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00:00:00and Jülle Madise will then talk about what she
00:00:55news time again. Ülle Madise will be sworn in as the President of the Republic
00:00:58today at 14:15. The elected President Ülle Madise will arrive
00:01:02with her spouse at Kadriorg Presidential Chancellery, where they
00:01:05will be welcomed by President Alar Karis and Sirje Karis. From there, they will proceed
00:01:09together to the square in front of the Riigikogu building. President Alar Karis
00:01:12will greet the Guard Battalion and the Guard of Honour lined up on the Castle Square,
00:01:16and the presidents will proceed to Toompea Castle. At 15:00,
00:01:19Alar Karis will deliver a speech, the elected President Ülle Madise will take
00:01:22the oath of office and deliver her first speech as president.
00:01:26The oath-taking and speeches can be watched live on the National Broadcasting
00:01:30Corporation's connection. Indeed, Ülle
00:01:33Madise takes office today as the President of Estonia,
00:01:36and Vilja Kiisler, a journalist from Eesti Päevaleht and Delfi, spoke about the new
00:01:40president and her future on the Television program. In the case of Ülle
00:01:43Madise, it should be highlighted first and foremost that she was elected already
00:01:47in the first round of the Riigikogu with a rather convincing majority of votes. This
00:01:50is undoubtedly a pretty good position to start from.
00:01:53She comes from the position of Chancellor of Justice, where she dealt with a very wide range of topics,
00:01:57so if she says that she is
00:02:01up to date with Estonian life, then she is not lying, and
00:02:05it seems to me that as Chancellor of Justice, she often
00:02:08had to restrain herself, because she actually had this inner
00:02:12urge to speak about societal issues more broadly,
00:02:15and the presidential office
00:02:16undoubtedly gives her that
00:02:19opportunity. In August, Estonian goods exports increased
00:02:23by 10% year-on-year, Statistics Estonia announced. Estonia
00:02:25exported goods worth almost 1.5 billion euros, while
00:02:29imports amounted to over 1.8 billion euros.
00:02:33The trade deficit was 360 million euros.
00:02:36According to Statistics Estonia, the growth in imports was mainly due to
00:02:39an increase in the import of mineral products, especially motor fuels.
00:02:42Motor fuel imports grew by 67%
00:02:46year-on-year, mainly due to rising oil prices on the world market.
00:02:49Estonia's main foreign trade partners
00:02:52in August were Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania. The most exported
00:02:56goods were electrical equipment.
00:02:59Police caught 10 Sudanese citizens
00:03:02who were illegally in Estonia again in the Nõmme district of Tallinn yesterday evening. Yesterday evening around
00:03:06half past seven, the police received a report of two men on Valdeku Street. On the spot,
00:03:10it turned out that the men were illegally in Estonia and there were more people
00:03:13hiding in the area. The police started a search, which included
00:03:17service dogs, drones, and rescue workers. Eight more
00:03:21men were found in a nearby forest, who tried to escape from the police.
00:03:24One of the men injured his hand while fleeing and was taken
00:03:27to the hospital. After first aid, he was also taken
00:03:30to the detention center. All ten men lacked a legal basis
00:03:34to be in Estonia, and only one had an identity
00:03:37document with him. Abroad. Six
00:03:41civilians were killed in Russia's latest air attacks on Ukrainian
00:03:44cities. In Kharkiv, a grocery store was attacked, killing three and
00:03:48injuring 20 people. Among the injured are also two
00:03:51children. Kharkiv Prosecutor's Office was also hit. But
00:03:55no one was injured there. Also, a thermal power plant was attacked
00:03:58despite the so-called energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine,
00:04:01which US President Donald Trump announced
00:04:05yesterday.
00:04:07NATO will respond very quickly to any kind of Russian attack on the territory
00:04:11of a NATO member state, said NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe
00:04:14Alexis Krineke at the Warsaw Security
00:04:17Conference.
00:04:25We win this in deterrence and we win it by showing our strength and we win it by
00:04:29showing our unity. uh behind that strength uh, so I hope
00:04:32the day never comes where we have to respond, because we're going to keep them on their heels before they
00:04:36even think about taking a move against our
00:04:38alliance.
