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00:00 An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza leaves at least 20 dead, while
00:06 fighting on the ground rages on.
00:11 Russia steps up missile attacks across Ukraine as the Kremlin rules out talk of peace on
00:16 Kiev`s terms.
00:20 Six teenagers in France are convicted for their roles in the beheading of teacher Samuel
00:24 Patti while outside his school in 2020.
00:32 An Israeli airstrike on a residential building in central Gaza has killed at least 20 people.
00:38 Due to the fighting, emergency teams could only reach the bodies by Friday afternoon,
00:43 after which they were bagged and taken to the Al-Aqsa Hospital.
00:46 Elsewhere, the Palestine Red Crescent said its teams were working inside the Al-Amal
00:51 Hospital in Khan Younis, after Israeli strikes at a house near the medical facility.
00:56 Footage shot by a Red Crescent volunteer shows the scenes of chaos inside.
01:02 In this Khan Younis camp, a freezing winter is just one worry among a thousand others.
01:07 "Where do I go with my children?
01:10 Where do I go with my stuff?
01:13 I go to every place.
01:14 I bring blankets, pillows, kitchen stuff.
01:15 I bring everything.
01:16 And in the end, I go to the area where I am, I leave my stuff there and we go."
01:21 The Israeli army has released a video purporting to show its troops in a school in the Shejaia
01:26 neighborhood of Gaza City.
01:30 Whether it's from the ground or from the air, Israel's offensive is showing no signs of
01:35 easing up after two months of war.
01:45 Ukraine's capital is in the firing line once again.
01:48 For the first time in over two months, Kiev was a target of Russian attacks which left
01:54 two dead.
01:55 It comes as Russia stepped up attacks in cities across Ukraine, including Kharkiv.
02:00 "When I ran through the windows, I didn't see it anymore.
02:05 I called this cat and thought it was dead.
02:07 I was so happy that it came back.
02:10 I said, 'Thank God, we are alive.'
02:12 I thought it was all over."
02:14 Residential areas of Kherson, White Bank settlements also reported heavy shelling.
02:20 A Kremlin spokesperson said peace talks on Kiev's terms were totally unrealistic.
02:25 "They want Russia to negotiate with Kiev in 2024.
02:30 How realistic is this wish?"
02:35 "Not realistic at all."
02:39 Ukraine's defence ministry said that in total, Russia carried out 30 group strikes with precision
02:45 weapons and drones this week.
02:52 Six teenagers in France have been convicted for their roles in the beheading of a teacher
02:57 by an Islamic extremist three years ago.
03:00 Samuel Patti, a history and geography teacher, was killed in October 2020 near his school
03:05 in a Paris suburb.
03:07 The messages spread online that he'd shown his class cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.
03:12 His killer was an 18-year-old of Chechen origin who had become radicalised.
03:16 He was shot dead by police.
03:18 All were handed brief or suspended prison terms and said they didn't know the teacher
03:23 would be killed.
03:27 Spain's economy minister, Nadia Calvino, she's just been named as the new head of the European
03:32 Investment Bank.
03:33 When she takes over on the 1st of January, she'll become the first woman to hold the
03:37 post.
03:38 As the bloc's lending arm, the bank has grown in importance since Russia's war in Ukraine,
03:43 with the top job attracting some of the biggest names in European politics, including Denmark's
03:48 Margrethe Westerier.
03:50 The EU competition commissioner had to step down temporarily to run for the job.
03:55 He'd be in the frontrunner until Calvino pipped her to the post.
04:04 The iconic Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is set to reopen its doors in one year after
04:09 being destroyed by a fire in 2019.
04:12 The announcement was made from the top of the newly rebuilt spire by French President
04:16 Emmanuel Macron.
04:17 "This 8th of December is a very important moment because it marks a date, a year before
04:24 Notre Dame de Paris is made a cult and a visit.
04:27 It's very moving to be there a year before.
04:30 You see the extraordinary progress of the work, of the heart, the sheets and the arrow."
04:38 Macron said that the Pope will be invited to the inauguration.
04:42 The French President also announced the creation of a Notre Dame museum and that a contest
04:48 will decide the design of the stained glass windows.
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