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00:00Russian forces enter Toretsk as battles rage in Toretsk Region, Ukraine.
00:11Hungarian presidency priorities explained by Prime Minister in two-hour-long press conference.
00:20MEPs have held a debate on the crisis facing the European automotive industry.
00:31Preparations are underway in Florida as Category 5 Hurricane Milton closes in on the region.
00:47Russian forces are already in eastern Toretsk.
00:50Ukrainian military command confirmed saying that the fighting is taking place
00:55literally at every building entrance.
00:58The situation near Toretsk has been difficult for months and the clashes on the town's outskirts
01:03were reported back in August.
01:05But over the past month Moscow has intensified its focus and its assaults and Russian forces
01:12have been advancing into Toretsk since late September, wildly using the highly destructive
01:19guided bombs.
01:21With a population of over 30,000 before the full-scale invasion, Toretsk has been largely
01:26destroyed and devastated with most of the buildings shattered.
01:30And only about 1,600 people staying in town after numerous evacuations.
01:35If Russian forces manage to capture the town, it would help Moscow obstruct key Ukrainian
01:40logistics routes connecting the operational rear and the combat zone.
01:45The situation has also gotten increasingly difficult in eastern Ukraine, the primary
01:51target of Russia's invasion since the capture of Vuhlydar, which happened less than a week ago.
01:57Similar to Vuhlydar, Toretsk has been a front-line town for 10 years due to its location close
02:04to Ukraine's territories seized by Russia in 2014.
02:12As Israel's airstrikes and ground troops operations continue in Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin
02:17Netanyahu says Israeli forces have taken out the would-be successors of Hezbollah.
02:22Netanyahu also warned the people of Lebanon to rise up against Hezbollah or face a similar
02:28fate like Gaza.
02:29You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that
02:34will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.
02:38At least 1,400 Lebanese people have been killed since the fighting escalated three weeks ago.
02:48According to Viktor Orban, Ukraine cannot win the war and the European Union should
02:53aim for a ceasefire between Kiev and Moscow.
02:57The Hungarian Prime Minister is in Strasbourg presenting the priorities of the Hungarian
03:01Council Presidency to the European Parliament.
03:05His press conference was interrupted by a member of a Hungarian opposition party.
03:12He threw fake banknotes on the PM calling him a traitor.
03:19Orban, who is often criticized for being supportive of Russia, told a room packed with reporters
03:24that better communication with President Putin was needed to get a ceasefire.
03:29Quizzed by Euronews, he conceded that in the meantime EU countries could keep up their
03:34military aid to Ukraine on a national basis.
03:39Those who think what we are doing as European Union is good and strategically right, let's
03:45support the Ukrainians.
03:46Don't disagree with that like Hungary, we don't.
03:50That belongs to the national government.
03:53The Hungarian Prime Minister also called for stricter controls to detect migrants at the
03:57borders and hotspots outside the EU.
04:00And he doubled down on the request for his country to be exempt from the new EU migration
04:05policy.
04:09He also still seems ready to send refugees to Brussels to protest against it.
04:14We respect the European law, we respect all the regulations, but if somebody who get an
04:23asylum in Hungary would like to come to Brussels, you know, we are ready to help them.
04:29Hungary's presidency started in July, but their diplomats have been facing boycotts
04:33and isolation in the EU institutions from the start.
04:37Orbán's rapporteur for the situation in Hungary believes Orbán is actively undermining
04:42the common European asylum system.
04:47He uses the rhetoric just, you know, to get more, a stronger position, to blackmail in
04:56order to get EU funding.
04:59It's a lot of rhetorics.
05:02And Orbán's biggest prize for the Hungarian presidency?
05:06To get Romania and Bulgaria fully into the Schengen area, apparently.
05:12MEPs have held a debate on the state of the automotive industry, as car manufacturers
05:20across the continent continue to face factory closures brought on by sluggish sales.
05:28A key focus of the debate was the decline in demand for European electric vehicles,
05:34a trend that's been exacerbated by rising competition from Chinese manufacturers.
