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00:00 Police in Thailand have arrested a teenage suspected gunman after a deadly shooting at
00:05 an upscale shopping center in Bangkok.
00:10 Former Soviet satellite Armenia has voted to join the International Criminal Court which
00:15 has indicted Russian President Vladimir Putin for war crimes.
00:24 One person has died after a lone shooter opened fire in a luxury shopping mall in Thailand's
00:29 capital city.
00:31 The emergency services said six people were treated for injuries.
00:38 Social media videos showed people running out of the building in Bangkok.
00:45 A 14-year-old suspect was arrested.
00:50 Police have not said what appears to have motivated the attack.
01:01 Russian occupation officials continue to deport Ukrainian children to Russia and Russia-controlled
01:06 occupied territories under the guise of educational trips.
01:11 Moscow-appointed Zaporizhia region occupation governor Evgeny Balitsky said that Russian
01:15 Ministry of Culture transported over 300 Ukrainian schoolchildren from occupied Zaporizhia region
01:22 to Moscow and St. Petersburg to "educate" them about Russian culture.
01:28 Balitsky stated that more than 2,500 Ukrainian schoolchildren from occupied Zaporizhia region
01:35 in total will participate in this program.
01:38 Few days earlier Russian Yamal and Enetz autonomous region governor Dmitry Artukhov stated that
01:43 the government is launching a three-year program that will bring children from occupied Volnovaha
01:49 here in Donetsk region to Russia to visit cultural heritage centers in Moscow, St. Petersburg
01:55 and Nizhny Novgorod.
01:57 Artukhov stated that 500 Ukrainian children will participate in the program this autumn.
02:04 According to Ukraine's National Information Bureau, over 19,500 children have been abducted
02:11 or forcibly deported to Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
02:17 However, officials fear that the real figure is actually much higher.
02:21 Deported Ukrainian children, including orphans, have little means to declare themselves missing
02:26 or make contact with their relatives in Ukraine.
02:30 The Russian Federation argues that some 744,000 children from Ukraine are now living in Russia
02:38 or Russian-held occupied territories.
02:40 They are often deported under the pretext of evacuation, treatment, vacation or rehabilitation
02:47 trip.
02:52 Armenia's parliament has voted to join the International Criminal Court, a move that
02:56 has caused anger in Moscow and which has direct consequences for Russia's president.
03:02 In March the ICC indicted Vladimir Putin for abducting thousands of Ukrainian children.
03:07 It means he can be arrested under warrant in any country that signed up to the Rome
03:11 Statute, the international agreement under which the ICC was formed.
03:17 As a result, Putin's been absent from international summits, including August's gathering of the
03:22 BRICS countries in South Africa.
03:24 Putin's only input to the economic bloc's debates was conducted through video conference
03:29 calls.
03:30 Armenia, a former Soviet satellite country, said it had joined the ICC in the light of
03:34 Azerbaijan's forceful seizure of Nagorno-Karabakh.
03:38 The Azeris seized control under the noses of Russian peacekeeping forces.
03:46 The United Nations Children's Fund says more than 100,000 people from Nagorno-Karabakh,
03:52 including some 30,000 children, have fled into Armenia, which is struggling to accommodate
03:58 them.
03:59 UNICEF is providing humanitarian aid to ensure displaced children and families are cared
04:03 for in centers like this one in the city of Gores, not far from the border.
04:08 A nine-month Azerbaijani blockade of the only road linking Nagorno-Karabakh with Armenia
04:14 has left many children malnourished.
04:22 Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work documenting how
04:26 electrons move around atoms.
04:29 The experiments conducted by Pierre Agostini, Franz Krauss and Anne Lewelier will help us
04:34 better understand our universe.
04:36 But there is also hope they will lead to more practical applications, such as better electronics
04:41 and disease diagnoses.
04:44 Yes, this year's Nobel Prize in Physics is about science at the time scale of attoseconds.
04:53 And what you see here is an attosecond related to one second, which is approximately the
04:58 heartbeat.
04:59 And the ratio of one second to an attosecond is the same as the ratio of the age of the
05:06 universe expressed in seconds to one second.
05:10 We are now in the world of electrons.
05:14 Anne Lewelier is only the fifth woman to receive a Nobel Prize in Physics, which comes with
05:19 a cash prize of around one million euros.
05:26 The Italian island of Lampedusa is marking a decade since a major shipwreck off its coast.
05:32 More than 360 people lost their lives in the early morning of October 3rd, 2013.
05:40 Several events have been organized on the island ahead of today's ceremony that have
05:45 been attended by both Italian and European students, representatives of international
05:50 organizations and associations.
05:54 And today, March has been organized that will be followed by a wreath of flowers that will
05:59 be thrown at sea.
