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00:00The bodies of six hostages were recovered by the Israeli military during an operation
00:11in the Gaza Strip, as protests calling for a ceasefire continue.
00:16All six of the hostages were killed just before Israeli forces could rescue them, according
00:21to an Israeli military spokesperson.
00:24The bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, around a
00:29kilometre from where another hostage was rescued alive last week.
00:35Their recovery sparked further protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:42Families of hostages, as well as much of the Israeli public, blame him for failing to strike
00:48a deal with Hamas to end the ongoing war and bring the hostages back alive.
00:54Netanyahu says the killings prove that Hamas does not want a ceasefire deal.
00:58Negotiations have dragged on for months.
01:06Students in Greece will be required to keep their mobile phones in their school bags at
01:10all times during lessons when the new academic year starts in September.
01:14The new regulations were announced on Saturday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
01:20The academic data on how the use of mobile phones during the day at school affects the
01:28preparatory learning process is catastrophic, from the lack of attention to other important
01:37issues.
01:38It is clear that the mobile phone does not have a place in the school during the day.
01:45Under the new rules, pupils who don't comply will be excluded from school for one day.
01:50In the case of a repeat offence, teachers have the power to remove pupils from lessons
01:54for several days, and anyone filming their classmates or their teachers without permission
01:59could face expulsion from school.
02:07Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic has denied having close links to his Russian counterpart
02:12Vladimir Putin.
02:14Speaking at the Globesec security conference in Prague, Vucic said he hadn't met or spoken
02:19to Putin in the more than two years since Russia invaded Ukraine.
02:23Vucic acknowledged that Serbia had resisted falling in line with the rest of Europe in
02:28putting sanctions on Russia, but did say Belgrade had repeatedly condemned the invasion.
02:33Serbia and Turkey are the only EU candidate countries that have refused to impose sanctions.
02:40Vucic said he had had a great conversation with European Commission President Ursula von
02:44der Leyen, but admitted it was unlikely that Serbia would become an EU member state by
02:492028.
02:51Serbia became an EU candidate country in 2012, but has made little progress in the fields
02:56of rule of law and democratic reforms, which are the major preconditions for membership
03:01in the 27-nation bloc.
03:03Belgrade must also align its foreign policies with those of the EU, and that would include
03:08slapping sanctions on Russia.
03:13Lisbon woke in a frenzy in the early hours of Monday, as a 5.3 magnitude earthquake hit
03:19the city.
03:20No injuries or damage were reported, but everything could have been different if the earthquake
03:25was a little more intense.
03:26The earthquake was the 10th largest in Portugal since the 16th century and could be the object
03:42of study by geologists, even to understand future seismic events.
03:57The government understood the earthquake as a test to the responsiveness of authorities,
04:09but experts see it as a serious warning, given the density of population on the Portuguese
04:14capital and the lack of seismic protection in the buildings of the city.
04:27Earthquakes cannot be predicted, but there is a certainty.
04:35The earth will shake again and the country needs to be ready to mitigate a possible catastrophe.