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00:00 Israel and Hamas have agreed to release 50 hostages held in Gaza during a four-day pausing
00:06 fighting.
00:10 As the civilian death toll in Ukraine surpasses 10,000, President Zelensky looks ahead to
00:14 EU accession negotiations 10 years after the deadly Maidan Square protests.
00:20 The Dutch election is underway.
00:22 Polls show four parties are neck and neck.
00:25 Whoever they vote in will be the first new prime minister in 13 years.
00:30 The families of victims killed during the troubles in Northern Ireland challenge the
00:34 law granting amnesty to those allegedly responsible for deaths under investigation.
00:42 More than a month into Israel`s war in Gaza and the cabinet has approved a ceasefire deal
00:47 that will see 50 hostages held by Hamas released, all women and children, during a four-day
00:52 pause in fighting.
00:54 In return, around 150 Palestinian women and children held in Israeli jails will also be
00:59 freed.
01:00 Ahead of the cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Reservist his government
01:05 was committed to getting all of the hostages home.
01:08 Later, his government said any pause in fighting did not mean the war was over.
01:13 "There are rumors outside, as if after the return of our hostages, we will stop the war.
01:25 So I would like to clarify.
01:28 We are at war and we will continue at war.
01:32 We will continue at war until we get all of our hostages, get rid of Hamas, get all of
01:41 our kidnapped and our victims and ensure that in Gaza there will be no perpetrator that
01:47 threatens Israel."
01:49 The pause allows for 308 trucks a day to enter Gaza, bringing vital food, medicine and fuel.
01:55 Israel says the first hostages will be released Thursday and the law will be extended by an
02:00 additional day for every 10 hostages released.
02:05 Netanyahu has been under increasing pressure from the families of the 240 hostages held
02:12 captive by Hamas since October 7 to do more to get them home.
02:17 Protesters have been on the streets each night calling on the Israeli government to negotiate
02:21 a deal.
02:25 Addressing the faithful gathered here in St. Peter`s Square for his Wednesday general audience,
02:29 Pope Francis turned his thoughts to those who were suffering in wars around the world
02:34 and he`s appealed, he prayed for those who are suffering in Israel, Palestine and Ukraine.
02:39 And he recalled meetings he had earlier today with relatives of Israeli hostages who were
02:45 still kept by Hamas in Gaza and Palestinian families who were suffering the consequences
02:53 of the Israel-Hamas war.
02:56 We know that as described by the Holy See press office, those meetings were of an exclusively
03:04 humanitarian nature.
03:06 Pope Francis` aim was to express his spiritual closeness to those who are suffering.
03:13 On a previous occasion, the pontiff said that anyone, any individual, whether Christian,
03:19 Muslim or Jewish, is sacred and precious in the eyes of God.
03:23 These are the words that Pope Francis used.
03:26 And on another occasion, he also said that releasing all hostages is a crucial step to
03:32 end conflict.
03:33 He called for a ceasefire and said that a two-state solution was needed in order to
03:39 achieve that.
03:40 Georgia Orlandi for Euronews and the Vatican City.
03:47 A hospital on the front line in Ukraine`s eastern Donetsk region crumbling to pieces
03:51 after a Russian missile strike on Tuesday.
03:55 According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one person was killed and eight people were
03:58 injured.
03:59 The United Nations says more than 10,000 civilians have been killed since Russia`s full-scale
04:04 invasion in February 2022.
04:07 This after President Volodymyr Zelensky held bilateral meetings with the head of the European
04:11 Council, Charles Michel, and Moldova`s leader, Maya Sandu, in Kiev.
04:17 Zelensky reiterated Ukraine`s request to join the EU and is eyeing the EU`s December summit
04:23 for positive indications.
04:25 The leaders also discussed security issues and the challenges both Kiev and Kishinev
04:30 face as winter approaches.
04:33 Sandu, Zelensky and the first lady, Zelenska, also marked the 10th anniversary of the revolution
04:38 of divinity, commemorating the 100 lives lost in deadly clashes between security forces
04:44 and protesters in Maidan Square in 2013.
04:48 The mass protest ultimately led to the ousting of Kremlin-backed President Viktor Yanukovych
04:54 and gave rise to a new generation of anti-corruption pro-European movement leaders.
05:01 Polls are open in the Dutch election.
05:04 And even though people are still voting for their 150 members of parliament, one thing
05:09 is for sure, they will have a new prime minister for the first time in 13 years.
05:15 Foreign Prime Minister Mark Rutte is on the way out.
05:18 Polls show four parties are neck and neck going into today`s election, including Gert
05:23 Wilder`s far right party for freedom.
05:26 Wilder`s party for freedom is slightly ahead of the People`s Party for Freedom and Democracy.