06:01 Now, the aim of the 3rd of October committee, a charity that has been organizing the event
06:06 every year since 2013, is to remember those who died in 2013, but also each and every
06:12 person who has died trying to cross the Mediterranean in the past 10 years.
06:18 27,000 people have died in the attempt of crossing the Mediterranean in the past 10
06:23 years.
06:24 And the aim really is to try and answer one simple question.
06:26 How is it possible that 10 years on shipwrecks still occur and that so many people die as
06:32 a result of that?
06:35 And this has been really the main theme of this year's commemoration.
06:40 Now, the event has been particularly significant as well, given that the share of migrant arrivals
06:48 on the island has increased compared to previous years and that Lampedusa has indeed become
06:54 the main point of arrival for migrants who try to reach Europe.
06:58 George Orlandi for Euronews in Rome.
07:06 Germany's border with Poland.
07:07 New checks on those traveling between the two countries were introduced in the wake
07:11 of the so-called visa scandal in the Polish government, where allegations of corruption
07:16 have been made over the issuing of European visas.
07:22 Today is the deadline for Poland to explain irregularities in its visa issuing procedures
07:27 in front of the European Commission.
07:30 Allegations the country's central anti-corruption bureau has been investigating since July 2022.
07:36 The Polish government's provided limited information on the ongoing investigation, but journalists
07:41 have discovered new irregularities related to intermediation in the visa application
07:47 process.
07:48 We have submitted a request for a visa application, and some say a partial verification, to a
07:54 foreign company.
07:55 These people often did not make it to the European Commission or other employees of the
08:00 European Commission or the embassy.
08:01 It was not about someone from this particular company being accused of taking money from
08:02 the consulate, but to get to the European Commission for a meeting to submit a visa
08:03 document in India or in Poland, it was not about that.
08:04 It was about the fact that there was a lot of money being taken from the consulate.
08:05 The company in correspondence with me admits that it knew about such a corruption procedure
08:12 and that it always reported all such stories to the police.
08:27 VFS Global works with the Polish government and warns against dishonest, unverified intermediaries.
08:33 It denies it's been accused of wrongdoing in Poland.
08:38 We just deal with the administrative tasks, checking the forms, etc.
08:43 We don't get involved in visa decision-making processes.
08:47 At no time since we've been working for the Polish government have any of our members
08:52 of staff been arrested or investigated for any wrongdoing related to Poland visa services.
09:01 There was an incident recently where some members of our staff have been accused of
09:09 malpractice.
09:10 That is for an operation related to another client government and the moment we discovered
09:17 these allegations we immediately informed the local police.
09:22 The visa scandal, but also the rising numbers of unregistered crossings on immigration routes,
09:27 whether through Russia and Belarus or the Balkans, have made all Polish borders more
09:31 closely monitored recently.
09:33 We have strengthened our control over the Slovakian and Czech borders.
09:39 We also have a slightly strengthened control over the Lithuanian border.
09:45 We also have such controls at the border with Germany.
09:46 The subject of migration is one of the key themes of the election campaign.
09:50 The approach to the issue and solutions proposed by politicians will have a big impact on how
09:55 Poles will vote in less than two weeks' time.
09:58 Magdalena Chodownik for Euronews, from SΕubice.
10:01 The United Nations has approved sending a security mission to Haiti.
10:08 The aid mission was requested last year by its government and the vote passed with 13
10:13 members in favour.
10:14 Russia and China abstained.
10:17 It aims to help Haitian authorities control an ongoing wave of violence between armed
10:22 groups, which has already led to more than 3,000 murders this year alone and more than
10:27 1,500 kidnappings.
10:29 The UN mission, which will be led by Kenya, is authorized to take all necessary measures
10:34 to disarm the criminal groups.
10:40 Cherry blossoms in Paris.
10:42 It's a sight that would have inspired awe and wonder if they just bloomed six months
10:46 earlier.
10:48 But this beautiful sight is now seen as an ominous warning.
10:52 "What's really surprising is that a tree that normally blooms in April, is now in its
10:58 second bloom, or a cherry tree is in its second bloom.
11:00 I didn't even know it existed.
11:01 I had never seen that."
11:03 Further north, temperatures reached 27 degrees Celsius on Monday, which is impacting fruit
11:08 trees and the farmers who planted them.
11:11 "We see a growth of shoots, even though it stopped growing in August.
11:17 And now we see a growth of about 10 centimetres.
11:20 The risk for the tree is that it will start to bloom very quickly and not at the right
11:24 time.
11:25 And then I won't be able to harvest."
11:27 These events are a consequence of unusually high temperatures, and France is not alone.
11:32 Austria, Germany, Poland and Switzerland also recorded their hottest September on record.
11:39 2023 is also slotted to become the warmest in human history, as climate change accelerates.
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