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00:00Russia intends to supply North Korea with fighter jets in exchange for deploying North
00:07Korean troops to Russia.
00:10In an exclusive Euronews interview, Georgia's foreign minister justifies a police crackdown
00:16on recent pro-EU protests.
00:21France is trying to solve its government and budget crises as the outgoing prime minister
00:25holds his last ministerial meeting.
00:38Russia intends to supply North Korea with fighter jets amid growing military partnership
00:42between the two countries, according to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command commander Admiral
00:48Samuel Papara.
00:50He said Pyongyang would get that in exchange for North Korea deploying troops to Russia
00:55to support its war against Ukraine.
00:58The Institute for the Study of War says Papara noted that North Korean soldiers remain in
01:03combat zones, likely in reference to the region of Kursk, but are not yet actively fighting.
01:11Analysts from the crowd-sourced monitoring website Deep State Map reported on the 10th
01:15of December that Russian forces had advanced in Sumy, a region near the border village
01:20of Oleksandriya.
01:22Deep State is a mapping project, independent but with close ties to Ukraine's defence ministry,
01:28widely respected and trusted as one of the most reliable sources of accurate information
01:33on territorial changes along the front line.
01:36The map changes showed Russian forces occupying around two square kilometres in Sumy and advancing
01:42in the region of Kursk.
01:45Sumy region authorities, including the head of the military administration Volodymyr Artyukh,
01:49rejected the reports that Russian forces had breached the border, calling it fake and
01:55describing them as disinformation.
01:58The Institute for the Study of War has not observed any evidence of Russian forces operating
02:04in or near Oleksandriya, but it does confirm that Russian forces recently advanced in the
02:10main Ukrainian salient in Kursk region amid continuing fighting in this border area.
02:20Now is the time for these people to enjoy stability and calm, said Syria's interim Prime
02:26Minister Mohammed al-Bashir in an interview, demonstrating the intentions of the new leadership.
02:33However, the situation remains extremely fluid as there are multiple actors that could play
02:39a key role in Syria's future.
02:49On the other hand, he is talking about a long-term transition period until we see elections in Syria.
03:04So, if in the end, as it seems, Darayya Al-Sam will be transformed into a more political
03:11figure, that is, if he himself will be transformed from a military businessman to a political
03:18figure, what will this mean?
03:20If he will seek allies, who will be in charge of this organization, as long as it is political?
03:26And who else will be part of this story?
03:28Will we see a model like Afghanistan?
03:30Who will play the role of the Western powers?
03:32Especially those that have a great influence at the moment, such as Turkey.
03:37There are many issues, but at the moment everything revolves around Jolani.
03:42Israel, which has been attacking targets in Syria for months, stated its intention to
03:48create a, quote, sterile defensive zone inside Syria's southern border.
03:54The great difference between Israel and the US is that Syria will not be the same as it
04:00was in 2011.
04:02For many of the 14 million Syrians forced to flee their homes since the civil war began,
04:17the question is whether they can now return.
04:23Brussels has given Poland the green light to suspend the right to asylum for migrants
04:28entering the country across the border with Belarus.
04:31And points to the weaponization of migrants by Russia as a risk to the EU.
04:37European Commission Vice President Genevieve Koonin believes that on the bloc's eastern
04:42border, the security threat has already moved to the next level, but says cases must be
04:48clearly defined.
04:51They may limit also the exercise of the rights to asylum, but it has to happen in very strict
04:59conditions and in legal limits.
05:02So it means that they have to be truly exceptional, temporary, proportionate and for clearly defined
05:09cases.
05:11The European Commission believes that Belarus and Russia promote the use of violence via
05:16migrants.
05:18However, human rights organizations reiterated the pushbacks are illegal.
05:24Lydia Gall of Human Rights Watch said the pushbacks fly in the face of Poland's duties
05:30under national and EU law.
05:34In 2024, the arrival of migrants across the EU border with Belarus increased by 66 percent
05:41compared to the previous year.
05:43The vast majority of them were on Russian visas.
05:46The European Union issued new sanctions against Russia, particularly targeting the tankers
05:58Russia uses to circumvent Western restrictions on oil trade.
