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00:00U.S. President Donald Trump reiterated his plan to buy Gaza, intending to use it as a
00:07site for future development.
00:10Trump initially announced the plan almost a week ago after meeting with Israeli Prime
00:14Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:17His offer drew international backlash, with both Arab and European countries, as well
00:22as China, Australia and Brazil expressing their opposition against forcibly displacing
00:27the Palestinian population.
00:29I'm committed to buying and owning Gaza.
00:34As far as us rebuilding it, we may give it to other states in the Middle East to build
00:39sections of it, other people may do it through our auspices, but we're committed to owning
00:46it, taking it and making sure that Hamas doesn't move back, there's nothing to move back into.
00:52The place is a demolition site.
00:55Speaking on the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, Trump said he was losing his patience
01:00after seeing footage of the release of the latest three Israeli hostages.
01:07He also spoke on Russia's ongoing invasion in Ukraine, which he wants to end soon.
01:13The U.S. president claimed the war would have never happened if he had been president.
01:22U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz has said senior members of the administration
01:27will meet with European officials this week to discuss how to end the war in Ukraine.
01:32The push comes almost three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.
01:38Waltz said the Russian economy isn't doing well and that Trump is prepared to tax, to
01:43tariff, to sanction Moscow to get Putin to the negotiating table.
01:47Waltz also said the Trump administration is looking to use the meetings to begin talks
01:52on clawing back some of the U.S. assistance to Ukraine.
01:55He said European allies will also need to take a greater role in supporting Ukraine
02:00going forward.
02:02Trump said the U.S. is talking to Russia about Ukraine without Keefe's input, saying his
02:07administration has already had very serious discussions.
02:11That runs counter to the Biden administration's position that echoed Zelensky's call of nothing
02:16about Ukraine without Ukraine.
02:19I've had it. Let's just say I've had it. And I expect to have many more conversations.
02:25We have to get that war ended. It's going to end. And we have to get it ended. And we
02:29have to get it ended so it should have never happened, would have never happened if I was
02:33president.
02:35Vice President J.D. Vance will head to the Munich Security Conference later this week
02:39where President Volodymyr Zelensky will lead Ukraine's delegation.
02:44Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Trump's special envoy on
02:49Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, will also attend the Munich conference.
02:54On Wednesday, Hegseth will attend a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the
02:58NATO headquarters in Brussels.
03:07Russia launched a wave of overnight drone attacks on several Ukrainian cities, including
03:12the capital Kiev as well as cities in the Donetsk and Sumy regions.
03:17The armed forces of Ukraine said the Russian army launched 83 drones. One of those struck
03:22near a high-rise building in a residential area in Sumy, damaging several houses and dozens
03:27of vehicles.
03:29Sixty-five residents were evacuated and one woman was injured. No casualties were reported.
03:34It was very hard. I thought it was the end. I counted three, two, one, and now it's probably
03:41over. It was sharp, scary. The dogs were bright, the windows were shaking, everything was shaking.
03:46There was a feeling as if the house had risen.
03:51In the Donetsk region, at least five people were injured in the shelling of a residential
03:55neighborhood in Kostyantynivka. And in Kramatorsk, one person was killed and nine injured after
04:01an aerial bomb struck the city.
04:03Some equipment was lost. Lighting equipment was lost. Fortunately, most were saved.
04:22Also, Kiev was struck where a drone attack sparked a fire in a non-residential building.
04:27The mayor reported no injuries.
04:31Meanwhile, in Russia, authorities said debris of a Ukrainian drone damaged the roof of a
04:3519-story residential complex in Krasnodar. They reported no injuries or casualties.
04:46German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said the European Union can act in an hour if US President
04:52Donald Trump slaps tariffs on the bloc.
04:55Speaking in the first TV debate before snap elections later in the month, Scholz said
04:59his strategy for dealing with Trump is clear words and friendly conversations.
05:04He pointed to his public statements about respecting borders after Trump said he wouldn't
05:09rule out the use of military force to take control of the Panama Canal and Greenland.
