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[00:00:00] well, we're doing it as fast as we possibly can, and we're also trying
[00:00:04] to be open, which is why I'm standing here and communicating about where we are all the time, because I
[00:00:08] know that a lot of people are following this, and it affects a lot of lives
[00:00:11] out there, both for our children and for those who are supposed to be hired to take
[00:00:15] care of them. Among the trainee teacher Oliver
[00:00:18] the ability to follow what they B, there is understanding and impatience, so I can understand why they have
[00:00:21] stopped this children's test, if it doesn't work, but for us it can
[00:00:24] still be super frustrating.
[00:00:27] The Minister of Justice cannot give an interview, writes that he is aware of
[00:00:31] the problems, and that he will meet with the legal spokespersons later in the week to make
[00:00:35] a status.
[00:01:51] Good evening and welcome to TV-avis 18:30. It
[00:01:54] is a Russia that provokes and
[00:01:57] escalates, and we must not lie down. The
[00:02:01] political reactions are many, day after a Russian naval vessel shot
[00:02:04] signal flares directly at an unarmed Danish
[00:02:07] helicopter.
[00:02:09] Jeppe Mittiby, you are at a town hall meeting in Djursland. Tell me what it's
[00:02:13] about?
[00:02:15] About half a kilometer this way, there is a high moor that the locals dearly
[00:02:18] love, but the Pindstrup company wants to continue digging for peat there, and the locals want
[00:02:22] to stop that. Widows
[00:02:26] Bay.
[00:02:29] Inside. Japanese horror comedy won 14 awards at last night's
[00:02:32] Emmy awards. We will hear more about Widows Bay at the end of
[00:02:36] the broadcast.
[00:02:43] A Russian warship fired two signal flares at a Danish
[00:02:46] military helicopter. One was close to hitting the helicopter, which was
[00:02:50] unarmed. Its mission was to take pictures of the Russian
[00:02:53] vessel. Well, we take it very seriously. It is serious when a
[00:02:57] Danish military helicopter is fired upon in
[00:03:00] international waters, which is monitoring a Russian
[00:03:03] frigate. There is no precise description of where it
[00:03:06] happened, but the message from the defense is that the incident took place in international
[00:03:10] waters off Gæsser.
[00:03:13] The Defense is very reluctant to provide information about the incident with the
[00:03:18] me and has told parliament is Russian frigate, but several
[00:03:20] that the operation that was underway experts have no doubt that it could have gone very wrong.
[00:03:22] These, well, they shoot a couple of hundred meters up in the air, and then there's this fireball that
[00:03:25] falls towards the ground. All ships, both civilian and military, have signal
[00:03:29] flares on board, so they can call for help if needed. It's a small
[00:03:33] incendiary bomb you fire, so of course it's dangerous, which is why we
[00:03:36] don't just fire them for fun. We don't know what type of signal flare was
[00:03:40] fired from the Russian frigate. It was a helicopter
[00:03:43] of this type, called a Fenek, that was out to take pictures of the Russian
[00:03:47] ship. It's what you call a light helicopter, it's
[00:03:50] available in a civilian version, basically, it's a civilian helicopter with military
[00:03:54] markings on it. The probability of being hit by it is very low, but if you are hit, the probability
[00:03:58] of damage is high, and if it hits the engine, the engine can fail, and it
[00:04:01] explains itself what happens then. Now they have flown with the door open because they had to take pictures of a
[00:04:05] burning flare into the cabin or
[00:04:08] the cockpit, then it's really bad. In peacetime, there is normally a very
[00:04:12] fixed procedure for how to warn each other when encountering a
[00:04:16] between NATO countries and Russia, because then we are military vessel from the opposing side. Normally, if a
[00:04:19] military vessel wishes that others do not approach, they would call them on
[00:04:23] the radio and try to push them away in that way,
[00:04:25] um, and then you might also flash lights at them, there are several different modes of communication
[00:04:30] to get them away, and then um, so you escalate it,
[00:04:34] you could say, the closer it gets. We don't know if there were
[00:04:38] other warnings from the Russian ship before it fired at the helicopter.
