00:00 A truce said to be on the horizon in the Israel-Hamas conflict, bringing hope of a reprieve from
00:06 the fighting and the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip.
00:11 Two more foreign officials touched down in Kiev, pledging further support for Ukraine
00:16 in its war against Russia.
00:21 Finland debates closing more border crossings over concerns Russia`s behind a surge in the
00:25 number of asylum seekers trying to enter the country.
00:30 The EU chief becomes the personal target of a new campaign in Hungary as part of a national
00:35 consultation leveling serious accusations against the European Commission.
00:40 Housing is by far the most important issue at the Dutch elections on Wednesday, as a
00:44 lack of affordable homes tops the list of concerns in the Netherlands.
00:51 Six and a half weeks after the Israel-Hamas war started, a truce is said to be on the
00:56 horizon.
00:57 It could mean the release of people kidnapped by the militant group in Israel on October
01:02 the 7th.
01:03 More than 13,000 people have been killed by Israel`s military in the Gaza Strip since
01:09 then.
01:10 The IDF insists it`s targeting Hamas, which attacked Israel, and not ordinary Palestinians.
01:16 Some of the latest fighting has been happening in and around the Indonesian hospital in the
01:20 north.
01:22 Civilian victims have been moved to another medical facility in the south.
01:27 Palestinian officials say at least 12 people were killed in an airstrike on the hospital
01:31 on Monday.
01:32 The Gazan health ministry blamed Israeli forces.
01:36 The Israeli military says its troops came under fire inside the hospital.
01:42 If the deal brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the U.S. goes through, there will be a reprieve
01:47 in the fighting.
01:49 Israel would have to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the release of women and children
01:54 held hostage by Hamas.
01:56 The agreement is also expected to allow trucks full of humanitarian aid to enter the besieged
02:02 territory and for more of the injured to be transferred to other countries for treatment.
02:13 The latest foreign officials to touch down in Kiev and unannounced.
02:18 The Ukrainian defense minister and the president of the European Council reiterating their
02:22 backing for Kiev to win its war against Russia.
02:26 At a time where conflict in the Middle East dominates.
02:47 On Ukraine's day of dignity and freedom, President Volodymyr Zelensky linked the historic
02:51 pro-democracy protests one decade ago to the current day, describing the 2013 demonstrations
02:57 as the first victory in its war with Russia.
03:01 As civilians took time out of their day to remember, Kiev's army held new positions on
03:06 the left bank of the Dnieper River in Kherson, repelling Russian attacks on a number of fronts.
03:12 The first snow has fallen in the war-ravaged east.
03:37 Troops have learned how to better manage the conditions, but plummeting temperatures bring
03:41 new challenges.
03:46 Finland is debating taking further action on its border with Russia after closing four
03:50 crossings earlier this month.
03:53 The move came after an increase in the number of asylum seekers trying to enter the European
03:57 Union member state from Russia.
03:59 Helsinki, which joined NATO earlier this year in response to Russia's full-scale invasion
04:03 of Ukraine, has accused Moscow of helping migrants without valid travel documents cross
04:08 its border.
04:09 Some 500 asylum seekers arrived in Finland in November alone.
04:14 On Monday, the country's Prime Minister, Petri Orpo, said he was not ruling out closing more
04:18 entry points to stop the flow.
04:21 Other European and NATO countries have accused Moscow of deliberately moving migrants toward
04:26 border zones as a type of hybrid warfare.
04:35 NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg is on a four-day visit to the Western Balkans, where he's pushing
04:41 a message of regional stability.
04:43 In Belgrade, he called on Serbia and Kosovo to de-escalate tensions, urging Serbian President
04:50 Aleksandar Vucic not to send more soldiers to the border.
04:55 Tensions flared there after Serb militants attacked Kosovo's police and security force
05:00 in September.
05:01 A policeman and three militants were killed.
05:24 The EU has proposed the creation of an association of Serb-majority municipalities to help reduce
05:30 tensions.
05:48 The NATO Secretary-General pushed a similar message during talks with Kosovo's leaders
05:53 in Pristina.
05:55 EU diplomats have warned both sides that failure to resolve the hostilities will affect their
06:00 chances of joining the bloc.
06:06 Hungary has launched another national consultation, a government poll to ask its citizens where
06:11 they stand on issues critical to their leaders.
