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[00:00:40] Good morning Romania, it's 7 o'clock on a Monday, October
[00:00:43] 12th. Rain is coming our way. Umbrellas open faster
[00:00:47] than government negotiations. Trump agrees with Putin on
[00:00:50] diesel. Until yesterday, Russia had to be isolated. Today, it can
[00:00:53] deliver. Principles have reached the pump and are sold by the liter. Ukraine counts
[00:00:57] victims, America watches prices, and the Kremlin seeks
[00:01:01] clients. We count statements. The designated prime minister seeks
[00:01:04] votes, parties seek conditions, Romanians, well, they seek an
[00:01:08] explanation. Every leader has a red line. From all these red
[00:01:11] lines, the country would need at least one direction. Who still
[00:01:15] understands the world? We are asked to be patient with politics and have money for
[00:01:19] all its consequences? To accept that the enemy can become a supplier,
[00:01:22] but the neighbor in parliament remains impossible to bear. We begin
[00:01:26] to see the most important events of this morning.
[00:01:34] Three people died and two were seriously injured in a road accident
[00:01:37] on DN67 in Mihăiești,
[00:01:40] Vâlcea county. Several rescue teams intervened at
[00:01:44] the scene. Designated Prime Minister Luca Niculescu
[00:01:47] continues negotiations for the formation of the new government. Today he has scheduled meetings with
[00:01:51] USR and minorities. After last week he spoke with
[00:01:54] PSD, PNL and UDMR. By Thursday, Niculescu must finalize
[00:01:58] the governing program and the list of ministers.
[00:02:02] A cold morning at this hour, even rainy in the south of the country. Moreover,
[00:02:05] meteorologists have issued a yellow code for unstable
[00:02:08] weather. We'll have details in a few moments.
[00:02:19] quantities will be 30-50
[00:02:24] Serious road accident in Mihăiești, Vâlcea
[00:02:27] county. Attention, there are images that may affect you emotionally. Three
[00:02:31] people died and two were seriously injured in the hospital. The accident involved
[00:02:35] two cars with five people inside. Three of the
[00:02:38] victims remained trapped and firefighters intervened to extract them.
[00:02:42] Two of the extricated people were conscious and cooperative, but
[00:02:46] the third was declared deceased. The two seriously
[00:02:49] injured victims were transported to the emergency unit in
[00:02:52] Vâlcea. Firefighters, SMURD teams and ambulances intervened at
[00:02:55] the scene.
[00:02:59] The weather is getting much colder and the mild autumn until now and the
[00:03:03] generous sunshine of recent weeks are becoming a memory. Rains will gradually
[00:03:06] cover most of the country, and the counties around
[00:03:09] the capital enter a yellow code for abundant precipitation. Meteo-sensitive
[00:03:13] people feel such changes. The explanation is primarily
[00:03:17] biological. Natural light regulates the body's internal clock,
[00:03:20] and less light can alter melatonin
[00:03:23] secretion.
[00:03:25] After an October start with temperatures higher than the seasonal norm, the weather is changing
[00:03:29] radically. Rains will cover most of the country, and temperatures will drop even
[00:03:33] by over 10°. In Bucharest and a few other counties in Muntenia and Oltenia,
[00:03:37] as well as for the Curvature Carpathians area, there is a yellow code for abundant
[00:03:40] rains. With the penetration of a very cold
[00:03:44] air mass from northern latitudes, temperatures tend
[00:03:47] to drop significantly, by over
[00:03:51] 10°, and we will reach
[00:03:53] a short time. The Kharkiv thermal values generally between 11 and
[00:03:57] 17°, and minimums will drop even
[00:04:00] below freezing point. On the other hand, there will also be rains.
