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00:00 The US and UK struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, the second time they have
00:07 hit back at Iran-backed groups in recent weeks.
00:10 Russia says 28 people, including a child, were killed as a result of overnight shelling
00:15 in the Ukrainian city of Lysyashensk, which is under Russian control.
00:26 Yemen's Houthi rebels released footage on Saturday showing military drills simulating
00:32 the targeting of Israeli military positions.
00:35 The clip is dubbed "Yemen is the support of Palestine" and shows Houthi fighters storming
00:40 structures and simulating the arrest of an Israeli soldier.
00:43 The US and UK struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday, the second time they have
00:52 hit back at Iran-backed groups in recent weeks.
00:55 The US insists it is not targeting Iran directly as it tries to find a way to push back on
01:01 attacks on US and international interests without escalating the conflict.
01:06 Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani visited a hospital in Baghdad on Sunday to
01:12 check on Popular Mobilization Forces members said to have been injured in US airstrikes
01:17 on their positions near the Syrian border.
01:20 Russia on Sunday morning said 28 people, including a child, were killed as a result of overnight
01:32 shelling in the Ukrainian city of Lysyashensk, which is under Russian control.
01:37 Ten people were rescued from the rubble of a bakery overnight.
01:41 Ukraine has not yet commented on the attack.
01:44 Both Moscow and Kyiv have increasingly relied on longer-range attacks this winter.
01:49 Both sides' positions are largely unchanged on the 1,500-kilometre front line.
01:54 The war is nearly two years old.
01:56 The Russian Defence Ministry released on Sunday footage of its air crews destroying two missiles
02:03 in the South Donetsk region as part of a special military operation.
02:08 On Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Defence also released footage it said showed its strike
02:14 teams hitting Ukrainian armed forces positions in the Krasnyy Liman district.
02:19 The European Greens approved their manifesto in Lyon on Sunday.
02:33 The document will serve as a common manifesto for all the continent's Green groups for the
02:38 European elections in June, but it is also the roadmap for the next five years in European
02:43 Parliament.
02:44 It prioritises strengthening the Green Pact and improving social justice.
02:51 "The first chapter is a chapter that demands a Green and social pact.
02:55 It is a way of explaining why, while some are trying to make us believe that ecology is
03:01 the enemy of social justice, we are demonstrating that on the contrary, it is not only the enemy,
03:07 but it is the only credible solution to bring social justice today and respond to the crisis
03:11 of purchasing power, which is the major concern of Europeans today."
03:18 Another priority for the Greens will be to defend democracy and the rule of law within
03:23 the European Union.
03:24 They also want solutions to geopolitical tensions.
03:28 The Greens have been working on this manifesto for almost a year.
03:32 Speaking to Euronews, the Greens insisted environmental policy should still be a top
03:38 priority for Europe in spite of calls for a pause in the climate effort.
03:43 "What I hear from both movements, NGOs, from companies, is actually let's have an ambitious
03:49 Green transition.
03:50 And if we do it together, if we really make the choice to do this, put it forward as a
03:55 plan, private sector is along as well.
03:57 What I hear right now is the right wing saying let's put a break to the Green deal, let's
04:02 stop all the transition talk.
04:04 But that's not what I hear when I talk to neither civil society nor the private sector.
04:09 They actually want a plan that takes us forward and not backwards."
04:13 This is the manifesto the newly elected heads of the Green list, Terry Reich and Baz Eichhout,
04:19 will have to defend.
04:20 The party is confident they can beat the polls which predict a difficult election for the
04:25 Greens.
04:26 Greek farmers protested outside a fair in Thessaloniki, widely considered to be a symbolic
04:35 site that represents the agricultural industry.
04:38 Hundreds of tractors converged on the site with farmers demanding immediate relief from
04:43 measures implemented by the government and the EU.
04:46 They are protesting rising production costs and the financial impact of recent natural
04:51 disasters.
04:53 "They should make amendments to the new CAP so that the farmer can cultivate, know what
04:59 he will cultivate, know what income he will get.
05:02 If this situation continues and they don't take measures, the primary sector will be
05:08 wiped out."
05:09 The Greek Prime Minister announced concessions but the farmers say they are a mockery and
05:14 are demanding more.
05:16 "These are measures that in no case are in line with the current data, the huge production
05:22 costs and the rising price of our products, but also the economic potential of the country
05:27 because, based on the issue of the effect, the country has money to support the primary
05:31 sector."
05:32 Farmers warn if things don't change, they will have to change jobs or even leave Greece
05:38 to survive.
05:39 "We want a real reduction in production costs.
05:42 We want to stay in our farms, in our homes, in our country because a country without farmers
05:47 is a new country."
