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00:00 12 more hostages and 30 Palestinian prisoners are exchanged as the temporary truce between

00:07 Israel and Hamas is extended.

00:10 Finland says it will close the last of its eight border crossings with Russia on Wednesday

00:14 over migrant concerns and an unusual surge in arrivals.

00:20 The European Court of Justice gives the green light to public officers across the EU to

00:24 ban religious symbols from the workplace in a "general and indiscriminate manner".

00:32 Hundreds of Palestinians lined the streets of Ramallah late Tuesday to welcome 30 Palestinian

00:37 prisoners freed by Israel in the latest swap with hostages in Hamas captivity.

00:44 This was the fifth day of the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas after a 48-hour extension

00:49 was agreed.

00:51 The military wing of Hamas Al Qasem Brigades posted a video late on Tuesday, this time

00:56 showing crowds in Rafah greeting a convoy of vans arriving at the meeting point where

01:01 the militants handed 12 hostages to the Red Cross.

01:06 There were marked celebrations among Israelis gathered in Starot who cheered as the vehicles

01:11 transporting the released hostages arrived.

01:14 Hamas and other militants still hold about 160 hostages out of 240 seized in their October

01:21 7 assault on southern Israel that ignited the war.

01:26 A spokesman for the Israeli government has said it would be open to an additional five

01:30 days of truce under the current hostage prisoner exchange agreement.

01:35 During the pause in fighting, the UN World Food Programme is delivering desperately needed

01:40 food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza, but has reiterated that the supplies it was

01:46 able to provide were woefully inadequate to address the level of hunger.

01:51 Hundreds of thousands that are facing an immediate risk of starvation.

01:56 WFP hopes for the extension of this pause which offered a window of relief that could

02:01 pave the way for a longer term calm.

02:03 Safe and impeded humanitarian access cannot stop now.

02:07 While there does appear to be a willingness to extend the truce which is due to end after

02:12 one more captive exchange on Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

02:17 says the fighting will resume with full force.

02:23 A change of tone in the NATO Secretary General`s statements on Ukraine ahead of a meeting of

02:30 the alliance`s foreign affairs ministers started a conversation behind closed doors in Brussels

02:35 about what a possible end to the war could look like.

02:41 Some analysts think that Jens Stoltenberg is slightly removed from the way he has been

02:45 in the past, where he`s always talked about defending Ukraine for as long as it takes.

02:52 I was left wondering why did he say that Ukraine had already recaptured 50 percent of its territory.

03:00 And I was thinking to myself, well, is this a sign that maybe NATO is thinking about the

03:08 future of Ukraine?

03:11 Despite official reassurances of continued support for Ukraine, the EU is struggling

03:15 to keep its word amid disappointment over Ukraine`s summer counteroffensive and with

03:20 the West`s attention shifting to the Israel-Hamas war.

03:25 Although no European leader would say it officially, there is a growing feeling that the war in

03:29 Ukraine won`t end any time soon.

03:33 Is this putting pressure on Kiev to start negotiations?

03:36 Not according to the EU`s foreign affairs chief, Joseph Bure, who met with Ukraine`s

03:40 minister for foreign affairs on Wednesday in Brussels, both of whom denied any pressure.

03:48 I don`t see any sign of members having what you call fatigue.

03:57 Everybody is concerned.

03:59 Everybody recognizes the successes of the Ukrainians.

04:04 And I am sure the member states will continue supporting Ukraine because it`s an existential

04:10 issue for us.

04:12 We cannot afford to get tired.

04:16 According to some experts, the real problem is that Russian President Vladimir Putin seems

04:20 to be in no hurry to even think of the word negotiations.

04:26 And at this stage, it would be extremely difficult for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskyy

04:31 to enter into negotiations, especially if this would impact the territorial sovereignty

04:36 of the country.

04:38 I think some European countries would accept the exchange of land for peace.

04:45 This is very complicated, highly political, highly emotional.

04:50 But President Zelenskyy himself would be the person who would have to make this decision.

05:00 But it`s a kind of treacherous decision as well.

05:04 NATO support could play an important role for the future of the conflict.

05:07 The possibility of Ukraine becoming a member of the alliance could also be critical.

05:19 The big freeze on movement between Finland and Russia continues.

05:24 Helsinki is about to close its last remaining border crossing along its shared 1,300-kilometer

05:29 frontier, due to a surge in migrant arrivals, predominantly from the Middle East and Africa.

05:35 Prime Minister Petri Orpo has accused Moscow of undermining his country`s national security

05:40 and trying to create a migrant crisis after Finland joined NATO earlier this year.

