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00:00The Israeli military says it has killed a senior Hezbollah commander in a strike on
00:05Beirut on Monday night.
00:12Florida braces itself as Hurricane Milton turned into a Category 5 storm.
00:21The European Space Agency launched a mission to survey the asteroid NASA purposely crashed
00:27into two years ago.
00:35The Israeli military said it has killed Suheil Hosseini, the commander of Hezbollah's headquarters
00:41in an attack on Beirut on Monday night.
00:44It said Hosseini was responsible for transferring weapons from Iran and distributing the arms
00:49to Hezbollah's various units.
00:51Further strikes were also reported in Beirut and across eastern and southern Lebanon on
00:56Tuesday morning.
00:58Israel also said it would soon launch operations on Lebanon's southern coast, telling residents
01:03to stay off the beaches and the sea along the Mediterranean.
01:08Meanwhile, at least 21 people, including five children and two women, were killed in strikes
01:14that hit houses in the Burej refugee camp in central Gaza, according to al-Aqsa hospital
01:20where the bodies were taken.
01:23The hospital also received about a dozen injured, including several children.
01:29Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to continue fighting the country's enemies
01:34during a government memorial service marking the 7 October Hamas attacks.
01:50The latest strikes add to the mounting Palestinian death toll in Gaza, which is now nearing 42,000,
01:56according to Gaza's health ministry.
02:02One year after the October 7 attack, which resulted in 1,200 people killed and 251 taken
02:09hostage, Israel's army chief has said that it has defeated the military wing of Hamas
02:14and continued to combat its terrorist capabilities.
02:18However, this claim about the Palestinian movement is not shared by analysts Euronews spoke to.
02:25So if, say, for example, we think it's lost 6,000 fighters, it also seems to be recruiting or I
02:31should say mobilizing about 6,000 members of its reserves who are certainly not as well trained
02:37as the initial batch, but probably still able to hold a gun and fire rocket launchers at Israeli
02:43tanks. I think we can safely say that Hamas has been working to restore some of its damaged tunnels.
02:52A recent major blow to Hamas was the assassination of exiled political leader Ismail Haniyeh
02:57on July 31 while he was visiting Iran. Hamas then chose Yahya Sinwar,
03:03who masterminded the October 7 attacks, as his successor.
03:07Decisions are taken by consensus in the Shura Council. Of course, Yahya Sinwar would have a
03:12strong voice because of what happened on October 7 and the way he is regarded within Hamas and
03:18maybe outside Hamas as a strong leader and because he has Israeli hostages that gives him a strong card.
03:26Sinwar is seen as a hardliner. The US and the EU consider Hamas a terrorist group,
03:32but the movement remains crucial to negotiating a ceasefire.
03:36Some Western countries could play a bigger mediating role, our analyst suggests.
03:43Countries like Norway, Switzerland can have talks with Hamas because they do not give them the political label of a terrorist organization.
03:52It's a political decision. And so the absence of channels, direct channels, is a problem
03:59because Hamas is, of course, a movement that fights the military occupation with violence.
04:07For a political solution of the conflict, the Palestinian Authority remains the main
04:12interlocutor. But even if Hamas is unlikely to govern Gaza as it has done since 2007,
04:18analysts suggest it will still need to be included somehow.
04:22Let's be clear. Hamas is going nowhere, even having suffered as it has. It will always be able
04:31to, at the very least, oppose any outside intervention in Gaza, whether that is an
04:37Israeli intervention, as it is doing at the moment, or whether that is the intervention
04:41of the Palestinian Authority in the future or an international force.
04:47According to sources close to him, new Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has no regrets
04:52over the October 7 attacks and wants to create a Palestinian state by armed struggle.
05:01Opposition supporters in Albania violently clashed with police during a protest,
05:08demanding their government be replaced by a caretaker cabinet before next year's
05:12parliamentary election. The conservative opposition have in the past accused Albanian
05:18Prime Minister Edi Rama's socialists of corruption, voter manipulation and usurping
05:23powers of the country's judiciary. They have staged sometimes violent protests against
05:29the government since 2013. After a colleague was convicted of slander and imprisoned in a
05:36case they consider politically motivated, the Democratic Party of former Prime Minister
05:41Salih Barisha has been holding protests outside the Albanian parliament for the last week.