[00:04:04] The change in weather can affect meteo-sensitive people. Fewer hours of natural
[00:04:07] light in the autumn and winter months can disrupt the circadian rhythm, which
[00:04:11] influences serotonin and melatonin levels, and this changes good
[00:04:15] mood, energy, and sleep. For many people, such reactions to weather changes
[00:04:19] do not exist, but others feel them seriously. Not yet, at this age, no,
[00:04:22] I hope not later either. No, no, we try to draw energy from
[00:04:26] everything, from any activity. We can say that
[00:04:30] a change is observed in our state, in our
[00:04:33] mental state, so to speak, in the sense that we inevitably become more
[00:04:37] melancholic, more depressed. Seasonal
[00:04:41] affective disorder is a form of depression that reappears at the same time of year, but
[00:04:45] doctors warn that not all autumn fatigue is asthenia and not all bad mood
[00:04:49] is seasonal depression. A study
[00:04:52] showed that serotonin in the brain decreases
[00:04:55] in winter. This causes fatigue, drowsiness, and
[00:04:59] cravings for sweets. Fatigue that doesn't go away
[00:05:02] can also have other causes, such as anemia, vitamin
[00:05:06] B12 deficiency, thyroid problems,
[00:05:10] diabetes, or lack of sleep. Among the easy
[00:05:14] solutions available to meteo-sensitive people are exposure to
[00:05:17] sun and fresh air, any form of exercise, including walks, a
[00:05:20] diet with more vitamins, and necessarily restful
[00:05:23] sleep.
[00:05:25] Winter is knocking, and the wave of respiratory viruses is starting to claim
[00:05:29] more and more victims among the population. Family doctors
[00:05:32] warn that hospitals and clinics are filling up with patients with severe
[00:05:35] fever, causing whole days of absence from
[00:05:38] work and serious complications for children and the elderly. Doctors
[00:05:42] insist that the most effective method of protection against severe forms of
[00:05:46] illness remains timely influenza vaccination, before the outbreak
[00:05:49] of the seasonal epidemic. The vaccine is free or compensated for
[00:05:53] vulnerable categories, including people with chronic diseases, children
[00:05:57] and the elderly, and can be prescribed directly by the family doctor.
[00:06:00] Specialists recommend that citizens avoid crowds, maintain rigorous
[00:06:04] hand hygiene, and consult a doctor immediately at the
[00:06:08] first symptoms of illness, without resorting to antibiotic treatments based on
[00:06:12] hearsay. Here will be today's perfumes, clothes and
[00:06:15] cosmetics bought with institutional money, but also contracts
[00:06:18] worth millions of lei awarded directly, these are the irregularities
[00:06:22] reported at the National Administration of Meteorology following
[00:06:25] checks by the control body of the Ministry of Environment. Diana
[00:06:28] Buzoianu calls for the resignation of the leadership and announces that the report will be sent to
[00:06:32] the General Prosecutor's Office and the Court of Accounts. ANM Director Elena
[00:06:35] Mateescu claims that she did not use the institutional card and did not
[00:06:39] approve illegal acquisitions. She states that she ordered an internal
[00:06:43] audit and notified the police already in August after the discovery
[00:06:46] of some irregularities. Last night, in the show "Corridors of Power" on TVR Info,
[00:06:50] the Minister of Environment spoke about contracts that would have been
[00:06:53] awarded directly to two companies. Diana Buzoianu claims that
[00:06:57] the procurement department is under Elena Mateescu's direct
[00:07:00] authority and that she would have signed the contested
[00:07:03] acquisitions.
[00:07:06] The control body actually brought to light many more
[00:07:09] problems than just this part of
[00:07:13] unjustified expenses from cards.
[00:07:16] One of the essential things they uncovered was that in recent years,
[00:07:20] contracts worth millions were given by direct
[00:07:24] acquisition to two companies
[00:07:27] affiliated with ANM, even though there are very clear
[00:07:30] limits for what you can do by direct
[00:07:34] acquisition, an amount of 27,000 RON. So
[00:07:38] practically, we see systematically how money was
[00:07:41] used, including to favor, let's
[00:07:45] say, some crony companies close to this institution.
[00:07:49] And I just want to mention that Ms. Mateescu, the director,
[00:07:53] has the procurement department under her direct
[00:07:56] subordination, so all these acquisitions
[00:08:00] were signed by her at some point,
[00:08:04] no matter how much she tries to exclude herself from this
[00:08:06] process. Today, designated Prime Minister Luca
[00:08:10] Niculescu enters his second week of negotiations with one of the most difficult
[00:08:14] meetings, USR. After discussions with PSD, PNL and
[00:08:17] UDMR, the designated prime minister tries to find out if he can gather the
[00:08:21] 233 necessary votes and says
[00:08:25] that he wants to have the governing program and the list of
[00:08:29] ministers ready by Thursday. USR, however, comes with a complicated
[00:08:32] condition: it does not want PSD ministers in a cabinet
[00:08:35] that it would support. This forces
[00:08:39] Niculescu to find a formula that does not lose precisely
[00:08:42] the party without which the majority is very difficult to build, because
[00:08:46] PSD has already put its own conditions on the table.
