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0:05 Thousands of flights were cancelled and
0:07 thousands more delayed on Friday and
0:09 Saturday after a telecommunications
0:11 outage caused a nationwide ground stop
0:14 across all US airports.
0:17 Shortly before 400 p p.m. Eastern time
0:20 on Friday, the US Federal Aviation
0:22 Administration ordered all flights to be
0:25 grounded across the US, citing
0:27 telecommunications issues. Tens of
0:30 thousands of passengers were left
0:32 stranded at airports and on the tarmac
0:34 with little information on the reasons
0:36 for the ground stop. More than 6,600
0:40 flights were cancelled and over 10,000s
0:42 were delayed. The airspace was
0:45 eventually reopened more than 4 hours
0:47 later at approximately a4 800 p.m.
0:52 Speaking at the White House on Friday,
0:54 US Transportation Secretary Shan Duffy
0:57 said overloaded routters in the
0:59 country's aging air traffic control
1:02 system had generated inconsistent data,
1:04 prompting officials to shut down the
1:06 system as a precaution. However, Duffy
1:09 warned that it would take time for
1:12 airlines to clear the backlog and to
1:14 restore normal operations following the
1:16 widespread disruption. Homeland Security
1:19 Secretary told reporters there was no
1:22 indication that the incident had been
1:24 triggered by a national security threat.
1:33 The US President Donald Trump will meet
1:35 with his Russian and Chinese
1:37 counterparts Vladimir Putin and Xi
1:39 Jinping for a historic trilateral
1:41 meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming
1:43 APEC summit in Shenzhen, China. The
1:46 White House confirmed on Friday.
1:49 According to White House officials, the
1:51 summit will focus primarily on nuclear
1:53 non-prololiferation.
1:55 Although it is unclear whether China and
1:57 Russia want to engage in a conversation
1:59 about arms reduction, Trump is also
2:01 reportedly planning to discuss the war
2:03 in Iran, but not the war in Ukraine.
2:06 Several US media outlets have reported.
2:08 The Kremlin, meanwhile, maintains that
2:10 further talks on Ukraine will continue
2:12 at APE, drawing protests from Kiev and
2:15 its allies who will not be represented
2:17 at the summit. The trilateral meeting is
2:20 scheduled for Thursday, November 19th.
2:22 It will be the first time Putin, she and
2:24 Trump convene together.
2:28 >> Europe is now facing two major
2:30 challenges. Shaping its future security
2:32 architecture alongside the US and
2:35 securing continued EU funding for
2:37 Ukraine. The E5 nations, France,
2:40 Germany, Italy, Poland, and the UK,
2:43 alongside EU Commission and Council
2:45 representatives are now set to take part
2:47 in the next round of Ukraine peace
2:51 Two days of summits here in Dublin have
2:53 concluded with Europe finally settling
2:55 who will represent the continent at the
2:57 Ukrainian peace talks. It's going to be
2:59 five countries. Poland, France, Germany,
3:01 the United Kingdom, and Italy joined by
3:04 EU institutions. Now, that
3:05 decision-making process took almost 2
3:08 years. But even after it has concluded,
3:10 not all leaders are entirely convinced
3:12 that Russia is ready to step up to the
3:15 negotiating table. I talked to the prime
3:17 minister of LA Kulber who told me that
3:19 he believes this discussion is largely
3:23 >> If there is no real peace talks then it
3:26 doesn't really matter what type of
3:28 representation we're doing. If there is
3:30 no outcome out of it I mean look at look
3:33 at the states is by being represented by
3:36 people which are not even elected and
3:40 u they're businessmen not even
3:42 diplomats. He also told me he was
3:44 disappointed the summit didn't pay more
3:46 attention to the other big fight in the
3:47 room, money. While Russia stalls by
3:50 setting out maximalist demands, Ukraine
3:52 faces a 70 billion euro funding gap next
3:55 year. Germany's Chancellor Fedri wants
3:57 to close that gap by force. He is
3:59 threatening to block the use next
4:00 seven-year budget unless all 27 member
4:03 states help fund Kiev. Ursula Vanderline
4:05 said on Thursday that she intends to put
4:08 a new proposal for financing Ukraine by
4:10 the end of the month. But divisions run
4:13 deep. Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech
4:15 Republic and Bulgaria have all said that
4:17 they will not be taking out any more
4:18 loans for Ukraine and are calling Mr.
4:21 Gambit blackmail. Now, as the EU leaders
4:24 prepare to head into yet another summit,
4:26 this time in Brussels by the end of this
4:28 month, time for Ukraine is running out
4:30 as it heads into another brutal winter
4:32 of Russian aggression. from Dublin for
4:35 TVP World La Hazanov.
