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00:00A day before the Israeli prime minister addresses the U.N. General Assembly, his office dashed

00:06hopes of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

00:11U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris slammed suggestions that Kiev should cede territory

00:16to Russia to strike a peace deal.

00:20Push them on and come in lost their appeal to be acknowledged as MEPs in the European

00:25Parliament by a definitive decision of the European Court of Justice.

00:31At the U.N. General Assembly, North Macedonia's president says the country's slow progress

00:36to EU accession is like waiting for Godot.

00:45Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office dashed hopes of a ceasefire between

00:50Israel and Hezbollah after European and U.S.-led calls for an immediate truce at the United

00:55Nations General Assembly.

00:58In a statement, Netanyahu's office said the prime minister did not even respond and that

01:03the Israeli military had been instructed to continue fighting with full force.

01:09Netanyahu is set to address the U.N.'s General Assembly on Friday, where he will seek to

01:14persuade a world growing increasingly exasperated by Israel's war in Gaza that its aims are

01:20righteous.

01:23Israel's foreign minister also said there will be no ceasefire, vowing to continue the

01:27fighting and returning evacuated Israeli citizens to their homes.

01:33The war in Gaza is about to hit the one-year mark, with Israel on the cusp of a wider regional

01:39war with Hezbollah.

01:47A night of intense Russian shelling hit several cities in Ukraine on Wednesday.

01:52At least eight people were wounded in an overnight attack on Zaporizhia, including a 14-year-old

01:57boy, regional head Ivan Fedorov said Thursday morning.

02:02Ukraine's emergency service says 12 residential buildings were damaged in the city and 18

02:06people were evacuated.

02:09Videos show heavily damaged houses, windows blown out and walls pierced with shrapnel.

02:17A separate drone attack on Ivano-Frankivsk damaged the city's power grid.

02:23Four central streets of the city and some of the adjacent ones are without power.

02:28Some of the city's educational institutions will have power outages for at least a day

02:32and trolleybuses have also stopped running on some routes.

02:38Ukraine's air defences also battled drones and missiles over Ukraine's capital, Kiev,

02:43for over five hours.

02:45In total, Russia launched six missiles and 78 drones at Ukraine overnight from Wednesday

02:50to Thursday, Ukraine's air force said.

02:53It said defences destroyed four of the missiles and 66 drones in the air.

03:02Renewable energy sources are under particular threat as part of growing hybrid warfare.

03:07Some of the technology is relatively new, so it's more vulnerable.

03:10And according to NATO officials, renewable energy is targeted as it represents a shift

03:15away from often Russian fossil fuels.

03:18Jönköping Energy in Sweden provides 40% of all energy to the region through renewable

03:23energy, hydro, wind and solar power for 186,000 people.

03:28It's working alongside NATO under the Nordic Pine exercise, helping participating nations

03:34prevent and react to cyber and other hybrid attacks.

04:02Cyber attacks from ransomware and also disinformation from either state and non-state groups is

04:07increasingly common as a means of doing harm to one's enemy without direct violence on

04:12the battlefield.

04:15Cyber attacks by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine ten years ago were a major wake-up

04:19call to the renewable energy sector.

04:21NATO and its partners now very much focus on the threat of hybrid warfare and the impact

04:26this has on society.

04:28Ransomware is a business.

04:29The other thing is, you know, the dependency of electricity everywhere.

04:34We can't be without it.

04:36So in that case, you can disturb a society very much by disturbing the electricity.

04:42And I think if you disturb the society, you will make people scary as well.

04:48What is going on?

04:49When will we get the electricity back again, et cetera?

04:52So I think it's a very, very good way to create a mess if you would like to.

04:58The NATO-led Nordic Pine exercise is for the private and public sector, including research

05:02institutes.

05:03It concludes that the challenge of hybrid war, in particular cyber attacks, is best

05:08met with prevention and preparedness.

05:10And key to that, they say, is constant communication between governments, the private sector, the

05:15general public and the military command.

