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00:00 The World Health Organization has described the situation at Gaza's main hospital Al Shifa as dire and perilous, with food, water and power all running out.
00:09 Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets of France, Romania and Belgium, decrying rising anti-Semitism.
00:18 Tens of thousands of protesters rally on the streets of Spain against Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's plans to grant amnesty to sentenced Catalan lawmakers.
00:30 The World Health Organization says the situation is dire and perilous at Gaza's main hospital.
00:39 The organization had earlier lost contact with the Al Shifa on Sunday, but now it's reported not to be functioning.
00:45 Doctors have confirmed food and water are running out, while heavy fighting and Israeli bombing has reportedly brought about a near-complete loss of power.
00:54 Israel's allies have expressed grave concern following the release of photos showing premature babies left in a surgical room instead of in vital incubators due to the power cut.
01:04 Israel says it will help evacuate newborns from the hospital to a safer facility, while insisting that the area is a legitimate military target as Hamas has its base underneath the buildings.
01:15 Hamas denies this.
01:17 The Israeli army claims to have left fuel near the Shifa hospital on Saturday night. It released footage purported to show soldiers carrying some containers, but it was not picked up, with hospital workers reportedly too afraid to come outside.
01:30 Israel has come under mounting international pressure for a ceasefire, even from its closest ally, the United States, as the war enters its sixth week.
01:41 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US media that a hostage deal could happen, but only with the release of all the nearly 240 hostages captured by Hamas in the October 7th rampage that triggered the war.
01:55 18 Israelis have been injured, one critically after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia fired anti-tank missiles from southern Lebanon, in a further sign that the skirmishes along the border are steadily escalating.
02:11 A human chain in Israel was made in solidarity for the hostages taken by Hamas.
02:21 Women's group in Tel Aviv have increased their calls for the release of the roughly 240 hostages seized by the Palestinian militants on October 7th and believed held in Gaza.
02:32 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told US media there could be a deal to free some of those being held by the militants, but critiques in Israel accuse him of not being interested in bringing them out alive, but only of being concerned with preserving his political future.
02:52 More than 100,000 demonstrators marching through the streets of Paris decrying rising anti-Semitism. Authorities say this was just one of approximately 70 events staged across the country which attracted more than 180,000 people in total, including politicians.
03:07 Prime Minister Elizabeth Borne and the leader of the far-right Marine Le Pen attended the rally in the French capital.
03:13 While President Macron did not attend, he expressed his support for the protest. Some 3,000 police officers were deployed in Paris to oversee the event.
03:22 In Romania, protesters gathered in solidarity with Israel in Bucharest and called for the release of hostages taken by Hamas militants. Three Jew, Romanian and Israeli citizens were among those captured.
03:33 We just want this thing to end. We want peace and we want all the kidnapped people to come back to their loved ones, back home.
03:44 And in Brussels, several hundred people also took part in a similar demo. This after the Inter-Federal Centre for Equal Opportunities and the fight against racism recorded 43 incidents involving people of Jewish descent in just one month, most concerning hate speech.
04:00 Hundreds volunteer daily at this cooking school, now transformed into a humanitarian hub, since Hamas launched an attack on Israel one month ago, prompting Israel to retaliate, killing thousands of Palestinians.
04:12 David Kishka, a Franco-Israeli citizen, is head of the Israeli Association for Culinary Culture. He now manages volunteers who come to the school in Eterior Vieve for those displaced by the Hamas attacks.
04:23 We try to feed families who have relatives who have been taken hostage or families who are in mourning, and also families who had to leave the south or the north, because we have problems on our two borders now.
04:37 More than 1,500 meals are prepared here and delivered daily. Much of the fresh produce comes from the areas hit by the October 7 attacks near the Gaza Strip.
04:47 We buy from the farmers who have lost everything and give healthy, nutritious food to the refugees here.
04:57 About 50 professional chefs from Israel and abroad come here every day.
05:06 Doing this is our way of also keeping our mind busy, not going nuts from what's going around, and doing whatever we can in order to help meet it now.
05:18 Our correspondent Valérie Gouriat followed David on the delivery.
05:23 This family was forced to move to Tel Aviv from the town of Sderot. Several of their relatives, including some of the children's friends, were killed by Hamas.
05:33 They are now afraid of going outside of the Tel Aviv flat that was lent to them free of charge.
