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00:00 Joseph Borrell said European foreign affairs ministers gave their green light to reactivate an EU border mission at Rafa.
00:10 European foreign affairs ministers gave their green light to reactivate an EU border mission at Rafa,
00:16 High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs Joseph Borrell said.
00:21 Israel faced new condemnation over strikes on Rafa that local health officials say killed at least 45 Palestinians.
00:29 I proposed to the ministers, they gave me green light, the political green light to reactivate EU-BAM,
00:35 our mission, control border mission in Rafa, which has been sleeping for years, not active.
00:43 This could play a useful role in supporting the entry of people into Gaza, entry in and out.
00:51 Italian Defence Minister Guido Croseto said that such strikes will have long-standing repercussions.
00:57 Israel is spreading hatred, he said. He also added that he would have acted differently.
01:04 Turkish President Erdogan condemned the deadly strikes on Rafa over the weekend.
01:09 The Turkish leader has stepped up his criticism of Israel following its military offensive in Gaza,
01:15 accusing it of carrying out war crimes and genocide, something Israel denies.
01:24 On the second day of a state visit to Germany, French President Emmanuel Macron told a crowd in Dresden
01:29 that voters and leaders should wake up to fight the rise of far-right parties across Europe.
01:35 Look around us, the fascination for authoritarian regimes.
01:43 Look at Europe, the illiberal moment we are living in,
01:48 where many people look and say to themselves, "Let's take the money from Europe,
01:59 but let's forget about the independence of judges. Let's take the money from Europe,
02:05 but let's forget about freedom of the press. Let's take the money from Europe,
02:09 but let's forget about the diversity of culture. Let's take the money from Europe,
02:14 but let's forget about the autonomy of universities and academic freedom."
02:19 "Become a whole, Phoenix is a lesson in hope, a city of history."
02:24 "And everywhere in our democracies, these ideas thrive, pushed by the extremes,
02:30 and in particular the far-right. This bad wind in Europe is a reality.
02:35 So let's wake up!"
02:38 [Applause]
02:42 NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has urged members to reconsider limits
02:52 on sending certain weapons to Ukraine.
02:56 He told reporters in Bulgaria at the NATO Parliamentary Assembly
03:00 that Russia's attack on Ukraine violates international law
03:04 and that Ukraine has the right to defend itself.
03:08 I think the time has come to consider some of these restrictions.
03:13 Some allies have lifted restrictions, other allies have not.
03:19 My message is that I think we should now consider those restrictions,
03:23 because by having too many restrictions, we are tying one hand of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
03:31 on their back, because they are reducing their ability to defend themselves.
03:36 The issue of sending some military support to Ukraine as it battles the Russian invasion is controversial.
03:44 Some states are reluctant to provide Kiev with longer-range, more powerful arms
03:49 that could strike targets deep inside Russia, as they fear this could escalate tensions
03:54 and risk dragging Europe into a wider war.
03:58 Others say, however, that Ukraine needs all the firepower it can get
04:02 to fend off a larger, better-armed and resourced opponent.
04:07 Left-wing politician Zara Wagenknecht splintered off from the German Die Linke party last year
04:14 to form her own party.
04:16 The Zara Wagenknecht Alliance, Reason and Justice, BSW, vows to stop weapon deliveries into Ukraine
04:23 and could promise to split the AfD vote, potentially winning certain seats in the EU election.
04:29 We stand for economic reason, social justice, peace and freedom of expression.
04:34 These are the four major issues we have formulated for the Federal Republic in our manifesto.
04:39 And that is what we want in Europe.
04:42 That is why we, as the Zara Wagenknecht Alliance, demand that the shares of politicians
04:47 must become public, dear friends.
04:50 Wagenknecht's strategy of promising higher taxes on large companies and wealthier people
04:55 seems to be working, as the newly formed party won its first victory in local Thuringia elections,
05:00 the very first election it's run in.
05:03 I don't know if we will vote for her, but many of the things that Zara Wagenknecht says are true.
05:10 Unfortunately.
05:12 And because politics has failed so miserably in the past years,
05:19 that is why there is this party, the AfD.