00:04:42Russia interfered in the UK's decade-old Brexit vote,
00:04:45said UK Prime Minister Andy
00:04:48Burnham. I asked
00:04:51the question coming into Downing Street, well was there interference in the
00:04:55uh 2016 referendum from Russia and I've had the clear answer that yes
00:04:59there was. "and these things are important now to put
00:05:02clearly on the record and I
00:05:05believe help voters in Germany and France
00:05:08understand that some of this politics is in..."
00:05:12instigated via our enemies,
00:05:15namely Russia. I think we've been too much on the back foot on that
00:05:19actually, and we haven't informed people sufficiently about the extent to
00:05:22which people are are seeking to um to disrupt the political
00:05:26process from overseas.
00:05:30Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Brussels against the European Union's weak
00:05:34climate policy. According to the police, there were
00:05:3745,000 demonstrators. According to the organizers, however, as many as
00:05:4160,000. The demonstrators presented five demands, including
00:05:44higher taxation of fuel companies and an end to fossil fuel
00:05:47subsidies. They also demanded a just transition
00:05:51to an environmentally friendly society and greater international
00:05:54climate cooperation.
00:05:59putting more trees in the cities, stopping concreting
00:06:02everywhere, well there are a lot of measures, insulating buildings more,
00:06:05reducing CO2 consumption
00:06:08especially with transport, so also investing.
00:06:16We continue with the climate topic and talk about today's weather. Today it is mainly
00:06:20cloudy, with clearings around the Gulf of Finland and in Southern Estonia.
00:06:23It will rain and the precipitation will be occasionally heavy, there may also be
00:06:27thunder in the morning. The wind will be variable from 1 to 7 m/s on the North coast,
00:06:30East and Northeast wind 7-13 m/s, with gusts
00:06:33up to 18 m/s. The air temperature will be
00:06:37between 8 and 13 degrees
00:10:34starting today, well, our new era starts, yes, indeed, I continue with the same
00:10:37tone, our new era truly begins because Ülle
00:10:41Madise takes office today as the President of the Republic of Estonia at 14:40,
00:10:44there will be a live broadcast
00:10:47on our national broadcasting channel as well, so you can all be part of it, and
00:10:51from the portal or ETV or ETV2 everyone will indeed be part of it and...
00:10:55"the radio news will also broadcast it, but we
00:10:58are still talking about television besides Alar Karis
00:11:02leaving and Ülle Madise
00:12:06wheelchair users, even just to get into this TV building and there are many
00:12:10buildings and situations where
00:12:13people in wheelchairs cannot get to where they would really like to go. This morning here
00:12:17in the TV building we will also make an attempt and ask if the situation has improved a little
00:12:20here in recent years or rather not, and how in public buildings.
00:12:55Today is that important day, October 12th. Alar Karis's
00:12:59term as President of the Republic of Estonia ends and Ülle Madise's
00:13:03term begins. Vilja Kiisler is invited to our morning television today, good
00:13:06morning. Hello! And then we will do a small
00:13:09retrospective of the so-called best and perhaps
00:13:13not so good moments of Alar Karis's presidency and briefly at the
00:13:16end of the interview also, what we expect from Ülle
00:13:20Madise. Let's start with those slightly worse moments,
00:13:24during Alar Karis's term, yes, let's start
00:13:27with the worse ones, let's start with foreign policy.
