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[00:13:20] how we record the events right now here on
[00:13:23] Sky. Alarm in Europe after the
[00:13:27] barrage of bomb threats on aircraft, emergency landings in many
[00:13:30] countries, and fighter jets scrambled. Cracks within the
[00:13:33] Republicans after the election debacle, stock market plunge,
[00:13:37] fears of a new flare-up in the Middle East.
[00:13:41] France paralyzed again, union strike and dozens of
[00:13:44] demonstrations. Sky's correspondent in
[00:13:45] Paris.
[00:13:49] Political leaders are picking up speed on the way to the polls. Fierce
[00:13:52] clashes, with corruption as the backdrop.
[00:14:04] And we begin our bulletin from the chaos at European airports and the
[00:14:07] suffering of hundreds of passengers. For the second time in a week,
[00:14:11] we had flight diversions due to bomb threats. At least in Helsinki,
[00:14:15] fighter jets had to be scrambled to escort the aircraft to Fiumicino
[00:14:18] Airport in Rome. In total, within one day, 20
[00:14:22] flights were affected. Three of these originated in Greece.
[00:14:25] Fighter jets are taking off rapidly, passenger aircraft
[00:14:28] are making emergency landings, airports
[00:14:31] are placed on red alert. A barrage
[00:14:34] of bomb threats is sweeping through European
[00:14:37] skies, causing massive mobilization of security
[00:14:40] authorities. New threats to planes in the air over
[00:14:43] Bulgaria, three aircraft with destination Sofia are already on
[00:14:47] the ground and will be inspected, confirmed.
[00:14:49] The threats concern at least six
[00:15:25] airlines, including Sirena Air and Finine Air. It is too
[00:15:28] early yet to draw conclusions regarding whether the
[00:15:32] reported incidents, approximately 20, are
[00:15:35] connected to each other or if it is a
[00:15:38] cyber attack.
[00:15:40] Three flights from Greece,
[00:15:45] specifically from Thessaloniki to Milan, from Athens to
[00:15:48] Vienna and Prague, are receiving threats, and all three aircraft
[00:15:51] land normally at their destinations. The protocol was followed,
[00:15:55] obviously for the sake of safety. But the
[00:15:57] side effects were that it caused disruptions in the operation of
[00:16:01] airports and inconvenience to flights and
[00:16:04] passengers. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tasos
[00:16:07] Hatzivasileiou, was also on the flight to Vienna. We arrived on the road
[00:16:10] to Vienna and parked in an area far from the
[00:16:14] terminal. We waited for about 25 minutes
[00:16:16] inside until they allowed us to
[00:16:20] disembark. None of us understood anything.
[00:16:24] I was informed about the phone call about the alleged
[00:16:27] bomb after I arrived at the terminal building. No one
[00:16:31] was alarmed. The threats are proving false, but their consequences are
[00:16:34] real. Flight delays, bomb
[00:16:39] threats have always
[00:16:43] been hoaxes as
[00:16:46] they turned
[00:16:48] out in the end.
[00:16:52] In fact, I distinctly remember an incident where
[00:16:55] a passenger, because he was delayed and feared he would miss his
[00:16:59] flight, called the airport on his way and said there was a bomb to delay the plane and
[00:17:03] catch his flight.
[00:17:40] The European Commission activates the information exchange mechanism for
[00:17:44] aviation security, while investigations focus on the origin of
[00:17:48] the threats and the possibility that the successive incidents are connected
[00:17:51] to each other. The questions are many: if these
[00:17:54] incidents are somehow connected, if there is a
[00:17:58] control center, someone giving this order, if we're talking about hybrid
[00:18:01] warfare, if we're talking about hackers. Nikos Maliarakis is
[00:18:04] with us, you've done the report, it has...
[00:18:08] Let's look a bit, Nikos, what kind of cases these are. For the authorities to reach these
[00:18:12] answers, Lena, the first element that comes under the microscope is the way
[00:18:15] in which the perpetrator or perpetrators communicated with European
[00:18:19] airports. So far, it has been confirmed that anonymous
[00:18:22] threatening emails were sent to airports in Italy and the Czech
[00:18:26] Republic. In fact, one of the messages that arrived at
[00:18:28] Milan's Malpensa Airport also concerned the Aegean
[00:18:32] flight from Thessaloniki, including specific
[00:18:35] details, both about the... bond and its landing
[00:18:39] time. One of the emails released by Italian media
[00:18:42] is signed by an organization named
[00:18:46] "Fighters of the Male State" and, among other things,
[00:18:49] states: "Bombs have been placed on flights
[00:18:52] Helsinki-Italy and Dublin-Italy. The explosion will
[00:18:55] occur in 60 minutes. Your skies will
[00:18:58] be painted red." And here they say the Russian
[00:19:01] connection appears, because this
[00:19:04] particular name refers to a far-right, misogynistic
[00:19:08] extremist organization, which was founded in Russia in
[00:19:11] 2016 and its activities have even been banned by the
[00:19:14] Russian authorities themselves in 2021. Of course, we don't have a
[00:19:18] claim of responsibility so far. The indications that we might be talking about
[00:19:22] a Russian hand, about an organization with roots in Russia, and always in these cases, someone
[00:19:25] else might be using this name. This particular organization
[00:19:28] had, however, been linked in the past to false bomb threats.