[00:04:41] Russia's ambassador to Denmark, in a written response, blames the Danish
[00:04:45] helicopter, which he claims acted provocatively and flew
[00:04:49] too close. This video was shot two weeks
[00:04:53] ago by a private individual, Frank Olesen, on his way to Hirtshals, and shows
[00:04:56] the Russian ship Akademik Nikolai Strakov and a helicopter that
[00:05:00] looks like a Danish military Fenek helicopter. The Danish Defense will not
[00:05:04] confirm that this is what happened, but
[00:05:07] this is perhaps how it looks when Russian ships are inspected by
[00:05:10] Danish helicopters. Well, there's no doubt that there's more tension
[00:05:14] now, I mean, there's no doubt that we are more on edge with each other, and
[00:05:18] therefore such signals are also extremely dangerous. How are
[00:05:22] our activities perceived by
[00:05:24] the enemy, so to speak, and it may be that what we could do three,
[00:05:28] four, five years ago, we can't anymore, because we are actually a bit
[00:05:32] on edge with each other, both of us, and that's the
[00:05:35] dangerous thing, that such signals can be misunderstood, and suddenly
[00:05:38] it escalates. Since Russia launched
[00:05:42] its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, there have been a number of
[00:05:46] similar incidents. In October 2022, a Russian
[00:05:49] SU-27 fighter jet fired a missile close to a British
[00:05:53] unmanned surveillance aircraft in international airspace over
[00:05:56] the Black Sea. The Russian authorities subsequently attributed it to
[00:06:00] a technical fault. In December 2024, a Russian
[00:06:03] warship fired signal flares at a German military helicopter during a
[00:06:07] surveillance mission in the Baltic Sea, and earlier this year in June, the crew
[00:06:11] of the Russian Frigate Admiral Grigorovich
[00:06:15] fired warning shots at a British destroyer in the English Channel, according to
[00:06:18] the Russian authorities, something they did to avoid a collision.
[00:06:22] Welcome
[00:06:24] Jeppe Brus. The Russian ambassador says that the Danish
[00:06:28] helicopter acted provocatively. What do you say to that
[00:06:31] reaction?
[00:06:34] Well, what I see is that the defense tells
[00:06:39] ongoing yesterday completely resembles what has been done
[00:06:43] many times before. That is, they monitor a Russian frigate in
[00:06:46] international waters, they behave in the same way as they have
[00:06:49] done so far. What was abnormal yesterday was that the Russians fired
[00:06:53] these flares, that is, signal flares at the Danish
[00:06:56] helicopter. Russia's ambassador also says that the Danish
[00:07:00] side shows no interest in preventing the situation at sea
[00:07:03] from escalating, I'm paraphrasing here, and that the Danes have refused to
[00:07:07] implement confidence-building measures, as it is called. What do you say
[00:07:10] to that criticism?
[00:07:13] Well, it's very strange that when the incident happens yesterday, and if there's a
[00:07:17] problem, they don't contact the Danish helicopter from the Russian frigate. There are actually
[00:07:21] many opportunities to do so, via radio and other means, but they don't do it, so without warning,
[00:07:24] they fire these signal flares very close to the Danish
[00:07:27] helicopter, and it could have gone completely wrong, and therefore
[00:07:31] it is a very serious incident, and we also see a number of other incidents where
[00:07:35] the Russians are pushing the boundaries and are more risk-willing than they have been
[00:07:38] so far. Jeppe Bros, we'll talk again in a moment, but we just need to hear some of the
[00:07:42] other political reactions that have been today, because a broad cross-section of
[00:07:45] politicians stands united behind the Danish response, not least in relation to
[00:07:49] summoning the Russian ambassador for talks, but there are also reactions
[00:07:53] among the citizens, not least in Gæsser, when we
[00:07:56] woke up at home and were about to have coffee in the morning,
[00:07:58] I actually sat and talked about how close it had actually come,
[00:08:02] the concern is growing along the Baltic Sea coast, yes,
[00:08:05] what, what's next? The unrest feels closer, it
[00:08:09] is conflict-creating uh, and and all...
