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00:00 As Israel rejects ceasefire talks with Hamas, their military focus has shifted from canyoneers
00:06 to the border town of Rafa.
00:12 On Wednesday night, Russian troops once again attacked infrastructure in the southern city
00:17 of Mikhailov.
00:18 An industrial complex and a house went up in flames.
00:22 Several residential buildings and a sports center were also damaged.
00:26 Ukraine's air defense forces announced on telegram that they had shot down 11 Shahed
00:30 drones overnight in the regions of Mikhailov, Odessa, Benetissia and Novorossiysk.
00:40 In Selidov, in the Donetsk region, Russian shelling killed one woman and injured seven
00:45 overnight.
00:46 The attack hit a school and several blocks of flats.
00:58 In Odessa, several civilian infrastructures were hit, including one school.
01:02 The attacks came a day after Russian missile strikes across Ukraine killed at least five
01:07 people.
01:11 The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning Russia's attempts to interfere
01:16 in EU decision-making.
01:17 Global temperatures have reached the critical 1.5 degree Celsius warming threshold for the
01:26 first time over a 12-month period.
01:34 With the US Secretary of State's latest diplomatic mission to the Middle East ending in failure,
01:39 Israel is intensifying its military campaign.
01:43 Antony Blinken failed to convince the Israeli government to consider Hamas's ceasefire offer.
01:48 Instead, Prime Minister Netanyahu says the war will continue until the Palestinian militant
01:54 group is crushed.
01:56 On the ground, Israeli forces are now switching their focus from Khan Younis to Rafa.
02:01 On the border with Egypt, plans are underway for a ground offensive into the city, where
02:07 hundreds of thousands of Gazans have fled.
02:11 Missile strikes on a suburb of Rafa have already killed at least 13 people, including several
02:16 children.
02:17 Israel is also seeking to free 130 hostages seized by Hamas during its attacks on Israel
02:23 on October 7th.
02:25 But the death toll is steadily rising.
02:27 More than 27,000 Palestinians have died so far, while some 1,200 Israelis were killed
02:34 in Hamas's bloody cross-border autumn raid.
02:42 On Wednesday night, Russian troops once again attacked infrastructure in the southern city
02:47 of Mikhailov.
02:48 An industrial complex and a house went up in flames.
02:52 Several residential buildings and a sports center were also damaged.
02:56 Ukraine's air defense forces announced on Telegram that they had shot down 11 Shahed
03:01 drones overnight in the regions of Mikhailov, Odessa, Benetissia and Novorossiysk.
03:10 In Selidov, in the Donetsk region, Russian shelling killed one woman and injured seven
03:15 overnight.
03:16 The attack hit a school and several blocks of flats.
03:28 In Odessa, several civilian infrastructures were hit, including one school.
03:32 The attacks came a day after Russian missile strikes across Ukraine killed at least five
03:37 people.
03:41 Mirroring protests across Europe, farmers in Italy drove their tractors to the town
03:45 of Flores in Liguria to protest at the Sanremo Song Festival.
03:50 Setting off from Lombardy on Wednesday night, they traveled about 240 kilometers to represent
03:55 Italian farmers in their protest at the televised festival.
04:00 In Bulgaria, protests and road blockages continued for a third consecutive day across the country.
04:05 Negotiations between the farmers, the prime minister and the minister of agriculture on
04:10 Wednesday lasted nearly four hours, but the memorandum proposed by the authorities was
04:15 not signed.
04:16 The parties plan on returning to the negotiating table on Friday.
04:22 And in Spain, farmers in Barcelona continued their protests into the night, and dozens
04:27 of roads remained closed in various Spanish regions on Thursday.
04:31 It's the third day of Spanish farmers' protests against European policies for the sector.
04:41 The European Parliament has passed a resolution condemning Russia's attempts to interfere
04:46 in EU decision-making.
04:48 According to the resolution, approved by 433 with 56 against, Russia is pushing to rebuild
04:55 its network of allies in Europe, and that is a big danger for democracy.
05:02 Russia now is recovering, Kremlin is recovering to reorganize their, I would say, proxies
05:11 in different areas.
05:13 Because in the very beginning, since this large-scale war started, we saw that those
05:19 proxies were silent.
05:21 Now they are much more brave again to speak, to be outspoken.
05:28 Russian meddling in EU policy came to light when a Russian newspaper accused the Latvian
05:33 Russian-speaking MEP, Tatiana Danoka, of being a Russian secret service agent.
05:40 Speaking at the plenary session on Tuesday, she rejected the charges.
05:45 They say Tatiana Danoka is an agent.
