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00:00 UNICEF warns that Gaza faces an explosion in preventable child deaths as people have
00:05 access to less than one liter of safe water per day.
00:11 An international police operation has dismantled the Lockbit ransomware group considered the
00:16 most harmful in the world.
00:20 Lufthansa employees went on strike for the second time this month, cancelling 90% of
00:25 flights and affecting around 100,000 passengers.
00:30 UNICEF warns that the Gaza Strip is poised to witness an explosion in preventable child
00:35 deaths.
00:36 A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant women poses grave threats to
00:40 their health, according to a report released by Global Nutrition Cluster.
00:45 Households have access to less than one liter of safe water per person per day.
00:50 Hungry, thirsty and weak, more Gazans are falling sick.
01:18 The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees shared aerial and ground
01:22 footage showing schools in the Gaza Strip damaged by Israeli bombardments.
01:27 In North Gaza, schools are unrecognizable, reduced to rubble, the agency said Monday
01:32 in a statement on social media platform X.
01:36 The UN aid agency says 153 installations have been attacked since the war began on October
01:42 7.
01:45 Boosting the European defense is one of the priorities of the current European Commission
01:50 President Ursula von der Leyen, who just announced her bid for a new term in office.
01:55 Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU member states already increased their military
02:01 expenditure from 240 billion euros in 2022 to 280 in 2023 and 350 projected for 2024.
02:10 Now the union wants more cooperation.
02:12 "We have to spend more, we have to spend better and I think we have to spend more European
02:18 to consolidate our defense industrial base."
02:23 The first step will be a European defense industrial strategy, which will be presented
02:27 in the next few weeks.
02:29 Ideas include the common purchase of military capabilities similar to the Covid-19 vaccines.
02:34 Another solution could be EU-issued debt to finance defense expenses.
02:39 However, according to Dylan Macchiarini-Croissant, researcher at CEPS, it won't be easy to approve
02:45 new measures.
02:46 "At the moment, there is no agreement amongst EU member states, for example, on the joint
02:54 purchasing by the EU on behalf of the EU member states of defense equipment from third countries
03:03 or private companies.
03:06 At the same time, also discussions about euro defense bonds are still very much up in the
03:13 air with no concrete political agreement in state."
03:19 While policy makers at the Commission are working out the legalities, some member states
03:23 seem to be reluctant or want to introduce conditions.
03:26 France, for instance, insists on only buying weapons and ammunition produced by European
03:32 companies.
03:33 Currently, member states with a bigger defense expenditure compared to their GDP are Poland,
03:39 Greece, Estonia, Lithuania and Finland, but they are not exclusively buying weapons made
03:44 in Europe.
03:48 If Von der Leyen remains in power, it's almost certain a European commissioner will be assigned
03:52 to the entire portfolio of defense, a job currently split between Foreign Affairs High
03:57 Representative and Internal Market Commissioner.
03:59 Hungary is preparing to ratify Sweden's accession to NATO.
04:08 On social media, the leader of the ruling Fidesz parliamentary group announced that
04:13 he had asked the president to include the final vote on the parliamentary agenda for
04:17 next Monday.
04:18 Matej Coxes said they intend to support Sweden's entry into the Atlantic alliance.
04:24 On Saturday, Prime Minister Viktor Orban already said they were on track to ratify the accession.
04:29 Emphasizing the "important steps taken to re-establish trust."
04:39 Crucial week for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
04:42 The British justice is deciding whether or not he's extradited to the United States.
04:47 Hundreds of protesters gather outside the Royal Court of Justice in London to show him
04:52 their support at the beginning of the two-day extradition appeal.
04:56 His wife is leading the demonstrations.
05:00 It's an attack on all journalists all over the world.
05:05 It's an attack on the truth and it's an attack on the public's right to know.
05:10 Julian is a political prisoner and his life is at risk.
05:14 What happened to Navalny can happen to Julian.
05:18 Assange's father and half-brother Gabriel were present at the hearing in the UK.
05:22 They are campaigning full-time in Australia to get him released.
05:26 The Australian Parliament last week called for Assange to be allowed to return to his
05:30 homeland.
05:31 In 2018, Assange was charged in the US with complicity in hacking government computers.
05:37 In 2019, 17 charges of violating espionage laws were added.
05:41 If convicted of all charges, he could face a maximum prison sentence of 175 years.
05:51 Polish farmers have once again blocked border crossings with Ukraine and traffic in Warsaw.
