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00:00Russia has deployed around 170,000 troops in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region,
00:08Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday.
00:12Russian forces are trying to capture the stronghold of Pokrovsk there,
00:16and a major push for battlefield victory.
00:19Zelensky acknowledged that some Russian units had infiltrated the city,
00:23but insisted that Ukrainian defenders are weeding them out.
00:30There are not in Pokrovsk. There are Russians in Pokrovsk.
00:35Our people are destroying them. They are destroying them a little bit.
00:41Because we need to protect the stronghold.
00:44Zelensky rejected recent Russian claims that the devastated city is surrounded after more than a year of fighting.
00:51Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently claimed that Russian forces are making significant advances on the battlefield,
00:58though their progress has been slow and costly in troops and weapons.
01:02The centrist-liberal D66 has officially beaten the far-right party for freedom
01:11and become the biggest winner of this week's nail-biting snap parliamentary election race in the Netherlands.
01:18With nearly all votes counted, Dutch press agency ANP announced that Geert Wilders' PVV no longer has a chance
01:25at overtaking the D66 led by Rob Jetten.
01:29In campaign time, it is also important that the party leaders, from their ideals,
01:34try to try as much as possible to vote.
01:36And now we have another responsibility, namely to ensure that this country is going to move again.
01:40The remaining votes come from just one municipality, Fenray,
01:44where a fire that broke out in the town hall delayed ballot counting.
01:48Also remaining are the mail-in ballots from voters living abroad, which will be announced by Monday.
01:54Their win means D66 will take the first initiative in forming a coalition,
01:59and puts Yeti as a likely candidate for prime minister.
02:03Yeti's wish to build a centrist coalition will depend on the willingness of major parties
02:08on the left and the right to collaborate.
02:10A Turkish court sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison,
02:21convicting them of severe negligence in connection with a deadly fire that killed 78 people in January.
02:28The blaze broke out at the 12-story Grand Karta Hotel at the Kartalkaya Ski Resort in the province of
02:36Bolu during the winter school break.
02:38Thirty-four children taking family holidays were among the victims.
02:42The hotel owner, his wife, two daughters, hotel managers, a deputy mayor, and a deputy fire chief
02:49were all sentenced to life imprisonment.
02:51The defendants, who have rejected responsibility for the deaths, are expected to appeal the decision.
02:57For the first time in 40 years, UNESCO brings its general conference outside Paris
03:06and for the first time ever to Central Asia.
03:09More than 2,800 delegates from 190 countries gather in the historic city of Samarkand in Uzbekistan
03:16as UNESCO marks its 80th anniversary and opens one of the largest international forums ever held in the region.
03:23UNESCO director-general Audrey Azuli called it a historic moment, thanking Uzbekistan for opening the doors of a city
03:31that writers once described as the most beautiful face turned toward the sun.
03:36President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev set out a reform-driven agenda from inclusive education
03:42and AI in schools to safeguarding intangible heritage and supporting women's leadership.
03:49Uzdakistan, Uzdakistan, Uzdakistan,
04:09proposed a global platform on inclusive education, a pilot school of artificial intelligence,
04:15an international institute for digital heritage and a UNESCO academy on women's leadership.
04:21Samarkand was chosen not only as a Silk Road crossroads, but as the modern center of knowledge,
04:27where ancient heritage and innovation meet.
04:29The presidents of Serbia and Slovakia attended as honours guests,
04:33as the forum opened a new chapter in international cultural and educational cooperation,
04:39with Samarkand once again standing at the heart of global dialogue.
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