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00:00Israeli leaders discuss transitioning to phase C of the war in Gaza and its effects across

00:07the Middle East.

00:13The International Criminal Court issued warrants for top Russian officials over attacks on

00:18Ukrainian civilian targets.

00:21The court accused former Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff General Valery

00:27Gerasimov of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

00:32Judges believe there are reasonable grounds for the belief that the two men are responsible

00:37for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric

00:43infrastructure.

00:45Despite the news that warrants have been issued, the likelihood of either suspect being immediately

00:51detained is improbable.

00:54Russia is not a member of the ICC, does not recognize its jurisdiction and has refused

01:00to hand over suspects in the past.

01:04Russian President Vladimir Putin was accused by the ICC last year of abducting children

01:09from Ukraine along with Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova.

01:17Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Galant has been discussing the transition to phase C of the

01:24war in Gaza with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington.

01:30Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his commitments to bringing back

01:36all the hostages held in the Gaza Strip.

01:39Meanwhile, Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto renewed his calls to Netanyahu to

01:45stop the eight-month-long war.

01:48I hope Netanyahu understands what the international community is trying to tell Israel for Israel's

01:57own good.

01:58Because I think that when the United States and Italy talk to Netanyahu, ask him to stop,

02:03to stop, they do it thinking about Israel's good future.

02:06I hope he understands it too.

02:09Meanwhile, EU High Representative Josep Borrell warned that war between Israel and Hezbollah

02:17could cause serious crisis, and said it is now clear that there is no ceasefire at all.

02:28Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service.

02:34This landmark decision ends decades of broad exemptions aligning ultra-Orthodox enlistment

02:40with the rest of the population.

02:42The ruling could destabilize Prime Minister Netanyahu's coalition as ultra-Orthodox parties,

02:47key allies, oppose the change.

02:50This decision comes as Israel continues its conflict in Gaza.

02:54The move is expected to face significant political and social challenges.

03:02After a decade-long legal saga spanning arrest warrants, health episodes and international

03:08politics, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to walk free in exchange for a guilty plea.

03:15Stella Assange said she is optimistic the 12-year ordeal for her husband will soon be over.

03:21This period of our lives, I'm confident now, has come to an end.

03:28And I think that by this time next week, Julian will be free.

03:34In exchange for his freedom, Assange is expected to plead guilty to one U.S. Espionage Act charge

03:41of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information.

03:46Assange, a 58-year-old editor and activist, founded the website WikiLeaks in 2006

03:52and began publishing sensitive and classified documents.

03:55The award-winning publication gained prominence four years later

03:59after it published half a million leaked files related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

04:05In 2019, Washington indicted Assange on 18 charges over WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents.

04:13Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese cautiously welcomed

04:17the news of Assange's deal for freedom from national parliament.

04:20The government is certainly aware that Australian citizen, Mr Julian Assange,

04:25has legal proceedings scheduled in the United States.

04:29While this is a welcome development, we recognize that these proceedings are crucial and they're delicate.

04:35There's nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration and we want him brought home to Australia.

04:41For years, press freedom activists and Australian politicians have lobbied for Assange's release.

04:48They are now celebrating the news of the plea deal.

04:52Assange is expected to appear in a U.S. court on Wednesday

04:55and return to Australia if a judge accepts the agreement.

05:02With less than a week to go before the first round of a surprise snap election,

05:08the left-wing Popular Front Alliance in France is relying on new volunteers to woo voters.

05:16Many of the newly enrolled volunteers have very little experience,

05:21yet they are heading outside of Paris to help where candidates are battling

05:26to not fall too far behind the far-right National Rally Party.

05:47Many young people are worried about the dangers of having the National Front as their government.

05:53Many young people are worried about the dangers of having the National Front as their government.

06:01I'm worried about the future, about my work, because I work in social work.

06:06We don't have a lot of means, and if we have even less means, I don't know how my job will be.

06:13During the European elections, more than a third of the far-right party's voters were aged between 25 and 34,

06:23yet more than one in two voters aged 18 to 24 abstained from voting altogether.

06:30Candidates can all but hope that the turnout for the snap elections will be higher.

06:39Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany,

06:42according to the Federal Association of Research and Information Centers on Anti-Semitism.

06:48The group has tracked an increase of more than 80 percent in incidents last year,

06:54with well over half happening after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.

06:59Just under 5,000 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2023, up from just under 3,000 in 2022.

07:09The incidents range from anti-Jewish comments to physical assaults,

07:15and include a mid-October attack on a synagogue in Berlin.

07:21Dr. Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany,

07:25and the fight against anti-Semitism, has called for more stringent measures to combat Jewish hate.

07:31In order to provide the law enforcement agencies with effective means to combat Jewish hostility and violence,

07:39I call for additions to the Criminal Code.

07:42The call for the destruction of other states must be punished.

07:47Despite these incidents, a senior Jewish German official said the rise has not yet resulted in an emigration of Jews from Germany.

08:03The Polish army has launched a new recruitment strive to try to protect their homeland against potential Russian aggression.

08:10New starters are being put through rigorous military training as the army seeks to grow its 198,000 members.

08:17According to a spokesperson from the Polish Defense Ministry,

08:20Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sparked an impulse among Poles to want to defend their country.

08:40The situation around our homeland has motivated me to change my decision.

08:49Holidays with the Army is a 28-day program that offers basic training to those over the age of 18.

09:00Malaga is joining other cities in Spain by putting the brakes on the spread of tourist accommodation.

09:07Licenses to properties with a separate entrance are to be limited by the city council.

09:14Barcelona and Valencia have also made similar restrictive measures.

09:37As residents are finding it hard to pay rent.

09:52The Andalusian city has experienced a huge increase in tourist housing in recent years,

09:59from just 846 in 2016 to over 12,000 in 2024.

10:08Workers in Bucharest are cutting their hours short as temperatures are registering 40 degrees in the shade.

10:15Inside restaurant kitchens, the temperatures were significantly higher.

10:19Grillers and roasters are heating the atmosphere to more than 50 degrees Celsius.

10:38Employers have had to take special measures for their workers,

10:42such as reducing the working hours or forcing employees to take longer breaks.

10:47Over the last 24 hours, 1,316 people have called the ambulance for medical support due to heat-related stress.

11:08A Chinese lunar probe has returned to Earth with the world's first rock and soil from the little-known far side of the moon.

11:19The Chang'e-6 probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in northern China on Tuesday.

11:26Chinese scientists expect the return samples to include 2.5 million-year-old volcanic rock, among other materials.

11:35They hope the discoveries will answer questions about geographic differences on the moon's two sides.

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