[00:08:12] necessary behind closed doors in the Ministry of Defense, the
[00:08:16] parliamentary defense committee is briefed about the incident, the Russians, they uh
[00:08:19] escalate, so we must handle this with the utmost seriousness we possibly
[00:08:23] can, and we do, and that is also why we react uh
[00:08:26] to the incident that happened yesterday, but is the government's response enough, are you talking about a
[00:08:30] strong reaction, there will also be a reaction, the Russian
[00:08:33] ambassador will be summoned, there is agreement not
[00:08:37] to activate NATO's Article 4, we don't believe we are
[00:08:40] there yet, and it is also important for us to maintain calm and not escalate towards
[00:08:44] the Russians. The government chooses the diplomatic path. What has it ever
[00:08:48] changed that an ambassador has been given a dressing down in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs?
[00:08:50] Udenrigsministeriet?
[00:08:53] You can't answer that, because you would then have to ask the question, what would have happened
[00:08:57] if you had never summoned an ambassador for a conversation? I mean, that's the
[00:09:00] tool we have. A choice that must avoid
[00:09:03] escalation. Yes, I don't think there is any need
[00:09:06] to escalate the conflict level
[00:09:09] further, so I also think it's the right approach the government has. In this
[00:09:13] current case, it's not that we back down diplomatically, as
[00:09:17] we do, we cooperate with our European
[00:09:20] colleagues, and most importantly of all, that we do not allow ourselves to be intimidated, well,
[00:09:23] this is always a balance, we don't want a direct war
[00:09:29] in the third world war, so it's a balance that we constantly
[00:09:32] have to find, uh, and land in the right place, and back at
[00:09:36] the harbor in Gæsser, for the idea of a conversation with the Russians
[00:09:40] doesn't get much traction, everything comes to everything else, I don't think much bites on the Russians,
[00:09:43] so whether you do a lot or
[00:09:46] not so much, I don't think it changes much about the
[00:09:50] Russians' attitude towards things. Jeppe
[00:09:53] Brus, I don't think there are divided opinions that this is difficult, but as politicians
[00:09:57] you can speak loudly and find balances, but as
[00:10:00] the citizen also says in the segment, not much bites on the Russians, isn't he right
[00:10:04] about that in reality?
[00:10:08] No, I mean, I would like to say, we, when this incident happens, it is
[00:10:12] because we have been following what the Russians are doing, and we are intensifying our surveillance both of the
[00:10:16] Danish straits, what is happening in the north, we are working very closely
[00:10:19] with our allies, and we are naturally observing what is happening, including these
[00:10:23] incidents, not only in Denmark, but also around Europe, and
[00:10:26] uh, and therefore we are strong alone, but we are also really
[00:10:30] strong because we are very closely connected with our allies,
[00:10:34] but how are we strong alone against a large
[00:10:36] Russia?
[00:10:39] Well, for example, having
[00:10:43] are doing, sharing information with others, being part
[00:10:47] of very close cooperation with our close
[00:10:49] allies, and also within the framework of NATO,
[00:10:53] uh, we have 800. 50 men and women in Latvia right now,
[00:10:57] who are also helping to guard the border between Latvia and
[00:11:00] and Russia, and in that way we also work closely with others, but
[00:11:04] Jeppe Brus, what if the unthinkable had happened and the helicopter here had been hit or if
[00:11:08] real ammunition had been used, what could Denmark then realistically have done
[00:11:12] here?
[00:11:15] Well, that's why we are part of both NATO and we have close
[00:11:18] allies, uh, and we are, because together we are
[00:11:21] strong, and I don't want to get into all sorts of speculations about what... could have
[00:11:25] happened if and if and if, it was a serious incident, we take it very seriously,
[00:11:29] and we also see this incident as part of an
[00:11:32] increased willingness from the Russian side to take more chances, and that is
[00:11:36] what we also have to deal with, Jeppe Brus, one could say Denmark has stood fast
[00:11:40] with Ukraine with enormous economic aid packages, drones are to be built,
[00:11:43] rocket fuel is to be produced on Danish soil and so on, is
[00:11:47] Denmark prepared for the fact that this can lead to unwanted
[00:11:50] attention?
[00:11:53] Yes, we are, and we will not be deterred by the Russians, and therefore this does not
[00:11:57] mean that we are backing down, but that we are continuing the
[00:12:01] intensification, the rearmament we are engaged in, which is both
[00:12:04] about helping the Ukrainians, because they are fighting for our freedom, but
[00:12:08] of course also about us constantly, day by day, becoming stronger in the defense of
[00:12:12] our own territory. Thank you for being here.
