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00:00The U.S. Justice Department charges an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot to
00:06kill Donald Trump.
00:11The United Nations warns that famine is imminent in northern Gaza, where a major Israeli military
00:17offensive continues.
00:22At least 25 people are injured in a Russian airstrike on an apartment block in the northeastern
00:27city of Kharkiv.
00:31Berlin celebrates 35 years since the fall of the wall, a significant day not just for
00:37Germany.
00:38Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tukhanovskaya has traveled to Berlin to mark the occasion.
00:44For many Belarusian citizens, the fall of the wall has a very special meaning, she says.
00:49For Belarusians, you know, Berlin Wall has very important symbolic meaning because this
00:54is what Belarusians, to some extent, experience at the moment.
01:00People in Belarus live under the constant threat of repressions imposed by Belarusian
01:04ruler Alexander Lukashenko, but only they themselves can stop him, says Tukhanovskaya.
01:11I'm fully sure that the wall in Belarus will collapse, but of course it depends on us Belarusians,
01:17but also on the world solidarity.
01:22A Berlin Wall, it didn't collapse by itself, just, you know, suddenly.
01:26It like was a monotonous work of many, many people at that time.
01:31Remaining united and persistent for a free Belarus.
01:35At least 25 people have been injured in a Russian strike on the north-eastern Ukrainian
01:56city of Kharkiv.
01:58According to local officials, preliminary inspections show a guided aerial bomb hit
02:03a 12-story apartment building causing extensive damage.
02:07And in the neighboring region of Donetsk, at least four houses and 180 apartments were
02:12damaged in Russian strikes on the town of Mykolaivka.
02:16Local officials there said five of the apartments were damaged beyond repair and that work is
02:20underway to restore gas and electricity to undamaged homes.
02:25Meanwhile in Kiev, people have attended the funerals of a medic and a soldier who fell
02:29in love while on the front lines of the war and died together in a Russian shelling attack.
02:35Valentina Nahorna, whose call sign was Valkyria, volunteered as a medic at the start of the
02:40war.
02:41She and Daniel Lyashkevich, known as Berserk, reportedly got together just a few months
02:46ago.
02:52The US Justice Department has charged an Iranian man in connection with an alleged plot to
02:57kill Donald Trump.
02:59Farhad Shaqeri, an alleged Iranian government asset, told investigators that a contact in
03:04the Revolutionary Guard instructed him in September to assemble a plan to kill Trump.
03:09Shaqeri told investigators his contact said that if he couldn't put together a plan within
03:14a seven-day time frame, the plot would be paused until after the election because the
03:18official assumed Trump would lose.
03:21Shaqeri told investigators he was cooperating in a bid to get a reduced prison sentence
03:26for an associate who is in prison in America.
03:29The US government said Shaqeri hasn't been arrested and is believed to be in Iran.
03:34Iran's mission to the United Nations has declined to comment.
03:38And a spokesperson for Trump said the president-elect was aware of the plot and nothing will deter
03:42him from returning to the White House and restoring peace around the world.
03:52The Famine Review Committee has said there's a strong likelihood that famine is imminent
03:56in parts of northern Gaza where Israeli forces are conducting a major military offensive.
04:02The committee called the situation extremely grave and urged all actors in the war to take
04:07immediate action to avert a humanitarian disaster.
04:11The IDF launched a renewed offensive in the north in October, it said to prevent Hamas
04:15units from regrouping there.
04:18At the beginning of November, the Biden administration ramped up criticism of Israel for not doing
04:23enough to improve humanitarian conditions.
04:26Washington set in November the 13th deadline for Israeli officials to meet certain requirements
04:31or risk restrictions on military assistance.
04:35By the end of October, an average of just 71 trucks a day were entering Gaza according
04:39to the latest UN figures.
04:42The US said it wants to see 350 trucks per day enter the territory.