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00:00 UNICEF warns that Gaza faces an explosion in preventable child deaths as people have

00:05 access to less than one liter of safe water per day.

00:11 An international police operation has dismantled the Lockbit ransomware group considered the

00:16 most harmful in the world.

00:20 Lufthansa employees went on strike for the second time this month, cancelling 90% of

00:25 flights and affecting around 100,000 passengers.

00:30 UNICEF warns that the Gaza Strip is poised to witness an explosion in preventable child

00:35 deaths.

00:36 A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant women poses grave threats to

00:40 their health, according to a report released by Global Nutrition Cluster.

00:45 Households have access to less than one liter of safe water per person per day.

00:50 Hungry, thirsty and weak, more Gazans are falling sick.

01:18 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees shared aerial and ground

01:22 footage showing schools in the Gaza Strip damaged by Israeli bombardments.

01:27 In North Gaza, schools are unrecognizable, reduced to rubble, the agency said Monday

01:32 in a statement on social media platform X.

01:36 The UN aid agency says 153 installations have been attacked since the war began on October

01:42 7.

01:45 Boosting the European defense is one of the priorities of the current European Commission

01:50 President Ursula von der Leyen, who just announced her bid for a new term in office.

01:55 Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU member states already increased their military

02:01 expenditure from 240 billion euros in 2022 to 280 in 2023 and 350 projected for 2024.

02:10 Now the union wants more cooperation.

02:12 "We have to spend more, we have to spend better and I think we have to spend more European

02:18 to consolidate our defense industrial base."

02:23 The first step will be a European defense industrial strategy, which will be presented

02:27 in the next few weeks.

02:29 Ideas include the common purchase of military capabilities similar to the Covid-19 vaccines.

02:34 Another solution could be EU-issued debt to finance defense expenses.

02:39 However, according to Dylan Macchiarini-Croissant, researcher at CEPS, it won't be easy to approve

02:45 new measures.

02:46 "At the moment, there is no agreement amongst EU member states, for example, on the joint

02:54 purchasing by the EU on behalf of the EU member states of defense equipment from third countries

03:03 or private companies.

03:06 At the same time, also discussions about euro defense bonds are still very much up in the

03:13 air with no concrete political agreement in state."

03:19 While policy makers at the Commission are working out the legalities, some member states

03:23 seem to be reluctant or want to introduce conditions.

03:26 France, for instance, insists on only buying weapons and ammunition produced by European

03:32 companies.

03:33 Currently, member states with a bigger defense expenditure compared to their GDP are Poland,

03:39 Greece, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland, but they are not exclusively buying weapons made

03:44 in Europe.

03:48 If Von der Leyen remains in power, it's almost certain a European commissioner will be assigned

03:52 to the entire portfolio of defense, a job currently split between Foreign Affairs High

03:57 Representative and Internal Market Commissioner.

03:59 Hungary is preparing to ratify Sweden's accession to NATO.

04:08 On social media, the leader of the ruling Fidesz parliamentary group announced that

04:13 he had asked the president to include the final vote on the parliamentary agenda for

04:17 next Monday.

04:18 Matej Coxes said they intend to support Sweden's entry into the Atlantic alliance.

04:24 On Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban already said they were on track to ratify the accession.

04:29 Emphasizing the "important steps taken to re-establish trust."

04:39 Crucial week for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

04:42 The British justice is deciding whether or not he's extradited to the United States.

04:47 Hundreds of protesters gather outside the Royal Court of Justice in London to show him

04:52 their support at the beginning of the two-day extradition appeal.

04:56 His wife is leading the demonstrations.

05:00 It's an attack on all journalists all over the world.

05:05 It's an attack on the truth and it's an attack on the public's right to know.

05:10 Julian is a political prisoner and his life is at risk.

05:14 What happened to Navalny can happen to Julian.

05:18 Assange's father and half-brother Gabriel were present at the hearing in the UK.

05:22 They are campaigning full-time in Australia to get him released.

05:26 The Australian Parliament last week called for Assange to be allowed to return to his

05:30 homeland.

05:31 In 2018, Assange was charged in the US with complicity in hacking government computers.

05:37 In 2019, 17 charges of violating espionage laws were added.

05:41 If convicted of all charges, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 175 years.

05:51 Polish farmers have once again blocked border crossings with Ukraine and traffic in Warsaw.

