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00:00Iran's supreme leader has praised his country's missile strike on Israel, calling it fully
00:07legal and legitimate.
00:11The EU approves stiff tariffs on Chinese EVs, despite a lack of majority.
00:21Two Swedish teenagers are arrested in connection with explosions near the Israeli embassy in
00:26Copenhagen on Wednesday.
00:34Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has praised his country's missile strike on
00:39Israel and said it would be done again if necessary.
00:43What our armed forces have done is the least punishment for the Zionist regime in the face
00:56of the outrageous crimes of that regime, the bloodthirsty regime, the wolfish regime, the
01:06dog of America in the region.
01:11It's the first time in five years Khamenei has led Friday's prayer in Tehran and he took
01:17the opportunity to urge other Islamic nations to take action against the enemy.
01:24It follows a series of Israeli airstrikes launched on the southern suburbs of Beirut
01:29overnight alongside another that cut off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria.
01:37Tens of thousands of people had been using the crossing over the past two weeks to flee
01:41the war in Lebanon.
01:44Protests have also been held in the West Bank after an Israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp,
01:50killing 18 Palestinians.
01:53The Israeli military says the strike killed Hamas' leader in the camp.
02:04EU countries have continued to evacuate their citizens from Lebanon as hostilities between
02:09Israel and Hezbollah escalate.
02:12Germany flew another 130 of its citizens out of the country on board a military plane that
02:17landed in Frankfurt.
02:19The German foreign ministry said in a post on X that the evacuation plane also brought
02:24five tons of aid, particularly medical equipment, into the Lebanese capital.
02:30Greece also sent a military transport plane to Beirut on Thursday to bring home both Greek
02:35and Cypriot nationals who wanted to leave Lebanon.
02:38The C-130, carrying 38 Cypriots and 22 Greeks, landed in Cyprus before heading to a military
02:45airfield near Athens later in the day.
02:48Greece's foreign ministry says it's established hotlines for its citizens living in Lebanon
02:53to call if they require assistance in leaving the country.
02:58Spain evacuated the first group of its citizens on Thursday, bringing 250 people home on board
03:04two military planes which landed at an airbase near the capital, Madrid.
03:09The Spanish foreign ministry said the situation in Lebanon is so serious that part of the
03:13embassy staff will also be airlifted out of Beirut on a second plane, leaving only a skeleton
03:19staff behind to carry out essential diplomatic work.
03:24And France has also started evacuating its citizens, with the first group arriving on one of four
03:29flights that landed at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
03:33The French embassy in Lebanon has reportedly negotiated two additional flights to Paris
03:38with the Lebanese national airline MEA.
03:41Meanwhile, flag carrier Air France says it suspended all passenger flights to Lebanon
03:46until at least the 8th of October.
03:50Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has appealed to Western allies for better cooperation
03:58in combating Russian airstrikes during his nightly video address.
04:03Zelensky said it was important to strengthen front-line defences before the onset of the
04:08bitter Ukrainian winter.
04:19Those comments come on the same day that new NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte visited Kiev
04:25and pledged the alliance's continued support.
04:29The NATO-Ukrainian alliance has been working together since the beginning of the war.
04:35The NATO-Ukrainian alliance has been working together since the beginning of the war.
04:40The NATO-Ukrainian alliance has been working together since the beginning of the war.
04:46The alliance's continued support.
04:48The NATO chief vowed when he took office on Tuesday to help shore up Western support for Ukraine,
04:54which has been fighting Russia's full-scale invasion since February 2022.
04:59Rutte also said recent steps had been taken to build a bridge to NATO membership for Ukraine,
05:05including 40 billion euros of funding assistance and bilateral security agreements.
05:12Meanwhile, evacuations continue for people living in the eastern city of Dnipro.
05:17Officials there say more than 2,500 people have passed through the transit point
05:22for internally displaced people since the end of August.
05:26Local media say Russian forces attacked three districts in the region several times on Thursday
05:32using artillery and drones, injuring three people.
05:36European member states have failed to agree on whether the EU should apply steeper tariffs
05:46on China-made electric vehicles.
05:49Now the decision goes back to the EU Commission, who can implement its proposal.
05:54This means that the tariffs can be imposed.
05:57The voting council revealed clear divisions.
05:59Ten countries voted in favour of the tariffs, with France and Italy amongst them,
06:03Germany and four more countries voted against.
