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00:00Talks to form a new government in Austria collapsed after the smallest of the prospective
00:04partners pulled out of negotiations.
00:25Talks to form a new government in Austria collapsed after the smallest of the prospective
00:29partners pulled out of negotiations.
00:34Neos, alongside Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer's Austrian People's Party and the
00:39centre-left Social Democrats, had been trying to forge a three-party ruling coalition after
00:44Austria's far-right Freedom Party won national elections in September.
00:48Neos' party leader said it had not been possible to agree on fundamental reforms.
00:59Unfortunately, not only did we not make any progress, not only did we not make any progress
01:06in terms of a common vision, a common vision, but we actually made some setbacks.
01:17Talks dragged on after all other parties refused to work with Freedom Party leader Herbert
01:23Kickl, forcing them to find a coalition agreement with smaller majorities.
01:30Talks dragged on after all other parties refused to work with Freedom Party leader Herbert
01:35Kickl, forcing them to find a coalition agreement with smaller majorities.
01:36Israeli strikes have killed 56 people in 24 hours in Gaza, with 30 on the night of Thursday
01:43to Friday, including in an Israeli-declared humanitarian zone where displaced people sheltered.
01:50Two Hamas police officers, eight members of local committees who helped secure aid convoys
01:56and several children were killed.
02:01At the same time, the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the green light to
02:05send a delegation to Qatar to pursue ceasefire negotiations.
02:12The Israeli media announced that this delegation would leave on Friday.
02:19The Israeli military claims to have intercepted a missile early on Friday from Yemen, where
02:24Houthi rebels launched several attacks on Israel in recent weeks.
02:36Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer welcomed Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson to
02:41Vienna on Thursday, on the occasion of the two countries' 30th year of EU membership.
02:47The two leaders held talks focusing largely on migration.
02:52We are allies in the fight against illegal migration.
02:56Sweden is an important, reliable partner, a strong voice.
03:01Under Kristersson's conservative government, Sweden has tightened its asylum rules.
03:06I think both the Chancellor and I, we share the desire to think outside the box now, not
03:11to settle and say things are complicated.
03:13We knew that already.
03:15Complicated things are meant to be solved, not to be discussed only.
03:21Six years after joining the bloc, both leaders aim to push for stronger EU border security
03:26and better mechanisms for returning migrants whose asylum applications are denied.
03:31They plan to advocate for these changes at the EU Commission.
03:40Thousands of people have attended a vigil to remember the 12 victims of a mass shooting
03:45in Montenegro.
03:46It happened on Wednesday in the central town of Setinje, when a man started a shooting
03:51rampage after a bar brawl, killing 12 and wounding at least four others.
03:56Two children were among the victims and the man, named as 45-year-old Arko Matinovic,
04:02died after shooting himself in the head.
04:17The government has declared three days of national mourning and all planned New Year's
04:25festivities have been cancelled throughout the country.
04:28Visiting Setinje on Thursday, Prime Minister Milojko Spajic announced a tightening of
04:33rules on weapons possession.
04:46This is a tragedy.
04:47We need to ask ourselves who can have weapons in Montenegro.
04:50We understand sports and hunting, but these criteria need to be maximally tightened.
04:55Tighten the penalties for those who illegally possess weapons, who illegally carry weapons.
05:00Montenegro, which has a population of around 620,000, has a population of more than 1,000
05:05people.
05:06This is a tragedy.
05:07We need to ask ourselves who can have weapons in Montenegro.
05:10We need to ask ourselves who can have weapons in Montenegro.
05:13Montenegro, which has a population of around 620,000, is known for its gun culture and
05:18many people traditionally have weapons.
05:21In August 2022 in Setinje, an attacker killed 10 people, including two children, before
05:26he was shot and killed by a passerby.
05:29Police said that Wednesday's shooter received a suspended sentence in 2005 for violent behavior
05:35and had appealed a conviction for illegal weapons possession.
