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00:00Volodymyr Zelensky criticizes a phone call between Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin as

00:06being like opening Pandora's box.

00:11The Dutch Prime Minister says the governing coalition has averted collapse after the resignation

00:15of the finance secretary due to racist language.

00:20Demonstrators break into the presidential office in Abkhazia in protest over a controversial

00:25agreement that would have allowed Russians to buy property in the breakaway region.

00:32Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister appeals to Iran for help to broker a ceasefire between

00:37Hezbollah and Israel.

00:45Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof has said the governing coalition has averted collapse

00:49after the resignation of the finance secretary.

00:52Morocco-born Nora Akkabar said she was stepping down on Friday.

00:57She cited racist comments made by some ministers who were discussing clashes between Israeli

01:02football fans and pro-Palestinian supporters in Amsterdam.

01:06Akkabar blamed polarizing language for her inability to continue in her post.

01:11Schoof said after her resignation that among the four coalition parties, we saw that we

01:16wanted to continue.

01:18Violence erupted in Amsterdam around last week's football match between Ajax and Maccabi

01:23Tel Aviv.

01:25A number of Maccabi fans chanted anti-Arab slogans and ripped a Palestinian flag off

01:30a building.

01:33Some men then carried out hit-and-run attacks on Maccabi fans and people they thought were

01:38Jews.

01:45Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has criticized a phone call between German Chancellor

01:50Olaf Scholz and Russia's leader Vladimir Putin as being like opening Pandora's box.

01:55Zelensky said the call risked making Putin feel less isolated internationally.

02:00He also criticized any further negotiations with the Kremlin that don't lead to any meaningful

02:05outcomes for Ukraine.

02:08Scholz spoke to Putin for the first time in two years on Friday.

02:13He condemned Russia's war in Ukraine and called on Putin to withdraw Russian troops

02:17from Ukrainian territory.

02:19He also urged Moscow to engage in negotiations with Kiev in order to achieve a lasting peace.

02:25A statement from the Kremlin said that Putin emphasized any potential agreement must reflect

02:30new territorial realities and address the root causes of the conflict.

02:35Putin also said the war in Ukraine was a direct result of NATO's aggressive policy.

02:43Thousands of protesters were posing a measure that would have allowed Russians to buy property

02:48in Abkhazia, a Russian-backed breakaway region of Georgia, that stormed into the region's

02:53parliament building and presidential office on Friday.

02:56The protest, in the regional capital of Sukhumi on the Black Sea, left at least eight people

03:02injured.

03:03Opponents of the property agreement say it would drive up prices of apartments and boost

03:07Moscow's dominance in the region.

03:13We demand a moratorium on the agreement and the law on apartments from the parliament.

03:23Two moratoriums.

03:25Today, if our people are not here and there is no resignation of the president, I think

03:32you should not leave this square.

03:35Amid the unrest, the authorities have already withdrawn the draft law on ratifying the investment

03:40agreement with Russia in an attempt to resolve the situation.

03:47Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mekati has appealed to Iran for help to broker a

03:55ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel.

03:58Iran is Hezbollah's main backer and is believed to have significant sway over the group.

04:03Mekati told a senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that Beirut wants to see an end

04:08to the war.

04:10A Lebanese official confirmed that Beirut had received a draft proposal from the American

04:14ambassador based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last Israel-Hezbollah

04:21war in 2006.

04:24Hezbollah officials are said to be studying it.

04:27Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas' surprise attack

04:32on Israel on the 7th of October last year.

04:35Israel escalated its strikes in Lebanon in late September, vowing to cripple Hezbollah

04:40and end its barrages on Israel, and launched a ground operation into the country.

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