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00:00:00about the residents of Võru. The question is whether they can be trusted.
00:00:04Watch the show "Relvavennad" (Weapon Brothers). Monday evening at
00:00:068:00 PM on Estonian Television.
00:00:34"Estonia's heart health is one of the worst in the European
00:00:36Union,
00:00:39whatever we can think of to make youth overweight and lack of
00:00:42movement less of a problem than it is now.
00:00:45On the last day of the Russian elections, Moscow was hit
00:00:48by a large-scale Ukrainian
00:00:50drone attack.
00:00:52The rising price of car fuel makes filling the fuel tank
00:00:55more modest.
00:00:58The heating season is coming, so..." in that sense, indeed, diesel is currently the biggest concern
00:01:02primarily in Europe and worldwide.
00:01:05The autumn political season has started
00:01:08vigorously. It is also a moment where there is a little
00:01:14given that testing of who can potentially be cooperated with after the elections and who
00:01:17cannot. Good evening, viewers, the "Aktuaalne kaamera"
00:01:21weekend program on September 20th. Estonia's
00:01:25heart health is one of the worst in the European Union, both premature mortality and
00:01:28health loss are very high. According to cardiologists, the most important thing
00:01:32would be to get under control both childhood obesity
00:01:35and cardiovascular diseases. To detect diseases
00:01:38earlier, hopes are now being placed
00:01:40on occupational health doctors.
00:01:42If one thing is the most important in the world of diseases, then it is cardiovascular
00:01:46diseases. These are the most common chronic
00:01:50diseases in Estonia, but also the most common cause of death. They also
00:01:53cause the most premature mortality. The peculiarity
00:01:57of heart diseases is that we know quite well
00:02:00why heart diseases arise, unlike many other diseases, and
00:02:04we have means to intervene, but these means must
00:02:08be applied and one must be consistent. According to Elmet,
00:02:11these are largely lifestyle diseases, the risks of which can be reduced
00:02:15by changing one's behavior. It is many times cheaper to prevent diseases, to avert them, than
00:02:19to treat the consequences, i.e., to extinguish the fire.
00:02:22This is very expensive, and not only us, but also other European
00:02:26rich countries cannot afford it financially.
00:02:30"If cardiovascular diseases account for 25% of preventable
00:02:34mortality in Europe, then in Estonia it is 30%. According to cardiologist Alar
00:02:37Irs, to reduce preventable deaths, it is necessary to urgently address
00:02:41the rapidly growing problem of childhood obesity. If in
00:02:442001, 7% of teenagers were overweight, then twenty
00:02:48years later, 20% of children are already overweight. Whatever
00:02:52we can think of to make youth obesity and lack of
00:02:55movement less of a problem than it is now, that
00:02:58must be done. Secondly," it is definitely necessary to start dealing with people who are at
00:03:02risk of developing cardiovascular diseases. For example,
00:03:05high blood pressure in Estonia is the clearest
00:03:09target, these people can be found based on current data,
00:03:13if we find them. And education and treatment
00:03:17in that direction will prevent them from getting heart attacks, strokes
00:03:20as complications of hypertension. Since visiting an occupational health doctor
00:03:24is the only mandatory doctor's visit, in the near future, they will start testing if it
00:03:28would be possible to detect diseases earlier there. The occupational health doctor performs various
00:03:32analyses, asks for health information, and then
00:03:34assesses that if a person has a higher risk of developing
00:03:37a cardiovascular disease or
00:03:40already has a disease that is not monitored, then
00:03:43the occupational health doctor creates a more specialized
00:03:46prevention plan for them, advises them, and perhaps
00:03:50documents it a little better than today. Keeping an eye on a person's health
00:03:54remains the family doctor's responsibility. On average, 27
00:03:57to 70 thousand people with high blood pressure visit
00:04:00the doctor within a year, whose treatment costs are nearly 36 million
00:04:03euros. The cost of circulatory system diseases to the Health Insurance Fund
00:04:07is on average 203 million euros per year.
