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00:00Protesters clashed with riot police in Valencia after thousands marched for the resignation
00:06of Valencia's President Carlos Mazón.
00:11Donald Trump's team distances itself from remarks by Republican strategists that restoring
00:16lost Ukrainian territory isn't a priority.
00:21The Dutch Prime Minister cancels a trip to the COP 29 climate summit to deal with the
00:25fallout from assaults on Israeli football fans.
00:32Thousands of people protest in two cities in Portugal to demand higher wages and better
00:37pensions.
00:42Protesters clashed with riot police in front of Valencia's City Hall following a peaceful
00:46march earlier, where thousands called for the resignation of Valencia's President Carlos
00:51Mazón.
00:54The regional president is under pressure after his administration did not send out
00:58an alert in time before deadly floods overwhelmed the east of Spain at the end of October.
01:05Mazón argues that the magnitude of the floods was unforeseeable, and that his regional administration
01:10did not receive a warning in time from Spain's central authorities.
01:16The alert was sent to people's phones at eight in the evening on Tuesday, but Spain's weather
01:20agency had already issued a highest-level weather alert at 7.30 in the morning, and
01:25some communities were already flooded by six in the evening.
01:32The tsunami-like floods killed at least 220 people.
01:36The search for missing people is still ongoing, and streets are still covered in mud and debris.
01:47Donald Trump's team has dismissed remarks by Republican strategists that the new administration's
01:52plan to end the war in Ukraine is about peace and not territory.
01:56In an interview with the BBC, Brian Lanza claimed that the incoming Trump government
02:01didn't see restoring lost territory as a priority.
02:04But a spokesperson for the president-elect said Lanza didn't speak for Trump.
02:09On the campaign trail, Trump claimed he could end the war in Ukraine within a day without
02:13explaining how.
02:15But he also hasn't ruled out the possibility that Kiev may have to cede territory to Moscow
02:19to bring about an end to the war.
02:22Russia seized the Crimean Peninsula in 2024 and in 2022 annexed four areas of Ukraine
02:28without ever maintaining full control over any of them.
02:33Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly said the full withdrawal of Russia's
02:37forces and the return of all territory is a must if peace is to be established.
02:47Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has cancelled a trip to the COP 29 climate talks in Azerbaijan
02:52to deal with the fallout from assaults on Israeli football fans.
02:56Schoof said the government would discuss the violence on Monday and he would hold talks
03:01on tackling anti-Semitism on Tuesday.
03:04Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar arrived in the Netherlands on Friday and offered Israel's
03:08help in the police investigation.
03:11Schoof said he told Saar that the Dutch government is doing everything it can to ensure that
03:15the Jewish community in our country feels safe.
03:20Violence broke out in Amsterdam on Thursday night after a football match between Ajax
03:24and Maccabee Tel Aviv.
03:26Video showed a large crowd of Israeli fans chanting anti-Arab slogans on their way to
03:31the game.
03:32Gangs of youths then conducted what Amsterdam's mayor called hit-and-run attacks on fans apparently
03:38inspired by calls on social media to target Jewish people.
03:47Thousands of people have protested in two cities in Portugal to demand higher wages
03:52and pensions.
03:53The protests were called by the General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers, the country's
03:58largest federation of trade unions.
04:01The CGTP said that day-to-day difficulties faced by workers stem from political decisions
04:06and highlighted unaffordable housing and limited access to health care as key concerns.
04:25Currently workers in Portugal get a minimum wage of €820 a month.
04:31The government has proposed raising the minimum wage by €50 a year until 2028, increasing
04:37it to over €1,000.