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00:00Greenland's prime minister says his people don't want to be Americans after Donald Trump
00:06suggested the US might seize the island.
00:11The Alternative for Germany party has officially elected Alice Weidel as its right-wing candidate
00:17for chancellor.
00:19Greenland's prime minister has said his people don't want to be Americans after president-elect
00:27Donald Trump suggested the US could seize the island.
00:31Mutabi Egil acknowledged that Greenland is part of the North American continent but said
00:36Greenland is for the Greenlandic people.
00:39The semi-autonomous island is a territory of Denmark and Egil has been calling for independence.
00:45Trump said earlier this week that he wouldn't rule out using force or economic pressure
00:49in order to make Greenland a part of the United States.
00:53He said it was a matter of national security.
00:56Those comments sparked anxiety in Denmark and across Europe.
01:00The US is an ally of the EU and the leading member of NATO and many in Europe were shocked
01:06that an incoming US leader could consider using force against an ally.
01:11Greenland has a population of 57,000 and is the world's largest island.
01:22The Alternative for Germany party has officially elected Alice Weidel as its right-wing candidate
01:27for chancellor during a two-day party conference in Riesa.
01:31The announcement of her candidacy came after the gathering was delayed by more than one
01:35hour due to anti-AfD protests.
01:39Polls show AfD in second place in the upcoming election, with about 20 percent support.
01:44However, Weidel has a low chance of becoming Germany's chancellor as other parties have
01:48refused to work with the AfD.
01:52Leading the polls is the conservative CDU with its leader Friedrich Merz, who called
01:56for fundamental change to German politics at the CDU's conference in Hamburg.
02:02In Berlin, Chancellor Olaf Scholz targeted the CDU at the center-left SPD conference.
02:07It's not the time for the old-fashioned recipes.
02:11It's not the time for politics on the backs of normal people.
02:16It's not the time for CDU-CSU in Germany.
02:21After Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed in November, polls show that support for his
02:25party sits at around 14 to 17 percent.
02:34Officials in California say the death toll from massive wildfires burning in and around
02:39Los Angeles has risen to 11.
02:42And the tally of homes and other buildings destroyed stands at more than 10,000.
02:47L.A. County Sheriff Robert G. Luner said around 153,000 residents are now under evacuation
02:54orders.
02:55He also said a nighttime curfew is in place covering the Palisades and Eaton fire areas
03:00and that officers are patrolling to prevent looting.
03:04He said more than 57,000 structures remain at risk.
03:08Mayor Karen Bass said Los Angeles is preparing for more high winds forecast for next week.
03:14The blazes started on Tuesday, powered by gusts from the Santa Ana winds, which followed
03:19an exceptionally dry period.
03:23Officials say investigations into how the fires first broke out are still ongoing.
03:44Although the difference between two presidential candidates in the first round of the presidential
03:48elections was as much as 30 percent in favor of Zoran Milanovic, Dragan Primorac says he
03:53believes in the turnaround and that he is hoping for the votes of those voters who were passive
03:57in the first round or who gave their trust to some other conservative candidate.
04:03The latest public opinion poll, published in the eyes of the second round of the presidential
04:07elections, says that the absolute favorite is Zoran Milanovic.
04:10They predict that Milanovic can count on about 62 percent of the votes, while Dragan Primorac
04:16can count on about 28 percent of the votes.
04:19Ten percent of the voters said that it is still not certain who he will vote for.
04:24The right to vote in the Croatian presidential elections has a little more than 3,750,000
04:29Croatian citizens, and if the public opinion polls are true, Zoran Milanovic will become
04:36the third Croatian president in history who will be able to win two presidential candidates,
04:41because only Franjo Tudjman and Stjepan Mesic managed to do it before him.
04:45From Zagreb, for Euronews, Dušan Ilić.