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00:00Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in the Serbian capital, demanding the resignation
00:08of top officials after a concrete roof at a railway station collapsed and killed 14
00:14people earlier this month.
00:16Those rallying in Belgrade blamed the collapse of the roof on rampant corruption and sloppy
00:22renovation work on the station building in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad.
00:27The several thousand protesters demanded that the Serbian Prime Minister and his government
00:33step down and that those responsible for the collapse be arrested.
00:37Authorities have opened an investigation and the Serbian construction minister resigned
00:42last week, but no one has yet been charged with the incident which occurred on November
00:481st.
00:49Serbian government officials have promised full accountability but there is widespread
00:53skepticism as the populace control both the police and the judiciary.
01:02Parts of Spain recently flooded by deadly devastating flash floods are now facing the
01:07build-up of rubbish and accompanying rats and health issues.
01:12Local authorities are calling for the organisation of military trucks to take rubbish from the
01:17areas affected to recycling and waste management plants.
01:22Though plants might not be that far away, congestion and ruined roads means it takes
01:27a long time for lorries to arrive there.
01:29The build-up of rubbish has created a public health problem which was then exasperated
01:34by the proliferation of rats following the flood.
01:40Almost two weeks after the floods, rescue teams in Valencia are working against the
01:45clock to locate the people still missing.
01:49The search efforts are intensifying in coastal parts of the region after floodgates linking
01:54the rivers and the sea were opened to facilitate the search for missing persons.
02:04Authorities in Valencia have ruled out any imminent resignations from the regional government
02:08as anger continues to grow over the response to catastrophic flooding.
02:13Thousands of people staged a protest on Saturday night accusing the regional government of
02:18sending out public warnings about the dangers of the flooding too slowly.
02:23A group of protesters demanding the resignation of regional president Carlos Mazón clashed
02:28with riot police in front of the city hall.
02:31The EFE news agency said at least 31 police officers were injured in the violence.
02:37But the region's vice president said no one would be stepping down as to do so would be
02:42a betrayal of the victims.
02:45At least 222 people have been killed in Spain's worst natural disaster in decades.
02:51The flooding started after torrential rain lashed the eastern region of Valencia on 29
02:56October, with some areas receiving a year's worth of rain in just eight hours.
03:01The central government in Madrid has mobilized thousands of troops and police officers to
03:06help with relief and clean-up operations.
03:09And thousands of ordinary citizens have also stepped up to help, with no definite estimate
03:13as to exactly how many have come forward.
03:17The full extent of the damage is unknown, but Spain's Consortium for Insurance Compensation
03:22estimates that it will pay out at least 3.5 billion euros in compensation.
03:32The world is already becoming dangerously overheated, and the pace of climate change
03:37is accelerating, according to the World Meteorological Organization.
03:40They've just released their latest global state of the climate report for 2024, showing
03:46that the past decade was the warmest on record.
03:49And it's exactly what scientists had predicted, according to Director General Celeste Saulo.
04:09The UN's weather experts say that we are already at 1.3 degrees of warming compared
04:14to the pre-industrial average, and we are already seeing unprecedented sea surface temperatures
04:20melting at the ice caps, droughts and, of course, floods like we saw in Spain.
04:31It's a grim outlook.
04:46Greenhouse gas emissions may be falling in Europe, but they're still rising around the
04:52globe.
04:53And it doesn't matter to the atmosphere whether the CO2 was emitted in Beijing, Baku or Berlin.
04:58More heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere means more warming for everyone, and that's
05:03the bottom line.
05:04Jeremy Wilkes at COP29 in Baku in Azerbaijan for Euronews.
05:16The Franco-German alliance has stalled.
05:18Weakened domestically, both governments now face greater challenges in promoting their
05:23agendas in Europe.
05:25In Germany, the traffic-like coalition fell apart after the finance minister's dismissal.
05:29In France, Macron's political support has significantly eroded.