05:40Car sales in the EU are below the pre-COVID level, while China has become the largest
05:46market.
05:47Also, in the third market, the demand has shifted towards zero-emission vehicles.
05:53We have set a clear framework for transition to zero-emission vehicles with a 100% zero-emission
05:58cars target by 2035.
06:01But critics say the EU's 2035 target is impossible to meet, arguing there is not enough funding
06:08or infrastructure.
06:28A resolution on the issue will be put to a vote in a future session.
06:41At the gates of the University of Seville in the south of Spain, a group of students
06:46begin to gather.
06:48It is one of the welcome events for Erasmus students who are about to begin classes.
06:52For many of them, the new course does not begin in classes, instead it begins with
07:05a tour to get to know the city.
07:16According to the Erasmus Student Network, Spain has been the country where the most
07:21Erasmus students with about 150,000 this year alone.
07:26Madrid is the main destination with nearly 10,000 students, followed by Barcelona, Valencia
07:32and Seville, chosen this year as one of the destinations best valued by the students.
07:38Other best valued cities include Porto, Istanbul and Sofia.
07:43It is a city with which we really anchor the Spanish culture very well and it is also
07:50relatively cheap for what an Erasmus can afford.
07:53The cuts in the financing of Erasmus projects could have a repercussion that goes far beyond
07:58the university environment, especially in the local economies of cities like Seville
08:03that see every year how the number of Erasmus students increases.
08:07Thanks to the Erasmus programme, the University of Seville received nearly €7 million of
08:12investments this year.
08:14An additional €10 million could be injected into the economy from the use of services
08:20in the city catering to over 2,300 students.
08:24I live in a student residence and I pay €700 a month.
08:31And the food for me is about €100 a month.
08:37A lot of foreign students come and of course they consume too much.
08:41Thanks to them, thanks to the university, we have a lot of clients here and the business
08:46is doing very well thanks to what they consume and what they spend.
08:50MEPs on the EU Parliament Budget Committee have opposed the proposal to cut about €295
08:56million from the Erasmus programme.
08:59Our association has a clear position on this and obviously we believe that the Erasmus
09:04scholarship and the possibility of international mobility is available to everyone, whether
09:08they are from the social class or not.
09:10Most of the students who travel for the programme are the French, followed by Germans and, in
09:16the third place, the Spanish.
09:18This year has seen almost 400,000 fewer participants in the Erasmus programme compared to last
09:25year, the first time that the numbers have started to fall after the pandemic.
09:35French truck drivers are blocking a main motorway in Alsace in protest against the potential
09:41introduction of a heavy goods vehicles tax from 2027.
09:46The new tax, which comes at a cost of 15 cents per kilometre, aims to reduce transit traffic
09:52on the A35 motorway, which sees up to 10,000 trucks pass along it each day.
09:59Many of these lorries use the Alsace motorway to avoid paying the high eco-taxes already
10:04in place on German motorways.
10:08Those working in the transit industry say the addition of this new tax would threaten
10:13the survival of some businesses.
10:29Local councillors are set to vote on the proposal on the 21st of October.
10:35Florida is preparing for what could be one of the most destructive storms on record as
10:43Category 5 Hurricane Milton is forecast to hit the areas of Tampa and St Petersburg.
10:50Milton brushed the shore of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula early on Tuesday, knocking down
10:56power lines, light poles and trees before making its way towards the Florida coast.
11:04Police have ordered evacuations in Largo, while residents in Venice stock up on sandbags
11:09to protect their homes.
11:12President Biden has postponed his planned trips to Germany and Angola and has urged
11:17people to follow local safety instructions.
11:20If you're under evacuation orders you should evacuate now, now, now, you should have already
11:26evacuated. It's a matter of life and death and that's not hyperbole, it's a matter of
11:30life and death.
11:32The storm comes less than two weeks after Hurricane Helene devastated the region and
11:38clean-up efforts continue to clear debris before it can be swept up and hurled by Milton's
11:43powerful storm surges.