00:04:11On the last day of the Russian state elections, Moscow was hit by a large-scale
00:04:14Ukrainian drone attack, which killed at least two people and
00:04:17damaged a large oil refinery.
00:04:20The ongoing elections are the first since the start of Russia's war of aggression, and
00:04:24residents of occupied Ukrainian territories
00:04:26are also participating. According to Moscow Mayor Sergey
00:04:30Yanin, approximately 1600 Ukrainian drones flew towards the capital,
00:04:34of which Russian air defense shot down 450. It is not known
00:04:37how many drones Ukraine actually sent towards the Russian capital.
00:04:40not known.
00:04:46I literally take 20 steps from the entrance,
00:04:49and there's an explosion, glass flies, screams and shouts start,
00:04:53I turn around, that's it, the entrance door is torn off,
00:04:56everywhere everything is debris, this is lying around.
00:04:59However,
00:05:00political observers are generally convinced that besides
00:05:08the usual destruction of oil refineries, the aim of today's attack was
00:05:11to show Muscovites that the war is still on their doorstep
00:05:15and elections will change nothing here, change can only be brought by the Russian government's
00:05:19decision to declare the war over. According to the Central Election Commission,
00:05:21Russia's electronic election system was also hit by countless
00:05:25cyberattacks, and Russia's telecommunications infrastructure
00:05:28as a whole was also attacked. Regarding the election
00:05:32results in a country where it is wiser not to express your opinion if it
00:05:36does not align with that of the rulers, there is, of course, no doubt. Especially since
00:05:39the only party opposed to the war of aggression, Yabloko,
00:06:17According to the Central Election Commission, voter turnout was already
00:06:2145% by noon. There were practically no
00:06:24foreign observers at the elections; for example, observers from the Organization
00:06:28for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were not allowed
00:06:31at the elections. The campaign was sluggish, often even the candidates themselves
00:06:34did not bother to show up at events. According to Hungarian journalist Lili Takashi,
00:06:38it's not about who wins the elections, but about how big.
00:06:46to leave an impression. According to Russian political scientist
00:06:49and coordinator of the Moscow Political Club, Ivan Preobrazhensky,
00:06:52the unserious nature of the elections is shown by the fact that the most important topic for Russia,
00:06:56the ongoing war in Ukraine, was not allowed to be discussed
00:06:59during the campaign. Also, the falsification
00:07:02of election results has reached unprecedented proportions, he said
00:07:05in an interview with the
00:07:06national broadcaster.
00:07:12something was voted on, because these elections are totally
00:07:15falsified, electronic voting
00:07:19is not controlled by anyone at all by
00:07:21definition, that is, where you can simply measure
00:07:25the number of votes by pressing buttons on the computer.
00:07:27the number
00:07:33of votes was cast today outside Russia as well, in 152 countries
00:07:37around the world, 333 polling stations were opened, including
00:07:41at the Russian Embassy in Tallinn.
00:07:43At the entrance to the embassy, the police checked and photographed the documents of all people
00:07:47who wished to participate in the voting.
00:08:03A small protest action took place today in front of the embassy. Participants
00:08:06called the elections illegal. When we
00:08:09protested there, they came to us several times.
00:09:48German Chancellor Friedrich Merz decided to remain in office despite
00:09:52his party, the Christian Democratic Union, suffering a devastating defeat in the state
00:09:55of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and the city of Berlin
00:09:58parliamentary elections.
00:10:02The Christian Democrats had to bow to the right-wing populist alternative
00:10:06for Germany. In the capital, they lost
00:10:08to the Left Party.
00:10:12the populists received as much as 38% of the votes. They probably
00:10:16won't form the state government, however, because no other party there wants to
00:10:20cooperate with them. According to Merz, the election results are
00:10:23catastrophic, but...
