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00:00Hezbollah confirmed the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in an Israeli strike on
00:06Beirut on Friday.
00:10At least nine people were killed after Russia hit a medical center in Sumi, with an attack
00:15reportedly coming as patients and staff evacuated.
00:20Hezbollah has confirmed the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, after the Israeli army announced
00:25that he was killed in a strike on the militant group's headquarters in Beirut on Friday.
00:30Israel's chief of staff, Herzli HaLevi, said that there is more to come as the army prepares
00:34its next moves.
00:35It's not the end of the tool box.
00:36It needs to be very clear.
00:37There are more tools on the way.
00:38The message is simple.
00:39Anyone who threatens the citizens of the State of Israel should know how to get to the north,
00:40the south, even to places farther away.
00:52Several other Hezbollah commanders were also reported killed, and civilians were among
00:56the victims.
01:02Two consecutive Russian strikes on a medical center in the Ukrainian city of Sumi killed
01:07at least nine people, according to local officials.
01:12The Ukrainian interior minister said the initial strike killed one person, but that Russia
01:17attacked again while patients and staff were evacuating.
01:23As well as the at least nine people killed in the two strikes, 12 people were seriously
01:28wounded.
01:32Sumi is around 32 kilometers away from Russia's Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops have
01:37been deployed for weeks in a bid to divert the Kremlin's military focus away from the
01:42front line in Ukraine.
01:46On the other side of the border in Russia, the Russian defense ministry said that air
01:50defenses overnight had shot down four Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region and one over
01:56Kursk, both areas bordering Ukraine.
02:03The European Union said airlines should avoid Lebanese and Israeli airspace for the coming
02:08month as airstrikes and rocket fire between Israel and Hezbollah escalate.
02:13In their recommendation, the EU warned of an overall intensification of airstrikes and
02:18degradation in the security situation.
02:21British nationals in Lebanon were warned to leave the country immediately as the violence
02:25intensifies.
02:26Lebanon's transport ministry also told an Iranian aircraft not to enter its airspace.
02:33After Israel warned air traffic control in Beirut it would use force if the plane landed.
02:38The news came after Hezbollah confirmed their leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had been killed
02:42in an Israeli airstrike, for which the Palestinian group Hamas issued a statement conveying condolences.
02:49The Iraqi prime minister declared a three-day period of mourning in his country following
02:53Nasrallah's death, and Iran's supreme leader slammed what he called criminal Israel following
02:59the attack.
03:04In a surprise change to his schedule, Pope Francis met with homeless and undocumented
03:08people in Brussels' Church of Saint-Gilles on Saturday morning.
03:12Among the group was a migrant who made his way on a boat across the Mediterranean to
03:16the Italian island of Lampedusa, and then was thrown in prison.
03:22Shortly after, he left for the Koukouberg Basilica of the Sacred Heart, where he addressed
03:26local bishops, priests and the Catholic community.
03:30People read out letters in which they challenged the Pope and shared questions on various
03:34aspects of the Catholic Church.
03:38Just a day earlier, Francis also received public criticisms from the Belgian king, prime
03:43minister and the rector of the Catholic University in Leuven.
03:47These included the church's cover-up of clergy sexual abuse and its refusal to respond to
03:52demands of women and LGBTQ plus Catholics for a place in the church.
03:58The rector of Leuven Catholic University told the Pope that the abuse scandals had so weakened
04:03the church's moral authority that it would do well to reform, to the point of ordaining
04:08women as priests if it wants to regain its relevance.
04:16The anti-drug unit of the Kosovo police has seized more than one ton of cannabis plants
04:21with a street value of around 5 million euros.
04:25The basic prosecutor's office said the large amount of the drug was discovered growing
04:30in the village of Klitschina.
04:33Footage from local TV news showed officers arriving at a field of cannabis and the plants
04:38being destroyed.
04:40The prosecutor's office said it was the largest anti-drug operation in Kosovo since the late
04:4590s war.