[00:08:49] The Social Democrats demand a political government,
[00:08:52] not a purely technocratic one, and presented a list of
[00:08:56] priorities: no new tax increases next year,
[00:08:59] pension indexation, elimination of CASSS for certain
[00:09:02] categories, payment of state arrears to companies,
[00:09:06] budgetary rectification and administrative reform. The stakes
[00:09:09] for Luca Niculescu are to take on enough
[00:09:12] of these demands to get the PSD votes without losing
[00:09:16] the support of the other parties. And the designated prime minister has
[00:09:19] already started to outline what he wants to do. He spoke about
[00:09:23] pension indexation with priority for low
[00:09:26] incomes, resumption of the unitary wage law, measures for
[00:09:30] economic recovery, protection of purchasing power, and preparation
[00:09:34] of the budget for next year. But he also has a limit: the Romanian
[00:09:37] deficit remains under pressure from markets and rating agencies, and any
[00:09:41] new promise must come with real money behind it. PNL says
[00:09:45] it can support this government, but
[00:09:48] does not want to enter a cabinet together with PSD. UDMR is
[00:09:52] open to support, including from outside the executive, and AUR
[00:09:55] announced a vote against. And after USR, Niculescu also discusses with
[00:09:59] minorities and parliamentary groups. The last attempt at
[00:10:02] government, you know, stopped at 182 votes. The necessary
[00:10:05] threshold is 233 votes.
[00:10:09] So, today's discussion with USR alone does not decide the government. But
[00:10:12] it can tell if Niculescu manages to build a bridge
[00:10:16] between the almost incompatible conditions
[00:10:19] of the parties. If not, by Thursday he may have a program and a
[00:10:22] list of ministers, but not yet
[00:10:25] the necessary majority to reach Victoria
[00:10:28] Palace. A busy day for the former independent
[00:10:31] candidate in the presidential elections. Călin Georgescu has
[00:10:35] a packed schedule from the early hours of the morning. At 8:00 he will be
[00:10:38] taken to Dicot where IT searches continue. An
[00:10:42] hour later he will arrive at the Bucharest Tribunal, where he will ask for the replacement of preventive
[00:10:46] arrest with judicial control. And at
[00:10:49] 12:00 he is expected at the Bucharest Court of Appeal, where a new
[00:10:53] hearing is scheduled in the case in which he is accused of attempted coup
[00:10:56] d'état.
[00:11:00] The energy truce announced by Donald Trump did not prevent new Russian
[00:11:04] attacks on Ukraine. A power plant in Kharkiv was hit just
[00:11:07] hours after the American president's message. In Kyiv,
[00:11:11] half of the city was left without electricity, and residents are
[00:11:14] warned that they could be without power, heating, and
[00:11:18] water for days. Pope Leo will undergo surgery after doctors
[00:11:22] discovered a nodule in one of his lungs. The intervention will take
[00:11:25] place in the coming days, and recovery is expected to take about a
[00:11:29] week. During this time, the sovereign pontiff's audiences and official
[00:11:33] activities will be suspended. We'll detail everything
[00:11:35] immediately.
[00:11:43] Yes, it's Monday morning, the weather is changing, it has already changed
[00:11:47] radically and will change in most
[00:12:25] northwest and southwest of the country temperatures remain pleasant, but in
[00:12:29] the rest, the weather will cool significantly. The sky will have
[00:12:31] clouds and it will rain in most of Oltenia, Muntenia
[00:12:35] and Moldova, and isolated in the other regions. We expect
[00:12:39] abundant showers in the south and in the mountain area, and the water
[00:12:44] liters per square meter. At altitudes above
[00:12:47] 1500 m, there will be sleet and snow, and
[00:12:50] the wind will intensify on
[00:12:54] the crests. It is in western Oltenia, eastern Muntenia,
[00:12:58] Dobrogea, southern Moldova and Al Banat with speeds generally
[00:13:02] of 45-50 km/h.
