00:00Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said he's honoured to have all but secured the role of NATO's next Secretary General.
00:11Hezbollah won Cyprus against aiding Israel as tensions escalate within the East Mediterranean.
00:21Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has said he's honoured to have all but secured the role of NATO's next Secretary General.
00:29On Thursday, Romania's President Klaus Johannes withdrew from the race for the military's alliance top job, leaving Rutte the only remaining candidate.
00:40The Dutch Prime Minister's appointment could be sealed by a meeting of NATO ambassadors in the coming days, or when President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts meet for a summit in Washington in July.
00:53Following the announcement of Johannes' withdrawal, Rutte posed in jeans, a white shirt and sunglasses for selfies with people outside his office.
01:03Speaking to the press, Rutte explained why he went for the job.
01:23Mark Rutte has faced a number of scandals while in office in the Netherlands.
01:30His third coalition government resigned in early 2021 over a scandal involving investigations into child welfare payments that wrongly labelled thousands of parents as fraudsters.
01:44But just a few months later, Rutte bounced back, leading his Conservative People's Party for Freedom and Democracy to victory in national elections.
01:59Ukraine is giving the possibility to prisoners to fight as its army struggles to find new recruits.
02:07Those who sign up to the contract can regain their freedom, on the condition they keep fighting until the end of the war with Russia.
02:17Around 3,000 prisoners have already registered.
02:24The new law aims to mobilise another several hundred soldiers, a process which could take months, but President Zelensky remains positive.
02:37We are now able to overcome Russia's imperial ambitions.
02:41This is the return of peace and confidence in our whole Europe.
02:47We are working with the command to supply a few more Patriots.
02:52It follows NATO member Romania's pledge to donate a Patriot missile system to Ukraine as Russia's forces continue to bombard civilian areas.
03:06Vladimir Putin says he's considering changing Russia's nuclear weapons doctrine due to the development of ultra-low-power explosive nuclear devices by his country's adversaries.
03:18He made the comments during a press conference in Hanoi as part of his state visit to Vietnam.
03:25Putin also said he does not rule out sending weapons to North Korea, where he signed a mutual defence pact this week.
03:32But he conceded that no North Korean volunteers will be expected on Ukraine's front lines.
03:42Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has warned Israel and Cyprus that if a full-scale conflict breaks out, no part of Israel will be safe.
03:50The Cypriot government must be careful.
03:54Opening the Cypriot airports and bases to the Israeli enemy, to target Lebanon, means that the Cypriot government has become part of the war.
04:06And it will cooperate with the resistance because it is part of the war.
04:10He also accused Cyprus of complicity with Israel, warning that any support for Israeli military operations against Lebanon would make Cyprus a target.
04:18Both Israel and Cyprus have denied any involvement in military actions and emphasised their roles in humanitarian efforts.
04:24I have read the statements that have been made.
04:28What I have to say is that the Cypriot democracy is not involved in any way in the war.
04:37The Cypriot democracy is not part of the problem. The Cypriot democracy is part of the solution.
04:54That means any threat against one of our member states is a threat against the European Union.
04:59Both the United Nations and the United States have urged restraint and diplomacy at this time.
05:08For the first time, the European Union targets Russian gas in a newly approved sanctions package.
05:16They will impose a ban on supplies of liquefied natural gas, but it won't be a complete prohibition, as happened with coal and oil.
05:26Instead, EU countries will be able to buy it, but it will not be possible to reship it outside the EU.
05:34For the President of the Commission, it's key to cut revenues from Russia.
05:38Ursula von der Leyen said in a tweet on X that she welcomed the agreement on the package,
05:45which will deny Russia access in key technologies and will strip them of further energy revenues.
05:53According to experts, despite its limitations, it's a way to start and it will not affect supplies for European citizens.
06:02Gas was never sanctioned since the full-scale invasion, so I would say this is a huge first step.
06:09And it's quite important because we created, the European Union created for Russia, huge logistical obstacles.
06:19To ship LNG to Asia during the winter, Russia needs to use European ports in France and Belgium, something that will now be forbidden.
06:29Russia won't be able to use our ports. It means that they have to use either ship directly to Asia,
06:39either they have to find another location and let's say probably in Turkey or another country where they can tranship.
06:48So it means that their logistical route will be longer, plus it will cost them more to tranship that.
06:56The approval was delayed several times over the reservations voiced by several countries, including Hungary and Germany.
07:10UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he is incredibly angry about allegations that conservative candidates place bets on the date of the general election
07:20and says anyone involved in using inside information to bet should be expelled from the party.
07:27Those facing investigation include a Tory candidate, an aide and one of the Prime Minister's police bodyguards.
07:33Sunak made his statement during a debate on BBC's Question Time,
07:37which saw the leaders of the country's four largest political parties take questions from a live studio audience.
07:44Global leaders gathered in Paris to launch a new European-funded initiative to increase vaccine production in Africa.
07:53The African Vaccine Manufacturing Accelerator will provide nearly 1 billion euros over 10 years to support African vaccine manufacturers.
08:02It aims to address the large inequalities that came to light during the COVID-19 pandemic.
08:08The project was officially launched at a global forum co-hosted by France, the African Union and the international vaccine organisation Gavi.
08:21The final works are being carried out on the historical French Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris.
08:28The stones and marble floors are restored. The first chimeras and gargoyles have been installed.
08:34The craftsmen will complete the covering of the spire.
08:41The painted canvas of the Virgin and Child, designed by 19th-century architect Vilo Leduc, has just been recreated and returned to its original position.
08:55However, the cathedral is due to reopen to the public on December 8, 2024,
08:59which means the spectators that will visit the city for the Olympics won't be able to see the inside of the magnificent structure.
09:29Following the fire in April 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron promised the historic building would be completed in five years.
09:59And this house behind me, which seems quite normal, is actually a massage parlour that offers sexual services.
10:04For years, these places have been tolerated, but not legally authorized.
10:07So what does that mean for people directly concerned?
10:10That's what we're going to see in Witness.
10:30We don't have any problems with that at all. Everything is legal here.
10:34It's like in the laws that are now coming into effect.
10:39What is very worrying is that it will favor the proxenet, the traffickers who already exist in Belgium
10:46and who already benefit from the services provided by the French government.
10:51And that's what we're going to see in Witness.
10:53We're going to see a lot of people coming here.
10:55We're going to see a lot of people coming here.
10:57We're going to see a lot of people coming here.
10:59We're going to see a lot of people coming here.
11:01The proxenet, the traffickers who already exist in Belgium
11:06and who already benefit from a huge impunity.
11:21It exists. And if you don't do it in the open, then it will exist underground.
11:27Now it's open. There's a regulation.
11:30It gets checked. We get a lot of controls.
11:33It controls everything.
11:35So I think that it's one of the best ways to work with it.
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