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00:00Israeli leaders discuss transitioning to phase C of the war in Gaza and its effects across
00:07the Middle East.
00:13The International Criminal Court issued warrants for top Russian officials over attacks on
00:18Ukrainian civilian targets.
00:21The court accused former Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff General Valery
00:27Gerasimov of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
00:32Judges believe there are reasonable grounds for the belief that the two men are responsible
00:37for missile strikes carried out by the Russian armed forces against the Ukrainian electric
00:43infrastructure.
00:45Despite the news that warrants have been issued, the likelihood of either suspect being immediately
00:51detained is improbable.
00:54Russia is not a member of the ICC, does not recognize its jurisdiction and has refused
01:00to hand over suspects in the past.
01:04Russian President Vladimir Putin was accused by the ICC last year of abducting children
01:09from Ukraine along with Russian official Maria Lvova-Belova.
01:17Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Galant has been discussing the transition to phase C of the
01:24war in Gaza with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington.
01:30Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated his commitments to bringing back
01:36all the hostages held in the Gaza Strip.
01:39Meanwhile, Italy's Defence Minister Guido Crosetto renewed his calls to Netanyahu to
01:45stop the eight-month-long war.
01:48I hope Netanyahu understands what the international community is trying to tell Israel for Israel's
01:57own good.
01:58Because I think that when the United States and Italy talk to Netanyahu, ask him to stop,
02:03to stop, they do it thinking about Israel's good future.
02:06I hope he understands it too.
02:09Meanwhile, EU High Representative Josep Borrell warned that war between Israel and Hezbollah
02:17could cause serious crisis, and said it is now clear that there is no ceasefire at all.
02:28Israel's Supreme Court has ruled that ultra-Orthodox men must be drafted for military service.
02:34This landmark decision ends decades of broad exemptions aligning ultra-Orthodox enlistment
02:40with the rest of the population.
02:42The ruling could destabilize Prime Minister Netanyahu's coalition as ultra-Orthodox parties,
02:47key allies, oppose the change.
02:50This decision comes as Israel continues its conflict in Gaza.
02:54The move is expected to face significant political and social challenges.
03:02After a decade-long legal saga spanning arrest warrants, health episodes and international
03:08politics, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is expected to walk free in exchange for a guilty plea.
03:15Stella Assange said she is optimistic the 12-year ordeal for her husband will soon be over.
03:21This period of our lives, I'm confident now, has come to an end.
03:28And I think that by this time next week, Julian will be free.
03:34In exchange for his freedom, Assange is expected to plead guilty to one U.S. Espionage Act charge
03:41of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information.
03:46Assange, a 58-year-old editor and activist, founded the website WikiLeaks in 2006
03:52and began publishing sensitive and classified documents.
03:55The award-winning publication gained prominence four years later
03:59after it published half a million leaked files related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
04:05In 2019, Washington indicted Assange on 18 charges over WikiLeaks' publication of classified documents.
04:13Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese cautiously welcomed
04:17the news of Assange's deal for freedom from national parliament.
04:20The government is certainly aware that Australian citizen, Mr Julian Assange,
04:25has legal proceedings scheduled in the United States.
04:29While this is a welcome development, we recognize that these proceedings are crucial and they're delicate.
04:35There's nothing to be gained by his continued incarceration and we want him brought home to Australia.
04:41For years, press freedom activists and Australian politicians have lobbied for Assange's release.
04:48They are now celebrating the news of the plea deal.
04:52Assange is expected to appear in a U.S. court on Wednesday
04:55and return to Australia if a judge accepts the agreement.
05:02With less than a week to go before the first round of a surprise snap election,
05:08the left-wing Popular Front Alliance in France is relying on new volunteers to woo voters.
05:16Many of the newly enrolled volunteers have very little experience,
05:21yet they are heading outside of Paris to help where candidates are battling
05:26to not fall too far behind the far-right National Rally Party.
05:47Many young people are worried about the dangers of having the National Front as their government.
05:53Many young people are worried about the dangers of having the National Front as their government.
06:01I'm worried about the future, about my work, because I work in social work.
06:06We don't have a lot of means, and if we have even less means, I don't know how my job will be.
06:13During the European elections, more than a third of the far-right party's voters were aged between 25 and 34,
06:23yet more than one in two voters aged 18 to 24 abstained from voting altogether.
06:30Candidates can all but hope that the turnout for the snap elections will be higher.
06:39Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany,
06:42according to the Federal Association of Research and Information Centers on Anti-Semitism.
06:48The group has tracked an increase of more than 80 percent in incidents last year,
06:54with well over half happening after the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel.
06:59Just under 5,000 anti-Semitic incidents were recorded in 2023, up from just under 3,000 in 2022.
07:09The incidents range from anti-Jewish comments to physical assaults,
07:15and include a mid-October attack on a synagogue in Berlin.
07:21Dr. Felix Klein, Federal Government Commissioner for Jewish Life in Germany,
07:25and the fight against anti-Semitism, has called for more stringent measures to combat Jewish hate.
07:31In order to provide the law enforcement agencies with effective means to combat Jewish hostility and violence,
07:39I call for additions to the Criminal Code.
07:42The call for the destruction of other states must be punished.
07:47Despite these incidents, a senior Jewish German official said the rise has not yet resulted in an emigration of Jews from Germany.
08:03The Polish army has launched a new recruitment strive to try to protect their homeland against potential Russian aggression.
08:10New starters are being put through rigorous military training as the army seeks to grow its 198,000 members.
08:17According to a spokesperson from the Polish Defense Ministry,
08:20Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 sparked an impulse among Poles to want to defend their country.
08:40The situation around our homeland has motivated me to change my decision.
08:49Holidays with the Army is a 28-day program that offers basic training to those over the age of 18.
09:00Malaga is joining other cities in Spain by putting the brakes on the spread of tourist accommodation.
09:07Licenses to properties with a separate entrance are to be limited by the city council.
09:14Barcelona and Valencia have also made similar restrictive measures.
09:37As residents are finding it hard to pay rent.
09:52The Andalusian city has experienced a huge increase in tourist housing in recent years,
09:59from just 846 in 2016 to over 12,000 in 2024.
10:08Workers in Bucharest are cutting their hours short as temperatures are registering 40 degrees in the shade.
10:15Inside restaurant kitchens, the temperatures were significantly higher.
10:19Grillers and roasters are heating the atmosphere to more than 50 degrees Celsius.
10:38Employers have had to take special measures for their workers,
10:42such as reducing the working hours or forcing employees to take longer breaks.
10:47Over the last 24 hours, 1,316 people have called the ambulance for medical support due to heat-related stress.
11:08A Chinese lunar probe has returned to Earth with the world's first rock and soil from the little-known far side of the moon.
11:19The Chang'e-6 probe landed in the Inner Mongolian region in northern China on Tuesday.
11:26Chinese scientists expect the return samples to include 2.5 million-year-old volcanic rock, among other materials.
11:35They hope the discoveries will answer questions about geographic differences on the moon's two sides.