00:13:30Alar Karis is the kind of president who has liked to present himself
00:13:34as a great foreign policy thinker and
00:13:37a proponent of an independent foreign policy, but unfortunately it has not
00:13:40turned out very well, so if we recall everything that
00:13:44began in the public sphere with the Kazakhstan scandal,
00:13:48where there were some embarrassing moments
00:13:51and then quite a few interviews given to foreign media,
00:13:55where President Alar Karis on the topic of the war
00:13:58in Ukraine was either inappropriately silent or
00:14:02presented ideas that caused a great deal of public
00:14:05backlash and did not find any particular
00:14:09justification here at home, then it is actually a little funny
00:14:13to think back to how he most recently also told ERR that his
00:14:17hands were somewhat tied in foreign policy and he would have liked
00:14:20to pursue more foreign policy, but was seemingly not allowed. Let's listen to what
00:14:24he himself said about the Kazakhstan visit, there was also
00:14:27no very specific statement, so rather analysts have
00:14:31said that he actually couldn't justify the situation very well. Let's
00:14:34listen to that moment. The visit to Kazakhstan has
00:14:37somehow been exaggerated, there
00:14:41was nothing like what we read in the newspaper. This is indeed a moment where
00:14:44you are a little disappointed or perplexed as to why
00:14:48such a thing is written, because
00:14:50the President delivers his speeches exactly as
00:14:54the President thinks the speech is reasonable to make.
00:14:58The nuance then was that there were two different
00:15:01signals from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but
00:15:04the ambassador on site probably knew the situation best
00:15:07and that's why it was rephrased
00:15:10for the university as I considered it important
00:15:13at that moment.
00:15:16well, a proper explanation as to why it happened that way, somehow still did
00:15:20not come. From this concrete explanation, it also emerges that
00:15:23Alar Karis did not actually accept criticism, that he
00:15:27actually still has not understood afterwards that something went
00:15:30wrong in foreign policy communication,
00:15:33and that's a bit of a shame, because now that
00:15:36he says his hands were somehow tied and he was not allowed to pursue that
00:15:40soft line that he supposedly represented, then the question arises
00:15:44that if public feedback is
00:15:46critical and even expresses a lot of
00:15:50confusion, then one would expect that things would be clarified
00:15:54at home, that if there is a black box between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
00:15:57and Kadriorg, then the president should somehow
00:16:00explain
00:16:03what his position is, but when he came home from Kazakhstan, then
00:16:07actually nothing came out but such an
00:16:10ambiguous "well, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would need more resources," but what he
00:16:14actually meant by his statement did not come, and
00:16:17this is not an isolated incident, but actually
00:16:21a pattern, that he gave quite strange interviews abroad about Ukraine,
00:16:24and when asked about them at home afterwards, what
00:16:28his position ultimately was, then no
00:16:31explanations came, and it left a very strange impression on me at first, when
00:16:35it slipped through in one interview that "well, I never give
00:16:37all the interviews that are asked for," so "well, I don't know, that sounds just like
00:16:41truancy," isn't being known abroad and giving interviews
00:16:45the president's job? And now it turned out that the president has indeed given
00:16:48interviews, but the media has not covered them, meaning it still
00:16:51emerges from this that the media is to blame that the president has failed
00:16:54in foreign policy, this does not actually leave a very good impression. Let's
00:16:58also take domestic policy, the previous prime minister Kaja Kallas and the car tax were
00:17:02those, there he supposedly showed backbone
00:17:04or domestically,
00:17:07"actually Alar Karis was such a president who didn't scold many political parties
00:17:11in every speech, well there's a certain audience that
00:17:14expects that, but there were two things he couldn't stand, Kaja Kallas and
00:17:18the car tax, and in that sense it was perhaps quite
00:17:21strange to hear how he was one of the first to demand Kaja
00:17:25Kallas's resignation as prime minister after
00:17:27the East deliveries scandal, but we are a parliamentary state,
00:17:31the President is not necessarily the one who should say that the prime minister
00:17:35should resign, there were enough people saying it without him."