05:58 Their main demand is withdrawal from the so-called Green Deal being pushed forward by the European
06:03 Commission and to curb the uncontrolled import of agricultural products from Ukraine.
06:09 We are flooded with food from Ukraine and this EU mess.
06:16 It's all on our heads.
06:19 We are trying to play something in this difficult situation because the import is still not stopped.
06:24 And this is what we are fighting for.
06:26 We want to sell our crops, but the price has gone down.
06:30 We are waiting for the government to act.
06:33 We hope that they will do something in our direction.
06:36 If they don't, we will protest to the end.
06:39 In retaliation, Ukrainian farmers are threatening to limit imports of Polish agri-food products
06:45 if Polish farmers do not stop blocking the country's borders in Ukraine.
06:50 Lufstanza employees went on strike for the second time this month.
06:59 The ground staff strike began early Tuesday morning and is scheduled to last until Wednesday morning.
07:06 The company cancelled around 90% of flights, affecting around 100,000 passengers.
07:13 I think it's OK. The employer will not come on his own and offer more money.
07:20 There must be some pressure.
07:23 Everyone has to strike, but I don't understand why they are doing it so uncoordinatedly.
07:30 I think there will be negotiations tomorrow.
07:33 We could have waited.
07:37 The strike is in response to the ongoing wage negotiations for the approximately 25,000 Lufstanza employees on the ground.
07:45 The last two or three years have been extremely challenging for the ground staff, to put it carefully.
07:54 There was relatively little from the employer's side.
07:59 Now the decision has come that it is enough.
08:02 The offers are not enough for most of them.
08:07 Solidarity is shown by being with them. We are behind it.
08:11 The union is demanding a 12.5% pay raise for employees and an inflation adjustment bonus of 3,000 euros.
08:18 The wage negotiations are set to continue on Wednesday.
08:21 Thousands of Ukrainian refugees went to Serbia when the war started.
08:28 Some of them then continued to Western Europe.
08:30 Others remained.
08:32 In parallel, thousands of Russians decided to leave their country and move to Serbia,
08:35 mostly due to the forced conscription into the Russian army.
08:38 Serbian estimates say 150,000 Russians and 16,000 Ukrainians live in the Western Balkan country.
08:45 Zenia moved to Serbia from Sakhalin, a city in the Russia Far East,
08:49 just after the war started and settled in Novi Sad.
08:52 When it all started, we felt very bad.
08:56 We've been crying for a couple of days and I felt like being in a cage.
09:03 I feel my, maybe not guilt, but responsibility because in my name,
09:09 my country is killing people in the neighboring country.
09:14 Due to EU visa requirements, Serbia considers the Russians as refugees.
09:23 The Ukrainians who remain in Serbia say they want to return to their country.
09:27 Ivana's husband is currently in Kiev after one year fighting on the front.
09:41 I have been living with my mother and sister in Kamenets-Podilskyi.
09:54 It's nice in Serbia, but much better in the country.
09:59 According to the official figures so far, about 80,000 Ukrainians, refugees,
10:05 have been going through Serbia and settled into the EU.
10:10 An international police operation has dismantled the LockBit ransomware group,
10:16 considered the most harmful in the world.
10:19 14 countries took part in Operation Kronos.
10:23 34 servers have been closed in the Netherlands, Germany, Finland, France,
10:27 Switzerland, Australia, the US and the UK.
10:30 Two people were arrested in Poland and Ukraine.
10:33 More than 200 cryptocurrency accounts were frozen.
10:36 Actors affiliated with the LockBit criminal enterprise have caused significant harm
10:40 to thousands of victims across our collective countries and around the globe.
10:45 In recent years, the group has been indiscriminate in their targeting,
10:50 exploiting organizations affiliated with government agencies, hospitals,
10:55 schools, to high-profile global companies.
11:01 The group carried out more than 1,700 attacks against victims
11:07 in the United States and around the world.
11:10 80 years after his execution by the Nazis,
11:16 Mirzak Manouchian's remains will be transferred to the French Pantheon on Wednesday.
11:21 The Armenian, known as a poet and communist activist,
11:25 will be the first foreigner to be buried among France's national heroes,
11:29 accompanied by his wife, Melinie.
11:32 Manouchian was executed at Mont-Valérien Fort on the outskirts of Paris
11:36 on the 21st of February 1944.
11:39 His recognition by the French state is a tribute to all the foreign resistance fighters
11:44 who fought against Nazi oppression.
11:46 (whooshing)