05:35The snap elections in France throughout the summer really weakened Macron and impacted
05:39his, you know, room for maneuver in the European discussions on common debt, for instance,
05:46when the Draghi paper came out, he was in a much weaker position to push for this than
05:53before the snap elections and the European elections, similar for Schultz, who now hasn't
05:58been invited by the Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, to a European meeting that President
06:05Macron, the leader of the United Kingdom, Kier Starmer, and others will attend.
06:12After Donald Trump's election, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced plans to meet
06:16with European leaders to discuss EU defence policy.
06:21NATO leaders, along with those from the UK, France, the Baltics, and Scandinavia, will
06:25be invited, yet German Chancellor Olaf Scholz hasn't received an invitation.
06:33Germany's political crisis couldn't come at a worse time.
06:36With Trump soon returning to the White House, he may attempt to sow divisions within the
06:40EU.
06:44Donald Trump has every interest to bilateralize transatlantic relations because he knows that
06:49if he speaks to Viktor Orban, to Emmanuel Macron, to Olaf Scholz or his successor bilaterally,
06:57that he will have much more weight in tariff discussions, in discussions on European defence,
07:02than if he would speak to a bloc of 27 EU member states that have a common position.
07:07And I think that's a big risk right now.
07:11The threat of recession in Germany could place additional stress on the Franco-German engine.
07:17Germany, the EU's largest economy, will be focused on the election campaign as Trump
07:22returns and threatens to impose tariffs on European imports.
07:33Two Germans set a new world record on Saturday by walking on a slack line stretched between
07:39two flying hot air balloons at a height of 2,500 metres during the performance at the
07:45German city of Riedling.
07:48Freddy Kuehne and Lukas Jimmler shattered the previous record of 1,900 metres set in
07:54Brazil in 2021 by 600 metres.
07:58Kuehne is best known for his records balancing on particularly high ropes without a safety
08:03device while Lukas Jimmler in 2019 gained fame for covering the longest distance in
08:10the world on a slack line two kilometres long.
08:29The two friends are no strangers to the slack line scene and already hold several world
08:34records.
08:41Tens of thousands of revellers gathered across Germany to celebrate Carnival amidst tight
08:46security.
08:49Thousands of people in masquerade costumes were not deterred by the bad weather in German
08:53cities like Cologne and Dusseldorf, with garbage bags particularly popular at kiosks so they
08:59could be used as overcoats against the rain.
09:04Cologne's mayor said Carnival came at the right time and that she was convinced everyone
09:09could use a bit of energy in the crises being experienced.
09:16Three hundred employees of the public order office and more than 1,000 employees of private
09:21security companies were also on the streets on behalf of the city.
09:28The origins of Carnival trace back to the Middle Ages when people wanted to escape from
09:32the harsh winter chill with celebrations providing a respite.
09:38UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived in Paris to join French President Emmanuel
09:44Macron for a ceremony marking the 106th anniversary of the armistice.
09:52Their meeting signifies a celebration of the two countries' friendship as nations across
09:58the world pay tribute to their fallen soldiers in World War One.
10:03This year also marks the 120th anniversary of the Entente Cordiale, the historic agreement
10:09between France and the United Kingdom.
10:13Starmer was personally invited to Paris by Emmanuel Macron and the two leaders are expected
10:19to discuss a number of foreign policy issues including the war in Ukraine and the conflict
10:24in the Middle East.
10:29The trip marks a significant step in Starmer's plans to reset relations with the European
10:34Union following the UK's exit in 2020.
10:41At least three people have died in an Israeli strike on the Nisarat refugee camp in central
10:47Gaza.
10:50The strike hit a tent sheltering a displaced family, wounding two children and killing
10:55their parents, one of which was a photojournalist.
11:00Around 24 people were wounded in the attack and taken to the Alda Hospital in Nisarat,
11:05according to the head of the hospital's ambulance service.
11:10As Israel intensifies its military campaign in northern Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians
11:15are also fleeing Jabalia, where an Israeli strike on a house killed at least 32 people
11:21over the weekend.
11:24Meanwhile, Israel's air force attacked an aid convoy and forced the closure of Syria's
11:30main north-south highway, according to the country's state media.
11:35Yemen's Houthi rebels also claimed to have launched a missile at northern Israel, which
11:41the IDF says was intercepted.
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