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00:00 The UN says Israel`s deadly strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza could constitute
00:07 a war crime.
00:10 Russian airstrikes hit more than 100 Ukrainian towns in 24 hours in what Kiev says is the
00:16 most intense bombardment this year.
00:22 Israel`s air raids on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza may constitute a war
00:27 crime. That`s the assessment of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights who says they
00:33 appear disproportionate.
00:35 Hamas says 195 people were killed in two strikes on the camp. Israel says it killed a second
00:41 senior Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip.
00:44 Meanwhile, the opening of the Rafah border crossing has allowed at least 76 injured Palestinians
00:50 to travel to Egypt for treatment.
00:53 Hundreds of people with foreign passports are fleeing the besieged territory through
00:57 the same crossing.
00:59 Gaza`s borders have been closed since Hamas attacked Israel on October the 7th.
01:07 For those not able to leave, the situation has become dire. The UN says Israel`s military
01:13 operation targeting Hamas militants has displaced more than 1.4 million people. Suppliers of
01:20 food, drinking water and electricity are running out.
01:24 I was shocked by the fact that everyone there was asking for food, was asking for water.
01:34 We saw almost every children trying to express their way that they need to eat, they need
01:41 to have water. I never, ever have seen something similar in Gaza when I came before after conflict.
01:51 Israel says at least 16 soldiers have been killed in its ground offensive in northern
01:55 Gaza this week. More than 330 have died since the start of the war with Hamas.
02:03 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of a long and difficult fight.
02:13 Iran has warned that armed groups it supports in the Middle East could attack Israel in
02:17 light of its war on Hamas. This comes as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdullahian
02:23 met with Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan one day after meeting Hamas leaders in Qatar.
02:29 Abdullahian urged the Muslim world to boycott Israeli products over the conflict.
02:34 Ankara and Tehran have also called for a regional conference aimed at preventing the spread
02:39 of the Israel-Hamas war.
02:41 We have concerns about the spread of the conflict in the region. We have discussed this with
02:48 our Iranian brother. He has also said in his recent speech that if the conditions in the
02:55 region do not change, other armed groups could be involved in the conflict. Now, in the face
03:00 of such a reality, ceasefire and peace have become more important than ever.
03:09 Meanwhile, EU Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell said he was horrified by the high number of
03:14 victims following Israel's attack on the Jabalaya refugee camp. He stressed that the protection
03:20 of civilians is not only a moral obligation but also a legal one.
03:25 In an Angelus delivered to a crowd in St. Peter's Square, Pope Francis prayed for those
03:29 suffering due to war and urged the crowd not to forget the conflicts in Ukraine, Israel
03:35 and the Palestinian territories.
03:43 Ukraine says Russia has set a new record, shelling 118 towns in just 24 hours. Kiev
03:50 accuses Moscow of targeting civilians in its strikes across 10 regions, marking the heaviest
03:57 day of Russian shelling this year. At least three people were killed in Kherson, Kharkiv
04:02 and Nikopol. Moscow has fired millions of shells on cities, towns and villages since
04:08 the start of the war last year. With the Israel-Hamas war dominating the headlines, the EU's top
04:15 diplomat Josep Borrell has reiterated the bloc's commitment to the long-term support
04:20 of Ukraine. In a social media post, he said Russian aggression had reached a new peak
04:26 of ruthlessness.
04:29 Moscow says its troops are using high-precision weapons and targeting Ukrainian military infrastructure.
04:37 Military experts warn Russia will likely strike Ukrainian energy and communications facilities
04:42 with the onset of winter. The UN says more than 18 million Ukrainians already need humanitarian
04:50 assistance.
04:58 Russian forces continued air strikes with glide bombs against targets on the west bank
05:03 of Kherson region amid the intensified fighting in that area. Ukraine's Southern Operational
05:09 Command reported that during just one day, 31 October, Russian forces launched 45 glide
05:17 bombs at targets in Kherson and Byroslav districts. Russian media bloggers claimed that Ukrainian
05:24 forces maintained positions and continued ground activity on the east bank of Kherson
05:29 region, specifically in Krynki. There it is, about 30 kilometres from Kherson city and
05:38 also near the Antonivsky road bridge. It is here and the Antonivsky rail bridge here.
05:45 Russian bloggers claim that fighting is ongoing near Krynki and the Antonivsky railway bridge
05:54 and that Ukrainian forces attempted to break through Russian defences near Peshchanivka
06:00 here it is and also near Poima. Poima is about 12 kilometres south-east from Kherson city.
06:09 A few days ago, Ukraine has started the first evacuations of children and minors from more
06:15 than 20 settlements in Kherson region near the front line as Russia intensified the attacks.
06:21 Communities across northwestern France have been racing to prepare for possible flooding
06:31 as Storm Kiran rolls across the region. Several areas have been put on alert with heavy downpours
06:36 and high winds expected between Wednesday and Thursday. In some places, gales are predicted
06:41 to reach up to 170 kilometres per hour.
06:49 "The water is very shallow. It is not a big deal, but we are powerless. We have to try
06:56 everything."
06:57 Parts of the UK and Ireland have already been lashed by the extreme weather system, with
07:07 the town of Neary inundated after a swollen river and a canal burst their banks. The Netherlands,
07:13 Belgium and other northern European countries are braced for similarly harsh conditions.
07:18 The capital less than two weeks after Storm Babette claimed five lives in the UK.
07:27 A volcano in far east Russia's Kamchatka region is spewing large amounts of ash and lava,
07:33 destroying roadways and forcing surrounding schools to close. The Kluvcheskaya volcano
07:39 is one of the world's most active volcanoes and began erupting at the end of June. Experts
07:45 at the time said it did not pose a threat. But on Wednesday, the volcano started releasing
07:50 an ash column of around 14 kilometres into the atmosphere, prompting authorities to issue
07:56 an aviation red code alert.
08:03 On a visit to Tanzania, German President Franz-Walter Steinmeier made an impassioned apology for
08:08 colonial-era killings committed in the African country. Berlin ruled over today's Tanzania,
08:13 Rwanda and Burundi from 1885 until the end of World War I in what was known as German
08:19 East Africa. Some 300,000 people are thought to have died in the brutal put-down of a rebellion
08:25 in 1907.
08:26 "I am ashamed of what German colonial soldiers did to their Lord, his fellow soldiers and
08:34 many others in the area of today's Tanzania. I ask for forgiveness and I want to assure
08:41 you that we Germans will look with you for answers to the open questions that leave you
08:48 no peace."
08:52 In 2021, Germany agreed to recognise as genocide the massacre of tens of thousands of people
08:57 in Namibia, another former colony. It offered to fund communities affected, but the accord
09:03 fell short of a proposal of reparations and is yet to be formally enacted.
09:08 (whooshing)