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00:00 The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow today,

00:05 but his team says they have faced continued difficulties organizing the farewell send-off.

00:10 Leaders of Western Balkan countries agreed on Thursday to speed up regional cooperation

00:16 in exchange for a 6 billion euro aid package from the EU.

00:20 Iran's parliamentary elections have begun with the likelihood of a low turnout

00:26 as many candidates are barred from running.

00:30 The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow today,

00:34 but Navalny's team have said they continue to face difficulties organizing the farewell send-off,

00:39 including being able to find a hearse to drive the body to church.

00:43 Kira Yarmish, Navalny's press secretary, said unknown people were calling mortuaries

00:48 and threatening them if they accepted Navalny's body.

00:51 Many who want to say goodbye are worried about the future of the Russian-speaking country.

00:56 Many who want to say goodbye are worried about the consequences.

01:00 Authorities have prepared heavily for the service,

01:17 due to take place in the Marieno municipality of southeastern Moscow, where Navalny lived.

01:22 The church and adjoining cemetery will have a heavy police presence,

01:26 while whole neighborhoods nearby are cordoned off with a portable metal fence.

01:30 At the church's doors, there are announcements warning against photos and videos.

01:35 Leaders of Western Balkan countries agreed on Thursday to speed up cooperation

01:45 in exchange for a 6 billion euro aid package.

01:48 They also hope it may speed up the union membership process.

01:51 The package is an effort to double the region's economy over the next decade.

01:55 But EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Vahely said the funds did not mean the states could join the single market.

02:03 It would be unfair to ask our Western Balkan partners to participate in the single market,

02:09 where they have less power to compete compared to our companies.

02:17 This is why we are also dedicating additional funding to this plan,

02:24 to help all the reforms that are necessary to get these reforms done.

02:30 Because most of these reforms are also coming at cost, financial cost.

02:36 The region's six countries, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia,

02:43 are all at varying stages of their EU membership applications.

02:47 They will cooperate on unifying financial regulations, adapting their customs rules

02:52 and creating joint border crossings like the bloc's other member countries.

02:59 A trial of the 2018 attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg has begun in Paris.

03:05 Four suspects are accused of terrorism, criminal conspiracy and provision of weapons to the attacker.

03:11 On December 11, 2018, Sheriš Šikát opened fire in central Strasbourg near the Christmas market,

03:18 killing five people and wounding 11 more.

03:21 He managed to escape the scene, but was shot dead by police two days later.

03:25 Šikát was well known to the police, but was not connected to any terrorism activities before the attack.

03:32 With European elections just 100 days away,

03:38 Euronews took the streets of Brussels to see if people knew when to mark their calendars

03:42 to elect their MEPs, who will be representing them for the next five years.

03:47 Do you know when the European elections are?

03:53 I don't know.

03:55 No, not at all.

04:01 This year? OK, but I don't know the month.

04:04 October, no? November, something like that.

04:07 June.

04:08 June?

04:09 Yes, in June.

04:10 This year?

04:11 Month of June.

04:12 I intend to go and vote, yes, that's for sure.

04:15 These elections are taking place in a tense time as the EU faces several crises,

04:21 such as the war in Ukraine and the inflation.

04:24 Citizens have different priorities for their next European Parliament.

04:28 Well, I guess ecology, that's very important.

04:32 Climate change, which they met but didn't fix anything.

04:36 Maybe talk about Palestine and what's going on over there.

04:39 They need to discuss Palestine.

04:42 To live in peace again.

04:44 Less liberal, more social.

04:47 Countries want to shut themselves down.

04:51 This rise in nationalism is scary.

04:53 I do hope that the extremes won't be there.

04:56 Do you plan on voting this year?

04:58 I probably will, yes.

05:00 I'm not interested in that at all.

05:03 I'm sorry.

05:04 Local bosses, trams and subway trains have come to a halt in much of Germany

05:12 as transport employees carry out another two-day strike.

05:15 They're calling for better working conditions, including shorter working weeks

05:19 and extra compensation for shift and night work.

05:22 Such short warning strikes are a common tactic in German contract negotiations.

05:28 They've frustrated travellers and commuters.

05:31 You have to see both sides.

05:33 You can see that the people who work at the KVB want to be paid accordingly

05:39 and act accordingly.

