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00:00Israel's military is looking into whether Hamas' top leader, Yair Sinwar, was killed

00:06in a military operation in Gaza.

00:10Ukraine will be a member of NATO in the future, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on

00:17Thursday.

00:20Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that North Korea's support for Russia would

00:25be a first step towards a world war.

00:32Hamas leader Yair Sinwar was killed by Israeli soldiers during ground operations in Gaza,

00:38according to the Israeli foreign minister.

00:40Sinwar, who Israel accused of being the architect of the October 7 surprise attack which killed

00:461,200 Israelis, was announced as Hamas' new head following the assassination of Ismail

00:52Haniyeh.

00:53The IDF said in a statement that at least three militants were killed in a building

00:58and that they were checking the possibility that Sinwar was amongst that number.

01:02They later confirmed it was.

01:08European leaders meeting in Brussels are discussing the proposal of the European Commission to

01:12open deportation centres outside the EU borders.

01:17The Commission has lately embraced the ideas of the hard right on migration.

01:22The change in the Commission's mentality has pleased several countries.

01:26One of them is Greece, which has been accused by several NGOs of carrying out illegal returns.

01:32The Pact on Migration and Asylum does not address the question of returns.

01:36We cannot accept the fact that we are not effective to deal with those who are not entitled

01:43to protection status in the European Union.

01:45I'm eager to find out more about the innovative solutions proposed by the Commission and I'm

01:52happy about the fact that we recognise that we need to think out of the box.

01:56One of the examples would be the return centre that Italy has recently opened in Albania.

02:01Italy's Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni has been one of the promoters of a meeting with

02:05several like-minded leaders, which was also attended by the President of the European

02:09Commission.

02:10But although few in number, there are also detractors like Spain's Pedro Sanchez and

02:15Belgium's Alexander de Kroot.

02:17I think that all the solutions of the Migration Hub, as they are called, in the past have

02:24never shown that they are very effective and that they are very, very expensive.

02:28What works is agreements with third countries.

02:34Leaders are not expected to reach any agreement on migration at this summit.

02:43Ukraine will be a member of NATO in the future, Secretary-General Mark Rutte said from the

02:49alliance's headquarters in Brussels on Thursday.

02:53Despite hesitation, NATO members voted in July for Ukraine to join the intergovernmental

02:58military alliance.

03:00He has to be absolutely assured that 32 allies are united in making sure that collectively

03:06we will do whatever is needed to make sure that Ukraine can prevail, that Putin will

03:11not get his way.

03:14Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also in the Belgian capital to seek support

03:20from European leaders for his victory plan.

03:24The proposal comprises five points to defeat Russian President Vladimir Putin and his country's

03:29three-year full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

03:33The first point in the plan is receiving an invitation to join NATO.

03:4184% of Ukrainians want their country to be a member of NATO.

03:50Two and a half years into the full-scale invasion and the level of this support is not just

03:55stable, it's only growing.

03:57Ukrainians understand that if they were at NATO, Russia would not have invaded first

04:01in 2014 and then in 2022.

04:05NATO repeatedly talked about its open-door policy towards Ukraine, but it did not go

04:10beyond that.

04:11So even if NATO doors remain open, Ukraine has not been able to enter them.

04:17NATO has declared Ukraine will join its ranks and its path to the alliance is irreversible.

04:23But it has said Kyiv cannot join while at war and declined to put a timeline on membership.

04:28Kyiv, on the other hand, insists that Ukraine needs NATO to finish and win the war.

04:34One of the ideas which has been wildly circulating in the media over the past few weeks is the

04:39West Germany model.

04:42It entails admitting only those parts of the country into NATO over which Kyiv exercises

04:48complete control.

04:50It has been two years since Ukraine has liberated the city of Kherson and the right bank of

04:55the region.

04:56Until now, that territory is controlled by Ukraine and at the same time is shelled and

05:01attacked daily with artillery and drones by the Russian army.

05:05Where would this demarcation line be in Kherson region?

05:09There is no Ukrainian wall in Ukraine to have a clear understanding of a possible demarcation

05:14line while even Lviv, the city in western Ukraine, less than 100 km from the border

05:20with Poland and with NATO, is being attacked by Russia.

05:25Not only this idea would be hard to sell to the existing NATO members who will surely

05:30question the NATO borders in Ukraine, but it would be almost impossible to implement

05:34for Ukrainians.

05:35Firstly, due to the legal limitations.

05:39This would require changes in the constitution which cannot be made during the martial law.

05:44Secondly, two years and a half into the full-scale invasion, almost every Ukrainian family has

05:49someone at the front lines.

