00:00Iran is continuing to defy the United States as President Donald Trump's deadline loomed for it to reopen the Strategic
00:07Strait of Hormuz.
00:10A Russian drone strike on a bus stop in central Ukraine killed three people and injured a dozen more.
00:20A high-speed train in France collided with a heavy goods vehicle, killing the train driver.
00:30The Greek Parliament recommends lifting the immunity of 11 lawmakers whose names appear in a farm subsidy scandal.
00:40Actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Christine Davis has just returned from Sudan, where she met mostly female refugees who had
00:48fled violence.
00:50Iran showed no signs of backing down on Tuesday, even as a U.S. deadline loomed for it to reopen
00:56the Strait of Hormuz.
00:58On Monday, as U.S. President Donald Trump's midnight deadline approached, Tehran maintained their defiance, rejecting his calls to enter
01:07into a deal with Washington.
01:09In a late press conference in the White House, Trump vowed to destroy all of Iran's bridges and critical infrastructure,
01:16in damage he said will take a century to rebuild.
01:19We have a plan, because of the power of our military, where every bridge in Iran will be decimated by
01:2912 o'clock tomorrow night, where every power plant in Iran will be out of business, burning, exploding, and never
01:39to be used again.
01:39I mean complete demolition by 12 o'clock, and it will happen over a period of four hours if we
01:46wanted to.
01:46Do I want to destroy their infrastructure? No.
01:49It will take them a hundred years to rebuild.
01:52Right now, if we left today, it would take them 20 years to rebuild their country, and it would never
01:59be as good as it was.
02:00Still, Iranian retaliatory strikes are continuing to target Israel, as emergency services scrambled on Tuesday to respond to attack sites
02:10in central cities.
02:12Iran's top diplomat Abbas Araqchi has repeatedly stressed that Tehran has no interest in halting hostilities until Washington complies with
02:20all of its demands.
02:22Araqchi was quoted saying that bridges can be rebuilt, but the opportunity to discipline America will not be repeated.
02:30Iran's attacks are also continuing to reach U.S. allies in the Gulf, with Kuwait and the UAE reporting additional
02:37incoming threats on Tuesday.
02:45Three people were killed, and a dozen more were wounded after a Russian drone targeted a bus stop in the
02:50Ukrainian front-line city of Nikopol on Tuesday.
02:54This video shows the police and emergency crew working at the scene of the Russian strike.
02:59The drone targeted a moving bus as it was pulling into the stop to pick up additional passengers, the regional
03:06military administration head said on Telegram.
03:09Meanwhile, a Russian shelling on the southern Ukrainian town of Kherson killed at least three residents and wounded at least
03:16seven others, according to a regional official.
03:20Moscow is increasingly launching daytime strikes, targeting everything from civilian areas to energy and other critical infrastructure.
03:28Last week, a barrage of almost 500 missiles and drones targeted the Kiev region, killing one person.
03:35Ukraine's foreign minister, Andrei Sibiya, accused the Kremlin of deliberately targeting civilians.
03:41The attacks came after Moscow ignored a Ukrainian Easter holiday ceasefire proposal, claiming they never received such a request.
03:55A high-speed train in France collided with a heavy goods vehicle on Tuesday morning, killing the train driver and
04:02injuring a dozen people.
04:04The accident occurred at 7 a.m. at a level crossing between Béthune and Lens in the Pâtes-Calais region
04:11in France.
04:13The truck was carrying military equipment.
04:16246 passengers were on board the train that was travelling from Dunkerque to Paris.
04:22Two people are in critical condition, but their lives were not in danger, while 13 people were in a serious
04:28condition.
04:30Authorities have said they are investigating the circumstances of the crash.
04:34The railway line will now be closed for at least a week.
04:39The driver of the military truck, a civilian, has been taken into custody on suspicion of manslaughter by willful endangerment
04:47of the lives of others
04:48and causing bodily harm by a lorry driver through a willful endangerment.
