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00:00 Israeli strikes kill 67 people on the first day of Ramadan celebrations.
00:10 200 tons of food departed from Cyprus to Gaza as aid.
00:20 Ukrainians hope the Oscar-winning documentary "20 days in Mariupol" will drive much-needed
00:26 Western aid.
00:35 Israeli airstrikes killed at least 67 people in Gaza on the first day of Ramadan, according
00:41 to the Gazan Health Ministry.
00:45 The strikes continue as hundreds of Palestinians begin celebrating Ramadan, a month normally
00:51 associated with joy and celebration.
00:57 UNRWA has called for a ceasefire during the month of Ramadan, citing widespread hunger
01:03 and calling the situation in the north of Gaza "tragic".
01:09 It is estimated that around 80% of Gaza's population have been displaced since the start
01:14 of the war, and supplies of food and water are scarce, with many families living off
01:19 one meal a day.
01:22 In response to the first day of Ramadan, Egypt has delivered aid via air into northern Gaza.
01:35 An aid shipment with around 200 tons of food set sail from Cyprus to Gaza on Tuesday.
01:43 The shipment is a test for the opening of a sea corridor to supply aid to the territory.
01:49 Charity World Food Kitchen announced the ship set sail on Tuesday.
01:55 The United States has announced separately that it plans to construct a sea bridge near
02:00 Gaza in order to deliver aid.
02:06 Aid groups have warned that starvation is spreading across Gaza, and in some areas it
02:11 remains nearly impossible to deliver aid.
02:22 Moscow-installed occupation authorities opened early voting in temporarily occupied territories
02:26 of Ukraine for Russia's presidential elections on the 10th of March that will last until
02:32 the 14th of March.
02:35 Kremlin news website TASS reported on the 10th of March that early voting started in
02:38 occupied Donetsk region, but noted that early voting in the areas close to the front line
02:45 has been going on since the 25th of February.
02:49 Ukrainian Luhansk region military administration head Artem Lysokhor stated that 2,600 so-called
02:56 Luhansk People's Republic Election Commission officials have been conducting door-to-door
03:01 campaigning for the past 20 days.
03:03 According to the Russian Interior Ministry, there are about 2.8 million residents in the
03:08 temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine who are now Russian passport holders.
03:13 Russia makes access to services in these regions, including social services and healthcare,
03:18 conditional on the receipt of Russian passports.
03:21 Those who refuse will become foreign citizens or stateless persons starting from the 1st
03:27 of July 2024.
03:29 There is a realistic possibility that individuals will be deported or face detention after this
03:33 date if they don't have Russian passports in what the UK defence ministry calls "a
03:38 relentless Russification policy".
03:41 The Institute for the Study of War continues to assess that the Kremlin and Russia-installed
03:45 occupation officials intend to falsify votes in support of Russian President Vladimir Putin
03:52 and fabricate a large voter turnout in an attempt to legitimise Russia's occupation
03:57 of Ukraine to the international community.
04:01 Ukrainians woke up Monday to the news that the country had won its first Oscar.
04:09 The documentary "20 Days in Mariupol", a harrowing first-person account of the early
04:14 days of Russia's invasion in 2022, won the award for Best Documentary Feature on Sunday.
04:20 "I hope that this award will give the Congress a push to finally approve the military aid
04:32 that Ukraine needs so that we can defend ourselves and fight back our land and our people."
04:45 In the meantime, drone attacks overnight damaged two multi-storey buildings, a hotel and a
04:53 municipal building in the eastern city of Kharkiv.
04:57 No casualties were reported.
05:04 "Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has announced he will resign following weeks of international
05:18 pressure.
05:30 He made the announcement hours after officials from the Caribbean and the US met to discuss
05:35 a solution to Haiti's crisis.
05:42 Law and order in Haiti has collapsed in recent weeks as gangs have attacked the main airport
05:47 and burned down police stations.
05:53 Henry is currently stranded in Puerto Rico after being prevented by armed gangs from
05:57 returning home."
06:03 Record temperatures have again caused problems for ski resorts this winter.
06:08 In a ski Austrian resort, diggers are removing remaining snow from ski slopes to welcome
06:14 summer sports enthusiasts.
06:16 "Our ski operation is over earlier than expected.
