Trump, Putin, and Xi to hold historic trilateral meeting in China.

Hello, you're watching TVP World News. I'm Janusz Lewicki. Thousands of flights were cancelled and thousands more delayed on Friday and Saturday after a telecommunications outage caused a nationwide ground stop across all US airports. Shortly before 4pm ET on Friday, the US Federal Aviation Administration ordered all flights to be grounded across the US, citing telecommunications issues. Tens of thousands of passengers were left stranded at airports and on the tarmac, with little information on the reasons for the ground stop. More than 6,600 flights were cancelled and over 10,000 were delayed. The airspace was eventually reopened more than four hours later, at approximately quarter past 8 p.m. Speaking at the White House on Friday, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said overloaded routers in the country's aging air traffic control system had generated inconsistent data, prompting officials to shut down the system as a precaution. However, Duffy warned that it would take time for airlines to clear the backlog To restore normal operations following the widespread disruption, Homeland Security Secretary told reporters there was no indication that the incident had been triggered by a national security threat. U.S. President Donald Trump will meet with his Russian and Chinese counterparts Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping for a historic trilateral meeting on the sidelines of the upcoming APEC summit in Shenzhen, China, the White House confirmed on Friday. According to White House officials, the summit will focus primarily on nuclear non-proliferation, although it is unclear whether China and Russia want to engage in a conversation about arms reduction. Trump is also reportedly planning to discuss the war in Iran, but not the war in Ukraine, several US media outlets have reported. The Kremlin, meanwhile, maintains that further talks on Ukraine will continue at APEC, drawing protests from Kyiv and its allies who will not be represented at the summit. The trilateral meeting is scheduled for Thursday, November 19th. It will be the first time Putin, Xi and Trump convene together. Europe is now facing two major challenges, shaping its future security architecture alongside the US and securing continued EU funding for Ukraine. The E5 nations, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK, alongside EU Commission and Council representatives, are now set to take part in the next round of Ukraine peace talks. Two days of summits here in Dublin have concluded with Europe finally settling who will represent the continent at the Ukrainian peace talks. It's going to be five countries, Poland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Italy joined by EU institutions. Now, that decision-making process took almost two years, but even after it has concluded, not all leaders are entirely convinced to the negotiating table. I talked to the prime minister of Latvia, that Russia is ready to step up. Andris Kulberiks, who told me that he believes this discussion is largely besides the point. If there is no real peace talks, then it doesn't really matter what type of representation we're doing if there is no outcome out of it. I mean, look at the states as being represented by people which are not even elected and not even, they're businessmen, not even diplomats. He also told me he was disappointed the summit didn't pay more attention to the other big fight in the room. Money. While Russia stalls by setting out maximalist demands, Ukraine faces a 70 billion euro funding gap next year. Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz wants to close that gap by force. He is threatening to block the EU's next seven-year budget unless all 27 member states help fund Kiev. Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday that she intends to put a new proposal for financing Ukraine by the end of the month. But divisions run deep. Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Bulgaria have all said that they will not be taking out any more loans for Ukraine and are calling Mertz's gambit blackmail. Now, as the EU leaders prepare to head into yet another summit, this time in Brussels by the end of this month, time for Ukraine is running out as it heads into another brutal winter of Russian aggression. From Dublin for TVP World, Laura Hazanov. Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure continue as winter draws near, threatening the availability of electricity and heating for the local population. Workers of DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy company, witnessed some of the recent destruction firsthand. A torn apart roof and walls and equipment buried under debris. These are the results of a recent ballistic and cruise missile strike that hit a DTEK power plant. Employees seek to mitigate the devastation, but it is not an easy task. Right now everyone has shovels and wheelbarrows as we try to reach the equipment. Apart from the planning and physical work required to mend broken equipment, workers note the psychological and emotional toll of working at a power plant. The main thing is to get to it, assess its condition, and only then make plans for repairs and restoration. DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko notes that while attacks on energy infrastructure are not new, their intensity and scale has markedly increased in comparison to last year, adding that at present it is not power generation but transmission that presents the biggest challenge. It's hard to live through all this when you know the missiles are coming specifically for you and that you are a target and that you have to withstand the blow. We'll go for the winter. The company said since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, energy workers have restored and restarted plants from scratch more than 70 times. The approaching winter, according to analysts, could be more difficult than in previous years amid the intensifying attacks. As Russia escalates its pressure on Ukraine, the latter's westward shift is gathering pace with reform efforts amid EU accession negotiations yielding results. Maciej Wielowski has more in this report from the Rebuild Ukraine conference in Warsaw. For Ukraine, 2022 didn't just mark the start of Russia's full-scale invasion but also of the country's candidacy for EU membership. Formal accession