05:48 Yes, I am an agent.
05:51 An agent for peace, an agent for Europe without fascism, an agent for minority rights, an
05:58 agent for a united Europe from Lisbon to Ural.
06:04 One Romanian MEP proposed further sanctions against any MEP found to be cooperating with
06:09 Russia.
06:12 If someone in the European Parliament is working obviously for and with Putin, that means that
06:19 they shouldn't get the chance to speak in this house because their voice is the propaganda
06:24 voice.
06:25 Danoka, who had already been banned from standing in the EU elections in June, is now being
06:31 investigated by the EU Parliament itself.
06:33 Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin says he will appeal the Electoral Commission's
06:48 decision to bar him from running in the upcoming presidential election.
06:53 The veteran politician says he submitted a lot more than the 100,000 signatures required
06:58 by the law to be allowed to stand.
07:01 But the commission says only some 95,000 were valid.
07:06 Behind my back are hundreds of thousands of Russian citizens who signed for me.
07:11 Hundreds of thousands.
07:12 We have collected much more signatures than we brought here.
07:17 Behind my back are 45,200 people who donated to my electoral count, which you want to close
07:25 today, and in vain.
07:26 Because there is a problem of return.
07:27 Do you understand what I'm talking about?
07:29 45,200 Russian citizens donated 102 million rubles to our electoral count.
07:38 This has never happened in the history of the Russian elections.
07:44 Long lines of people queuing to sign their support for Nadezhdin, who is campaigning
07:48 against the war in Ukraine, was an indication of a perhaps surprising level of support.
07:53 Another anti-war candidate, Yekaterina Duntsova, was also rejected on faulty paperwork drawing
07:59 grounds.
08:00 Her appeal was dismissed by the Supreme Court and analysis expects Nadezhdin's will also
08:05 fail.
08:06 If it does, President Vladimir Putin will face no serious challenges in his bid to win
08:10 another seven-year term in office.
08:15 The International Criminal Court welcomed Armenia to the Rome Statute at a ceremony
08:19 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
08:21 The ICC president said Armenia's ratification of the Rome Statute is a significant decision.
08:26 It is indeed a brave decision.
08:28 As part of the Rome Statute, Armenia agrees to exercise criminal jurisdiction over the
08:32 responsible for crimes on the international community.
08:36 These include genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of aggression.
08:42 Armenia's vote to join the ICC in October further strained the country's ties with its
08:46 old ally Russia after the court issued an arrest warrant for President Putin over events
08:51 in Ukraine.
08:52 Now Putin risks being arrested if he travels to Armenia.
09:00 Talks to form a far-right-led government in the Netherlands have come to a premature end
09:05 for now, leaving the country in limbo as attempts to build a political coalition around anti-Islam
09:11 lawmaker Gerd Wilders stall.
09:14 Centrist party NSC ended talks last night over what it called "worrisome" government
09:20 finances, while Wilders' Party for Freedom, or PVV, swept a victory in the country's November
09:26 parliamentary election on campaign pledges that included slashing immigration.
09:36 A US drone strike in Baghdad has killed the senior commander of a powerful Iranian-backed
09:42 Iraqi militia.
09:43 It's the latest retaliatory move by American forces following an attack on a base that
09:49 killed three American soldiers last month.
09:52 The US military's central command said the strike killed a Qataib Hezbollah commander
09:58 responsible for directly planning attacks on US forces in the region.
10:03 The move increases concerns that Washington is getting involved in a broader conflict.
10:11 The US Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments over whether former President Donald
10:16 Trump is ineligible to be elected again.
10:20 The event is turning into a spectator sport, with dozens of people queuing up hoping to
10:25 get a seat inside the courtroom.
10:28 Trump appealed to the nation's highest court after judges in Colorado ruled he should be
10:32 disqualified because of his efforts to overturn his loss in the 2020 election, culminating
10:38 in the attack on the US Capitol.
10:46 For the first time, the global temperature pushed past the internationally agreed-upon
10:51 1.5 degrees Celsius warming threshold for an entire year.
10:56 A new climate change report by Copernicus said that January 2024 was the hottest ever
11:02 January recorded.
11:03 The findings are based on atmospheric, land and oceanic climate variables data.
11:10 The report found an average surface air temperature of 13.14 degrees Celsius in January 2024,
11:17 which was above the average for the month of January from 1991 to 2020, and 0.12 degrees
11:25 Celsius above the temperature of the previous warmest January in 2020.
11:30 The globe has broken heat records each month since last June.
11:34 Climate scientists blame a combination of human-caused warming from the burning of fossil
11:40 fuels and the El Nino climate pattern.
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