00:00 Thousands of evacuations underway in Ukraine's Kharkiv region following Russia's incursion,
00:07 while Kiev strikes back in Belgorod.
00:10 Putin shook up his inner circle by reshuffling his cabinet following inauguration into his fifth presidential term.
00:18 Israel pushes their ground offensive into Rafa, as US delivers its harshest criticism of Israel yet.
00:28 Russia hit the Kharkiv region with more than 30 strikes in the past 48 hours.
00:42 Several residential buildings were destroyed or damaged, and the body of a woman was found under the rubble.
00:49 Heavy fighting's been mounting since Saturday after Russia's sudden incursion in the Vovchansk area.
00:56 Over 5,000 people have already been evacuated.
01:01 Ukraine's President Zelensky described the situation in Vovchansk as extremely difficult.
01:08 His forces struck back on Sunday with a massive shelling on the Russian city of Belgorod.
01:15 The attack hit a residential building, killing at least 15 people.
01:23 The Belgorod region, on Russia's western border, has already been the target of a large number of strikes.
01:30 Putin shook up his inner circle by reshuffling his cabinet following inauguration into his fifth presidential term.
01:44 He appointed the former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu as Secretary of Russia's National Security Council.
01:52 Shoigu served as Defense Minister for years, but the recent arrest of one of his deputies on bribery charges
02:00 was widely interpreted as an attack on him and a possible precursor to his dismissal.
02:07 Shoigu played a massive role in the Russian invasion of Ukraine,
02:12 and the implication of his dismissal on the war remains to be seen.
02:18 Shoigu and Patrushev, two of the four top people in the country and the government running the war,
02:24 at the same time, without any real prior warning, at a time when there's a counter-offensive going on in northern Ukraine,
02:32 I find it really quite impactful and surprising. But we will see in the next few days how it plays out.
02:41 In Shoigu's place, Putin appointed Andrei Belishev, who previously served as the Deputy Prime Minister.
02:48 A Kremlin spokesperson said the role was given to a civilian because the ministry should be open to innovation.
02:55 Georgia is about to approve a controversial law that tightens controls on organizations receiving foreign funds.
03:07 The bill will go to Parliament on Tuesday after the green light received today by the Legal Affairs Committee.
03:13 It says that any company getting at least 20% of its funding from abroad will be registered as pursuing the interests of a foreign power.
03:22 Protesters have been gathering outside Parliament in Tbilisi since Sunday evening to prevent lawmakers from entering.
03:29 Demonstrations are set to continue throughout the day after weeks of widespread rallies and arrests.
03:37 The opposition is afraid this law will end up restricting media freedom and stigmatize government critics.
03:44 Many also see it as a step back from Georgia's EU membership ambitions.
03:49 The government said the bill will stand what it deems as "harmful foreign influence" over the country's political scene.
03:59 A payment card designed only for asylum seekers has come into force in Germany after the new rule was passed by Parliament last month.
04:13 Migrants are not able to transfer money outside Germany in a bid to prevent them from sending money to family and friends abroad or to smugglers.
04:24 I tried to buy in a shop and they said that this card is not our partner, you can't buy from here and it's also not working in all of Germany.
04:34 There are half money and half cash. With half money that are in the card I can buy groceries and with the other half I can buy in every shop whatever I need for me and my children.
04:48 Migrant advocacy groups have criticized the new regulation as discriminatory.
04:55 The whole discussion about the payment card was started with very clear motives by the minister-president's conference.
05:04 They want to scare people off and you have to say it clearly, people come because of civil war and persecution, they can't be scared off by a payment card.
05:12 In our country the asylum seekers are also dependent on buses and trains and you can only pay in cash.
05:19 I like to pay in cash and I find both of them sympathetic.
05:23 We have many nationalities that grew up with cash, they don't know how to pay in cash, that's too modern for them.
05:30 Germany has been trying to clamp down on migration for months and this latest measure comes just weeks before the European Union election.
05:39 The EU is now participating in the EU Forest
05:42 Hello, I am Noah Just, 16 years old and I am happy to be participating in the EU Forest for the first time this year and to be able to help our EU.
