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00:00 Talks between Israel and Hamas have resumed in Cairo as the international community worries
00:06 about a ground offensive in Rafa.
00:10 Germany`s interior minister steps up the battle against far-right extremism in the country,
00:15 targeting groups finances and laying out plans for an early recognition unit.
00:25 Plans for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas have resumed in Cairo and they are said to
00:30 be making progress.
00:33 Israel is facing strong international pressure as a recent raid killed at least 74 Palestinians,
00:39 according to local officials.
00:43 While Israel`s military maintains its focus on Rafa, it said its troops are recovering
00:48 daily weapons, grenades and combat documents belonging to Hamas militants.
00:55 Speaking in New York, UN`s secretary general is predicting devastating consequences.
01:02 My sincere hope is that the negotiations for the release of hostages and some form of cessation
01:14 of hostilities to be successful, to avoid a all out offensive over Rafa, where the core
01:29 of the humanitarian system is located, and that would have devastating consequences.
01:43 More footage from Israeli military shows underground tunnels used by a Hamas leader.
01:50 Images of an equipped refuge with food and weapons are shown along with a safe full of
01:55 money.
01:58 While Israel admits Palestinian civilians are trying to survive in appalling conditions,
02:03 it blames Hamas of profiting from the war in Gaza.
02:07 A refuge camp in central Gaza was reportedly bombed and reduced to rubble.
02:15 The Kremlin has put Estonian Prime Minister Kayah Kalas on its wanted list as tensions
02:21 between Russia and the West soar.
02:24 Kalas is a staunch supporter of Ukraine and has consistently called for more military
02:29 support for Kyiv and tougher sanctions against Russia.
02:32 The Interior Ministry did not initially specify the charges against her, but a spokesperson
02:37 said they related to the desecration of historical memory.
02:40 These are people who are responsible for decisions that are actually a curse on historical memory.
02:51 These are people who are hostile to historical memory and our country.
03:01 And State Secretary Taimar Petrko and Lithuanian Culture Minister Simon Askaeris have also
03:06 been added to the list.
03:08 Both Baltic countries have toppled Soviet monuments since Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
03:17 Germany's top security official is preparing to step up the battle against right-wing extremism.
03:24 It comes in the wake of an article published in January which accused extremists of meeting
03:28 to discuss deporting millions of immigrants, including some with German citizenship.
03:35 Some members of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, whose support has doubled
03:40 since the country's 2021 election, were said to have taken part.
03:44 Germany's Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said she aims to make it easier to trace right-wing
03:50 extremists' financing and plans to set up an "Early Recognition Unit" to detect far-right
03:56 and foreign disinformation campaigns as early as possible.
04:01 We want to destroy these right-wing extremist networks.
04:05 We want to take away their income.
04:08 We want to take their weapons away.
04:10 In short, we want to use all the instruments of the rule of law to protect our democracy.
04:17 The number of far-right extremists in Germany has been rising.
04:21 In 2022, their numbers grew to 38,000 people, with over half of them considered potentially
04:27 violent.
04:28 Politically motivated crime has increased significantly in Germany in the last few years.
04:35 Within ten years, it has more than doubled.
04:38 As a result of January's article, many anti-far-right protests were held across Germany for several
04:43 weeks.
04:44 Many under the slogan "We are the firewall", a reference to the long-standing taboo against
04:50 collaborating with the far-right in German politics.
04:55 It's been seven days and counting as Spanish farmers continue their nationwide protests
05:01 with tractors and roadblocks against the EU's sustainability policies.
05:06 They are also demanding support in the face of the effects of drought and rising production
05:11 costs.
05:12 For the past three years, the country has been in the grips of a severe drought, which
05:15 has depleted water stores, impacting the majority of farmlands.
05:38 On Monday, Moldovan farmers blocked the main gateway road to Romania.
05:42 The Farmers' Force Association is protesting against diesel fuel donations from Romania
05:48 and insufficient government subsidies.
05:51 They say farmers need help to alleviate the losses suffered in the last two years, and
05:56 an injection of government cash is needed or there will be no spring sowing of crops.