05:18Shona Murray, Euronews, Jönköping, Sweden.

05:25The European Court of Justice dismisses the appeal of Catalan pro-independence politicians

05:30Carles Puigdemont and Tony Comyn to be considered MEPs, which was filed in 2019.

05:38The Court of Justice believes that the lower general court of the EU acted correctly in

05:43considering that the president of the parliament should follow the official list of MEPs that

05:48came from the document sent by the member state.

05:52In 2019, Puigdemont and Comyn won a seat in the European elections.

05:57But having fled to Belgium in 2017 after the Catalan independence referendum, they were

06:02unable to abide by the Spanish constitution, a key step in order to appear in the document

06:08sent to the European Parliament.

06:12The result that appeared in the Spanish electoral body is seen valid, but the European Parliament

06:17considered that the official list was only the one sent to them by Spain.

06:24The decision is particularly relevant for Comyn, who ran in the last elections for the

06:29European Parliament and won, but he has so far been unable to take his seat and it looks

06:34like he will remain so after the ruling.

06:41The Portuguese government has said it will deploy its EU cohesion funds for a speedy

06:46reconstruction of parts of the country devastated by wildfires.

06:50Authorities say work has now started to assess the extent of the damage in the north and

06:54center of Portugal.

06:56The decision comes after a meeting between Prime Minister Luiz Montenegro and the EU

07:01Commission.

07:02This dialogue with the President of the European Commission resulted in the Commission's decision

07:09to allow Portugal to access 500 million euros from the cohesion funds that are destined

07:21for us for the next few years and to be able to cover the damage it has suffered, with

07:29a share rate that can be exceptionally high, even 100%.

07:34According to the Portuguese Prime Minister, investigation was also ongoing to find the

07:39culprits setting fire to forests in certain instances.

07:43The investigation will seek to determine the motivation of the perpetrators and their sponsors.

08:04These workers are meeting at sunrise, not for a shift, but a protest.

08:26Volkswagen employees headed out of the town of the company headquarters, Wolfsburg, on

08:31their way to Hanover, where the business' leaders sat down with the union.

08:36But concerns of those in Wolfsburg are not just about their jobs, but the future of the

08:42town itself.

08:59Volkswagen is everywhere in this town of 120,000, from the arena to the tourism shop.

09:05There's even a museum about the car industry called the Auto City.

09:14The Volkswagen plant is industrial heart of the whole region.

09:19Historically the whole town is built around the Volkswagen plant and so everything kind

09:26of depends on this factory.

09:31Sixty thousand people living in Wolfsburg and nearby work for Volkswagen in the town.

09:37That means much of the local economy is dependent on its employees as customers.

09:43Even residents not working for the company feel its influence.

09:47The mayor told Euronews that Volkswagen led to an economic upturn and social stability

10:06for Wolfsburg, and that there is a strong emotional aspect, with most residents driving

10:12a Volkswagen car and many having relatives working for the company.

10:17That is something felt deeply by the employees.

10:39People in most European countries are dining out earlier compared to pre-pandemic times.

10:46New research by Mastercard shows customers have brought the clock forward by 10 minutes

10:51on average.

10:52The starkest changes were observed in Austria 18 minutes earlier, Portugal 16 and Ireland

11:0015.

11:02Previous studies showed that early dinners benefit digestion, reduce cardiovascular risks

11:08and improve blood glucose levels.

11:12But according to the research, that's not the only reason Europeans are having early

11:17dinners.

11:19One reason is that we are working more flexibly so we have more control over our schedules

11:24and we can decide when we want to go out to eat.

11:28And second reason is that perhaps consumers have become more health conscious.

11:32They prioritize sleep, they go to bed earlier, they sleep longer.

11:37COVID-19 hasn't only changed dining times.

11:41The findings also show that grocery shopping has shifted to earlier in the week.

11:48Consumers now tend to shop more on traditionally quieter days, such as Monday and Tuesday.

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