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00:00Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he would ignore the arrest warrant issued
00:05by the ICC for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:11Germany's defense minister says he won't run for chancellor in February's snap elections
00:16and supports Olaf Scholz's re-election bid.
00:21German automaker Volkswagen Workers' Union threatens new strike action after negotiations
00:27break down.
00:35Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he would ignore the arrest warrant issued
00:39by the International Criminal Court for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:47Orban added that he would extend an invitation to Netanyahu to travel to Budapest and that
00:52the court's verdict would not have an effect in Hungary.
01:19Netanyahu condemned the court's decision to issue warrants against him and his former
01:24defense secretary, Yoav Galand, and called the verdict anti-Semitic.
01:40An arrest warrant was also issued to Hamas leader Mohamed Daif.
01:44U.S. President Joe Biden said that there was no equivalent between Israel and Hamas and
01:49condemned the court for comparing the Israeli politicians with Daif.
01:55The U.S. and Israel are not members of the ICC, but the 27 member states of the European
02:01Union are required to detain those with an arrest warrant if they set foot on their soil.
02:08The court has no way of enforcing this, but the EU's top diplomat, Giuseppe Borrell, said
02:13the court's decision should be respected and implemented.
02:20Several member states, such as Italy, Ireland, the Netherlands, France and Sweden, signaled
02:26that they would respect the court's decision.
02:34This is probably the only meal Yasmin will be cooking for her family all day.
02:40She lives in a tent with her husband and four daughters in a camp in central Gaza.
02:45They have been displaced five times already.
03:10These days, a bag of bread costs over $13 and meat has all but vanished from supermarket
03:16shelves.
03:17The UN has warned of a stark increase in the number of households experiencing severe hunger
03:23in central and southern Gaza.
03:27This appears to be linked to the robbery of nearly 100 aid trucks last weekend, which
03:32Israel blames on Hamas.
03:40I am ashamed to say this in front of a million Muslims watching us.
03:48We are in war, people are suffering, children are not going to school, there is a lot of
03:59suffering.
04:00What can I say?
04:01If someone has 25 people, maybe he can't afford a bag of flour.
04:05On Thursday, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against Israeli Prime
04:09Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister, accusing them of using quote
04:15starvation as a method of warfare.
04:19Israel adamantly denies all charges.
04:28Russia's President Vladimir Putin has blamed the aggressive actions of NATO countries for
04:33Moscow testing a new intermediate-range missile in a strike on Ukraine.
04:38Putin said Russia was conducting combat tests of the new Oreshnik missile system after Ukrainian
04:44strikes earlier this week using U.S. and British weaponry.
05:10In his nightly video address Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Russia's use of
05:15the Oreshnik, saying Putin was using Ukraine as a training ground.
05:40Earlier this week, U.S. President Joe Biden gave Ukraine authorization to use U.S.-supplied
05:45longer-range missiles to strike military targets deeper inside Russia.
05:51According to the Kremlin, Ukraine fired several ATAKMs into Russia on Tuesday.
05:56And a day after that, Ukraine used up to 12 British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles
06:00for strikes into Russia's Kursk region.
06:04U.S. officials have said the change in the Biden administration policy was a response
06:08to Russia using thousands of troops from North Korea to support Moscow's forces in
06:13the conflict.
06:21Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has said he won't run for Chancellor in February's
06:25snap elections.
06:27In a video posted to SDP social media channels, Pistorius said he's not available and would
06:33instead support Olaf Scholz's re-election bid.
06:37Pistorius, currently polling as Germany's most popular politician, said his decision
06:41not to run against Scholz was sovereign and entirely personal.
06:46Scholz called a snap election after the collapse of the coalition in early November.
06:50That came after Scholz fired the then-Finance Minister Christian Lindner.
06:55Scholz told the press at the time that Lindner had broken his trust too many times.
07:00As per German election rules, the Bundestag will hold a government confidence vote on
07:04December 16th before voters head to the polls on February 23rd.
07:09The traffic light coalition has governed Germany since 2021 and its collapse meant Scholz's
07:14government no longer had a majority in parliament.
07:17The SDP confirmed on Thursday that they would nominate Scholz as their lead candidate for
07:22Chancellor next week.
07:24But according to current opinion polls, support for the Social Democratic Party is low.
07:29A tally published on Thursday by political research group Infratest-D-Map shows the
07:34CDU-CSU polling at 33%, with the SPD trailing behind at 14%, level with the Greens.
07:43A labor union at German carmaker Volkswagen has threatened to go on strike next month
07:51after negotiations with management over proposed drastic cost-cutting measures collapsed.
07:57The parties held their third round of talks on Thursday at the firm's headquarters in
08:02Wolfsburg.
08:03The union proposed creating a fund worth roughly 1.5 billion euros by declining part of wages
08:10for two years.
08:11That this will be in a scope that will make it very, very clear to the company that we
08:16as IG Metall and the employees of Volkswagen take it seriously.
08:20Around 7,000 workers demonstrated at the venue of the meeting to press their demands.
08:26The carmaker has been struggling financially amid a drop in demand in Europe and intensifying
08:32competition with Chinese electric vehicle makers.
08:36Any domestic closures will be the first in Volkswagen's 87-year history.
08:50After some delay due to power games, the three largest political groups in the European Parliament
08:54gave the green light to the new Fonder-Lehen College of Commissioners.
08:58At the end, the Socialists accepted the Italian right-wing Raffaele Fitto to become executive
09:04vice president, while the EPP renounced to demand the downfall of the Spanish Socialist
09:09Teresa Ribera.
09:11Both will get big economic portfolios.
09:14Also, Hungarian Oliver Varhely from the far-right Patriots group survived, but he lost some
09:20powers over women's health controversy.
09:23His portfolio could be limited.
09:25Now, the hard work lies ahead for the new Commission, which faces many challenges.
09:31I would say there are two kinds of challenges for the Commission.
09:34The first kind is the priorities of the Commission, implementation of the Green Deal, going forward
09:41on defence industry, also agriculture.
09:45The Commission promised a new strategy or a new vision for agriculture in the 100 days.
09:50Also the pre-enlargement reviews of all the policies, of all the EU policies.
09:56But the second kind of challenges are the external challenges, like the election of
10:01Donald Trump, the situation in Ukraine, and also what we saw recently, the migration situation
10:07and the political consequences of it.
10:09So the Commission will have to balance what it has in priorities, but also how these priorities
10:16could be modified or disrupted by the global context, the current situation.
10:24These challenges will be addressed by Vice Presidents and Commissioners.
10:27The former Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kalas will be the new High Representative of Foreign
10:31Affairs and Security Policy, and Lithuanian Andrius Kubulis will be the Commissioner for
10:36Defence and Space.
10:40For issues that could come up, especially with the election of Donald Trump, the Slovakian
10:44Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security, Maros Sevcovic, will be the one to take action.
10:50For migration issues, the Austrian Commissioner, Magnus Brunel, will be responsible.
10:57At the same time, the new EU Commission may need to address some of the problems of the
11:01European citizens, which have become political.
11:04There will be two portfolios to watch.
11:08The first one on energy and housing, and the political consequences of the housing crisis,
11:14and that will be the Danish Commissioner Jørgensen, and also the question of skills, meaning education,
11:20training and labour conditions, with the Romanian Executive Vice President of the Commission,
11:25Roxana Minzatu.
11:27The official vote of the plenary is expected next week in Strasbourg, which would allow
11:31the new Commission to start working on the 1st of December.
11:36So far, no other surprises are expected.