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00:01Portuguese police on Friday confirmed that 11 of the 16 people killed in Wednesday's tourist streetcar derailment in Lisbon were foreign nationals.
00:11The victims included three British citizens, two Canadians, two South Koreans, one American, one Swiss and one Ukrainian.
00:19A further 21 people were injured in the accident.
00:23Multiple investigations are underway into the cause of the crash, which Portugal's Prime Minister has called a major national tragedy.
00:30A preliminary technical report is expected later on Friday.
00:34The transport company Caris, which operates the city's streetcars and buses, said the historic funicular had its last daily inspection just nine hours before it derailed.
00:49The European Commission on Friday distanced itself from comments made by a senior commissioner who accused Israel of committing genocide in Gaza.
00:57The commission's executive vice president Teresa Rivera made the remarks in a speech in France on Thursday, drawing sharp criticism from the Israeli government.
01:07In Brussels, an EU spokesperson clarified that her comments were not the official position of the commission.
01:13In terms of the determination itself, establishing whether international crimes, including genocide, have been committed, is the competence of national courts as well as international courts and tribunals, which may have jurisdiction.
01:34And the legal qualification of such an act, an act of genocide, does require the proper establishment of facts and a finding of law.
01:46Rivera's comments come in the same week as the largest professional organization of scholars studying genocide said that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
01:54Russian President Vladimir Putin says it's practically impossible to reach an agreement with Ukraine on key issues to end the war.
02:06Delivering a keynote address at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin said that Moscow will consider any foreign troop deployment on Ukrainian soil as a legitimate target.
02:16Putin added that he sees no sense in the presence of a foreign military contingent in Ukraine so long as appropriate decisions are made to build a foundation for lasting peace.
02:26He also stressed that he'll not permit Western countries to instate any security guarantees that threaten Russia's national security.
02:35Putin argued that his country's security considerations must also be acknowledged and guaranteed to open a path for meaningful progress in the US-led truce efforts.
02:44The Russian President reiterated the Kremlin's resolute objection to a Ukrainian-NATO membership, but noted that Moscow does not reject the premise of Kyiv in the EU, which he says is Ukraine's legitimate choice.
02:57His comments came after Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky and France's Emmanuel Macron announced on Thursday that 26 European states were prepared to deploy a reassurance force to Ukraine post-war.
03:09The two leaders spoke after a meeting of the coalition of the willing, noting that the plan must have the backing of the United States to move forward.
03:18U.S. President Donald Trump did not comment on the European proposal, but said on Thursday that he plans to hold further talks with Putin soon, with whom he keeps a very good dialogue.
03:28Angela Rayner has resigned as Downing Street's No. 2 and Housing Secretary after a row over her failure to pay enough tax on a seaside flat she owned.
03:41Rayner said she takes full responsibility for failing to seek further tax advice after it was revealed she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in East Sussex.
03:51Months before she bought the flat, she put her stake in her Ashton house into a separate trust.
03:58I think the accusations were that I'd set up her trust or I'd flipped it to try and avoid paying it, but actually the complex area of the trust which the advice that I relied upon didn't pick that up.
04:12The leading tax counsel, who has subsequently looked at it, has gone into that and has said that actually because of that, it did remain my sole property.
04:22And the trust wasn't set up as accusations have been made for me to try and flip or dodge tax or anything of that nature.
04:32Rayner, who was also deputy leader of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party, was widely considered one of the most powerful women in the UK.
04:40She represented a core working class voice in Starmer's government, having grown up in poverty and rising to the top of the Labour Party.
