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00:00A day before the Israeli prime minister addresses the U.N. General Assembly, his office dashed
00:06hopes of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
00:11U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris slammed suggestions that Kiev should cede territory
00:16to Russia to strike a peace deal.
00:20Push them on and come in lost their appeal to be acknowledged as MEPs in the European
00:25Parliament by a definitive decision of the European Court of Justice.
00:31At the U.N. General Assembly, North Macedonia's president says the country's slow progress
00:36to EU accession is like waiting for Godot.
00:45Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office dashed hopes of a ceasefire between
00:50Israel and Hezbollah after European and U.S.-led calls for an immediate truce at the United
00:55Nations General Assembly.
00:58In a statement, Netanyahu's office said the prime minister did not even respond and that
01:03the Israeli military had been instructed to continue fighting with full force.
01:09Netanyahu is set to address the U.N.'s General Assembly on Friday, where he will seek to
01:14persuade a world growing increasingly exasperated by Israel's war in Gaza that its aims are
01:20righteous.
01:23Israel's foreign minister also said there will be no ceasefire, vowing to continue the
01:27fighting and returning evacuated Israeli citizens to their homes.
01:33The war in Gaza is about to hit the one-year mark, with Israel on the cusp of a wider regional
01:39war with Hezbollah.
01:47A night of intense Russian shelling hit several cities in Ukraine on Wednesday.
01:52At least eight people were wounded in an overnight attack on Zaporizhia, including a 14-year-old
01:57boy, regional head Ivan Fedorov said Thursday morning.
02:02Ukraine's emergency service says 12 residential buildings were damaged in the city and 18
02:06people were evacuated.
02:09Videos show heavily damaged houses, windows blown out and walls pierced with shrapnel.
02:17A separate drone attack on Ivano-Frankivsk damaged the city's power grid.
02:23Four central streets of the city and some of the adjacent ones are without power.
02:28Some of the city's educational institutions will have power outages for at least a day
02:32and trolleybuses have also stopped running on some routes.
02:38Ukraine's air defences also battled drones and missiles over Ukraine's capital, Kiev,
02:43for over five hours.
02:45In total, Russia launched six missiles and 78 drones at Ukraine overnight from Wednesday
02:50to Thursday, Ukraine's air force said.
02:53It said defences destroyed four of the missiles and 66 drones in the air.
03:02Renewable energy sources are under particular threat as part of growing hybrid warfare.
03:07Some of the technology is relatively new, so it's more vulnerable.
03:10And according to NATO officials, renewable energy is targeted as it represents a shift
03:15away from often Russian fossil fuels.
03:18Jönköping Energy in Sweden provides 40% of all energy to the region through renewable
03:23energy, hydro, wind and solar power for 186,000 people.
03:28It's working alongside NATO under the Nordic Pine exercise, helping participating nations
03:34prevent and react to cyber and other hybrid attacks.
04:02Cyber attacks from ransomware and also disinformation from either state and non-state groups is
04:07increasingly common as a means of doing harm to one's enemy without direct violence on
04:12the battlefield.
04:15Cyber attacks by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine ten years ago were a major wake-up
04:19call to the renewable energy sector.
04:21NATO and its partners now very much focus on the threat of hybrid warfare and the impact
04:26this has on society.
04:28Ransomware is a business.
04:29The other thing is, you know, the dependency of electricity everywhere.
04:34We can't be without it.
04:36So in that case, you can disturb a society very much by disturbing the electricity.
04:42And I think if you disturb the society, you will make people scary as well.
04:48What is going on?
04:49When will we get the electricity back again, et cetera?
04:52So I think it's a very, very good way to create a mess if you would like to.
04:58The NATO-led Nordic Pine exercise is for the private and public sector, including research
05:02institutes.
05:03It concludes that the challenge of hybrid war, in particular cyber attacks, is best
05:08met with prevention and preparedness.
05:10And key to that, they say, is constant communication between governments, the private sector, the
05:15general public and the military command.
