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00:00Thousands gather across Slovakia to protest against what they call the pro-Russian policies
00:06of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
00:11International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi warns attacks around the Zaporizhia
00:16nuclear power plant have increased.
00:21Thousands of students block traffic in Athens in protest against what they say delays to
00:26the probe into the Tembi rail crash.
00:32Thousands of people have gathered across Slovakia to protest against what they say the pro-Russian
00:37policies of Prime Minister Robert Fico.
00:40The latest wave of rallies was fuelled by Fico's recent trip to Moscow to meet Vladimir
00:45Putin, a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
00:52Fico's recent remarks that Slovakia's foreign policy could involve leaving the European
00:56Union and NATO has contributed to the unrest.
00:59The latest rallies took place in 41 locations in Slovakia, up from 28 two weeks ago.
01:06Fico is a divisive figure in Slovakia and has escalated tensions by accusing protest
01:11organizers of working with foreigners to engineer a coup.
01:15Fico's views on Russia have largely differed from the European mainstream.
01:20He ended Slovakia's military aid for Ukraine, criticized European Union sanctions on Russia
01:25and vowed to block Ukraine from joining NATO.
01:35The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has said attacks around the Zaporizhia
01:39nuclear power plant have increased.
01:43Rafael Grossi made the remarks in Moscow after talks with the chief of Russia's state-owned
01:47nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom.
01:50Grossi is in Moscow to discuss security at Europe's largest nuclear power plant.
01:57Russian forces took control of Zaporizhia in the early weeks following the 2022 invasion
02:02of Ukraine.
02:04In a statement, Rosatom said Ukraine was constantly shelling Enehodar, the closest town to the
02:09plant.
02:11But Grossi said it wasn't possible to determine which side was responsible for the strikes.
02:18Rosatom also emphasized the increasing risks for nuclear security at the Kursk nuclear
02:23power plant.
02:25Ukrainian troops launched an incursion into Kursk in August last year, it says, to prevent
02:29Russian forces from launching strikes into Ukraine.
02:38Thousands of students and teachers have taken to the streets of Athens to demand justice
02:43for the 57 victims of the Tembi rail crash.
02:48The streets were also filled with placards made to look like tickets reading,
02:52Athens to Thessaloniki with no return.
03:07In a post on social media, the parents of the victims expressed their gratitude to the
03:11new generation.
03:40Nearly three and a half decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of
03:45Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity grid
03:50connections to neighboring Russia and Belarus and lean in more with their EU allies.
03:57The severing of electricity ties to oil and gas rich Russia is steeped in geopolitical
04:02and symbolic significance.
04:06This is the last remaining element of our reliance or dependence on the Russian energy
04:13system or Belarusian energy system.
04:15Stopped to buy any kind of energy resources from Russia and it was our response to the
04:24war in Ukraine which broke out in February 2022.
04:29EU chief Ursula von der Leyen and other dignitaries are expected for a ceremony on Sunday as a
04:35specially made nine meter tall clock in downtown Vilnius counts down the final seconds of the
04:41Baltic states electricity ties to Russia.