[00:19:32] This, by itself, as you said, is not enough to identify
[00:19:36] that it is behind the
[00:19:39] messages. However, there are elements that, according to analysts,
[00:19:43] indicate a hybrid operation aimed at causing problems, causing
[00:19:46] chaos at European airports. This is supported by
[00:19:49] both the apparent coordination behind these
[00:19:53] dozens of emails, and the short time interval between
[00:19:57] them, a fact which, of course, cannot be
[00:20:00] a coincidence. Thank you very much, Nikos.
[00:20:04] After the demonstrations and violent incidents, France
[00:20:08] is preparing for today's general strike, a strike that will paralyze
[00:20:11] transport and services. We'll find our correspondent Yiannis Souliotis in the French
[00:20:15] capital. We had over 220
[00:20:19] marches, they were not so
[00:20:21] peaceful, we also had police
[00:20:25] brutality in many cases, especially in Lyon. Yiannis, tell
[00:20:29] us a bit about the atmosphere in Paris, there's a lot of
[00:20:33] people gathered there again, a massive mobilization for the
[00:20:36] cost of living and for all the demands that started from the student
[00:20:40] movement. Lena, at this moment, for
[00:20:44] quite some time now, the mobilization, the march has reached its designated
[00:20:48] end at the Place de la Nation. The major
[00:20:51] unions have started to withdraw, but many
[00:20:54] thousands of young people remain in the square, who are
[00:20:58] dressed in black, wearing hoods, there is quite a bit of tension,
[00:21:02] uh, the police have blocked all roads
[00:21:06] leading to and from the square except for one, and
[00:21:09] intermittently the young people are throwing bottles and stones at the
[00:21:13] riot police forces who are deployed around the
[00:21:16] square, there are intermittent minor tensions. The
[00:21:20] police respond with the use of tear gas, earlier there were
[00:21:23] some fires, the intervention of the fire department was needed
[00:21:27] so that the flames could be brought under control, everything
[00:21:30] hangs by a thin thread, I can say, so far
[00:21:34] I would characterize the situation as tense, there have not
[00:21:38] been widespread incidents, and this among other things because the police have
[00:21:41] also changed their tactics, they have blocked all roads
[00:21:45] to and from the square, therefore, those who would cause, who would
[00:21:48] wish to cause more intense
[00:21:51] incidents do not have an escape route from the point where
[00:21:55] we are. Let's say that according to the estimates of the
[00:21:58] unions, today's mobilization was attended by about
[00:22:01] 350,000 demonstrators. These are from the public and private sector
[00:22:05] workers' unions, these are students, these are pupils who, all together,
[00:22:08] for the first time since the start of this social unrest on
[00:22:12] September 15th, all participated together in the
[00:22:16] march. At the beginning of it there were also some
[00:22:19] minor incidents with six injured, which fortunately
[00:22:23] did not escalate. The French
[00:22:26] government has given
[00:22:29] a number for the total number of participants in the demonstrations, which
[00:22:33] amounts to 600,000, while of course
[00:22:36] the organizers of the mobilization state that over 1
[00:22:40] million demonstrators have attended the 220
[00:22:44] mobilizations in total throughout
[00:22:47] the country. We should also mention that
[00:22:50] some limited incidents occurred in Lyon
[00:22:54] and also in Toulouse. Here, however, in the Place de la Nation,
[00:22:57] the situation is quite tense, without having so far
[00:23:00] gotten out of the control of the police, Lena, and let's
[00:23:04] hope that the situation remains so, because in previous
[00:23:07] times, Yiannis, there was chaos, there was a
[00:23:11] mess in how the orders would be
[00:23:14] given, both for the fencing of the
[00:23:17] patients, which forced after
[00:23:24] to change its planning, however, chemicals have been used, we have also seen
[00:23:27] harsh images, Yiannis, from these demonstrations from the police's
[00:23:31] side.
