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00:00 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for maximum restraints after Iran launched
00:06 its attack on Israel early on Sunday.
00:10 US House Speaker Mike Johnson said he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel and
00:16 Ukraine this week.
00:21 The lead candidate of Hungary`s leftist opposition party DK called for snap elections at a joint
00:26 opposition campaign opening event in Budapest.
00:34 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is calling for maximum restraints after Iran launched
00:40 more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel early on Sunday.
00:44 While opening the Security Council, Guterres said all had a shared responsibility to de-escalate
00:49 tensions and work for peace.
00:52 It's time to step back from the brink. It's vital to avoid any action that could lead
00:58 to major military confrontations on multiple fronts in the Middle East. Civilians are already
01:05 bearing the brunt and paying the highest price. And we have a shared responsibility to actively
01:12 engage all parties concerned to prevent further escalation.
01:18 White House National Security Official John Kirby told US media on Sunday, President Joe
01:23 Biden does not want an escalation in the regional conflict with Iran and is working on a diplomatic
01:29 solution.
01:30 This is like a real war. I mean, this is a declaration of war, not because we are restrained
01:38 and because we know the repercussions. And because we have deliberations with our partners,
01:44 we are considering all options and I'm quite confident that we will take the necessary
01:50 steps that are necessary to protect and defend our people. We are not war seekers.
01:58 The push to encourage Israel to show restraint is in line with ongoing US efforts to curtail
02:04 Israel's war against Hamas, now in its seventh month, and to do more to protect civilian
02:09 lives.
02:13 Hundreds of displaced Palestinians began a perilous trip to the isolated northern part
02:18 of the enclave amid rumors of an open passage. The move comes as the Israeli military renewed
02:24 its warning against the return of displaced people to northern Gaza, saying that the area
02:29 remains a war zone.
02:31 We want to go. We want to live a dignified life. We have six months. We have six months
02:37 in this zone. We want to go to Gaza. We don't want anything.
02:42 Palestinians headed north along the coastal Rashid Road, one of the two main roads linking
02:46 Gaza's both extremes. They are traveling on donkey carts, in cars and even on foot.
02:53 Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York, led a service in the West Bank on Sunday
02:59 amid increasing tensions in the region.
03:07 When I meet with the people here in Bethlehem, when I meet with people in Ramallah, when
03:12 I meet with people in Jerusalem, they may be Muslims, they may be Christians, they may
03:17 be Jews. Most of them say, just say, we just want peace.
03:25 Archbishop Dolan's visit comes after six months of fighting in Gaza that has pushed the besieged
03:30 Palestinian enclave into a deepening humanitarian crisis.
03:38 U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he will try to advance wartime aid for Israel this
03:43 week as he attempts to win the approval of the House for a national security package
03:49 that also includes funding for Ukraine.
03:52 The action of the House. [In Russian]
04:00 A man was killed after a Russian drone hit the truck he was driving in the Sami River.
04:30 The Russian-occupied Herson region also said they had retrieved the bodies of a 61-year-old
04:36 woman and a 68-year-old man killed by a Russian strike during the weekend.
04:41 Shelling in the Russian-occupied Herson region killed two civilians Sunday, said Moscow install
04:46 leader Vladimir Saldo.
04:51 French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday said the opening ceremony for the Paris Olympics
04:57 planned on the River Seine could be shifted instead to the Stade de France if the security
05:02 threat is deemed too high.
05:05 The ceremony involves boats carrying athletes along the Seine on a six-kilometer parade
05:09 amid huge crowds watching from the embankments.
05:30 The 26th of July event is said to be the first Olympic opening ceremony held outside a stadium
05:36 setting.
05:39 To limit security risks, Macron said organizers could decide to shorten the itinerary of the
05:44 parade on the Seine or even relocate.
05:49 Last month, the French government increased its security alert posture to the highest
05:53 level after the deadly attack at a Russian concert hall claimed by the Islamic State.
06:07 With less than two months to go before the European elections, the French right-wing
06:10 candidate François-Xavier Bellamy wants to show he is tough on immigration.
06:15 On Friday, the member of the center-right European People's Party chose a symbolic
06:19 place to do so, the French city of Montaigne near Italy, a flashpoint of the migration
06:24 debate which has sparked multiple diplomatic rows between both countries.
06:29 Bellamy's goal to meet with the French border police and to reaffirm his party's opposal
06:34 to the recently approved EU migration pact, deemed too lax by the French conservatives.
06:57 The candidate went against the request of his own parliamentary group in Brussels, co-author
07:02 of the pact, to vote for the majority of the reform.
07:05 The pact aims to speed up the asylum process and also simplify the return of irregular
07:10 migrants to their home countries.
07:13 It will require member states to share responsibility for asylum seekers either by taking in more
07:19 migrants or by providing extra funding.
07:24 In the Roya Valley, an hour away from Montaigne, this activist for the NGO Roya Citoyenne,
07:29 known for sheltering migrants who have crossed the border, has slammed both the new pact
07:34 and Bellamy's stance on immigration.
07:52 More than 44,000 arrests were carried out at this border crossing in 2023, with some
07:57 of these migrants having been detained multiple times.
08:01 A sensitive topic that will remain at the heart of these upcoming European elections,
08:06 as the member states must now endorse the final version of the pact, possibly in a vote
08:11 at the end of April.
08:16 The lead candidate of Hungary's leftist opposition party, DK, called for snap elections at a
08:22 joint opposition campaign opening event in Budapest.
08:25 According to MEP Klara Dobrev, if the majority of Hungarian voters declare on the 9th of
08:30 June they no longer wish to be governed by the Orbán regime, the opposition will push
08:34 for early elections.
08:36 European Parliament and local elections will take place in June.
08:39 The lead candidate of the party of European socialists also spoke at the event, calling
09:02 Orbán's ruling "reckless, irresponsible and undemocratic."
09:24 Election campaigns in Croatia have been marked by bitter fighting between the country's two
09:50 top officials, as the ballot on Wednesday will pit the ruling conservative Croatian
09:55 Democratic Union, led by incumbent Prime Minister Andrije Plenković, against an alliance of
10:01 centrist and left-wing parties informally led by populist president Soran Milanović
10:07 and his Social Democratic Party.
10:33 Milanović becoming a prime minister-designate would be an unprecedented move in Croatia.
10:39 The Constitutional Court ruled in March that he could not be a candidate in the parliamentary
10:43 elections while he remains president.
11:03 According to the latest polls, the ruling party is set to remain in power, but will
11:08 lose the majority.
11:10 Observers point to the absence of topics of economy and security from public discourse
11:15 during the campaign.
11:16 The
11:35 president plays a major role in the post-election formation of a governing coalition, and populist
11:40 president Milanović is likely to remain center stage.
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