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The leader of a far-right Dutch populist party was treated in hospital after being whacked on the back of the head with a beer bottle.

The attack on Thierry Baudet, leader of Forum for Democracy, comes two days before the far-right leader will hope to keep his seat in parliament in the country’s general election.

It also comes weeks after a man smacked him over the head with an umbrella in Ghent, Belgium.

Footage of the latest attack shows Mr Baudet in a bar in the northern Dutch city of Groningen on Monday.

A man then emerges from his left-hand side and repeatedly hits him with the bottle.

One of the blows is said to have struck Mr Baudet near his eye.

A man standing with Mr Baudet then throws a punch at the attacker before the Dutch politician is moved away from the scene.

Another man can be seen pushing the attacker in the opposite direction.

Forum for Democracy has said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, that Mr Baudet was treated in hospital by a trauma surgeon.

The post adds that the politician was “alright” and that a security guard was also injured.

Police spokesman Thijs de Jong said a person was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the attack. He said the motive was under investigation.

Mr De Jong said he could not comment on Mr Baudet’s condition.

However, he added: “What we can say at the moment is that Mr Baudet was hit on the head, possibly with an object.”

Forum for Democracy has said it is not clear if a later event in another Dutch city would go ahead on Monday.

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Last month Mr Baudet had arrived at Ghent University to give a lecture when he was struck over the head with an umbrella.

The attacker was heard shouting “no to fascism, no to Putinism”.

Outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte said in a message on X that it was “totally unacceptable that Mr Baudet has been attacked again.

Mr Rutte said he had contacted Mr Baudet to wish him good health.

Plans to stop emitting greenhouse gases in order to limit global warming are nowhere near enough to avert dangerous climate change, a United Nations body has warned.

In its annual Emissions Gap report, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says the climate action plans of governments around the world will fail to limit the global temperature to under 1.5-2C this century.

That limit was the goal of the landmark Paris Agreement, struck in 2015, when almost 200 countries agreed limiting global warming was necessary to avoid extremely destructive impacts.

Current pledges put the world on track for a 2.5-2.9C of global warming, UNEP said.

Its executive director Inger Andersen told Sky News: “None of these scenarios are acceptable to many, many people who live in low-lying areas, in coastal communities in fire hazard areas or in drought prone areas or flood prone areas.

“So we really do need to step up.”

At 3C of warming, scientists predict the world could pass several catastrophic points of no return, from the runaway melting of ice sheets to the Amazon rainforest drying out.

“Present trends are racing our planet down a dead-end 3C temperature rise,” said UN secretary general Antonio Guterres.

“The emissions gap is more like an emissions canyon.”

In order to keep warming to 1.5C or 2C, emissions must fall by 28-42% by 2030, the UNEP report said, in a year expected to be the hottest in more than 100,000 years.

It added that “relentless” efforts to stop emissions – which primarily come from burning fossil fuels – are “essential” to narrow that emissions gap.

The report takes aim at G20 economies, saying not one is reducing emissions at a pace consistent with their targets to balance out pollution – known as net zero.

If all countries’ climate action plans – known as Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) – and net zero pledges were met, limiting the temperature rise 2C would be possible, the analysis said.

But the report added: “Net-zero pledges are not currently considered credible.”

Ms Andersen said: “Clearly we need to see those that have the most ability, but also with the highest emission load to reduce, not increase.”

The UK government recently delayed some key environment measures, which its climate advisers said would jeopardise Britain’s ability to meet its net zero climate target.

It comes hot off the heels of two recent, similarly damning, reports about governments’ insufficient action to tackle climate change.

On Tuesday, a report from the UN’s climate body, the UNFCCC, found plans to limit climate change to internationally agreed safer levels would not actually do so.

And on Wednesday, the World Meteorological Organisation said levels of climate-heating greenhouse gases in the atmosphere had reached a new record high.

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The recent warnings come ahead of talks at the annual United Nations COP climate summit, with this year’s COP28 kicking off in Dubai next week.

Negotiators will be wrangling over measures to get the world back on track for lower levels of global warming.

But Ms Andersen said she was hopeful because the COP28 offered a chance to change – and she was buoyed by the recent promise of China and the US – the world’s largest emitters – to resume cooperation on climate change.

The Israeli army claims it has found a Hamas tunnel inside Gaza’s biggest hospital, al Shifa.

The latest footage posted by the IDF shows the view inside an underground tunnel in the eastern edge of the hospital.

A professor specialising in underground warfare says she believes the tunnel seen in the video is “consistent with Hamas tunnels”.

Hamas has repeatedly denied Israeli claims that it’s used the medical facility for its operations, while Israel claims it is home to the group’s headquarters.

The “operational tunnel shaft” in the IDF video posted on Sunday is located just over 40 metres away from the Surgery Building. It was located using the distinctive white and grey stripes seen in the background of the video.

It’s also around 50 metres from the chest and dialysis department and close to the eastern perimeter of the hospital grounds.

The hole was underneath a white temporary building spotted in a previous video posted by the Israeli army last week shown in the screenshot below.

The footage which the IDF says was taken on Friday and released on Sunday is an edit of two separate videos posted on the army’s Telegram channel. The alleged Hamas tunnel is approximately 1.5m wide.

Based on historical satellite imagery on Google Earth, we found the white building was there in May 2022 but not there before March 2021.

We don’t know what the building was used for.

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While we are unable to verify who built the structure shown and what it was used for, there are some identifiable features inside the tunnel.

At the surface of the alleged tunnel shaft, a long vertical concrete column is seen. As the camera descends you also see a long metal pole and spiral metal staircase.

