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00:01Iranians rallied in the streets of Tehran after a call by the exiled crown prince, leading to nationwide internet and phone outages.
00:10French President Emmanuel Macron accuses the U.S. of breaking free from international rules and gradually turning away from some of its allies.
00:21Almost 200 new plants and fungi were named new to science last year.
00:30Iranians rallied in the streets of the capital Tehran Thursday night, after a call by the country's exiled crown prince for a mass demonstration.
00:41Internet access and telephone lines in Iran cut out immediately after, in a new escalation of the protests that have spread nationwide across the Islamic Republic.
00:51Cloudflare, an internet firm, and the advocacy group NetBlox reported the internet outage, both attributing it to Iranian government interference.
01:00And, of course, it is important that the people of the community have made it more than you, and it is important for you to take care of it.
01:08It is important that you can take care of it and take care of it.
01:12The protest represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be
01:42swayed by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled Iran just before the
01:471979 Islamic Revolution. Iranian officials appeared to be taking the planned protest
01:53seriously. The hardline Qaihan newspaper published a video online claiming security
01:59forces would use drones to identify those taking part.
02:05French President Emmanuel Macron has accused the U.S. of breaking free from international
02:10rules and gradually turning away from some of its allies amid a geopolitical world changing
02:17for the worse. In his annual address to French ambassadors, Macron explained...
02:22Macron's comments come after a string of an international rule that was promoted to the
02:29world.
02:29Macron's comments come after a string of strongly worded statements by the Trump administration,
02:36which have alarmed many of Washington's staunchest allies. Chief among them is U.S. President
02:43Donald Trump's escalating rhetoric regarding the annexation of Greenland, the world's largest
02:52island and part of the kingdom of Denmark. Trump has long flowed to the United States
02:54and the United States.
02:55Macron's comments come after a string of strongly worded statements by the Trump administration,
02:57which have alarmed many of Washington's staunchest allies. Chief among them is U.S. President Donald
03:02Trump's escalating rhetoric regarding the annexation of Greenland, the world's largest island and part of the
03:10Kingdom of Denmark. Trump has long floated the idea of purchasing the island, which lies mostly in the
03:17Arctic Circle, citing its strategic location and saying it was vital for U.S. national security.
03:24U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order suspending Washington's
03:31participation in dozens of U.N. agencies, commissions and advisory panels focused on
03:38climate, labor, migration and other issues his administration describes as promoting
03:44so-called work initiatives. This means the U.S. will withdraw from 66 international organizations,
03:53including the U.N. Climate Treaty Framework, marking the most extensive retreat from global cooperation
04:00in U.S. modern history. According to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the institutions were
04:07redundant in their scope, mismanaged, wasteful and poorly run. Rubio also described the agency's
04:14interest as a threat to U.S. sovereignty. The withdrawal leaves the U.S. as the only country
04:21outside the global climate framework. It also comes as Trump rattles allies and adversaries with military
04:28actions. Trump, who calls climate change a hoax, withdrew from the Paris Agreement shortly after
04:34returning to the White House.
04:42Protests erupted in Minneapolis on Thursday after the killing of a woman by a federal immigration
04:48officer taking part in the Trump administration's latest crackdown. 37-year-old Renee Good was shot at
04:55point-blank range as she apparently tried to drive away from agents that had approached her car.
05:01Protesters demanded that ICE leave the city, a call echoed by Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey and
05:07Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem doubled down on the Trump
05:13administration's statement the ICE officer acted in self-defense, a claim disputed by Minneapolis
05:20officials and undermined by video footage captured of the incident. Waltz demanded that Minnesota
05:26authorities be allowed to take part in the investigation after they said they had been
05:30barred from participating. Yes, I saw the video. Yes, I saw that. But a thorough investigation will see
05:37what happened before that. It will take all factors in and it will come up with a fair and just conclusion.