[00:12:15] her.
[00:12:19] Oliver Beck here is a teacher student and should have started an internship, but it
[00:12:23] requires a legally mandated child certificate, which is currently impossible to obtain due to
[00:12:27] a serious error in the criminal record, and hundreds of
[00:12:29] teacher students are facing this problem. He should
[00:12:33] have been in a classroom full of students. It's frustrating, it's
[00:12:37] annoying. But for Oliver Bæch, the teaching internship has been postponed. Everything is
[00:12:41] linked to this internship. Currently, the
[00:12:44] National Police cannot issue child certificates, which are a requirement
[00:12:47] if you want to work with children under 15 years old. It is important when you come
[00:12:50] out, as a teacher student, to come out in practice, that you get to try standing
[00:12:54] in a classroom, trying out the things you have prepared. The problem affects hundreds
[00:12:58] of students across the country. It is a big problem for our students, because a
[00:13:02] large part of their studies takes place in practice, so it is a
[00:13:05] significant part of their education. So if they cannot
[00:13:09] go into practice, then they don't get that part that is so important when you are going to
[00:13:12] be a teacher. The National Police has discovered that important
[00:13:16] information has been deleted in the central criminal register. For 12 days,
[00:13:19] a deletion error in the criminal register has meant that the National Police has suspended
[00:13:23] the issuance of child certificates. Now the error must be
[00:13:27] corrected. We have two tracks, so to speak. One is to
[00:13:30] cultivate this error and find out exactly what the scope and consequences are. The other is precisely
[00:13:34] to find out how we can, to the greatest extent possible, restore
[00:13:38] the criminal register, so we have a criminal register that can be relied
[00:13:41] upon. And how long can that take? Well, we are doing it as fast as we
[00:13:44] possibly can, and we are also trying to be open, which is why I am standing here and
[00:13:48] communicating about where we are all the time, because I know that a lot of people are following this, and
[00:13:52] it affects a lot of lives out there, both for our children and
[00:13:55] for those who are supposed to be hired to take care of them. Among the trainee teacher Oliver
[00:13:59] Beck, there is understanding and impatience, so I can understand why they have
[00:14:03] stopped this children's test, if it doesn't work, but for us it can
[00:14:07] still be super frustrating.
[00:14:10] The Minister of Justice cannot give an interview, but writes that he is aware of
[00:14:13] the problems, and that he will meet with the legal spokespersons later in the week to make
[00:14:17] a status.
[00:14:19] This evening, there is a town hall meeting in Nørrager in Djursland. Nearby
[00:14:23] there is a bog that is used to dig peat, which is used as spawnum
[00:14:27] for gardeners and garden centers, and the company behind it now wants to expand
[00:14:30] the area, but the neighbors want to stop it completely for the sake of nature
[00:14:34] and climate. So the water would normally have been up
[00:14:38] to here, even though Polnov Kelsen's property in Fuglsø bog
[00:14:42] is a bit away from the actual peat digging, he feels
[00:14:45] the consequences, because there is no longer water in his small
[00:14:48] bog holes in the summer and autumn. It happens that
[00:14:52] when they start in the summer. to extract
[00:14:56] out there, then the water level immediately drops here. For
[00:14:59] many years, Pindstrup Mosebrug has been digging peat for Spagnum
[00:15:02] bog. Now the company has applied to Region Midtjylland for permission to
[00:15:06] dig the last two parts of the bog that are still
[00:15:09] untouched. We fear that the last part of the unique nature that
[00:15:13] is out here will be removed. Bjerne Langdal Ries is one of the local
[00:15:16] landowners who initiated the town hall meeting. This
[00:15:19] is how most of Fuglsø Mose's old high moor looks
[00:15:23] today. Peat is dead, compacted
[00:15:25] plant remains that have been in bogs for hundreds or thousands of
[00:15:29] years. When the peat is dug up and used as spawnum,
[00:15:33] the stored CO2 from the plant remains is released freely
[00:15:36] into the atmosphere. And climatically,
[00:15:39] it's like burning oil. A lot of carbon has been bound
[00:15:42] in these soil types, and it is
[00:15:45] released the moment you start draining. Pindstrup Mosebrug has
[00:15:49] not wanted to give an interview, but says in a written
[00:15:52] quote: we are aware of the climate challenges of
[00:15:55] peat and the necessary transition towards
[00:15:58] alternatives is central to Pinstrup. We are continuously increasing
[00:16:02] the proportion of alternatives in our products.