06:03Oil is a major source of income that is crucial to fund Russia's war in Ukraine.
06:08In 2022, the European Union introduced an oil price cap, which prohibited Western companies
06:14from providing services to Russian tankers that went beyond this limit.
06:20As a way around this, Moscow began using the Shadow Fleet, which are old, uninsured tankers.
06:26The poorly kept tankers have obscure ownership and insurance structures that escape the controls
06:31of G7 partners.
06:35Brussels is worried the poor condition of the ships could spill oil and cause an environmental
06:39catastrophe.
06:41The Shadow Fleet has also been accused of deceptive practices, including transmitting
06:46falsified data, turning off their transporters to become invisible to satellite systems,
06:51and conducting multiple ship-to-ship transfers to conceal the origin of the oil barrels.
07:01German Chancellor Olaf Scholz formally set his country on course for an early election
07:06by requesting a confidence vote in parliament next week.
07:11The move comes five weeks after his three-party governing coalition collapsed.
07:16I have just applied for a vote in parliament on article 68 of the Basic Law.
07:24I would like to clear the way for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
07:28I will propose to dissolve the parliament on Monday afternoon.
07:34Scholz is expected to lose Monday's vote since his centre-left Social Democrats and their
07:39remaining coalition partner, the Greens, no longer hold a majority.
07:46If the president follows Scholz's proposal, voters will elect a new parliament on February
07:5123rd.
07:52Meanwhile, the Christian Democrats led by Friedrich Merz and their Bavarian sister party
07:57are ahead in the polls.
07:59The far-right Alternative for Germany has also nominated a candidate.
08:06The Georgian government has justified a police crackdown on pro-European protesters with
08:13the action of violent groups among the demonstrators.
08:17The groups were deliberately targeting the police force, Georgia's new minister Mako
08:22Bochorovsvili said.
08:24Speaking to Euronews in an exclusive interview, she questioned the character of the protests.
08:31Everybody has rights to protests, but rights to peaceful protests.
08:36Unfortunately, I have to say that we cannot really call these protests necessarily peaceful
08:43because the violent groups that we are acting with, the fireworks and their targets was
08:50police forces and we have around 200 policemen injured and some of them really received very
08:58serious injuries.
09:01It is very hard to say that it is peaceful protest.
09:05But on the other hand, if there is anything, when we see that police is exceeding its limits
09:13of reaction, of course, there should be reaction from relevant bodies and there is very clear
09:20statement from prime minister that this kind of actions should be investigated.
09:26The protests are directed against a recent decision by Tbilisi to put EU accession talks
09:32on hold.
09:33The process was already in limbo after the ruling Georgian Dream party passed a controversial
09:39foreign influence law that EU critics compared to a similar legislation in Russia.
09:46Georgia's foreign minister rejected the notion that her government was tilting towards Moscow.
09:52Georgian Dream is in power for 12 years now and in this period nobody can find anything
09:59that this government has done in favor of Russia.
10:02But today it is very popular to divide world into white and black and if somebody wants
10:10to make easy negative impression about somebody, it is easier to claim that somebody is pro-Russian
10:17or pro-Putin.
10:20And unfortunately, that is the case.
10:26The full interview with Makaba Churashvili will be available this Friday on our program
10:32The Europe Conversation.
10:37The French government under Prime Minister Michel Barnier had its last meeting of ministers
10:43on Wednesday before his resignation.
10:46Although President Macron promised to appoint Barnier successor by Thursday, his spokesperson
10:52said otherwise.
10:54The President of the Republic did not give any indication on the temporality of his
11:00future choice.
11:01What I can tell you is that the President of the Republic is his role as a guarantor
11:06in institutions and in this context he is obviously looking for a stability solution.
11:12In the meeting, ministers studied a quote special bill set to fix the budgetary choices
11:17of 2024 for 2025.
11:21It is a bill that allows, to put it in simple words, to avoid a shutdown.
11:27It is a bill that allows temporarily the government to continue to perceive taxes and existing
11:32taxes until the vote of the financial law of the year.
11:37The special bill will be examined in the National Assembly and then in the Senate.