00:00 Ukraine's President Zelensky has welcomed the EU's decision to lift the temporary ban on Ukrainian grain,
00:06 after Kiev agreed to tighten control over its agricultural exports.
00:11 That's despite resistance from some member states, who say food coming from Ukraine causes a glut in their home markets and hurts their farmers.
00:18 Restrictions on our agricultural sector from the EU are being lifted.
00:24 It's important for the EU to work on a bilateral level with its neighbours,
00:30 so that they support Ukraine during the war.
00:34 Europe always wins when agreements are made and promises are kept.
00:40 If the neighbours' decisions are not made by the neighbours, Ukraine will be civilised in responding.
00:46 In response to the decision, the governments of Poland, Hungary and Slovakia announced they will extend their own ban on Ukrainian grain.
00:53 Brussels has urged member states to work along the lines of the new agreement.
00:57 The White House has announced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Joe Biden there on Thursday,
01:07 with the US President expected to reaffirm his commitment to Ukraine.
01:12 Zelensky will travel to Washington for the second time since the invasion,
01:16 after meeting world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
01:20 We are always preparing a new military package for Ukraine.
01:23 As you know, we do these presidential drawdown packages essentially every couple of weeks.
01:28 I think you can anticipate that there will be a further announcement of additional resources and capabilities,
01:34 additional weapons to go to Ukraine as they continue this counter-offensive, and to defend against Russian attacks.
01:39 In Ukraine, 32,000 Hasidic Jewish pilgrims from around the world visited Uman.
01:48 They were marking the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah by visiting the final resting place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov,
01:55 the founder of Breslov Hasidism.
01:58 Duna is a city in ruins, with 11,300 of its people confirmed killed, and a further 10,100 missing, presumed dead.
02:16 Survivors of the flood in this city in eastern Libya feel abandoned in a country that survived years of civil war.
02:23 Storm Daniel brought heavy rain to Libya last weekend,
02:35 but it was the collapse of two dams built in the 1970s above Duna that triggered the catastrophe.
02:41 Engineers blame years of neglect.
02:45 During these 45 years, we should have about 10 dams behind the second one to help.
02:52 To the west of Libya, in its capital Tripoli, aid is beginning to arrive for those left homeless.
02:59 A Libyan army spokesman said as many as 1.2 million people could be affected.
03:10 Members of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard were reportedly patrolling the streets on Friday,
03:16 ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Masah Amini.
03:20 The young Kurdish woman died following her arrest by the country's morality police
03:24 for allegedly failing to wear her veil correctly, sparking months of fierce and deadly protests.
03:30 The unrest represented one of the largest challenges to Iran's theocracy since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
03:40 Climate change protesters took to the streets of Vienna on Friday
03:44 with calls for higher carbon emission taxes and an end to meat-eating.
03:48 Organisers say there were 20,000 on the march,
03:51 which ended with a sit-down protest outside parliament.
03:55 In Rome, there were just four climate activists gathered in front of the Colosseum,
04:02 but no less motivated.
04:04 We want to ask the Italian government and international leaders to stop all new investments in fossil fuels,
04:10 which are the main cause of climate change that the whole world is suffering from.
04:14 This summer, Italy was divided in two, between devastating fires and terrible floods.
04:18 In The Hague, water cannons were turned on an Extinction Rebellion road blockade.
04:25 The protests were held in the city of Tuscany,
04:28 where the protests were held in the city of Tuscany,
04:34 A weekend of climate change action is planned around the world,
04:37 including a fossil fuel protest outside the UN in New York on Sunday.
04:42 (whooshing)
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