05:58 Their main demand is withdrawal from the so-called Green Deal being pushed forward by the European

06:03 Commission and to curb the uncontrolled import of agricultural products from Ukraine.

06:09 We are flooded with food from Ukraine and this EU mess.

06:16 It's all on our heads.

06:19 We are trying to play something in this difficult situation because the import is still not stopped.

06:24 And this is what we are fighting for.

06:26 We want to sell our crops, but the price has gone down.

06:30 We are waiting for the government to act.

06:33 We hope that they will do something in our direction.

06:36 If they don't, we will protest to the end.

06:39 In retaliation, Ukrainian farmers are threatening to limit imports of Polish agri-food products

06:45 if Polish farmers do not stop blocking the country's borders in Ukraine.

06:50 Lufstanza employees went on strike for the second time this month.

06:59 The ground staff strike began early Tuesday morning and is scheduled to last until Wednesday morning.

07:06 The company cancelled around 90% of flights, affecting around 100,000 passengers.

07:13 I think it's OK. The employer will not come on his own and offer more money.

07:20 There must be some pressure.

07:23 Everyone has to strike, but I don't understand why they are doing it so uncoordinatedly.

07:30 I think there will be negotiations tomorrow.

07:33 We could have waited.

07:37 The strike is in response to the ongoing wage negotiations for the approximately 25,000 Lufstanza employees on the ground.

07:45 The last two or three years have been extremely challenging for the ground staff, to put it carefully.

07:54 There was relatively little from the employer's side.

07:59 Now the decision has come that it is enough.

08:02 The offers are not enough for most of them.

08:07 Solidarity is shown by being with them. We are behind it.

08:11 The union is demanding a 12.5% pay raise for employees and an inflation adjustment bonus of 3,000 euros.

08:18 The wage negotiations are set to continue on Wednesday.

08:21 Thousands of Ukrainian refugees went to Serbia when the war started.

08:28 Some of them then continued to Western Europe.

08:30 Others remained.

08:32 In parallel, thousands of Russians decided to leave their country and move to Serbia,

08:35 mostly due to the forced conscription into the Russian army.

08:38 Serbian estimates say 150,000 Russians and 16,000 Ukrainians live in the Western Balkan country.

08:45 Zenia moved to Serbia from Sakhalin, a city in the Russia Far East,

08:49 just after the war started and settled in Novi Sad.

08:52 When it all started, we felt very bad.

08:56 We've been crying for a couple of days and I felt like being in a cage.

09:03 I feel my, maybe not guilt, but responsibility because in my name,

09:09 my country is killing people in the neighboring country.

09:14 Due to EU visa requirements, Serbia considers the Russians as refugees.

09:23 The Ukrainians who remain in Serbia say they want to return to their country.

09:27 Ivana's husband is currently in Kiev after one year fighting on the front.

09:41 I have been living with my mother and sister in Kamenets-Podilskyi.

09:54 It's nice in Serbia, but much better in the country.

09:59 According to the official figures so far, about 80,000 Ukrainians, refugees,

10:05 have been going through Serbia and settled into the EU.

10:10 An international police operation has dismantled the LockBit ransomware group,

10:16 considered the most harmful in the world.

10:19 14 countries took part in Operation Kronos.

10:23 34 servers have been closed in the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, France,

10:27 Switzerland, Australia, the US and the UK.

10:30 Two people were arrested in Poland and Ukraine.

10:33 More than 200 cryptocurrency accounts were frozen.

10:36 Actors affiliated with the LockBit criminal enterprise have caused significant harm

10:40 to thousands of victims across our collective countries and around the globe.

10:45 In recent years, the group has been indiscriminate in their targeting,

10:50 exploiting organizations affiliated with government agencies, hospitals,

10:55 schools, to high-profile global companies.

11:01 The group carried out more than 1,700 attacks against victims

11:07 in the United States and around the world.

11:10 80 years after his execution by the Nazis,

11:16 Mirzak Manouchian's remains will be transferred to the French Pantheon on Wednesday.

11:21 The Armenian, known as a poet and communist activist,

11:25 will be the first foreigner to be buried among France's national heroes,

11:29 accompanied by his wife, Melinie.

11:32 Manouchian was executed at Mont-Valérien Fort on the outskirts of Paris

11:36 on the 21st of February 1944.

11:39 His recognition by the French state is a tribute to all the foreign resistance fighters

11:44 who fought against Nazi oppression.

11:46 (whooshing)

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