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00:00 Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei tacitly admits Iran hit little in strikes on Israel.
00:11 Zelensky welcomes US aid package, saying aid must reach the front line.
00:25 Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei tacitly acknowledged that Iran's drone and missile strike in Israel
00:31 didn't hit very much.
00:33 He dismissed the question at a meeting with the country's senior military, broadcast on
00:38 Iranian state TV.
00:40 Israeli media claimed that 99% of Iranian drones and missiles were shot down, with the
00:45 rest causing only minor damage.
00:47 "The fact that the opposition has brought up the issue of how many missiles were shot
00:57 and how many were not, these are issues that are second to none.
01:02 The first issue is the emergence of the power of the Iranian people and the Iranian military
01:10 forces in an important international arena."
01:13 Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles seeking to overwhelm Israel's defense systems
01:19 two weeks ago.
01:21 World's analysts have noted that both Iran and Israel did not press too much on the matter,
01:26 saying that this could be an attempt of the two countries trying to avoid regional escalation.
01:32 The head of Israel's military intelligence service, Arahon Haliva, has resigned over
01:41 failures linked to the deadly Hamas attack on the country on the 7th of October.
01:47 Major General Arahon Haliva is the first senior figure to step down over the surprise raid.
01:53 In his resignation letter, he said he would carry the black day with him forever.
01:59 Israeli defense forces were caught off guard on the 7th of October when Hamas militants
02:04 surged into Israel, killing some 1,200 people.
02:09 Experts say Haliva's resignation could pave the way for more of Israel's top security
02:14 to step down.
02:16 Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not acknowledged direct responsibility
02:21 for allowing the attack to unfold.
02:24 Despite growing protests in Tel Aviv for a re-election, he has also indicated that he
02:28 will not step down.
02:37 Zelensky welcomed an 89 billion euro aid package that passed through the House of Representatives.
02:43 The bulk will be allocated to Ukraine, with the rest going to countries like Israel and
02:48 Taiwan.
02:50 Voting in the U.S. Senate is expected on Tuesday.
02:53 Zelensky warned that the package should be passed soon in order to reach the front line.
02:58 "The time between political decisions and real damage to the enemy at the front, between
03:07 the approval of the package and the strength of our elbows, should be as short as possible.
03:13 And the strength of such a package can really change the situation at the front."
03:20 In Prague, residents staged a flash mob acting out the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
03:26 The volunteers promoted the so-called Estonian plan, urging Western countries to commit 0.25
03:33 percent of their GDP in order to help Ukraine defeat Russia.
03:38 The plan has been promoted by the Estonian Ministry of Defense.
03:46 The official EU election campaign in Hungary started on Saturday, which means candidates
03:52 can now start collecting voters.
03:54 Both the municipal and European Parliament elections will be held on the same day the
03:59 Fidesz party decided to hold them together in order to cut costs.
04:05 Election experts say that the opposition have very few options to promote their campaign,
04:10 due to the media being vastly controlled by the current government.
04:17 "Most of the campaign tools are owned by companies belonging to the Fidesz-Holodomor party.
04:27 The media, which is united in the KESMA of 430 companies, and the huge posters are also
04:35 definitely belonging to the Fidesz-Holodomor party.
04:38 So the opposition has very few options.
04:43 But the electronic media, which is basically a community media, is legally free, only the
04:53 government buys them from state money, which the taxpayers give to the private sector,
05:02 to the private advertising."
05:06 There is an international effort to ensure that European Parliament elections are ethical,
05:12 as there is speculation in several member states.
05:15 "12 countries have a written code of ethics for the European Parliament elections.
05:27 No one from Hungary has written this.
05:30 This is not good news.
05:32 The other news is that the Supreme Court has summarized the ruling of all election cases.
05:40 This is a problem because in the last four years, if the National Election Commission
05:49 has decided against the truth in one or two cases, then the court has ruled it out.
05:55 So I do not expect good things from the Hungarian judiciary."
