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00:00European Council President António Kosta said Serbia is fully committed to its EU accession path,
00:08despite the President Aleksandr Vucic's trip to Moscow last week.
00:13Kosta met with Vucic in Belgrade and criticized the visit to Russia's Victory Day events,
00:19mentioning the need to reaffirm alignment with European foreign and security policy.
00:24A lot of people asked me to don't come, but I decided to come.
00:30Because if we have a problem with Serbia, if we have a problem with the President Vucic,
00:35the solution is not to come, is not to talk with the President Vucic,
00:40it's to come, to have a talk, to explain the different point of views,
00:49and now we can reaffirm, and it's very important to hear from him,
00:54publicly reaffirm that he's fully committed with the European Union and with the European Union and with the session path.
01:06Vucic has been under significant pressure in Serbia following six months of student-led anti-corruption protests.
01:12He's been criticized for maintaining close relations with Russia and China,
01:17while formally saying he wants Serbia to join the EU.
01:21Some of the students are in Brussels to voice their concerns to European Parliament lawmakers,
01:26as well as the enlargement commissioner, Marta Koss, and youth commissioner, Glenn Mikalev.
01:30We've talked about the situation that has happened in Serbia for six months,
01:35about how institutions don't work on their job, and how the media is struggling with this situation.
01:41They supported us, against us, and that's it.
01:47There's been some interesting topics that we've talked about, but we haven't talked about it.
01:51While the president of the European Council, Antonio Kosta, is in Belgrade,
01:56discussing the challenges on Serbia's path to the EU with the Serbia's president,
02:02the real challenge for Aleksandar Vucic is here, in Brussels.
02:05Students who run from Serbia to Brussels to draw attention to issues of corruption and the rule of law
02:11are meeting with members of the European Parliament, as well as with two commissioners.
02:16Earlier, enlargement commissioner Marta Koss stated that the demands of the Serbian students
02:23are essentially the same as what the European Union is asking of Serbia.
02:31The United Nations Aviation Agency has found Russia guilty of downing Malaysia Airlines Flight 17
02:38while it flew over Ukraine in July 2014.
02:41The commercial plane was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur.
02:45All 298 people on board the flight were killed.
02:50A Dutch-led international investigation concluded in 2016
02:54that the aircraft was shot down with a Buk missile system delivered from Russia.
02:59The UN's case against Russia was launched by the Netherlands and Australia in 2022,
03:05and now they have welcomed the verdict.
03:07Moscow has repeatedly denied downing the plane
03:11and has offered a variety of other theories of what could have happened.
03:15However, an abundance of evidence and numerous international investigations
03:19have formed a detailed picture of the events leading up to the plane crash.
03:23A Bulgarian man who was found to be the ringleader of a Russian spy circle dubbed the Minions
03:34was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison.
03:37The 47-year-old Orlean Rousseff, who led a group of five other Bulgarians
03:42that carried out operations on behalf of Russian intelligence,
03:45was the first of the five to be sentenced.
03:47I acknowledge that you were the first to notify a plea of guilty and others then followed.
03:55That is deserving of further credit.
03:58I also appreciate that this was a complex case
04:00and that your plea considerably simplified, shortened and concentrated the trial which followed.
04:07The result is a sentence in your case of 10 years and 8 months imprisonment.
04:13The group were based in England and targeted reporters, diplomats and Ukrainian troops.
04:19They also discussed kidnapping or killing Kremlin opponents.
04:24U.S. President Donald Trump landed in Riyadh to kick off his Gulf tour
04:28with a delegation that includes Tesla CEO and advisor Elon Musk.
04:32Business deals and regional security are at the top of the agenda.
04:36Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greeted Trump as he stepped off Air Force One
04:40and the two leaders are attending the Saudi U.S. Investment Forum on Tuesday.
04:45Earlier this year, Saudi Arabia pledged a $600 billion investment
04:49which President Trump has said he would like to boost to $1 trillion.
04:53He'll join a summit of Gulf leaders in Riyadh before traveling to Doha.
04:57The visit to Qatar is the first by a sitting president since 2003
05:00and is a strong demonstration of the bilateral relationship between the two countries.
05:05President Trump has hailed Qatar's mediation efforts in Lebanon, Afghanistan and North Africa
05:10as examples of the country's key diplomatic role in regional stability.
05:15President Trump's final stop on the tour concludes in Abu Dhabi in the UAE
05:18where he would have hoped to secure major financial deals and regional security agreements
05:23with the three strategic allies in the Middle East before returning to Washington.
05:27Adil Halim, Euronews, Doha.
05:30The U.S. and China agreed on a temporary tariff suspension on Monday after talks in Geneva
05:37aimed at de-escalating the trade dispute between the two countries.
