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00:00U.S. President Joe Biden says he will not support an Israeli attack on sites related
00:06to Tehran's nuclear program.
00:12Ukrainian forces have withdrawn from the town of Vuhlydar after two and a half years of
00:19fighting.
00:20Georgia heads to key election amid divide between pro-Russian government and pro-EU
00:24public.
00:25Azra Bishvili talks to Euronews about her push to align Georgia with Europe.
00:35U.S. President Joe Biden says he will not support an Israeli attack on sites related
00:40to Tehran's nuclear program when asked about Israel's possible response to Iran's missile
00:45attack on Tuesday.
00:48Biden's comments came after he and fellow G7 leaders, including foreign ministers from
00:52France, Germany, Italy and the U.K., spoke by phone on Wednesday to discuss coordinating
00:57new sanctions against Iran.
00:59The answer is no, and I think there's things... We'll be discussing with the Israelis what
01:08they're going to do, but all seven of us agree that they have a right to respond, but they
01:15should respond in proportion.
01:17Meanwhile, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller addressed Israel's move in
01:21barring the U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres from entering the country, calling
01:26the move unproductive.
01:28Members of the U.N. Security Council held an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss
01:33Iran's attack on Israel.
01:36Israel's ambassador to the U.N. said that Guterres' latest statement, calling for de-escalation
01:40in the Middle East conflict, is detached from reality.
01:44The Secretary-General condemned Iran's attack during the meeting, but at the same time urged
01:49Israel not to hinder ceasefire efforts in both Lebanon and Gaza.
02:01Kyiv forces have withdrawn from Vuhlydar in the Donetsk region, Ukrainian military command
02:06confirmed on Wednesday.
02:08Having advanced from west, south and northeast, Russian soldiers were geo-located, planting
02:13Russian flags and freely operating in various parts of Vuhlydar.
02:20Vuhlydar's strategic importance is in its location.
02:22The town sits on higher ground between the two fronts, eastern and southern.
02:26To the south, Vuhlydar was the last fortified town before the village of Velyka Novoselka
02:30and the entire southern part of Donetsk region that Ukraine controls.
02:34The town is roughly 40 kilometers east of the administrative border with Zaporizhia
02:39region.
02:40Controlling Vuhlydar would also help Russian forces improve their railway's logistics,
02:44which might help them advance further.
02:4750 kilometers north from Vuhlydar is Russia's primary target, the town of Pokrovsk.
02:53Although threatening to Pokrovsk-1000 flank, Russian forces would need to maneuver across
02:57open terrain to meaningfully support offensive operations southeast of Pokrovsk.
03:04The Institute for the Study of War said it is unclear if Russian forces will make rapid
03:08gains beyond Vuhlydar in the immediate future.
03:12Advancing across an open field area during the upcoming muddy season would be complicated
03:17for Russian forces.
03:19It is possible that Ukrainian military command factored the weather aspect in when deciding
03:24to withdraw its forces from Vuhlydar.
03:27And whilst it won't be an issue for Russian forces to take full control of the town now,
03:32the muddy roads and fields will be almost unusable for mechanized assaults should Russian
03:36forces decide to advance further.
03:39They might decide to wait for the ground to freeze before considering the next steps,
03:44which would happen in about a month in the southern part of Ukraine's Donetsk region.
03:54The United Nations is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in the Middle East following
03:5910 days of strikes on Lebanon.
04:03Lebanese are finding themselves displaced and they have been crossing into neighboring
04:07war-torn Syria.
04:11The United Nations Refugee Agency's representative in Lebanon told Euronews that people might
04:16try to reach Europe despite the high costs and risks for those fleeing.
04:21Logistically, from a safety point of view, not easy to go anywhere else but flee within
04:32Lebanon or go to Syria, because otherwise the options would be going towards Cyprus
04:40and Europe by boats, and that is logistically difficult, less safe, and for many also extremely
04:47expensive.
04:48I heard quite ridiculous high prices that one now has to pay in order to get on a boat
04:56to Europe.
04:58According to Lebanese authorities, almost one million people have been displaced, which
05:02is approximately 20 percent of the country's entire population.