00:10:28"I take this responsibility because
00:10:31I want to move our country forward. I am also
00:10:34firmly convinced that the success of our reforms not only
00:10:38improves our coexistence, but also our self-image
00:10:41and our image in the world. Germany is
00:10:44capable of reform. I even go so far as to say
00:10:47that these reforms are the means
00:10:51against the authoritarian poison that comes with the "
00:11:02The sharp rise in fuel prices, especially diesel, has not made
00:11:06people drive significantly less. However, fuel sellers' statistics show that
00:11:10significantly smaller quantities are being refueled, in the hope
00:11:13that the price will fall again. Fuel sellers confirm that prices will remain high
00:11:17for a longer time. The high fuel price has not yet
00:11:21significantly reduced people's driving, but one
00:11:25fills up less fuel per fueling and therefore visits
00:11:28the gas station more often, hoping that the price will be
00:11:32a little more favorable on the next visit. The last couple of weeks these prices have been significantly higher
00:11:36than they were in August, and for ordinary people, this affects
00:11:39consumption the most in that they start consuming less
00:11:43fuel at once, and this means that they fuel up more often per month, so
00:11:47necessary trips are mostly not left undone, actually
00:11:50fuel costs have increased financially, because fuels have become
00:11:54more expensive per liter. This consumption
00:11:56is rather similar to last year, maybe a
00:12:00little smaller overall, but the number of
00:12:03fuelings has increased, so tanks are definitely not kept full,
00:12:07rather people drive with emptier tanks in the hope that fuel prices will drop again tomorrow.
00:12:10Fuel sellers do not expect a rapid
00:12:14price decrease right now; high prices will remain for a longer time already. Today, there are conflicts
00:12:18still present and rather escalated, meaning that
00:12:21reserves have at the same time diminished and the heating season is coming,
00:12:24so... in that sense, indeed, diesel is currently the biggest
00:12:28concern in Europe and worldwide, meaning that these reserves are
00:12:31small. If the high price persists, its impact will no longer
00:12:35be limited to a larger fuel bill for drivers.
00:12:38The increase in diesel prices raises transportation
00:12:41costs and passes into the prices of goods and services. All goods move
00:12:44generally on diesel-powered cars, right? So
00:12:48there is this fear that these high diesel prices might start
00:12:51spreading everywhere else. And well, one thing is
00:12:54like Estonia. "but the other is perhaps a general European picture here,
00:12:58that if we now look at the Eurozone inflation, then today
00:13:01on the market there have been speculations that the central bank
00:13:04is forced to raise interest rates maybe even twice
00:13:08and well, that will then translate into
00:13:11loan interest rates, so well, the places where, where today's
00:13:15diesel prices can start affecting life are more than just what we see at the gas station.
00:15:45week now.
00:15:50A smaller government demands more willingness to cooperate
00:15:52and compromise. I believe that in the current Riigikogu
00:15:55composition, there is
00:15:57enough of it.
00:16:14If we look at these sums, then actually this profit
00:16:18(400,000) is almost the total cost of some projects.
00:16:34On Friday, we have planned a joint singing event,
00:16:38where we expect all the people who come
00:16:41to the song festival grounds
00:16:43to join the choirs.
00:16:47now wonderland
00:16:51among some key partners of Europe, including the UK and Canada.
00:17:04The goal is in sight and
00:17:07it will be pursued with effort in terms of costs
00:17:11and the deficit
00:17:13will still be reduced.
00:17:16The autumn political season has started quite turbulently, and
00:17:20it has included a presidential election, a mortar scandal, a change
00:17:24of ministers, and the opposition's threat to overthrow the government. Anne
00:17:27Raist investigated how political observers and analysts assess
00:17:30the events and what the pre-election period for the Riigikogu elections
00:17:34will be like.
