00:00Condemning the threats over Greenland and the dismissal of Denmark's combat efforts,
00:03Danish veterans protest the US in Copenhagen. Meanwhile in Milan, protests took place against
00:07ICE agents being deployed for Winter Olympics. Ukraine's power grid has suffered mass outages
00:12on Saturday after a technical malfunction. Residents are facing energy, heating and water outages.
00:20A powerful explosion struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas,
00:23damaging an eight-story building. Unofficial reports suggest that an
00:27Iranian Navy commander may have been the target. Danish veterans and supporters held a silent
00:32protest outside the US embassy in Copenhagen on Saturday. They condemned the Trump administration's
00:38threats to take over Greenland and its remarks dismissing Denmark's combat efforts. Veterans
00:44marched from Castellet fortress to the embassy planting 52 flags for Danish soldiers killed in
00:50Afghanistan and Iraq. In Milan, thousands gathered to oppose the planned use of ICE agents during
00:57the Winter Olympics. Groups from unions and resistance associations joined the demonstration.
01:05Protesters accused Washington of prompting creeping fascism and carried signs reading
01:10ICE ONLY IN SPRITS. Milan's mayor said the agents were not welcome and Italy's interior minister is
01:18expected to answer questions in parliament about the deployment. The Olympics open on Friday,
01:24February the 6th, with top US officials attending.
01:33Ukraine's power grid has suffered mass outages on Saturday after a technical malfunction tripped key
01:39transmission lines. Energy Minister Denis Shima said a 400 kilowatt line between Romania and Moldova failed,
01:46along with a 750 kilowatt line linking western and central Ukraine. The Ukrainian Moldovan border is
01:53temporarily closed to vehicles and goods due to what is described as a failure of central databases on
01:58the part of Moldovan customs authorities. The Ukrainian energy ministry confirmed no cyber attack was involved.
02:05Energy provider DTEK reported emergency shutdowns in Kyiv and surrounding areas amid freezing temperatures.
02:12Residents are facing energy, heating and water outages following the accident. President Volodymyr Zelensky said
02:20restoration work is underway to quickly stabilize the grid.
02:27A powerful explosion struck the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas on Saturday, damaging an eight-story
02:33building and shattering windows across the structure. Unofficial reports suggested that IRGC Navy
02:39commander Ali Reza Tangsiri may have been the target, but the Tanzanim news agency linked to the
02:45Revolutionary Guard dismissed the claims as completely false. Some local sources have blamed a gas leak,
02:52though witnesses say the building had no gas piping installed. Reports also describe sounds of other
02:57explosions in cities including Ahwaz near the Iran-Iraq border. At least five people were reported dead and two
03:03were injured. The cause of the blast remains unclear, but the US Navy vessels continue to approach Iran.
03:09Iran at the same time Iranian media reported that their exercises with Russia and China have been
03:14postponed. Videos circulating this afternoon showed a large plume of smoke near Paran, a new city near
03:21Tehran, but officials in Tehran province denied reports of military activity in Paran and Robat Karim,
03:27saying the smoke there came from burning dry vegetation along the Shao River.
03:31Venezuela's acting president has announced a proposal for mass amnesty in the country in her latest
03:42significant reform since the US tropling of Nicolas Maduro just weeks ago. In a speech at the Venezuelan
03:49Supreme Court on Friday, Dulce Rodriguez said she would propose a general amnesty law covering the entire
03:57period of political violence from 1999 to the present. Leftist revolutionary Hugo Chavez assumed the
04:05presidency in 1999 and was succeeded upon his death in 2013 by Maduro. Formerly Maduro's vice president,
04:13Rodriguez has moved quickly in less than four weeks in power to overhaul Venezuelan society in ways sought by
04:21the US. However, opposition figures in the country have expressed reserved optimism about the changes,
04:28wary that Maduro's closest allies remain in power. According to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and
04:35opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, Rodriguez's amnesty proposal came only after she was pushed by
04:43Washington.
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