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00:00Europe's leaders remain divided on the prospect of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine
00:06in the event of a peace deal with Russia.
00:21Pope Francis is to remain in hospital while doctors tackle what they've called a complex
00:27clinical picture.
00:36Europe's leaders remain divided on the prospect of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine
00:40in the event of a peace deal with Russia. Some of them met for emergency talks in Paris
00:46after seemingly being excluded from the negotiations between the US, Russia and Ukraine.
00:53UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he's ready to consider sending British troops.
00:58I'm prepared to consider committing British forces on the ground alongside others if there
01:05is a lasting peace agreement. But there must be a US backstop because a US security guarantee
01:15is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again.
01:22German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said it is premature to consider the idea without Kiev's involvement.
01:28I'm even a little irritated by these debates. I want to say this very openly.
01:33Here, the heads of Ukraine are talking about the results of peace talks that did not take place
01:40and in which Ukraine did not say yes and did not sit at the table.
01:44They are talking about possible variants of results.
01:47This is highly inappropriate. We do not know what the result will be.
01:55Other leaders, including Dutch Prime Minister Dix Hof, have not excluded the idea but not
02:00committed either. Shortly before the meeting, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with
02:05US President Donald Trump, but Macron's office would not disclose the details about the discussion.
02:13The United Arab Emirates are going to Ukraine.
02:20Ukraine is going to Ukraine.
02:32Ukraine is not going to take Ukraine. Ukraine did not know about it.
02:37Ukraine is considering any talks about Ukraine or without Ukraine that have no result.
02:47We cannot give any things or any agreements without a sign of an offensive, a non-provocative war.
02:59Unfortunately, the Ukrainian society is tired.
03:04We do not have the readiness to deal with the situation as it was before.
03:09Without the help of the United States, if it is not covered by Europe, we will not cope.
03:17I am surprised that the Americans elected such a president.
03:21I am very surprised.
03:26It is their will, so to say.
03:34Thank you very much, Mr. President.
03:36I wish you good luck also in Ukraine in this closest time.
03:40Thank you, thank you, Mr. President, for reading. Thank you, colleagues.
03:43Thank you so much.
03:44Great.
03:54Will Europe have a say in the Ukraine peace process?
03:58As US President Donald Trump seems to be going it alone in negotiations with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin,
04:05Europe is trying to make itself heard.
04:08Trump has shown that he is not very willing to share the negotiations with anyone.
04:14He is rather willing to give things away to Putin.
04:18I think Europe just has to act on its own now.
04:22We have to be clear that our commitment is not going to change.
04:27And we really have to deliver now.
04:29We have to make sure there is the money, there is the support, there is the military, which is now needed.
04:38US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Ukraine should give up the territories occupied by Moscow
04:44and abandon its ambitions to join NATO.
04:49Europe has repeatedly said that no decision should be made about Ukraine without Ukraine.
04:55The US has asked European capitals to clarify what security guarantees they can provide for Ukraine.
05:04Europe has to do much more now.
05:07Because the US is not willing to underpin any kind of ceasefire.
05:13Trump, unfortunately, is giving away a lot to Putin.
05:18That means Europe has to give the support to Ukraine.
05:22It has to give the security guarantees.
05:24It has to put the troops there to make sure that Putin does not cross that line.
05:30An unstable ceasefire would not guarantee lasting peace in Ukraine or Europe.
05:35Therefore, Europe must map out the architecture of its future security,
05:39says European Council President Antonio Costa.
05:43We have to have a ceasefire,
05:48which, yes, does stop the military action for the moment,
05:52but also has the guarantees to make sure that it can last,
05:56to make sure that we are not back in this situation in a few years' time,
06:02or even worse, with an invasion of the Baltic states, of Finland, of the rest of Europe.
06:10European leaders met in Paris on Monday to thrash out which defence strategy to adopt.
06:22Pope Francis is to remain in hospital
06:25while doctors tackle clinical complications surrounding his respiratory tract infection,
06:30the Vatican has said.
