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00:00 Hama says it will respond quickly to a new proposal for a pause in the fighting and more hostage and prisoner exchanges.
00:08 Many protesting French farmers remain on the barricades Friday despite calls to unblock the roads.
00:24 Hamas said on Friday it will respond quickly to a proposal for extended pauses in the fighting in Gaza and phased exchanges of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners.
00:34 But crucially the proposal does not include a permanent ceasefire.
00:38 Israeli leaders have said they'll keep on fighting until Hamas is eradicated.
00:43 More than 27,000 Gazans have been killed and over 66,000 wounded according to the health ministry.
00:49 85% of the population have fled their homes and a quarter of the population are now starving according to the UN.
00:56 Its children's agency now says about 17,000 children have been separated from their families during the conflict.
01:03 The southern city of Khan Yunis has been a key target for Israel in recent weeks and tens of thousands of residents have fled further south to Rafa on the border with Egypt.
01:13 Israel's defence minister has said now there will also be a military push on Rafa.
01:18 The UN says the border town with Egypt is now a pressure cooker of despair.
01:24 In recent days thousands of Palestinians have continued to flee to the south which is already hosting over half the Gaza's population of some 2.3 million people.
01:38 Most are living in makeshift structures, tents or out in the open.
01:44 Rafa is a pressure cooker of despair and we fear for what comes next.
01:51 Also on Friday near the Nissana border crossing point dozens of Israeli protesters attempted to block humanitarian aid from entering Gaza.
01:59 Many protesting French farmers remain on the barricades Friday despite calls to unblock the roads.
02:09 Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced a package of measures that include additional subsidies and permission to use pesticides allowed in other EU countries.
02:18 Yet protesters saw some contradictions between Attal's promises and what other ministers have been saying and decided to extend the protest at least into Friday.
02:28 We are waiting for written clarification from the French government to understand what has been said.
02:37 There seems to be a gap between the Prime Minister's speech and his ministers.
02:43 We asked for further explanations to better understand what has been said.
02:52 In areas that have been blocked for several days farmers offer free cartons of milk to drivers who managed to get through as a form of apology.
03:02 On Thursday as EU leaders met for the first summit of the year protests broke out in Brussels and thousands of farmers gathered to address the summit.
03:19 European leaders met with protesters representatives.
03:23 President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen said that farmers can count on European support.
03:29 In the meantime farmers in more EU countries are joining the protest.
03:35 On Thursday protests broke out in Greece, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
03:43 Commuters in Germany faced a second day of transport chaos as up to 90,000 public sector workers continued their strike.
03:58 In most federal states trains, buses and trams have ground to a halt.
04:03 Bavaria was not affected but in all other states unions are calling for better pay and better working conditions.
04:10 On Thursday air travel was also disrupted.
04:13 More than a thousand flights were cancelled as security staff striked for better wages.
04:18 The only airports working normally were those in Bavaria.
04:22 Grandmothers have been taking to the streets in Germany's eastern state of Saxony to protest against the far right.
04:32 The German intelligence agency has classified the Saxony branch of the far right Alternative for Germany party as extremists.
04:40 In the town of Durban older women have got together to denounce the party, joining protests that have swept across the country in recent weeks.
04:49 They say they want their grandchildren to grow up in a democracy and they hope their protests will help stop the far right from making any more gains in elections.
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