As it reaches the bottom the camera is taken through to a narrow concrete corridor with an arched top at the end of which the IDF says there is a metal door.

Videos ‘consistent’ with Hamas tunnels

Dr Daphne Richemond-Barak, an expert on underground warfare who teaches at Reichman University in Israel, said the IDF videos are “consistent” with Hamas tunnels.

She told Sky News: “What we saw in those pictures were very typical, very classic of the Hamas tunnels… I’ve also compared the IDF-released images to Hamas’s own pictures and videos previously filmed in tunnels.

“From what I saw was this big cylinder hole with a very elaborate cemented contour then it goes into something much more narrow and tight then it goes into a dark alley…. the images we’ve seen so far are very consistent with what we know for years has been the work from Hamas.”

The Israeli military claims the tunnel is 55 metres long and 10 metres deep using a three-metre ladder and spiral staircase for another seven metres. It says it believes the tunnel connects inside the hospital to the outside. Sky News is unable to verify this claim.

Same tunnel different video

Israeli forces seized the hospital last week to search for what they said was a Hamas tunnel network built underneath.

Hundreds of patients, medical staff and displaced people left al Shifa at the weekend, with doctors saying they were ejected by troops and Israel saying the departures were voluntary.

But the video posted on Sunday was not the first piece of footage of the alleged tunnel – the IDF released-video and an image of the same tunnel last Friday. However, that footage offered a limited view at the surface of the tunnel – which was littered with concrete, wood and sand.

Sky News is unable to independently verify claims made by the IDF about what the tunnel was used for and who built it.

Israel’s latest evidence is the most convincing yet of Hamas military activity at al Shifa hospital, Gaza’s largest. 

Thus far, it falls short of proving there was a substantial secret subterranean command and control base below the medical complex.

What it does show is the presence of men with guns inside al Shifa, something doctors and officials there have repeatedly denied any knowledge of since this war began.

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The IDF has released video footage of what it claims is a secret tunnel.

It comprises a vertical shaft, sunk near the edge of the hospital compound, connecting with a tunnel heading towards the main hospital buildings, that ends with a blast proof door with a firing hole in it.

At the outset of the war, the IDF produced an illustration of what it called a multi-story terror underground complex below the hospital.

It believes it has discovered part of it, although last night an IDF spokesman said that complex may only be one storey, not four.

The IDF also showed footage of a pick-up truck it found inside the hospital compound that it says was loaded with weapons and munitions.

And it presented CCTV footage from the night of 7 October from inside the hospital.

One clip shows men, at least one of them armed, hustling what it says is a hostage by force through the hospital’s main entrance lobby.

Another shows an injured man that the Israelis claim is a hostage on a hospital stretcher, being wheeled through the hospital under armed guard.

It’s not possible to independently verify from the footage whether or not the wounded man is a hostage.

Israel is so confident both are hostages it has identified them as a Nepali national and Thai national.

Hamas has responded to the video, saying “this confirms that the Ministry of Health hospitals provide medical services to everyone who deserves them, regardless of their gender and race”.

In a statement, Hamas condemned what it called the “false news of the occupation army and the allegations that will soon come out about equipment and weapons that they planted with their own hands”.

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Israelis say they have concrete evidence their soldier Noa Marciano was murdered inside the hospital having been taken hostage on 7 October.

It is not clear how they established that fact from the pathologist’s investigation into her death.

The Israelis have now emptied the hospital of most staff and patients.

They have a freer rein now to search to prove the existence of the command and control base they say lurks below al Shifa.

The father of a nine-year-old girl kidnapped by Hamas has said Israel should “give them what they want” to secure the release of his daughter.

Emily Hand, who is Irish-Israeli, is among 240 hostages who were abducted by Hamas gunmen 45 days ago.

But despite reports negotiators are nearing a deal to release some of the captives, Emily’s father, Thomas Hand, is doubtful.

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“Until I have notification that she has been released, I won’t believe anything,” he told Sky News.

“There have been so many different reports that turned out to be not true. So no, I can’t keep going into hope and to a high, and then crash down. It’s just too hard.”

If an agreement is reached it could see the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israel – but that doesn’t bother him.

Speaking after a press conference at the Israeli embassy in London, Mr Hand said: “Give [Hamas] what they want. I don’t care if they give 100 terrorists for her return or each person.

“I don’t care how many, just get my daughter back.”

Emily was having a sleepover at a friend’s house when she was abducted from Be’eri, a kibbutz in southern Israel.

Initially, Mr Thomas was told his daughter was among the dead, only to learn weeks later that she may be alive.

The mental torture he has endured has taken a very visible toll – with shaking hands and tear-stained eyes.

He’s lost two stone in weight since the 7 October attacks.

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Fighting back emotion, he said he tries not to picture his daughter’s situation because it’s “too painful”.

“If I did that, I would go into a very dark place.

“You say you put things in boxes but in my head that would be a coffin. So now I put her in a bubble and I keep her at the back of my head.

“I don’t go there very often because I can’t, I would imagine the worst.”

But last Friday, the despair was impossible to escape.

It was Emily’s 9th birthday, which was marked by her image being projected onto a giant billboard in Times Square in New York to highlight her plight.

“It was the darkest day. Looking at the billboard, that was very hard,” Mr Thomas said.

Last year she had a circus-themed party but this year, in Hamas’s “dark tunnels”, he believes she would have had no idea of the date.

“She is a beautiful, sweet, innocent kid,” he says.

“But she’s also a very determined little girl which I hope will get her out of there.”