[00:13:05] Well, it's quite a cold morning, it will get even colder during the day.
[00:13:09] In the depressions we have frost and fog, and at this
[00:13:12] moment it's 10° in Suceava, the clouds have already covered the sky and
[00:13:16] it has started to rain. In Iași we have 13°, Constanța here
[00:13:20] 16°, in the capital,
[00:13:23] currently we have 8-9°, but
[00:13:26] temperatures will rise to 15°. In
[00:13:30] Craiova 8°, Timișoara 8°,
[00:13:33] today, Oradea, 8°, Cluj, Napoca, 9°,
[00:13:36] Sibiu, 10°, and
[00:13:39] temperatures will rise to 12° by noon.
[00:13:42] Today we will have highs between
[00:13:44] 13° in depressions and 23°
[00:13:48] in Dobrogea. Well, the sun will
[00:13:52] appear in the sky at some point at
[00:13:55] 7:26 minutes and will set at
[00:13:58] 18:36.
[00:14:14] Donald Trump wrote, lasted
[00:14:18] thermal power plant was the target of a massive attack approximately three hours after
[00:14:22] the American president's post. We warn you that the following
[00:14:25] images and information may emotionally affect you. Shortly after
[00:14:28] this new attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, at least three
[00:14:32] people died and 25 were injured in a strike
[00:14:36] on Kharkiv's suburbs. Among the victims were
[00:14:39] three children. Several apartments, cars, and a grocery store
[00:14:42] were destroyed. Moreover, Ukraine had no information at any
[00:14:46] time about the energy truce announced by Trump, a high-ranking
[00:14:50] official cited by Kyiv media stated. The capital of
[00:14:54] Ukraine is on alert after half of the city was left
[00:14:57] without electricity. A high-voltage main
[00:15:00] was damaged after an attack launched by the Russians, and water
[00:15:04] pressure dropped throughout the network. Residents were warned to prepare
[00:15:07] for at least three days without electricity, heating,
[00:15:11] or running water.
[00:15:15] The most extensive list of sanctions against Russia is today submitted
[00:15:18] to the attention of the foreign ministers of the European Union, meeting in
[00:15:22] Luxembourg. Around 1600 measures
[00:15:25] target only Moscow's defense industry, construction
[00:15:28] companies and organizations, shipbuilding, aviation, electronics, and the
[00:15:32] aerospace sector. This is the largest list of new sanctions
[00:15:36] ever presented for analysis at the community bloc level. On
[00:15:40] today's meeting agenda are also the escalation of Russia's hybrid campaign
[00:15:44] and security challenges in the Black Sea. Romania will also
[00:15:47] welcome, through the voice of the Foreign Minister, the opening of new negotiation
[00:15:51] chapters for Moldova and
[00:15:53] Ukraine.
[00:15:56] Romania asks Ukraine to preserve the current network of schools with Romanian
[00:16:00] language instruction. The request comes in the context of the Ukrainian education
[00:16:03] reform, which from next year could drastically reduce the number of Romanian
[00:16:06] high schools. At the same time, the Parliament in Kyiv is expected to debate a new law
[00:16:10] on national minority rights, important for
[00:16:13] negotiations for accession to the European Union. The project is supported
[00:16:16] by the Hungarian minority, but causes dissatisfaction in the Romanian
[00:16:20] community in Ukraine. And President Maia Sandu also asked Kyiv to
[00:16:23] preserve Romanian
[00:16:24] high schools.
[00:16:39] high school after 11th grade. From next year, the secondary
[00:16:42] cycle will include 9th grade. Then there will
[00:16:46] be three years of high school. In the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine, there are now
[00:16:50] 44 high schools with Romanian-language instruction. Next year's reform
[00:16:54] stipulates that only 15 Romanian high schools will remain
[00:16:58] until 12th grade, the remaining 29 will be
[00:17:02] gymnasiums, meaning up to 9th grade. The Romanian high school in
[00:17:05] Crasna is in a pilot project with 12
[00:17:09] classes, while the high school in Suceveni will become a gymnasium with
[00:17:12] nine classes. Maria and Alisa are students here in 9th
[00:17:16] grade. From next year they will be forced to commute to another
[00:17:20] locality to continue their studies in Romanian.
