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00:00 Alberto Núñez-Feijóó, leader of the Conservative Popular Party,
00:04 addressed the Spanish Parliament to ask for its support as future head of government.
00:09 European leaders attend the state funeral in Rome of former Italian President Giorgio Napolitano,
00:16 who died on Friday at the age of 98.
00:19 A Ukrainian riverboat captain's been sentenced to five years in jail for his part in a collision in Hungary
00:26 that left 27 people dead and one missing.
00:30 In a legal first, six young people from Portugal are bringing 32 governments
00:34 before the European Court of Human Rights over climate change failures.
00:38 Alberto Núñez-Feijóó, leader of the Conservative Popular Party,
00:46 addressed the Spanish Parliament to ask for its support as future head of government.
00:50 His party was the most voted in the July elections but doesn't have enough backing.
00:55 The socialists appear to do so after negotiating with the Catalan pro-independence party.
01:00 On the table is a possible amnesty, which Feijóó considers an attack on the constitution.
01:06 Feijóó then took a shot at the outgoing head of government, Pedro Sánchez.
01:24 I don't want to give up the equality of the Spanish people and everything we share to be president of the government.
01:32 I don't want to give up any support they give me against the general interest to be president of the government.
01:38 And I don't want to betray the confidence of the Spanish people who voted for me to be president of the government.
01:44 Unless there is a major surprise, Feijóó's candidacy is doomed to failure.
01:49 Pedro Sánchez is convinced that he has all the cards in his hands to return to government.
01:55 European leaders have attended the state funeral in Rome of former president Giorgio Napolitano,
02:02 who died on Friday at the age of 98.
02:05 The presidents of France and Germany were among those paying their respects.
02:09 Napolitano was Italy's president twice between 2006 and 2015.
02:14 He was considered a stabilising force within the country's often turbulent politics.
02:19 Euronews' correspondent Giorgio Olandi has more.
02:22 As head of state, Giorgio Napolitano helped steer the country through one of the worst political crises the country has ever faced,
02:31 through the collapse of Silvio Berlusconi's final government at the peak of the debt crisis in 2011,
02:37 turning the country back from the brink of economic default.
02:41 Current president Sergio Mazzarella recalled his European commitment.
02:47 In fact, Giorgio Napolitano worked for EU institutions for several years before becoming president
02:52 and said that he fought important battles for social development, progress and peace, both in Italy and the EU.
03:01 EU and Italian flags were already flying at half-mast in Brussels yesterday.
03:06 Given the fact that Giorgio Napolitano was a supporter of the EU,
03:12 and despite recent divisions among EU member states over a number of issues, including migration,
03:18 several EU leaders attended his funerals, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Steinmeier.
03:25 Giorgio Olandi for Euronews in Rome.
03:31 A blow to migrant trafficking in Germany where police have dismantled a smuggling network of people
03:37 who pay between 3,000 and 7,000 euros to enter the country illegally.
03:43 The operation involving 350 agents was carried out simultaneously in various federal states,
03:50 including Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.
03:53 Five alleged smugglers, three women and two male Syrian asylum seekers already living in Germany,
03:58 have been arrested and more than 100 Syrian citizens have been found in buildings used by the network.
04:05 The suspects were charged with organised smuggling of foreigners for commercial purposes, money laundering and forgery of documents.
04:12 The network was discovered through the frequency of trips through Frankfurt airport.
04:17 It used several ways of transporting the migrants.
04:20 Some were taken by plane from Turkey to Luxembourg and then by car to Germany,
04:25 while others arrived via the Balkan route.
04:28 A Ukrainian riverboat captain has been sentenced to five years in jail in Hungary
04:37 for his part in a collision on the Danube that left 27 people dead and one missing.
04:42 The accident happened in May 2019 when his ship, the Viking SIGIN, collided with a tourist boat called the Habliani or Mermaid.
04:51 The Habliani sank within seconds.
04:53 Most of its passengers were tourists from South Korea.
04:56 Seven of them were rescued from the water in the heavy rain following the collision
05:00 and 27 people were recovered dead, including the two-member Hungarian crew.
05:05 One South Korean is still unaccounted for.
05:08 Some of the victims' bodies were found weeks after the crash more than 100 kilometres downstream.
05:16 Yuri Kaplinsky was convicted of negligence by the courts in Budapest, which ruled that his actions caused the collision.
05:23 The 68-year-old has been in custody since his arrest after the accident.
05:28 Defending their rights, six young people from Portugal.
05:35 This week, their six-year battle with 32 European governments comes before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg,
05:42 the first case of its kind.