05:43And we will accept that. Very, very difficult for Minnesotans to think in any way this is going to
05:50be fair when Kristi Noem was judge, jury and basically executioner yesterday. That's very,
05:55very difficult to think that they were going to be fair. Noem said the FBI would investigate
06:00claiming the state had no jurisdiction. The French researcher Laurent Vinatier is back in France
06:09after being imprisoned in Russia since June 2024. This release is the result of a prisoner exchange
06:15with a Russian basketball player. Daniel Kesetkin was the subject of an American arrest warrant. He was
06:22arrested at a Paris airport. The Russian player was suspected of having been involved in ransomware
06:28attacks on some 900 companies, including two U.S. federal institutions. Our compatriot Laurent Vinatier is
06:35free. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, announced on X, stating that the researcher
06:40was already on French soil. The head of state expressed his gratitude to our diplomatic agents
06:45for their mobilization. Laurent Vinatier, a researcher specializing in the former Soviet bloc,
06:51was arrested while he was working for the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue. The Swiss NGO mediates in
06:57conflicts outside official diplomatic channels, particularly in Ukraine. Laurent Vinatier was accused of not
07:03having registered as a foreign agent. He was sentenced to three years in prison. Last August, the Moscow
07:10court opened new proceedings, this time for espionage, a charge punishable by 20 years imprisonment.
07:21The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the president of the European
07:26Council, Antonio Kosta, have traveled to Amman to deepen ties with Jordan and to pledge additional
07:32financial support to the country they see as a cornerstone of regional stability. Talks with
07:37King Abdullah II focused on the course of the Syrian political transition and on Gaza as the EU ambitions
07:43to play a bigger role as a stabilizing force in the region. The situation in the Middle East, in particular in
07:49Gaza and the West Bank, have been at the heart of our regular exchanges, also here today. Together with Jordan and other
07:59partners, the European Union, has offered to support new Palestinian internal security forces to restore
08:06border and governance in Gaza. Brussels also wants to deepen cooperation with Jordan and migration with
08:13a focus on Sayan's returning home. The EU has already pledged a 3 billion euros package to support Jordan in
08:20areas such as defence and migration. In addition, an investment conference has been announced for April.
08:30Belgium Migration Minister Anne-Léme Van Bossert has told Euronews that the EU should use development
08:36aid as a strategic tool to increase migrant returns. Belgium is already implementing this tit-for-tat approach.
08:43When in discussion with third countries, it ties funding, as well as visa policies, to cooperation on
08:50migration policy. Belgium justifies this because many irregular migrants ignore orders to leave.
08:56Only one in five people who have to return to their home country returns. So what do we do at national level?
09:04We have decided that we will have a whole-of-government approach. So what do we mean by that? It's that we will
09:11relate development aid with the way in which the countries of origin take back their nationals.
09:18So they have to take back in order to receive development aid? For example, indeed, also visa policy
09:24can be linked to it. Van Bossert believes, however, that to increase the impact of such moves,
09:30European support is vital. As part of its proposals for the EU's 2028-2034 budget,
09:37the Commission wants to make development aid conditional on recipient countries cooperating
09:43with Brussels' migration policies, including by accepting people ordered to return.
09:48I'm convinced of the fact that if we would do that at European level, we have much more leverage
09:56towards the countries of origin to use. And that's why we really need this European cooperation.
10:03And do you see political appetite amongst your European counterparts for this?
10:07Of course, we see that the spirits are changing also at the European level.
10:13The approach has been criticized as undermining development goals. Policy experts and NGOs point
10:18out that this very aid helps reduce migration by improving the quality of life in countries of origin,
10:25and warned that the move could damage the EU's credibility in regions where Russia and China have
10:31gained an important foothold. Almost 200 new plants and fungi were named new to science last year.
10:41Conservationists warned that many are already threatened with extinction. The Royal Botanic Gardens
10:47in London has revealed its top 10 species that were described in 2025. A killer fungus found in the
10:55Atlantic rainforest of Brazil has become quite popular because of the series The Last of Us,
11:00in which a fungus turns humans into zombies, this researcher says.
11:04It's just that in nature, in real life, this fungus has the capacity of infecting insects and
11:10basically controlling their nervous system and then effectively making them zombies, right? So this
11:16new species we found, as it happens, it parasitizes spiders, what we call trapdoor spiders.
11:21This new species found in Ecuador, known as blood-stained orchids, is remarkable for its way of achieving
11:28pollination and reproduction. This flower imitates a female fly, so it makes the male fly think that it's a
11:36female and then the fly comes and copulates with it. Other species that made it to the top 10 include
11:42the fire demon flower, a critically endangered snowdrop and the caterpillar orchids.
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