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00:00Israeli football fans attacked in Amsterdam, the Dutch capital, in what authorities call
00:06anti-Semitic riots.
00:11Shops and businesses start to reopen in Valencia as clean-up operations from the region's devastating
00:17floods continue.
00:25At least 14 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli strike on
00:30a UN-run school that was being used as a shelter for displaced people.
00:34The Israeli military said the building in the Sharti refugee camp west of Gaza City
00:39was being used by Hamas to plan and execute attacks on Israel.
00:44The IDF said it took steps to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including using
00:49precise munitions and aerial surveillance.
00:52The United Nations said in September that around 85 percent of all schools in Gaza have
00:56been hit or damaged, with many requiring major reconstruction work to be functional again.
01:02And the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNWR, said 70 percent of the schools it administers
01:08have been hit and that 95 percent of them were being used as shelters.
01:13Israel has long accused UNWR of turning a blind eye to Hamas militants among its staff
01:18and of allowing the group to use its facilities for military purposes.
01:26Leaders of Israel and the Netherlands on Friday condemned what they called anti-Semitic attacks
01:32on fans of football club Maccabi Tel Aviv in Amsterdam.
01:37Local reports said the fans were assaulted in different locations in the Dutch capital
01:42before and after the European League match against Ajax.
01:47Israel's foreign ministry said that 10 people had been injured.
01:51Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a tweet he had deployed two planes to Amsterdam
01:56to rescue Israeli citizens.
01:58He urged the Dutch authorities to increase security.
02:02Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof said he had told Netanyahu that the perpetrators will
02:07be tracked down and prosecuted.
02:18Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders described the incident as totally unacceptable
02:23and called on the mayor of Amsterdam to resign.
02:27The violence against Israeli citizens is not just an act of violence.
02:32It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:35It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:38It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:41It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:44It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:47It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:50It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:53It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:56It is an act of violence against Israel.
02:59It is an act of violence against Israel.
03:02It is an act of violence against Israel.
03:05It is an act of violence against Israel.
03:08It is an act of violence against Israel.
03:11And he has been his best friend in the European Union,
03:14the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban,
03:16the one in charge of putting him on the table.
03:42And to start to negotiate about the peace.
03:45Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine,
03:47did not like this at all.
03:49He has also attended this meeting here in Budapest.
03:52When a country that is at war, especially a victim,
03:56knows that it will have security guarantees,
03:59that is why a leader who proposes a ceasefire,
04:05but opposes security guarantees,
04:10will be prosecuted.
04:12A clash that happened just when the President of the European Commission,
04:15Ursula von der Leyen,
04:17kept a call with Donald Trump,
04:19in which she was willing to address geopolitical challenges,
04:22such as the one that Ukraine represents.
04:24Aida Sánchez Alonso, Euronews, Budapest.
04:31The Hungarian Commissioner-designate, Oliver Varhely,
04:34did not pass his first hearing at the European Parliament.
04:38He failed to convince the Social Democrat, Green and Liberal lawmakers.
04:42But rather than having to sit through another hearing,
04:45he will be tested with new written questions.
04:48Among other issues,
04:50the Commissioner-designate for Health and Animal Welfare
04:52was asked to take a position on abortion,
04:55but he evaded the question.
04:57Abortion is a question that is more of a constitutional and human rights question
05:03than a medical question.
05:05And not only that,
05:07but it is also more of a question for Member States.
05:11There is no EU competence when it comes to abortion.
05:16But the sharpest attacks on the candidate
05:18came in relation to the policies of the Orbán government.
05:21As a member of the governing party,
05:23many MEPs do not trust him.
05:25And he was reminded that he once called the whole Parliament idiots,
05:29for which he later apologized.
05:32Not a Commissioner who treats MEPs as idiots,
05:34as you did.
05:36Maybe because you did not support that the European Parliament
05:38qualifies Hungary as an electoral autocracy,
05:41because your regime sits on the independence of justice
05:44and slanders public liberties.
05:46The very possibility of your nomination
05:48must sound like an alarm in all of Europe,
05:50even more so after your morning congratulations to Donald Trump.
05:52My question is simple.
05:54Do you intend to manage women's health and animal welfare
05:56as Viktor Orbán manages human rights in Hungary?
05:59Oliver Varhely has until Monday to answer the written questions,
06:02and his candidacy will then be decided
06:04by the Committees for Agriculture and for the Environment.
06:08So far, the Hungarian candidate is the only one
06:11who did not receive the green light from the Committee after his hearing.
