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00:00Following the success of the far-right in Austria's national elections, but without a clear parliamentary majority, political parties with clashing ideologies face the issue of potential coalitions.
00:13Karl Nehammer, who is the leader of the Austrian Conservative Party which came in second place, rejected a potential coalition with the far-right Freedom Party so long as it's led by Herbert Kickl.
00:26A major question is whether the Conservatives and Social Democrats will align, potentially with an additional, smaller party like the Greens, to form an anti-Kickl coalition.
00:56Alternatively, the Conservatives could replace Nehammer with a new leader more amenable to working with Kickl.
01:25As a whole, they may prefer a merger with the Freedom Party over an alliance with the left.
01:31The Freedom Party's election victory sparked a demonstration outside the Austrian parliament as citizens expressed concerns over the rise of the far-right.
01:55In 1983, the Social Democrats and the Conservatives accounted for almost 91% of the votes. This has now dropped to less than 50%.
02:13The political establishment's hefty defeat is the latest example of shifting voting trends across the continent.
02:20A large wildfire burning through mainland Greece has killed two people, authorities said on Monday.
02:30The two men were believed to be residents of Kilokastro off the Peloponnese coast.
02:36350 firefighters, assisted by 18 water-dropping aircraft, were deployed to battle the blaze.
02:47The fire was fanned by strong winds blowing through tinder-dry forests.
02:53Greece's warm spring and hot summer has been attributed to climate change.
03:00The fire's large front has been put out, but scattered flare-ups continue to burn, forcing the evacuation of three villages.
03:11Civil protection officials warn that several parts of the Mediterranean country, including roads, would face a high risk of wildfires on Tuesday.
03:27The Israeli military says its aircraft have struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to a recent attack on Israel.
03:35The IDF says it targeted power plants and seaport facilities in the city of Hodeida.
03:41Houthi-run media say at least four people were killed and 33 others wounded in the strikes.
03:47Speaking to military personnel in Tel Aviv, Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Galant said the strikes were impressive.
03:54We have no intention of expanding the war. We have no intention of looking for additional fronts.
04:00But if someone attacks Israel, like they did with the Houthis recently, with missiles,
04:06and throughout the war with the Takak, the Talashim and the Katbamim,
04:11anyone who does such a thing, we will bring him to account and we know how to do it.
04:16Meanwhile in Lebanon, at least 24 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes that hit two adjacent buildings near the southern city of Sidon.
04:24The Lebanese Health Ministry says at least 29 people were injured.
04:28Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged almost daily fire since the war in Gaza started in October,
04:34displacing tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border.
04:38And speaking to reporters on his flight back to Italy from Belgium,
04:42Pope Francis suggested that Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been immoral.
05:13Strikes deeper into Lebanon have intensified in the last week,
05:18particularly in the wake of the killing on Friday of Hezbollah's chief Hassan Nasrallah in a southern suburb of the capital Beirut.
05:32Pope Francis ended a controversial trip to Belgium by condemning abortions and describing doctors who deliver them as hitmen.
05:41He made the remarks to reporters during an in-flight press conference on his way back to the Vatican.
06:12The comments came as Belgium is in the throes of updating its abortion legislation.
06:18Lawmakers are attempting to extend the legal limit for the health care procedure from 12 to 18 weeks.
06:25The European Parliament has also called for initiatives aiming to ensure free and safe abortions for all.
06:33An Israeli airstrike hit central Beirut early on Monday.
06:38The airstrike targeted a multi-storey apartment in a residential area lined with shops.
06:45There are conflicting accounts of the death toll,
06:49with a Lebanese civil defense official stating one person died and 16 were wounded.
06:54A Palestinian leftist faction in Lebanon said three of its members were killed.
07:00Israeli officials have not commented on the matter.
07:07The Freedom Party has secured the first parliamentary election victory for a far-right party in post-World War II Austria.
07:14A projection for ORF Public Television showed the party finishing first with 29.2%.
07:21That win pushed Chancellor Carl Nahammer's Austrian People's Party into second place.
07:27Freedom Party leader Herbert Kickel said it was a piece of history that we have written together today.
07:34But to become Austria's new leader, Kickel needs a coalition partner to command a parliamentary majority, and that might be tricky.
07:41He said he's open to negotiating with the European Parliament.
07:47He said he's open to negotiating with the European Parliament.
07:53He said he's open to negotiating with the European Parliament.
08:00He said he's open to negotiating with the European Parliament.
08:06He said he's open to negotiating with the European Parliament.
08:12Speaking in Vienna, outgoing Chancellor Carl Nahammer said it was bitter that his party lost,
08:18but his position towards Kickel hadn't changed.
08:24The WHO is the next world government, and the meeting in Davos is a preparatory meeting for the world government.
08:30You can't make such a sensible and responsible start.
08:36The Freedom Party's win sparked protests outside the parliament building in Vienna,
08:42with demonstrators holding placards with slogans including, Kickel is a Nazi.
08:48Kickel's campaign over high inflation, the war in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic, and has also built on worries about migration.
08:54The final official results will be published later in the week,
09:00after a small number of remaining postal ballots have been counted.
09:06Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets of Paris to call for an end to Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon.
09:13The rally comes as Israeli strikes across the country killed dozens of people on Sunday.
09:20We just want to show the unity of the Lebanese people.
09:26An image that shows all the Lebanese from all over Lebanon, from different political currents,
09:32to support Lebanon, the refugees, the victims, to support our country and defend our country.
09:38Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged almost daily fire since the war in Gaza started in October,
09:44displacing tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border.
09:48Israel has ramped up its aerial assault on Lebanon, with more than 700 people killed in the last week alone.
09:54On Saturday, Israel moved troops close to its northern border, raising fears of an imminent ground offensive into the country.
10:00France has been a key supporter of Israel, defending its right to self-defense for years.
10:06An arms export report presented to Parliament by the Defense Ministry in 2023
10:12showed that France had issued 767 export licenses to Israel since 2015.
10:18France sells an average of 20 million euros worth of military equipment to Israel each year.
10:24In April, 11 NGOs in Paris, including Amnesty International, filed a court case to stop France's arms sales to Israel,
10:32arguing that civilians in Gaza were being targeted. The court rejected that request in May.
10:39A new natural gas system has opened in the Greek city of Alexandroupolis,
10:46consisting of a floating storage and regasification unit which converts liquefied natural gas back into gas.
10:53The project is expected to generate 382 million euros in CO2 emission and fuel switch savings
11:00by contributing to the replacement of coal and oil by gas.
11:04It also includes a system of submarine and land pipelines through which natural gas is imported into Greece
11:11and transported to Southeast Europe.
11:14What I can tell you is that Greece, with the existing and now Alexandroupolis infrastructure,
11:21plus the investment made in the network, will have by early next year an export capacity of approximately 8.5 billion.
11:31Southeast Europe has remained one of the areas with the largest dependence on Russian gas.
11:37Building new infrastructure to import LNG from various countries strengthens Europe's resilience
11:43and reduces reliance on the single gas source.