[00:17:23] I would still like to stay here in my high school, in
[00:17:27] my native village, because I have spent so many
[00:17:30] years here, I want to continue
[00:17:33] my studies here in my mother tongue, not to go elsewhere.
[00:17:38] Marinela is the mother of another 9th grade student from Suceveni High School.
[00:17:41] From next year, she will no longer be able to study
[00:17:45] here. Continuing
[00:17:48] to study in another locality
[00:17:51] implies daily commuting for the children, which
[00:17:55] no one guarantees me that during
[00:17:58] the journeys the children
[00:18:01] will be safe during alarms.
[00:18:05] And teachers are also dissatisfied that their high school remains only
[00:18:09] a gymnasium. I am not against reforms, no,
[00:18:12] but anyway, I want the children to finish,
[00:18:16] if they started here in first grade, to finish. Romania has
[00:18:20] officially asked Ukraine to maintain the existing number of schools with
[00:18:23] Romanian language instruction and to avoid regressive
[00:18:26] measures. Our goal now is to preserve our historic
[00:18:30] network of educational schools.
[00:18:34] Exceptions should be applied to minorities.
[00:19:07] 98 communes in Suceava county, look,
[00:19:11] not every one of your communes has a
[00:19:14] high school, but
[00:19:17] gymnasiums. The TVR team carried out these filmings in
[00:19:20] the Chernivtsi region of Ukraine as part of the "Romanian Presences" project of
[00:19:23] TVR International, co-financed by the Department for
[00:19:27] Romanians Everywhere. A more extensive report on the education
[00:19:30] reform in Ukraine will be broadcast on TVR International
[00:19:34] soon.
[00:19:37] drastic measures adopted in Europe to protect the mental health of children.
[00:19:41] The Greek government has launched a revolutionary bill that aims to restrict
[00:19:44] children's and adolescents' access to social networks and
[00:19:48] online entertainment platforms. The legislative
[00:19:51] initiative provides for the mandatory age verification of users
[00:19:54] through secure digital systems and the prohibition of autonomous accounts for
[00:19:58] children under a certain age, without parental consent. The decision comes in
[00:20:02] the context of the alarming increase in cases of cyberbullying,
[00:20:06] screen addiction, and attention problems among
[00:20:09] young people. The Hellenic model could be adopted at
[00:20:13] the level of the entire European Union. Authorities are seeking a balance
[00:20:17] between the digital security of minors and freedom of access to
[00:20:20] information.
[00:20:25] Conflict over the future European budget and Romania could be directly
[00:20:28] affected. The Irish Presidency of the Union wants an
[00:20:32] 8% reduction compared to the Commission's proposal for the next seven
[00:20:36] years. Other countries, led by Germany, want an even smaller
[00:20:39] budget. France, on the other hand, advocates for an increase in community finances, together with
[00:20:43] 17 other beneficiary states of European funds. Romania will
[00:20:47] oppose the cuts.
[00:20:51] the rotating presidency of the European Union proposed an 8%
[00:20:55] reduction in the European Commission's budget for the period
[00:20:58] 2028-2034. The amount would be
[00:21:02] 1.6 trillion euros. This is a compromise
[00:21:05] formula. Six countries, led by Germany, those that contribute
[00:21:08] substantially to the community budget, demand even larger
[00:21:11] reductions of hundreds of millions of euros. Romanian MEPs
[00:21:14] fear that key areas for Romanian infrastructure and economy
[00:21:18] would benefit from much smaller funding in
[00:21:21] the coming years. Romania currently
[00:21:24] depends on European Funds for public investments.
[00:21:28] Six out of ten public investments in Romania were made with
[00:21:32] European money, because these European funds translated into
[00:21:36] modernized schools and hospitals, as well as funding for farmers.