4:38 >> Russian attacks on Ukraine energy
4:40 infrastructure continue as winter draws
4:43 near, threatening the availability of
4:45 electricity and heating for the local
4:47 population. Workers of DTEK, Ukraine's
4:50 largest private energy company,
4:52 witnessed some of the recent destruction
4:57 >> A torn apart roof and walls and
4:59 equipment buried under debris. These are
5:01 the results of a recent ballistic and
5:03 cruise missile strike that hit a DTEK
5:05 power plant. Employees seek to mitigate
5:07 the devastation, but it is not an easy
5:11 >> Right now, everyone has shovels and
5:13 wheelbarls as we try to reach the
5:16 >> Apart from the planning and physical
5:18 work required to mend broken equipment,
5:20 workers know the psychological and
5:21 emotional toll of working at a power
5:25 The main thing is to get to it, assess
5:27 its condition, and only then make plans
5:29 for repairs and restoration.
5:32 >> DTEK CEO Maxim Dimchenko notes that
5:35 while attacks on energy infrastructure
5:37 are not new, their intensity and scale
5:39 has marketkedly increased in comparison
5:41 to last year, adding that at present, it
5:43 is not power generation, but
5:44 transmission that presents the biggest
5:47 >> It's difficult to say. It's hard to live
5:49 through all this when you know the
5:50 missiles are coming specifically for you
5:53 and that you are a target and that you
5:55 have to withstand the blow. You go
5:58 >> The company said since the full-scale
6:00 Russian invasion in 2022, energy workers
6:02 have restored and restarted plants from
6:04 scratch more than 70 times. The
6:06 approaching winter, according to
6:08 analysts, could be more difficult than
6:09 in previous years amid the intensifying
6:14 As Russia escalates its pressure on
6:17 Ukraine, the latter's westward shift is
6:19 gathering pace with reform efforts amid
6:21 EU accession negotiations yielding
6:24 results. My chief Yulovski has more in
6:27 this report from the Rebuild Ukraine
6:29 conference in Warsaw.
6:32 For Ukraine, 2022 didn't just mark the
6:35 start of Russia's full-scale invasion,
6:37 but also of the country's candidacy for
6:39 EU membership. Formal accession
6:41 negotiations took off two years later
6:43 and ever since with the help of
6:45 institutions like the European Bank for
6:47 Reconstruction and Development the
6:49 country has made tangible progress in
6:51 instituting reforms.
6:53 >> I think Ukraine has done a lot of
6:55 progress in the reforms and I think the
6:57 latest quite recently published
6:59 enlargement report is proof of that. I
7:02 can say that EB has also helped Ukraine
7:06 to deliver on many of the EU accession
7:08 reforms. So we are running a program
7:11 where we have more than 300 advisers
7:13 supporting the government of Ukraine in
7:16 delivering those reforms. While
7:18 accession negotiations yield results,
7:20 Russia is stepping up its attacks on
7:22 Ukrainian cities and critical
7:24 infrastructure from energy facilities to
7:26 the country's water supply. The latter
7:28 resulting in the most severe water
7:30 shortages since the start of the
7:31 full-scale invasion. Overall, the
7:34 situation is getting dire, especially as
7:37 we're moving into the more colder winter
7:39 season. The recent attacks have hit
7:41 several critical infrastructure hard.
7:44 Water is water infrastructure is among
7:47 them. And it will be very important to
7:49 sustain and make sure that uh that water
7:52 supply especially to low-income
7:54 vulnerable households on the front lines
7:56 can be sustained over this coming winter
7:59 period. Despite the escalation of
8:01 attacks ahead of what's expected to be
8:03 an especially difficult winter,
8:05 institutions like the EBRD are not
8:07 scaling back their investments.
8:09 >> So we are certainly not scaling down. We
8:11 are doing the opposite. We are scaling
8:12 up. Whenever there's a need for EBD to
8:15 step in, we are there. Ukraine is our
8:18 top institutional priority on both on
8:21 reforms on on policy advice, but also on
8:24 investment. So this year alone, we have
8:26 already done more than two billion of
8:29 >> And funds such as these provide Ukraine
8:31 with a critical lifeline amid what is
8:33 now nearly a 5-year long war with no end
8:36 in sight. Reporting from the Rebuild
8:38 Ukraine conference in Warsaw, I'm
8:40 Machovki for TBP World.