06:02 Meanwhile, in Poland, farmers spilled Ukrainian grain on the road as part of their latest
06:08 protest.
06:09 The area has been hit hard by the introduction of so-called "solidarity corridors" to facilitate
06:14 food exports from Ukraine after Russia invaded the country.
06:18 Instead of transiting further, much of the Ukrainian produce is stuck on the national
06:23 market, causing a decline in the demand and prices for local Polish production.
06:32 The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives narrowly voted by 214 to 213 to impeach Homeland
06:42 Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
06:45 It's the first in 150 years against a cabinet member.
06:49 He's accused of not enforcing US immigration laws, which Republicans argue led to a record
06:55 flow of migrants across the US-Mexico border.
06:59 Biden says it's a political stunt.
07:01 The issue now heads to the Democratic-led Senate.
07:09 The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog warned on Tuesday that Iran is not being "entirely
07:15 transparent" regarding its atomic program.
07:20 The warning comes after the announcement by a former head of Tehran's program that the
07:24 country has "in its mands all the parts needed to make a weapon."
07:32 If Iran wants to have a nuclear power program, as they have, they can, and rightly so, no
07:37 problem with that.
07:39 But they have to have a system of inspections which is commensurate with what they are doing.
07:46 And they keep not giving the answers and the cooperation that they should be extending
07:52 to the agency.
07:53 Since the failure of the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Iran has continued to enrich
07:58 uranium.
07:59 It has accumulated enough to build several weapons, but the US said that hasn't happened
08:04 yet.
08:10 Can the EU guarantee its own defense and security?
08:14 That is just one of the harsh realities the bloc may face following former US President
08:19 Donald Trump's comments on NATO.
08:22 The Republican front-runner warned the US would not defend NATO countries that don't
08:27 meet the alliance's spending targets.
08:32 Some experts claim the EU depends on the US for its security, even more so with the war
08:38 in Ukraine.
08:39 "On specific areas I would put strategic enablers, for instance, or these strategic capabilities
08:46 that are very much needed at EU level, such as strategic transport capabilities, satellite
08:53 capabilities, maritime and air awareness, then at the same time joint logistics."
09:04 But military expenditure by EU member states is significant.
09:07 It was 240 billion euros in 2022, almost the same as China and more than double Russia.
09:14 One issue is cohesiveness.
09:17 According to the European Defense Agency, EU states only spend 20% of their procurement
09:22 budgets on collective defense equipment.
09:24 How this money is spent is crucial, with a dilemma between short and long-term needs.
09:30 "On short-term needs, of course, we need to replenish ammunition and capabilities and
09:37 to urgently buy new capabilities.
09:39 But at the same time, we need to also look on the long term, which is developing these
09:43 European capabilities that we hear about in the press and in decisions."
09:49 Building an EU army through a defense union, as some have suggested, seems impossible at
09:54 this stage.
09:55 But there is scope for enhanced interoperability, procurement and delivery of weapons at European
10:01 level.
10:02 Some steps have already been taken, like a law to finance EU budget ammunition production
10:07 called ASAP, or the creation of a rapid deployment capacity of up to 5,000 soldiers for peace
10:12 keeping missions across the world.
10:15 However, other measures are urgently required.
10:18 "When you have a war of aggression in Europe against Ukraine, when you have hybrid war
10:26 by Russia against EU member states, this is the moment not to wage a war, but to deter
10:36 the risk of an aggression against one of us.
10:39 So if not now, I don't know when the European defense will really start to be seriously
10:48 taken into consideration."
10:51 One suggestion, supported by French government, is an EU bond to finance military expenditure.
11:06 Researchers from Kiel University in Germany have discovered a wall in the Baltic Sea that
11:11 is believed to be around 11,000 years old.
11:15 It is an important coastal discovery and is thought to teach us more about how people
11:20 lived in the last ice age.
11:23 Researchers at the university assume that hunters built the wall, which is around 1
11:28 meter high and almost 1 kilometer long, to corner reindeer near a lake and then hunt
11:32 them down.