06:14 The questions feature anti-European statements and assumptions that accuse Brussels of forcing
06:19 bad policies on the Hungarian government.
06:22 Some include deceitful information such as claims of financial support from the EU to
06:27 a Palestinian organization supporting Hamas, something that has not been proven.
06:32 Our political analyst told Euronews it's clearly a strategy to further Prime Minister Viktor
06:36 Orbán's political agenda.
06:38 "This is clearly a communication campaign.
06:42 The EU is trying to make things work in Hungary.
06:46 There are inflationary crises everywhere, especially in Hungary, but there are other
06:49 problems as well.
06:50 The government wants to blame all governments, and the Hungarian government has been going
06:55 on for a long time.
06:57 I think it's a very bad strategy."
07:00 The accompanying poster campaign this time aimed at the head of the Commission, Ursula
07:04 von der Leyen, linking her to the new head of the Open Society Foundations, son of the
07:10 controversial billionaire George Soros.
07:13 Capitalised text reads "Let's not dance to the tune they whistle."
07:17 But the Commission says the statement is a known falsehood, and the EU chief is simply
07:23 unfazed.
07:24 "We believe in the intelligence of the Hungarian public, of the roughly 10 million Hungarian
07:31 citizens who live not only in Hungary but in the European Union.
07:39 And we are quite sure that they can make up their own minds based on objective information
07:48 that we provide."
07:50 Budapest is fighting with other member states and the governing body over several issues,
07:55 from its stance on the war in Ukraine, relations with Russia, migration and the rule of law.
08:00 Most of the EU funds have been withheld.
08:03 After the latest election in Poland, Hungary lost its last strong ally within the bloc,
08:08 but it will take over the EU Council presidency next July.
08:16 Migrating is by far the most important issue at the Dutch elections.
08:21 The lack of affordable homes is topping the list of concerns in the Netherlands, as one
08:25 of the country's most relevant political experts tells Euronews.
08:30 "It is the most important issue, I think, because it was neglected a long time.
08:36 So we have a lot of people, young people, older people.
08:40 We have, of course, also a lot of migrants who need a house in this country.
08:47 All the parties think it's very important.
08:50 Voters think it's very important.
08:52 But there is no one party that has the solution that voters say this is the best solution."
09:01 Several causes are creating a kind of perfect storm.
09:06 Nearly 390,000 houses are missing across the country, according to this professor from
09:12 Delft University.
09:14 "The reason is that we didn't build so much housing last ten years, so we had a drop in
09:20 housing production and we had a quite steep increase of population because of migration,
09:26 especially labour migration, which is quite high.
09:29 And last year we had, of course, people from the Ukraine, but it's especially labour migration.
09:35 So there's much more demand for housing nowadays than ten years ago and we produce less housing,
09:41 so that gives a shortage."
09:43 Only in the city of Amsterdam there are about 3,000 so-called homeless people, people without
09:53 particular problems, with an ordinary daily life, who lose their home after a separation
09:59 or a divorce and can't find another because of the difficulties of the real estate market.
10:06 A programme called 'Onder de Panne' by the non-profit association De Regerbog helps these
10:10 people by matching their needs with house owners who have rooms to spare and can rent
10:14 one at a modest price between 250 and 600 euros per month.
10:21 "We try to give them a temporary spot to regain energy, get out of the survival mode
10:30 of having this stress constantly, to be thinking from where am I going to sleep, how am I going
10:36 to keep my job if I cannot shower, where am I going to cook my food, how am I going to
10:41 survive this.
10:43 We try to give them at least for 12 months a solid spot to get rest and help them to
10:51 make plans for the future."
10:53 De Regerbog also tries to accommodate people in empty offices or houses to be renovated
10:57 or demolished.
10:59 In Amsterdam renting a flat can be very difficult but buying it can prove impossible.
11:04 The asking price for a 60 square meter house can go up to as much as 600,000 euros.
11:15 More than 70,000 Europeans died from heat related causes during the summer of 2022 according
11:22 to a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health.
11:26 The authors revised upwards the initial death toll from last year's record breaking temperatures.
11:32 The calculations were made using a new method based on aggregation of mortality data on
11:37 a weekly level.
11:38 Experts discovered the previous study underestimated the figures by 10.28 percent.
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