05:44 Six, now aged 11 to 24, say their human rights have been violated by government failure to tackle climate change
05:51 and they say judges will finally hear the case in a year of calamities linked to global warming.
05:56 In Portugal, what we have the most is extreme heat and extreme drought, which is fatal.
06:04 This heat is directly affecting our lives and another very important right we have in the case is our private lives.
06:12 The young people aren't demanding money, just that the governments change their policies and behaviour.
06:23 What I feel most is frustration at the lack of action from the governments.
06:29 They say this is a secondary problem and they can't say it's a primary problem.
06:34 Protecting the planet is as important as protecting our economy. Everything is connected.
06:40 The group who are being assisted by the NGO Global Legal Action Network may have to wait 18 months for a verdict.
06:47 If they win, governments will be legally bound to strengthen climate action.
06:51 And other young people may feel even more motivated to demand a better life on the planet.
06:57 The world needs to speed up the energy transition and not slow down the process,
07:05 at the risk of the planet failing to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement and being held hostage to CO2 capture,
07:11 a technology that is still expensive and not fully proven.
07:16 This is the main warning from the International Energy Agency in its update to the 2021 roadmap for the energy sector.
07:23 Two years ago, the agency warned of the need to put the brakes on new projects based on oil and gas.
07:28 Now it's going even further and against recent proposals from the United Kingdom and even the European Union.
07:35 Rishi Sunak has announced a delay on the ban of the sale of new petrol and diesel cars,
07:43 but the EU Council agreed to a watered-down version of the bloc's next car emission standards.
07:48 In order to achieve the objectives, it will be necessary to bring forward the deadlines for carbon neutrality by around five years,
07:56 which means speed up cutting CO2 emissions.
07:59 On the optimistic side, the agency believes that the energy sector is evolving rapidly.
08:05 The growth in solar energy and electric vehicles over the last two years
08:10 makes it still possible for the planet to achieve the Paris Agreement's 2050 targets of global warming,
08:15 limited to 1.5 degrees compared to pre-industrial times.
08:19 In a negative trend for the planet, new data from the US National Snow and Ice Data Center
08:26 shows that the Antarctic sea ice has likely broken a new record for the lowest annual maximum amount in September.
08:32 Time is rapidly running out.
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08:41 More than 160 flights have been cancelled at the UK's Gatwick Airport this week due to a lack of controllers.
08:50 Up to 30% of staff are currently unavailable for various medical reasons, including a surge in COVID cases.
08:58 The airport announced on Monday that until October 1st, the number of flights will be limited to 800 per day.
09:06 The difficulties come after a giant breakdown at the end of August,
09:10 which led to the cancellation of nearly 2,000 flights over two days and numerous delays.
09:15 The 67th IAEA General Conference is being held from the 25th to the 29th of September in Vienna.
09:24 On top of the agenda is a draft resolution on nuclear safety, nuclear security and safeguards in Ukraine.
09:32 When on day one Rafael Grossi was reappointed for a second four-year term as Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
09:39 the situation at Zaporizhia nuclear power plant was a major concern.
09:43 In the past year, ten rotations of IAEA safety experts have crossed the front lines of war to access the plant.
09:56 And we continue our work there, as you can see through our almost daily updates of the situation at the plant, which remains very, very fragile.
10:07 Grossi says that the presence of IAEA experts at the Zaporizhia plant is crucial.
10:13 They help stabilize the situation and keep the world informed about the plant.
10:17 They have also provided an ongoing assistance, including facilitating international financial support and information sharing.
10:26 The Director General also called on Iran to cooperate with the nuclear agency.
10:31 On this and on matters related to the de facto suspended implementation of the JCPOA,
10:39 the IAEA and I personally remain actively engaged and ready to work with Iran.
10:46 Only full cooperation by Iran and tangible results will take us to the credible assurances that Iran's nuclear program is exclusively peaceful.
10:57 Representatives of the IAEA 77 member states are attending the event, where delegates will discuss topics from the 2024 budget to strengthening nuclear science, technology and energy security.
11:11 An English literature professor in Belgium will begin teaching the lyrics of Taylor Swift,
11:16 alongside poets such as Sylvia Plath and William Shakespeare in a course for master's students.
11:21 She says she was inspired by Swift's song "The Great War", where the artist uses symbolism of the First World War to talk about a difficult relationship.
11:28 She then thought about comparisons her students could make between the text and other poems.
11:35 Other universities are also inspired by the American pop star.
11:38 The University of Texas offered an undergraduate literature course based on her lyrics.
11:43 lyrics.
11:43 (whooshing)