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00:00 12 more hostages and 30 Palestinian prisoners are exchanged as the temporary truce between
00:07 Israel and Hamas is extended.
00:10 The EU is to quadruple its spending on training Ukrainian soldiers to battle Russia, investing
00:16 close to an extra 200 million euros.
00:20 Ahead of COP28, the World Health Organization warns about the negative impact climate change
00:26 is having on human health and well-being.
00:30 Finland says it will close the last of its eight border crossings with Russia on Wednesday
00:34 over migrant concerns and an unusual surge in arrivals.
00:40 The European Court of Justice gives the green light to public offices across the EU to ban
00:44 religious symbols from the workplace in a "general and indiscriminate manner."
00:52 Hundreds of Palestinians lined the streets of Ramallah late Tuesday to welcome 30 Palestinian
00:58 prisoners freed by Israel in the latest swap with hostages in Hamas captivity.
01:04 This was the fifth day of the temporary truce between Israel and Hamas after a 48-hour extension
01:09 was agreed.
01:11 The military wing of Hamas, Al Qasem Brigades, posted a video late on Tuesday, this time
01:16 showing crowds in Rafah, greeting a convoy of vans arriving at the meeting point where
01:21 the militants handed 12 hostages to the Red Cross.
01:26 There were marked celebrations among Israelis gathered in Sderot, who cheered as the vehicles
01:31 transporting the released hostages arrived.
01:34 Hamas and other militants still hold about 160 hostages out of 240 seized in their October
01:41 7 assault on southern Israel that ignited the war.
01:46 A spokesman for the Israeli government has said it would be open to an additional five
01:50 days of truce under the current hostage prisoner exchange agreement.
01:55 During the pause in fighting, the UN World Food Program is delivering desperately needed
02:00 food to more than 120,000 people in Gaza, but has reiterated that the supplies it was
02:06 able to provide were woefully inadequate to address the level of hunger.
02:11 Hundreds of thousands that are facing an immediate risk of starvation.
02:16 WFP hopes for the extension of this pause, which offered a window of relief that could
02:21 pave the way for a longer term calm.
02:23 Safe and impeded humanitarian access cannot stop now.
02:27 While there does appear to be a willingness to extend the truce, which is due to end after
02:32 one more captive exchange on Wednesday night, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
02:37 says the fighting will resume with full force.
02:44 The EU is to quadruple its spending on training Ukrainian soldiers to battle Russia, investing
02:49 close to an extra 200 million euros.
02:53 The 27-nation bloc has so far trained 34,000 Ukrainian personnel for the front line, making
02:59 the EU the biggest provider of training for Ukraine`s military.
03:03 Speaking at a joint news conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, the EU foreign
03:09 affairs chief Joseph Borrell stressed Ukraine has EU support.
03:13 I know that we have to do more and faster, because for sure Putin will use the winter
03:20 to continue unleashing terror on civilians in Ukraine and attacking its energy infrastructure.
03:27 For those living on the front line in Ukraine, they are preparing for when infrastructure
03:31 is hit and have created underground gathering places, ensuring access to essential necessities
03:37 like water, warmth and power.
03:39 In a basement system beneath the town of Holzhapol, residents can access free food, do laundry,
03:45 take showers or simply relax and watch a movie in a heated room.
03:50 Meanwhile, the wife of Ukraine`s military spy chief has been poisoned and is undergoing
03:55 hospital treatment.
03:57 Mariana Budanova`s husband, Kirill Budanov, heads Ukraine`s military intelligence agency
04:03 GUR, which has been prominently involved in clandestine operations against Russian forces
04:09 since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
04:14 The city of Dubai with the 28th United Nations Climate Change Summit gets underway on Thursday,
04:20 attended by delegates from nearly 200 countries.
04:23 This year, there`s a sense of urgency about getting the world back on track with action
04:28 to limit global warming.
04:30 Ahead of COP28, the World Health Organization warned about the impact of pollution.
04:35 We have more extreme weather events, we have massive displacements, we have air that is
04:41 very toxic and contaminated and polluted.
04:44 We have water shortages, food shortages, vector-borne diseases, non-communicable diseases, mental
04:52 health issues.
04:53 Everything is at risk because of climate change.
04:56 So, health can be the important motivation to take more action on climate change.
05:02 As children play in this village in Indonesia, smokestacks spew out noxious gas from a nearby
05:08 coal power plant.
05:09 We have a big impact.
05:13 In 2010, my sister-in-law, a woman, just got married for one year, died because her lungs
05:22 were burnt.
05:23 And the woman didn`t smoke.
05:28 This hospital in Jakarta is overflowing with patients suffering from asthma or tuberculosis,
05:33 both respiratory diseases.
05:35 Health-harming air pollutants from coal-fired power plants that help eat the planet will
05:39 be a key focus at the summit.
