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00:00The UK announced it will be suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and announced sanctions against West Bank settlers.
00:10The UK, Canada and France threaten sanctions against Israel over what they say is wholly inadequate levels of humanitarian aid in Gaza.
00:19In an interview with Euronews, EU trade negotiator Maro Sefcovic has confirmed EU standards on food safety are not up for negotiation in US talks over tariffs.
00:30The American Senate has approved Charles Kushner, father to Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, to become the next American ambassador to France.
00:41The UK government announced it will be suspending free trade negotiations with Israel and announced new sanctions on settlements in the West Bank.
00:50The UK's Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, has criticised Israel's military actions in Gaza, as well as violence by Israeli settlers.
01:00I'm announcing that we have suspended negotiations with this Israeli government on a new trade, free trade agreement.
01:07We will be reviewing cooperation with them under the 2030 bilateral roadmap.
01:16The Netanyahu's government's actions have made this necessary.
01:21Yesterday, Minister Smodryk even spoke of Israeli forces cleansing Gaza, destroying what's left of residents, Palestinians, being relocated, he said, to third countries.
01:41We must call this what it is.
01:44It is extremism.
01:46International pressure has been building on Israel following a nearly three-month blockade of supplies into Gaza that led to famine warnings.
01:56The United States has voiced concerns over the growing hunger crisis, and France and Canada mirrored the United Kingdom and threatened to sanction Israel if it does not halt its offensive and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.
02:11The leaders of Britain, Canada and France have threatened sanctions against Israel if it does not halt a renewed military offensive in Gaza and lift restrictions on humanitarian aid.
02:28The news follows the arrival of a limited amount of aid trucks in Gaza after nearly three months of an Israeli blockade on food, medicine and other essential supplies.
02:40The three Western nations issued a joint statement calling the aid deliveries wholly inadequate and warned of concrete actions against Israel if it continues its latest military operations in Gaza.
02:54It is a really serious, unacceptable, intolerable situation, and that's why we are working intensely to coordinate with other leaders how we respond to this, because it is intolerable, it is unacceptable, and we will continue to work in that way.
03:11In response, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would defend itself by just means until achieving total victory.
03:21He reiterated Israel's conditions for peace, which include the release of all remaining hostages and the demilitarization of the Gaza Strip.
03:31Residents of Kiev expressed little optimism about progress towards peace with Russia.
03:44Following talks between Ukrainian and Russian delegations in Turkey last week, U.S. President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
03:58Among ordinary Ukrainians, hope for a potential ceasefire and lasting peace remains dim.
04:06Now it is not possible. When there are no resources, when there are no resources, when there are no forces, when there are no army, they are ready to fight for the summer.
04:14It is already close to the summer, it is possible, but now it is not possible.
04:18It will be able to get the time and everything.
04:20I think that he will just take the time. He wants to have more land.
04:31He himself said that he needs the territory.
04:35But he is nothing left. He is not living.
04:41Ukraine has proposed a comprehensive 30-day ceasefire, which Moscow has effectively rejected
05:05by imposing far-reaching conditions.
05:10While Trump announced that Moscow and Kyiv would immediately begin ceasefire negotiations,
05:15he gave no indication of exactly when or where such talks might take place.
05:27Kyiv is interested in a direct, face-to-face meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir
05:33Putin, Ukraine's foreign minister Andriy Sibiha said in Brussels on Tuesday, adding
05:38that Kyiv is willing to consider all formats and venues for this meeting, as he confirmed
05:44that the Vatican proposed to host the talks.
05:47We are interested in a direct meeting of President Zelensky with Putin. We clearly understand that in
05:58Russia only one person takes such decisions, which are able to stop the war. We are ready to
06:08look at potential platforms for such a meeting. Yes, I confirm that the proposal about the
06:16organization of possible contacts, including the leaders on the side of the Vatican.
