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00:00Two Ukrainian cities attempted to sweep away the rubble on Friday after repeated Russian
00:08attacks.
00:09This includes the bombed community of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Oblast region.
00:15One resident says he was injured because of Moscow's overnight shelling.
00:19We spent the night in the basement, in a two-story house, until the morning.
00:26In the morning I came in and everything was like this.
00:29Well, in general, I don't know, it was such a mess, you couldn't lie down, you couldn't
00:33rest.
00:34There was an ambulance.
00:35I showed it.
00:36They said, look, look, there seems to be no shrapnel.
00:40Roughly 55 kilometres northeast, residents boarded up windows and cleared away broken
00:45glass in the Ukrainian city of Kostya-Yenivka.
00:48At 6.30 in the morning, as it lit up, like welding, with such fire, and bang, bang, and
00:59it started to fly, and we were next to it, on the roof, I heard, bang, bang, bang, bang.
01:05Everything calmed down.
01:07The attacks on Ukraine's east comes as Russia continues to push further into Donetsk Oblast.
01:13Donetsk is one of four Ukrainian regions Moscow recently claimed to annex in its 2022
01:19full-scale invasion, an allegation Kyiv rejects and says is illegal.
01:28European member states have failed to agree on whether the EU should apply steeper tariffs
01:33on China-made electric vehicles.
01:35Now the decision goes back to the EU Commission, who can implement its proposal.
01:40This means that the tariffs can be imposed.
01:43The vote in council revealed clear divisions.
01:46Ten countries voted in favour of the tariffs, with France and Italy amongst them, Germany
01:50and four more countries voted against.
01:52However, the abstention of 12 countries meant that there was no result.
02:00Germany's car manufacturers operate largely at the higher end, it's mostly premium cars,
02:06and they invested heavily within China.
02:08Given that they're premium branding, they're not too worried about competition on the lower
02:13end of the markets from Chinese imports, whereas French and Italian producers have
02:17not invested as heavily in China, and they compete much more directly on the lower end
02:21of the market, and they're therefore much more worried about the effect that Chinese
02:25competition would have for the European market.
02:30The high number of abstentions reflects long-standing concerns about how Europe should stand up
02:36to China.
02:37Even though there is agreement about the fact that Beijing's unfair trade practices merit
02:41a forceful united response, fears of commercial retaliation appear to have dampened the resolve
02:47of many capitals, especially with a make-or-break date approaching.
02:55I think what is clear is that the Chinese government would retaliate, that is what they
02:58normally do, and they already signalled where they will do this, which would be agricultural
03:03exports.
03:04Now, compared to the EV market, the agricultural market, even though it's politically very
03:08important, is economically not that big.
03:10So the question is basically, will that be enough for an escalation on the European side,
03:14and basically to which extent the Chinese side will escalate in more and more bigger
03:18sectors.
03:19Friday's vote marked a victory for the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.
03:25In its statement, the EU Commission still left the door open for a different outcome,
03:30stating that the EU and China would continue to work hard to explore an alternative solution.
03:40Certain FIFA rules on international player transfers are in breach of EU law, the EU's
03:46top court said on Friday.
03:48The Court of Justice of the European Union handed down its ruling following a decade-long
03:53legal challenge spearheaded by former footballer Lassana Diarra.
03:58According to the ECJ, certain FIFA rules impede the free movement of footballers wanting to
04:04progress their careers by working for new clubs.
04:07In 2013, Diarra signed a four-year contract with Russian team Lokomotiv Moscow, but the
04:13deal was terminated after Diarra was allegedly unhappy with pay cuts.
04:17Lokomotiv Moscow applied to FIFA for compensation, with its arbitration court finding Diarra's
04:23sacking was based on just cause.
04:25The player was ordered to pay the club millions of euros.
04:29Diarra claimed his search for a new club was hampered by FIFA rules, stating any new side
04:34would be jointly responsible for paying Lokomotiv compensation.
04:38FIFPRO, the union representing footballers, celebrated the recent ECJ ruling, saying it
04:44would change the EU's sporting labour market.
04:51Leader of the far-right Austria Freedom Party, Herbert Kickl, has met with Austria's federal
04:56president for talks on the formation of a new government.
05:01The Austria Freedom Party won nearly 29% of the vote in last week's national election,
05:07giving it the highest vote share but leaving it far short of a majority.
05:11And Kickl may struggle to form a government, as no other party is willing to work with
05:16him.
05:17Asked what he expected from the talks, Kickl only said he had positive expectations.
05:26Thousands have staged a march through central Vienna to urge the country's political parties
05:31not to join a coalition with the far-right.
05:35It comes as the FPO, for the first time in its history, won national elections on Sunday
05:40with 29% of the vote.
05:43Protesters held signs that read, it's Thursday again, alluding to demonstrations that broke
05:48out on Thursdays in the 2000s against the centre-right OVP entering into a coalition
05:55with the FPO.
05:57According to the organisers, over 25,000 people took part in the protest on Thursday evening.
06:04The largely Euro-sceptic party campaigned in an anti-immigration platform, promising
06:09voters measures to boost Austria's economy.
06:13Without a full majority, the party would need to form a coalition government in order to
06:18govern, which would mark the first time that Austria has been ruled by the far-right since
06:24World War II.
06:26At least 15 people have been killed in floods and landslides after a severe rainstorm hit
06:38Bosnia overnight.
06:41Several people are still reported missing, and the army has been dispatched to help with
06:46rescue operations.
06:48I woke up around 6.30 in the morning and heard the rain.
06:57I went out on the terrace and saw the flood.
07:04I went down, I was down at around 6.15, it was horrible.
07:09People were damaged, the buildings were flooded.
07:14So I've been walking around since morning to see where I can go, and it's really horrible
07:23what happened.
07:26Authorities in the towns of Jablonica and Kiselyuk say the power stopped working overnight
07:32and mobile phones lost their signal.
07:36Jablonica fire station also says the town is completely inaccessible because roads and
07:42train lines are closed.
07:45Heavy rains and strong winds are also reported in neighbouring Croatia, where several roads
07:51are closed and the capital, Zagreb, is preparing for the Sava River to bust its banks.
08:00A census for the homeless has begun in Budapest. Authorities in the city estimate that between
08:061,000 and 1,500 people spent nights on the streets and around 5,000 in hostels in the
08:13Hungarian capital.
08:15Several of the homeless found at this park say they had a stable life before things took
08:19a turn for the worse.
08:21The Shelter Foundation's homeless shelter on Van der Hunyard Street has been in operation
08:52since 1990.
09:01PET's jury, chairman of the Foundation's board of trustees, said that they are trying to
09:06find out how many people actually sleep without shelter in the inner districts of Budapest.
09:22According to a 2023 report, an estimated 890,000 people sleep rough or in a homeless shelter
09:41across the EU.
09:51We are using traditional machine learning and can enhance the capabilities of this robot.
10:13Modern robots nowadays learn a lot with artificial intelligence. They can learn walking, they
10:19can learn walking stairs and all of this is part of a modern robot.
10:49My mother was using artificial intelligence to help her write letters and she was 85.
11:02But there are also fears of people losing their jobs of course and artificial intelligence
11:07taking over everything. We must also consider what is it good for, what can we use it for
11:13and how do we apply it. We use it wisely I would say. We consider where it makes sense,
11:19where it can improve our work but not use it blindly. So we want to understand what's
11:25going on.