming EU elections
07:38 and are using it to critique Federal Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's government.
07:43 We have led in Europe the defence of the rule of law
07:47 and the permanent denunciation of the infamous amnesty of Sánchez and Puigdemont.
07:51 The opposition is targeting democracy, economy, social policies and geopolitical leadership
07:57 and will attempt to garner younger voters' support.
08:00 We are working on a proposal to exempt them from paying taxes
08:04 during the first years of their professional careers.
08:07 Party leader Fuego promised to make this one of the electoral campaign's central points
08:13 but noted the challenges.
08:15 Sometimes I have the impression that a document like this
08:18 is relegated to the dispute, to the political game, to the smoke, to the noise.
08:23 It comes after far-right party Vox drew thousands of attendees at a rally in the capital,
08:28 attended by Argentinian President Javier Millet.
08:31 A row between the countries sparked by comments made by Millet
08:35 threatened to overshadow the start of Spain's EU election campaign.
08:39 I think it's a shame that the interests of 48 million Spaniards and 46 million Argentinians
08:45 are being kidnapped by a way of doing politics.
08:48 The party leader advocated for calm amid barbs traded between the leaders' governments.
08:54 Support for the popular party at the ballot box in June.
09:00 Despite the words of Alberto Núñez and Joaquín in the presentation of the PP's electoral program,
09:05 the diplomatic crisis between Spain and Argentina
09:07 places the story where its political adversaries want it to.
09:10 On the one hand, Vox's demonstration of force at its weekend rally
09:14 reveals that it does not give up disputing the PP's anti-Sanchismo flag.
09:19 And Sánchez, on the other hand, considers the PSOE as the wall
09:22 against what he calls the "ultra-right-wing international".
09:25 Because beyond the political programs,
09:27 the electoral campaigns always mark the times.
09:30 Everyone knows how it starts, but no one knows how it ends.
09:33 In Madrid, Jaime Velázquez, Euronews.
09:36 I am in Hungary, in Debrecen in particular,
09:45 the second city in the country and one of the bastions of the faithfulness of the party of Prime Minister Víctor Orban.
09:50 Behind me you have several thousand people gathered, not in support of the government,
09:53 but on the call of a man, Peter Magyar, who embodies a new opposition
09:57 and who presents his list to the European elections in June 2024.
10:00 His popularity is climbing the ranks and the hopes of a change in Hungarian society accompany him.
10:04 So for Witness, we will try to understand what are the challenges of these elections,
10:07 but above all, what future is drawn for Hungarians.
10:18 If someone is sick and cannot afford medical treatment, and cannot afford medical treatment...
10:23 ...then he is a traitor.
10:25 We are the most corrupt country, so it's too much for the Hungarian people.
10:37 It's too much together, economically, politically, legally, ethically, it's too much.
10:42 It will be challenging for him, you know, just to keep his success alive.
11:04 And what we know for sure is that Fidesz will do anything to discredit him.
11:12 I think that he needs a chance, and I think he has a chance, because he is new,
11:17 and he has come from the system that he is trying to take down.
11:21 I don't have a belief that if he would be Hungary's Prime Minister, everything would change,
11:28 that everything would be automatically better.
11:32 I think changing the current system that has been governing here for the past 14 years would be a step.
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