06:19Some shops and businesses have started to reopen in Valencia's suburbs
06:23just over a week after catastrophic flooding devastated eastern Spain.
06:28At least 219 people have been killed
06:31in the worst natural disaster in decades
06:33after torrential rain battered Valencia at the end of October.
06:37Meteorologists say a year's worth of rain
06:39had fallen on the region in just eight hours.
06:42Ninety-three people have been officially declared missing,
06:45but authorities admit that the real number could be higher.
06:48Another 54 bodies remain unidentified.
06:52Authorities say more than 36,000 people have been rescued.
06:57The full extent of the damage is unknown,
06:59but Spain's Consortium for Insurance Compensation
07:02estimates that it will spend at least 3.5 billion euros in compensation.
07:07The emergency operation mobilized by central authorities
07:11has grown to more than 17,000 troops and police officers.
07:17Meanwhile, football pitches in the region have been turned into junkyards
07:21to free the streets from the thousands of car wrecks that remained piled up.
07:25Tow trucks drove to Valencia province from all over Spain
07:28to remove the wrecks to clear the streets for emergency vehicles.
07:38An Italian Navy ship carrying migrants deported from Italy
07:42arrived at an asylum processing center
07:45in the Albanian city of Shenjin on Friday morning.
07:49This is the second transfer of migrants from Italy to Albania.
07:53The move is part of a program
07:55in which Albania is to host thousands of asylum seekers
07:59whilst Italy processes their claims.
08:01The deal is criticized by human rights groups as a dangerous precedent.
08:06Previously, a group of 12 migrants were sent back to Italy
08:11after a Rome court ruled that their countries of origin,
08:15Bangladesh and Egypt, were not safe enough for repatriation.
08:19Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni condemned the ruling,
08:23stating that classifying countries like Bangladesh and Egypt as unsafe
08:28would exclude most migrants from the Albania program,
08:31undermining its purpose.
08:39Austria's health ministry has declared the whole country
08:42a risk area for bird flu.
08:44That announcement follows an outbreak of the virus
08:47in the Amstetten district of Lower Austria a week ago,
08:50which led to the culling of around 18,000 animals.
08:54New cases have recently been detected in four farms
08:57with around 200,000 animals in Upper and Lower Austria.
09:01A protection zone has been set up around the affected farms
09:05within a radius of three kilometers.
09:07Vets will be checking 78 farms within the zone
09:10for any cases of bird flu.
09:13And a surveillance zone has been set up within a radius of 10 kilometers.
09:18We in Lower Austria have already taken precautions.
09:21We have already identified four districts as risk areas,
09:25where there is a general obligation to stay.
09:28I know that in the federal ministry,
09:31measures are already being taken across the country
09:35for an even larger area and are already being implemented.
09:40Authorities don't yet know how the first infections in Austria started,
09:44but cases were first discovered in wild birds and domestic poultry in September.
09:49That was around the same time as catastrophic flooding
09:52hit several areas of Lower Austria.
09:54Avian influenza is a highly contagious viral disease
09:58that occurs mainly in poultry and wild water birds.
10:01It generally causes severe disease or death in the host animal.
10:05But transmission to humans is still rare
10:08and limited to those in close contact with infected animals
10:11and contaminated spaces.
10:18The U.S. President Joe Biden delivered remarks to the nation on Thursday,
10:21his first appearance on camera following Donald Trump's decisive victory over Kamala Harris.
10:26Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, Biden said,
10:29defeat does not mean we are defeated,
10:31and he urged his supporters to keep the faith and keep up the fight.
10:36You can't love your country only when you win.
10:40I know it's a difficult time.
10:42You're hurting. I hear you and I see you.
10:45Don't forget all that we accomplished.
10:47Setbacks are unavoidable, but giving up is unforgivable.
10:53The President also hailed the accomplishments during his term
10:56and stressed that the legislations that were passed
10:58are going to have their effects in the near future.
11:00Overall, Biden asked his supporters to be patient
11:03and continue to believe in the American experiment.
11:06We lost this battle.
11:08The America of your dreams is calling for you to get back up.
11:13That's the story of America for over 240 years and counting.
11:18It's a story for all of us, not just some of us.
11:21The American experiment endures.
11:23We're going to be OK, but we need to stay engaged.
11:28We need to keep going.
11:30And above all, we need to keep the faith.
11:34The Biden administration will continue for another 74 days
11:37until President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into the White House.