[00:16:05] Bog restoration is an integrated part of our production. The problem is
[00:16:09] simply that it takes time to re-establish an old high moor. If
[00:16:12] you are to build up a meter of peat again,
[00:16:16] well, then, if you say it's a millimeter a year that you can
[00:16:20] build up with peat moss, then it takes 100 years.
[00:16:23] Paul Kielsen has the extra concern that he is about to
[00:16:27] become a neighbor to the new excavations. I hope
[00:16:30] that they do not get permission for it, and that they are told to restore
[00:16:34] what they are doing. is Jeppe Mitteby, as promised, from
[00:16:37] the town hall meeting, which starts in
[00:16:40] a little while. What is the expectation for
[00:16:42] the meeting?
[00:16:45] Well, the expectation for the many who have already shown up and those I have managed to talk to, the meeting
[00:16:49] only starts in half an hour, a quarter of an hour, is how
[00:16:53] will this company, which is also criticized in the segment, how will they respond to some of
[00:16:56] the criticism that is also coming here, and some of the bewilderment that the local community
[00:17:00] also has, and Bjern Langdal, we just heard from you also in the segment, I mean, there is no doubt where you
[00:17:04] stand, many of the locals who have shown up here stand. But conversely,
[00:17:08] peat is a product that is
[00:17:11] widely used and which is also a very good
[00:17:15] product, if you work as a gardener or as a hobby gardener for
[00:17:18] that matter, I mean, it's also a good product, so why throw it out with the
[00:17:22] bathwater? It's because it has such big consequences for a
[00:17:26] rare bog, and it has such big consequences
[00:17:29] for the climate, uh,
[00:17:32] it, it is our big carbon store that lies in the high moors, and when we dig them
[00:17:36] out, then we make them evaporate, and there are
[00:17:39] alternatives to this, it's just a matter of finding a formula for it, so
[00:17:43] no, of course we shouldn't continue to use such a product in
[00:17:45] 2026, but surely more people will benefit from
[00:17:49] the peat that can be produced than from locals who can use the area, or
[00:17:53] how? Sorry, I simply didn't get that. No, but surely, more people can
[00:17:57] benefit from the peat that can be extracted from the area than locals
[00:18:01] who can enjoy the area and its natural beauty. Yes, but we still
[00:18:05] have alternatives to this, and it would
[00:18:09] be exciting if this became a little wild moor number two,
[00:18:12] a place with a nature area, tourism and everything
[00:18:15] else, uh, so I'm not buying
[00:18:19] that. I was asked a little bit from the studio, what, what people
[00:18:22] expect from this meeting, so what do you hope, in as
[00:18:26] few words as you can put it, to get out of this meeting, which you helped
[00:18:30] to organize? I hope first and foremost that we will have a really good
[00:18:33] evening and some good discussions. We have some experts here who can
[00:18:37] tell us and make us a little wiser about this. We have Pinstop Mosebo here too, whom I
[00:18:41] deeply respect, who will come and share knowledge with us about their
[00:18:45] viewpoints, and we are fortunately still a
[00:18:48] society where we can disagree, and I think we will tonight,
[00:18:51] but I also think we will have a really good and constructive talk and
[00:18:55] a good meeting to
[00:18:55] you.
[00:19:00] Minister of Justice Nicolaj Vamme will put a stop to the police's so-called washing
[00:19:04] of cases. In May, the police received sharp criticism from
[00:19:07] the auditors and the National Audit Office for shelving several thousand cases that should
[00:19:11] have been investigated. Now the minister will implement all the National Audit Office's
[00:19:15] recommendations. In addition, we will also come up with a
[00:19:18] series of initiatives, among other things to ensure that what we have seen, namely, in a
[00:19:22] number of rape cases, the
[00:19:26] police have not investigated as they should, will now happen
[00:19:29] in the future.