05:07Lebanon is also home to 1.5 million Syrian refugees and has a dire political and economic
05:12situation.
05:13The UN has called for financial support to ensure basic life-sustaining services and
05:19infrastructure.
05:20All our programs, UNHCR, the refugee agency, with many other organizations, we all need
05:27money.
05:28We launched an appeal together with the government earlier this week, 425 million is desperately
05:34needed in a range of sectors across agencies.
05:38Last Sunday, the European Commission announced 10 million euros in humanitarian aid.
05:44The EU has also repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Gaza and now in Lebanon.
05:51There we have no influence as humanitarians.
05:53We can only indicate what the consequences are of decisions not being taken, things not
05:59changing, and if that is the case, then we need to all brace ourselves for an increasingly
06:03large and precarious humanitarian catastrophe.
06:08The Israeli military said the ground operation in Lebanon was aimed at destroying infrastructure
06:12used by Hezbollah and it had no plans for a wider operation.
06:21But the Iranian missile strike on Israel on Tuesday night leaves the future of the conflict
06:25open.
06:34Georgia is heading towards a crucial legislative election on October 26.
06:39The South Caucasus country is polarized between a pro-Russian government and pro-EU public
06:44opinion.
06:47Georgia's head of state, Salome Zurabishvili, has proposed what she calls the Georgian Charter,
06:52which aims to align the country with the European Union.
07:22Georgia's negotiations to join the EU were frozen last June after the ruling party adopted
07:30the so-called foreign agents bill.
07:34Zurabishvili faces the challenge of coordinating parties that aim to join the EU but have contrasting
07:39political ambitions.
07:41It will be quite difficult to go right away, and we are not used to this, to a coalition
07:47government.
07:48So what I propose to them is to form a technical government charged with accompanying Georgia
07:54until the opening of the negotiations.
07:56These will be very technical issues to resolve.
07:59The program is known, it is the program of measures that are to be taken to meet the
08:05various European recommendations.
08:09Meanwhile, caught between Russia and Iran, Georgia finds itself hosting migrants from
08:13both nations.
08:38This year's COP29 climate change summit is gearing up in Azerbaijan's capital.
09:08With governments, businesses and climate activists meeting to prepare and address the issues of
09:15the UN summit in November, after another record-breaking summer and autumn of heat waves and devastating
09:23storms, Azerbaijan is pushing for a new climate financing goal of the previous Paris climate
09:29agreements to get the industrialized countries to pay more.
09:33That is really for us a make-or-break issue, because without finance, climate finance and
09:40new finance, the entire global climate architecture may not be what we see today.
09:45So for us, finance is really what keeps Paris agreement together.
09:50Energy transition is another key aspect of the summit, which is expected to ignite a
09:56major debate at the COP29 with a focus on clean energy goals.
10:02But the needs for oil and gas continue to be an urgent objective for Europe in its constant
10:08quest for energy sources.
10:11Azerbaijan's deputy energy minister told Euronews that his country continues to source energy
10:16for Europe, and gas exploitation and exports could continue in this sense if requested.
10:25A focus of this week is how businesses will be involved in the energy transition.
10:30That came with a warning that it would lead to a shift in labor.
10:34Some workers would be in demand, such as engineers, while others could be left behind.
10:39Indian startup founders said the event is a way for them to find financing for their
10:44company that turns metal waste into other products to avoid burning them and releasing
10:49carbon emissions.
10:51Networking is very important because we meet diverse people at once.
10:57And not only we save time, but we also save our resources by going here and there.
11:03We meet diverse people who come from interesting strata of the society.
11:08Panelists included workers with businesses deep in the fossil fuel industry, such as
11:13British Petroleum and the Azerbaijan State Oil Company.
11:17Organizers said they wanted to bring a diverse set of people to the table.
11:21Unless we make climate action pay and profitable, probably we are going to be facing a lot of
11:28difficulties in terms of fighting and tackling climate crisis.
11:32The Baku Climate Action Week wraps up on Friday with a look at how to equip young people for
11:38the green jobs market.