NATO’s Eastern Flank on alert after radar detections.

Hello, you're watching TVP World News. I'm Janusz Rewiński. It's been a busy morning on NATO's eastern flank. A red alert, raised for 30 minutes by authorities in Lithuania and Latvia, has been called off. The temporary alert was issued after radar detected objects potentially threatening regional airspace. Kaunas Airport, Lithuania's second busiest, was closed for the duration of the alert. Meanwhile, the Polish military is searching for debris from an object in the southwest of the country. The Polish operational command of the armed forces has said on X that a search mission is underway in the Lublin region on Poland's eastern border. The aim is to verify a radar signal in light of reports from local residents. Poland and the Baltics have seen their airspace violated numerous times this year with incidents involving drones and on one occasion a Russian helicopter Russian planes also fly close to Polish airspace without violating it On Friday, Russian strategic bombers have flown over the Baltic Sea for four hours as part of a joint exercise with Belarus Now in France, mass protests across the country have resulted in some of the most violent unrest in years including the destruction of a historic town hall in the city of Limoges. Eyewitness video shows the moment part of the roof of the 140-year-old building in south-central France collapsing. It came as hundreds of thousands of people protested across the country against rising costs and declining public services. Protesters said most people had marched peacefully. They put much of the violence down to troublemakers who had set out to cause damage and clash with the police. In parts of Paris, police fired tear gas rounds as they retreated in the face of mostly young protesters, many of whom were dressed in black and wore masks and goggles to protect against tear gas. Officials say 1,200 people have been arrested and the clashes have left 150 police officers injured. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has defended President Donald Trump's waiver of key Russia-related U.S. sanctions and tariffs days before they were to take effect. Rubio said the White House wanted time to understand their potential impact. These sanctions were not just sanctions on Russia. They include tariffs on a number of countries, India, for example, and others. And so I think the president wants to take the 60-day period of time to sort of analyze what imposing both sanctions and tariffs will mean to the global economy and even to the U.S. economy. I think when the bill was passed, one of the reasons the waivers were put in there is understanding that they would need some period of time to study this, given all the different things that are going on in the world right now, including the pressure on global energy supplies that are happening not just because of Iran and not just because of the Straits of Hormuz, but increasingly because of the Houthis attacking Saudi Arabia and because of the war with Ukraine and Russia, where energy infrastructure is being hit. And so that's having an impact on global prices as well. So I think you have to take all of that into account and weigh it against each other. And then you've got countries like India, for example, that have voluntarily diversified their energy portfolio but are still getting a substantial amount of energy from Russia because it's hard to pivot from one day to the next. But they're also an important ally and partner of the United States. So, the president, we need that period of time to sort of study all this and figure out what the right combination is. While attacks across Ukraine continue, the fear of what's to come during winter has sparked unrest in the country's capital, Kyiv. Crowds of residents have gathered to call for Kyiv's mayor Vitaly Klitschko's resignation as the city struggles to ensure access to basic utilities and shelters. TVP World's Ukrainian correspondent Oskar Tezhi has more on the demands of the people and why they believe Klitschko has to go. It is Saturday afternoon outside Mayor Vitaly Klitschko's office here in the centre of the Ukrainian capital and a medium-sized protest has formed against his governance of the city over the last 12 years, but particularly during the full-scale invasion. TVP World is on the ground speaking to protesters about why they decided to turn up during the war to protest against mayor Vitaly Klitschko. I want to achieve that the head of the city will be changed because there are much problem in Kyiv and he for years doesn't solve them. We don't have shelters, now we have even more electricity shortages. We don't have water for most of the time, we don't have electricity. That wasn't the problem for the last winter, now it is the problem. And he has done nothing, and I mean 12 years, that's a lot. The first thing that I'm really hoping for is for him to take some accountability for this city not being prepared for winter, especially not as much as we were hoping for after the previous winters we have already gone through. So, obviously, with the current outages that we are having and we've already had in the previous weeks, it's obvious that we should have done better. Well, the main reason to attend protests is to show the mayor that some people don't agree with the way he rules the city, you know. There are a lot of different communities gathering this protest. Some want Klitschko to resign immediately. some just want the reforms some others want to know where the money was spent for the winter preparations so as you could hear there were multiple reasons that protesters decided to come out onto the streets of the Ukrainian capital on Saturday but one of the unifying themes is they do not feel that the city is being governed correctly by Mayor Vitali Klitschko they have complaints about how the budget is being spent, particularly with regards to preparing the city for Russian bombardment and building bomb shelters. Now, Mayor Klitschko has not yet given a public response to these protests. TVP World