05:45 The big freeze on movement between Finland and Russia continues.
05:50 Helsinki is about to close its last remaining border crossing along its shared 1,300-kilometer
05:55 frontier.
05:56 Due to a surge in migrant arrivals, predominantly from the Middle East and Africa.
06:01 Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has accused Moscow of undermining his country`s national security
06:06 and trying to create a migrant crisis after Finland joined NATO earlier this year.
06:11 In April, the Kremlin warned it could be forced to take "countermeasures in response to the
06:16 Nordic countries` accession to the U.S.-led alliance."
06:25 The headquarters of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, ahead of a joint
06:29 announcement from the Baltic nations that their foreign ministers will boycott the next
06:34 two-day OSCE meeting in North Macedonia, because their Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov,
06:39 says he is attending.
06:41 The Baltic officials say Lavrov`s visit risks legitimizing Moscow`s offensive.
06:46 It will be Lavrov`s first visit to a NATO country since Russia`s full-scale invasion
06:50 of Ukraine began.
06:52 Ukraine`s Foreign Minister Dmitry Kudlaev also says he will not be attending.
07:00 Pope Francis will no longer be attending COP 28 in Dubai.
07:04 The Vatican says the 86-year-old has been forced to pull out of the climate change summit
07:09 because of the effects of influenza and a lung infection.
07:13 Francis, an outspoken advocate for climate action, was due to begin his three-day visit
07:18 on Friday, the first pontiff to attend the global gathering.
07:23 He was slated to address the conference on Saturday and meet with world leaders before
07:27 inaugurating the first faith pavilion at a COP gathering.
07:36 Despite the war still raging on, the EU and Ukrainian government are starting preparations
07:41 for the post-war reconstruction of the embattled country, with the aim of rebuilding it better
07:46 and greener once the fighting is over.
07:50 European Commission, Ukrainian government and businesses all gathered in Vilnius on
07:54 Tuesday to discuss the necessary preparations, saying that once the war ends, reconstruction
07:59 plans must already be in place.
08:03 The war started by Russia has had devastating effects on nature in the country.
08:07 For example, the destruction of the Kharkov water dam, which resulted in the worst human-made
08:12 ecocide since the Chernobyl nuclear plant incident in 1987.
08:19 We have a unique opportunity to build back better and greener.
08:23 So when we talk about cities that were destroyed, we talk about the sustainable planning of
08:29 those cities, integrating the most recent knowledge.
08:36 I`m very pleased to see so many architects across Europe who are actually devoting their
08:42 time.
08:43 When we talk about public buildings, which massively were destroyed, the hospitals, schools,
08:49 kindergartens, they all will have to be energy efficient.
08:54 They all will have to be powered with the renewable energy.
08:58 Ukraine currently has the most landmines in any European country.
09:01 More than 34 animal species have disappeared due to the fighting.
09:06 The country`s forests have also suffered serious losses.
09:09 But the biggest challenge is not only restoring nature, but also to have a climate-neutral
09:14 economy after the war finishes.
09:17 For this, Ukraine needs to transform its energy network and rebuild public and residential
09:21 buildings in an energy-efficient way.
09:24 The reconstruction of the country is a tempting opportunity for many European countries who
09:28 have already signaled their interest.
09:31 Representatives of the building industry as well as water and waste management companies
09:35 also took part in the discussions in Vilnius.
09:38 We are not talking about just about international support, like directly support to restore
09:45 something.
09:46 No, we are talking about some investments.
09:49 And first of all, we need to cooperation with investors to build new facilities, to build
09:55 new technologies, to build new maybe industries, but using best available technologies in a
10:03 European way, like in European legislation signed.
10:07 According to the European Commission, the reconstruction of Ukraine will have a massive
10:10 cost and Russia must pay for it.
10:15 Another challenge will be to convince the six million Ukrainians currently living in
10:19 Europe to move home and contribute to the rebuilding efforts.
10:31 Any public office across the European Union now has permission to ban employees from wearing
10:36 religious garments or symbols in the workspace.
10:39 That's according to the EU's Court of Justice.
10:43 The announcement came after a labor court in Belgium banned a woman from wearing an
10:47 Islamic headscarf in the office.
10:49 An internal rule of a municipal administration that generally and indifferently prohibits
10:58 the members of the staff of this administration from wearing visible symbols on the workplace,
11:04 of all signs revealing, in particular, philosophical or religious convictions, can be justified
11:11 by the will of the said administration to establish, given the context of the matter,
11:17 a totally neutral administrative environment.
11:21 Leinart stressed that each member state has a right to determine what a neutral environment
11:26 looks like.
11:27 While previous rulings by the top court determined that such bans infringed on religious freedoms,
11:32 this time it stressed the need for "equal treatment" for all in employment and occupation.
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