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00:00Pope Francis is dead and the Catholic Church will shortly convene a conclave to choose
00:05his successor.
00:06But who are the possible contenders?
00:11Russia has struck Saburizhija and Odessa less than 24 hours after the Easter ceasefire declared
00:17by Russia ended.
00:20US President Donald Trump has the back office defense secretary Pete Hexect one more time
00:24after a second signal chat scandal is unraveled while all allegations go undenied.
00:40After a nine day mourning period and funeral for Pope Francis, the Catholic Church will
00:44convene the next conclave.
00:47Here the College of Cardinals will gather to elect the church's next head.
00:52Four rounds of voting are held each day until a cardinal secures a two-thirds majority.
00:57But who are the possible contenders to become the next pontiff?
01:03Hungarian Cardinal Peter Erdo, the Archbishop of Budapest is considered a strong candidate.
01:10He twice led the Council of European Episcopal Conferences, evidence of his support amongst
01:16European cardinals, the largest voting bloc.
01:23Germany's Reinhard Marx made headlines when he offered to resign as Archbishop to atone
01:28for the German church's deep failures in handling abuse.
01:33Pope Francis rejected the resignation and told him to stay, but conservatives remain skeptical
01:39often.
01:40Mark Olet of Canada led the Vatican's influential bishop's office for over a decade, overseeing
01:52the vetting of Episcopal candidates worldwide.
01:55He is seen as more conservative than Pope Francis.
02:02Italian Cardinal Pietro Parlan, Pope Francis' Secretary of State since 2015, is widely seen
02:09as a leading contender, given his senior role in the Vatican hierarchy.
02:16As a former ambassador to Venezuela, Parlan knows the Latin American church well.
02:23An American pope has long been seen as unlikely, given the U.S.'s geopolitical power, but Chicago-born
02:31Robert Prevost could break that taboo.
02:35He is the current prefect of the Vatican's dicastery for bishops, in charge of vetting nominations
02:40from around the world.
02:45Ghanaian Robert Serra was long considered to have the best chance of becoming the first
02:50African pope.
02:53Favoured by conservatives, Serra represents a return to the style of John Paul II and Benedict
02:58XVI.
03:01Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schönborn was a student of Pope Benedict's and on paper has the intellectual
03:07credentials to appeal to conservatives, but he has drawn criticism from within the Vatican
03:14for challenging its past inaction against high-ranking abusers.
03:18Filipino Luis Tagli would appear to be Pope Francis' pick for the first Asian pontiff.
03:30Francis brought him to Rome to lead the church's missionary office, serving much of Asia and
03:35Africa.
03:42As the conclave approaches, the world waits to see who will lead the Catholic church into its
03:47next chapter.
03:54Throughout Monday afternoon into Tuesday, people have continued gathering in St. Peter's Square
03:59following the news of the death of Pope Francis.
04:02Mourners have been placing flowers, candles at different locations around the area.
04:07The pope's funeral will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. a date, confirmed by the College of Cardinals
04:14that convened at the Vatican on Tuesday.
04:17The ceremony is expected to draw leaders from around the world.
04:22And speculation is also growing over who could be the next pope.
04:27The majority of the 135 cardinal electors, those under the age of 80, has been appointed by
04:35Pope Francis.
04:37And with no clear front runner, the next pope will shape the future of the Roman Catholic
04:44church whether it will take a more progressive or conservative direction.
04:50And meanwhile, the Italian government has declared a five-day period of national mourning
04:57following the death of the pontiff.
04:59George Orlandi for Euronews in the Vatican.
05:06Vigils, tributes and special services of mass have been held across Europe as faithfuls mourn
05:13the late Pope Francis.
05:18In Italy, bells tolled in church towers and flags were lowered to half-mast on government buildings
05:24in Rome.
05:27An evening mass was held at Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral, during which worshippers paid homage
05:33to the pontiff during a prayer vigil.
05:37The Notre Dame bells also rang out 88 times to mark the years in the pope's life.
05:44In Madrid, mass was held at the Almudena Cathedral.
05:48Those attending spoke of the lasting impact of the late pontiff's legacy.
05:53It was a very beautiful memory.
