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00:00 Poland and Hungary block progress on migration at the EU summit.
00:11 A Russian missile strike kills a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother in Kharkiv in northeastern
00:16 Ukraine.
00:22 The informal European summit in Granada ended in impasse as the 27 EU leaders could not
00:28 find an agreement on migration.
00:30 Earlier Hungary and Poland were heavily critical of the fact that talks on the new migration
00:34 pact are advancing despite their opposition.
00:38 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban Friday morning shocked everyone by saying "legally
00:42 we are being raped".
00:44 So after hours and hours of talks between heads of states and governments, Budapest
00:48 and Warsaw blocked the joint declaration on the matter so it was only the President of
00:52 the European Council that could make a statement.
00:55 "We must protect the external borders of the European Union.
01:01 We must support countries that are at the forefront to protect the borders of the European
01:06 Union.
01:07 And we must be more active, more operational to dismantle criminal groups that abuse distress,
01:14 that abuse vulnerability.
01:15 Because it is not the criminal groups that must decide who has the right or not to access
01:20 European territory."
01:22 Members agreed to strengthen cooperation on technology, defence, energy independence and
01:27 the engagement of the EU with the rest of the world.
01:30 On the enlargement of the bloc, the EU 27 called on candidate countries to speed up
01:34 reforms.
01:35 The President of the European Commission reiterated that there is no fast track entry into the
01:40 EU.
01:41 "The accession process to the European Union is a merits based one.
01:48 This was very clear also today in our discussion.
01:51 No shortcuts, no automatic accession to the European Union.
01:56 It's merits based."
01:58 On the day before the EU summit, Grenada hosted the biggest annual gathering of EU and non-EU
02:04 countries of the continent called the European Political Community.
02:07 But breakthrough is missing on key conflicts like the Nagorno-Karabakh in the Caucasus
02:11 and the one between Serbia and Kosovo.
02:16 "With this informal summit of leaders of the European Union, the two days of international
02:23 meetings end here in Grenada.
02:24 Two summits in which, despite the fact that more than 50 presidents and prime ministers
02:29 have met, have been closed without clear advances and with few results.
02:32 Of course, they have served to reinforce the international role of the current president
02:36 of the government in the functions of Spain, Pedro Sánchez, who is negotiating his investment.
02:41 Aida Sánchez Alonso, Euronews, Grenada."
02:46 A Russian missile attack killed a 10-year-old boy and his grandmother on Friday in Kharkiv
02:51 in north-eastern Ukraine.
02:53 The strike also wounded an 11-month-old child, the interior ministry said, and around 30
02:59 others were also injured.
03:01 In response, Moscow said it never targets civilians in Ukraine.
03:06 "On Thursday in the village of Hroza, another missile attack killed 52 people.
03:25 Officials believe Russia used two Iskander missiles in both attacks."
03:29 "My brother, his niece and mother.
03:38 How old were they?
03:39 My brother was born in 1975, my niece was born in 1980 and my mother was 58 years old."
03:48 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, who saw for himself the horrific impact
03:53 of such strikes, is profoundly shocked and condemns these killings.
03:58 He's deployed a field team to the site to speak to survivors and gather more information.
04:04 Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denied on Friday that Russia was responsible for the
04:08 attack on Hroza and repeated that civilians are never targeted.
04:14 US President Joe Biden has raised the prospect of a meeting with his Chinese counterpart
04:21 Xi Jinping.
04:23 He said nothing had been arranged, but a face-to-face encounter may be possible on
04:28 the sidelines of next month's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco.
04:35 China's blossoming relationship with Russia is just one of several sources of tension
04:40 between Washington and Beijing.
04:43 The proposed meeting would be the first between Biden and Xi since the Chinese leader was
04:47 hosted by Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
04:50 (whooshing)