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00:13:20how we record the events right now here on
00:13:23Sky. Alarm in Europe after the
00:13:27barrage of bomb threats on aircraft, emergency landings in many
00:13:30countries, and fighter jets scrambled. Cracks within the
00:13:33Republicans after the election debacle, stock market plunge,
00:13:37fears of a new flare-up in the Middle East.
00:13:41France paralyzed again, union strike and dozens of
00:13:44demonstrations. Sky's correspondent in
00:13:45Paris.
00:13:49Political leaders are picking up speed on the way to the polls. Fierce
00:13:52clashes, with corruption as the backdrop.
00:14:04And we begin our bulletin from the chaos at European airports and the
00:14:07suffering of hundreds of passengers. For the second time in a week,
00:14:11we had flight diversions due to bomb threats. At least in Helsinki,
00:14:15fighter jets had to be scrambled to escort the aircraft to Fiumicino
00:14:18Airport in Rome. In total, within one day, 20
00:14:22flights were affected. Three of these originated in Greece.
00:14:25Fighter jets are taking off rapidly, passenger aircraft
00:14:28are making emergency landings, airports
00:14:31are placed on red alert. A barrage
00:14:34of bomb threats is sweeping through European
00:14:37skies, causing massive mobilization of security
00:14:40authorities. New threats to planes in the air over
00:14:43Bulgaria, three aircraft with destination Sofia are already on
00:14:47the ground and will be inspected, confirmed.
00:14:49The threats concern at least six
00:15:25airlines, including Sirena Air and Finine Air. It is too
00:15:28early yet to draw conclusions regarding whether the
00:15:32reported incidents, approximately 20, are
00:15:35connected to each other or if it is a
00:15:38cyber attack.
00:15:40Three flights from Greece,
00:15:45specifically from Thessaloniki to Milan, from Athens to
00:15:48Vienna and Prague, are receiving threats, and all three aircraft
00:15:51land normally at their destinations. The protocol was followed,
00:15:55obviously for the sake of safety. But the
00:15:57side effects were that it caused disruptions in the operation of
00:16:01airports and inconvenience to flights and
00:16:04passengers. The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tasos
00:16:07Hatzivasileiou, was also on the flight to Vienna. We arrived on the road
00:16:10to Vienna and parked in an area far from the
00:16:14terminal. We waited for about 25 minutes
00:16:16inside until they allowed us to
00:16:20disembark. None of us understood anything.
00:16:24I was informed about the phone call about the alleged
00:16:27bomb after I arrived at the terminal building. No one
00:16:31was alarmed. The threats are proving false, but their consequences are
00:16:34real. Flight delays, bomb
00:16:39threats have always
00:16:43been hoaxes as
00:16:46they turned
00:16:48out in the end.
00:16:52In fact, I distinctly remember an incident where
00:16:55a passenger, because he was delayed and feared he would miss his
00:16:59flight, called the airport on his way and said there was a bomb to delay the plane and
00:17:03catch his flight.
00:17:40The European Commission activates the information exchange mechanism for
00:17:44aviation security, while investigations focus on the origin of
00:17:48the threats and the possibility that the successive incidents are connected
00:17:51to each other. The questions are many: if these
00:17:54incidents are somehow connected, if there is a
00:17:58control center, someone giving this order, if we're talking about hybrid
00:18:01warfare, if we're talking about hackers. Nikos Maliarakis is
00:18:04with us, you've done the report, it has...
00:18:08Let's look a bit, Nikos, what kind of cases these are. For the authorities to reach these
00:18:12answers, Lena, the first element that comes under the microscope is the way
00:18:15in which the perpetrator or perpetrators communicated with European
00:18:19airports. So far, it has been confirmed that anonymous
00:18:22threatening emails were sent to airports in Italy and the Czech
00:18:26Republic. In fact, one of the messages that arrived at
00:18:28Milan's Malpensa Airport also concerned the Aegean
00:18:32flight from Thessaloniki, including specific
00:18:35details, both about the... bond and its landing
00:18:39time. One of the emails released by Italian media
00:18:42is signed by an organization named
00:18:46"Fighters of the Male State" and, among other things,
00:18:49states: "Bombs have been placed on flights
00:18:52Helsinki-Italy and Dublin-Italy. The explosion will
00:18:55occur in 60 minutes. Your skies will
00:18:58be painted red." And here they say the Russian
00:19:01connection appears, because this
00:19:04particular name refers to a far-right, misogynistic
00:19:08extremist organization, which was founded in Russia in
00:19:112016 and its activities have even been banned by the
00:19:14Russian authorities themselves in 2021. Of course, we don't have a
00:19:18claim of responsibility so far. The indications that we might be talking about
00:19:22a Russian hand, about an organization with roots in Russia, and always in these cases, someone
00:19:25else might be using this name. This particular organization
00:19:28had, however, been linked in the past to false bomb threats.
