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00:00The EU foreign policy chief says UNIFIL has the strong support of the bloc after meeting
00:06the mission's commander in Beirut.
00:12Protesters in Tbilisi accused the government of election fraud at a rally ahead of the
00:15first session of the newly elected parliament.
00:21The opposition Law and Justice Party chooses historian Karel Navrotsky as its candidate
00:26for next year's presidential election.
00:31Like many before it, the 29th edition of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change
00:36needed extra time for an overall agreement to be reached.
00:40In the early hours of Sunday, exhausted delegates in Baku finally found a compromise on the
00:45most crucial issue of COP29, a new climate financing regime.
00:50The UN Climate Change Executive Secretary called it an insurance policy for humanity.
00:57Like any insurance policy, it only works if premiums are paid in full and on time.
01:06Promises must be kept to protect billions of lives.
01:13The sum agreed on to be guaranteed by the developed nations is at $300 billion annually
01:18much lower than developing nations had been asking for, with many delegates making their
01:23frustrations clear.
01:25However, as others pointed out, the compromise was accepted regardless, as there is now an
01:30expectation that this sum will serve as the foundation to reaching the goal experts say
01:35is needed, $1.3 trillion annually.
01:38It was very important for the African group to have that number, $300 billion by 2035,
01:46as a floor and not a ceiling, and we've been able very late in the negotiation to have
01:52the term at least to ensure that this can only be a starting base, a minimum, due to
01:59the vast needs of developing countries.
02:05Voluntary contributions by rich nations not included in the group of developed nations
02:10in the convention, like China and South Korea, are supposed to help reach that ceiling, as
02:15well as multilateral development banks, investments by the private sector and revenue from taxes
02:20in the carbon markets.
02:22As did most delegates, the European Commissioner for Climate Action stressed that an agreement
02:27being reached in difficult geopolitical times was particularly significant.
02:31But he also pointed to an issue close to the EU's heart where at least some progress also
02:37had been made.
02:38Ladies and gentlemen, another topic that was on our minds this week is reducing emissions.
02:44It was not the focus of this COP, but we wanted more, because the world needs more
02:50of it.
02:52And even though the UAE consensus was attacked, we did move forward, even though it was just
02:59a bit.
03:01We did manage to safeguard Dubai and take some steps forward.
03:04It is less than what we have liked, but it is better than we feared.
03:11Next year's UN climate conference will be hosted by the Brazilian city of BelΓ©m, where,
03:16among other issues, mitigation in general and the Amazon rainforest in particular will
03:22take centre stage.
03:29The EU foreign policy chief has said UN peacekeepers stationed in southern Lebanon have the strong
03:34support of the bloc after meeting their commander in Beirut.
03:38Yossef Barel held talks with UNIFIL's head of mission and force commander Lieutenant
03:42General Eroldo Lazzaro during his visit to the Lebanese capital on Sunday.
03:48That meeting comes days after four Italian soldiers were injured after two rockets exploded
03:53at a UNIFIL base in Sharma, apparently fired by Hezbollah.
03:57Barel said that attacks on UNIFIL personnel are completely unacceptable and said the peacekeepers
04:02play a key role in an increasingly challenging environment.
04:06Meanwhile, Israel continued airstrikes on Beirut into Sunday night after Hezbollah fired
04:11around 250 rockets and other projectiles into Israel.
04:16At least seven people were wounded in one of the militant group's heaviest barrages
04:20on Israel in months.
04:22Sunday's attacks in northern and central Israel came in response to deadly Israeli strikes
04:27in central Beirut on Saturday.
04:29Meanwhile, Lebanon's military says an Israeli strike on an army center in the southwest
04:34killed one soldier and wounded 18 others.
04:37Israel's military expressed regret and said its operations are directed solely against
04:42Hezbollah militants.
04:50Hundreds of Lebanese protesters gathered in Paris on Sunday.
04:54Their main demand, an immediate ceasefire.
04:57Since clashes between Israel and Hezbollah began a year ago, more than 2,000 people have
05:01been killed.
05:03Thousands of Franco-Lebanese nationals that are watching the conflict from afar say they
05:07are filled with anger and guilt.
05:09They are more than 4,000 kilometers away from Lebanon, but the conflict hits close to home.
05:15Over these past few weeks, Israeli forces have carried out heavy airstrikes targeting
05:19the capital Beirut and southern Lebanon.
05:22This is the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike on a village in the southern Beqa Valley.
