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00:00Voting is underway in what's widely expected to be the first round of Romania's presidential election.
00:12It's past 3 a.m. and a new climate finance deal has just landed here in Baku.
00:18After hours of negotiations, countries have reached a compromise on the key sticking point,
00:23the so-called New Collective Quantified Goal, the very core issue of this summit.
00:28They've now agreed to provide $300 billion in annual climate finance by 2035.
00:34Earlier on Saturday, negotiators from the Least Developed Countries Group
00:39and the Alliance of Small Island States walked out of the meeting room
00:43as discussions between developed and developing nations over the latest draft text intensified.
00:50The debit over raising the $250 billion proposal made on Friday further deepened the divide between countries.
00:57The G77 plus China group, representing over 130 developing nations,
01:02demanded at least $500 billion annually by 2035,
01:07calling for more transparency about the structure and form of these funds.
01:12Many admitted it has not been an easy journey,
01:15and while the EU welcomed the outcome with a commissioner for climate stating in the plenary
01:19that the $1.3 trillion objective can still be achieved, India voiced its disappointment.
01:26Governments have also reached agreements on carbon markets and found a compromise on adaptation.
01:32Even though the new climate finance deal doesn't fully meet the request from poor countries,
01:38it has opened a new chapter in the climate talks
01:41and most importantly saved COP29 from the brink of collapse.
01:46Giorgia Orlandi for Euronews, COP29 in Baku.
01:51Voting is underway across Romania in what's widely expected to be the first round presidential election.
02:00Thirteen candidates are vying for the presidency
02:03and the vote is likely to go to a second round in early December.
02:07Leading in the polls is Prime Minister Marcel CeauΘescu,
02:11who is backed by the Social Democratic Party.
02:15He's currently polling at around 24% and represents the conservative nationalist side of the party.
02:22But far-right nationalist George Simeon is also in with a chance of winning, currently polling at 15%.
02:29The anti-European nationalist recently praised Donald Trump and denied allegations that he's a Russian spy.
02:36The second round is scheduled for the 8th of December.
02:40That's a week after parliamentary elections on the 1st,
02:43meaning Romania's whole political landscape could look very different before the end of the year.
02:53Thousands of people took to the streets of Barcelona to demand a 50% drop in rents
02:59and to call for a housing strike if the situation does not improve.
03:04Authorities reported 22,000 attendees, whilst organizers claimed it was 126,000.
03:10The protest, organized by the tenants' union, carried the slogan
03:15It's over in Catalan.
03:17The main demands include promoting indefinite contracts
03:21to put an end to blackmail and insecurity at the end of each contract,
03:25to recover housing for residential use and to prohibit speculative buy-in.
03:30A Bank of Spain report indicates that nearly 40% of Spanish renters
03:35spend an average of 40% of their income on rent and utilities,
03:39compared to the EU average of 23%.
03:42The rally in Barcelona comes just over a month after thousands marched the streets of Madrid.
03:49Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said 321 port facilities
03:55have been damaged in Russian strikes since last July.
03:59That's raised concerns about how effectively Ukraine can ship its grain.
04:04Zelensky said Ukrainian exports provide food for 400 million people in 100 countries.
04:10He was speaking at the third Grain from Ukraine summit in Kyiv.
04:15Ukraine is a major global supplier of grain and before the Russian invasion
04:19exported 6 million tons of grain every month from its Black Sea ports.
04:23When Russia invaded in 2022, it blockaded those ports and grain exports collapsed.
04:29But in July 2022, shipments resumed under the Black Sea Grain Initiative,
04:34a deal mediated by the United Nations and Turkey.
04:37Russia exited the deal a year later, claiming provisions covering
04:41its own exports of grain and fertilizer weren't being honored.