00:19:32This, by itself, as you said, is not enough to identify
00:19:36that it is behind the
00:19:39messages. However, there are elements that, according to analysts,
00:19:43indicate a hybrid operation aimed at causing problems, causing
00:19:46chaos at European airports. This is supported by
00:19:49both the apparent coordination behind these
00:19:53dozens of emails, and the short time interval between
00:19:57them, a fact which, of course, cannot be
00:20:00a coincidence. Thank you very much, Nikos.
00:20:04After the demonstrations and violent incidents, France
00:20:08is preparing for today's general strike, a strike that will paralyze
00:20:11transport and services. We'll find our correspondent Yiannis Souliotis in the French
00:20:15capital. We had over 220
00:20:19marches, they were not so
00:20:21peaceful, we also had police
00:20:25brutality in many cases, especially in Lyon. Yiannis, tell
00:20:29us a bit about the atmosphere in Paris, there's a lot of
00:20:33people gathered there again, a massive mobilization for the
00:20:36cost of living and for all the demands that started from the student
00:20:40movement. Lena, at this moment, for
00:20:44quite some time now, the mobilization, the march has reached its designated
00:20:48end at the Place de la Nation. The major
00:20:51unions have started to withdraw, but many
00:20:54thousands of young people remain in the square, who are
00:20:58dressed in black, wearing hoods, there is quite a bit of tension,
00:21:02uh, the police have blocked all roads
00:21:06leading to and from the square except for one, and
00:21:09intermittently the young people are throwing bottles and stones at the
00:21:13riot police forces who are deployed around the
00:21:16square, there are intermittent minor tensions. The
00:21:20police respond with the use of tear gas, earlier there were
00:21:23some fires, the intervention of the fire department was needed
00:21:27so that the flames could be brought under control, everything
00:21:30hangs by a thin thread, I can say, so far
00:21:34I would characterize the situation as tense, there have not
00:21:38been widespread incidents, and this among other things because the police have
00:21:41also changed their tactics, they have blocked all roads
00:21:45to and from the square, therefore, those who would cause, who would
00:21:48wish to cause more intense
00:21:51incidents do not have an escape route from the point where
00:21:55we are. Let's say that according to the estimates of the
00:21:58unions, today's mobilization was attended by about
00:22:01350,000 demonstrators. These are from the public and private sector
00:22:05workers' unions, these are students, these are pupils who, all together,
00:22:08for the first time since the start of this social unrest on
00:22:12September 15th, all participated together in the
00:22:16march. At the beginning of it there were also some
00:22:19minor incidents with six injured, which fortunately
00:22:23did not escalate. The French
00:22:26government has given
00:22:29a number for the total number of participants in the demonstrations, which
00:22:33amounts to 600,000, while of course
00:22:36the organizers of the mobilization state that over 1
00:22:40million demonstrators have attended the 220
00:22:44mobilizations in total throughout
00:22:47the country. We should also mention that
00:22:50some limited incidents occurred in Lyon
00:22:54and also in Toulouse. Here, however, in the Place de la Nation,
00:22:57the situation is quite tense, without having so far
00:23:00gotten out of the control of the police, Lena, and let's
00:23:04hope that the situation remains so, because in previous
00:23:07times, Yiannis, there was chaos, there was a
00:23:11mess in how the orders would be
00:23:14given, both for the fencing of the
00:23:17patients, which forced after
00:23:24to change its planning, however, chemicals have been used, we have also seen
00:23:27harsh images, Yiannis, from these demonstrations from the police's
00:23:31side.
