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00:00 The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow today,
00:05 but his team says they have faced continued difficulties organizing the farewell send-off.
00:10 Leaders of Western Balkan countries agreed on Thursday to speed up regional cooperation
00:16 in exchange for a 6 billion euro aid package from the EU.
00:20 Iran's parliamentary elections have begun with the likelihood of a low turnout
00:26 as many candidates are barred from running.
00:30 The late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny will be buried in Moscow today,
00:34 but Navalny's team have said they continue to face difficulties organizing the farewell send-off,
00:39 including being able to find a hearse to drive the body to church.
00:43 Kira Yarmish, Navalny's press secretary, said unknown people were calling mortuaries
00:48 and threatening them if they accepted Navalny's body.
00:51 Many who want to say goodbye are worried about the future of the Russian-speaking country.
00:56 Many who want to say goodbye are worried about the consequences.
01:00 Authorities have prepared heavily for the service,
01:17 due to take place in the Marieno municipality of southeastern Moscow, where Navalny lived.
01:22 The church and adjoining cemetery will have a heavy police presence,
01:26 while whole neighborhoods nearby are cordoned off with a portable metal fence.
01:30 At the church's doors, there are announcements warning against photos and videos.
01:35 Leaders of Western Balkan countries agreed on Thursday to speed up cooperation
01:45 in exchange for a 6 billion euro aid package.
01:48 They also hope it may speed up the union membership process.
01:51 The package is an effort to double the region's economy over the next decade.
01:55 But EU enlargement commissioner Oliver Vahely said the funds did not mean the states could join the single market.
02:03 It would be unfair to ask our Western Balkan partners to participate in the single market,
02:09 where they have less power to compete compared to our companies.
02:17 This is why we are also dedicating additional funding to this plan,
02:24 to help all the reforms that are necessary to get these reforms done.
02:30 Because most of these reforms are also coming at cost, financial cost.
02:36 The region's six countries, Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia,
02:43 are all at varying stages of their EU membership applications.
02:47 They will cooperate on unifying financial regulations, adapting their customs rules
02:52 and creating joint border crossings like the bloc's other member countries.
02:59 A trial of the 2018 attack on a Christmas market in Strasbourg has begun in Paris.
03:05 Four suspects are accused of terrorism, criminal conspiracy and provision of weapons to the attacker.
03:11 On December 11, 2018, SheriΕ‘ Ε ikΓ‘t opened fire in central Strasbourg near the Christmas market,
03:18 killing five people and wounding 11 more.
03:21 He managed to escape the scene, but was shot dead by police two days later.
03:25 Ε ikΓ‘t was well known to the police, but was not connected to any terrorism activities before the attack.
03:32 With European elections just 100 days away,
03:38 Euronews took the streets of Brussels to see if people knew when to mark their calendars
03:42 to elect their MEPs, who will be representing them for the next five years.
03:47 Do you know when the European elections are?
03:53 I don't know.
03:55 No, not at all.
04:01 This year? OK, but I don't know the month.
04:04 October, no? November, something like that.
04:07 June.
04:08 June?
04:09 Yes, in June.
04:10 This year?
04:11 Month of June.
04:12 I intend to go and vote, yes, that's for sure.
04:15 These elections are taking place in a tense time as the EU faces several crises,
04:21 such as the war in Ukraine and the inflation.
04:24 Citizens have different priorities for their next European Parliament.
04:28 Well, I guess ecology, that's very important.
04:32 Climate change, which they met but didn't fix anything.
04:36 Maybe talk about Palestine and what's going on over there.
04:39 They need to discuss Palestine.
04:42 To live in peace again.
04:44 Less liberal, more social.
04:47 Countries want to shut themselves down.
04:51 This rise in nationalism is scary.
04:53 I do hope that the extremes won't be there.
04:56 Do you plan on voting this year?
04:58 I probably will, yes.
05:00 I'm not interested in that at all.
05:03 I'm sorry.
05:04 Local bosses, trams and subway trains have come to a halt in much of Germany
05:12 as transport employees carry out another two-day strike.
05:15 They're calling for better working conditions, including shorter working weeks
05:19 and extra compensation for shift and night work.
05:22 Such short warning strikes are a common tactic in German contract negotiations.
05:28 They've frustrated travellers and commuters.
05:31 You have to see both sides.
05:33 You can see that the people who work at the KVB want to be paid accordingly
05:39 and act accordingly.
