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00:00 Under siege, the residents of Gaza facing electricity blackouts and struggling to access

00:06 their basic needs.

00:10 Washington shows its solidarity with Tel Aviv by a visit from its secretary of state just

00:15 five days after Israel suffers its largest terrorist attack in history.

00:23 Rolling airstrikes by Israeli forces have reduced homes to rubble.

00:27 The United Nations says at least 120,000 Palestinians have nowhere to live.

00:34 Israel says it's targeting locations occupied by Hamas militants in response to the group's

00:39 attack on Saturday.

00:56 Some businesses are still open, but the power supply is unreliable.

01:00 The Israeli government says electricity will only be restored when Hamas frees the hostages

01:06 it kidnapped during the weekend's attack.

01:09 Life without power is difficult, but finding basic goods is getting harder.

01:13 It's not just homes that have been damaged or destroyed.

01:34 Hospitals and ambulances have also been hit.

01:38 Palestinian medics killed in Gaza.

02:06 A group of independent UN experts says Israel's strikes on Gaza amount to collective punishment.

02:15 The UN itself says Israel's siege of Gaza is unlawful.

02:23 Hamas' latest attack against Israel is one that required exceptional logistics.

02:28 So how did the group bypass Israel's world-renowned intelligence services and who financed the

02:34 operation?

02:35 Joost Hilterman says analog tactics were used in a world where "digital war" has become

02:40 the norm.

02:41 "We have to keep in mind we're talking about a very low level of sophistication when it

02:48 comes to military hardware.

02:52 In the end, what did they use?

02:54 They used some hang gliders, powered hang gliders, well you can get them on the open

02:57 market.

02:59 They used regular rifles and small arms.

03:04 They used motorcycles and pickup trucks.

03:07 They used some drones and explosives.

03:10 And of course they fired rockets, but most of the rockets are not sophisticated."

03:16 Some experts suspect Iran is financing Hamas' attacks due to its political interests.

03:22 But is it possible to verify Tehran's involvement in last Saturday's operation?

03:26 Dr. Sejian Gahal from the London-based Asia Pacific Foundation seems to think so.

03:33 "Along with the sheer ferocity of imagination, the scale of it, preventing any leakage of

03:40 information, so you also have to factor in that Hamas has got a lot of support, tactical,

03:48 strategic and financial backing from Iran, who have been able to operate in many ways

03:55 in various guises around the world.

03:57 So Hamas may be taking a leaf out of Iran's book."

04:00 "There should be no doubt that one of the motivations behind the Hamas operation was

04:04 to prevent normalization of ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

04:09 Now the Biden administration appeared to be close to brokering a normalization of ties

04:15 between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which Iran strongly opposed."

04:22 Washington shows its solidarity with Tel Aviv by a visit from its Secretary of State just

04:26 five days after Israel suffered its largest terrorist attack in history.

04:32 The United States has called for a proportionate response.

04:36 During his meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, Antony Blinken carried a message

04:40 of solidarity for the Israeli people.

04:42 Whilst Netanyahu was unrelenting.

04:46 "The message that I bring to Israel is this.

04:51 You may be strong enough on your own to defend yourself, but as long as America exists, you

04:57 will never ever have to.

04:59 We will always be there by your side."

05:02 "Hamas should be treated exactly the way ISIS was treated.

05:08 They should be spit out from the community of nations.

05:12 No leader should meet them.

05:15 No country should harbor them.

05:17 And those that do should be sanctioned."

05:20 Blinken has confirmed that there are at least 25 US citizens amongst those killed in the

05:24 Hamas attacks.

05:25 On Friday, he will meet with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who has

05:31 maintained silence since last Saturday.

05:38 Vladimir Putin has arrived in Kyrgyzstan in his first trip outside of Russia since his

05:43 indictment by the International Criminal Court.

05:46 The Russian president is in the Central Asian country to take part in the summit of the

05:50 Commonwealth of Independent States, which brings together former members of the Soviet

06:00 Union.