05:48 Protesters are also blocking roads along central and northern Greece.
05:56 An assembly is due to take place on Tuesday to decide next steps on how to deal with the
06:01 crisis, but farmers are unlikely to abandon their protests.
06:06 "A few months before the June elections, European farmers are making their presence felt
06:12 and are gaining the attention of the political world and the public opinion.
06:16 In the struggle, the Greek producers, who support the high energy cost and the high prices,
06:22 are being led to abandon the land."
06:25 From Thessaloniki, for Euronews, Apostolos Taikos.
06:30 The Swedish diplomat, Johan Floderus, has been in an Iranian prison for more than 650 days.
06:37 Floderus, who works for the EU's diplomatic service and lives in Brussels, was detained
06:42 in Tehran's airport after a touristic visit to the country.
06:46 The EU believes he is illegally detained and is a victim of growing arbitrary detentions
06:52 affecting EU citizens, also known as hostage diplomacy.
06:56 His family tried to raise awareness in an event in Brussels.
07:00 "I can see from the pictures now from his trial that he looks very different from the brother I know.
07:06 I see there is like not really this light in his eyes.
07:09 He looks much skinnier, very pale of course, since he's basically never going out.
07:14 And I know that he doesn't get as much food as he needs, for example.
07:18 And not to mention the pain it must be like inside to stand there.
07:23 And like now he is accused for something where they want maybe to give him the death penalty.
07:29 So I mean, and also the fact that he's alone there.
07:33 We don't even have a Swedish ambassador at the moment in Iran, so."
07:37 Floderus has spent 300 days in isolation and is kept hostage in a 24-hour light cell.
07:43 For the first 10 months he could not contact his family.
07:46 After several hunger strikes, he has now very limited phone calls.
07:50 And in these almost two years he only had two video calls.
07:54 He is forced to do them in English.
07:56 "As you can hear, my English is not fluent because I'm a Swedish native speaker.
08:01 But we have to speak in English during those calls.
08:04 And otherwise they, yeah, that's a demand from the other side.
08:08 And also we know that he's being supervised and they will break off the phone call
08:12 if something is said that they don't want to.
08:14 So it's hard for us to know what is really coming from a brother
08:17 and what is maybe, what is maybe, I wouldn't say forced, but yeah, I don't know."
08:22 Iran accused Floderus of what they call corruption on earth
08:26 and believe he has spied for Israel.
08:28 The maximum sentence is death penalty.
08:31 "He is an innocent man. That is also the fact I want to really say that.
08:36 I don't think that anyone really feels like my brother has done those crimes that he is accused to.
08:43 This is about some big political game where my brother is being used as a pawn.
08:48 And that is really for me something I cannot accept.
08:51 And I don't think we as a nation or the European Union either should accept that."
08:56 His trial started in December and finished last Sunday.
09:00 There is no date for the verdict.
09:12 They call it the Bronx.
09:14 But this is not the neighborhood of New York.
09:17 It is on the outskirts of Naples, a working class neighborhood where,
09:20 at the end of the 80s, two large public housing buildings were built hastily
09:25 and badly following the terrible earthquake of 1980.
09:29 After 40 years of waiting and 7 years of fighting for the construction of decent homes,
09:34 today the inhabitants of the neighborhood can finally celebrate.
09:37 The dilapidated buildings will be replaced by new, smaller buildings with green areas,
09:42 urban gardens and sports fields.
09:44 But the demolition could lead to the possible loss of the murals of Iorred,
10:06 a street artist known throughout the world who brought beauty and identity
10:10 to a place forgotten by most.
10:12 Iorred painted the largest Maradona mural in the world, which is here in Naples.
10:17 I am surprised by the incredible affection that people have shown me
10:23 and have shown above all, not to me, but to the work, especially to Diego.
10:28 I was overwhelmed by messages, calls.
10:31 I can't walk because someone tells me to do something to save Diego.
10:35 We will ensure that the demolition of this wall is done in a controlled way,
10:43 so that all the parts that can be recomposed in a place close to this neighborhood can be recovered.
10:54 I strongly believe in the value of culture, art, aggregation, social,
11:09 what makes us really human.
11:13 Now that we have won this battle for houses, we must fight to say that after the houses,
11:17 after the work, after the food, we are human beings and we also need art, culture.
11:23 These two buildings behind me, a symbol of the degradation of the San Giovanni Atteduccio neighborhood
11:27 on the eastern periphery of Naples, will be demolished to replace dignified buildings,
11:33 suitable for the dignity of the people who now live there and who have been fighting for years to give beauty to their neighborhood.
11:40 Luca Palamara for AeroNews, Naples.
11:43 Napoli.
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