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00:00Former central banker Mark Carney is set to become Canada's new prime minister as he wins
00:05liberal party leadership race, succeeding Justin Trudeau.
00:12Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Shara, launches probes into the deadly four-day clashes
00:16in the country's coastal region.
00:21Kaleen Georgiakou supporters clash with police after Romania's electoral committee barred
00:25the far-right candidate from running in Sunday's presidential election.
00:30Greenlanders are set to vote in a general election on Tuesday that could determine the
00:35island's future amid U.S. President Donald Trump's interests.
00:42Former central banker Mark Carney will become Canada's next prime minister after the ruling
00:46Liberal Party elected him as their new leader.
00:49And in his first speech, he was quick to take a defiant stance against threats from U.S.
00:54President Donald Trump.
00:55There's someone who's trying to weaken our economy.
00:58Donald Trump, as we know, has put, as the prime minister just said, unjustified tariffs
01:06on what we build, on what we sell, on how we make a living.
01:12He's attacking Canadian families, workers and businesses, and we cannot let him succeed.
01:20Immediately addressing one of Canadian's most pressing concerns, Carney said his government
01:25will continue fighting Trump.
01:27The Canadian government has rightly retaliated and is rightly retaliating with our own tariffs
01:33that will have maximum impact in the United States and minimum impact here in Canada.
01:40My government will keep our tariffs on until the Americans show us respect.
01:46In first place, the next prime minister of Canada, Mark Carney.
01:52Carney was the former governor of Canada's central bank and is widely credited with helping
01:56orchestrate the country's fast recovery from the 2008 financial crisis.
02:00In 2013, he was appointed as governor of the Bank of England, becoming the first non-citizen
02:06to do so since its founding.
02:08More recently, he served as the United Nations Special Envoy for Climate Change and Finance.
02:14Carney will succeed Justin Trudeau as prime minister in the coming days after he's sworn
02:18in.
02:19A Harvard-educated economist with Wall Street experience may not keep the job for long.
02:24He's expected to trigger a snap election shortly.
02:28Opposition parties could also force one with a no-confidence vote later this month.
02:37Syria's interim president, Ahmad al-Sharia, denounced the violence that took place over
02:41the past four days between security forces and Alawite loyalists of ousted President
02:45Bashar al-Assad.
02:47He also noted he's forming committees to investigate the fighting that took place in the country's
02:51western coastal region.
02:53We have announced the formation of a committee to analyze the facts, to consider and investigate
02:59the events on the ground, to bring the involved to justice, and to reveal the facts to the
03:03Syrian people, so that everyone knows who is responsible for this torture and plotting.
03:12al-Sharia also vowed to continue working to eliminate all factions and external forces
03:16who are looking to plunge Syria into regression.
03:20Syria will remain steadfast, and we will not allow any external or local forces to drag
03:26it into chaos or civil war.
03:28We are on the path of the past, and we are determined to move forward towards the future
03:33that suits our great people.
03:38The violence in coastal Syria claimed the lives of 1,000 people, according to the UK-based
03:42Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
03:45The group says the four-day wave of clashes were one of the deadliest in over a decade.
03:53European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said there was no reason to de-risk
03:58Europe's decades-old relationship with the US in the face of current geopolitical differences.
04:04Von der Leyen was speaking in a briefing to mark 100 days of a second term as EU Commission
04:09President.
04:10She insisted that the US remained an ally.
04:13In the face of adversity, the US and Europe have always been stronger together.
04:19And yes, there are differences, but we might have different views on some topics, but if
04:25you look at the common interests that we have, they always outweigh our differences.
04:31So I think it's important that we work together.
04:34We will have our differences.
04:35We have to sort them out, but we will have to find common avenues.
04:40Von der Leyen said her commission will start to hold regular security meetings to review
04:45the various potential threats facing the bloc in areas like defence and energy.
04:56All in and outbound traffic at Germany's Hamburg airport came to a halt in a surprise strike
05:01on Sunday.
05:02It came a day before trade union Verdi called for nationwide strikes at major German airports.
05:09Out of the 144 arrivals and 139 departures originally planned at Hamburg airport, only
05:1510 flights weren't cancelled in the morning.
05:19I wonder why.
05:21It was supposed to be a big strike tomorrow, but why is it today?
05:26A strike has to be effective, and that's why we called for it in the short term.
05:30Of course, this is a burden for the passengers.
05:32The colleagues know that too.
05:34But they still followed the strike call 100 percent.
05:38The German union had called on employees in the aviation security sector to strike for
05:43a full day on Monday.
05:44In a statement, Verdi said the warning strikes are necessary to improve working conditions
05:49and achieve better wages.
05:56In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
05:59far-right party Alternative for Germany is the strongest party.