00:17:37enough, and it seemed to me that in relations with Kaja Kallas
00:17:40a certain antipathy also played a role, that Kaja Kallas was
00:17:44very well-known internationally, accepted, she was known
00:17:47abroad, her word counted, well, Alar Karis's did not,
00:17:51he was not really noticed abroad and his
00:17:55own role in what he then is
00:17:58as a foreign policy maker did not at all coincide with
00:18:02how it appeared and how he then imagined it. Let's listen again to what he himself
00:18:05said. "If I were Prime Minister, I would have probably
00:18:09reacted faster and made a clearer decision and
00:18:13that problem would have disappeared, but it wouldn't have
00:18:16escalated to the extent that we are talking about it today. I also
00:18:20talk to my foreign colleagues, not only at barbecue parties, but also with my
00:18:24foreign colleagues, this topic comes up immediately, and even if it doesn't
00:18:27come up, you see that it is still
00:18:31somewhere between us. What is your advice to the Prime Minister? My
00:18:34advice to the Prime Minister is to make that decision..." she makes it
00:18:38herself and and and
00:18:41maybe I would recommend
00:18:43coming to Kadriorg
00:18:47to begin with, and whether with papers or without, to talk about this topic, she should resign
00:18:50in your opinion, concretely again this is her decision, but if I were in her
00:18:54shoes, I would have taken that step a long time ago,
00:18:58well, it's a concrete sentence in itself, but it
00:19:01questions whether the president should say that, it seemed to me that Kaja Kallas and he still had
00:19:05a certain antipathy towards each other. He also
00:19:08criticized Kallas on several occasions and it was striking that the reality
00:19:12behind it was that Kallas was unsympathetic to him, because
00:19:16when the leader of the Reform Party and the head of government changed, then
00:19:19after that his criticism of the Reform Party and the prime minister
00:19:23somehow softened, and it seemed to me
00:19:26that in relations with Kaja Kallas a certain envy played a role
00:19:30on the one hand, that Kaja Kallas is so well-known abroad and he is not, and on the other
00:19:34hand, perhaps also the fact that Kaja Kallas is a woman, because..." "if
00:19:37you remember how he criticized, praised
00:19:41Merz, who at that time was not yet the Chancellor, and thought that
00:19:44Merz would be suitable for that position because he is a tall man and stands
00:19:48out and is presentable, well, almost two meters, I
00:19:52don't know if there is such a woman who would necessarily stand out with that and whether it would even
00:19:55be necessarily necessary that we judge by height, that a certain
00:19:59"Uncle Heino" undertone still slipped through Karis's speech at times,
00:20:02of course it was said jokingly about Merz, but sometimes
00:20:06a joke reveals..." "what kind of person he is and how he
00:20:09thinks. Let's also bring out the positive side, for example
00:20:12when I think about that same Kazakhstan visit, he had many
00:20:15cultural figures with him, many educational figures, he went with a very large delegation, so
00:20:19that part of him, that culture and education was dear
00:20:23to his heart, he stood for that, uh,
00:20:26that is part of Alar Karis's mild and pleasant
00:20:30image, I would say, such mildness and pleasantness was
00:20:33what he realized as the patron of the Year of the Book, he even
00:20:37had his own program on ERR,
00:20:40which was worth watching, undoubtedly, because interesting guests came there, not necessarily
00:20:44because Karis was a great literary expert,
00:20:47he unfortunately did not convince me of that.
00:20:50"but as the patron of the Year of the Book, he stood out, he put reading
00:20:54at the center, considering that Karis has a scientific background, he
00:20:57always emphasized the importance of science and education, uh,
00:21:00that is undoubtedly important, but these are topics with which it is not very
00:21:04possible to stand out much, however they form a certain
00:21:08whole, part of a whole, and part
00:21:11of a whole is undoubtedly also his artificial
00:21:15intelligence enthusiasm, we will talk about that in a moment, but
00:21:18let's listen, we just took one small excerpt from that Ministry of Literature, right,
00:21:22his, as you said, he did have his own show,
00:21:24as it were, it appeared when I
00:21:28was a student and
00:21:30and and you read a little more as a student
00:21:34when you have time, but maybe another reason is that for me,
00:21:37since I come from a wooden house
00:21:41with a shared kitchen and and then
00:21:45a certain dream was also to finally get such a nice
00:21:48nice apartment, where I never... really got to, but but that
00:21:52dream was completely there back then, that I could get into a proper
00:21:56apartment, where everything is included and you don't have to bring wood with a sled
00:22:00for the stove and so on and so forth, which
00:22:02Matti Hunt has written in the book
00:22:05"Autumn Palms", but did you notice, the president mainly talked
00:22:09about himself, not about that book, so it wasn't
00:22:12really a substantive discussion, certainly, but the guests were substantive,
00:22:15mhm, and then all that education and science topic certainly suited him,
00:22:19uh, and... he also liked that somewhat naive, sincere,
00:22:23well, I wouldn't want to say infantile AI enthusiasm,
00:22:26with which he actually walked in President Ilves's footsteps,
00:22:29if you remember, Toomas Hendrik Ilves was the one who once
00:22:32initiated the Tiger Leap and well then Karis has been the one who has
00:22:36wished that Estonia would not fall behind
00:22:39in AI topics. Let's now take Ülle Madise, her
00:22:43term as President of the Republic of Estonia begins today at 14:40,
00:22:46all this will happen and ERR will broadcast it too, what...