05:14He also stressed the importance of European unity and said he and other countries are
05:18working on proposals to increase NATO's presence in Greenland.
05:23Trump pitched the idea of taking control of Greenland on the campaign trail last year,
05:27saying it was important for America's national security.
05:31He said he could impose financial penalties or even use the military to force Denmark
05:35to cede the island to the United States.
05:39Scholz also described Trump's suggestion that the US could take ownership of Gaza, relocate
05:44its population and redevelop it as a scandal.
05:47Scholz's main challenger, the Christian Democratic Union's Friedrich Merz, also voiced unease
05:53about the proposal, but suggested there's a lot of rhetoric coming from Washington.
05:57Merz said the new US president is predictably unpredictable.
06:02Merz, who was the frontrunner in the 23rd February snap elections, also discussed top
06:07domestic issues with Scholz, such as Germany's struggling economy and migration.
06:15A high-stakes AI summit in Paris opened on Monday, where major world leaders are meeting
06:21as tech titans fight for dominance in the fast-moving technology industry.
06:25Heads of state, top government officials and CEOs from around 100 countries are participating,
06:31including US Vice President J.D. Vance, who arrived on Monday.
06:35Vance is expected to meet many European leaders at the summit in what is his first overseas
06:40trip since taking office.
06:43The summit also comes as AI becomes the latest flashpoint in US-China rivalry.
06:49Ahead of the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said investors will pump
06:55109 billion euros into artificial intelligence projects in France in the coming years.
07:01The Paris summit, which gathers major players, aims at fostering AI advances in sectors like
07:20health, education, environment and culture.
07:26Romania is the latest country to join a supermarket boycott that has spread across the Balkans.
07:34The movement started in Croatia to protest rising grocery prices and a worsening cost
07:39of living crisis.
07:42In Romania, the far-right pro-Russian presidential candidate Kalin Jargescu took to social media
07:48to urge his supporters to join the boycott.
07:51He accused foreign-owned supermarkets of not selling Romanian products and eliminating
07:56cashier jobs by introducing self-checkout lanes.
07:59But others also criticized the boycott.
08:02Romania's Minister for Agriculture warned the boycott could actually harm Romanian producers.
08:22While supermarket prices are still a concern for many Romanians, some people have also
08:34started a counter-boycott, calling on people to support Romanian brands at their local
08:39supermarkets on Monday.
08:44In the Dutch province of Limburg, residents had the rare chance this weekend to walk on
08:49the bottom of a drained canal.
08:52For months, they had been watching the works at the Juliana Canal from a distance.
08:56The chance to see it up close meant 3,600 tickets for this open day were sold out in
09:02no time.
09:10Those who managed to buy a ticket expressed excitement as they walked along the four-kilometer
09:15stretch of drained land.
09:19Some residents hoped to find some treasure on their visit, but were left disappointed.
09:50The canal is being made deeper and wider so that larger ships can pass through it.
09:55In order to drain it, a dam was built, after which 1.9 billion liters of water could slowly
10:01drain away.
10:03The project will take months and is expected to be completed this spring.
10:20We tell a lot of travel stories.
10:23The first is that of the consul Cesare Poma, who is an Italian diplomat and collector,
10:29who collects the newspapers that we present.
10:32Then there is, within this journey, the journey of two French journalists who travel the
10:38world, inventing a newspaper that is published in various parts of the world.
10:45Then there are the stories of six women who, in their full Victorian age, decide to break
10:51the conventions of the time and leave on their own, which was absolutely not allowed, for
10:57their journey around the world.
11:00Reading about these women, about how these women, in order to travel in the Victorian
11:05era, immediately felt the need to change their clothes, because otherwise it was not comfortable
11:12to travel, especially on a bicycle, with a 90-kilometer bicycle.
11:17And then there are the stories of the women who, in their full Victorian age, decide to
11:25break the conventions of the time and leave on their own, because otherwise it was not
11:30comfortable to travel, especially on a bicycle, with a 90-kilometer bicycle.
11:33And as the first element they removed is the corset.