[00:19:32] Moresø municipality must save 50 million Danish kroner, and this afternoon several
[00:19:36] citizens took to the streets. They are dissatisfied with plans to close two
[00:19:39] kindergartens, one school and implement savings in the
[00:19:43] elderly care sector. The municipal politicians will hold their first discussion today
[00:19:45] on the budget proposal, and the city council meeting has been moved from the City Hall to
[00:19:49] Arena Thy, because many attendees are expected. It goes
[00:19:53] straight to my heart, I get really sad that they can think of
[00:19:56] closing such good
[00:19:58] institutions.
[00:20:02] Two out of three children and young people between nine and seventeen years old have in the past year been
[00:20:06] exposed to verbal harassment or other unpleasant experiences on
[00:20:10] the internet. This is shown by a new study from Save the Children and TrygFonden with a
[00:20:13] mapping of 12 different forms of digital
[00:20:16] harassment. I was contacted by some of my
[00:20:20] friends' friends, um, and then they started writing a
[00:20:23] lot of unpleasant things. There are also just a lot of people who have contacted me, and then there are also just
[00:20:27] videos of dead animals and car accidents and stuff like that. And then it just ends
[00:20:31] with them sending nude photos and all sorts of things. The
[00:20:34] digital violations can range widely from comments from peers
[00:20:38] to more serious offenses by adults who, with
[00:20:41] criminal intentions, try to establish contact with children, and
[00:20:44] the experiences can have serious consequences. It affects
[00:20:48] children's and young people's ideas about what they themselves are worth, what others are
[00:20:51] worth. It can challenge their ideas about what boundaries they
[00:20:54] have. Save the Children recommends that parents ensure
[00:20:58] that their children do not get a phone until they are 13 years old, but the biggest responsibility
[00:21:02] lies with tech giants according to Save the Children.
[00:21:05] Tech giants must stop their addiction-creating
[00:21:08] behavioral design, their retention mechanisms. They must stop
[00:21:11] harvesting data from children under 18 years old. We need
[00:21:15] real age verification so that we actually know how old the children are
[00:21:19] on the platform.
[00:21:21] Neither Snapchat, Roblox, nor TikTok will grant interviews. Meta
[00:21:25] refers to Instagram's new teenage profiles, where there are limits on
[00:21:28] who can contact and what content one can
[00:21:31] see.
[00:21:35] A record was set last night with 14 awards for the same series at
[00:21:38] this year's Emmy awards in Los Angeles. This is the
[00:21:41] American horror comedy Widows Bay, which is thus the most
[00:21:45] awarded comedy series at a single Emmy awards ceremony. In the
[00:21:49] category of comedy series, it won, among others, for best series,
[00:21:52] best male lead, and best
[00:21:54] director.
[00:22:00] The American horror comedy won a total of 14 awards,
[00:22:04] which is historic. It is a strong series, original and funny and
[00:22:08] truly terrifying series.
[00:22:11] The series, set in the fictional town of Widows Bay, blends
[00:22:15] the genres of comedy and
[00:22:16] horror.
[00:22:19] When I first saw the episode, I went almost directly from
[00:22:22] laughing to my heart skipping a beat. The slug over, I mean, it was so incredibly
[00:22:26] clever, it's really well drawn.
[00:22:29] The main role went to Welshman Matthew Rhys
[00:22:33] in the same series, where he plays the mayor of the city trying to attract
[00:22:37] tourists. I hope to reflect on it tomorrow at the
[00:22:40] moment, genuinely can't quite believe what's just
[00:22:43] happened. His complex character is a good reflection of how
[00:22:47] films and series portray the male role today.
[00:22:55] I think there were awards for many series about men
[00:22:59] and a different kind of male type than we may have seen before, that is, the man who is
[00:23:03] afraid and the man who fumbles and the man who is
[00:23:05] in doubt. While American films and series
[00:23:09] were the big winners, the Danish element was conspicuously absent. Where were the Danes
[00:23:12] yesterday? They were in Venice.