05:55And the legacy that he gave us as a Holy Father, his simplicity and proximity, I think
06:00has been very good.
06:02And we are going to miss him a lot.
06:06Vatican flags have been raised in Hungary, Croatia and Bulgaria, where worshippers are
06:12echoing similar sentiments.
06:14In the UK, mass was held at London's Westminster Cathedral, and flags were flown at half-mast across the capital
06:35to mark the pope's death.
06:51At least one person was killed and two dozen others injured after Russia launched two aerial glide bombs on the city of Zaporizhiza.
06:581, 2, 3.
07:001, 2, 3.
07:011, 2, 3.
07:02I'd say you!
07:03I was working.
07:04I went to the hospital.
07:05I came to the hospital.
07:07I came, and I told them, that I left my house.
07:10Now, my mother's wife was very kind of a woman.
07:13What did she not?
07:14She was a girl.
07:15She was so nice.
07:16She was talking to me.
07:17We were talking and shared.
07:18The strike followed shortly after Odessa had come under massive attack by Russian drones
07:36overnight. Local emergency authorities said a residential building in a densely populated
07:42urban area, civilian infrastructure and an education facility were hit in the attack.
07:48Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had called for a halt in strikes on civilian
07:54facilities. A Kremlin's spokesperson said that while Russia is prepared to consider the
07:59proposal, there are currently no planned talks and reaching such an agreement could take time.
08:04After Russian President Putin declared a ceasefire on Saturday, Ukraine said it was
08:10ready to reciprocate but said Russian attacks were continuing.
08:19Firefighters battled flames at a plastic landfill in the Czech Republic after a fire broke out
08:25on Monday.
08:28So far, the blaze in the country's central region has engulfed 450 square metres and is
08:345 metres high. Several firefighters have been injured, according to local media.
08:44Authorities have been prompted to issue a level 2 alert in the region and say that the situation
08:49would remain serious.
08:56The White House defended Defense Secretary Pete Hexeth on Monday over a news signal messaging
09:01scandal. Reports on Sunday detailed a second check where Hexeth allegedly shared sensitive
09:06military data with family members. Significantly, neither the White House nor Hexeth denied the
09:12report's core claims. Instead, President Donald Trump said Hexeth was doing a great job and
09:18that he was removing, quote, bad people from the Pentagon.
09:22Trump also dismissed the story as fake news and nothing new.
09:25Are you bringing up signal again? I thought they gave that up two weeks ago.
09:29It's the same old stuff from the media. That's an old one. Try finding something new.
09:35Hexeth himself attacked the media and leakers, willing to continue his reforms at the Department
09:39of Defense.
09:40What a big surprise that a bunch of, a few leakers get fired and suddenly a bunch of hit pieces
09:46come out from the same media that peddled the Russia hoax, won't give back their Pulitzers.
09:52They got Pulitzers for a bunch of lies. This is what the media does. They take anonymous
09:56sources from disgruntled former employees and then they try to slash and burn people and
10:02ruin their reputations. Not going to work with me.
10:04The second chat reportedly contains similar sensitive information to a previously revealed
10:09chat involving top officials, which is already under investigation.
10:12Democrats, led by Senator Schumer, are demanding that Hexeth be fired over the repeated security
10:18concerns. The controversy unfolds amid wider Pentagon turmoil, including the recent departure
10:24of several senior aides to Hexeth.
10:26And then you put it all together as if it's some news story.
10:30Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in an effort to block
10:40a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grant funding. The legal action follows the
10:46university's refusal to comply with a series of demands issued by the administration aimed
10:52at curbing campus activism. Earlier this month, the White House sent a letter to Harvard outlining
10:59proposed reforms that included changes to university leadership and admissions policies and an audit
11:05of its diversity initiatives. The administration also urged the university to revoke recognition
11:13of several student organizations.
11:17After Harvard President Alan Garber publicly rejected the demands, the federal government responded
11:23by freezing the university's grant funding. The university claims the government's demands are not
11:30only a threat to the Ivy League school itself, but to the autonomy that the Supreme Court has long
11:36been granted American universities.
11:38It's got to be also clear that the attacks of the NIH funding...