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00:00 Israel orders more evacuations on its northern border as fighting with Hezbollah intensifies.
00:07 President Joe Biden hosts EU leaders at the White House as the West tries to grapple with multiple global crises.
00:18 Belgium's justice minister resigns after an investigation into Monday's terrorist attack in Brussels.
00:28 Packing up and leaving for somewhere safer.
00:35 Some 20,000 people living in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona are being evacuated.
00:41 It's caught in the middle of fighting between the Israeli military and the Lebanese Hezbollah armed group.
00:47 The conflict has been ongoing since the Hamas attack on Israel two weeks ago.
00:52 In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike damaged a historic Greek Orthodox church on Friday.
00:58 The Palestinian Health Ministry says at least 16 people sheltering in the compound were killed.
01:04 Israel's military says it was targeting a Hamas control centre.
01:08 On Friday, Israel ordered aid organisations to evacuate five schools in Gaza City.
01:15 They've been housing people displaced by Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip.
01:20 The UN says the schools are close to a hospital.
01:24 Israel's campaign against Hamas militants has killed more than 4,000 Palestinians.
01:32 US President Joe Biden welcomed European Union leaders to the White House on Friday against a backdrop of multiple global crises.
01:41 In a meeting, leaders stressed the importance of preventing regional escalation in the Middle East.
01:48 We are working day and night to help the most vulnerable in Palestine with their urgent needs
01:54 and to foster the conditions to relaunch the peace process based on a two-state solution.
02:00 The United States and the European Union are both significantly increasing their humanitarian aid to civilians in Gaza.
02:07 This is crucial in view of their subprime.
02:10 The sit-down came at a moment when domestic US political chaos could further destabilise international relations.
02:16 Many of Biden's shared priorities with the EU depend on getting a budget through Congress,
02:21 and that's a tough task given that the House lacks an elected speaker
02:24 and Republican divisions over aid for Ukraine could force a federal government shutdown in November.
02:29 Belgium's Justice Minister has stepped down from his post.
02:37 Vincent van Quickenboorn's decision follows criticism of the judiciary's handling of a case involving a Tunisian man
02:43 who claimed responsibility for killing two Swedish nationals on Monday.
02:48 An investigation into the 45-year-old found a request for his extradition to Tunisia last year was neglected by the courts.
02:57 Even though this is the work of an individual, independent magistrate,
03:02 I want to take political responsibility for this unacceptable crime.
03:09 I'm not looking for an extradition. I'm not looking for an excuse.
03:13 I think it's my duty to do this.
03:16 Abdus Salim Al-Juwaini was tracked down by police on Tuesday and shot dead.
03:22 The victims were in Brussels to watch Belgium play Sweden in a European Championship qualifying match.
03:29 Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in parts of northern Germany.
03:37 A century-old record was broken in the town of Flensburg on the border with Denmark,
03:42 where the water level peaked at nearly two and a half metres.
03:45 Other coastal cities, including Kiel, Lübeck and Rostock, have also been inundated.
03:51 Storm Babbit has been lashing parts of the UK, Scandinavia and Germany since Thursday.
03:58 People are being urged to stay indoors as gale force winds and torrential rainfall continue.
04:04 Police in Warsaw have arrested a 22-year-old man over a bizarre series of thefts in a shopping centre in the Polish capital,
04:15 which left security guards scratching their heads.
04:18 After slipping into a clothes shop once the building was closed,
04:22 police said the man put on new clothes then froze in the shop window, pretending to be an exhibition mannequin.
04:29 Before being arrested, he still had time to steal jewellery from a stand set up in one of the galleries.
04:35 The man has been remanded in custody and faces a ten-year prison sentence.
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