negotiations took off two years later and ever since, with the help of institutions like the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the country has made tangible progress in instituting reforms. I think Ukraine has done a lot of progress in the reforms and I think the latest, A quite recently published enlargement report is proof of that. I can say that EBRD has also helped Ukraine to deliver on many of the EU accession reforms. So we are running a program where we have more than 300 advisors supporting the government of Ukraine in delivering those reforms. While accession negotiations yield results, Russia is stepping up its attacks on Ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure from energy facilities to the country's water supply. The latter resulting in the most severe water shortages since the start of the full-scale invasion. Overall, the situation is getting dire, especially as we're moving into the more colder winter season. The recent attacks have hit several critical infrastructure hard. Water infrastructure is among them. And it will be very important to sustain and make sure that... That water supply, especially to low-income vulnerable households on the front lines, can be sustained over this coming winter period. Despite the escalation of attacks ahead of what's expected to be an especially difficult winter, institutions like the EBRD are not scaling back their investments. So we are certainly not scaling down. We are doing the opposite. We are scaling up. Whenever there's a need for EBRD to step in, we are there. Ukraine is our... Top institutional priority on both, on reforms, on policy advice, but also on investment. So this year alone, we have already done more than $2 billion of investments. And funds such as these provide Ukraine with a critical lifeline amid what is now nearly a five-year-long war with no end in sight. Reporting from the Rebuild Ukraine conference in Warsaw, I'm Maciej Wilowski for TVP World. Microsoft says its consumer services have been fully restored following a major global outage which disrupted access to key digital tools. However, some services for business customers are still recovering. The company announced on Saturday that services including Outlook Teams and Copilot were restored late Friday afternoon. Microsoft said the incident was caused by an overload in the process responsible for establishing secure connections on its servers, ruling out a cyber attack or malicious interference by artificial intelligence agents. While consumer services are back online, the restoration of some Microsoft 365 enterprise services is ongoing. The company is monitoring the backlog of emails that accumulated during the disruption and says it will continue to monitor its systems to ensure that services remain stable. The outage, which affected users across 74 countries, disrupted access to email and Microsoft Office tools, potentially impacting more than 430 million people. Poland has scored a major diplomatic victory at the United Nations, edging out Russia by just one vote to secure a seat on a key UN oversight body for the first time in 60 years. The win follows a concerted diplomatic campaign backed by support from fellow EU nations. Polish UN official Jakub Chmielewski will now represent Eastern Europe. The Joint Inspection Unit, serving a four-year term from 2028 to 2032. Julia Gdula brings us the story. A seat Russia held for nearly six decades is now going to Poland. For the first time since the position was created, Moscow will no longer be represented on the UN's Joint Inspection Unit. Warsaw is stepping in, returning to the body for the first time since 2002. We are grateful for support of 95 member states during the vote in the General Assembly. We will continue to strive towards efficiency and transparency of the organization. Poland has repeatedly taken a firm stance against Russia's aggression against Ukraine, including at this year's UN General Assembly. Now, that position has also been reflected in a vote that reshapes representation within the United Nations. Tell your boss enough is enough. Poland will be represented on the body by Jakub Chmielewski, but the vote signals something bigger, a shift in diplomatic influence, with Poland gaining ground as Russia loses its grip on Eastern Europe's representation. Russia is losing its importance and Poland can, with a lot of effort, be able to undermine its influence in the Eastern and Western Europe and be seen as a representative of the region The JIU is the UN's only independent external oversight body with a mandate to inspect, evaluate and investigate the work of the organization across its various agencies and systems. It has a certain reporting and advisory powers when it comes to When it comes to... reporting about how the UN as an organization is actually working. For Warsaw, the vote marks a return to a position on one of the United Nations' key oversight bodies and a shift in the balance of representation within the Eastern European Group and the entire organization. At the zoo in the Polish city of Poznań, a seven-month-old kangaroo has lost its mother and keepers have stepped in to raise it by hand. The next few weeks will be critical, but staff are not giving up hope. Her, because we already know it's her, because you can clearly see the fold of the skin on the belly, which is the pouch that marsupials get their name from. At seven months, a young kangaroo is a bit independent. Of course not completely, because it still stays in its mother's pouch, but it's already sticking its head out. And this is a moment when the chances of raising a kangaroo with a bottle are a bit higher, though still not 100%. Feeding every three hours around the clock, these challenges are no different from the challenges faced by the mothers of other mammals. In kangaroos, having joeys in pouches is like a form of external pregnancy. Kangaroos are born after a very short pregnancy Our little kangaroo lives in a cotton pouch, it's hanging up. The idea is to make it as near as possible to its natural conditions when it grows up in its mom's belly. The chances are really quite good, and we hope the caregivers of the baby will succeed, but it really requires a lot of work and care from them. All mothers know this, is that that kind of care 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 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.