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00:00The Dutch King and Queen attend an event with World War II veterans to mark the 80th anniversary
00:06of the country's liberation from German occupation.
00:11Estonian authorities record nearly 600 violations since full customs checks were introduced
00:17at the Russian border.
00:25The Dutch King and Queen have attended an event with World War II veterans to mark the
00:2980th anniversary of the country's liberation from German occupation.
00:34American veteran Kenneth Thayer returned to the tiny Dutch village he and his compatriots
00:38liberated from the Nazis.
00:41King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima were driven in a vintage military truck into the
00:45village of Mesh, a tiny settlement of about 350 people.
00:50American troops from the 30th Infantry Division, known as Old Hickory, were among the Allied
00:54forces that liberated parts of Belgium and the southern Netherlands from German occupation
00:59in September 1944.
01:01Thayer was one of the guests of honor at the Mesh commemoration, which begins nearly a
01:16year of events marking the anniversary of the country's liberation.
01:21Residents of Mesh were among the first Dutch citizens to taste post-war freedom at about
01:2610 a.m. on September 12, 1944.
01:29That's when Thayer and other American infantry troops crossed the border from Belgium.
01:34A day later they reached Maastricht, the provincial capital of Limburg and the first Dutch city
01:39to be liberated.
01:41It would take several more months for the whole country to finally be freed.
01:51Russia has expelled six British diplomats after accusing them of espionage on Friday.
01:57The decision was made to remove their accreditation after Russia's Federal Security Service said
02:01it received documents indicating intelligence gathering and subversive activities.
02:07The move came as UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer arrived in Washington for talks with President
02:12Joe Biden that include Ukraine's request to use Western-supplied weapons against targets
02:16inside Russia.
02:18Starmer said on his way to the U.S. that Britain does not seek any conflict with Russia.
02:27Estonian authorities have recorded nearly 600 violations since full customs checks were
02:32introduced at the Narva border crossing with Russia in August.
02:37Narva is a busy border point, handling around 1,500 crossings from Estonia to Russia every day.
02:43Despite the high number of rule breakers, the Tax and Customs Board says the daily rate
02:48of violations has dropped slightly from around 22 to 18.
02:53We see daily that the number of violations is increasing, which is a sign of a lack of
02:58trust from the other side.
02:59At the moment, one of the main concerns in the Narva context is the amount of money that
03:03the breakers have the most.
03:05According to the customs authorities, travellers leaving Estonia generally transport goods
03:10that are in short supply in Russia, such as spare parts for cars and machinery.
03:15Estonia introduced full customs controls at the Narva crossing on August 8 and follows
03:20a decision in May to limit the hours pedestrians can cross.
03:24The Estonian police and border guard advise against all travel to Russia.
03:29Tensions between Russia and NATO member Estonia have been high since the 2022 invasion of
03:35Ukraine.
03:36Tallinn says that by the end of 2023, Russia had deliberately directed groups of foreigners
03:42lacking the legal right to enter the European Union to the Estonian border.
03:47That prompted authorities to warn that if it continued, the border may be closed at
03:51short notice to protect national security.
04:00Machinists at Boeing went on strike, marking another setback for the aircraft maker whose
04:05reputation and finances have been battered, now facing a shutdown in production.
04:12The workers are unhappy about stagnant wages and concessions made since 2008 on pensions
04:17and health care to prevent the company from moving jobs elsewhere.
04:22They overwhelmingly rejected a contract that would have raised pay by 25% over four years,
04:28with 96% voting in favour of a strike.
04:35The city of Brussels won't take the migrants that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
04:39threatens to send there by bus.
04:43Mayor Philippe Clos made it clear during an interview with Euronews that his city won't
04:48be a hostage of Hungarian government.
05:10Orban's plan is an answer to a 200 million euro fine imposed in June by the European
05:17Court of Justice to his country for not respecting EU asylum law.
05:22Migrants will be offered a free one-way trip to Brussels based on their voluntary decision,
05:26said the Hungarian government.
05:30The European Commission said that Orban's strategy is simply unacceptable and is in
05:35contact with countries on the transit route to ensure that the buses are blocked if they
05:39would really start the journey.
05:42Also, Brussels' mayor strongly criticises Orban's move, even questioning Hungary's
05:48right to preside at the Council of the EU.
05:51It's not like that that we're building the Union.
05:55What worries me is that they're presiding over the Union.
05:57And I think they don't have the capacity to do so.
05:59It's time to think about whether Hungary has the capacity to preside over the European
06:03Union.
06:04According to EU law, migrants entering the Hungarian borders have the right to claim
06:10for asylum in Hungary as a first-arrival country.
06:18Almost a year since dozens of Serbian gunmen stormed a monastery in Kosovo, leading to
06:24a deadly shootout that killed at least seven, the alleged perpetrators have been brought
06:29to justice.
06:31The Kosovo Special Prosecutor's Office announced on Wednesday it filed indictments against
06:3545 people for their alleged involvement.
07:01Senior Kosovo officials reiterated their claims that Belgrade was behind the attack.
07:08The Serbian Prime Minister Alexander Vucic is expected to address claims that his government
07:34engineered the violence on Friday.
07:38All appears idyllic here in Malmö, but under the surface there's a less romantic truth.
07:44Police officer Glenn Sjögren works in Rosengård, a troubled suburb in Sweden's third biggest
07:49city Malmö.
07:50They are renting, actually, killers from Sweden to do the killings in Denmark.
07:57And it's always young kids.
08:00It's cheaper.
08:01And if they get caught, they don't get that long sentence.
08:06Malmö in Sweden and Copenhagen in Denmark have been hit hard over the last months with
08:11gang violence.
08:12Several people have been killed, and there's been even arson attacks and bomb attacks.
08:19Karoline Skull is the regional director in Malmö for YouthWork.
08:24Grooming on social media is a relatively big factor for why kids are coming into these
08:31environments.
08:34But a cross-border crime between Denmark and Sweden has now resulted in police from Denmark
08:39working in Sweden, and vice versa.
08:41We have to work very close to each other to shorten the ways of communication.
08:55This new approach where police operate on the other side of the border is not normal,
09:00but it's clearly needed.
09:02Because it is only 10 kilometers across the Øresund Bridge to the Danish capital of Copenhagen.
09:08And several attacks over the summer have been committed by Swedish gangs, or at least by
09:13young people who were hired by these Swedish gangs to do so.
09:17Carsten Norton, Denmark's most famous crime documentary writer, has covered the gang wars.
09:23And Norton is not optimistic about the future of the gang violence in Denmark and Sweden.
09:54I'm on the Greek island of Chios, where empty villages like this one serve as a reminder
10:03of a new kind of threat facing the country as a whole.
10:06After years of economic hardship, many young Greeks have decided to either move abroad
10:10or delay starting a family.
10:12With its population expected to plummet in the coming decades, the nation is now grappling
10:17with a severe demographic crisis.
10:19Find out more in a new episode of Witness.
10:24New York, USA
10:36There is a constant decline in the population, especially among young people,
10:43because the crisis has forced people to leave for the European countries and the USA.
10:53New York, USA
11:11For a very large period of time, even though I had my degree, I was unemployed.
11:16I couldn't find a job.
11:17How can you buy a house and how can you raise a family?
11:21You can't.
11:23New York, USA