PPN World News Headlines - 17 Aug 2024 - video Dailymotion

• Ukraine bombs Russian bridge • US approves Israel arms deal

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00:00President Biden says a ceasefire in Gaza is much closer than it's ever been, but that

00:19it's not there yet. Negotiators will meet again next week to try to finalize an agreement

00:25between Israel and Hamas for a ceasefire and also the release of hostages. It comes after

00:30the funeral of a 22-year-old Palestinian man, shot dead when Jewish settlers stormed his

00:36village last night. The attack took place in Djit, in the north of the occupied West

00:41Bank, and was condemned by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

00:54You can't fight a war without resources. And now, Israel will receive about $20 billion

01:01worth of resources from the United States. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed

01:06off on the massive arms sales, which includes 50 F-15 fighter jets, 320 air-to-air missile

01:14launchers and 33,000 tank shells.

01:25An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed at least nine people, including a woman and

01:32her child, according to the Lebanese health ministry. Five others were wounded, with two

01:36reportedly in a critical condition. Hezbollah and Israel have traded strikes since October

01:428, a day after the Hamas surprise attack into southern Israel, which sparked the ongoing

01:48Israel-Hamas war. Hezbollah says it will stop its attack on northern Israel once there is

01:54a ceasefire in Gaza. So far, the fighting has killed more than 500 people, including

01:59100 civilians in Lebanon.

02:11The road into the Russian border town of Suja, now under Ukrainian control. Public buildings

02:18are left pockmarked. This town in Kursk is just 10 kilometers from the border, and the

02:23biggest to fall to Ukraine's troops since its incursion started 10 days ago.

02:29It's about destroying the logistics of the Russian army and draining their reserves.

02:33We must inflict maximum damage on all Russian positions, and we're doing that.

02:39Amongst the damage, this key Russian bridge, blown up by a Ukrainian missile, cutting off

02:45Russian supply lines to parts of Kursk.

02:54The first case of a contagious and dangerous variant of mpox, also known as monkeypox,

03:03has been confirmed in Sweden, raising alarm across Europe. The incidence of mpox has surged

03:08on the African continent following an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in September

03:14last year. Sweden's Minister of Health and Social Affairs confirmed the case of a more

03:19grave type of mpox, known as clade 1. The director-general of the country's public health

03:24agency stated that the individual was infected while in a region of Africa.

03:39In Sudan, at least 80 people have been killed in an attack carried out by the paramilitary

03:44support forces, the RSF, on a village in Sinar State in central Sudan. A volunteer

03:50group said dozens of paramilitary vehicles stormed the village and stormed into homes

03:55and opened fire on residents. They had initially come on three army trucks and faced anger

04:01from villagers, after which they returned and carried out the attacks.

04:06Sudan has been ravaged by civil war since April of 2023, when fighting broke out between

04:12the army and the paramilitary rapid support forces, the RSF.