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00:00Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will begin his five-year sentence in La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday.
00:10Sanai Takaichi wins a historic parliamentary vote to become Japan's first-ever female prime minister.
00:20A major road connecting the three Baltic states to Poland opened at a time of rising tensions between Europe and Russia.
00:31Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at La Santé prison in Paris on Tuesday, where he will serve a five-year sentence.
00:40He is the first former French president in living memory to be imprisoned.
00:45The judge ruled the former French leader would start his prison sentence without waiting for his appeal to be heard,
00:51citing the seriousness of the disruption to public order caused by the offense.
00:55In September, a Paris court found Sarkozy guilty of criminal conspiracy involving the use of funds from Libya to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.
01:19He is expected to be held either in solitary confinement or in a prisoner's section for vulnerable inmates, also known as the so-called VIP section.
01:28Japan's parliament has elected Sanai Takaichi as the country's first-ever female prime minister,
01:39a historic first that comes one day after her struggling party struck a coalition deal with a new partner.
01:46In Tuesday's parliamentary election, lawmakers in the lower house voted for Takaichi with 237 votes, more than what was needed for a simple majority.
01:58Takaichi will replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, ending a three-month political vacuum and wrangling since her Liberal Democratic Party's disastrous election loss in July.
02:12Ishiba, who lasted only one year in office, resigned with his cabinet earlier on Tuesday.
02:18A protégé of assassinated former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Takaichi is expected to emulate some of his policies, including a stronger military and economy, as well as revising Japan's pacifist constitution.
02:33But she also faces a major test. Takaichi needs to quickly tackle rising prices and compile economy-boosting measures by late December to address public frustration.
02:50The threat of European sanctions against Israel remains on the table.
02:54Ten days after the ceasefire in Gaza came into effect, the 27 European foreign ministers, who gathered in Luxembourg, considered the situation too fragile to ease pressure on the Israeli authorities, Kaya Kala said.
03:09The ceasefire has changed the context. That is very clear for everybody.
03:13However, unless we see real and sustained change on the ground, including more aid reaching Gaza, the threat of sanctions remains on the table.
03:24Other prerequisites include access to the strip for journalists and humanitarian aid workers and NGOs' registration to be unrestricted, Kala said.
03:34The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, proposed three measures last month.
03:40The partial suspension of the association agreement between the EU and Israel, the freezing of bilateral aid, as well as individual sanctions against two Israeli far-right ministers and violent settlers in the West Bank.
03:52The West Bank, Hamas and Israel both accused each other of violating the ceasefire.
03:57U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday to shore up the tenuous ceasefire in Gaza, a day after Israel conducted airstrikes on Rafah, the first major test of the fragile deal.
04:16The IDF said it acted in defense and was responding to an attack leveled against its forces stationed there.
04:25Meanwhile, Hamas also said Israel had violated the ceasefire close to 50 times since it came into force.
04:30Israel also threatened to halt aid, but later said it resumed enforcing the ceasefire, adding that aid deliveries would resume on Monday.
04:40U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters that Hamas had done some shooting, but also suggested the violence may be the fault of rebels in the organization rather than its leadership.
04:50Many Palestinians in Gaza remain fearful the war could return, as dozens were killed in Sunday strikes, including children.
04:59There is also concern about how much aid Israel is letting into the famine-stricken territory.
05:05The next stage is expected to focus on disarming Hamas, Israeli withdrawal from additional areas it controls and future governance of the Strip.
05:22European diplomacy is on a knife edge regarding the announced summit between the American and Russian presidents scheduled to take place in Budapest.
05:30Upon their arrival in Luxembourg on Monday, the European Union's foreign ministers expressed their hope that the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin would bring an end to the war in Ukraine.
05:43However, the location of this meeting poses a problem.
05:46This presence, announced by Vladimir Putin on the territory of the European Union, has no sense if it allows to act immediately and without conditions.
05:55The controversy stems from the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán disagrees with the majority of the EU on the war in Ukraine.
06:04In addition, the Russian president is under an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court.
06:09No, it's not nice, I mean, to see that really a person put to the arrest warrant by the ICC is coming to a European country.
06:25And again, you know, the question is whether there is any outcome out of this.
06:30To enable this meeting to take place, EU member states will have to open their airspace, which has been closed to Russian aircraft since 2022.
06:40However, diplomatic exemptions are possible.
06:43A major road connecting the three Baltic states to Poland open on Monday, at a time of arising tensions between Europe and Russia.
06:57The road, known as Via Baltica, will pass through a narrow strip of land between Belarus and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad called the Suwalki Gap,
07:05which has often been described as a potential target if Russia were to attack NATO.
07:10In the context of our safety, Via Baltica is very important.
07:15And I think it's also a task for me, for Mr. President and for our friends from Estonia and from Łotwy,
07:21to look at this project through the pryzmat of safety of the Baltic countries and also Poland,
07:31which, not only in the Przysmyku Suwalskim, but also in the whole Basin of the Baltic Sea,
07:36takes responsibility for the security of the United States and the United States and the whole region.
07:43NATO troops could potentially move faster in aid of the Baltics by using Via Baltica.
07:49Also under construction is a companion railway project known as Rail Baltica,
07:54the first sections of which are due to be operational by 2030.
07:57A cable that snapped on the Lisbon funicular causing a crash that killed some 16 people last month
08:09was not certified for use in public transport, an official investigation as found.
08:15According to a report released on Monday by Portugal's Accident Investigation Office,
08:19the cable had accumulated maintenance issues and did not meet specifications set by CARIS, the municipal transport operator.
08:30The report called for all Lisbon cable cars to be kept out of service for urgent modifications.
08:36The disaster, described as one of the biggest human tragedies in the country's history, unfolded after the iconic Gloria Funicula came off the rails
08:47and hurtled into a building, killing 16 people and leaving 21 others injured.
08:53A basketball driver has been killed after fans attacked a bus with stones and bricks in Italy.
09:01Confrontations following a basketball game turned deadly after Sebastiani Rieti supporters
09:07threw bricks and stones at the Pistoia fans' bus, killing one of the bus drivers.
09:12The windscreen was smashed at the front near the passenger seat beside the driver where the second driver was sitting.
09:18He was struck by a brick and died instantly, according to local mail.
09:24Tensions had already flared during the game at the Palo Sojourner Arena, forcing police and carabinieri to intervene.
09:31After the match, police escorted the Pistoia supporters' bus to the motorway junction,
09:36but some Sebastiani fans allegedly followed it for several kilometers before launching the attack.
09:41In a post on X, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni condemned the quote
09:45unacceptable and insane act of violence.
09:48Investigations are underway to trace the attackers, no arrests have yet been made.
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