[00:23:15] As recently as Saturday, the
[00:23:20] Danish film "A Woman Unknown" won the prestigious Golden Lion at the
[00:23:23] Venice Film Festival, so no
[00:23:25] need to worry according to the film editor. We have had
[00:23:29] Danish Emmy winners before, right now we have made our mark with film by winning an award
[00:23:32] in Venice. Maybe we should just enjoy it and wait for Danish TV drama to also go
[00:23:36] abroad in the
[00:23:38] future.
[00:23:45] This content about fitness and training and diet, it takes up an extreme
[00:23:49] amount of space on social media. The body ideal that I want
[00:23:52] comes from social media, you want to
[00:23:56] be like them, and fit into what you are constantly exposed to, you are encouraged
[00:23:59] to think that if I eat the same way, I will look
[00:24:03] that way, the turning point
[00:24:05] was being about to die,
[00:24:09] much of the content is presented as health
[00:24:12] or self-care, and what it actually is, is the exact
[00:24:15] opposite, the lie in your feed, it's a completely skewed plan, you
[00:24:19] get sick from eating like this now on DR TV.
[00:24:34] Good evening and welcome to TV Avisen 1830. This
[00:24:37] is a Russia that provokes and
[00:24:40] escalates. And we must not lie down for it. The
[00:24:44] political reactions are many today after a Russian naval vessel fired
[00:24:47] signal flares directly at an unarmed Danish
[00:24:50] helicopter.
[00:24:52] Jeppe Mittiby, you are at a town meeting in Duursland. Tell us what it's all
[00:24:55] about?
[00:24:57] About half a kilometer down this road, there is a high bog that the locals
[00:25:01] love, but the Pindestrup company wants to keep digging peat there, and the locals want to stop
[00:25:05] that. We stop
[00:25:06] it.
[00:25:12] An American horror-comedy won 14 awards at last night's
[00:25:15] Emmy Awards. We'll hear more about "Widows Bay" later in the
[00:25:18] broadcast.
[00:25:26] A Russian warship has fired two signal flares at a Danish
[00:25:29] military helicopter. One was close to hitting the helicopter, which was
[00:25:32] unarmed. Its task was to take pictures of the Russian
[00:25:36] vessel. Well, we take it very seriously. It is serious when a Danish
[00:25:40] military helicopter is fired upon in
[00:25:43] international waters, monitoring a Russian
[00:25:46] frigate. There is no precise description of where it happened,
[00:25:50] but the message from the defense is that the incident took place in international waters
[00:25:54] off Læsø. The defense is very reluctant to
[00:25:57] provide information about the incident with the Russian frigate, but several
[00:26:01] experts have no doubt that it could have gone very wrong. These
[00:26:05] here, well, they shoot a couple of hundred meters into the air, and then there's this fireball that
[00:26:08] falls to the ground. All ships, both civilian and military, have
[00:26:12] signal flares on board, so they can eventually call for help. It's a
[00:26:15] small incendiary bomb that you shoot off, so of course it's dangerous, that's also why we don't
[00:26:19] just shoot them off for fun. We don't know what type of signal flare was
[00:26:22] fired from the Russian frigate. It was a
[00:26:25] helicopter of this type, called Fenik, that was out to take pictures of the
[00:26:29] Russian ship. It's what you call a light helicopter, it's a
[00:26:33] civilian version essentially, it's a civilian helicopter with military
[00:26:36] markings. The probability of being hit by a flare is very low, but if you are hit, the
[00:26:40] probability of serious damage is high, if it hits the engine, the engine can stall, and
[00:26:43] that explains itself what happens then, now they flew with the door open because they had to take
[00:26:47] pictures of a burning flare floating into the cabin or
[00:26:51] cockpit, then it's completely wrong. In peacetime, there is normally a very
[00:26:55] fixed procedure for how to warn each other when encountering a
[00:26:58] military vessel from the opposing side. Normally it is, if you as a
[00:27:02] vessel wish that others do not approach, you would call them on the radio and
[00:27:06] try to push them away that way,
[00:27:08] um, and then you can maybe also flash lights at them, there are several different
[00:27:12] communication methods to get them away, and
[00:27:14] then it escalates, you could say, the
[00:27:17] closer it comes. We do not know if there were other
[00:27:21] warnings from the Russian ship before it shot at the helicopter.