05:51Many lost their loved ones, many are waiting for their family members to come back from

05:55Russian captivity.

05:57It will be very hard for Zelensky to tell these people that some of the territories

06:01will be protected by NATO, but others won't be.

06:04And Volodymyr Zelensky knows it very well.

06:07He knows that in this case the hardest and the most complicated, if not impossible, negotiations

06:12he can face will not be with NATO or the US, it will be with the people he represents.

06:24President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides is in favor of more strategic

06:28agreements with Turk countries on migration.

06:32Speaking to Euronews, the Cypriot president revealed that the EU's agreement with Lebanon

06:36has delivered results.

06:39The agreement allocated economic aid to Beirut in exchange for cooperation for curbing illegal

06:44immigration to Europe.

06:48Christodoulides is now ready to discuss other possible solutions, including new return hubs.

06:54I believe that we are ready to examine all the options, except the box, but options that

07:03also contribute to international human rights, to be within the framework.

07:08That is why, I said it today, in this effort that we are making, we should have with us

07:13the Patriot Act for refugees, to ensure that what we are doing is within the framework.

07:20And believe me, there are options that will help us to face this great challenge, always

07:30within the framework of international law.

07:35Cyprus is one of the first EU countries to push for normalization of relations with Syria

07:39in order to facilitate the return of immigrants.

07:44Since the 2011 civil war, many refugees that fled to Lebanon are trying to reach Cyprus,

07:49which is just off its shores.

07:53But the Cypriot president is setting some necessary conditions.

08:20The interview took place a few hours after the Cypriot leaders' trilateral meeting with

08:26the UN Secretary General and the Turkish Cypriot leader as part of the effort to resume negotiations

08:32on the divided island, seven years after talks in Krans Montana ended without a peace and

08:38reunification deal.

08:43Nikos Christodoulides explains why this is important for the EU.

08:50The island that cannot function internally, will not function when it comes to Brussels.

08:55The second thing is that the EU is in a common position through the conclusions that we all

09:00want to see, that there is progress in Euro-Turkish relations.

09:03This progress also comes from Cyprus.

09:06The island remains divided since 1974 due to the Turkish military operation and a coup d'etat.

09:12Immigration

09:17Immigration is the star topic of the European summit in Brussels.

09:21And this is where Sánchez's government comes in with a no.

09:24Spain has clearly opposed the proposal to create internment centres in third countries

09:30outside the borders of the EU to transfer there all the migrants that have illegally

09:36entered their territory.

09:39The proposal promoted by the Italian government of Meloni is now on the table of the European Commission

09:46and it does so with the support of most of the member countries.

09:49However, the proposal has not been well received by Sánchez's government,

09:53which through its executive spokeswoman Pilar Alegría has already said that it is opposed

09:59and that it continues to bet on a humanitarian and solidarity application of the migration

10:04and asylum pact in Europe.

10:06Despite the fact that Spain, one of the main entry points of African migration to Europe,

10:11has been living for months a migratory crisis that has forced the government

10:16to even improvise hosting centres in hotels throughout the national territory.

10:21In fact, immigration has become the main concern of the Spaniards according to the CIS barometer.

10:27One of every three surveyed has said this summer that the first problem of Spain

10:32is immigration, when just a few months ago it was in fourth place.

10:37Everything has changed in a matter of months in Spain.

10:41Javier García, in Seville, for Euronews.

10:48Thousands of attendees are flooding Paris' historic Grand Palais

10:52for two days of Art Basel Paris fair previews.

10:56More than 190 international galleries are exhibiting works by some of the industry's biggest names,

11:02such as pop art pioneer Andy Warhol to polka dot proliferator Yayoi Kusuma.

11:07It is very fair to say it's been a very eventful year for us.

11:10We changed names, we changed the venue.

11:12The venue is much more, you know, glorious and magnificent

11:15and we could add 41 galleries, so it's a, yeah, substantial change for us.

11:19The event comes as Paris cements itself as one of Europe's leading art sales capitals.

11:24One arts publicity and consultancy organisation representative says

11:28this was buoyed due to Britain leaving the EU in 2020.

11:32Brexit played a part, of course, because then, you know,

11:35Paris became more attractive to some of the people in the art business.

11:38It's not the main reason, though, we had, you know,

11:40a very strong cultural landscape here as well.

11:42We have new museums opening every year,

11:44we have new dealers setting up shop in Paris every year.

11:47Art Basel Paris opens to the public on Saturday and Sunday,

11:51with many able to see the best and most colourful pieces of performance art,

11:55installations, paintings and more of the last century.

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