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00:00President Volodymyr Zelensky stresses assistance from Ukraine's allies is urgently needed
00:10to combat Russian forces.
00:14It comes as Russia closes in on Pokrovsk, claiming to have captured another village
00:19nearby.
00:21All agreements must be realized as soon as possible.
00:26Everything that is needed in September must be delivered to our troops in September.
00:32Pokrovsk is an important logistical hub for Ukrainian forces in the Donetsk region.
00:39Local authorities are urging people to evacuate, but still more than a third remain in the city.
00:51The situation is getting worse and worse.
00:54There is no electricity, no water.
00:58Russia claims they are still capturing territory on the road towards Pokrovsk.
01:08Germany is toughening its border controls by introducing temporary checks at all of
01:14its borders.
01:16German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser says it is an attempt to reduce irregular migration.
01:37Temporary border controls will be set up at the land borders with France, Luxembourg,
01:42the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark for a period of six months.
01:48The same measures are already in place on the borders with Poland, the Czech Republic,
01:53Austria and Switzerland.
01:57Europe's Schengen area allows for free travel between member countries.
02:02However, member states are allowed to introduce border checks if they feel there is a threat
02:07to internal security.
02:11Faeser adds that the government has already notified the European Union of the intended controls.
02:22Former Italian Prime Minister and President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi
02:26presented his report on the future of European competitiveness on Monday.
02:30The report has 170 proposals to increase productivity and has security and reduced dependencies,
02:37while keeping the European social model intact.
02:40Draghi's initiative comes at a crucial moment for the future of Europe.
02:45The EU is losing ground as each passing year it becomes less able to compete with China
02:50and the United States in global trade arena.
03:08Draghi calls for a minimum of 750 to 800 billion euro additional investment per year.
03:16This means increasing the EU's investment share to around 27% of EU gross domestic product.
03:21To achieve this goal, the European Union would have to issue common debt instruments one more time
03:26as it was done for the recovery of post-pandemic known as the planned next generation EU,
03:30which was also a 800 billion euro model.
03:38Yes, the answer is yes.
03:39While the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen seems open to the idea,
03:43some EU governments are likely to oppose it, making it very difficult to achieve.
03:47Overall, the suggested amount is twice the size of what Europe spent after the Second World War to rebuild.
03:53I think it's not very likely at the moment.
03:55We do not have a German coalition government that is in the position to make any progress
04:02or any moves in that direction.
04:04They are politically very divided and the opposition is also against it.
04:08And we do not have a clear French political landscape that would help to build trust.
04:16So at the end of the day, joint borrowing really only works
04:20when you have more trust among member states, which we don't.
04:24Draghi's report, which helps defining tasks for the next commissioners,
04:28also encourages boosting the European defence industry,
04:31research in innovative technologies and decarbonisation.
04:35According to Draghi, without action, Europe will have to either compromise its welfare
04:40or its environment or its freedom.
04:47Pope Francis has called for the protection of young people during his visit to Timor-Leste.
04:52By doing so, he indirectly acknowledged the abuse scandal involving independence hero Bishop Carlos Jimenez Bello.
05:01Let's not forget so many children and teenagers who have been hurt in their dignity.
05:11This phenomenon is flourishing all over the world.
05:15We are all called to act as a responsibility to prevent all kinds of abuse
05:23and guarantee a serene growth for our young people.
05:29Timor-Leste is the most Catholic country outside of the Vatican.
05:32Its residents were eager to welcome the first Pope to visit them as an independent nation.
05:37This is the Pope's third stop on his 12-day Southeast Asia and Oceania tour,
05:43having previously visited Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
05:47After Timor-Leste, the Pope will visit Singapore before returning to Rome on the 13th of September.
05:59The EU's diplomatic service has strongly condemned Russia's municipal elections held in occupied Crimean territory,
06:07stating the vote violates international law, the UN Charter and Ukraine's sovereignty.
06:14The EU does not recognise these so-called elections or their results in Crimea,
06:20the European Union External Action Service said in a statement on Monday.
06:26They are null and void and cannot produce any legal effects whatsoever.
06:32Eighty-three elections spanning regional to municipal were held throughout Russia from September 6th to 9th.
06:40Areas included the Ukrainian-controlled region of Kursk in Russia,
06:45which saw the country's third-highest percentage of voter turnout.
06:50The results, strongly expected to tilt towards Moscow-approved candidates, are slated to roll in by the end of September.
07:04The issue of how to grant citizenship to immigrants' children born in Italy
07:08has long been at the centre of the political debate.
07:11Italy's Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Forza Italia Antonio Tajani
07:14has recently demanded a review of the current law, which makes the process hard to achieve.
07:19He has backed the introduction of the so-called Jus Scolae and the possibility to grant citizenship
07:25to those who complete ten years of compulsory education in Italy.
07:29While remaining a close ally of Meloni, Forza Italia's move has not been welcomed by the party's coalition partners.
07:35Amin was born in Somalia and arrived in Italy when he was four years old.
07:39After living and studying in the country for over 30 years, he's not considered an Italian citizen.
07:45Today, he's one of the promoters of the reform proposal.
07:49I've always worked regularly, paying taxes.
07:52I've always been a foreigner in my own country.
07:56As I often say, I've never been to Africa.
08:02In the end, it's as if they cut your leg off.
08:07You're limited in everything.
08:10Being Italian is something you feel inside and you're proud of.
08:19I did karate for years.
08:23It was a promise of karate, but I couldn't participate at the national level like my teammates.
08:29For years, Save the Children has carried out groundwork to help integrate children born in Italy to foreign parents.
08:36In Italy, we have an old and outdated law, which is more than 30 years old.
08:41It was designed for a country of emigrants.
08:44This is a law that protects the children and grandchildren of many Italians who went abroad to work.
08:52The country has changed a lot over the years.
08:56It has changed in facts, in schools, in communities.
09:00The law needs to be updated.
09:04It's written in the program of the centre-right, it's written in the government's agenda.
09:09Two out of three parties say and remind Forza Italia that this has not been a shared issue.
09:16We can talk about it, we've been talking about it for a month, we've been talking about it since this summer.
09:21But I doubt it will be an issue included in the parliamentary agenda.
09:27I don't think the opposition forces, certainly.
09:30I don't think the parties that make up the majority of this government.
09:34Unless someone doesn't want to be put out of the electoral program.
09:38That's why the Italians voted for us.
09:40Antonio Tajani and his party are determined to take the proposal to Parliament.
09:44Giorgio Arlandi for Euronews in Rome.
09:47Israeli sports fans braved the rain to watch a Nations League football match between Israel and Italy in Budapest on Monday.
10:01While many attendees spoke with excitement about the game, others called for an end to the brutal Israel-Hamas war.
10:11We want peace. We are the Jewish, we don't like war, fight and shoot.
10:20We want to live in our country together.
10:26I know one of the players of the national team and his friend died in the war.
10:33It affects everyone because Israel is a small country.
10:38We are all together and we all suffer together.
10:41But we hope that we have something to be happy about.
10:48This is soccer, this is football.
10:51This match we must watch. El El Israel.
10:57My sister's son was supposed to be in Gaza on the 7th of October.
11:04In the same place that the terrorists came and killed all the soldiers in the base.
11:10He was replaced two days before the war.
11:13He replaced the days with his friend because it was a holiday.
11:18So a lot of his friends died, killed in this base, in the army.
11:27Some European cities, like Brussels, have refused to host Nations League matches with Israel due to security concerns.
11:35Israel's male and female national football teams have played in Hungary since the October 7th attack.