06:04 The Hague-based court has issued an arrest warrant for Putin over alleged deportations

06:08 of children from Ukraine.

06:13 Signatories to the court's founding treaty are obliged to detain him if he enters their

06:18 territory but Kyrgyzstan has never signed up to the court.

06:23 Armenia's parliament has voted to ratify the treaty in the aftermath of Azerbaijan's recent

06:28 seizure of Nagorno-Karabakh.

06:31 Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan is not among the CIS leaders taking part in the gatherings.

06:42 Ongoing localized Russian offensive operations near Avdiivka likely demonstrate the ability

06:47 of Russian forces to learn and apply tactical battlefield lessons in Ukraine.

06:53 The geolocated footage from the 10th and the 11th of October shows that Russian troops

06:58 advanced southwest of Avdiivka close to Severny here in this area and also northwest of Avdiivka

07:07 near Stepovo and Krasnogorivka in this area.

07:13 According to Russian sources, instead of employing human wave style meat assaults, Russian forces

07:18 are likely effectively employing electronic warfare systems, counter-battery artillery

07:23 preparations, aerial reconnaissance and others.

07:27 The Institute for the Study of War assesses that these adaptations, however, are unlikely

07:31 to translate into wider operational and strategic gains for Russian forces.

07:39 Geolocated footage shows that Russian gains around Avdiivka are concentrated to the southwest

07:45 of Avdiivka and Russian forces have not completed an operational encirclement and will likely

07:51 struggle to do so if that is their intent.

07:55 Avdiivka is also a notoriously well fortified and defended Ukrainian stronghold which will

08:02 likely complicate Russian forces' ability to closely approach or fully capture the settlement.

08:09 The hypothetical capture of Avdiivka will not open new routes of advance to the rest

08:13 of Donetsk region.

08:16 As the Institute for the Study of War previously assessed, Russian forces likely intend attacks

08:21 in the Avdiivka area to fix Ukrainian forces and prevent them from redeploying to the other

08:28 areas of the front.

08:29 However, Ukrainian officials have already identified the Avdiivka push as Russian fixing

08:35 operation and they are unlikely to unduly commit Ukrainian manpower to this axis.

08:46 Sunday's election in Poland could be crucial for the future of the EU.

08:51 The country's two main parties, the conservative nationalist right-wing Law and Justice Party

08:57 currently in power and the liberal pro-European right-wing Civil Platform are both unlikely

09:01 to be able to form a government alone.

09:06 Members of the European Parliament realise the importance of the vote but are all hoping

09:10 for different outcomes.

09:14 I

09:36 would say that the main difference is that the current opposition has clearly taken a

09:41 constructive stance when it comes to engaging on the European level.

09:46 So when we see the challenges that are ahead of us, be it around the question how are we

09:51 going to shape the green transformation, migration politics, also other issues, they have maybe

09:57 taken conservative standpoints but they are constructive in engaging on the European level.

10:02 The current Polish government has been taking a hostile attitude towards the EU for many

10:06 years now.

10:08 The main clash between Warsaw and Brussels concerns respect for the rule of law and independence

10:14 of the judiciary from political influence.

10:17 On Sunday, Brussels will keep an eye not only on the elections but also on the Polish government's

10:47 referendum which contains four questions.

10:50 One of which will ask Poles if they support the admission of what the government calls

10:54 illegal immigrants from the Middle East and Africa in line with the EU's mandatory relocation

10:58 rules designed to ease the burden on the bloc's border countries.

11:10 It's a long way from a coil chopped in half and preserved in a tank of formaldehyde but

11:16 these paintings are by Damien Hirst.

11:19 He may have been the infanterable of the British art scene but now he seems to have calmed

11:25 down.

11:26 The Secret Gardens painting series is being shown for the first time at the Friis London

11:31 Art Fair which will run from the 11th to the 15th of October.

11:35 From small beginnings, Friis has become an international fair with sister shows in Los

11:40 Angeles, New York and Seoul.

11:44 (whooshing)

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