00:22:50we could expect from her, drawing conclusions based on what positions
00:22:54she has held so far and how she has acted.
00:22:57In the case of Ülle Madise, it should be highlighted first and foremost that she was elected
00:23:00already in the first round of the Riigikogu with a rather convincing majority
00:23:03of votes. This is undoubtedly a pretty good position to start from.
00:23:07She comes from the position of Chancellor of Justice, where she dealt with a very wide range of topics,
00:23:11meaning if she says that she is familiar with Estonian life, then
00:23:15she is not lying, and it seems to me that
00:23:19as Chancellor of Justice, she often had to restrain herself, because she
00:23:22actually had that inner urge to speak
00:23:25about societal issues more broadly, and the presidential office
00:23:29undoubtedly gives her that opportunity, and I imagine
00:23:32that if she has been in very strict frameworks before taking office,
00:23:36she has had to give the impression that she did not at
00:23:39all want to become president, I think she did, deep down she has been preparing for this for many
00:23:43years and came to meet the parties,
00:23:45as a non-partisan candidate, then
00:23:48she has actually prepared for this and
00:23:51she will certainly find her voice as president,
00:23:55at least I hope so, and
00:23:58uh, she could be convincing, as she is a person who has a pretty strong
00:24:02backbone and has firm positions, and I hope that
00:24:05there will be a bang from this gun too, because the president's role should not
00:24:08necessarily be boring, in Karis's case, that boredom somewhat
00:24:12emerged, the president should not necessarily be mild and pleasant, she
00:24:16should have positions that invite society to discuss and
00:24:19co-think, I see a lot of potential in Ülle Madise
00:24:23to do that. With potential perhaps already thinking about a second
00:24:26term. Paavo Nõgene on Viker Raadio, I listened to the program, his
00:24:29chief of staff said that he really thinks that 10 years could be that time
00:24:33already now and that is completely possible, because let's look
00:24:36at the so-called passport. Ülle Madis is a young person and it would be
00:24:40a great pity if she had to retire, so to speak, after five years, we
00:24:44in Estonia unfortunately do not have such an opportunity
00:24:47for the president to find another suitable position. Look at Kersti Kaljulaid's
00:24:51fate, it would be a great pity if a person at such a
00:24:55busy, intellectually peak form,
00:24:58had to leave an office that she knows well how to hold, so
00:25:02I wish her strength, hopefully for two terms, exactly, thank you, Vilja Kiisler.
00:25:25will be sworn in as the President of the Republic today. At 14:15,
00:25:29the elected President Ülle Madise will arrive with her spouse at Kadriorg,
00:25:32the Presidential Chancellery, where they will be welcomed by President Alar Karis and
00:25:36Sirje Karis. From there, they will proceed together to the square in front of the Riigikogu
00:25:39building. President Alar Karis will greet the Guard Battalion
00:25:43and the Guard of Honour lined up on the castle square, and the presidents
00:25:46will proceed to Toompea Castle. At 15:00, Allar will speak.
00:25:56takes the oath of office and delivers her first speech as president. The oath-taking and speeches can be watched live via the public broadcaster.
00:26:00vahendusel.
