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00:00Ukraine's Azov battalion reportedly reclaimed hotly contested territory in the Donetsk region
00:07as both sides of the conflict trade deadly blows.
00:11Volodymyr Zelensky tells Italian business leaders Ukrainians have no choice to fight
00:16more than two years after Russia invaded the country.
00:20The Italian Prime Minister said it was in her country's national interest to support
00:25Ukraine, reiterating her commitment to peace and support for Kiev.
00:30People are taking to the streets of France after President Macron selected a centre-right
00:34candidate as Prime Minister, despite success of the left in recent elections.
00:45Massive attacks devastated parts of Ukraine and Russia as the two nations traded overnight
00:51blows.
00:52Russia launched dozens of drones at Ukraine, though the vast majority were shot down or
00:57destroyed.
00:59Local media say four were killed and over 100 people were injured.
01:03The bombardment followed a week of increased long-range attacks across Ukraine, including
01:08a missile strike on a military academy and hospital on Tuesday that killed 55 and wounded
01:14hundreds.
01:15Meanwhile, Kiev has continued to launch its own offensive against Russia, reportedly reclaiming
01:21territory in parts of the country and hitting an ammunition warehouse.
01:26The Azov Brigade said they had held their position against Russian attacks in New York,
01:30a Ukrainian settlement in Donetsk.
01:33They claim to have regained control of part of the settlement despite what they previously
01:38described as a catastrophic situation.
01:46Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukrainians have no choice to fight and defend our lives more
01:51than two years after Russia invaded the country.
01:54Speaking to Italian business representatives at the Chernobyl Forum at Lake Como, Zelensky
01:59said Ukrainians want this war to end more than anyone else in the world.
02:04Zelensky continued to stress Ukraine's need for faster delivery of long-range weapons
02:09from international partners, and again appealed for permission to strike deeper into Russia,
02:14insisting that Ukraine only intended to target military airfields.
02:33In a post on X, Zelensky thanked Italy for working with Kiev to implement the Ukraine
02:38peace formula, a 10-point proposal to end the war unveiled by Zelensky in November 2022.
02:45Zelensky is expected to hold talks with Italy's Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney on Saturday.
02:55Thousands of people took to the streets across France to protest President Emmanuel Macron's
03:01decision to appoint center-right politician Michel Barnier as prime minister.
03:08Left-wing parties are accusing Macron of ignoring the results of the recent legislative elections
03:14after he refused to pick the candidate of the new Popular Front alliance which came
03:19out on top in the July vote.
03:23Barnier has emphasized the importance of health care reform, particularly improving access
03:28to care and addressing the issue of medical deserts in both urban and rural areas.
03:36Protests against what is seen by demonstrators as a presidential power grab were set to take
03:41place in more than 150 cities across France.
03:46The demonstrations were organized by the France Unbowed group as well as several student unions.
03:54Libya's coastguard on Friday returned a boat carrying 64 migrants to Syrte, the town they
04:00had just set off from.
04:01On Wednesday, the Italian coastguard released this dramatic video of them rescuing nine
04:06migrants after their boat capsized off the island of Lampedusa.
04:10They also recovered a body of one of the migrants.
04:14The boat had set off from Libya with 32 people on board from Egypt and Syria.
04:19By the time of the rescue, 22 were already missing, presumed drowned when the boat capsized.
04:25According to the International Organization of Migration, nearly 67,000 migrants have
04:30gone missing in the Mediterranean in the past 10 years.
04:34They are presumed to have perished in the sea as they tried desperately to reach Europe.
04:39So far this year, 43,000 migrants have reached Italy, far fewer than the previous year when
04:45around 20,000 arrived in just one month alone in August.