06:24 That's why our trail construction teams are already on the slopes and digging out the
06:27 trails so we can start with mountain bikes."
06:29 "One of the possible solutions is summer sports.
06:37 In bad snow conditions, mountain bikers already use the slopes of St. Corona in March.
06:43 Other activities are summer skiing or hiking.
06:46 Meanwhile, the small ski area generates more money through summer than winter sports."
06:51 The EU co-founded the Transstat project that connects nine resorts from Europe that are
06:56 testing various forms of solutions to combat climate change.
07:01 "We hope that we can learn from the exchange with other ski areas that we haven't yet
07:07 learned from the slopes."
07:09 However, it is not just the lack of snow that is being analyzed.
07:12 Rising property prices due to tourists buying vacation homes is also an issue.
07:18 In two years' time, Transstat will publish a guideline for livable and climate-ready
07:22 winter sports destinations.
07:25 Johannes Fleschberger, Euronews.
07:32 Some 40 climate activists, including Greta Thunberg, blocked the entrance to the Swedish
07:37 parliament on Monday, advocating for sweeping reforms to tackle climate disasters.
07:45 "The climate justice movement has for decades been repeating the same message over and over
07:51 again like a broken record and we feel like we are not being heard.
07:56 We are still moving in the wrong direction.
07:58 We are still heading to a climate catastrophe and making lives even worse for those who
08:04 are already suffering the consequences of the climate crisis and other social crises."
08:08 "Here we are protesting because climate change is still not treated as a crisis.
08:14 Climate justice movement have been demanding for a change for decades now and we haven't
08:20 got any."
08:22 Climate protesters have accused fossil fuel companies of deliberately slowing down the
08:27 global energy transition.
08:32 NATO is sending a very strong message to Moscow.
08:35 That is what Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's Secretary General, told Euronews right after Sweden's
08:41 NATO accession was celebrated in a flag-raising ceremony in Brussels.
08:46 He also underlined why he considers it is a "historic day".
08:50 "So NATO membership for Sweden makes Sweden safer.
08:54 It also makes NATO stronger because Sweden is providing high-end military capabilities,
09:01 submarines, fighter jets, well-equipped and well-trained armed forces.
09:08 So therefore NATO becomes stronger with Sweden as an ally.
09:12 And we are also sending a very clear message to Moscow that NATO's door remains open.
09:17 It's not for Moscow or President Putin to close that door.
09:21 It's for NATO allies and European countries to decide on membership."
09:24 Russia has long complained about NATO approaching its borders.
09:29 The Secretary General said that allies need to be vigilant.
09:33 "We always have to take the potential threat from Russia seriously.
09:39 At the same time, we don't see any imminent military threat against Sweden, Finland or
09:44 any other NATO ally."
09:48 Stoltenberg admitted that he feels the concerns from other allies after Donald Trump's recent
09:53 comments about defence spending.
09:55 "From the United States, but also from some other allies, there have been some criticism
10:00 against European allies not investing enough in defence.
10:06 But I'm confident that the US will remain a committed NATO ally, also after the US elections,
10:15 partly because NATO is a good deal for the United States.
10:21 NATO is important for Europe, but also important for the United States.
10:24 They have 31 friends and allies, something that Russia, China doesn't have at all."
10:29 He explained that now more allies invest more than 2% in defence, which is a totally different
10:36 reality than just a few years ago, when the majority of NATO allies spent below that.
10:50 EU member states and lawmakers have provisionally agreed on new rules for platform workers aiming
10:55 to improve working conditions and regulate the use of algorithms.
11:01 The deal comes after several member states last month derailed a political agreement
11:05 that was reached earlier with the European Parliament.
11:09 "We have to take another fight, I think, in order to ensure that this economy, which
11:17 is an important economy, doesn't maltreat people systematically, treat them as day-to-day
11:23 workers, without sick leave, without any pension rights, without any rights at all basically.
11:30 We have to put an end to that.
11:32 This is a first step, but a lot will have to be done at national level, of course."
11:39 The rules were first proposed by the Commission in December 2021 to protect workers from apps
11:46 such as Uber, Delivery and Glovo, who are often treated as self-employed despite being
11:50 under rules similar to ordinary employees.
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