06:02 According to experts, campaigning is increasingly moving online, due to the older generations
06:07 also learning how to use the internet.
06:10 Influenced by the younger generations, like their grandchildren.
06:13 "We are here to support the Hungarian people, we are here to support the Hungarian people.
06:37 We are here to support the Hungarian people."
06:55 Residents and authorities in Russia's southern regions of Tumen and Kurgan have rushed to
07:00 strengthen dams and fortify riverbanks after more flood warnings were issued.
07:07 Russia and parts of neighbouring Kazakhstan have been dealing with some of the worst flooding
07:11 in living memory.
07:14 It's believed to have been caused by a mixture of snowmelt and heavy rain.
07:20 Local media say that at least 20,000 people have been evacuated from both Tumen and Kurgan.
07:31 The Earth Day is celebrated every April 22nd since 1970.
07:36 This year's theme is "Planet vs. Plastic".
07:39 A non-profit organisation, The Ocean Cleanup, announced it had made a largest ever plastic
07:45 catch in a river in Guatemala, preventing the waste from reaching the Caribbean Sea.
07:50 272 truckloads of trash were caught in the Rio Las Vegas.
07:55 "You cannot get out the plastic of the ocean.
08:00 You may be able to retrieve plastic, plastic articles near the coastline.
08:06 You can collect it from beaches or from riverbanks, but once it's in the ocean, it's lost.
08:13 Because a lot of it actually sinks to the sea floor or makes it to very remote beaches
08:19 where nobody lives."
08:20 A new report commissioned by the WWF and carried out by scientists in Germany projects that
08:26 plastic pollution in the world's ocean could quadruple by 2050.
08:32 Researchers found out that concentrations of microplastics above a dangerous threshold
08:37 were already measured in the Mediterranean, the East China, the Yellow Seas and the Arctic
08:43 Sea ice.
08:44 88% of marine species studied were found to be negatively impacted by plastic.
08:54 Europe is warming more rapidly than any other continent.
08:58 According to new research from Copernicus, the EU's climate monitoring service, 2023
09:04 was marked by unprecedented heatwaves, fires and flooding.
09:08 Overall, temperatures were 1.1% above average.
09:11 "We are already living in a climate that is fundamentally different from the climate our
09:16 civilization evolved and our as a people grew up in.
09:22 And this new climate is, you know, often we talk about uncharted territory because it's
09:26 true.
09:27 We've never seen the sea so warm or so high in our lifetime."
09:32 Temperatures are rising at twice the global average.
09:35 It's also much wetter, leading to a complex mix of extremes within the continent.
09:40 "Look at the Europe as a whole, in terms of precipitation, it was 7% above average as a
09:48 whole.
09:49 So that's a complex figure because while, you know, northern Germany or part of the
09:56 Scandinavian or even the Balkans have seen a rather wet year as a whole, or the British
10:03 Isles for what it matters.
10:05 If you look at Andalusia or Catalonia or southern France, then the situation was much, much
10:13 dire."
10:15 Scientists say that the extreme weather events will become more frequent and planning to
10:19 cope with them all will be challenging.
10:23 "We expect there to be wilder swings, in fact, between hot and dry and wet conditions.
10:31 So swings between wet and dry becoming wilder.
10:36 And of course, this is really difficult to plan for because it's much easier to plan
10:42 your infrastructure and the way society goes about its business to have expected conditions
10:48 over the year and to get even rainfall rather than coming in fits and starts."
10:54 From rising sea temperatures to melting glaciers, Europe is witnessing the worst effects of
10:59 global warming.
11:01 The Copernicus researchers say that unless the trend is reversed, these impacts are only
11:06 going to get worse.
11:07 The 44th Artevento Cervia kite festival has kicked off in northern Italy.
11:21 It's the longest running international festival dedicated to kites in the world.
11:28 Over 250 artists and international aerobatic flight champions from 50 countries will be
11:34 taking part in the event that runs until May 1.
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