05:44The UN Children's Fund has urged governments to prioritize the safety of migrant children
05:49whose parents are killed at sea.
05:52The UNICEF statement comes after two boats sank in waters off eastern Tunisia on Thursday
05:57killing at least 27 people.
06:00It's a popular departure point for irregular migrants hoping to make it to Europe.
06:14According to the International Organization of Migration's Missing Migrant Tracker, 2,275
06:36people were unaccounted for in the Mediterranean in 2024.
06:40That brings the total number of people missing since 2014 to more than 31,000.
06:46The majority of those are believed to have died on the perilous central Mediterranean
06:50route, which is used by people smugglers from Libya and Tunisia to ferry people towards
06:55Italy.
06:56According to Eurostat, in 2023 more than 2,200 people considered to be unaccompanied minors
07:03filed asylum applications with Italian authorities.
07:07For Greece in the same year, that figure was over 2,600 while Spain handled just 30
07:13such applications.
07:15Applications for asylum from unaccompanied minors across the whole of the European Union
07:20have generally fallen steadily from a peak of more than 88,000 in 2015.
07:27The French and German foreign ministers travelled to Damascus on the first official visit to
07:32Syria by top diplomats from European countries after the fall of former President Bashar
07:38al-Assad.
07:40French Minister Jean-Noël Barrault visited the French embassy, which opened its doors
07:45a few weeks ago after 13 years of closure.
07:48It's a very difficult situation.
07:51It's a very difficult situation.
08:22Barrault also met with Christian religious leaders.
08:33His German counterpart Annalena Baerbock said there can be a political new beginning between
08:38Europe and Syria only if all people, regardless of ethnic or religious group, have a place
08:43in the political process.
08:46Baerbock and Barrault are meeting the leader of HTS, the group that toppled Assad, Ahmad
08:51al-Shara, and representatives of Syrian civil society on Friday.
09:01South Korean authorities suspended an attempt to arrest the impeached President Yoon Seok-yol
09:07after an almost six-hour standoff with security forces.
09:11The country's anti-corruption agency said it withdrew its investigators after the Presidential
09:16Security Service blocked them from entering Yoon's residence.
09:20The events were the latest confrontation in a political crisis that has paralyzed South
09:25Korean politics.
09:27It began in early December when Yoon, apparently frustrated that his policies were blocked
09:32by an opposition-dominated parliament, declared martial law and dispatched troops to surround
09:37the National Assembly.
09:39Parliament overturned that declaration within hours in a unanimous vote and impeached Yoon,
09:44while South Korean authorities opened a criminal investigation into the events.
09:48A Seoul court issued a warrant for Yoon's detention after he evaded multiple requests
09:53to appear for questioning and blocked searches of his office, hindering an investigation
09:57into whether his ill-conceived power grab amounted to rebellion.
10:02Yoon has remained defiant, vowing to fight to remain in office.
10:10In June 2024, we uncovered around 200 dinosaur tracks.
10:28We found four long trackways up to 150 meters long from sauropod dinosaurs.
10:33So these are long-necked, four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs.
10:36So probably something like a Cetosaurus.
10:38So about 18 meters in length, about 10 tons.
10:41And then we found one theropod track.
10:43And the theropod track is probably from Megalosaurus.
10:46So this is probably a very fearsome mid-Jurassic predator.
10:50It's a carnivorous dinosaur and it leaves these very distinctive three-toed tracks behind
10:55in the sediment.
10:56Very classic, what you would expect a footprint to look like with a little claw mark in some
11:00cases.
11:02Tracks give us that moment in time in the life of that animal, right?
11:06It tells us it was there, unlike a body fossil that could be moved around.
11:10So it gives us that glimpse into what they were doing, but we can also figure out how
11:13big they were, how fast they were moving, how they were interacting with each other,
11:18with the environment.
11:19So there's lots of additional information that one can get from looking at tracks that
11:23you can't get from looking at body fossils.
11:25So it's a really interesting complement.
11:31Thanks for watching.