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00:00France calls military cooperation between Russia and North Korea worrying after reports

00:06Pyongyang has sent troops to fight in Ukraine.

00:11France has said it's concerned about growing military cooperation between Russia and North

00:15Korea after South Korea's spy agency said Pyongyang had sent troops to fight in Ukraine.

00:21If the South Korean intelligence has confirmed the troop deployment would bring a third country

00:26into the war.

00:28The National Intelligence Service in Seoul said that Russian Navy ships transferred 1,500

00:33North Korean special operations forces to the Russian port city of Vladivostok from

00:38the 8th to the 13th of October.

00:40The North Korean soldiers have reportedly been given Russian military uniforms, weapons

00:45and forged identity documents.

00:48On Thursday, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that a third nation entering

00:52the hostilities could turn the conflict into a world war.

00:56North Korea has 1.2 million troops, one of the largest standing militaries in the world,

01:01but it hasn't fought in any large-scale conflict since the 1950-1953 Korean War.

01:12US President Joe Biden has said that negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah could

01:18be easier than forging one with Hamas.

01:20Biden was speaking in Berlin after talks with the leaders of France, Germany and the UK.

01:26He declined to say whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had given him reassurances

01:30that Israel was ready to come back to negotiations on hostage and ceasefire deals.

01:36Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said allies were working to de-escalate tensions

01:41in the region and agreed that there was no military-only solution.

01:47Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah have traded almost daily fire since

01:52the war in Gaza broke out in October, displacing thousands on both sides of the border.

01:57On the 30th of September, Israel launched what it called a targeted ground operation

02:02in Lebanon, it says, to find and eliminate Hezbollah positions.

02:11Clean-up operations are underway after two days of torrential rain caused the worst flooding

02:16Central France has seen in 40 years.

02:19Over a thousand people were evacuated from several areas, but most were able to go back

02:24home on Friday.

02:26French weather agency Météo France said as much as 700 millimeters of rain fell in

02:3148 hours in some parts of the southern regions of Ardèche and Lausanne.

02:35The agency lifted its red alert on Friday, but warned of potential heavy rain in southwestern

02:41areas.

02:46Tourists arriving in Greece this week may receive an unexpected welcome, as labor unions

02:51distribute English leaflets highlighting the harsh working conditions in the tourism industry.

02:57Protests are also planned at key locations, including ports, airports and archaeological

03:03sites.

03:16A shortage of staff has been one of the biggest headaches for the Greek tourism industry in

03:262024.

03:28And although there has been an increase in tourist arrivals this year, Greece is not

03:32growing as fast as other Mediterranean countries as a holiday destination.

03:52Public infrastructure such as ports, airports, water and sewage networks and waste management

03:57is struggling to keep up with the rising number of tourists.

04:04Experts say that to keep Greek tourism sustainable, a different and more comprehensive approach

04:09is needed.

04:14There isn't a magic number as far as how many tourists you can have in a destination.

04:27It's really about how you manage the destinations, how you manage the impact. For too many years

04:31we've been measuring tourism with just the volume of tourism that arrives and just how

04:36much money they leave behind.

04:38One of the primary goals for the tourism industry in the coming years is to extend the seasonality

04:43of travel and promote the beauty of mountainous Greece.

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