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00:00The Dutch Prime Minister says the governing coalition has averted collapse after the resignation
00:05of the finance secretary due to racist language.
00:15Dutch Prime Minister Dix Hof has said the governing coalition has averted collapse after
00:19the resignation of the finance secretary.
00:22Morocco-born Nora Akkabar said she was stepping down on Friday.
00:27She cited racist comments made by some ministers who were discussing clashes between Israeli
00:32football fans and pro-Palestinian supporters in Amsterdam.
00:36Akkabar blamed polarizing language for her inability to continue in her post.
00:41Hof said after her resignation that among the four coalition parties, we saw that we
00:46wanted to continue.
00:48Violence erupted in Amsterdam around last week's football match between Ajax and Maccabi
00:53Tel Aviv.
00:55A number of Maccabi fans chanted anti-Arab slogans and ripped a Palestinian flag off
01:00a building.
01:03Some men then carried out hit-and-run attacks on Maccabi fans and people they thought were
01:08Jews.
01:15Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized a phone call between German Chancellor
01:20Olaf Scholz and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin as being like opening Pandora's box.
01:25Zelensky said the call risked making Putin feel less isolated internationally.
01:30He also criticized any further negotiations with the Kremlin that don't lead to any meaningful
01:35outcomes for Ukraine.
01:38Scholz spoke to Putin for the first time in two years on Friday.
01:43He condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and called on Putin to withdraw Russian troops from Ukrainian
01:48territory.
01:49He also urged Moscow to engage in negotiations with Kiev in order to achieve a lasting peace.
01:55A statement from the Kremlin said that Putin emphasized any potential agreement must reflect
02:00new territorial realities and address the root causes of the conflict.
02:05Putin also said the war in Ukraine was a direct result of NATO's aggressive policy.
02:16Russia's main energy supplier, OMV, said on Saturday it has stopped receiving gas via
02:21Ukraine from Russia's Gazprom following a contractual dispute.
02:25However, according to Austria's state market supervisory authority, Russian gas flows to
02:30Austria seemed stable.
02:49The most likely scenario is that Russian gas will enter Austria through buyers other than
02:53OMV.
02:55Ukraine said it wouldn't extend a transit agreement with Gazprom beyond next year in
02:59a bid to choke off income that Kiev says Moscow uses to fund the war.
03:04Despite a huge drop in supply, the EU still gets almost a fifth of its gas from Russia.
03:15The head of Georgia's Central Electoral Commission was doused with black paint on Saturday at
03:20a meeting to confirm that the ruling Georgian dream won the controversial parliamentary
03:25elections in October.
03:29Opposition leader David Kirtatze, who threw the paint, told the chairman that the official
03:34results of the vote did not reflect voters' true choice.
03:40Kirtatze is a commission member from the United National Movement Party.
03:47When the meeting resumed, the chairman was seen with a bandaged eye.
03:53Protesters also gathered outside the commission's building in Tbilisi, where officials announced
03:58the final results.
04:02Opposition supporters have rejected the results amid allegations that the vote was rigged,
04:06an accusation that Georgian Dream denies.
04:15The Italian tourist site of Pompeii has introduced new measures in a bid to clamp down on overtourism.
04:22The site received a record four million visitors this summer, prompting authorities to introduce
04:27a daily cap of 20,000.
04:30The park has also introduced personalized tickets which include the full name of each
04:35visitor.
04:37The world-famous remains of the Roman city were buried under ash and rock following the
04:41eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.