05:23 I am completely in her opinion and I am happy that there is finally an alternative to official politics,
05:30 which is very different from, for example, so-called high-profile nationalists.
05:38 She is very, very sensible, very smart, economically oriented.
05:43 BSW could become the top left-wing force in the EU Parliament, seeking to form a new bloc.
05:48 Yet this could spell trouble for Die Linke due to BSW's strict immigration policies
05:53 and could impede any merger efforts.
05:56 The Zara Wagenknecht party marries socialist economic policies
06:00 with conservative attitudes towards immigration.
06:02 But will this be enough to steer the voters away from populist authoritarian parties in the EU elections next month?
06:09 Liv Stroud in Hamburg for Euronews.
06:12 The Thuringian local elections on Sunday did not see the right-wing AfD party achieve the expected landslide victory.
06:23 The Christian Democratic Union won the elections with preliminary results of 27.6%,
06:29 with the AfD in third with 26.4%.
06:33 But it's not over yet. The party could become the strongest force at the run-off elections.
06:38 The Thuringian AfD has been classified as right-wing extremist by authorities and is currently under observation.
06:46 Dairy farmers have gathered in Brussels to call for a fair income.
06:54 They first and foremost want an EU-wide regulation to prohibit selling milk at prices that do not cover the production costs.
07:01 As Karsten Poulsen from the European Milk Board explains,
07:06 a litre of milk is sold on average at around 40 cents in Europe, while production costs around 50 cents.
07:13 We have been looking at the Spanish law that they have done in the UTP,
07:20 where it's forbidden to sell products below cost of production in all parts of the chain.
07:27 So from farmer to, if it's milk we're talking about, from farmer or milk producer to the dairy, from dairy to retail.
07:35 In some countries like Italy, the gap between production costs and selling price is even bigger.
07:43 The average need of an Italian company is around 60-65 cents per litre.
07:52 At the moment, on average, Italian producers make 50 cents.
07:56 We still have a 15-cent scissor.
07:59 Dairy farmers also ask to be more involved in the drafting of the Green Deals measures for the agricultural sector.
08:09 The demonstration started in Brussels to reach the Berlin Palace, the headquarters of the European Commission.
08:16 The dairy farmers have already had talks with the European Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski,
08:22 and now they want to put pressure on the institutions in view of the vote of the European elections.
08:28 Armenia's Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has met with angry residents
08:35 involved in a controversial demarcation process that will see Azerbaijan take control of their village.
08:41 Kirants is one of four border villages ceded to Baku earlier this month as part of a normalization process
08:48 after 100,000 ethnic Armenians fled from the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh last year.
08:54 There have been mass protests demanding Pashinyan step down,
08:58 accusing him of unilaterally giving away territory without any guarantees in return.
09:04 Hospitals are treating hundreds of victims of heatstroke across Pakistan as the country suffers an ongoing heatwave.
09:12 Temperatures soared above 50 degrees Celsius in some areas on Monday, leading many to cool off by bathing in rivers.
09:21 Volunteer-led relief camps have also popped up across the region, providing residents with iced water and a place to rest.
09:31 The heatwave is forecast to continue for at least a few more days.
09:36 I'm in Slovakia, a country where disinformation is rampant, especially during elections.
09:51 The rise of artificial intelligence, media bashing and foreign influence make this threat even more pervasive.
09:57 It's very cheap to influence big masses, especially now in society where a lot of people consume information from various social media platforms.
10:06 Many Slovaks are fighting back and offer a glimpse of what the information war could look like as Europeans head to the polls.
10:13 Watch their story in a new episode of Witness.
10:16 [Applause]
10:39 The effect of disinformation running utterly unchallenged for the last 15 years has been devastating on social cohesion in Slovakia.
10:48 Trending is obviously the Western influence, like that they are through CIA and non-government organizations in Slovakia,
11:07 that they are somehow connected and they are influencing what is happening in the country.
11:12 One has to do with the electoral process. So the electoral process is unfair, ballots are tampered with, people that shouldn't vote are given the right to vote.
11:30 Then there is, for example, the issue of climate.
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