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00:00Hezbollah has elected Naim Qassem to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, one month after he was killed
00:06in an Israeli airstrike.
00:11Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has claimed that Russian forces lost 800 men on
00:16the Eastern Front in one day of fighting.
00:21A controversial election brought crowds on the streets of Tbilisi as neither the president
00:25nor the opposition parties recognized the results.
00:36Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah has elected a new leader.
00:40Naim Qassem will succeed Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in September in an Israeli
00:44airstrike.
00:45Qassem is a founding member of Hezbollah and served as Nasrallah's deputy chief for more
00:51than three decades.
00:53He was often the public face of the group, attending rallies and speaking to foreign
00:57journalists when Nasrallah went in hiding.
01:00In their announcement, Hezbollah vowed to continue Nasrallah's policies.
01:09Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has claimed that Russia lost 800 men on the Eastern
01:14Front in one day of fighting.
01:18Zelenskiy said this on Monday in Reykjavik at the Ukraine Nordic Summit, where he met
01:22with prime ministers of Iceland, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden.
01:27He said Ukraine has to think first of all about people and then about the land.
01:33For them it's not people, I mean, so they push them and a lot of Russians are killed
01:41each day.
01:42The last my connection with the general was today morning and yesterday, for example,
01:49Russian, they lost only on this, on the east direction, they lost 800 people and killed.
01:58So they don't think about it.
01:59We have to think, that's why it's not simple.
02:02In his meeting with Prime Minister Bjarne Benediktsson, Zelenskiy highlighted Iceland's
02:08crucial role in assisting Ukraine's NATO ambitions.
02:14Crowds gathered in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, on Monday, October 28, to hear the President
02:18Salome Zorabishvili address the disputed election results together with the representatives
02:23of opposition parties.
02:26According to local journalists, people blocked the main Rustaveli Avenue in the capital ahead
02:30of the speech and the President told them that their votes were stolen.
02:35Zorabishvili rejected the victory of Georgian Dream earlier in the day and asked international
02:39partners to stand with Georgia, calling the elections illegitimate.
02:44Through the new proportional representation system, the ruling pro-Russian Georgian Dream
02:48party retained its strong position and secured a majority of seats in the parliament.
02:52However, the four main opposition parties announced they did not recognize the results
02:57amid reports of voting violations.
02:59The election commission announced that the Georgian Dream took nearly 54% of the votes.
03:05The elections that took place on Saturday have been described in news reports as crucial
03:09for Georgia's path forward, determining whether the country will continue to pursue EU membership
03:15or move toward closer ties with Russia.
03:19Brussels doesn't trust the result of the Georgian elections and asked to conduct a
03:23swift and independent analysis months after the country's accession process was halted.
03:31The victory of incumbent Prime Minister Irakli Kobakidze's party, Georgian Dream, was marred
03:36by allegations of intimidation, coercion and vote-buying.
03:45The OSCE joint observation mission argues that although the elections were well-organized,
04:03they included widespread allegations of pressure on electors. Several European ministers have
04:08issued a statement expressing concern about the possible violation of international standards
04:13for fair elections.
04:20The EU's doubts have been compounded by the visit of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
04:44on Monday. Hungary holds the six-month presidency of the EU, although the High Representative
04:48Josep Borrell has pointed out that he does not represent the bloc.
04:59NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte confirms the presence of North Korean troops in the
05:05Russian border region of Kursk after a meeting with South Korea's secret services.
05:18For Rutte, the Russian President's reliance on the support of third countries is a sign
05:40of Putin's desperation. Ukraine's secret services had already detected 11,000 North Korean troops
05:47training in eastern Russia. North Korea had already sent both arms and manpower to Russia.
06:01The result of the US presidential election will impact the outcome of the war in Ukraine
06:07and by extension the security of the European Union. While Donald Trump claims he could
06:13negotiate a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow in 24 hours, his return to the White House
06:19and isolationist stance suggests that Europeans might have to shoulder most of the support
06:25for Ukraine.
06:44In contrast, even if US Vice President Kamala Harris has expressed firm support for Ukraine,
07:02Europeans will likely be called upon to strengthen their defence capabilities.
07:13Regardless of the US election outcome, the European Union is expected to maintain its
07:30support for Kyiv, but it will likely need to re-evaluate their priorities and strategy.
07:44The US election serves as a wake-up call for the EU. Europeans must prepare to navigate
07:51a rapidly changing world order and may need to rely more on themselves in this new geopolitical
08:17landscape.
08:21The leader of the Social Democratic Party announced that her party is leading in the
08:27polls for Lithuania's second and final round of parliamentary elections. Voters headed
08:33to the ballots as strict COVID-19 measures during the pandemic, political scandals and
08:38an influx of migrants from neighbouring Belarus hurt the popularity of the current Prime Minister's
08:42government.
08:46The vote in Lithuania, which borders Russia to the west and Belarus to the east, comes
08:50at a time when Russia's military campaign in Ukraine is fueling greater concerns about
08:55Moscow's intentions, particularly in the strategically important Baltic region.
09:01It will set the political tone for the next four years, but despite a possible shift to
09:05the left, analysts say there won't be a significant change to Lithuania's foreign policy.
09:11The Social Democrats are broadly supportive of continuing aid to Ukraine and keeping the
09:16defence spending above 3% of GDP.
09:47International negotiations are underway to clarify the implementation of the Global Biodiversity
10:02Framework adopted by nearly 200 countries at the end of 2022. It includes 23 targets.
10:16And only 8% in marine and coastal. So there is a strong call to action in the national
10:24action plans or in the updated targets from the different countries to enhance the protection.
10:33But that target cannot go alone without the other target, that is the target number two,
10:41that is to promote the restoration.
10:45The European Union claims to be entering the final discussions as a leader in the fight
10:51for biodiversity.
10:53We had Natura 2000 as a vast network of connected protected sites. So because of that in the
11:02nature restoration law, we are quite confident that the 2030 goal for the land we will relatively
11:10soon reach. For the water, it's a bit more complicated. But also on this we are working
11:17a lot. We will come forward with a water resilience strategy.
11:22According to the UN, green investments need to be tripled to achieve the 2030 targets.
11:39To transform in action the promises to stop the destruction of biodiversity.
11:44Cyril Fourneries, Euronews, Cali.