04:58The Greek Parliament's ethics committee unanimously recommended lifting the immunity of 11 lawmakers
05:05whose names appear in a case file submitted by the European prosecutor as part of its investigation into a farm
05:13subsidy scandal.
05:14The lawmakers are from the ruling New Democracy Party, and all 11 had requested the lifting of their immunity.
05:23Nine of the 11 MPs provided explanations by submitting a written statement, while only Notis Mitarrakis and Kostas Tsiaras turned
05:32up in Parliament.
05:34Tsiaras and Mitarrakis issued a statement saying that the case must be resolved as soon as possible.
05:41The final decision is expected to take place after 19 April.
05:45The investigation looks into whether beneficiaries of agriculture subsidies had made false claims,
05:52with some making claims for land they did not own and exaggerating the number of animals on farms.
06:02Empathy can be more powerful than funding, actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Christine Davis has told your news morning show
06:10Europe Today.
06:12Known for playing Charlotte in the world-renowned TV series Sex and the City, Davis has just returned from Sudan,
06:19where she met mostly female refugees who had fled violence and human rights abuses.
06:24They did nothing wrong to make them be a refugee. They're just trying to keep their family alive.
06:30And many of them told me stories of their husbands being taken out of the house and shot in front
06:35of them.
06:36That was the pressure that made them leave.
06:39Also, they'd been having food insecurity for a long time before that, so they'd been struggling and they knew that
06:43things were difficult.
06:44Last year, UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres warned the organization was facing its most fragile cash position in years
06:52as major contributors like the US and Russia did not pay their share.
06:57Despite funding cuts, however, Davis said the UNHCR continues to provide life-saving assistance.
07:04On the broader regional context and the ongoing war in the Middle East,
07:08she warned on the long-term consequences of ongoing conflicts.
07:13Over a million people have been displaced in Lebanon already, and it's just begun.
07:18So it's deeply, deeply disturbing, and I hope that people can, you know, find a way to de-escalate.
07:31Beneath the hustle and bustle of Paris' boulevards lies an empire of silence.
07:35Twenty meters underground, the catacombs are not just a labyrinth of stone, but the guardian of a staggering legacy.
07:42Since the 18th century, the sanctuary has housed the remains of millions of Parisians.
07:48From the anonymous victims of the Revolution to the great figures of history,
07:53the very soul of the capital rests here, frozen in limestone.
08:21Faced with the ravages of time and humidity, certain sections of femurs and skulls
08:26have undergone meticulous restoration to bring back the full impact of the site's macabre architecture.
08:52The result of a colossal effort, this marks a true renaissance for the catacombs.
08:58Between sublime scenography and immersive sound, every detail has been reimagined to offer the 2,000 daily visitors
09:05an unprecedented sensory journey into the heart of this sanctuary unique in the world.
09:56Beneath the
10:05NASA's four Artemis II astronauts are homeward bound
10:08after successfully completing a lunar flyby
10:11that saw them travel deeper into space than any other humans.
10:17Houston's mission control regained communication with the crew
10:20after an expected loss of contact for some 40 minutes
10:24as their spacecraft passed behind the far side of the moon.
10:27As they began their return towards Earth,
10:29U.S. President Donald Trump called and congratulated them,
10:33calling them modern-day pioneers who made history.
10:35We were just at complete peace and just doing our job
10:39and just trying to do a good job to collect as much science data as we could
10:43while we were on the far side of the moon,
10:45and we were just giddy in here, like, of our lives.
10:49He's being a bit humble, but as soon as we went out of calm with planet Earth,
10:53we did have maple cookies as we just gathered together for about 30 seconds.
10:59Each one of us had a maple cream cookie and then right back into the science.
11:02But we had to take a moment to honor that time going behind the moon
11:09and out of touch with Earth, and that was a very surreal moment for this crew.
11:13Astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen
11:17spent hours sending back detailed observations of the moon as they passed around it.
11:22They also observed a total solar eclipse after completing the flyby.
11:26Their mission sets the stage for a moon landing
11:28by two astronauts near the moon's south pole on Artemis 4 in 2028.
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