Notices by Vittoria Pirone 🇪🇺 (vittoria@mastodon.social)

When he was Ukraine’s president, Petro #Poroshenko says he knew how to get along with Donald Trump. The leader of the opposition European Solidarity party tells François Picard about how to handle the new administration in Washington and confirms that he’s ready when the time comes to throw his hat in the ring for a return to power. But it's not time for elections, he explains.
#Ukraine #Russia #war #NATO #Trump #Zelensky #Putin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDoduz4Qnt8

Weeks before Germany's elections, a heated immigration debate inflamed by a deadly knife attack sparked a political earthquake Wednesday when conservative parties for the first time cooperated with the far-right AfD. Sophie Pornschlegel, Deputy Director at Europe Jacques Delors, says that the move is "bad news for democracy in Germany", as it will hinder the formation of a solid working coalition in the upcoming general election.
#Germany #politics #immigration #AfD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNFKU9vT07w

TikTok plans to shut U.S. operations of its social media app used by 170 million Americans on Sunday, when a federal ban is set to take effect, barring a last-minute reprieve, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Nadine Strossen, New York Law School Professor-Emerita and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, says that it is 'nonsensical' for the US to single out one single social media app.
#TikTok #politics #SCOTUS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ToH5qsnPZs

Ladies and gentlemen, the faces of modern-day McCarthyism...

Trump says Stallone, Gibson and Voight will be his “eyes and ears” in Hollywood

https://variety.com/2025/film/news/trump-sylvester-stallone-mel-gibson-jon-voight-ambassadors-hollywood-1236276088/

#Trump #Hollywood

Some crew members of France's atomic-armed submarines publicly shared workouts via the Strava app, inadvertently disclosing sensitive patrol schedule information. FRANCE 24's Vedika Bahl reports.
#France #Strava #submarine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS9JqC8INwU

At Al Aqsa Martyrs hospital, medical professionals continue as best they can to provide life-saving care. Among them, Doctor Al Saidni, a paediatrician. But his job is getting harder and harder - as children suffer from the injuries of war and the illnesses of degraded living conditions, and after he himself has had to adapt to being an amputee in the early months of Israeli bombing.
#Gaza #Israel #Palestinians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNqZTfmDrx4

Frenchwoman Gisele Pelicot, who survived a decade of sexual abuse by her husband and dozens of strangers, said she hoped her ordeal would help make the world a better place for "women and men alike" as her former spouse was jailed for 20 years. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to feminist writer Cécile Simmons, a researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
#France #Mazan #rape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1TXzndkioc

Sales of the synthetic drug #Captagon were used as a source of funding for the brutal regime, making Syria its largest producer. Among the secrets uncovered by rebel fighters since Assad fled the country, large-scale illegal drug factories housed in villas on the outskirts of Damascus. FRANCE 24's Emily Boyle reports.
#Assad #Syria #drugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-TUmNCV6N4

Syria's new prime minister said the Islamist-led alliance that ousted president Bashar al-Assad will guarantee the rights of all religious groups and called on the millions who fled the war to return home. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Ciarán Donnelly is Senior Vice President of International Programmes at the International Rescue Committee. He says that this is a moment of real opportunity but also of real danger for Syrians.
#Syria #Assad #refugees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0ZXu2VM1wM

First time since 1962 that a #French government is toppled by #parliament a no-confidence vote

#France #Barnier #Macron

Syrian rebel forces arrived at the gates of the key city of #Hama on Tuesday, as their fighting with the military sparked "a large wave of displacement". We speak to Aaron Y. Zelin, Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He says that rebels under the #HTS group have undertaken the 'professionalization' of their military and aiming to recreate a conservative islamist proto-state, rather than focusing on global jihad.
#Assad #Syria
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8NOAS148Co

According to Unicef, every three seconds, a girl child is forced into marriage. Robbing children of agency and bodily autonomy, the practice also undermines their emotional, sexual and reproductive health. Dr Faith Mwangi-Powell, CEO of Girls Not Brides, stresses the need to safeguard girls' education, whose absence often leads to child marriage.
#ChildBrides #ChildMarriages #HumanRights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFlT85qDwLM

French prosecutors demanded Wednesday that far-right leader Marine Le Pen receive a jail sentence and be banned from public office for five years over charges she embezzled European Parliament funds. FRANCE 24's Shirli Sitbon reports.
#France #LePen #FarRight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K89tMWfFIR4

One of the stark realities highlighted at the latest UN General Assembly was the underrepresentation of women leaders. Out of 193 countries, only 20 women addressed the General Assembly, an unsettling statistic in an era where gender parity is a global priority. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks to Susana Malcorra, President & co-Founder of GWL Voices
#equality #women
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20241111-after-80-years-things-can-be-done-differently-female-un-leadership-advocate-says

via Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court denied on Tuesday a bid by former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has endorsed Republican Donald #Trump , to be removed from the ballot in #Wisconsin and #Michigan for the Nov. 5 #election . Kennedy has said he wants voters who would have backed him to cast ballots for Trump.
#SCOTUS

North Korea's foreign minister arrived in Russia on Tuesday for talks as the Russia-Ukraine war appeared to take a dangerous new turn, with NATO and South Korea expressing alarm that North Korean troops could soon be joining in on Moscow's side. FRANCE 24's Mark Owen speaks to Dr Samuel Ramani from the Royal United Services Institute. He says that the vast majority of North Korean troops will become 'cannon fodder' on the Ukrainian front.
#Ukraine #Russia #NorthKorea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2g3fbdo4yI

Israel's parliament has passed two laws that could prevent the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a main provider of aid to Gaza, from being able to continue its work. The laws ban the agency, UNRWA, from operating in Israel, designate it a terror organization, and cut all ties between the agency and the Israeli government. FRANCE 24's James Vasina reports
#Israel #Gaza #UNRWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qmOFX6ZdW8

Who is the shadowy billionaire, Bidzina Ivanishvili, behind the ruling Georgian Dream party - which claimed victory in Saturday's contested election? Emerald Maxwell takes a look at Georgia's richest man and one-time pro-Western Prime Minister, whose party has drifted towards Russia since the war in Ukraine, while becoming increasingly authoritarian.
#Georgia #election #Russia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4LPRyLFbdA

A new investigation by the NGO Disclose has found that the port of Brest in Brittany here in France, is being used as a crucial stop for tankers delivering gas valuable to president Vladimir Putin. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks to the author of the investigation, Alexander Abdelilah.
#Russia #Ukraine #sanctions #gas #energy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QbAj1OLMtc

#Ukraine 's #forests have become another serious casualty in the war with #Russia . Shelling and fires have devastated vast areas, predominantly in the East of the country. This destruction is part of a larger environmental crisis affecting Ukraine's 10 million hectares of forest, with #wildlife suffering habitat loss and areas riddled with mines. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Dr Eoghan Darbyshire, from the Conflict and Environment Observatory.
#environment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok0KXC4FaFE&t=2s