05:45 In April, the Kremlin warned it could be forced to take "countermeasures in response to the

05:50 Nordic countries` accession to the U.S.-led alliance."

05:59 The headquarters of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, ahead of a joint

06:03 announcement from the Baltic nations that their foreign ministers will boycott the next

06:08 two-day OSCE meeting in North Macedonia, because their Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov,

06:13 says he is attending.

06:15 The Baltic officials say Lavrov`s visit risks legitimizing Moscow`s offensive.

06:20 It will be Lavrov`s first visit to a NATO country since Russia`s full-scale invasion

06:24 of Ukraine began.

06:26 Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also says he will not be attending.

06:35 Police truck drivers continue to block the border crossings with Ukraine over what they

06:39 see as unfair competition.

06:42 The EU`s craft entry permit requirements for Ukraine to support its war effort against

06:47 Russia.

06:48 Police truck drivers now want these requirements to be reinstated.

06:52 For Ukrainian truck drivers, the three-week-long blockade has not been easy.

06:57 "The situation is difficult.

07:00 The procedure that used to take 10-15 hours now takes a week.

07:07 It is not easy to assess it, because the conditions are not humane."

07:14 Ukrainian sources claim that contrary to what was promised earlier, essential goods such

07:19 as humanitarian aid are being blocked at the border.

07:22 Ukrainian officials said police demands are unrealistic, with some claiming a pro-Russian

07:27 sentiment among police truckers.

07:35 Despite the war still raging on, the EU and Ukrainian government are starting preparations

07:40 for the post-war reconstruction of the embattled country, with the aim of rebuilding it better

07:45 and greener once the fighting is over.

07:49 The European Commission, Ukrainian government and businesses all gathered in Vilnius on

07:53 Tuesday to discuss the necessary preparations, saying that once the war ends, reconstruction

07:58 plans must already be in place.

08:02 The war started by Russia has had devastating effects on nature in the country.

08:06 For example, the destruction of the Kharkov water dam, which resulted in the worst human-made

08:11 ecocide since the Chernobyl nuclear plant incident in 1987.

08:16 "We have a unique opportunity to build back better and greener.

08:22 So when we talk about cities that were destroyed, we talk about the sustainable planning of

08:28 those cities, integrating the most recent knowledge.

08:34 I'm very pleased to see so many architects across Europe who are actually devoting their

08:41 time.

08:42 When we talk about public buildings which massively were destroyed, the hospitals, schools,

08:48 kindergartens, they all will have to be energy efficient.

08:52 They all will have to be powered with the renewable energy."

08:57 Ukraine currently has the most landmines in any European country, and around 34 animal

09:01 species have disappeared due to the fighting.

09:05 The country`s forests have also suffered serious losses.

09:09 The biggest challenge is not only restoring nature, but also to have a climate neutral

09:13 economy after the war finishes.

09:16 For this Ukraine needs to transform its energy network, rebuild public and residential buildings

09:20 in an energy efficient way.

09:23 The reconstruction of the country is a tempting opportunity for many European countries who

09:27 have already signaled their interest.

09:30 Representatives of the building industry as well as water and waste management companies

09:34 also took part in the discussions in Vilnius.

09:36 "We are not talking about just about international support, like directly support to restore

09:44 something.

09:45 No, we are talking about some investments.

09:48 And first of all we need to cooperation with investors to build new facilities, to build

09:54 new technologies, to build new maybe industries, but using best available technologies in a

10:02 European way, like in European legislation signed."

10:06 According to the European Commission, the reconstruction of Ukraine will have a massive

10:09 cost and Russia must pay for it.

10:14 Another challenge will be to convince the six million Ukrainians currently living in

10:18 Europe to move home and contribute to the rebuilding efforts.

10:30 Any public office across the European Union now has permission to ban employees from wearing

10:35 religious garments or symbols in the workspace.

10:38 That's according to the EU's Court of Justice.

10:42 The announcement came after a labour court in Belgium banned a woman from wearing an

10:46 Islamic headscarf in the office.

10:48 "An internal rule of a municipal administration that generally and indifferently prohibits

10:56 members of the staff of this administration from wearing visible signs on the workplace,

11:03 including any sign that reveals philosophical or religious convictions, can be justified

11:10 by the will of the said administration to establish, given the context of the matter,

11:16 a totally neutral administrative environment."

11:20 Leinar stressed that each member state has a right to determine what a neutral environment

11:25 looks like.

11:26 While previous rulings by the top court determined that such bans infringed on religious freedoms,

11:31 this time it stressed the need for "equal treatment" for all in employment and occupation.

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