05:31 If Wilder`s party succeeds, it could mean a woman.
05:34 The current justice and security minister takes the top office for the first time.
05:39 She`s the first liberal politician to admit that she could form a coalition with the far
05:44 right.
05:45 There`s also a heavyweight candidate on the left side of the political scene.
05:49 That`s Franz Timmermans, the former EU climate commissioner.
05:53 He gave up his international career to return to politics.
05:56 The election results are expected later tonight.
06:02 The families of victims who lost their lives to sectarian violence in Northern Ireland
06:06 during the troubles between the late `60s and 1998.
06:11 They are taking legal action after a controversial law granting immunity to ex-British combatants
06:16 involved in the conflict was approved in September.
06:19 The new law has been fiercely criticized by all political parties in Northern Ireland
06:23 and the Irish government.
06:25 The Council of Europe has also expressed serious concerns.
06:28 My family is destroyed.
06:31 You never get over losing - I never get over losing my husband.
06:37 His family never get over losing him.
06:40 It doesn`t go away.
06:41 You live with it morning, noon and night.
06:42 It`s with you all the time.
06:43 UK government passed a law that denies us the rights of all the victims of the fair
06:52 deal.
06:53 The new law calls for the creation of a truth and recovery commission and offers amnesty
06:59 to British security personnel and paramilitaries for their part if they cooperate with its
07:04 inquiries.
07:05 It will also limit ongoing criminal investigations from this time period.
07:10 Human rights organizations say the move is a denial of justice.
07:14 When 3,500 people were killed during the conflict over British rule in Northern Ireland, around
07:20 1,200 deaths remain under investigation.
07:27 After Poland`s liberal opposition coalition won a parliamentary majority, some hope controversial
07:33 judicial changes introduced by the previous PIS party will now be overturned.
07:38 Warsaw needs to have an independent judiciary in order to unfreeze European funds.
07:44 We didn`t really feel the support of the European Union institutions, especially European commission.
07:50 But since 2019, 2020, they realized that the problem is big.
07:55 Now we feel their support, their milestones negotiated actually by the peace government.
08:01 Most of those milestones concerns the repairment of the judiciary.
08:05 We have worked on five bills that should repair what`s been damaged within the judiciary in
08:10 the last eight years.
08:12 And we hope that the new government will help us to help the society to make some repairs
08:18 and changes for the better.
08:20 The first step to the depoliticization of the National Council of the Judiciary Parliament
08:25 has already appointed new representatives to sit in the council.
08:29 We will take part as the people elected by the parliament in the works of the council.
08:36 We will look at the hands of those who are already in the council from this judicial part.
08:42 And I think that this is the beginning of changes, because first of all, the KRS`s bill should be
08:48 changed so that the judges would again elect the judicial part of this body, not the politicians.
08:55 But we have a lot of opinions that this process should be democratized.
09:01 Poland is set to receive more than 5 billion euros in financing to reduce their dependence
09:06 on Russia, previously frozen due to prior actions from the outgoing nationalist government.
09:11 The funds should be launched immediately, because it is a result of the European law.
09:16 We have been talking about it for a long time, that the reasons for which these funds are
09:20 being held are not really legal, they are purely political.
09:23 We are happy with every decision that returns the state to the law.
09:28 The state to the law is that Poland receives money.
09:31 We have the first decisions, although from a legal point of view nothing has changed.
09:34 And very well, because this money simply belongs to the Poles.
09:38 Yesterday, the European Commission recommended the release of 5 billion euros for Poland.
09:42 However, these are not funds that depend on changes in the Polish justice system.
09:46 For this money, Poland will still have to wait and work.
09:50 Magdalena Chodownik, Euronews, Warsaw.
09:53 Chad GPT creator Sam Altman is back at the OpenAI as CEO.
10:00 Days after he shocked dismissal plunged the pioneering artificial intelligence firm into crisis.
10:06 Altman`s exit on Friday triggered intense lobbying from OpenAI`s biggest investors,
10:11 including tech giant Microsoft for his return.
10:14 Earlier this week, Microsoft had announced they would hire Altman to lead an AI research team.
10:19 It`s invested billions of dollars into OpenAI, incorporating its tech into various products, including its search engine Bing.
10:27 It`s been 60 years since one of the United States` most recognizable presidents was assassinated.
10:38 President John F. Kennedy was shot as his motorcade drove through Dallas, Texas in 1963.
10:47 There`s numerous people running up the hill.
10:50 Once in the back and once in the head. Kennedy died 30 minutes later of his injuries.
10:55 The assassination led to a national outpouring of grief.
10:58 Police arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, a U.S. Marine veteran. Oswald was then later shot.
11:04 Before his death, he denied killing the former president.
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