00:17:36When the Riigikogu convened on Monday, political life was already
00:17:40underway, but usually the opening session of the Riigikogu is the moment when
00:17:43parties seriously start lining up. It is quite
00:17:47turbulent for us and it is clear that both
00:17:50the coalition and the opposition are preparing for the elections and
00:17:54in addition to testing their
00:17:56advertising slogans, they are also using various power tactics
00:18:00against each other. Less than half a year remains until the Riigikogu
00:18:03elections. Kadri Simson says that in previous times, the election
00:18:09campaign started in January. This time, because the government's popularity is so low and
00:18:12the opposition feels much more
00:18:16supported, the campaign is
00:18:19exceptionally long. In the presidential elections, however, the parliamentary parties
00:18:23found common ground and elected Ülle Madise as president
00:18:26with 71 votes. Kadri Simson, who has a long political career
00:18:30behind her, believes that the achieved consensus could continue for
00:18:33the parties in the future, at least during this autumn.
00:18:37an elegant agreement between the four parties, will probably also set the tone
00:18:41for the rest of the autumn, that in Estonia there are parties who, without
00:18:45personal gain, are willing to
00:18:47cooperate on difficult issues, and
00:18:50the ability to cooperate is probably
00:18:53the biggest deficit
00:18:56in today's Estonian politics. Political scientist Tõnis Saarts
00:19:00, however, does not share Simson's opinion and says that the consensus was related
00:19:03to a specific moment, where there was a strong candidate and other
00:19:06scenarios. A pre-election agreement would not have brought bonus points
00:19:10for the parties, possible opponents were unable
00:19:13to mobilize at the decisive moment. Well,
00:19:17Isamaa here made its pragmatic choice, which
00:19:20actually also determined that in the Riigikogu
00:19:24already in the first round, the president was elected.
00:19:28The Reform Party continues with new ministers. According to Tõnis
00:19:31Saarts, the failed mortar acquisition will leave a mark
00:19:34on the Reform Party either way, because the scandal
00:19:37related to the Ministry of Defense eroded confidence in the party's most
00:19:40important area of competence. The fact that they chose
00:19:43Martin Herem as the new
00:19:46Minister of Defense was, I think,
00:19:48a very good public relations move,
00:19:52to show that yes, there were problems,
00:19:56but we brought one of Estonia's top specialists to solve
00:19:59these problems. If anything else should emerge
00:20:03when Herem starts dealing with this field more seriously,
00:20:06then that could further erode the Reform Party's
00:20:09credibility, and in such a case, this
00:20:13could have quite catastrophic consequences for the party.
00:20:17Kadri Simson says that in her opinion, the Reform Party is one
00:20:21of the most experienced parties in terms of political technology. Simson adds that renewing their image
00:20:24before elections has brought them success in the past, but then they had changed
00:20:28their coalition partner. You kick out the social democrats, you take Isamaa's
00:20:32place, in some other year you kick out Isamaa, you take the social democrats'
00:20:36place, and it would be like a new choice. But this time they didn't succeed
00:20:39last year, so no one was ready
00:20:43to fill the vacant seats of the departed social democrats,
00:20:45so now it's being done
00:20:49with a new... mission at this micro-level.
00:20:52The opposition has been talking about snap elections and
00:20:56a no-confidence vote for the Prime Minister for a long time. It is certainly
00:20:59in the opposition's interest to end this situation
00:21:02where the Reform Party holds such a dominant position, and
00:21:05it's understandable that snap elections are being talked about. Technically,
00:21:08again, it is very unlikely that the current government
00:21:12would fall in this form, or that there would be no Reform Party government, that would be very difficult for me to imagine.