06:27The Ukrainian President also discussed a possible meeting with his US counterpart Donald Trump,
06:31Sibiha said, following Trump's call with Putin, which Zelensky later described as Moscow's attempts to buy time to continue the war in Ukraine.
06:40EU trade negotiator Maro Sefkovic has confirmed EU standards on food safety are not up for negotiation
06:50in the talks with the US over tariffs. The EU and US are locked in talks due to expire in early July
06:58after US President Donald Trump issued a 90-day window to negotiate. Washington has decried EU safety
07:05standards on agricultural products as one of the reasons for the tariff war.
07:10I think we've been quite clear that we clearly would preserve our regulatory autonomy. And if I
07:19follow a little bit of the discussion in the United States of America, I mean, there is also
07:24lots of talk about, you know, having healthier food, what should be, you know, the composition of the
07:31food processing and so on and so forth. And I think we, we already had this discussion in Europe,
07:36and we are very proud of our, our health and safety standards. If it comes, if it comes to food,
07:42if it comes to agri-food production, we are going clearly to stick to them.
07:46So that's not up for negotiation standards. I think if it comes to, to, to, to health and safety issues,
07:52I mean, clearly these are not up for negotiations. Meanwhile, the EU negotiator says he is pushing
07:57for a fair and balanced deal with the U.S. But he says the EU stands ready to implement up to 95
08:04billion euros of countermeasures if negotiations fail. We are already paying 10 percent tariff.
08:11We are already paying 25 percent tariff for steel. We are already paying 25 percent for cars. And we
08:17really believe that this is simply not, not fair. So we want to resolve it through the negotiated
08:23solutions. But of course, we are also preparing alternatively would have to protect the European
08:30jobs and European companies. And therefore, we started the consultations on eventual rebalancing
08:36measures. A new series of U.S. products could be targeted for potential EU tariffs, including
08:42aerospace champion Boeing or alcohol products like bourbon. You can listen to the full interview
08:49on the Europe Conversation this Friday. Cambodia on Tuesday marked 50 years since the country's
08:59communist Khmer Rouge launched a four-year reign of terror that killed an estimated 1.7 million people.
09:08On Cambodia's annual Day of Remembrance, around 2,000 people attended a ceremony honoring the victims of
09:15the Khmer Rouge genocide at the site of one of the most notorious killing fields some 15 kilometers
09:22south of the capital Phnom Penh. Dozens of student actors from a Phnom Penh art school re-enacted
09:28brutalities under the Khmer Rouge which held power from 1975 to 1979 when an estimated one-quarter of
09:37Cambodia's population was wiped out from torture, starvation, executions and misrule.
09:44The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh on 17 April 1975 and immediately ordered almost all the city's
09:52residents into the countryside. The regime ruled until 1979 when it was driven from power by an
09:58invasion from neighboring Vietnam forcing its ruler Pol Pot into hiding. Heavy rainfall across Spain has
10:10filled up dam reservoirs across the country forcing some to release some of their water. El Atazar Dam
10:16Reservoir in Madrid has been releasing water in a controlled manner but now that the dam has reached
10:22maximum capacity it is being forced to release water from an additional spillway. The heavy rainfall is in
10:29stark contrast with last year's stubborn drought. Scientists say climate change is making swings between dryness and
10:36downpour more acute.
10:40The U.S. Senate voted to approve Charles Kushner, the father of Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner,
10:46as the next American ambassador to France on Monday.
10:49The real estate mogul was previously pardoned by the president in 2020 after having pled guilty to tax evasion and
10:56witness tampering, for which he served two years in prison.
11:03Kushner was first nominated as the next American ambassador to Paris in November,
11:08with several French officials accusing the 70-year-old of lacking proper diplomatic qualifications.
11:16During a Senate hearing, Kushner pledged to encourage French investment in American defense
11:21companies and bring Paris more in line with Washington's strategic interests.
11:27Kushner's appointment comes at a time of uncertainty for Franco-American relations,
11:32as the two nations diverge over Ukraine, trade and European security realignment.

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