[00:23:33] They have been used here too, where we are, chemicals are being used, but
[00:23:37] as I said earlier, the incidents are not widespread, and therefore the
[00:23:40] use of chemicals is not widespread either, something which, however, can
[00:23:44] change at any moment, because there is quite a lot of tension here
[00:23:48] between here in the square where we are, and
[00:23:51] I think it's very easy for the situation to get out of control
[00:23:55] quickly, Yiannis, for anything that may be needed, we will obviously
[00:23:58] get back to you. Let's look at the images you sent us
[00:24:01] earlier. The Yellow Vests also attended these
[00:24:05] mobilizations.
[00:24:07] In Paris, it's not even dawn on Thursday when students
[00:24:11] block the entrance to a high school in anticipation of the general strike
[00:24:14] mobilization. Police arrive at the scene and
[00:24:18] Sky with its correspondent Yiannis.
[00:24:45] The movement will last a long time and people will block the economy to be able to make the
[00:24:49] government give in anyway.
[00:25:51] on the streets with the main demand being measures against price increases.
[00:25:55] Police forces across from them charge,
[00:25:58] throwing flashbang grenades.
[00:26:35] The mobilization is accompanied musically by an outdoor concert by
[00:26:39] artists who are on strike.
[00:26:42] 220 demonstrations are taking place in dozens of French cities,
[00:26:46] causing new upheavals in the already fragile French
[00:26:49] economy.
[00:26:55] In the United States, after the debacle in the midterm
[00:26:58] elections, the blame game follows for what caused the Republican party
[00:27:02] to lose Congress. The first stab is thrown by the number two of the government,
[00:27:06] JD Vance is quick to blame Trump for his choice of
[00:27:10] war in Iran and the American president says that the lengthy post was made
[00:27:13] in consultation. Some within the party point to the
[00:27:17] Secretary of Defense as the culprit, who convinced them that involvement in Iran would be short, just
[00:27:21] like the kidnapping of Maduro. Developments are accelerating within
[00:27:25] the Republican ranks after their major defeat in the midterm
[00:27:28] elections, with eyes set on the 2020 presidential elections.
[00:28:35] At the same time, Republican politicians are increasingly calling for the beheading of the
[00:28:39] Secretary of Defense, as he played a decisive
[00:28:42] role in Trump's decision to attack Iran.
[00:28:55] Publicly, the president continues to defend the Secretary of
[00:28:59] Defense.
[00:29:05] According to CNN, the House of Representatives may even vote next
[00:29:08] week on a motion to impeach the
[00:29:11] Pentagon chief. The elections,
[00:29:14] are the political footprint, but also the
[00:29:17] reactions of the markets, and these
[00:29:20] reactions were not good. At least let's see why these
[00:29:24] reactions were not good. We had a free fall in the Nasdaq index, which is the
[00:29:27] technology index, a free fall also in the S&P 500. Nikos
[00:29:31] Filippidis is with me. What did the markets
[00:29:34] do? Did they see the election result? Did they see the Democrats having Congress
[00:29:37] and get so worried? Is it AI that's worrying? Is it the data
[00:29:41] centers that are worrying? What is it that we have these prices,
[00:29:45] Nikos? First of all, yesterday we had a big rise and only those
[00:29:48] that had lagged were technology stocks. Today, when the
[00:29:52] positive influence from other sectors left, technology
[00:29:55] stocks started to be valued with the problem. What is the problem? The problem is that President
[00:29:59] Trump had a series of policies which fueled
[00:30:03] either the big 7 as he likes to
[00:30:07] call them or in various ways to refer to them, or even
[00:30:10] more companies that have been created and are located and have
[00:30:14] created these explosion prices of many
[00:30:17] trillions over 25 trillion was the valuation of
[00:30:21] these specific companies until today. What's happening today around
[00:30:25] noon? Suddenly, the entire technology
[00:30:29] sector turns downwards. In half an hour, they lose. As we speak, the losses have
[00:30:35] widened, they are over 5% in the Nasdaq index, it is the
[00:30:38] worst day since April 2025 and the day of Donald Trump's
[00:30:42] freedom, the day of tariffs, when the American
[00:30:45] stock market was criticized again, and of course many
[00:30:48] stocks are leading, some of which are very well-known, others, to be
[00:30:51] honest, we also know in Greece, I saw Elon Musk's and we understand that because
[00:30:55] είναι τις ξέρουμε και στην Ελλάδα, εγώ είδα του Elon Musk και καταλαβαίνουμε ότι επειδή
[00:30:59] Musk'.