00:21:16The no-confidence motion would pass if the opposition were united
00:21:20in favor of it. The Social Democrats do not support
00:21:23the no-confidence motion as long as it is not clear what the new functioning
00:21:26government will be. However, this is difficult to put together, because the Social Democrats
00:21:29do not cooperate with EKRE and will not join a new government. The "window-sitters"
00:21:33or unaligned MPs, or at least some of them, are also not
00:21:36firm supporters of the no-confidence motion. Well, they
00:21:39perfectly know that it probably won't be realized,
00:21:43and therefore they rather tried to give their voters
00:21:46a signal that well, it's being done,
00:21:49to remove the current unpopular
00:21:52government and replace it with a better
00:21:55alternative, and it was indeed rather
00:21:58such a mobilizing and
00:22:01reassuring signal
00:22:04we are dealing with your concerns and expectations. Kadri Simson, however,
00:22:07believes that a vote of no confidence will still be submitted, even if it does not
00:22:11pass, to try to show the government's weakness. Mariliis
00:22:14Jakobson says that the opposition's behavior can be interpreted from
00:22:18another angle. Currently, the opposition is quite
00:22:21diverse, so they certainly won't find
00:22:24consensus on all issues. And
00:22:27perhaps now is also a moment where there is a little
00:22:30testing of who can potentially be cooperated with
00:22:34after the elections and who cannot. According to Jakobson,
00:22:37the approaching elections may make the political situation increasingly
00:22:41tense. You can almost be sure that
00:22:44something will definitely happen, that during
00:22:47the election campaign, they will certainly
00:22:50look for ways to gain public
00:22:54attention and also maintain it. Kadri Simson, however, believes that this time
00:22:58politicians will be more restrained in their statements before the elections
00:23:01than before. Election results are not directly
00:23:05predictable as blocks, and several
00:23:07parties would like to keep open the possibility of cooperating
00:23:11with several different parties, and therefore
00:23:15they will not go into such an old-school
00:23:18confrontation where bridges are burned before
00:23:21elections and partners are excluded. According to political scientists
00:23:24and political observers, the main issue of the elections
00:23:28could be the economic situation and coping.
00:23:31According to recent polls, economic issues,
00:23:34issues of livelihood, are still important to people,
00:23:37and these have largely been ever-present issues. These issues
00:23:41will generally revolve around the economy, as I say, the voter's emotion must still be stirred up
00:23:45before the election so that they go to vote and feel that they are making the right
00:23:48decision and so on, so there will certainly be quite a lot of these
00:23:52opposing themes. The rapid development
00:23:55of artificial intelligence raises increasingly more questions: can
00:23:59humans always control increasingly capable systems? This
00:24:02week, both its developers and politicians demanded tighter
00:24:06control over AI. Veronik Uibo followed the course of events and asked what
00:24:10role Estonia plays?
00:24:14This here is just a small selection of recent incidents where
00:24:17AI agents have been performing tasks.
00:24:52Few events can bring political opponents together
00:24:55in the US for a common cause, but this week in Washington,
00:24:58both Senator Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump's ally
00:25:02Steve Bannon demanded stronger AI oversight.
00:25:21According to Estonian scientists who attended the AI conference in Washington,
00:25:24we currently have no certainty that an artificial intelligence much more capable
00:25:28than humans could be kept under control. If we build
00:25:31such an unlimited succession of increasingly smarter
00:25:35artificial intelligences, then such an AI much smarter than humans
00:25:38cannot be controlled according to the current situation,
00:25:42and until we have better control measures,
00:25:45we should not build them either. In every sense, these large
00:25:49super systems, slowing down their development would be somewhat good,
00:25:53as it reduces such a big risk that we can do something, and
00:25:56also that the economy and society can get used to it.
00:26:00Superintelligence is currently called
00:26:02a hypothetical AI that would be smarter than humans
00:26:05in almost all areas. This was also
00:26:09warned by Jacob Cookson, who helped train large
00:26:12AI models, but recently resigned, warning that by continuing
00:26:15in the same way, super AI will soon be ready
00:26:19and sci-fi movies, such as Terminator, will become
00:26:22a reality, and people are indeed
00:26:26scared.
