here's naomi choy smith.ional television during queen margarethe's traditional new year's address, then 14 iaea. 0n the 14th of january 2024, 52 years after succeeding my beloved father, i will step down as the queen of denmark. the 83—year—old danish queen said time had taken its toll on her health and she made the decision to abdicate after undergoing back surgery in february. translation: the surgery naturally gave rise - to thinking about the future, whether the time had come to leave the responsibility to the next generation. i have decided that now is the right time. queen margaret plans to hand the throne to queen margarethe plans to hand the throne to crown prince frederick, the eldest of her two sons. he's very, very down to earth and very, very modern person. he has four kids. and for most of his kids, they actually went to public school instead of private schools. so people feel very connected to him. for many danes, queen margaret is the only monarchhe they have ever known. she's seen here visitin

our reporter naomi choy smith is in the newsroom with more.d to speed—up and standardise the number of people coming into the black. they propose to do this with five new eu laws. speedy vetting of arrivals into the eu using biometrics, so that could be facial recognition technology, or fingerprinting. it could be done at one of these new border detention centres that are being proposed. thirdly, an accelerated consideration of asylum cape city cases, so they speed—up the determination of whether the migrants have a valid claim, if it's not a valid claim, they will accelerate the deportation of that person. and finally and crucially, a lot is being proposed for a solidarity measure, this would be a way for countries in the eu to financially support or even to help with an influx of migrants by accommodating them in northern european countries for the countries that are bearing the brunt of an influx of migrants. that is places like italy or greece. those countries have seen a large number of migrants coming in from the middle east and north af

can ever threaten president putin who's all but guaranteed to win a fifth term. 0ur reporter naomi choy smithl bid for former tv journalist turned politician yekaterina duntsova, who threw her hat in the ring just three days ago. she's one of 29 contenders who have filed to run for president in russia so far. the candidates are expected to gather thousands of signatures from supporters before they qualify to have their name on the ballot. now, duntsova will no longer have that chance after the russian electoral commission banned herfrom running, saying she had "mistakes" on her application. and telling duntsova on saturday, "you are a young woman and you have everything ahead of you". now, duntsova had planned to run on a campaign of ending the war in ukraine and freeing russian political prisoners. those include kremlin critic who is serving consecutive prison sentences, alexei navalny. well, when asked about concerns for her own security and fears for her safety in running for president, duntsova did admit she had some fears and concerns saying that any sane person taking the step would be

people coming in to the eu and make it easier to deport people seeking asylum. 0ur news reporter, naomi choy smithajor overhaul of their immigration policy. at its core it is intended to speed up and standardise the vetting of asylum and migrants coming into the eu from outside the block. the eu is proposing to do this with five new laws, the first of which is this preinjury screening procedure which would take place at new border detention points along the eu borders. it would involve taking biometric data from migrants, things like facial recognition technology. secondly, that you want to speed up the processing of asylum cases and also expedite the deportation of anyone who is not bound to have a valid or legitimate asylum claim. 0nly, legitimate asylum claim. only, and perhaps most crucially is what is being called this solidarity mechanism. it's a fund that eu countries would be asked to pay into to help share and ease the burden across you countries of housing migrants that are allowed to stay within the block. eu countries would also be asked perhaps to take the overflow of migrants from so

our reporter, naomi choy smith, is in the newsroom with more. bid. she threw her hat in the ring just three days ago, one of 29 contenders for president so far. the candidates are expected to gather thousands of signatures from supporters before they qualify to have their name on the ballot. the russian electoral commission banned duntsova from running saying she had mistakes in her application. when asked about concerns for her own security, and fears for her safety and running for president, duntsova did admit she did have some fears and concerns, those include kremlin, critics, who is serving consecutive prison sentence, alexei navalny. when asked about her fears for her safety, in running for president, she did admit she did have some those include kremlin, critics, who is serving consecutive prison sentence, alexei navalny. when asked about her fears for her safety, in running for president, she did admit she did have some fears and concerns, saying "any sane person taking this step would be afraid but fear must not win. " she also said she

probably the most important legislative deal of this mandate from the newsroom, our reporter naomi choy smith european parliament have agreed on this major overhaul of their immigration policy was not at its core, it's immigration policy was not at its core, its intended to speed up and standardise the vetting of asylum—seekers and migrants coming into the eu from outside the block. the eu is proposing to do this with five new laws. the first of which is this pre—entry screening procedure which will take place at the new border detention points along the eu borders. it would involve taking biometric data from migrants, things like facial recognition technology. secondly, the eu wants to speed up the processing of asylum cases and also expedite the deportation of anyone who is not found to have a valid or legitimate asylum claim. finally, and perhaps most crucially is what is being called this solidarity mechanism. this would be a fund that eu countries would be asked to pay into to help share and ease the burden across eu countries of housing migrants that are allowed to stay within the block