05:57 If I were a European MP and could save the world, I would be committed to protecting the nature reserves in Romania.
06:06 Because currently big furniture companies are buying up these areas and then they are plowing them to produce furniture.
06:14 I want to prevent this and protect the climate so that I can save my future and the future of my children.
06:28 If I am elected as a member of the European Parliament, I will work, I will fight to defend the European democracy, our common values, freedom, liberty, justice.
06:40 It's essential, it's important and we will keep the social dimension.
06:47 Fighting for our rights, fighting for our freedom and thinking in our future generation.
06:54 An exclusive Euronews poll is predicting a win for the incumbent Greek centre-right New Democracy party in the European Parliament elections in June.
07:04 It shows the party lost 3% of its support between March and May but still came out on top.
07:12 It's been one year since Greeks went to the polls and elected New Democracy, led by Prime Minister Hiriakos Tsipras.
07:20 And the party appears to be retaining its popularity over its moderate left-wing rivals, Syriza and PASOK.
07:28 The Super Poll puts Syriza in second place and PASOK third.
07:34 Mitsotakis leads Syriza's candidate for Prime Minister, Stefanos Kasalakis, by more than 20%.
07:42 Greece is somewhat of an outlier.
07:46 Most of the European ruling parties are likely to face setbacks in the elections.
07:52 Tsitakis' New Democracy is expected to win one more seat in the European Parliament.
07:59 And Syriza could keep its four seats in the European left benches.
08:05 PASOK appears set to secure three MEPs to the Social and Democrats group.
08:11 The Greek Solution Party is expected to grow and send two MEPs to the European Conservatives and Reformers.
08:19 The Communist Party of Greece could have two seats in the non-attached group.
08:25 With the far-right Spartans movement out of the race, the ultra-conservatives' votes could be absorbed by New Democracy.
08:34 The ruling party has taken steps to move away from the far-right, with Mitsotakis recently legalising same-sex marriage.
08:45 The country's Supreme Court barred the Spartans over its alleged ties with the banned far-right Golden Dawn party.
08:55 The results mean that controversial New Democracy is likely to win.
09:01 The results mean that controversial New Democracy candidate Freddie Bulaeri could have a shot at entering the European Parliament.
09:09 Bulaeri is serving a two-year prison sentence in Albania for election fraud.
09:15 Voting will begin on June 9.
09:21 Israel moves their ground offensive deeper into the southern border town of Rafah, forcibly displacing at least a further 300,000 people.
09:31 Over 35,000 Palestinians have been killed across the Gaza Strip and at least 78,700 have been injured.
09:39 In the central city of Deir al-Bala, thousands have displaced from nearby Gaza City,
09:44 and the northern part of the Strip have set up sprawling tented settlements in the town,
09:49 which risks to be unable to cope with the influx of people.
09:53 Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met with his Slovenian counterpart Tania Fayon in Cairo on Sunday,
10:00 where both ministers called for a ceasefire and the release of all hostages.
10:05 While Egypt says it will join South Africa's case against Israel, and Slovenia is seeking recognition over Palestinian state.
10:15 On Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered some of the Biden administration's strongest public criticism yet
10:23 of Israel's conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians.
10:32 While in Tel Aviv, relatives of hostages held in Gaza, an activist marked its memorial day for fallen soldiers and victims of attacks.
10:40 Lithuania's President appears on course for a second term as head of the state,
10:50 following the country's first round of presidential elections.
10:54 In a rerun of the 2019 elections, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseita will face off against Prime Minister Ingrida Simonite
11:05 in the country's second round of presidential elections.
11:09 Nauseita barely missed the chance to be re-elected in the first round, receiving about 45% of the vote.
11:18 Simonite received 18% of the vote, along with an endorsement from only one of the six losing candidates.
11:26 While working in the Lithuanian government, the two regularly clashed over political values.
11:32 However, support for Ukraine and stronger defense spending were two rare points of agreement.
11:39 agreements.
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