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00:00The US and several European embassies in Kyiv have temporarily closed amid warnings of significant
00:07air attack threats.
00:10EU leaders arrived for the second and final day of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
00:22A truce between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is within grasp, according to a US envoy negotiating
00:28between both sides of the war.
00:32A representative from the Biden administration said the militant group responded positively
00:37to a proposal that both its fighters and Israeli ground forces withdraw from a UN buffer zone
00:43in southern Lebanon.
00:47In such a scenario, the buffer zone would be policed by thousands of additional UN peacekeepers
00:52and Lebanese troops.
00:55However, despite the US envoy's positivity, the technical details of any potential truce
01:00are still unsolved.
01:06Israel is likely to call for more enforcement along the buffer zone between the two countries,
01:11including the ability to conduct military operations against threats from Hezbollah.
01:18Lebanon is likely to oppose those operations along the buffer zone, where UN peacekeepers
01:24were reportedly attacked after tensions escalated.
01:33The US embassy in Kyiv has closed temporarily following warnings of a potential air attack
01:38threat.
01:40In the statement published online, US citizens in Kyiv were also told to be prepared to take
01:45shelter.
01:47Several European embassies have also followed the US lead by closing their locations in
01:51Kyiv as well.
01:53The warning comes in a moment of increased tension, as Ukraine used US-supplied long-range
01:58missiles to strike Russian territory for the first time on Tuesday.
02:03Putin's press secretary said that Washington was adding fuel to the fire by authorizing
02:08the weapons.
02:10President Biden has significantly stepped up USA to Ukraine since Donald Trump won the
02:14presidential election.
02:17In the White House's most recent move, Biden has agreed to give Ukraine anti-personnel
02:21mines to use on their own territory.
02:24Much of the international community has long banned the use of these mines, due to the
02:28significant injury they have caused to humans, including civilians.
02:34Ukraine has pledged to only use mines that remain active for a limited period of time
02:38and not to use them in areas populated with civilians.
02:46One thousand days into Ukraine war, the rage of Ukrainian people towards Russians is growing.
02:53Many believe that they are not doing enough to stop the war.
02:57Russian opposition activists Yulia Navalnaya, Ilya Yashin and Vladimir Kabamoza therefore
03:02organized a march against the war in Berlin.
03:05The participants came with mixed feelings.
03:26Many Ukrainians say it is wrong to blame Putin alone.
03:30They see a collective responsibility for the war on the part of the Russian population.
03:47Meanwhile a group of Ukrainians has gathered in front of the Russian embassy.
03:52They criticized the lack of accountability within the Russian community.
04:08Russian activist Vladimir Kabamoza, who spent two and a half years in a Russian prison for
04:13opposing the war in Ukraine, says he is proud of the resistance movement in Russia.
04:19I am proud of the fact that so many of our fellow Russian citizens have publicly spoken
04:24out against Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine since February 2022, many at the cost of their
04:29personal freedom.
04:30We have a record number of political prisoners today, more political prisoners in Russia
04:34today than in the home of the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.
04:37And the fastest growing category of Russian political prisoners are those Russian citizens
04:41who have publicly spoken out against Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine.
04:44And this fact makes me proud.
04:48The anti-war march was the first joint step of the Russian community towards an active
04:59protest against the war in Ukraine.
05:01But many Ukrainians agree that it should not stay that way.
05:06More needs to happen.
05:08Diana Reznik, from Berlin, for EURNEWS.
05:13EU leaders arrived for the second and final day of the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, during
05:22which the ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, as well as uncertainty over US
05:28politics were high on the agenda.
05:30Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened Tuesday's session by calling for more
05:37action to slow global warming, saying developed nations should consider moving their 2050
05:42emission goals forward to 2040 or 2045.
05:46Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for
05:53a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit.
05:56He reaffirmed France's commitment to strengthening relations with China and insisted that the
06:03two countries share the same views on promoting peace in Ukraine.
06:33It comes after the French President hosted the Chinese leader on his state visit to Paris
06:43earlier this year.
06:49French farmers protested for a third day on Wednesday after setting up a blockade on the
06:54highway near the French-Spanish border.
06:57Their aim is to block heavy goods vehicle traffic from Spain to France, protesting against
07:02an EU-Mercosur trade deal with South American nations.
07:07The French Minister for Agriculture condemned the blockade, saying it risked undermining
07:12public empathy for the profession.
07:14The farmers say producers from countries that are part of the Mercosur agreement are not
07:35subject to regulations as strict as those in Europe.
07:39They also say it creates unfair competition with third countries.
07:44Thousands of UK farmers have descended on parliament to protest the Labour government's
07:52decision to increase inheritance tax.
07:55The hike was announced in last month's budget and would see the end to a tax break dating
08:01from the 1990s that exempts agricultural property from the levy.
08:05It means that from April 2026, farms worth more than a million pounds will face a 20%
08:11tax when the owner dies and they are passed on to the next generation.
08:16Farmers say such an increase in tax will deal a hammer blow to family farms which are already
08:21struggling from the impact of climate change, global instability and the upheaval caused
08:26by Brexit.
08:28If the government ends farming, which is seemingly what it wants to do, where do we get our food
08:36from?
08:37But the UK's centre-left government says the vast majority of farms will not be affected
08:43and various loopholes mean a farming couple can pass on an estate worth up to three million
08:48pounds tax-free.
08:50A travelling exhibition exploring the history of fake news and forgery has opened in Budapest.
08:58The interactive collection, put together by the House of European History, reveals that
09:03the concept of fake news has existed for centuries, from the forging of sacred relics to the invention
09:10of conspiracy theories.
09:13We start the exhibition with a practice of antiquity which was called the condemnation
09:21of memory.
09:22It was a practice by which they tried to erase people from history and the exhibition ends
09:29in this location in Budapest with an additional case study added by our host, the Open Society
09:37Archives, which looked at the case of Imre Nog and how his name was purged from history
09:44until 1989.
09:46The interactive nature of the exhibition allows visitors to become fact-checkers themselves
09:51with screens which allow them to decide which news to censor or publish.
09:56The collection also explores cases in history where forgery was used for good.
10:01During the Holocaust, for example, thousands of lives were saved by fake identity cards
10:06and passports.
10:07The exhibition is open until the 16th of February.
10:1430 years and 22 grand slams later, the moment has finally arrived for tennis legend Rafael
10:21Nadal to leave the court.
10:23After being knocked out of the Davis Cup on Tuesday, the Spaniard said a special goodbye
10:28to fans in Malaga.
10:31I had 20 years of professional career in which you have always taken me flying.
10:39In the good moments you helped me to win the next point and in the bad moments, without
10:45any doubt, you pushed me to keep fighting.
10:52Tennis opponents and friends from around the world prepared a video for the tennis star,
10:57thanking him for everything and wishing him the best of luck in his retirement.
11:06President-elect Donald Trump joined Elon Musk to watch the launch of another SpaceX Starship
11:12rocket from South Texas.
11:17It's the sixth test flight of the rocket, which is the world's biggest and most powerful
11:22spacecraft.
11:24Unlike last month's successful tests, however, the rocket's booster was directed to land
11:29in the Gulf of Mexico rather than on the launch site.
11:34SpaceX and NASA hope that Starship will one day be used to get astronauts back on the
11:39moon and eventually on Mars.