05:41 I think it's unfair to argue over this again and again.
05:46 You're deceiving the people who are also driving in the future.
05:51 The union Verdi called for the 48-hour warning strike
05:54 in the ongoing nationwide wage dispute in regional negotiations.
05:58 The walkout coincides with weeks of rail, airport and local transport strikes across the country.
06:05 The bloody gangs and wars are a rivalry of drugs.
06:08 Cartels here in France have no end.
06:11 49 people were murdered last year alone here in Marseille.
06:15 People in the suburbs are desperate.
06:18 He took a burst of five Kalashnikov bullets in the chest.
06:31 He couldn't have survived that.
06:34 I think these monsters took him for a gator.
06:37 They saw two kids in a surveillance suit and shot them.
06:41 A little Marseillais can die today from bullets
06:44 like in a country like Mexico, a country of cartels, while we're in France.
06:49 I found the young people here around the fire.
06:52 I told them clearly, "You're going to get killed.
06:56 You're going to be sent down. It's hot. There's a war going on."
07:00 They were all in the car.
07:03 I told them, "You're going to be killed. You're going to be sent down. It's hot. There's a war going on."
07:08 They were all in the car.
07:11 I told them, "You're going to get killed. You're going to be sent down. It's hot. There's a war going on."
07:16 The next day, I found out that one of the young people was killed.
07:21 On Sunday, I went back to see him on his deathbed. It was funny.
07:26 The traffic of the monsters generated in France 3 billion euros in business.
07:42 This money is flowing. This money can be used to corrupt.
07:48 I regularly have kidnappings, kidnappings, and torture
07:52 because the young drug dealer stole 20 euros from the network to buy a sandwich.
07:57 This money kills.
08:08 One in every eight people worldwide is now living with obesity,
08:13 according to the World Health Organization.
08:15 The situation is worrying.
08:17 The number of overweight people has surpassed one billion for the first time in history.
08:22 Whilst malnutrition rates have dropped, it is still a public health challenge in many places,
08:30 particularly in Southeast Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
08:33 The research comes ahead of World Obesity Day on the 4th of March.
08:37 "I'm so sorry."
08:39 The region of Sicily has declared a state of emergency
08:45 as it battles one of the worst droughts in almost 20 years.
08:49 Iran's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,
08:56 was the first to cast his ballot as the country goes to the polls in a parliamentary election.
09:01 The vote is the first since mass protests erupted in 2022 over the death of a young woman in police custody.
09:08 She had been accused of not complying with the regime's mandatory hijab laws.
09:13 With most high-profile moderate candidates barred from standing
09:17 and amid opposition calls for a boycott, a low turnout is a strong possibility.
09:22 Such an outcome would increase pressure on Iran's rulers
09:25 as the Islamic Republic's theocracy bases its legitimacy in part on turnout in elections.
09:31 The parliament has been dominated by religious hardliners for the past two decades
09:36 and little change is expected, regardless of the level of abstention.
09:41 The vote is also for the Assembly of Experts, a panel of clerics who select the country's Ayatollah.
09:51 French actress Judith Goderich has called for politicians to establish a commission
09:57 to investigate sex crimes and sexism in French cinema.
10:01 She was speaking at the French Senate's delegation on women's rights.
10:05 In this country, I feel that it's not just the men who are the abuser,
10:12 who are trying to shut down the women, it's the society, which for me is bizarre.
10:17 And obviously it's what I'm fighting and this is why I find myself talking and talking over again.
10:23 I think there's something about French society that somehow is still anchored into like Moyen Age, you know.
10:32 Her speech comes just days after she called on France's film industry
10:36 to face the truth on sexual violence and physical abuse during the CΓ©sar Awards ceremony.
10:42 Goderich was invited to speak after actors alleged they were teenage victims of sexual abuse
10:48 by directors decades older than themselves.
10:51 The actress recently accused two film directors of rape and sexual abuse when she was a teenager.
10:57 At least 43 people died after a massive fire broke out at a shopping centre in the capital of Dakar late on Thursday.
11:12 More than a dozen fire engines were called to a seven-floor building
11:16 as the fire spread quickly, trapping dozens of visitors.
11:19 People climbed on the roof to await rescue,
11:21 whilst others escaped through windows and by climbing down using water pipes.
11:25 75 were evacuated and taken to hospital.
11:29 The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
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