euronews today | The news for Tuesday, January 31, 2023

The keys of the day in this 20-minute video

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NIt is necessary to record the intensification of the fighting in the south and east of Ukraine. In an escalation where Russia advances, France opens the possibility of sending combat planes in response to the president’s request Volodímir Zelenski.

Meanwhile, the preliminaries and difficulties for Sweden and Finland to join NATO due to the decision of the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan to take advantage of the situation to try to cut off international aid to the Kurds.

One of the few trips of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko to be well received in Zimbabwe with an affinity for the international condemnation of the trampling of human rights.

France lives this Tuesday another general strike in protest against the pension reform of the government of Emmanuel Macron. The unions intend with this day of mobilizations to force the French Government to withdraw a reform, which plans to delay the minimum retirement age from 62 to 64 years. Both figures not yet reached in several European countries. First thing in the morning, more than two hundred and fifty demonstrations were called. In the middle of the day, the most affected sectors had been transport. As an indication at the Parisian Orly airport early this Tuesday, twenty percent of the flights were cancelled. There is a majority of French public opinion against the delay in the retirement age that the French government wants.

But you will be able to see a lot more, among other things the stabbing in the Brussels subway, Blinken in Israel and the West Bank, denunciation of human rights violations in El Salvador, and the paradox of the former Brazilian anti-immigration president Jair Bolsonaro who is asking for a six-month visa in the United States because his diplomatic passport expires.

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The keys of the day in this 20-minute video

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