05:39 We don't go out, we can't think about something else. Everyone we see looks like someone is now going to shoot us, and the mind is never stopped.
05:53 We don't sleep at night. All the terrorists in my dream, if they walk and shoot me, and it's in my dream and I wake up and I'm just crying.
06:08 And I say to my mother and then my mother crying.
06:12 We go out, how long it will be from our house, but please tell us that it's over. We don't, we can't, we can't do this again.
06:35 A living hell for teachers working and living in the Gaza Strip. Since Israel began its relentless bombardment after Hamas' 7th of October attack, schools inside the besieged enclave have become makeshift refuge centers for thousands of displaced Palestinians.
06:49 The Trade Union Education International says so far at least 100 impaired teachers have been killed in Israeli strikes.
06:56 I used to dream, it's not true, that I live in a school, I used to go to work and come back after 5 or 6 hours of work, and I come back every day like this.
07:11 While Israeli bombs continue to fall outside, teachers are still trying to conduct lessons inside.
07:18 Today it's been 31 days, I'm in school day and night. It's not just a refugee center for the displaced people of Gaza, but it's also for my students, I lost many of my students who I used to teach.
07:38 We were martyred in the Israeli bombing.
07:45 These are some of the students who are living at this school, trying to find moments of respite and make sense of it all.
07:51 I was wearing my school uniform, and we were going to school, and then the bombs came, and instead of coming to school, we came to this school, me, my family and my uncles.
08:10 I used to go to school to learn, to sit with the teachers and learn, and to learn and to learn.
08:16 It's not like now, I come to school as a refugee center, there's no water, no electricity, and life is very difficult.
08:21 More than two thirds of Gaza's 2.3 million people have fled their homes since the war began.
08:27 According to the Palestinian Health Authority, more than 11,070 Palestinians, 66% of them women and minors, have been killed.
08:34 Another 2,650 people have been reported missing.
08:39 The head of Ukraine's ground forces says Russian troops have begun a push to regain territory near Bermut.
08:47 A military spokesperson said Russian attacks on the shattered eastern town of Avdivka had eased in the past day, but were likely to intensify again.
09:00 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his nightly address to warn again that Ukraine must prepare for winter, fearing Russia will pick up its campaign of systematic strikes on power facilities.
09:12 Ukrainian Presidential aide Andrei Yermak said on Sunday that he'd arrived in the US with a delegation headed by the economy minister for talks on cooperation and support at the White House.
09:25 Meanwhile, some Ukrainian refugees have returned home from Israel. They found they'd exchanged one war for another.
09:32 There's a siren everywhere. You run to the shelter. It was very scary when the terrorists entered the city.
09:43 We were in Ashkelon, not far from Gaza, so it was very scary when you read about the mass slaughter.
09:56 The family is back in Kharkiv, which is regularly hit by Russian attacks. Sirens are still a part of life, but for this family, it's a relief to be back.
10:08 Anger on the streets of Spain as demonstrators turned out on Sunday to condemn the government's plans to grant amnesty to Catalan lawmakers who fled the country after a failed secession bid in 2017.
10:22 The deal, supported by the pro-independence Catalonian Junts, will help incumbent Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez secure the majority he needs to stay in power.
10:31 But the Conservative PP and far-right Vox party say the move is a violation of the rule of law.
10:36 Euronews reporter Jaime Velasquez has more from Madrid.
10:40 Spain has not seen a wave of similar protests since the sentence against the leaders of the process in 2019.
10:46 The protests and the opening of the dialogue have appeased the Catalan people, but on the other hand,
10:53 a new amnesty law has been passed for the independence of Pedro Sánchez's party,
10:58 and the return of Carles Puigdemont to Spain without being tried goes beyond the limits of the rule of law.
11:04 A few days after Pedro Sánchez's investigation, the opposition is preparing for a long battle in the courts and in the streets.
11:11 In Madrid, Jaime Velasquez, Euronews.
11:15 The authorities in Iceland have declared a state of emergency after completing the evacuation of 3,700 residents from the town of Grindavík.
11:25 It lies on the country's southwestern coast, and magma has been shifting under the Earth's crust, causing hundreds of smaller warning earthquakes.
11:33 Iceland is used to volcanic activity.
11:36 The most disruptive episode in recent times was the 2010 eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano, which spewed huge clouds of ash leading to widespread airspace.
11:45 Red Air Space...
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