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00:00The EU's foreign policy chief proposes sanctions on Israeli ministers over their remarks on

00:07the war in Gaza.

00:11Russia continues to fire missiles and drones onto Ukraine, some of which have been intercepted

00:17by Kiev armed forces.

00:22Emmanuel Macron signs a deal with Alexander Vucic to sell Serbia 12 Rafale fighter jets.

00:30Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has finished his tour of West Africa, where he

00:35signed a number of agreements on curbing migration.

00:45The EU's foreign policy chief has said the bloc should consider sanctions on some Israeli

00:49government ministers over their remarks about the war in Gaza.

00:54Josep Borrell said some members of the Israeli cabinet, who he didn't name, had released

00:58hateful messages and proposed things which clearly go against international law.

01:03I think that the European Union has not to have taboos in order to use our toolbox in

01:12order to make humanitarian law respected, but it's not my decision.

01:17I only have the capacity of proposal.

01:21Member states will decide.

01:24But the 27 EU member countries are divided over their approach to the war in Gaza and

01:29it's unlikely that all would agree to the proposal.

01:32There's already been pushback to the suggestion from Italy's foreign minister, who called

01:37it unrealistic.

02:03Those comments come on the same day the World Health Organization announced that Israel

02:07had agreed to limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow a polio vaccination campaign

02:12to go ahead.

02:14Described as humanitarian pauses that will last three days in different areas of the

02:18territory, the vaccination program will start on Sunday and will be run together with UNICEF,

02:23UNWR and local partners.

02:26I'm not going to say this is the ideal way forward, but this is a workable way forward.

02:32Not doing anything would be really bad.

02:35We have to stop this transmission in Gaza and we have to avoid the transmission outside

02:42Gaza.

02:45The WHO says it aims to vaccinate 640,000 children under the age of 10 and that the

02:50campaign had been coordinated with Israeli authorities.

03:01Russia has continued its days-long missile and drone attack on Ukraine, but Ukrainian

03:07officials say air defences intercepted most of the aerial rockets.

03:13The Ukrainian Air Force says it stopped two missiles and 60 Shahed drones from reaching

03:19their targets on Thursday.

03:22Kyiv City military administration officials say they blocked more than 10 drones fired

03:27upon the capital city.

03:30Debris from destroyed drones fell in three city districts, causing minor damage to civilian

03:36infrastructure.

03:38No injuries or deaths were recorded.

03:41Meanwhile, as new Ukrainian armed forces learn how to fire grenade launchers, Ukraine's Army

03:47General Staff acknowledged Kyiv's recent strikes on oil depots deep inside Russia.

03:55The Rostov region has been put on high alert due to burning fuel from the attacks, Russian

04:01media reports.

04:09French President Emmanuel Macron has signed a deal with President Alexander Vucic to sell

04:14Serbia 12 Rafale fighter jets.

04:17The announcement was made during a news conference in Belgrade during Macron's visit to strengthen

04:22Serbia's ties with the European Union.

04:25Macron called the deal historic and important.

04:46Serbia needs to upgrade its fleet and Vucic said the Rafale deal was huge news.

04:52The total value of the deal is 2.7 billion, 12 completely new planes will be owned by

05:05the Republic of Serbia.

05:07Russia has been the traditional supplier of military aircraft to Serbia, which has refused

05:12to join international sanctions against Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine.

05:16Macron warned that after the Russian invasion, Serbia's balancing game between world powers

05:22was an illusion.

05:24He said Serbia will only be able to protect its interests and preserve its identity as

05:28part of the EU.

05:52But selling Rafales to Russian ally Serbia, which has occasionally expressed an aggressive

06:00stance towards its Balkan neighbours, has raised some concerns.

06:05One of those is how France plans to prevent sophisticated Rafale technology from being

06:10shared with Russia.

06:14Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Poland's budget for 2025 will include

06:20record spending on defence.

06:24At more than 43 billion euros, Poland's Finance Minister Andrzej Domanski says the proposal

06:30would constitute 4.7% of GDP.

06:37This is compared to the 4.2% in 2024, which had already made Poland a top defence spender

06:43in both NATO and the EU.

06:50The Eastern European nation borders war-torn Ukraine, making security a high priority.

07:21Since the start of the Ukraine war, Poland has made large purchases of military equipment,

07:27including fighter jets, tanks and missile defence systems from the US and South Korea.

07:36The budget plan will be debated with the trade unions and still needs approval from Poland's

07:41lawmakers and from President Andrzej Duda.

07:47Spanish President Pedro Sanchez has finished his tour of three West African countries,

07:53Mauritania, Gambia and Senegal, during which he committed to increasing legal migration

07:58channels but also signed partnership agreements aimed at curbing illegal crossings.

08:06Experts say one of the reasons behind the increase in arrivals to the Canary Islands

08:11is the recent agreement signed by the European Commission with several Mediterranean countries,

08:16including Tunisia.

08:18For political reasons, there is an engagement both from Libyan militia and from Tunisian

08:23government to intercept and send back migrants violating human rights. So if we look at the

08:32Mediterranean region as a whole, we can see as the increase of the Canary Islands means

08:37also an increase of interception in other entry points in Europe.

08:42To stem the surge in arrivals, one of Sanchez's proposals is to promote what is known as circular

08:48migration, that is to host foreign workers temporarily before sending them back to their

08:53country of origin.

08:55Morocco and Senegal already have an agreement, which is now being extended to Gambia and

09:01Mauritania.

09:03NGOs welcome Sanchez's suggestion but warn there are risks.

09:07When we speak about circular migration or legal pathway, it is mainly related to seasonal

09:14workers. Seasonal workers that we clearly know when we think to Huelva but also to Puglia

09:22or to Calabria in the south of Europe means often exploitation.

09:27There has been a 154% increase in the number of arrivals to the Canary Islands in the first

09:34few months of 2024.

09:37The journey from Gambia or Senegal is considered to be very dangerous. It can take several

09:43days and is subject to strong Atlantic currents.

09:48One option for dealing with the surge in migration is a system in which migrant miners are distributed

09:54across the different Spanish communities, something similar to the European Solidarity

10:00system.

10:02And although European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is not expected to make

10:08a visit to the Canary Islands for the time being, her team says she hasn't ruled it out.

10:19More than a hundred tons of dead fish has washed into the central port of Volos. The

10:25freshwater fish have filled both the bay and nearby rivers after they were displaced from

10:30their normal habitats by flooding last year.

10:33Fishing trawlers have been chartered by regional authorities along with earthmovers to scoop

10:38the fish out of the sea and load them onto trucks where they will be taken to an incinerator.

10:44We are in cooperation with all the people who want to help this phenomenon end as soon

10:50as possible. Our region asked for the approval of the law in an urgent need.

10:57Water levels rose abruptly last autumn during a storm that caused extensive flooding in

11:02central Greece but have since receded due to low rainfall and successive heatwaves this

11:07summer.

11:09Experts say a net wasn't placed at the mouth of the river leading into Volos, so when the

11:13freshwater fish were carried with the floodwater, they died when they came into contact with

11:18seawater.

11:19The mayor of Volos accused regional authorities of acting too slowly and said the rotting

11:24fish could cause an environmental disaster.

11:27And the city's Chamber of Commerce said it was taking legal action to seek damages after

11:32commercial activity in the popular tourist destination dropped by an estimated 80 percent

11:37over the last three days.

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