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00:00 Fighting continues across Gaza as Israel continues its offensive against Hamas, despite a ruling
00:07 from the International Court of Justice that its military operation in Rafa must stop.
00:14 The UN top court also ruled that the Rafa border crossing must be reopened for aid deliveries.
00:20 But ICJ judges stopped short of ordering a full ceasefire throughout Gaza.
00:25 The ruling was welcomed by Palestine's ambassador to the UN.
00:32 But displaced Palestinians in Gaza expressed frustration with the ruling because of its
00:36 focus on Rafa.
00:38 More than 900,000 Palestinians have been displaced from the city in the last two weeks, with
00:43 many having no access to food, water or shelter.
00:46 Meanwhile, the Hamas run health ministry says the death toll in Gaza now stands at at least
00:52 35,000 but the ministry doesn't distinguish between combatants and civilians.
00:59 The European Union has slammed Russia's removal of buoys on the Nava river marking the border
01:07 with Estonia as unacceptable.
01:10 Russian border troops removed 24 of the 50 buoys early on Thursday morning.
01:16 They've been on the river for decades to prevent navigation errors.
01:20 Tensions on the border have risen since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
01:27 EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell called their removal provocative.
01:34 Crowds have marched through Tbilisi in protest against the approximately 200 arrests made
01:41 during weeks of rallies against a foreign influence law.
01:45 The bill requires media to register if they receive more than 20% of their funding from
01:50 abroad.
01:52 Critics say it could derail the country's chances of joining the EU.
01:56 Parliament passed the law on May 14 but it was vetoed by the president four days later.
02:02 But the ruling party has a majority sufficient to override that veto.
02:12 Officers from Greece's special police forces have taken part in an exercise during an international
02:18 training event to combat human trafficking.
02:21 The armed officers interrupted a mock fashion show in Athens which used actors posing as
02:25 trafficking victims.
02:28 Officers took the suspected victim to safety, detained a suspect and dealt with a medical
02:32 emergency.
02:34 The two-day exercises known as Medusa 2024 include international refugee agencies and
02:40 European law enforcement.
02:47 The southeastern town of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera has constructed a temporary
02:51 village to house seasonal workers.
02:54 The prefabricated units will house around 47 people with each paying a monthly rent
02:59 of 100 euros.
03:02 The town's mayor says there's a shortage of temporary accommodation to house the security
03:06 guards, cultural staff and youth and sports workers who come to work in the town every
03:10 summer.
03:12 Workers and tourists can push the summer population up to around 100,000.
03:19 "Hello, my name is Myriam, I'm 47 years old, I'm Belgian.
03:26 The question I was asked was, if I were a member of the European Union, what would I
03:37 do?
03:38 I would give a little more purchasing power to the inhabitants of each member country
03:43 because joining them shouldn't diminish us but make us a little stronger and today
03:50 that's not the case.
03:51 So that's what I would do, give a little more purchasing power."
03:58 "I want the fiscal policy pursued in the European Union to be more liberal, to let
04:08 the people be bolder in making larger public investments.
04:13 Otherwise such countries as Latvia will remain in the backyard and will never achieve the
04:18 economic level of the old European democracies.
04:21 Also, I believe it's necessary to put a final stop to austerity policy which pushed many
04:28 people, millions of Europeans all over the European continent to poverty and to economic
04:37 immigration.
04:38 Especially important, what I'm talking now is about Latvia, which lost about 15% of its
04:45 nationals during the economic crisis after the year 2009."
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