00:23:33They have been used here too, where we are, chemicals are being used, but
00:23:37as I said earlier, the incidents are not widespread, and therefore the
00:23:40use of chemicals is not widespread either, something which, however, can
00:23:44change at any moment, because there is quite a lot of tension here
00:23:48between here in the square where we are, and
00:23:51I think it's very easy for the situation to get out of control
00:23:55quickly, Yiannis, for anything that may be needed, we will obviously
00:23:58get back to you. Let's look at the images you sent us
00:24:01earlier. The Yellow Vests also attended these
00:24:05mobilizations.
00:24:07In Paris, it's not even dawn on Thursday when students
00:24:11block the entrance to a high school in anticipation of the general strike
00:24:14mobilization. Police arrive at the scene and
00:24:18Sky with its correspondent Yiannis.
00:24:45The movement will last a long time and people will block the economy to be able to make the
00:24:49government give in anyway.
00:25:51on the streets with the main demand being measures against price increases.
00:25:55Police forces across from them charge,
00:25:58throwing flashbang grenades.
00:26:35The mobilization is accompanied musically by an outdoor concert by
00:26:39artists who are on strike.
00:26:42220 demonstrations are taking place in dozens of French cities,
00:26:46causing new upheavals in the already fragile French
00:26:49economy.
00:26:55In the United States, after the debacle in the midterm
00:26:58elections, the blame game follows for what caused the Republican party
00:27:02to lose Congress. The first stab is thrown by the number two of the government,
00:27:06JD Vance is quick to blame Trump for his choice of
00:27:10war in Iran and the American president says that the lengthy post was made
00:27:13in consultation. Some within the party point to the
00:27:17Secretary of Defense as the culprit, who convinced them that involvement in Iran would be short, just
00:27:21like the kidnapping of Maduro. Developments are accelerating within
00:27:25the Republican ranks after their major defeat in the midterm
00:27:28elections, with eyes set on the 2020 presidential elections.
00:28:35At the same time, Republican politicians are increasingly calling for the beheading of the
00:28:39Secretary of Defense, as he played a decisive
00:28:42role in Trump's decision to attack Iran.
00:28:55Publicly, the president continues to defend the Secretary of
00:28:59Defense.
00:29:05According to CNN, the House of Representatives may even vote next
00:29:08week on a motion to impeach the
00:29:11Pentagon chief. The elections,
00:29:14are the political footprint, but also the
00:29:17reactions of the markets, and these
00:29:20reactions were not good. At least let's see why these
00:29:24reactions were not good. We had a free fall in the Nasdaq index, which is the
00:29:27technology index, a free fall also in the S&P 500. Nikos
00:29:31Filippidis is with me. What did the markets
00:29:34do? Did they see the election result? Did they see the Democrats having Congress
00:29:37and get so worried? Is it AI that's worrying? Is it the data
00:29:41centers that are worrying? What is it that we have these prices,
00:29:45Nikos? First of all, yesterday we had a big rise and only those
00:29:48that had lagged were technology stocks. Today, when the
00:29:52positive influence from other sectors left, technology
00:29:55stocks started to be valued with the problem. What is the problem? The problem is that President
00:29:59Trump had a series of policies which fueled
00:30:03either the big 7 as he likes to
00:30:07call them or in various ways to refer to them, or even
00:30:10more companies that have been created and are located and have
00:30:14created these explosion prices of many
00:30:17trillions over 25 trillion was the valuation of
00:30:21these specific companies until today. What's happening today around
00:30:25noon? Suddenly, the entire technology
00:30:29sector turns downwards. In half an hour, they lose. As we speak, the losses have
00:30:35widened, they are over 5% in the Nasdaq index, it is the
00:30:38worst day since April 2025 and the day of Donald Trump's
00:30:42freedom, the day of tariffs, when the American
00:30:45stock market was criticized again, and of course many
00:30:48stocks are leading, some of which are very well-known, others, to be
00:30:51honest, we also know in Greece, I saw Elon Musk's and we understand that because
00:30:55είναι τις ξέρουμε και στην Ελλάδα, εγώ είδα του Elon Musk και καταλαβαίνουμε ότι επειδή
00:30:59Musk'.