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00:00Germans are casting their votes in Saxony and Thuringia as the far right hope to become
00:08the strongest faction for the first time.
00:11The results of the two key state elections are expected to be a gauge for voting results
00:16next year.
00:17Polls suggest a tight race between the centre-right Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, and the
00:23far-right Alternative for Germany, or AFD.
00:27A party founded by a prominent leftist also hopes to shake things up as the national government
00:33sinks into unpopularity.
00:35Wins for the AFD could be a potential signal for the party just over a year before the
00:40next national election is due.
00:43But it would also likely need a coalition partner to govern and it's highly unlikely
00:48anyone else will agree to put it in power.
00:50The CDU hasn't ruled out working with the leftist populist party BSW, led by Sarah Wagenknecht,
00:57which also ran on cutting immigration and seeking peace in Ukraine.
01:07The bodies of six hostages were recovered by the Israeli military during an operation
01:12in the Gaza Strip, as protests calling for a ceasefire continue.
01:17All six of the hostages were killed just before Israeli forces could rescue them, according
01:22to an Israeli military spokesperson.
01:25The bodies were recovered from a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafa, around a kilometre
01:31from where another hostage was rescued alive last week.
01:36Their recovery sparked further protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
01:43Families of hostages, as well as much of the Israeli public, blame him for failing
01:48to strike a deal with Hamas to end the ongoing war and bring the hostages back alive.
01:55Netanyahu says the killings prove that Hamas does not want the ceasefire deal.
01:59Negotiations have dragged on for months.
02:05Voters in Azerbaijan are casting their ballots to elect members of the country's national
02:10legislative body.
02:1225 political parties are participating in these elections, with the winner governing
02:17the country for the next five years.
02:21This is the second time the people of Azerbaijan are voting in 2024.
02:26While they're now electing their parliament, seven months ago they voted in the presidential
02:31elections.
03:12The election comes amid regional challenges and ongoing geopolitical tensions, with international
03:24observers closely monitoring the electoral process to ensure it adheres to democratic
03:29standards.
03:31Two hundred international observers were invited to the country by the Azerbaijani government
03:37to check in on various aspects of the election process.
03:42Students in Greece will be required to keep their mobile phones in their school bags at
03:52all times during lessons when the new academic year starts in September.
03:56The new regulations were announced on Saturday by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
04:02The academic data on how the use of the mobile phone during the day at school affects the
04:10academic process is catastrophic, from the lack of attention to other important issues.
04:19It is clear that the mobile phone has no place at school at the time of the day.
04:27Under the new rules, pupils who don't comply will be excluded from school for one day.
04:33In the case of a repeat offence, teachers have the power to remove pupils from lessons
04:37for several days, and anyone filming their classmates or their teachers without permission
04:42could face expulsion from school.