8:43 >> Now Microsoft says its consumer services
8:46 have been fully restored following a
8:48 major global outage which disrupted
8:51 access to key digital tools. However,
8:54 some services for business customers are
9:00 The company announced on Saturday that
9:02 services, including Outlook, Teams, and
9:03 Copilot, were restored late Friday
9:05 afternoon. Microsoft said the incident
9:09 was caused by an overload in the process
9:11 responsible for establishing secure
9:13 connections on its servers, ruling out a
9:16 cyber attack or malicious interference
9:19 by artificial intelligence agents. While
9:21 consumer services are back online, the
9:24 restoration of some Microsoft 365
9:26 enterprise services is ongoing. The
9:29 company is monitoring the backlog of
9:31 emails that accumulated during the
9:33 disruption and says it will continue to
9:36 monitor its systems to ensure that
9:38 services remain stable. The outage,
9:41 which affected users across 74
9:43 countries, disrupted access to email and
9:46 Microsoft Office tools, potentially
9:48 impacting more than 430 million people.
9:56 Now, Poland has scored a major
9:58 diplomatic victory at the United
10:00 Nations, edging out Russia by just one
10:02 vote to secure a seat on a key UN
10:05 oversight body for the first time in 60
10:07 years. The win follows a concerted
10:10 diplomatic campaign backed by support
10:12 from fellow EU nations. Polish UN
10:15 official Jakobski will now represent
10:17 Eastern Europe on the joint inspection
10:19 unit serving a 4-year term from 2028 to
10:24 2032. Julie Abdullah brings us the
10:30 >> A seat Russia held for nearly six
10:32 decades is now going to Poland. For the
10:35 first time since the position was
10:36 created, Moscow will no longer be
10:39 represented on the UN's joint inspection
10:41 unit. Warsaw is stepping in, returning
10:44 to the body for the first time since
10:47 >> We are grateful for support of 95 member
10:49 states during the vote in the general
10:51 assembly. We will continue to strive
10:53 towards efficiency and transparency of
10:56 >> Poland has repeatedly taken a firm
10:58 stance against Russia's aggression
11:00 against Ukraine, including at this
11:02 year's UN General Assembly. Now that
11:04 position has also been reflected in a
11:06 vote that reshapes representation within
11:08 the United Nations.
11:09 >> Tell your boss enough is enough.
11:13 >> Poland will be represented on the body
11:15 by Yakubki. But the vote signals
11:17 something bigger. A shift in diplomatic
11:20 influence with Poland gaining ground as
11:23 Russia loses its grip on Eastern
11:25 Europe's representation.
11:26 >> Russia is losing its importance. Um and
11:30 Poland can uh with a lot of effort be
11:34 able to undermine its influence in the
11:36 Eastern and Western Europe and be seen
11:38 as a representative of the region. Uh
11:43 >> the JIU is the UN's only independent
11:46 external oversight body with a mandate
11:49 to inspect, evaluate, and investigate
11:51 the work of the organization across its
11:54 various agencies and systems. It has a
11:57 certain reporting and advisory powers
12:03 when it comes to reporting about how the
12:05 UN as an organization is uh actually
12:09 working. For Warsaw, the vote marks a
12:13 return to a position on one of the
12:14 United Nations key oversight bodies and
12:17 a shift in the balance of representation
12:19 within the Eastern European group and
12:22 the entire organization.
12:25 At the zoo in the Polish city of
12:27 Pausnan, a seven-month-old kangaroo has
12:30 lost its mother and keepers have stepped
12:32 in to raise it by hand. The next few
12:35 weeks will be critical, but staff are
12:37 not giving up hope.
12:45 >> Her because we'd already know it's her.
12:47 Because you can clearly see the fold of
12:49 the skin on the belly, which is the
12:51 pouch that marsupials get their name
12:53 from. At 7 months, a young kangaroo is a
12:55 bit independent. Of course, not
12:57 completely because it still stays in its
12:59 mother's pouch, but it's already
13:01 sticking its head out. And this is a
13:02 moment when the chances of raising a
13:04 kangaroo with a bottle are a bit higher,
13:06 though still not 100%.
13:08 Feeding every 3 hours around the clock,
13:11 these challenges are no different from
13:12 the challenges faced by the mothers of
13:14 other mammals. In kangaroos, having
13:16 joeies in pouches is like a form of
13:18 external pregnancy. Kangaroos are born
13:21 after a very short pregnancy and do not
13:23 develop a placenta.
13:28 Our little kangaroo lives in a cotton
13:30 pouch. It's hanging up. The idea is to
13:32 make it as near as possible to its
13:34 natural conditions when it grows up in
13:38 The chances are really quite good, and
13:40 we hope the caregivers of the baby will
13:42 succeed. But it really requires a lot of
13:44 work and care from them. All mothers
13:46 know this is that that kind of care 24
13:48 hours a day, seven days a week.
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