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00:00The European Parliament will kick off the hearings of the commissioners-designate on
00:06Monday.
00:07During this type of interview, commissioners answer both written and oral questions from
00:13MEPs to demonstrate their expertise, commitment to Europe and integrity.
00:18Over the next weeks, every commissioner-designate will go through a hearing, that is three hours
00:32where the commissioner-designate will have 15 minutes to expose their program for the
00:37commission, then they will have questions from the different committees and he can answer
00:41the questions and there will be a debate on these issues.
00:44Then there will be an evaluation by the chairs of the committees and the presidents of the
00:48different groups and they will decide if they accept or reject the commissioner.
00:54If a commissioner-designate is rejected, their role may be adapted or another name from the
01:00same country must be proposed and the procedure must start over.
01:04In 2019, the Hungarian conservative László Troskányi and the Romanian socialist Rovanna
01:10Plum were rejected.
01:12The MEPs also rejected the candidacy of French Sylvie Goulart because of doubts about her
01:18integrity and independence.
01:20This time, it is the Patriots for Europe and European conservative and reformist candidates
01:25who are most at risk.
01:27There is the Italian candidate Raffaele Fito that has been criticized, you know, I don't
01:33think so much to be honest for, you know, his persona, but for his party because he
01:39comes from the far-right party of Miloni in Italy.
01:44Another candidate that had been discussed a lot as, you know, maybe facing troubles
01:49also for political reasons is the Hungarian commissioner that is actually right now already
01:55the commissioner and that wants to stay on for a second term, Olivia Vahely.
02:00The hearing of the commissioner-designate is a deeply political process.
02:05According to the researcher, political groups are not hesitant to retaliate against one
02:10another.
02:11It might also be that everybody is a bit more mild towards each other because they want
02:17to prevent the tit-for-tat and so they kind of carefully, you know, avoid too tough questioning
02:23to not, you know, to not endanger their own candidates by being too tough on the candidates
02:29of the other parties.
02:31Roussac also anticipates that the toughest questions will come from the Greens and the
02:36left as they have no candidates and therefore have nothing to lose.
02:47Moldova's pro-Western president Maja Sandu has won a second term in a pivotal presidential
02:52run-off on Sunday.
02:54Sandu took more than 55% of the vote in an election overshadowed by claims of interference.
03:01Moldova was under an unprecedented attack for the history of the whole of Europe.
03:06Dirty money, illegal voting, involvement in the electoral processes of hostile forces
03:14from outside the country and of criminal groups, lies, the inducing of hatred and fear in our society.
03:23Our people have united and the freedom and the citizens have won.
03:29Sandu's challenger was the Russia-friendly former Prosecutor General Alexander Stoyanoglou
03:34who finished well behind her with just under 45%.
03:38Moldovan police said on Sunday they had reasonable evidence of organized transportation of voters
03:44illegal under the country's electoral code to polling stations.
03:49And the foreign ministry said polling stations in Germany and the UK had been targeted by
03:53false bomb threats intended to stop the voting process.
03:57In the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Moldova applied to join the European Union.
04:04It was granted candidate status in June of that year and in summer this year, Brussels
04:08agreed to start membership negotiations.
04:11The shift to the West annoyed Moscow, but it denies meddling in the election.
04:214,000 additional soldiers from Madrid and other parts of Spain arrived to support rescue
04:26teams in their search for missing people as they drained water and mud from underground
04:31parking garages across Valencia.
04:33It seems that someone saw people enter but didn't see them leave.
04:36So, at this moment, we don't know.
04:38And until we get down and can check, we won't know for sure.
04:41The fact is that the water entered with so much violence that it dragged everything,
04:46dragged everything to the bottom.
04:48214 bodies have so far been recovered, mostly in the eastern Valencia region as tsunami-like
04:55floods swept across the region last week.
04:58A wave of volunteers took to the streets and joined the clean-up efforts.
05:03But with more heavy rain expected to hit the region, a warning was sent out requesting
05:08people to stay at home and off the roads.
05:13The government is under scrutiny for the delayed response, warning people about the severity
05:17of the floods.
05:18With no time to react, many were already on the road, working or in underground garages
05:23when the flash floods hit.