00:26:03Yesterday evening, the police once again apprehended 10 Sudanese citizens
00:26:06illegally residing in Estonia in the Nõmme district of Tallinn. Yesterday evening
00:26:10around 7:30 p.m., the police received a report about two men on Valdeku
00:26:13Street. On the spot, it turned out that the men were illegally residing in Estonia
00:26:17and there were more people hiding in the area. The police launched
00:26:20a search, which involved service dogs, drones, and
00:26:23rescue workers. Eight more men were found in a nearby forest,
00:26:27who tried to escape from the police. One of the men injured
00:26:31his hand while escaping and was taken to the hospital. After first aid, he was also taken
00:26:34to a detention center. All ten men lacked
00:26:37a legal basis to stay in Estonia, and only one had
00:26:40an identity document with him.
00:26:44Russia continues to attack Ukrainian cities with drones and missiles,
00:26:48but Ukraine is increasingly launching counterattacks.
00:26:51In recent years, Ukrainians have significantly increased their capabilities
00:26:55to attack targets deep within Russian territory. In the program Ukraine
00:26:58Studio, Air Force Chief of Staff Colonel Freddy Karu explained
00:27:02how Ukraine is trying to weaken Russia's warfare
00:27:05with counterattacks. They have
00:27:09significantly developed and improved this capability
00:27:12in recent years and also made it more massive, so
00:27:15that, uh, on many days they are already attacking
00:27:19more than the Russians are attacking their territory,
00:27:22and unlike the Russian Federation, which often
00:27:26bombs cities, and then the Ukrainians continue
00:27:29to maintain the line that... all military
00:27:33targets, such as various airbases,
00:27:35command points, but they have this other bigger
00:27:39idea always behind attacking defense industry
00:27:42enterprises and also those from which the Russian Federation, so to speak, makes
00:27:46money. In the third quarter of this year, the number
00:27:50of registered unemployed in Estonia fell to 38, which is
00:27:5313% less than a year ago. According to the Unemployment Insurance Fund,
00:27:57the number of unemployed was last so low at the beginning of
00:28:002020. At the same time, the number of jobs increased by more
00:28:04than a quarter over the year, reaching an average of
00:28:065250. Most new job offers came
00:28:10from manufacturing, trade, and
00:28:13construction. Competition for jobs has also decreased. While last year there were
00:28:16an average of 11 registered unemployed people per open job,
00:28:20this year that number is seven. According to Priit Rammul, a member of the board
00:28:24of the Unemployment Insurance Fund, finding a job still depends
00:28:27on a person's skills and the field in which the job
00:28:30is sought.
00:28:32And now news from abroad: NATO will respond very quickly to any kind of Russian
00:28:36attack on the territory of a NATO member state, said NATO's Supreme Allied Commander
00:28:40Europe Alexis Krinkević at the Warsaw Security
00:28:44Conference.
00:28:48And I'll prevent it from happening to begin with, we win this in
00:28:52deterrence and we win it by showing our strength and we win it by showing
00:28:55our unity behind that strength, so I hope
00:28:59the day never comes where we have to respond because we're going to keep them on their heel.
00:29:07tens of thousands of people protested in Brussels against the European Union's
00:29:10weak climate policy. According to police estimates, there were
00:29:1345,000 demonstrators, according to the organizers, as many as
00:29:1760,000. The demonstrators presented five demands, including
00:29:21higher taxation of fuel companies and an end to fossil fuel
00:29:24subsidies. A fair transition to
00:29:28an environmentally friendly society and greater international
00:29:31climate cooperation were also demanded.
00:30:02may also be light, with variable winds of 1 to 7,
00:30:05on the northern coast east and northeast winds of 7-13, gusting
00:30:09up to 18 meters per second, but the air temperature will remain
00:30:13between 8 and 13 degrees
00:30:34with its topics. On October 12, we have already
00:30:37talked about the fact that today Estonia will have a new president, and this
00:30:41is kind of nice, Estonia needs such
00:30:44symbolic events, its traditions, and
00:30:48we should be proud of our country. Exactly, and at
00:30:512:40 PM, you can watch the broadcast
00:30:55on our portal and also on Estonian TV channels.