[00:21:39] And in this proposal, it is clear that cohesion policy and
[00:21:43] the common agricultural policy would be the policies that would
[00:21:47] suffer the most. I am the author
[00:21:50] of the proposal to tax
[00:21:54] online betting platforms. Only this proposal would bring to
[00:21:57] the common European budget approximately 24
[00:22:00] billion euros, an amount that corresponds to
[00:22:04] the Erasmus program. Other sources of funding could come from
[00:22:07] taxing cryptocurrencies, as well as from deferring loan payments
[00:22:11] made by the European Commission under the Recovery and Resilience
[00:22:14] Mechanism, more precisely from the time of the pandemic. Together with
[00:22:18] 16 other countries, Romania
[00:22:23] wants to negotiate a more solid budget for the coming years.
[00:22:27] Romania will certainly reject this proposal for cuts from
[00:22:30] the Irish presidency, because it goes even below the proposal
[00:22:34] of the European Commission. We,
[00:22:37] in the European Parliament, asked for an increase of this budget by
[00:22:40] 10%. I think we will enter a very tough negotiation stage
[00:22:44] between member states and the European Union, which cannot do more with less
[00:22:48] money. The multi-annual budget of the European Union must be voted by all
[00:22:52] 27 member states to be adopted. Heads of state and
[00:22:55] government should reach a compromise by the end of this
[00:23:17] published in The Lancet says that nuclear war
[00:23:21] and the abusive use of artificial intelligence could threaten the existence of
[00:23:24] humanity by 2100. The authors
[00:23:26] state, however, that the probability of these scenarios remains still
[00:23:30] low. The Lancet Commission on global health
[00:23:33] threats, consisting of 35 experts,
[00:23:37] analyzed hundreds of risks and chose for the
[00:23:41] period 2025-200
[00:23:43] according to Mediafax, only two can lead to the extinction
[00:23:47] of the species: a nuclear conflict that would cause
[00:23:50] global destruction and the malicious use of artificial
[00:23:54] intelligence for biological weapons. The list also includes
[00:23:57] air pollution, pandemics, antibiotic resistance, smoking,
[00:24:01] hypertension, obesity, and mental health
[00:24:04] problems. The figures that can affect are those about
[00:24:08] climate and international aid. Limiting global warming to
[00:24:11] 1.8° instead of 4.4° could
[00:24:15] save 1.89 billion healthy life
[00:24:19] years. A drastic reduction in health aid would
[00:24:22] cost up to 1.5 billion years,
[00:24:25] almost 70% of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
[00:24:29] Christopher Murray, co-chair of the commission, stated, quoted by The Guardian,
[00:24:33] that the decisions of today's leaders shape the health of future
[00:24:36] generations. Romania is doing poorly in many of these risks;
[00:24:40] avoidable mortality exceeds 500
[00:24:44] deaths per 10,000 inhabitants, almost double the European average of
[00:24:47] 258.
[00:24:50] Air pollution causes over 108 deaths per 10,000
[00:24:53] inhabitants per year, according to the European Environment Agency cited by the journal,
[00:24:57] and health receives approximately
[00:25:00] 5.8% of GDP compared to about 10%
[00:25:04] which is the average in the European Union. The report does not
[00:25:07] create panic. Ibrahim Abuqar, a member of the commission, says
[00:25:11] that the goal is to provide decision-makers with information about risks
[00:25:14] that can be reduced through public policies. The assessment will be
[00:25:17] updated annually. The disappearance of humanity
[00:25:20] is unlikely, but some of the risks in this report
[00:25:23] are already killing more people in Romania than in the rest of Europe,
[00:25:27] and that is something that should make us think.
[00:25:41] The World Health Organization claims that the reasons why
[00:25:45] an employee of a laboratory in Siberia died of pneumonia and
[00:25:48] no case of plague has been confirmed remain unclear. Russia officially
[00:25:52] announced that the results of the analyses performed on both the body of
[00:25:55] the deceased and those who came into contact with her
[00:25:59] are negative for pneumonic plague and other dangerous
[00:26:02] pathogens. However, the analyses cannot be independently verified, and
[00:26:06] least regarding official
[00:26:09] information. Globally, between 2019 and
[00:26:13] 2025, over 3800 suspected cases
[00:26:16] of plague have been reported, mainly in Southern Africa. The disease has never
[00:26:20] been eradicated and persists in animals. The difference
[00:26:23] from the Middle Ages is that now there are much more efficient diagnostic
[00:26:27] methods and
[00:26:28] treatments.