06:32The Pope, who is 88 years old, was initially hospitalised for bronchitis
06:38but, according to spokesman Matteo Bruni,
06:41is now battling a polymicrobial respiratory tract infection
06:45which requires adjustments to his medication.
06:50Outside the hospital, religious well-wishers have been praying for his recovery.
07:09Francis has faced several health challenges throughout his life,
07:16including undergoing the removal of part of one of his lungs at the age of 21.
07:21In March 2023, he spent three nights at the same hospital receiving treatment for bronchitis.
07:28His continued hospitalisation has already forced the cancellation of some events
07:34connected to the Vatican's Holy Year
07:36and raised uncertainty about others.
07:43Homeless people in Belgium are being forced to draw lots for spaces in night shelters
07:48amid a critical shortage of available beds.
07:52At a refuge in Verviers, additional beds have been provided under the city's extreme cold plan,
07:59but they remain insufficient to accommodate the growing number of homeless on the streets.
08:06If someone is struggling to find a place, he doesn't have enough space.
08:11Seven places, seven places, and we are at least 15 a day.
08:15In December, 45 people were turned away from the shelter
08:19and in January, the figure rose to more than 60.
08:23We have to close the door and tell someone,
08:26it's minus three, but here's a sleeping bag, you can go outside.
08:29It's just unbearable.
08:31The homelessness crisis in the Belgian capital Brussels is well documented,
08:36but national statistics often overlook rough sleepers in smaller towns.
08:41According to the King Baudouin Foundation,
08:43roughly one in six people who sleep on the streets
08:46reside in municipalities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.
08:54As Germany is going for an early election in a few days,
08:57Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his main challengers went on TV
09:00for a live debate with the opposition leaders.
09:03The Greens candidate Robert Habeck, CDU's leader Friedrich Merz,
09:07and Alice Weidel of the far-right Alternative for Germany
09:11all shared their views on a wide range of topics.
09:16Ukraine must be a democratic, sovereign nation,
09:20which is not decided by the people.
09:23We as Europeans will not allow that.
09:25That's why I'm going to Paris tomorrow
09:27and will meet with many friends there,
09:29so we can discuss exactly that.
09:31Germany has Ukraine, yes.
09:33And with the promise that these meetings of the last days and weeks
09:36will take place in Paris,
09:38that Emmanuel Macron has taken over the office of trade,
09:41and that the German Chancellor will be a guest there for hours,
09:44is not the role I envision for Germany in such a debate.
09:51I don't think the Germans are interested in what the Americans
09:54will decide.
09:55I think the people in Germany will make their own decisions.
09:58We are not hearing of election recommendations
10:01from dubious vice-presidents.
10:03That's not what worries me in the first place.
10:05That's not part of it.
10:06That's a style break.
10:07But it's not about style questions.
10:09What happened in the last few weeks
10:11and with the Munich Security Conference,
10:13you can't take that seriously enough,
10:15because the Trump administration
10:17launched a frontal attack on the values community of the West.
10:24First of all, I welcome the fact that J.D. Vance,
10:28the vice-president of the United States,
10:30has expressed himself so clearly.
10:32He has committed himself to freedom of expression,
10:35and he has committed himself
10:37not to build firewalls
10:39to exclude millions of voters from the front line.
10:41We have to talk to each other.
10:43He made that clear.
10:44And he also made it clear,
10:46just like Donald Trump,
10:48that finally a ceasefire in Ukraine will be negotiated
10:52and that peace will be established.
10:54That's what the AfD has demanded for almost three years.
11:22He was making a speech at the groundbreaking event.
11:24This time the footage included his voice, which is rare.
11:30He spoke to a crowd of construction workers
11:32and then twisted the switch to ignite explosions.
11:37The project is in the suburbs of the capital Pyongyang,
11:40called the Hwasong district.
11:42It's a part of a push to build 50,000 new apartments
11:44within five years.