06:04Germany's snap elections, which took place just two weeks ago, saw the AfD win their
06:09best ever result.
06:11The mayor of the small city of Passau-Walch, Daniel Rodewald, said people in the region
06:16feel unheard by the federal government.
06:19We, as small municipalities in the region, are under-financed.
06:24We have to be better financed.
06:26We, as cities, have to limit our voluntary services.
06:29And that's what the citizens want.
06:32They want to feel comfortable in the city.
06:34They feel comfortable, but there are still ways to improve it.
06:39Some residents in the east of Germany say they have tried out major parties such as
06:44CDU and SPD, but they haven't delivered on bringing living costs down, so they would
06:49like to try something new with the AfD.
06:52There are a lot of citizens who are dissatisfied, but not necessarily with the city politics.
06:57It was a federal election, and you can't transfer that one-to-one to Pasewijk.
07:03And the citizens who were dissatisfied have their reasons.
07:08There are certainly things that didn't go as well as they should have.
07:12Whilst AfD posters have already been taken down, a record 75% of Gross-Lukau voted for
07:19AfD.
07:20The village of 200 residents is isolated, like many in the region.
07:24A local AfD MP says a shortage of skilled workers, high taxes and energy costs, poor
07:31infrastructure and bureaucracy is crippling the region.
07:34We are the AfD, and they want to have it better.
07:38They want the foreigners out, who don't belong here.
07:42What are they looking for here?
07:44They only take our money.
07:46They don't want to work.
07:48They get an apartment, put everything in the back.
07:52In the big cities, there are homeless people who don't have an apartment.
07:59They sleep day and night outside in the cold.
08:01Nobody cares.
08:03The main thing is that the foreigners come.
08:05And if they are sent home now, they get pocket money, 1,000 euros.
08:10Why?
08:11For now, the pressure will be on for the new German government to revive the economy,
08:16especially if they want to bring back voters to the established parties.
08:21Liv Stroud, reporting for Euronews.
08:27The Russian army on Sunday said it had retaken parts of the Kursk region, which Kiev captured
08:32in a flash attack in August last year.
08:36Russian forces crawled through a 1.4-metre-wide unused gas pipeline to attack Ukrainian troops
08:42in the strategic town of Sudza.
08:45There are more than 50,000 Russian troops in the region, including some from its ally,
08:50North Korea.
08:51Tens of thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are at risk of being encircled, open-source maps
08:56of the battlefield show.
08:58Ukraine's attack on the Kursk region marked the largest attack on Russian territory since
09:02World War II.
09:04According to Kiev, the operation aimed to gain a bargaining chip in future peace talks,
09:09forced Russia to divert troops away from its grinding offensive in eastern Ukraine.
09:20Romania's Central Electoral Committee has suspended the application by ultra-nationalist
09:24presidential candidate Kalin Djorgescu to run in the upcoming elections on Sunday.
09:29The suspension sparked condemnation and triggered protests in the capital, Bucharest.
09:34Djorgescu's supporters clashed with police in front of the committee's headquarters.
09:38One gendarme was injured in the scuffles.
09:40The committee examined documents filed by Djorgescu but did not approve one related
09:45to his campaign funding, noting that it was missing a required signature.
09:49The far-right candidate slammed the decision, calling it a direct blow to the heart of democracy,
09:54before labelling Europe a dictatorship.
09:56He also warned that if democracy falls in Romania, the entire democratic world will
10:01also suffer a similar fate.
10:03The committee defended its decision in a three-page document and accused Djorgescu
10:07of not displaying values the presidential office requires.
10:11Djorgescu, dubbed the TikTok messiah, came out on top in the first round of Romania's
10:15presidential elections in December.
10:18The constitutional court annulled the vote following the declassifications of intelligence
10:22reports showing Russian meddling in influencing voters.
10:26Djorgescu now has the right to appeal the decision or file a new application,
10:30according to Romanian law.
10:34Greenland is preparing to hold general elections on Tuesday, March 11, amid renewed geopolitical
10:40tensions over the Arctic island.
10:43The election campaign is expected to revolve around the island's independence aspirations
10:48and relations with Denmark and the US, and the polls are projected to reshuffle the country's
10:53parliament.
10:54US President Donald Trump's interest in purchasing the island has spurred Denmark to accelerate
11:00efforts to mend the fractured ties.
11:03Greenland is the world's biggest island with around 60,000 people.
11:07The island, a former colony of Denmark, became a formal territory of the Nordic Kingdom in
11:131953 and is subject to the Danish constitution.
11:16If the island became independent, it could choose to become associated with the US without
11:22becoming US territory.
11:24When Trump offered to buy Greenland in 2019, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rejected
11:30the idea and called it absurd.