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00:00NATO's chief called for more defence spending, saying the spending goal set a decade ago
00:05wasn't enough to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
00:12University students in Belgrade are staging a 24-hour blockade to protest November's deadly
00:17canopy collapse.
00:22Storm Herminia has brought strong winds, heavy rain and powerful waves to countries across
00:27Europe.
00:31Israel claims to have killed two Hamas members in a strike in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.
00:45NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned Russia was trying to destabilise countries in the
00:50alliance as he called on members to increase defence spending.
00:55Rutte spoke at a joint briefing alongside Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro
01:00as he visited Lisbon on Monday.
01:03We also know that the goal of 2% now set a decade ago will not be enough to meet the
01:11challenges of tomorrow.
01:14The threat from Russia may seem distant, but let me assure you it is not.
01:20Russian ships and long-range bombers menace the Portuguese coast.
01:25Portugal's vital undersea infrastructure is squarely in Russia's sights.
01:30During the press conference, Rutte also addressed recent cable ruptures in the Baltic Sea, saying
01:35NATO was operating alongside allies to enable a fast and coordinated response.
01:41Alongside NATO Secretary General, Portuguese Prime Minister Luis Montenegro kept his commitment
01:47to reaching the goal of 2% of GDP in defence by 2029.
01:52Mark Rutte warned that this goal, set a decade ago, will not be enough to meet NATO's future
01:59challenges.
02:01Luis Montenegro also showed the government's openness to anticipate this calendar, but
02:06said there should be a European consultation on investment in defence.
02:12Joana Marão Carvalho for Euronews in Lisbon.
02:16University students are staging a 24-hour blockade in the Serbian capital of Belgrade
02:25in protest against a deadly canopy collapse that killed 15 people in November.
02:33Officers have demanded political accountability over the accident, blaming corruption and
02:37mismanagement for the poor reconstruction of the canopy.
02:42The students converged on the auto-commander junction, which connects intersecting roads
02:47leading from the centre of the city to suburban areas.
02:51In a press conference on Monday afternoon, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic urged dialogue
02:57with the students, who have so far refused to speak to him, claiming the unrest is negatively
03:02impacting the country.
03:21The government has taken steps to address some of the students' demands, including declassifying
03:27certain documents related to the Novi Sad collapse, which occurred shortly after the
03:32station was renovated by Chinese state companies.
03:35Vucic has also said he is willing to pardon protesters who want to avoid criminal prosecution,
03:42adding that the public prosecutor's office has initiated criminal proceedings against
03:4737 people after cars rammed into protesting students on two separate occasions.
03:58Germany's migration debate has once again been thrown into the spotlight after a man
04:03and child were killed in a knife attack by a former Afghan asylum seeker who had been
04:08told to leave the country.
04:11The incident in Aschaffenburg, occurring just weeks before Germany's parliamentary elections,
04:17has prompted opposition parties to leverage the attack as a platform to advocate for their
04:22stricter migration policies.
04:26Leader of the centre-right CDU party, Friedrich Merz, has already vowed to impose immediate
04:32border controls if he becomes chancellor, fuelling the debate with his statement that
04:37he did not care which political party the union's proposal received a majority from,
04:42even if it was the far-right AfD.
04:46Although Merz has claimed he does not want votes from the AfD, left-wing parties fear
04:52Merz's rhetoric implies his party could be open to collaboration with the far-right.
05:05Meanwhile, the ruling SPD party is reintroducing draft legislation on migration and security
05:11to the Bundestag, something it had previously failed to do due to opposition from the CDU.
05:22But with just four weeks to go and a growing wave of discontent pushing voters to the right,
05:39SPD Chancellor Olaf Scholz is rapidly running out of time to win over the electorate.
05:47Weather warnings have been issued in parts of Spain, Portugal, France, the UK and Ireland
05:53as Storm Herminia batters countries across Europe with strong winds, heavy rain and powerful
05:59waves.
06:01Hurricane-force winds have been recorded across almost all of Spain, with the Galicia region
06:07feeling the worst effects.
06:10One person has died and more than 1,200 incidents have been reported to the emergency services
06:16in the region, while more than 13,000 people have been left without electricity.
06:22In France, eight regions are under orange weather warnings, while the region of Île-et-Velaine
06:28is now under a red warning.
06:31Flooding has forced families in Île-et-Velaine to evacuate and the water level is still rising.
06:40Meanwhile, in the UK, Devon and Cornwall remain under a yellow weather warning and more than
06:541,000 properties in the south-west are still without power.
07:00Holocaust survivors warned of rising anti-Semitism as they gathered in southern Poland to commemorate
07:09the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
07:13Given the age and frailty of the survivors, some believe it could be the last time they
07:17met at the site to mark the day Soviet troops liberated the camp.
07:22The organisers therefore decided to make the survivors the central focus and asked politicians
07:27not to speak on stage.
07:29We have an obligation not only to remember, which is very, very important, but also to warn
07:42and to teach that hatred only begets more hatred, killing more killing.
07:50Many of the speakers warned the audience about the dangers of rising anti-Semitism, saying
07:55it was such hatred that led the Nazis to kill millions of Jews in World War II.
08:00German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier criticised recent remarks made by billionaire Elon Musk,
08:05who denounced Germany for putting too much focus on past guilt at an AFD election rally
08:10over the weekend.
08:11Steinmeier said that Auschwitz stood for murders planned and meticulously prepared by Germans,
08:16which the nation does not forget.
08:18But it is now up to us, our generations, to pass on their warnings and expectations to the next generations.
08:31And I say as German President, we in Germany, we do not forget.
08:41Other world leaders who travelled to Auschwitz for the ceremony included Ukrainian President
08:46Volodymyr Zelensky, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
08:56Israel claims to have killed two Hamas members in a strike which targeted a vehicle in the
09:01West Bank city of Tulkarem, according to local reports.
09:06The attack was confirmed by the Israeli Air Force on Monday, which said it had eliminated
09:11Hamas member Ihab Abu Atiwi alongside another unnamed member of the group.
09:17The two men were killed as Israel's large-scale military raid in Jenin continued into its
09:22seventh day, in addition to a new raid reported in Tulkarem on Monday.
09:32For 33 years, the Grand Christmas Charity Orchestra has united Poles in a common cause.
09:39Collecting hundreds of millions in medical relief to bring help to those who need it the most.
09:59It is thanks to this initiative that many Polish hospitals have been able to receive funding
10:03for life-saving medical equipment.
10:08I think it's worth helping. I was in an accident and when I woke up, I saw a heart machine.
10:15I said that as soon as I could, I would go and collect it. It's the sixth time now.
10:23Donors receive heart stickers in return for their donations.
10:27This year's campaign involves hundreds of thousands of volunteers in Poland and abroad in 23 countries.
10:39We dressed up as children to collect as much as possible.
10:44I see this equipment in hospitals. When my children were born, they also used this equipment.
10:51The Grand Christmas Charity Orchestra is not only about street collections.
10:55It consists of concerts, workshops and fairs.
10:58We all want to help. I see a lot of equipment in hospitals, which was funded by the orchestra.
11:07So I've been helping for 33 years.
11:11The Grand Christmas Charity Orchestra has become a part of Polish culture,
11:14and the red hearts have become a symbol of support for those in need.
11:18Celebrities, politicians and people from different backgrounds take part in the campaign every year.
11:23Organizers hope that, as in the previous year, they will be able to break another record.
11:28We will know the results in March.
11:30For Euronews, Mateusz Jaroński, Warsaw.