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00:00Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobak-Hidze sits down with Euronews ahead of the country's
00:06parliamentary elections.
00:13Beirut faced a night of intense explosions as some 17 Israeli airstrikes hit Lebanon's
00:19capital overnight. At least one person was killed and several injured in a strike on
00:24a residential building in the city's southern suburb of Dahiye.
00:28In southern Lebanon, three soldiers of the Lebanese army were killed in an Israeli strike
00:33on its troops. Since the end of September, a total of 13 Lebanese soldiers have been
00:37killed. The Lebanese army is not fighting the Israelis in their conflict with Hezbollah,
00:43but providing support services for the civilian population.
00:47Israel has also expanded its military campaign to the ancient city of Tyre after issuing
00:52evacuation orders. The evacuation area covered a densely populated stretch between two UNESCO
00:58World Heritage sites.
01:01Meanwhile, the World Health Organization postponed its last round of polio vaccinations in northern
01:07Gaza because of intense bombardment.
01:12Israel's ongoing siege of the area has displaced more than 60,000 Palestinians to central Gaza.
01:20$1 billion in pledges were raised at the international aid conference for Lebanon held in Paris.
01:32France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrault announced the conference raised $800 million
01:37in humanitarian aid and $200 million in military support for the Lebanese army.
01:43President Emmanuel Macron said massive aid is needed to support the country and pledged
01:48France would provide a 100 million euro package.
01:52What is needed is simply to shelter families, feed children, treat the wounded, continue
01:57to ensure the education of the students. We must find solutions as soon as possible.
02:02At all costs, we must prevent the movement of people from the south to Beirut and other
02:07regions of Lebanon from creating new divisions among the Lebanese.
02:12The war must end as soon as possible. We must put an end to the fire in Lebanon.
02:17The conference, which gathered over 70 nations, raised double of the original appeal of $426
02:24million set by the United Nations.
02:27Italy this week announced new aid of 10 million euros and Germany on Wednesday pledged an
02:32additional 60 million euros.
02:40BRICS leaders posed for a group photo ahead of the closing plenary session of the summit
02:45hosted by Vladimir Putin in the Russian city of Kazan.
02:48The three-day conference was attended by 36 countries as well as UN Secretary-General
02:53Antonio Guterres. It covered the deepening of financial cooperation, including the development
02:59of alternatives to Western-dominated payment systems, as well as settling regional conflicts
03:04and moving to expand the group's members.
03:06Speaking at Thursday's plenary session, Putin spoke of a shared vision of new democratic
03:11global order, while also blaming Western sanctions for undermining regional stability,
03:16including in Ukraine.
03:19One of the examples of this is Ukraine, which is used to create critical threats to
03:26the security of Russia, ignoring at the same time our vital interests, just concerns and
03:33infringements of the rights of Russian-speaking people.
03:37Putin also proposed to reform the UN, expanding the representation of the countries of Asia,
03:47Africa and Latin America.
03:55Poland's President Andrzej Duda arrived at South Korea's presidential office on Thursday
04:00for a summit with President Yun Suk-yol. Their meeting takes place in a special context as
04:06North Korea has sent troops to Russia as it wages war in Ukraine.
04:11Polish and South Korean top security officials already met on Wednesday and agreed to expand
04:16their nation's defense cooperation in response.
04:19South Korea recently signed a deal to purchase so-called suicide drones from Poland to
04:24counter North Korea's rising threats.
04:26Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado and Edmundo González, a candidate
04:32in July's presidential elections, have been awarded the European Parliament's annual
04:37Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.
04:40The European Parliament has highlighted their courageous struggle to restore freedom
04:45and democracy in Venezuela.
04:47It is my privilege to announce that the 2024 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought
04:54has been awarded to María Corina Machado, leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.
05:01María Corina Machado, leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela.
05:27Leader of the democratic forces in Venezuela and President-elect Edmundo González Urrutía,
05:34representing all Venezuelans.
