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00:00More than 160 people have been injured following two Iranian missile strikes on southern Israel on Saturday evening.
00:10Italians are heading to the polls in a two-day referendum to vote on whether they want to change their
00:16judiciary system.
00:20Two Iranian missile strikes on southern Israel injured more than 160 people, including 11 seriously on Saturday evening.
00:30Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the city of Arad, where 84 people were injured, according to first responders.
00:39If you want proof that Iran endangers the entire world, the last 48 hours have given it.
00:45In the last 48 hours, Iran targeted a civilian area.
00:50They're doing that as a mass murder weapon.
00:54Luckily, no one was killed, but that's due to luck.
00:57Hours earlier, a first attack struck the city of Dimona, where 78 people were injured, including children, Israeli emergency officials
01:06say.
01:07Dimona is home to a strategic nuclear research center and is located around five kilometers from the impact site.
01:14While tensions in the Middle East are escalating and the global energy crisis is deepening,
01:20Donald Trump has issued an ultimatum to the Iranian regime to open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours,
01:27threatening devastating strikes on Iran's energy infrastructure.
01:31Tehran warns it would fully close the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. carried out its threats.
01:40Italians head to the polls to decide whether to approve or reject constitutional changes affecting the judiciary.
01:49The two-day referendum, led by the Conservative Prime Minister, Giorgio Malone,
01:54has sharpened political divisions and unified the center-left opposition.
01:58As of 7 p.m., according to the Interior Ministry, turnout stood at 38.90% of eligible voters.
02:07This is higher than in previous two-day referendums.
02:09In 2025, just over 16% had voted by 7 p.m.
02:14Maloney says the reform would make the justice system more efficient and less politicized.
02:20But critics argue it could undermine judicial independence and increase political influence over courts.
02:27The most controversial proposal would replace elections for most members of the Superior Council of the Judiciary,
02:35the body that governs judges' careers with a lottery system.
02:39The vote is seen by many commentators as a test for Maloney's government one year ahead of national elections.
02:52The French Navy intercepted and boarded a tanker in the Mediterranean Sea on Friday.
02:58President Emmanuel Macron said it is linked to Russia's sanctioned Shadow Fleet,
03:02which ships oil in violation of international sanctions over Moscow's war on Ukraine.
03:07The tanker, Dana, is suspected of operating under a false flag designation.
03:11The interception took place in the Western Mediterranean and was carried out in cooperation with allies such as the United
03:18Kingdom.
03:19The tanker was diverted and escorted by the French Navy to an encourage point for further checks.
03:25The case was referred to a prosecutor in the Port of Marseille.
03:31The exhibition Matisse 1941-1954, which highlights the final years of French painter Henri Matisse,
03:40opens its doors at the Grand Palais in Paris.
03:42More than 300 paintings, drawings, books and cut-out gouaches trace this key period in the artist's life considered his
03:50most prolific.
03:52This period was for Matisse, who was still a old artist, since he was 70 years old, 1941, 84 years
04:00old, when he was born in 1954 at Nice.
04:03It was the most prolific, among the most prolific, of all his career as a painter.
04:08It was also the moment where he was reinventing through a medium, which is that of the gouache découpé.
04:15And through this medium, he was creating works that will be more and more monumental.
04:20And it's this aspect of Matisse that we'll be able to discover in Paris.
04:24The exhibition spans two floors, and the works are presented in an atmosphere inspired by the artist's working conditions.
04:32What we wanted to restrain in the exhibition and in the journey of the exhibition,
04:36is this intimacy with the workshop, is to be able to enter the workshop of Matisse,
04:41to be able to meet the works like we were in the workshop of Matisse.
04:44The exhibition brings together the painter's best-known works,
04:48alongside pieces that remain little known in France, and runs until July 6.
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