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00:00The head of NATO's military committee says Ukraine has the legal right to strike targets

00:07deep inside Russia.

00:11Protesters in Paris denounce sexual violence in a rally inspired by a high-profile rape

00:17case.

00:22The head of NATO's military committee has said that Ukraine has the legal right to strike

00:26targets deep inside Russia.

00:29Admiral Rob Bauer's position reflects what Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has

00:33been pressing for permission to do for weeks.

00:36So militarily there's a good reason to do that, to weaken the enemy, to weaken its logistic

00:42lines, fuel, ammunition that comes to the front.

00:47That is what you want to stop, if at all possible.

00:50Those comments come as U.S. President Joe Biden is weighing whether to allow Ukraine

00:54to use American-provided long-range weapons to strike Russia.

00:58Biden met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday.

01:02Anonymous U.S. officials said they believed Starmer was seeking Biden's approval to allow

01:06Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles for expanded strikes in Russia.

01:11The U.S. currently does permit Ukraine to use some American-provided weapons in cross-border

01:15strikes to counter attacks by Russian forces.

01:19But it doesn't allow Kiev to fire long-range missiles such as ATAKMS deep into Russia.

01:29A long-range missile fired from Yemen landed in central Israel in the latest reverberation

01:35from the nearly year-long war in Gaza.

01:39There were no reports of casualties or damage, and local authorities said operations resumed

01:44as normal shortly afterwards.

01:48A fire could be seen in a rural area of central Israel, and local media showed images of what

01:53appeared to be a fragment from a missile or interceptor.

01:58Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels have repeatedly fired drones and missiles towards Israel since

02:04the start of the Israel-Hamas war, but almost all of them have been intercepted over the

02:09Red Sea.

02:11The war in Gaza has rippled across the region, with Iran and its allies attacking Israeli

02:16and U.S. targets and drawing retaliatory strikes from Israel and its Western allies.

02:23On several occasions, the strikes and counter-strikes have threatened to trigger a wider conflict.

02:30Iran supports militant groups across the region, including Hamas, the Houthis and Lebanon's

02:35Hezbollah.

02:40Hundreds of protesters have gathered in Paris to denounce rape and sexual violence in France

02:45and around the world.

02:47The rally was held in solidarity with victims of rape, with some protesters carrying banners

02:52saying,

02:53Victims, we believe you.

02:54We need to talk about the rape culture and the fact that after seven years of MeToo,

03:00we already know that there is not a special type of victim, but now, nowadays, we are

03:08like collectively realizing that there is not a special type of rapist.

03:13The demonstration was inspired by Gisele Pellicot, the woman allegedly drugged by her now ex-husband

03:19over the course of a decade so that she could be raped by dozens of men while unconscious.

03:24That case has shocked France and become a symbol of the country's fight against sexual

03:28violence.

03:30Since the beginning of the trial on the 2nd of September, Pellicot has been praised for

03:34her courage and composure.

03:36Her decision to hold a public trial, she said, was in solidarity with other women who go

03:40unrecognized as victims of sexual crimes.

03:48Presidential election campaigns have started in Tunisia against a backdrop of protests

03:53against the country's rulers and the arrests of several opposition politicians.

03:58Demonstrators organized a mass rally in the capital Tunis to protest against what they

04:02say is the deteriorating state of the country.

04:06Unemployment has steadily increased to one of the region's highest at 16%.

04:11And the National Institute for Statistics said in March that economic growth was at

04:15a standstill at just 0.4%.

04:20President Caïs Saïd, who is seeking a second term in office, is an unpopular figure in

04:24Tunisia.

04:26When he was first elected in 2019, he used anti-corruption promises to win over people

04:31disillusioned with the country's politics since the Arab Spring.

04:35But since taking office, the former law professor has gone to lengths to consolidate his own

04:39power, freezing the country's parliament, ruling by decree and rewriting the constitution.

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