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00:00Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky for a trilateral meeting
00:06ahead of Notre Dame's reopening.
00:11Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of the capital Damascus, according to opposition
00:16activists and a rebel commander.
00:22Russian strikes target the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, killing nine and injuring
00:27close to 20 others.
00:31US President-elect Donald Trump was welcomed at Elysee Palace in Paris by French President
00:36Emmanuel Macron ahead of the opening ceremony celebrating the restoration of the Notre Dame
00:42Cathedral.
00:44Shortly after Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was also seen arriving, as the three
00:50are set to have a trilateral meeting.
00:53Trump was invited as President-elect of a friendly nation, Macron said, adding that
00:58other politicians not now in office had been invited as well.
01:08Syrian insurgents have reached the suburbs of the capital Damascus, opposition activists
01:13and a rebel commander said on Saturday.
01:16The insurgent commander posted on Telegram that opposition forces are headed to Damascus
01:21from southern Syria.
01:25The advance comes less than a week after taking control of Syria's largest city Aleppo.
01:31In their lightning-fast offensive, the rebels managed to move south and capture Hama, before
01:36starting an advance on the city of Homs.
01:40On Saturday, insurgent fighters claimed to have seized most of the country's south, as
01:44government forces withdrew there, sending large numbers of reinforcements to defend
01:49Homs.
01:51If the insurgents capture Homs, they would cut the link between Damascus, President Assad's
01:56seat of power, and the coastal region where the president enjoys wide support.
02:07A Russian attack on Ukraine's southeastern city of Zaporizhia has killed at least nine
02:11people and wounded close to 20 others.
02:14Footage released by Ukraine's state emergency service showed firefighters putting out blazes
02:18on Friday night in the aftermath of the deadly attack.
02:22Authorities say the attacks targeted a service station which was destroyed and caused damage
02:26to several nearby homes, businesses and vehicles on the street.
02:31Air raid alerts sounded across the city from 5 p.m. local time, as Ukraine's air force
02:36warned of more potential attacks.
02:38The bomb struck unsuspecting civilians, many who were just trying to have a peaceful holiday,
02:43as the country observed St. Nicholas Day.
02:46Russian forces also targeted a residential building in the neighboring city of Kriviari.
02:52Two people were killed in that attack, and a dozen more were injured.
02:56Local officials condemned the offensive and accused Russia of targeting civilian positions
03:01with no regard for human life.
03:05Alice Wiedel is now officially the first chancellor candidate the German far-right party AFD presented
03:10for the upcoming snap elections set for February 2025.
03:15Although in practice she has no chance of taking the chancellery as other parties refused
03:19to work with the populist party, the alternative for Germany has been getting strong approval
03:23rates and is currently the second strongest party polling between 18 and 19 percent in
03:27nationwide surveys.
03:38The 45-year-old economist has co-led the party since 2022, and she promises to turn
03:43back the country's climate-friendly energy transition and cut down harshly on migration.
03:52Police in Georgia have used water cannon and tear gas to break up mass protests sparked
03:57by the government's decision to suspend negotiations on joining the European Union.
04:03More than 400 protesters, including opposition leaders and activists, have been detained
04:07and more than 100 people treated for injuries.
04:11The ruling Georgian Dream retained control of parliament in the disputed 26th October
04:16election, a vote widely seen as a referendum on Georgia's EU aspirations.
04:22The opposition accused the governing party of rigging the vote with the help of neighboring
04:26Russia to keep the Moscow-friendly Georgian Dream party in power.
04:30But the protests against the election spread beyond Tbilisi after the decision last Thursday
04:35to put EU accession talks on hold until at least 2028.
04:40That was in response to a European Parliament resolution that criticized the elections as
04:44neither free nor fair.