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00:00Volodymyr Zelensky criticizes a phone call between Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin as
00:06being like opening Pandora's box.
00:11The Dutch Prime Minister says the governing coalition has averted collapse after the resignation
00:15of the finance secretary due to racist language.
00:20Demonstrators break into the presidential office in Abkhazia in protest over a controversial
00:25agreement that would have allowed Russians to buy property in the breakaway region.
00:32Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister appeals to Iran for help to broker a ceasefire between
00:37Hezbollah and Israel.
00:45Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has said the governing coalition has averted collapse
00:49after the resignation of the finance secretary.
00:52Morocco-born Nora Akkabar said she was stepping down on Friday.
00:57She cited racist comments made by some ministers who were discussing clashes between Israeli
01:02football fans and pro-Palestinian supporters in Amsterdam.
01:06Akkabar blamed polarizing language for her inability to continue in her post.
01:11Schoof said after her resignation that among the four coalition parties, we saw that we
01:16wanted to continue.
01:18Violence erupted in Amsterdam around last week's football match between Ajax and Maccabi
01:23Tel Aviv.
01:25A number of Maccabi fans chanted anti-Arab slogans and ripped a Palestinian flag off
01:30a building.
01:33Some men then carried out hit-and-run attacks on Maccabi fans and people they thought were
01:38Jews.
01:45Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized a phone call between German Chancellor
01:50Olaf Scholz and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin as being like opening Pandora's box.
01:55Zelensky said the call risked making Putin feel less isolated internationally.
02:00He also criticized any further negotiations with the Kremlin that don't lead to any meaningful
02:05outcomes for Ukraine.
02:08Scholz spoke to Putin for the first time in two years on Friday.
02:13He condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and called on Putin to withdraw Russian troops
02:17from Ukrainian territory.
02:19He also urged Moscow to engage in negotiations with Kiev in order to achieve a lasting peace.
02:25A statement from the Kremlin said that Putin emphasized any potential agreement must reflect
02:30new territorial realities and address the root causes of the conflict.
02:35Putin also said the war in Ukraine was a direct result of NATO's aggressive policy.
02:43Thousands of protesters were posing a measure that would have allowed Russians to buy property
02:48in Abkhazia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia, that stormed into the region's
02:53parliament building and presidential office on Friday.
02:56The protest, in the regional capital of Sukhumi on the Black Sea, left at least eight people
03:02injured.
03:03Opponents of the property agreement say it would drive up prices of apartments and boost
03:07Moscow's dominance in the region.
03:13We demand a moratorium on the agreement and the law on apartments from the parliament.
03:23Two moratoriums.
03:25Today, if our people are not here and there is no resignation of the president, I think
03:32you should not leave this square.
03:35Amid the unrest, the authorities have already withdrawn the draft law on ratifying the investment
03:40agreement with Russia in an attempt to resolve the situation.
03:47Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mekati has appealed to Iran for help to broker a
03:55ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.
03:58Iran is Hezbollah's main backer and is believed to have significant sway over the group.
04:03Mekati told a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Beirut wants to see an end
04:08to the war.
04:10A Lebanese official confirmed that Beirut had received a draft proposal from the American
04:14ambassador based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last Israel-Hezbollah
04:21war in 2006.
04:24Hezbollah officials are said to be studying it.
04:27Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas' surprise attack
04:32on Israel on the 7th of October last year.
04:35Israel escalated its strikes in Lebanon in late September, vowing to cripple Hezbollah
04:40and end its barrages on Israel, and launched a ground operation into the country.