05:18Shona Murray, Euronews, Jönköping, Sweden.
05:25The European Court of Justice dismisses the appeal of Catalan pro-independence politicians
05:30Carles Puigdemont and Tony Comyn to be considered MEPs, which was filed in 2019.
05:38The Court of Justice believes that the lower general court of the EU acted correctly in
05:43considering that the president of the parliament should follow the official list of MEPs that
05:48came from the document sent by the member state.
05:52In 2019, Puigdemont and Comyn won a seat in the European elections.
05:57But having fled to Belgium in 2017 after the Catalan independence referendum, they were
06:02unable to abide by the Spanish constitution, a key step in order to appear in the document
06:08sent to the European Parliament.
06:12The result that appeared in the Spanish electoral body is seen valid, but the European Parliament
06:17considered that the official list was only the one sent to them by Spain.
06:24The decision is particularly relevant for Comyn, who ran in the last elections for the
06:29European Parliament and won, but he has so far been unable to take his seat and it looks
06:34like he will remain so after the ruling.
06:41The Portuguese government has said it will deploy its EU cohesion funds for a speedy
06:46reconstruction of parts of the country devastated by wildfires.
06:50Authorities say work has now started to assess the extent of the damage in the north and
06:54center of Portugal.
06:56The decision comes after a meeting between Prime Minister Luiz Montenegro and the EU
07:01Commission.
07:02This dialogue with the President of the European Commission resulted in the Commission's decision
07:09to allow Portugal to access 500 million euros from the cohesion funds that are destined
07:21for us for the next few years and to be able to cover the damage it has suffered, with
07:29a share rate that can be exceptionally high, even 100%.
07:34According to the Portuguese Prime Minister, investigation was also ongoing to find the
07:39culprits setting fire to forests in certain instances.
07:43The investigation will seek to determine the motivation of the perpetrators and their sponsors.
08:04These workers are meeting at sunrise, not for a shift, but a protest.
08:26Volkswagen employees headed out of the town of the company headquarters, Wolfsburg, on
08:31their way to Hanover, where the business' leaders sat down with the union.
08:36But concerns of those in Wolfsburg are not just about their jobs, but the future of the
08:42town itself.
08:59Volkswagen is everywhere in this town of 120,000, from the arena to the tourism shop.
09:05There's even a museum about the car industry called the Auto City.
09:14The Volkswagen plant is industrial heart of the whole region.
09:19Historically the whole town is built around the Volkswagen plant and so everything kind
09:26of depends on this factory.
09:31Sixty thousand people living in Wolfsburg and nearby work for Volkswagen in the town.
09:37That means much of the local economy is dependent on its employees as customers.
09:43Even residents not working for the company feel its influence.
09:47The mayor told Euronews that Volkswagen led to an economic upturn and social stability
10:06for Wolfsburg, and that there is a strong emotional aspect, with most residents driving
10:12a Volkswagen car and many having relatives working for the company.
10:17That is something felt deeply by the employees.
10:39People in most European countries are dining out earlier compared to pre-pandemic times.
10:46New research by Mastercard shows customers have brought the clock forward by 10 minutes
10:51on average.
10:52The starkest changes were observed in Austria 18 minutes earlier, Portugal 16 and Ireland
11:0015.
11:02Previous studies showed that early dinners benefit digestion, reduce cardiovascular risks
11:08and improve blood glucose levels.
11:12But according to the research, that's not the only reason Europeans are having early
11:17dinners.
11:19One reason is that we are working more flexibly so we have more control over our schedules
11:24and we can decide when we want to go out to eat.
11:28And second reason is that perhaps consumers have become more health conscious.
11:32They prioritize sleep, they go to bed earlier, they sleep longer.
11:37COVID-19 hasn't only changed dining times.
11:41The findings also show that grocery shopping has shifted to earlier in the week.
11:48Consumers now tend to shop more on traditionally quieter days, such as Monday and Tuesday.