has reached out for comment and has not heard back from the mayor's office. But if we do, we will be putting that on air. I'm Oskar Tegi reporting from Kyiv for TVP World. In Albania, police reportedly fired rubber bullets for the first time at protesters on Saturday as they confronted a fifth day of mass student demonstrations. This marks an escalation in the confrontation between riot officers and protesters that has engulfed the capital. Since Tuesday, thousands have gathered calling for Prime Minister Edi Rama to step down. The unrest has been fuelled by anger over poor education standards, a lack of jobs and perceived government corruption. It has also drawn support from people who felt ignored during a summer of largely peaceful protests against the luxury coastal development backed by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Pope Leo is expected to lead prayers in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, after leaving hospital on Saturday, four days after surgery for lung cancer. The Pope walked unaided to his waiting car, waving to well-wishers outside Rome's Gemelli hospital. He stopped to speak to a 13-year-old girl named Varvara from Ukraine, who has been in Italy for cancer treatment. On Tuesday, surgeons removed part of Leo's right lung after he was found to be suffering from lung cancer. Doctors have said the operation went well, but did not specify how large the tumor was or whether the disease has spread. In Warsaw, a new opera premiered with a mixture of powerful performances and a poignant humanitarian message called The Mothers of Kherson and co-produced by the Teatr Wielki Polish National Opera and New York's Metropolitan Opera. It follows a group of Ukrainian mothers determined to bring their abducted children back home. Karolina Szapland has more. Since Russia's full-scale invasion, 20,000 Ukrainian children have been taken from their homes. Many were lured to camps under false pretenses. Now their story is told on stage. The Mothers of Kherson is a new opera by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomets and American librettist George Brandt. Its characters are fictional, but their story is based on real events. It follows a group of mothers and one grandmother on a 3,000-mile journey through Poland, Belarus and Russia to bring their children home. Its characters are composites built from interviews with Ukrainian women and the children they managed to bring back. I don't know if I would have chosen this subject matter if none of these mothers were successful. I think that would have been a little too bleak. But knowing some of them were was kind of a hook to hang my hat on. For the international cast, that this is more than just another role. I come from a country with no army. We've never, ever had one. We can only sing and we can tell stories and we can be loud and to wake people up and say this is going on. We need to do something about this. For the singers, the challenge is as much musical as emotional. The score changes meter constantly. On one page, it shifts nine times. And then there are the children on stage. Whenever children appear on stage, it is even more moving. And the whole story is about children. So we cry a lot. The score captures the brutality of war, but at its heart is the strength and the tenderness of these women. The Mothers of Kerch runs in Warsaw until the 27th of October before opening at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in April 2028. For TVP World, I'm Karolina Szapland. Poland is demanding urgent answers from Israel after a convoy carrying diplomats, including Polish representatives, came under attack in the occupied West Bank. Warsaw says the diplomats were unharmed, but preliminary information suggests Israeli settlers may have been responsible. We confirm that an attack took place on the West Bank of the Jordan on a convoy in which representatives of the diplomatic corps were traveling, including Polish diplomats. According to preliminary information, Israeli settlers may be responsible for the attack. The Polish diplomats were unharmed. We expect urgent and detailed explanations from the Israeli authorities, the identification of the perpetrators and their being held accountable. We also expect the taking of effective measures that will prevent similar incidents in the future. In the Czech Republic, the ANO party of Prime Minister Andrej Babiš has suffered a major loss in the country's Senate elections, failing to win a single seat. Opposition parties emerged victorious, strengthening their position in the Upper House. In an unexpected and equally painful blow to Andrej Babiš's ANO, not one of the party's 13 candidates managed to win a single seat in the run-off election to the Senate. I congratulate all those who were elected and have taken their seats in the Senate. They certainly deserve it. For the ANO movement, this result is disastrous. We certainly did not expect to win no seats in the Senate in these elections. Mayors and independents came out victorious, winning 10 out of the 27 contested seats. I would like to say that with humility and without any arrogance or pride, we want to be the main challenger to the ANO movement in the coming years. While the ruling coalition holds a parliamentary majority in the lower house, allowing it to override most Senate vetoes, the opposition remains firmly in control of the upper chamber, with ANO holding only 14 of the 81 seats. ODS chairman Martin Kupka, whose party came in second with seven seats, says the Senate will remain an important counterbalance to the government. The Senate remains a safeguard for democracy. It remains a vital pillar ensuring that flawed laws are not passed, while also serving as a counterbalance to the current government majority. Despite the setback, experts say the disappointing election result is unlikely to threaten the stability of Babiš' ruling coalition, with ANO still ahead in the national polls. And that's all for now on this news bulletin, but please stay with us here on TVP World as World Talks is coming up next.