05:47Both the US and European Union have urged opposition to resume dialogue with the
05:52government, saying that violence won't help the country integrate with the 27-nation EU bloc.
05:59Later this month, Tirana will start discussion with the EU on how the country aligns with the
06:04bloc's stances on rule of law, democratic institutions and the fight against corruption.
06:18Cocoa is one of the key products affected by European regulations to combat deforestation
06:24worldwide. With its famous chocolate, Belgium is a key player in the cocoa industry,
06:32which is why Follers, a company based in the port of Antwerp, welcomes the European
06:36Commission's proposal to postpone implementation of the legislation by one year.
06:47For us it is important to know what kind of combinations there will be,
06:52how parcels will be entering into Europe and what the certification platform will be.
06:59Where can we find the information? Who will give us the information? Certainly as a warehouse
07:05keeper that is important. On which document do we need to set the information? Are we going to put
07:11it on the customs clearances, yes or no? So that was quite important. According to the regulation,
07:18cocoa imports will require proof of the origin of the beans,
07:22introducing a number of additional administrative tasks. The Commission is suggesting that a further
07:2712 months be given to clarify these procedures, at the risk of delaying efforts to preserve the
07:32forests. The aim of the regulation is to provide a framework for the entry into the EU market of
07:39products that contribute to the deforestation and forest degradation on a global scale.
07:44The text mainly targets cocoa, coffee, soy, palm oil and timber.
07:53For environmental NGOs the proposed delay is a mistake.
08:02The EU is a significant driver of deforestation worldwide. We say that the EU is the second
08:09biggest importer of deforestation in the world, only after China, which has a much bigger
08:16population. Now that doesn't mean that the EU is going overseas and cutting down forests.
08:21What it means is that a lot of the products that we import and consume in the European Union
08:26are produced at the cost of forests worldwide, both inside Europe and outside Europe.
08:33Regulation can make a real difference here, say the NGOs.
08:37After all, the EU is said to be responsible for the deforestation of more than 284,000
08:43hectares a year, an area almost the size of Luxembourg.
08:55Florida braces itself as Hurricane Milton turned into a Category 5 storm as it approaches the Tampa
09:00Bay region. It comes less than two weeks after the catastrophic Hurricane Helene hit the area,
09:07killing more than 230 people. We came out here today. We got hit with the last storm.
09:14We got flooded. So it's all about prepping this time. So we're getting the sandbags ready
09:20to put around the house to prevent what happened last week.
09:24For a second time in just a few weeks, residents have been ordered to evacuate.
09:29Please listen to evacuation orders. Please listen to your local officials,
09:37because I know a lot of folks out there have survived these hurricanes before.
09:42This one is going to be very, very serious.
09:46The storm surge could rise between 2.4 and 3.6 meters,
09:50the highest predicted in the region, and almost double the levels reached during Storm Helene.
09:55The European Space Agency's latest mission, HERA, could tell us how to prevent an asteroid
10:01from colliding with Earth. The spacecraft is on its way to survey the harmless asteroid that NASA
10:08purposely crashed into two years ago. With HERA, we're actually setting up
10:15a life insurance for planet Earth, right? We are not only demonstrating we can deflect
10:22an asteroid, but we're also validating this technique so that we can use it for other asteroids.
10:30The four-year-long project drew together 18 countries in Europe and 17 companies across
10:36the continent. It's the first planetary defense mission,
10:41but it's also so far the fastest planetary mission that has been done in Europe.
10:46So it shows also that things can be done on a quick pass, which is especially necessary if
10:53we will have to deflect an asteroid one day. As well as inspecting the DART crash site for
10:58the first time, HERA will gather information on how asteroids like Dimorphos are formed.
11:04We are tackling a problem, a natural hazard that we can not only detect, but we can also prevent.
11:12And I think we're sending a very strong signal to humanity dealing with a hazard
11:19that could be extremely remote. But if it happens, the consequences are absolutely global.
11:24Overcoming obstacles like the weather and the recent grounding of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket,
11:29HERA will now embark on its 195-million-kilometer journey
11:34on a mission that could one day see Earth overcome the possibility of extinction.
11:39David Walsh, Euronews, Cape Canaveral