[00:27:24] Russia's ambassador to Denmark blames the Danish helicopter in a written reply, claiming
[00:27:28] it acted provocatively and flew too
[00:27:32] close. This video was recorded two weeks
[00:27:35] ago by a private individual, Frank Olesen, on his way to Hirtshals, and shows
[00:27:39] the Russian ship Akademik Nikolai Strakov and a helicopter that
[00:27:43] resembles a Danish military Fenek helicopter. The defense will not
[00:27:46] confirm that this is what happened, but this
[00:27:50] is perhaps what it looks like when Russian ships are inspected by Danish
[00:27:53] helicopters. Well, there's no doubt that there's more tension
[00:27:57] now, I mean, there's no doubt that we are more on edge with each other, and
[00:28:01] therefore such signals are also incredibly dangerous, how are
[00:28:04] our activities perceived by
[00:28:07] the enemy, if I may say so, and it may well be that what we could do three,
[00:28:10] four, five years ago, we can't do anymore, because we are actually
[00:28:14] both a bit on edge with each other, and that's the
[00:28:17] dangerous thing, that such signals can be misunderstood, and suddenly it
[00:28:21] escalates. Since Russia launched its
[00:28:25] full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, there have been a number of
[00:28:29] similar incidents. In October 2022, a
[00:28:32] Russian Su-27 fighter jet fired a missile close to a British
[00:28:36] unmanned surveillance aircraft in international airspace over the
[00:28:39] Black Sea. The Russian authorities subsequently attributed it to
[00:28:43] a technical error. In December 2024, a Russian
[00:28:46] warship fired signal flares at a German military helicopter during a
[00:28:50] surveillance mission in the Baltic Sea, and earlier this year, in June, the
[00:28:53] crew of the Russian frigate Admiral
[00:28:57] Grigorovich fired warning shots at a British yacht in the English
[00:29:00] Channel. According to the Russian authorities, something they did to avoid a
[00:29:04] collision.
[00:29:06] Welcome, Jeppe Brus. The Russian ambassador says that the
[00:29:10] Danish helicopter acted provocatively. What do you say to that
[00:29:13] reaction?
[00:29:16] Well, I say that what the defense tells
[00:29:22] yesterday is completely similar to what has been done many times
[00:29:25] before, that is, they monitor a Russian frigate in
[00:29:29] international waters, they behave in the same way as they have done
[00:29:32] before. What was abnormal yesterday, yes, it was that the Russians
[00:29:35] fired these flares, that is, signal flares at the Danish
[00:29:39] helicopter. Uh, Russia's ambassador also says that the Danish
[00:29:42] side shows no interest in preventing the situation at sea
[00:29:46] from escalating, to paraphrase here, and that the Danes have refused to
[00:29:49] implement confidence-building measures, as it is called. What do you say to that
[00:29:53] criticism?
[00:29:56] Well, it's very strange that when that incident happens, and then you don't, if there's a
[00:29:59] problem, contact the Danish helicopter from the Russian frigate, there's actually
[00:30:03] plenty of opportunity to do that, we have radio and other ways of doing it, they don't
[00:30:07] do it, so without warning, they fire these signal flares very
[00:30:11] close to the Danish helicopter, and it could have gone completely wrong, and therefore it's a very serious
[00:30:15] incident, and we also see a number of other incidents where the Russians are pushing
[00:30:18] boundaries and are more risk-averse than they have been so far. Jeppe
[00:30:22] Bros, we'll talk again in a moment, but we just need to hear some of the other political
[00:30:25] reactions that have been today, because a broad cross-section of politicians stands
[00:30:29] united behind the Danish response, not least in relation to... calling the Russian
[00:30:33] ambassador for talks, but there are also reactions among the citizens, not
[00:30:37] least in Læsø. When we woke up at home and had our
[00:30:40] morning coffee, we actually sat and talked
[00:30:43] about how close it actually came. The concern rises along the
[00:30:46] Baltic Sea coast. Yes, what can, what will be next?
[00:30:49] The unrest feels closer. It is conflict-creating,
[00:30:53] uh, and completely unnecessary. Behind closed doors at the
[00:30:56] Ministry of Defense, the parliamentary committee is briefed on the incident.