05:37The European Parliament recognized Edmundo González as the elected president of Venezuela
05:41in a non-binding resolution in September.
05:44The award will be presented on 18th December.
05:50An investigation into the disappearance of more than 50,000 child migrants has won the
05:56European Parliament's 2024 Daphne Caruana Galizia Prize for Journalism.
06:02Lost in Europe, a project led by Dutch journalist Heysha Van Haren revealed that since 2021,
06:09on average nearly 47 migrant children arriving in Europe have gone missing per day.
06:16The research uncovered significant inconsistencies in documentation and reporting across 31 countries
06:23including Austria, Germany and Italy, raising concerns that the actual number of missing
06:28children may be higher.
06:31They say this is just a tip of the iceberg that there were 51,433 children missing.
06:42The last time that we did this investigation, there were only 18,000 children missing back
06:49in 2021, so the number did increase.
06:53We don't know what happens if we do the investigation again in three years.
06:57The investigation found that many of these children fall victim to human trafficking
07:02or get caught up in people smuggling gangs.
07:06Many children are also caught at the borders and they end up in prison for people smuggling
07:12whilst they were smuggled themselves.
07:15So the EU war against people smuggling works out the other way for minor children.
07:23A lot of minor children are in adult detention because of that.
07:29The Lost in Europe team received their award at a ceremony in Strasbourg.
07:39Armed security remained at the scene of the aerospace complex in Ankara that was attacked
07:44on Wednesday, killing five people and wounding more than 20 others.
07:48Turkey's interior minister and defence minister blamed the attack on Kurdish PKK militants,
07:54which Turkey and its western allies consider a terrorist group.
07:58Following the attack, Turkey's air force struck Kurdish militant targets in Iraq and Syria
08:03in an apparent retaliation.
08:05The defence ministry said more than 30 targets were destroyed in the aerial offensive,
08:10without providing details on the locations that were hit.
08:13It said precautions were taken to prevent harm to civilians,
08:16although the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces say 12 civilians were killed.
08:21The attacks continued for a second day on Thursday.
08:24There was no immediate statement from the PKK on the attack in Ankara or the Kurdish airstrikes.
08:30Turkey's President Recep Erdogan condemned the attack during a meeting
08:34with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a BRICS meeting in Russia.
08:39On the 26th of October, Georgia will hold parliamentary elections,
08:44marking a pivotal moment as the country's first under a fully proportional system.
08:51The stakes are high, with the outcome potentially shaping the nation's future integration
08:57within the EU and its movement away from Russian influence.
09:01In an interview with Euronews, Georgia's Prime Minister,
09:05In an interview with Euronews,
09:07Georgia's Prime Minister, Irakli Kovac Hidze,
09:10said the nation's orthodox values make it an ideal partner to Europe.
09:14To be part of the European family is a kind of historic choice for Georgia and for Georgians.
09:21We know that we are a Christian nation
09:25and Europe was always associated with Christianity
09:29and was defending and protecting Christianity for Georgia.
09:33So that's why Europe was always a natural choice for Georgia and for Georgians.
09:39Georgia was granted EU candidate status last year,
09:43but controversial legislation introduced by the government since then
09:47has put the country's accession talks at risk.
09:52Of particular concern is the Foreign Agents Bill,
09:56which critics say is based on a similar law in Russia aimed at stifling political dissent.
10:02But Georgia's Prime Minister says Russian influence is non-existent.
10:07You can say that Russia is not influential in Georgia.
10:13There are no political parties where they would enjoy their influence.
10:18There is no influential media channels with their influence.
10:24So that's why the Russian side cannot influence the elections in Georgia essentially.
10:32The campaign environment heading into the elections has been heavily polarised
10:36and with opinion polls continuing to produce contradictory results,
10:40Georgia's future remains unclear.
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11:20And finally, when it is in operation and without a driver on board,
11:24it only compares what it has learned with what it sees.
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