05:41 I think it's unfair to argue over this again and again.

05:46 You're deceiving the people who are also driving in the future.

05:51 The union Verdi called for the 48-hour warning strike

05:54 in the ongoing nationwide wage dispute in regional negotiations.

05:58 The walkout coincides with weeks of rail, airport and local transport strikes across the country.

06:05 The bloody gangs and wars are a rivalry of drugs.

06:08 Cartels here in France have no end.

06:11 49 people were murdered last year alone here in Marseille.

06:15 People in the suburbs are desperate.

06:18 He took a burst of five Kalashnikov bullets in the chest.

06:31 He couldn't have survived that.

06:34 I think these monsters took him for a gator.

06:37 They saw two kids in a surveillance suit and shot them.

06:41 A little Marseillais can die today from bullets

06:44 like in a country like Mexico, a country of cartels, while we're in France.

06:49 I found the young people here around the fire.

06:52 I told them clearly, "You're going to get killed.

06:56 You're going to be sent down. It's hot. There's a war going on."

07:00 They were all in the car.

07:03 I told them, "You're going to be killed. You're going to be sent down. It's hot. There's a war going on."

07:08 They were all in the car.

07:11 I told them, "You're going to get killed. You're going to be sent down. It's hot. There's a war going on."

07:16 The next day, I found out that one of the young people was killed.

07:21 On Sunday, I went back to see him on his deathbed. It was funny.

07:26 The traffic of the monsters generated in France 3 billion euros in business.

07:42 This money is flowing. This money can be used to corrupt.

07:48 I regularly have kidnappings, kidnappings, and torture

07:52 because the young drug dealer stole 20 euros from the network to buy a sandwich.

07:57 This money kills.

08:08 One in every eight people worldwide is now living with obesity,

08:13 according to the World Health Organization.

08:15 The situation is worrying.

08:17 The number of overweight people has surpassed one billion for the first time in history.

08:22 Whilst malnutrition rates have dropped, it is still a public health challenge in many places,

08:30 particularly in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

08:33 The research comes ahead of World Obesity Day on the 4th of March.

08:37 "I'm so sorry."

08:39 The region of Sicily has declared a state of emergency

08:45 as it battles one of the worst droughts in almost 20 years.

08:49 Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,

08:56 was the first to cast his ballot as the country goes to the polls in a parliamentary election.

09:01 The vote is the first since mass protests erupted in 2022 over the death of a young woman in police custody.

09:08 She had been accused of not complying with the regime's mandatory hijab laws.

09:13 With most high-profile moderate candidates barred from standing

09:17 and amid opposition calls for a boycott, a low turnout is a strong possibility.

09:22 Such an outcome would increase pressure on Iran's rulers

09:25 as the Islamic Republic's theocracy bases its legitimacy in part on turnout in elections.

09:31 The parliament has been dominated by religious hardliners for the past two decades

09:36 and little change is expected, regardless of the level of abstention.

09:41 The vote is also for the Assembly of Experts, a panel of clerics who select the country's Ayatollah.

09:51 French actress Judith Goderich has called for politicians to establish a commission

09:57 to investigate sex crimes and sexism in French cinema.

10:01 She was speaking at the French Senate's delegation on women's rights.

10:05 In this country, I feel that it's not just the men who are the abuser,

10:12 who are trying to shut down the women, it's the society, which for me is bizarre.

10:17 And obviously it's what I'm fighting and this is why I find myself talking and talking over again.

10:23 I think there's something about French society that somehow is still anchored into like Moyen Age, you know.

10:32 Her speech comes just days after she called on France's film industry

10:36 to face the truth on sexual violence and physical abuse during the César Awards ceremony.

10:42 Goderich was invited to speak after actors alleged they were teenage victims of sexual abuse

10:48 by directors decades older than themselves.

10:51 The actress recently accused two film directors of rape and sexual abuse when she was a teenager.

10:57 At least 43 people died after a massive fire broke out at a shopping centre in the capital of Dakar late on Thursday.

11:12 More than a dozen fire engines were called to a seven-floor building

11:16 as the fire spread quickly, trapping dozens of visitors.

11:19 People climbed on the roof to await rescue,

11:21 whilst others escaped through windows and by climbing down using water pipes.

11:25 75 were evacuated and taken to hospital.

11:29 The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

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