00:26:30For example, if someone rides a bicycle their whole life,
00:26:33the risk of dying from it is
00:26:37circa 1%, meaning that many
00:26:40believe that the probability that artificial intelligence will wipe out
00:26:44all humanity, not just one person, but everyone, is
00:26:48at least five times greater, maybe even more, some believe it's over
00:26:5010% chance, so
00:26:54this is actually very worrying and it's not just,
00:26:57I say, it's not just a few individuals in artificial intelligence
00:27:00companies, but these are academics who conduct
00:27:03scientific research. To mitigate fears and dangers, it is
00:27:07absolutely necessary to set limits on the development
00:27:10of artificial intelligence. In the European Union, rules for AI have already been established,
00:27:13but a global agreement is needed. China already
00:27:16has its own regulations, Korea, for example, has adopted
00:27:20some things from the European Union,
00:27:23in Brazil, everywhere these are starting to emerge,
00:27:26so the next step would be for us to collectively
00:27:30discuss it globally as well,
00:27:33that... we could reach. Estonia can influence AI development more than
00:27:37often thought, both through the European Union and at an individual
00:27:41level. Europe has a huge amount of power and influence
00:27:44over these technology companies, because the European market
00:27:48is very large. The European Union can theoretically say
00:27:51that if you don't implement correct safety practices, don't ensure security,
00:27:55don't ensure safety, you won't get into our market. And Estonia as well, Estonia
00:27:59is one member state in the European Union, so I would like
00:28:02"Estonians to get rid of such
00:28:04a feeling of helplessness, we can talk about
00:28:08it a lot, and at an individual
00:28:10level we can vote, choose
00:28:14politicians who care about artificial intelligence,
00:28:17we can learn about artificial intelligence ourselves, use it, see how it can
00:28:21be useful, how it can be harmful, we can do all these things
00:28:24so that we don't have to take such a
00:28:27hopeless position, especially since
00:28:31AI-related risks" and paradoxically, AI
00:28:34itself helps to mitigate them. If we said, don't
00:28:37use us, then we, then we, then we would fall into an especially big
00:28:41trap, that we should actually try to maximize AI in our activities
00:28:45and economies, go into it, because it keeps
00:28:49us at least at the forefront
00:28:50of this wave. Fuel demand in the world is
00:28:54higher than supply, and stocks are low. In just two weeks,
00:28:58diesel has become 36 cents per liter more expensive on the world market.
00:29:01On the Estonian market, competition is fierce, and this prevents our gas stations from
00:29:05raising prices equivalently. The European Commission collects fuel
00:29:09consumer prices weekly in European countries. And
00:29:12according to data published this week, for example, Estonia was
00:29:1514th in the ranking of diesel pump prices,
00:29:19which means an exact middle position among
00:29:2327 countries. Finland has been at the top of the ranking for some
00:29:26weeks now, and currently 2.51
00:29:29euros per liter of diesel.
00:29:32This is 44 cents more expensive than in Estonia, almost half
00:29:35a euro. Denmark and the Netherlands are also in the
00:29:39top three. In Latvia, diesel is slightly more expensive than
00:29:42in Estonia, and in Lithuania it is 11 cents more expensive than
00:29:46in Estonia. Below 2 euros per liter, there are 11 countries
00:29:49in the diesel table, the cheapest fuel is in Malta,
00:29:531 euro and 21
00:29:55cents. Gasoline is cheaper
00:29:59than diesel at all gas stations, and here are...
00:30:02EU gasoline prices, where the top three are
00:30:05Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany. Finland is in
00:30:08fourth place in this table, and our Estonia is again quite
00:30:11average. In 12th place,
00:30:14gasoline costs 95,
00:30:161.91. There are eight countries
00:30:20with gasoline prices over two euros. The cheapest gasoline
00:30:2395 is again in Malta, i.e. one euro and
00:30:2734 cents. We also asked people in Pärnu, Narva
00:30:31and Kuressaare how the rising fuel prices since the end of summer
00:30:34have affected their driving
00:30:36habits,
00:30:40if you have to drive, you have to drive, but of course I don't drive too much,
00:30:43you know and you have to refuel, there's nothing to do,
00:30:47you can't be without a car in the countryside. We are very
00:30:50surprised about the price
00:30:52and I think if I had a car, I would
00:30:56change my driving habits.