05:27As a result, Mayad Sleiman's family home, shown in this video, is no longer habitable.
05:32The Franco-Lebanese doctor says he feels extreme guilt to be living in France.
05:37Many say their daily lives are governed by social media notifications, trying to find
06:03out if their loved ones are safe from the latest bombing.
06:07Despite the conflict, many Franco-Lebanese nationals we spoke to don't want to move back
06:32to France.
06:33That's the case of this researcher who was going back to Beirut at the end of the month.
07:03On Sunday, the EU's top diplomat called for more pressure on both Israel and Hezbollah
07:14to reach a ceasefire.
07:22A little-known far-right populist has taken the lead in Romania's presidential election,
07:27a surprise outcome that's rocked the country's political landscape.
07:32Independent candidate Kalin Georgescu is leading the polls with around 22 percent of
07:36the vote.
07:37Analysts say, since he lacked a clear agenda, support for him appeared to be a protest vote
07:42against the establishment.
07:45Polling second is Prime Minister Marcel Ceaulacu of the Social Democratic Party at 20 percent.
07:50He was widely expected to lead the first-round vote.
07:54Ceaulacu said before polls opened that one of his biggest goals was to convince Romanians
07:58that it's worth staying in Romania.
08:01Elena Lasconi of the Save Romania Union Party was polling third with 18 percent.
08:07Casting her ballot, she also spoke about Romania's massive diaspora spread throughout Europe
08:12and said her priority was to make sure state institutions worked properly.
08:17George Simeon, the leader of the far-right Alliance for the Unity of Romanians, took
08:2114.1 percent of the vote.
08:24Pollsters expected him to face Ceaulacu in December's runoff.
08:28Simeon campaigned for reunification with Moldova, which this year renewed a five-year ban on
08:33him entering the country.
08:36Thirteen candidates ran for the presidency in the European Union and NATO member country.
08:41The president serves a five-year term and has significant decision-making powers in
08:46areas such as national security and foreign policy.
08:49The second round of the presidential vote will be held on the 8th of December, a week
08:53after parliamentary elections.
08:59Thousands of people have staged a protest outside the Georgian parliament in Tbilisi
09:06ahead of the first session of the newly elected parliament on Monday.
09:10Protesters vowed to spend the night outside parliament, accusing the ruling Georgian Dream
09:15Party of rigging the results of October's elections.
09:19Members of opposition parties have also announced their refusal to participate in parliamentary
09:24activities.
09:26Protests will be going all night and tomorrow they have to hear our voices that these elections
09:32have been rigged and they don't have legitimacy of Georgian people and they don't have legitimacy
09:37of international community.
09:40The round-the-clock protests follow elections on the 26th of October that kept the governing
09:44pro-Russian Georgian Dream Party in power.
09:47Opponents say the vote was rigged and suspect neighboring Russia of election interference.
09:53The Central Election Commission said Georgian Dream won with about 54 percent of the vote
09:58and party leaders have rejected claims of fraud at the polls.
10:02European observers said the election took place in a divisive atmosphere marked by instances
10:07of bribery, double voting and physical violence.
10:11Pro-European President Salome Zubishvili said earlier this month that she would appeal the
10:15election result to the Constitutional Court.
10:18The EU suspended Georgia's membership application process indefinitely in June after the country's
10:24parliament passed a controversial foreign interference law.
10:28The party has also pushed through laws similar to those used by the Kremlin to crack down
10:32on freedom of speech and LGBTQ plus rights.
10:42Poland's opposition Law and Justice Party has chosen historian Karol Nowroczki as its
10:47candidate for next year's presidential election.
10:50Forty-one-year-old Nowroczki has led the Institute of National Remembrance since 2021, a state
10:56body that houses archives and researches the crimes of World War II and the communist era.
11:02I'm ready to become your president, I'm ready because I've been with you all my life, he
11:07told supporters at a rally in Krakow.
11:09The party bypassed seasoned politicians including former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to
11:15tap the lesser-known Nowroczki to run for the highest office.
11:19The announcement came a day after the governing party, the Civic Coalition of Prime Minister
11:23Donald Tusk, announced that it was fielding progressive Warsaw Mayor RafaΕ Trzaskowski
11:28as its candidate.
11:29The constitutional calendar dictates that the first round of the presidential election
11:34be held on a Sunday in May next year, though the date hasn't been set yet.
11:38If no candidate receives at least 50 percent of the vote in the first round, a run-off
11:43will be held two weeks later.