05:31A crowd of angry residents threw mud at King Felipe and Queen Letizia, as well as government
05:36officials who were visiting the city of Paiporta on the outskirts of Valencia, one of the most
05:41heavily impacted areas by last week's deadly floods.
05:46Security officials were quick to open umbrellas to offer protection from the flying mud, while
05:51in the background people were screaming insults.
05:55The devastating floods, which killed at least 214 people, claimed the lives of at least
06:0060 people in Paiporta.
06:03Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was the first to leave the scene, with Valencian President
06:08Carlos Mazón following shortly after.
06:12The King and the Queen stayed behind and the monarch was determined to hear out what people
06:16had to say, and after approximately half an hour of tension, they were escorted away
06:21by police officers.
06:23The pair were expected to travel to Chiva next, another heavily impacted town near the
06:27city of Valencia, but this trip was allegedly postponed.
06:36Protesters in Belgrade have demanded the arrest of officials just days after a concrete canopy
06:41collapsed at a railway station, killing 14 people and injuring three.
06:46Police formed a cordon outside the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure as several
06:50thousand people called for ranking government ministers, including the prime minister, to
06:54step down.
07:05The concrete canopy that ran along the front of the railway station in the northern city
07:09of Novi Sad collapsed suddenly on Friday.
07:12Fourteen people were killed, including a six-year-old girl.
07:16The three injured, who were between 18 and 24 years old, all had to have limbs amputated.
07:22The train station has been renovated twice in recent years, and critics of Serbia's government
07:26attributed the disaster to rampant corruption, lack of transparency and sloppy renovations.
07:33Serbia's government has promised a thorough investigation, with prosecutors saying they've
07:37already questioned more than two dozen people.
07:40But critics believe that justice is unlikely to be served with the government in control
07:44of the judicial system and the police.
07:51It's been a busy Sunday for the two main contenders in the US presidential race, with less than
07:5624 hours to go until polling day on Tuesday.
07:59Both Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump held campaign events in key swing
08:04states, battleground areas widely expected to decide the outcome of the election.
08:09In Michigan, Harris vowed to turn the page on a decade of politics driven by fear and
08:14division.
08:15She described Tuesday as one of the most consequential elections of our lifetime and expressed confidence
08:21that she would win the race for the White House.
08:35We are not going back, because ours is a fight for the future.
08:41Trump, meanwhile, spoke confidently of an election victory at his rally in North Carolina.
08:46We have a big, a beautiful lead.
08:49All we have to do, Mike, all we have to do is go out on Tuesday and vote, vote, vote.
08:58Poll trackers, however, suggest that Trump and Harris remain neck and neck in North Carolina
09:02as well as in six other swing states.
09:05At a rally earlier in the day in Pennsylvania, Trump resorted to familiar unsubstantiated
09:10claims of vote rigging, claiming that fraud was already underway in the state.
09:15With less than 24 hours to go until election day, the race remains tight.
09:19But over the past few days, the mood has been shifting in favor of Kamala Harris.
09:24And here's why.
09:25Late deciders seem to be breaking in her favor, and a stunning poll from Iowa, with her in
09:30the lead, seems to be suggesting that she's a stronger force in the Midwest than expected.
09:36The main reason for the late mood swing, though, is her Republican opponent.
09:41Donald Trump's rhetoric has become increasingly erratic and violent, going after his political
09:46opponents with a vulgarity that is noticeable even by his standards.
09:51For the Harris campaign, that's a gift that keeps on giving, an advent calendar of insults
09:56of women in particular.
09:58And you can feel that voters are noticing, at last.
10:02With one more day of campaigning to go, we might be in for a surprise outcome.
10:08Stefan Grobe, Euronews, Washington.
10:15With the US presidential election just a day away, polls show a tight race between Donald
10:20Trump and Kamala Harris.
10:22Euronews Persians spoke with Iranians in Tehran to find out which candidate they hope will
10:27enter the White House.
10:57Iranians speak with Iranians in Tehran to find out which candidate will enter the White
11:03House.
11:27While these concerns are specific to Iran, they also resonate with international and
11:39European perspectives.
11:42And given reports of a very tight race, it could take days before the final result is
11:47announced.

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