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00:00 Polls have opened in the Netherlands as four days of voting in the EU parliamentary elections

00:06 begins.

00:07 A new report warns there's a possibility famine has hit northern Gaza, although no formal

00:16 declaration has been made.

00:20 Polls show Europe's far-right parties are struggling to find cohesion ahead of the EU

00:25 elections.

00:26 It's the only country to start its single-day vote so early, but will be followed by Ireland

00:33 on Friday and the rest of the EU nations over the weekend.

00:37 400 million citizens will be casting their votes in the elections, which are expected

00:43 to deliver significant results.

00:45 The European Parliament has announced it will be holding a general election on Wednesday

00:49 and Thursday.

00:50 In the Netherlands, voting comes six months after the far-right Party for Freedom became

00:56 the largest in the Dutch national parliament.

00:59 Polling suggests it will build on that popularity.

01:05 A new report warns there's a possibility famine has hit northern Gaza, although no formal

01:11 declaration has been made.

01:13 A new report warns there's a possibility famine has hit northern Gaza, although no formal

01:20 declaration has been made.

01:24 Famine exists when 20% of households are essentially starving, at least 30% of children suffer

01:31 wasting and two adults or four children per every 10,000 are dying daily of hunger and

01:37 its complications.

01:38 But the report's authors, known as the Famine Early Warning Systems Network, say their ability

01:45 to collect data has been impeded by the war and restrictions on humanitarian access.

01:54 Israel has repeatedly denied there is famine underway in Gaza and rejected allegations

01:59 it's used hunger as a weapon in its war against Hamas.

02:04 A formal declaration could be used as evidence at the International Criminal Court as well

02:09 as at the International Court of Justice where Israel faces allegations of genocide.

02:18 The report also cautioned efforts to increase aid into Gaza are insufficient and urged Israel's

02:24 government to act urgently.

02:31 Much of Gaza's 2.3 million population has been displaced since the war began and their

02:37 health ministry claims more than 36,000 Palestinians have been killed.

02:46 Israel's expanding offensive in Rafa has largely cut off the flow of food, medicine and other

02:51 supplies to Palestinians facing widespread hunger.

02:57 In the south, thousands have returned to Khan Yunis where basic infrastructure is lacking

03:02 and people are struggling to get the minimum amounts of water to survive.

03:10 Meanwhile, despite pressure from the United States on Israel and Hamas to accept its three-phase

03:19 ceasefire proposal, no agreement has yet been made.

03:23 A candidate of the far-right German AFD party was stabbed in Germany's southern city of

03:33 Mannheim.

03:35 Heinrich Koch, a candidate in the local elections, allegedly saw an individual tearing up campaign

03:41 posters and tried to stop him.

03:45 The 25-year-old suspect allegedly assaulted him with a cutter.

03:50 The victim was not critically injured.

03:54 The alleged attacker has been arrested and is said to have psychiatric disorders.

04:04 Slovakia's capital Bratislava is preparing for intense flooding as heavy rainfall in

04:08 Germany and Austria continues to raise the water levels of the Danube River.

04:15 The Slovak Hydro-Meteorological Institute has announced a second level flood warning

04:20 for the Bratislava district.

04:23 They believe this will be exceeded near the station and in the borough of Davinska Nova

04:27 Ves, which borders the Morava River.

04:32 Several areas near the Danube and Morava rivers have already been closed to the public and

04:38 the city's police force has urged people to avoid these locations for safety reasons.

04:45 Meanwhile heavy downpours have already caused flooding in the Slovak districts of Vranov

04:50 nad Toplou where a third level flood warning is in place.

04:55 Driveways, gardens and cellars are overflowing with water.

05:08 Firefighters in the western village of Kamenoporuba have also been pumping out excess water from

05:13 an overflowing stream.

05:19 Europe's ultra-conservative parties are being forced to seek out more moderate political

05:24 allies in an attempt to secure enough votes to influence future EU legislation.

05:29 According to the Euronews Superpolls, while the conservatives are expected to see significant

05:34 gains in the upcoming elections, they are still too divided to produce a viable EU Commission

05:40 leader.

06:03 According to the Euronews Polls Centre's simulations, if the conservatives decide to

06:10 go into coalition, their best option would be to join up with the Liberals of the Renew

06:14 Party.

