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00:00 Israel agrees to send negotiators to Qatar to discuss a truce in fighting in the Gaza
00:06 Strip and for the return of the remaining hostages.
00:10 Belarus holds local and parliamentary elections, but the opposition urges voters to boycott
00:15 it, saying it will be rigged.
00:21 Israel's war cabinet approved on Saturday night for the continuation of peace talks
00:26 and the envoy of negotiators to Qatar to discuss securing a ceasefire in the war against Hamas
00:32 and the return of hostages being held in Gaza.
00:35 The delegation met in Paris with mediators from the US, Qatar and Egypt.
00:40 The Israeli government will gather in the coming days to approve operational plans for
00:45 action in Rafa, including details on the evacuation of civilians, according to Netanyahu.
00:51 Meanwhile the other areas of the Strip will be revisited by IDF soldiers, who will be
00:56 conducting extended searches for hostages and Hamas leaders.
01:00 In Tel Aviv, late Saturday, an anti-government protest calling on Netanyahu's government
01:06 to resign turned violent, resulting in police using water canning to disperse the crowds,
01:13 as some held posters blaming Netanyahu for the 7th October Hamas attack.
01:21 The European left chooses an almost unknown leading candidate for the European elections
01:26 in June, at a closed assembly in Slovenia.
01:29 Austrian Walter Bayer, the party's current president, has never been an MEP and is virtually
01:36 unknown in European politics.
01:39 "Frankly speaking, Europe is not only Brussels.
01:43 Europe is 27 nations and it is hundreds of cities and it is millions of citizens.
01:52 And the European left and the Spitzenkandidat wants to be the voice of these people, of
01:57 which the voices are very rarely heard in Brussels."
02:01 Bayer will compete with candidates such as the current president of the European Commission
02:06 Ursula von der Leyen or the socialist Nikola Schmidt.
02:09 But the electoral prospects for the left are not looking good.
02:14 The party comes into the European elections highly divided.
02:19 A memorial named the "Cross of Heroes" to honour those who fell for Ukraine was unveiled
02:27 on Saturday in the town of Vyshorod near Kiev.
02:31 The glass installation was primarily funded by the church and public groups, as Kiev received
02:36 an unseen number of foreign officials, President Zelensky thanked them for their support.
02:42 "When the world's leading democracies are truly determined, this determination overcomes
02:48 all challenges.
02:50 And we have already achieved much and the world feels that Putin can lose this war."
02:57 Meanwhile Germany's Annelene Baerbock met with her counterpart, Minister of Foreign
03:02 Affairs of Ukraine Dimitri Kuleba in Odessa, the port city which is constantly being targeted
03:09 by Russian airstrikes, the latest of which hit the city just hours before the visit.
03:22 Polls have opened in Belarus' parliamentary and local elections, but few voters are in
03:27 any doubt that their authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko will have rigged the
03:32 vote in his favour.
03:34 He's ruled for nearly three decades, but on Sunday announced that he'll be running for
03:38 the presidency again next year.
03:40 The main opposition leader Svetlana Shikanouskaya remains in exile in neighbouring Lithuania
03:46 after challenging Lukashenko in the 2020 presidential election, and she's urged voters to boycott
03:52 these elections.
03:57 The UK and the United States said on Sunday they've hit Houthi targets in Yemen 18 times,
04:03 targeting missiles, launchers, rockets, drones and air defence systems.
04:07 The Houthi rebels have been attacking merchant shipping in the Red Sea since November in
04:11 protest of Israel's assault on Gaza.
04:14 On Sunday a Houthi military spokesman said the American oil tanker Torm Thor had been
04:19 targeted with naval missiles and a number of US warships had been targeted with drones.
04:25 The attacks have disrupted global trade, forcing a lot of shipping to take the longer route
04:29 around Africa to get their cargo from Asia to Europe and beyond.
04:34 And they've now drawn in the militaries of Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands
04:39 and New Zealand to fight against them.
04:42 The Houthis, meanwhile, are allies with Iran.
04:44 (whooshing)