05:41Starting Wednesday, 14th of May, U.S. tariffs on China will fall to 30 percent
05:45while U.S. goods exported to China will be subject to duties of 10 percent for 90 days.
05:52U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said the two sides seek more balanced trade
05:57while neither wants an embargo or decoupling.
05:59The consensus from both delegations this weekend is neither side wants a decoupling.
06:08And what had occurred with these very high tariffs, as Ambassador Greer said,
06:15was the equivalent of an embargo and neither side wants that.
06:21We do want trade. We want more balanced trade.
06:26And I think that both sides are committed to achieving that.
06:31We would like to see China open to more U.S. goods.
06:37Future talks will involve Besant, Trade Representative Jemisin Greer,
06:42and Chinese Vice Premier Furley Fung.
06:44The deal eases tensions following a series of tariff hikes announcements by U.S. President Donald Trump in April.
06:50Analysts said the truce was better than what they expected and a significant de-escalation likely to boost trade.
06:57We're going to deal with China.
06:58Previous high tariffs had already begun to impact bilateral trade between the two countries,
07:03which last year topped 595 billion euros.
07:08While U.S. consumers and factories rely on China,
07:11the trade war still prompted an IMF downgrade of Chinese economy last month.
07:15While this temporary pause offers relief, underlying U.S.-China economic tensions remain.
07:21Hi, I'm Stefan Grobe.
07:27I want to talk to you about Donald Trump's trade war with Europe.
07:30Yes, again.
07:32You know that the European Union is scrambling to find something,
07:36anything, to throw at him in future negotiations.
07:39Something that can sway him, that can change his mind.
07:43Because, as you know, so far he doesn't budge.
07:46So here's my idea.
07:49Let's give him something that he desperately wants and that Europe could offer him.
07:54And that is prison space.
07:57Yes, you heard that right.
07:59Remember that mega prison in El Salvador where he deported hundreds of undocumented migrants?
08:04Now that prison is becoming too small for Trump's vision
08:07because he wants to incarcerate U.S. criminals there as well.
08:12Really, really bad people, as he told the Salvadorian president.
08:15So, domestic criminals in foreign jails?
08:19Is that even legally possible?
08:21Well, we're looking into that, Trump said.
08:24Apparently, that legal research hasn't brought any clear answer yet
08:28because Trump was then looking at rebuilding Alcatraz.
08:32Remember Alcatraz?
08:34Burt Lancaster?
08:35Clint Eastwood?
08:36Yes, that famous prison island in San Francisco Bay.
08:40In other words, he needs more prison space.
08:43And here's where the EU comes in.
08:46Because if it's island prisons Trump is looking for, Europe has plenty to offer.
08:53I know of three.
08:54Let's start with the Chateau d'If of the coast of Marseille.
08:59You know the Count of Monte Cristo and all that?
09:01It would need some serious patching up, but it's pretty safe.
09:05And Trump would need to deal with his pal Emmanuel Macron
09:08and not with Brussels bureaucrats or the obnoxious Germans.
09:12Then there is Devil's Island, also French,
09:15but off the coast of French Guayana in South America, closer to Trump.
09:20Remember, Henri Charrier wrote the best-selling novel Papillon
09:23about his successful escape from there.
09:26Devil's Island would also need some serious rebuilding, but it's okay.
09:30Trump is saving a lot of money right now.
09:33And finally, a place called Guli Otok, also a former prison island off the coast of Croatia.
09:40It used to be a prison camp under Tito, but today it's in ruins, a little like Alcatraz.
09:47Guli Otok means barren island, because it's completely devoid of vegetation.
09:52You get the idea.
09:54So, if this prisons for tariffs pitch fails,
09:58Europe could point Trump to the criminal justice system in the Netherlands,
10:01where the prison population shrank drastically over the past 20 years.
10:06Why?
10:07Largely because of rehabilitation efforts.
10:10Some empty prisons have even been repurposed as hotels.
10:14And this might appeal to the real estate mogul in Trump.
10:18Thanks for watching. See you soon.
10:25I'm Roman, and I'm 10 years old.
10:29I like dance and play accordion.
10:33Now I live in Ukraine, in my house.
10:37My dad goes with me to therapy.
10:48He's showing such a resilience to, yeah, withstand the circumstances he suffered.
11:04The loss of his mother, the heavy injuries, and the circumstances of war.
11:08And this shows me the impact, the life-saving impact of Marivak.
11:13It's really helping me to try and cure dürfen.
11:15Every time you live in India, because there's only a lot to compete with him.
11:17So, what about me?
11:18You have to stop and push my life again,
11:18watch my job again and think about something it's alright.
11:19So it's just not to stop, you need to go further by your direction and think about it well.