06:15 This way they could match up parliamentary seat distribution with the Realpolitik of

06:20 the EU government.

06:22 Coalition between the conservative groups would be difficult as it would be too weighted

06:26 towards the right.

06:27 There are also many issues the two main far-right parties, the European Conservatives and Reformists,

06:32 led by Italy's Prime Minister Giorgio Maloney, and the Identity and Democracy Party, led

06:37 by France's Marine Le Pen, are not united on.

06:42 At the moment, the only issue that can create some cohesion within the right is the struggle

06:47 against immigration.

06:49 But even then, solutions to the matter differ between the southern flank and the eastern

06:53 and northern parts of the EU.

06:56 "The centre of gravity will certainly move to the right.

07:01 And this is something the EPP, which will then be the central player, will be able to

07:05 use as a blackmail potential vis-à-vis the Liberals and the Social Democrats, if not

07:10 the Greens.

07:11 I don't believe that the EPP is serious about working with identity and democracy.

07:17 It would also be political suicide at the national level.

07:21 But they will certainly use it."

07:24 According to the Euronews Polls Centre, Europe's mainstream political parties are likely to

07:29 face the difficult task of creating a ruling parliament using votes from the fragmented

07:34 radical right bloc.

07:39 Unravelling the threat of social networks and revealing the real from the fake.

07:44 But above all, to detect the manipulation of information.

07:48 That's the job of this analyst, who works discreetly for the domestic intelligence service.

07:53 "What we are trying to detect are anomalies, we can call them.

07:58 A sudden increase in the number of posts, retweets or likes on a particular topic,

08:05 or the appearance of new actors."

08:10 In April, European figures from the conservative right and far-right met in Brussels.

08:15 The foreign intelligence service scrutinised the exchanges.

08:19 "The grey area, which represents the majority of what we see on the screen, is related to

08:25 a discussion or a de-discussion related to the political conference that took place in

08:31 mid-April here in Brussels.

08:33 While the actors who are in the blue areas are actors that we monitor on a daily basis

08:41 for the simple reason that they are from the pro-Russian movement.

08:46 It seems clear that the fact of engaging in a political conversation, which is physically

08:52 based here in Belgium, has the objective of amplifying the existing chaos or polarization

08:59 related to this conference."

09:00 The risk of foreign attempts to manipulate public opinion are high during elections.

09:05 In Poland, a special commission has already begun to investigate Russian and Belarusian

09:09 influence in the country.

09:14 Citizens go to the polls during the European elections with an expectation for change,

09:19 for improvement.

09:21 According to Boyd Wagner, chief analyst of the Euronews Poll Center, data shows that

09:26 the main concerns for Europeans are the economy and security issues.

09:30 They are expecting more stability from the upcoming parliament.

09:36 "Number one would be the economy, would be things like purchasing power and inflation.

09:44 I think secondly, the one that is very common across every country is migration, remains

09:51 to be an important issue."

09:53 The economy, migration and climate policies are some of the top concerns that people in

09:57 Brussels have as the EU elections loom.

10:04 "If you want to do anything about the climate, you have to pay.

10:14 So economically it's important."

10:16 "It's important that we manage to become climate neutral as the EU and to find a way

10:24 to start and still be socially acceptable.

10:35 The rich can't afford it and the poor are getting poorer."

10:38 "Well, economic stability, all our economies are so interlinked in the globalist world.

10:44 And we have local problems as well in Ireland.

10:46 You know, it continues to be a massive housing crisis, cost of living crisis.

10:52 And I don't think politicians are taking seriously these issues, especially European parliament

10:58 politicians."

11:00 At the political level, the focus is on competitiveness, while for European citizens it's about their

11:05 daily lives and for some, it's two sides of the same coin.

11:10 On the other hand, the issues of defense also appears to be a key priority for Brussels.

11:15 "If politicians worry about competitiveness, this is about the budgets of the states.

11:20 And the budget of the states is then of course necessarily also translates into the money

11:25 of the people.

11:26 So there is of course a strong connection.

11:28 Now, when it comes to defense, then we see that people also worry about that.

11:33 But that very much depends on where they live."

11:37 Water expectations vary across member states, but they all unite in the hope for better

11:41 management of both present and the future.

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