[00:26:31] Pope Leo will undergo surgery after doctors discovered
[00:26:35] a nodule in one of his lungs. The announcement was made
[00:26:38] by the Pontiff himself, who said that the intervention will take place in the coming
[00:26:42] days. He specified that the nodule was discovered in time and
[00:26:45] was precisely located. The Vatican explained that post-operative
[00:26:49] recovery will take one week, during which all
[00:26:53] official activities and audiences of the Pope will be
[00:26:55] suspended. The visit scheduled to Latin America at
[00:26:59] the beginning of next month remains valid. Doctors are optimistic
[00:27:02] that the 71-year-old Pontiff will recover by
[00:27:06] then.
[00:27:13] 7:27 minutes. We will immediately review some
[00:27:17] headlines from the domestic and international press. And we start with, in fact, Hungro
[00:27:20] which writes that changes in apartments could double
[00:27:23] the tax, for example, if you enclosed the balcony without legal
[00:27:27] documents, you could wake up to a 100% increase in
[00:27:30] local taxes. The new code of
[00:27:33] territorial planning, urbanism and constructions introduces
[00:27:37] severe fiscal sanctions for unauthorized works and there are very, very many such cases.
[00:27:41] Der Speagle writes that a gang of Romanians committed 29
[00:27:44] burglaries in Germany, and with the stolen money they bought
[00:27:48] luxury houses and gold bars. Today begins
[00:27:51] the trial against six of the suspects, note the journalists. According
[00:27:55] to prosecutors, the suspects are between 20 and 47 years old and
[00:27:58] operated especially in the states of Saxony Anhalt, Bavaria and Brandenburg.
[00:28:02] BBC presents the story of a family from Great Britain who
[00:28:06] sold everything they had and left the world. Although they had a
[00:28:10] beautiful house, solid careers and even a small business. The two spouses
[00:28:13] took their three children and went to Indonesia. Now
[00:28:17] their belongings fit into a few
[00:28:18] backpacks.
[00:28:26] Drivers who want to buy hybrid cars from China might have to
[00:28:29] wait longer for some brands and models.
[00:28:34] comes from car dealers after the European Union and China reached an agreement to reduce
[00:28:37] exports to the common market. The measure was expected by major
[00:28:41] European car manufacturers, given that the market share of Chinese
[00:28:45] hybrid cars has increased significantly in recent
[00:28:47] years. Gheorghe Ion is from Ploiești and would like
[00:28:51] to buy a Chinese hybrid car. He came to the Bucharest
[00:28:54] Auto Show to see what offers the dealers have. He says he has several
[00:28:58] reasons why he turned to Chinese manufacturers.
[00:29:02] Firstly, the price seems more accessible than cars from
[00:29:06] Europe, they seem more accessible in terms of price, they offer
[00:29:09] a greater number of kilometers in electric autonomy than
[00:29:13] what we were used to in the European market. In recent years, Romanian
[00:29:17] drivers have become increasingly interested in Chinese cars. Only in
[00:29:21] September, out of over 1100 new cars
[00:29:24] registered in our country, almost 1900, which is approximately
[00:29:27] 17% of the total, belonged to Chinese
[00:29:31] brands. Moreover, a major Chinese car manufacturer
[00:29:34] rose to fourth place in sales. This is shown by the latest
[00:29:38] official statistics. And in Europe, the market share of vehicles
[00:29:42] from China has grown substantially. For Plugin hybrid cars, it has
[00:29:46] risen from 2% in 2024 to
[00:29:49] 25% in the first 6 months of this year, so
[00:29:53] authorities have taken measures to protect the local industry.
[00:29:56] The European Union has reached an agreement with China to limit
[00:30:00] exports of hybrid cars to the market.
[00:30:33] in Europe, so that they have a production line
[00:30:37] in Europe as well, could stimulate future
[00:30:40] sales, because existing
[00:30:44] customers could purchase the
[00:30:47] current models. Ultimately, the buyer will have the final say, because as long as the commercial
[00:30:50] offer is more competitive, the buyer
[00:30:54] will set the trend. Representatives of the European
[00:30:57] automotive industry expect the trade agreement to...