06:06However, the abstention of 12 countries meant that there was no result.
06:13Germany's car manufacturers operate largely at the higher end,
06:17it's mostly premium cars, and they invested heavily within China.
06:21Given their premium branding, they're not too worried about competition
06:25on the lower end of the markets from Chinese imports,
06:28whereas French and Italian producers have not invested as heavily in China
06:32and they compete much more directly on the lower end of the market
06:35and they are therefore much more worried about the effect that Chinese competition
06:39would have for the European market.
06:44The high number of abstentions reflects long-standing concerns
06:47about how Europe should stand up to China.
06:50Even though there is agreement about the fact that Beijing's unfair trade practices
06:54married a forceful united response,
06:57fears of commercial retaliation appear to have dampened the resolve of many capitals,
07:02especially with a make-or-break date approaching.
07:08I think what is clear is that the Chinese government would retaliate,
07:11that is what they normally do, and they already signalled where they will do this,
07:15which would be agricultural exports.
07:17Now, compared to the EV market, the agricultural market,
07:20even though it's politically very important, is economically not that big.
07:24So the question is basically, will that be enough for an escalation on the European side
07:28and basically to which extent the Chinese side will escalate in more and more bigger sectors.
07:33Friday's vote marked a victory for the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
07:38In its statement, the EU Commission still left the door open for a different outcome,
07:43stating that the EU and China would continue to work hard to explore an alternative solution.
07:54Certain FIFA rules on international player transfers are in breach of EU law,
07:59the EU's top court said on Friday.
08:02The Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its ruling
08:06following a decade-long legal challenge spearheaded by former footballer Lassana Diara.
08:12According to the ECJ, certain FIFA rules impede the free movement of footballers
08:17wanting to progress their careers by working for new clubs.
08:21In 2013, Diara signed a four-year contract with Russian team Lokomotiv Moscow,
08:26but the deal was terminated after Diara was allegedly unhappy with pay cuts.
08:31Lokomotiv Moscow applied to FIFA for compensation,
08:35with its arbitration court finding Diara's sacking was based on just cause.
08:39The player was ordered to pay the club millions of euros.
08:42Diara claimed his search for a new club was hampered by FIFA rules,
08:46stating any new side would be jointly responsible for paying Lokomotiv compensation.
08:51FIFPRO, the union representing footballers, celebrated the recent ECJ ruling,
08:56saying it would change the EU's sporting labour market.
09:06Two Swedish teenagers have been arrested at Copenhagen train station
09:10in connection with two explosions near the Israeli embassy in the Danish capital on Wednesday.
09:16No one was injured in the pre-dawn blasts,
09:19which happened in a neighbourhood that's home to several foreign diplomatic missions.
09:23The pair were ordered to be held in pre-trial detention for 27 days.
09:28They faced preliminary charges of possessing illegal weapons and carrying five hand grenades.
09:34Two of the grenades blew up when the suspects threw them at a house near the embassy,
09:38but the Israeli mission wasn't damaged.
09:41Danish broadcaster DR said the teenagers, aged 16 and 19,
09:45are suspected of acting in association and together with prior agreement with one or more perpetrators.
09:51Denmark's prime minister said it was becoming increasingly dangerous to be a Jew in Europe.
10:08We are very fortunate that the authorities are doing everything they can
10:13to protect the Jewish minority in Denmark.
10:18This comes after shots were fired late on Tuesday at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.
10:23No one was injured and no arrests have been made.
10:27The Danish domestic security service PET said that Swedish authorities
10:31had assessed that that attack had links to Iran.
10:38Thousands have staged a march through central Vienna
10:42to urge the country's political parties not to join a coalition with the far right.
10:47It comes as the FPO, for the first time in its history,
10:51won national elections on Sunday with 29% of the vote.
10:55Protesters held signs that read,
10:58It's Thursday again, alluding to demonstrations that broke out on Thursdays in the 2000s
11:03against the centre-right OVP entering into a coalition with the FPO.
11:08According to the organisers, over 25,000 people took part in the protest on Thursday evening.
11:15The largely Eurosceptic party campaigned in an anti-immigration platform,
11:21promising voters measures to boost Austria's economy.
11:25Without a full majority, the party would need to form a coalition government in order to govern,
11:31which would mark the first time that Austria has been ruled by the far right since World War II.