00:00Five economy and finance ministers are asking the EU for a tax on energy surplus profits to curb price increases.
00:10At least 15 people have been killed as Russia unleashes a massive drone and missile assault on Ukraine.
00:20The US and Iran race to find a missing US pilot downed by Iran as Lebanon is struck by intense
00:28Israeli bombing.
00:30Economy and finance ministers from Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Austria are asking the EU for a tax on energy
00:39surplus profits to curb price increases.
00:42Using the extra profits that companies are accumulating thanks to rising fuel prices.
00:48The five ministers who wrote to EU Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra pointed out that actions taken at national level on
00:57excise duty must be accompanied by a joint effort.
01:01They propose reviving an EU-style solidarity contribution that raised about 28 billion euros by taxing excess fossil fuel profits
01:12after the Ukraine war price surge.
01:15Hans Stegman, chief economist at Triodos Bank, said windfall taxes are a no-brainer when a crisis generates large windfall
01:24profits for fossil fuel producers.
01:30At least 15 people have been killed after a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes hit Ukraine Friday and
01:38into Saturday, including a massive overnight assault near Kiev.
01:44Regional officials say one person was killed and eight wounded in strikes on three towns surrounding the capital, while casualties
01:52were also reported in Sumy, Kherson, Kharkiv, Donetsk and the Zaporizia region.
01:59The country's foreign minister said nearly 500 drones and cruise missiles struck Ukraine overnight.
02:07Ukrainian officials warn Russia is shifting tactics, moving from overnight strikes to daytime barrages designed to maximise civilian casualties and
02:17expanding targets beyond energy infrastructure.
02:22Despite the bloodshed, Ukraine's President Zelensky says he has communicated an Easter ceasefire proposal to Moscow through U.S. channels.
02:35The U.S. and Iran are racing to find a missing U.S. pilot after two American fighter jets were
02:42shot down by Iran in separate incidents.
02:45Whilst one pilot was found, the U.S. has launched a search and rescue operation to find the other, as
02:52Iran has urged its citizens to turn the pilot in if found.
02:57Meanwhile, Lebanon's southern city of Tyre was targeted by overnight Israeli bombings as well as Saturday strikes.
03:05The Israeli army has reissued most of the city with an evacuation order.
03:10Since the start of the war, 1.2 million people in Lebanon have been displaced.
03:16Overnight strikes also targeted Beirut.
03:19The Israeli military said on Saturday it had begun striking Hezbollah infrastructure.
03:23In Tehran, a psychiatric hospital was damaged by recent Israeli-U.S. strikes, Iranian state media reported.
03:31One man was also killed in a strike on the nuclear facility of Boucher.
03:36On Saturday, multiple Iranian strikes were reported on central Israel, including on the town of Ramat Gan and on the
03:44city of Bnei Brak, where one man was reportedly injured.
03:53A Sea-Watch rescue ship arrived in the Italian island of Lampedusa on Saturday, carrying 44 migrants rescued from an
04:01abandoned oil rig in the Mediterranean.
04:05Sea-Watch, a non-profit Sea Rescue Group, said the migrants were taking refuge from a storm on the oil
04:11rig between Tunisia and Libya.
04:16In a separate incident, the Italian coast guard intercepted an overcrowded thingy in distress some 80 nautical miles from Lampedusa
04:24on Tuesday.
04:2858 people were pulled to safety, but 19 others were found dead.
04:36Lampedusa remains the main gateway into Europe for migrants making the crossing from North Africa, a journey that claims thousands
04:43of lives each year.
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