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00:00Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney declares election victory after Poe's project is Liberal
00:06Party to have won the country's federal election.
00:12Power starts returning in Spain and Portugal after a huge outage hit the Iberian Peninsula
00:16leaving millions in the dark.
00:20The Prime Minister's Liberal Party has won Canada's federal election setting the stage
00:26for Mark Carney to form a government.
00:29Canadian public broadcaster CBC reports that Carney's Liberal Party is projected to secure
00:35161 out of the 343 parliamentary seats.
00:40The vote marks a stunning defeat for Canada's Conservatives, who under the leadership of
00:46Pierre Polyev were expected to be returned to power after nearly a decade.
00:51However, a diplomatic and trade crisis caused by the second U.S. presidency of Donald Trump
00:57undercut their appeal.
00:59Polyev conceded defeat on Tuesday night while Prime Minister Carney claimed victory and thanked
01:05party leaders.
01:06Carney told supporters Canada was now over the shock of American betrayal and vowed his government
01:14to be on the right.
01:22A state of emergency was declared in Spain after an unprecedented power outage swept through much of
01:27the Iberian Peninsula.
01:29The peninsula, spanning across Spain and Portugal, is home to more than 50 million people.
01:34In Spain, many major centers were affected by the blackout, including Madrid, Barcelona and Seville.
01:41The blackout brought the affected areas to a standstill, disrupting airports, train services,
01:47telecommunications, traffic lights, ATMs and more.
01:51Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said that 50% of the country's national power supply had been
01:57restored, noting that investigations to identify the cause are still ongoing.
02:03With the data from the network of the network, it has already established almost 50% of the national power supply.
02:11Practically all autonomous communities, with different situations, have registered improvement.
02:20We still don't have any final information about the reasons of this court.
02:26Several officials have ruled out foul play as a potential cause, including European Council President
02:31Antonio Costa.
02:33Portugal's two largest cities, Lisbon and Porto, were also dealing with similar challenges to those
02:37of their neighbors.
02:39The country's premier, Luis Montenegro, said officials are working tirelessly to help those
02:43in need and to restore connectivity in the affected areas.
02:47Portugal's national grid operator, REN, said that almost all of the country's 89 power
02:52substations have been fixed, and that power was restored to more than 2.5 million people.
03:02European Council President Antonio Costa is on a three-day visit to Bulgaria,
03:07where he toured the Arsenal Factory, a Bulgarian firearms and ammunition manufacturer.
03:13He said Bulgaria could have a key role in supplying European defense capabilities,
03:18adding that investment in defense would also drive competitiveness.
03:22Arsenal Factory is a very good example of the link between defense and competitiveness,
03:29and in particular, our Bulgarian defense industry, with its unique historical and regional know-how,
03:36is contributing to Europe's support for Ukraine.
03:41Costa stressed that the security of Europe and Ukraine cannot be separated,
03:45calling for all European member states to increase their defense capacities.
03:49He also mentioned how his visit comes at a significant time for Bulgaria,
03:54as it has joined the Schengen area and prepares to join the Eurozone.
03:58An alleged U.S. airstrike on a prison housing African migrants in Yemen has left at least 68 people dead,
04:08the Houthi rebels said on Monday.
04:11According to the Houthi Iran Interior Ministry, some 115 migrants had been detained at the site.
04:18Graphic footage showed what appeared to be the victims and others wounded at the site,
04:24including those being treated at a packed hospital. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. military,
04:30but the American military acknowledged on Sunday it had carried out over 800 individual strikes
04:38since its month-long campaign. The Trump administration says it is targeting the Uthis because of the group's
04:45attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, a crucial global trade route, and on Israel. Monday's strike
04:52recalled a similar strike on the same compound in 2022 by a Saudi-led coalition, which at the time
04:59caused a collapse that killed 66 detainees.
05:07The International Court of Justice has begun a week of hearings into Israel's obligation to facilitate
05:13humanitarian assistance to Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories.
05:18They come in response to a UN resolution from the General Assembly last year, asking the court to
05:25weigh in after Israel blocked UNRWA from operating on its territory. The Palestinian ambassador to the
05:31Netherlands told the court that Israel is killing and displacing civilians and targeting aid workers
05:37in Gaza. Israel denies this and did not attend the hearing.
