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00:00NATO's top official said China could face sanctions for helping Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
00:10NATO's top official said China could face sanctions for helping Russia in its invasion of Ukraine.
00:21The mayor of Kharkiv highlights the critical situation facing his Ukrainian city.
00:30Euro 2024 is in full swing across Germany, however the event will not be enough to boost the country's stagnating economy.
00:45NATO's top official said China could face sanctions for helping Russia.
00:51Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO, said China's support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine could mean it faces economic consequences.
01:05In an interview with the BBC, Stoltenberg said China was trying to get it both ways by propping up the Russian war economy,
01:13while trying to maintain a normal economic relationship with European and NATO allies.
01:21He said they shared technologies like micro-electronics with Russia, which were key for them to build missiles and weapons against Ukraine.
01:31Stoltenberg said there was an ongoing conversation regarding possible sanctions against China,
01:38stating that if China doesn't change their behaviour, NATO should consider some kind of economic cost.
01:44A spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to Stoltenberg's warnings.
02:14Stoltenberg also discussed Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to North Korea,
02:20saying that it showed Russia's dependence on what he described as other authoritarian powers.
02:30Germany's national security remains tense, according to the country's interior minister.
02:36Nancy Faeser said at a press conference in Berlin this week that measures to thwart internal and external political attacks have ramped up.
02:44It comes as her agency hands down its annual report for 2023.
03:14The president of the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution also mentioned increasing far-right and far-left offences.
03:45Meanwhile, eight individuals faced court in Munich this week over allegations they were involved in a violent plot to overthrow the German government.
03:54The group are part of a larger pool of 26 far-right affiliated defendants,
04:01accused of scheming to storm national parliament and arrested lawmakers, according to prosecutors.
04:08Impunity is over, declared Ilva Johansson, commissioner for home affairs,
04:14at a meeting on sexual and labour trafficking of human beings.
04:19Figures collected by Europol in April show 55 of the most dangerous criminal networks in Europe engage in trafficking.
04:28Last year, traffickers generated over $200 billion worldwide.
04:34We are now countering the culture of impunity with the new EU asset recovery rules that I put forward.
04:41We'll take away the fast cars, big houses, and mountains of cash,
04:47and we'll make sure that no one is left behind.
04:51The anti-trafficking directive proposed by the EU aims to make so-called knowing use a crime in all member states.
04:58In the updated anti-trafficking directive, I've made sure it will soon be a crime in the whole European Union
05:06to knowingly use the service of trafficked victims.
05:11Previously, it was not the case.
05:14Russia's war against Ukraine has also put Ukrainian refugees at risk of human traffickers and exploitation.
05:21Ukrainian women and children remain vulnerable and a target.
05:26The threat is not over.
05:29The threat is not over.
05:32The threat is not over.
05:35The threat is not over.
05:38Ukrainian women and children remain vulnerable and a target.
05:43The threat is not over. We need to remain vigilant.
05:47And I'm glad in March, Europol set up an operational task force against traffickers targeting Ukrainians.
05:54Sexual exploitation isn't the only form of human trafficking.
05:5940% of all victims are trafficked for labor exploitation.
06:03A joint action involving 31 countries and Europol to address labor exploitation of non-EU nationals and refugees was launched in April.
06:15This resulted in 51 arrests and the identification of 234 potential victims.
06:23Inspections were conducted across sectors such as catering, food processing, beauty services, logistics, agriculture and construction.
06:32The new directive will also help to tackle new kinds of trafficking such as of surrogate mothers, forced marriage and illegal adoption.
06:44Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov said the city located near the Russian border endured 20 days of air raid alarms during the month of May.
06:52Speaking at the Ukraine recovery conference last week, Terekhov highlighted that despite the recent Russian offensive being halted, the situation in Kharkiv is still critical.
07:22Mobilization has slowed during the past 800 days, but several hundred thousand men will still need to be drafted in according to Ukrainian armed forces.
07:52Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv
08:13The war isn't just taking a toll on mobilization, but also on the mental health of the Kharkiv residents.
08:22Ihor Terekhov, Mayor of Kharkiv
08:45France is facing serious security challenges ahead of the Paris Olympics next month.
08:50Military helicopters will be patrolling the city and protecting airspace on the day of the July 26 opening ceremony.
09:11On the day of the event, around 200 Olympic delegations will join the parade on the River Seine in more than 80 boats.
09:21It's a case of special air safety devices for which the FENEC helicopters are participating.
09:27This is a device that will be reinforced for the Olympic Games.
09:33Security concerns previously led French President Macron to say the ceremony could shift to a stadium, though no alternatives are being prepared at this stage.
09:44Euro 2024
09:49Despite the huge expectations and millions of big spending funds, experts agree that Euro 2024 won't be able to pull Germany's economy out of years of stagnation.
10:03According to a sports economist at the University of Cologne, research shows that in the big picture, similar sporting events have a minimal economic impact.
10:13The balance actually may be even negative at the end of the day.
10:17There are substitution mechanisms at play, which are basically that people don't necessarily spend more money, but they just spend it in a different way.
10:25So that means that while normally people would go to the cinema, they would go to the theater, now they just go to the games, spend maybe money here, in the bars, in, I don't know, prepare barbecues at home.
10:38Four of the ten host cities are in and around the Ruhr area, the once heavy industry heart of Germany.
10:47But following the coal and steel crisis of the 1970s, the region shifted towards other services like office buildings or even becoming tourism destinations.
10:59One of the emblematic locations of the transformation of the Ruhr area is the Essen Zollverein.
11:04Today, tourists walk among the huge rusty buildings, but the importance of football can be reached here as well.
11:11The area is full of local teams' badges.
11:29Most of the money goes to bar, hotel and restaurant owners.
11:33Room prices have been skyrocketing ahead of the Euros.
11:37Some of those fans who weren't able to find an accommodation decided to opt for sleeping in cars.