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00:00Portugal adopts stricter immigration laws that make it harder to enter the country, pushed through by Parliament with the support of the far-right.
00:10European leaders welcome U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan, urging Hamas to accept it without delay.
00:21An aide who worked for a prominent member of Germany's far-right AFD party has been convicted of spying for China.
00:30The Portuguese government on Tuesday adopted stricter immigration laws to make it harder to enter the country, pushed through with the support of the far-right.
00:39The centre-right parliamentary majority approved the revised bill after the Constitutional Court blocked its previous version for being too harsh on immigrant family members seeking to join them.
00:51While all the left-wing parties voted against the bill, the two largest parties approved more than a dozen amendments to the decree, with the overwhelming support of the right-wing parties represented in the chamber.
01:05The raft of measures approved stipulates that only highly skilled workers are eligible for job search visas, and from now on, family reunification for immigrants will only apply after at least two years of legal stay.
01:21Lawmakers are still debating another element of the reform regarding conditions for acquiring Portuguese nationality.
01:28The 2024 records show more than 1.5 million non-Portuguese people were living in Portugal, around 15% of the total population, and nearly four times more than in 2017.
01:42The European Union has welcomed the 20-point plan laid out by U.S. President Donald Trump to end Israel's war on Gaza, and urged Hamas to accept it without delay.
01:59EU leaders, including Foreign Chief Kaya Callas, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Council President Antonio Costa, have expressed commitment to the plan's successful implementation.
02:09German Chancellor Friedrich Meritz said it's the best chance to end the war.
02:14If there is an agreement, then Germany is ready to implement the plan's implementation.
02:19That's important politically, that's important, that's important, and that's important for the restoration of the region.
02:25We consider it as a work for the Near East, in which one day Israelis and Palestinians can live safely and safe in two countries.
02:35The proposal includes, among other aspects, an end to military operations, the liberation of Israeli hostages, the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners,
02:45the disarmament of Hamas, and the unimpeded delivery of humanitarian aid.
02:49Todo aquello que sirva para evitar el desplazamiento forzoso de población, para terminar con la hambruna inducida inaceptable, para conseguir la liberación de todos los rehenes,
03:03y para terminar con esta masacre de inocentes, demasiados muertos ya inocentes.
03:09Recent days have seen several EU countries recognize the state of Palestine,
03:15and Trump said conditions could be in place for a pathway to self-determination.
03:20Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, said he would forcibly resist the prospect of Palestinian statehood,
03:27casting doubt on whether the 20 points can be realized in full.
03:31After thousands joined Italy's general strike in solidarity with Gaza,
03:40activists across the country have continued staging protests,
03:44setting up camps in around 100 cities to oppose Israel's war in Gaza.
03:50Here in Rome, they say they're ready to protest again in the coming days,
03:54with a major rally planned on October 4th in the Italian capital.
03:58They demand stronger political action, saying they feel represented neither by the government nor by opposition parties.
04:24I believe that on September 22, a part of the country has shown that today there is a people, a government, a political class.
04:34Today, this people want the end of the genocide, a political class that accepts its own responsibilities
04:41and puts at the center what are the priorities of the population of the country.
04:46Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni has strongly condemned protests turning violent,
04:57while the Italian government continues to warn the flotilla about the dangers of approaching Gaza.
05:02Italians were spoke to on the streets of Rome, expressed mixed views on the issues.
05:32Sinceramente non mi so fare un'opinione precisa, non riesco a distinguere bene il livello di utilità rispetto invece a quello di simbolo, di segnale.
05:44È bello vedere tutto questo sentimento popolare diffuso che c'è, è una cosa molto bella anche perché fa un po' da collante in questo periodo storico
05:51dove non sembra poterci essere un qualcosa di unificante.
05:53I movimenti che lo portano avanti secondo me sono un po' disorganizzati.
05:58Quindi adesso ci sono i numeri perché per fortuna c'è ancora tanta gente che scende in piazza, però si potrebbe fare meglio dentro.
06:04An aide who worked for a prominent member of Germany's far-right AfD party has been convicted of spying for China.
06:16Jian Guo worked in the parliamentary office of Maximilian Kra, a member of the European Parliament between 2019 and this year.
06:24Kra is currently an MP in Germany's parliament.
06:27Quo has been charged with repeatedly providing Chinese intelligence with information on negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament between 2019 and 2024.
06:39He also snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany and gathered information on AfD lawmakers.
06:47Kra was a witness in Guo's trial and said he did not have any knowledge of his former aid's activities.
06:52Earlier this month, Germany's parliament lifted Kra's immunity in connection with allegations that he also has had ties to China and was involved in corruption and spying scandals.
07:05Kra denies wrongdoing and says the allegations are politically motivated.
07:09Regional authorities in Ukraine reported on Tuesday that at least nine civilians were killed and 15 others injured in Russian strikes in the last 24 hours.
07:23In Sumy, a couple and their two children were reportedly killed in a Russian drone strike on Tuesday.
07:30The drone hit a residential building in the village of Chechenya in what the region's governor called a targeted strike.
07:39According to media reports, a 60-year-old was also killed elsewhere in Sumy
08:06and three others were killed in Donetsk.
08:09Ukraine's Air Force said 46 out of 65 drones launched from Russia overnight were intercepted by its air defences.
08:18Daily Russian strikes on Ukraine continue as U.S.-led efforts to end the war have made no progress.
08:24The Council of Europe is ready to create a special tribunal for Ukraine, but member states need to make the final move to make it a reality.
08:36The body's secretary-general told Euronews on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly.
08:40We are ready. We are ready to have also an advanced team to make it real.
08:45What we need now is really a clear support and commitment from states, not only encouraging, but also supporting this development as soon as possible.
08:54The special tribunal for Ukraine is a new international judicial body established by treaty between Ukraine and the COE,
09:02intended to prosecute the crime of aggression committed against Ukraine.
09:06Its main purpose is to fill a legal gap.
09:10The International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over war crimes,
09:14but currently cannot prosecute the crime of aggression in the case of Russian aggression against Ukraine.
09:19It's clear that courts are challenged and that's not always a good situation because, I mean, we need to have some order.
09:26An order is to have political discussions, what we want to achieve,
09:30and then to respect what the courts are doing and to respect the independence of the judiciary.
09:37I mean, that's really important, not to destabilize those systems.
09:41The COE is an international organization based in Strasbourg,
09:46established after the Second World War to promote democracy, human rights and the rule of law across Europe.
09:52It is not part of the European Union and is composed of 46 member states.
09:56Through its European Court of Human Rights,
09:59individuals can bring cases where they consider they have suffered a breach of their rights.
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