05:41It is another attempt to politicize and abuse the legal process in order to persecute Israel. The goal
05:52is to deprive Israel of its most basic right to defend itself. It is not Israel that should be
05:59on trial. It is the UN and UNRWA. The UN has become a rotten, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic body.
06:11Israel has accused UNRWA of being infiltrated by Hamas, a claim the aid group denies.
06:17The hearings began as Gaza's humanitarian aid system is nearing collapse after Israel blocked all entry of
06:24food, medicine and other supplies. Experts say the court's decision could impact international
06:30pressure on Israel to ease its restrictions, although it remains unclear whether it will have an effect,
06:36being not legally binding.
06:41Catholic cardinals have set the 7th of May as a start date for the conclave to elect Pope Francis'
06:47successor, delaying the secret vote by two days. Monday's informal meeting to set the date follows
06:53the death of Pope Francis, whose funeral was held on Saturday. According to the Vatican, the date was
06:59agreed to give time for the cardinals to get to know each other and find a consensus on a candidate
07:06before they are sequestered in the Sistine Chapel. The closed-door meeting will start inside the chapel
07:12and will involve some 135 cardinals from across the world. Although there is no set time frame for
07:20choosing the next Pope, the two conclaves that took place in 2005 and 2013 only lasted two days.
07:28Many cardinals have cited the desire to continue Pope Francis' pastoral focus
07:33on people who are marginalised and against war.
07:42We have officially entered the Novendiales, a nine-day period of mourning. Each day, one of the cardinals
07:48celebrates a Mass for the late Pope, attended by a different group each day based on their connection to
07:54the Holy Father. But while this is a time of mourning, cardinals prepare for the conclave. But what exactly
08:01does that involve? And what should we expect in the coming days?
08:05The Novendiales are the Masses that are offered to the Big and in which, as happened yesterday for Parolin,
08:12the Big manifest their thoughts implicitly in a electoral campaign. Then there are the General Congresses
08:18where every cardinal goes for a short time, close to the microphone, and tells the others how the Church would see.
08:26There is someone who does it as a big election, pushing towards the candidate of someone, and there is someone who does it as self-candidate.
08:35There is someone who does it as self-candidate. There is someone who does it as self-candidate,
08:37but then, as it is interpreted, it happened to Bergoglio, who said the famous quote,
08:42Sogna a Church that comes from itself and was immediately plebiscitated from there.
08:48Meanwhile, preparations are on the way in the Sistine Chapel where the conclave will take place.
08:53On Sunday, a Mass was held by Cardinal Parolin, and another one is held on Monday at 5 p.m.
09:03Giorgio Orlandi for Euronews, in the Vatican.
09:14More than 100 billion euros a year. That's the cost of work-related depression in the European Union,
09:20according to a study published on Monday by the European Trade Union Institute.
09:25The think tank identifies five psychological risks at the root of this mental illness – stress at work,
09:31long working hours, job insecurity, imbalance between effort and reward, and moral harassment.
09:37These risks can have tragic consequences according to available data dating back to 2015.
09:43We estimated that the death toll again in 2015 for the whole EU 28 countries was approximately
09:596,000 of coronary heart diseases, which were attributable to psychosocial risks exposure,
10:05and over 5,000 deaths due to suicide caused by depression, attributable to five different factors, psychosocial risk factors.
10:21In the same year, more than 400,000 lives were lost due to cardiovascular disease
10:26and depression caused by these work-related psychosocial risks, according to the report.
10:31Deaths that could be avoided, the study's authors say.
10:36France, Belgium, Finland, Ireland, and the Netherlands are the five most affected countries
10:41in terms of cost per 100,000 workers, a cost passed onto society.
10:47So for both diseases, we found that the
10:50highest burden was for employees, but also for employers.
10:55In particular, with the costs of depression, we see that we can estimate that over 80% of the total cost
11:08of depression attributable to psychosocial risks at work in 2015 in Europe,
11:15it was paid by employers due to lack of productivity and decrease in productivity
11:21caused by sickness, absence, and presentism.
11:27Sometimes employees are indeed present at work, but ill or exhausted and therefore underperforming,
11:32which ultimately costs the company.
11:34The European Trade Union Institute therefore calls on the European Commission
11:38to present a text to prevent these psychosocial risks, a text which should also guide employers.
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